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Mu Ying waved her hand, and ordered her subordinates: "I'll give you ten days to clean up the Wangcheng within ten days."

At this time, the Hanzhou Army's morale was greatly boosted because they captured Jincheng, and every soldier was full of energy. After hearing Mu Ying's words, they immediately responded loudly.

Mu Ying glanced at the tall Chenghan Imperial City again, turned and left.

On the third day after Mu Ying entered Jincheng, the envoys sent by the imperial court to the southwest finally arrived at the foot of Jincheng City and asked to meet Mu Ying.

The great change in the southwest, the emperor will definitely send someone to calm down this matter, logically speaking, the best candidate should be Li Xin, after all, Li Xin has a great influence in the southwest, but he is afraid that Li Xin will "go away and never come back" ", so I can only choose a suitable candidate from my side to go to the southwest to negotiate with Mu Ying.

This person set off on the first day of the Lunar New Year, hurried to the southwest, and finally arrived in the southwest within ten days.

However, General Mu did not immediately "receive" these court envoys.

After he found out, he simply arranged a place for these court envoys to live in, and then he himself rode a horse and took dozens of people out of the city for ten miles. A very unremarkable carriage.

The carriage wobbled and finally arrived at Shili Pavilion.

Mu Yingsai smiled, went up to meet him, and smiled at the carriage, "Mr. Zhao has finally arrived."

Mu Ying is now the actual controller of the Southwest. In terms of sphere of influence alone, he has surpassed Li Shen, Marquis of Pingnan. In the Southwest, he is a veritable Southwest King. With the utmost respect.

In the carriage, a middle-aged scholar dressed in white slowly got out of the carriage, and he bowed his head to Mu Ying to return the salute.

"General Mu is polite."

In the third year of Taikang, after Li Xin defeated the Pingnan Army, he left for Beijing, but at that time he left Zhao Jia in the southwest. The ending, this ending took five years, and he did not return to the capital until the eighth year of Taikang.

In five years, he and Mu Ying can be said to be extremely familiar.

Mu Ying grinned at Zhao Jia.

"When my husband left last year, I said that it would be better for him to stay in the southwest. Now, less than a year later, he has returned to the land of the southwest."

Zhao Jia took his wife and children out of the carriage, and said with a smile: "To tell the truth, General Mu, I left Southwest last year. At that time, I thought that I might never come back in this life. I didn't expect to reconnect with Mu so soon. It may be due to fate that the general met."

Zhao Jia is not inferior to Li Xin in terms of brains, even worse. During the five years in the Southwest, he has arranged the Southwest and Hanzhou in an orderly manner. Muying has always admired him very much. Saluting, he said with a smile: "This is the fate between Mr. and Southwest. Maybe Mr. will never be able to live without Southwest in his life."

Zhao Jia shook his head slightly, disapproving of this sentence, but he came to the Southwest for business, after exchanging a few pleasantries, he immediately asked, "Has the envoy from the imperial court arrived?"

"arrive."

Mu Ying grinned: "But I ignored them, knowing that the husband is coming, I will make up my mind after the husband comes."

On the surface, Mu Ying looks like a carefree and rough person, but in fact he is very careful. For example, he handles the relationship with Li Xin very well.

He knew that Zhao Jia was sent by Li Xin, so he simply started to delegate power.

Zhao Jia was stunned for a moment, and then smiled wryly, "General Mu doesn't have to be like this. I came to Southwest just to give you advice. How to do it depends on General Mu himself."

"Sir, just come up with an idea."

Mu Ying smiled and said, "I just listened to everything."

The two talked while walking towards Jincheng. After Mu Ying briefly explained the current situation in Southwest China to Zhao Jia, Zhao Jia nodded and spoke slowly.

"People from the imperial court, put them aside and leave them alone. What General Mu has to do now is to take down Jianmen Pass as soon as possible, so that Southwest can really have room to negotiate with the imperial court!"

Mu Hei smiled.

"Mr.'s thinking coincides with mine. It seems that Mu Ying is not that stupid."

Zhao Jia turned his head and took a serious look at Mu Ying.

"General Mu is not stupid at all, he is a rare smart person."

Chapter 785 Another Chess Player in the Southwest

The gate to the Southwest can only be closed after defeating Jianmen Pass. Both Zhao Jia, who has been in the Southwest for many years, and Mu Ying, who grew up in the Southwest since she was a child, know this very well. Therefore, taking Jincheng is only the first step. The first step, taking down Jianmen Pass is the second step.

Compared with attacking Jianmen Pass from Hanzhong, it is much less difficult to attack Jianmen Pass from Jincheng. After all, it is attacking from the inside out, and the natural danger of Jianmen Pass is basically useless.

However, attacking the Jiange is not a trivial matter, we need to carefully handle the details. After Zhao Jia arrived in Jincheng, he sat down with Mu Ying and discussed for a long time, mainly discussing how to attack the Jiange, and what the Hanzhou Army should do next after taking down the Jiange. .

Today's Hanzhou Army only has 5 people, which is far from enough. You must know that the Pingnan Army back then counted retired veterans, and there were tens of thousands of active soldiers, only 5, which was not enough to separate the Southwest.

Therefore, after winning Jiange, the next step is to control the regime in the southwest and the taxation of various places. It is different from the Pingnan Army. Although the Pingnan Army was actually self-governing, they were still the frontier army of the Jin Dynasty in name. And the state capitals in the southwest still have to pay taxes to the court, so the Pingnan Army does not have enough money to expand the army on a large scale, and the size of the army has been kept at about 10.

Of course, the Pingnan Army pays taxes to the imperial court, and the imperial court will also allocate military salaries to the Pingnan Army.

Today's Southwest is very different. They are rejuvenating and self-reliant. As long as Muying can truly control the Southwest, they will be an independent small court, regardless of the court in Jinling City.

At that time, the size of the 5-man army must be expanded.

And Zhao Jia came to the southwest, to a large extent, to do this.

When it comes to fighting, Mu Ying may not be as famous as a famous general in the world, but he is also a quite capable general. At least leading the Hanzhou Army to take down Jianmen Pass is not a big problem, but when it comes to trivial matters such as internal affairs, Both Mu Ying and Li Xin are much inferior to Zhao Jia. Li Xin asked Zhao Jia to come to the Southwest to make the Southwest into a real country.

In fact, there is still a long way to go.

In this way, Zhao Jia lived in Jincheng, and he and Mu Ying had a clear division of labor. Mu Ying began to prepare for many matters to attack Jianmen Pass, while Zhao Jia moved into Jincheng's state government and became the chief executive of Jincheng. , Let this southwestern center, which has just experienced a military disaster, return to life.

Just as Jincheng was gradually getting on the right track, a young man in an ordinary cotton padded jacket stood at the gate of Jincheng, rubbed his red palms that had been frozen, and walked into Jincheng.

Although it is now in wartime, the gate of Jincheng has not been closed. The young man arrived at the gate of Jincheng State Government Yamen smoothly. Mr. Zhao, just tell Li Shuo to see you."

The original staff of Jincheng Mansion were all gone, and the current mansion office was newly established by Zhao Jia with people from Hanzhou, because he had not been in office for a long time, and he was not too bureaucratic, so he nodded after hearing the young man's words.

"Wait a moment, I will report to Zhao Fuzun."

The yamen servant walked quickly into the yamen, found Zhao Jia in the study who was dealing with the land issue in the southwest, bowed his head and said, "My lord, there is a young man named Li Shuo outside, please see your lord after speaking."

Zhao Jia didn't raise his head, but frowned slightly: "No, no, no, no."

He suddenly became the governor of the Jincheng Mansion. The local squires in Jincheng have been visiting many times these days, which annoyed Zhao Jia, but he has a lot of things to deal with now, so he simply disappeared.

If it is an official assigned by the imperial court, it is impossible to avoid these squires when they go to the locality. After all, they need their cooperation to govern the locality, but Zhao Jia is now the spokesperson of the "military government". At this time, when he heard someone begging to see him, he subconsciously refused.

The yamen servant nodded, and was about to go down to refuse, but Zhao Fuzun suddenly raised his head and looked at the yamen servant.

"and many more……"

Zhao Jia frowned and said, "You said this person, what's his name?"

"Hui Fu Zun."

The yamen servant lowered his head and cupped his fists: "The man said his name is Li Shuo."

Zhao Jia took a deep breath, immediately stood up from the chair, and coughed: "Quickly invite him in..."