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The emperor patted the old general's shoulder lightly, and sighed faintly.

"The old general is considerate, but I am also helpless."

Chapter 1031 Two Anglers

Li Xin is an outlier in this era. Because of his different values, his style of doing things and his ideas are somewhat out of tune with this world, but it is precisely this somewhat outlandish approach that has made him almost invincible all these years.

It was also for this reason that the three generations of emperors were more or less wary of Li Xin, because they couldn't see through what Li Xin was going to do, and couldn't guess what Li Xin would do next.

The previous two generations of emperors were fine. After all, they could generally suppress Li Xin, but when it came to this generation of emperor Yuanzhao, the situation was quite different.

The talent of Emperor Yuanzhao is not even as good as his father, and far inferior to his ancestors, and he grew up with Li Xin as a student of Li Xin, so he naturally has a faint fear of Li Xin in his heart. When dealing with Li Xin, he was a little too nervous.

He put all the power he could use in the southwest.

Hearing the words of the Son of Heaven, Chong Xuantong sighed helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "As Your Majesty said, the Great Jin has a vast territory, not only the northern border, but the Great Jin is not only the southwest, your Majesty is the whole world." My Son, the situation in the southwest does need to be dealt with, but the northern border cannot be ignored, if the Xianbei tribe makes a comeback again, a Yunzhou city may not be able to defend the northern border."

Having said that, Zhong Xuantong bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, there must be troops stationed in Jizhou. If Your Majesty can't trust Ye Guogong, you can send someone else to the northern border. In any case, the Jimen Pass run by generations of my Jin Dynasty, Don't lose it."

Emperor Yuanzhao looked at Zhong Xuantong, and then said: "The old general thinks, who can go to Jizhou to take over Ye Mao's job?"

The Ye family has a reputation that is hard to match in the Jin Dynasty. Take this incident as an example. Although the Zhenbei Army was almost wiped out, the reputation of Chen Guogong's mansion is still there. Ye Mao raised his arms in Yancheng. There are still many It is very difficult to do this when one person goes to Yancheng to join the army.

Moreover, the third generation Ye Guogong may not be willing to let others take care of Jizhou.

Zhong Xuantong frowned and said, "It's really impossible. Let's send someone from the imperial court to be Ye Guogong's deputy and be responsible for recruiting the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army. In this way, even if the Zhenbei Army is reorganized, it will not disobey the imperial court's orders."

Emperor Yuanzhao shook his head, and said, "It won't work to send anyone there, the emperor is far away, and he will die if he says he will die."

Speaking of this, he looked up at Zhong Xuantong, and said: "I am always paying attention to the affairs of northern Xinjiang. After this incident, the Xianbei tribe will not be able to breathe for at least four or five years. I have sent an imperial decree to Yanzhou Shepherd to lead Yanzhou soldiers to guard Jimen Pass temporarily."

The emperor narrowed his eyes, and said in a low tone, "After I have settled the matter in the north, I will take out my hand and clean up these remaining evils of the Northern Zhou Dynasty."

Hearing this, Zhong Xuantong knew that the matter could not be discussed any further. He sighed, lowered his head and said, "How does His Majesty plan to deal with the Southwest affairs?"

"Speaking of it, I still have to rely on the help of the old general."

The Son of Heaven said: "Last year, my troops from the Great Jin in southern Xinjiang withdrew from Ankang in Hanzhong, and now all the troops in the Southwest are stationed in Xiangyang. Lieutenant General."

The [-] Hanzhong Army was originally led by Ye Lin. Ye Lin led the Hanzhong Army in Hanzhong and confronted the Southwest Army for several years. Later, because of Li Xin's involvement, Ye Lin was transferred back to the capital to serve as Minister of the Ministry of War. Xie Jing, who served as Ye Lin's deputy general, naturally became the new general of Hanzhong.

However... this uncle of the country is so incompetent that he did all kinds of stupid things, so that when the Hanzhong Army faced the Southwest Army, they were defeated one after another. Now even the nephew of Emperor Yuanzhao can't stand it anymore. I want to find someone to help my uncle.

Zhong Xuantong bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister is too old to take on this important task..."

"Of course we can't let the old general go."

The emperor narrowed his eyes and said: "The eldest grandson of the old general, Zhongheng, seems to be an official in the capital. What I mean is to send General Xiaozhong to the southwest, and wrong him to be a deputy general in the Hanzhong army."

Uncle is a layman in war, and Emperor Yuanzhao can only find a way to send him an expert deputy to help him. As for marching and fighting, Zhong Jia can be said to be an expert among experts.

Zhong Xuantong bowed his head respectfully: "It is a children's honor to be loyal to His Majesty."

The emperor nodded in satisfaction.

"In that case, General Xiaozhong please leave for Xiangyang as soon as possible."

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The imperial court is making intensive preparations to deal with Southwest, but Southwest has not made any major moves. Everyone is doing what they should do, but in the dark, there are already turmoil.

Leaving aside the capital and the southwest, a group of people had already quietly entered the Shaoxing Mansion in the hinterland of the Jin Dynasty.

The capital city of Shaoxing Prefecture was divided into two, and was divided into two counties in Shanyin and Kuaiji. In comparison, Shanyin County was relatively ahead in all aspects, especially after Emperor Taikang ascended the throne, Shanyin Xie The family has become a veritable relative of the emperor, and many children of the Xie family in Shanyin were able to enter the capital as officials. For a while, this scholarly family in Shanyin County became the most dazzling family in Shaoxing Prefecture. For more than ten years, even if He is the governor of Shaoxing Mansion, and before taking office, he must come to Xie's house to kowtow to Mrs. Xie first.

The Xie family was originally a large family, with lush branches and leaves. The family was divided into several houses, among which was the long house of Empress Dowager Xie. The natural scenery was boundless for a while, but the other branches of the Xie family were much inferior.

Originally, there was a Mr. Xie Dai in the second room, who was also an official in the capital. Although it was not as smooth as Mr. Xie Jing, he was able to control the guards, so he was considered a big shot in the capital. However, a few months ago, Mr. Xie Dai because of He dereliction of duty in northern Xinjiang, was dismissed by the emperor, and was driven back to Shanyin.

The second room was even more in decline.

Mr. Xie Dai, who was driven home from the capital, was also a little lost. Except for occasionally going fishing outside the city, he basically stayed behind closed doors and refused all the banquets from local officials in Shaoxing.

On this day, Xie Dai went out early in the morning with a slender bamboo pole and went to the place where he usually fished. Sitting still like an old monk, quietly waiting for the fish in the river to take the bait.

I don't know when it started, there was a young man sitting next to Xie Dai, holding a hook like a young man, sitting five or six steps away from Xie Dai and hanging down the hook.

The young man looked only fourteen or fifteen years old, but he was extremely proficient in fishing, and he had six or seven fish hooked in a short while, which was much better than Mr. Xie who had nothing to catch.

Xie Dai didn't have many hobbies in his life, except fishing. Seeing this, he couldn't help but look at the young man, and then asked, "Little brother, what kind of bait are you using?"

The young man threw another pole into the river, then turned his head and looked at Xie Dai with a smile: "General Xie wants to know?"

Xie Dai frowned slightly.

"You recognize me?"

The young man lowered his head slightly: "Of course I recognize General Xie."

He bowed to Xie Dai and said softly: "I'm Zhao Yi, I have met General Xie."

Chapter 1032

Zhao Yi, Zhao Jia's son and Zhao Jia's only son, is 15 years old this year.

Zhao Jia once wanted to let his only son be Li Xin's son-in-law, but the latter resolutely refused. Later, because he was not good at favoring one another, Li Xin recognized Zhao Yi as his son-in-law.

Zhao Yi's talent and intelligence are almost as good as his father Zhao Jia's. He was able to master the classics when he was a child. Last year, with Zhao Jia's approval, Li Xin arranged this young man to work in the dark department of his subordinates. It can be regarded as training young people.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yi is very talented in intelligence work, and he has done well in the Anbu, insisting on staying in the Anbu, Li Xin did not refuse him, and still let him work with Shen Gang.

A few months ago, when Li Xin looked at the sixth prince who was in Shanyin, Shen Gang had already sent people to Shanyin to explore. After Li Xin returned to the southwest, Anbu officially began to send people to Shanyin.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Yi, who was only 15 years old, took the initiative to ask Li Xin to go to Shanyin. After asking his father's permission, Zhao Yi arrived at Shanyin a month ago.

This month, he has been studying Shanyin Xie Clan, until now, he felt that the time was almost ripe, so he came to meet Xie Dai in person.

"Zhao Yi?"

Xie Dai, who had passed his thirties, frowned slightly, then glanced at the young man in front of him, and said, "Excuse me for being ignorant."

Zhao Yi lowered his head slightly and said, "Father Zhao You'an."

The son doesn't talk about his father, he can only say his father's name.

Only then did Xie Dai solemnly look at the young man in front of him, and said calmly: "It turns out that he is the young master of the Southwest Economic and Strategic Envoy, I don't know that Mr. Zhao came to Shanyin, what is the so-called?"

Although Zhao Yi is a young man, he has seen a lot of big scenes in the southwest, so he didn't have any stage fright. He looked at Xie Dai and said with a smile, "I heard that General Xie's official career is not going well recently?"