Xiao Jing was a little confused. He couldn't understand why his aunt did this!

He still remembered that he had visited his aunt in Feng Lingdu.

She was so graceful and elegant, so calm and unhurried, even though she was facing her father's thousands of troops, she still crossed the Feng Ling Ferry alone, preventing her father from taking even half a step forward.

He expressed the confusion in his heart, hoping that Tuoba Yangwei could give him some answers.

"Your master and I have discussed this issue for a long time!" Tuoba Yangwei pondered for a moment and said, "We have some guesses."

"Uncle Wei, please clear up the doubts!"

"Your aunt looks normal on the surface, but deep down, she may have gone crazy!" Tuoba said in a shocking way.

"How is this possible?" Xiao Jing was stunned: "Look at my aunt running the country in an orderly manner and doing things in an orderly and orderly manner. How can she be half crazy?"

"I'm talking about this madness, not madness in the sense you understand!" Tuoba said in awe: "She is indifferent to everything now. Don't look at her recruiting talents from all over the world and vigorously reforming, making the Liao Kingdom's national power prosperous, but in fact, she

I just hope that the sharp weapon in her hand is sharper so that she can swing it and swing it at her enemies."

"Second uncle?"

"It should be so!" Tuoba said with authority: "As for the final outcome of this knife, she doesn't care at all, and she doesn't care at all about the lives of the thousands of people who make up this knife. She only cares about it.

I want a result, no matter whether it is good or bad!"

Xiao Jing took a breath: "It shouldn't be like this. I still vaguely remember that my aunt admired my second uncle the most, and my father also said so."

"I'm afraid it's because of my incomparable admiration that I want to defeat him so much!" Tuoba showed off his power. Anyway, in his opinion, none of the three brothers and sisters of the Xiao family are normal people.

Each one seems like God came down specially to play a game.

Now, the world is a huge chessboard. Their brothers and sisters are chess players, and people like myself are just chess pieces on the scale.

"What happens if my aunt wins?"

"If your aunt really wins, I guess she will immediately lose interest and have no interest in the affairs of the world." Tuoba said in awe: "But if your second uncle wins, he will regard it as a

starting point and enthusiastically building the ideal country in his heart."

"So actually, you support my second uncle, right?" Xiao Jing asked.

Tuoba smiled and said: "Of course, Jing'an, with all due respect, your aunt is a lunatic now. If you really want a lunatic to win the world, no one knows what will happen in the future. Although I can't see through you either.

Uncle, but one thing about him will not change, that is, he will always think about how to make people in this world live a better life. As long as he has this original intention, this person will not be that bad."

"In that case, why should we go back and forth between Song and Liao? Why don't we just choose?" Xiao Jing stood up and poured a glass of water for Tuoba Yangwei and said with a smile.

"That's just what I think deep in my heart, but when doing things, you can never follow your own inner needs. Instead, you have to do it according to the actual situation, because once we make the wrong choice, it will be a major matter for our wealth and life. How dare we do anything wrong?

?If we think your aunt is more likely to win, we will definitely choose your aunt. As for what will happen in the future, we don’t know, we can only take it one step at a time!"

"Why can't we be our own masters?" Xiao Jing was a little unconvinced.

Tuoba burst into laughter and said, "If you want to be a chess player on the table, you must first have strength as a guarantee. If you act recklessly without strength, we will be the first to be destroyed. Jing'an, have you seen that Commander Jiang?"

, why was this Chongming Bird sent to escort us?”

"Isn't it because this ship is more powerful? Can it better ensure our safety?"

"On the Yangtze River, which is now the inland river of the Song Dynasty, even a small fishing boat can safely transport us to Jiangning. The reason why Jiang Xiong did this was just to show us how powerful they were. This

Along the way, no matter what you asked for, the captain of the ship showed it to you without hesitation and even let you try the cannon. What do you think?"

"Show us your strength!" Xiao Jing came back after thinking about it.

"Yes, this is strength!" Tuoba nodded and picked up the Jiangning Weekly on the table, "You have seen the financial income of various places in the first quarter released by their Ministry of Household Affairs, then what are you doing here?

What else did you see?"

Xiao Jing was a little confused.

"If you look carefully, you can find out a lot of good things here." Tuoba said proudly, "For example, here are the prices of rice, wheat, millet, etc."

Xiao Jing quickly found these things on the newspaper. They were in the middle of the newspaper and were not conspicuous.

After just one glance, he took a deep breath.

"Fifteen cents per dou of rice, ten cents per dou of wheat, but only six cents per dou of millet!"

"It's nearly three times lower than where we are!" Tuoba said in a serious tone: "Such a low price was only seen in the Song Dynasty when I was studying in Jingzhaohui decades ago.

Price. But at that time, it was the time when the Song Dynasty was at its most prosperous."

"Now that Li Chun has fallen, Zhang Ziming has taken control of Qinfeng Road and part of Shaanxi Road. This means that we finally have a safe and stable channel with the south. So, can the cheap food from the south be transported directly to us?

Woolen cloth?"

"How can it be such a simple thing?" Tuoba said with a smile: "Let's not talk about the freight and taxes for transporting it all this way. Even within our Western Army, everyone hopes that cheap food from the south will come in.

Under our rule? This will affect the interests of many people."

"Before leaving, wasn't the master still saying that he hoped you could persuade my second uncle to allow some of our products to enter the southern market?"

"Your master hopes that your second uncle can give us profits so that many of our products can enter the southern market, but he didn't say anything about the southern products entering our rule!" Tuoba said with a proud smile: "Do you know that many of the southern products can enter the southern market?

The products are much cheaper than ours. If the southern products enter our rule on a large scale, how many people under our rule will go bankrupt and how many people will have no food? The foundation of most of the workshops in the Western Army is still the same as before.

It was built when your second uncle was there. Over the years, the scale has continued to expand, but the technology has not improved along with it. After more than ten years of capital gains, now it has long been no longer competitive!"

"Why would my second uncle do such a thing? This is a unilateral profit transfer!"

"We can do it. Your second uncle's focus on us is not the small amount of money." Tuoba said in a presumptuous manner.

"Many things, in the final analysis, are still about money!"

"You're on to the point! Your second uncle also said back then that in war, in the end, the most important thing is money! To use an analogy, you also saw the cost of the several battles we had with Yelumin in Gaochang this time.

Bar?"

"Looking at it makes people's teeth hurt. After every battle, hundreds of thousands of feather arrows will be shot out!" Xiao Jing shook his head.

"The cost of a feathered arrow is about fifty cents. Every battle, the feathered arrows alone cost hundreds of thousands. And these arrows shot out basically have little recycling value. At most, you can pick up some arrows.

When we come back, we have to win the battle. If you say you have no money, why fight? Thanks to the repeated crossbow technology and artillery technology that your second uncle sent here to teach you a few years ago, we are in Gaochang and are in a stable state.

We have firmly maintained this key point, but to be honest, this battle also made me feel heartbroken and stomachache."

"In the past two years, the war with Yelumin has also affected our economy. The road to the west has been cut off, which has caused huge losses!" Xiao Jing was a little angry. "Now that the Western Region Passage is controlled by Yelumin, we have to watch him.

His face turned pale."

"Yelumin doesn't want to fight now. The goods he got from the west also need to pass through our territory and then be sold. In the Liao Kingdom, the benefits from these goods were far less than those from selling them to the Southern Song Dynasty. Now

, we are also negotiating with Yelumin about the issue of sharing."

"Can you still do it like this?" Xiao Jing didn't understand.

"What, do you think we and Yelumin can only fight to the death?" Tuoba said with a powerful smile: "When it's time to fight, we should fight. When it's time to do business and make money, we don't have to do business to make money. When

Both sides feel that the war is unprofitable and will involve constant blood loss, so naturally neither of them is interested. Now Yelumin feels that fighting to the west is far more profitable than fighting with us, so why does he want to fight with us?

?Now he is plotting the Khwarizi conspiracy!"

"Isn't he the King of Zhenbei of Liao Kingdom?"

"Yes, he is now dragging our main force in the Gaochang area, and he has fulfilled the strategic requirements of their empress dowager!" Tuoba said in awe: "On this basis, what's wrong with him doing business with us?

Of course, if we show any flaws, he will definitely bite us without mercy."

"Then we are so ambiguous with the Liao Kingdom, won't my second uncle be angry?"

"What are you so angry about!" Tuoba said in awe: "I guess your second uncle will try his best to get more benefits for us, and then use greater economic benefits to tie us to his Song Dynasty.

It is getting tighter and tighter. When the people under the Western Army have gained too many benefits from the Song Dynasty, everyone will be reluctant to lose this benefit. Psychologically, they will naturally favor the Song Dynasty, and you

We also know that the will of the people will affect the decisions of those in power to a great extent."

"Didn't you just say that there are many people under our rule who are unwilling to do this? Because it will harm their interests!"

"It depends on what we gain in the long term and what we lose in the near future, which one is bigger!" Tuoba said with a powerful smile: "Jing'an, like your Xiao family, your mother's Gao family, and your grandmother's family

The Han family, as well as our Tuoba family, Renduo family and other families, can be regarded as the top families under the rule of the Western Army. If it is more beneficial from a long-term perspective, we are not afraid of losing a lot of short-term benefits.

Some other families will either follow us or disappear, do you understand?"

Xiao Jing was silent for a moment and nodded.

"Look at your second uncle's method of rectifying those powerful families in the south. Hehe, we can also learn from it!" Tuoba laughed proudly: "This time, in addition to these things, what is more important for us is to

Let’s see if your second uncle has the ability to stand up to your aunt’s three attacks. If so, we will definitely choose your second uncle!”

Suddenly there were bursts of cheers outside, and the two of them looked up and looked out the window.

Several huge painting boats are slowly coming from the downstream. On the huge platform on the top floor, young ladies in bright clothes are crowding the side of the boat, and the boat musicians are also crowding here.

Although Huafang is very big, compared to their three-story giant ship, it still looks like a little brother.

The young ladies on the boat could obviously tell the difference between the Chongming Bird and ordinary boats. At this moment, they were waving their hands and cheering to the people on the boat, while the boatmen and craftsmen were also waving their hands.

Penny and musical instruments also cheered.

"You see, they are not afraid of soldiers!" Tuoba said with a proud smile: "Can our Western Army do it?"

Xiao Jing shook his head: "Where we are, ordinary people are still very afraid of the army."

Tuoba said with a proud smile: "I'm afraid you won't believe it. The first time I saw the common people wholeheartedly support an army was the Guangrui Army that your father led into Hengshan."

"Yeah?"

"Yes, but these more than ten years have passed, and the Guangrui Army is gone. The Tieyaozi and Bubazi who replaced them only have the reputation of being invincible among the people. The atmosphere that the people lined up to welcome them back then has changed.

No more!" Tuoba said with a mighty smile.

"Why are there so many painted boats?" Xiao Jing couldn't help but ask as he saw some more such boats coming up from the downstream.

"The wind is beautiful and the sun is shining, it's a good time for spring outings. Rich young men and young ladies will naturally go out to play. It seems that we are not far from Jiangning. Generally speaking, such a boat will not go too far from the city.

.”

"Is it coming yet?"

"A little nervous?"

"Yes, I haven't seen my second uncle in more than ten years. This is not the second son of the Xiao family who cooked for me back then. This is the chief minister of the Song Dynasty who holds the fate and future of millions of people in his hands!" Xiao Jing said deeply

Take a breath.

"Don't tell me it's you, I'm nervous too!" Tuoba said with a proud smile. "Let's go and have a look on the deck!"

The two walked up to the third deck and looked into the distance.

There are more and more villages and houses on the shore. You can see people, cars and traffic on the wide road. At the end of the road, further away, it is as gray as a giant.

The capital of the Song Dynasty, Jiankang Stone City, where the beast was lying, had already appeared in their sight.

On the bow deck of the ship, some soldiers blew the huge horns set up there vigorously.

The melodious trumpet sound spread far away.

For warships like them to enter the port, the procedures are much more complicated than for ordinary ships.
Chapter completed!