Xu Ruxuan pursed his lips and said in a heavy voice: "Niangniang, you are a person who has been on the battlefield, and you should understand that the meaning of delaying time is to use the limited time you have won to obtain greater benefits."

"That's right." Chi Xinian nodded slightly, "Delay is just a tactic, and it doesn't mean that it can be concealed permanently.

"The point of buying this time, then, is to accomplish something worthwhile."

Speaking of this, Chi Xinian seemed to understand something: "So what you mean is that for the imperial court, it is impossible for such a big matter as a water bandit robbery to be concealed forever. The bandits stopped you from reporting the report, in order to buy more time and loot more things?

"But they didn't do anything but waste this precious time?"

"Yes." Xu Ruxuan bowed slightly, "At first, I was still scared, afraid that before the imperial court sent someone over, they would move again.

"It's nice to see them doing nothing every day.

"But slowly, I felt something was wrong. I found that they were really not in a hurry, and they had no plans to escape, nor did they have any plans to do another job to ensure their prosperity for the rest of their lives.

"What they are doing seriously every day seems to be to spy on me and the movements of officials in Pingxing."

Since you don't rob it, you have to run away, right?

When Xu Ruxuan found that this group of people had only evacuated his subordinates and had no intention of escaping, he realized that the core of the matter was too different from what he had figured out.

As soon as he said this, Chi Xinian's expression also became serious: "So you think that they are using you and using you to attract the attention of the imperial court?"

"Yes..." Xu Ruxuan nodded slightly.

Immediately, he frowned again and continued, "Some speculations, although they sound funny, will be confirmed by all sorts of things once they appear.

"So it didn't take long for me to fully confirm their ideas.

"And, in the meantime, I deliberately tried to trick them. From this, I was sure that they would continue to stay with me, and they would not continue to loot for the relief materials of the imperial court.

"They just want to... Observe the reaction of the imperial court by my side and make timely countermeasures."

"It turns out that you know so much in private, no wonder you don't agree with the banditry." Chi Xinian hooked his lips and chuckled, without ridicule or emotion, "Because I know that they just want to attract the attention of the court and don't intend to continue to do evil, in your opinion, it is useless to suppress bandits.

"With this kung fu, it is better to focus on other serious things.

"Maybe they could ruin their plans."

"That's what the lower officials really think... The more they want to do something, the more they can't do it. In this way, it can really be regarded as an explanation for Pingxing's loss." Xu Ruxuan bowed slightly, and did not deny Chi Xinian's thoughts.

"Have you ever thought about a two-pronged approach?" Chi Xinian spoke up coldly and proposed a method that Xu Ruxuan had not considered before.

She raised her eyes and looked at the cold Yuehua: "The affairs of Kyoto are not slack, and the bandits who robbed the imperial court will not let go."

"But the current imperial court... It's a little hard, isn't it?" Xu Ruxuan is the prefect of a prefecture in the end, and he still has a better idea of the actual situation of the imperial court.

This is another reason why he does not support the suppression of bandits.

The action is too big, and it costs people and money.