"It's all the prince!"

Xiao Jue kowtowed repeatedly, "Otherwise, how could I be so full that I could come to such a place to deal with the Tie Ce Army soldiers."

When Lin Yi heard him say such words, he was furious and laughed, "You pushed it clean, but I will give you a chance, so you can tell me clearly what the prince is going to do to deal with the soldiers of the Tie Ce army in secret, and why are you here?"

"The prince was ordered to secretly visit all officials and wealthy businessmen in the southwest who had contact with the Tie Ce Army and Dangxiang, and to discuss the matter of pumping grain in the southwest states." Xiao Jue said with a trembling body.

"What does it mean to pump grain in the southwest states?" Lin Yi frowned slightly.

"In order to prevent the chaos in the southwest, the emperor is preparing to transport all the grain stored in the granary in the southwest to Tianping County and Wuling County, and to use the treasury silver to purchase the surplus grain from the private sector and transport it away together." Xiao Jue looked at Lin Yi and saw that Lin Yi's expression had not changed significantly. He dared to continue saying: "It is necessary to make even food shortages in the southwest states so that there will be no surplus grain left and will be replenished with military rations."

"This is to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot."

Hearing these words, even Li Sanyu understood these meanings.

When marching and fighting, the most important thing is food and grass, followed by military equipment. If the food is not enough, it will be difficult for the army to travel a long distance even if it does not mutiny.

"The strategy is fierce."

Lin Yi's face did not change much, but his heart was filled with anger.

His Tie Ce army was not large. He originally used to march to curry favor with the prefectures and counties along the way. Before, the Southern Dynasties' military did not provide much military rations and military supplies. At this time, although Dangxiang and Tuyuhun were used as hinterlands and marched and fought, even Xia Baying's coalition forces entered the Southern Dynasties with him, there was no need to worry about the supply of military rations, but it was easy to support the army. If they occupied these prefectures and counties, they suddenly found that there was almost no food left in these prefectures and counties. What they wanted to support was not only the army, but also the people of these prefectures and counties.

Although the Tuyuhun army could be idle and transported the stored grains from Tuyuhun, the manpower and material resources transported were very expensive, and Dangxiang and Tuyuhun were vast and sparsely populated. Although it was not a disaster year and there was enough grain storage, Xiabaying got Dangxiang and Tuyuhun, which was to make the ordinary people of Dangxiang and Tuyuhun feel that they would live a better life and that the throne would be stable. If Dangxiang and Tuyuhun people felt that the queen would be in the throne, life would be more difficult than before, and I don’t know how many disasters would be in the future.

This strategy is indeed extremely useful for checking and balancing the southwest area. It will make the southwest area unable to buy enough food and grass even if there is money, making it difficult for the enemy troops who want to attack to capture this area, and it is not good not to fight.

But the most undesirable thing about this strategy is that if there are natural disasters after the storage of grain are drawn, then these prefectures and counties will starve to death. But compared with natural disasters, there is another possibility that many wealthy merchants take the opportunity to buy and resell grain and rice, raise prices, and earn huge profits from it. That is man-made disasters. I don’t know how many poor families will become more poor because of their bankruptcy, and even sell themselves as slaves.

Xiao Jue was still trembling all over. He glanced at Lin Yi and didn't dare to say something in his heart.

Because according to Jiankang's policy, the prince came to supervise these matters, in addition to being able to cut off the food and grass needed for the army to conquer and make the southwest directly a quagmire that can drag the army down, the most important thing is that if Lin Yi really led the Dangxiang coalition into the Southern Dynasties with anger, he would definitely not be able to sit idly by the people here. At that time, he would definitely find the wealthy merchants who hoarded goods to ask for food. At that time, most of the prominent families in the southwest area would have conflicts with Lin Yi because of their own interests.

Just like an emerging dynasty, no matter how many soldiers the emperor has, if he loses the support of all the wealthy families in the world, he will probably be difficult.

"As for dealing with the sergeant of the Tie Ce Army, I just want to know more clues about Ling Bing."

Xiao Jue was not clear about Lin Yi’s thoughts at this time. Seeing that Lin Yi was not talking much, he continued and said, “What Jiankang is worried about is that the spiritual ice containing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is too tempting. If the number is large enough, General Lin will be able to use this to exchange with the wealthy merchants in the southwest, and even transport all the food and grass from the north to exchange for spiritual ice with you.”

"Sure enough."

Lin Yi was not surprised at all. Compared with many wise monarchs in history, although the emperor Xiao Yan seemed to be average, he had been the governor of a state for many years. He thought about these strategies very thoroughly, and was much better than his governance of the country.

Only the spiritual ice is not the ore vein that Xiao Yan thought, and it is not limited in number. This is also due to the number of days. If Xiao Yan had not been in the spiritual wasteland after he ascended the throne, this spiritual ice containing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth would not have become a treasure that could make all the clans chase wildly.

"Do you still have such a convoy outside to search for Tie Ce soldiers? To this day, how many Tie Ce soldiers have you searched and killed in total? What have you asked?" Lin Yi's eyes suddenly cold and he stared at Xiao Jue: "Speak quickly!"

"There is another convoy in Shenli County. Yu Famo and Li Tiannan also know that they can prove that what I said is true!" After Lin Yi shouted loudly, Xiao Jue jumped. "A total of twenty-one Tie Ce soldiers were captured, and there was no question of how much useful it was. It only confirmed the previous news that the spirit ice did come from the underground of Daerban City."

"Twenty-one, have you killed?" Lin Yi's body roared, and his voice contained an indescribable chill.

"General Lin, it's not my business. I just came here to take a look. In fact, I didn't interfere." Even though Xiao Jue was stupid at this time, he could see that Lin Yi's murderous intent was stronger than ever. He subconsciously stretched out his fingers to point Zhan Tonggu, who was so angry next to him, but he couldn't speak for a while.

Zhan Tonggu is indeed the chief lieutenant, but if Zhan Tonggu really wants to argue, he can definitely bite him to do things for him, because he is the prince's substitute and is the prince's supervisor. Zhan Tonggu also has to obey his orders.

"Do you have anything useful to tell me that he didn't explain clearly or that he missed?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and asked Zhan Tonggu, who was lying on the ground and couldn't even get up.

Zhan Tonggu knew that he would die at this time, so he didn't answer, so he simply closed his eyes.

"Since there isn't, what's the point of leaving you!"

Lin Yi heard the word "twenty-one" and his murderous intention was extremely fierce. At this time, he had no hesitation at all. With a swish, he had already landed beside Zhan Tongku. He reached out and grabbed Zhan Tonggu directly, and smashed him towards a stone wall in the third courtyard of Chaotian Palace.

Dong!

Zhan Tonggu was like a javelin he threw at, and his speed hit the stone wall was astonishingly fast as he made a silent and dull sound. A ball of dirty flesh and blood spread out on the stone wall. This powerful man with an extraordinary status in Jiankang, his entire head and half of his body were directly broken.

"ah!"

"Don't kill me!"

Although Xiao Jue was arrogant before, he had never seen such a scene. He only felt that the next turn would be himself, and he almost crawled towards Lin Yi quickly and kept begging.

"You supervise this for the prince, where is the prince now?"

Lin Yi looked at Xiao Jue coldly at this time, who was no longer like a human, and asked.

Xiao Jue subconsciously wanted to climb to Lin Yi, but when he looked at him, he didn't dare to move forward any more. He just crawled on the ground, trembling all over and said, "He should be still in my house now, with my father..."

Lin Yi sneered, "So, he is now in the Nanling Palace, not too far from here."

"It's not far, not far."
Chapter completed!