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Chapter 412: Prelude to the Great War

"Nothing is wrong..."

When Mo Yuanji heard Jia Yu say that everything was foolish, he couldn't help but shake his head. Whether it was foolish or not depends on how his nephew would react.

My nephew is like a lunatic, but he knows what kind of reaction he will make.

However, although he was a little worried, he did not object to Jia Yu. After all, Dingzhou is too important to him. If he doesn't take this opportunity to take Dingzhou, he will not know how much the price he will have to pay if he wants to send troops back.

Therefore, he nodded and said, "It's okay to send troops, but Situ Yao wants us to help him share the pressure, so we can't just follow his wishes."

"When his students come tomorrow, we might as well set the high point of the conditions. Anyway, so many aristocratic alliances are not short of money. If we don't take this opportunity to kill them, we will look down on them."

"What the prince said is reasonable."

Jia Yu smiled and agreed, then pondered for a moment, and then said, "There is another thing to pay attention to. Although Situ Yao failed to seize power, there must be some nails buried in the Tianmen Army. If we encounter him in the future, we may ruin big things."

"So it should be no problem to take this opportunity to ask him to hand over some people's list."

"I'm afraid this is a tough one."

Mo Yuanji couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, "Situ Yao must have guessed that we have plans to send troops. He should be able to accept that their alliance will pay some price, but if it harms his interests, he may not agree."

"No, he will agree. Even his disciples are carrying these lists now, it is hard to say."

Jia Yu had a different view on this, and he explained: "After all, his biggest enemy is not us now, but the court."

"So in order to unite us, I think he will make some concessions, not to mention..."

Speaking of this, Jia Yu's expression couldn't help but be a little serious, "This person has been planning the court decades ago. I don't believe he has no other trump cards in his hand."

"Before he could send 10,000 elite physical cultivators to overthrow the court, but now the aristocratic family has formed an alliance, but he has only produced 100,000 ordinary elites. This is simply unreasonable."

"So I guess he must have an ace army in his hand, which is even inferior to our border army. Otherwise, he would never have taken the initiative to come out, and would not have been so confident."

"I believe you say he has strength, but if you say he has strength, he can compare with the border army..."

Mo Yuanji shook his head and said, "That's basically impossible."

"After all, the strength of soldiers is achieved through fighting, not by raising them. If a small number of troops may be cultivated through small fights such as bandit suppression, but a large number of troops is impossible."

"Unless he can cultivate the strength of his soldiers to the level of refining the essence, he will not be as good as the border army."

"But if tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers want to cultivate them into physical cultivation in the essence refining realm, he can't even sell them to the Situ family."

"Your Majesty, you have to be careful about this."

Listening to Situ Yao's somewhat contemptuous tone, Jia Yu couldn't help but frown, "After all, with Situ Yao's methods, even if he was just a recruit, he was commanded to fight for two games, it would be enough to gain a foothold on the battlefield."

"What's more, now that the world is in chaos, war will definitely be inevitable in the future. At that time, even if he has new recruits in his hands, he will probably be able to lead this recruit into an elite team of iron-blooded blood in less than two months."

“That’s true.”

Mo Yuanji's biggest advantage is that he can listen to the advice. After hearing what Jia Yu said, he nodded. After pondering for a while, he shook his head again and said helplessly: "But we have nothing to do about this."

Speaking of this, Mo Yuanji felt helpless because occupying the northern border was his greatest advantage and his greatest disadvantage.

Coming to the north gave him the opportunity to take charge of the Tianmen Army, but it also restricted his development because the north was vast and sparsely populated, and the food and grass were not very sufficient. In the past, relying on the supplies from the court, the north had never had any concerns about food and grass.

But since Tang Weiyi took office, he directly cut off most of the grain supply in the northern border. Not only that, Tang Weiyi also made Dingzhou block the grain channels in the northern border. Even if he wanted to buy food by himself, it would not work.

If those aristocratic families had not smuggled food to the northern border in recent years, they would have been in trouble even to maintain the border army's food, let alone expanding 100,000 new soldiers.

So at this time, even if he had already believed that Situ Yao had a trump card that could compete with the border army, he could not solve it. After all, with the food and population in the north, he had already made him lose all his money. If he wanted to expand, he would not have the capital.

“It’s not difficult at this time.”

Jia Yu glanced at Mo Yuanji, then said calmly: "What bothers us now is the food and grass of the population. As long as we take Dingzhou, these will not be a problem."

“It’s useless, there’s not enough time.”

Mo Yuanji shook his head without hesitation and said, "After we take Dingzhou, it will probably not take long for the southern battlefield to decide the winner. After those aristocratic families win, no matter what trump card Situ Yao has, he will directly expose it and there is no time to expand for us."

"What if they can't decide the winner."

Jia Yu's expression seemed a little cold when he said this. Even Mo Yuanji couldn't help but tremble when he saw his expression at this time. He suppressed the discomfort in his heart and asked, "What does it mean to not be able to decide the winner?"

"There are now all the old soldiers in the border army, with about 120,000 people, and only 80,000 of these 120,000 people are completely under our control. The rest are either looking for the court or suspected to be the backup plan left by Situ Yao."

Jia Yu said lightly: "The prince thinks that if we send this part of the people to Mo Zizai, will he be defeated so quickly?"

"It just so happened that we were going to send troops to Dingzhou, just treating these soldiers as a replacement for Dingzhou. I think this transaction will not be rejected even if Mo Zizai is crazy."

"Send someone to the end?"

Mo Yuanji was a little surprised when he heard this. He had sent 10,000 people to Mo Zizai before, but Mo Zizai easily won the battle with these people. Now, seeing that the two sides were about to fight, Jia Yu was going to give it to someone again. Could it be that he was addicted to it?

If Mo Yuanji hadn't known Jia Yu's true nature, he would have really doubted whether Jia Yu was the undercover agent who was Mo Zizai's place here.

“This time is different from last time.”

Jia Yu looked at Mo Yuanji's eyes and shook his head helplessly, "Last time I didn't expect that Mo Zizai would have such a strong Red Flame Dragon Knight, so he gave him 10,000 people in vain."

"But this time it's different. The aristocratic coalition forces have a total of nearly one million troops. Unless Mo Zizai can transform into several red flame dragon cavalry, he will definitely be defeated in this battle."

"So my plan is to add some more chips to Mo Zizai so that the strength of both sides is relatively equal, so that Mo Zizai will not be unable to fight back and will not be defeated so quickly."

Although Mo Yuanji felt that Jia Yu was not wrong, he could not help but feel a little strange when he thought about what happened last time.

However, after he figured out Jia Yu's words, he couldn't help but be stunned. He added troops to Mo Zizai and prevented Mo Zizai from defeating so quickly, leaving himself time for development. This was easy to say, but in fact it was very cruel.

Because if Mo Zizai and those who are in the alliance with those aristocratic families cannot quickly decide the outcome, then so many troops will definitely make Yuanling County and several prefectures and counties around Yuanling County a sieve.

Moreover, if the two sides are stalemate on the front battlefield, they will definitely continue to force the people to go to the battlefield. If this happens, both sides will not only lose manpower, but also countless material resources. If things are really as smooth as Jia Yu imagined, the entire Zhou Dynasty will fall into this quagmire if it is not done well.

Imagine that in order to win, both sides will desperately force the people to join the army under their own rule and raise taxes to support the army. In addition, the cost of the people in recent years is not very good. If it really develops to this point, it is probably not a matter of time before the Great Zhou Dynasty will become a waste of people.

Even at that time, people would rise up everywhere in Dazhou.

"Isn't that too much?"

Mo Yuanji was silent for a moment, then said, "After all, my Great Zhou still has foreign enemies on my side. If you get internal friction, I am afraid that even if you take over the world, your national strength will be too exhausted."

Both Mo Zizai and Situ Yao felt that the losses of this battle were within an acceptable range. After all, both sides felt that the strength was very different, so after fighting, they would definitely be able to fight quickly. The worst result was to defeat one or two counties.

As long as you finish the fight, you can recover in one or two years at most.

But if the two sides fought a protracted war according to Jia Yu's plan, if they were consumed, the entire Great Zhou Dynasty would probably be beaten and destroyed.

You know, there is not only one Great Zhou in the world. If you really want to destroy the national strength, even if you can do it, you may not be able to save the world.

"If you want to take over the world, you must make some choices."

Jia Yu was unmoved at all by Mo Yuanji's words. He looked at Mo Yuanji and said firmly: "These aristocratic families have deep foundations and are in harmony with each other. If they hurt their vitality, even if we gain the world, we will not be able to get rid of them. At that time, they will still be controlled by aristocratic families as before."

"So, it's better to take this opportunity to achieve his merits in one battle."

"The mountains and rivers are broken and can be repaired again, but there is only one chance to destroy the aristocratic family!"

All the aristocratic families have deep foundations. Even if Mo Yuanji can defeat them and win the world, he can only defeat them instead of killing them all.

As long as those aristocratic families still have their vitality and rely on their talent reserves, they will probably be able to regain their voice in the court in a short time.

By then, it would not be so easy to get rid of those aristocratic families.

After all, not everyone is as unscrupulous as Mo Zizai, not to mention that in Jia Yu's view, Mo Zizai's unscrupulous behavior is more like self-destruction.

Seeing that Mo Yuanji was still hesitating, Jia Yu persuaded him again: "The prince, Wei, Lu, and Zheng are not worth worrying about."

"Not to mention that there is a Zhenyuan Marquis Zhangyuan guarding the East, what if the East is lost? The Three Kingdoms are uneven, and they are so dirty with each other, so they will not let either side swallow my Great Zhou. My Great Zhou only needs to pay some price, which is enough to win over one or two allies from the Three Kingdoms and protect my Great Zhou."

"And if there were no aristocratic families within my Great Zhou, at most fifty years, the national strength of my Great Zhou would return to its peak, even better than that of my Great Zhou at any time."

"Although this matter is cruel, it has been a success. I hope the prince will think twice!"

"This is too risky. Maybe my Great Zhou will end up with the destruction of the country and the seeds."

Even if Mo Yuanji could listen to the advice, he hesitated at this time. After a moment of silence, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, let me think about it first at this time, and then talk about it later."

"Prince..."

Jia Yu wanted to say something else, but Mo Yuanji directly raised his hand to stop him, "I know what you think, but this fact is of great importance. You should not urge me."

Seeing Mo Yuanji's reaction, Jia Yu felt a little disappointed, but Mo Yuanji obviously didn't want to talk anymore, so he couldn't continue talking, so he bowed and said, "Then I hope the prince can think more, so Yu will take his leave first."

After Jia Yu left, Mo Yuanji looked at Jia Yu's leaving figure and felt a little complicated.

He had known before that Jia Yu was a cruel person and was vicious in doing things, but he never took it seriously. In his opinion, as long as he could achieve his goal, it would be fine even if he had a more ruthless method.

But after hearing Jia Yu say this today, he still couldn't help but feel a little afraid of Jia Yu.

In order to achieve his goals, he would not hesitate to use the entire Great Zhou as a price. If he really did what he said, it would be nice to have one-tenth of the Great Zhou population left after the battle.

Even Mo Yuanji dared not make a decision easily for such a tragic price.

"One and all, once and all..."

Mo Yuanji closed his eyes and repeated the word several times. Finally, he sighed deeply, "Can you really do it once and for all?"

...

After obtaining permission from the Bei'an Palace, Bai Changqiu brought Lao Qiao to visit him early the next morning.

With the same intentions between the two sides, they talked for a whole day before finalizing the matter of sending troops.

As a condition for sending troops, the A Family Alliance provided a large number of food, grass and arms to the north. Secondly, the two sides made an agreement to return to Mo Yuanji to the north of the capital and to the south of the capital, and the A Family Alliance to the south of the capital, and the both sides did not invade each other.

In addition, similar to what Jia Yu expected, while Mo Yuanji insisted, Bai Changqiu took out a list of Situ Yao's secret sons in the northern border, and then brought the group of people back to the south according to the list.

Mo Yuanji was also a straightforward person. After he decided to send troops, he immediately began to assemble troops and stationed troops in Dingzhou, looking as if he was ready to start a war at any time.

After receiving the news that Bai Changqiu sent back, Situ Yao no longer hesitated and mobilized the already gathered troops, divided the troops into three groups and headed straight for Yuanling County.
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