Unparalleled Concubine

"The last time I saw me, I didn't look like this. Why, I'm afraid my uncle will eat you?"

Ji Ying tremblingly raised her head from her sleeves, and carefully glanced at Li Xin, her immature voice trembling obviously.

"Uncle, what are you...doing?"

At the beginning, when he escaped from Shanyin and was brought to the southwest, he didn't think too much about it. He just thought that he had escaped from the sea of ​​suffering and could live his life freely from now on. But after arriving in the southwest, he realized that something was wrong. Although my aunt treated him very well and relied on him in everything, no matter where I went, someone followed me, and even when I was sleeping at night, there were people guarding the door in shifts.

Even though he was only eleven or twelve years old this year, he still noticed something was wrong.

What was even more strange was that although his aunt was very kind to him, there was obviously some pity in his eyes. He was born in the emperor's family, so he was very sensitive to this kind of eyes.

All kinds of things are connected together, even if he is only a child, he can more or less guess it.

The smile on Li Xin's face froze for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal. He stretched out his hand with a smile, and said, "Don't worry, no one in the southwest will harm you. When you are in Shanyin, Who wants to kill you, you also understand in your heart."

Having said that, the smile on Li Xin's face restrained a little.

"It's the emperor who wants to kill you. In the whole world, only the Southwest can protect your life."

Only then did the sixth prince stretch out his hand, and Li Xin pulled him out of the carriage.

He is 11 years old this year, and his height is less than Li Xin's shoulders. He is being held in a hurry, like a father and son.

The two were walking in Xiangyang City in early spring. Zhao Jia and a group of high-level officials from the Southwest followed the two and walked slowly towards the government office.

Li Xin pulled the child's sleeve and said with a smile: "Your Highness has been imprisoned in Shanyin for no reason for so many years, do you have resentment in your heart?"

"Of course there is."

Ji Ying gritted her teeth and said, "In the past two years, I hated them so much that I hated them so much. Later, when I grew up, I didn't hate them so much. Uncle Xie told me that if I didn't leave the capital, I would have already been killed by the emperor. gone."

He has been in Shanyin all these years, Xie Jing has never visited him once, the uncle he mentioned refers to Xie Dai.

The sixth prince was a very talkative child, so he wasn't so scared at this moment, so he naturally talked more.

"Later, I didn't think about those things anymore. I just thought that one day I could leave Shanyin and go outside to have a look, and I was satisfied."

Li Xin looked down at Ji Ying with a calm tone.

"Want to be emperor?"

What he said was calm, but it sounded like thunder to Ji Ying. As a child of the royal family, he understood the weight of these words better than anyone else. His Royal Highness shuddered , looked up at Li Xin.

"Uncle...uncle wants me to be emperor?"

Li Xin didn't answer directly, but said quietly: "It depends on your own wishes. If you don't want to, no one can force you."

"I... can listen to my uncle for anything."

Ji Ying pulled Li Xin's sleeve with a timid voice.

"But... I want to live."

Seeing that Li Xin was unmoved, Ji Ying gritted her teeth and said, "Five years ago in the capital, I kowtowed to my uncle. At that time, my uncle told me that he would try his best to save my life."

Li Xin looked at the child in surprise, and asked, "Your aunt taught you to say that?"

Ji Ying shook her head and said in a low voice, "Nephew thought of it himself."

General Li narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled.

"As long as you are obedient, I will try my best to keep you alive."

Chapter 1056 Ji Family!

It is very difficult for an ordinary person to become an emperor, but everyone's starting point is different. For the sixth prince, when he was born, he was very close to the dragon chair.

It's so close that there is only one Yuanzhao emperor.

Therefore, it is relatively easy for Li Xin to promote him to the throne. Supporting a Ji family is better than overthrowing everything, and the resistance is much smaller.

But the situation in the Southwest is complicated.

No matter what Li Xin himself thinks, supporting the clan will always be a "temporary" act, a means to achieve the goal. Once the big thing is done, even if Li Xin can tolerate the Ji family riding on his head, these subordinates in the southwest Ji Ying couldn't tolerate being emperor either.

They worked hard to rebel and risked their lives, not to flatter another Ji family.

More importantly, no matter how obedient Ji Ying is, as long as he becomes emperor, within a few years, he will be the same as the current Emperor Yuanzhao, standing on the opposite side of Li Xin. After all, the exclusiveness of imperial power cannot accommodate any powerful minister .

Back then, Li Xin watched Emperor Yuanzhao grow up, and thought that he could get along well with this nephew, but after Emperor Yuanzhao ascended the throne, he acted more and more like the emperor of the Ji family, instead of the one who followed him His Royal Highness called the teacher behind the ass.

Therefore, even if Ji Ying could become emperor, he would not be able to do so for long. Even if he was still a child, he could still think about his fate, so he asked to live.

It was because of his status that he was drawn into this chaos. At this time, Ji Ying hadn't sat in that position yet, and his desire for power was not that great. He just wanted to survive.

Li Xin held the child's hand and found him a room to rest.

In the evening, General Li set up a table of small wine and called all the three giants of the Southwest together.

Because it was drinking, Mu Ying and Li Shuo were not covered with armor, but wore simple robes, while Zhao Jia was dressed in white and sat on Li Xin's left.

After all three people arrived, they each poured a glass of wine. After touching a glass, Li Xin said: "Everyone, it is now March in the sixth year of Yuanzhao. We have captured Xiangyang, but it is still unknown. I am going to Tomorrow, the call to action against the Son of Heaven will be announced, and the army will be formally raised."

There must be a reason for raising troops, especially now that the Southwest Army cannot crush the imperial army, it is even more important to have a famous division.

Originally, the "name" that Li Xin prepared was on the side of the Qing emperor, and he was the treacherous and sycophantic crusade against the emperor, but with the sixth prince here, there is no such trouble.

Emperor Yuanzhao's status was high but his morals were weak. When he first succeeded to the throne, the harem was dirty and messy. Before the bones of the first emperor were cold, he committed adultery in Weiyang Palace, which was extremely unfilial.

The sixth prince was kicked out of the capital when he was not yet six years old, and was imprisoned in the shade of the mountains. Later, he was even more in danger of being killed. It is inhumane to treat his brothers so cruelly...

In short, as long as he picks out some of the emperor's faults, writes a document to announce it to the world, and then announces that he supports the sixth prince's ascension to the throne, he will have his status.

Emperor Yuanzhao's reputation among the people is not very good, and he is also a womanizer, he has done many ridiculous things in these years, as long as they are exaggerated, it is easy to write a righteous statement.

After Zhao Jiagong died, he wrote a letter to Li Xin with sonorous and forceful words, and he had already written Emperor Yuanzhao as the first foolish emperor since the Great Jin had a state, the kind that everyone would punish if he got it.

Having said that, Li Xin paused, and continued: "We don't have much time."

"I was imprisoned in the capital last year. In order to escape from the capital, I left a few thunders for the imperial court. Although they are not as powerful as the thunders from the southwest, they can be used on the battlefield after all. For half a year now, the imperial court may not It can be imitated, but with enough time, they will definitely be able to make it."

The composition of gunpowder is not complicated. After so many years of research by the imperial court, they already have some foundation of gunpowder, and there are samples made by Li Xin. It will only be a matter of time before they imitate gunpowder.

General Li had a serious face.

"The other thing is that Xie Jing brought out some firecrackers from Xiangyang City. The firecrackers are much simpler. As long as the court craftsmen see them, it is not difficult to imitate them. I have calculated carefully these days, we..."

"Probably only two or three years."