Over the years, Li Xin traveled south and north, moved from the capital to Yongzhou with his family, and then moved from Yongzhou to Jincheng, although he never told the ninth princess about any problems in court politics, but no matter what, the ninth princess is also a princess from the royal family, and some clues can be seen anyway.

During the Taikang period, when Li Xin moved to Yongzhou with his family, the ninth princess just thought that there was a little contradiction between her husband and the Son of Heaven, but her family lived in Yongzhou for several years, and last year even moved directly to Jincheng in the southwest to live, and the ninth princess naturally saw that something was wrong.

She just didn't say anything.

Now, this lady, who has been married to Li Xin for more than ten years, finally asked this sentence in person.

The two of them got married in the first year of Taikang, and when they got married, they were still seventeen years old and the other was sixteen years old, and now in the fifth year of Yuan Zhao, almost fifteen years have passed, and this year Li Xin is thirty-two years old, and the ninth princess is also thirty-one years old.

Half of their lives have been together.

After hearing the words of the ninth princess, Li Xin sighed slightly, he took the hand of the ninth princess and walked to his room, and after the two of them sat down, Li Xin nodded silently.

"The times are forcing us to rebel."

The ninth princess bowed her head slightly and said slowly: "In this way, the seventh brother did not wronged you. ”

Li Xin frowned, glanced at the Ninth Princess, and said with a wry smile: "The old things back then, I can only say that I and His Royal Highness King Wei have their own thoughts, all the dirty work in the early years of Taikang was done by me, and I offended I don't know how many people, but in the end, our family did not get the return it deserved, if I didn't make more preparations, in the end I was crossed the river and the bridge was demolished. ”

In the early years of Taikang, the emperor of heaven was unstable, and there was no one available around him, so he could only let Li Xin help him desperately seize power, starting from the two battalions of the forbidden army, Li Xin offended Pei Jin and Pei Jin's old subordinates, and later the Son of Heaven wanted to cut down the generals in Beijing, and Li Xin came forward to do it, offending a group of generals, including the Ye family.

The expulsion of the three princes and the four princes from Beijing was also Li Xin's intervention and offended the clan.

In the half a year from the first year of Taikang to the second year of Taikang, Li Xin offended I don't know how many people, and at that time he knew in his heart that once the Jing'an Hou Mansion lost power, these people who had been offended by him would definitely pounce on them and bite hard.

At that time, Taikang Tianzi, who had just ascended to the status with Yu Linwei, began to be suspicious of Yu Linwei, and even abandoned Yu Linwei.

It was also at that time that Li Xin began to have a sense of crisis, so much so that in the second year of the westward expedition, he began to lay out in the southwest.

More than ten years have passed now, looking back on the past, it is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong between Li Xin and Taikang Tianzi, maybe the contradiction between the two people is due to misunderstanding, maybe not.

As Li Xin said, each has its own thoughts.

Since that time, the seed planted by the contradiction between Li Xin and Taikang Tianzi, or with the royal family, has finally taken root, and the contradiction between the two sides has become uncontrollable.

The ninth princess stretched out her hand to hold Li Xin's somewhat rough palm, her eyes were a little red, and she said: "The seventh brother has already left, since the things of the year are not clear, then don't talk about it......"

She looked up at Li Xin, her voice a little weak.

"Over the years, no matter what you do, I have never asked you or cared about you."

"You haven't been at home in the past few months, I have asked Sixteen about a lot of things in the southwest, and Sixteen said that the southwest is almost the same as the Nanshu in the past......

The ninth princess held Li Xin's hand, and her tone was a little pleading.

"In this case, then our family will stay in the southwest for the rest of our lives, and if we don't go to the capital, there is no need to talk to ...... The imperial court met each other. ”

The ninth princess is the youngest daughter of the Son of Heaven in Chengde, and the royal family is serious.

Li Xin's rebellion is like a husband fighting with her mother's family, and she has to fight to the end, and the ninth princess is the one caught in the middle.

Although her father and brother have gone, only her mother is left in the capital, but no matter what, she is surnamed Ji after all, she can't bear to look at her husband, really fighting to the death with her mother's family.

Li Xin took her hand and sighed slightly.

"Madam, now it's not up to me to decide......"

The leader of an interest group often acts driven by the interest group, rather than being the sole proprietor of the interest group.

Just like Li Shen back then.

The same is true for Li Xin now, you must know that as early as the Taikang period, Zhao Jia and Mu Ying and others in the southwest euphemistically mentioned to Li Xin that they wanted to rebel, and later after Li Xin and the imperial court collapsed, this tendency to rebel became more obvious in the southwest.

It is obvious to the point that even Li Xin has no way to change it easily.

No matter what, Li Xin is still an ordinary person after all.

If in the early years of Taikang, the son of heaven sitting on the throne could put down some small-bellied chicken intestines and treat Li Xin with sincerity, Li Xin would probably have worked in the Ji family, a big landlord's family, for a lifetime, and honestly be the uncle of the Ji family and the Jing'an Marquis of the Great Jin.

If he chooses now, he doesn't want to risk leading troops out of Shu, just like the ninth princess said, the southwest has become a country of its own, Li Xinda can be called emperor in the southwest, in recent decades, most of the Great Jin have no way to take the southwest, and then the Ji family may send envoys over to officially recognize the southwest country.

However, this idea is too idealistic.

The southwest interior is not monolithic.

Mu Ying's son is already the king of Shu in the southwest, and nominally the southwest is under the rule of the Shu Palace, if Li Xin stays in the southwest and becomes the emperor, where will he put the Shu Palace?

Even if Mu Ying himself has no opinion, what will the Mu family behind him think?

As for Zhao Jia, it is even more obvious, this southwest economic envoy, his lifelong dream is to visit the world, not the southwest, what he wants in his heart is to take the stage to worship the prime minister and rule the world.

If Li Xin suddenly loses his fighting spirit now, if he wants to establish a country in the southwest, it will take two or three years at most, Zhao Jia will have to pick his son and go home to farm.

As for the other force, Li Shuo......

Li Shuo is a person who is silent on weekdays, but he will also have his own thoughts, the southwest is self-reliant, there will be conflicts between him and the Mu family, and Li Shuo, who has been precipitated for many years, may not be less ambitious than Zhao Jia.

Up and down in the southwest, preparations have been made for five or six years to go out of Shu.

At this time, if there is no reason for Li Xin to say a word, they will die down and obediently go back to their respective homes.

The ninth princess's eyes were red, she wiped her tears with her sleeve, and then took Li Xin's hand and didn't speak for a long time.

Li Xin patted her hand lightly and said, "Madam, don't think about it so much, you take care of the children in Jincheng, and I will do the rest." ”

The ninth princess reached out again and wiped her tears, her voice a little choked.

"If I knew today, I wouldn't have followed Seventh Brother to your house to eat lamb skewers that year."

Li Xin took her hand and smiled softly.

"I knew that back then, I wouldn't have gone to the proud building to sell charcoal."