It is now the end of the second year of Taikang.

When Ye Ming received Li Xin's letter, it was already the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year was about to be celebrated in four days.

At this time, it is generally unlikely to fight, but it is still necessary to disgust your opponent. A few days before the Chinese New Year, Ye Ming handed a letter to Li Yan, who was guarding Jiange, and told him clearly that Mianzhu City was broken.

Jiange did not respond in any way.

But it is obvious that at this moment, the entire southwest, even the capital city thousands of miles away, were all focused on Mianzhu City.

It can be said that during this New Year Festival, Mianzhu is the focus of the whole world.

Soon, it was the end of the second year of Taikang.

On New Year's Eve, in the Mianzhucheng County Government, the focus of the whole world, the Marquis of Jing'an, who is dominating the southwest, is sitting with his dog-headed military advisor Zhao Jia.

In front of them, a stack of dumpling skins was placed.

Marquis Jing'an is making dumplings by a serious professor Zhao Jia.

In fact, making dumplings is considered the old craftsman of Marquis Li. When he first entered the capital, he used this cooking skill to capture Princess Qinghe's heart.

Of course, he himself was more interested in this, otherwise, as a social animal in his previous life, he would not have been likely to make so much food.

Zhao Jia studied at Duke Chen's mansion since he was a child and was considered a serious scholar. He has not been close to the kitchen since he was a child. Now he is taken by Li Xin and is learning to make dumplings bit by bit.

But he still had a bitter face.

"Mr. Marquis, these things are just for the people below to do. There are still many matters to be handled in the county government."

Li Xin gave him a blank look and said angrily: "It's New Year's Eve today, I'll give you a day off. Let's talk about the matter of the county government tomorrow."

Zhao Jia stopped talking.

Li Xin turned around and threw a piece of carbon into the stove beside him, then turned to Zhao Jia and said, "It's been a year since I was out in a blink of an eye. Brother You'an misses home?"

Zhao Jia is older than Li Xin. Li Xin is twenty years old after this year, and Zhao Jia is twenty-three years old.

At his age, he naturally married his wife. Now that Zhao Jia's little family has been taken to the Jing'an Marquis Mansion by Li Xin, the two of them are completely bound together.

Zhao Jia forced a smile.

"It's normal to go on a long trip for a year. Is the Marquis missing home?"

People of this era, sometimes it takes half a year or even a year to go on the road. As an indigenous person, Zhao Jia can accept this kind of separation.

But Li Xin did miss the home in the capital a little.

It’s not because of how good the Jing'an Marquis Mansion is, but because during this festival where everyone celebrates, Li Xin misses the people in the capital a little.

Miss Zhong Xiaoxiao and Princess Ninth.

I miss Chen Shiliu at home, Old Man Ye from Duke Chen’s mansion, and Master Wang from Yulinwei Camp.

There is also Cui Jiuniang who hides in the alley and dares not see anyone.

Even Li Xin was somewhat concerned about the former King of Wei.

To be honest, if I hadn't seen a house collapse in the southwest, Li Xin would have thrown the mess to Ye Ming after he captured Mianzhu and went back to the capital to enjoy his life.

While putting his ugly dumplings aside, Zhao Jia smiled and said, "Mianzhu has broken through the city and it will be not far from the southwest. When General Ye breaks through the Jiange and joins the army, we can go back to the capital by the autumn next year."

Speaking of this, Zhao Jia looked up at Li Xin and whispered: "If... the Marquis is willing to use the 50,000 people from Hanzhou, maybe we can also take down Jincheng without General Ye."

Originally, Li Xin used the people of Hanzhou City to cooperate with him to take down Mianzhu. Now that Mianzhu has broken the city, Li Xin sent a letter to Mu Ying and asked them to continue to stay in Hanzhou.

Li Xin glanced at Zhao Jia lightly.

"Brother You'an, those people in Hanzhou City are rebels, and I can't command them."

Zhao Jia smiled and said with a smile: "What the Marquis said is, my subordinates have recorded it."

The leader of the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion first glanced at Li Xin, then asked, "Marty, Mianzhu has broken the city, what should we do next?"

"Wait for news from Senior Brother Ye."

While putting a dumpling on the table, Li Xin said, "We don't have enough people. Just keep Mianzhu for the time being. Let's see what response Brother Ye has. If Brother Ye has instructions, we will help them beat Jiange down after the New Year."

Mianzhu is in Jianmen Pass. If Li Xin sends troops from Mianzhu, he will attack Ye Ming from the front and back. No matter how unbreakable the Jiange is, it will not be able to hold it for long.

Zhao Jia shook his head slightly.

"As long as our people leave Mianzhu, Jincheng will definitely send someone to take Mianzhu back. General Ye will not ask the Marquis to support Jiange."

"That's why I said I'm waiting for news."

Zhao Jia smiled and asked, "The situation in the southwest has basically been settled. What will the marquis do after returning to Beijing?"

Li Xin frowned slightly.

"This is not something I can control, it depends on the emperor's intention."

"In the battle of the southwest, although General Ye was the main general, Marquis, you crossed the Motianling and went straight to the hinterland of the southwest. In terms of credit, you have actually surpassed General Ye. When you return to the capital..."

Zhao Jia glanced at Li Xin again.

"If you are old enough, you can enter the Grand Governor's Office to do things."

"Even if the Marquis is at his current age, the imperial guards in the capital should be handed over to the Marquis."

Marquis Jing'an had no expression on his face.

"Brother You'an, you need not only to think about progressing, but also to retreat. If we return to the capital smoothly, I will ask Your Majesty for a few years to be idle."

Before Li Xin came to the southwest, he was already a second-rank general of the Imperial Guard. According to his contribution this time, after he returned, he could become a first-rank or even a first-rank official and the top group of people in the court.

But Li Xin is too young after all. If he is really too ostentatious, he will certainly be in full swing in the past two years, but he will definitely add trouble to himself in the future.

It’s not said that he is a great success, but it will definitely attract jealousy from others.

Of course, these are all later stories. There is still a long way to go to solve the Southwest problem.

Moreover, for Li Xin, the key to the southwest issue is not whether he can help recover southern Xinjiang, but whether he can make the general of the Zhu Kingdom pay the price for the mistakes he made.

The accounts between him and Li Shen have to be settled slowly bit by bit.

However, these words were obviously impossible to explain in detail to Zhao Jia.

Zhao Youan sighed and said with emotion: "This is why you can rise to the top in the court, and I can only stay in Duke Chen's Mansion to accompany you. If you follow the post to become an official in that big temple, you may not even understand how you died one day."

Marquis Jing'an curled his lips.

"Concentrate on your work and stop flattering."

...

The two of them were making dumplings while talking. Li Xin was originally working hard to make dumplings, but suddenly he glanced at Zhao Jia's "work".

Marquis Jing'an frowned immediately.

"Brother You'an, why don't you go and boil water..."

Zhao Jia just found a little bit of the feeling of making dumplings, but when he heard this, he was a little dissatisfied and asked, "Why do you let me go and boil water?"

Marquis Jing'an pointed at the strange shapes in front of Zhao Jia, with a very disgusting expression.

"Brother You'an, your works remind me of a sentence."

"What's the matter?"
Chapter completed!