The two forts of Anyuan Anmen are in important locations, and Qin Quan deliberately left a frost master in each of these two places. Of course, it's not that he doesn't want to keep more, it's that the number of masters in Qin Quan's hands is really embarrassing.

In the practice of the five veins, whether it is the Tao or the Buddha, generally speaking, the age is proportional to the cultivation, only the martial arts way, before entering the heavens, in the thirty to forty years old or so, will reach the peak state of life, and then begin to gradually weaken, of course, the masters of the heavens and people open up the middle dantian, not in this list. Anmen guard Li Rui is just not confused about his age now, and his martial arts cultivation is at the peak, even if he is at the peak of ordinary frost, he can fight a fight, and he is proficient in military affairs, so he was appointed by Qin Quan as the guard of Anmen Fort.

With Xiao Yu and Chen soldiers on the border of Xiliangzhou, the atmosphere in the entire Anmen Fort has become more and more tense, the terrain of Anmen Fort is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, not afraid of the attack of the army, for fear of being forcibly captured by the elite armor and supplemented by cultivators, so the guard Li Rui patrols the city day and night to prevent accidents.

Li Rui believes that as long as there is no internal worry, then Anmen will be impregnable. What's more, Anmen and Anyuan are interdependent, and there are 100,000 soldiers in Dunhuang City, who can rush to help at any time, so why be afraid?

Xu Lin's defeat was because the geographical advantage was in the hands of Xiao Yu, and now the geographical advantage of Xiliang Prefecture is in the hands of my Xiliang army.

Li Rui held on to the city wall and looked at the northwest.

A streamer of light came from the northwest.

Li Rui's eyelids jumped suddenly.

The next moment, the streamer crashed into the city, and the castration was so fierce that it even brought out a faint condensation cloud behind him, which did not disperse for a long time.

The city gate of Anmen Fort was blown apart by this streamer, the streamer castrated more than once, from the city gate to the center of the city is nearly five miles away, I don't know how many walls have been knocked down by this streamer, all the people who stand in the way of the streamer have been smashed into a pool of blood and mud, and there is no power to fight back at all.

Li Rui, who was at the head of the city, turned to look at the city, his face full of horror.

An old man in a purple robe appeared in Anyuan Fort with his hands on his sleeves.

Naturally, there is not only one cultivator in Anyuan Fort, but also more than a dozen people in the Empty Netherworld Realm, and two people in the Frost Realm, either from the military or from the Jin Palace, but even if these more than ten cultivators shot at the old man together, they were still killed by the old man lightly.

The dumbfounded Li Rui said with a pale face: "God...... Celestial master?!"

The old man sneered and stretched out his hand to point at Li Rui.

Li Rui only felt as if he had returned to the state he had not yet embarked on the path of cultivation, and was slammed on his chest with a sledgehammer, and then the whole person fell backwards on his back.

At the same time, in front of Anyuan Fort, which was only a mountain away from Anmen Fort, hundreds of black spots flew along the mountain road, and the originally difficult mountain road did not cause any obstacles at all.

The guards at the head of the city watched as the black dots grew bigger and bigger, and their lips were spurted, and they were shocked beyond words.

The leader was a middle-aged man with a wooden face, and when he was still a hundred feet away from the city wall, he suddenly came out of the crowd and left all the subordinates who flew forward behind him.

The middle-aged man slammed on the ground, then flew up, and then the whole person fell directly on the head of Anyuan's city. After jumping onto the city, the middle-aged man did not speak, and with one punch, the entire city tower completely collapsed.

Anyuan and Anmen extend outward to the entire Xiliang corridor, a total of 28 beacons, connected into a line, if there is a war, not only Anmen Anyuan can rely on each other, even the entire Xiliangzhou is also visible.

Before a single beacon could be reported, it was uprooted.

Qiu Si stood on one of the highest beacons, and said to the peony behind him: "Zi Lao and Mr. Huang have already attacked the two forts of Anyuan Anmen, you go and inform the 10,000 foot soldiers stationed on the Xiulong grassland to lead the army, and be sure to rush to Wusheling before dark and take over the two forts." ”

Behind her, the man of the peony took the order and left.

Qiu Si turned around and said, "The rest of the people, wait for me, go with me to join Zi Lao." ”

Xiao Yu personally led 80,000 cavalry out of the central capital and went straight to the border camp in Xiliangzhou.

After meeting the troops in the Xiliang border camp, this Xiao Yu did not personally lead the troops, but led an army of 80,000 by Xu Lin, drove straight into Xiliangzhou, and went straight to Dunhuang City.

At this time, Xiao Yu and Lan Yu were sitting opposite each other in the tent drinking, Xiao Yu stopped his chopsticks, and saw that Lan Yu on the opposite side did not drink the green plums he brewed with his own hands, but had a soft spot for the inferior soju at the border gate, Xiao Yu asked with a smile: "There is something to ask Mr." ”

Lan Yu drank all the wine in the cup and smiled: "You actually called me sir, it is not trivial to think about the things you asked, I can only do my best." ”

Xiao Yu pondered for a while and said: "Now that the northwest is just around the corner, although it has not been explicitly stated, the northwest is no different from a country, dare to ask, how can the country stand?"

Lan Yu stretched out his chopsticks and grabbed a piece of wild goat meat, and replied without hesitation: "Use the official." ”

Xiao Yu asked, "How to use officials?"

Lan Yu stretched out three fingers and said: "There are three strategies, but the northwest is cold and bitter, and the upper strategy is almost unavailable, and there are only two middle and lower strategies." ”

Xiao Yu smiled: "Let's hear it." ”

Lan Yu said while drinking: "Make a decision, govern the country with the army, dethrone the army with the army, and nourish the war with war." ”

Xiao Yu was noncommittal and continued to ask, "What about the middle strategy?"

Lan Yu said leisurely: "Zhongce's knowledge is great, if it is simple, six words: use corrupt officials, abandon corrupt officials." ”

Xiao Yu frowned and asked, "Why do you have to use corrupt officials?"

Lan Yu said calmly: "Actually, Lord Wang, haven't you been doing it all the time? If we want others to give us our lives, we have to give others benefits, but what good is there in our bitter cold land in the northwest? And the officials at the bottom can have the right to make profits, isn't it all given by us? Therefore, where the power is and where the benefits are, the officials have to be loyal. ”

Xiao Yu was expressionless, and asked in a deep voice: "Even if you use corrupt officials, why do you abandon corrupt officials?"

Lan Yu said with a smile: "As the saying goes, no official is not greedy. Therefore, Zhang Xiangchang does not move corrupt officials, but only mediocre officials. Regardless of the size of the official, as long as he is greedy for ink, with the ability of the prince's secret guards and peonies, it is equivalent to putting the handle in the hands of the prince. ”

Xiao Yu calmed down, poured himself a cup of green plums, and said slowly: "I'm afraid this will make the people's resentment boil." ”

Lan Yu said disapprenosingly: "Reprimand first, let the people in the northwest know that the prince can understand that the people are not happy, it is not the fault of the prince, but the fault of the corrupt officials below." Then choose a scapegoat headed by one, slaughter it, avenge the people, and then raid the house to make the people angry. ”

Xiao Yu smiled and was noncommittal.

The wine jar in Lan Yu's hand has bottomed out, and Lan Yu seems to have a faint drunkenness, and said with a smile: "This middle strategy is complicated to say, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is just the art of controlling officials, not a great avenue." Shizun once said: Use corrupt officials to tie up their loyalty, abandon corrupt officials to eliminate dissidents, kill big greed to make people angry, and confuse their wealth to fill the palace, this is the art of emperors through the ages. ”

Xiao Yu was silent for a long time, then shook his head and said: "The Tao is different, don't conspire, I can't learn this emperor's mental technique." ”

Lan Yu's eyes suddenly brightened, and he said: "Since there is no need for the middle and lower strategies, Lan Yu also has a good strategy, although it is difficult to use, but you might as well listen to it." ”

Xiao Yu raised his glass and said, "I want to hear about it." ”

Xiao Yu and Lan Yu drank this wine from noon to midnight.

Xiao Yu looked at the dozen or so wine jars in the tent, and said with a smile: "Listening to Brother Lan's words, it is better than Xiao to study the sage book for ten years." ”

Lan Yu smiled casually: "It's just talk on paper, if you really want to do it, you have to have a talent like Zhang Xiang, I just play tricks and do it myself, eighty percent of it is not good." ”

Xiao Yu got up and said: "Whether it's on paper or not, it's better to talk about it than not to talk about it." In the future, when it comes to the rule of officials in the northwest, there will be Brother Lao Lan. ”

The first civil official above 10,000 people under one person in the northwest?

Sapphire laughed.

Xiao Yu didn't deliberately force it, but made a big account.

After all, no matter how the Northwest is just around the corner, it hasn't been defeated after all, has it?

Xiao Yu looked in the direction of Western Liangzhou in the dark night, and suddenly had an urge to laugh out loud.

Look up to the sky and laugh into the west cool.