"Xiaomei wants to say that the Shatuo people seem to be strong and strong, and now they have occupied most of the Central Plains, but their weakness has been exposed, and they are actually gradually falling into a quagmire like Daliang, that is, they have the Central Plains, a land of four wars, but they do not have the strength to dominate the world, surrounded by strong enemies, and Jiang Feng is much smarter than him, but I still don't understand, why didn't Jiang Feng take this opportunity to go south in one fell swoop and take the states of Jiangnan Dongdao, but he wanted to go north to Heshuo?"

Liu Ji showed a puzzled look on his face, "You must know that Yue Guo is not his opponent at all, and the ant thief is not worth mentioning, just taking Chu Yang Erzhou, can it be that the wealth of Chu Yang Erzhou blinds his eyes? ”

This is also the point that Liu Ji is most puzzled about.

As he imagined, if Jiang Feng annexed the prefectures of Jiangnan Dongdao in one fell swoop, owned the two fundamental places of Huainan Province and Jiangnan Dongdao, and then had Pinglu Ziqing, Wuning, and Tianping Zhuzhen occupy the Central Plains, even if he fought a few defeats, it would be difficult to hurt his fundamentals, and it can be said that tactical defeats and setbacks were no longer enough to affect his strategic superiority.

He can take advantage of the strong grain, money and silver strength of Huainan Province and Jiangnan East Province, methodical accumulation strength, and with the iron-smelting ability shown in Xuzhou now, in this era, steel, grain and salt are basically the most important three elements, plus Huainan and Jiangnan are also silk, porcelain, tea and cloth, which can make a profit, these major specialty production areas, plus Wuning, Tianping, Pinglu, The towns of Ziqing are all in the north, which is famous for its soldiers, and it is difficult for the Shatuo people or any other force to pose a mortal threat to them.

"Go north to Heshuo?" Liu Yong was taken aback and looked at his little sister, "Do you judge that Jiang Feng is going north to Heshuo?"

"Hmph, it's not going north to Heshuo, is Jiang Feng going to fight Shatuo in Bianluo?" Liu Ji nodded slightly, his eyes clear.

"So hard to make friends with the Tuyuhun people, have you found out during this time, eldest brother, the first Wang Miao of their Privy Council Staff has not shown up, it is said that he went to Puzhou, Jiang Feng received tens of thousands of Liang troops, all arranged in Puzhou, and Shang Yunxi, who was stationed in Puzhou, also lost his sincerity to Jiang Feng, what is Wang Miao going to do? I don't think they are going to launch a war against the Shatuo people, so where else can the goal be?"

"Shang Yunxi surrendered to Cheng, and the Great Liang surrendered troops and reorganized, this is also normal, it may not be to use troops against Heshuo, right?" Liu Yong seemed to be unconvinced, "The battle between Chu and Yang has not yet ended, how can Jiang Feng have such great ambition and appetite? Maybe Jiang Feng is just reorganizing the army to prevent trouble? Can't tens of thousands of troops surrender to serve and ignore it, right?"

"How can it be so simple?" Liu Ji shrugged his nose contemptuously, "Now all the towns in Xuzhou are in urgent need of weapons, armor and military supplies, but I bet that the weapons and armor and grain and grass in Xuzhou are definitely tilting towards Puzhou and the Lu Army, if the eldest brother doesn't believe it, arrange for us to carefully investigate here." ”

Liu Yong still doesn't believe it.

If it is really as Liu Ji said, then this Jiang Feng is really a war maniac.

Fighting with the Shatuo people in Caozhou, turning around, he launched a war against Chuyang Erzhou, the battle of Chuyang has not yet ended, and he is preparing for the battle against Heshuo again, Jiang Feng really regards the Shatuo people and other surrounding forces as nothing?

"Okay, eldest brother doesn't have to bother too much about this, there is already a distance between Xuzhou and our Nanyang. Liu Ji sighed, "Xuzhou and our goals are also different." ”

The competition of interests between his father and uncle makes the contradictions between the two Liu also rise and fall, the external pressure is huge, and the internal contradictions can be suppressed, once the external pressure is slightly reduced, the internal contradictions will quickly intensify, in the final analysis, the interests of the two branches are no longer one, to be precise, the two Liu are more like ordinary allies, not a family, and even ordinary allies are not as good.

Liu Yong was silent, although he didn't want to admit it, but in just a few years, a small force that originally had to rely on Nanyang's support to survive, but now it has climbed to Nanyang's head, and even become the largest force in Middle Earth, this contrast is too great.

"By the way, what does that have to do with whether we see the Tuyuhun people this time?" Liu Yong asked suddenly.

"Xuzhou has strengthened its relationship with the Tuyuhun people, and we now have a request for Xuzhou, perhaps we can find out some Xuzhou's intentions from this Tuyuhun Princess Mulan. Liu Ji smiled, "Although we don't have much to do with the Tuyuhun people in the short term, but this wedge is still of great significance between the Shatuo people and the Khitan people in the north, the situation in Middle-earth is ever-changing, Jiang Feng thinks so, the situation may not be able to develop as he thinks, this may be our opportunity." ”

Liu Yong glanced at Liu Ji with a strange face, "Little sister, have you thought about it, maybe you will be a wife in a year, and you will be the Jiang family." ”

Liu Ji was slightly stunned, and immediately smiled and said, "So what? I will try my best to tie the interests of our Liu family and the Jiang family together, one will prosper and the other will lose." ”

"How can it be so easy in the world?" Liu Yong shook his head, and his eyes were a little more lonely, "Xuzhou is now a big trend, you can't admit it or not, in the future, the Liu family may only be able to follow the tail, but if Jiang Feng really sweeps the world, what should our Liu family do?"

"What should I do? At that time, it may be a good choice for the Liu family to seek a clan relative, right?" Liu Ji's face was calm, "Where do you really go, then it is not that the Liu family can stop it, that is the will of heaven, those who intend to block the torrent of history are like mantis arms as a car, they can only be crushed, why should we Liu be the ones who go against the tide?"

Liu Yong looked at the little sister fixedly, and was silent for a long time.

This is a heart-wrenching statement, but it is a big truth, if Jiang Feng wiped out the Shatuo people in one fell swoop, and then swept Hebei to exterminate the Khitans, who could stop him from dominating the world?

Nanyang, or Caizhou? I'm afraid that if we want to go against the tide, the result will be ashes.

Liu Yong is not a fool, in fact, during his time in Xuzhou, he faintly saw the momentum of Jiang Feng's big pattern, and did not focus on the surrounding domains at all, but directly laid out the layout with the world, and took Chu Yang instead of taking advantage of the situation to go south to Jiangnan, that is because Jiangnan has this confidence, it is difficult for Jiangnan to compete with it, and sooner or later it will be the same.

Xuzhou did not list the Jiangnan feudal domains as a fierce rival at all.

That being the case, even if he, Liu Yong, discovered this movement in advance, so what?

Could it be that after going back, report to his father and uncle and beware of Jiang Feng?

Or call the police to the Shatuo people and tell them to be careful of Jiang Feng?

Does it make sense? Will the Shatuo people let go of the conquest of Nanyang because of this?

It is impossible for my uncle and father to give up their old hatred and hatred for the same enemy.

So, how will everything be, continue to move forward, and it will not change because of this.

And you only need to do what you need to do now, as for the future, who can say clearly?

Let's just see.

Yangzhou Jiangdu.

This is the throat of the river to the north to communicate with the canal, the leading Tongdu Dayi for hundreds of years, the largest commercial port in Huainan and Jiangbei, and the entire Huaiyan is gathered here for trading, which makes Yangzhou rich and luxurious.

Since Yang Xingmi's two entry into Yangzhou, Yangzhou has always been the essence of Wudi, it has been forty or fifty years, but today, Yangzhou has finally ushered in a change of banner.

Chai Yong annihilated the town navy left in Chuzhou in the battle of Shanyang, especially Tian Chunlai's navy swept the Wu navy on the canal in one fell swoop, which made the Shanyang defenders frightened and their morale plummeted.

After taking Chuzhou, Chai Yong led the army south.

After learning that Chai Yong's Wuning army had taken Chuzhou, the Huaiyou army led by Xu Ziqing and Zhang Ting was even more demoralized, and Kou Wenli led the Chaohu naval army to fight the Wu naval army at the mouth of the river, and twice defeated the Wu naval army, forcing the Wu naval army to retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Huaiyou army concentrated its forces to storm Yangzhou City.

On the twenty-third day of May, just when the defense line of Yangzhou City was crumbling and about to break the city, the envoy of Wu State came from Jiangnan to discuss the surrender of Yangzhou.

On the twenty-sixth day of May, Xuzhou replied to the letter, agreeing to discuss the transfer of Yangzhou on the premise of ensuring the safety of Yangzhou's money, silver, property and gentry.

On the twenty-eighth day of May, the Huaiyou Army entered the city, and the Eastern Navy in the Jiangdu City abandoned its weapons and surrendered.

On the twenty-ninth day of May, Chai Yong's Wuning army also rushed to the city of Jiangdu, but there was no war to fight, which made Chai Yong regretful.

"Chai Yong has seen Mei Shumi. Pulling the saddle and dismounting, Chai Yong hugged his fists and saluted a few steps away from Mei Jing.

"Hehe, Wulang, you and I are both old subordinates of the county king, why do you need to be so polite?" Mei Guo waved his hand, as if smiling, "You have worked hard day and night, but although you are anxious, you also have to consider the state of mind of Qinghe and pass them all at once, right? Not to mention Chuzhou, you have to come to rob Yangzhou of the credit, and you are not afraid that the Huaiyou Army will hate you for a lifetime?"

Chai Yong's old face flushed, Mei Guo obviously saw his thoughts, and he didn't care about this, "Privy, you know that a certain person is not a person who robs merit." ”

"Well, I know, but Ziqing and they don't know the twists and turns here. Mei Guo shook her head and sighed, "The past is over, don't worry too much." ”

Mei Guo knows the story here.

Chai Yong hated Li Yu's family the most, if Li Yu hadn't rebelled back then, why would Yang Pu have to go west to Chang'an? So he didn't even surrender to the king of the county like Qin Han, Luo Chenggan and Yan Xu at that time, but wanted to independently raise an army to fight back against Li Yu, until he saw that the big thing was bad before he surrendered to Jiang Feng, so this time he heard that he was going to end Li Yu's lair, and he couldn't wait to go south under the starry night.