Unparalleled Concubine

The two people sat across a low table, sitting on two mats.

Zhao Jia didn't drink very well, and his face turned red after drinking some rice wine. He put down the wine glass, looked up at Li Xin, and said with a smile, "Master Hou, what's the situation in the capital these past few years?"

In the past five years, Li Xin has basically been learning about the situation in the Southwest, and the information from the Southwest has been sent to his desk, but Zhao Jia, who is in the Southwest, is not very clear about the situation in the capital.

Li Xin took a sip of his wine and sighed slowly.

"There's going to be a war."

The Zhao family nodded slightly, and after being silent for a while, they opened their mouths and said, "Hit... the north?"

This matter is actually not difficult to guess. To the east of the Great Jin Dynasty is the East China Sea. Although there are occasional pirates making trouble, it has not become a climate after all. The south can be called a disaster, that is, the Pingnan Army. Be "destroyed".

At least it was wiped out in name.

As for the Tubo Kingdom in the west, because of the prosperity of Buddhism in recent years, it has also lost its combat power, and there are few large-scale conflicts. Moreover, even if the imperial court wants to eat Tubo, it is unlikely.

After much deliberation, there are only the Yuwen tribes in the north.

Li Xin didn't shy away either, and said directly: "In about two or three months, Yunzhou City will take action against Yuwen's ministries. If there is a big disturbance, the war will break out immediately."

Zhao Jia fell silent, then let out a breath slowly.

"Is it a foregone conclusion?"

Li Xin glanced at the scholar in front of him who was three or four years older than himself, and said slowly: "Your Majesty wants...to make contributions to history."

Hearing this, Zhao You'an understood that the matter was irreversible, and he shook his head helplessly: "The good days of Dajin these years have been accumulated over the past few decades, and now because of one person's heart, we have to fight again End, let thousands of people in the world suffer..."

Li Xin shook his head at him.

"Brother You'an drank too much."

Zhao Jia's voice stopped abruptly. After he was silent for a while, he breathed out the smell of alcohol and said, "I lost my temper."

Li Xin picked up a glass of wine and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you lose your temper, there is no third person here, and no one will tell others what Brother You'an said."

"Actually, the matter has not reached the point of no return. There is a way to make His Majesty give up on the Northern Expedition. Do you want to hear it, brother You'an?"

Zhao Jia was considered a typical scholar. Hearing this, he immediately said, "Master Hou, enlighten me..."

Lord Jing'an smiled slightly.

"What Your Majesty means now is to let the Zhong Family Army in Yunzhou City test the Yuwen tribes first, and how much combat power is left. If the Zhong Family Army is defeated in this test, then Your Majesty will definitely give up the Northern Expedition. Thoughts, I will never bring up this matter again in my lifetime."

In this world, Li Xin should be the person who knows the emperor Taikang best. To put it bluntly, when this emperor gained power, he looked majestic, but he was a little bully in his bones. Ministry, he will quickly give up this idea, and be his Taiping Emperor with peace of mind.

Zhao Jia frowned.

"The seed army cannot lose."

Of course, the Zhong family army cannot lose. First of all, this is related to the reputation of the Zhong family as the "No. [-] General of the Great Jin Dynasty". However, the Zhong family has not had too many dazzling records. At this time, it is impossible for the Zhong family to allow themselves to lose to the extremely weak Can Zhou.

On the other hand, the reason is because... Yunzhou City of the Chong family is one of the northern gateways of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Because of Ye Cheng’s battle back then, the Northern Zhou Dynasty was frightened, and the courage of the Yuwen tribes was also broken. Therefore, for three to 40 years, even if people from the Yuwen tribes starved to death all the year round, they did not attack the pass on a large scale. Tribes that are not big or small will tentatively attack the edge of the Jin Dynasty and fight the autumn wind.

Just like the battle of Xiao Chen Ji encountered by Li Xin back then, the total number of people will generally not exceed 1000.

However, if the Zhong family army in Yunzhou is defeated in a head-on collision, the Yuwen tribes will sweep away the fear in their hearts, and there will be no peace in the north of the Great Jin Dynasty from then on.

Li Xin raised his head and drank another bowl of rice wine, then said with a smile: "The Zhong family army will not be defeated, but it should not be too smooth. We just need to wait for the news from the north in the capital. In a few months, Then everything becomes clear."

Having said that, Lord Jing'an took a look at Zhao Jia and lowered his voice.

"Brother You'an, what happened to the Pingnan Army in the southwest?"

"Going further west."

Zhao Jia said: "In the southwest and further west, there are some places that the Jin and Tubo don't care about. The Pingnan Army should temporarily settle in those places. After a few years, they have built a few small cities."

"That Li Shuo..."

Zhao Jia paused, and said, "I met him before I came back. He has grown a lot in the past few years, and it's hard to see through."

Li Xin nodded, pondered in his heart, and continued to ask: "Then... what about the Hanzhou Army?"

"In the past few years, Muying has not stopped training the Hanzhou Army. Everything is done according to the standards of the Habayashi Guards. Now the [-] Hanzhou Army has become a battle-ready soldier. It’s not as flashy as it was five years ago.”

Li Xin nodded in satisfaction.

"Available?"

Li Xin asked such a question out of the blue, Zhao Jia looked up at Li Xin, after thinking for a while, he said to Li Xin solemnly.

"It depends on what you think, Master Hou."

"If you trust Muying, this Hanzhou army is naturally available."

Lord Jing'an patted Zhao Jia's shoulder and said with a smile, "Brother You'an, don't be nervous, I don't want to rebel yet."

Zhao You'an gave a wry smile, gritted his teeth and said, "This is the end of the matter, no matter what you do, Lord Hou, I can only attach myself to the Jing'an Houfu. Even if Master Hou wants to rebel, it's nothing more than Zhao Jia's head."

He thought very clearly that the matter has come to this point today, and the conversation has long been indistinguishable from each other, and it is not a relationship that can be avoided by evasion.

As for whether Li Xin will rebel, Zhao Jia has thought about it many times in the southwest in the past few years.

After all, there is no loyal minister who will spend a lot of time secretly raising an army of tens of thousands of soldiers!

Li Xin stood up from the mat, stretched his legs lazily after moving his legs and feet.

"Brother You'an, don't worry, Li Xin will never harm his own people."

Chapter 679 Murderous!

After the welcome banquet, Li Xin didn't bother Zhao Jia's family anymore, and asked him to get together with his family who had been away for several years.

At the same time, the military supplies procured by the Ministry of War were slowly being delivered, but Li Xin did not interfere with the follow-up matters, and simply handed them over to Xie Dai and the Habayashi guards, and he did not go to the Ministry of War again. , leisurely resting in Jing'an Hou Mansion every day.

Li Xin shouldn't have taken care of these matters in person. After he acted as a villain and forced this matter to pass over the Ministry of War, he actually had nothing to do with him.

Coupled with the fact that his youngest son was born before the full moon, and the eldest princess was in confinement, Li Xin stayed at home as a baby daddy and spent a few days with his wife and children.

Of course, I occasionally went to Chen Guogong's mansion to see Old Man Ye.

Until one evening a few days later, Li Xin was playing Go with Zhao Jia in the study when a familiar voice rang out from the door of the study, "Master Hou, someone wants to see you."

It was Chen Shiliu's voice.