During the Qingming Festival, the father and son kowtowed together in front of Ye Sheng's grave, and Li Xin changed the tombstone of the old man Ye again, from Chen Guogong to "King of Ningling County", and then Li Xin took Li Ping and the two people to live in Yejiazhuang for two or three days, and on the fourth day, Li Xin returned to the capital with Ye Mao.

Originally, Ye Mao was injured, and Li Xin meant to wait for him to recover from his injuries before returning to the capital to take up his post, but after this Chen Guogong learned about the Shenji Battalion, he couldn't wait to return to the capital to see all kinds of new firearms produced in the southwest.

Ye Mao rides horses wherever he goes on weekdays, and basically doesn't take the carriage much, but because of his injuries, he had to sit in the carriage this time, because Li Xin's carriage is the largest, and it can accommodate Ye Mao half-lying, so he let Ye Mao ride with him, and the uncle and nephew chatted all the way.

The injuries behind Ye Mao still hadn't healed, so he could only sit or lie on his side, at this time he sat on the edge of Li Xin's carriage and looked at Li Xin with a smile: "Uncle Shi, how have you felt in the past few months?" ”

Li Xin was reading a miscellaneous book, and frowned slightly when he heard this: "How do you feel?" ”

"It's ......"

Ye Mao was speechless for a while, and after scratching his head, he finally held back a word: "That's the kind of ...... The feeling of being in a position of power. ”

Li Xin put down the book in his hand and shook his head slightly: "I have never had a monopoly on power. ”

"Not only me, but also the powerful ministers of all dynasties and even the Son of Heaven, there are very few people who can really monopolize power, generally in charge of a program, and then decentralize power, and then carefully maintain the balance of power."

"If a person wants to take care of everything, he will become a single husband, and not only will he have no friends, but even his subordinates will slowly go away."

Ye Mao nodded thoughtfully, then looked at Li Xin again, and asked, "Then Uncle Shi...... What are your plans for the future? ”

This Ye Guogong said with a smile: "In the past, my grandfather always asked me to study, I didn't listen to him much, I didn't read much, but I also know that as long as the people in the capital were in the past dynasties, they would generally change the dynasty, but Uncle Shi, if you enter the capital, I'm afraid there will be ...... Half a year old? ”

Li Xin glanced at Ye Mao with a smile: "If I want to be the emperor now, does Ye Guogong agree?" ”

"Of course I agree."

Ye Mao grinned and said, "Since I handed over the seal of the Chen Guogong Mansion to Uncle Shi, no matter what Uncle Shi wants to do, the Ye family has been determined to support Uncle Shi." ”

Li Xin shook his head slightly: "The Ye family supports it, but the seed family branch doesn't support it?" Does the Western Army in the west support or not? The hundred officials in the court are soft-boned, so don't think about it for the time being, but the Great Jin Dynasty is full of Ji family's clans, and I ascend the throne and become the emperor at this time, will they be convinced? ”

After asking a series of questions, without waiting for Ye Mao to answer, Li Xin shook his head and said, "The Ji family's clan will never support it. ”

"No matter who sits in the emperor's position, as long as the emperor is still surnamed Ji, they will still be a clan, and these people can still live in a big house and ride horses, but if the court changes their surname, their identity will be gone."

"This identity is their lifeline, and without them, they will jump up and fight with me."

Speaking of this, Li Xin smiled: "Of course, these clans of the Great Jin Dynasty basically have no military power in their hands, even if they all oppose the imperial court, it is just a few more deaths, but now what the imperial court needs is stability, the military system of the capital must be changed, and the Xianbei department in the north must be leveled, although the people in the court keep saying that they want to be loyal to me, but in fact, I forced them with a knife on their necks, if the world is in chaos, no one knows what they will look like." ”

Governor Li squinted his eyes and smiled: "Until now, do you still think I can ascend the throne?" ”

Although Ye Mao was upright, he was not stupid, he smiled: "Naturally, you can." ”

"As long as Uncle Shi you can kill people and have military power in your hands, there is no problem when you ascend the throne, as for those big-headed scholars in the court, there is no need to be afraid, the great uncle directly abandons it, the people in the world who are willing to be officials are like countless carp crossing the river, and when the time comes for the court to issue a piece of paper, these people immediately squeeze their heads to kowtow to Uncle Shi."

Li Xin's face was expressionless.

"My wife's surname is Ji, and I can't kill all the people of the Ji family."

This is one of the difficulties that Li Xin encounters now, everyone in the Southwest Group is openly and secretly forcing him to ascend the throne, as Ye Mao said, as long as he nods, it will not be a problem whether it is the imperial court or the local clan at that time, Mu Ying and others are too happy to help Li Xin raise the butcher's knife, as long as it takes three or four months, nearly 100,000 clans up and down the Great Jin Dynasty will be slaughtered by sixty or seventy percent, and the rest will also change their names and surnames, and no longer recognize their Ji surname.

But the problem is that Li Xin is also the son-in-law of the Ji family.

The ninth princess has been with him for more than ten years, has never given up, and gave birth to three children to him, and now she is pregnant with a fourth, Li Xin can't give an order to destroy his wife's full house?

Besides, this is no longer as simple as being full of young and old, this is already the extinction of the dead race.

After hearing Li Xin's words, Ye Mao, who had always been nervous, also fell silent, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This is indeed a problem, but you can't just maintain the status quo, even if Uncle Shi can be a powerful minister for a lifetime, but in the future, it will not only leave a disaster to future generations, but also many people." ”

The many, many people in Ye Mao's mouth refer to the Southwest Group behind Li Xin.

Li Xin's face was calm.

"So I've been thinking about it for the past few months, thinking about it, and finally I came up with a compromise."

At this time, the carriage moved slowly, and there were a total of three people in the carriage, the tall Ye Guogong, the black-clothed Governor Li Dadu, and Li Ping, the prince of the Jing'an Houfu who was already asleep in the carriage because of the fatigue of the journey.

Ye Mao quickly understood, turned his head to look at the child sleeping beside him, and his face changed slightly.

He lowered his voice and frowned, "Of course, it's a method, but he's too young to sit still." ”

Li Xin's face was calm: "With me in the capital, the son of Yankang can sit firmly today, let alone my son." ”

Ye Mao blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "That's it, this is Uncle Shi's own family matter, and it is inconvenient for me to ask, but there is a question that Uncle Shi has to consider." ”

Ye Guogong glanced back at the sleeping Li Ping again, and said softly: "That's my brother, what will be his surname in the future?" ”

That's the most critical question.

Governor Li Dadu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This matter is also something I have been considering in the past few months, but it is too early to say these things now, and when the people I support myself occupy more than half of the positions in the imperial court, and after you conquer the Xianbei Department in the north, this matter is what I need to consider." ”

"I still have time to think about it."

Ye Mao smiled: "I'm afraid that Uncle Shi will also be involuntarily, the generals of the Southwest Army will not let Uncle Shi do what you want." ”

Li Xin lifted the curtain of the carriage, looked up at the scenery outside the window, and said in a calm tone.

"So far, this idea is just a prototype, and when I really settle down, no matter who it is, there is no way to change anything."