The two of them talked for a while, and the people had already prepared the wine and food, Ye Ming rarely stayed for a meal, and when he left, he couldn't find that it was already the right time, and Li Xin personally sent Ye Ming to the door of the Hou Mansion.

Before parting, Ye Guogong stood next to the carriage of the Guogong Mansion and said to Li Xin: "Chang'an, Ye Mao has sent me a lot of letters recently, and the letters say that the Yuwen Department in the north seems to be peaceful, but the power is getting bigger and bigger, not long ago, Yuwen Zhao also took the youngest daughter of the leader of the Helan Clan, and the girl is only fifteen years old. ”

Ye Ming said slowly: "The Helan Department has been forced to this part, and it is only a matter of time before it is annexed by Yuwen Zhao, and soon the north will be unified, and you have to pay more attention to this matter in Chang'an." ”

Yuwen Zhao has been more than forty years this year, and forcibly marrying a teenage girl is indeed a bit embarrassing, and Yuwen Helan is willing to marry, which means that Yuwen Zhao has almost digested the Futu Department, and the only surviving Helan Department among the four Yuwen Divisions may not last long.

Li Xin nodded and said with a smile: "This matter is a matter of the imperial court, but where you can help, the junior brother will still help." ”

Ye Ming coughed a few times, and his face was a little unpleasant.

He looked at Li Xin with a serious face: "Chang'an, for my brother...... I'm afraid it won't be long. ”

"The fourth child has already separated from the Guogong Mansion, if I follow my father, Ye Mao will be the only one left in the Ye family, and you know that the child Chang'an, it is somewhat not very bright, and you need Chang'an to carry me a lot."

Li Xin frowned and asked, "Senior brother is uncomfortable, do you want me to ask a doctor to take a look at senior brother?" ”

"It's an old problem."

Ye Ming smiled: "My body is not as good as my father, I have always been worried that I will die in front of my father, which will make his old man sad, but now I can arrange my father's funeral for a few more years, and I have done a little bit of my duty as a son of man, and I am already very happy for my brother." ”

Ye Ming is not a traditional military general like Ye Sheng, in the first twenty years of his life, he was a scholar, and later he was a "half-way monk" and became a general, his body bones are indeed not as strong as the old man Ye Sheng, he is only in his sixties, he is already dying, and he looks older than when Ye Sheng was dying.

Hearing Ye Ming's words, Li Xin had no choice, and said with a wry smile: "Senior brother, take advantage of the time to take advantage of the moment, take care of your body, Ye Mao is a person of pure filial piety, and the loss of Master Ye has made him miserable, if the senior brother also leaves, he probably won't be able to accept it." ”

"Right now, most of my brother is thinking about this child."

Ye Guogong sighed: "His mother died early, and I have been leading soldiers outside all the year round, so I have hardly taken him with me, he grew up with his grandfather." ”

"I have done very little for Ye Mao in this life, and now for him, I have to work hard to live a few more days, and for my brother to live for a day, the pressure on his shoulders will be lighter."

"That's why I think so much about the Yuwen Department."

Ye Ming put his gaze back on Li Xin, and said lightly: "If it goes on like this, in the next five to ten years, there will be a battle between the Yuwen Ministry and the Great Jin, and then Ye Mao will bear the brunt, Yuwen Zhao is a hero among the Xianbei people, he can't be underestimated, Chang'an must take him to heart." ”

This Ye Guogong's idea is very simple.

Ye Mao's temperament is not suitable for being an official in the court, he is naturally suitable for leading soldiers outside, and the biggest difficulty in his life is probably the Yuwen tribes outside Jimen Pass, if the Yuwen tribes are unified, the combat effectiveness will be doubled, and when the time comes, it may be a little difficult for them to attack Jimen Pass and Yunzhou City at the same time, but it is really possible to fight down if they attack one place with all their might.

That's why Ye Ming wanted Li Xin to help take care of the north.

Not to mention the complete defeat of the Yuwen Ministry, as long as the Yuwen Ministry is repelled or defeated once, Ye Mao, Chen Guogong, can do it in peace and stability for a lifetime.

Of course, if the Jimen Pass is broken, Ye Mao can only die in the Jimen Pass.

Li Xin glanced at Ye Ming, whose face was not very good-looking, and sighed helplessly: "Senior brother, don't worry, with me here, nothing will happen to Ye Mao." ”

"With the phrase Chang'an, I feel much more at ease as a brother."

Ye Guogong groped in his sleeve for a while, and finally found a prismatic piece of iron, on which the word "leaf" was engraved, his face was solemn, and he handed over the piece of iron to Li Xin.

"In my father's early years on the battlefield, he often used three kinds of weapons: bow, lance and spear, and the longbow is still hanging in the old man's small yard, and you have seen it in Chang'an."

"The horse lance was not used later, and was left in the warehouse by the old man."

Ye Ming sighed slowly and said: "This piece of iron is the head of the gun that the old man used on the battlefield back then. ”

"It is also the symbol of the head of the Ye family."

Li Xin's eyes rolled, put the iron piece into his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, this is not appropriate, how can such a valuable thing be handed over to me, an outsider?" ”

Ye Ming glanced at Li Xin, who had already put things into his big sleeves, and said helplessly: "It's not for you." ”

He sighed and said: "With my body, it is basically difficult to go north again, and I can't go to Jimen Pass to see Mao'er, so I can only entrust it to you, one day you go to Jimen Pass and see Mao'er, so give him this thing and tell him that he is already the head of the Ye family." ”

The smile on Li Xin's face retracted.

He arched his hand at Ye Ming and said, "Senior brother, don't worry, this matter will definitely be done for you." ”

Ye Guogong smiled at him.

"Since this thing is for you, you can use it when you need it."

Li Xinxin moved and understood what Ye Ming meant.

This thing can be regarded as the Ye family's "family master order", not to mention that he can command all the Ye family members, but the Ye family has been influential for decades, maybe there will be a Ye family in any yamen, and this thing will be of great use at that time.

Ye Ming means that before this thing is handed over to Ye Mao, Li Xin can also use it when he takes it, this is a very clear metamorphosis, which is equivalent to lending the power of the Ye family to Li Xin to use, which means that the Ye family will always stand behind Li Xin.

The Marquis of Jing'an was silent for a while, and looked deeply at Ye Ming's carriage.

"The senior brother is gracious, and the younger brother is inscribed."

"It's just about helping each other."

After Ye Ming said this, he turned around and got into his own carriage, and with the whip of the coachman, the carriage slowly left the Jing'an Hou Mansion.

After the carriage left, Li Xin took out the piece of iron engraved with the word "leaf" in his sleeve and looked at it, and then put it into his sleeve again.

He felt a little emotional.

The Ye family started with Ye Sheng, and three generations treated him very well, although this kind of thing was mutual, but the Ye family was able to do this, which still moved him very much.

"It's all human favors."

He shook his head, turned around and went into his house, washed up, and fell asleep on the bed.

Early the next morning, he got up as usual to wash up and stand on the fist pile, but after an hour of fist pile, someone came to the Jing'an Hou Mansion and waited.

Li Xin unhurriedly finished standing up on the fist pile, then washed his face and looked at the young man who had been waiting here for half an hour.

"Why did Xie Lang come so early and eat?"

Xie Dai respectfully clenched his fists at Li Xin.

"The last general, Xie Dai, on the orders of the emperor, came to listen to the dispatch of the Taifu!"