The Wanshi Garden is quite deserted, except for the armor of the sword and halberd, there are almost no other idle people.

Xiao Jin and his entourage entered through the middle gate, walked on the cobblestone path, passed through the corridor, and did not stop until they were in front of a small cliff building.

Lu Qian and Lu Tingyi, the owner of Wanshi Garden, stood in front of Xiaozhu and said with a smile: "I am very happy to have friends from afar. ”

Xiao Jin took off the hat on his head and arched his hand: "Xiao Jin in the northwest has seen the Metropolitan Governor. ”

"Huaiyu doesn't have to be polite. Lu Qian waved his hand, then stretched out his hand sideways, "Please." ”

Xiao Jin also stretched out his hand, "Please." ”

There is a table with 12 dishes on the table, and you can see the blue waves under the cliff, the waves crashing on the cliff shore, and rolling up a thousand layers of snow from the window.

The guests and hosts were seated separately, and there were only two people at the table. Qiu Ye, Zhang Chuanting, Yuan Ting and others did not enter.

Lu Qian, as the host, lifted the wine jug to pour wine for Xiao Jin, and said, "Brother Sheng Gong, how are you lately?"

The wine is a first-class Jiangnan famous wine, has been buried deep in the ground for 30 years, take it out today, the aroma of the wine is overflowing, if there is an alcoholic here, I am afraid that it will be drunk for three points first. What's even more amazing is that the wine is still crystal clear, and there is no cloudiness.

Xiao Jin raised his glass with both hands, watched the clear wine pour into the glass, and said with a smile: "Recently, I have lived in the northwest with my brother, but I haven't returned to the Eastern Capital for a long time, and I don't know the news of my parents, so I am really ashamed to be a son." ”

Lu Qian put down the wine jug in his hand and said, "Although the parents are not far away, the boy is ambitious in all directions, and it is also appropriate to go out and take a look." ”

Xiao Jin took a sip of the wine in the glass and said bluntly: "The Metropolitan Governor knows Xiao Jin's intention, why bother to talk about him?"

Lu Qian restrained the faint smile on his face, and said in a deep voice: "Since you are entrusted by Xiao Yu, there is nothing you can say now, but there is no need to pretend to be amazing like an ordinary lobbyist." ”

Xiao Jin smiled and said: "The words are not shocking, not only the speaker is intentional, but more importantly, the listener has the heart, Xiao Mou only stated the interests and disadvantages for the Metropolitan Governor today and analyzed the situation, as for how to decide, it is only in the Metropolitan Governor's thoughts." ”

Lu Qian leaned back in his chair and said, "Please speak." ”

Xiao Jinmans drank the wine in the cup in an orderly manner, and said: "At present, the northwest is like a tired egg, does the metropolitan governor think so?"

Lu Qian nodded, "Everyone in the world knows about it." ”

Xiao Jin said: "Do you know why the Northwest has ended up like this?"

Without waiting for Lu Qian to answer, Xiao Jin had already asked and answered himself: "In my opinion, one is because Xiao Yu is arrogant and has made a rafter that rises first. The second is that the defeat of Qin Zheng's army was too sudden and too coincidental, so that the northwest of the expedition to the south of the Yangtze River was caught off guard and was taken advantage of by the herdsmen. As for the third, Xiao Yu made many enemies, and the wall fell down and everyone pushed it. Looking at the intersection of countries for thousands of years, it is nothing more than the four characters of distant friendship and close attack, Xiao Yu went against the trend, how can he be invincible?"

Xiao Jin looked at Lu Qian and asked slowly, "Does the Metropolitan Governor think so?"

Lu Qian nodded again.

Xiao Jin refilled the empty wine glass in front of him, "Originally, it was five points of the world, the shepherds took root in the northeast, Xiao Yu was in the northwest, the prime minister occupied the orthodoxy of the Central Plains, the governor of the capital lived in the south of the Yangtze River, and Qin Zheng was struggling to survive on the front line in the north, and now that Qin Zheng has been destroyed, there are only four left." Among these four, there is no doubt that the northwest has the most military strength, and it is precisely because of this that the northwest will be targeted. If it weren't for Xiao's debasement of the metropolitan governor, although the Jiangnan army was numerous, it was embarrassing to fight, and it was actually the last of the four. ”

Lu Qian was noncommittal, but said, "Go on." ”

Xiao Jin smiled: "If the northwest is overturned, what will be the situation?"

Xiao Jin dipped his fingers in the wine and drew two staggered straight lines on the table, just four points, "If Zhongdu falls, the five northwestern states will no longer have the strength to fight, and all of them will be returned to the hands of the shepherds." In the remaining remnants of the northwest, Lan Yu occupied Huzhou, and Lin Han and Min Xing retreated to Shuzhou, each of which became its own family. There is also a grassland that is already ready to move, and eighty percent will go south to the Central Plains. ”

Xiao Jin changed his words and said: "The grassland is no longer the grassland that galloped the world at the beginning, and after the internal friction of the Red Lady and Xu Lin's Northern Expedition, as well as the transfer of a large number of elites by Xiao Yu, there is no need to worry, as for Lan Yu, Min Xing and Lin Han, they are just rootless trees, and they cannot last long, and in the final analysis, they will still be swept away by the army of the Northeast and Eastern Capital." ”

Lu Qian pressed his hands on the armrests, leaned forward slightly, and asked seriously, "Then what?"

Xiao Jin said calmly: "Why did my father Xiao Lie delay in sending troops to the northwest, the metropolitan governor really doesn't know? It is true that my father and brother have a father-son relationship, but the movements of several states in Jiangbei, don't the metropolitan governors still understand?"

Lu Qian said in a deep voice: "It seems that Brother Sheng Gong has already taken one step and looked at three steps. ”

Xiao Jin picked up the wine glass and poured the wine in the cup out of the window, "The shepherd wants to take the northwest unscathed, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream, and the best result is to hurt the enemy by one thousand and five hundred." When the day came when the herdsmen began to conquer the northwest, who was the loser? The Xiao clan in the central capital, who was the injured man, who was the Mu clan in the northern capital, and who was the fisherman who profited? ”

Lu Qian was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "Even if Xiao Lie can dominate Jiangbei, what if this governor still has a great river and natural danger. ”

Xiao Jin sneered and said: "There has been no war in Jiangnan for a long time, and the soldiers who can fight are all in Jiangbei, and they can't even pull a bow to form a million army formed by capturing strong men and homeless people, can Dajiang really hold it?"

Lu Qian stared at Xiao Jin and said word by word: "The heart of the Jiangnan Shi clan is available, and the people's heart is available." ”

Xiao Jin sneered: "If you can't win on the battlefield, what's the use of the people's hearts? Back then, Hou Jiantie rode south to the Central Plains and stepped on the world, but he had won the hearts of the people? What can the people hate to the bone? It's not that millions of people have been slaughtered, and ten rooms and nine empty rooms!"

Lu Qian was silent for a long time, exhaled a long breath, and laughed softly: "You are so sure that Xiao Lie will not accept the situation of dividing the river and ruling it?"

Xiao Jin asked rhetorically: "If you are the governor of the capital, one step forward is a great cause, will the governor of the capital be willing to stop at the division of the north and the south?"

This time, Lu Qian was really speechless.

There was silence in the room.

After a long time, Lu Qian finally spoke again and said in a low voice: "The world is not just a Da Zheng, but also Weiguo, Houjian, grassland and Baozhu. ”

Xiao Jin said calmly: "The Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Central Plains can appear in the past, but they will never appear in the present, even if Xiao Yu married the princess of the previous generation of the Grassland Khan King, guarding a huge prairie, and commanding sixty-two Taiji, he didn't dare to let the grassland army go south half a step, why? Because he didn't want to and didn't dare to be a sinner for the ages, Xiao Yu didn't have the guts, most of the governors did?"

Lu Qian sighed and said no more.

Xiao Jin said these truths, he doesn't understand, it's not that he doesn't know, it's just a person, sometimes he will deceive himself and not know it, as long as he doesn't get to the step of completely picking it out, he always feels that he can try it, and if it sounds good, it is called not giving up if he doesn't get to the Yellow River, and if he doesn't say it, he can't cry if he doesn't see the coffin. Now that Xiao Jin has completely pushed the lid of this coffin open, he finally can't continue to deceive himself.

The sound of waves outside the window was bursting, Lu Qian came back to his senses, drank all the wine in the cup, and asked, "Dare to ask Huaiyu, how should Lu behave?"

Xiao Jin said: "Just now Xiao said that the people's will is useless, slightly biased, the people's will is of great use, but it cannot be used for a while, it must be slowly figured out." ”

Lu Qian asked, "How do you slowly figure it out?"

Xiao Jin said with a smile: "In a word, follow the old example of the proprietor back then." At that time, the proprietor started in Jiangdu, pursued the policy of building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowing down the king, so ten years, only then did he hold high the banner of the Fengtian Northern Expedition, so there were tens of millions of people's aspirations, and after six years to sweep away the princes of the country, establish Dazheng, ascend to the throne of God, and then the world returned to the heart. ”

Lu Qian savored it, stroked his palm and exclaimed: "Huaiyu is really a great talent. ”

Xiao Jin looked at the sky outside the window, put down the ivory chopsticks in his hand, and said: "Most of the governors praise falsely, Xiao Jin doesn't dare to be, but Xiao Jin still has a word, I don't know if the majority of the governors are willing to listen?"

Lu Qian said with a smile: "Huaiyu, but it's okay to speak, Lu listens." ”

Xiao Jin said: "Jiangnan, outstanding people, rich in products, the metropolitan governor occupies Jiangnan, it is already occupying the geographical advantage." However, if you want to follow the old example of the proprietor, you have to buy several years of recuperation and even military training. ”

As the lord of one party, Lu Qian naturally had no reason not to understand Xiao Jin's unfinished intentions, and nodded and said: "If you want to recuperate, Jiangbei cannot be unified, and the northwest cannot be overturned." Huai Yu's meaning, this governor understands, long-distance friendship and close attack is indeed the eternal principle. ”

Xiao Jin showed a smile on his face, got up and left his seat, and arched his hand: "Xiao Jin thanked the Metropolitan Governor for his success." ”