This winter was a rare calm winter in the Jokhang Empire in recent years. In the north, the Tartars had just annihilated more than 100,000 troops under the command of Hong Yan in Jinzhou and achieved a brilliant victory. But in this campaign, their losses were not small. The loss of the generals is not enough, but more importantly, the Heavenly Mandate Khan is seriously ill, and the doctors judge that the Heavenly Mandate Khan will not be able to support it for too long.

Daikin is a country that has just transitioned from a tribal confederation and has no tradition of primogeniture. According to the tradition of Daikin, the leader of the alliance is to be elected by the chiefs of each ministry. When Tiancong Khan raised troops and established the "Great Gold", he used his son and nephew to lead various tribes and organized them into eight banners. After his death, the Mandate of Heaven Khan succeeded to the throne, which was also in accordance with the old rules, and was publicly elected by the owners of the eight banners together. But at this time, although the eldest son of the Mandate of Heaven Khan was brave and good at fighting, he was just a brave general who was good at charging into battle, and he had no talent for governance. And he has a short-tempered personality, and his relationship with the other flags is not good. As for the other sons of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, they are still very young. Therefore, the other banners may not continue to support the succession of the son of the Mandate of Heaven Khan. Before the problem of the heir is solved, no banner is willing to send the army in his hands outside, because doing so will definitely greatly reduce his right to speak on this issue, so it is difficult for "Dajin" to move south in a big way for the time being.

In the previous life, when they got the news, the Xuanyi Daoists almost decided that the Tartars would quit the ranks of the dragon because of an internal strife. Because to tell the truth, the Mandate of Heaven Khan is in his youth, and the "Dajin" luck is in full swing, under normal circumstances, the leader of such an organization has luck protection, where can he easily get seriously ill? If God really intended to support him, then how could he suddenly die of illness at these two ages?

At that time, Xuan Yi's judgment was that this must be a trick made by the gods of the Heavenly Court taking advantage of the gap between the fierce impact of the dragon qi of "Dajin" and the dragon qi of "Dazhao" in the battle of Jinzhou. Because of this, he became more and more convinced that Huang Zide was the "son of destiny".

After being reborn, Xuan Yi also asked Huang Tian for advice on this question. At that time, Huang Tian only said this sentence: "The Mandate of Heaven Khan is not so much like a great khan, but too much like an emperor of the Central Plains." ”

On the side of the imperial court, after the defeat of Jinzhou and the defeat near Kaifeng earlier, the army that the imperial court was able to move was almost negligible. Therefore, the imperial court could not make any moves in a short period of time.

In Anhui, after receiving the news that Huang Zide defeated Zuo Liangyu and captured Jingxiang, the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution once sent people over, wanting to join forces with Huang Zide and go down to the south of the Yangtze River to grab a handful. However, Huang Zide was busy stabilizing the place and entering the river, so he had no intention of going south for the time being.

Since Huang Zide did not plan to go south for the time being, the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo was not willing to immediately turn against the imperial court - approaching them and the forces of the imperial court in Anhui to fight for both sides, and then let Huang Zide take advantage of it for nothing, such a thing, the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo would not do. However, taking advantage of the embarrassing situation of the imperial court, the fifth battalion of the left left continued to negotiate with the imperial court for Zhao'an, but their price rose again, not only asking for money, but also clearly asking for territory. Of course, it is impossible for the imperial court to completely agree, but it does not dare to refuse immediately at this time, and can only use some benefits to temporarily maintain the "peace" of the five battalions of the Hege Left, so as to wait for the imperial court to make more preparations in the future. Therefore, nothing happened in Anhui for the time being.

As for the Sichuan side, Zhang Bingzhong had several confrontations with Qin Zhensu in the Chongqing area, but the scale was not large. The elite in Qin Zhensu's hands had almost been consumed in previous battles, and naturally he had no ability to attack. But her stone pillar is a remote mountainous area, the terrain is complex, and the production is limited, Zhang Bingzhong can't get into it, and he doesn't have much interest in getting in, so they don't have much action now.

In this way, this winter, there is a very strange kind of peace in the whole world.

In this strange peace, time passed slowly, and in a blink of an eye, spring came again.

In this winter, the Huang Zide Group spread out hundreds of military villages in the Jingxiang area, and settled more than 700,000 displaced people. Considering that the proportion of women, the elderly and children among the displaced people is very low. (Most of these people will die in exile) and most of these people will be strong men as long as they have recovered their strength. Relying on them, there will be hundreds of thousands of troops in no time. As long as the land they have cultivated this year can be harvested, the foundation of the entire Jingxiang will be solid.

With the arrival of spring, the matter of controlling Sichuan was put on the agenda. Huang Zide found his military generals and began to discuss how to seize Sichuan.

Now Jingxiang is not completely stable, so everyone, including Huang Zide himself, thinks that Huang Zide should not leave Jingxiang and enter Sichuan for the time being, so the main general of Jingxiang can only choose among the generals under Huang Zide.

Among the generals under Huang Zide's command, the number one must be Liu Jiexuan. It's just that he is now the commander of the army, and he no longer directly commands the troops. Huang Zide actually didn't really want Liu Jiexuan to be the main general. Therefore, who will be the manager has become the most important question at the moment.

"If you don't let Lao Liu be the main general, then how about letting the Taoist chief be the main general?" When discussing the candidate with Huang Zide, Shang Xiuying said, "Irikawa's plan was proposed by the Taoist chief, no matter who the main general is, the Taoist must follow him." In addition to Lao Liu, who will be sent to be the main general, and is it appropriate in terms of identity? ”

Huang Zide understood what Shang Xiuying meant. Now in Huang Zide Group, Xuanyi's position is second only to Huang Zide and Liu Jiexuan. On the premise that he is sure to enter Sichuan, except for Liu Jiexuan, everyone else is lower than Xuanyi Daoist in terms of status and status. When the time comes, who will be the main general?

"It's just that the Taoist has never led soldiers alone." Huang Zide said with a frown.

"That's a good point." Shang Xiuying also nodded, "Why don't we let He Zhangqi be the main general, and then let the Daoist come as the deputy director...... What's the matter with him? ”

"Supervise him, don't you?" Huang Zide laughed. The word "supervision", not to mention Shang Xiuying, who has never read a book, is Huang Zide, who originally read a little bit of books, and he would not have used it. It's just that after getting to know Xuanyi Taoist, Huang Zide began to find that reading, especially reading history books, is indeed very useful, so when he marches and fights and deals with affairs, whenever he has time, he will read and study, so that Huang Zide can now use some relatively literate words when he speaks.

"This is also a solution, the Taoist has always been very aware of proportions. It should be good. Huang Zide nodded.