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Li Xin shook his head slightly: "Your Highness, no one can help you."

"The only way for His Highness to survive is to hide his name after escaping from the capital, and never come out, but His Highness just came out, and he came out with such a big fanfare. If this is the case, His Highness must die."

Lord Jing'an folded his hands in his sleeves and said, "I can answer your Highness's request. No matter what happens in the future, I will try my best to ensure that the Qin Palace will not be extinct."

Ji Ku trembled slightly.

After a long time, he bowed to Li Xin, gritted his teeth and said, "Thank you, Lord Li, for your benevolence."

"It's because His Highness can leave the city by himself."

Li Xin said indifferently: "If Jincheng can surrender because of this, His Highness is a benevolent person with countless living people, and Li Xin should help a group of His Highnesses."

Ji Ku nodded, turned around and walked away with great difficulty.

After he left, Li Xin went back to his study alone. After sitting in his seat, he opened a letter from the desk.

The letter was written from the capital.

After Ji Ku was sent back to Mianzhu, Li Xin sent a letter to the capital as soon as possible. Calculating the time, it has been nearly a month now, and a letter from the capital has already been sent back to Mianzhu.

The letter was written by Emperor Taikang to Li Xin.

The content of the letter was very simple. At the beginning, it asked Li Xin about his physical condition and whether he had worked hard in the Southwest.

At the end of the letter, Emperor Taikang mentioned the long-lost His Royal Highness Ji Ku, and deliberately asked how Ji Ku's health was, whether there was any acclimatization in the southwest, and whether he should send an imperial doctor to treat him.

One of them said so.

"Brother has been away from Beijing for a long time, and I miss him very much. Chang'an should send him back to the capital as soon as possible to relieve my brother's pain of missing him."

The meaning behind this letter is already very explicit, so explicit that even Ye Mao should be able to understand it.

What Emperor Taikang meant was to send Ji Ku back to the capital as soon as possible, and then arrange for him to be "seriously ill" because of acclimatization, and let him die on the way.

To be honest, when Li Xin received this letter, he was somewhat angry.

He could kill Ji Ku, and he was even willing to take the initiative to kill Ji Ku to take the blame for the emperor, and he was also willing to be scolded by the emperor hypocritically after returning to the capital.

He is willing to be criticized by the world for this.

Li Xin could do these things himself, but Emperor Taikang couldn't tell him to do them.

What kind of crime is it to kill the eldest son of the first emperor?

For Li Xin, his attitude is very simple.

I can do it, but...you can't rush.

Chapter 577 Don't Treat the Emperor as a Friend

It would be a happy thing for the deposed prince to die of illness on the road in a reasonable way. At that time, everyone in the capital will applaud, but this matter is not a good thing after all.

After many years, the emperor doesn't want to use Li Xin anymore, as long as he casually mentions this matter, and accuses him of murdering the prince, then no matter what position Li Chang'an holds or how important he is, he probably won't be able to bear the charge of.

The most important thing is that this incident is not a frame, but something that Li Xin has indeed done.

Therefore, Li Xin will be somewhat angry.

I was already willing to take the blame for you, but you insisted on me doing it, so I was a little unhappy.

Many people have this arrogant temperament, and Li Xin also has it.

So he was alone in the study and slowly closed his eyes.

This is a habit of Lord Jing'an when encountering things. He likes to be alone, and then closes his eyes to keep the cause and effect of an event, as well as the characters involved, relationships, context, and possible forward and backward directions, all in his mind. Squeeze it first.

In this way, when dealing with things in the future, it will be much smoother.

Soon, it was afternoon.

When Li Xin was still thinking about things in the study, a knock on the door disrupted his thoughts, Li Xin opened his eyes, and heard Zhao Jia's voice from outside the door.

"Master Hou, the Pingnan army has retreated!"

Li Xin stood up, pushed open the door, looked up at the sky, and said with a smile: "It's still bright now, why did they leave so early today?"

"I left half an hour ago."

Zhao Jia was quite happy, and said with a smile: "Too many people died in the past two days. Since this morning, the Pingnan Army has no fighting spirit. After noon, some Pingnan Army began to be timid. General Zhu Guo had no choice but to call Jin to withdraw his troops early."

Li Xin nodded, and said: "If you count the days, they should not be able to fight anymore, but don't let your guard down, they are likely to show weakness, and they will fight back tomorrow. After two days, they will withdraw to Jincheng Let's talk."

Soldiers are tricky. As a general, the most basic thing is to take all possibilities into account. Li Xin himself is a cautious person, so he will naturally think of this possibility.

Zhao Jia said with a smile: "Without the order of Lord Hou, the young master and the others will not go out of the city."

"My Lord, what should I do next?"

Li Xin was silent for a while, and then forced a smile: "Wait a minute, after the Pingnan Army withdraws to Jincheng, we will continue to move."

Having said that, Lord Jing'an stood up, pulled Zhao Jia by the sleeve, pulled him to a chair and sat down with a serious expression.

"Brother You'an, I need your advice on something."

Li Xin always had a smile on his face, and rarely looked serious. Seeing Li Xin's appearance, Zhao Jia, who was originally smiling, also became serious, and said, "Master Hou said so."

Li Xin didn't speak, but just handed the letter from Emperor Taikang to Zhao Jia from the desk.

"Brother You'an, take a look."

Zhao Jia reached out to take it, opened the letter and asked, "Whose letter is worthy of the Hou Ye's solemnity?"

Li Xin looked calm.

"A letter from His Majesty."

Zhao Jia's hands trembled, and he almost threw the letter on the ground.

He got up quickly and was about to kneel on the ground.

"Master Hou, how do you read the letter from His Majesty..."

The emperor rarely wrote letters to people.

As long as it is a letter from the emperor, it can generally be regarded as a secret decree, and it can even be regarded as an official document of the imperial court.

But the letter written by Emperor Taikang to Li Xin is just an ordinary letter, exactly the same as ordinary friends' letters, and there is nothing official about it.