Before the envoys of these two parties arrived in Jingzhou, Cui Qian, who had returned to the court for dinner, had already returned to Jingzhou first, and went straight to Shicheng to report to Li Tai in advance about the personnel changes he had seen during his return to the dynasty.

"Today's temperament is very different from that of the first emperor, and his ambition is high, I'm afraid it's not the blessing of the society!"

After talking about some details of the personnel changes, even if Cui Qianxuan said the biggest feeling of returning to the DPRK on this trip, when he talked about this, his expression was quite worried.

For a normal regime, a young and ambitious monarch can be described as a blessing for the community. However, the Western Wei Dynasty itself was a hegemonic government, and if the emperor was not satisfied with his puppet status and situation, then he would inevitably try to challenge the hegemonic order, causing turmoil in the upper political structure, and then causing serious internal friction.

After hearing Cui Qian's evaluation of the current emperor, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh.

If the life of the current emperor Yuan Qin can be summed up in one sentence, it is either planning how to engage the old man or the old man. The so-called obsessiveness, there will be repercussions, and in the end, he finally exceeded the limit of Yuwentai's patience and killed this son-in-law.

After explaining the current situation in the country, Cui Qian looked at Li Taifa again and asked, "What does the chief want to do about the affairs of the Imperial Pillar Kingdom?" ”

When Li Tai heard this question, he first said with a smile: "I was actually listed as the choice of the Pillar Country, it seems that the people of the times are very important to me!" ”

"Yes, especially many relatives and friends in the Kanto region are very enthusiastic about this, they are cardinals for a long time, and they do not know the current situation, so they hope that Boshan will be brave enough to occupy the throne."

After hearing this, Cui Qian also replied that he had seen the thoughts of these relatives and friends in the Kwantung region very thoroughly, and they also hoped to use this to form an alliance as a party and become a political force that could influence the situation in the DPRK.

"I'm afraid it's going to live up to their love, and now that the situation in the southeast is evolving, there will definitely be more opportunities to take advantage of in the future. The Qi people are also eyeing Huainan, and in this situation, I am afraid that I will not be enough to focus on the southeast, and I really have no time to look elsewhere! ”

After a little emotion, Li Tai directly expressed his attitude towards this matter.

Of course, the position of the Pillar State sounds more majestic than that of the Great General, and if it is only the advancement of the position and does not involve other disputes, Li Tai is of course willing to go further.

Although there are no clear regulations on the eight pillars of the Western Wei Kingdom, except for Daxingtai Yuwentai, the others basically left the front-line command posts after being promoted to the Pillar State and no longer held real power.

If Li Tai is promoted to the pillar state, will he return to the dynasty to raise his glory, or will he continue to stay in Jingzhou to preside over the military and political affairs of the southeast?

Living a retirement life so early is obviously not in line with Li Tai's wishes. But if he still insists on his post, it is equivalent to another special pillar country in addition to Yuwentai, in other words, his Jingzhou Military Government has preliminarily qualified to fight against the Huazhou Foreign Government.

If Li Tai is promoted to the Zhu State this time, the ideal state for him is to continue to be in charge of the Jingzhou Governor's Office, and then rely on the advantage of being born in the Li clan in Longxi to string together many members of the Kwantung clan in the country and let them serve as their spokesmen in the court. And these internal and external personnel headed by him, with his same position as the pillar state, can already be said to have broken away from the control of the Chinese and foreign governments and become another pole.

Cui Qian said that the Kwantung clans who enthusiastically supported Li Tai's promotion to the Zhuguo must have similar ideas, and wanted to achieve such a situation and create a military government dominated by the Kwantung clan in addition to the Zhongwai Prefecture with the Zhenbing as the main body.

Presumably, this is also the main reason why Emperor Yuanqin deliberately brought this topic to Li Tai, just like when Emperor Xiaowu supported the Heba brothers to compete with Gao Huan. When you think about it this way, history is really moving from one cycle to the next, and sure enough, the essence of human beings is a repeater.

Li Tai couldn't even help but start to think that if the emperor couldn't get his father-in-law in Guanzhong, would he go south out of Wuguan and come to Jingzhou to join him? Then he can learn Yuwentai's operation and simply establish a Southern Wei Dynasty in Jingzhou, so that my Nanyang military nobles can regain their glory......

It's exciting to think about such a development route, but it's just just thinking about it.

After all, the premise of all this is not whether Li Tai dares to start a new stove, but whether Emperor Yuanqin can run out of Wuguan and send the only remaining value of the Northern Wei Dynasty to himself.

And to be honest, the Eastern Wei Dynasty has been blown out of the lamp, and the Jianghan region is not the traditional sphere of influence of the Northern Wei Dynasty, even if Yuan Qin comes, it is actually of little significance, and the cohesion of the hearts of the Jianghan people is not as good as that of King Liang in Xiangyang.

So the question turned back, he was idle and painful, so he would change his Nanliang skin because he wanted to be a pillar country?

No one doesn't want to be the boss, Li Tai has to ravage the Yuwen family in his mind eight hundred times every day from waking up and falling asleep at night, but the current situation is really not a good time for him.

Now the biggest contradiction in the country is obviously the emperor and the ministers, the balance of strength between the two sides is very unbalanced, if Li Tai in order to come out and accept the emperor's wooing, then a lot of manpower and material resources must be invested in this competition to maintain the balance of the confrontation between the two. This has to be done by the emperor in minutes, and a new emperor comes to power, is he embarrassed?

At present, there is a huge incremental market between the entire Jianghan and Han waiting for Li Tai to open up, and he is nominally a henchman cultivated and promoted by Daxingtai all the way.

So Li Tai was really not moved by this, and even a little bored, frowning and saying to Cui Qian: "Changshi returned to the town to entertain the envoys and government envoys on my behalf, and sent them back after the courtesy, so there is no need to make the south come again." Even when we met, I was speechless. Even if the people in the DPRK and China don't read history, won't they see anything? The fall of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the collapse of the Southern Liang Dynasty, taking this as a lesson is not enough to alert the monarchs of the court?

Today, I am accumulating momentum in the river, expanding the territory for the country, in order to strengthen the country's strength and promote the prestige of our country, is it to strengthen my own prestige? The people on the edge of the town are generous and hardworking, but the people who set up the dynasty are intriguing, causing chaos and provocation, and now they are even more disturbing to me. ”

Speaking of this, Li Tai was really a little angry. Originally, there was a group of people in the entire Western Wei Dynasty who were flirting with the wall, only Lao Tzu was concentrating on hurdling for the community, you didn't help me more, but also used this kind of to disturb my Dao heart, it really didn't make sense! Whether I am a pillar country or not, I am already the pillar of this regime, I am really heartbroken for you!

Of course, the actual reply must not be so direct, unless Li Tai wants to experience mixed doubles. No matter how he responded to this question, it was inappropriate, so he simply avoided it.

Even if you sell cuteness to Yuwentai again, it's not appropriate, after all, Shiliu has already recognized that he has the potential to break his wrist with Daxingtai, at least the age and appearance are absolutely controlled, and if the posture is still too humble, it will look suspicious.

And it's not necessary, anyway, as long as his best son-in-law is there, Yuwentai will never force himself to rebel against this henchman of the tyrant: because my son-in-law doesn't deal with me, so I will unload my own arms to scare and scare him? There is no such logic!

This matter will inevitably end in the end, and Li Tai is too lazy to waste his mind on it. For him, this can be regarded as once again determining his position in the eyes of the Chinese people after Hou Jing bought him not long ago and made him understand his weight in the eyes of outsiders.

In addition to eating banquets and mourning and fighting with Weng sons-in-law, it is not that nothing else has happened in the Western Wei Dynasty recently, but it is not a good thing.

In the second half of last year, when the Western Wei army was busy with the Eastern Expedition, some changes also occurred in Shuzhong, Qiu Chi and Yang Fachen asked for the history of Lizhou but was rejected and severely reprimanded by Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling in the Southern Liang, so he turned to the state to annex to the Western Wei.

After the end of the Eastern Crusade, Yuwentai was a little disgraced, so he planned to abuse vegetables to regain a little dignity, and paid attention to the situation in Shuzhong, and ordered Wang Yue, Yang Shao, etc., who were sitting in Hanzhong, to lead the army into Shu to help Yang Fachen, the chief of Yizhou, resist the crusade of Yizhou, and make a little temptation to seize Shuzhong.

But this temptation went wrong, and Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, hurriedly increased his troops to conquer after learning that the Western Wei had sent troops into Shu to interfere. Wang Yue and others led the men and horses to just enter Shu, and even if they were besieged by the Shu army in Yang Fachen's old nest Pingxing City and could not advance or retreat, it had been a few months since the calculation of time.

The Chinese and foreign governments did not publicize this matter, and even deliberately concealed it, after all, it was too embarrassing. Last year's Eastern Crusade had not eased up, and Shuzhong here was directly encircled after a little advance, which can be described as a bad year. Compared with the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, it is no wonder that Guanzhong Shiliu has the idea of making a new prefix.

But although the heat of the matter has been suppressed, the problem always has to be solved. If it weren't for the fact that Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, was also worried that he would have a mortal enmity with the Western Wei Dynasty and would be constantly harassed and attacked by Hanzhong, Wang Yue and his soldiers might not have been able to hold on to this day, and they might have been killed or captured by the Shu soldiers a long time ago.

Li Tai did not get this news from the Bafu, but Li Qianzhe, who returned to Jingzhou from Brazil, returned to tell him.

"Because of the nuisance of this war, all parts of Shuzhong are heavily guarded. Although the other side is unique, the former general's achievements in recovering Lianghan Shannan are too amazing, and the Shu people are also afraid of being disturbed by this attack, so all parties are blocked and are not allowed to communicate. Even the Hanzhong people trapped in Pingxing City are also affected by this......"

Li Tai heard Li Qianzhe's story, and he was a little proud for a while, he couldn't imagine that his reputation was so loud in the relatively closed Shu, and he couldn't cry or laugh even a little, except for some worries about Wang Yue and other soldiers who were affected by his prestige, and more importantly, because of the martial law in Shuzhong, all the Shu brocade that Li Qianzhe bought and exchanged from Shu during this period could not be shipped.

In August last year, Li Qianzhe was ordered to go to Shuzhong Brazil to conduct trade with the Shu people, and in the face of the huge profits of sugar, those Brazilian Shu people also gave a warm response, agreed to Li Tai's various conditions, sent protons to Jingzhou, and gathered manpower and material resources to build a small city for trading goods and goods on its border.

In the past half a year, Li Qianzhe has been sitting in the other side to promote transactions, and has exchanged more than 30,000 horses of Shu brocade from Shu. Although there is still a huge gap compared to the 100,000 horses required by Li Tai, this is already a very impressive achievement.

However, due to the rugged roads and inconvenient transportation, although these Shu brocades obtained from the trade have been transported back, more than 10,000 horses are still stored in the small city named Sugar City in Shuzhong.

Now due to the invasion of the Western Wei Dynasty, all parts of Shuzhong are heavily guarded, and some of the Brazilian wealthy families involved in the trade do not dare to have more contacts with Li Qianzhe on the cusp of this limelight.

Speaking of this, Li Qianzhe also had a bitter face, and sighed: "Now the Brazilian Shiliu families still dare not make any changes because of the frequent exchanges before, but if the two sides continue to fight each other, and the customs and blockade remain the same, I am afraid they will not continue to settle down......

Li Tai also felt a headache when he heard this, because Hanzhong recovered in advance and let Yuwentai speed up the strategy against Shuzhong, and he also expected such a situation, so he arranged for Li Qianzhe to infiltrate the trade.

However, due to the excessive vigilance of the Shu people, Yuwentai's temptation was directly kicked on the iron plate, and by the way, it had such a serious impact on his arrangement, which really caught him by surprise.

More than 10,000 horses of Shu brocade plus other seasonal goods, even for Li Tai today, it is a very considerable amount of money, so he is naturally reluctant to give up. However, if you want to successfully transport it, you must resolve the tense attitude of both sides.

Li Tai knew that Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, had a lot of ambitions, and was not satisfied with being a soil emperor in Shu, and he had always despised the king of Xiangdong, and he had always had a plan to go out of Shu, and he was probably not very happy to fight with the Western Wei in Shu. Therefore, as long as the Western Wei Dynasty first bows its head and submits to the softness and admits a small mistake, it is estimated that it can also negotiate peace.

However, the situation on the side of the Western Wei Dynasty is not very optimistic, Yuwentai has hit a wall one after another militarily, and at the sensitive node when the new emperor ascends the throne and stares at trouble, I am afraid that he is not very willing to bow his head.

However, Li Tai happened to catch Xiao Yuanzheng, the son of King Wuling, here, if he can use this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Shuzhong, he can operate a more decent ending.

Li Tai did not intend to hand over Xiao Yuanzheng to the Chinese and foreign governments, but wanted the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion to negotiate with Shuzhong, so as to grasp the right to speak on this matter, so he repaired a letter and sent it back to Huazhou Bafu quickly.

At this time, Huazhou Zhongfu, Yu Wentai was irritated by all things inside and outside, when he received Li Tai's progress to browse a little, he couldn't help but smile, and said with a relieved face: "Boshan and I should be sincere, new difficulties, that is, there is a solution, but so that everyone in the house is like this, why should I worry!" ”

Li Tai's plan can be said to be a great solution to his urgent needs, coupled with the recent performance of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion is also remarkable, so Yuwentai simply transferred the governor of Liangzhou in Hanzhong from the Qinzhou Governor's Mansion to the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, and took Yan Qingchu as the Sima of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion and the Liangzhou Governor's Office, and cooperated with the Governor's Office to properly handle the matter.

I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a happy holiday!!