Yang Yi took the letter and opened it three or two times.

The content of the letter is roughly about Hua Ying, the son of the Tongzhou assassin Shi Huachang, who, after saying a lot of nonsense complimenting Yang Yi, showed that Tongzhou was willing to be under the command of Shuzhong.

Yang Yi touched his nose and said with a smile: "Hua Ying is scared. ”

Lu Yuanliang took a leisurely sip of wine and said: "At the beginning of this year, Hua Ying was drinking flower wine in Tongzhou City, because a woman beat the third son of Zhu Qingxian, a counselor in Tongzhou, to death, and is still lying on the bed. ”

"Zhu Qingxian?" Yang Yi said suspiciously: "I heard that this person has a close relationship with Yang Jie in the capital, and it was this person who made a hindrance when the Tongzhou army went south to invade Qinzhou in my south last year." ”

Yang Yi glanced at Lu Yuanliang again with a smile, and said with a smile: "Drunken maniac, that Huaying and Zhu Qingxian's son fought for a Hongchen woman, it must be your ghost, right?" ”

Lu Yuanliang took two sips of the wine in his mouth, and did not deny or admit it: "Hua Ying beat Zhu Qingxian's son half to death, and felt extremely scared afterwards, although Zhu Qingxian took into account the overall situation and forbeared it for the time being, but Hua Ying is not stupid, knowing that once Yang Jie enters the Tongzhou Mansion, he is afraid that he will die without even bones." ”

"That singer is one of our people?" Yang Yi asked with interest.

Seeing that Lu Yuanliang did not deny it, Yang Yi nodded with satisfaction: "Doubao has been active in the Tongzhou Mansion for this time, and the Dark Messenger has spent a lot of thought on me in the past two years, and it has finally begun to see results, what should I do next?" Directly kill Zhu Qingxian, and then send troops to the same state? ”

Lu Yuanliang put down the wine glass, grabbed two peanuts and threw them into his mouth, chewed them a few times and said, "If the heat is not enough, the peanuts will not be fragrant enough." ”

Yang Yi smiled: "Aren't you afraid of copying paste?" ”

"Although Hua Chang is dead, there are still nearly 50,000 soldiers in the Tongzhou capital, and the city is high and the walls are thick, if Hua Ying is not allowed to hand over the old bottom, I am afraid that a war will be inevitable after all, which is not in line with our original intention.

After a pause, Lu Yuanliang said again: "Besides, don't you have other plans recently, it's a little troublesome to fight on multiple fronts." ”

Yang Yi's eyes lit up, and he condensed: "You mean the matter of the Western Regions?" Do you agree to send troops? ”

Before Lu Yuanliang came back, Yang Yi had already informed him of what Basang said.

Lu Yuanliang smiled and said nothing, and Yang Yi said again: "What is the reason? I have discussed with Shama Naigu and Lao Liu, and sending troops to the Western Regions is not in line with our interests, and there will be no less trouble. ”

Lu Yuanliang said leisurely: "Although the countries in the Western Regions are small, they are all very rich, and the money they will send you will not be less. ”

Yang Yi shook his head and said: "I am poor and only have money left, and I really don't like the treasure of Xishen Kingdom." ”

Although Yang Yi said this is a bit pretentious, it is also a big truth, Shuzhong has developed rapidly in recent years, and the opening of various trade routes has made the commercial tax in Shuzhong more than several times higher than in the past.

In terms of agricultural taxes, although Shuzhong has been reducing the agricultural tax rate, the substantial increase in the gross domestic product has completely made up for this, and now the military warehouses and Changping positions in all parts of Shuzhong are all filled with grain, and even sold in large quantities to the southern countries of Jiangnan and Dayue.

Yang Yi will definitely not be short of money.

Lu Yuanliang smiled again: "People also gave you the princess, this is a blessing." ”

Yang Yi said angrily: "Get out of the way, do you want Lao Tzu to sleep in the study tonight!" ”

If Li Yu knew that she was going to provoke some princess of the Western Regions, she would definitely not have her own good fruit to eat, she agreed to accept the Yuntang Fairy, but she would definitely not be so generous that any woman could enter the gate of the palace.

This kind of Yanfu Yang Yi can't afford to enjoy.

"Don't go around the bend with Lao Tzu, talk about it if you have a fart, and let it go if you have something to say!"

Yang Yi knew that Lu Yuanliang was in favor of sending troops to the Western Regions, so he would definitely have his opinions and reasons.

"Interests are sometimes intangible, just like your pros and cons relativity, maybe what others don't care about, but what we are most urgent." Lu Yuanliang looked at Yang Yi and smiled.

Yang Yi was puzzled: "What is there in the land of yellow sand that can make us look at it as a treasure?" Don't tell me what kind of Xishen purple jade is, if you like it, you can buy it with silver, and exchange it for silk, but it will never work to exchange the lives of our soldiers. ”

Lu Yuanliang shook his head, was silent for a while, and then asked rhetorically: "Shuzhong is now blooming everywhere, the situation is very good, where do you think our next strategic focus is?" ”

Yang Yi thought for a while and said: "Our forces are now mainly divided into four directions, the Great Yue Kingdom in the south, the land of Qianqin in the east, Wenzhou in the north, and Dongxian Island on the sea, and the next expansion must start from these directions."

Naturally, the Great Yue Kingdom will not be able to do it, a new deal is being carried out there, and it will not use troops until there is no result.

As for Dongxian Island, although I really want to teach those Japanese bandits a good lesson, but at present, my sailor strength is more than self-preservation, and it is impossible to launch a large-scale naval battle for the time being, and there is still Yu Xiang's Donglin Sailor on the side of the East China Sea.

As for the land of Qianqin, we and Li Cen will not tear our faces in a short period of time, and we will mainly focus on defense and containment.

In this way, the only breakthrough is in the direction of Wenzhou and Tongzhou. ”

Lu Yuanliang nodded, indicating that his thoughts coincided with Yang Yi, but he asked again: "So...... After taking the same state, what's next? ”

"Naturally, it is to use troops to the east and compete with Yang Jie in the capital for the Central Plains." Yang Yi replied without thinking, even if he didn't want to do this, Yang Jie would definitely not be without action, and the contest between the two was inevitable.

"Chase the Central Plains... How many people dream of something, since ancient times, the Central Plains has said that the royal road must pass through, is the cradle of the dynasty. Lu Yuanliang sighed.

"What's the emotion for no reason?"

"Don't you want to?"

"Yes, of course I think, that was the last wish of the emperor, but is this a bit far? Does it have anything to do with what we're talking about now? Yang Yi was puzzled.

Lu Yuanliang moved his butt and said: "Capital, since you want to chase the Central Plains, you must have capital." ”

"Now we have more than 100,000 people with armor in Shuzhong, the knife is solid, and there are new firearms to help, isn't it enough?"

"Cavalry, do you have cavalry?" Lu Yuanliang said suddenly.

Yang Yi was startled and seemed to think about it.

The scarcity of war horses has always been a very thorny problem in the south, and the only thousands of cavalry before the Shu army were brought by the northern army that entered Shu with Yang Yi back then.

With the passage of time, most of the war horses brought by the northern army can no longer go to the battlefield, but fortunately, the Shu army has basically fought in the south in recent years, and the south is mountainous, and the cavalry is not essential.

However, once Yang Yi's troops entered the Central Plains, there was no elite cavalry unit on that vast plain, and it would be difficult to move an inch.