Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 882 Touch

  Because after the Hanzhou Army took over the Pingnan Army, it was divided into three parts. Today, the southwest is roughly divided into three parts, including one for the Mu family, one for Li Shuo, and one for Li Xin.

   It's just that Li Xin's share of the Hanzhou Army was temporarily led by Mu Ying, which means that the Mu family actually controlled two-thirds of the Southwest Army.

But because there is a Zhao Jia in the southwest instead of Li Xin, these three parts of the southwest are actually controlled by Li Xin through Zhao Jia, and the part of Li Shuo is stationed in the most southwest Ningzhou generation, which is far from Jincheng is hundreds of miles away.

   Li Xin came to Jincheng, and Li Shuo should have come to see him.

  Li Xin wants to integrate the southwestern forces, and Li Shuo's Ningzhou Army is also the most important part of it, so he must make it clear to Li Shuo.

Moreover, the soldiers who were born in the Pingnan Army have been at odds with the Hanzhou Army soldiers during this period of time. This time, the Mu family even suspected Li Shuo about the disappearance of Lin Hu. The misunderstanding should be made clear. .

   In the evening, Li Shuo, who only brought two personal soldiers, rushed to the King Shu Mansion in Jincheng. After being informed by his men, he successfully met Li Xin in the backyard of the King Shu Mansion.

   At this time, it was the summer of the first year of Yuanzhao, and the weather was sweltering. Because the palace of the King of Shu had not been built for a long time, there was no ice storage in the ice cellar, so it was quite sultry. Li Xin let people sprinkle water on the floor of the house to cool down a little.

  Li Shuo stood in front of Li Xin, bowing his head slightly.

   "I have seen my brother."

  Li Xin pointed to the opposite side of him and said softly, "Sit down and talk."

  Li Shuo sat properly opposite Li Xin, and then said softly, "Brother came to Jincheng from Beijing because of Mr. Lin's disappearance?"

  Lin Hu does not have a position in the southwest. If he had to say that he did, he could only say that he was in charge of Tianlei for Li Xin. Because he did not have a position, people in the southwest could not call him. They could only call him Mr.

  Li Xin nodded and said, "It has been resolved, Hu Zi was rescued, and now he is recovering in the palace of the King of Shu."

   Having said this, he raised his head and glanced at Li Shuo: "I heard that you are married and have a son."

   When Jincheng broke down, Li Shuo was only sixteen years old. For the next five years, he took the remnants of the Pingnan Army to survive on the border of Tubo, and his life was very unstable, so he never got married. After the situation in the southwest was stabilized, he was able to be stationed in Ningzhou, and he married a man with him. A long time woman gave birth to a son a few months ago.

  Li Shuo bowed his head slightly: "Brother Lao is worried about having a child."

"what is it call?"

   "Single name and one syllable."

  Li Shuo bowed his head and said, "The elder brother should have come to name this child, but the elder brother is not in the southwest, and it would be inappropriate to send a letter all the way to the capital, so I took it on my own initiative."

   Although Li Xin did not officially recognize Li Shuo as his brother, Li Shuo had been calling him his elder brother for so many years. According to his blood relationship, he was considered the uncle of that child. There were no other elders in the family, so he should have chosen the name.

  Li Xin stretched out his hand and brought Li Shuo a glass of wine.

   "My son is good, I have a son, you can be considered a successor."

   Li Shuo shook his head with a wry smile: "The days are turbulent, and it is uncertain whether it will be stable or not, so I don't want the incense to be delivered smoothly."

   Lord Jingan narrowed his eyes.

   "It means that the Mu family embarrassed you?"

Li Shuo smiled bitterly: "The current situation was decided by you, brother, without saying a word, the younger brother disbanded the Pingnan Army and incorporated it into the Hanzhou Army. After stationing in Ningzhou, he has been doing his duty. I have never seen any old Pingnan army outside Ningzhou, but General Mu Ying has been aggressive, saying that it was my younger brother who was causing trouble for the old Pingnan army."

   "What's more, he said it was my younger brother who kidnapped Mr. Lin."

  Li Shuo shook his head and sighed: "If this goes on like this, I'm afraid there will be no place for my younger brother in the southwest."

   "No need to complain."

   Li Xin said lightly: "Zhao Jia is taking care of the southwest now. He won't favor the Mu family. As long as you don't do bad things, the 40,000 Ningzhou Army will always be yours."

  Li Shuo bowed his head respectfully: "Brother, don't worry, my younger brother has never been an ambitious person, otherwise he would not have sent the abolished prince out of Jincheng to his elder brother, and my younger brother just wanted to live in peace in the southwest."

  Li Shuo always thinks about taking care of the interests of the majority of people. In essence, he is a bit of a Virgin, and he does not have much ambition.

   Li Xin poured himself a glass of wine, touched a glass with Li Shuo, and drank it with his head up.

   "You can live in Ningzhou with peace of mind, but the Ningzhou army under your command is also part of the southwest. You don't have to listen to the Mu family, but you have to listen to Zhao Jia."

   "Is this okay?"

   "Mr. You'an has been strategizing for the past two years and keeping the southwest in an orderly manner. Naturally, the Ningzhou Army will follow Mr. You'an's orders."

   Having said this, Li Shuo frowned, and he looked up at Li Xin.

   "Brother, what do you want to do?"

   Although Li Shuo is a bit of a virgin, there is no doubt that he is a smart person. From Li Xin's words and tone, he has already heard something wrong.

   "I want the Southwest to come together and do something big."

  Li Shuo was a little nervous and took a deep breath.

   He looked up at his unfathomable elder brother, and asked cautiously, "Brother, do you...would you like to recreate the story of the eldest father?"

   Li Xin smiled coldly.

   "Li Shen was forced to rebel, how could I learn from him?"

   Having said that, Li Xin brought himself another glass of wine, raised his head and drank it.

   This time, Li Shuo got a wink, stood up immediately, picked up the jug, and filled Li Xin.

   Lord Jingan was silent for a while, then closed his eyes.

   "I plan to make the Southwest completely self-contained and no longer subject to the constraints of the imperial court."

  Li Shuo didn't understand for a while, he scratched his head: "What do you mean by brother?"

   "Tax strike."

  Li Shuo's face changed suddenly.

  The so-called tax strike means that no tax is paid to the imperial court.

   You must know that even when the Pingnan Marquis Mansion was divided into the southwest, it did not stop paying taxes to the imperial court. At most, it was deducted from it and paid less.

   In the ninth year of Taikang, Southwest was awarded the title of King of Shu. Although it was nominally a vassal state of King of Shu, and even Li Xin had fully grasped the military and political power in Southwest China, Southwest still had to pay taxes to the court and maintained the final face of the court.

  If the Southwest does not even pay taxes, then the problem will be big.

To be honest, although dozens of state capitals in the southwest have a lot of taxes, the court has a wealthy place in the south of the Yangtze River, so it may not be a little bit short of money, but the southwest pays taxes every day, and it is still a vassal of the Jin Dynasty. The last link is broken.

   This is playing the court in the face.

Li Shuo said with a wry smile: "Brother think twice, it's not that all parts of the southwest cannot afford to pay taxes, and if the elder brother thinks that he has paid too much, he can also have someone do some tricks and pay a lot less. The southwest is in the hands of the elder brother. The court will not send people to investigate, and nothing can be found.”

   "Brother really doesn't need to be so hard..."

  Li Shuo sighed.

   "Brother insisting on doing this is forcing the imperial court to deploy troops to the southwest."

   "Of course not so stiff."

  Li Xin stood up from his chair, put his hands in his sleeves, and said slowly, "The prefectures in the southwest have written a letter together, saying that this year is bad, and it's enough to ask the imperial court to exempt the payment."

   "If the court can't stand this, let them deploy troops to the southwest."

   Lord Jingan narrowed his eyes.

   "To be honest, Southwest is not very short of money."

   (end of this chapter)