Since Ye Sheng destroyed the country, the god of war of the Great Jin Dynasty has no way to leave the capital for half a step, and after that, the Ye family fell into an embarrassing situation, and later it was the eldest son of the Ye family who stepped forward and let the Ye family regain a firm position in the military.

At that time, he was in the prime of his thirties and left Beijing, and now he is an old man who has passed the destiny of heaven.

When the father and son met again, they were embarrassed by each other.

Ye Sheng pulled his eldest son to sit down and sighed: "Over the years, it's hard for you." ”

In just a few words, General Ye's eyes were red, and he bowed his head and said, "Compared with his father, his son has done very little. ”

Seeing this, Li Xin retreated very sensibly and let the two fathers and sons talk.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Li Xin saw the little grandfather Ye Mao waiting at the gate of the courtyard.

Li Xin smiled: "Little grandfather, go in, the old man calls you." ”

Ye Mao hurriedly bowed his head and responded.

"Eh, I'll go in."

Li Xin put his hands in his sleeves and waited at the gate of the courtyard for a while, and it didn't take long for the little grandfather to run out in disgrace, with a clear footprint on his buttocks.

Then he looked up and glanced at Li Xin with resentment.

"Uncle Shi, don't take ...... like you"

Li Xin smiled and pulled the sleeve of this little grandfather, found a place to sit down in Chen Guogong's mansion, and then said: "Little grandfather, do you know how to fight in battle?" ”

"This is a family study, I naturally understand."

Li Xin nodded: "That's good." ”

Ye Mao scratched his head: "How can Uncle Shi hide his head and show his tail when he speaks......"

Li Xin glanced at him and smiled a somewhat strangely.

"Little grandfather, you may be scolded by many people in the future."

"Why?"

Ye Mao didn't understand.

Li Xin smiled mysteriously: "You'll know later." ”

It is worth mentioning that in the near future, Li Xin's words will become a prophecy, and the little grandfather Ye Mao will become the most discredited generation of Chen Guogong in the history of the Ye family, and he has been abused by Shi Lin for more than a hundred years.

……

Half an hour later, the general Ye Ming opened the courtyard gate, and when he saw Li Xin and Ye Mao still waiting at the courtyard gate, he smiled: "I haven't seen my father for a long time, let the junior brother wait for a long time, come in and have a meal together." ”

On the surface, Li Xin is an apprentice of the Ye family and can barely be regarded as a member of the Ye family, but in fact, Li Xin and the Ye family have a cooperative relationship with allies, so Ye Shaobao is very polite to Li Xin.

Ye Mao asked hesitantly, "Father, what about me?" ”

General Ye glanced at his son, waved his hand, and said, "You go and urge the dishes, and come over to pour the wine later." ”

The little grandfather lowered his head again, his heart full of resentment.

Isn't I, Ye Mao, worthy of a name?

In fact, it really doesn't deserve it.

The three people in the courtyard, Ye Lao Ye Sheng naturally needless to say, the general Ye Ming was originally a general of the second grade, and after receiving the title of Shaobao, he was from the first grade, and Li Xin is now also the general of the forbidden army of the second grade, the three people in this inconspicuous small courtyard are three of the ten people at the top of the Great Jin military, and Ye Mao is naturally not qualified to attend the meeting.

In the small courtyard, the three of them sat down in a priority manner.

Because he was not particularly familiar with Ye Ming, Li Xin restrained himself a little, held the disciple etiquette in a proper manner, and poured wine for Old Man Ye and Ye Ming.

General Ye stood up, took the wine jug in Li Xin's hand with a gesture, and said with a smile: "This is the Ye family, junior brother and guests, how can there be guests who pour wine for the host, I will come." ”

"Senior brother, this is not right."

Li Xin said while pouring wine: "Master Ye is my mentor, and I am also half of the Ye family, to put it mildly, the number of times the younger brother has been in and out of the Ye family in the past year or so, and the number of times he has returned to his own house is about the same, where is there any difference between host and guest?" ”

Ye Ming sat down helplessly.

"I heard my father say just now, the junior brother is eloquent, and he is indeed powerful."

Li Xin finished pouring the wine and sat down.

"If you take advantage of it, you will naturally speak loudly."

Ye Sheng is not as hypocritical as these two people, the old man directly raised his head and drank a drink, and said scoldingly: "This kid, usually there is no big or small in Lao Tzu's place, but now that you are back, he has changed his rules." ”

Li Xin was embarrassed: "What is Master Ye talking nonsense, don't disciples respect your old man very much on weekdays?" ”

Ye Ming laughed.

Overall, the atmosphere between the three of them was not bad during this meal.

Since the birth of wine, the descendants of Zhuxia have given birth to a time-honored tradition, that is, to talk about things at the wine table.

After the three of them took turns to drink a few times, Li Xin saluted Ye Ming and asked with a smile: "Senior brother entered the palace to face the saint, what did Your Majesty say to Senior Brother?" ”

Ye Ming hesitated slightly and glanced at his father.

Ye Sheng drank a glass by himself.

"Say whatever you want, Chang'an is your own person.

Old man Ye put down his wine glass and said slowly.

"If it weren't for Chang'an, the fourth child wouldn't be able to get out of the capital, and you wouldn't be able to come back to the capital, and in a few years Lao Tzu died, if you retreated, the Ye family would be defeated."

Old man Ye said very simply: "You just treat him as the fifth child of the Ye family." ”

Li Xin took a deep breath, and his tone became solemn.

"Master Ye is serious, it's not the Ye family, and the disciple is not as rich as he is now."

After Old Man Ye's words, Ye Ming's gaze at Li Xin was very different.

He whispered to the gene: "Your Majesty said, let me rest at home for a while first, take a look at the situation, if there is a change in southern Xinjiang, then I will be the commander of this expedition to the south." ”

Li Xin nodded and said, "It's not far from what Master Ye and I predicted before. ”

Ye Ming frowned and said: "What I haven't figured out so far is what happened to the Pingnan Hou Mansion this year, how could Li Shen's temperament suddenly force himself into this situation?" ”

When the father and son talked just now, they only had time to talk about the specific situation of last year's mutiny, and they didn't have time to talk about the Pingnanhou Mansion.

Old man Ye stroked his beard and smiled: "Since Li Zhijie's land autonomy began, contradictions have been inevitable, and now it is only a few years in advance, there is nothing strange about it, what we want to talk about now is how to fight this battle well." ”

Li Xin took a sip of his own wine and said slowly: "When the disciple was in Yongzhou, he received a message. ”

"For more than 30 years, southern Xinjiang has continuously recruited new recruits and then discharged veterans, and it is estimated that no less than 300,000 combatable soldiers have been accumulated."

Ye Ming smiled: "Don't worry about this, they may have people, but it is absolutely impossible to have more than 300,000 sets of weapons and armor, and even the imperial court will have some difficulty raising an army of more than 300,000 people, let alone a Shu county?" ”

"At the beginning, Nanshu was the whole country, and there were no more than 100,000 people."

Li Xin nodded.

It's true.

The Great Corps is a bottomless pit, a monster that eats everything, and only the state apparatus can raise this kind of monster, usually speaking, even if it is a unified dynasty, the standing army is about 500,000.

The Zhenbei Army in Jimen Pass, as well as the Seed Army in Yunzhou, are all on the scale of 100,000 people.

In ancient times, it was impossible to fight a war with millions of people at every turn.

As long as the combined forces of both sides exceed 10,000, it will be a particularly large-scale war.

"The problem now is that the abolished prince is abolished."

Li Xin's face was solemn.

"What is certain is that the abolished prince is in southern Xinjiang, and if they raise this banner, it is very likely that they will gather a large force."