Only by laying down the Jianmen Pass can the gate of the southwest be closed, whether it is Zhao Jia, who has been in the southwest for many years, or Mu Ying, who has grown up in the southwest since he was a child, he knows very well, so taking Jincheng is only the first step, and winning the Jianmen Pass is the second step.

Compared with attacking Jianmen Pass from Hanzhong, the difficulty of attacking Jianmen Pass from Jincheng is much smaller, after all, this is from the inside to the outside, and the natural danger of Jianmen Pass is basically useless.

However, attacking the Sword Pavilion is not a trivial matter, you need to carefully grasp the details, after Zhao Jia arrived in Jincheng, he sat down with Mu Ying and discussed for a long time, mainly to discuss how to attack the Sword Pavilion, and what the Hanzhou Army should do next after defeating the Sword Pavilion.

Today's Hanzhou Army has only 50,000 people, this number is far from enough, you must know that the Pingnan Army of that year is not counting the retired veterans, there are more than 100,000 in active service, only 50,000 people, not enough to divide the southwest.

Therefore, after taking the Sword Pavilion, the next step is to control the power in the southwest, as well as the taxes in various places, unlike the Pingnan Army, although the Pingnan Army was actually a land and autonomy, but they were still nominally the border army of the Great Jin, and the state capitals in the southwest still had to pay taxes to the imperial court, so the Pingnan Army did not have enough money to expand the army on a large scale, and the size of the army has been maintained at about 100,000 people.

Of course, the Pingnan Army taxed the imperial court, and the imperial court also had to allocate military salaries to the Pingnan Army.

Today's southwest is very different, they are self-reliant, as long as Mu Ying can really control the southwest, it is an independent small court, regardless of the court in Jinling City.

When the time comes, the size of the 50,000-strong army will definitely be expanded.

And Zhao Jia came to the southwest to do this to a large extent.

When it comes to fighting, Mu Ying may not be as famous as a world-famous general, but he is also a quite capable general, at least leading the Hanzhou Army to take the Jianmen Pass, the problem is not very big, but when it comes to trivial matters such as internal affairs, whether it is Mu Ying or Li Xin, they are much inferior to Zhao Jia, Li Xin asked Zhao Jia to come to the southwest, that is, let him really turn the southwest into a country.

There's still a long way to go.

In this way, Zhao Jia lived in Jincheng, he and Mu Ying had a clear division of labor, Mu Ying began to prepare for many matters of attacking Jianmen Pass, and Zhao Jia stayed in Jincheng's state yamen and became the administrator of Jincheng, so that the southwest center of this military disaster that had just experienced was restored to life.

Just when Jincheng was gradually getting on the right track, a young man wearing an ordinary cotton suit stood at the gate of Jincheng, rubbed his red palms that had been frozen, and walked into Jincheng.

Although it was now in wartime, the gate of Jincheng was not closed, and the young man arrived at the gate of the Yamen of Jincheng Prefecture very smoothly, he smiled and arched his hand to the official at the gate of the Yamen, and said: "I am tired of informing Lord Zhao, and I will say that Li Shuo asks to see him." ”

Originally, the personnel of Jincheng Mansion were all gone, and the current Yamen of the Mansion was newly established by Zhao Jia with the people of Hanzhou, because he had not been in office for a long time, and there was not much bureaucracy, and after hearing the words of the young man, he nodded.

"Wait a minute, I'll go and inform Zhao Fuzun."

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

Zhao Jia didn't raise his head, but frowned slightly: "I don't see it, I don't see it, I don't see it." ”

He suddenly became the governor of Jincheng Mansion, and the local squires in Jincheng have not visited him less in the past few days, which has annoyed Zhao Jia, but he has a lot of things to deal with now, so he simply doesn't see them.

If it is an official assigned by the imperial court, it is impossible to avoid these squires when they go to the place, after all, they are still needed to cooperate in governing the place, 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 the squire.

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

"Wait......"

Zhao Jia frowned and said, "What is the name of this person?" ”

"Hui Fuzun."

The official lowered his head and clenched his fists: "That man said his name is 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, and then felt that it was not appropriate, so he got up and said, "That's it, I'll go with you and meet him." ”

Who Li Shuo is, he is naturally clear.

Now it is the ninth year of Taikang, six years ago, the imperial court pacified the southwest, and the huge Pingnan Hou Mansion was wiped out in an instant, and the Pingnan Army was also divided in that battle, but the Pingnan Army was not completely wiped out!

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

At that time, Jing'an Hou Li Xin deliberately let go of nearly half of the Pingnan army, and after those Pingnan troops fled Jincheng, they disappeared, but later according to some sporadic news, it can still be known that these Pingnan troops went to the border area between the Great Jin Dynasty and Tubo, occupied a few small cities, 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 mansion was not very big, and it didn't take long for Zhao Jia to arrive at the door of the yamen, and he took a deep look at the young man in front of him.

Zhao Jia six years ago was still a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man, he was a little immature at that time, 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 Royal Highness Ji Yu out of Jincheng.

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

Now, six years have passed, and the young man at the beginning has become a young man of twenty-two and three.

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

Zhao Jia bowed to Li Shuo.

"I've seen Li Gongzi."

When Zhao Jia looked at Li Shuo, Li Shuo was also looking at Zhao Jia, and immediately bowed his head and saluted when he heard this: "Lord Zhao is polite." ”

Zhao Jia got up and leaned sideways.

"Li Gongzi is talking inside."

Li Shuo smiled slightly, and walked in generously.

He took away 60,000 or 70,000 Pingnan troops from Jincheng back then, even if six years have passed, these Pingnan troops may not all be able to fight, but there are at least 50,000 combat power, and with such a force under his hands, then Li Shuo is qualified to become a chess player in the southwest situation, and even a chess player in the whole world.

And why Li Shuo came is still unknown.

Zhao Jia introduced Li Shuo into the living room of the yamen, and after the servants came up to serve tea, Zhao Fu respected Li Shuo with a cup of tea, glanced at this young man who looked a little similar to Li Xin, and asked straight to the point: "Li Gongzi came to Jincheng, I don't know what the so-called thing is?" ”

Li Shuo put down the teacup and said with a smile: "I heard that the Mu family rebelled, so I came to Jincheng to take a look at the situation, I originally wanted to ask to see General Mu, but halfway through, I heard that Lord Zhao had arrived in Jincheng, so I came to visit Lord Zhao first." ”

"Don't be an adult."

Zhao Jia waved his hand and asked slowly, "What is the intention of Li Gongzi to come here?" ”

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

"My Pingnan army has been trapped in the mountains and wilderness for five or six years, and the days are very difficult, and now the Hanzhou army is rebelling, I don't know if I can restore the former Pingnan Hou Mansion at this time when I help the imperial court to quell the rebellion?"

(End of chapter)