After hearing Li Xin's words, the Son of Heaven was silent for a while, then took out another letter from the table and handed it to Xiao Zheng beside him.

Xiao Zheng took it with very sensible hands, and then sent it to Li Xin.

"This is the letter that Ye Ming sent to the capital yesterday."

Li Xin frowned, and after unfolding the letter and reading it, his brows began to jump.

I, Senior Brother Ye, want to ......

I resigned from the letter.

The reason is very simple, firstly, he is old, and he is in his early sixties this year, and he has been in poor health for the past two years, and he is unable to handle military affairs, so he wants to resign from the post of general of the Zhenbei Army.

The second is...... He also received the news of his father's death and wanted to go back to his hometown in Ningling to keep his father's filial piety for a few years.

This book, between the lines, is full of filial piety, especially one of the sentences, which makes Li Xin can't help but feel a little sad when he sees it.

"The minister has guarded the border for the country for decades, and he has only seen his father four or five times, which is hard, not enough for outsiders, and the minister was cowardly when he was young, and he did not dare to shoot arrows with a knife, and he did not dare to hurt people and shoot deer, everyone in Kyoto knew that he had never been disliked by his father."

Ye Sheng's eldest son, Ye Ming, has a very different personality from his father, he didn't like to dance knives and guns when he was young, but he liked to read.

The second and third sons of the Ye family, all of whom love to practice martial arts, were taken by Ye Sheng to the north, but they all died on the battlefield.

Because of this reason, Ye Ming's personal force has not been very good, which is one of the reasons why he has been in the army for decades and has never been in charge of the Chinese army.

It's just that later, Ye Sheng was trapped in the capital, and the Ye family needed someone to stand up, so the eldest young man of the Ye family resolutely went out of Beijing to join the army, and became the second general of the Ye family by relying on the number of military books that he didn't know how many.

"People's temperament is fixed, difficult to change and difficult to change, but Zechen has been able to join the army for decades, bravely kill the enemy, defend the land and consolidate the border, not because of his temperament, but for the country and his home."

"It's also for the old father at home."

"Now that my father has died of illness, the minister, as the eldest son, has not fulfilled his filial piety, and second, he has not dealt with the aftermath, but he has not been able to move in northern Xinjiang, and he is ashamed to be a son and a father."

"Now the minister is already in the age of the sixtieth year, the broken body, and there is a sickness, I don't know when, I will go with the old father, please Your Majesty allow the minister's resignation, allow the minister to return to Ningling, do his filial piety."

After reading this recital, Li Xin let out a long breath and said in a low voice: "General Ye's recital, Your Majesty doesn't seem to be accurate. ”

The descendants of Zhuxia have always taken filial piety as the moral standard, especially in this era, it is a universal standard, even if the emperor wants to prevent a person from fulfilling filial piety, he will be poked in the backbone.

Therefore, it is unlikely that the Son of Heaven will refuse this recital.

"It's not good, it's not accurate."

The Son of Heaven smiled bitterly and said: "It's just that as soon as this Ye Shaobao returned to Beijing, I didn't even choose someone to take over the position of the general of the Zhenbei Army. ”

Speaking of this, Taikang Tianzi looked at Li Xin and said in a deep voice: "Chang'an, now that the war in the north is about to start, all of it will be handed over to the Yunzhou army, and I am not very relieved, and if the Yuwen tribes resist, Jimen Pass is also a key point, at this time, Jimen Pass cannot be without a backbone." ”

"Now, you are the only one in the capital who can sit in this position, and you can sit safely."

The Jimen Pass garrison is nominally called the Zhenbei Army, but everyone in the capital knows that this army should actually be called the Ye Family Army, after all, the Ye family has presided over the Zhenbei Army for two generations, although there are not many generals surnamed Ye in the Zhenbei Army, but the whole army recognizes people with the surname Ye.

Li Xin took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty means that you want the minister to take over General Ye's position?" ”

The Son of Heaven nodded.

"In the capital, only Chang'an is capable of doing it."

There is nothing wrong with this sentence, according to the position, the general of the Zhenbei Army is the position of the second product, the young protection on Ye Ming's body is from the first grade, Li Xin is the Marquis of Jing'an, the position is the second grade of the military department, and there is also a prince Taibao who is also from the first grade, he to do this position, at most it can only be regarded as a flat adjustment,

Judging from the statement of the chief magistrate of Beijing, he cannot even be regarded as a flat tone, but has been "degraded".

Li Xin blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the minister is not surnamed Ye, so he may not be able to sit firmly in this position." ”

"The Ye family recognizes you."

The Son of Heaven opened his mouth and said: "It's really not good, you just bring another Ye family member, that little grandfather of the Ye family, Ye Mao, isn't he going out of Beijing to exercise a long time ago, let him go with you and be a deputy for you." ”

Li Xinli sighed slowly.

He has a very good relationship with the Ye family now, but if he becomes the general of the Zhenbei Army, the Ye family may point fingers at him behind his back.

Some people even say that he colluded with the Son of Heaven to seize the authority of the Ye family.

Li Xin was silent for a while, and finally spoke: "Your Majesty, you should discuss this matter with the Zaifu before making a conclusion, if the imperial court has a holy decree, the ministers, as subjects of the Great Jin, will naturally bow down and obey." ”

A smile appeared on the Son of Heaven's face.

"I have to communicate with you in advance, otherwise a holy decree will be pressed, and I am afraid that you will be unhappy."

As he spoke, he asked Xiao Zheng to move another chair, sat next to Li Xin, pulled Li Xin's sleeve and said: "Chang'an, after you arrive in the north, the affairs of the Yuwen Ministries will be handed over to you and Chong Xuantong, what the Zhenbei Army needs, even if you report it to the imperial court, I will definitely let the household department cooperate as much as possible." ”

He let out a breath and continued, "My initial plan is to ...... Three years. ”

"Within three years, after the end of this northern expedition, there will be no external troubles in my Great Jin, and there will be at least forty or fifty years of peace!"

Seeing the appearance of the Son of Heaven, Li Xin smiled a little embarrassedly, and whispered: "Your Majesty, this kind of important matter still needs to be discussed slowly, it is impossible for the two of us to settle it by saying a few words here, you might as well put it aside first, the minister now has another matter, asking Your Majesty for help." ”

Seeing Li Xin say this, the Son of Heaven became interested, and said with a smile: "What can make Chang'an so concerned that you don't even want to say anything about the Northern Expedition?" ”

"That's ......"

Li Xin coughed and slowly spoke: "The minister's family...... There is a staff member who has some skills. ”

"When the minister went west five years ago, he relied on this person to come up with ideas by his side, otherwise it would not have been so smooth back then, so he helped His Majesty pacify the southwest."

"This king is also talented."

……

Li Xin blew Zhao Jia to a rare place in the sky and a rare one on the ground.

The Son of Heaven also coughed and said, "Chang'an has something to say, you might as well say it directly......"

Li Xin stopped at this time and said with some embarrassment: "Hmm...... He wants to be an official. ”

The Son of Heaven frowned slightly.

"If you have talent to learn, why don't you take a scientific examination?"

"He was born in a military family and is not allowed to conduct scientific examinations."

Zhao Jia's father, although he was a military advisor who followed Ye Sheng, had a position in the Northern Expeditionary Army that year, so that he became a military household and was not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

The Son of Heaven nodded and said with a wry smile: "Chang'an, you praised this person like a dragon and a phoenix among people, do you want him to directly enter the three provinces as a slaughterer?" ”

"No, no, no......"

Li Xin waved his hand and said with a dry smile: "Just give him a county magistrate and something like that, if he does a good job, it's not too late ......to be promoted."