It is very normal or even inevitable for two sides that are hostile to each other to infiltrate each other, and often the side that has the advantage on the surface will infiltrate the weaker side extremely seriously.

Take the imperial court and the southwest as an example, the imperial court only needs to lightly give a promise of a seven- or eight-grade petty official, and there will be countless people who will come to work for the imperial court, after all, the national glory of the Great Jin Dynasty for more than a hundred years is there, the Ji family is the Son of Heaven, and the Great Jin Dynasty is orthodox.

And Li Xin, a thief, is very unpopular, for example, Xie Dai, who is now idle at home, Li Xin promised him a position as a second-grade general in the southwest, and he would not come to the southwest.

In the same way, even if it is a person in the southwest, as long as the imperial court gives a petty official and a small favor, maybe he will secretly take refuge in the imperial court.

And Li Xin wants to install people in the imperial court, it is extremely difficult, at the moment the cause of the southwest has not yet taken off, except for some Li Xin's diehards, no one will be willing to lurk in the imperial court to do things for the southwest.

If the people sent out by Li Xin really broke into the imperial court and successfully became officials in the imperial court, maybe they would stay in the imperial court and continue to be officials and disassociate themselves from the southwest.

Because of this objectively wrong power gap, Li Xin basically has no people in the imperial court, but there are many imperial court manpower in the southwest, and at least thousands of people have infiltrated the southwest over the years, and if they want to get the recipe of Tianlei from the southwest, there will definitely be people in the imperial court within the southwest army.

What Li Xin has to do now is to make his interior as clean as possible, otherwise if the interior is full of spies of the imperial court, as soon as he fights, he will be defeated immediately.

The method of censorship is also a bit risky.

In the early years, Mu Ying had some conflicts with Li Shuo because of military affairs, and the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel, so the two of them picketed each other, and the effect would be slightly better.

So, under Li Xin's order, the two places in Hanzhong Ankang began to examine each other, and in just two days, there was a thick stack of papers, piled up on Li Xin's desk.

Li Xin sat in his study, flipped through the documents on the table casually, and felt a little scared.

In the southwest army alone, there are not a few spies sent by the imperial court, and it is difficult to know how many people in the entire southwest have secretly fallen to the imperial court.

But there is nothing strange about this kind of thing, most people in this world are weeds on the wall, which side is strong, which side will fall to which side, if the southwest goes well, these people will secretly burn all the letters that contact the imperial court, and then concentrate on being people in the southwest.

In the entire southwest, there are countless of these people, but there is no need to deal with them for the time being, as long as they fight a good battle, these people will naturally become loyal.

These people can be ignored, but the Southwest Army can't be ignored, the army must remain pure, and it is impossible to pose any threat to the imperial court.

Li Xin sat alone in Hanzhong's study, looking at the documents sent from both sides, and when he was looking through them, a personal guard knocked on the door and said, "General, someone outside asks to see ......."

Li Xin put down the paperwork in his hand, frowned, and said, "Who?" ”

"A young man."

The guard bowed his head and said, "He asked the villain to hand the general something and said that the general would see him after he saw it." ”

Li Xin put down the paperwork in his hand and said, "What is it, bring it in and I'll take a look." ”

The guards held a long box in both hands and put it next to Li Xin, Li Xin opened the box and saw a blue long sword inside, seeing this thing, Li Xin immediately knew who was coming, and he said with a somewhat complicated face: "Let him come in to see me." ”

"Yes."

It didn't take long for a young man with scars on his forehead and face to walk into Li Xin's study, and after seeing Li Xin, he bowed his head respectfully and said, "Brother." ”

Li Xin was still reading the paperwork, and he didn't raise his head when he heard the words, and said coldly: "I thought you were dead." ”

At the beginning, Zhao Fang took Li Xin's sword and pheasant to the north to fight against the Xianbei people, and later after Jizhou was broken, it disappeared without a trace, Li Xin deliberately left more than a dozen people near Jizhou, and there is no news until now.

Zhao Fang lowered his head and said with a wry smile: "Brother, before Jizhou City was broken, I was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and the injury was not light, and I was recuperating in Jizhou City. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Fang said with emotion: "Fortunately, the farmer is good, otherwise the younger brother may not see his brother in his life." ”

"What do you see me doing?"

Li Xin sneered slightly: "Xiaoxiao thought you were dead, and a few days ago I set up a spiritual position for you at home, and burned incense and worshiped every day." ”

At the mention of Zhong Xiaoxiao, the expression on Zhao Fang's face converged, he lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "She must have a hard time these days......

Li Xin glanced up at Zhao Fang and said in a sullen voice: "Since you are hiding in Jizhou City, why did you rush back to the southwest now?" ”

Zhao Fang said in a low voice: "Brother Hui, the younger brother has been recuperating in Jizhou. ”

He pulled back his clothes, revealing a wound on his right shoulder, which had become an arrow sore and looked terrifying.

"After barely recovering from the injury, the Northern Barbarians also withdrew from Jizhou, I did not contact the people in the imperial court, and I returned to Yongzhou for a few months, and after returning to Yongzhou, I heard that my brother was in Hanzhong, so I came to Hanzhong."

Li Xin frowned.

"Are you alright?"

"The body is nothing but ......"

Zhao Fang smiled bitterly: "Most of my right hand has been wasted, I tried it on the way back, not to mention the green pheasant that lifts my brother, even if it is an ordinary sword, it is difficult to hold it tightly." ”

Zhao Fang lowered his head and said slowly: "I'm afraid it's ...... It can't be recovered. ”

The arrow wound on his shoulder was very deep, and he needed to recuperate, but at that time, Jincheng was broken, and he had to fall into the cellar as a last resort.

Li Xin frowned slightly.

He asked slowly, "Can you still write?" ”

Zhao Fang lowered his head and said, "Reluctantly." ”

"It's good if you're not crippled."

Li Xin put aside the paperwork on the table, then looked up at Zhao Fang, and said: "Xiaoxiao is in Jincheng now, you go back to see her first, take care of her for a few months, and when your health is almost good, you can go to Zhao Jia to get an errand." ”

Speaking of this, Li Xin paused and said, "If it doesn't work, you can also come to me as a staff member." ”

Zhao Fang was born in a scholarly family, and he was familiar with reading the scriptures at the age of **, and what is more valuable is that he has experience in commanding operations, and if he can take it with him, he can do a lot of things for Li Xin.

Zhao Fang bowed deeply to Li Xin: "Brother Lao is bothered. ”

"This pheasant sword will be returned to the elder brother, and the younger brother will leave for Jincheng in a while."

Li Xin nodded silently.

"I will be in Hanzhong during this time, you will rest in Jincheng for a few months, you can come to find me, there are many things in Hanzhong that can be handed over to you to do."

Zhao Fang glanced up at Li Xin and asked, "Brother, is it ...... Going to the army? ”

Li Xin did not speak.

Zhao Fang opened his mouth and smiled.

"It's good to start the army, change the court, and the younger brother can change back to the Li clan of Zhao County."

With that, he arched his hand at Li Xin and slowly left Li Xin's study.