Compared with the situation in Guanzhong, which makes the parties a little anxious, the personnel process here in the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion is much smoother.

With the development of Zhang Xi of Fanyang Zhang's family to the offline line, there is more than a little bit of personnel infiltration from Jingzhou to Jiangling. Although Xiao Yi is suspicious by nature and has a very tight grasp of power, Zhang Xi, as the squire of the Yellow Gate, and his uncle Zhang Juan are the right servants of the official residence, and the influence he can exert on the political situation in Jiangling is also very great.

There is also a more critical point, that is, Zhang Xi really did things to collect money, such as using Liang Wang Xiao Jing to divide Zhou Hongzheng, and directly abolished the influence of this Donggui faction in the Jiangling court. As for other small requests made by Li Tai in terms of personnel, Zhang Xi also tried his best to meet them, which also made Li Tai feel that this insider was really worth buying.

Li Tai also spent a lot of effort to buy other Southern Liang people, such as Yu Xin, who got a lot of benefits from the north, but except for a few poems, he rarely played a role in other aspects. He even supported the relocation of the capital to Jiankang, probably sitting on the edge of the Qinhuai River and nibbling on sugarcane, which was especially sweet.

As for those local currents in Gangneung, because they have a relatively strong need to protect the interests of the countryside, they will not obey Li Taiyan, but only maintain a certain degree of cooperation under the condition that the needs of both sides are the same.

For example, Hu Shengyou, the leading general of Jiangling, when Li Tai arranged for people from Jiangling to return to their hometowns to worship their ancestors, he was very active, and even sent a son to be stationed in Hubei, hoping to use this behavior to elevate his family background in order to integrate into the mainstream of the Jiangling family. After all, as a person who returned from the north to the south, he is also a relatively pure military general, and his recognition in the Southern Liang society has not been very high.

However, when Li Tai planned to take advantage of his position to show goodwill to some Jiangling Jiangling, Hu Shengyou did not enter the oil and salt, and even the gifts received by his son in Chubei were sent back later, and he did not dare to keep them privately.

Li Tai didn't have to grovel to bribe the people of Nanliang to dare to make up his mind about Jiangling, and basically included in the blacklist of people who toasted and didn't eat and drink, not only did he not plan to continue to contact now, but he also didn't plan to deliberately tolerate it in the future.

There is one thing that is regrettable in Jiangling, that is, Xiao Yi, a brain-dead man, ordered the burning of 140,000 volumes of books before the destruction of Jiangling City. After hundreds of years of division between the north and the south, most of the rich achievements accumulated in the cultural development of this vein of the Southern Dynasties were burned.

Li Tai has paid attention to academic exchanges with Gangneung from a very early age, of course, mainly as a party for advice, so he has also coveted the collection of books in Gangneung for a long time.

From Zhang Xi, he also learned that as Xiao Yi temporarily gave up the plan to move the capital to Jiankang, he also arranged for his subordinates to transport Jiankang's books and cultural relics to Jiangling.

So Li Tai also told Zhang Xi that he hoped to arrange some personnel to enter the sorting and editing of these books. Even if he can't stop this cultural tragedy in the end, he wants to preserve as much of the content as possible.

In the name of studying abroad, he made a request to Jiangling to send some students from state studies to study, and Xiao Yi also agreed to this request under the advice of Zhang Xi's uncle and nephew and some other Jiangling people. So Li Tai arranged for his nephew Li Yuxiang to lead a hundred selected state students to Gangneung for a one-year study tour.

At the same time, Liu Guangde, the person who introduced Zhang Xi to a big financial path, was also recommended by Zhang Xi to serve as a scholar and courtier like Si Yilang in the Jiangling Imperial Court. After the Jiankang books arrived in Gangneung, these outsiders would have access to these books.

Of course, as the situation in Gangneung gradually stabilized, the interaction with Chubei was not completely harmonious.

In mid-October, shortly after the arrival of the new Yingzhou Assassin Shi Lufa and the governor of Jiangling, Xuan sent an envoy north, hoping to return Xiakou to the Southern Liang garrison and manage it.

Unlike other local heroes and military leaders in Southern Liang who took advantage of the chaos, Lu Fahe is better known as a monk. His people govern the army and the people without criminal orders, and thousands of songs are all called disciples, since he recommended himself to Xiao Yimao, his people and affairs have revealed a strange atmosphere that seems to be open but the effect is not too big.

For such an outlier who seems to be pretending to be a ghost but seems to have some real skills, Li Tai is also more curious.

However, he did not directly agree to Lu Fahe's request, but he did not refuse, but he just ordered Li Yunxin, the assassin of Yingzhou on his side, to close the border port of Shicheng for ten years, and those Jiangling people whose goods were stranded on the way naturally helped him give Lu Fahe an answer. It was useless for Li Tai to let people drive him away, and the messenger sent by his people returned by himself.

Although Xiao Yi seems to have eliminated all the competitors in the country and become the only heir of Southern Liang Guozuo, of course, it is to exclude Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, this guy has now been expelled from his nationality and clan by default.

But the split within the Southern Liang has also been formed, not to mention the more remote areas, even along the Great River. For example, the brothers of Jiangbei Jinxi Lu Siddha who defected to Li Tai before, as well as Lu Fahe, who had just gone to Yingzhou, sent people to ask for the return of Xiakou, and also made their own opinions.

Almost at the same time, Wang Shengbi, who was downstream of the town, also sent envoys to Jingzhou, hoping to carry out some military cooperation with Jingzhou.

After a few months, the Northern Qi Dynasty once again launched an offensive against Jiankang and other places in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. This time, the main force was also Guo Yuanjian, the remnants of Hou Jing's rebellious army, and at the same time, he accepted the retreat of Hou Xiao of Xiangtan of the Southern Liang Sect, and sent the general Bu Dahansa and others as the successor division, and once again came to the south with great momentum.

Wang Seng Biao had already gone to Gu Wei, dispatched men and horses to deploy defenses, and sent his younger brother Wang Seng Shu to come, hoping that Li Tai could send troops to cooperate and dismantle the Northern Qi operation.

"The Qi people are fierce and stubborn, relying on their strength and repeatedly violating the realm, the people of Huainan have been abused, Ding Zhuang has been taken captive, filled the battle array, and the women and children are sad and miserable! General Li is a good soldier and an example of benevolence and righteousness, and I implore that he can send troops to deter the recalcitrant thieves and save the people of Huainan from a desperate situation......"

Wang Seng bowed to Li Tai and said sadly, of course, it was not just a moral request, and then he told the conditions offered by Wang Seng: "The old Hou Jing Jukou started in Shouyang, and the land of Huainan is not mine." General Li defeated the thief army several times according to Huai, and the world was impressed!

Now my brother is ordered by the king to guard the south of the Yangtze River, although there is no idea of recovering Huainan, but also know that the strength is weak, rather than sitting and watching the thieves steal the evidence, several times to raise troops to come to the Kou, it is better to serve virtue and righteousness, in order to strengthen the prestige of the general!

Today, the Qi army and thief division have not yet arrived, and only the evil thief Guo Yuanzhen is alone in Hefei. If the general is willing to send troops to cooperate, then my brother will not be in a hurry to attack his army, and can continue to deploy ships and land to wait for the arrival of the thief. At that time, our army will attack, and the general can intercept it in the rear, and the thief will be destroyed in Huainan, and it will be owned by the general from the north of Hefei, and the following Dongguan will belong to our army. If you violate, you will spit on heaven and man! ”

Regarding Wang Sengbian's sincerity, Li Tai did not doubt it. Because today's Dajiang defense line can be said to be leaking everywhere, from Jingkou to Huancheng, there is no place that can be called a rock, and there are places everywhere that can be broken through.

Under such circumstances, abandoning the area north of Dongguan and handing it over to Li Tai, who was still friendly, could also relieve part of the pressure on the river defense, and concentrate superior forces in the lower reaches of the river, either offensive or defensive, which would be more flexible. Moreover, Li Tai, both in terms of his own strength and the aggressiveness he showed, was weaker than that of Northern Qi.

This deal is also more cost-effective for Li Tai, the reason why he refused to occupy Shouyang and Hefei before was indeed because he was not able to catch it, and he was worried that the defense line would be stretched and the gains would outweigh the losses.

But now the situation is different, Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian are now also concentrated in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and they have the need to recover the lost territory in Jiangbei. Especially Chen Baxian, because he does not belong to the Jiangling lineage, for the sake of the expansion of his power, his desire to attack is much stronger than that of Wang Shengbi.

At present, Wang Seng is willing to take Jiankang out as bait, and his own troops bear the pressure from the Northern Qi army, creating an opportunity for Li Tai to take advantage of the back road, which can be regarded as full of sincerity.

Under such circumstances, it is not a dream to cooperate with Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian to sweep the Northern Qi forces out of Huainan. The reason why Li Tai wanted to defend Yiyang before was precisely because he had this in mind, hoping that he would be able to have greater initiative when the conditions were right one day in the future, and take this as a choice.