"It's all princes!"

Xiao Jue kowtowed repeatedly, "Otherwise, how could I have eaten enough to come to this kind of place to deal with the sergeant of the Tiece Army." ”

Hearing him say such words, Lin Yi laughed angrily, "You pushed it cleanly, but I will also give you a chance, you can tell me clearly, what is the prince secretly going to do against the sergeant of the Tiece Army, and why are you here." ”

"The crown prince was ordered to secretly visit all the officials and wealthy merchants in the southwest who had dealings with the Tiece army and the party, and to consult with my father about the grain extraction in the southwestern states. Xiao Jue trembled and said.

"What do you mean by pumping grain from the southwestern states?" Lin Yi frowned slightly.

"In order to prevent chaos in the southwest, Shengshang is ready to transport all the grain stored in the granaries in the southwest to Tianping County and Wuling County, and is ready to use the treasury silver to purchase civilian surplus grain and transport it away. Xiao Jue looked at Lin Yi and saw that Lin Yi's expression had not changed significantly, so he dared to continue: "It is necessary to make the southwestern states even short of rations, so that there will not be surplus food left and will be filled with military rations." ”

"It's a bottom-of-the-tank draw. ”

Hearing these words, even Li Sanyu understood these meanings.

When marching and fighting, the most important thing is food and grass, and ordnance is secondary, if there is no food, even if the army does not mutiny, it will be difficult to travel long distances.

"The stratagem is vicious. ”

Lin Yi's face did not change, but his heart was full of anger again.

He Tiece army is not a large number, originally marched over by the state and county gate lords along the way, before the Southern Dynasty military was not equipped with much military rations and military materials, at this time, although there are party items and Tuyuhun as the hinterland, marching to fight, even if it is Xia Ba Ying's coalition army with him into the Southern Dynasty, the supply of military food is not to worry at all, but it is easy to feed the army, if you occupy these states and counties, you suddenly find that there is almost no food in these states and counties, and it is not only the army that needs to be fed, but also the people of these states and counties.

Although Tuyuhun's army can be idle, Tuyuhun's grain storage is transported, but the manpower and material resources transported are very expensive, and the party and Tuyuhun are vast and sparsely populated, although it was not a disaster year, the grain is enough, but Xia Ba Ying won the party and Tuyuhun, originally to make the ordinary people of the party and Tuyuhun feel better, this throne will be stable, if the party and Tuyuhun people feel that the queen is on the throne, life is more and more difficult than before, and I don't know how many disasters there will be in the future.

This kind of strategy is indeed extremely useful for balancing the southwest region, which will not be able to buy enough food and grass even if there is money in the southwest region, so that it is not good for the enemy army who wants to attack to take this area, and it is not good not to fight.

But the most undesirable thing about this strategy is that if there happens to be some natural disasters after the grain stocks are exhausted, then these states and counties do not know how many people will starve to death. But compared with natural disasters, there is also a possibility that there are many wealthy businessmen who take the opportunity to buy and resell grain and rice, raise prices, and win huge profits from them, that is, man-made disasters, and I don't know how many poor families will be even more destitute and even sold into slavery because of bankruptcy.

Xiao Jue was still trembling, he glanced at Lin Yi, and there were some words in his heart that he didn't dare to say.

Because according to Jiankang's policy, the prince came to supervise these things, in addition to being able to cut off the grain and grass needed for the army's conquest, so that the southwest directly became a quagmire enough to drag the army, the most important thing is that if Lin Yi really led the party alliance army into the Southern Dynasty with anger, then he must not sit back and watch the people here make a living, and when the time comes, he must find those rich merchants who hoard Juqi to ask for food, and at that time, most of the prominent families in the southwest area may conflict with Lin Yi because of their own interests.

Just like a new dynasty, even if the emperor has more troops, if he loses the support of all the rich families in the world, I am afraid it will be difficult.

"As for dealing with Sergeant Tie Cejun, it's just because I want to know more clues about Spirit Ice. ”

Xiao Jue didn't know what Lin Yi was thinking at this time, seeing that Lin Yi didn't say much, he continued, and said: "Jiankang's concern is that the spirit ice containing the aura of heaven and earth is too tempting, if the quantity is large enough, General Lin, you can use this to exchange with the wealthy merchants in the southwest area, and even make the grain and grass in the north be transported over to exchange the spirit ice with you." ”

And so it was. ”

Lin Yi was not surprised at all, compared with many Ming monarchs in history, although Xiao Yan, the emperor, seemed to be doing so, after all, he had served as the assassin of a state for many years, and he had thought very carefully about these strategies, which was much stronger than his governance of the country.

It can only be that the spirit ice is not the vein that Xiao Yan thinks, it is not a limited quantity, this is also due to the number of days, if it is not for the spiritual famine after Xiao Yan ascended the throne, this spirit ice containing the aura of heaven and earth will not become a treasure that is enough to make all the gate valves chase frantically.

"Do you still have such a convoy out to search for the Tiece Army sergeants, how many Tie Ce Army sergeants have you hunted and killed so far, and what did you ask?" Lin Yi's gaze suddenly turned cold, forcing him to look at Xiao Jue: "Say it quickly!"

"There is also a convoy in Shenli County, this Yu Fa Demon and Li Tiannan's predecessors also know, they can prove that what I said is true!" was shouted by Lin Yi, Xiao Jue's whole person was jumped, "A total of twenty-one Tiece Army sergeants were captured, and they didn't ask how many useful things they found, but it just confirmed the previous news, this spirit ice did come from the underground of Dar City." ”

"Twenty-one, all killed by you?" A roar sounded in Lin Yi's body, and his voice contained an indescribable chill.

"General Lin, it's none of my business, I'm just following to take a look, but I don't really interfere. Xiao Jue could see that Lin Yi's killing intent was stronger than ever at this time, even if he was stupid at this time, he subconsciously stretched out his finger and pointed at Zhan Tonggu who was angry next to him, but he couldn't speak for a while.

Zhan Tonggu is indeed the person in charge, but if Zhan Tonggu really wants to argue, he can definitely bite him for doing things for him, because he is the one who came in place of the prince and is the prince's supervisor, and Zhan Tonggu also wants to listen to his orders.

"Is there anything he didn't understand, or something useful that he missed to tell me?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and asked Zhan Tonggu, who was lying on the ground and couldn't even get up.

Zhan Tonggu knew that he would die at this time, so he didn't answer, but simply closed his eyes.

"Since there isn't, what's the use of keeping you!"

When Lin Yi heard the words "twenty-one", his murderous intent was already extremely intense, and he didn't hesitate at all at this time, and with a sigh, he had already landed on Zhan Tongku's side, stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhan Tonggu directly, and smashed it towards a stone wall in the third courtyard of Chaotian Palace.

Boom!

This Zhan Tonggu was like a javelin thrown by him and slammed into the stone wall at an alarming speed, making a dull sound that made people silent, and only to see a mass of dirty flesh spread on the stone wall. This powerful person in Jiankang can be regarded as an extraordinary person, and his entire head and half of his body were directly shattered.

"Ahh

"Don't kill me!"

Although Xiao Jue was arrogant before, where had he seen such a scene, he only felt that the next one would be his turn, and he almost quickly crawled towards Lin Yi, begging constantly.

"You supervised this matter for the prince, so where is the prince now?"

Lin Yi coldly glanced at Xiao Jue, who was no longer humanoid at this time, and asked.

Xiao Jue originally subconsciously wanted to climb in front of Lin Yi, but when he glanced at him, he didn't dare to move forward at all, just crawled on the ground, trembling all over, and said, "He should still be in my house now, with my father..."

Lin Yi sneered, "In this way, he is in the Nanyu Palace, and it is not too far from here." ”

"It's not far, it's not far. ”

Xiao Jue kowtowed again and again, and subconsciously said these two sentences, but in the next moment, he realized something, and his whole body froze.