Hearing that the secret agent reported that the king of captivity, Ye Zier, sent a secret envoy to Chengdu to confer the title of Cao Yiqu as the king of Shu, Lin Jian laughed and said: "Cao Yiqu took the wrong medicine, so he will accept Hu Lu's canonization at this time." However, Yezier's intention is probably to prompt the Cao family to firmly divide the two rivers and intensify the suspicion between Jiangning and Chengdu, and this news may have been deliberately leaked out by Yezier......"

"Since the previous dynasty, Liangchuan has been richer than Guanzhong, and its population is three times that of Guanzhong; After all these years of war, Liangchuan Dingkou should also be more than 5 million, far from being comparable to Guanzhong after many years of drought and drought. For Cao Yiqu, the time to occupy the two rivers is too short, and the foundation is not solid. Even if Cao Yiqu asked Yan Hu to take away Guanzhong, he should be willing to rest his troops with Yan Hu at this time and consolidate the foundation of the two rivers," Gao Zongting said, "and Yan Hu made Chen Zhihu the king of Qin, and in Guanzhong, Xu Kaifu set up civil and military generals, which was actually almost ceding Guanzhong to Chen Zhihu as a vassal state; And Ye Ji Luorong led 30,000 Yanhu cavalry to retreat to the south of Jin, and deployed on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Yellow River, which probably also marked that Yanhu was going to carry out a comprehensive strategic contraction and concentrate his forces to defend the core places such as Jinzhong and Yanji......"

"Is it necessary for us to send an envoy to Chengdu to find out the Cao family's thoughts?" Song Fu asked.

Lin Jian stood with his eyebrows locked, but did not immediately respond to Song Fu's proposal.

Hu Wenmu frowned slightly when he saw Lin Lian, and he didn't know if he was worried about the Cao family who had retreated to Liangchuan, or if he was thinking about the Northern Expedition.

The Battle of Jingxiang almost laid the foundation for Huaidong, but Cao Yiqu still had 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, tens of millions of acres of land in Liangchuan and 5 million Dingkou, and his strength and military potential in the next three to five years should not be underestimated.

Cao Yiqu will not accept Yanhu's title as the king of Shu openly, but he will obviously not easily give up the idea of separating Sichuan and Shu.

At present, the key is that Cao Yiqu's time to operate Sichuan Shu is too short, the Cao family is almost after the first year of Yongxing gradually mastered Sichuan Shu, so far only four or five years, the Cao family has just made a clue about the geography of Sichuan and Shu, and has not yet transformed the military potential of Sichuan and Shu into real strength. If Cao Yiqu had obtained Liangchuan ten years before Chongguan, he would definitely not have fought so weakly in the middle of the pass.

Gao Zongting said: "Qin Shi has to confuse the solidity, but it is not listed among the seven heroes, and only when Shu land becomes the weather of the whale under the world - after arriving in the previous dynasty, the environment in Guanzhong has become bad; Since Yue, droughts and famines have been frequent, and Dingkou was only three million at its peak, less than one-third of Shudi; The civil unrest during the Chongguan period arose from the northwest, and the Cao family did not really master both sides of the Weishui until the eleventh year of Chongguan, but the potential was far less than that of Sichuan and Shu. When Hu Lu fell into Yan Ji, Cao Yiqu raised troops in Sichuan and Shu, which was under the guise of seeking Sichuan Shu according to Guanzhong and then swallowing the Central Plains. However, after the setback of the battle of Xuzhou, Yanhu's strategic center of gravity suddenly shifted westward, which caught the Cao family off guard, and maybe the Cao family resented us in their hearts. ”

Lin Jian smiled and said: "That's right, if there is no battle of Xuzhou, let the main force of Yanhu entangle with us on the eastern front for three or five years, maybe the Cao family will develop a climate ...... in Sichuan and Shaanxi" and sighed lightly, "However, Sichuan and Shu are rich in population and land resources, and compared with other places in the terrain, they also have a unique absolute advantage, Cao Yiqu may not think of the people under his rule to be war-weary!" ”

Hu Wenmu thought about it carefully, the battle in Xuzhou and the subsequent Huaidong defense line in the Xusi area was stabilized, it was indeed a key turning point in the rise of Huaidong and the general trend of the world, after the war in Xuzhou, the strategic center of gravity of Yanhu moved westward, and Huaidong was able to free up his hands to recover Zhejiang and Fujian and drive the tiger and wolf, so that the luxury family was defeated in Jiangxi, and then took advantage of the situation to win Jiangning, Jiangxi and other places, until the battle of Jingxiang, but in just two or three years.

However, at present, Huaidong wants to enter the two rivers, and can only go west from Yiling to the west, and take the Xiajiang channel in the upper reaches of the Yangzi River, and the water camp and military superiority cannot be unfolded.

As long as Cao Yiqu deploys tens of thousands of elites in key places such as Yuzhou in the upper reaches of the Xiajiang River, he will be able to resist the Huaidong Army outside the two Sichuan, and he will have enough time to recuperate and nourish his strength in Sichuan and Shu, and he will not be afraid of the strength of the Huaidong Army at this time.

Unless the Huaidong Army can recover Guanzhong one step earlier and threaten Liangchuan from the northern flank at the same time, it is possible to make Cao Yiqu surrender without a fight.

At this time, Yanhu's strategy contracted, and the soldiers and horses of his clan were gathered to the north of the Yellow River, and Chen Zhihu was named the king of Qin and Guanzhong, in addition to being able to concentrate his own forces to defend Yanji and Jinzhong, there was also a key to using Chen Zhihu as a domain screen to ease the relationship with the Cao family in Liangchuan to prevent the Huaidong Army from entering Guanzhong.

Although Chen Zhihu said that he was full of blood in Henan and Jinzhong, he had not yet started killing in Guanzhong. In addition to Chen Zhihu himself being a famous general who was invincible in a hundred battles and his subordinates preserved their strength in the Battle of Jingxiang, Yan Hu also wanted to use Chen Zhihu, a former Han minister, to ease the tension with the local forces of Western Qin County, and wanted to make Guanzhong quickly become an important vassal town that could confront and contain Huaidong.

Of course, Yanhu would not easily return Guanzhong to the Cao family, but to make Chen Zhihu establish his own vassal state in Guanzhong was also to let the Cao family see that Yanhu's threat to Sichuan and Shu from the north and from Guanzhong had been greatly weakened, and to let the Cao family rest assured that the military center of gravity would be moved to the line of Yuzhou, in case the Huaidong army would advance along the Yangtze River to seize Sichuan and Shu.

Yan Hu also saw that Guanzhong would not lose the hand of Huaidong, and the Cao family would not easily give in to Huaidong; And sending the secret envoy to seal Cao Yiqu as the king of Shu is not to say that he really hopes that Cao Yiqu will accept it, but to deepen the vigilance and precautions between Cao Yiqu and Huaidong.

As long as the Cao family does not give in, does not give up its military power one day, and has the possibility of sending troops from the Xiajiang River to attack the two lakes one day, Huaidong will station heavy troops in Jingzhou and Yiling to prepare for the Cao family, which is actually to defuse the military pressure that Huaidong has put on Yanhu in other aspects.

However, as long as the Cao family does not give up its ambition of secession, the first person to guard against at this time is no longer Yanhu, but Huaidong, which has the potential to swallow the world.

Although in the battle of Guanzhong, many of the children of the Cao family also died under the iron cavalry of Yanhu and stained the land of Guanshan, but in the face of realistic political interests, the hatred of the country and the family is just child's play.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, the two lakes will be included in the center and are actually controlled by the Huaidong Army, but Lin Jian must also regard the Cao family as an urgent threat, right? Hu Wenmu thought to himself in his heart, and said: "As discussed by Duke Song, I also think that it is necessary to send an envoy into Sichuan to explore the thoughts of the Cao family......

"Except for the fact that the Cao family respects the emperor's family and divides the territory, will they really dare to go out of the Xiajiang River in the next two years?" Lin Jian smiled lightly and said, "It's also good to send an envoy to Chengdu." However, Sichuan and Shu all industries, to nest silk, weaving silk, salt and iron and cloth dyeing, the Cao family's power can only barely control Yuzhou (now Chongqing) at present, I remember that there is a road in Xiangxi and the southeast of Shu, and its road is not enough for the army to pass, but it is convenient for salt, iron, silk cloth and other things to enter. As long as the Cao family still respects the imperial family, they cannot prevent the southern part of Chongqing from receiving goods such as Jianghuai salt, iron and silk cloth. Let's see what kind of climate the Cao family can achieve in three or five years! ”

Although the Cao family according to Sichuan Shu, Chen Zhihu according to Guanzhong and Dong Yuan are all weighty cards played by Yan Hu, but looking at Lin Bin's tone, he doesn't particularly care, and Hu Wenmu also secretly sighed: Even if Dong Yuan and the imperial party are holding back, Yan Hu can closely unite with the Cao family, and he can only be evenly matched with Huaidong.

In just three or five years, the situation in the world has changed, which is really dizzying!

No matter what Hu Wenmu was thinking, Song Fu stood aside and said: "Chen Zhihu just preserved his strength, and took Ye Ji Luorong's 30,000 remnants ......to flee to Guanzhong, so he will be rewarded by the King of Qin.

Lin Lian smiled slightly, and did not respond to Song Fu's words, but in Hu Wenmu's opinion, Lin Lian was willing to do so.

Lin Jian has been in the position of the national duke, with the five counties of Chongzhou and Yizhou as private towns, but the nature is still a fiefdom, although there are subordinates, but only limited to a limited number of people such as long history, Cheng, master book, and classic history.

The meaning of opening the government and establishing the official system and placing the generals and ministers is completely different, and the establishment of the official system is actually equivalent to the establishment of the country. From then on, Chongguo will become a vassal state of the Yue Dynasty, not the previous vassal province.

For Lin Bin, it is not of much significance to add the title of prince or give Jiuxi, but the opening of the government and the placement of generals and ministers is actually to transform the current Privy Council into a more practical Chongguo Mansion, or to separate the Privy Council from the center and place it under the Chongguo Mansion, so that the generals of the privy envoys are the generals of Chongguo, and the 300,000 generals of Huaidong are officially transformed into the soldiers of Chongguo, which is the most substantial step of the Yuan Dynasty.

Hu Wenmu thought secretly in his heart, but when he saw Gao Zongting looking at him, his mind was lively, and he understood that even if Lin Jian had the intention of opening a government and establishing an official system, this matter could not be raised by the Huaidong people, wasn't this what was prepared for him?

Hu Wenmu thought that the Huaidong people should have hinted to Zuo Chengmu about this, but Zuo Chengmu returned to Jiangning when he was in Zaoyang, he should cherish his reputation, and he really didn't want to come forward to be a minister who turned over, and Hu Wenmu also hesitated.

Although Lin Jian will stand in the future, he will naturally not forget his merits, and the new dynasty will naturally praise him, but after thousands of years, the historian may not have a good reputation - and Hu Wenmu will not hesitate.

But these hesitant thoughts only turned around in Hu Wenmu's mind, and compared with the possible negative evaluations of later generations, the practical benefits are within reach - just giving up the ambition of separating Jinghu and no other merits, how can it occupy a place in the new dynasty?

"From the point of view of the ministers, the privy envoy has the merit of establishing the country, and for the future Northern Expedition, it is also a natural choice to open a government and place a hundred officials," Hu Wenmu said, "The ministers are not talented, and I would like to ask for a speech on this matter......"

Song Fu and Gao Zongting glanced at each other, knowing that Lin Lian's face was still tender, and said: "In this snowy weather, I have to return Jiangning to Duke Hu first......

Hu Wenmu said: "The effort of raising hands is not enough to say bitterly. "I thought that Lin Jian was no wonder he was not in a hurry to go back to Jiangning, once the generals of the opening government and the government system were mentioned, there would definitely be some waves in Jiangning, so Lin Jian had to behave out of the way.

Lin Jian didn't seem to have mentioned the topic just now, his eyes were withdrawn from Xiangyang City on the other side of the Han River, and he said: "The enemy of Xiangyang can't drag on for a long time, is the list of war criminals from the Military Intelligence Department listed?" In my opinion, within 30 days, war criminals and ordinary soldiers below the second class are allowed to go out of the city and surrender, and the capital crime will be pardoned; Those who do not surrender after 30 days, except for the soldiers below the commander of the puppet Han army, and the Yan army except for the soldiers below the small banner, the rest will be beheaded! The day of the attack on the city of Xiangyang was also for 30 days. ”