Realm of Power

Lisbonto's climate is particularly warm in winter. I don't know if it's because it's close to the coastline. The cold winter winds are blown away by the sea breeze here.

Standing in front of the balcony, I stared silently at the brightly lit Lisbon, looking at the criss-crossing traffic roads in the city, like a huge spider web extending to the end of the invisible line of sight, and the densely packed light spots were like the stars on the earth. The stars are dotted, the stars are brilliant, I think A few years ago, this place was still in ruins, and it was a ruin left after being destroyed by fire. Now it has become so prosperous that it is already a city comparable to the Imperial City in the north. Compared with it, the people look so... The insignificance of it makes people feel like they are suddenly separated from this world.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Li Yuehua wants to see you." The guard's voice sounded at the door.

"Let her in!" The fat man looked a little stunned. He hesitated and turned back from the balcony.

"Bang" the door opened from the outside, and Li Yuehua walked in with a beautiful figure. She was wearing a long dress in a Central Asian style. Her long hair was as black as waterfall satin. It had obviously been deliberately and carefully combed, and she exuded a sense of belonging all over her body. The poetic and graceful grace of Zhongbia brings the charm of Oriental women to the extreme.

"It's so late, what's wrong?"

The fat man gestured to her to sit down, his eyes sparkling. He had stayed at the Jersey Shore for more than a month, but there was no woman around him. He just came back now and saw such a beautiful woman coming to his door. He still couldn't bear it in his heart. I can't help but feel itchy and come to see myself at night. This is in Li Yuehua She really doesn't have much on her body. Although this Central and Bian beauty is very interesting to me, the reserved nature of Central and Bian women is not as open as the women of the Western Continent, let alone the free-spirited prairie women, but they are also That's why Central and Asian women are also very famous for their staunchness.

"Don't get me wrong. I just want to know whether His Majesty's targeting of Yanzhou had been planned a long time ago? Or is it just a coincidence? Otherwise, my subordinates really don't know how to deal with the situation in China and Bia. Affairs!”

Li Yuehua said with a slight blush on her pretty face. She swept her eyebrows lightly, and her bright eyes looked brighter and brighter. The blush on her face was brighter and more charming than usual, and she looked more three-dimensional. There was only one hair on the side of her high bun. With her emerald green hairpin, a dignified and gorgeous beauty in plain clothes stood before her eyes.

"Yanzhou? When did I say that the empire's goal is Yanzhou?" The fat man narrowed his eyes slightly and did not admit it. Didn't deny it

"My subordinates guessed it. Otherwise, why would your Majesty let your subordinates pass back the message that they would give up Yanzhou and stick to the south?" Li Yuehua's watery eyes just stared at the fat man, which made the fat man feel guilty. I just thought about the plan behind it, so I could only pretend to be surprised.

"It turns out I was the one who told you to give up Yanzhou!" The fat man slapped his forehead and suddenly realized, "I'm just telling you, when did such a person appear in the court of Zhongbia? It should be just a coincidence!"

"What a coincidence?" Li Yuehua looked unconvinced.

"Forget it if you don't believe it." The fat man sneered at the corner of his mouth and shrugged his shoulders. "The land of Yanzhou has always been a place of close fighting between the north and the south. For a long time, both the grassland people and the Central Asians have invested countless dollars to obtain this area. Manpower, financial resources, constant fighting, empire It is impossible to station a large number of troops in Central Asia. It is simply unrealistic to control Yanzhou for a long time, so I don't know why you think so. I can say with certainty that Yanzhou is not the goal of the empire! You know I won’t do anything to lose money.”

"No way? Then your Majesty sold the Thunder God to China at such a low price. This move is obviously not in the interests of the empire. How should your Majesty explain it!" Li Yuehua gritted his teeth, his beautiful face was slightly blushing, and when he spoke, It almost made the fat man vomit blood. There is no need to put it so bluntly.

"Don't let personal feelings blind your eyes. You should understand the decisions made under the balance of power."

The fat man took a deep breath with helplessness on his face, "Yelu Hongtai's current power is already very strong. I am afraid that the original agreement with the empire will not stick to it for too long. You should know the nature of the prairie people. Only obey the strong. The oath is established. Based on strength, Yelu Hongtai has stood firm If we keep our footing in Yanzhou, we can get continuous support from more grassland tribes. By then, Yelu Hongtai, the ferocious wolf, will no longer care about the empire's agreement. The empire has already invested in Zhongbia. We have considerable capital and definitely don’t want to see such a situation.”

Hearing the emperor's response, Li Yuehua turned her head, and her bright eyes fell on the fat man's face. The moon was cold and the wind was clear, and her face was a little cold. There was a little more coldness in the flawless look, which made people feel awe-inspiring and inviolable, but Slowly, he seemed to become a little resentful again, and his eyes became much weaker, a little full of guilt.

The fat man vaguely felt that Li Yuehua was a little special tonight. It seemed strange and not like her usual personality. However, he couldn't seem to figure out what was strange. It was just an inner feeling, so he smiled and said sincerely. "I told you that the empire's sights are not in Central and Northern China. Fang, the empire's strategic goal is still to get a port on the southern coast of Zhongbia, the southern mountains of the Song Dynasty, and the southwest of the Long family. These are all more beneficial to the empire by Yanzhou. I spent such a high price to get there. These two regions have established a good relationship, how can they try to take advantage of Yanzhou! "

"I see. It seems I was too reckless. I'm sorry!" Li Yuehua stretched out her slender fingers and gently arranged her hair that was blown away by the night wind. She looked at the night sky outside and sighed softly. He took a breath and said quietly

"I can understand your feelings, but the God of Thunder is just a dead thing. Whether Zhongbia's court can really be stabilized depends on yourself!" The fat man subconsciously approached her body, making the two bodies close together. , feeling the softness of her skin, which was rare, Li Yuehua had no intention of avoiding it. Instead, his skin became hotter and hotter, and his breathing could not help but become rapid.

Li Yuehua's expression was very strange, almost angry but not angry. It was a smile but not a smile, a little mocking and a little bitter. Her expression changed like Liu Yuetian's face, and she suddenly moved close to the fat man's ear, and said in a very gentle and seductive voice in a small voice, "I just got the news that someone from Yelu's family is here too! Still! Your old friend, Yelu Qiyeguang"

"Yelü Qiyeguang? What does she have to do with me!"

The fat man's arm holding Li Yuehua trembled slightly, and he almost bounced away from Li Yuehua's body. No wonder. No wonder Li Yuehua was so out of character tonight. He did not hesitate to release his beauty capital to defraud his own bottom line, and he also wanted to finalize his position as the emperor before Yelu Qiyeguang. It turned out that someone from the Yelu family was also here this time.

"It doesn't matter!" Li Yuehua's face turned slightly red and his voice became high-pitched and he said sternly, "The blood-colored soil made by tens of thousands of elite heads of the wolf army is still made by all the grassland tribes. Even the newly established northern tribes dare not take a look at it. The Royal Court does not dare to take any provocative action against the Empire, and no one dares to stop it under the Imperial flag!"

"Yanzhou is just south of the edge of the empire's power. Without the approval of the empire, how could an old fox like Yelu Hongtai dare to go north?" Li Yuehua paused and shook his head with a wry smile. "And the one who is guarding Yanzhou now is the Southwest Long Family. For China, Emperor Biya asked to give up Yanzhou, but Long Yang has never done anything, but I dare to say that Long Yang will not give up Yanzhou! Because he is Long Yang, the first general in the Central Biya Empire!

"In the land of Yanzhou, this piece of bait has really easily attracted the muddy water in Zhongbia. It's a pity that you don't know the real fish at all!" Looking at Li Yuehua's excited face, the fat man felt in his heart Sighed slightly. It is true that the empire has no intention of touching Yanzhou, but that does not mean that the empire is just watching this storm.

On the contrary, the empire has been deployed in Central Asia for so long and invested so much capital. All I want is this moment

What the empire wants is not Yanzhou, but Southwest, which has an excellent geographical environment and development foundation! The southwest is connected to the empire's border and is already on the southwest edge. It has also built a military industrial base and logistics facilities that are sufficient to support the imperial army's operations, which has greatly reduced the consumption cost of the imperial army in Central Asia.

Moreover, the southwest is a relatively stable basin area. As long as key passes are guarded, prying eyes from the outside can be blocked.

Under the rule of the Long family for decades, it has long been its own place. The Central Court has always had a suppressive policy towards the Long family in Southwest China. As a result, everyone in the Southwest is dissatisfied with the Central Court. Southwest is A pile of dry firewood can be ignited with just a fire. If the empire intervenes in the southwest, the biggest obstacle is the head of the Long family who has been entrenched in the southwest for decades and the number one general in Central Asia, Long Yang! Then this biggest obstacle will soon disappear, because after a short period of contact and testing from the previous incidents, Fatty already has a very clear understanding of the nature of Long Yang, the head of the Southwest Long Family.

Risking one's life and being bold, in fact, to put it bluntly, he is a person who accepts death. He is the kind who can abandon his own gains and losses for the sake of righteousness. He is worthy of the Long family who has been guarding the country for the Central Asian Empire for a long time. Although the head of the Long family has no respect for the emperor and the court. He is very dissatisfied, but once the overall situation is involved, he will still jump into the pit without hesitation, even if he knows that it is a pit dug by others waiting for him to jump!

He was originally sent to negotiate with the Falcon Empire by the Zhongbia court with ulterior motives. That's how it was. He was assassinated by the grassland people along the way. If the empire hadn't sent troops to protect him, he probably wouldn't have been able to return to the southwest. Then the Yelu family kidnapped 300,000 tribesmen. Going south, the most elite 60,000 Luzhou regiment of the Zhongbia Court was trapped to death in Yanzhou. No one in the entire Zhongbia Court dared to send troops to rescue them. Even the commander-in-chief of the army, everyone had their own plans. Thinking of using the Luzhou Army's defeat To stop the emperor's ambition to reform the army, it turned out that Long Yang personally led 100,000 Western troops north to Yanzhou and rescued the Luzhou army from the gaze of hundreds of thousands of grassland people. The reward was that he had not yet returned to the southwest. After receiving the order from the Emperor of Zhongbia, he was directly transferred from the Southwest Base Camp, which had been in operation for decades, to Yanzhou, where weeds were left all over the land. Even several generals who had good relations with the Southwest Long family were very interested in Long. The family was dissatisfied with their intervention in rescuing the Luzhou Army.

Although in the end it was still relying on Fatty's advice to quietly stabilize the chaos in the southwest and destroy the Zhongbia court's plan to take over the southwest, the hot potato of Yanzhou was already firmly entangled in it. On the head of the head of the Long family

This year, for the sake of Yanzhou, the head of the Long family tried his best. Not only did he mobilize elites from the southwest to enter Yanzhou, but he also tilted the southwest's meager material war preparations to Yanzhou. He thought that as long as Yanzhou was Once the holes in the sky are repaired, even if Yelu Hongtai causes trouble in the central part of the country, he will be gradually weakened due to the final lack of manpower, and finally completely collapse under the attack from both sides of himself and the Zhongbia court.

Strategically speaking, Long Yang did the right thing

There are only 300,000 grassland people. Excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, there are only 100,000 cavalry capable of fighting to the death. If one dies, there will be one less. Controlling Yanzhou is equivalent to eradicating the roots of Yelu Hongtai. There are tens of millions of people in the central land. Of the population, there are still hundreds of millions of people south of the river. A mere 300,000 prairie people were exhausted in just a few years.

However, the development of the situation was completely beyond Long Yang's control. Long Yang was devoted to Zhongbia, but in Zhongbia's court, there were never a few words that scolded Long Yang for rebelling against the holy name.

He respects his own troops and really regards himself as the savior hero of Central Asia. He leaves the Central Government without going to the rescue and insists on occupying the top of Yanzhou to watch the excitement of the Imperial Capital. What a sinister intention it is, and it puts His Majesty's safety at risk. Where! Such an arrogant and domineering villain has really ruined the reputation of the Long family in Southwest China for decades. But this time, they abandoned Yanzhou and allowed the prairie people to move south, completely exposing the tens of millions of people in the central part to the prairie people's plunder. Under the order of burning and killing, this kind of seeking one's own safety and disregarding the life and death of ordinary civilians, even if it was the order of the Emperor of Zhongbia, the head of the Long family would not abandon Yanzhou like this.

The fat man even said unceremoniously that the reason why the Zhongbia Emperor adopted this strategy was to kill two birds with one stone. Long Yang died in Yanzhou at the end of the battle, so that the owner of the southwest would be in the court's pocket. Yelu Hongtai, it will take at least a few years to conquer Yanzhou until it is stable. Longyang's Southwest Army It's not a good fight, but the two major field groups of the empire that were on par with the Yanzhou Army. If Yelu Hongtai wants to gnaw this hard bone, he will have to break a few front teeth. If he still has enough energy to go south by then, it will be two Having said that, no matter how you look at it, the court in China and Bia is just sitting back and watching the fight between the crane and the clam, and finally taking advantage of it.

The Yanzhou bureau was originally set up for people like Long Yang. Yelu Hongtai's one hundred thousand cavalry, the ambition of the northern royal court to expand southward, and the various overt and covert methods of the Central and Asian courts. As long as the war comes together, this The head of the Long family has too much time to take care of himself. He still has worries about his hometown in the southwest.

Such an excellent opportunity to intervene in the Southwest, Fatty does not believe that the gang of arrogant guys in the Zhongbia Court will let it go. The empire only needs to watch until the Zhongbia Court stirs up the anger in Southwest, which is equivalent to Southwest's own help. The empire opens the already half-open southwest gate. When the time comes, the only way for the Long family to stabilize the southwest and avoid being uprooted from the southwest by the Zhongbia court is to ask for help from the Falcon Empire. When the time comes, everything will be over. It's a matter of course!

(To be continued.)