After Guo Jia changed the state pastor to Yizhou Mansion, similar to the Han Dynasty Three Dukes and the General Reading Li Kaifu, with the form of Reading Power Office, Xi Zhicai, Zhen Yan and others are equivalent to Guo Jia's staff, helping him to give advice and deal with government affairs, so Xi Zhicai and others do not have a formal official position, in fact, Yizhou Mansion is under the control of Guo Jia, the general of the Taiping Army, and Guo Jia has nominally been in charge of Yizhou military and political affairs.

Only when needed, will they be temporarily given an official position, for example, when Guo Jia led the army, Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu were successively awarded the military division sacrificial wine, this position, there is no real power, can not mobilize soldiers and horses, but when Guo Jia settled Yizhou, he also let Xu Shu lead the army alone to recruit Qianwei County, at that time the official who sealed Xu Shu became a military division general, and he had the power to mobilize soldiers and horses, these two positions were not actually created by the Han Dynasty, one is Cao Ying, the other is Liu Bei, but they were all borrowed by Guo Jia.

Xi Zhicai, Zhen Yan, Zhen Yao, and Xiu Qi Zhiping, who were handling official affairs in the lobby next to the conference hall of the General's Mansion, all showed a look of shock after receiving the news of Guo Jiajing's defeat and Sima Ju's beheading.

After calming down, everyone put down their political affairs, and Xi Zhicai said to Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao: "Go and inform General Gao Shun, always be ready to fight, martial law has begun in the city, and those who wander the streets and refuse to leave can be punished according to the conspiracy." Pay attention to the movements of the big households in the city, and if there are those who are ready to move, you can cut them first and then play. ”

Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao left with grim faces, and Xi Zhicai turned his head to Xiu Qi Zhiping and the four of them and said: "The four of you go to inform Xiao Ren and Xiao Yi that the lord's family must be strictly protected and there can be no slackness. ”

After the four of them nodded and took the order, they also went down together, and Xi Zhicai knelt alone in place, closing his eyes and thinking about the development of the situation and the consequences.

The two who have known Guo Jia for more than ten years can be said to know each other, and only from a short military report, Xi Zhicai has insight into Guo Jia's intentions.

Killing Sima Ju has become a result, the reason does not need to be examined, but it must be out of the needs of the rule, Guo Jia will not easily make such a major decision, killing people is caused by Ma Fei's surname, a meritorious general, how can he kill if he wants to?

But Guo Jia just informed Chengdu to strictly prevent rebellion, and the most likely thing is that the news of the defeat of Sima Ju and Jingzhou has reached the ears of the hidden forces in Yizhou.

Who are these hidden forces? The Yizhou Shi clan and the Wang clan bore the brunt, and then, only Zhang Baiqi and Xu He were able to set off a rebellion and let Guo Jia recruit Gan Ning back to Chengdu, Zhang Baiqi was far away in Fuling County, since Guo Jia withdrew from Badong County, he would definitely guard against Zhang Baiqi, but Xu He, Jiangyang County, which could be reached by marching three days from Chengdu, was the big enemy in front of him.

If Xu He is opposed, the 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands are not to be feared, but if the scholar clan gathers private soldiers to help Xu He, the consequences will be unimaginable.

And this situation, Xi Zhicai believes, Guo Jia must have foreseen it.

But on the way to the withdrawal of Guo Jia's army, the news was disseminated, which was to give Xu and Zhang Baiqi a chance to rebel.

If Guo Jia's army retreats to Chengdu, then even if they want to rebel, they will temporarily endure in the face of the overall situation that cannot be done, which will become a future trouble.

After pondering for a long time, Xi Zhicai showed a wry smile: "Lord, you have given me a problem." ”

Two days later, Tan Ma came to report, Xu He poured out of the nest and led the army into Qianwei County, all the way to the response of the local wealthy clans, when leaving Jiangyang County, there were only 10,000 soldiers and horses in the headquarters plus 10,000 private soldiers gathered by the Jiangyang Hao clan, and when they entered Shu County, there were already 40,000 people, not counting the Guanghan County There are also clans raising troops to make a rebellion, the scale is not 10,000, and the north and south roads are advancing towards Chengdu at the same time.

After getting the news, Xi Zhicai looked up to the sky and sighed: "Xu He, your knife is really used by others, I thought you would hesitate for a few days, but I didn't expect to raise troops to rebel so decisively." ”

Calculating the journey, it will take Gan Ning and the Jinfan army to arrive in Chengdu at the earliest, and Xu He's army is likely to come to Chengdu tomorrow.

There are only 6,000 Gao Shun in the city, plus Xiao Ren and Xiao Yi's personal guards of less than 1,000 people, can they hold Chengdu?

Hold?

Xi Zhicai's sad face suddenly became cold, and he strode out of the General's Mansion and walked towards Cai's Mansion.

When Guo Jia entered Chengdu, many mansions in Chengdu became the spoils of Guo Jia's rewards, including the houses of Liu Yan's heirs, as well as the vacant houses of Liu Yan's generals who fled to their families after the death of the war, not to mention the properties left behind by the wealthy families in Chengdu.

Originally, a very large mansion was prepared for Cai Yan's family, which belonged to Liu Yan's eldest son Liu Fan earlier, Guo Jia just felt that Cai Yan's maiden family could not be too shabby, but Cai Yan refused to accept it, and Cai Yong did not want to receive too much favor from Guo Jia, so the Cai family chose to settle in an ordinary house, four or five narrow houses, and the courtyard was only ten square meters, which was not related to luxury, and could only be said to be an ordinary home.

And many mansions in Chengdu are still empty and uninhabited, not that Guo Jia is stingy, but he rewarded the generals, but there are really people who don't live there, Gan Ning is alone, leading the army to build and expand the Sword Pavilion Road in Zitong County, only knowing that Guo Jia rewarded him with a house, Gao Shun is Guo Jia rewarded the mansion in person, but Gao Shun is trained in the camp, every time he lives in the military camp in the city, his own mansion does not even have a subordinate, and if he doesn't take care of it, I'm afraid that the spider webs will form a hornet's nest.

Cai Yong, who is a complete stranger to Guo Jia, has a little awe of Zuo Ci and Yu Ji, and recently said that the two Taoist chiefs went to Mount Emei to investigate the geographical situation, and by the way, they also brought Cai Yong and his wife, and the old lady of the Zhen family also had a good time, and took her two little daughters Zhen Mi and Zhen Rong to go out for a walk.

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji are immortal, and now they see Guo Jia's heart is said to be male, and their minds are alive, and they plan to build a Taoist temple on Mount Emei, so they began to build momentum, saying that Emei Mountain has outstanding people and deep well-being, etc., Cai Yong and Mrs. Zhen also want to see and see together, if there is really a fairy wind and aura, Cai Yong can also pray for the big man, and Mrs. Zhen can also ask for a wish, so that Guo Jia can spit out the Zhen family's family business......

Xiao Ren had already led people to escort around Cai's mansion, and when he saw Xi Zhicai coming, he saluted and got out of the way.

Xi Zhicai knocked on the door, Cai Yan, who was dressed thickly, invited Xi Zhicai into the hall and personally poured a cup of tea for Xi Zhicai, Xi Zhicai hurriedly took it, a little cramped and uneasy, although Cai Yan and Guo Jia have not officially married, everyone knows what Cai Yan's identity is.

It was a bit abrupt to come rashly, and besides, Cai Yan and a few maids were in Cai's house, but Xi Zhi had to come.

"Mrs. Cai, I don't dare to do this." Xi Zhicai smiled bitterly and took the teacup and took a sip.

Cai Yan sat opposite Xi Zhicai with an elegant smile and said: "Feng Xiao often said that in his heart, you are his brother, his parents died early when he was young, if there is no your meticulous help, he probably doesn't know how much hardship he will have to suffer. ”

Xi Zhicai waved his hand, the old past is vivid, but that is the rare friendship between him and Guo Jia, if these past events are hung on his lips, wouldn't it be a suspicion of inviting pets and inviting credit?

Putting down the teacup and turning his eyes, Xi Zhicai looked at Guo Ye sitting on the floor behind Cai Yan with a strange expression.

I didn't pay attention to it just now, but now Xi Zhi took a closer look, and found that Guo Ye, who was tiger-headed, was sitting on a velvet blanket, fiddling with some round or square wooden blocks with his two small hands, as if he was playing very attentively.

Following Xi Zhicai's gaze, Cai Yan seemed to suddenly realize, stood up and said with a little apology on his face: "Oh, there are not enough people in the house, and the place is not big, Ye'er is playing here, but I forgot it, so my brother laughed." ”

Xi Zhicai raised his hand to stop Cai Yan and said, "It's okay, what are you playing, little boy?" ”

Cai Yan couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to tell the story: "This is Fengxiao's idea, let Ye'er play with these small wooden blocks, and piece together wooden blocks of different shapes into a complete figure, and said that this will be good for Ye'er in the future, anyway, I don't see any benefits." ”

In this era, Guo Jia can't make any entertainment projects for his son, make a building block for his two-year-old son to play, and it can also puzzle, saving Cai Yong to recite the history of the scriptures to his son like chanting scriptures all day long, Guo Jia feels torture when he looks at it.

Seeing Guo Ye sitting quietly in the middle of the hall to entertain himself, Xi Zhicai didn't realize the benefit of this piece of wood to put it together, retracted his gaze, Xi Zhicai pondered what kind of wording to use to mention the things in his heart to Cai Yan, and at this moment of thinking, the hall fell into silence.

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip gently, Cai Yan saw Xi Zhicai's distracted appearance, with a faint smile on his soft face, and asked, "What is there to hide from my brother?" ”

Xi Zhicai's expression changed when he came back to his senses, and he looked at Cai Yan, who had always looked gentle, seriously, and said, "Don't hide it from Mrs. Cai, Xu He of Jiangyang County and many counties of Yizhou have rebelled. As I expected, after noon tomorrow, Xu He's army will come to Chengdu City, but Gan Ning led the army at least to rush back to Chengdu, the lord's army is the fastest, and it will take two days to return to Chengdu, and there are only 6,000 soldiers and horses under Gao Shun in the city at present, I am afraid that if Xu He leads the people to attack the city, Chengdu will be in danger of falling. ”

There was no change in the expression on his face, Cai Yan just nodded slightly, and then asked, "Brother don't hesitate, there must be something important to visit at this moment, right?" ”

Xi Zhicai nodded heavily, and suddenly solemnly arched his hand towards Cai Yan, and said: "I am bold, borrow Mrs. Cai and the lord's husband, and use it to retreat from the enemy." ”

Glancing thoughtfully at Guo Ye, who was completely immersed in his own world not far behind him, Cai Yan still kept smiling and asked, "What is it?" ”

Xi Zhicai said in a deep voice: "The lives of Mrs. Cai and the little boy!" ”

"Good!"