Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 895 Hidden danger

   Even after more than ten years have passed, even Li Xin himself can't tell which Li Xin he is, but the memory of another world still deeply affects him, especially his values.

   In this monarchy era, everyone thinks that loyalty to the monarch is one of the moral standards. A good person must be loyal to the monarch, otherwise he is a rebel.

   But Li Xin is different. He is in conflict with the universal concept of this world from the bottom of his heart. For example, in this era, everyone thinks that the Son of Heaven is the Supreme Being, and he should be higher than everyone.

Although Li Xin often knelt down to the emperor in the imperial court, but in his heart, whether it is the emperor of Chengde, the emperor of Taikang, or the current emperor of Yuanzhao, they are all living people, not really gods. son.

   Therefore, deep in his heart, he placed himself on an equal footing with several emperors.

   In other words, if the emperor treats him badly, he will never wrong himself.

   It is precisely because of this concept that during the Taikang years, Li Xin has been consciously or unintentionally cultivating his own forces. The people under Shen Gang are one force, and the southwest is another force under him.

   Without exception, these two forces are independent of the court, and Li Xin did not interfere too much in other important positions such as the Ministry of War or the Imperial Army. Even three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, he became a shopkeeper.

Up to now, although he has not yet had the ability to overthrow the Dajin court, he is enough to protect himself in the face of the state machine, the court. For example, if he runs from Yongzhou to the southwest, he can immediately be his local emperor in the southwest. Not to mention, at least the imperial court of his generation has absolutely nothing to do with him. In the future, if the emperor is annoying, he can even establish himself as an emperor and directly establish a small country similar to Dali.

   And with the current strength of Southwest, if his descendants are not very stupid, it should not be a problem for this small country to maintain two or three generations.

   This is also the basis for him to be able to leave the capital, the center of power, in a smart way. After all, he can start a new career at any time now, and he doesn't have to play with those people in the court.

   Ye Lin didn't speak, but buried his head and ate a few mouthfuls of food. After taking a sip of wine, he sighed.

   "Chang'an, Ye Mao is still at Jimen Pass, depending on what's going on in the north..."

   "I don't think there will be much progress in the north."

   Li Xin also took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "At the beginning, I made an agreement with Yuwenzhao to attack Yuwen's Buddhist slaughterhouse together. Later, I left Jimenguan for something, and Ye Mao fulfilled this agreement for me."

"The purpose of making this agreement at that time was to consume the overall strength of the Yuwen clan. When Yuwenzhao and the Buddha clan were both defeated, the clan army in Yunzhou City ate some blood to eat the beggar clan, so as long as the imperial court could With a little bit of ruthlessness, if 40,000 to 50,000 people die, you can exchange for decades of peace in the northern Xinjiang."

   Having said this, Lord Jingan laughed at himself.

"When my younger brother turned his eyes to the north, he used to spend a lot of time studying the remnants of Yuwen in the north. He often went to Chen Guogong's mansion to ask for advice, which annoyed Master Ye and lost a lot of information about the northern border. Geography and books about Yuwenbu to me."

   "It was already half done."

   Having said that, Li Xin shook his head slightly and raised his glass.

   "Stop talking, come here, brother, have a drink."

When he was in the northern border, the plan had already been made, but before it had time to start the operation, the imperial court patted Pei Jin's attack on the southwest. , the matter in Beijiang was put on hold.

Later, although Ye Mao helped him finish the task of conquering the Buddha, but if he did it himself, he would have done it more carefully, and Ye Mao was mostly called the Clan Army of Fuyunzhou City, and Li Xin had better face than him. It's bigger, and maybe Li Xin can do it.

  If everything goes well, it will only take three years for Li Xin to clean up the northern Xinjiang and save fifty years of foreign troubles from the rule of the Great Jin Dynasty, but it is a pity...

   Up to now, in fact, the court still has the strength and opportunity to pacify the Yuwen Department. At this moment, Yuwenzhao is still digesting the Buddha's Department, and it will take almost three years for the troops killed in the previous two years to fully recover.

At this time, it is the weak period of the Yuwen Department. If the Zhenbei Army in Jimen Pass can join forces with the Zhongjia Army in Yunzhou City, even if Yuwenzhao cannot be destroyed, if the two sides face each other fiercely, the Yuwen Department will be reunited. If one's vitality is seriously injured, he will not move for at least twenty or thirty years.

   But unfortunately, this is basically impossible.

   After drinking a glass of wine, Ye Lin said with a wry smile: "I understand what you mean, all the attention of the imperial court is now on the southwest, and it is unlikely that there will be any more energy left to march north."

The Marquis of Jing'an smiled slightly: "If the imperial court took advantage of the situation to attack when the Bodhisattva was just destroyed, it would only cost a small price to seriously damage the Yuwen Department, in exchange for peace in the northern Xinjiang, but Yuwenzhao attacked the Bodhisattva, it was Taikang. In the spring of nine years, now the first year of Yuanzhao is approaching winter. Nearly two years have passed, and Yuwenzhao has probably recovered a lot of energy. If he wants to win a big victory at this time, I am afraid that the Zhenbei Army or the Zhongjia Army will have two. Family, both families have to beat themselves up to have a chance."

   "Now the imperial court has sent about three Zhechong houses to Hanzhong, and the corresponding food and grass supplies have also been sent to Hanzhong. According to the information I have received, I am afraid that it will be enough for the army in Hanzhong for more than three years."

   Having said this, Li Xin laughed at himself: "When I was on the west expedition, the supplies from the imperial court were not delivered so diligently."

"The imperial court has mobilized so much power to look after the southwest, so naturally it is impossible to have the energy to look north. Besides, the emperor has not yet ruled, so those big-headed scholars are people who can enjoy a day's blessings, and they won't be able to do it at all. Looking back, they will not care about the hidden dangers of Yuwenbu, even though they are sitting with their heads buried in their Saisuke."

   "It will take another year or two for the emperor to take control of the government. By then, Yuwen Zhao's department has already eaten and wiped the Buddha's department and digested it all in his stomach."

   Lord Jingan narrowed his eyes.

   "At that time, as long as Yuwenzhao annexes the Helan clan again, the Yuwen clans will be completely unified. By that time, the iron cavalry that swept the world when the Northern Zhou Dynasty entered the customs will not be far away from reappearing."

The Northern Zhou Dynasty used to be a powerful and terrifying country. When these Xianbei people entered the customs, even an eight-year-old child could fly a horse-drawn bow. They were extremely brave. It was only stopped by Haohao Tangtang's natural moat, and since then he has been separated from the Huai River from Dajin.

For a hundred years after   , the Southern Jin Dynasty was constantly being pressed and beaten by the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

However, after the Xianbei nobles had been in the country for a hundred years, they quickly became corrupt and degenerate. After only three or four generations, the upper-level nobles basically couldn't get a sword, so that Emperor Wu, who was cowardly and tried his hardest, sent Ye Sheng to go north and enter the capital in one fell swoop. , and drove these Xianbei people back to the border.

   This period of history is not very far, and it has only been more than 40 years now. Ye Lin is very aware of the terrifying aspects of the Northern Zhou Iron Cavalry.

  He reluctantly said: "Even if the Yuwen tribes are unified, they are far inferior to the Yuwen tribes that swept the world when they entered the customs. Chang'an, you don't need to be alarmist."

   "But it's really a big trouble."

   He sighed.

   "However, now the government is in the hands of those big-headed scholars you call us, we idiots can't get in the way."

   (end of this chapter)