This sudden "younger brother" honestly made Li Xin a little overwhelmed.

But soon he reacted.

No matter what you say, your early purpose is still very clear, that is, to let the Li family, or let the Pingnan Hou Mansion collapse.

Whether people die or not remains to be discussed, but the building of Pingnanhou Mansion must collapse!

Now, this is not just Li Xin's personal vendetta, but also his political goal, because Taikang Tianzi also urgently needs the collapse of the Pingnan Hou Mansion, and Li Xin can only have a chance to go to the next level with the power of Taikang Tianzi.

In other words, no matter what, Li Xin has no possibility of reconciling with the Li family.

Even if he himself is willing, Taikang Tianzi will not be willing, Mu Ying will not be willing, and the "Yulin Wei Yi Series" led by Li Xin will also not be willing.

At this time, Li Xin was no longer the poor boy who had just entered the capital, he had become the core of an interest group, and the temporary goal of this interest group was to deal with the Pingnan Hou Mansion.

This goal was slowly piled up by Li Xin himself little by little, but now, he himself has no way to violate this goal, otherwise he will lose his heart.

What's more, he didn't want to turn his back on this goal.

His mother's grave is still buried on Mount Qi.

Li Shuo looked up at Li Xin and slowly bowed his head: "Brother, junior brother wants to talk to you about something." ”

Li Xin smiled faintly.

"I don't want to hear it."

"Something about the Pingnan Army."

Li Xin was silent for a while, then walked to his study in the Qi family with his hands behind his back.

"You come with me."

The two "brothers" sat down in the study, and Li Xin poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip: "I want to drink it myself." ”

Li Shuo shook his head, signaling that he was not thirsty, and then he lowered his voice and said, "Brother, you and I are not enemies. ”

Li Xin put down the teacup and looked at the young man.

"I think so."

Li Shuo smiled bitterly: "Brother, you are too resentful in your heart. ”

Li Xin's face turned cold: "Your mother is not dead, my mother is dead." ”

This incident is actually a tragedy, it is not only Xiao Qinglan who died, but also her uncle, and the charcoal seller, these people have a common characteristic, that is, they are all small people, in the eyes of people of Li Shen's level, they are all insignificant little people.

Originally, their deaths could not set off a little storm in this world, and if it weren't for Li Xin, no one would even know that they were dead.

The former Li Xin was also a small person in Li Shen's eyes.

However, little people are also people.

"If you're going to say that, you can go out."

Li Shuo opened his mouth and said, "Brother, do you know how many people there are in the Pingnan Army?" ”

Li Xin smiled: "150,000? ”

Li Shuo shook his head slowly.

"More than 300,000 combatable soldiers!"

Li Xin stood up directly from his chair and sneered, "You scare me? ”

Li Shuo said to himself: "Brother, the Pingnan Army has been more than thirty years since the generation of the old marquis. ”

He raised his head and looked at Li Xin, and said solemnly: "Thirty years, at least the army will be replaced more than three times, the Pingnan Army will start from the old marquis Li Zhijie, and leave the army when he is over forty years old, and then the Pingnan Army will allocate arable land to them in Shu County, and the Pingnan Army will re-recruit these vacancies, anyway, there are 100,000 establishments, and the imperial court will support them." ”

As he spoke, Li Shuo said in a deep voice: "There are many iron mines in Shudi, does my brother know?" ”

This Li Xin knows.

In the Song Dynasty in another world, Shu was because of the lack of copper, there was no way to make copper money, and only iron money could be made, and the face value of iron money was low, and five iron coins were worth one copper coin, so it was extremely inconvenient to go out to buy things.

Because of this, there was a kind of paper money, Jiaozi was born.

Li Xin nodded slowly.

Li Shuo continued: "Because there are 100,000 people to be raised by the imperial court, and the military and political affairs of the entire Shu land are controlled by the Pingnan army, so the Pingnan army can also deduct a lot of taxes, and after more than 30 years, the Pingnan General's Mansion has not known how many weapons and armor have been produced, and I don't know how many retired people!" ”

"The younger brother said that there are 300,000 people who can fight, that is the minimum estimate..."

The soldiers of ancient times, and the difference between later generations is very big, there is no standard of training at this time, often is a forced conscription of strong men, after enlisting in the army, if the war is urgent, even training is not trained, you can go to the battlefield with a weapon, go to the battlefield to fight a few battles without dying, and those who survive can be regarded as elite soldiers.

Well-trained and well-equipped people like Yu Linwei are in the minority.

Some of the soldiers didn't even have armor.

As Li Shuo said, if the Pingnan Army began to prepare thirty years ago, it is not an exaggeration to have 300,000 soldiers in Shu today.

Li Xin tugged at the corners of his mouth meaninglessly.

"Awesome, there's a reserve."

This set of Shu land cannot be regarded as a reserve, it is more like the military system of the Tang Dynasty, but this kind of thing can only be strictly implemented in areas controlled by the military government like Shu County, and it is difficult to do it with a behemoth like the Great Jin Dynasty.

Li Xin slowly closed his eyes, and many things that he couldn't understand before suddenly became clear.

No wonder Li Shenren is still alive and well in the capital!

No wonder there are only 100,000 soldiers and horses on the surface of southern Xinjiang, and the imperial court has not been indifferent to this day!

No wonder the Son of Heaven in Chengde did not fight with Southern Xinjiang until he died!

If there are really more than 300,000 soldiers in southern Xinjiang, even the current Great Jin Dynasty will become crippled if they want to gnaw it down.

Li Xin took a deep breath, then opened his eyes and looked at the young man Li Shuo, and said slowly, "What are you talking to me for?" ”

Li Shuo raised his eyes to look at Li Xin and said: "What the younger brother said is not particularly confidential in southern Xinjiang, these things are known to the Son of Chengde, and the current Taikang Son of Heaven also knows, but you don't know the elder brother, which shows that the Ji family and the elder brother are not of the same mind." ”

Li Xin was silent.

"You want to sow discord?"

"It's not about sowing discord."

Li Shuo stood up, bent over to Li Xin and said, "Little brother admires my brother very much, I came here today just to see my brother, and by the way, remind my brother to be more careful in the capital." ”

Li Xin waved his hand.

"Accept your love, you can go."

Li Shuo got up, bowed to Li Xin in a proper manner, and said respectfully: "Brother take care, junior brother has taken his leave." ”

As he spoke, he slowly withdrew from the Qi family compound.

Li Xin was alone in the study, closing his eyes.

Li Shuo...... It's a lot stronger than Li Chun. ”

Li Xin muttered to himself.

"Although I don't know what you're going to do, your understanding of the current situation is still too shallow."

Li Shuo believed that the Ji family was using Li Xin to deal with southern Xinjiang, but he didn't know that Li Xin was also using the Ji family to gain momentum.

At this time, although Li Xin already had some wings, these wings were not full enough, and they were not strong enough, and he still had to work hard to harden his wings on the big tree of the Ji family.

Before this, he must and will be a loyal minister of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the Taikang Dynasty was most enthusiastic about conquering Jing'an Hou in southern Xinjiang.

The biggest hawk of the new dynasty!

This matter is very complicated, and Li Xin must grasp every bit of proportion in order to prevent his small boat from capsizing between the two big waves.

He knew it in his heart.

Whether it is the imperial court or the Pingnan Marquis Mansion, it is unreliable.

The only one who can be relied on is himself.