If the northern frontier of the Great Jin Dynasty, that is, the two gateways of Yunzhou City or Jimen Pass, falls, then the Xianbei Department will not say that it can step on the Central Plains, at least there will be no obstacles in the north of the Yangtze River, and then the homeland of the Northern Zhou Dynasty that Ye Sheng spent eight years sending down will be trampled under the feet of the Xianbei Department again.

Of course, the strength of the current Xianbei Department is far inferior to the Northern Zhou Dynasty that entered the customs back then, even if Yuwen Zhao unified the Xianbei tribes, the population will not exceed one million, even if it is hard to put together, at most it is 100,000 to 200,000 horses, but the people of the Xianbei Department can ride horses, and there is no shortage of horses in the tribe, 100,000 people are 100,000 horses, and 200,000 people are 200,000 horses.

In comparison, the cavalry on the side of the Great Jin Dynasty is much less, the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army is almost all tribal, and the Zhenbei Army in Jimen Pass is less than 10,000 cavalry when it is full, and it is still slowly raised by the two generations of the Ye family.

The breeders in Yunzhou have a thicker background, but the cavalry is only 15,000 people, and they are all cultivated at a great price.

The only advantage of the Great Jin side is that the Xianbei Department was driven out of the pass by Ye Sheng, and it was extremely embarrassing to escape from the Jimen Pass, only taking away a few craftsmen, coupled with the lack of ore in the north, their equipment has lagged behind for decades, except for bows and crossbows, etc., armor and melee knives and guns are extremely backward.

If the Xianbei Department breaks through the northern gateway of Xinjiang, then although they are still not the opponents of the Great Jin, they can enter the pass and plunder enough iron weapons, and to attract the vast majority of the energy of the Great Jin court, when the time comes, the southwest that has been confronted with the imperial court for several years will be able to take a good breath and usher in a great opportunity.

That's why Zhao Jia said, it's not a bad thing.

Li Xin frowned slightly: "If Yuwen Zhao wants to enter the customs, most of them will not touch the seed family, but will fight the slightly weaker Jimen Pass, they will break through the Jimen Pass, and they will indeed lose a layer of skin, but the Ye family's decades of family foundation will be wiped out." ”

From a long-term point of view, the Ubunbu in the north is almost certain to knock on the gate.

The reason is very simple, the resources in the north are not enough for a group to grow, the nomads live by grazing horses and sheep, the upper limit of the population is about one million but between two million, and if there are more, they will not be able to survive, only by entering the Guannai, relying on a large number of resources and arable land in the Guan, can the ethnic groups be reproduced on a large scale.

More than three years have passed, Yuwen Zhao has digested the Helan Department, and in the next few years, the population of the Yuwen Department will usher in a period of rapid growth, and when the children born in these years grow up, the food will probably not be enough.

This is also one of the main reasons for the Northern Xinjiang War in all dynasties.

Zhao Jia sighed: "The imperial court is too defensive of the Hou Ye, so that it misses the opportunity, at the beginning of the ninth year of Taikang, Ye Xiaogong led the Zhenbei army to defeat the Yuwen Ministry, at that time, the imperial court should make up its mind to defeat or hurt the Yuwen Ministry, instead of sitting back and watching them unify and grow." ”

"Even three years ago, the imperial court had the opportunity to make a move against the northern frontier, but they just gave Yuwen Zhao a Yan king, so that even if the Zhenbei Army and the Chongjia Army wanted to attack Yuwen's subordinates, they would have no reason."

"That's it, let's not mention the affairs of the northern Xinjiang, let's talk about it when the fight really starts."

Marquis Jing'an narrowed his eyes and said indifferently: "The question now is, do I want to go to Beijing." ”

"Definitely not."

Zhao Jia said categorically: "In the past few years, what has become of the imperial court's defense of the southwest, Hou Ye knows best, now not only the garrison of the imperial court in Hanzhong, but also the general Pei Jin recruited another 50,000 people in Ankang, and now he is almost trained, and there is a tendency to enter the Jianmen Pass at any time, and in the past few years, the imperial court does not know how many people have been sent to infiltrate Jincheng, and they have done everything to collect news of Tianlei. ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Li Xin and continued: "Master Hou sent Manager Chen to Jincheng to supervise the pharmaceutical affairs, and his subordinates and Mu Ying also paid attention to the safety of Manager Chen, and they have protected him very well in the past few years, and those people can't get in touch with Manager Chen, so they want to contact the real pharmaceutical people." ”

Because Jincheng has been preparing for war in the past few years, it needs to hoard a large number of heavenly thunders, and in the past few years, he has made several workshops in the mountains to produce heavenly thunder.

The method of workmanship is to use an assembly line operation, where each person is responsible for one of the processes and does not know what others are doing, so that the completion can be roughly confidential.

But even so, these workers were still contacted by the people of the imperial court, and they either coerced or induced, and tried all kinds of methods to get the key prescription.

Speaking of this, Zhao Jia paused and continued: "According to his subordinates, if this continues, the imperial court will be able to get a similar recipe sooner or later, and the people in the capital have clearly regarded the southwest as a bandit, and also regard Hou Ye as a bandit, Hou Ye will definitely have a big problem when he enters Beijing at this time." ”

Zhao Jia's face was solemn.

"Today's Son of Heaven is not the young man who just ascended the throne three or four years ago, he has been in power for three years, whether it is a guard or a forbidden army, it is already in the hands of the Son of Heaven, after Hou Ye enters Beijing, he really wants to do something to Hou Ye, Hou Ye will probably not be able to escape."

Zhao Jia is right, today's Son of Heaven is no longer the young man who was forced to cry by a few auxiliary ministers three or four years ago, that position is the most to hone a person's heart, and it will also distort a person's character, after three years, no one knows what he looks like now.

It is too risky to enter Beijing at this time.

Li Xin frowned and exhaled slowly.

"Then I'll wait in Jincheng for a while, and wait until there is news from the capital, and then consider the next move."

Zhao Jia sat down and glanced up at Li Xin.

He opened his mouth and asked, "Doesn't Master Hou have any other thoughts?" ”

Li Xin smiled dumbly: "Brother You'an has anything to say, you and I have been old friends for more than ten years, just say what you need to say." ”

Zhao Jia was silent for a while, and said silently: "Master Hou, the Xianbei Department has been in charge of the Central Plains, and it has only been two generations now, as long as they recover their vitality, they will definitely not be willing to continue to stay outside the pass, and when Yuwen Zhao accumulates a certain amount of capital, he will definitely find a way to knock on the pass." ”

"With the war in northern Xinjiang, my opportunity in the southwest will come."

The white-clothed scholar glanced up at Li Xin again and asked slowly.

"I have known each other for more than ten years, and my subordinates know that Hou Ye is not a person of peace, once the war in Northern Xinjiang starts, then most of the energy of the imperial court will be attracted to Northern Xinjiang, and even the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army will send a part to support Northern Xinjiang, and then the capital will become very weak."

"Master Hou doesn't want to take the opportunity to lead troops out of Shu and compete for the world?"

(End of chapter)