Since you have come to Huazhou, you can't see Li Juchuan.

Li Ye took more than a dozen guards in plainclothes to visit Huazhou City.

In the Tang Dynasty, the prefectures and counties were divided into grades according to their geographical situation, area, population, products and other conditions, and the prefectures were divided into seven categories: auxiliary, male, wang, tight, upper, middle, and lower.

Huazhou is listed as the upper auxiliary, and the poet Liu Yuxi has a poem praising Huazhou as "one hundred and two mountains and rivers Xiongshangguo", which means that Huazhou is an important town in Guanzhong.

Han Yu also called Huazhou "the first of the hundred counties, more important than the domain", which shows the importance of Huazhou to Chang'an.

Li Ye walked on the street, because it was the busy farming season, there were few tourists, and most of the shops had no business, but there were still pedestrians in green robes and round necks with their heads walking towards the restaurant and tea shop.

The woman in the Qinglou lazily sat on the hook railing, and when she saw someone passing by, she enthusiastically solicited business.

Less than forty miles east of Huazhou, is Huashan, so there are also mountain people who pick up mountain goods to sell.

"When a distinguished guest comes to the door, he has missed the welcome, and he still hopes to forgive his sins?" When Li Ye was looking around, a scribe shouted on the street in front of him, followed by a scholar.

Li Ye was stunned, and then looked at that person, wasn't it Li Juchuan?

I was about to go to him, but I didn't expect him to find himself first.

Li Juchuan gave him a dignified hand salute, Li Ye accepted it calmly, unnecessary politeness is hypocrisy, and there is no need to deliberately pretend to be close to people like Li Juchuan, "Your Excellency is deaf and clear-sighted." ”

In the end, it is his territory, and if there is a wind and grass, he knows it well.

"Don't dare, don't dare, I'm also going out for a walk, and I just happened to meet a distinguished guest, and I was overjoyed."

Li Ye looked him up and down, and there was a huge change compared to when he first met, with a graceful bearing, a decent posture, and a celebrity appearance.

"Okay, okay, coincidence or heart, since you are a landlord, do your best to be a landlord, we are hungry." Li Ye couldn't stand the sourness of his literati. Li Juchuan bowed his head and bowed: "Please here, please here." ”

Li Juchuan directly took Li Ye into a restaurant on the street.

That's too casual, isn't it?

However, Li Ye is still a guest, and it is a meal at this time, and the restaurant is crowded with diners, gathered at a table, eating and drinking happily.

Li Ye glanced at the dishes on the table slightly, most of them were stews, soups, soups, and stir-fried dishes, but the style was very different from that of later generations, and there were not so many dishes in later generations. The shopkeeper probably recognized Li Juchuan, came to greet him in person, and politely led him to the private room on the second floor.

The guards routinely occupied the left and right rooms.

As soon as he entered the private room, Li Juchuan didn't pretend to be a literati or scholar, and bowed to the ground like a eunuch: "Minister, Li Juchuan greets Your Majesty." ”

Inspecting all the way, Huazhou is the most satisfying for Li Ye, and Tongzhou is still in the development stage.

"Get up." Li Ye sat on the soft couch.

Only then did Li Juchuan get up.

Xin Shilang has not recovered at the moment, Li Ye left him in the military camp outside the city, and the captain of the personal guard beside him was replaced by Xin Shilang's deputy Xue Guangheng, who was also the first batch of rabbit cubs, loyal and speechless, calm and reliable, and after checking the private room, he retreated outside the house.

"It's the busy season of farming, if you don't supervise farming, how can you still have leisure and elegance to wander around the city?" As soon as Li Ye opened his mouth, he came to dismount.

What he saw along the way, whether it was An Sicheng in Xiliucheng, Yuan Jingcheng in Tongzhou, or Zhang Chujin in Tongguan, they were all busy with their feet not touching the ground, but he looked idle.

Li Juchuan unhurriedly arched his hand towards Li Ye again, "Huazhou's square inch of land, the minister has arranged it properly, and he will never delay farming or miss the farming time." ”

Although his tone was respectful, Li Ye still heard his arrogance.

Dare to love that Huazhou Temple is too small to accommodate this great god?

Just as he was about to open his mouth to mock a few words, the door of the private room was pushed open, and the waiter brought the dishes and placed them on the table in front of Li Ye. Downstairs is a Japanese meal system, but here it is a separate meal system, and Li Ye and Li Juchuan each have a table in front of them.

Xue Guangheng personally tried the dishes, and exited the private room after making no mistakes.

The meals in the palace are just like that, most of them are stewed, and they taste good, but they are all tired of eating, and when they smell the aroma of stir-fried vegetables, they immediately move their index fingers, and they forget to mock Li Juchuan.

After eating some vegetables, the gluttonous worms in Li Ye's stomach settled down, and asked casually, "Then what do you think I should do next?" ”

Li Ye has never forgotten the past when Li Juchuan was Han Jian's accomplice.

In history, Zhaozong couldn't get along in Guanzhong, so he defected to Li Keyong and passed through Huazhou, and it was this Li Juchuan who instigated Han Jian to invite the emperor.

What kind of good guy is Han Jian? It didn't take long for him to fall out with Zhaozong, and he conspired with Liu Jishu to murder the eleven kings of the Li Tang clan, as well as the ministers of the loyal Tang family, including Li Yun.

Of course, none of this happened.

And Han Jian and Liu Jishu are dead. Li Juchuan stood up, his eyes flashed, as if he had finally waited for this opportunity, "The minister thinks that Chang'an is tired, although His Majesty has a strange strategy to take the Zhenguo Army, but he is unable to compete with Li Maozhen in a short period of time, at this time, on the one hand, he should secretly accumulate strength, on the other hand, annex Jinshang, Dunfang and other Ruozhen, communicate with Zhao Kuangning, take the wealth of Jingxiang, strengthen his power, and then unite Wang Xingyu and Wang Jian to attack Li Maozhen, then Li Maozhen will definitely be defeated!" ”

This strategy is roughly the same as what Han Wei proposed, with one more item, taking Jingxiang's wealth.

Jingxiang is rich and well-known all over the world, but the question is whether Zhao Kuangning is easy to match?

Zhao Kuangning is a typical second-generation soldier, and he is the second generation of Caizhou soldiers, and his father Zhao Dexu is a general under Qin Zongquan.

Qin Zongquan attacked from all sides, sent Zhao Dexuan to capture Jingxiang, and went down with a drum.

Zhao Dexu died, Zhao Kuangning ascended to the throne, quite accomplished, took Jingnan, knotted Huainan, and even Bashu, with a solid foundation and strong strength.

After Qin Zongquan was destroyed by Zhu Wen that year, Zhao Dexuan saw that the situation was not good and immediately surrendered to Zhu Wen.

In other words, Jing Xiang nominally obeyed Zhu Wen.

Whenever he saw Cai Zhoubing and Zhu Wen, Li Ye felt a pain in his head.

"Will Zhao Kuangning obediently send the taxes to Chang'an?" Li Ye felt that Li Juchuan was whimsical.

"Your Majesty doesn't know, although Zhao Kuangning is born as a thief, but he likes to read poetry and books, and he is quite righteous, and when he was under Han Jian's account in the past years, there was a tax sent by Zhao Kuangning from Jingxiang, but at that time, Han Jiancai was obsessed, robbed the tax, and blocked the news, so Chang'an didn't know." Li Juchuan spoke in a hurry.

Li Ye suddenly stood up from the soft couch, "What did you say?" ”

A second-generation soldier born as a thief in Caizhou, he actually had the Tang Dynasty in his heart, and Li Ye almost thought that he had heard it wrong.

That's magical, isn't it?

Could it be that Zhao Kuangning read his brain badly when he reads?

Li Juchuan thought that Li Ye blamed him for acting as a tiger back then, "The minister is guilty, the minister is guilty." Li Ye reacted, thinking in his heart, could it be that you instigated Han Jian to hijack Jingxiang's taxes?

But he didn't care about these old sesame seeds and rotten grains.

This message is too important, if you can win over the alliance with Zhao Kuangning, it will be tantamount to one more ally.

Moreover, Zhao Kuangning is in the southwest of Zhu Wen, and he can stab Zhu Wen in the heart with a single knife.

The combat effectiveness of Caizhou soldiers is obvious to all, and it will be enough for Zhu Wen to drink a pot when the time comes.

Li Ye was excited, "What you said is very good. ”

Jingxiang walked north, through the Shaanxi of Hezhong Town, to reach Guanzhong.

Li Ye in the river does not think about anything wrong, and is sandwiched between Li Keyong, Zhu Wen, and Li Hanzhi, and belongs to the old feudal town.

But Jingxiang went west, through Junzhou, which is Jinshang Town, and after Jinzhou, it is Shangzhou in Guanzhong.

In other words, if Li Ye wants to unite with Zhao Kuangning, he must annex Jin Shang! But the problem is that this Feng Xingxing is not a simple person, Shangzhou is easy to fight, but Jinzhou is not easy to do.

What Li Ye is most afraid of is the siege war in this era, which will be fought for a year or two at every turn, and there will be countless casualties on both sides.

He doesn't have so much to squander, in case the war drags on for a long time, who knows what Li Maozhen and Wang Xingyu will do.

"Then tell me how to annex the gold merchants?" Li Ye simply asked to the end.

Li Juchuan said seriously: "If the minister's expectations are not bad, Feng Xing will definitely return to the imperial court!" ”