"Brother Yongyan?" Seeing Yongyan appear in Peach Blossom Mountain, Fang Xiaoyu was really a little surprised: "You don't stay in Crouching Tiger Cliff to deal with the aftermath, what are you doing here here in Peach Blossom Mountain?"

"You think I'm willing to run over, it's not that my father is afraid of any nonsense from you, let me come over and keep an eye on you," Yongyan said angrily: "I didn't expect that your courage is really not ordinary, eight people dare to fight Qinglong Mountain, Qinglong Mountain is in the top five existences in the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road, Flying Yaksha Deng Yuanjue is a disciple who has fallen into the sky, his martial arts are strong, and he is ruthless, even the masters sent by the guard battalion, there are many people who are injured under his twelve flying knives, you actually provoked him before the backup arrived?"

"I'm not out of the question, when we attacked Peach Blossom Mountain, many bandits fled, it was so dark, we couldn't catch them all back, and Qinglong Mountain was only a hundred miles away from Peach Blossom Mountain, if it wasn't taken overnight, they would soon be able to get the news of the fall of Peach Blossom Mountain and Crouching Tiger Cliff, and our whereabouts would be exposed in front of the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road. It would be even more difficult to take them down like that in Peach Blossom Mountain, so taking Qinglong Mountain is an important part of ensuring that the news will not be revealed. ”

Yongyan said angrily: "Strong words, do you think that if you take Qinglong Mountain, the news will not be revealed?"

Fang Shiyu shook his head: "If you want to completely block the news, it is basically impossible, there has never been an impermeable wall in this world, it is only a matter of time before the news of our sneak attack on Crouching Tiger Cliff and Peach Blossom Mountain is revealed, and the only thing we can do is to maximize our results before the news is revealed, only in this way can we reduce some pressure for the upcoming vicious battle." ”

Yongyan was naturally moved to hear it: "You mean that we will continue to attack the Seventeenth Road Smoke and Dust?"

Fang Xiaoyu listened to it with white eyes and turned straight up: "Continue to attack the seventeen road smoke and dust, even if I have that heart, I don't have that courage, although the white eyebrows seniors, Aunt Han and they are all top masters of the rivers and lakes, they can easily kill the bandit leaders in any of the seventeen road smoke and dust, but the bandits are not just to kill those bandits, you still have to deal with the aftermath, you must know that those bandit leaders have a large number of minions, and more importantly, many of those minions have their own families, and the number is less than a thousand. More than 10,000, according to intelligence, there are tens of thousands of bandits under the Trapping Sky alone, you can kill the bandit leader, what about the minions and bandits' families under them, you say we can't kill them all, right? Killing with a knife is certainly a matter of convenience, but the problem is that once we do this, we will suppress the bandits in the future, those bandits are definitely going to play with us, since the fall is also death, not falling is also death, why do people want to fall, it is better to fight, maybe you can really kill a way to live, more importantly, you have to have someone to carry this pot, such a big pot Shuo Wang Ye that old slippery head will definitely not be carried, those imperial doctors in the court are not vegetarians, once those people are targeted, you are not dead, then you have to peel off the skin, although those people do not have much ability, but they can bite people are all good hands, and finally this pot has to be pushed to usWe can't afford such a big pot. ”

Naturally, it was Yongyan's guard Li Yong who asked this, "Then what should we do?"

"You can't just rely on killing and fighting, you have to give people a little way to live, and you don't force people into a dead end, you think that since there is no way to live, people can't play with you and survive in death, so you have to rely on the military and politics to suppress and use it, this is the means, and the fu is the goal, which is what people often say, one hand stick, one hand candy, obedient give you candy, disobedient will give you candy, so that people will not force people to go to a dead end. ”

Li Yong listened to it with great admiration: "It's still Young Master Fang's strength, according to Young Master Fang's approach, maybe he can really calm down the bandits in various places." ”

"In fact, our people are the most ordinary people, they are not those careerists who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and the requirements are actually very simple, that is, there is a happy meal, so that the family can live, you look at those dynasties in history, which peasant uprising is not forced to live by the people in power, and then they are instigated by careerists to make trouble, and every time they make trouble, it is only those careerists who will eventually be fulfilled, so the truly wise monarch will never force the people to live for their own selfishness。 ”

Yongyan also nodded again and again: "Then what should we do next?"

"Of course it's time to take a break," Fang Xiaoyu explained: Since we left the capital, we have not been in a hurry for a few days, followed by a high-intensity continuous battle, even if we are iron men, we can't hold on, and then don't take a good rest, I'm afraid that the seventeen roads of smoke and dust have not come down, so I will first exhaust myself to climb down, but you are here, immediately let your subordinates collect all the seized materials in Peach Blossom Mountain, and escort those heinous bandits back to Crouching Tiger Cliff, at least those little minions who voluntarily returned to their hometowns and the captured villagers were all dismissed with twenty taels of silver each, and all the fires that could not be taken away were burned。 ”

Yongyan couldn't help but be stunned: "Back to Crouching Tiger Cliff, we don't plan to defend Peach Blossom Mountain?"

"Guard? I want to guard?" Fang Xiaoyu said angrily: "But you tell me how we should defend this point?" Once the seventeenth road smoke and dust counterattack attack, it will not be one or two, but tens of thousands, do you think we can hold the peach blossoms at this point? Even if we can hold it, it will be a lot of casualties, not to mention that we are here to suppress the bandits, not to send people to the bandits, since we know that we can't hold it, we still insist on staying here and fighting a war of attrition with others, it is either stupid or stupid. ”

Yongyan hesitated and said, "Then we can't do nothing, right?"

Fang Xiaoyu said confidently: "Who said that we didn't do anything, didn't I ask you to dismiss those minions and captured villagers who committed minor crimes, and then burn down the things in the cottage that can't be taken away, and take all the gold, silver, fine grain, mountain goods and the detained bandits back to Crouching Tiger Cliff?" In this way, even if the seventeenth road smoke and dust is to reoccupy here, but nothing can be gained, on the contrary, it is necessary to divide the troops to garrison here, but once they do this, won't the forces attacking us be dispersed, and the pressure on us will be much less, if we can attack the main force across the seventeenth road smoke and dust in one fell swoop, even if they occupy here, we will be able to go down in one drum in the future, so what we have to do now is to concentrate all the forces that can be concentrated, and fight a brilliant battle with the seventeenth road smoke and dust, I say this, do you understand？”

Yongyan hesitated and said, "Although this is the case, it is a pity to lose this strategic place like this. ”

"Willing to give, there is to have to give, many times in order to finally win, some things even if you are not reluctant, but for the overall situation, you still have to endure the pain to cut off, in short, you remember one thing, the temporary concession is for the future to make great strides forward. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you!"

In the end, Yongyan agreed.

When Prince Shuo and Qianlong saw the gold and silver fine, commercial medicinal materials brought back by Fang Xiaoyu, Yongyan and others, they were really frightened, although they couldn't estimate the value of these things, but no matter how they calculated, they exceeded more than one million silver: "This bandit is really as rich as Xiaoyu said, and I am afraid that the gold and silver are soft and soft long ago more than one million taels, if we take down all the real seventeen road smoke and dust, this income is probably not lower than the treasury for a few years and income, or we simply organize a professional team of bandits to suppress bandits." ”

Qianlong seemed calmer: "The account is not calculated like this, although the bandits are very rich, but there are few bandits who have such a climate as the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road." ”

Prince Shuo replied: "There is no one in the pass, but there is one outside the pass, and many bandits have been entrenched outside the mountain for several generations, and the wealth they have accumulated must be no less than the smoke and dust of the seventeenth road." ”

Qianlong was moved by what he heard, but in the end he still didn't agree: "This is going back, the most important thing now is to take down the seventeenth road of smoke and dust." ”

"The emperor taught you a lesson!"

"Why did you forget again, call me Master Dongfang, those stinky boys of the Fang family still don't know my true identity, and I don't want to expose my identity in front of them, if I show my feet in front of them, I will ask you, go, let's go over and see the gold, silver, jewelry, and medicinal materials they are carrying. ”

But after seeing the seized goods brought back by Fang Xiaoyu and others, Prince Qianlong Heshuo didn't find a single grain: "I said Xiaoyu, the bandits' cottage will not only have these gold and silver fine and soft, mountain goods, medicinal materials, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, although these things are valuable, they can't be eaten." ”

Fang Xiaoyu replied: "I let Dongfang Big Brother bury all those grains. ”

"Buried?"

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "There is really a lot of grain seized in Peach Blossom Mountain and Qinglong Mountain this time, if we bring that food, we have to catch up with the people who went to the seventeenth road smoke and dust, so we dug a big pit and buried all the grain, and when the seventeenth road smoke and dust are eliminated, we will open it out." ”

"Where's the copycat?"

"Of course it was a fire. ”

"A fire is burned," when Prince Shuo heard that Fang Xiaoyu burned down the cottage, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed, and the situation was like burning his things: "You really deserve to be a loser." ”

"Why am I a loser," Fang Xiaoyu was unconvinced: "Haven't we all moved back all the gold, silver, and soft mountain medicinal materials that are full of cottages?"

Prince Shuo hated iron and said: "Aren't you a loser enough, even if we tear down those cottages and sell wood in the future, we can sell them for tens of thousands of taels, but you are good, a fire burned it clean, you are happy over there, but we have made tens of thousands of silver less." ”。

"Okay, you are also a prince, there are mountains of gold and silver at home, just this little money is still entangled, and we are so many people, even if we want to keep it, we can't keep it, rather than let others take it, it is better to burn it with a fire, if you don't burn it to ruins, once that place is reoccupied by the smoke and dust of the Seventeenth Road, we will have to take human lives to add it if we want to take it down again in the future." ”

"That's right, but tens of thousands of silver are burned like this, which is really distressing. ”