After learning that Zhang Ting had successfully marched into Chuzhou, Jiang Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew very well that now was not the best time to enter Chuzhou, and it was extremely unwise to provoke the ant thief and Li Yu, but he also knew that according to this situation, it would be difficult for the ant thief to gain a foothold in Chuzhou, because Li Yu saw through this.

Li Yu saw through this and stuck to Shanyang, basically there was no play of ant thieves.

The advantage of the ant thief is that there are many people, which is suitable for field wave warfare, but in siege warfare, relying on the advantage of the high wall of the city, plus the blessing of the power of the magician, and a steady stream of supplies, the ant thief does not have much opportunity except for constantly consuming his own vital strength under the city wall.

Li Yu's move was quite ruthless, defending Shanyang to the death, and at the same time sparing no effort to ensure the supply of the Caoqu line, and the ant thieves also overestimated the combat effectiveness of the water bandits such as Baishuitang, Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake, especially in the frontal battlefield, these water bandits were obviously incompetent.

As long as the canal is cut down, Shanyang's morale will not collapse, and the ant thieves will not be able to attack it, and the ant thieves will not even be able to take Gaoyou, which is obviously a big mistake of the ant thieves, or the stupidest move.

If Jiang Feng is replaced, he will not hesitate at all costs, and can even abandon Shanyang, take Gaoyou first, and completely cut off Shanyang's supply, so that he can rely on the advantage of troops to consume the Shanyang defenders alive.

After dragging on for half a year, the ant thief has lost the best opportunity, it can be said that Li Yu's Eastern Navy and Zhen Navy have basically adapted to the tactics of the ant thief, and now it is impossible for the ant thief to take Gaoyou.

If the ant thief can't adjust his strategy in time, Jiang Feng feels that maybe within next year, at the latest, it won't exceed the year after that, and the ant thief will disappear into history.

Now Li Yu should not turn against him, but Jiang Feng is still a little worried that Li Yu is impulsive, but fortunately, Li Yu still restrained his anger.

The news from Li Yu's side, including Xu Wenzhi, should have persuaded Li Bin and maintained restraint for the time being, but Jiang Feng also knew that maybe the peace between Huaiyou (Wuning) and Li Wu could only be counted in days, as long as the threat of ant thieves disappeared, then the war between Li Wu and Huaiyou (Wuning) would begin, from this point of view, Jiang Feng really hoped that the ant thieves could hold on longer.

Since the contradictions can no longer be resolved, and the war will break out sooner or later, maybe it is time to take advantage of the situation and go straight to the state?

This is not only Zhang Ting's suggestion, but also Jiang Feng's idea that he has long been thinking about, but when he thinks that Huaiyou (Wuning) is indeed in the eye of a bone node that urgently needs respite, if taking Hezhou really angers Li Wu and makes Li Yu want to fight at all costs, it will really outweigh the losses, so Jiang Feng can be regarded as forcibly suppressing his restless heart.

Stretching his body, Jiang Feng dropped the documents piled up on the desk and walked out with his hands.

The scale of the probation festival left by Shi Yu is indeed large enough, three major courtyards, and it has been expanded to both sides, especially in the internal structure, it is also extremely complicated, and when idlers come in, if no one leads the way, it is absolutely difficult to find a way out.

Jiang Feng doesn't really like this kind of mansion that is a little more majestic but at the same time hides a bit of a cold atmosphere, which gives people a feeling that it is as deep as the sea when they enter this door.

He even prefers the Qin family's mansion when he first entered Xuzhou, but he also knows that when the Pengcheng County Duke of the Imperial Court and the Huaiyou Jiedu Envoy and the Wuning Jiedu Envoy are appointed, he can't rely on his own preferences, and has to live in this Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, because this is the representative of Pengcheng County Duke who is here to give orders and control more than ten states in Huaibei and Huainan.

It's already sunset, the weather is still hot, but the streets are already overcrowded.

Even if the victims in the north are weaving and a steady stream of people are going south, but for the place where Pengcheng County is now stationed and Huaiyou (Wuning) Jiedu envoy, the weather in Xuzhou has long been different.

At least there is no shortage of food, which has relieved the displaced people who have gathered in Xuzhou, and if the problem of mouth and stomach is solved, the forgetful people will have many other wishes.

The scale of Xuzhou City is quite large, although it is not as good as Bianliang, Luoyang and Chang'an, which are the world's great cities, but it is among the places of Kyushu in the world, which is naturally extraordinary.

The street pattern of the "well" shape, several streets will support the street skeleton of Xuzhou City, and the Jiedu Mansion is not far from the South Gate, but it is not on the South Gate Street, but deviates from the South Gate about a hundred steps away from a big white street.

The south gate is also called the white gate, since the Han Dynasty is so, the north and south gates have always been the place where the soldiers must fight, the urn city is huge, and the gate building is towering.

The Gubian River runs through Xuzhou City from northwest to southeast, and joins Surabaya from the north outside the southeast city, which also makes Xuzhou not only a land route, but also a water giant.

Huaiyou (Wuning), which firmly controlled Huaishui, made it possible for grain ships from Shouzhou and Haozhou to continue along Shouzhou (Haozhou) - Huaishui - Sizhou (Linhuai) - Bianqu - Hongxian - Tongqiao - Yongcheng - Songzhou - Bianliang, or Shouzhou (Haozhou) - Huaishui - Huaiyin - Surabaya - Xiapi - Xuzhou (Pengcheng) - Gubianhe - Mengzhuze - Bianliang, to the hinterland of the Central Plains.

The former is closer, and the latter needs to go to the Gubian River, which is now a little lonely, and has to pass through Meng Zhuze, so it is gradually declining, but with the strong rise of Jiang Feng to control Xuzhou, this waterway has also begun to usher in a prosperous period, of course, its dredging is also unavoidable.

But along the line of the ancient Bianhe River, Xuzhou City has become a prosperous and lively place since ancient times, Jiang Feng came out of the Jiedu Embassy, and walked along this prosperous place.

The sparks in the steel workshop were splashing everywhere, and the anvils were constantly clanging, this was not the smelting supervisor outside the city, but the most common blacksmith shop, but it was much larger than the blacksmith in other places.

Acupuncture needles, sewing and embroidery needles, scissors, pots and kettles, ploughshares, kitchen knives, and firewood knives shimmer in the sun, leaving the eyes of many business travelers.

Bargaining is inevitable, and the guise that hangs up from time to time also confirms that Xuzhou is beginning to gradually restore prosperity.

Several Hu men and women are shouting to put the freshly baked Hu cakes on the stall, and there are Hu people who are rolling out the dough cakes and remaking them to make them mellow under the continuous movements, and finally send them to the furnace.

The aroma is curling, emanating out, so that the merchants who come and go suddenly sound as if their stomachs are empty, and they can have a full meal if they drop a few pennies and money, and if they have a bowl of broth, it is really delicious.

All this even Jiang Feng's belly seemed to gurgle, and Gu Tao, the leader of the pro-soldiers next to him, also seemed to see the sovereign's thoughts, walked a few steps, and accompanied Jiang Feng forward, while several other pro-soldiers quietly stepped forward from both sides, looking around to prevent accidents.

The Hu trader spoke fluent Huaibei official dialect, obviously living in Xuzhou for a long time, and the Hu woman was no different from ordinary Han people, handing over a bowl of broth, the meat was fragrant, but it also made Jiang Feng's appetite great.

A few steps further, Jiang Feng turned his eyes to a falcon shop, which was rare, the falcon eagle restrained on the cage frame with a cage or chain seemed to be wild and untamable, fluttering from time to time and wanting to fly, but it was obvious that the merchant would not tolerate this kind of thing, and constantly suppressed the eagle's movements with a whistle to make it quiet.

A businessman had already stepped forward and greeted Jiang Feng and his party.

The eyesight of these businessmen is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and although Jiang Feng is dressed ordinarily, the momentum he exudes is amazing, either rich or expensive, and it can also be seen from the actions of the gang around Jiang Feng that he is still a big man in Xuzhou City.

"But the guest officer wants to choose a good eagle?"

The pockmarked man speaks Hebei official dialect, but he looks like a foreign businessman, think about it, most of these eagles are from Hebei or Pinglu, and most of them are in secluded and thistle land, where there are many mountain people who are good at catching and taming eagles, and then gradually form a professional group.

"Let's see, where did you come from?" Jiang Feng was not interested in this eagle, but in the merchants who could live out of it in Xuzhou City.

I have been in this time and space for a few years, and I have gone to Tongdu Dayi, which is Chang'an and Bianliang City, Jiang Feng has also seen a falcon eagle for sale, but in his own jurisdiction, Huzhou does not need to be said, like Shouzhou and Luzhou are also big cities, this shop selling falcon eagles is also rare, I didn't expect that in this Xuzhou city, as soon as I stepped out of the Jiedu Embassy, I could actually meet it.

"Although the guest officer can rest assured, a certain eagle was captured and domesticated from Yanzhou when he was a child. The pock-faced man also looked quite strong, his eyes were blazing, and he was also looking Jiang Feng up and down.

"Oh, are you from Yanzhou?" Jiang Feng nodded and asked with a smile, "Didn't you say that the eagles in Youzhou and Jizhou are the best?"

"The guest officer does not know, if it is bitter cold, Yanzhou is more than Youzhou Jizhou, this kind of eagle has been caught in the mountains since childhood, the mountain people are very hard, it takes a lot of effort to catch one or two, plus the domestication is difficult, three do not save one. The pock-faced man was very honest, "There are a lot of Khitan people in Jizhou now, and most of the eagles are taken away by the Khitan nobles,......."

"Oh, I see, that is to say, you will not dare to sell the eagle in Youzhou and Jizhou?" Jiang Feng said thoughtfully.

"That's not the case, it's just that selling it in Youzhou is much riskier, and even the local mountain people in Jizhou, Youzhou, have smuggled out the eagles they have caught and sold them to outsiders, which is getting worse and worse. The man was also real, and he smiled and said: "A certain has also taken over this kind of eagle, but the guest officer can rest assured that the eagles in this store today are all from the area of Zhuolu Mountain and Jiming Mountain in Yanzhou." ”