Unparalleled Concubine

Vol 2 Chapter 893: Visitors from Beijing

   Chapter 893 Visitors from the capital

   In the blink of an eye, another two months passed.

   At this time, it is already October of the first year of Yuanzhao, and the autumn harvest is usually almost finished at the end of August. At this time, it has been over a month, and it is time for the imperial court to collect autumn grain.

The Ministry of households, as always, sent tax officials to the southwestern prefectures to monitor taxation, but Zhao Jia's impeccable temperament naturally made it impossible for these people to take away the food in the southwest. , In short, the officials of the Ministry of Household have been in the southwest for more than half a month, but they did not take a grain of grain from the southwest.

   And the attitudes of the prefectures in the southwest are surprisingly consistent. It's not that they don't want to give it, it's that they don't have it. No matter how these household officials search, the granaries of the prefectures are clean and there is not a grain of grain.

   This kind of soft tax strike kicked the ball back to the court.

  The imperial court had no choice but to delay it like this.

At the end of October, a group of more than ten riders rushed to Yongzhou Mansion. After asking the way in Qiyang County, they came to Li Mansion at the foot of Qishan Mountain. The letter took the whole family and went out to the front door to greet the people in person.

   Li Houye walked in the front, and bowed his hands to the middle-aged man standing in the front: "I have seen Senior Brother Ye."

   These ten people, headed by the Marquis of Ningling of the Great Jin Dynasty, Ye Lin, Minister of War.

   After Li Xin saluted, the Ninth Princess and his two children also saluted Ye Lin.

   Ye Lin hurriedly returned the salute: "Chang'an is very kind."

   He bowed deeply to the nine princesses again: "I don't dare to be the eldest princess."

  Because of the three generations of the emperor, the nine princesses today are the aunt of the emperor, so they have been "upgraded" from the eldest princess to the eldest princess.

   Looking at the pair of children behind Li Xin, Ye Lin bent down again, took out two jadeites from his arms, and hung them around the necks of the two children as a gift for the teacher.

After the    courtesy, Li Xin took Ye Lin into his house, and said with a smile, "Isn't Senior Brother Ye in charge of the Ministry of War? Logically speaking, he should be busy with business, so why do you have time to come to my backcountry?"

Ye Lin followed him into the house, looked left and right, and saw that the courtyard was deep and full of red and yellow leaves, which was quite elegant, he sighed: "The undercurrents have been surging in the capital these past few months, Chang'an, you I'm just enjoying myself here."

The Marquis of Jing'an half-squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "If you can't provoke you, naturally you can hide, my younger brother offended a few assistant ministers in the capital, and if I stay here, I'm afraid that my net worth will not be guaranteed, so I can only go to this remote rural area to hide. "

   He looked at Ye Lin and said with a smile, "Senior brother hasn't told me yet, what are you doing here in Yongzhou?"

   Ye Lin sighed and said solemnly, "Let's sit down and talk."

Li Xin nodded, greeted the Ninth Princess, and then led Ye Lin to a quiet room in the backyard of Li's house. There was a low table and two futons in the quiet room. A place to have tea with the Nine Princesses.

The two brothers, each knelt down on the futon, Li Xin reached out and poured a cup of tea for Ye Lin, and said with a smile, "I haven't been close to my brother in all these years. Since my brother is here, stay here for a few more days. , our brothers have a good drink."

   Ye Lin picked up the tea that Li Xin gave him, and smiled bitterly: "Wei brother came here on the order of the emperor."

  Li Xin paused for a moment, then filled his cup with tea, hehe smiled: "The emperor has never been in charge of the government, where is the emperor's order?"

   Ye Lin shook his head slightly: "The Son of Heaven is ready to govern himself."

  He looked up at Li Xin, and said solemnly, "That's why he asked Brother Wei to come to Yongzhou in person, and ask Chang'an to come back to Beijing."

   "There are still three auxiliary ministers in the DPRK. If the Emperor takes charge of the government ahead of time, the situation in the DPRK may be unstable. Therefore, the Emperor wants to invite you back to Chang'an to preside over the situation."

   Having said this, Ye Lin paused and continued: "The Son of Heaven said that the tax exemption in the southwest will be exempted for three years, five years, or even ten years. As long as you return to Beijing, Chang'an, you will not mention everything in the past."

   This Ye Shangshu sighed.

"The Marquis of Jing'an is in the same spirit as my Ye family, and my brother doesn't want to see you in Chang'an walking down the old road of the Pingnan Army. At this time, when you go back to the capital, you are still the grandfather of the Jin Dynasty, the Li Ye family. Support each other and don’t be afraid of anyone.”

  Li Xin picked up the teacup, took a sip by himself, and said with a smile, "Senior brother, can you guarantee that after I return to Beijing, my family will live?"

   Ye Lin looked solemn.

   "For the sake of my brother, the life of the family is guaranteed."

  Jing'an Marquis grinned: "This is just the death of an extra family."

Ye Lin smiled bitterly: "Chang'an, no matter what those ministers think, at least Your Majesty has no ill will towards you. Before I came, His Majesty invited me into the Weiyang Palace for more than an hour to discuss in detail, he is still a young man. , but there is something bad that I can't see."

   "If Your Majesty wants to harm you, my brother will never come here."

   Li Xin drank another cup of tea himself, then pondered for a while, then looked up at Ye Lin.

   "Senior brother, I won't be going back to the capital recently."

   Ye Lin frowned: "Why?"

   "My wife is pregnant."

   Li Xin laughed and said: "I only found out last month. The doctor said that I am three months pregnant. I will wait for this child to be born in Yongzhou."

"The position in the imperial court, the younger brother who can resign has already resigned, only the errand in the right camp of the forbidden army was handed over to He Song. He Song was born in the Ye family's family, and he is very reliable in his work, and there is nothing to worry about. "

   "As for His Majesty's affairs..."

Li Xin smiled dumbly: "It's already the end of October of the first year of Yuanzhao, and November will soon be the second year of Yuanzhao. In just over a year, His Majesty will be able to govern in a justifiable manner. In such a short period of time, there is no need to take risks. , Your Majesty is still young, just wait slowly."

   "Brother, please write a letter to His Majesty and tell him these words. A year is very short, and it will pass in the blink of an eye."

   Ye Lin bowed his hands to Li Xin with a wry smile.

"Congratulations."

  Li Xin blinked at Ye Lin and said with a smile, "Brother, will you stay here for a few more days?"

Ye Lin took a deep breath, shook his head, and said, "I don't understand, how did things end up in this situation, the late emperor and you conflicted because of the southwest, which is understandable for my brother, but now, His Majesty has agreed to no longer restrain the southwest, Changan, why are you…”

   He was interrupted by Li Xin halfway through his words.

  The Marquis of Jing'an looked calm and said indifferently: "If Master Ye is still here, I can pack my things and go back to the capital with you."

   "But Master Ye is gone now. If something happens to me, no one can really protect me."

   Li Xin looked at Ye Lin and slowly let out a breath.

"How did I offend a few assistant ministers? Senior brother should also understand that as long as His Majesty nodded, he was already in power half a year ago. I had a conflict with the assistant ministers. How should I handle myself?"

   said, a playful smile appeared on his face.

   "Brother, you might as well take a guess. After I returned to Qiyang, how many people came out of Yongzhou Prefecture and Qiyang County for no reason?"

   Ye Lin was silent.

  The Marquis of Jingan stretched out his hand again and poured a cup of tea for Ye Lin.

   "Qishan doesn't say that the mountains and rivers are beautiful, but it is also a good place with good scenery. My brother is very used to living here, so I won't go back to Beijing for the time being."

   "After my third child is born, I will not consider returning to the capital."

   (end of this chapter)

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