Unparalleled Concubine

"Li Xin kowtowed to the Empress Dowager."

In this era, one has to kneel and kowtow at every turn. At other times, even if it is to kowtow to the emperor, Li Xinxin is somewhat reluctant, but kowtowing to his mother-in-law is a matter of course, and Li Xin has nothing unwilling.

This sentence made the old lady turn her gaze away from Li Ping. She turned her head and glanced at Li Xin, then handed Li Xin's son back to Cui'er, stepped forward to help Li Xin up with her own hands, and pretended Angrily said: "I've said it many times, and let you shout like Xiao Jiu, why are you still shouting so well?"

The mother-in-law always liked her son-in-law more and more, not to mention that Li Xin was considered to be one of the top people in the capital. The empress dowager also liked Li Xin more and more in recent years and treated him like her own son.

Li Xin stood beside the not very old queen mother, and said with a smile: "Etiquette cannot be broken, it is not difficult for me to call you mother, let others listen, and file a complaint with His Majesty, and my son-in-law will be fined for half a year." , then my son-in-law and Xiao Jiu will be starving."

The Empress Dowager scolded with a smile: "You brat is talking nonsense, you are all one family, why would the emperor punish your salary?"

Li Xin smiled and didn't say much.

With his personality, he could chat with anyone, and Li Xin could make friends with the murderous old man Ye. It was too easy to please such a little old lady who had lived in the palace for a long time.

In fact, his relationship with the empress dowager has been good in recent years.

After saying a few words to Li Xin, the Empress Dowager reached out to take little Li Ping over, hugged her in her arms, then looked up at Li Xin, and asked, "How is Xiao Jiu now, did she have a good rest? "

"Okay."

Li Xin smiled and said: "I also wanted to come to the palace to see your old man, but she is in confinement and it is inconvenient to move around, so she didn't come out."

"You can't move around."

The empress dowager looked serious: "You can't see the wind, you can't touch the water, or you will suffer a lot when you get old."

Lord Jing'an said with a smile, "Don't worry, my son-in-law knows."

The queen mother nodded, lowered her head and kissed her grandson, and said: "In a few days, Ai's family will tell the emperor to go out of the palace and visit your house to have a look at Xiaojiu. Anyway, it's close and convenient."

The old lady said with a smile while patting the little doll.

"By the way, I went to see little Ah Han, but I haven't seen that girl for a few days."

Chapter 653 Set the Constitution

"Your Majesty, what is the situation of the Yuwen tribes in the north?"

After leaving Kunde Palace, Li Xin put the child there first, and then set off for Weiyang Palace.

In the side hall of Weiyang Palace, the monarch and his ministers were discussing matters in the north while eating.

The emperor lowered his head and took a sip of wine, and said slowly: "40 years ago, Ye Laoguo broke up the Northern Zhou Dynasty in one fell swoop. At that time, the general Yu Wenchong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty fled with 10,000+ remnants of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and hundreds of thousands of Xianbei Yuwen ethnic groups. Out of Jimen Pass."

Speaking of this, the emperor paused, and then continued: "At that time, my Jin Dynasty was almost at its peak, and I really couldn't fight anymore, so Emperor Wu ordered Ye Laoguo's class teacher to return to the court and gave it to Yu Wenchong and those people. A buffering opportunity."

Old man Ye has always regretted this matter. When he drove the remnants of the Northern Zhou Dynasty out of Jimen Pass, he still had the strength to chase after him. Even Emperor Wu, who blew his hair, had to choose to give up, so Ye Cheng could only watch helplessly as Yu Wenchong fled to the north.

"This Yuwen Chong belonged to the Yuwen royal family, and he was also the uncle of the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He could have reproduced the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the north, but fortunately, this Yuwen Chong died of his injuries more than a year after Ye Laoguo retired. .”

Li Xin actually knew a lot about these Northern Zhou stories, but at this time, he still pretended to be ignorant and listened to this not-so-young emperor.

"After Yuwen Chong died, his four sons competed for the position of leader, and then each led a part of the tribe to disperse in the northern border, evolving into the later Yuwen tribes."

The Son of Heaven said in a deep voice: "For decades, there have been occasional internal struggles among the Yuwen tribes, but because they were afraid of my Great Jin and Northern Expedition, they have always maintained restraint and maintained their combat effectiveness to the greatest extent. The Yuwen four tribes have also been very stable. maintained until now.”

"Now that 40 years have passed, the leaders of Yuwen's various tribes are no longer the four sons of Yuwen Chong, but most of them have become his sons or even grandsons. , although he withdrew from the Central Plains, he is still the biggest overlord on the northern grasslands."

Speaking of this, Emperor Taikang said slowly: "The Yuwen royal family who once enjoyed blessings in the north probably couldn't hold a knife or ride a horse after the collapse of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but the descendants of Yuwen Chong are all They are brave people, even some of them were as brave as the Xianbei people when they entered the pass. Although these people have not dared to enter Jimen Pass on a large scale in the past few decades, they have become a hidden danger to the north."

Emperor Taikang turned to look at Li Xin, and laughed at himself: "Five years ago, I never had the idea of ​​going north. It was after you mentioned it in Chang'an that I gradually became interested in the north. At the beginning, I didn't think about it." They take it to heart, thinking that they are just some defeated generals, and they are not brave enough to speak out, but the more I know about them in the past few years, the more terrifying they feel."

The Son of Heaven said in a deep voice: "The capabilities of Yuwen's ministries will never be weaker than the Pingnan Army in the southwest, and even surpass them."

Li Xin lowered his head and thought for a while, then smiled and said: "Your Majesty, 40 years have passed, what kind of quality they are now, you have to try it to know, what you hear is not the truth."

Lord Jing'an said slowly: "Your Majesty, you can ask the Zhenbei Army or the Yunzhou Army to send people to the north to try it out. Anyway, in the past ten years, there have been occasional provocations in northern Xinjiang. It is only natural for us to fight back appropriately." .”

40 years ago, the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were emboldened by the old man Ye, so that in the past few decades, they have never dared to counterattack the Jin Dynasty, but there was no big war, and small-scale battles never stopped. Xin went to the Northland on business and was forced to participate in the battle of Xiao Chenji.

In the battle of Xiaochenji, Li Xin and the 400 feather guards cooperated with Xiaochenji's beacons, killing more than 100 enemies and capturing more than [-] people.

A battle of hundreds of people is actually not too small.

The Son of Heaven nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow, I will issue an order to the leaders of the Yuwen tribes, ordering them to violate our borders, and warning them that if they don't repent, we will send troops to teach them a lesson."

After the Yuwen divisions split, they were no longer able to be compared with the Dajin. Therefore, after the enmity of the year dissipated seven or eighty-eight, the members of Yuwen's four divisions gritted their teeth and became ministers to the Dajin.

This is a matter of the Chengde Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this incident that the merits of the Chengde emperor have been greatly added, which is part of the reason why the Chengde emperor is called the holy emperor.

So according to this aspect, the members of the Yuwen tribes are ministers, and the Emperor of Jin is the emperor. Of course, the Emperor of Jin can issue orders to reprimand them, but such imperial orders are basically meaningless, and almost no one will take them seriously.

Those leaders of Yuwen No. [-], it would be nice not to use the imperial decree to wipe their ass.

Li Xin thought for a while, then spoke slowly.

"Your Majesty, this matter is related to the fate of the country. Your Majesty can decide the direction, but you can't rely on one or two people to handle the details. I suggest that your Majesty call together the prime ministers and ministers of the three provinces to discuss the details. The things that have been deliberated in this way are not good. What could go wrong."

Don't look at Li Xin, a military general who flourished in the Taikang Dynasty, but in fact, since the Chengde Dynasty, the status of the generals in the Jin Dynasty has been declining. fear.

Military generals generally do not participate in politics.

The major and minor matters of the imperial court were handled by the emperor and officials from the three provinces and six ministries, or they were discussed and dealt with. During this process, the generals could not get in the way. Except for the special existence of Li Shen and Old Man Ye, the status of other generals Embarrassing all the time.

After the Taikang Dynasty, the first thing to do today is to reduce all the generals of the generals, so that the generals will be even more inconspicuous.

Take Li Xin as an example, the most powerful position in him now is the Minister of the Ministry of War, not the illusory prince Taibao.

Therefore, matters such as Beizheng must be discussed with the civil officials, otherwise, even if this matter can be carried out forcibly, if those civil servants are in the way, then nothing can be done.

Li Xin himself respects these prime ministers very much.

The emperor frowned, and then said: "I want to tell them, otherwise nothing can be done smoothly, but before that, you and I should set a similar direction, so that when I am arguing with them , I have something to say."

Lord Jing'an was silent for a while, and finally looked up at the emperor.

"Your Majesty, if you want to attack Can Zhou tentatively this time, will you use the Yunzhou Army or the Zhenbei Army?"

Chapter 654 Someone is restless

This is a very important question.

The Yunzhou Army is also the Zhong family army. The Zhong family has been guarding the borders of the Jin Dynasty since the founding of the Jin Dynasty. It has won the trust of the Jin royal family in the past generations. Even if it was Ye Cheng who defeated the Northern Zhou Dynasty back then, it was Ye Cheng and Li Zhijie. Personally let Dajin rule the world, but the Chong family is actually the number one general of Dajin.

Needless to say, the Ye family, only one or two members of the three generations of the Ye family can serve in the Zhenbei Army in the north. Although they are still in charge of the military power, there are not many people with the surname Ye.