Whether it was the battle of Weishui to defend Jiangdong, or the Northern Expedition presided over by Liu Yu, or the suppression of the rebellion of Tianshi Dao, both internally and externally, they have achieved remarkable results.

However, as the predecessor of the Beifu Army, the Xuzhou Military Group did not have any outstanding performance in the entire early period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, both internally and externally. Of course, it can be said that the level of the commanders is different, but in fact, if you look at it more deeply, especially from the perspective of the soldiers as a whole, the performance of the different before and after is of course impossible to have any genetic mutations in just a few decades.

The combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou Army has always been very strong, and only one Su Jun alone can stir up Jiangdong chickens and dogs. However, once there is a large-scale military build-up, the performance can hardly be called eye-catching, and it can even be said to be clumsy.

One of the most important points is that there are many factions, the people are scattered, and there is no high degree of unity and integration. Everyone has their own calculations, even if Wei Huo is reborn, he should be troubled in the face of such a situation, and it is difficult to do anything.

In fact, purely from the point of view of the connection with Wuzhong, it is undoubtedly more convenient for Shen Zhezi to choose to go north from Beijing and Guangling. But before that, he needs to resolve the disputes and contradictions of these military leaders and bring them together. But this is too difficult, and it cannot be completed in just a few years, and it will inevitably be accompanied by force, and one carelessness may expand the war and cause overall erosion. Even if it can be done, it will not be able to catch up with the best time for the Northern Expedition.

So for Xuzhou, Shen Zhezi is just hoping that they will not be chaotic, which is already a very good situation. Therefore, as long as Xi Jian does not open his eyes for the Qingxu family and obstructs the Northern Expedition with a clear banner, Shen Zhezi is also willing to help him maintain the current situation in Xuzhou.

Like Xi Jian, who has both prestige and qualifications, neither too high military ability nor too much military ambition, sitting in Huaidi is a pretty good choice at the moment.

Towards the end of the conversation, Xi Jian asked someone to send another box, and said with a smile: "The envoy of Liaodong from Liaodi came across Hainan and sent a letter to our office, wanting to send an envoy to worship. Originally, I was planning to send a letter to the capital, but since you are about to leave for Wei Zhou, I might as well ask you to forward it to Taichung. ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he couldn't help but be a little curious. The so-called Duke of Liaodong is Xianbei Murong Diao, and the Duke of Liaoxi is the title of Xianbei Duan, which he will not be confused about. Murong Diao sent a letter to Xi Jian, so what happened made Shen Zhezi curious.

He asked people to accept the box, and then said goodbye to Xi Jian. On the return car, Shen Zhezi couldn't hold back his curiosity and opened the letter to browse it. The content of the letter is not much, but it is just to reiterate the suzerainty status of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and then say that he is willing to send troops to attack Shi Zhao in the north and south with the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Next, there were some cover letters from his subordinates, and the words were more straightforward, that is, they were important officials for Murong Diao.

After reading these letters, Shen Zhezi sneered at the corner of his mouth, put them back in the box, and threw them aside.

What is the situation in Liaodi, Shen Zhezi is not very clear, but he also understands that the main task of Liaodi Xianbei is still infighting, and expecting them to echo Jiangdong to raise troops is a dream, and it is not enough to count on it at all.

There are several Xianbei tribes in Liaodi, not to mention the half-crippled Yuwen clan, the Murong clan and the Duan clan attack each other, and the dog's brain hits the ground. Murong Diao only has a slight advantage at the moment, and he is not a monopoly in the entire Liao region, and he is not able to invade the south. The main reason for meeting Zhao is just a, and the main reason should be to ask for a little legal advantage here in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and occupy a more advantageous position in the contest with the Duan Department.

Although the influence of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not enough to extend to Liaodi, as the current Han people are in Zhengshuo, and there are still a large number of Han people who have fled to Liaodi, if they can obtain a righteous name here, there will undoubtedly be greater appeasement to those Han people.

For this group of unfamiliar white-eyed wolves, Shen Zhezi had no intention of responding at all. Moreover, Murong Xianbei was originally the target in his mind after Yu Qinu, and they were all objects that needed to be cleaned up. If these letters were delivered directly to another place, they would have been set on fire. There are still a large number of people in Jiangdong who can't unite and mobilize, so he is not in the mood to win over the natural anti-bone white-eyed wolf who shows favor to the Murong family.

However, these letters are not useless, and their return to Taichung in the coming days will inevitably arouse extensive discussion in Taiwan. Whether Murong Diao wants to be the King of Yan or the King of Farts, Shen Zhezi doesn't care. He is more interested in what kind of changes Taichung has made to the issue of the Northern Expedition, which can be used as a test to ask for directions, which can also be regarded as waste utilization.

After Shen Zhezi met Xi Jian, the group stayed in Guangling for another night, and left early the next morning. In addition to the team of the Xi family to send off their relatives, there were still many homeless marshals from Huaidi who came to see them off. Among them, there are many people like Cao Na and the like, whose purpose is only in Shen Zhezi, such a blatant and unscrupulous relationship, it can also be seen that the Huaidi families are currently dissimilar to each other, and they don't even consider whether Xi Jian, the head assassin, will be disgusted.

Shen Zhezi is also happy to see this, although the Xuzhou Army is not useful as a whole, if there are people among them who have a strong desire to make progress, he is also happy to accept it. Of course, if these people come under his command, it will be impossible for them to tolerate the separation of their respective parts as before, and they will definitely belong to the overall arrangement.

Otherwise, Shen Zhezi would rather abandon it than place too many uncertainties in his camp. Either seek progress or be self-sufficient, so that he will not give these military leaders too much choice.

After crossing the river, it is approaching the end of the year. One day of staying in Beijing, many of the sons of the family who came with him left the team and no longer walked together.

In this regard, Shen Zhezi also did not keep it. Since each other's interests are already separated, sooner or later they will gradually drift apart, and the current Shen family does not need to rely on too much bluff to increase any influence. Shen Zhezi was not in the mood to leave these people to do any ideological transformation, and he would no longer contact or interact in the future. If these people really wanted to stand on the opposite side of him, Shen Zhezi would not show mercy to them.

Nearly half of the original team of more than 300 people dispersed in Beijing, but the entire team did not shrink because of this, but grew several times. It was a large number of people from Beijing who joined in, and they wanted to follow them to Jinling Yu Township to become a big gift. After all, Yu Tiao has been in the capital for so many years, and he is the founding ancestor of the Hidden Lord, and this is still a bit of a face.

A huge team of thousands of people swept out of the capital and arrived in the Yu clan a day later.

Now the old mansion of the Yu family in Jinling has long been different from the appearance of Shen Zhezi when he first came, thanks to the large amount of financial investment in Yu Tiao, the entire family business is snowballing, dominating the township, not inferior to the old home that has been rooted in these generations for hundreds of years.

Many guests, naturally, the Yu brothers came forward to receive them. At this point, Shen Zhezi's task was completed, and he no longer went to join in the excitement to watch the ceremony, but left the Yu family's mansion with three or five friends, and went to his house to meet Yu Bin, who he hadn't seen for a long time.

After Yu Liang's death, after several turnovers, he finally returned to his hometown for burial. Yu Bin and other brothers built a house next to their father's tomb and lived in mourning.

For Shen Zhezi's arrival, Yu Bin was also pleasantly surprised, welcoming him out of the manor for several miles, meeting each other, and before he could speak, the carefree days of getting together in the early years came to his heart again, and his heart turned a thousand times, and he was already in tears.

Yu Liang's death, the Shen family could not escape the blame, and even Shen Zhezi personally ordered and witnessed it with his own eyes. To be honest, when he saw Yu Bin, Shen Zhezi was not lacking in guilt. But this guilt can only be buried in the bottom of my heart for a long time, and I hope that I can make amends to the Yu Bin brothers in the future.

I haven't seen him for more than two years, Yu Bin's appearance has been very different from what he remembers, his body is more upright, his temperament is more calm, and he is less impetuous, and he can see some bright shadows from his body in a trance.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, although Dao'an is lonely and alone, but you are not depressed and ruined, describing the growth of elegance, so that people will inevitably admire the style of the old Chinese book at first sight, and it really lives up to the expectations of the old knowledge."

Shen Zhezi stepped forward and grabbed Yu Bin's wrist, who looked slightly excited, and said with emotion. This emotion is not a gesture. Yu Bin was a rare friend who could be kind to each other in the capital in his early years, and he really cared about Yu Bin, and he strongly persuaded Yu Bin to leave the capital before the rebellion, and did not step into the original old dust and death in the capital.

"If others say that, I can still be complacent. But Wei Zhoudao really embarrassed me. In the past, I wandered my friends, but now Wei Zhou is a long-standing peer, but I am ......"

Speaking of this, Yu Bin's eyes couldn't help but reddened slightly. In previous years, they made friends with each other, although he did not have a cold eye on Shen Zhezi, but he also had the idea of caring for each other. But now, not to mention his self-rearing, he has been living at home all the year round, and the encounters between them have been reversed, and there is an unimaginably large gap.

"I don't take a step early, there will be no shortage of useful years in the future, after Dao'an, your famous father, no one knows what trouble is! In the coming day, I should go with you, no matter how difficult the future is, watch and help each other, and stride over! ”

Shen Zhezi comforted Yu Bin for a few words, and then went into the garden to worship Yu Liang.

Standing in front of Yu Liang's tomb, Shen Zhezi also had a lot of emotion in his heart, and he bowed deeply three times, with a solemn and heavy attitude.

In fact, Yu Liang may have many things, but he is a great favor to their Shen family. If it weren't for Yu Liang's care, the Shen family would not have been able to get out of the haze of the Wang Dun Rebellion so quickly. Although each other also took what they needed, but in the end Yu Liang died in the hands of the Shen family, for Yu Liang, Shen Zhezi always had a debt in his heart.

But a debt is a debt, even if it happens again, Shen Zhezi will still make this decision. For Yu Liang, what he can repay is to walk more steadily, do better, complete Yu Liang's unfinished work in his own way, centralize power and prepare for war, recover China, and let the Hantong royal industry stand in the world again!