The southwest is not a place, it refers to a large area, in a broad sense, it refers to all the land of the former Han Dynasty, and there are dozens of state capitals in this land, including Ba County, Shu County, Qian County, and a large area of southern Yunnan!

This is also one of the reasons why Li Xin once said that the Hanzhou Army will be left and right in the future, and the Hanzhou Army, which has only 50,000 people, cannot radiate the entire southwest like the Pingnan Army in the past.

This place used to be the land of the homeland of Cheng Han, but after all, Cheng Han has been extinct for decades, and now the people in this land dare not say that everyone recognizes the Great Jin Dynasty, but at least they no longer recognize Cheng Han who has perished for two generations.

Therefore, the Chenghan banner raised by Mu Ying is not even as useful as the banner of the abolished prince raised by Li Shen at the beginning.

After hearing Li Xin's words, the smile on Mu Ying's face retracted, he straightened up, and frowned: "Li Shuo's Pingnan Army is all elite, I can see it when they fight the Sword Pavilion, the Hanzhou Army may not be their opponent when they really fight, how can they be willing to be incorporated into the Hanzhou Army?" ”

"If you don't want to, you have to be willing."

The Marquis of Jing'an's face was calm, and he said: "It is impossible for them to continue to live in Tubo, it won't be long before they live again, they will slowly disappear quietly, Li Shuo will definitely find a way for these people to live, but he can't fight against the imperial court on his own, all he can do is to cooperate with us." ”

Mu Ying smiled bitterly: "Cooperation is cooperation, Li Shuo has no reason to willingly hand over the military power, he can cooperate with us on an equal footing." ”

"Without them, the Hanzhou Army would be able to defend the Sword Pavilion."

Li Xin smiled: "So Li Shuo has become a dispensable person, and he can't turn against us, so he can only choose to join us." ”

"In the general direction, I have already discussed with Li Shuo in the capital, he agreed to merge the Pingnan Army into the Hanzhou Army, and the conditions are that the generals of the Pingnan Army will continue to be generals, and the Hanzhou Army will be divided into three after the reorganization, and Li Shuo will take one of them."

Speaking of this, Li Xin said with a smile: "The general direction has been set, but how to reorganize, how to disperse the Pingnan Army, and how to run in are all very cumbersome things, I don't bother to think about it, so I will hand it over to Brother Mu and Brother You'an, and discuss it carefully." ”

General Mu also had a smile on his face.

"I'm not very good at this, and I'll leave it to Mr. You'an to deal with when I turn around, they are the best at mastering people's hearts, and with Mr. You'an's help, after the Pingnan Army is incorporated into the Hanzhou Army, there shouldn't be any problems."

Speaking of this, he smiled at Li Xin and said: "Speaking of which, I also want to thank Master Hou for sending Mr. You'an to the southwest, otherwise by myself, even if I take Jincheng and Sword Pavilion, in the face of such a huge southwest, I really don't know where to start." ”

"But Mr. You'an is sitting in Jincheng, and everything is in order."

As he spoke, he focused on Li Xin and lowered his voice slightly.

"Don't hide it from Hou Ye, although Hanzhou made a lot of trouble a few months ago, but the power of the Great Jin Dynasty is too strong, even if it is me, I don't think that Nanshu can really restore the country, at most, it is in the southwest, involving the attention of the court, helping Hou Ye share some pressure, but now ......"

He looked up at Li Xin and said in a deep voice: "Now that there is Mr. You'an, if the Pingnan Army can successfully join the Hanzhou Army, plus Master Hou, you are in the southwest ......."

"I think we people may really be able to build a country......"

He took a deep breath and continued: "Let's not restore any Cheng Han, anyway, the clan of Cheng Han is surnamed Li, and you are also surnamed Li, so you can simply call Hou Ye the emperor in the southwest, it doesn't matter if we cut Jin or not, with Hou Ye, your ability, it is not a problem to be stable in the southwest for decades." ”

Li Xin was originally drinking, but after hearing Mu Ying's words, he raised his head and drank all the wine in the cup, and glanced at Mu Ying helplessly.

"You still have to persuade me to rebel."

Mu Ying said with a smile: "It's not a rebellion, it's a self-established king." ”

"It makes no difference."

The Marquis of Jing'an shook his head slightly, and said: "Brother Mu thinks that if you fight against a country in the southwest, how long can you hold out?" ”

Mu Ying smiled: "I don't know about others, but if the Hou Ye comes to fight, I believe that the imperial court will never be able to take the southwest." ”

"Why?"

Li Xin's face was calm: "I also have a head and two arms, why can I do things that others can't do?" ”

Mu Ying opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end she didn't say it.

Li Xin's face was calm, and he said, "I know, you want to say that it's because of the thunder." ”

"Indeed, this thing has just come out, and with its current strength, it may not be a problem to help us defend the Sword Pavilion for five years, or even ten years."

"But what about ten years from now?"

Li Xin put his hands in his sleeves and said lightly: "No matter how powerful the thunder is, it is also made by people, and the materials also need to be intervened. ”

"What will happen then?"

Mu Ying let out a breath and said in a deep voice: "If there are ten years, the southwest will no longer be afraid of the imperial court like it is now. ”

What he meant was that ten years from now, the southwest would not have as few troops as it does now.

Li Xin shook his head slowly.

"The limit of the southwest is 200,000 troops, and it has to be fed under the condition of reckless military force and beating out the blood of the common people to feed, 200,000 people, is it enough to subvert the Great Jin Dynasty?"

Li Xin's face was calm: "Even if as Brother Mu said, as long as our generation lives, the southwest will still be the southwest, but what if our generation is gone?" ”

"Can the next generation hold on to the southwest?"

Mu Ying was far less far-reaching than Li Xin thought, and he said with some hesitation: "Maybe the next generation of the Ji family will produce a dim-witted emperor......"

Li Xin shook his head.

"No surprise, the next emperor of the Ji family will be my student, he may not be a Ming Monarch, but at least he will be a qualified emperor."

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

"That's the trend."

"The Ji family has only ruled the world for 40 years, and it is the time when the national fortunes are thriving, and no matter who it is, no matter who it is, it will not be able to overturn this rolling trend."

In the first 100 years of a great unified dynasty, the fortunes of the country are often extremely prosperous, and after a hundred years, it will slowly turn from prosperity to decline.

Although this statement is a bit superstitious, it is a real fact.

The rotation of each dynasty is essentially a process of breaking up the previous dynasty and redistributing the interests of those with vested interests in order to calm down the class contradictions, and then a new dynasty will give birth to a new group of people with vested interests, and when the class contradictions have to erupt again, they will be overthrown and restarted.

Cycle.

Today's Dajin is a nascent empire with national fortunes.

Even if it was Li Xin, there was no way to establish a country from the southwest.

So he previously told Li Shuo that his ambition was not in the southwest.

Li Xin patted Mu Ying's shoulder and spoke slowly.

"Brother Mu, if you make a fuss in the southwest, you can only make a Shu king out at most, let's set our horizons higher."

As he spoke, Li Xin looked in the direction of the capital.

"The general trend of the world has always been in the capital."