Ye Ming is seriously ill, which is actually a big problem, because the heirs of the Ye family are not prosperous, and the second generation after Ye Sheng has only Ye Ming and Ye Lan, but Ye Lan also separated from Chen Guogong's Mansion and set up another Ningling Marquis Mansion.

This led to the fact that after Ye Ming, the third generation of the Ye family was left with only Ye Mao, Ye Mao from the eighth year of Taikang, he went to Jimen Pass to lead the northern army of Zhenzhen, Ye Ming was seriously ill, he must have come back, but Ye Guogong died, it was easy for him to return to Beijing, and it was not easy to go back to Jimen Pass to be his general.

The Ye family is not the same as the seed family, the seed family has the Danshu iron coupon given by Emperor Taizu, for more than a hundred years, the generations have shared weal and woe with the Ji family, no matter which generation the son of heaven trusts the seed family very much, and there are often intermarriages between the two families.

For example, a noble concubine in Taikangtian's womb is a kind of family, and the second son of a kind of Xuantong is also married to a princess of the Ji family.

For more than 100 years, the two families have been indistinguishable from each other.

But the Ye family is different, from Emperor Wu to the Son of Chengde, two generations have spared no effort to suppress the Ye family, Taikang Tianzi can only dominate the world with the help of the Ye family, it is not good to suppress the Ye family again, but it has not allowed the Ye family's power to continue to grow.

For the emperor, it is very wrong for a family to control the border army for generations, especially when the Ye family is so close to the Jing'an Hou Mansion, and the southwest has been very unhappy with the imperial court in the past two years, if Ye Mao returns to Beijing, the imperial court is likely not to let him out of Beijing, so as to slowly take the northern army of Jimen Guanzhen into his hands.

Of course, the Ye family of the Zhenbei Army has also been in business for decades, and no matter who the imperial court sends to take over Ye Mao's position, as long as it is someone who the Ye family does not agree with, it is basically unlikely to take over Jimen Pass, but in addition to Ye Mao, it is not difficult to find another surname Ye.

Yu Private, Ye Ming is Li Xin's senior brother, and Li Xin can no longer sit idly by by Qi Yang.

Yu Gong, once Ye Ming dies of illness, there will definitely be some turmoil in the capital, and then the southwest will also be affected by this force, and it is even more impossible to sit idly by.

After Li Xin and the Ninth Princess exchanged a few words, they left Qiyang County from the secret passage under the courtyard of their house.

Under this Li house in Qiyang County, there are more than a dozen tunnels densely packed, some of which were dug when the house was first built, and some of which were slowly and painstakingly made out by Li Xin in the past two years.

If one day the imperial court occupies Qiyang County, Li Xin's family can also use these secret passages to easily escape from Qiyang County.

After walking in the secret passage for more than half an hour, Li Xin walked out of the exit outside the city, at this time Shen Gang had already prepared a fast horse at the exit, Li Xin was not verbose, and the group quickly got on the horse and ran towards Jincheng.

He didn't plan to go directly to the capital, now it was too dangerous to go to the capital at this stall, he wanted to go to Jincheng to watch the situation in the capital, and then consider the next move.

Now, he, Li Changan, is no longer alone, not even a family, 31 prefecture capitals in the southwest, millions of people, are standing behind him, so he can't be cautious.

Besides, he was originally a cautious person.

Because they wanted to hide their whereabouts, Li Xin and the others chose a small path along the way, and after running fast for four or five days, they came to Jincheng City, even when they arrived in Jincheng, he did not enter the city with great fanfare, but mixed in very low-key.

After all, now, Jincheng is full of spies from the imperial court, but there are definitely a lot of people in the imperial court.

It is necessary to mention that today's Zhao Fang's position is no longer the mansion of Jincheng Mansion, in the third year of Yuan Zhao, the southwest wrote to the imperial court, asking him for the position of a Jiannan Dao Jing envoy, and the imperial court is also very face-saving, and the holy decree was quickly issued.

In fact, if the southwest direction does not write to the imperial court, or whether the imperial court does not issue a holy decree, it actually has no effect, but the two sides just give each other a face.

After arriving at Jingluo Mansion, Li Xin walked in from the back door familiarly, and he has come to Jincheng a lot in the past few years, and he is very familiar.

After entering the Jingluo Mansion, he was under the leadership of his subordinates, and entered the study of the Jingluo Mansion to wait, and it didn't take long for the white-clothed Jiannan Dao Jingluo envoy to hurry back from the yamen, and after pushing open the door and seeing Li Xin, he hurriedly bowed to Li Xin.

"Hou Ye is coming to Jincheng, why don't you notify your subordinates in advance, and your subordinates will welcome Hou Ye."

Li Xin got up, pulled Zhao Jia's sleeve and sat down, and said slowly: "The matter is a little urgent, so I came over first, how is the southwest doing?" ”

"Overall OK."

Zhao Jia opened his mouth and said: "Hou Ye instructed us last year, let us organize the people in the southwest, and the subordinates have taken the officials of the state government to recount the population, including the black households in the mountains, and found out a lot, yesterday the subordinates and colleagues carefully counted it, and at present, there are more than 1,177,900 households in the southwest, but some of the villages in the mountains are really unable to enter, and they can't communicate, and there is no way for the time being." ”

After he finished reporting his work, he glanced up at Li Xin and asked, "Master Hou, what is the urgency you said?" ”

Li Xin frowned.

"Senior Brother Ye...... I'm afraid I can't hold it anymore, and I'm hesitating to send him off. ”

Zhao Jia grew up in Chen Guogong's mansion, and was taken care of by Ye Ming when he was a child, and he had a very heavy relationship with the Ye family......'s incense.

Speaking of this, he didn't say any more, but said: "Master Hou, it must be inconvenient for you to go, your subordinates are from the Ye family, and your subordinates will go on your behalf." ”

"Nonsense."

Li Xin glanced at Zhao Jia a little helplessly.

"It's that I'm locked up in the capital, Brother You'an, you can't be locked up in the capital, without Brother You'an, where can I go to find a strategic envoy to come over, and be able to keep the thirty-one state capitals in the southwest in order?"

Li Xin sat down, picked up a cup of tea in his hand, took a sip, and half-squinted his eyes.

"If Senior Brother Ye passes away, it will lead to a lot of problems."

"Ye Mao has left Jizhou now, firstly, he wants to return to Beijing to visit Senior Brother Ye, and secondly, he is also going back to Beijing to attack the lord, once he returns to Beijing, the imperial court will probably not let him out so easily."

Speaking of this, Li Xin glanced up at Zhao Jia.

The white-haired envoy who had already faintly appeared on his forehead naturally heard what Li Xin meant, he frowned, and said, "Master Hou is saying that the people of the Xianbei Department will take the opportunity to make trouble?" ”

"It should be called King Yan now."

Li Xin pursed his lips and said: "Yuwen Zhao unified the Yuwen Ministries three years ago, and now the Yuwen Ministries have become the Xianbei Ministry, three years is enough time for him to digest the Helan Ministry, and now Yuwen Zhao, with all his strength, can attack Yunzhou City or Jimen Pass, and most of them can be defeated." ”

Zhao Jia shook his head.

"They have to shed a layer of skin themselves, according to what Hou Ye said, that Yu Wenzhao is a smart person, he shouldn't be so reckless."

This Jiannan Dao envoy had a twinkle in his eyes.

"Besides, if the Northern Frontier of the Great Jin Dynasty falls, it will not necessarily be a bad thing for Lord Hou."