The verbal agreement reached between Li Xinchen and Wei Xiaokuan before, next Wei Xiaokuan should shift the spearhead to attack Xiangyang, and Wei Xiaokuan should be implementing the promise at that time.

After all, for the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there are not many food and troops in Xiangyang City, and if Xiao Maha is allowed to continue to surround it, there will inevitably be some accidents, so at this time, it is not a suitable choice for the Northern Zhou to put down the Bashu war first and relieve the siege of Xiangyang first. Li Xinchen gave Wei Xiaokuan a step, and of course Wei Xiaokuan would not let it go.

"Let the scouts pay attention to the enemy's movements, especially in the direction of Shu Dao, and at the same time report the news of the enemy's mobilization of grain and grass to the hussar general." Li Xinchen said lightly, "In addition, the damaged city defenses in Jiameng Pass, Sword Pavilion and other places will be repaired as soon as possible, and several important passes in Micang Mountain will be patrolled by soldiers and horses, so as not to give the enemy a chance to take advantage of it." ”

"No!" Pei Zilie immediately surrendered.

And Li Xinchen looked at Dai Cai: "Zidong, you are the guard of the White Emperor City, and the defense of the White Emperor City to Ba County will still be handed over to you, everything will be as usual." ”

Li Xinchen bit "business as usual" very hard, and Dai Cai also responded.

Li Xinchen was not without a little guard against Nanchen before, and the defenders of Nanjun County, Ba County and other places were all transferred to the north, but the defenders of Baidi City never moved, and Li Xinchen attached great importance to the Three Gorges and Kuimen, the barriers to Shu.

Now it is said on the face that "everything is business as usual", but in fact, everyone knows that Li Xinchen will not only not reduce his defense, but will continue to increase his troops, after all, for a long time in the future, even if Li Xinchen does not attack Nan Chen, it will be difficult for Nan Chen to become Li Xinchen's ally.

"Friends ······" Li Xinchen muttered and repeated.

He didn't know how to evaluate the current relationship between himself and Nan Chen, but it was clear that Chen wanted to make the relationship more complicated. There are so many fetters like this, Li Xinchen no longer knows whether he is Nan Chen's courtier or not.

No matter what Chen Ji thinks, his thoughts will not change because of foreign objects, since Chen Ji still wants to take the initiative to show favor to himself, then he might as well take this opportunity to stabilize the internal situation in Bashu first, as for how many lawsuits with the Nanchen court in the future, that is a question later.

Although Li Xinchen is not a person who does not like to look to the future, there are more important things now than looking to the future.

"Boqing, Zidong, the recruitment and training of recruits are handed over to you." Li Xinchen said in a deep voice, "In addition, the recruitment of recruits in Luzhou, Langzhong, Hezhou and other places must also be prepared and implemented after spring ploughing. ”

Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai responded at the same time, now Li Xinchen is not short of soldiers, starting from the north to Hezhou, the Northern Zhou troops in various places are also a large number, and the Ba people who gradually came out of the mountains also provided Li Xinchen with enough troops. Li Xinchen is not in a hurry to need too many soldiers and horses now, but an army of more than 50,000 people capable of fighting in the north and south is still necessary.

Immediately, Li Xinchen turned his head, and his eyes fell on Luo Ya's body: "Luo Thorn History!" ”

Luo Ya didn't expect Li Xinchen to call out his name at this time, and hurriedly stood up: "In!" ”

"As the people gradually settle down, the schools in various places must be opened gradually," Li Xinchen said in a deep voice, "Gu Tingshi has recruited a lot of scholars from the cold family to enter Shu before, and now the task of dealing with the imperial court envoys is handed over to Gu Tingshi, so you can hand over this task, after all, now it is mainly to open schools in Bajun and other places, in your jurisdiction." ”

Luo Ya didn't expect Li Xinchen to attach so much importance to the opening of the school, and he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, so he agreed.

Li Xinchen nodded. Li Xinchen knows very well how important basic education is for the improvement of the quality of the whole people, but now after all, it is still in the midst of war, Li Xinchen asked himself that he has not yet had this ability, so what he wants to do is actually strengthen the education of the local people and the Ba people through the school.

This is what the saints call "liturgical education".

To put it mildly, only in this way can Li Xinchen control the people under his command ideologically, especially those Ba people who have just come out of the deep mountains, because Li Xinchen also doesn't know if the thoughts and beliefs of these Ba tribes will change in the deep mountains and old forests - after all, the Ba tribes are too scattered, and what Li Xinchen has personally seen and felt is still a minority after all.

Therefore, Li Xinchen wanted to strengthen the Ba people's sense of identity with him as a commander by reading the sage's book, so that the Ba people could completely integrate into his own jurisdiction, and there was no obvious difference between them and the rest of the Han people.

Only in this way can Li Xinchen try to ensure that his subordinates are a whole, rather than an obvious confrontation between the Ba and Han people.

It is not a good thing for a superior person to compete with each other, but now Li Xinchen does not need these, the land of Bashu size is still sandwiched between the two behemoths of Northern Zhou and Southern Chen, Li Xinchen can really be said to be a tiger's mouth and occupies such a place, so now is not the time for contradictions and infighting within Li Xinchen's group.

"The rest will be implemented one by one according to the previous arrangement," Li Xinchen said in a deep voice, "Boxian, Dashi, you two and X will go to the city to inspect it." ”

Everyone agreed in unison, but Tang Yishun and Pei Zilie did not move, waiting for the rest of the people to leave, and then hurriedly greeted Li Xinchen.

Li Xinchen said in a deep voice: "I want to see a few city defense repairs in person, and the treasury also has to go around, and there are also newly opened shops in the city if you have time." ”

Tang Yishun said in surprise: "General, it's okay to leave these details to your subordinates, why should the general go in person?" ”

And Pei Zilie didn't speak, he could roughly understand Li Xinchen's thoughts, so he didn't expect to be able to stop Li Xinchen at all.

Li Xinchen said lightly: "Since a certain person entered Shu County, this city has only been a hasty walk, and I don't know much, if I don't even know what the people under my command are talking about and thinking, then even if a certain order is issued, it will be difficult for them to get their wish." ”

After a pause, Li Xinchen spread his hands: "What's more, it's such a new atmosphere, wouldn't it be a pity not to take a look." ”

Li Xinchen knew that it would be difficult for him to inspect every inch of land under his command, but if he didn't even care about Shu County under his nose, then there was not much difference between him and the lonely people in the deep palace.

The world is cold and warm, and even more between the market, Li Xinchen doesn't want to issue a decree with his eyes closed.

Tang Yishun raised his head and glanced at Li Xinchen: "The general has all the people in mind, and his subordinates admire him." ”

"Baehyun, don't praise it, and change into civilian clothes and go together." Li Xinchen smiled and waved his hand.

But Tang Yishun bowed down and said solemnly: "My subordinates say this from the heart. ”