Chapter 341: Friends and Foes
Chapter 341: Enemy and Friends
Gao Senqi's purpose of entering Yunzhou this time was very ambiguous. He had just retreated from the battlefield of Zhenbei Pass. The Flying Tiger Camp did many things that other troops could not do in that series of operations. The Flying Tiger Camp was actually the only army that continued to achieve tactical victory. They initially raided the Tianxuan Army, which finally made the Tianxuan Army unable to fight normally. They took the steadily and slightly advanced while requesting assistance. Finally, they removed the Zhenbei Pass defenders, the imperial guards and the Blood Qi army from the Zhenbei Pass, turning a small military action to destroy the Northern Liao side's plan to Zhenbei Pass into a large-scale war. Although the result of the war was very painful, the Northern Liao army still believed that the Flying Tiger Camp's performance was outstanding.
But everyone began to focus on future strategies and how to bridge the huge gap between the military strength of Bei Liao and Dongping. Bei Liao did not have such rich resources as Dongping and such an efficient and advanced governance structure. But after this battle, the king of Bei Liao really made up his mind. He killed nineteen first-rank officials at once, and the imprisoned officials were even more unaware of the number of officials. These people have been dereliction of duty and corruption, which have caused various damages to Bei Liao in the past many years. Due to many mixed relationships, due to the collusion between the aristocratic tribes, royal families and other forces of the Northern Liao Dynasty and these officials, the Northern Liao Dynasty has always ignored these officials and these entangled forces and let them go, because they are afraid that once these officials are moved, they will be involved.
There are too many aspects, and I am afraid that the Northern Liao will be in turmoil for a period of time. Now, it is the troops that are carrying out the cleanup mission that are defeated by Dongping, especially the Eastern Army and the Western Army, who are responsible for the most of the work. It goes without saying that the areas controlled by the Western Army have always implemented the strategy of paramilitary control. It has no impact on cleaning up some officials. Although the Eastern Army had some doubts at the beginning, it still resolutely carried out the internal cleanup. Now, almost the entire Northern Liao has entered a wartime state in peacetime, from the people to the middle-level officials, they all implement a strict supply system, without exception. Senior officials, royal families and aristocratic families practice rigorously. All kinds of minerals and productivity are tilted towards military construction.
Compared with Dongping, the production of military ordnance in Northern Liao is indeed a bit backward compared to Dongping, but over the years, they have gradually obtained a lot of technology and equipment through Chunnan indirectly. But these things are very expensive. Especially the various top-level military ordnances purchased directly from Dongping, which are not expensive, Chunnan still has to exploit a layer of them from it. Moreover, Chunnan purchases military ordnances from Dongping, which is not unlimited. Although the people who can sell military ordnances to Northern Liao, they can only save the numbers needed by Northern Liao in small batches. Now, the numbers needed by Northern Liao are impossible to meet anyway. Their demand is: infinite.
This kind of trade has to be carried out by sea, and a large number of Dongping armies were transported across Dongping's territory and then smuggled across the border and handed over to Bei Liao. This kind of thing is almost impossible. Although it cannot be said that the sea is all under Dongping's world, at least in the northern waters, the power of the Dongping Navy is quite large. The combat power of the Qihai Trading Company should not be underestimated. Fortunately, the Dongping Navy, the Qihai Trading Company did not interfere with the general trade between Chunnan and Bei Liao, and even when the Dongping and Bei Liao battled, they did not intercept and inspect it too strictly and meticulously. These intimidating materials were secretly carried into ships of cargo to Bei Liao.
Whether it was the impulsive cleaning or the national military control, Gao Senqi was not so cold. He didn't know that even if Bei Liao really defeated Dongping with these extreme measures, he could settle in a corner of the northeast of this continent and not dared to bend his edge for many years. He probably would have to increase the huge gap between Dongping and Bei Liao. Dongping, now even has an airship. With these ideas, full of ideas to understand the military power of Yunzhou, Gao Senqi left the cleaning work that he did not like and came to Yunzhou.
When he arrived in Yunzhou, the scene he saw made him even more depressed. The airship was not only a tool for killing enemies, but also a tool for delivering important letters that the Yunzhou Communication Bureau has begun to use in batches. With the launch of the airship, the time required for emails from Danyang to Ningyuan was shortened by two days.
Gao Senqi was not afraid of any danger he would encounter in Yunzhou, and even after leaving his message in Lingyan Pavilion in Gondor, his guards were afraid of death. In any case, Gao Senqi is now considered a general in the Northern Liao platoon. Although his official position is not very high, the identity of the young master recognized by the Western Army is enough to be honored. When he ran to Yunzhou to investigate and observe, everyone could understand it, but there was no need to expose Xingzang. Although Yunzhou and the Western Army had an agreement, for the two warring countries, such regional agreements were completely unbinding. When Yunzhou was conquering Zhenzhou, the Western Army almost took action; and when the army was fighting at Zhenbei Pass, it was hard to say whether the Yunzhou main battle camps that were feinting on the border with Northern Liao were all ready to attack again.
"Let's go, let's visit Zhengluo Ye." Gao Senqi suddenly said to his guards.
"General, never!" The guards were startled. "This is too dangerous."
"Danger?" Gao Senqi disagreed. He felt that the guards did not understand Ye Tao's demeanor after all. The generals in the Yunzhou army were also very good. If they ran around and were found to be caught, they would naturally be chasing him without any discussion. But they would be able to visit one by one. "I can't see any danger. We are already in Yunzhou. When we come to other people's territory, we always have to say hello to the owner's house."
A guard advised: "General, although you have had friendship with Ye Tao, although Ye Tao was the governor of Yunzhou at that time, Dongping and Beiliao have not yet broken up, at least they have not fought. After many years of peace, it would be fine for everyone to treat them calmly, but now it is different. In the battle before Zhenbei Pass, our two countries are in a state of war, and it is not said that they are a great contribution to capture the enemy chief. Even if Ye Tao does not greedy for this contribution, he dare not let the general go at will, right?"
"No, no." Gao Senqi actually laughed: "I haven't seen Ye Tao, I dare not do anything. It would be a pity if I didn't see Ye Tao in Yunzhou. You know, every time I talk to him for a long time, I learned a lot. Let's go to the villa where Ye Tao is in Ningyuanwai, and we should be able to find someone."
Unexpectedly, Gao Senqi really couldn't find anyone. Ye Tao was still on the construction site in Gondor City. Ye Tao revealed a little bit that he had a sculptural statue and needed materials to be prepared. As soon as they made up, they immediately decided on the materials: Qilin Wood. Qilin Wood was also expensive materials from the south. Unlike the materials such as red sandalwood that Mr. Qi brought from Nanyang now, Qilin Wood was produced in Chunnan and was only produced in the deep mountains of a few mountains. It was seven feet high and had to be hugged by three people in the circumference. If the market price was made, it might cost two or three million taels of silver. This thing was given to Ye Tao by the wise king Chang Hongquan of the Ye family as a full moon gift from the two young masters of the Ye family, but Ye Tao really couldn't think of how to use such a precious thing, so
, it has been kept in the warehouse of Ye's workshop. The material transported to Gondor from the warehouse of Ye's workshop, even if it was a bit difficult to transport it to the top of the mountain, it was only two days. In this way, Ye Tao was happy and relaxed. After staying in Gondor City, it was a bit hard to go back and forth in two days. And the materials in the workshop were accompanied by a large number of technicians, technicians, etc. Ye Tao hadn't personally carved anything for a long time. Everyone knows that Ye Tao is not afraid of others watching at all. In fact, the more people watching, the better Ye Tao's performance is. It is not necessarily a matter of being crazy about Ye Tao, but everyone agrees with it.
As a result, when Gao Senqi came to the villa and handed over a famous post to see Ye Tao, after a shock, the one who came out to greet Gao Senqi was Dai Shikui. When he was introduced into the main living room, after a while, Gao Senqi and his guards almost fell off. Dai Shijin, Dai Shihuan, Dai Yun, Dai Ye and other leaders of the Dai family and the veterans were all there. In addition, there were a total of six battalions of the main combat troops and garrison troops in Yunzhou, as well as the two powerful leaders of the Yunzhou power departments, Golan and Shi Wei... In the north, there has always been no tradition that wives cannot meet foreign guests. Since all the management staff of the Dai family were present, Dai Yun was inconvenient to come to receive guests as the host. The one who came forward as the host was Tan Weishi.
Gao Senqi and his guards were certainly surprised, but these senior officials in Yunzhou were still a little uncomfortable at the beginning. However, as everyone discussed the war in Zhenbei Pass without avoiding suspicion, the atmosphere gradually became warmer. Regarding the issues of the battle organization, Dai Shiheng and Dai Yun and others made a sharp comment, while the strategies adopted by Bei Liao are still very pertinent. On the one hand, Bei Liao is indeed likely to improve its combat power in the short term and fight with Dongping, but in the long run? How long can Bei Liao last? Can various measures of military control be implemented in place, can it be really thrifty, and can the money be implemented in place? There are more serious questions, that is, where the bottom line of the people is, and how is the local officials implementing the rationing system... A bunch of problems made Gao Senqi sweat in a cold sweat.
Chapter completed!