It is very normal and even certain to do mutual infiltration between the two sides that are hostile to each other. And often the side where the power is superior will infiltrate the weaker side.

Take the court and the southwest as an example. The court only needs to give a promise of a small official of the seventh and eighth rank, and countless people will come to work hard for the court. After all, the country's destiny for more than 100 years is there. The Ji family is the emperor and the Jin Dynasty is the orthodox.

Rebels like Li Xin are not popular. For example, Xie Dai, who is now unemployed, will give him a second-rank general in the southwest, and he will not come to the southwest.

By the same token, even if the people inside the southwest are the only way to give a small official and some favors to the court, they might secretly surrender to the court.

It is extremely difficult for Li Xin to install people in the court. At present, the cause in the southwest has not yet begun. Except for some of Li Xin's loyalty, no one would be willing to lurk into the court to do things for the southwest.

If the people sent by Li Xin really entered the court and successfully became officials in the court, maybe they would stay in the court and continue to be officials, and they would be out of touch with the Southwest.

Because of this objective and wrong power gap, Li Xin basically had no people within the court, but there were many people from the court within the southwest. In recent years, at least thousands of people have sneaked into the southwest. If you want to get the thunder from the southwest, there will definitely be people from the court within the southwest army.

What Li Xin has to do now is to make his inner self as clean as possible, otherwise if the inner self is full of spies from the court, he will be defeated immediately once the fight begins.

The way to review is also a bit risky.

In the early years, Mu Ying had some conflicts with Li Shuo because of the Pingnan Army, and the two sides had a very unpleasant fight. Let them pick each other and the effect would be slightly better.

So, at the order of Li Xin, Ankang, Hanzhong began to examine each other. In just two days, a thick stack of documents piled on Li Xin's table.

Li Xin sat in his study and flipped through the documents on the table, feeling a little scared.

Among the Southwest Army alone, there are many spies sent by the court. It is difficult to know how many people in the entire Southwest have secretly turned to the court.

However, there is nothing strange about this kind of thing. Most people in this world are weeds on the wall. If the trend is strong, they will turn to which side. If the southwest goes well, these people will secretly burn all the letters they contacted the court and then concentrate on being the southwest.

There are countless people in the entire southwest, but there is no need to pay attention to them for the time being. As long as the war is fought, these people will naturally become loyal.

These people can be ignored, but the Southwest Army cannot ignore them. The army must remain pure and it is impossible to pose any threat to the court.

Li Xin sat alone in Hanzhong's study, looking through the documents sent by both sides. While he was flipping through, a personal guard knocked on the door at the door and said, "General, someone outside asks for a visit..."

Li Xin put down the document in his hand and frowned and said, "Who?"

“A young man.”

The personal guard lowered his head and said, "He asked the villain to hand it to the general something, saying that after the general saw it, he would see him."

Li Xin put down the document in his hand and said, "What's the matter? Take it in and I'll take a look."

The guard held a long box in both hands and placed it beside Li Xin. Li Xin lifted the box and saw a blue sword inside. Seeing this thing, Li Xin immediately knew who was coming. He spoke with a complicated expression: "Let him come in and see me."

"yes."

Not long after, a young man with scars on his forehead and face walked into Li Xin's study. After seeing Li Xin, he bowed his head respectfully and said, "Brother."

Li Xin was still reading the documents, but he didn't raise his head when he heard this and said coldly: "I thought you were dead."

At that time, Zhao Fang took Li Xin's sword, Aokiji, to the north to fight against the Xianbei people. Later, after Jizhou was broken, it disappeared without a trace. Li Xin deliberately left more than a dozen people near Jizhou, but there was no news yet.

Zhao Fang lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "Brother, before Jizhou City was broken, I was hit by an arrow on my shoulder and was seriously injured. I recovered from Jizhou City. After the Beimanzi broke through the city, the whole city was in chaos. The Zhenbei Army took a knife and went to chop people. I didn't have time to take care of me, so I hid in the cellar of a farmer in Jizhou City and hid for several months."

Speaking of this, Zhao Fang sighed: "Fortunately that farmer is a good person, otherwise I might not see my brother in this life."

"What did you do when you see me?"

Li Xin sneered slightly: "Xiaoxiao thought you were dead, but a few days ago, she set up a spiritual seat for you at home and burned incense and worshiped every day."

Speaking of Zhong Xiaoxiao, Zhao Fang's expression was restrained. He lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "She must have been having a hard time these days..."

Li Xin looked up at Zhao Fang and said in a muffled voice: "Since you are hiding in Jizhou City, why did you rush back to the southwest until now?"

Zhao Fang whispered: "Brother, I have been recuperating from Jizhou."

He pulled open his clothes and exposed the wound on his right shoulder. The arrow wound on his right shoulder had turned into arrow sores, which looked very scary.

"After my injuries were barely recovered, the Northern Barbarians also withdrew from Jizhou. I did not contact the people from the court. I went back to Yongzhou for several months. After returning to Yongzhou, I heard from the people over there that my brother was in Hanzhong, so I found Hanzhong."

Li Xin frowned.

"Are you okay?"

"There is nothing to do with the body, but..."

Zhao Fang smiled bitterly and said, "Most of his right hand has been ruined. On the way back, I tried it. Not to mention Aokiji who lifted his brother, even an ordinary sword-fitting sword would be difficult to hold it tightly."

Zhao Fang lowered his head and said slowly: "I'm afraid... I can't recover."

The arrows on his shoulder were extremely deep and he needed to rest. But at that time, Jincheng was broken and had to flow into the cellar. First, the medicine was cut off, and the environment was poor, so it was very difficult to protect this arm.

Li Xin frowned slightly.

He asked slowly, "Can you still write?"

Zhao Fang lowered his head and said, "It's barely possible."

"It's good if there's no cripple."

Li Xin put the documents on the table aside, then looked up at Zhao Fang, and said, "Xiaoxiao is in Jincheng now. You can go back and see her first. Keep her for a few months. When she is almost in good health, you can go to Zhao Jia to do an errand."

Speaking of this, Li Xin paused and said, "If it doesn't work, you can come to me as an assistant."

Zhao Fang is from a scholarly family and is familiar with the Book of Books at the age of eight or nine. What is even more valuable is that he has experience in commanding battles. If he can be with him, he can do a lot of things for Li Xin.

Zhao Fang bowed his head deeply to Li Xin: "Brother Lao has trouble."

"This Aokiji sword will be returned to my brother, and I will set off for Jincheng in a short while."

Li Xin nodded silently.

"I will be in Hanzhong during this period. If you rest in Jincheng for a few months, you can come to find me. There are many things you can leave to you to do in Hanzhong."

Zhao Fang looked up at Li Xin and asked, "Brother... is going to raise an army?"

Li Xin didn't say anything.

Zhao Fang smiled.

"It's good to raise an army. If you change to a court, you can change it back to the Li family of Zhaojun."
Chapter completed!