In the past five years, Li Xin has spent all his time in the capital, so he knows you and everything very well in the capital. Especially a big man like Pei Jin who is in charge of the forbidden army.

Pei Jin naturally has a lot of advantages, such as rich experience in leading troops, rich qualifications in the army, and very good personal ability, but he also has an obvious weakness, that is, his background.

To put it simply, he is not from the Wei Palace.

At the beginning of the Renchen Palace Change, the Seven Princes came out of the princes as dark horses, successfully ascended to the throne, and also created a group of upstarts, the more typical ones are Li Xin, Hou Jingde, and Ye Luan.

This kind of "resume" is the resume with the highest gold content in the Taikang Dynasty, and because of this resume, the three people who participated in the palace change at the beginning are now in high positions, Li Xingui is not to mention the crown prince, Ye Lan has also been a deputy general in the Zhenbei Army for several years, and when he finishes his funeral for his father, the court will at least give him a second-grade official.

Even relatively speaking, Hou Jingde, who was the worst mixed, temporarily took over the position of the general of the forbidden army after Pei Jin left the capital, and became the top-level military general in the Great Jin court.

Because of this resume, the Son of Heaven will read some old feelings, for example, Li Xin will now throw away the Hanzhou Army, and return to the capital to surrender and admit defeat, according to the temper of the Taikang Emperor, most likely will not embarrass Li Xin for anything, and will still let him be a Taiping Marquis.

Of course, this is the situation now, and it may not be the case in the future.

But Pei Jin does not have this resume, he is an old minister of the Chengde Dynasty, and he had some unhappiness with the current Son of Heaven in his early years, even if he temporarily gained the trust of the Son of Taikang, but this trust is not reliable.

He had to prove himself as soon as possible.

Li Xin also knew this, so although he didn't know that the Son of Heaven had set a deadline for Pei Jin, he guessed that Pei Jin would be in a hurry.

As long as the news that Hanzhou still has a year of grain storage spreads, Pei Jin will immediately jump to his feet, and will do everything possible to hit the gate of Hanzhou with his head.

Li Xin's method was quickly implemented, and on the same day, a total of seven rice shops in Hanzhou City announced that they would release rice at a price five cents higher than the market price, and also stipulated a limit of two catties per person per day.

So early in the morning of the third day after Li Xin entered the city, the sky was not yet bright, and the door of the seven rice shops was bustling with people.

Fortunately, the Marquis of Jing'an was prepared, and sent the Hanzhou army to maintain order at the door of the rice shop early, and when the sun lit up, there was a long queue at the door of the rice shop, and many rich families in the city, not only the whole family came out to buy rice, but even let the next people line up together to buy rice.

In peacetime, rice and noodles are not very conspicuous, but as long as the world is in chaos, these foods will become the most precious things, and during the Anshi Rebellion, a mouse in Chang'an City can be sold for thousands of dollars, which is the reason.

At this time, Hanzhou was besieged, and the people in the city naturally wanted to buy as much food as possible, after all, one more pound of rations would give them more hope of survival.

Li Xin and Mu Ying, sitting in a restaurant in Hanzhou City, drinking tea, while looking at the people who were coaxing grain and rice not far downstairs, at this time, Mu Ying saw that someone was queuing up to buy rice, spared a circle, and then returned to the end of the line to line up, he frowned slightly, and was about to get up to restrain these things, Li Xin shook his head at him, and said: "As long as they are willing to line up, they can't sell much rice for six hours a day." Leave them alone. ”

Mu Hei said with a sullen face: "But in this way, those rich people bought all the rice, and the poor families couldn't eat it." ”

"That's why I'm asking you to sell it at a higher price than the market price."

Li Xin took a sip of tea and said lightly: "This money can be collected into your mansion, and when the siege of Hanzhou is lifted, you can use this money to buy rice in Jincheng, and then distribute it to the poorer people in the city." ”

When Mu Ying heard this, she sighed and didn't hold on any longer.

After taking a few sips of tea, he spoke: "Master Hou, are you trying to lure Pei to attack the city?" ”

Li Xin nodded and said: "As long as there is still rice in the city, the news will spread sooner or later, at this time, we have to put on a posture of fighting a protracted battle with them, the more we pretend to be similar, the more anxious Pei Jin will be to attack the city." ”

Mu Ying had been following Li Xin for a long time, and he believed in Li Xin more than all the Mu family members, and when he heard this, the black-faced general grinned: "Master Hou ordered, just do it at the lowest level." ”

Li Xin glanced at this guy and said, "Tonight, my people will be outside the city, I will go out of the city with you and bring them in." ”

Mu Ying shook her head: "Master Hou, you say a place, I will go out by myself, it doesn't matter if you hurt me, if you are injured, Hanzhou City will have no backbone, and I will be at a loss." ”

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

"I'm going to fetch these people myself."

Seeing Li Xin's expression, Mu Ying knew that this matter was non-negotiable, he was silent for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go out with Master Hou tonight." ”

Li Xin raised the teacup in his hand and toasted Mu Ying.

He had a smile on his face.

"Brother Mu doesn't have to be so heavy, this matter is far from being as serious as you imagined, repelling Pei Jin is not a difficult thing for you and me, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if we can't win Pei Jin, with 50,000 troops, it will not be a problem to go out of the city and get some food in."

Speaking of this, Li Xin patted Mu Ying on the shoulder.

"The real difficulty lies in how we should face the Great Jin Dynasty after defeating Pei Jin."

For this question, Mu Ying didn't care.

"This is something that you Li Changan have to think about, and it has nothing to do with me."

He learned from Li Xin's way of shrugging his shoulders, shrugged his shoulders, and said with a smile: "For me, the soldiers and civilians in Hanzhou City can have food, clothing, and land to plant, as for other things, I don't bother to think about it." ”

The two of them raised the teacup in their hands at the same time, replaced the wine with tea, and touched it.

Then they looked at each other and smiled.

Compared with the love with the Son of Heaven, the relationship between him and Mu Ying is purer, after all, the two of them are brothers who have been together for a few years and have been born and died.

This feeling of mutual trust made the Marquis of Jing'an feel very good.

……

By the evening, the two thousand horsemen in Hanzhou City had already assembled, and Mu Ying was wearing the black armor he had brought back from Yulin Wei, holding a spear.

Li Xin was also dressed in black armor, riding on a black horse, which was no longer in trouble, and wearing a green pheasant sword at his waist.

The gate of Hanzhou City slowly opened, and two thousand horsemen slowly drove out of Hanzhou City, and the sound of horses' hooves was very obvious in the quiet night.

Li Xin looked at the direction of the east of the city, and said in a deep voice: "The last time you went out of the city to pick me up was ten miles, this time it was twenty miles east of the city!" ”

"There are a total of one hundred and seventeen people, try to have as many as possible, and all of them will be brought into Hanzhou City!"

The Marquis of Jing'an's voice was solemn.

"Before dawn, no matter what the outcome is, everyone must return to the city of Hanzhou."

After saying these words, he let out a low sigh.

"Let's go!"