The first year of Yankang, February 24.

This year seems to be colder than in previous years, and it was not until March that the weather slowly warmed up.

Because Li Xin didn't go to the court much on weekdays, he left the capital, and the court situation would not change particularly much, and now the total number of Long Wuwei and Shenwuwei together has exceeded 150,000, and the entire capital can be said to be impregnable.

Lin Hu arrived in the capital a month ago, and now he has officially been appointed as the commander of the Shenji Battalion, but the Shenji Battalion is not something that can be prepared overnight, and after a month, it has only made a prototype, and the remaining firearms supervisor used to make firearms, as well as the craftsman academy used to cultivate "scientific and technological talents", are slowly getting up little by little.

These things cannot be done in a day or two or a month or two, nor can they be done by Li Xin personally staring at them, so in the third month of Yangchun, the de facto controller of the capital, in a black carriage, under the escort of two or three hundred personal guards, quietly left the capital.

Li Xin was not only alone in the carriage, but also a seven or eight-year-old boy, who was still wearing winter cotton clothes and sitting opposite Li Xin in a regular manner.

This is Li Xin's eldest son, Li Ping.

At present, it is also Li Xin's only son, of course, whether it will be an only son in the future or two words, because after the unremitting efforts of Governor Li for two months, the ninth princess has become pregnant again and is now raising a baby at home.

Although Li Ping is only seven or eight years old, he is not particularly out of his nature, he is not noisy or noisy all the way, but occasionally when he sees something he has not seen along the way, he will shout "Daddy", and then Li Xin pointed to the cattle, sheep, chickens and dogs on the side of the road, and patiently said to him.

The father and son sat in the carriage and staggered for two or three days.

On the third day, when the sky was overcast, Li Xin added a piece of clothing to the child, and then asked, "Have you been living in the capital these months?" ”

"Habit."

Li Ping responded very obediently: "Sister took me to eat a lot of delicious food, that is, the home in the capital is bigger than our home in Yongzhou, and sometimes I get lost at home." ”

Li Xin smiled: "Do you know any friends?" ”

"Yes."

Li Ping said softly: "The elder brother of the Mu family and the younger brother of the uncle's family often come to the house to play with me......

He looked up at Li Xin and said with a smile: "Sister will take us around to find some delicious food, and Sister gave us a few fried chicken legs to eat last month." ”

Ah Han's fried chicken skills were taught to her by pestering Li Xin two months ago.

When it came to friends in the capital, Li Ping was interested, pulled his father's sleeve and chattered a lot of things in the capital to listen to Li Xin.

Li Xin nodded silently and smiled: "It's good that you can live in the capital." ”

Sure enough, the children of Li Shuo and Mu Ying have begun to contact their only son.

Not only that, as the Southwest Group controls the capital more and more, now among the two armies of Long Wuwei and Shenwuwei, the voices that want Li Xin to ascend the throne are getting heavier and heavier.

Not only that, since the beginning of spring, among the children in the capital, the ballad of "Eighteen Sons, the Main Artifact" began to circulate, and it was once sung very widely, not only in the capital, but also in Gyeonggi and the nearby state capitals, all began to sing this ballad.

This kind of ballad with obvious intentions is obviously deliberately propagated by the people of the Southwest Group.

In addition to the pressure within these southwest armies, there were still many people in the Great Jin Dynasty who were dissatisfied with the rule of Li Xin's southwest group, and the vassal kings in some places began to coerce the local people to rebel, and within two months, there were seven or eight rebellions in the entire Great Jin Jiangnan and Jiangbei, five of which were quelled by the local government, and the other three were personally led by Li Shuo, the general of Shenwuwei, to quell the troops.

In this case, Li Xin took Li Ping, the son of the Marquis of Jing'an, and left the capital.

The father and son sat in the carriage for almost six days before they stopped at the gate of an inconspicuous county seat.

As soon as they got off the carriage, they saw a tall and strong man, waiting at the gate of the county seat, and after seeing the carriage stop, the strong man hurriedly walked up and bowed his head to Li Xin and saluted: "I have seen the governor." ”

Li Xin patted the man on the shoulder and said with a smile: "What? As a national prince, even my uncle doesn't recognize me? ”

In today's imperial court, there are only two princes with different surnames, among which Mu Ying, the prince of Qianguo, is still leading Long Wuwei in the capital, and the other prince is naturally Ye Mao, who has been fighting in northern Xinjiang for more than half a year.

At the end of last year, the Yunzhou army first gave 20,000 soldiers and horses to support Jizhou, and then the four Zhichong mansions led by He Xiang also rushed to Jizhou, and the defense pressure of Jizhou was gone.

Of course, he had greeted Li Xin in advance.

At this time, it was only four or five days for Ye Mao to return to Ningling.

Ye Mao may not have seen Li Xin for a long time, and he also smiled when he heard this: "Uncle Shi is now prosperous, I am afraid that Uncle Shi will turn his face and deny me as a nephew." ”

Two people, one is the Grand Governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the other is the General of the Zhenbei Army, gathered in Ningling at the same time, naturally because...... Qingming has arrived.

Li Xin has not been able to come to Ningling for several years because of the war, so he brought his son to kowtow to his deceased teacher, and Ye Mao also did not come back for three or four years because of state affairs.

Li Xin pointed at Li Ping, who was standing aside, and said with a smile to Ye Mao: "This is my son, his name is still the old man, and he has never had the opportunity to bring it back to kowtow to the old man, but I finally had the opportunity this year, so I brought him." ”

Hearing this, Ye Mao glanced at Li Ping deeply, his eyes deep.

Li Ping, who was only eight years old, saluted Ye Mao very formally: "I've seen Brother Ye." ”

Although Ye Mao is the same generation as Li Ping, he is a few years older than Li Xin, and the age difference between the "two brothers" is too great, but he still smiled and said politely: "The prince is polite." ”

After being polite to this "little brother", Ye Mao looked left and right, and whispered to Li Xin, "Uncle Shi...... Did you take some risks when you and the prince came out together, did you take some ......? ”

"It's not that you don't have a personal guard, what is there to risk not to risk."

Li Xin smiled heartily: "If someone can kill me, it will be useless to leave them orphans and widows, if someone kills my son, hehe......"

Hearing Li Xin's laughter, Ye Mao couldn't help but shudder, he stepped out of the way and said to Li Xin: "My nephew has already set up the wine and food in Yejiazhuang, and I also ask my uncle to move." ”

Li Xin nodded, took Li Ping's hand and walked in front.

After taking two steps, he looked back at Ye Mao and said softly: "Now that Senior Brother Ye has gone to the north, and the situation over there has gradually stabilized, then you have a choice, after you recover from your injuries, do you want to go back to Jizhou, or stay in the capital?" ”

Ye Mao bowed his head slightly: "What does Uncle Shi mean?" ”

"If you want me to mean, it's better for you to stay in the capital."

Li Xin chuckled: "There are still about 100,000 forbidden troops in the capital that can be handed over to you to bring, and with you, the pressure on me will be less." ”

Ye Mao was silent for a while, and then spoke: "Uncle Shi, all of the 100,000 people in my Zhenbei Army died in the hands of the Xianbei people. ”

That year, Jimen Fortress guarded the city too badly, so that until now, Ye Mao has never forgotten this hatred.

Li Xin smiled dumbly: "Now the soldiers and horses in Jizhou, even the four Zhechong Mansions brought over by He Xiang, can they gather 100,000 people?" ”

"Now let you out of the customs, which Xianbei department can you beat with these people?"

Li Xin said with a smile: "After you recover from your injuries, you will stay in the capital for a while, and by the way, you will also learn firearms in my Shenji Camp, and in another year or two, I can transfer some people from the Shenji Camp for you, so that you can go to the customs outside the gate to be ashamed, how about it?" ”

Ye Guogong smiled.

"Then it's decided, but my nephew doesn't have to bring any forbidden troops to the capital, just go to the Shenji Camp to be a captain."

(End of chapter)