After entering April, the climate of the western Sichuan Plain becomes warmer and warmer, and everywhere is full of life. In the farmland as far as the eye can see, the wheat has already tasseled and flowered, and the broad beans have begun to bear fruit. To add to that, this is only the situation within the territory of the Thunderbolts. Xichuan under the control of the Mongolian army, although it is also full of thick green, looks like crops from a distance, but when you get closer, you find that it is just a clump of artemisia grass, occasionally with wheat and other crops. In fact, since Liu Heima was in charge of Chengdu's government affairs, he also vigorously promoted the reclamation and recruited displaced people to come to farm, but the effect was too poor. On the one hand, the Mongol army did not treat the peasants as human beings at all, but regarded them as two-legged sheep that ate grass seeds, and killed and robbed them at will, and robbery and adultery were commonplace, and the people under their rule fled one after another, especially under the rule of the Perak army. On the other hand, the Mongol cavalry often rode on horseback to feed on crops, and fought or killed those who stood in their way, even in the tuntian of the newly annexed army. As a result, no one dared to cultivate within a radius of several miles from the cavalry garrison, and far from the cities and cantonment points, there was no one to farm because of the rampant banditry.

Of course, Liu Heima was worried about this situation, but the other Mongolian generals did not care, or did not take his words seriously at all. There are many factions in the Mongolian army, and for the sake of checks and balances and for the sake of sharing interests, there are often several armies in the areas occupied by the Mongolian army, and the generals of these armies are not subordinate to each other. For example, although Liu Heima is in charge of government affairs in the Sichuan Ximeng Army, the generals in charge of military affairs include generals such as Secret Huoli, Kudu and Yu Xuan. Although when Pu Zezhi attacked Chengdu, the Mongol generals pushed Yu Xuan as the chief to jointly defend against the enemy, but after Pu Zezhi's defeat and retreat to Chongqing, the armies returned to a state of not being subordinate to each other. In the secret of the fire and the Mongolian generals such as Lu Lu did not look down on Tuntian at all, in their opinion, logistics and food was the business of Liu Heima, Yelu Maizhu, Jiagu Longgu and other Han army generals. If there is really no food, won't you rob the Song people?

Liu Heima is not in the mood to think about food at the moment, he is worried about his head at the moment. After the death of Möngke Khan in Diaoyu City, Ali Buge and Kublai Khan, with the support of some kings, respectively convened the Kuritai Assembly to proclaim Khan, resulting in the emergence of two khans in the Mongol Khanate. Ali Buge, who called himself Khan in Mobei, was supported by most of the Mongol generals, and Kublai Khan, who was called Khan in Kaiping, was supported by some Mongol generals and most of the Han princes. The nervousness also spread to western Sichuan, Liu Heima, Yelu Maizhu, Jiagu Longgu and others supported Kublai Khan, who could tolerate Han culture, and the secret Huoli explicitly supported Ali Buge, claiming that he would kill opponents by thunder, while Yu Xuan, Kudu and others had an ambiguous attitude.

The generals of different factions were wary of each other, which made the Xichuan Mongol army have a rare halt in foreign campaigns. At the beginning, Huang Dagen and other staff members thought that the river had risen sharply recently, and the water army brigade could completely block the river, so that a small group of Mongolian scouts and cavalry could not cross the river. However, the intelligence brought back by the scouts showed that the frequency of Mongolian scouts on the east bank of the Jinma River had also been greatly reduced. The information sent back by the "Firefox" also showed that the activities of the Mongolian army in the direction of Jiading had also stopped a lot. "When something goes wrong, there must be a demon", just when Huang Dagen was worried about what conspiracy was brewing in the Mongolian army, and racked his brains to prepare a response plan, Ouyang Xuan said to him with a relaxed and happy expression: "Don't panic, the Mongolian army is going to start dog-eat-dog." These words made Huang Dagen relax his tense nerves, after all, Brother Xuan has the ability to predict the future, and I believe that he is always right.

The Mongolian army had no idea of attacking, and the Song army, which was in a weak position, also wanted to maintain the status quo, or it was simply not capable of taking the initiative to attack. The more important reason is that Jia Rudao has now entered the court as the prime minister and controls the Lin'an government. Soon after he seized power, he promoted a large number of generals who were friendly with him, such as putting Lü Wende in charge of the more important and richer Jinghu battlefield, and promoting Yu Xing to the position of Sichuan envoy and governor of Chongqing. For generals who have great military achievements but refuse to rely on themselves, they are killing donkeys and grinding them. As soon as the Mongolian army retreated, he made a secret surrender to Wang Jian, transferred him to the idle position of the commander of the former capital of Lin'an, and the deputy general Zhang Jue replaced the governor of Hezhou. On the one hand, he was jealous of Wang Jian's military exploits in defeating Meng Ke Khan, and on the other hand, Wang Jian refused to give him some money.

The rest of the generals in central Sichuan were still adjusted, including Zhu Xingsun's transfer to Guangnan West Road, and Liu Chuan replaced his Tongchuan Road pacification envoy and governor of Luzhou Prefecture; Zan Wanshou took over the position of Yu Xingjiading prefect. The above appointments in the imperial court report are generally consistent with Ouyang Xuan's memory, at least from the current point of view, the situation in central Sichuan is still developing roughly according to the existing historical line. As for whether Yu Xing and Lu Wende were jealous of Liu Quan's exploits in the future, they wanted to put him to death, and finally forced Liu Cheng to rebel, it is unknown. Ouyang Xuan knows that the strangeness of historical events is that sometimes trying to prevent them will not change the result, while accidental small events will change the direction of history.

Among the above generals, Ouyang Xuan paid special attention to Zan Wanshou, a young general who was the opposite of the greedy Yu Xing father and son, who was brave and resourceful, extremely fair and just, and sympathetic to the soldiers and the people under his rule. Under his rule, Jiading's economy and population continued to grow, and it was even able to provide a steady stream of taxes for the Chongqing government. Its rigorous management of the army made the combat power of the Jiading army greatly improved, repeatedly thwarted the large-scale attacks of the Mongol army, and also counterattacked Chengdu and Yunding City many times, and even marched out of Qingju City in eastern Sichuan, until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty before having to surrender to the Mongols. Judging from the information sent back by the "Firefox," some generals in Jiading seem to be quite hostile to his arrival. In this regard, Ouyang Xuan has ordered the General Staff to strengthen intelligence collection in the direction of Jiading.

Ouyang Xuan also received a new appointment, adjusted from the Yongkang Zhijun to the Chongqing Prefect, and still served as the deputy envoy of Chengdu Road to pacify. The two positions are of the same rank and are both in the Thunderbolt's control area, so there is no substantial difference. Ouyang Xuan wanted to obtain the official position of the pacification envoy, which meant that Lin'an recognized the semi-independent status of the Thunderbolt Army. It is said that Jia Rudao's appetite is really not small, he accepted a large amount of property sent by Li Kaipeng, but he refused to even do favors. On the other hand, although the Thunderbolt Army was an independent anti-Mongol force and had single-handedly recaptured several prefectures and counties from the Mongol army, it was clear that the high-ranking officials of the imperial court would not tolerate this uncontrolled force and always wanted to wait for an opportunity to completely control it.

When he sent people to operate in Lin'an for a long time, Cao Zhizhou, who basically exhausted his family wealth in order to be promoted, almost got nothing. The reason why it is almost said is because after those bigwigs in the DPRK and China received his money, they gave him a consolation prize - the deputy envoy of Chengdu Road to appease. It's just that although he, the deputy envoy to pacify, is the same as Ouyang Xuan, he does not have the right to deal with the affairs of Yibo on the Sichuan side, and he has a real false title, and he does not have any actual power. At present, more than half of Chengdu Luzhou County is in the hands of the Mongolian army, and the rest is only the Jiading army, the Thunderbolt army and Yali Prefecture. Compared with the previous two, the strength of the two states of Yali is the weakest, and in this troubled era where relying on force to speak, the false title that Cao Zhizhou got is completely useless.