Early the next morning, before dawn, dozens of people from the Ye family all got up, quickly sorted out the equipment on their bodies, and then got on their horses and set off.

When the day was about to dawn, the Ye family had already cleaned up, and the group turned over and got on the horse, Li Xin was surrounded by Ye Mao and others in the middle, and was about to ride a horse, Xie Dai hurriedly got on the horse, chased after him, and said loudly to Li Xin: "Taifu, Yu Linwei was ordered to protect Taifu's safety, you should go with Yu Linwei!" ”

Before Li Xin could speak, Ye Mao on the side said: "Last night, my uncle and I received an urgent report, Jizhou is in an emergency, we are going to change horses along the road, gallop Jizhou, Yulinwei is a whole Duwei camp, it is impossible to have so many horses at the post station along the way, Xie Duwei still takes them to walk slowly in the back first, and then meet in Jizhou." ”

Hearing this, Xie Dai couldn't find any reason to refute for a while, he gritted his teeth, turned on his horse, turned back to Yu Linwei and shouted: "After you pull out the camp, immediately catch up, go north for two hundred miles every day, and meet in Jizhou City!" ”

After that, he grabbed the horse's belly, walked up to Ye Mao, and said in a deep voice: "Ye Guogong, the lower officials will walk with you." ”

Ye Mao narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "Captain Xie, please." ”

After that, the Ye family's horse team surrounded Li Xin, galloping north from the official road, Xie Dai also rode a horse to keep up with the Ye family's horse team, these dozens of people did not consider the damage to the horses, let go of the speed and run, and when it was afternoon, it was almost two hundred miles, Li Xin rode a horse and ran at the front of the team, and when he looked up, he suddenly saw a big tree on both sides of the official road, hanging a black flag.

Li Xin silently looked at the black flag in his eyes and let out a long breath.

This black flag is the logo of Li Xin's subordinates, and seeing this black cloth means that the neighborhood is almost under the control of Shen Gang and others, that is to say, when he arrives here, he has no worries about his life at all.

In the past few months in the capital, although Li Xin is confident, it is more or less risky to gamble with his own life.

The horse team ran along the official road until evening, and when it was almost dark, they found a post station to rest, and at the door of the post station, a man dressed in sackcloth had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing Li Xin dismount, he immediately stepped forward, bowed down and said, "Master Hou." ”

Li Xin patted him on the shoulder and said, "Hard work." ”

Because there were many people and it was not convenient to speak, after Li Xin threw the horse to a Ye family, he took Shen Gang into the backyard of the post station, and under his signal, Ye Mao also walked in.

And Xie Dai, who dismounted with him, was not invited, so he could only watch silently from the side, and then led his horse and bolted it to the post station.

Because there are dozens of horses, the backyard of the post station is not small, Li Xin and the others endured the strong smell of the stable, sat down next to a haystack, Shen Gang lowered his head, took out about seven or eight letters from his arms, handed them to Li Xin, and said: "Master Hou, these are the letters written to you by the southwest, including General Mu's, Zhao Jingluo's, and your family letters......"

Li Xin nodded, took the letters into his sleeve, and said, "How is the situation in the southwest?" ”

Shen Gang lowered his head and did not speak.

Ye Mao stood up very sensibly and said with a smile: "Uncle Shi, there may be something ahead, I'll take a look." ”

Li Xin shook his head and said in a deep voice to Shen Gang: "Grandpa Ye is his own person, if you have anything to say, you don't need to be taboo." ”

Shen Gang bowed his head and said: "Back to the Hou Ye, the southwest fought very smoothly, Xie Jing in Hanzhong was unwilling after the defeat, and repeatedly sent troops out of the city to engage in battles, but they were defeated by General Mu and General Li, and now the imperial army in Hanzhong is less than half, and General Pei of Ankang chose to hold his troops after two defeats, but he did not lose too many troops. ”

"Now, the southwest defense line of the imperial court has been broken through by General Mu, and Zhao Jingluo asked his subordinates to ask Hou Ye what to do next."

Li Xin bowed his head and groaned, and said: "At this time, the army of the imperial court should have slowly withdrawn from Hanzhong and Ankang, tell Mu Ying, if they retreat, they will lead the troops to occupy Hanzhong and Ankang, and then temporarily hold the troops, if the army of the imperial court does not retreat, they will directly defeat Hanzhong, and we will take care of the southwest gateway ourselves." ”

Shen Gang bowed his head deeply.

"My subordinates are going to deliver the message."

With that, he got up and took his leave. Good Chinese

Li Xin continued to speak: "During this time, the information collected in Northern Xinjiang will be sorted out and sent to me in a while. ”

Shen Gang got up and clenched his fists.

"Subordinates obey."

With that, he immediately bowed down and took his leave.

When Shen Gang walked away, Ye Mao, who was sitting on the flat ground like Li Xin, looked at Shen Gang's back and exclaimed: "Uncle Shi is so powerful, the north and south sides have not taken out of Uncle Shi's ears and eyes. ”

He looked back at Li Xin and asked with a smile, "How many people are under Uncle Shi's hands who are doing the business of investigating news?" ”

Li Xin smiled: "Now it is estimated that there are almost two thousand people." ”

Ye Mao stroked his palms and said: "Uncle Shi is still generous, so many people, I'm afraid only the imperial court can raise them." ”

"In the past, I couldn't afford to raise it, there were only a few hundred people, but in the past few years, I have become rich, so I have slowly made more."

Li Xin remembered the past, and said with emotion: "Most of the previous income was spent on this, you may not know, in the four or five years of Taikang, in order to get more money, I also sold a lot of moonshine on my back with the Imperial Wine Division." ”

Ye Mao was stunned for a moment, and then spoke: "Taikang four years...... Uncle, didn't you have a good relationship with the first emperor, why did you start ...... at that time?"

Li Xin glanced at Ye Mao, and said angrily: "In Yongle Fang, which family doesn't have a few people who inquire about the news, isn't there also a Wu Daoxing in your Chen Guogong Mansion?" ”

Speaking of Wu Fatzi, Ye Mao shook his head and didn't speak again.

This fat man, after the death of Old Man Ye, left the capital, and he didn't care about the affairs of the Ye family, I heard that he went back to his hometown, and he didn't know where he went.

The two chatted a few more words, Ye Mao suddenly looked up at Li Xin, and said, "Listen to what Shen Gang said, the army in the southwest is fighting very well, and it can go out of Shu at any time......"

"Mostly because Xie Jing is stupid enough."

Li Xin squinted his eyes and said: "I said early in the morning that Uncle Guo is a fool, compared to the Uncle Guo around us, it is much worse, but whether it is the first emperor or Jinshang, they all like to use him, the 100,000 troops in Hanzhong, when they were in the hands of Senior Brother Ye, occasionally fought with the southwest, and they all won and lost each other, and in the hands of him Xie Jing, more than half of them were lost so quickly." ”

Ye Mao lowered his head and was silent for a while, then asked, "Senior Uncle, after pacifying the Xianbei Ministry, what are you going to do next?" ”

Li Xin smiled, lowered his voice, and told Ye Mao about his plan.

Ye Guogong's face changed greatly when he heard this.

And Li Xin was calm, and he said lightly: "I didn't want to involve the Ye family in this matter, but now, the Ye family has been pulled in, what are you going to do?" ”

Ye Mao smiled bitterly.

"If Uncle Shi fails, it will be a dead end if the Ye family does not participate."

He took a deep breath, got up and arched his hand at Li Xin.

"Uncle Ye Jiaxin."