The first day of March in the tenth year of Nanchen Taijian, the last day of March in Yangchun.

Wei Xiaokuan, the general of Zhenxi of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Wei Chi, the general of Zhennan, led the defeated troops to enter Hanzhong through Jiameng Pass, and temporarily stationed troops at the entrance of Shudao in Hanzhong. And Li Xinchen immediately led the army to receive the Shu fortresses such as Jiange and Jiameng Pass, and led the troops back to Shu County.

Since then, the battle of Bashu, which began in September of the ninth year of Taijian, finally came to an end after seven months of fierce fighting.

Li Xinchen, who entered Shu with light troops, was strongly supported by the Tang clan of Xiajiang and the Ba people, and finally defeated Wei Xiaokuan and Wei Chi Hui, two famous generals of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, all according to Bashu, compared to the battlefield of Xiangyang and Huaibei that made no progress, Li Xinchen, who seemed to be the weakest and hopeless, created another miracle in the military history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

The war ended, and the results of the war were also spread all over the world because of Li Xinchen's successful documents, and the two dynasties were shocked by this result and had to be vigilant, and there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition for a while.

The focus of the court was naturally on how to judge Li Xinchen's merits and how to get along with this newly rising young general, who had even shown signs of disobeying the orders of the Southern Chen court; And the attention of the people outside the court is naturally more in those legends that are becoming more and more divine because of word of mouth.

What is the fog that breaks through the White Emperor City, the Flying Soldier Heavenly Palace Courtyard, and the bloody battle Cangxi Valley······ Li Xinchen has been sought after and praised by many people because of these legendary battles and the image of a young but eloquent person, and the titles of "General Li" and "General Fei" are becoming more and more understood and accepted by the world.

Some people even say that Li Xinchen is the reincarnation of the champion Hou Huoqu's illness and the white-robed famous Chen Qingzhi fifty years ago. Of course, the people are talking about it, which does not mean that the emperor of Nanchen, Chen Ji, will also be excited because of the appearance of a young and promising general under his command.

On the contrary, Chen Ji had a headache.

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If there's anything more uncomfortable than being angry, it's that I'm afraid I'm so angry that I can't even get angry.

Faced with the battle report sent back from Bashu, Chen Ji only had deep helplessness.

It can be said that Chen Xuan has been shrewd and calculating all his life, but he didn't expect to meet Li Xinchen in the end, Chen Xuan didn't calculate everything, Li Xinchen was able to take Bashu so easily, and he didn't expect that Li Xinchen would finally risk the world's disapproval to negotiate with Wei Xiaokuan.

This is to express his dissatisfaction to Chen Xuan in Chiguo, but Chen Xuan is helpless against such an arrogant Li Xinchen, he can't even reprimand Li Xinchen, and he has to consider Li Xinchen's merits.

After all, Li Xinchen's exploits last time have not been counted, and now that the battle of Bashu has completely come to an end, it is impossible for the imperial court to remain silent.

But with Li Xinchen now in his twenties, he is already a miscellaneous general, and if he continues to rise, he will be the general of the four towns, and even this credit for opening up the territory and winning the entire Bashu is not impossible to directly seal a marquis.

Of course, it all depends on Chen Ji, but if Chen Ji can't give a suitable answer to the ministers of the government and the opposition, then Chen Ji's posthumous name may not be very good.

People have lived for most of their lives, and they are already at the age of entering the earth - especially their physical condition, Chen Ji also knows how much he has in his heart - so Chen Ji is no longer more concerned about what achievements he can achieve in his lifetime, but whether he can guarantee his posthumous name.

It's not a good thing to be left behind for 10,000 years.

Thinking of this, Chen Ji's eyes raised slightly, and he looked at Xu Ling, Pei Ji, and Wu Mingche, who were standing in the main hall, and Wu Mingche, who had just returned to the court: "You also understand the situation, let's talk about it, how should this battle merit be evaluated?" ”

Xu Ling and Pei Ji were not in a hurry to speak, but at the same time their eyes fell on Wu Mingche's body.

When Wu Mingche was not there before, although these thorny issues involved the military, Xu Ling and Pei Ji could only grit their teeth and bear them, and now that Wu Mingche is finally back, the two of them naturally resolutely do not want to bear these.

They know the relationship between Li Xinchen and Chen Xu, and now there is only the last layer of tissue paper left in the so-called relationship between monarchs and ministers, everyone knows that in Li Xinchen's heart, I am afraid that Chen Xu, His Majesty, has long been lost, and in Chen Xu's heart, Li Xinchen may have been labeled as a chaotic minister and thief.

So this trip to the troubled waters, everyone is more or less involved behind their backs, but on the bright side, they still want to do their best to clear up the relationship.

Wu Mingche couldn't understand what Xu Ling and the two of them meant, so he could only secretly curse the "old fox" in his heart, and took a step forward at the moment, and said hard-headedly: "Your Majesty, Li Xinchen's attack on Shu County and defeat Wei Xiaokuan and Wei Chi Hui can be said to be a big victory. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Mingche was also a little helpless in his heart. In the previous battle of Bajun, Li Xinchen not only listed himself in the merit book, but instead pleaded guilty with Xiao Shilian to the imperial court, and finally made the imperial court not excessively promoted.

But this time it was different, Li Xinchen was not modest at all, and directly listed himself in the first place in the credit book, and under Li Xinchen's name, Xiao Shilian, Pei Zilie, Du Qi, Chen Zhishen and other generals under Li Xinchen were neatly arranged, and none of them were bad.

Even in the second half of the merit book, Li Xinchen also listed the civil officials under his command, listing the reasons one by one, including the merits of the civil officials in coordinating food, personnel, etc. in the rear, and even clearly remarked in some places that this person was good at handling local affairs.

This meaning is naturally self-evident, Li Xinchen did not want the imperial court to send new officials to Bashu, but only needed to appoint officials according to his merit book.

What's more, the merit book submitted by Li Xinchen to Chen Ji is not an ordinary merit book at all, but a list of official appointments, Li Xinchen did not hesitate to show the court which are his cronies, and clearly asked the court to hand over all the people's livelihood and military power of Bashu to Li Xinchen.

Looking at this merit book, Chen Ji felt that he was looking at a contract, not a merit book handed to His Majesty by a courtier.

What's more, in the merit book, the eldest son of Pei Yi, the Taishou of Xunyang County, Pei Zilie, Wu Mingche's beloved apprentice, and Xiao Shilian, the eldest son of the hussar general Xiao Maha, are all listed on it, and even Xu Ling's eldest grandson Xu Deyan has a not low position in the merit book.

Xu Deyan followed Pei Zilie to Mianzhu and Guanghan, and indeed made great contributions, but no one could help but associate him with Xu Ling's attitude.

This is also the most helpless and even desperate place for Chen Ji, he can't even be sure whether the courtiers standing in front of him at this time are still reliable, and whether their hearts have begun to favor Li Xinchen.