Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 954 Remember to come back

   After hearing the news, Li Xin was stunned for a while, then fell silent.

   After a while, he looked up at Shen Gang and asked slowly, "What's the situation?"

   "People are already lying in the palace, bedridden."

Shen Gang lowered his head and said, "The news from the capital is from seven or eight days ago. Seven or eight days ago, more than 20 imperial physicians had lived in the Guogong's mansion. It is said that the small leaves of Jimen Pass General, now on the way back to the capital, Beizhi and others have used the identity of the Li family to go to the Guogong's mansion to ask, and the family of the Guogong's mansion said..."

   "The situation is very bad."

   Having said this, Shen Gang paused and said, "It is said that Ye Guogong has been bedridden for several months, and the medicine stone is useless. It should not be possible to survive this winter."

  Li Xin was expressionless and let out a slow breath.

To tell the truth, the relationship between him and Chen Guogong Ye Ming is far less deep than the relationship between his old Guogong Ye Sheng. After all, in those few years, Li Xin ran to the Guogong's mansion almost every day to accompany the old man. chess, and Ye Ming was either in Jimenguan or Ningling, the two of them didn't get along for a long time, and they didn't get along so well with Ye Sheng.

But Ye Ming is also Li Xin's more respected brother. Hearing that he is critically ill, Li Xin really wants to go to Beijing to have a look. Yongzhou is more than 2,000 miles away from the capital, and if you ride a black horse overnight, it will only take four or five days. can arrive.

  But...he is not very convenient to enter Beijing now.

In the past three years, the imperial court has more than one edict asking him to return to Beijing, but he has rejected all of them because of his illness. Moreover, in the past three years, the contradiction between Southwest and the imperial court has intensified. First, Southwest, under Li Xin's instruction, began to reorganize military.

In the past, the Southwest Army was composed of the Hanzhou Army of the Mu family and the Pingnan Army of Li Shuo, but there were some problems. Fighting on the battlefield basically relies on Tianlei, otherwise even the local garrison led by Pei Jin would not be able to fight, let alone the forbidden army in Hanzhong.

   In the past three years, a large number of veterans in the Southwest Army have been discharged from the army. The ordinary soldiers who are over forty-five years old are all returned to their places of origin. For those who have no land at home, Zhao Jia will allocate land for them to cultivate.

Not only the original Hanzhou Army, but also the Pingnan Army in the Southwest Army. Most of them were the same group of people who followed Li Shen back then. However, the military quality of the Pingnan Army was much stronger. Those over ten years old who want to stay in the army will not be forced to leave the army.

When these people retire, it is natural to recruit a group of new recruits. In the current Southwest Army, more than half of the young people in their twenties and twenties, and the scale is also larger than before, with 50,000 people in Hanzhou and 50,000 people in Jincheng. People, and Li Shuo's Ningzhou also has 50,000 people.

   A total of 150,000 troops.

  Although the number of people has not increased too much, the overall combat effectiveness is going to be raised by a level compared to three years ago.

In addition to the 80,000 to 90,000 people stationed by Ye Lin in Hanzhong, Pei Jin has recruited more than 50,000 troops in Ankang, the gateway to the southwest, in the past three years. The training according to the standard of the forbidden army has basically formed. Combat effectiveness, including some scattered local garrisoned troops, the imperial court also displayed 150,000 troops at the southwest gate.

  The two groups competed against each other, and the situation became more and more tense.

In the past three years, Mu Ying asked Li Xin for instructions more than once, and Li Xin stopped him when he wanted to lead troops to raid the Ankang Army, which had not yet been trained. A lot of beams.

At the same time, Emperor Yuan Zhao used the "Tian Lei" given by Li Xin, but no results were obtained. Therefore, in the past three years, the imperial court has exhausted all means to penetrate into the southwest, from the southwest. Get Tianlei's recipe.

  In Jincheng alone, at least hundreds of people from the imperial court were killed in three years, among them the elusive Meihuawei.

   And Qiyang County, where Li Xin is located, has naturally not been peaceful in the past three years. The Qishan Mountains behind Li Xin’s house, at least hundreds of corpses have been buried.

   Now the relationship between the two sides is very stiff. Li Xin is in Beijing at this time, and it is unlikely that the court will kill him, but it is estimated that it will be difficult to let him go out of Beijing again.

   After closing his eyes and pondering for a long time, the Marquis of Jing An slowly opened his eyes and said, "The information about the capital can be sent to me at any time. Find a way to enter Ye's house and send a letter to Senior Brother Ye for me."

  Shen Gang bowed his head respectfully.

   "Subordinates will do it now."

   After Shen just left, Li Xin's face was a little gloomy. After sitting alone in the room for a long time, he slowly got up, pushed open the door of the study, and came to the yard of the eldest princess.

  The eldest princess is studying food in the yard with her eldest daughter Li Shu at the moment. The mother and daughter are grilling skewers while brushing oil on them. The mother and the two sit on a small bench each, looking at the skewers with their eyes shining.

Li Shu was now ten years old, and her height reached Li Xin's chest. When she saw Li Xin coming, she quickly stood up, handed a bunch of grilled meat skewers to Li Xin, and smiled sweetly: "Dad, this give you to eat."

  Li Xin smiled and shook his head: "Daddy doesn't eat it, you can eat it yourself."

   "You two are quite leisurely today."

Princess    said with a smile, "Xiaoxiao has been diligent a lot these past two days, take the initiative to help me watch Jing'er, otherwise where would I have time to bake skewers here?"

  There are many servants in the Li family, but the children are usually brought by their own family members, and they are not very reassuring to outsiders.

   Li Xin coughed at his eldest daughter and said, "Ahan, you go to your brother to play first. Dad has something to tell your mother."

  Xiao Ahan rolled his eyes, bent down and picked up all the ten or so boat barbecues on the grill. The two fleshy little hands barely managed to grab them and ran out.

   By the time the eldest princess reacted, the little girl had already run away.

   She glanced at Li Xin with some annoyance.

   "Say, what's the matter?"

  Li Xin slowly exhaled and forced a smile: "Madam, I want to go out."

   "Going to the southwest again?"

  The eldest princess sat down again and began to fiddle with the grill.

"You, you are not at home for four or five months a year. Every time you say that you have official business in Jincheng, you resign and don't do it. Where is the official business? Mostly you raised a family in Jincheng. Wai Zhai, if you spend half a year here with me, you have to go to her for half a year!"

   Lord Li gave a wry smile and sat down to help the eldest princess clean up the grill.

   "Look what Madam said, old husband and wife, when did I lie to Madam?"

   "You lied to me too much."

   The eldest princess rolled her eyes at Li Xin.

"You just take me for a fool and won't tell me anything, that's all, I don't want to know what you're doing, just go out if you want to go out, Mrs. Li is busy with business, how can I be restrained by a womanist family? ?"

  The Marquis of Jingan sighed helplessly when he heard the words.

   "Madam, the news just came from the capital. Brother Ye is afraid that it won't last long. The Ye family is very kind to me. I can't stay in Qiyang with peace of mind for such a big thing, and turn a blind eye, right?"

   Nine Princesses pouted.

   "You just want to go out, when did I stop you?"

   She lowered her head and sighed while flipping the grill.

   "Just remember to come back."

   (end of this chapter)