From the eighth year of Taikang, after Pei Jin conquered the southwest Li Xin rushed back to the southwest from Jizhou to aid Hanzhou, the Jing'an Marquis Mansion began to be separated from the imperial court, and it was also at that time that whether it was the Taikang Emperor or several prime ministers in Shangshutai, and later the Yuan Zhao Emperor, Li Xin was regarded as a careerist.

In their eyes, Li Xin is most likely a person who has been plotting and rebelling since the Chengde Dynasty and wants to sit on the throne of God at all costs.

Even some time ago in Ningling, even Ye Lan had some such thoughts in his heart.

In fact, Li Xin, a person who was an ordinary white-collar worker in his last life, struggled for more than ten years and barely squeezed into the middle class, he is not a big man, let alone a genius, in the first few years of coming to this world, he was also stumbling and ignorant.

If he has anything far superior to ordinary people, it is probably due to the sales work in his previous life, a little eloquence he practiced, and some ability to grasp people's hearts.

In this world, there are many people who are smarter than him, from Ye Sheng, to Ji Man, the son of Chengde, to Zhao Jia, who is now sitting opposite Li Xin, each of these dragons is much stronger than Li Xin, an ordinary person.

He is an ordinary person, and he has been able to get to where he is today step by step, half of which is due to luck, and the other half is due to his mobility.

Of course, the situation has reached this point, and Li Xin is no longer just himself, he represents the will of the entire southwest, and the will of this large collective will sometimes push him forward.

For example, it is no longer possible for the southwest to coexist peacefully with the imperial court, and there will be a war in the future, and Li Xin will have to fight this battle if he wants to, and he will have to fight if he doesn't want to.

However, even at this point, after hearing Zhao Jia's words, Li Xin still frowned slightly.

He said slowly: "Brother You'an, if the north of the Great Jin Dynasty falls into war and the Xianbei alien race breaks through the barrier, we will raise troops at this time, even if we occupy the capital, we will be scolded by the descendants of Xia in the world." ”

Zhao Jia shook his head and said: "Master Hou, what is the imperial court like now, you know better than me in your heart, although I have been in the southwest for the past four years, I have read all the documents publicized by the imperial court, and this son of heaven in the ancient and modern Jin Dynasty is much inferior to the first emperor." ”

"The matter of enclosing the title of King Yan to the Yuwen Ministry is a dispute between the imperial court and the Hou Ye, which is understandable, put it aside for the time being, but now that there is a clear change of movement in the northern Xinjiang, the Son of Heaven actually changed his generals and removed the Ye family who had been taking care of Jimen for decades!"

"Master Hou thinks that if the Xianbei people enter the customs, will our son of heaven have the ability to drive them out again?"

Li Xin did not speak.

Zhao Jia asked himself and continued: "Most of the time it can't. ”

"Since the Son of Heaven can't rule the world, then the Hou Ye will rule the world for him."

Li Xin was silent for a while, and then asked, "How many people are there in the Southwest Army now?" ”

Zhao Jia is a southwestern economic strategy, so he naturally knows this kind of thing, and he said without hesitation: "167,400 people. ”

"The army arranged by the imperial court in Hanzhong is a total of 100,000 people, plus Pei Jin's 50,000 people in Ankang, a total of 150,000, and the southwest is now out of Shu, even if you can win these two soldiers and horses, how many are left?"

"Half?"

Asked this kind of professional question, Zhao Jia wisely shut up, and he looked at Li Shuo, who was sitting on the side and had not spoken.

Li Shuo bowed his head and said: "Brother Hui, half of it should be able to remain, in the past few years, Jincheng has produced many heavenly thunders, and the younger brother and General Mu have trained a lot of tactics to cooperate with the heavenly thunder according to the requirements of the elder brother, and in the face of the forbidden army, the southwest army also has a chance to win, not to mention that now Ye Xuan is no longer in Hanzhong, and the soldiers and horses in Hanzhong are led by Xie Jing. ”

"A few days ago, I went to Hanzhong with General Mu to watch, Xie Jing led the troops, far inferior to the Marquis of Ningling, now give the younger brother 50,000 soldiers and horses, plus enough thunder, the younger brother has the confidence to defeat the Hanzhong army head-on!"

Li Xin nodded, and was about to discuss the follow-up matters, Shen Gang, who had a beard on his face, ran over panting from outside, he walked up to Li Xin, bowed his head and said: "Hou Ye, the people in the capital have entered the county seat, judging by the situation, it should be the eunuchs in the palace, and now they are going straight to the Hou Ye's mansion!" ”

"Eunuch?"

The Marquis of Jing'an opened his mouth and asked, "What color clothes do you wear?" ”

"Back to the Hou Ye, purple."

The inner court is strictly hierarchical, and the color of clothes is also very strict, for example, only the eunuchs of the eight eunuchs in the inner court are eligible to wear salaries, and the purple clothes are passed down by the young eunuchs of the eight eunuchs.

In other words, this time it was a young eunuch who came.

"Looks like an old friend is here."

Li Xin got up from under the pavilion, turned around and smiled at the two of them: "The two of you wait here for a while, I will deal with the matter of the holy decree and then come to drink with you." ”

"Master Hou, please."

After that, he got up and left the backyard, and waited in the main hall of the front yard, about half an hour later, the holy decree had arrived at the door of Li's house, Li Xin got up, walked to the door of his house, and looked up at the eunuch in purple.

Sure enough, it's an acquaintance.

The righteous son of the great eunuch Xiao Zheng, the young eunuch Xiao Huai.

Li Xin smiled, stepped forward to Xiao Huai and said, "Little Xiao's father-in-law ran away personally?" ”

Xiao Huai was the young eunuch of the inner chamberlain many years ago, although he was not very old, but in terms of power, he could rank in the top three in the inner court, and there were even rumors in the capital that Xiao Zheng was busy with affairs and lack of energy, so he handed over the plum blossom guard to this righteous son.

Xiao Huai was a few years younger than Li Xin, and when he heard this, he immediately bowed his head and said respectfully: "Slave Xiao Huai, please say hello to the Taifu." ”

Li Xin half-squinted his eyes and smiled: "Gonggong Xiao has come thousands of miles to my mountain and wild land, I don't know if it is?" ”

Xiao Huai raised his head with a serious expression.

"There is a holy decree."

Li Xin restrained his smile and said, "The angel waits, I will greet the family, burn incense and set up a case, and welcome the holy decree." ”

"It doesn't have to be so grand."

Xiao Huai hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty said it, just listen to it yourself." ”

Li Xin didn't want to alarm his family, so he smiled when he heard the words.

"Then Gonggong Xiao is it."

Xiao Huai nodded, took out the holy decree from the box held by the little eunuch behind him, and after unfolding it, he read it with a serious face.

Li Xin didn't bother to kneel, and after bowing his head slightly to listen to Xiao Huai's recitation of the holy decree, his face changed slightly, and he frowned: "The Northern Xinjiang Yuwen Department has really moved, I knew early on that Yuwen Zhao was a wolf with ambitions. ”

Xiao Huai put away the holy decree, put the holy decree back in the box and handed it to Li Xin, and then sighed: "Taifu, now that King Yan is about to move in the north, Your Majesty has no available people in Beijing, so there is really no way, so I let the slave maid come to Yongzhou thousands of miles away to disturb Taifu's recuperation." ”

"Your Majesty said that as long as Taifu is willing to return to Beijing, he will let Taifu lead the forbidden army to the north, and all the military in northern Xinjiang will be controlled by Taifu."

Li Xin didn't answer, after he put the holy decree on the table, he put his two hands in his sleeves, turned back to Xiao Huai and sighed: "It's not that Li Xin doesn't want to contribute to the country, it's just that when he was a teenager, he went to the capital to look for relatives, and he was contaminated with the cold, and he is still afraid of the cold, and he is full of pain when the weather is cold. ”