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"Your Majesty has no conscience at all to say that."

General Li stopped, looked back at the emperor, and frowned slightly: "If there were no ministers in the first year of Yuanzhao, the sixth prince may have been on the throne for nearly five years."

In the severe change in the first year of Yuanzhao, if there was no Li Xin, the emperor Yuanzhao would not be their opponent at all, and he might have already abdicated. It was Li Xin's expedient plan to send the sixth prince out of the capital. At that time, he never thought that five years later, things would become like this.

Having said that, Li Xin turned around and was about to leave Weiyang Palace.

"Tomorrow, the sixth prince will enter the palace to take the throne. I hope His Majesty will cooperate, otherwise everyone will look bad."

Emperor Yuanzhao looked at Li Xin's back, clenched his fists so tightly that his nails even dug into his flesh.

"After I... abdicate, the teacher will kill me, right?"

Li Xin didn't turn his head back, his voice was cold.

"If you talk about killing people, His Majesty will kill the officials first."

After Shen Yanzhi's change, Li Xin returned to the Southwest, and soon after, the Southwest officially turned against the court.

In the few years after that, Li Xin encountered dozens of groups of assassins, the total number of them may be two to three hundred, and most of them... are from the Plum Blossom Guard!

Li Xin was not a god, under the horrific assassination by Meihuawei, he narrowly escaped death several times, and suffered serious injuries twice.

Although Emperor Taikang had conflicts with Li Xin back then, Emperor Taikang never sent assassins to Li Xin.

This can be said to be his apprentice brought up by himself, during those few years...

It made him cold.

Chapter 1115 The elders in the palace (make up for yesterday's)

After leaving the Weiyang Palace, Li Xin did not leave the imperial city. The general situation in the capital has been brought under control at this moment. When the sixth prince enters the capital tomorrow, things can proceed in an orderly manner according to Li Xin's will.

What followed was nothing more than the distribution of benefits, as well as the personnel arrangements for each yamen. Li Xin couldn't handle these matters alone, and he had to wait for Zhao Jia to come to Beijing.

Zhao Jia's dream in this life is to be able to stand on stage to pay respects to the Prime Minister. It is largely because of this reason that he urged Li Xin to raise troops. Now that the imperial court has almost fallen into the hands of the Southwest Army, it is natural for Zhao Jia to come to Beijing to take charge of the Shangshutai.

But these are all things for later. Before that, Li Xin has to meet someone.

After he left the Weiyang Palace, he hesitated for a while, then chose some cakes from the dining room in the palace, and some fruits, carried them in his hand, and walked towards the harem.

The harem is a forbidden place for men, and outsiders are not allowed to enter it except for the permission of the emperor. Even now that the Southwest Army has taken over the imperial city, Li Xin also ordered the soldiers of the Hanzhou Army to guard the harem and not allow anyone to enter or leave.

But during the Taikang Dynasty, Li Xin had entered the harem many times for no other reason, because he had an elder in the harem.

Led by the little eunuch in the palace, Li Xin soon arrived at the gate of a small palace.

Here... is the empress dowager... that is, the residence of Li Xin's mother-in-law.

Originally, the Empress Dowager lived in Kunde Palace, but after Emperor Yuanzhao ascended the throne, Empress Xie was promoted to Empress Dowager, and this Empress Dowager voluntarily gave up Kunde Palace and moved to Ningde Palace. , eating fast and chanting Buddha.

Although the seniority is already very high, the old man is actually less than 60 years old now.

Li Xin scratched his head in embarrassment, and stood at the door a little afraid to go in.

Back then, this mother-in-law was very kind to him, and she was so kind without any intention. This made Li Xin very grateful and treated her as an elder. However, because he lived in the southwest and couldn't go back to Beijing in the past few years, he hasn't been back for a long time. I have passed the old man's house.

Now that I have come back with great difficulty, I can't just tell the old lady that my son-in-law successfully rebelled and entered the imperial city...

But embarrassment is embarrassment, people still have to meet, Li Xin has been quite sorry for Princess Qinghe these years, and he can't even deny this relative.

He took a few steps forward, walked to the gate of Ningde Palace, took a deep breath, and said to the maid at the gate: "Please inform me, just say that Li Xin is begging to see his mother-in-law."

At this moment, there were great changes in the palace, and everyone was in panic, especially after hearing Li Xin's name, the palace lady immediately trembled with fright, and quickly knelt down to kowtow to Li Xin.

General Li frowned and said, "You don't need to kowtow if you want to inform me."

The palace maid hurriedly got up, her voice trembling: "Your maidservant will go now, this time..."

Soon, Li Xin was invited into the Ningde Palace by several maids. He held some preserved pastries in his left hand and some fruits in his right hand. He looked like a junior who came to give gifts.

The Ningde Palace was not particularly big, and it didn't take long for Li Xin to be led to the door of a meditation room. After reaching out and knocking on the door, an old lady's tired voice came from inside.

"You... just come in."

Li Xin let out an "hey" and slowly pushed the door open and walked in.

The Empress Dowager began to believe in Buddhism since the Taikang Dynasty. These years, she ate fast and recited Buddha almost every day. This meditation room is more like a Buddhist hall, where many Buddhas are enshrined.

The old man was sitting on the futon, wearing a blue robe, and twirling Buddhist beads in his hands.

Li Xin put the gift in his hands aside, then walked carefully to the old man, with a smile on his face: "Mother-in-law, is your old man in good health?"

The old lady put down the Buddhist beads in her hand, looked back at Li Xin, and then sighed faintly.

"In these years, no matter how much trouble you have made, the Ai family has never asked about it, thinking that it is all about the younger generation, and the children and grandchildren have their own blessings, but it has only been a few years, how can it become like this?"

Li Xin also found a futon and sat down, sighing towards the old man.

"Mother, I have a family. I have Lingxiu and one son and two daughters in my family. It doesn't matter if I am alone, but as the head of the family, I can't let my wife and children have their lives in danger, right? ?”

The prayer beads in the old lady's hand stopped turning, she stared at Li Xin for a long time, her voice was hoarse.

"The Ai family is the daughter-in-law of the Ji family, so naturally my heart is towards the Ji family. No matter what you say, rebellion is always wrong."

She coughed and continued: "If Aijia was 20 years younger, he would stand up and fight with you no matter what, but now that he is older, he can't even stand firmly."

Li Xin got up, brought the futon closer to the old lady, then sat down on his knees again, and slightly bowed: "Why don't you hit your son-in-law twice to vent your anger?"

The old lady was also unambiguous, picked up the young man who was beating the wooden fish in her hand, and beat Li Xin hard on the head three times.

But she was old, and she didn't have much strength in her hand, so it wasn't particularly painful.

After knocking, the prayer beads in the old man's hand turned again, and the voice calmed down: "Xiaojiu, is she okay?"

Sitting next to her, Li Xin said in a low voice, "It's pretty good. Over the years, she has also started to follow mother's example of eating vegetarian food and reciting Buddha's name, saying that she wants to pray for a few children."

"It's a good thing."

The old man glanced at Li Xin: "Where is little Ah Han and Ping'er? He should grow up by now. Counting his age, Ah Han has reached the age to marry now."

"It's grown up."

A smile appeared on Li Xin's face: "In a few days, the four of them, mother and son, should be on their way to Beijing. Mother will be able to see them after waiting for more than two months."

Now that the Southwest Army has taken control of the capital, there is no need for Li Xin's family to continue hiding in the southwest. News from the Anbu under Li Xin's command is transmitted very quickly, and four or five days are enough to spread the news to Jincheng. Most of the family will go to Beijing with Zhao Jia.

Of course, Zhao Jia must have rushed to the capital, but the ninth princess and the children at home couldn't stand the bumps, and it would take at least a few months to reach the capital.