One Thousand One Hundred and Sixty-Seven: Fa Xu Pei, the First Princes to Kill (37)

Although it took Wei Ci two days to persuade Yang Tao to form an alliance, the whole process was not smooth, but twists and turns.

Yang Tao belongs to the main combat faction, but his subordinates are not interested in it.

If it wasn't for Yan Lin's strong support for him, Yang Tao might not be able to suppress all the opposing voices and decided to form an alliance.

Yang Tao's old department was brought from Dongqing, but after taking root in Nansheng, the talents he recruited were all from Nansheng.

He was able to gain a firm foothold in Nansheng, in addition to the strength of the old department, he also borrowed the strength of the Nansheng family to some extent.

As I said before, aristocratic families occupy more than 60% of the world's wealth, and the longer the inheritance, the richer the family's wealth.

Lack of people to give, lack of money to send money, lack of soldiers to buy soldiers.

There is nothing in this world that money cannot buy. If there is, it must be because there is not enough money.

Yang Tao took over the olive branch from the aristocratic family and received their generosity, which gave him the confidence to start his army.

After benefiting from them, it is natural to give them a certain reward.

After all, not everyone is Jiang Pengji, she can forcefully reject others from the family but she doesn't have the confidence.

Even for Jiang Pengji, her success has a certain element of luck.

Back then, the Shanghai Earthquake caused countless casualties and displaced people everywhere. The Dongqing imperial family relocated the capital regardless of the lives of the people. The Tsingyi Army and the Red Lotus Sect took advantage of the situation to rise again. Jiang Pengji seized this opportunity to stand up and become the backbone of the people of Maruzhou. Recruiting troops, absorbing young and strong refugees to strengthen themselves, accumulating primitive capital by entrapping northern Xinjiang, and at the same time dispatching troops to crusade against the Tsingyi Army and the Red Lotus Sect to search their families.

Her success is almost impossible to replicate.

Timing, location, and harmony are all indispensable.

When Wei Ci came to persuade him to form an alliance, the courtiers from Yang Tao's tent who came from aristocratic families were unwilling.

They want to put their development goals in Nansheng's local area——

Unify Nansheng and establish himself as emperor.

What benefits can Yang Tao get from fighting Xu Pei and Huang Song across the country?

This battle was won, and the person who benefited the most was Jiang Pengji, who took both Huang Song's and Xu Pei's territories.

Yang Tao went out to fight the war, and at most got back half of Zhangzhou.

Dongqing's six prefectures and twenty-one counties, of which five prefectures and nineteen counties are under Jiang Pengji's control. With the addition of a northern border, the territory under her rule is larger than the original Dongqing. It is more than enough to establish a country and become an emperor. Yang Tao only takes Zhangzhou, and he has an egg!

Don't look at the children of the aristocratic family as if they don't eat fireworks on earth, but they are shrewd in calculating the accounts.

Wei Ci made things difficult for him, but it was nothing to him.

He probably knew these courtiers from the Nansheng noble family before him.

When An Jing returned to Nansheng to develop, he was poor and poor. Wei Ci spent a lot of time trying to win the help of these aristocratic families.

Even in the past so many years, Wei Ci still remembers the situation and family context of each family.

If you were not timid in the previous life, how can you be timid again in this life?

In the words of his lord, none of these gentry could fight.

Trying to persuade these people, rather than using hype guarantees, it is better to say a word or two about their own interests.

Although the aristocratic family objected loudly, Yang Tao was the one who made the final decision.

Yang Tao is not stupid, even with the help of the aristocratic family, he was not turned into a puppet by the other party.

Even if Yang Tao died, wouldn't he still have a 24 filial father Yan Lin by his side?

"Military Master, can't you persuade the Lord to give up the idea of ​​forming an alliance?"

Yan Lin said, "My lord has made up his mind, so it's useless to persuasion."

If the revenge of killing his father and the hatred of seizing the state were put aside, Yan Lin did not approve of the alliance between Yang Tao and Jiang Pengji.

The reason is just four words——

Seeking skin from a tiger.

Back then when the Huangshui League was held, Yan Lin felt that Jiang Pengji was full of ambitions, and that this person's appetite would never satisfy Dongqing or Beijiang.

If the lord made an alliance with her to kill Xu Pei and Huang Song, Yan Lin deeply doubted that the other party would turn around and stab Yang Tao with a knife.

This woman has done a lot of killing.

The courtier said, "Oh, if we send troops to attack Huang Song and Xu Pei, the supply line will be tight.

One careless, doomed. "

This courtier is not alarmist, he is really thinking about Yang Tao.

In his opinion, if a man wants to achieve great things, he must be ruthless.

Yang Tao hastily sent troops to fight a cross-border war to avenge his father, and he would suffer a lot.

It's better to bear this hatred.

If Zhao Shao fell into Jiang Pengji's hands, he would be dead anyway.

"My lord, why haven't you thought about your concerns?" Yan Lin frowned and sighed, "But——you only saw the current situation in Nansheng, but you didn't consider the general trend of the world. Liu Xi is very ambitious and scheming. , she will not be satisfied with Dongqing or Beijiang. After she unifies Dongqing and gives her a year or two to cultivate, Nansheng is the next goal. Zhangzhou, there must be no loss!"

Without Zhangzhou as the front line, after Jiang Pengji unified Dongqing, she would be able to send troops to flatten the Nansheng border.

At that time, Yang Tao's situation will be called dangerous.

When the courtier heard this, his complexion changed drastically.

It took a while before he spoke, "Then Liu Xi is just a woman, how could she be so ambitious?"

Yan Lin stopped talking.

Ambitious or not, does this have something to do with being a woman?

Or, in many people's stereotyped impressions, Jiang Pengji should be satisfied with winning Dongqing?

Yan Lin said calmly, "Beijiang has been dead for almost a year—"

They even killed Beijiang, why do people always take it for granted that she is a woman who is easy to fool in the back house?

If all women in the back house had the same virtues as her, there would have been no place for men in this world long ago.

The courtier looked embarrassed, and after a while, he said goodbye and left.

Yan Lin said to the back hall, "Master, come out."

Yang Tao poked his head out to look at the "enemy situation", and felt relieved when he saw that the person had really left.

"Shaoyang, you don't agree with forming an alliance either?"

"The pros and cons are equal, it all depends on the will of the lord."

From Yan Lin's point of view, it doesn't matter which one he chooses, but Yang Tao's main battle, he can only choose to support.

Yang Tao said, "I swore before my father's spirit that I would kill Zhao Shao with my own hands. Now that Zhao Shao has taken refuge with Xu Pei, and Xu Pei has seized half of my state, this account must be settled anyway. Besides, if you can Recapturing Zhangzhou, we can use Zhangzhou as an outpost to restrain Liu Xi..."

The first two sentences are from Yang Tao's heart, and the latter sentence is "plagiarism" Yan Lin's idea.

Yan Lin didn't expose it, but smiled slightly and said, "I really have this intention."

Wei Ci's efficiency is not unpleasant, but sending troops to fight is different from others, and requires a certain amount of preparation time.

Before Yang Tao's troops set out on the road, Jiang Pengji couldn't help but start the fight first, breaking the original deadlock.

In the beginning, it was just you coming and going to test things out, and every time there was a hand-to-hand battle, hundreds of people were killed or injured.

This is the same as scratching an itch. You can't scratch the real itch at all, but the more you scratch, the more itchy.

Xu Pei could still hold his breath, but there was some pressure on Jiang Pengji's side.

If the food line is too long, it will inevitably lead to double the logistical pressure, and the cost of war will be heavier than that in northern Xinjiang.

Huang Song and Xu Pei secretly formed an alliance and quietly sent troops to fight.

As the saying goes, if you hit a snake and hit seven inches, you will hit wherever it is fatal.

If the grain line is tight, then attack the grain line first.

Xu Pei took the lead in launching an attack to attract attention, and Huang Song secretly sent troops to intercept and kill the food team.