Unparalleled Concubine
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With that said, Li Xin got himself another glass of wine, raised his head and drank it in one gulp.
This time, Li Shuo got a wink, and immediately stood up, picked up the jug, and helped Li Xin fill it up.
Lord Jing'an was silent for a while, then closed his eyes.
"I am going to let the Southwest completely become a whole by itself and no longer be bound by the court."
Li Shuo didn't understand for a while, he scratched his head: "What does brother mean?"
"Tax strike."
Li Shuo's expression changed suddenly.
The so-called tax strike means not to pay taxes to the court.
You know, even when the Pingnanhou Mansion split the southwest, it never stopped paying taxes to the imperial court. At most, it was deducted from it and paid less.
In the ninth year of Taikang, Southwest was granted the title of King of Shu. Although it was nominally a vassal state of the King of Shu, and even Li Xin had fully controlled the military and political power in Southwest, Southwest still had to pay taxes to the court to maintain the court's last face.
If Southwest doesn't even pay taxes, then there will be a big problem.
To be honest, although dozens of state capitals in the southwest have a lot of taxes, the imperial court has a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River, so it may not be short of this money. The last tie was broken.
This is slapping the face of the court.
Li Shuo smiled wryly and said, "Brother, think twice, it's not that the various parts of the Southwest cannot afford to pay taxes, and if you think you're paying too much, you can get someone to do something to pay a lot less. The Southwest is in your hands. The imperial court will not send people to investigate, and nothing can be found."
"Brother, there is really no need to be so hard..."
Li Shuo sighed.
"Brother insists on doing this, because he is forcing the imperial court to send troops to the southwest."
"Of course not so blunt."
Li Xin stood up from his chair, put his hands in his sleeves, and said slowly: "All the states in the southwest have written a letter saying that this year is a disaster, and they just ask the court to exempt the tax."
"If the imperial court can't stand this, let them send troops to the southwest."
Lord Jing'an narrowed his eyes.
"To be honest, Southwest is not very short of money."
Chapter 883 Battle Plan
Nowadays, Li Xin's position in the court is actually very embarrassing. He is not an assistant minister, and he has let go of the Ministry of War. Apart from a glittering title of Taifu, there is actually only an unusable Forbidden Army Right Battalion left in his hands.
Moreover, after the last transfer order of the Imperial Army, he and several ministers have officially turned against each other. Among the ministers, Gongyang Shu is old, and the minister's right servant shoots Zhao Mingzhou to dismiss him. Shangshu Youpushe is actually a civil servant, and Gongyang Shukong’s Zhongshuling position will also be a substitute for civil servants. Zuopushe Shen Kuan, the core of Shangshutai, has not changed his position at all. It's just the position of a minister.
Among the original four ministers, Shangshutai accounted for two, and now there are three remaining ministers, one for Shangshutai Yushitai and one for the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. Although Shangshutai is indeed affected a lot, it is still a civil servant in essence Occupy an absolute advantage.
In other words, their losses are not very large.
On the other hand, Li Xin's side, although he had a great reputation in the last incident, he offended the Governor's Mansion and Shangshutai, and has not yet gained the trust of Emperor Yuanzhao. Even if he continues to stay in the capital, life will probably be very difficult .
Therefore, he simply left the capital to avoid the center of the vortex.
But this time, he wants to organize a tax strike in the Southwest. On the one hand, he wants to make the Southwest completely independent of the imperial court. , What is the attitude towards the Southwest, and at the same time, let's take a look at how far the strength of the two sides is still.
After having dinner with Li Shuo, Li Xin invited Li Shuo to the study of the Shu Palace. In the study, Mu Ying and Zhao Jia were both there. Li Shuo walked in and saluted them both.
"I met General Mu and Mr. You An."
Zhao Jia and Mu Ying exchanged glances, then stood up and returned the courtesy to Li Shuo.
"General Li is polite."
Li Shuo's current official position is General Ningzhou, a fifth-rank military attache.
Li Xin was not polite, he sat on the main seat carelessly, and said: "I have already communicated with you about the tax strike. It is already August, and in one or two months, the court will collect autumn grain. It's time, according to my opinion, now the lords of the 31st prefectures in the southwest can write memorials to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to waive the tax."
Li Shuo and Mu Ying are not very good at internal affairs. Zhao Jia, who has been in charge of the Southwest for the past two years, frowned and said in a deep voice, "I think you don't have to force the court to be so tight. You can first Half of the southwestern officials have written a letter, let’s wait and see how the court responds.”
Having said that, he sighed slightly.
"Taxation is the foundation of the country, and it is also the face of the court. If there is no money and grain to pay in the Southwest, the court may not be able to bear it, and will do something to the Southwest."
"Just do it with your hands."
Sitting on the main seat, Li Xin said calmly: "From the beginning of the ninth year of Taikang, the imperial court began to deploy people from the left battalion of the Forbidden Army to garrison in Hanzhong. Now there are 5 garrison troops in Hanzhong, most of them are the Forbidden Army. Hanzhong is the southwest of Hanzhong. The portals of entry and exit, what these 5 people are used for, is self-explanatory."
Emperor Taikang did compromise with Li Xin, but he didn't do nothing. In the last year of his reign, he began to transfer people from the left battalion of Hou Jingde's forbidden army to station in Hanzhong. There were at least two turns in the left battalion of the forbidden army. Above the government, almost [-] forbidden troops entered Hanzhong.
You must know that the combat effectiveness of the imperial army is very different from those miscellaneous local troops led by Pei Jin the year before last!
The current Great Jin Dynasty is the first year of the dynasty, and the court has not yet rotted to a certain extent. During the reign of Emperor Wu, Ye Sheng led the imperial army all the way north, and forcibly gnawed down the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
After Ye Cheng left the Forbidden Army, the fighting power of the Forbidden Army dropped slightly, but after Pei Jin entered the Forbidden Army, it took him more than ten years to retrain the Forbidden Army. Among other things, the two battalions around Gyeonggi combined had almost 30 Forbidden Army. It is the top elite of Dajin.
Li Xin served in the Forbidden Army in the first year of Taikang. Although he was interrupted for a few years, he was considered an old Forbidden Army. He knew the elite of the Forbidden Army better than anyone else.
Back then when he led the imperial army to march west, as long as he gave an order, the entire imperial army could go to the battlefield to die without hesitation. The battle of Fucheng lasted three days and three nights, and it was Ye Mao who led the imperial army to forcefully attack it. Yes, almost none of the Custodians retreated.
It shows that his military discipline is strict.
If in the eighth year of Taikang, Pei Jin led the imperial army to attack the Hanzhou government, even if he had gunpowder, at most he could barely hold the Hanzhou city. Enter tens of thousands of people!
Having said that, Li Xin let out a breath slowly.
"If the government does not respond to the tax strike this time, then the Southwest will become a whole from now on. Although it is not Cheng Han in name, it is actually no different from Cheng Han. In the future, the few of us will have a way out."
Lord Jing'an looked at the three people in the study, and continued.
"However, it is unlikely that the imperial court will not respond."
"The imperial court is currently in charge of several ministers. Not long ago in the capital, I offended them all. They are probably looking for an excuse to attack the Southwest. This time the tax strike is sent to them, and they probably won't let it go. Take this opportunity and want to destroy my foundation."
"People from the right battalion of the imperial army, they will not move, they will only use people from Hou Jingde's left battalion. The left battalion has been transferred to Hanzhong by two Zhechong mansions in the past two years. Although recruits have been recruited, the combat effectiveness has not kept up. This time, they will at most draw one or two Zhechong mansions from Hou Jingde."
Speaking of this, Li Xin laughed at himself: "After all, I am the general of the right battalion of the forbidden army. They are afraid that I will rebel, so they want to keep the left battalion to restrain the right battalion of the forbidden army."
"There are 5 people in Hanzhong, and the two Zhechong mansions will not exceed 10. Together with the scattered local troops, the total is estimated to be about [-]. This is the force that the imperial court can attack the southwest."
Li Xin got up and looked at Mu Ying.
"Brother Mu, are you sure you can hold on?"
Mu Ying grinned: "It's likely that you can't fight head-on, but there is definitely no problem in defending the city, and we still have Jianmenguan in our hands."
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