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Situ Yutang's words made Wufeng secretly breathe a sigh of relief, if Situ Yutang still stubbornly believes that he should hand over the four prefectures outside the northwest to the empire, that is, several other princes, it can only mean that she has put the interests of the Situ family above the interests of the Tang River Empire and even the entire Tang people in her heart, and there is no need to entangle with her anymore for this kind of person, because in her opinion, everything should revolve around the interests of the Situ family, and anyone else and everything can be left behind. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Fortunately, Situ Yutang didn't think so, although she was also a little hesitant, it was because the contradiction between the interests of the empire and the interests of the family made her confused for a while, and she finally made the right judgment, even if it was just a verbal statement.

"Yutang, aren't you optimistic about your eldest brother and third brother's counteroffensive performance in Yanyun and Wuhu?" Wufeng smiled lightly, lay back on the bed, and naturally leaned on her waist with one hand, as if he felt the affection of the man next to him, Situ Yutang's heart fluttered slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then quietly lay down next to Wufeng.

"Fenglang, you don't have to be taboo, my eldest brother retreated from Beiyuan and the eastern part of Yanyun at that time, and he couldn't hide it from anyone who had a heart, although the Taiping Army was in full swing at that time, the Northern Military Region of the Empire was the first of the four major military regions of the Empire, how could it be that it could collapse at the touch of a button? Now the situation has changed, the Taiping Army is in the twilight, and the eldest brother has the heart to behave, so he is prepared and unprepared, and it is naturally a matter of course. But this also sounded a wake-up call for the Taiping Army, and if they want to win easily, I am afraid it will not be so easy. Situ Yutang calmed down a little, and deliberately widened the distance between the two of them a little bit by brushing the scattered hair on his forehead, trying to return his attention to the topic.

Wu Feng's heart froze, he didn't expect that his pillow man actually had such a sharp gaze, and he could see at a glance that the Taiping Sect was now in a downward trend, and most people only saw the Taiping Army's successive victories in Heshuo, and even invaded the Wuhu region, obtained a food supply base, and formed an encirclement posture against Yanjing, but no one could see that the Taiping Army was already at the end of the crossbow, although it captured Jiujiang, but it was no longer able to capture the neighboring areas, and even an offensive that threatened the surname was no longer there, and if the Qinghe Mansion in the Northern Plains was not deliberately avoided by the City Guard Corps, I was afraid that the Qinghe Mansion City had already been recaptured by the Empire。

"Yutang, you have some truth, the Taiping Sect does not have the momentum of the past, but it is difficult for the empire to make much progress in the short term, and Cheng Dayou, who is entrenched in Jiujiang, is a strong enemy, I think it will not be easy for the empire to solve him. The most important thing is that His Majesty the Emperor seems to be in poor health now, which directly affects the trend of the entire empire. I just hope that Your Majesty's body can fully recover as soon as possible, so as to stabilize the hearts of the people of the empire and revive the empire. Wu Feng sniffed the faint body fragrance emanating from the girl next to the pillow, and at the same time forcibly suppressed the thoughts in his heart, he didn't want to destroy the tacit understanding at this moment.

Situ Yutang didn't think so in his heart, but now the contact with the central government of the empire has been completely broken, the resignation of the former Minister of Military Affairs He Zhiqiu, and the new Minister of Military Affairs does not seem to know that there is still a means of contact with his father and emperor at the beginning, maybe he has lost hope in himself at all, and even his father has no news from him, which makes Situ Yutang feel sad.

seemed to notice the change in the mood of the jade man around him, Wu Feng's hand holding the other party's waist tightened, the jade man's body struggled slightly and rolled into Wu Feng's arms, nephrite was warm and fragrant in his arms, lovingly caressing the jade man's smooth satin hair, cloves secretly vomited, endless tenderness and sweetness, everything was in endless breathing.

Before returning to Qingyang, Wu Feng and Cui Wenxiu had a secret conversation alone, and when Wu Feng came to leave the Spark Set and return to Qingyang, Cui Wenxiu also immediately selected 30,000 strong from the 100,000 Mott reservists to form the seventh, eighth, and eighth Mott Self-Defense Army. In the 90,000-man team, many outstanding performers from the guard army were promoted to become middle- and low-ranking officers in the newly formed 30,000-man team, and dozens of people from the 90,000-person team were again sent to the Northwest Military Academy for the second batch of short-term training, with a view to improving the military quality of officers as soon as possible.

Wu Feng, who had returned to Qingyang, immediately summoned Gu Quan, the new director of the Intelligence Bureau, and Ling Huyi, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and asked them to intensify their efforts to collect intelligence on the eastern Tengger grassland, especially on geographical, hydrological, climatic, and population distribution information, and demanded that the two intelligence departments must come up with a feasible and comprehensive intelligence analysis by October according to their respective priorities, so as to provide a reliable basis for future operations.

Jiujiang has entered the midsummer is already full of emerald green, the air is hot, the ground is hot, the business travelers from the south to the north have avoided this poisonous head, hiding in the small shop tea shed on the side of the road, looking forward to the sky can be cloudy, in this kind of day to hurry, it is too hard, even the horses and mules pulling the cart are also a little unbearable, it is best to be able to rest for an hour or two, and wait for this period of time to pass, and then hurry up.

The two rode into the livestock shed of the roadside tea shop with the wind and dust, and Xiao Er had already stepped forward to pick up the reins of the two of them, tied them to them, and beckoned the two to enter the pergola to rest.

Glancing at the guests in the pergola, the first one chose a tea house near the fence, told the shop to make tea, and unbuttoned his clothes, the weather was too hot.

"Gu Ye, where are you resting today? Twenty miles in front is Huanghuaji, and thirty miles to the north is Mitang Town. The first person who followed was obviously a companion, so he first poured a big mouthful of the cold boiled water that the store had placed on the table, wiped the beads of sweat rolling down with the placket of his clothes, and then took a breath.

"Let's rest for a while, let's get to Mitang Town to rest, I haven't been here for a while. The reply was a young man, looking at his dress, he looked a little like a businessman, but the entourage only had a small bag on him, and he couldn't tell what the two were going.

Seeing that the master seemed to have something on his mind, the companion didn't say anything more, just hugged the herbal tea cow, but the young man seemed very quiet, only occasionally picked up the tea cup and took a sip. It seems that the situation in Jiujiang is very calm, not as tense as he imagined, the victory of the empire in the south does not seem to affect the Jiujiang region, except that he saw the Taiping army guarding the danger when he entered the Jiujiang area, and it seems that there are only about four or five thousand people, this way, I didn't see anything abnormal, and even the tea shed business on the side of the road was not affected much, what the hell is this Cheng Dayou doing?

According to the division of labor in the intelligence system, Gu Dengyun is no longer in charge of general intelligence affairs, and those ordinary intelligence collection and transmission have been entrusted to the Northwest Intelligence Agency and the Northwest Military Intelligence Bureau, which are becoming more and more sophisticated, and his task is to collect and investigate all the tasks that he considers important and directly assigned by Wufeng, and he can directly obtain unconditional help from the Northwest Intelligence Agency and the Northwest Military Intelligence Bureau.

Since Cheng Dayou entered and occupied Jiujiang, the situation in this area seemed to have become delicate all of a sudden, and the intelligence officers stationed in Jiujiang did not notice this at the beginning, but as time went by, some anomalies gradually became apparent.

At the same time, Cheng Dayou, who occupied Jiujiang, refused the appointment of the Taiping Shengguo Wenxiang Mansion to Jiujiang Prefecture on the grounds that the situation was not stable and it was not suitable to intensify the contradictions for the time being, and at the same time reorganized the more than 50,000 Taiping troops under his own jurisdiction, compressing the more than 50,000 Taiping troops to 45,000 people, and carried out a series of drastic reforms, and a large number of more radical dissidents were purged from the middle and upper echelons of the army by Cheng DayouIn its place, it was replaced by the more moderate Chengda Youyan faction, which not only aroused the suspicions of the Taiping Sect's high-level leaders, but also attracted the attention of the surrounding forces.

This change also attracted the attention of Gu Dengyun, who was already called an old man in the intelligence system, and after occupying Jiujiang, this guy did not carry out the same restructuring as other prefectures and counties controlled by the Taiping Army, and the land ownership of the rural gentry was also protected to a certain extent, as long as he did not openly oppose his rule, he almost did not touch the other party. The bumper harvest of the first season of Jiujiang Xiaochun and the treasury silver left over from the Jiujiang Prefecture also added weight to Cheng Dayou's implementation of these policies that were incompatible with the Taiping Sect.

After receiving these news, the gentry and merchants who were reluctant to flee their homeland began to return from Anqing, Huanggang, Yueyang, Yanjing and other places one after another, and some of them soon reached a compromise with Cheng Dayou privately, as long as Cheng Dayou did not touch their interests, they were willing to pay the taxes and land taxes they should pay like other counties in the empire, of course, all this was not willing, and could only be traded in secret.

It is this kind of sign that makes Gu Dengyun and Wufeng feel a kind of crisis, this Cheng Dayou seems to be a little out of tune with Yu Taipingjiao, his behavior and means seem to be more conservative, and it is easier to win the favor of those gentry, according to Gu Dengyun's opinion, this guy doesn't seem to be like a Taiping Sect at all, but more like Li Wufeng a few years ago.