"Are you going to enter Sichuan Shu?"

Xiao Qian looked at Sun Ning and repeated his words quite unexpectedly.

Immediately, she raised the gourd again, and used the action of drinking to hide the change in her expression, as if she was surprised.

This is the third day after the First World War in Liaojia Village, and after some careful consideration, Sun Ning finally made such a decision, and at the same time told Xiao Qian his thoughts.

When he said this, he naturally hoped that Xiao Qian would also enter Shu with him and accompany him.

After laughing, Sun Ning explained carefully: "Although we always aimed at the Zonghenghui before, we thought that we could hit them more.

"In fact, in the final analysis, we hope that the world will be more peaceful, and the people will suffer less from the war and chaos, and will not be bullied and exploited by those greedy guys."

"Well, but does this have anything to do with our entry into Shu? I heard that the Xiao family's governance of Shu is still quite good. Xiao Qian nodded and asked again.

By this time, she had recovered, and there was no emotional fluctuation on her face, only a trace of doubt.

"The Dingxi Hou Xiao clan has indeed been benevolent and righteous, and he also takes care of the people under his rule, so I didn't think about making enemies of them. On the contrary, I want to enter Shu this time, just to help them, because of the existence of the Tang Sect. ”

Now Xiao Qian finally understood: "Are you worried that the Tang Sect will be a threat to the Xiao family?" ”

"If what I expected is correct, I'm afraid that now the Tang Sect can at least be on an equal footing with the Xiao family in Shuzhong, and even overwhelm the forces that Dingxi Hou can control." Sun Ning is colorful.

"How is this possible?" Xiao Qian frowned, obviously unable to accept such a statement.

"I know that you are a native of Sichuan and Shu, and you have long accepted the rule of the Xiao clan over the local area, but have you thought about it, how long have you not been back?"

"I've been learning swords in Kunlun for more than ten years, and the last time I went back was eight years ago."

"Eight years is enough to change too many things that are taken for granted in this world, especially when the world is still in turmoil in the past three years, and even the Dayue Imperial Court exists in name only, and the previously recognized order has naturally been broken long ago."

Sun Ning looked at each other with a surprisingly serious expression: "Don't you know much about the Tang Sect?" They are a group of ambitious and extremely united family groups, and they are also extremely powerful and deeply rooted in Shu.

"You say, such a large family with a large number of people and intertwined interests with the local government, will he always keep to himself and not fight with the government?

"Maybe they don't dare to show their ambitions in peacetime, but now it's a time of chaos, and they will let go of the opportunity?

"If you don't lay a solid foundation in Shuzhong and have the confidence of an absolutely reliable rear, will the Tang Sect think about going east, and talk about any cooperation with Yanjiabao, trying to get involved in the Central Plains?"

Although Xiao Qian was still holding the gourd, she completely forgot to drink at this time, and her expression changed several times. In the end, I had to agree with Sun Ning's inference: "You're right, I'm afraid that the current Tang Sect has already won a lot of territory in Shuzhong, and even poses a threat to the Hou Xiao family in Dingxi......"

"Yes, they are likely to have become a climate, but it is only because Sichuan and Shu have always been cut off by roads, and the news there cannot be quickly transmitted to the Central Plains, so that all this is not as obvious as imagined.

"Maybe when the news of the Tang Sect really came to the Central Plains, they had already taken the Xiao family and became the only masters of the entire Bashu territory. At that time, it will be the real catastrophe of the Central Plains! ”

Xiao Qian's face turned three points pale because of this, and a pair of slender eyebrows were completely twisted in one place: "So you plan to enter Shu and deal with them?" ”

Sun Ning nodded: "Yes." The ambitions of the Tang Sect are too great, and the means are too ruthless, I can't let them really take Bashu, I must rush to deal with them as soon as possible. And ......" he said as he paused again, almost telling the most crucial point in his heart.

"And what?" Xiao Qian, who was listening to him carefully, immediately asked.

"Since the Xiao family governs Shu benevolent and righteous, I should help them." Sun Ning hurriedly found a reason to reply.

Xiao Qian didn't dwell on this issue, let alone hesitate, and immediately responded: "You have thought it well, we really can't sit back and watch Bashu fall into the hands of the Tang Sect." I'll go with you! ”

Sun Ning smiled, this was exactly the answer he wanted to hear: "Then let's prepare as soon as possible, then say goodbye to the Yan family, and then enter Shu from here." ”

This Yanzhou is at the junction of Xianghu Lake and Sichuan and Shu, so it is the fastest way to enter Shu.

The only problem is that the road to Shu here is not easy to walk, and the difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the sky.

However, for Sun Ning and Xiao Qian, this difficulty was nothing, the latter immediately nodded in agreement, and immediately went out to go back to his house, packed his luggage and packages.

Sun Ning, on the other hand, watched her leave thoughtfully, with a slightly complicated expression.

After all, he still hid some of the inside information.

The reason he just said for deciding to enter Shu is only one aspect, and the more important thing is his own interests.

You must know that the route of recovering Dayue drawn by Shen Zhou for him at the beginning was to enter Shu, rely on the entire southwest territory, and then rectify the forces little by little, and fight back to the Central Plains.

It was only later, because of various things that came one after another, that Sun Ning's strategy was temporarily put on hold, but he was still quite moved to rebuild his regime in Shu, and he had already put it on the big plan.

But as a result, now that he has learned that Sichuan Shu has emerged as a terrible opponent as the Tang Sect, and even the Xiao family has been suppressed, this makes Sun Ning unacceptable, and he is bound to strike.

If the vertical and horizontal will be a long-term concern, then the Tangmen is a near-term worry.

Although the Zonghenghui will fight with all its might, the Tang Sect is even more urgent, and it must be uprooted as soon as possible.

That's why Sun Ning advocated that he use the power of Yanjiabao and the local officials and troops to defeat the force of Tangmen Nanhuotang.

But it is far from enough to cut off one of his arms, only by going deep into Shuzhong and uprooting the entire Tang Sect can he rest assured that he can reveal his identity in front of the Xiao family, and then use this to regroup and re-play the banner of Dayue to recover the Central Plains.

It's just that these inside stories involve his true identity, and Sun Ning can't tell Xiao Qian directly, so he can only hide it with a little guilt.

Only in the future, when everything is settled, will he explain truthfully, and then marry Xiao Qian as his wife......

Now that the goal has been set, there is not much to say next.

Although Yanjiabao was held for a while, Sun Ning and Xiao Qian still decided to leave Yanjiabao the next day and embarked on the road west into Sichuan and Shu.

The only thing that I regretted was that Yan Yifei couldn't go with them anymore, because he needed to stay at home so that he could practice more clever corpse control techniques.

Today, he no longer resists this secret method, and is even more proud of his family's many years of inheritance.

The Yan family also made their position clear to Sun Ning, and when it was really useful to get them, the Yan family fort would definitely enter Shu and go to deal with the Tang Sect together.

So, in this April twilight spring season, Sun Ning and the others set out on their journey again, and what they didn't know was that there were already people waiting outside for a long time, and the crisis was quietly coming when they entered the lofty mountains and mountains between Hunan and Shu!

(End of volume)