Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 785 Another chess player in the southwest

The gate to the Southwest is closed only after the Jianmen Pass is struck. Whether Zhao Jia, who has been in the Southwest for many years, or Mu Ying, who grew up in the Southwest, is very clear about this, so winning Jincheng is only the first The second step is to take down Jianmenguan.

  Compared to attacking Jianmenguan from Hanzhong, it is much less difficult to attack Jianmenguan from Jincheng. After all, it is attacking from the inside out, and the natural danger of Jianmenguan is basically useless.

However, attacking the Jiange is not a trivial matter, and it is necessary to carefully grasp the details. After Zhao Jia arrived in Jincheng, he sat down with Mu Ying to discuss for a long time, mainly discussing how to attack the Jiange and what the Hanzhou army should do next after the Jiange was defeated. .

   Today's Hanzhou Army has only 50,000 people, which is far from enough. You must know that the Pingnan Army of that year is not counted as retired soldiers. There are hundreds of thousands in active service, and only 50,000 people, which is not enough to separate the southwest.

Therefore, after winning the Jiange, the next step is to grasp the political power in the southwest and the taxation of various places. Unlike the Pingnan Army, although the Pingnan Army actually ceded the territory and autonomous, they were nominally the frontier army of the Jin Dynasty. And the various states in the southwest still have to pay taxes to the imperial court, so the Pingnan Army did not have enough money to expand its army on a large scale, and the size of the army has been maintained at about 100,000 people.

   Of course, the Pingnan Army pays taxes to the imperial court, and the imperial court also allocates military salaries to the Pingnan Army.

   Today's Southwest is very different. They are resuming the country and becoming independent. As long as Mu Ying can really control the Southwest, it will be an independent small court, regardless of the court in Jinling City.

   At that time, the scale of the army of 50,000 people must be expanded.

   And Zhao Jia came to the southwest, a large part of the reason was to do this,

When it comes to fighting, Mu Ying may not be comparable to the famous generals in the world, but he is also a capable general, at least leading the Hanzhou army to win the Jianmen Pass. The problem is not very big, but when it comes to trivial matters such as internal affairs, no matter Whether it was Mu Ying or Li Xin, they were much inferior to Zhao Jia. Li Xin asked Zhao Jia to come to the southwest, so that he could truly turn the southwest into a country.

   This is actually a long way to go.

In this way, Zhao Jia lived in Jincheng, and he and Mu Ying had a clear division of labor. Mu Ying began to prepare to attack many matters at Jianmen Pass, while Zhao Jia stayed in Jincheng's prefecture and became the chief executive of Jincheng. , so that the center of the southwest, which had just experienced the military disaster, was brought back to life.

   Just as Jincheng was gradually on the right track, a young man dressed in ordinary cotton clothes stood at the entrance of Jincheng, rubbed his frozen red palms, and walked into Jincheng.

Although it is now in wartime, the city gate of Jincheng has not been closed, and the young man arrived at the gate of the Jincheng Prefecture Yamen smoothly. Master Zhao, just said Li Shuo asked to see you."

  The original staff of Jincheng Mansion have all been replaced. The current mansion yamen was newly established by Zhao Jia and people from Hanzhou. Because it was not long after taking office, there was not much bureaucracy. After hearing the youth's words, he nodded.

   "Wait a minute, I'll report to Zhao Fuzun."

  The yamen quickly walked into the yamen and found Zhao Jia in the study who was dealing with the land issue in the southwest. He lowered his head and said, "Lord Fuzun, there is a young man named Li Shuo outside. After speaking, he asked to see the lord."

   Zhao Jia didn't lift his head, just frowned slightly: "See you, see, never see."

   He suddenly became the head of the Jincheng Mansion. The local squires in Jincheng haven't been visiting less frequently these days, which annoyed Zhao Jia a lot, but he has a lot of things to deal with now, so he simply doesn't see him.

If it is an official dispatched by the imperial court, these squires cannot be avoided in the local area. After all, they need their cooperation to govern the local area, but Zhao Jia is now the spokesperson of the "military government", and there is a Hanzhou army behind him, so there is no need to pay attention to it. The squire, hearing someone begging to see him at this time, subconsciously refused.

   The yamen nodded, and was about to go down to refuse, but Zhao Fuzun suddenly raised his head and looked at the yamen.

"and many more…"

   Zhao Jia frowned and said, "What do you call this person?"

   "Return to the House."

   The yamen bowed his head and clasped his fists: "The man said his name was Li Shuo."

   Zhao Jia took a deep breath, immediately stood up from the chair, and coughed: "Go and invite him in..."

   He thought about it for a while, but felt it was inappropriate, got up and said, "Forget it, I'll go with you and greet him."

  Who Li Shuo is, he naturally knows.

   Now is the ninth year of Taikang. Six years ago, the imperial court pacified the southwest, and the huge Pingnanhou mansion was instantly destroyed.

   Zhao Jia, as one of the parties six years ago, has stayed in the southwest for so many years. He knows the truth of the year better than anyone else.

At that time, Li Xin, the Hou of Jing'an, deliberately let go of nearly half of the Pingnan army. After those Pingnan army escaped from Jincheng, they disappeared. However, according to some sporadic news, it is still known that these Pingnan army went to Dajin and Jincheng. The border area of ​​Tibet occupied several small towns and survived in that uncontrolled place.

   And the leader of these Pingnan Army is Li Shuo, the "only" son of Li Shen, Marquis of Pingnan!

   The yamen was not very big, and it didn't take long for Zhao Jia to arrive at the gate of the yamen. He took a deep look at the young man in front of him.

Six years ago, Li Shuo was still a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old. At that time, he was a little immature and his mind was not very mature, but at that time, Li Shuo already had the courage to cooperate with Li Xin and bring His Highness Ji Kuo down. Bring out Jincheng.

   It was also for this reason that indirectly led to Li Shen's surrender of Kaicheng.

   Now that six years have passed, the young man at the time has become a twenty-two-three-year-old young man.

   However, this young man's skin is a little rough, and his complexion is not as fair as before. It is obvious that he has suffered a lot with the Pingnan Army in the past few years.

   Zhao Jia bowed to Li Shuo.

   "I have seen Mr. Li."

   When Zhao Jia was looking at Li Shuo, Li Shuo was also looking at Zhao Jia. Hearing this, he immediately bowed his head and saluted: "Master Zhao is very polite."

   Zhao Jia got up and turned to his side.

   "Young Master Li speaks inside."

  Li Shuo smiled and walked in with a generous step.

He took away a total of 60,000 to 70,000 Pingnan troops from Jincheng. Even if six years passed, these Pingnan troops may not all be able to fight, but at least 50,000 troops are still available. Strength, then Li Shuo is qualified to become a chess player in the situation in the southwest, or even a chess player in the whole world.

   And why Li Shuo came is still unknown.

Zhao Jia brought Li Shuo into the living room of the yamen. After the servants came up to serve tea, Zhao's house respected Li Shuo for a cup of tea, glanced at the young man who looked a bit like Li Xin, and asked straight to the point, "Li Young master came to Jincheng, don't know what's the matter?"

Li Shuo put down the teacup, smiled and said, "I heard that the Mu family rebelled, so I came to Jincheng to see the situation. I originally wanted to see General Mu, but halfway through I heard that Master Zhao was in Jincheng, so I came first. Visit Master Zhao."

   "You can't be an adult."

   Zhao Jia waved his hand and asked slowly, "Young Master Li, what is your intention here?"

  Li Shuo put down the teacup in his hand and smiled slightly.

   "It has been five or six years since I was trapped in the mountains and plains of the Southern Army, and the days are very difficult. Now that the Hanzhou Army is revolting, I wonder if I can help the court to quell the rebellion at this time, can I restore the former Pingnan Marquis Mansion?"

   (end of this chapter)