It has been almost half a year since Li Xin left the capital, and he went to the southwest in the middle, and I am afraid that the capital also knows it, but in recent months, especially after he returned to Yongzhou, there have been more unknown characters in Qiyang County, staring at the Li family openly or secretly.

Qiyang County is Li Xin's hometown, Shen Gang and his subordinates have been stationed here for a while, and if there is anything going on in the county, naturally he can't hide it from his eyes, but for these people, Li Xin didn't care much, just pretended not to see it.

Nine out of ten of these people are people from the imperial court, and now the imperial court's attitude towards Li Xin is obscure, and Li Xin is not sure what it looks like, and it is impossible for him to return to the capital before the situation settles.

The ninth princess has just been pregnant for three months, and when the child is born, it will be at least May and June of the next year, and it will not be far from the pro-government of Yuan Zhao Tianzi, and the situation in the southwest should also be stabilized.

Ye Shangshu sighed slightly, he glanced up at Li Xin, and said in a deep voice: "Chang'an, the old man treated you like a young son when he was alive, and you also regarded my father as an old father. ”

Speaking of Ye Sheng, the face of the Marquis of Jing'an also became serious, and he bowed his head slightly and said, "Senior brother, excuse me." ”

Ye Luan's face was serious.

"At this time, there are only you and my brothers, I am not the secretary of the military department, but the fourth child of the Ye family, I only ask one sentence."

He looked at Li Xin and said in a deep voice, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Want to be emperor?"

Li Xin was stunned, lowered his head and pondered for a while, then laughed at himself: "Senior brother became an official a lot earlier than me, and he has a much deeper understanding of the Great Jin Dynasty than me. ”

"I don't know."

Ye Lan slowly exhaled.

"The Li family, Li Zhijie, and Li Shen are two generations of masters, who have been operating the southwest for more than 30 years, and the southwest is unbreakable, even my father feels that it is difficult for the southwest to fight again, but you just beat it down."

"After recovering the southwest, the first emperor can be said to be working hard, the Great Jin Dynasty reached the prosperous era in the Taikang Dynasty, it stands to reason that no one can resist the imperial court in the prosperous era, let alone cut more than 30 mansions from the hands of the imperial court, but you still did it."

Ye Lan smiled bitterly: "So far, whether it is the eldest brother or me, I don't know what you can do in the future, and I don't know what you will do in the future." ”

After he took a deep breath, he spoke: "Before I came to Yongzhou, I went back to Ningling to meet the eldest brother, and the eldest brother asked me to ask you what you want to do, and then he thought about what the Ye family should do. ”

The Marquis of Jing'an was silent for a while, picked up the teacup and just took a sip, and suddenly threw the teacup in his hand on the bluestone floor, and smashed it with a "bang", and the tea and tea leaves in the cup were scattered all over the ground.

Ye Shangshu was startled, almost thinking that Li Xin was going to drop the cup.

The Marquis of Jing'an smiled: "It's boring to drink tea, senior brother will drink two cups with me?" ”

Ye Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and said angrily: "Brother Wei thought that you had ambushed hundreds of knife and axe men at home, and you were going to come out and tie me up with the sacrificial flag!" ”

The Marquis of Jing'an laughed: "I can't see it, the senior brother is quite imaginative." ”

The teacup was quickly withdrawn, and it took less than a pillar of incense for the subordinates of the Li Mansion to place a table of wine and food on the low table, and Li Xin lifted the wine jug, poured a full wine for Ye Luan, and filled it for himself.

The two men clinked glasses.

This is the Zhurong wine produced by the Imperial Wine Division in the capital, the strongest liquor in the world, and the wine on Li Xin's Mansion is still more than eight years old, and there are not a few jars left in the entire Dajin.

After all, this toast is only ten years old.

A glass of strong wine in his stomach made Li confident a lot of relief, he put down the wine glass, poured it again, and burped.

"In the seventeenth year of Chengde, I went to Beijing to look for relatives, at that time, the younger brother relied on selling fake beast carbon to the Qinglou on the edge of the Qinhuai River, so he barely survived that winter, and at that time he thought that he was saving some money, and after the spring of the next year, he left the capital with Xiaoxiao and her grandfather, and found a richer Jiangnan city to settle down, do some small business, and live a good life."

When Chengde was seventeen years old, Li Xin almost froze to death in that winter, at that time he went into the city every day to sell charcoal, and did not think that he could compete with the Hou Mansion, what he wanted at that time was to save some money by selling, and then wait for the spring to be warmer, with the charcoal seller and charcoal girl he just met to leave the capital, and go to Gusu or Yangzhou to earn some money to live a good life.

Speaking of this, Li Xin paused, and touched a cup with Ye Lan again.

"Later, by mistake, he was involved in the battle between Emperor Zhao and Li Shen, and the situation at that time was incomprehensible to outsiders, but the younger brother himself was clear."

Li Xin recalled the old events of the past and closed his eyes.

"At that time, neither Emperor Zhao nor Hou Li Shen looked at me in their eyes, I was just a chess piece on the chessboard, or a useless son that Emperor Zhao was idle and fell on the corner, in that stormy situation, if any of them were unhappy, I would die."

"At that time, what I thought in my heart was to take one step at a time, try to save my life, and bring up the girl in my family."

Speaking of this, Li Xin smiled.

"Later, it was the matter of the Renchen Palace, and the senior brother also knew about it."

Ye Xuan nodded silently, clinked glasses with Li Xin, and the two of them drank another glass of spirits into their throats.

After drinking, the Marquis of Jing'an spit out a mouthful of wine and continued: "After the change in Renchen Palace, I can only speak with a little voice in the capital, and I am no longer passive in doing things, and I am no longer controlled by others, so I can be regarded as getting rid of the identity of a chess piece. ”

"At that time, I wondered if I could get some justice for my mother."

Li Xin drank and talked at the same time.

"After that, it is the Western Expedition, and the specific things are also known to the senior brothers, the Southwest Marquis Mansion was destroyed, and Li Xin died in Zhaoling, accompanied by Emperor Zhao underground."

As he spoke, he looked up at Ye Xuan and smiled.

"It stands to reason that after Li Shen died, I was almost already a very good minister, I was only in my early twenties at that time, and what I should do in this life had been done, and I married a princess, and I just had to lie down in peace and enjoy happiness in the rest of my life."

The two brothers clinked glasses again, one talking, the other listening quietly.

"That's what I think myself."

"So after I returned from my expedition to the west, Master Ye advised me not to be arrogant, nor to be so public, I obediently took my children at home for five years, and I didn't go anywhere, and I obediently became a virtuous minister for five years."

Ye Ling frowned slightly: "But ......"

"But shouldn't I leave a presence in the Southwest?"

The Marquis of Jing'an smiled: "The people of the Southwest Hanzhou Mansion are the old department of Nanshu back then, and it was I who came forward to let them surrender to the Great Jin, if I let them go, these "Shu people" who have been against the court for more than 30 years, few people will have a good end." ”

"I didn't think so much about it at the time, and my selfishness in my heart was to leave a back hand and a back road for myself."

This time, he didn't toast Ye Xuan's wine, but drank a glass by himself.

"The purpose is to let the minister die, and the minister doesn't want to die."

Ye Shangshu wanted to speak and stopped.

Li Xin said with a smile: "I know that this idea may be a bit rebellious in the eyes of senior brother, but I am a person who thinks differently from others, and I am not too desperate for the court, or for the court." ”

He took a bite of food with chopsticks and drank another drink with Ye Luan.

"After that, the first emperor died."

Speaking of this, Li Xin sighed: "To be honest, I'm still quite sad that he died, I originally thought that I was going to repeat the story between Emperor Zhao and Li Shen with him, who loved and killed each other for decades, who knew that the story had just begun, and he went." ”

The Marquis of Jing'an's face was calm, and he smiled gently at Ye Luan.

"These are all things I once wanted to do, and now that the first emperor has been dead for more than half a year, the new emperor has ascended the throne, and the auxiliary ministers are regents, and the senior brother has asked me what to do."

Li Xintou drank a glass of wine.

"At the beginning of the year, several auxiliary ministers couldn't help but say that they were going to attack the right battalion of the forbidden army, which made me feel very uncomfortable, and what I thought at that time was that if Your Majesty could stand on my side, personally look at the government in advance, and abolish these auxiliary ministers, I will enjoy my blessings with peace of mind in the future, and no longer worry about other things."

Drinking this, the face of the Marquis of Jing'an was already a little flushed.

He picked up the wine glass and touched it with Ye Luan.

"I'm half of the Ye family, and I have a heart-wrenching word with my senior brother."

"Since He Didn't Believe Me......"

Li Xin said half a sentence, raised his head and took a sip of wine, and burped.

"Then I don't believe him either."