Only by knocking down Jianmen Pass can you close the southwest gate. Whether it is Zhao Jia, who has been in the southwest for many years, or Mu Ying, who has grown up in the southwest since childhood, are very clear about this. Therefore, winning Jincheng is only the first step, and winning Jianmen Pass is the second step.

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

However, attacking Jiange is not a trivial matter, and it requires careful consideration of the details. After Zhao Jia arrived in Jincheng, he sat with Mu Ying and discussed for a long time, mainly discussing how to attack Jiange and what should the Hanzhou Army do after conquering Jiange.

Today, there are only 50,000 Hanzhou troops, which is far from enough. You should know that the Pingnan Army was not considered retired, but there were tens of thousands of active service, only 50,000, which was not enough to separatist the southwest.

Therefore, after taking down Jiange, we must seize the regime in the southwest and the taxation in various places. It is different from the Pingnan Army. Although the Pingnan Army was actually cede land and autonomous, they were nominally border troops of the Jin Dynasty, and the various prefectures in the southwest still had to pay taxes to the court. Therefore, the Pingnan Army did not have enough money to expand the army on a large scale, and the size of the army has always remained at about 100,000 people.

Of course, the Pingnan Army paid taxes to the court, and the court also wanted to allocate military pay to the Pingnan Army.

Today's southwest is very different. They are restoring their country and independent. As long as Mu Ying can truly control the southwest, he will be an independent small court, and he will ignore the court in Jinling City.

At that time, the size of these 50,000 troops will definitely be expanded.

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

When it comes to war, Mu Ying may not be as good as a famous general, but he is also a capable general. At least he leads the Hanzhou army to capture Jianmen Pass. The problem is not very big. However, 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 him truly turn the southwest into a country.

This actually has a long way to go.

In this way, Zhao Jia lived in Jincheng. He and Mu Ying had a clear division of labor. Mu Ying began to prepare for many things to attack Jianmen Pass. Zhao Jia moved into the prefectural yamen in Jincheng and became the chief executive of Jincheng, so that this southwest center of the war that had just experienced was restored to life.

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

Although it is during the war, the gate of Jincheng was not closed. The young man successfully arrived at the gate of Jincheng Prefecture Government. He smiled and bowed to the yamen runners at the gate of the yamen, and said, "I'll inform Lord Zhao, just say Li Shuo asked for a meeting."

Originally, all the staff in Jincheng Mansion were no longer there. The current government office was newly formed by Zhao Jia and Hanzhou people. Because not long after taking office, there was not much bureaucratic spirit. After hearing the words of the young man, he nodded.

"Wait a minute, we'll go and inform Zhao Fuzun."

The yamen runner quickly walked into the yamen and found Zhao Jia, who was dealing with the land problem in the study, lowered his head and said, "Master Fu Zun, there is a young man named Li Shuo outside. After saying that, he asked to see him."

Zhao Jia didn't raise his head, but just frowned slightly: "I won't see you, I won't see you."

He suddenly became the lord of Jincheng Mansion. In the past few days, local gentry from Jincheng visited many door-to-door visits, which made Zhao Jia very annoyed. But he now has a lot of things to deal with, so he simply disappeared.

If it was an official assigned by the court, he would not be able to avoid these gentry when he arrived at the local area. After all, they still needed their cooperation to govern the local area. However, Zhao Jia is now the spokesperson of the "junior government". There is a Hanzhou army behind him, so there is no need to pay attention to the gentry. At this time, he heard someone asking for a meeting and subconsciously refused.

The yamen runner nodded and was about to go down to refuse, but Zhao Fuzun suddenly looked up and looked at the yamen runner.

"etc……"

Zhao Jia frowned and said, "What's the name of this person you said?"

"Return to the House."

The yamen runner lowered his head and clasped his fists: "The man said his name was Li Shuo."

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

He thought about it, but felt it was not suitable, so he stood up and said, "Forget it, I'll go with you and welcome him."

He naturally knew who Li Shuo was.

It is now the ninth year of Taikang. Six years ago, the imperial court pacified the southwest. The huge Pingnan Marquis Mansion was instantly destroyed. The Pingnan Army was also divided into pieces during that battle, but the Pingnan Army was not completely destroyed!

As one of the parties involved six years ago, Zhao Jia has been in the southwest for so many years and knows the truth of that year better than anyone else.

When Jing'an Marquis Li Xin deliberately let go of nearly half of the Pingnan army. After the Pingnan army fled from Jincheng, they disappeared. However, according to some sporadic news, we can still know that these Pingnan army went to the border between the Jin and Tubo, occupied several small cities, and survived in that uncontrolled place.

And these leaders of the Pingnan Army were Li Shuo, the "only remaining" son of Li Shen, the Marquis of Pingnan!

The government office was not very big. Not long after, Zhao Jia arrived at the gate of the yamen. He looked at the young man in front of him deeply.

Six years ago, Li Shuo was still a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old. At that time, he was a little immature and his mind was not very mature. However, at that time, Li Shuo had the courage to cooperate with Li Xin and brought His Highness Ji Ku out of Jincheng.

It is precisely this reason that indirectly led to Li Shen Kaicheng surrender.

Now that six years have passed, the young man has become a young man of twenty-two or three.

However, this young man's skin was a little rough and his complexion was not as fair as before. It was obvious that he had suffered a lot in the past few years.

Zhao Jia bowed to Li Shuo.

"I've met Mr. Li."

When Zhao Jia looked at Li Shuo, Li Shuo was also looking at Zhao Jia. He immediately bowed his head and returned the greeting: "You are polite, Lord Zhao."

Zhao Jia stood up and leaned toward her body.

"Mr. Li talks inside."

Li Shuo smiled slightly and walked in openly.

He took away a total of 60,000 to 70,000 Pingnan Army from Jincheng. Even if six years have passed, these Pingnan Army may not be able to fight, but they still have at least 50,000 combat power. With such a force under his command, Li Shuo is qualified to become a chess player in the situation in the southwest, or even the whole world.

And why Li Shuo came is still an unknown number.

After Zhao Jia brought Li Shuo to the living room of the yamen, the servant came up to serve tea, the Zhao family respected Li Shuo a cup of tea, looked at the young man who looked a little similar to Li Xin, and asked straight to the point: "Young Master Li ran to Jincheng, don't know what the matter is?"

Li Shuo put down the teacup and smiled and said, "I heard that the Mu family had rebelled, so I came to Jincheng to see the situation. I originally wanted to go and see General Mu, but on the way, I heard that Lord Zhao had arrived in Jincheng, so I came to visit Lord Zhao first."

"The word "non-command"

Zhao Jia waved his hand and asked slowly, "What is Mr. Li's intention to do now?"

Li Shuo put down the teacup in his hand and smiled slightly.
Chapter completed!