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"What? Qi's troops withdrew from Leling City and Pingyang City?"

In the palace meeting hall, Zhao Xu looked at Chang Wei with a puzzled expression. read

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei nodded, "After the general conquered Pingyuan City, he was preparing to attack the two cities of Leling and Pingyang according to His Highness's wishes. Unexpectedly, Tan Ma, who went to investigate the two cities before the army was dispatched, Then he brought back the news that Qi soldiers had withdrawn from the two cities."

"In order to prevent fraud, the general ordered Qinshan and Guantong to lead their troops to the two cities. Unexpectedly, the two cities turned out to be empty cities. Now Qinshan and Guantong have taken charge of the two cities."

"So, the three cities on the north side of Jinhe River have all been captured." Zhao Xu frowned, thought for a moment, and nodded slowly, "Some people in Qi State are still clear-headed, they must know Defending these two cities will only make Qi suffer more losses. "

After a pause, he smiled: "But that's fine. It won't take any effort. These two cities will not fall into our hands, and there will be no need for more soldiers to pay their lives."

Chang Wei also laughed and thought of something. He added: "By the way, Your Highness, we captured Han Qi and a Japanese general in this war. This Japanese general seems to have a higher status and should know a lot of things."

Zhao Xu was overjoyed. The Japanese general he captured last time revealed everything he knew after being interrogated by the Fourth Court.

What disappointed him was that there wasn't much useful information in it, and it was basically all the information he already knew.

If the general captured this time can learn more about the inside story, it will be more beneficial for him to master the intelligence of Japan and the Western Kingdoms.

"Give them directly to Xu Hark." Zhao Xu didn't bother to see Han Qi and the Japanese general.

Chang Wei responded yes, and then said: "Your Highness, the three cities of Ping'an have been captured, do you want to take the opportunity to go south to attack Qi?"

Zhao Xu was silent for a while. At the beginning, his plan was to take advantage of the situation to attack Qi after taking three cities.

But now the situation has obviously changed. Qi State does not know what means it has used to win over other powerful families.

If we send troops southward at this moment, they will inevitably be resisted by the joint resistance of the seven powerful families.

And this fell into the trap of the Japanese and Beidi people.

After all, he fought to the death with the powerful clans, and Dongying and Beidi gave them blood transfusions.

In the end, he and the powerful clan will both suffer losses.

Japan and Beidi will take the opportunity to harvest the fruits of victory.

Therefore, as he told Ma Han, after taking these three cities, Yanzhou will have a natural moat.

With this natural moat, he can prevent the powerful clans from bringing the war to Yanzhou and ignore the machinations of the powerful clans for the time being.

At the same time, he wanted to cut off the blood transfusion channels for the powerful people in Beidi and Japan.

After that, if you turn around and deal with the powerful clan, the war will be much easier.

Thinking of this, he told Chang Wei his thoughts again.

"Your Highness is thoughtful and thoughtful. I admire you. Beidi has just been defeated. He will definitely not dare to fight us to the death in Qinzhou and Yongzhou. Winning these two states should not be a problem."

"And Japan only needs to wait until its warships are launched to completely destroy its maritime trade routes."

"That's what I mean." Zhao Xu looked to the south, "But you can't take the powerful clans lightly. During this period, you still have to focus on the three cities you just captured. In addition to arranging the defense of the cities, you must also Build forts at important crossings to prevent the powerful tribes from taking the risk of crossing the river and marching north. "

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei bowed.

After talking about some more things, Chang Wei said goodbye and left.

After Chang Wei's figure disappeared, Zhao Xu called Mi Wen over.

Just now Chang Wei told him about the prisoners.

Different from previous wars, this time he captured quite a lot of Qi soldiers, more than 50,000 of them.

Now all 50,000 prisoners are in Pingyuan City.

Originally, according to the prisoner policy of the royal family, these prisoners were basically released, and those who voluntarily stayed were kept.

But because the amount this time was too huge, Chang Wei decided to report the matter back to him before making a decision.

Faced with so many prisoners, Zhao Xu was naturally reluctant to just send them back to Qi.

Just forcing them to stay will definitely lead to the failure of the prisoner policy.

So he decided to let Mi Wen brainwash these Qi soldiers and try to make more Qi soldiers willingly defect to Yanzhou.

After a while, Mi Wen arrived at the palace.

Zhao Xu said: "I give you a task. Select a few people to go to Pingyuan City to sing a play for the captured Qi soldiers."

"Singing opera?" Mi Wen looked confused.

Zhao Xu nodded lightly.

The powerful clans relied on the support of the powerful clans to confront him, while he relied on the support of the common people to confront the powerful clans.

Now that the powerful family has won the support of the world's wealthy families, he naturally has to find a way to gain the support of the people all over the world.

Some time ago, he asked Mi Wen to prepare propaganda matters for the people of Qi country.

After taking these three cities, he felt that he could officially start.

Whether we can win over more Qi soldiers is a way to test whether the propaganda method is effective.

Thinking of this, he said: "This play is very simple."

While talking, he picked up a pen and wrote a story himself.

This story is imitated from "The White-Haired Girl", but the landlords and wealthy people are replaced by wealthy people, and the names are also changed.

But the core of the story is the same, that is, the common people are worse than dead under the oppression of the wealthy families.

After the story was written, Zhao Xu handed it to Mi Wen.

After just reading it once, Mi Wen's expression was moved and his eyes were slightly red, "This story is indeed wonderful. If you read it to these Qi soldiers, they will definitely hate the wealthy family deeply and their hearts will turn to His Highness."

Zhao Xu shook his head, "I'm not asking you to read it. I said this is a play, and you have to choose a few people to act in it."

Then, he told him how to select actors, rehearse and other details.

Mi Wen's eyes opened wider and wider.

In Dasong, operas are usually sung, and operas have never been acted out like real life.

King Yan opened his eyes.

"Interesting, I will arrange this after I return." After saying that, he couldn't wait to go back.

Zhao Xu gave a wry smile, knowing that this was the best thing about Mi Wen, a literary young man.

After seeing Mi Wen off, Zhao Xu looked towards Pingcheng.

The training of the Ma family's soldiers and horses has been completed.

The only important thing now is the twenty-four battleships.

For him, it is urgent to control the maritime hegemony of the Eastern Territory.

Otherwise, Japan will continue to support the Dasong clan through sea routes.

Even if he destroys Qi, there will still be Xie family and Nanliang next.

What's more, in addition to Japan, there are also Western countries. There is no guarantee that they will not be involved in the civil strife in Dasong.

Therefore, in order to prevent more and more forces from transfusing blood to the powerful clan through the sea.

He must take decisive action.