Chapter 857: The Wine Banquet
What Li Xinchen needs is that these soldiers, officials, and people under his command can closely follow his steps.
As for how long it can be followed, it is really just a matter of resignation.
After all, it is difficult to grasp people's hearts, let alone people's hearts in troubled times.
Because this is a turbulent time, people's hearts have also become turbulent.
In the morning, the corpses on the streets were cleaned up, and even the blood had not been wiped away, and the windows had been taken down by the large and small families in the city, and restaurants, teahouses, and shops had begun to open, and the hawkers walked the streets with vegetables that were not very fresh, and the cries of selling could be heard clearly even from the far gates.
I don't know if these people are very trusting of Li Xinchen's pro-people policy, or if they have long been accustomed to this kind of war, and when the war is over, nothing can stop them from trying to restore calm to everything.
Looking at the smoke rising from the city, Li Xinchen was still very happy, which at least showed that he might not have to face some unnecessary troubles, after all, in most cases, you can't use the same method to deal with the army and the people. However, it is clear that these people are far more adaptable than they imagined.
Li Xinchen happily walked into the mansion that was also cleaned up.
In fact, the government was not damaged by the war, but the scattered furniture and official documents on the ground made it look a little messy, but during the entire Xiangyang offensive and defensive battle, only Cao Xiaoda and a few of his personal guards died here.
Behind the Xiangyang Mansion is Wei Chi Yuan's mansion, and on one side is Cao Xiaoda's mansion, and now these mansions are naturally Li Xinchen's.
After all, Wei Chi Hui's mansion is the mansion of several families of all sizes in Wei Chi's family, the scale is quite large, and it is strictly divided, so Li Xinchen directly divided part of it to Pei Zilie, part to Chen Zhishen, and Cao Xiaoda's mansion was simply ceded to Chun Yuliang.
Wei Chi Hui has been operating in Xiangyang for many years, and his generals basically have mansions here, so he doesn't have to worry that Dai Cai and the others who came one after another have no place to live.
Anyway, many places in the government were already empty, so they were all vacated and set up a banquet, and Li Xinchen's department and Chun Yuliang's department had the opportunity to participate in this big banquet, and of course, in the military camps outside the city, there was also a big banquet. Although Li Xinchen's army did not have enough food and grass, there was nothing to say when it was time to celebrate, and these consumption was expected.
"Greetings to the General!" When the generals saw Li Xinchen walk in, they all bowed their hands together.
And Li Xinchen laughed and pressed his hand, motioned for everyone to sit down, and he sat on the chairman as a matter of course. Pei Zilie, who was sitting on Li Xinchen's left hand, and Chun Yuliang, who was sitting on his right hand, stood up almost at the same time and raised their wine glasses to Li Xinchen:
"The general broke Xiangyang, congratulations to the general!"
Li Xinchen immediately drank all the wine in the cup, and then a famous general got up one after another, at this moment, whether it was a general under Li Xinchen or a commander under Chun Yuliang, all the congratulations were from the heart, because they really watched a miracle happen in front of their eyes, and Li Xinchen was the creator of all this.
This kind of respect is worthy of Li Xinchen.
Just behind Li Xinchen, a huge map has been unfolded, on which Xiangyang City, which originally belonged to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, has been changed, from Hanzhong to Fangling and Shangyong to Xiangyang and Fancheng, Li Xinchen's power is like an arm stretched out, connecting the two Huai that have been secretly connected with Li Xinchen to the east, almost wrapping Jinghu Lake to the south, and threatening Wuguan and entering the Central Plains at any time to the north.
And what is even more eye-catching is probably the northwest corner of this map, from Yangping Pass to Chencang to Tianshui and Anding, the red color that symbolizes Li Xinchen is bit by bit in the north, just like the spark of the stars, which is about to become a prairie fire!
Being on the battlefield of Xiangyang, many people don't know the news from Yangping Pass, especially for Chun Yuliang and his subordinates, after all, the road is long, and the battlefield north of Yangping Pass has little to do with them for the time being, so when they saw this map, they were only surprised. If all this is true, then it means that it is only a matter of time before Li Xinchen holds the entire northwest in his hands, and after that, Li Xinchen's goal must be Guanzhong, which is about to be completely enveloped.
Thinking about Li Xinchen's internal response to the Long family, his step-by-step layout has been fully revealed.
Guanzhong is what Li Xinchen wants most, and for this reason he moves forward step by step, each step does not seem to have so many traces, but there is no mistake, when all the plans are carried out to the end, then there is no need to say what Li Xinchen wants to do.
It's just that at this time, Yang Jian realized that his real enemy was behind him, and it was already too late.
This is not to blame Yang Jian, after all, Tongguan and Pubanjin have great enemies in front of them, how could he have thought that the enemy behind him would gradually form such a climate at this time?
It's obviously impossible to focus attention in all directions at the same time, even for a man like Yang Jian. As long as it is a human being, there is negligence, Li Xinchen, as a traverser, is very aware of Yang Jian's jealousy of Yu Wenxian, and this jealousy does not know whether Yang Jian has seen how difficult Yu Wenxian is to deal with, or because in his subconscious, Yu Wenxian has always been his enemy.
In history, even though Yu Wenxian had been disarmed and returned to the field, Yang Jian still did not give up instigating Yu Wenyun to put Yu Wenxian to death first.
Some of the enemies of fate don't change just because the rest of the things that happen in the plane change. Fate does not bind everything, but some vital points and lines can be entangled by fate.
Whether it is fatally entangled or the wheel of history is too heavy, at least the current situation is not a bad thing for Li Xinchen.
Li Xinchen stretched out his hand and nodded on the map: "Xiao Maha turtle shrinks in Jiangling, as long as we still build warships and arrange river defenses on the front line of White Emperor City, then Xiao Maha will not dare to act rashly, for him, going north is equivalent to exposing his flanks." Of course, this also makes us have to maintain a considerable number of troops on the front line of White Emperor City, but in order to stabilize Xiao Maha and support the liaison with Nanzhong at the same time, it is necessary to retain a part of the troops. ”
After a pause, Li Xinchen's hand then went north: "Although Bashu is under control now, but after years of war, the people have been displaced, and it is definitely not so easy to recover for a while." It's time for us to breathe a sigh of relief so that people can resume farming, and it will take some time for commerce to resume everywhere. Shu is rich in products, and you can't sit on a cornucopia but don't use it. ”