Now, Li Xin's position in the court is actually very embarrassing, he is not an auxiliary minister, and he has let go of the military department, except for a glittering title of Taifu, there is actually only one right battalion of the forbidden army that cannot be used.

Moreover, after the last forbidden army transfer, he and several auxiliary ministers have officially turned their faces, the ram Shu in the auxiliary ministers said goodbye to the old, the right servant of Shangshu shot Zhao Mingzhou to resign the prime minister, and the civil official group seemed to have suffered heavy losses on the surface, but the trusted right servant of Shangshu shot was actually a civil official, and the position of the Zhongshu Order vacated by Ram Shu would also be replaced by a civil official, and the left servant of the core of Shangshutai shot Shen Kuan, and his status did not move at all.

Originally, among the four auxiliary ministers, Shang Shutai accounted for two, and now there are three auxiliary ministers left, one each of Shang Shutai and Yu Shitai, and one in the Dadu Governor's Mansion.

That is, their losses were not very large.

On the other hand, Li Xin's side, although he had infinite scenery in the last incident, but he offended the Dadu Governor's Mansion and Shang Shutai, and he had not yet won the trust of Yuan Zhao Tianzi, even if he continued to stay in the capital, he would probably have a very bad time.

Therefore, he simply left the capital and avoided the center of the whirlpool.

And this time, he wants to organize a tax strike in the southwest, on the one hand, to make the southwest completely independent of the imperial court, and on the other hand, to gently touch the imperial court, to see what kind of attitude the imperial court under the leadership of several auxiliary ministers is towards the southwest, and at the same time to see how much the strength of the two sides is still very different.

After having dinner with Li Shuo, Li Xin took Li Shuo out of the study of the Shu Palace, in the study, Mu Ying and Zhao Jia were there, Li Shuo walked in and saluted the two of them one by one.

"I've seen General Mu, I've seen Mr. You'an."

Zhao Jia and Mu Ying glanced at each other, also stood up, and returned the salute to Li Shuo.

"General Li is polite."

Li Shuo's current official position is the general of Ningzhou, the military attache of Zhengwupin.

Li Xin was not polite, sat on the main seat with a grin, and said: "Regarding the matter of tax strike, I have communicated with all of you, it is already August, and in another month or two, it will be the time for the imperial court to levy autumn grain. ”

Zhao Jia, who has been in charge of the southwest for the past two years, frowned and said in a deep voice: "If you want me to see, you don't need to force the court to force it so tightly, you can first have half of the southwest officials go to the book, and see how the court reacts." ”

Speaking of this, he sighed slightly.

"Taxation is the foundation of the country, and it is also the face of the imperial court, if there is no money and grain to pay in the southwest, the imperial court may not be able to bear it, and it will take action against the southwest."

"Do it, do it."

Li Xin sat on the main seat and said indifferently: "Since the beginning of the ninth year of Taikang, the imperial court began to send people from the left battalion of the forbidden army into Hanzhong to garrison, and now the defenders of Hanzhong have a total of 50,000 people, most of which are forbidden troops, Hanzhong is the gateway to the southwest, and what these 50,000 people are used for is self-explanatory. ”

Emperor Taikang did compromise with Li Xin, but he did not do nothing, in the last year of his reign, he began to transfer people from the left battalion of Hou Jingde's forbidden army into Hanzhong to garrison, and the left battalion of the forbidden army had at least two more than Zhichongfu, and almost 30,000 forbidden troops entered Hanzhong.

You must know that the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army is very different from those miscellaneous local armies led by Pei Jin the year before last!

The current Great Jin Dynasty is the early years of the imperial dynasty, and the imperial court has not been rotten to a certain extent.

Then Ye Sheng left the forbidden army, and the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army decreased slightly, but after Pei Jin entered the forbidden army, it took more than ten years to retrain the forbidden army, not to mention anything else, the two battalions around Gyeonggi together have almost 300,000 forbidden troops, all of which are the top elites of the Great Jin.

Li Xin served in the forbidden army in the first year of Taikang, although it was interrupted for a few years, but he was also an old forbidden army, and he knew the elite of the forbidden army better than anyone else.

When he led the forbidden army to the west, as long as an order was given, the forbidden army could go to the battlefield without hesitation, and the battle of Fucheng was fought for three days and three nights, and Ye Mao took the forbidden army to attack hard, and almost no forbidden army retreated.

It shows that its military discipline is strict.

If Pei Jin led the forbidden army to attack Hanzhou Mansion in the eighth year of Taikang, even if there was gunpowder, at most he would barely hold Hanzhou City, and it would be impossible to take advantage of the chaos to chase him out like that and kill tens of thousands of Pei Jin's subordinates like a chicken!

Speaking of this, Li Xin slowly exhaled.

"This time the tax strike, if the imperial court does not react, then from now on the southwest is self-contained, although nominally it is not Cheng Han, but in fact it is no different from Cheng Han, and several of us will have a way out in the future."

Marquis Jing'an looked at the three people in the study and continued.

"But it's unlikely that the court won't react."

"The court is now in charge of a few auxiliary ministers, not long ago in the capital, I offended them all, they are probably about to find an excuse to attack the southwest, this time the tax strike is sent to them, most of them will not let go of this opportunity, want to knock off my foundation."

"The people of the right battalion of the forbidden army, they will not move, they will only use the people of Hou Jingde's left battalion, the left battalion has been transferred to Hanzhong in the past two years, although they have filled in new soldiers, but the combat effectiveness has not kept up, this time they will draw one to two Zhechong mansions from Hou Jingde at most."

Speaking of this, Li Xin laughed at himself: "After all, the general of the right battalion of the forbidden army is still me, and they are afraid that I will rebel, so they want to leave the left battalion to contain the right battalion of the forbidden army." ”

"There are 50,000 people in Han, and the two Zhichong Prefectures will not exceed 30,000, plus the scattered local army, it is estimated that there are almost 100,000 people together, which is the strength that the imperial court can attack in the southwest now."

Li Xin got up and looked at Mu Ying.

"Brother Mu, are you sure you can keep it?"

Mu Ying grinned: "Most of the frontal battles can't be beaten, but there is definitely no problem in defending the city, and besides, we still have the sword gate pass in our hands." ”

Li Xin's face was calm.

"Brother Mu, the Sword Gate Pass can be guarded, but it doesn't have to be guarded to the Sword Gate, I mean the Sword Gate Pass can be guarded for a period of time, and then you can let the imperial army's army enter the southwest hinterland, and then touch them."

Zhao Jiada frowned, but did not speak.

Li Shuo shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Master Hou, the imperial court forbidden army is strictly disciplined and well-trained, and it is dangerous to guard the sword gate, and letting them in is like luring a wolf into the room, which is too risky." ”

"If you can't beat them, the southwest will be a mess by them."

He was very sensible, and he didn't call Li Xin "brother" in front of people.

The Marquis of Jing'an's face was calm.

"First consume part of their troops at Jianmen Pass, and then let them in, from today onwards, Jincheng will make every effort to produce heavenly thunder, and when the time comes, you will borrow the city to defend it, and let them enter Jianmen Pass, it doesn't matter."

"Brother Mu and Li Shuo, you can transfer troops to Jianmen Pass now, it's a good thing that the people from the court don't come, and it's a good thing that they come."

"If I win this battle, it will be of great benefit to me and to the southwest."

Zhao Jia finally couldn't help it, and frowned: "Master Hou, you are not in the southwest to preside?" ”

Li Xin shook his head and smiled.

"I want to go back to Yongzhou to go to my mother's grave, and my wife and children are still waiting for me there."