343: Chapter 343 Meng Yi is a fucking genius!

Although Meng Yi is a scholar, he comes from a distinguished military family after all, and his strategic vision is exceptional.

He spoke up, "The area covered by Yunmeng Marsh is too vast, which is a major reason why they are so difficult to exterminate!"

Feng Quji nodded slightly upon hearing this.

A single Yunmeng Marsh is as large as an entire commandery.

It is filled with swamps and dense reed beds; once the Water Bandits flee into the reeds, it is nearly impossible to track them down.

"To completely resolve the banditry in Yunmeng Marsh," Meng Yi said, pointing to the area surrounding the marsh, "we must build dikes around its perimeter and reclaim the land for farming."

"Aside from restricting the maneuverability of the Yunmengze Water Bandits, this will also create more arable land and increase grain production!"

After listening carefully to Meng Yi's words, Feng Quji had to admit that Meng Yi was truly a fucking genius!

If Yunmeng Marsh ceased to exist, then there would be no more Yunmengze Water Bandits!

He really was a living King of Hell!

"Meng Yi, you are absolutely right!"

Premier Li Si had appeared behind them at some point, and he said with full approval, "Developing Yunmeng Marsh will create vast amounts of farmland, which can be used to boost grain production!"

"However..." he said with a grave tone, "turning Yunmeng Marsh into farmland is not something that can be accomplished overnight."

"We need to strike at the Yunmengze Water Bandits quickly and let the world know that robbing a train comes at a heavy price!"

"Indeed!"

Both Meng Yi and Feng Quji agreed completely.

For such heinous crimes, only by using thunderous means to eliminate the perpetrators could they deter such petty villains!

"I wonder if Premier Li Si has any brilliant strategies?" Meng Yi asked curiously.

"None." Premier Li Si shook his head decisively.

He was the head of the Legalist School, not the School of Military Strategy, so he had no idea how to eliminate the Yunmengze Water Bandits.

However, he had not heard anything from the head of the School of Military Strategy and had no idea what that person was doing.

Nan Commandery.

The current head of the School of Military Strategy, Xiang Liang, had already arrived in Nan Commandery under the guise of doing business.

He was accompanied by Fan Zeng.

As for Xiang Yu, he was securing endorsements and planning professional boxing matches, aiming to push Great Qin's boxing events to new heights.

This was something he, the Hegemon-King of West Chu of the boxing world, had to do.

For Xiang Yu, he simply wanted to be a hegemon.

Now, he was already a hegemon.

Among all the men who loved boxing, who wouldn't call him Hegemon upon seeing him!

Xiang Liang and Fan Zeng felt helpless.

Although both of them had considered abandoning their plans to raise an army and rebel, they had been preparing for so many years, and the sunk costs were so high that simply giving up now...

The two had come to Nan Commandery not only to survey the area and look for investment opportunities but also to spectate the unfolding drama.

After hearing that the Yunmengze Water Bandits had crossed commanderies to attack a train in Kuaiji Commandery, the two knew that the mysterious and domineering His Majesty the Head of State would certainly not tolerate this group of Yunmengze Water Bandits.

But these Yunmengze Water Bandits were truly detestable.

Hmm...

Neither Xiang Liang nor Fan Zeng had any love for the Yunmengze Water Bandits.

Kuaiji Commandery was their base of operations, and they had quite a few businesses there.

They would wholesale goods from Chang'an and transport them by train to Kuaiji Commandery for sale.

Very unfortunately, the steam train that those damn Yunmengze Water Bandits had attacked happened to be carrying their goods.

If the Yunmengze Water Bandits had succeeded and looted everything in the train's cargo hold, their losses would have been massive.

Every time they thought about it, they felt a lingering sense of fear.

Fortunately, Great Qin had plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

Through the intelligence network under his control, Fan Zeng learned that the most important reason the train's guard detachment had been able to repel the siege by the Yunmengze Water Bandits was the use of flares.

A single flare shot into the sky, illuminating a five-hundred-meter radius as bright as day.

The enemy had originally intended to use the cover of darkness to catch the train's guard detachment off guard.

But what they had not expected was that Great Qin had developed flares.

The illumination effect was so good that their movements were completely exposed to the guard detachment, and the one hundred guards on the steam train used revolvers to beat them until they were crying for their mothers, with many of them wetting their pants.