Zhao Jia's family lives in the Jing'an Hou Mansion, and the eldest of his children is seven or eight years old, and Zhong Xiaoxiao occasionally takes them to play together on weekdays, so when Li Xin picks up Zhao Jia that night, the scene is still very lively, and when everyone is full of wine and food, the children are taken to sleep, leaving only Li Xin and Zhao Jia on the wine table.

The two have been separated for several years, and when they finally meet at this time, they naturally have a lot to talk about.

And most of these things are unseemly, and there is no way to see people, so they will be "cleared" early.

At this time, it was April of the eighth year of Taikang, and the weather was warm, Li Xin simply asked people to move the table to the backyard, and the two of them drank wine without a glass in the night breeze.

They are all rice wines of low purity.

Zhurong wine, although Li Xin made this kind of spirit, but he himself does not like to drink, even if he drinks on weekdays, he mostly drinks these rice wines and the like.

Two people sat on the floor across a low table, sitting on two mats.

Zhao Jia's alcohol consumption was not very good, his face turned a little red after drinking some rice wine, he put down the wine glass, looked up at Li Xin, and said with a smile: "Master Hou, what has been the situation in the capital in the past few years?" ”

In the past five years, Li Xin has basically been understanding the situation in the southwest, and the intelligence in the southwest has been sent to his desk, but Zhao Jia, who is in the southwest, is not very clear about the situation in the capital.

Li Xin took a sip of wine and sighed slowly.

"There's going to be a war."

The Zhao family bowed slightly, and after being silent for a while, he spoke: "Hit ...... North? ”

In fact, it is not difficult to guess this matter, the east of the Great Jin Dynasty is the East China Sea, although there are occasional pirates who make trouble, but after all, it has not become a climate, and the south can be called a disaster that is just the Pingnan Army, but the Pingnan Army has been "destroyed" five years ago.

At least nominally destroyed.

And the Tubo Kingdom in the west, because of the great revival of Buddhism in recent years, has also lost its combat strength, and there are rarely any large-scale contradictions, and even if the imperial court wants to eat Tubo, it is unlikely.

Thinking about it, there are only the Yuwen tribes in the north.

Li Xin did not shy away from it, and said directly: "In about two or three months, Yunzhou City will take action against the Yuwen tribes, and if there is a big trouble, the war will be on the verge of breaking out." ”

Zhao Jia was silent, and then slowly exhaled a breath.

"Is it a foregone conclusion?"

Li Xin glanced at the scholar in front of him, who was three or four years older than him, and said slowly: "Your Majesty wants... Meritorious service to history. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Youan understood that the matter was irreparable, and he shook his head a little helplessly: "The good days of the Great Jin Dynasty over the years have been accumulated for decades, and now because of the heart of one person, they will start the war again, and let tens of millions of people in the world suffer......"

Li Xin shook his head at him.

"Brother You'an drank too much."

Zhao Jia's voice stopped abruptly, and after he was silent for a while, he spit out a mouthful of wine and said, "It's me who lost my temper." ”

Li Xin picked up a glass of wine and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you lose your temper, there is no third person here, and no one will tell others what Brother You'an said." ”

"In fact, things have not yet reached the point of no return, there is a way to make His Majesty give up the Northern Expedition, do you want to hear it?"

Zhao Jia is a typical reader, and when he heard this, he immediately spoke: "Master Hou teaches ......"

Marquis Jing'an smiled slightly.

"Your Majesty's current meaning is to let the seed army of Yunzhou City test the Yuwen tribe first, how much combat power is left, if this time in the trial, the seed army is defeated, then Your Majesty will definitely give up the idea of the northern expedition, and will never mention this matter again in his lifetime."

In this world, Li Xin should be the person who knows the Taikang Son of Heaven best, to put it bluntly, when this Son of Heaven is in power, he looks majestic, but he is a little bullying and afraid of the hard in his bones, if the family army can't gnaw at the Yuwen Tribes, he will quickly give up this idea and be his Taiping Son with peace of mind.

Zhao Jiada frowned.

"The army of planters can't lose."

Of course, the family army can't lose, first, this is related to the reputation of the seed family, the "first general of the Great Jin Dynasty", after all, in the past few decades, the most dazzling generals of the Great Jin Dynasty are the Ye and Li families, and the seed family who is resting with the country has not had too many dazzling achievements, at this time, it is impossible for the seed family to allow themselves to lose to the remnants of the Zhou who have been extremely weak.

The reason for the other side is because...... Yunzhou City is one of the northern gateways of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Because of Ye Sheng's battle back then, he was afraid of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and scattered the courage of the Yuwen tribes, so for a full thirty or forty years, even if some people starved to death all year round, there was no large-scale attack on the Guannai, only some tribes that were not big or small would tentatively attack the edge of the Great Jin Dynasty and fight a dozen autumn winds.

Just like the battle of Xiao Chenji that Li Xin encountered back then, the total number of people generally does not exceed 1,000.

However, if the seed army of Yunzhou is defeated in a head-on collision, the Yuwen tribes will sweep away the fear in their hearts, and the north of the Great Jin will no longer have peace from now on.

Li Xin raised his head and drank another bowl of rice wine, and then said with a smile: "The seed army can't be defeated, but it shouldn't be too smooth, as long as we wait for the news from the north in the capital, in a few months, everything will be clear." ”

Speaking of this, the Marquis of Jing'an glanced at Zhao Jia and lowered his voice.

"Brother You'an, in the southwest... What happened to the Pingnan Army? ”

"Farther west."

Zhao Jia opened his mouth and said: "In the southwest and west, there are some places where the Great Jin and Tubo do not care, and the Pingnan Army should temporarily settle in those places, and in a few years, they have also built a few small cities." ”

"That Li Shuo ......"

Zhao Jia paused and said, "I met him before I came back, he has grown a lot in the past few years, and people can't see through it." ”

Li Xin nodded, pondered in his heart, and continued to ask, "What's that...... What about the Hanzhou Army? ”

"In the past few years, Mu Ying has not stopped training the Hanzhou Army, everything is according to the standards of Yu Linwei, and now the 50,000 Hanzhou Army has become a combatable army, not a virtual appearance like five years ago."

Li Xin nodded with satisfaction.

"Is it available?"

Li Xin asked such a sentence coldly, Zhao Jia looked up at Li Xin, and after thinking for a while, he said solemnly to Li Xin.

"This depends on what you think, Master Hou."

"If you can trust Mu Ying, this Hanzhou army will naturally be available."

Marquis of Jing'an patted Zhao Jia's shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother You'an, don't be nervous, I haven't wanted to rebel yet." ”

Zhao Youan smiled bitterly, gritted his teeth and said: "The matter has come to this, no matter what you do, I can only follow the Hou Mansion of Jing'an, even if you want to rebel, it is just a big Zhao Jia." ”

He thought very clearly, things have come to this point, and the conversation has long been indistinguishable from each other, and it is not a relationship that can be shirked.

As for whether Li Xin will rebel, Zhao Jia has been in the southwest in the past few years, and he doesn't know how many times he has thought about it.

After all, no loyal minister would go to great lengths to secretly raise a team of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses!

Li Xin stood up from the mat, and after moving his legs and feet, he stretched lazily.

"Brother You'an, rest assured, Li Xin will never harm his own people."