Xu Ning smiled, "Are you really so concerned about my safety? You never seemed to mention it before." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Jiang Feng was stunned.

People's hearts are long, as he himself said, although Xu Ning is a little more scheming and has a greater desire for political power, but in the final analysis, she is also thinking about herself, the Gushi Army and the Huzhou Army, and now she has given up the illusion of reviving the Xu family in the past and began to accept the reality, what reason does she have to snub and embarrass the other party?

After a haha, Jiang Feng glared at Xu Ning, "Don't take an inch, you just know, safety first, the situation in Gwangju will not be clear until I come back from Chang'an, there are always some people who have unrealistic fantasies, so be careful." ”

"Okay, I know, also, Huzhou is set up, the land inspection operation over there in the Tang Dynasty and Huoshan has been moved, and the county order and county Cheng are temporarily in charge of the inspection school, but the matter has not fallen, the ant thief has gone south, what are your plans for Shouzhou?"

Xu Ning finally asked another question that she had come to see off today.

She knew that the reason why Jiang Feng attached so much importance to Huzhou was because she had the intention of extending Huzhou's hand into Huainan and Jiangnan.

Compared with the strong enemies around Gwangju, in addition to the dominance of the Wu family, there are also many local forces such as Shuzhou, Xuanzhou, Jiangzhou, and Raozhou.

If it weren't for Wu's domestic friction in this time and space, it is estimated that places like Shouzhou, Shuzhou, Xuanzhou, Jiangzhou, and Raozhou would have been swallowed by Wu State a long time ago, but now these local forces are still surviving under the power of Wu, Yue, Min and other feudal lords, which also gives Jiang Feng some thoughts.

Especially when the battle between the monarchs and ministers of Wu has become more and more intense, this is a rare opportunity.

Jiang Feng had always suspected that the ant thieves would not stay in the three states of Yingbosi, and would rather risk a showdown with the reforming army than go south, and Han Baling's troops went south, but they avoided Luzhou, the birthplace of the Yang clan of Wu State, and chose Shuzhou and Jiangzhou, which were not rich places, which added to his suspicions.

If Qin Quan had such a plan, it must be to prevent the grass from startling the snake, so as not to let Han Baling and them go south, so as not to stimulate the internal disputes of the Wu State.

This also means that Qin Quan also believes that internal turmoil in Wu is imminent, so he wants to fight Jiangnan's idea.

For Jiang Feng, his roots are in Huzhou, and his strength is far less strong than that of the ant thief, so since the civil unrest in Wu is imminent, it is also a good choice to follow the climate to get some broth to drink.

As for whether the ant thief has the ability to break into the hinterland of Wu State, Jiang Feng is not sure, although the ant thief is powerful, but Wu State is not weak, if it is not for the internal strife, it is not something that the ant thief can worry about at all.

Even if it is a civil strife, the Wu army established in the era of Yang Xingmi is not a good bone to gnaw, and the wealth of the Wuyue region also makes the magic prosperous, better than Nanyang and Caizhou.

With the ant thieves moving south, the situation in Shouzhou has not changed much, and tens of thousands of people in Shouzhou from Han Baling's department have eaten horses and chewed, almost ruining the entire Shouzhou into a blank field.

In particular, Huoqiu City was finally captured by ant thieves, which made this big city second only to Shouchun in Shouzhou burned to the ground, and more than 50,000 gentry and people were killed by the siege and slaughter of the city by ant thieves.

Anfeng and Huoqiu, which were known as granaries in the past, have become a tragic situation where white bones are exposed in the wild for thousands of miles without rooster crowing, and the two counties of Shengtang and Huoshan have been classified into Huzhou, making Shouzhou, which was once known as the rich land of Huainan, suddenly become Xiazhou in the barren grass where only one Shouchun City remains.

"Xiao Ning, what do you think we should do now?" Jiang Feng also knew that Xu Ning had a natural sensitive sense of smell for current affairs, and asked rhetorically.

"The situation in Shouzhou is also suffocating, the original high-grade treasure land, far better than Gwangju and Shenzhou, is now reduced to such a field, but I think it is not difficult for Shouzhou to recover, Shouchun This commercial port center still exists, and has not been poisoned by the war, and although Anfeng and Huoqiu are now a blank land, but now the three states of Yingbosi are rampant ant ant thieves, if the local situation can be stabilized, recruit displaced people to these two places to restore the land, two or three years can recover the vitality. ”

Xu Ning's point of view was to the point, and Jiang Feng nodded slightly: "You mean that we abandon Gwangju and run Shouzhou?"

"Erlang, I don't believe you can't see this, the situation is chaotic everywhere today, the war is getting more and more intensive, the scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger, and if you want to maintain your own territory, you have to strengthen the army, and the biggest thing to raise an army is to have food in your hands, where does the food come from? The most reliable has to have a base that can provide food security supply for itself, although Huzhou is established, but Huoshan and Yincheng are not yet talkative, only Gushi and Shengtang can be called the land of grain production, but Huoqiu and Anfeng are the granaries of Jianghuai far and near, Han Baling Department has been raging in the land of Yizhou for a year, it is supported by the grain of these two counties, if these two counties can be in our hands, Erlang, you can rest assured that the bold expansion of the army will not be afraid of lack of food. ”

Seeing Xu Ning's eyebrows fluttering, Jiang Feng couldn't bear to hit the other party's enthusiasm, and asked with a smile: "Xiao Ning, then how do you think we can include these two counties in our pockets?"

Xu Ning paused, as if he was thinking about this issue, "Erlang, from a legal point of view, Huzhou obviously can't interfere in the affairs of Shouzhou, but the situation in Shouzhou is like this, Mei, Tian, The Zheng Sanjia has had a huge rift because Huoqiu was razed to the ground, and it is impossible to return to the former equilibrium, and Huaibei has also been exhausted by the ravages of ant thieves, and I am afraid that it will not be able to interfere in the affairs of Shouzhou in the short term, and now the only one who can exert influence on Shouzhou is Huainan Wuguo, but I feel as if you are waiting for something to happen in Wuguo, is this the case?"

Jiang Feng had to marvel at this woman's amazing sensitivity in terms of political smell, and without much intelligence support, she could actually sense that there would be problems within the Wu Kingdom, this is probably this woman's talent, right?

"Well, Xiao Ning, there are indeed some problems within the Wu State, maybe you also know some, the monarchs and ministers of the Wu State are suspicious of each other for a day or two, the Xu family is powerful and dictatorial, but the Yang family is quite influential in the local area, although Yang Xingmi is dead, Yu Wei is still there, and there is still a lot of influence in Luzhou, Haozhou, Hezhou, Chuzhou and other places, and the Xu family's power is mainly in Yangzhou, Runzhou, Xuanzhou's line, the rest of the states are at both ends of the first rat, plus Wu Yue has always been unharmonious, so the Xu family does not dare to act rashly, but now that Qian Biao has just died, the Yue country is too busy to take care of itself, and the Xu family is probably a little unable to hold back, so ......"

"So many people, including the ant thief, are waiting?" Xu Ning's eyes lit up, but then dimmed, "It's a pity that Huzhou is too weak now,......"

"Xiao Ning, there are a lot of people who want to fight the idea of Wu Guo, the ant thief is, and Huaibei is also the original, but Huaibei suffers from this catastrophe and I don't know if it has any spare strength. Jiang Feng smiled, "Wu is in turmoil, if it is one-sided, it will not be interesting, if it is a stalemate, I am afraid that the ant thieves, and even the Yue Kingdom, I am afraid that they will not miss the opportunity, right?"

"What about you?" asked Xu Ning, staring at Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng spread his hands, smiling, "You said it, our Huzhou is too weak, and if you want to share a spoonful of soup, you have to have strength, but I'm thinking that we don't dare to put the spoon into the bowl, but maybe we can pick up a little leak in the surrounding area?"

"No wonder you have been unwilling to transfer the First Army and the Second Army to Gwangju, I heard that you still intend to transfer the Third Army back, so that the Tun Army, which has just gone to Yincheng, will replace the Third Army, are you fighting Shouzhou's idea? But I am afraid it will be difficult to take Shouzhou with the strength of only two armies, right?" Xu Ning seemed to disbelieve it.

Jiang Feng shook his head, "Xiao Ning, I just said that we can choose the opportunity to wait, of course we can go if we have the opportunity, but we don't have to force the opportunity if it is not ripe, but at least we need to be prepared in order to pull it out when we have the opportunity, now the situation on the Wu side is still chaotic, who can say clearly?"

Xu Ning sighed softly, "In the final analysis, the strength of our Huzhou Army is still a little too weak, but Erlang, you have done well enough, and I believe you can do better." ”

From Huzhou to Chang'an, the most convenient path is nothing more than from Nanyang directly to the northwest, through Wuguan, through Shangzhou, through Lantian to Chang'an.

This road is also the most important post road, all the way is endless business travel, especially from Nanyang to Chang'an, it is also the main road connecting Guanzhong and Jingchu in the Central Plains, the grain, cloth, silk, and tea of Jingchu Jianghuai enter Guanzhong through this road, and then enter the Western Regions and even further, and various specialties from the Western Regions, as well as war horses and livestock, will also enter Jingchu Jianghuai through this road.

In order to avoid attracting people's eyes, Jiang Feng only had five people on this trip, except for Ju Hui, Jiang Feng only brought one Su Tie, and Chu Qi would also go from Bianliang to Nanyang to wait for Jiang Feng, and then go to Chang'an with Jiang Feng.

In view of the fact that Jiang Feng's identity is also more sensitive now, Jiang Feng also put on a little makeup, and his identity has also become a rich son of Huo Qiu, and Ju Hui will act as his concubine, and Wu Fang will also go with Ju Hui as Ju Hui's maid.

Originally, Jiang Feng had a negative attitude on the question of whether Wu Fang would go, but Ju Hui's appearance and characteristics were too special, and if he didn't take the car, it would be easy to attract people's attention.

And if you ride in the car, like a rich concubine, if there is no maidservant, it is obviously not in line, so in the end, I decided to take Wu Fang with me, and I liked Wu Fang so much that I didn't sleep all night.

Fortunately, since you have taken care to avoid revealing your identity, it doesn't matter if you have so many servants, if your identity is exposed, it must only be for Jiang Feng alone. (To be continued.) )