Originally, in the southwest, the emperor was far away, although the imperial court could use the forbidden army to march west and sweep the southwest again, as Taikang did in the early years, but the long-distance march was already costly, and the imperial court put most of its energy in the north in the past two years, and Pei Jin had already marched west once, and ended in a fiasco.

Since the defeat of Pei Jin, the Great Jin court has always been in a dilemma.

Therefore, Taikang Tianzi had no choice but to let Li Xin out of Beijing.

However, all this, after Li Xin comes to the southwest, will be solved.

On the second day after Li Xin arrived in Jincheng, Mu Ying announced that the imperial court recognized the status of the Cheng Han clan and named Li Ji, the little prince of Cheng Han, as the king of Shu, and at the same time, the king of Shu was also willing to surrender to the court of the Great Jin Dynasty and become a vassal king in the southwest of the Great Jin Dynasty.

However, the garrison of the Hanzhou Army in Jiange will not be removed, which means that nominally the southwest still belongs to the Great Jin, but in fact, the southwest is a semi-autonomous small dynasty that is in charge of the southwest.

In this way, Taikang Tianzi's side saved face, and the imperial court also retained face, while the southwest or Hanzhou army kept Lizi, and the two sides reached a temporary compromise.

Of course, this compromise can only be temporary.

After all, the premise of reaching this compromise is that the imperial court is unable to attack the southwest, or it is not too good to attack the southwest, once the Great Jin Dynasty frees up its hands, or the imperial court gets the "heavenly thunder" formula, then the two sides have reached this kind of "agreement", which will collapse at the first time, and the troops of the Great Jin Dynasty will definitely press the southwest again.

There is no way, since the first emperor of ancient times ruled the world, all the dynasties of the past dynasties have been thinking about the unification of Shenzhou, and no emperor who has made a difference will be willing to see the lack of a corner of his territory, even if it will outweigh the losses if it really fights, in order to dominate the world, it will definitely be fought.

In Zhuxia culture, face is sometimes far more important than actual benefits.

But no matter what, the southwest side is still temporarily stabilized, and in the next short period of time, the imperial court should not take any action against the southwest, at least until the war in the north is completely over, and the imperial court will have the heart to set its sights on the southwest.

Of course, during this period of time, the capital will definitely send a steady stream of people to the southwest and use all means to get the "heavenly thunder" in their hands.

After roughly arranging the affairs of the southwest, Mu Ying left Jincheng and went to Hanzhou, preparing to communicate with Li Shuo, and then discuss the specific regulations for the reorganization of the army, while Li Xin stayed in Jincheng and lived in the government of Jincheng Mansion.

On this day, after Zhao Fuzun finished his official business, he brought two pots of wine to the backyard of the mansion, asked his subordinates to fry three or four side dishes, and sat under the pavilion in the backyard with Li Xin to drink.

At this time, it was already April and May, and the weather was slowly getting hotter, and the two of them were sitting under the gazebo blowing a cool breeze, which was quite comfortable.

Zhao Jia picked up the wine glass, toasted Li Xin with a glass of wine, and after raising his head to drink it, he sighed: "The wine in the southwest is far less blazing than the capital. ”

Li Xin also put down his wine glass, glanced at Zhao Jia, and smiled slightly: "Brother You'an can just say whatever he wants." ”

Zhao Jia didn't answer, but glanced at Li Xin and said: "Hou Ye, you have arrived in the southwest, for the imperial court, the problem in the southwest is solved, but after the problem in the southwest is solved, where do you go from here, Hou Ye?" ”

"Go back to the capital, or stay in the southwest?"

Zhao Jia was not in a hurry, and said: "If you go back to the capital, you will inevitably be trapped in the Jing'an Hou Mansion, maybe it will be worse, but stay in the southwest, Hou Ye, you are not willing to completely turn your face with the court to be the king of Shu, you can't stay in the southwest as an idler." ”

Li Xin nodded, quite agreeing with what Zhao Jia said.

"Brother You'an is right, now I really don't know whether I should stay in the southwest or go back to the capital."

The Marquis of Jing'an sighed slowly: "Originally, I was in the capital, and there were Yulinwei who could be used, even if there was any danger, it was not difficult to protect myself, but now, whether it was the forbidden army or Yulinwei, Qianniuwei and other three guards, I couldn't get involved, and in the various yamen in the capital, my popularity was not very good, and after returning to the capital, once something happened, there was no one who could speak for me." ”

Zhao Jia gave Li Xin a glass of wine.

"The Ye family can talk to Hou Ye."

Li Xin smiled bitterly: "I am a military general, and the Ye family is also a military general, if I really get to the point of being killed, and the Ye family comes forward to speak for me, I will only die faster." ”

Zhao Jia nodded and looked up at the southwest: "Then why don't you go back to the capital?" ”

Li Xin was silent.

He tilted his head and poured the wine into his mouth, exhaling a strong mouthful.

"If I don't go back, I'm not reconciled."

"I have done so many things over the years, and in order to avoid suspicion after doing things, I even took the initiative to retract my tentacles, from Yulinwei to Qianniuwei, to the forbidden army, the military department, these yamen I have been in, I have a lot of opportunities to cultivate cronies, with my status over the years, I can wantonly win over courtiers, make friends, and even form a party in the court!"

"My mentor is Ye Guogong, the Ye family will not stop me, and the seed family is not in the capital, His Majesty needs to rely on me for everything in the early years of Taikang, and at that time I can easily become the most powerful military general in the DPRK."

Speaking of this, Li Xin slapped the table viciously.

"But I didn't do that, after the expedition to the west, I listened to Master Ye's words and became my own Taiping Marquis at home, so that five years later, there was almost no cronies and friends of me in the Manchu Dynasty, and I didn't make any courtiers except the Ye family."

"No matter what you say, I can be regarded as abiding by my duty as a minister."

The Marquis of Jing'an snorted, raised his head and drank another glass of wine, his voice hoarse.

"In the end, why should I leave the capital and go to the southwest to settle down?"

If there is no "heavenly thunder", even if the 50,000 Hanzhou army rebels, it will be a relatively large-scale bandit for the imperial court, and it will not affect the overall situation at all.

If Li Xin came to the southwest and became the so-called king of Shu, then a long time meant that he would have to give up all the achievements of the previous ten years and start again in the southwest.

To be honest, he is not a big man who has been through the heavens and latitudes, all the way to today, there are three minutes by cleverness, three points by luck, and four points by the general trend pushing him to slowly climb up, in order to get all the way to today's level.

If he really rebelled in the southwest, even if he could succeed, it would be impossible to say that he would be able to enter the capital in one or two years, three or five years.

At least one or two decades.

This is still an optimistic estimate, and it is more likely that he will be trapped in the southwest for the rest of his life, and he will no longer be able to set foot in the capital for half a step, and he will not be able to look east.

In the end, he just lived as the second Li Shen, and even slightly inferior to Li Shen.

Zhao Jia also accompanied Li Xin for a drink, he put down the wine glass, and glanced at Li Xin with a complicated face.

"However, now that the capital is in the capital, it may not be able to accommodate you."

"Not necessarily."

Li Xin calmed down a little, he reached out to Zhao Jia to get a glass of wine, and slowly spoke.

"And wait in the southwest, maybe one day the imperial court will have to use me."