"General Lin, you expected it is good."

Xifeng Yingshan smiled bitterly and said, "Our Dangxiang is indeed different from your Southern Dynasties and Northern Wei Dynasty. Although our Dangxiang Emperor is Mi Qin, the army belongs to each royal family and has different numbers of troops. However, they all accept the allocation of the imperial city during wartime."

"When it comes to raising soldiers on weekdays, all royal families take care of themselves. It is not like our Southern Dynasties that the Ministry of War will allocate military salaries from the national treasury?" Lin Yi nodded and asked.

Xifeng Yingshan said: "That's true. Whoever raises more soldiers is also strong in the court, which also shows that this royal family is strong. Now, for example, the weakest Pochao clan among the royal family, has only 70,000 troops, but the Tuoba clan has as many as 400,000 troops."

Lin Yi said: "In fact, your Dangxiang is similar to the Shang and Zhou dynasties before history. Strictly speaking, you royal families are more like princes and kings who are enfeoffed. They should also have their own vassals and do their own things in their daily lives. However, unlike those dynasties, the emperors of those dynasties themselves are the largest clans, and the princes and kings who are enfeoffed are also their relatives."

"It's indeed similar. Strictly speaking, our party Xiang is like putting together eight small countries of different surnames together." Xifeng Yingshan was already thinking about his own calculations, and he really did everything he knew and said, "Just like we had gathered nearly one million troops before, although the unification was dispatched by the commander assigned by the Miqin family, the Miqin family's own army was only 200,000. The Tuoba family and the number of troops going to the Li family was greater than theirs. If there was a real war, the royal family's own army would also be one by one, and they would calculate their losses from each other. The first thing the royal family thought about was to protect the strength of their own army as much as possible, and would not be like the army of your Southern Dynasties."

"That was true in those dynasties in history. Whenever there was a war in the central dynasty, they would order all the vassal states to send troops. However, whether these vassal states contributed their efforts depends only on their loyalty to the central dynasty. Most of the time, although all the armies are in a mess."

Lin Yi smiled slightly, looked at Xi Feng Yingshan and said, "To be honest, I dared to make noises before and wanted to invade Dangxiang because I felt that your Dangxiang army was not as strong as the Northern Wei Dynasty. And although I don't know that your royal family includes eight tribes, Dangxiang's legions are fighting each other, which is something I heard about."

"In fact, except for the Xia Ba and Tuoba clans, the rest of our clans have little contact with the outside world, whether it is the Southern Dynasties, the Northern Wei, or the countries farther away from the Western Regions." Although Xifeng Yingshan seemed cowardly on the battlefield, when talking about these things, it was obvious that the superiors were born with shrewdness. He narrowed his eyes and said, "We had not had much contact with General Lin before, you Southern Dynasties. But today I see General Lin acting generously, so I also dared to ask, is General Lin trying to completely conquer Dangxiang for the Southern Dynasties and take Dangxiang as a prefecture or county, or is it just to solve the hidden dangers of our Party Xiang's march?"

"You said it directly, of course I can't tell lies."

Lin Yi smiled freely and said, "The enemy of the Southern Dynasties was always the Northern Wei Dynasty. Before they were separated from the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Southern Dynasties had the strength to completely destroy Dangxiang? Look, although the emperor of our dynasty gave me a 11th general, he only asked my Tie Ce army to come to the border, and did not allocate a hundred thousand troops to me. How many troops are there in my Tie Ce army? Even if you don't move one soldier or one soldier, I will occupy many cities at will, and I will not be able to occupy it."

"interesting."

Xi Feng Yingshan couldn't help laughing while picking his beard. At this moment, he felt that Lin Yi was not just talking interesting, but this person was also very interesting.

"So General Lin, your ultimate goal is naturally to ensure that the west is stable. Without our Dangxiang's army taking advantage of the Southern Dynasties to fight against the Northern Wei army, they went deep into the hinterland of the Southern Dynasties to harass them. That is to say, as long as we ensure that our Dangxiang will not interfere with your war between the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei. In the long run, even if the Southern Dynasties destroyed the Northern Wei Dynasty, I am afraid that there will be no interest in our Dangxiang, just like our Tuyuhun territory and the territory of the Western Regions."

After the Qingfeng Yingshan relaxed, what he said became interesting, "Tuyuhun and the Western Regions are as vast as our Dangxiang. The land is sparse and sparse, and the land is not short of it. It is sparsely populated, so people can't take over it. Of course, there are many good things in the Western Regions, such as crystals, gems, and beauties... But although we are interested in their crystals, gems, and beauties, it is like we want to eat millet, but we don't want to take over the farming field by ourselves, and grow millet to eat them by ourselves. They are ready for it, and we can buy them, which is not the best of both worlds?"

"interesting!"

Lin Yi laughed and couldn't help but give Xi Feng Yingshan a thumbs up and said, "I just like talking to smart people like you."

Xifeng Yingshan immediately laughed, and even squeezed his eyes at Lin Yi, saying, "So if I think for General Lin, General Lin would be better to win a few battles and pass it to the Southern Dynasties, so that all the people would admire him again, and at the same time, we would get some substantial benefits for General Lin's future foothold in our Party Xiang. As for our Party Xiang, since we can't occupy it, the climate and scenery will not be liked by the people of the Southern Dynasties, the adults must not completely swallow up the idea of ​​governing their own country. Moreover, I heard that there is an old saying in the Southern Dynasties that rabbits die and dogs cook, and birds are kept alive. If all foreign enemies and foreign countries are gone, then the general will be unable to show his skills and will not be so important."

Lin Yi laughed again, two of you laughed loudly, and the other one made Bai Yuelu and others around him laugh out loud.

"It seems that Brother Feng Yingshan, you have something else to talk to me about." Lin Yi's eyes lit up with a shiny smile, and he said meaningfully.

“That’s natural.”

Xifeng Yingshan heard Lin Yi and he called him brothers, and his face suddenly became even more radiant. He looked at Lin Yi with his eyes curled up, with an unconcealed look of greed in his eyes. "General Lin, although my Xifeng family is not the strongest among the royal family, it is not too weak. And I Xifeng Yingshan, as long as there is a strong support from the outside world, it should be able to decide the decision in the Xifeng family. General Lin, you are going to join our party anyway. In my opinion, you will naturally win every battle, but if you have my help, it will be a little easier."

"I just said it with ease. Brother Xifeng Yingshan, you are now beat around the bush, so you won't have to do this in the future."

Lin Yi smiled like a flower, "So Xifeng Yingshan, what you mean is that I will help you become the leader of the Xifeng clan, and then join forces with the Xifeng clan to force the Tuoba clan and Xia Ba clan. At that time, the Xifeng clan will take charge of the Dangxiang, and we will share our interests and the border will be safe and sound."
Chapter completed!