Liu Muzhi's lips curled up: "One more thing is that in Jingzhou, Huan Xuan has detained all grain transport ships and water transport ships heading downstream. Jiankang's food supply is already insufficient, and the price of rice has begun to rise.
, there may be shadows of the mafia behind this."
Xu Xianzhi opened his eyes wide: "What does this have to do with the mafia? They won't be stupid enough to cause trouble behind the scenes at this time."
Liu Muzhi sighed: "Looking at their attitude, they don't want Xie Yan and the slaves to stay in Wu. The only way to restrict the army is to block them from food and grass. Last year's war in Wu has destroyed many years of war."
The grain reserves have been destroyed, and now Jinnu has just begun to call back the refugees hiding in various places, but farming and harvesting will not happen until next year at the earliest. How will we spend the past six months? The reason why I advise Jinu and the mafia to temporarily put aside their grudges is,
The cooperation once was actually for this reason."
Xu Xianzhi smiled and said: "But the slaves have a way to let the rich people in Wu use their own grain reserves to get through this. You didn't expect this, right?"
Liu Muzhi's expression was solemn: "This method may work for a while, but in the long run, standing on the side of the local tycoons in Wu will make us enemies of all the families with overseas Chinese surnames in the north, including the Xie family, including our Liu family and
Your Xu family, the local tycoon in Wu, has always been short-sighted, greedy and unintelligent. Judging from these rebellions against the Tao of the Heavenly Master, this is fully proved. They don't even have a plan after failure. They only care about venting their hatred and destroying the world.
It is a dangerous thing for a slave to choose to stand with these people."
Xu Xianzhi gritted his teeth: "The slaves just need their food and grass, and we don't really want to be with them. Fatty, we should be on the side of the slaves. After all, if we cooperate with the mafia, we will only be controlled by them forever.
I don’t even know when I will betray them, isn’t this battle at Wuzhuang the best proof?”
Liu Muzhi sighed: "But has Ji Nu ever thought about the situation of Madam and Miaoyin? Where did he put them by doing this? Even if he is devoted to the country, he still treats the Xie family and Xie who have been kind to him.
Family, what will other aristocratic families think of him in the future? Can we really build our own foundation by relying on these brothers from the Beifu Army?"
Xu Xianzhi nodded and said seriously: "This is exactly where we need to help him. Fatty, if you can help Xie Yan save his life, you should help him once. You are right. The Xie family treats the slaves and us.
Everyone is grateful, no matter how stubborn Xie Yan is, he is the last hope of the Xie family after all, and I still don’t want him to really lose everything."
Liu Muzhi turned around and walked towards the outside of Cangcheng: "I know what to do. I'll leave it to you, brother."
Xu Xianzhi looked at Liu Muzhi's retreating background, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said nothing.
East China Sea, Zhoushan Islands.
Sun En was standing on a rock. A flying eagle landed on his shoulder. He took off a thin roll from the eagle's feet and unfolded it. It was a densely packed roll with written words.
He looked at the small parchment with secret words on it, his frown gradually unfurled, and finally, he burst into laughter and said to Lu Xun and Xu Daofu who were standing behind him: "Two junior brothers, what can we do?
Going to sea."
Xu Daofu's brows were still furrowed and he said in a low voice: "Last time I left without a good fight and left most of the wealthy people in Wu. Now that Xie Yan is still guarding Kuaiji, our chances are not as good as
It’s the first time, why can I go to sea again?”
Sun En smiled and said: "Because Huan Xuan has blocked all grain transport ships and merchant ships going to Jiankang, there has been a food shortage in Wu. Liu Laozhi's Beifu Army is still stationed in Guangling. Because of the lack of food, the army can no longer be dispatched.
In the entire Wu region, only Xie Yan's soldiers and horses exist, isn't our opportunity here?"
Lu Xun said expressionlessly: "But Liu Yu is still here. With him here, everything is possible."
Sun En smiled and handed the parchment in his hand to Lu Xun: "Our friend made a little trick and asked Xie Yan to publicly drive away Liu Laozhi and Liu Yu. Now Liu Yu is sent to Wuzhuang to see the grain.
Ku, all his energy is on winning people's hearts and recruiting the refugees in Wudi. At this time, he neither knows nor has the ability to help Xie Yan. Even if he goes, he will be driven away by Xie Yan."
Xu Daofu shook his head: "How could Xie Yan be so stupid? He dares to disperse his troops to various places to take over the manor's land while our army is still there?"
Lu Xun finished reading the parchment and said with a smile: "Our faceless friend succeeded in convincing Xie Yan that we were all deserted and vulnerable, and the local tycoons of Wu whom we left behind confirmed this for him.
What Xie Yan is most afraid of now is not that we fight back, but that Liu Laozhi or other aristocratic families will take this opportunity to rob their Xie family's manor and fields in Wudi, so he must do it as quickly as possible
He quickly seized the ownerless manors in various places. This time, Xie Yan brought not only 30,000 soldiers and horses from Xuzhou, but also hundreds of nephews and nephews of the Xie family who fled to Jiankang City. The purpose of bringing them back was to receive those
If the manor property is half a step slower, it may no longer belong to the Xie family."
Xu Daofu took the parchment from Lu Xun: "How can this faceless man gain Xie Yan's trust? Why? Xi Chao and the Xie family have never dealt with him. If he is Xi Chao's descendant, then Xie Yan can't
You should believe him."
Sun En sneered: "Because this faceless man said that last time he hacked the Wang family's property and took a lot of Suzaku's treasures. Now he led Xie Yan to find some of the treasures, and also took over a dozen of the Wang family's treasures."
The land deed to the manor, so Xie Yan trusted him. Liu Laozhi launched troops to plunder the land of Wu, which made Xie Yan lose his last bit of sanity. Now Xie Yan has less than five thousand soldiers and horses in Kuaiji City, and the faceless man said,
There is also our internal response.”
Lu Xun sighed: "Up to now, we still haven't figured out the identity of this faceless man. Although he helped us destroy Suzaku once and helped us escape the crusade another time, this kind of manipulation
And the feeling of control is really not good.”
Sun En said coldly: "At this time, at least he has helped us, and what he said has been corroborated by our own spies. Soldiers are valuable and quick. Third brother, quickly assemble 10,000 elite soldiers.
I will go to sea in an hour. One day later, I will defeat the enemy and seize Shangyu. Three days later, I will drink with you at the top of Shanyin City in front of Xie Yan's head! The Heavenly Master is with us!
"
Xu Daofu and Lu Xun looked at each other, smiled and performed military salutes at the same time: "I will obey the instructions of Senior Brother in everything, the Heavenly Master is with us!"
This chapter has been completed!