"Although there are 50,000 troops in Jiannan Xichuan Province, but since the twelfth year of Xiantong, Lu Yan was appointed as the envoy of Jiannan Xichuan Province, he has appointed his cronies to do misbehaps, resulting in the disheartenness of the Xichuan Provincial Army, and it has not been recovered.

After a pause, Li Zuo continued: "And if Xichuan is in chaos, the imperial court will inevitably send elite soldiers and strong generals to come, so it is not a good thing for us." ”

Historically, after Chengdu was besieged, the Tang Dynasty first sent the right Wuwei general Song Wei, and then the left Shenwu general Yan Qingfu, after the end of the war in Annam, Gao Biao led the army into Shu non-stop, directly disabled Nanzhao, and then Gao Biao guarded in Xichuan for three years as the envoy of the Xichuan Festival of Jiannan Province, until the Central Plains rebellion.

These three people were all famous generals in the late Tang Dynasty, and Li Zuo didn't want to face them too early.

Hearing Li Zuo's analysis, Shi Shoudao frowned unconsciously, and said: "Lu Yan was transferred back to the imperial court at the beginning of the year, and now it's been almost half a year, and Lu Geng, the general of Chengdu, should have reorganized his soldiers and horses......

"Although Lu Yan was transferred back to the imperial court to serve as the secretary of the order, he is still holding the position of the envoy of the Jiannan Xichuan Daojiedu, and in addition, his cronies basically control the various important positions in Xichuan." Without waiting for Shi Shoudao to finish speaking, Li Zuo waved his hand and interrupted: "Besides, the soldiers and horses are not so easy to order, let alone the border army." ”

Lu Yan has been smart since childhood, Xiantong was an official for three years to the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, at the age of 36, he was appointed as prime minister for 8 years, accepted bribes in office, cronyism, appointed villain Bian Xian, and Wei Baoheng, and was known as "Bull Head Aby".

Lu Yan regards self-fertilization as his own responsibility, and there is no satisfaction and no end. Most of the prime ministers of Tang Yizong were officials like this, and the prime minister Wei Zhou had thousands of hectares of fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, and they were all shy fields, Wei Zhou was called "Zugu Weng" by Tang Yizong, and the history called Lu Yan's cronies Bian Xian, the money looted could support the army of the whole country for two years.

It is the so-called lesson of heaven, and it benefits its disease; Heaven has taken the spirit, and the time of death is approaching.

Lu Yan regards the good times of officialdom as his must, and forgets all the awe and virtue, and takes it for granted that he does things that anger and resentment every day, he can make dazzling and extraordinary achievements in the best years, and he should have made admirable heirlooms in the best years, but unfortunately, this is a person who is blinded by profit, and the passerby who walks in the spurned people looks triumphant.

Wei Baoheng is a sinister person, but also an ambitious person, he originally wanted to bring down Lu Yan to the top position, after weighing and analyzing, he found that the difficulty was a bit big, so he changed his strategy, and he desperately knotted and befriended Lu Yan.

In order to let Lu Yan regard him as a confidant, Wei Baoheng and Lu Yan impeached and persecuted Lu Yan many times, and also said to Tang Yizong that he would advance and retreat with Lu Yan, Lu Yan was very moved, and he did not guard against Wei Baoheng, and under Lu Yan's strong recommendation, Wei Baoheng was also promoted to prime minister.

Wei Baoheng secretly cultivated party henchmen and recruited cronies, and when he felt that the time was ripe, he began to crowd out Lu Yan, instructed his henchmen to write a letter to impeach Lu Yan, and personally slandered Tang Yizong to frame Lu Yan.

In fact, it's not exactly a frame-up, after all, Lu Yan has been doing bad things.

In the end, Lu Yan was demoted out of the game and became the envoy of the Xichuan Festival of Jiannan Province.

But even at this point, Lu Yan did not restrain at all, and still used his cronies Bian Xian to loot in Xichuan.

At the beginning of this year, he re-entered Beijing, was promoted to Zhongshu Ling, was named the Duke of Wei, and regained power.

But Li Zuo knew that when Tang Xizong succeeded to the throne, Lu Yan would continue to be demoted, and then he was dismissed, exiled, confiscated, and finally given death.

Historically, after the invasion of the Nanzhao army, because of the festering of the Xichuan border army, the Nanzhao army drove straight in, and in just a few months, it hit Qiongzhou, if it were not for the right military guard general Song Wei urgently entered Sichuan to resist a wave, under the two-front battle, Chengdu may be captured by Nanzhao.

And now for Li Zuo, he neither wants the Nanzhao army to cause trouble in Xichuan, nor does he want the imperial court to send other troops into Xichuan.

Shi Shoudao thought about it after hearing this, and said: "But it's useless for us to worry now, besides, there are more than 80,000 troops in the east and west rivers, and in the case of our containment, my subordinates should not be defeated too badly." ”

"In addition, we can secretly remind Lu Geng, the defender of Chengdu, and Cui Chong, the envoy of Jiannan Dongchuan Jiedu, so that they can be prepared and ready to deal with it."

"That's all there is to it." Li Zuo nodded when he heard this, and said, "Then, this requires us to fight a little harder here, and it is best to attract the main forces of Nanzhao." ”

As for whether he can fight here, Li Zuo has never been worried, not to mention anything else, he can completely abuse Nanzhao in terms of weapon superiority.

Shi Shoudao frowned and pondered for a moment, then opened his mouth to ask something, but he didn't know how to open his mouth for a while.

Seeing this, Li Zuo smiled and said, "If the military advisor has any doubts, please tell me directly." ”

Shi Shoudao pursed his lips when he heard this, and only after a while did he ask: "King Qiyu Ming, in fact, now our strength should be enough for the overall Bashu, why don't we just start an incident?" ”

Li Zuo shook his head when he heard this, sighed, and said, "Strategist, the wind breaks the high forest, and the gun shoots the first bird!" ”

"Shoot the first bird?" Shi Shoudao was stunned when he heard this, he understood the meaning, but he didn't understand much.

Seeing this, Li Zuo reacted and said, "The gun here is another kind of weapon, you can understand it as an arrow shooting out of the first bird, and the rafter decays first." ”

"Now the domestic situation is still unclear, and there are Nanzhao on the outside, if we rush into trouble, we will face the risk of being caught between the north and the south."

After a pause, Li Zuo continued: "And the reason why I first took Qianzhong is to use the power of the imperial court to first cripple the external threat of Nanzhao, so that it is unable to invade the north; Although we have tens of thousands of soldiers, most of them are peasants who have never been on the battlefield, and the number of troops seems to be quite a lot, but the combat power is limited. ”

"Instead of facing the official army directly, it is better to practice with the Nanzhao barbarian army first, after all, compared to the official army, the barbarian army is much weaker."

During this period, although there were constant melee within the Tang Dynasty, no matter the strength of that side, it was able to press the existence of the surrounding tribes to blast the hammer.

Although the Tang army here in Bashu has been defeated, it is caused by various factors such as the incompetence of the main general, the shortage of food and salary, and the slack of armaments, but as long as someone can organize them, it is not to be underestimated.

In history, the Sichuan army that entered Shu and was reorganized was able to chase the Nanzhao army.

Therefore, no matter how much Li Zuo underestimated the Nanzhao Army, he did not dare to underestimate the Tang Army, and he could not be too cautious in treating the Tang Army, especially the Fanzhen Army.

Besides, throughout history, often the first to come out will not end well, and if Li Zuo starts an incident now, it will inevitably attract the attention of all places.

Not to mention anything else, if the troops of the seven jiedu envoys of Kannai and Gyeonggi and the two jiedu envoys of Shannan go south in a big way, it will be enough for him to bear.

And the most important point is that after the uprising of Wang Xianzhi in history, most of the troops of the seven jiedu envoys of Guannai and Gyeonggi and the two jiedu envoys of Shannan will be transferred out of Tongguan to quell the rebellion.

Seeing that the two of them stopped talking, Zhang Guibo on the side just opened his mouth and was about to continue to report, when a guard hurriedly walked in and bowed down to report: "King Qiming, Li Keyi of the Xinming Li clan asks to see you." ”