This sentence is about gritting teeth.

Although Li Xin did not collude with the remaining Pingnan Army, but in the emperor's view, this was almost inevitable...... How did you win when you first conquered the West?

Li Xin took only forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses, and inserted into the hinterland of the Pingnan Army, divided the strong Pingnan Army into two and then broke them one by one, and later contacted the remnants of Nanshu, and in just two years, the southwest was taken back to the imperial court!

At that time, it seemed that Li Houye was naturally the credit of pouring the sky, but at this time, when he contacted the remnants of the Pingnan Army, Taikang Tianzi sat on the dragon chair, but his heart trembled.

A few questions that made him shudder appeared in his mind.

Did the imperial court really pacify the southwest five years ago?

How many people died in the original Pingnan Army?

He slowly closed his eyes, his hands trembling slightly.

Even......

Is Li Shen dead?

All these things have already been revealed to the world, but at this time, when the information of the regeneration of chaos in the southwest was transmitted back to the capital, it suddenly became a cloud of fog, Taikang Tianzi opened his eyes and glanced at Li Xin, who was calmly drinking and eating food not far from him, with a slight tremor in his voice.

"Xiao Zheng ......"

The eunuch immediately bowed his head: "The slave and maid are here." ”

"You...... Take a trip to Zhaoling. ”

"When Li Shen died on a hill next to Zhaoling, you go to Zhaoling, find Chen Ju, and ask him ......"

"Is Li Shen dead after all?"

Xiao Zheng also shuddered when he heard the words of the Son of Heaven, he hurriedly bowed his head, bowed down and said, "Slave maid, go ......"

With that, he quickly exited Weiyang Palace and left the palace overnight.

And the Son of Heaven in the main hall, after drinking several sips of wine in a row, barely calmed down, and then slowly stood up from the dragon chair, squeezed out a smile on his face, and said with a smile to the hundred officials below: "Zhuqing, I am a little too strong to drink, and I can't accompany Zhuqing, Zhuqing and have fun, I will go back to the apse to rest first." ”

The rules of the wine field, no one can persuade the leader, especially the boss's wine, the big boss said that he couldn't drink it, and the officials below immediately got up and sent off the Son of Heaven.

Li Xin also stood up and sent the Son of Heaven.

However, before the Son of Heaven left, he did not forget Li Xin, and slowly spoke: "Li Taibao, I have some personal matters to tell you, you follow me for a trip." ”

Li Xin smiled dumbly, drank the last sip of the liquor in the cup, got up from the chair very chicly, followed the Son of Heaven, and walked towards the apse.

The apse of Weiyang Palace, in fact, is the sleeping palace of the Son of Heaven, and at the same time, the study of the Son of Heaven is also in the apse, the Son of Heaven walked in front, Li Xin followed behind him, and the two of them entered the study one after the other.

As soon as Li Xin entered the study, he saw the Son of Heaven standing less than ten steps in front of him, his face was a little hideous, and his eyes were full of murder.

A dozen or so sabber guards stood on either side, their right hands pressed on the hilt of their swords.

The Son of Heaven's face was cold.

"You think I won't dare to kill you? If I say a word now, you will fall to the ground! ”

Li Xin put his hands into his sleeves, and his face was calm.

"Why did Your Majesty kill me?"

The Son of Heaven gritted his teeth.

"Southwest Muying has already erected a flag to rebel, will you Li Changan know?"

Li Xin shrugged his shoulders.

"The minister really doesn't know, after the minister was released from Dali Temple by His Majesty, he has been locking himself at home, and he has never gone out a step, and the minister doesn't know anything about the outside."

Saying that, Li Xin said indifferently: "Besides, Mu Ying is in trouble, what does he have to do with the minister, he once served in Yulinwei, but that was five or six years ago, the minister is not his boss, not surnamed Mu, even if the nine clans can't punish the minister's head, why did Your Majesty sin me?" ”

The Son of Heaven's face was ugly, stepped forward and grabbed Li Xin's placket, and said angrily: "You are still pretending to be garlic, how many troops does Mu Ying have, without your support, how dare he do such nonsense?" ”

"Maybe it's because he's not afraid of death?"

Li Xin said quietly: "Besides, as far as the minister knows, it was Hanzhou City that the imperial court attacked first, and Mu Ying led people to defend it, not to mention, and asked the court for peace as soon as possible." ”

He glanced up at the Son of Heaven and said slowly: "But the imperial court has not reacted to his recruitment documents. ”

"In this case, it seems natural for Mu Ying to rebel."

Li Xin took a deep breath and continued: "Even if Mu Ying is heinous and deserves to be cut with a thousand knives, but that is also Mu Ying's sin, Your Majesty is angry, you can send troops to the west again, and after capturing Mu Ying to the capital, Ling Chi and his ministers have no opinion." ”

"But what's the sin of the minister?"

Li Xin raised his head and looked directly at the Son of Heaven, and said with a smile: "Yes, Your Majesty probably thinks that the minister deserves to die, so there is no need to find so many reasons, now that the minister is in His Majesty's study, His Majesty directly asked the internal guard to kill the minister, and afterwards stuffed a dagger into the minister's hand, and said to the outside world that the minister intended to kill the king, which is much easier to use than Mu Ying's crime." ”

As he spoke, Hou Ye Li closed his eyes, tilted his neck slightly, and spoke in a calm tone.

"Come on, Your Majesty, the minister is waiting for you to kill."

The Son of Heaven looked gloomy.

"Li Changan, don't rely on the turmoil in the southwest, just be unscrupulous here, although I can't kill you now, but I have a way to cure you!"

As he spoke, he waved his hand to give an order, and Li Xin, who was holding his hands on his sleeves, smiled slightly: "Your Majesty wants to arrest the minister's family?" ”

The Son of Heaven was expressionless and did not answer.

Li Xin continued to say with a smile: "Your Majesty didn't find out, today on Chinese New Year's Eve, is the courtier entering the palace alone?" ”

"Your Majesty also knows that the minister is a cautious person, after the last Dali Temple suffered a loss, can the minister be prepared? At this time, up and down the Jing'an Hou Mansion, except for some subordinates, the rest of the family members were no longer in the capital. ”

Nearest the king nearest the gallows.

Li Xin has long known this, so since the day he was a high-ranking official in the capital, he has not completely relaxed his vigilance for a day, and in order to leave a way back for himself, he has done a lot of tricks and feet in the huge Jing'an Hou Mansion.

For example, authentics and the like.

In nearly eight years, Li Xin dug more than a dozen tunnels under the Jing'an Hou Mansion, several of which could leave Yongle Fang and lead to other squares.

It is worth mentioning that when Li Xin was digging these tunnels, he found a lot of tunnels that had been dug under the Jing'an Hou Mansion, thinking that this Hou Mansion was once the Qi Mansion of the Four Princes, and it was obvious that His Royal Highness the King of Qi had the same mind as Li Xin.

Nowadays, the capital is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and the group of people in the center of power are nervous because of Li Xin's imprisonment, but the lives of ordinary people in the capital are not sad, and the nine gates of the capital are all open, so as long as you can leave the Jing'an Hou Mansion, or leave Yongle Fang, and want to leave the capital, you don't want to go to anything difficult.

In fact, when Li Xin returned to the Hou Mansion of Jing'an from Dali Temple, the eldest princess and others were already in the process of being transferred one after another, so on the day Li Xin returned home, no family from the Hou Mansion came out to greet him.

Speaking of this, a bright smile appeared on Li Xin's face.

He tilted his head slightly and closed his eyes.

"If Your Majesty feels that the minister is guilty of a great crime, you can do it at this time."

(End of chapter)