With Li Xin, the core of the Southwest Group, he set a strategy for seizing the power of the imperial court, and the three giants within the Southwest Group were very willing to do this, so the things arranged by Li Xin were quickly implemented, not only dozens of middle-level generals of the Southwest Army were sent out to local officials to serve as officials, but also several high-level generals were sent out to command the troops in various provinces.

When these high-level generals go to the localities, they are not only holding power, but their main thing to do is to win over the local heroes and promote some local generals.

After all, it is difficult for the officials parachuted in the imperial court to quickly grasp power, and if they are not capable enough, they will be overshadowed by local snakes, but it is easy to quickly grasp local power by promoting people from the locality.

Under the multi-pronged approach, the actual situation of the Southwest Army began to spread rapidly from the capital to the localities.

Of course, this kind of spread is not endless, after all, even the original Great Jin court, or even the court of Emperor Wu at its peak, cannot completely control the locality, and all dynasties cannot do it, and can only maintain a skillful balance with local forces.

Li Xin and others have to do everything, so that the forces of the Southwest Army can really influence the localities, and even control some of the local powers, in this case, most of the local forces will see the situation clearly, if there are local clan vassal kings of the Ji family who want to rebel, without waiting for the Southwest Army to make a move, these local forces can easily nip these rebellions in the bud.

These are the times when the world really changes its surname in the future, and there may be internal hidden dangers.

In addition to these internal hidden dangers, Dajin also has some external hidden dangers that need to be dealt with, such as...... The Yuwen tribes to the north.

To be honest, Arihexiang and the Yunzhou Army were stationed in northern Xinjiang. Today's Yuwen Ministry, in fact, has no way to pose any threat to the Great Jin, but not now, it doesn't mean that there will be no in the future.

If Li Xin left the Xianbei Department in the north alone, when it was time to change the dynasty, there would inevitably be a period of turmoil within the Great Jin Dynasty, and at this time, the Xianbei Department would very likely take advantage of the situation and once again cause chaos in the north of the Yangtze River.

At this time, the loudest voice among the Xianbei tribes was no longer Yuwen Zhao, but Yuwen Tao of the Helan tribe, and it was this Yuwen Tao who was held by Li Xin as the patriarch of the Helan tribe, and a few days ago, when the Yunzhou army returned to Beijing, he led the other two tribes to attack the frontier of the Great Jin, which made Li Xin quite annoyed for a while.

In public and private, he has to sweep away the hidden dangers in Jiangbei.

This is a very difficult thing, and the difficulty is not how strong these Xianbei tribes are, but how difficult these nomads are to live in a fixed place.

The Central Plains Dynasty can defeat them again and again, but as long as they flee to the north, the army of the Central Plains Dynasty generally has nothing to do with them, under this tug-of-war, these nomads can be defeated dozens or even hundreds of times, and they can still retreat to the north to recover calmly.

Although Li Xin made a firearm, this thing can only change the combat effectiveness on paper, or strengthen the defense of Jimen Pass and Yunzhou City, and there is no bonus to the "movement speed", which means that even if the current Xianbei Department is not the opponent of the imperial court, they can still fight if they want to, and flee if they want to.

In the few months after Li Xin returned to Beijing from Ningling, in addition to arranging the manpower of local generals, he devoted himself to how to deal with the affairs of the Xianbei Ministry.

In the past few months, Ye Mao, who was brought back by Li Xin from Ningling, although his injuries were not very good, but after he only rested in Chen Guogong's Mansion for a few days, he entered the Shenji Camp and began to systematically learn the use of these new firearms.

A few months later, he had already learned about the firearms of the Shenji Battalion and the principles of these firearms.

At this time, it was already July, and it was the hottest time in the capital.

Ye Mao, who was only wearing a sweatshirt, was covered in sweat, and was observing the birth of a firearm in the firearms prison secretly established by the imperial court.

His face was covered in black ash, and it was obvious that he was not just watching from the sidelines, most of the structure of this firearm was hammered out by this Chen Guogong himself.

Ye Mao wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hands, and looked at the firearm in front of him, his eyes were bright.

A craftsman from the firearms prison walked over with steps, came to Ye Mao's side, and said with a smile: "Big man, there are people looking for you outside." ”

Ye Mao first stayed in the Shenji Camp for two months before he was arranged by Li Xin to be the firearms supervisor who made firearms, whether it was the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion or these craftsmen in the firearms prison, they rarely knew the true identity of this big man.

When Ye Mao heard this, he reluctantly looked at the firearm he had made, and nodded, "I know." ”

He took off his soaked undershirt, then wiped the sweat on his face with his undershirt, changed into a single coat casually, and walked out.

Outside the firearms gate, a black carriage was waiting for Ye Mao in the shade of a tree.

Ye Guogong recognized the carriage, hurriedly walked over, bent down and got into the carriage, and then said with a smile to the people in the carriage: "Uncle Shi has something to do with a letter to me, why did you come here to see me in person?" ”

Li Xin, who was sitting in the carriage, glanced at Ye Mao quietly, and said helplessly: "In the past three months, you have been in the Shenji Camp and the firearms supervisor and disappeared, and the people from Chen Guogong's Mansion often come to my mansion to look for me and ask where their Guogong was hidden by me." ”

Ye Mao scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "I left a message for them, saying that I went to run errands, why are I still so noisy......"

Li Xin shook his head and asked Ye Mao, "It's been more than three months, how have you learned?" ”

Ye Mao said with a smile: "This kind of thing that can kill people, I naturally have to figure out what is going on, Uncle Shi rest assured, although I am not very smart, but I have already figured out seven or eight percent of firearms." ”

Li Xin nodded, his face calm.

"I received news that the Xianbei tribe in the north ......"

"There's civil strife."

Li Xin said slowly: "Last year, Yuwen Tao gnawed us hard at the border, robbed us of a lot of property and population, and after going back, the Helan Department began to look for Yu Wenzhao's troubles, and after a few months, the two sides have deep grievances, according to the news from our north, the two sides have almost begun to do it at this time." ”

Governor Li took a deep breath and continued: "These nomads are extremely difficult, even if they are defeated, they will not be able to eliminate them, and they will come back in a dozen or twenty years, and almost all of these people have horses, and if they want to escape, the imperial court will not be able to catch up with them. ”

"This is an opportunity."

Governor Li exhaled.

"If there is internal coaxing in the Yuwen Ministry, it is an opportunity for us to do it, I will take away a thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion for you, let them go north with you, and the forbidden troops that He Xiang brought to Jimen Pass will also be under your command."

"I don't ask you to be able to pacify the Xianbei barbarians in the north."

Li Xin glanced up at Ye Mao, his voice cold.

"But give them a hard time, so that they don't dare to look south for at least twenty years!"