Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi exchanged a glance, and each read a trace of gravity in the depths of the other's eyes.
They had calculated this beforehand...
For Li Wei to fly straight to Fengzhou and eliminate the bandit leaders would not be difficult. One day would be enough.
But the bandits were not limited to the force beneath Fengzhou City. Their power had spread across nearly the entire four provinces of the Central Plains.
Xu Yuncheng's strategy of casting a net in all directions and suppressing the bandits from every angle had gone bankrupt because one point had been breached.
By now, quite a few bandits had slipped into neighboring provinces, and the situation was nearly out of control.
If they wanted the Central Plains to become completely peaceful, even if Li Wei went all out, rushing around to put out fires and crushing all the bandits...
But surely they could not kill all the millions of bandits, along with the common people caught up among them?
As for distinguishing one from the other, Li Wei alone simply could not manage it.
Therefore, once they included the time needed for the officials and soldiers to gather the surrendered troops and prevent the main force from collapsing into scattered stragglers who would bring disaster to the local regions, even with every possible compression, she would have to leave Yujing City for more than two months.
And these next two months happened to be the season when the northeastern barbarians most loved to raid southward.
Over the past two years, the barbarians had been preoccupied with a change in imperial power within their own ranks and had not had the time to enter the Pass.
But this year, the intelligence report submitted by the Imperial Guards showed that the barbarians' new