"Last year when I was touring Longshan to the West, many of the counties and counties along the way were busy and cramped, and the food for the people and horses was often insufficient, and the accompanying people were inevitably worried about hunger and thirst. This year, Boshan is well-organized, which makes people feel at ease. If it was convenient last year,
If we go on tour with you, the masses will not have to suffer such worries!"
Li Mu led his troops north along the Luoshui River and saw that Li Tai had arranged personnel and materials along the way. Therefore, after meeting outside Luochuan City, he was full of praise for Li Tai.
Li Tai didn't smile much after hearing the compliment. He just stared at Li Mu and said solemnly: "These polite words go without saying. Mr. Wu An should tell me something else, right?"
After hearing this, Li Mu first avoided Li Tai's eyes with a guilty conscience, and then turned back and said with a dry smile: "My Lord told me before leaving that the matter must not be hidden from Boshan, so after we met here, he told me the truth."
Tell me. It’s always difficult to talk about things here. Can you go into the city and elaborate?”
After hearing this, Li Tai's expression softened a little, and he got his mount, got on his horse, and returned to the city with Li Mu.
"The Lord has determined the tour period. He will arrive here in mid-May. After a short pause, he will go straight to Xiazhou, pass through Suizhou, Dongxiazhou, etc. and return south along the river. He will be able to return to Huazhou in July at the latest.
"
Although Li Mu no longer works with Li Tai, he still pays a lot of attention to him. He naturally knows what he cares about. After entering the city and sitting down, he briefly informed him of the route and time of the patrol.
When Li Tai heard this, he raised his eyebrows. When Daxingtai hired him last year, he said that he would just go on a patrol, but it turned out that half a year would pass! Hou Jing in the south had already captured Jiankang City in March.
But he still stayed in Guanzhong and could not go back. You can imagine how anxious he felt.
Li Mu also knew how Li Tai was feeling by looking at his expression, but his next sentence added fuel to the fire: "Before I left, the Lord ordered Duke Nanyang to lead 10,000 people from Manan to leave Wuguan and send troops to aid Ying via Mianbei.
Sichuan……"
"What!"
When Li Tai heard this, he was suddenly shocked and angry, and he couldn't help but start shooting.
He naturally knew what was going on with Zhao Gui's rescue of Yingchuan, but he thought that now that he had already established a stable foothold in Jingzhou and had put forward a plan to conquer Handong, even if Yuwentai hesitated for a moment, he probably wouldn't
Let's send Zhao Guinan to try again. Whether we can save Yingchuan or not, we don't know yet. The key is not to let this old boy ruin his various personnel arrangements in Mianbei!
In the end, I didn’t expect that Yuwentai still persisted in his stubbornness. He specially sent himself to the north, and he still sent Zhao Guinan. Fortunately, he had planned to expand Yuwentai’s courtyard before, but he didn’t expect that this smelly black otter sent him instead.
People raid his lair!
"Boshan, please be patient and please listen to me finish explaining the reason?"
Seeing Li Tai's reaction so fiercely, Li Mu couldn't laugh or cry for a moment. He stood up and raised his hand to push him back to the table, and then said: "Don't worry, Nanyang Gong is just passing through Jingzhou, and he will not lead the way."
Taking charge of Jingzhou's military affairs, all the military and political state affairs you have arranged before will not be affected."
Li Tai just snorted coldly when he heard this, but then he thought about why Yu Wentai still insisted on sending Zhao Guinan.
"My lord knows that you must be unhappy with this appointment. After all, before this, all the affairs in the southeast were entrusted to you, but now you are sent to Duke Nanyang. It seems that you do not trust your ability. But now I am just a close friend of you. If Boshan you
We are still in Jingzhou today. Will you save Yingchuan from the critical situation or not?"
Hearing the question raised by Li Mu, Li Tai frowned again. Of course he had considered this matter and had already made a decision, that is, to focus on his own rhythm and act within his ability.
However, Li Mu's next words still show that his thinking is a bit simple: "Actually, since Yingchuan was trapped last year, there has been a lot of suggestions from various parties in western Henan and Hedong. I hope you, Boshan, can lead the army to rescue Yingchuan. You are the country's leader.
He is an up-and-coming young man who has made outstanding achievements since fighting against the Eastern bandits, and is highly regarded by people from all walks of life in Guandong. There will be more and more such suggestions in the years to come, and some even say that Boshan will not come out and Yingchuan will not be saved..."
Hearing this, Li Tai couldn't help but secretly take a breath. He didn't expect that people who have too high expectations can have such troubles. No matter how conceited he was, he didn't think he could save Yingchuan from the crisis under the siege of the Eastern Wei army.
"My lord just withheld these requests and whispered to our confidants that Boshan, you are talented enough to create new fields. It would be a pity if you use them to fix loopholes for others. You returned to the country years ago to give your advice.
The strategy of Han Dong, the Lord is more and more aware of this issue, because I am afraid that you will be obsessed with all kinds of favors and troubles, so I keep you here, and I also hope that the human and material resources accumulated in Jingzhou can be used in the most appropriate place."
When Li Mu said this, he looked at Li Tai with envy and sighed: "My lord is really considerate of you, Boshan, and doesn't want you to be criticized by others."
After hearing this, Li Tai felt warm in his heart, but even if he felt something was wrong, Li Xianqing, you bastard, you are cooperating with me, the Black Otter PUA!
Although Yu Wentai's arrangement did allow Li Tai to avoid certain human troubles, it was obviously not to maintain his image in the eyes of people in the east of Hedong and western Henan, but to worry that he would underestimate the enemy and rashly interfere in the battle of Yingchuan.
After all, when Hou Jing came to visit, the Tai government had just decided to deal with it casually, but because he killed Heyang City in one go, Yu Wentai was given a direct injection of chicken blood on his head, and then he was severely punished.
.
This year's situation is particularly different. If Li Taizhen cannot restrain himself and leads Jingzhou troops to rush to Henan, even if he successfully relieves Wang Sizheng, it will not alleviate the dilemma that the Henan area and Guanzhong cannot be connected together, and he will inevitably have to fight another Mangshan battle.
battle.
But Li Tai already had a strategy for Handong, and the Hou Jing rebellion in the south intensified as expected, so Yu Wentai certainly would not allow his strength to go astray again.
As for Wang Sizheng, he had to save him. After all, everyone saw that Wang Sizheng was still an important official in the Western Wei Dynasty and a great contributor to the imperial court's expansion of territory. The people he sent were not high enough to show that they valued Wang Sizheng. But other generals also wanted to show their respect.
Yes, whoever you send will probably go directly to the top and do it, so let's just let Zhao Gui ruin it.
Zhao Guinan probably had another motive for going there, that is, Yu Wentai wanted to see if everything Li Tai reported was true.
Although Zhao Gui is now less enterprising, his attitude is absolutely upright and his loyalty to Daxingtai cannot be overstated. When it involves such an important development plan and manpower dispatch, Yu Wentai certainly cannot just listen to Li Tai's side.
He must confirm that Han Dong's conditions are indeed ripe before he will agree to this plan.
Putting aside Heyang, a place that haunts him and cannot stop, when faced with other opportunities, Yu Wentai is like an experienced hunter, patient and cautious, and decisive in his attacks. In short, this guy is as good as
There is something wrong with Gao Huan!
After understanding the cause and effect, Li Tai's mood was no longer as shocking as when he first heard the news, but he was still a little unhappy and felt like he was being controlled by others.
Although this is indeed the case, due to his limited strength in the past, any personnel plans he had would not conflict with the interests of the Overlord. However, as his personnel have grown stronger, it seems that Yuwentai's Overlord can no longer accommodate him.
Li Tai has his own plan and rhythm for doing things. Even if he took some overly radical actions before, it would have little impact on the general trend of the world. But now, if he has any personnel ideas, it will already affect the whole body. If he is restricted too much,
If there are too many, it will naturally be uncomfortable to do things.
So even though he no longer showed any dissatisfaction on the surface, he was thinking about taking more initiative in his heart. Zhao Gui couldn't just stop the whole plan by saying that he was bragging.
So while there was still some time before Xingjia arrived, he left Luochuan privately and went straight to Yangzhong Town in Xi'an Prefecture.
Yang Zhong was also surprised when he saw Li Tai's arrival. After welcoming Li Tai into the state capital, he asked: "Previously, Duke Xihe sent a message to the state to wait for the Daxing carriage to arrive. Now he comes here in person. Could it be that something happened?"
?”
"There is no change in the patrol, but I have another matter to report to Yang Kai's house."
After Li Tai sat down, he didn't say much nonsense and directly explained his purpose of coming: "This place is salty, bitter and salty. This is not a place where I have lived for a long time. I have moved to various places, but Yang Kai's house is still stuck here. Now I want to invite you to work together in Mianbei.
, I don’t know what Yang Kai’s intention is?”
After hearing this, Yang Zhong couldn't help but change his face slightly, even though he usually showed no expression of joy or anger, and then he asked: "Excuse me, Mr. Xihe, is this Daxingtai, or...
The Minister from Hanoi conveyed his wishes?"
After hearing this, Li Tai felt unhappy, "Yang Yan, don't you look down on me? Don't I deserve to recruit you?"
Although he was full of slander in his heart, he still said in a deep voice: "This is just my private intention. I have neither reported it to Daxingtai nor informed the Lord of Hanoi."
After Yang Zhong heard this, he lowered his head and fell silent. After a while, he looked at Li Tai and said, "Xihe Gong is brave and vigorous in his work, and his family is full of people. What grand plan does he need to borrow layman's talent?"
"The sudden change in Nanliang has made Guo Zuo uneasy. I want to take advantage of this chaos to capture Hanzhong at the top and Handong at the bottom. The strategy has been decided. I only need brave men to work with me. Yang Kaifu is my first choice. If you are willing to work together, I don't have to do it anymore.
Visit others.”
Historically, it was Yang Zhong who went south, captured Liu Zhongli who was released by Hou Jing in Jiankang, and successfully opened up the land of Handong. However, with Li Tai's current management, Yang Zhong did not need to take action again.
However, Yu Wentai's method of sending Zhao Guinan to peek into the reality also made Li Tai wary. In order to avoid hindering his plan and to gain a greater say, he simply set a bigger goal, not only planning for Handong, but also for Hanzhong.
The land is also planned to be harvested.
If the Han River Basin can be conquered in one fell swoop, then Li Tai will be an absolute frontier official and can really make Taiwan government pay three respects. Moreover, Hanzhong is also the southern barrier of Guanzhong. When the time comes, Boshan will really roar and Guanzhong will tremble.
Three shakes!
But if he wants to ensure that the two wars are carried out at the same time and both are successful, then Li Tai must choose an ally. There is no doubt that Yang Zhong, the hero who conquered Handong in history, is also an old subordinate of his father-in-law.