Unparalleled Concubine

"My little sister was only 33 years old when she left. As an elder brother, I can't help but sigh when I think about this..."

"Okay, okay, don't talk anymore."

Li Dadu looked calm, and said lightly: "Although I know you are acting for me, I still feel a little more comfortable in my heart. I think my mother will feel warmer if she hears this in Tianyouling."

"This child can live in my house or study in the capital, but I have one thing to entrust to you."

Xiao Zhiping wiped away his tears with his sleeve, kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty ordered it."

"My...uncle has no children, but he should have descendants such as nephews and grandchildren. I was worried that outsiders would be involved, so I didn't look for them. Your Xiao family has always lived in Qiyang County. Go back and help me find them. The descendants of my uncle."

"When my uncle's descendants arrive in the capital, this child of your Xiao family can live in the capital."

Li Xin's uncle, that is, Xiao Zhiping's uncle, was shocked when he heard the words, and immediately bowed his head and said, "Don't worry, Lord Hou, Xiaomin will definitely help Lord Hou find uncle's descendants."

Li Xin was expressionless.

"Don't think about finding someone to lie to me, I will send someone to go back to Qiyang with you."

"Little people dare not."

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Li Xin left the Xiao family, so he naturally had his own ideas. Apart from the Southwest Group, he really needed to create a group of people who were loyal to him, so that the Southwest faction would not be dominated by one family, and the group within the group would not power can be relatively balanced.

Secondly, if the world changes surnames, Li Xin's mother clan will indeed give some rewards. Of course, Li Xin chose to give rewards to his uncle's descendants instead of Qi Yang's Xiao family.

After simply receiving Xiao Zhiping's grandparent and grandson, it was almost dark, so he put down the scroll in his hand, got up from the Nuan Pavilion, and returned to his backyard.

Although the snow in the backyard has not been cleaned, it has already cleared the path for walking. Li Xin walked to the gate of the eldest princess's yard and knocked on the door.

Originally, he was also the owner of this courtyard, and he didn't need to knock on the door to enter, but the couple had a conflict a few days ago, and the eldest princess is still angry.

Li Xin stood at the gate of the yard and waited for a while. The princess's maid Cui Er sneaked up to the gate of the yard, and said softly to Li Xin through the gate of the yard: "Master, the princess is still wiping away tears now, but it's better than that." It got better a few days ago, do you want to spend two days and wait for her to calm down before coming back?"

It was still quite cold outside at this time, Li Xin was at the gate of the courtyard, and touched his nose helplessly.

The eldest princess and Li Xin have been married for more than ten years. The husband and wife have never quarreled and got angry, but this time, the ninth princess is really angry to the extreme.

Because... her eldest nephew, His Highness King Huai, died of an inexplicable sudden illness.

This is something that will inevitably happen after Li Xin entered Beijing, but it has been delayed from the fifth year of Yuanzhao to the first year of Yankang.

The death of His Royal Highness King Huai was not caused by Li Xin.

It was he who committed suicide by taking medicine after giving birth to a son.

Of course, before that, it may have been a message from some people.

Li Xin did not participate in the whole process, but he acquiesced.

"Then I'll go to the Nuan Pavilion to sleep tonight."

Li Xin sighed helplessly.

"Please persuade the princess for me, so that she will not hurt her body."

At this time, Li Xin's fourth child was also his youngest son, born less than half a year ago.

Chapter 1157 Two Letters from the Capital

When Li Xin started to attack the Ji family's clan in the first half of the year, the conflict between him and the nine princesses was already inevitable, but since this matter was done, there was no turning back, and they could only do it to the end.

In the past six months, although Li Xin's methods have been as gentle as possible, following the death of His Royal Highness King Huai, the Ninth Princess was still furious.

She went to Prince Huai's Mansion in person, and took King Huai's newborn son back to the Marquis of Jing'an to raise him. At the same time, she had a fight with Li Xin, and she had been unwilling to see Li Xin for several days.

There is no way to do this, only time will heal these cracks slowly.

In the cold wind, Li Xin returned to the Nuan Pavilion alone, added some charcoal to the stove in the Nuan Pavilion, and continued to look through the documents sent by Shang Shutai.

In the past six months, Li Xin has spent more than three hours a day processing or checking the documents sent by the Shangshutai and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. .

As the highest decision-maker of a country, every matter that can be sent to Li Xin's desk case cannot be a trivial matter, and each of these matters must be handled with consideration to all aspects, although Shang Shutai will give advice on how to deal with it. But when he really came to Li Xin, he still had to think carefully bit by bit.

When it was around Xu time, Ahan, the eldest lady of the Jing'an Hou Mansion, knew that her father was afraid of the cold, so she brought two stoves to Li Xin. After helping Li Xin light the fire, she sat down and had a conversation with her father, comforting him. After looking at the old father who was kicked out of the yard, he went back to his room to rest.

After Ah Han left, Li Xin read two or three more documents about how the clan and some former officials of Yuanzhao dealt with them. He frowned and thought for a long time before he mentioned the Zhubi and gave his opinion on the documents. Then he put down the brush and lay down. Fall asleep on the bed.

He was not a civil servant, and he hadn't done this kind of thing for more than ten years, so it was a bit difficult to handle things, but these were things that absolutely couldn't be done by others, and Li Xin had to handle them himself.

Although the current Li Xin is still the Marquis of Jing'an in name, in fact he has been doing what the emperor does every day for the past six months. In less than [-] days, he has already felt a little tired.

The profession of emperor, apart from work benefits, is actually not a good job.

It’s okay to be a faint king, and it’s good to sleep with women every day to enjoy happiness, but if you want to be a wise king, you have to face mountains and seas of documents every day, and you have to deal with weird and unpredictable people’s hearts. , will be very tired after a long time.

The reason why Emperor Taikang was so short-lived is mostly because of this.

There are gains and losses, and while enjoying the supremacy, it is natural to bear unparalleled pressure.

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In the twelfth lunar month of the first year of Yankang, the capital was full of wind and snow, and the northern Xinjiang was naturally cold and windy.

In Jizhou City, although the wind was blowing outside, General Ye, as the chief general, was sitting on the wall of Jizhou City, wearing only a not-so-thick robe, chatting with several soldiers of the Beibei Army .

After staying on the city wall for a while, Ye Maocai walked down from the city wall and returned to his residence of the General Zhenbei.

It has been a few months of peace in the north now. Although few people in Jizhou City have moved back, there are already some Jizhou people who escaped from Jizhou and slowly moved back from outside.

If there is no war in Jizhou, at most five years, Jizhou can restore its former prosperity.

In the Zhenbei General's Mansion, Ye Guogong, who was wearing thin clothes, immediately put on a thicker clothes, his body was still shivering from the cold.

In the Zhenbei General's Mansion, He Song, who had been in Jizhou for nearly a year, sat in the living room of the Zhenbei General's Mansion and lit a stove. A jar of wine sat on the stove, which was already gurgling.

Ye Mao sat opposite He Song, looked at the hot wine in front of him, and said with a smile, "Why did Uncle He come to me?"

He Song is of the same generation as Ye Ming, so he is naturally Ye Mao's uncle.

He Song glanced at Ye Mao first, and then asked, "I heard that the general has been going to the city wall every day for the past month?"

"Don't go."

Ye Mao smiled helplessly and said: "In the past month, the weather has gradually become colder, and the Zhenbei Army has been reorganized. Now, not counting the Forbidden Army you brought over, Uncle He, there are 7 to [-] people. I don’t have enough cotton clothes, so I have no choice but to squat on the city wall in single clothes, so that my brothers can feel better.”

He Song frowned slightly, and said, "Isn't Li Dadu in charge of the court now? How could it be short of the Zhenbei Army's stuff?"