"Xiao Shilian, the general of the expedition to the east, congratulates His Highness on a happy new year."

"Pei Zilie, the general of Zhengnan, congratulates Your Majesty on a Happy New Year."

The guards standing at the door called their names loudly, and a team of guards carried the gifts sent from all over the house into the house, but the original prepared side hall was not enough at all, so in desperation, Lechang could only organize people to clean a few sealed palaces on the one hand, and temporarily let people pile these things in the courtyard first, of course, in the treasury on the other side, Yu Chi Chifan and Xiao Xiang were busy distributing the royal rewards.

"Happy New Year, Your Highness." Xiao Shilian laughed and strode in.

Li Xinchen returned the salute with a smile, followed Xiao Shilian's Li Li'er and Li Xinchen to greet each other and went to the side hall to find Lechang and Xiao Xiang, and Xiao Shilian smiled and said, "Have you received the battle report?" ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, and the Jingzhou Navy Division withdrew to Wolf Tail Beach, repeatedly saying that he had no hostility to Bashu. Obviously, when Chen Shujian and Xiao Maha found out that Li Xinchen was not afraid of fighting at all, they confessed first.

"This is also reasonable, the world is difficult, this year, everyone should try to live a little easier." Li Xinchen muttered.

"How long will we have to wait, next year, or the year after?" Xiao Shilian asked in a low voice.

Li Xinchen was silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "Looking at the situation this year, the war in the north is over, I don't know if Yang Jian and Yu Wenxian will find trouble with us." ”

"Then it's all the more important to do it quickly." Xiao Shilian followed closely and said, "If it continues to drag on, it is very likely to attract an attack from the north, and then we will be under more pressure to fight on two fronts." ”

Li Xinchen looked at Xiao Shilian intently, he didn't understand this truth, but now Bashu has almost squeezed out the last bit of financial and material resources, if you want to start a war, it is not impossible, but Li Xinchen has no way to bear the consequences of failure, because it will mean that the entire Bashu economy will collapse.

Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period in history did not have the opportunity to go out, but it is a pity that the intensive Northern Expedition and successive failures have made the rich Bashu unable to make ends meet, and finally the war has become the biggest factor restricting the economic development of Bashu, even a genius like Zhuge Liang is powerless to return to the sky.

Therefore, Li Xinchen knew very well that there was only one chance left for him, and he had to concentrate all his forces and seize Jiangnan before the end of the civil war in the north.

It's really hard to grasp this timing.

"We must strengthen the connection with Wu Huijue's side, they are actually the real first line, Zhongli and Liangjun and other places must be defended, if you advance, you can force Guangling, and if you retreat, you can guard Huainan." Li Xinchen said thoughtfully, "If possible, we must do it this year." ”

Xiao Shilian nodded solemnly: "Shizhong, we trust your judgment. ”

Li Xinchen couldn't help but smile slightly. While Xiao Shilian expressed his loyalty, he also gave himself a big burden.

"Your Highness, Gong Xiaomu is asking to see you outside." Li Ping walked over quickly.

Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian glanced at each other, and Li Xinchen nodded: "Let's go, let's see what this old man wants to say." ”

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This New Year, for many people are happy, such as Bashu is celebrating a rare peace, and both sides of the Northern Zhou Civil War are also seizing this opportunity to breathe and lick their wounds, but some people are happy and some are sad, standing on the dilapidated city wall of Xinzhou, Uncle Chen quietly watched the river go east.

The Jingzhou Navy Division withdrew to the Wolf Tail Beach and acquiesced to Li Xinchen's entry into the Three Gorges, if it was Chen Shujian before, he would never have accepted such a result, but now he can only grit his teeth and agree.

In the face of the Bashu Naval Division, which was going down the river and equipped with new warships, the Jingzhou Naval Division had no choice but to retreat before the main force arrived. More importantly, the threat from behind him made Chen Shujian have no way to take care of Bashu's side now.

Chen Shuling's re-ascension made Chen Shujian feel a deep sense of crisis, after all, Chen Shuling's ruthlessness Chen Shujian is very clear, although I don't know what considerations Jiang Zong and Kong Fan actually released this guy, but Chen Shujian knows that Chen Shuling will definitely be unfavorable to him and Xiao Maha next, and more importantly, with the mediocre abilities of Jiang Zong and Kong Fan, it is simply a fool's dream to restrain Chen Shuling.

How could His Royal Highness the Crown Prince value these two guys, it's really confused.

The disaster of the Xiao Wall, from ancient times to the present, is the most terrible reason for the rapid collapse of a dynasty, and not to mention anything else, just look at the Northern Zhou in the north, with the opposition of Yang Jian and Yu Wenxian, the Northern Zhou, which originally broke the Northern Qi Dynasty and was in full swing, has now fallen to what point, if the disaster of the Xiao Wall appears again in Nanchen, then in the end it can only be Li Xinchen.

Chen Shujian never believed that such a short period of closed-door thinking could make Chen Shuling realize his problem, and Chen Shuling's ambition for the throne is well known, this guy is notoriously bold, and he even had the courage to send a dead man to assassinate Xiao Maha who returned from the north, who knows if he will directly attack Chen Shubao one day in the future?

Therefore, Chen Shujian didn't dare to stay here in Xinzhou for long, he originally hoped to be able to deter Li Xinchen through the Jingzhou Naval Division, so that he could turn around and solve the affairs of Jiankang Mansion - at least now that his father is still there, the general trend is like this, if he can get the support of Chen Shujian and Xiao Maha's army and the naval division, then it is not impossible for Chen Xuan to cheer up and take Chen Shuling again.

It's just ······

Chen Shujian looked at the boiling river, Li Xinchen's reaction surprised him, but this was also expected, Li Xinchen has never been a timid person, with such a commander, there are naturally such generals, so even if there are only a few sampans under Li Xinchen's command, I am afraid that he will dare to row to confront the Jingzhou Sailor, but what really worries Chen Shujian is that it is not the sampan that comes to confront the Jingzhou Sailor!

It looked like a huge warship that was a whole circle larger than the Jingzhou Sailor's ship, and the ship was covered with all kinds of weapons, although there were not many of them, but it was enough to give the Jingzhou Sailor the courage to attack directly.

Chen Shujian didn't know how Li Xinchen built such a warship in such a short period of time, but he could feel it after experiencing the battle array, these warships were almost built to defeat the Jingzhou Naval Division, in other words, Li Xinchen was accumulating strength at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in a few months, a few years, maybe the river would no longer be a few, but overwhelming.

But what about Nan Chen?

The rich land of Jinghu and Huainan is no longer in his hands, and what Nan Chen can grasp now is actually a Jiangnan, through the Jiangnan that has just risen from the ruins, where does Nan Chen have the spare power to supply sailors to build new warships, you must know that the army from Guangling to Jiankang Mansion that can deal with the threat from the north has not yet been formed!