Cheng Wenyuan drank his wine and said slowly: "This is good, you and I are ambitious, so the more chaotic the situation in Youzhou, the better, compared to Liaodong, I prefer Youzhou." Liaodong has Gongsun Taishou guarding the town, and it is obviously impossible to make big waves under his rule, but Youzhou is different, there are constant bandits here, Liu Yu is mediocre and incompetent, and the real elite of the court officers and soldiers is only Liu Yu's private thousands of soldiers, and the rest are just a rabble, not much better than the bandits under your command, and they are just more elite. ”

Su Yi didn't speak, Cheng Wenyuan continued: "And there are many Hu people in Youzhou, these Hu people are ferocious and easy to cause trouble, as long as we seize the opportunity, we may not have the opportunity to show our ambitions." ”

Cheng Wenyuan asked, "What do you think about Huang Wenbing?" ”

Su Yi said: "Speaking of the sky, I am just a thief, you are just a local tyrant and inferior gentry, your Cheng family has financial resources, my Su Yi has troops, your Cheng family's intelligence sources are wider than mine, and the thieves under my command are braver than your family, but this bit of family background in our hands can't be on the table after all." Da Chu has 100,000 soldiers in Youzhou, and there are millions of soldiers and horses in this world, and there is no powerful figure behind it, how can you and I gain a foothold in the troubled times. ”

Speaking of this, Su Yi returned to the wine table and picked up the wine that Cheng Wenyuan poured for him, the wine was a little cold, Su Yi drank it all in one gulp, but he felt that his chest was as spicy as a chili pepper.

"There is Gongsun Yiqing in the north, and the Central Plains is even more Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as long as the world is in chaos, these generals who are stationed in various places and support their own troops can immediately become warlords on one side. If a stick like me wants to survive, the only way to survive is to rely on those warlord forces. Cheng Wenyuan smiled bitterly.

Cheng Wenyuan looked at Su Yi, gritted his teeth, and finally made up his mind: "Brother Su, we cooperated before, from now on, how about the official alliance between you and me?" ”

Su Yi raised his head, looked at Cheng Wenyuan strangely, and said puzzledly: "The two families are aligned? ”

"Not bad." Cheng Wenyuan has no hesitation to be suitable, from Zhang Zhi's import, Cheng Wenyuan learned that Su Yi was born in the Yingchuan Su family, and he can be regarded as a child of the family, but now the Yingchuan Su family has been implicated in the abolition of the prince because of Su Wenzhong's relationship, and he has long been in a slump. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, if Su Yi can occupy one side and become a prince who owns one side, the children of the Su family who participated in the Yingchuan Su clan will definitely go to help Su Yi.

The reason why the family gate valve has endured for thousands of years is not only because they have strong financial resources, if you talk about financial resources, some local heroes may not lose to those small family door valves, but the difference between the family and the powerful forces is that unless these families have committed heinous sins and are razed, otherwise, even if they fall, there will be a day when they will prosper again.

And those powerful forces, once they are at a disadvantage, will soon be swallowed up by other powerful forces, and it will be difficult for them to rise again.

The difference between them lies in the fact that the family gate valve has a fairly strong foundation, while the power of the powerful and the squires is different. A county magistrate or a warden can make a family prosperous, and a person with some financial resources can become a county town.

For thousands of years, officials and officials are different, just like the family and Haoqiang, the official represents a kind of prominence and glory, and the smallest person who can be called an official is also a seven-grade county order, or an eight-grade county magistrate and a warden.

The seven-rank official is already the last rank of the official, not to mention the county officials and the wardens, a county order is placed in the state and county, and it can't make a little waves, but in the local area, there is the power of the sky, not to mention a county order, that is, a county and the warden can be a party to the disaster.

The family gate valve is like an official, high above the top, detached from the masses...... And the local tyrants and squires are small officials, although the power is not as good as the official, not as prominent as the official, but in the local area, there is the same power as the emperor, if the ordinary people offend the local officials, it will be the end of the family.

The local squires and heroes are intertwined, and their local networks are intricate, and they can be said to be building their own connections and power step by step. Unless the gangster leader of a county town is covered by a local county official or a warden, no matter how many outlaws there are, it will be in vain.

Just like the powerful forces in Shangjun County, the strongest of them is the Liu family, because the Liu family has produced a county prince, and with the prestige of the Liu family, it is not difficult to support a county prince or warden after the head of the Liu family steps down from the position of the county leader.

In the eyes of the family gate valve, the local heroes and squires are like ants, but in the eyes of the local squires and heroes, they are the local emperors, even if they are the gate valve forces, they have to give them a little bit of thin face when they get to the local area. In a county town, sometimes it is not the county order but the county official or the warden who is in charge.

The imperial court has always wanted to eradicate the hidden dangers of the family gate valves, and in the emperor's opinion, these family gate valves are too big to fall, and each department in the court has its own power, which is really a problem for the henchmen. Until now, what Emperor Chu is most worried about is not the endless bandits that have emerged in various places, nor the grass robbers who rebel everywhere, but these speculators who are waiting for an opportunity, like grass on the wall, and the families of the gates.

And these family lords have always wanted to change the network forces gathered by the local heroes, crush these soil emperors, and then bring them under their control.

The local squires and powerful forces will compete with each other for conflicts of interest, and there is no shortage of swords and swords, and in the officialdom of the county town, these small officials fight each other, and this kind of fighting and killing is invisible, and they only do this to obtain more resources and advantages for their families. But once the officials sent from abroad wanted to meddle in the local government affairs, these local tyrants would unite and squeeze out the county commanders sent by the imperial court to manage the county seat.

Some of these county orders represent the imperial court, and some represent the family lords, and once these county orders want to meddle in government affairs, the powerful forces entrenched in the local area will work together to fight them and empty them. Generally, the county officials often represent the local gentry forces, while the county magistrates are officials sent from abroad and are squeezed out by the local tyrants.

In peacetime, the officials headed by the county will work with local businessmen and outsiders to fish and meat the villagers, and their officials and businessmen collude to work together in the local area, which is the root cause of the first place, and even the imperial court cannot eradicate this phenomenon.

But in times of war, these local magnates and squires had no other way but to subordinate themselves to the power of the princes. The family gate valve has the capital to negotiate terms with the princes, but they don't, if they don't honestly rely on the princes' forces, they are all waiting to be beaten and the local tyrants divide the land......

Although the Cheng family is somewhat powerful, it is just a powerful party.

These places are like strong and grass thieves, and they can't make much waves after all.