Although the people of Kangle have reached the point of running out of oil, the strength of 500,000 people should not be underestimated. For the sake of prudence, Ba Niu adopted Lin Shidong's state of half-tuntian and half-siege, in his words: "Attacking the city is never the best policy, and trapping and defending is the first choice."

He suggested that a long-term plan should be made to solve the problem of grain and grass by adopting the method of tuntian. If the enemy does not leave the city, he will hold on, and when he goes out of the city, he will strike. Create a feeling that the enemy is always choked by the neck, and make them scramble first and then depending on the situation. There are two other advantages in this way, one is to consolidate the rear, and the other is to show the world the situation. When the rear is consolidated, there will never be any worries, showing the world that the situation can eliminate dissidents and recruit heroes from all over the world.

After the implementation of the tuntian system, Ba Niu built a wall outside the capital. This wall was later known as the boundary wall. The boundary wall was built for ten years, during which most of the land that originally belonged to Kangle was conquered by Ba Niu, and most of them completely lost contact with the outside world. During this period, the Kangle people also tried to break through the barriers, but to no avail. When the huge boundary wall was closed, they became turtles in an urn, waiting for the last oil to run out.

Ba Niu went from leaving Loulu Village, to running the Qiushan Peninsula, and then to resisting the Kangle people for the Mai Dynasty. After defeating Shi Qiuyu, Sheng Shiyuan, Chu Yunshen, Chu Yuxing, etc. on the Qiushan Peninsula, and then capturing Dongduo, annexing Mingsha Mountain, establishing the new Dongduo Dynasty, and then seizing Longshi Fort, attacking Changtu, all the way through the pass, came to Dadu, until now, it has been a full twenty-two years. He has also changed from an ambitious teenager to a middle-aged man with a deep city government. He has also changed from a descendant of an ordinary peasant family to a peerless and independent figure, and now, in the entire Kyushu continent, no one does not know his name, no one does not know his great achievements, and people praise him like the praise of the sun, full of hope and affection.

It can be said that the current Ba Niu is the heyday of his life, and it is still on the rise. Of course, Gibran understands this, and he is already in his last years. According to the last war with Ba Niu, more than ten years have passed, and he is already in his seventies. Over the years, he and Sheng Shiyuan have had hundreds of wars, large and small, and the two sides have won and lost each other, but neither of them can achieve a decisive victory. This has led to extremely serious wear and tear in the city of Changtu. Although Sheng Shiyuan also has attrition, his attrition can be made up, but Gibran cannot, his surroundings are already all Dongduo people, and he is completely isolated and helpless. But recently, he heard about one thing, there is a very obvious rift between Sheng Shiyuan and Ba Niu. The cause of the incident was that Sheng Shiyuan wanted to take his family to Changtu and enjoy the joy of family. Because he feels that he is already old in his heart, and he doesn't know when something will happen. But Ba Niu's handling of this matter made him very dissatisfied. Although Ba Niu agreed to his request and let most of his family move from Kyoto to Changtu and make proper arrangements, Sheng Shiyuan's favorite youngest son, he did not let him come, but transferred him to Ba Niu's side.

This extremely obvious distrust made Sheng Shiyuan furious, and he wrote an extremely sharply worded letter to Ba Niu at that time, which said, "Han Xin does not be the king of Sanqi, Kuaitong thinks it is wrong." The literature can't be accomplished, Fan Li thinks it's clumsy. Isn't it sad to hear that this gentleman of the world, a loyal and patriotic man, has suffered from this disaster?"

Later, he said: "The king leads the ministers with sincerity, and the ministers do their best to be loyal, and since the date of surrender, has there ever been a little betrayal?" And the twists and turns, the prince can know it. Now the whole family is here, only the lack of young sons, the prince with him, since he can make more benefits, in a certain sense, it is not a good thing, I hope that the heart of the prince will move, let him come, then the day of death can be in front of him, and it is not in vain to follow the prince for decades, and comfort the hearts of the world's obedient people."

Judging from the intercepted fragments, the problem is not very big, but the meaning expressed in it is enough to make people think deeply, especially when it comes to the heart of the people who comfort the world and submit to the world, it is even more coercive, so after the letter was delivered, Ba Niu was also moved, he secretly sent a letter to Ma Xudong and Chang Lin, asking them to pay attention to Sheng Shiyuan's movements at all times, and on the other hand, he ordered Longshi Fort to guard Shi Chuan and let him prepare to send troops, and at the same time, he divided a team of men and horses to garrison Huangjia Town. Then, he replied to Sheng Shiyuan, saying: "If the general wants his young son, he can come with his family and live outside the boundary wall, and the place has been chosen, or he still returns to Kyoto, and the graves of his parents are also hopeful." Roughly speaking, you either come to me and I'll make arrangements for you, or you go back to Kyoto and I'll reunite you with your family. In short, it just can't let you completely free yourself from the shackles when you have a heavy army in hand and dominate one side.

After Sheng Shiyuan received this reply, his heart was half cold. He immediately convened a small secret meeting within his family. The contents of the meeting are unknown, but the final outcome is clearly related to the rebellion that nearly upended the Dondor.

After the secret meeting, Sheng Shiyuan did not take any action, but wrote to the imperial court, saying that he was old and frail, and it was difficult for him to be qualified for the position of governor and general, and he was willing to give him a few acres of thin land, so that he could retire. However, it is intriguing that he did not ask to return to Kyoto, nor did he ask to go to Dadu, even his youngest son, he did not mention it again.

After the resignation was submitted to Kyoto, Li Yuming still announced the matter at the court meeting. Most of the important officials in the imperial court were Akiyama Peninsula and Dongduo people, and they originally had objections to the Kangle people, especially Sheng Shiyuan. Now that Sheng Shiyuan personally asked for retirement, how could these people miss this opportunity? Almost overwhelmingly, they all asked to agree to his request, and many people came up with the idea that he would be in Changtu without having to be transferred back to Kyoto.

Li Yuming saw that it was difficult to disobey the public's will, so he made a reply: the Ministry of Household allocated 300,000 taels of silver as the cost of settling down to the family, and the Ministry of Rites planned to seal the three of his sons as waiting. The rest of the grain, colored satin and the like are even more innumerable.

Li Yuming thought that this kind of treatment was not thin for Sheng Shiyuan. Of course, this kind of thinking is not wrong, this kind of treatment is indeed very generous for an old minister, but he forgot one thing, Sheng Shiyuan is the benchmark for all Shun Kangle people. When he is there, the Kangle people can see hope, and when he is not there, the hope of the Kangle people is dashed. This is one of the reasons why Ba Niu has always valued him more than others.

Of course, Sheng Shiyuan was very clear about this, so when he learned that the imperial court had agreed to his request to retire, he just smiled slightly and did not make any expression. But after Ma Xudong got the news, he was shocked, and he immediately wrote an urgent document to Ba Niu, asking the messenger to deliver it within three days. Later, he wrote a letter to Shi Chuan to draw his attention to all the actions of the people of the city. At the same time, he also informed Chang Lin and told him that Sheng Shiyuan was likely to make the next move. He himself and a few cronies made some preparations.

The messenger did not arrive in Dadu until the morning of the fourth day, and when he saw Ba Niu, it was almost noon. When Ba Niu learned that it was Ma Xudong's messenger, he knew that something was wrong. When he saw that the imperial court agreed to Sheng Shiyuan's request to retire, he couldn't help but take the case: "These ignorant people, how can Sheng Shiyuan be moved?" I didn't even dare to touch him, they even let him retreat to the forest"?

It was the first time they had seen him so angry, and they didn't know what was happening. When they knew that it was the imperial court that made Sheng Shiyuan retire, they were also taken aback. You must know that the people of the Qiushan Peninsula, the Dongduo and the Mingshashan people, as well as the people of some other tribes combined, are not as many as the Kangle people, especially in the current army, most of them are Kangle people. Li Yuming's approach is tantamount to stabbing a hornet's nest.

"It's not too late to arrest Sheng Shiyuan's youngest son"! Immediately, someone said: "With this hostage, he will have some scruples."

Everyone looked at Ba Niu, but Ba Niu laughed coldly: "Since Sheng Shiyuan has the intention of rebellion, he will inevitably have a perfect plan, and when he was on the seal, he already had arrangements for his son."

He waved his hand to let everyone retreat, and he raised his head to look outside the tent: "Let General Xu Lishan come, and after General Xu, let General Liu Xilie come."

The herald took the token and went down, and Ba Niu sat down with his eyebrows furrowed.