And Li Xinchen said without hesitation: "Brother Dao is also a well-known talent in the north, since he is here today, then I might as well listen to the arrangements for the future development and construction of Bashu?" ”

Yang Su didn't expect Li Xinchen to ask for his opinion at this time, but since he had come, Yang Su certainly didn't want to refuse, after all, Yang Su was still very interested in Li Xinchen's thoughts and the policies that Li Xinchen wanted to use to govern Bashu.

What's more, Yang Su also wants to know what kind of person Li Xinchen is, everything before is actually based on his temptation and speculation about Li Xinchen, and Li Xinchen has not really shown his way of thinking, which is actually what Yang Su is interested in.

At least Yang Su wanted to know that Hongnong Yang had made a lot of money this time and would not put all the bets on an incompetent person.

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."

Li Xinchen stretched out his hand and pointed to the map in front of him and said: "Presumably, before entering Shu, Brother Dao also understood the situation of Bashu, surrounded by mountains in Bashu, Hanzhong in the north, Jingzhou in the southeast, and the rest of the places are barren mountains, almost impossible to cross, so if you want to gain a foothold in Bashu, you can't rely too much on the outside of the mountain." ”

After a pause, Li Xinchen walked straight to the side of the map, stretched out his hand and knocked: "Bashu can be roughly divided into several areas, from north to south, Langzhong, Bazhong, Zitong, Shu County, Luzhou, Ba County, etc., and the previous Bashu regional planning is extremely unreasonable, and many state capitals are too small, so that the place where there is actually no one at all is also divided as a state capital, which naturally leads to the inability of this state capital and the rest of the state capitals to communicate, the more barren and closed, the more there is no chance for development. ”

Yang Su didn't speak rashly, he knew very well that Li Xinchen was right, but at least now he didn't have the guts to determine what kind of consequences Li Xinchen would have if he did this.

In the final analysis, the problem that Li Xinchen wants to solve is the problem of chaotic administrative divisions since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a large-scale invasion of foreign tribes, and the entire strict administrative system of China has been completely disrupted, and the division of state capitals in the north has become extremely irregular, and in the south it is even more excessive, and the emergence of the resettlement state capital has made the original state capital have a new name, such as the former Jingkou is called "Nanxu", and many state capitals are actually only in name, and there is no actual existence at all. As a result, when an order is issued, it is not known to which level it should be conveyed to and which official it should be handed over.

Moreover, in the northern and southern dynasties, there was a situation where the state capital was too small, and in a small Bashu, there were seven or eight at the state level, but in fact, the Northern Zhou court did not appoint enough manpower to each state to manage, and for the lack of talent in the last years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this system of large official positions and small tasks was undoubtedly dragging the back of the imperial court.

The most recent example is when Li Xinchen attacked Shu County, because there were not enough troops in Shishan County and other places along the way, and there were not even enough officials to dispatch, so they had no choice but to seal the treasury and transfer the people to Shu County, and it turned out that these people did not go out at all and all ran home, this so-called "strong wall and clear field" was just for the officials of Shu County to make a show.

Because there are so many officials in the local city who can organize the transfer of the people in the city, let alone an army that can resist Li Xinchen even for half a day.

Although this has something to do with the fact that the Northern Zhou court did not attach much importance to Bashu, no one can deny that if Zhang He of Ba County and Song Ping of Dianjiang County can communicate with each other, or at least have a common commander, and the generals and officials from all over the country can work together, then it is not so easy for Li Xinchen to make a breakthrough in these mountains.

However, the fact is that everywhere Li Xinchen went, the city gate was wide open, and a few officials had either disappeared, or were waiting respectfully outside the city gate to hand over the account books of the treasury to Li Xinchen, waiting for the new master to receive it.

In this process, Li Xinchen had clearly realized how dangerous such a chaotic administrative plan would be after the start of the war, once the enemy broke through the first line of defense such as White Emperor City or Sword Pavilion, the rest of the places could only surrender to the wind.

Not to mention Bashu, Li Xinchen did not believe that such a chaotic administrative planning system had no impact on the Northern Zhou and Southern Chen, and the defense focus of Southern Chen was now concentrated on the Huainan and Jingzhou lines, and if this defense line was broken through, it would be difficult for the state capital behind to continue to play a role in blocking the enemy.

In fact, there is no need for Li Xinchen to guess, history has proved this, in the history of the Northern Zhou civil strife, after Wei Chi Hui's first line of defense was broken through, he could only retreat all the way to Yecheng, and after the loss of Yecheng, Wei Chi Hui's forces were declared extinct.

And the same is true of Nan Chen, after Yang Su broke through the Jingzhou defense line and Yang Guang broke through the Dajiang defense line, the rest of the state capitals and cities of Nan Chen did not organize a decent resistance at all, and you must know that hundreds of years later, in the Southern Song Dynasty, even if the imperial court had surrendered, Jiangxi, Bashu and Guangnan and other places were still resisting.

Although Li Xinchen does not seek to be able to change the entire administrative system and system that has been fixed for hundreds of years in a short period of time - and Li Xinchen does not have the energy and time to do so - what he needs to do is to avoid this situation as much as possible at least when the next war is likely.

Yang Su has understood what Li Xinchen meant, in fact, the shortcomings of this administrative system are no longer discovered by one person, this kind of cumbersome system may be able to be tolerated in peacetime, but in the midst of war, when it is most necessary for a country to work together, this system is of course more outdated.

It's just that Yang Su knows better that if he wants to change, it will definitely not happen overnight, and he will only consider opening his mouth after a long time, and the title of Li Xinchen will change: "The general is still nominally a courtier of Chen Guo, so it is naturally unrealistic to want to carry out drastic reforms, which can only make it impossible for the general and Chen Guo to have no room for maneuver, but not changing the current administrative division does not mean that nothing remains the same." ”

Li Xinchen frowned slightly, but he didn't speak in a hurry.

Yang Su then said: "The general's top priority is definitely not to fundamentally change, but to establish a system that can completely and accurately convey his orders, so why don't the generals try to add some to the original?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Li Xinchen suddenly became interested, he actually had his own thoughts, but he didn't know if this idea was the same as Yang Su.

Yang Su smiled and said, "The general should know how the state was managed during the Han Dynasty, right?" ”

Li Xinchen narrowed his eyes and immediately reacted.

He knew that what Yang Su said was the answer he wanted.