Donghu invaded last year, but the offensive was not as sharp as expected. It may be because of the heavy losses in the Northern Expedition.

The Donghu people did not seek to fight with the main force of the imperial guards, nor did they intend to conquer Yanjing. Instead, they looted the various robberies in Hedong and Hebei. Before, the Donghu advanced to the army and always had strategic goals, but this time the goal seemed to be to loot.

After the withdrawal, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Wei suddenly realized that the Donghu people were also seriously injured in the Northern Expedition. This time they entered the country to recover their vitality. They snatched millions of money, goods, cattle, sheep, and livestock, and at the same time plundered Dingkou, which was more than 300,000 people. The robbery of these things and Dingkou was more than ten times the loss. The already defeated North was even weaker after this battle. This was also the reason why the imperial court could not conquer the bandits on Henan Road... It was because the manpower, financial resources and material resources had reached the verge of exhaustion, and they were powerless.

In fact, although the southern ranks have more or less reduced taxes under the leadership of Xu Zixian, the remaining taxes are still paid to the center as much as possible. The imperial court used this money to make weapons and armor, recruit new recruits, and tried to fill the gap of 200,000 elite imperial guards in a short period of time.

In addition to copper coins, all walks of life will also pay physical taxes to the center, including various practical materials such as grain, silk, silk, tea, grass bundles, etc., which are not used on the blade.

This is also the reason why Xu Zi wanted to reduce taxes first. Although the court was burdened with the northern defense line and was under heavy pressure, it was really too many shortcomings. Han Zhong was very ordinary in execution and strategic vision. After Han Zhong left, the emperor personally managed the business. This person's ability to handle military and political affairs was far worse than Han Zhong.

The more the emperor takes charge and the harder he works, the faster the Great Wei will lose blood and the closer he will be to death.

Xu Zixian kept watching coldly. He did not want to work hard, nor did he want to sit and watch the north fall. It was China regardless of north and south. Xu Zixian was not so cold-blooded. But he had no choice. Now that he went north, his original good reputation would be gone, officials from all over the country would regard him as an ambitious person, and the stable and peaceful south might repeat, and the officials and gentry and imperial guards in the north would fight to the forefront... This is the righteousness of the people.

Although the emperor was incompetent, he was the emperor for nearly twenty years. The battle between the Nan'an Marquis Mansion and the emperor's lineage has spread all over the world. People can regard Xu Zixian as the pillar of the southeast, and are grateful for everything he did in the south, and even executed Xu Ziwei. Then King Zhao hanged himself in anger. The Zhao Wang's Mansion was destroyed. All the people in the world can understand these things. This is the cruelty of the struggle within the royal family. What can Old Nan'an Marquis and Old Zhao be brothers? It is different that they are brothers and sisters? Xu Zixian revenges his father and grandfather, and it is nothing to do too much, not to mention that the King of Qin is not too excessive, and no one is dissatisfied with this matter.

But if Xu Zi wanted to replace the emperor now and go north to the north, then the people of the world would be disgusted, and the great power would be insufficient, and then the result would be half the result with twice the effort.

So Xu Zixian could only tolerate and watch, which was also a price that had to be paid.

"There is no danger in Shandong next, and Hebei is hard to say." Jin Baoyi handed the Tang newspaper to someone else and sighed: "It's a pity that we can't do our best now."

"When Brother Liu gathers more than one million troops and form a million troops with northern children from Hebei, Hedong, Henan and Shandong. You southerners' government troops are no match for you!"

After Li Kaiming was defeated, his military discipline was in a mess, so he was extremely famous in the south and was hated by many people.

After being arrested in Qiongzhou, he was beaten many times. His face was bruised and swollen, but he still held his head up and his chest was still strong.

"You speak out like this, just a whisper in your heart, but victory is victory, defeat is defeat. We defeat you twice, and you didn't catch both opportunities. What else do you have to complain about?"

Deng Maoqi, who was behind Li Kaiming, was also arrested, and the other ten people were all generals among the bandits.

At this time, everyone looked confused and even numb.

Deng Maoqi was tied up with iron shackles hanging on his feet. He sang: "Brother Li, what Qin Dongyang said makes sense. We are also famous in the world. There is no need to ask people to speak out when they die!"

Deng Maoqi had amazing force. When he captured him, the soldiers of the government army lost more than a dozen people. Everyone hated him very much. The iron shackles were smashed tightly, and the skin on his feet was numb. He thought he was in pain when walking. However, this person frowned at most. When he walked, his steps were still very light and he didn't even hum. At this time, although everyone still hated him for his bravery and killed many soldiers of the government army, he had to nod his head secretly. Although this person was a bandit, he could be regarded as a man.

Li Kaiming's face was ferocious at first. After hearing Deng Maoqi's words, he struggled for a moment, and then his face twisted, but gradually became calmer.

After a long time, he sighed and said to Qin Dongyang: "Please report to His Highness the King of Qin. The Liu brothers are not afraid. There is no need to rush to go north. Settle up in the south first and wait for the current situation to change. According to my estimate, within two or three years, the Liu brothers will still be on Henan Road and Shandong Road."

"Oh, why do you say that?"

"The two brothers and the group who followed them have no far-sightedness and no ambition. If I think it's good, the Liu brothers will ask the emperor to give him the title of king and cede the Henan Road to them, so that they will be satisfied. If the court does not allow it, they will consider capturing the Shandong Road and peeking into the Hebei Road." Li Kaiming said proudly: "If it were me, I would be ready to enter Guanzhong, Hedong, and Shandong separately at this time. Taking advantage of the tight military force in the court and guarding the north, they will quickly get the various routes. If the court sends troops to fight the main force of the court on Henan Road with elite soldiers, they will no longer be delayed once the battle is successful, and they will go north to take down Yanjing, so that they can win the world of the Wei Dynasty in the shortest time."

Jin Baoyi snorted coldly and said, "Go to the world of Wei, do you take our King of Qin seriously?"

Li Kaiming nodded and said in a deep voice: "This is my previous thought. Now that I have the King of Qin, I will never be able to go south. Even if I get to the capital, I will never be able to go south. I am not the opponent of His Highness Qin."

This hero has been scattered by the Great Wei for more than ten years, and the emperor cannot be afraid of him. He is even the most determined and ambitious among the bandits. Before he was defeated by Xu Zixian, he read, talked about martial arts, trained troops every day, and was well versed in the world's general trend. His military discipline was the strictest, and he was also the most valued and guarded among the bandits. Such bandits are much more vigilant than those bandit leaders who enjoyed excessively with money and soldiers.

At this moment, the hero among the bandits finally lowered his arrogant head and admitted that he was far from Qin King Xu Zixian, which also made many generals present smile and a satisfied look on their faces.

If Xu Zi was here first, he would have sighed. Sure enough, there is nothing more satisfying and proud of men than conquering the enemy and making them surrender.

"You said so much." Qin Dongyang looked at Li Kaiming and said, "Have you ever thought that if you take advantage of the weak court to get the capital, your march will be too fast, your local foundation will be insufficient, and you have never mastered the prefectures and counties, so that your foundation will be too thin?"

"It's okay." Li Kaiming said: "As long as you get the capital, the north can issue an edict, and it will be stabilized one after another after a few years. Don't worry."

Qin Dongyang nodded and said, "You are saying this, but you only consider that after the capital, the Great Wei country will be destroyed, and all walks of life will be slowly pacified. This is not bad. But if foreign enemies come in, you have no foundation. As long as you lose, you will have no chance to stick to it. You can only become a bandit, be chased by the enemy all the way, and there is no chance to stop breathing. In the end, you have to break it into pieces. If you are lucky, you can hide for ten or eight years. When you come out, the world will be settled and you will not have the chance to do so. If you are not lucky, you may die at the hands of bandits or even hunters in the mountains. Have you ever thought about it?"

"Foreign enemy, are you talking about Donghu people?"

"That's right." Qin Dongyang said calmly: "You can take advantage of the situation and attack the capital because a large number of imperial guards have to be placed in border towns. After you get the capital, the imperial guards will be in chaos. I admit that there will be imperial guards surrendering, but the imperial guards will be difficult for you to use in the short term. The defense line guarded by the 300,000 imperial guards is almost collapsed. You need to send troops to garrison them in different directions. Even the Donghu people cannot stop them. They came once last year and they will enter the pass again within two years. If you capture the capital, it will be difficult to defend Yu Pass. What should you do? When you first got the capital, there is no human heart and no sufficient food and grass. You have no foundation outside, and there is no continuous army of kings to guard, you cannot defend to the death. You cannot defend to the death.

The capital is waiting for assistance. Once you win the main force of Donghu, or you can only abandon Yanjing and flee. Once you leave, you will have no chance. At that time, the original defense system of the Great Wei in the north was broken by you. The emperor died, the Great Wei was destroyed, the people in the north were scattered, and the imperial guards were dispersed. The Donghu people could not only enter the pass, but would never withdraw again when they came in again. They could easily get the north and the world. If there was no king in the south, the Donghu people could also easily get the south. Our China was founded by Yanhuang, King Wen of Zhou and King Wu established the legislative rule, Confucius and Laozi determined the hearts of the people, Qin Emperor and Han and Wu Ding were the general border, and there were the Han and Sui and Tang Dynasties, although the Five Barbarians invaded China, the legal system was almost destroyed by you."

Li Kaiming was shocked at first, but later he was silent, probably accepting Qin Dongyang's statement. But after a long time, Li Kaiming still raised his head and said: "You southerners don't know how we northwest people live. There are loess hillsides in a radius of thousands of miles, and you can drink water dozens of miles away to carry it with your shoulders. Farming is not that we have no water source, and we can only rely on God to appreciate the food. The rain cannot be too much or too little. If there is too much, it will destroy the ground. If there is too little, it will be too much.

In the drought, even seeds and grains cannot be harvested. Even if there is a good weather and good harvest, a maximum of 200 kilograms of grain will be harvested by a mu of land... There are seven years of famines in ten years, and we can barely survive by relying on the accumulation of three years of famines. We don’t complain about anyone. We have lived here for generations, but we can’t survive in our hands? We don’t expect the court to do anything. We can endure the disaster year. We can survive even if we escape the famine. If we die, we will accept our fate. Life and death are the only way to fate.

But the court has no pensions or relief, so that's all. The taxes are getting more and more than one year after another. The dog officials sent are more and more ruthless. In addition to the official tax, they have to pay various miscellaneous taxes, more miscellaneous taxes than his mother's bundles. If you can't afford it, you will be shackled, go to prison, beat boards and whips. If you want not to be tortured to death, seeds and grains, sell wives, and dolls, you can survive. In the past ten or twenty years, all the northwest have come here. What's the great righteousness?

The Hulu, they did burn, kill, loot, kill, kill, rob, kill, rob, and treat Ding Zhuang as slaves, but I don’t believe that they can be cruel to our court? I said that I was burning, killing, looting in the south was a sinner. I admit that the people in the south had never committed us, and had never caused us to suffer. It is not necessary to harm them. In the north, killing large gentry and grain households, robbing those rich households, and killing those officials. My hands were covered in blood, and there was no mistake at all!"

Qin Dongyang and others were silent for a while, and finally Jin Bao said, "If you admit that you are guilty of the people in the south, killing you will not only conform to the law, but also in the hearts of the world. You have a bowl of wine and meat, eat and drink enough to go on the road."
Chapter completed!