Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 436 The next problem to face

After Ye Sheng destroyed the country, the war **** of the Jin Dynasty could no longer leave the capital for half a step. After that, the Ye family fell into an embarrassing situation. Later, the eldest son of the Ye family stepped forward. Let the Ye family regain a firm position in the military.

   He was in his thirties when he left Beijing, and now he is an old man who has passed his destiny.

   When the father and son meet again, they are both sighing.

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

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

   Upon seeing this, Li Xin retired sensible and let the two father and son speak.

   As soon as he arrived at the gate of the yard, Li Xin saw the young master Ye Mao waiting at the gate of the yard.

  Li Xin smiled: "Little Master, hurry in, the old man is calling you."

   Ye Mao hurriedly lowered his head and responded.

   "Hey, I'll go in right now."

  Li Xin folded his hands in his sleeves and waited for a while at the gate of the courtyard. After a while, the young master ran out in a daze, with a clear footprint on his buttocks.

   Then he raised his head and glanced at Li Xin resentfully.

   "Uncle Master, I won't bring you..."

  Li Xin smiled and pulled the sleeve of this young master, found a place in Chen Guogong's mansion and sat down, and then said, "Young master, do you know how to read and fight?"

   "This is homeschooling, I understand it naturally."

  Li Xin nodded: "That's good."

  Ye Mao scratched his head: "How can Shishu hide his head and show his tail when he talks..."

   Li Xin glanced at him and showed a weird smile.

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

"why?"

   Ye Mao didn't understand.

   Li Xin smiled mysteriously: "You will know later."

   It is worth mentioning that in the near future, Li Xin's words will become a prophecy, and the young master Ye Mao will become the most infamous generation of Chen Guogong in the history of the Ye family.

  …

After half an hour, the general Ye Ming opened the courtyard door, and when he saw Li Xin and Ye Mao still waiting at the courtyard door, he laughed: "My father and I haven't seen each other for a long time, and the junior brother has been waiting for a long time, come in quickly and have a meal together. meal."

   On the surface, Li Xin was an apprentice of the Ye family, barely a member of the Ye family, but in fact Li Xin and the Ye family cooperated with allies, so Ye Shaobao was very polite to Li Xin.

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

   General Ye glanced at his son and waved: "Go and rush the dishes, and come over to pour the wine later."

  The young master lowered his head again, full of resentment in his heart.

   Don't I, Ye Mao, deserve a name?

   is actually really unworthy.

The three people in the yard, Ye Sheng, the old man, needless to say, the general Ye Ming was originally a second-rank general, and he was a first-rank after being designated as a Shaobao. Li Xin is also a second-rank forbidden army general. This inconspicuous small The three people in the courtyard were three of the top ten people in the Dajin military, and Ye Mao was naturally ineligible to attend the meeting.

  In the small yard, the three people took their seats first and second.

  Because he was not very familiar with Ye Ming, Li Xin restrained himself a little, and politely held the disciple ceremony and poured wine for Old Man Ye and Ye Ming.

   General Ye stood up, took the jug from Li Xin's hand, and said with a smile: "This is Ye's house, junior brother and guests, there is no guest who pours wine for the master, I'll come, I'll come."

   "Senior brother is wrong."

Li Xin said while pouring wine: "Master Ye is my mentor, and I am also half of the Ye family. To put it bluntly, the number of times my younger brother has come in and out of Ye's house in the past year is almost the same as the number of times he has returned to his own house. What is the distinction between host and guest?"

   Ye Ming sat down helplessly.

   "I heard from my father just now that my junior and junior brothers are unparalleled in their eloquence. They are indeed amazing."

  Li Xin finished pouring the wine and sat down.

   "Occupy the reason, the voice will naturally be louder."

  Ye Sheng is not as hypocritical as these two people. The old man directly raised his head and drank a drink, and said cursingly, "This boy is usually no big or small in Laozi's place. Now that you are back, he will change the rules."

   Li Xin looked embarrassed: "Master Ye said nonsense, don't the disciples respect your old man very much on weekdays?"

   Ye Ming laughed.

   In general, this meal, the atmosphere between the three people is not bad.

  Since the birth of wine, the descendants of Zhuxia have had a time-honored tradition of talking about things at the wine table.

   After the three of them took turns drinking 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 brother?"

  Ye Ming hesitated a little and glanced at his father.

   Ye Sheng drank a cup by himself.

   "Just say what you have, Chang'an is your own.

   Old man Ye put down the glass and said slowly.

   "If it weren't for Chang'an, the fourth child would not be able to leave the capital, and you would not be able to come back to the capital. In a few years, Laozi died, and if you retire, the Ye family would be defeated."

  The old man Ye said very single: "You can 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 disciples are not as rich as they are today."

   After hearing the words of Old Man Ye, Ye Ming's gaze towards Li Xin was very different.

   He whispered to Li Xin: "Your Majesty said, let me rest at home for a while and take a look at the situation. If the southern border changes, then I will be the head coach of this Zhengnan."

   Li Xin nodded and said, "It's pretty much the same as what Master Ye and I predicted before."

   Ye Ming frowned and said, "What I haven't figured out yet is what happened to the Marquis of Pingnan this year. How could Li Shen's temper suddenly force himself into this situation?"

   The father and son were talking just now, and they only had time to talk about the specific situation of last year's mutiny, but they didn't have time to talk about the Pingnan Houfu.

Old man Ye stroked his beard and smiled: "Since Li Zhijie ceded the land to self-government, conflicts were inevitable, but now it's only a few years earlier, so it's not surprising, what we want to talk about now is how to deal with this battle. Play well."

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

   "For more than 30 years in Southern Xinjiang, it has continuously recruited new soldiers and discharged veterans. It is estimated that they have accumulated no less than 300,000 combatable soldiers."

   Ye Ming said indifferently: "Don't worry about this, there may be some of them, but it is absolutely impossible to have more than 300,000 sets of weapons and armor. Even an army of more than 300,000 people in the imperial court will be difficult, let alone a Shu County?"

   "At the beginning of the whole country of Nanshu, there were no more than 100,000 troops."

   Li Xin nodded.

   This is true.

  The Great Corps is a bottomless pit, a monster that eats everything. Only the state machine can raise such a monster. Generally speaking, even a unified dynasty has a standing army of around 500,000.

   The Zhenbei Army in Jimen Pass and the Zhongjia Army in Yunzhou were all about 100,000 people.

  In ancient times, wars involving millions of people were impossible.

   As long as the combined strength of both sides exceeds 10,000, it is a particularly large-scale war.

   "The problem now is, abolish the prince."

  Li Xin's face was solemn.

   "What is certain is that the abolished prince is in the southern border. If they use this banner, it is very likely that they will gather a considerable force."

   (end of this chapter)