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Xiao Zheng took it with both hands in a very sensible way, and then handed it to Li Xin.

"This is the letter Ye Ming sent to the capital yesterday."

Li Xin frowned, and after reading the letter, his brows began to twitch wildly.

My Senior Brother Ye wants to...

Please resign.

The reason is very simple. Firstly, he is old, and he is already in his early 60s this year. He has been in poor health for the past two years, and he is incapable of handling military affairs, so he wants to resign as the general of the Zhenbei Army.

The second reason is...he also received news of his father's death, and wanted to go back to his hometown in Ningling to serve his father for a few years.

This memorandum, between the lines, is full of filial piety, especially one sentence, which made Li Xin feel a little sad when he saw it.

"I have been guarding the country for decades, and I only saw my father four or five times. The hard work is not enough for outsiders. When I was young, I was cowardly. I didn't dare to shoot arrows with knives, and I didn't dare to hurt people and shoot deer. Everyone in the capital knows that , has never been liked by my father."

Ye Cheng's eldest son, Ye Ming, has a very different personality from his father. When he was young, he didn't like to wield knives and guns, but preferred to read books.

The second and third sons of the Ye family loved practicing martial arts, and they were brought by Ye Cheng's side to march north, but they all died on the battlefield.

It is precisely because of this reason that Ye Ming's personal force has not been very good. This is also one of the reasons why he has been in the army for decades and has never done anything himself.

But later, Ye Cheng was trapped in the capital, and the Ye family needed someone to stand up. This Ye family's youngest resolutely went out of Beijing to join the army, and he became the second eldest of the Ye family by relying on an unknown number of military books. General.

"People's nature is determined by nature, and it is difficult to change and change. However, I have been able to join the army for decades, fight the enemy bravely, and defend the land and the border. It is not because of the temperament, but for the country and the family."

"It's also for the old father at home."

"Now that my father has died of illness, the minister, as the eldest son, failed to fulfill his filial piety, and failed to deal with the funeral affairs. Instead, he was unable to move in northern Xinjiang. He was ashamed to be a son, and he was also ashamed to be a father."

"Now that I am in my sixtieth year, I am broken and sick. I don't know when I will leave with my father. Your Majesty please allow me to resign. I will return to Ningling and show my filial piety."

After reading the memorial, Li Xin let out a long breath, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty seems to be in doubt about General Ye's memorial."

The descendants of Zhu Xia have always regarded filial piety as the moral standard, especially in this era, it is a universal standard. Even if the emperor wants to stop a person from performing filial piety, he will be stabbed in the back.

Therefore, the emperor is unlikely to reject this memorial.

"It's not good or not."

The emperor smiled bitterly and said: "It's just that when this Ye Shaobao returned to Beijing, I didn't have anyone to take over his position as the general of the Zhenbei Army. I have been thinking about the capital city where this memorial arrived yesterday, and I just asked someone to invite you this morning." Come into the palace and discuss with you."

Speaking of this, Emperor Taikang looked at Li Xin and said in a deep voice: "Chang'an, now that the war in the North is about to start, all of it will be handed over to the Yunzhou Army. The crucial point, at a time like this, Jimen Pass cannot lose its backbone."

"Nowadays, you are the only one in the capital to sit in this seat, and you can sit safely."

The Jimen Gate Guards are nominally called the Zhenbei Army, but everyone in the capital knows that this army should actually be called the Ye Family Army. After all, the Ye family has presided over the Zhenbei Army for two generations, although there are not many generals named Ye in the Zhenbei Army. , but the whole army recognizes the person surnamed Ye.

Li Xin took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, you want me to take over the position of General Ye?"

The emperor nodded.

"In the capital, only Chang'an is competent."

There is nothing wrong with this sentence. According to the position, the general of Zhenbei Army is the position of the second rank, the seal of the Shaobao on Ye Ming is from the first rank, and Li Xin is the Marquis of Jing'an, and the position is the second rank. There is also a crown prince who is also from the first rank, and he can only be regarded as mediocre at best if he takes this position.

According to the head of the local official of the Beijing Government University, he can't even be regarded as a mediocre tune, but was "relegated".

Li Xin blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the minister's surname is not Ye, so he may not be able to sit firmly in this position."

"The Ye family recognizes you."

The emperor said: "It's really not possible, you just take another Ye family. The young master of the Ye family, Ye Mao, is going to go out of Beijing to exercise a long time ago, let him go with you, and make you one." Deputy."

Li Xinxin sighed slowly.

He has a very good relationship with the Ye family now, but if he becomes the General of the Zhenbei Army, the Ye family may point and point him behind his back.

Some people even said that he was colluding with the emperor to seize the Ye family's power.

Li Xin was silent for a while, and finally said: "Your Majesty, you should discuss this matter with the ministers before making a final decision. If there is an imperial edict issued by the imperial court, as a subject of the Jin Dynasty, I will naturally bow and obey."

A smile appeared on the emperor's face.

"It's always necessary to communicate with you in advance, otherwise I'm afraid you will be unhappy if an imperial decree is suppressed."

As he spoke, he asked Xiao Zheng to move another chair, sat next to Li Xin, pulled Li Xin's sleeve and said, "Chang'an, after you arrive in the north, the affairs of the various departments of Yuwen will be entrusted to you and Zhong Xuantong." Personally, if the Zhenbei Army needs anything, you can report it to the imperial court, and I will definitely ask the Ministry of Households to cooperate as much as possible."

He let out a sigh of relief, and continued: "My preliminary plan is... three years."

"Within three years, after this Northern Expedition is over, there will be no more foreign troubles in my Great Jin Dynasty, and at least four or fifty years of peace!"

Seeing the appearance of the emperor, Li Xin smiled a little embarrassedly, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this kind of important matter still needs to be discussed slowly, it is impossible for the two of us to talk about it here and settle it. You might as well put it aside for now, I have one more thing to ask His Majesty for help."

Seeing what Li Xin said, the emperor became interested, and said with a smile: "What can make you so interested in Chang'an that you don't even want to talk about Beizheng?"

"That's it..."

Li Xin coughed, and said slowly: "The minister's family... has a staff member who is very capable."

"When I went west five years ago, I relied on this person by my side to give advice. Otherwise, it would not have been so smooth back then, so I helped His Majesty pacify the Southwest."

"This is Wang Zuozhi's talent."

……

Li Xin boasted nonsense, making Zhao Jia rare in the sky and rare in the earth.

The Son of Heaven also coughed, and said, "Chang'an has something to say, you might as well just say it..."

Only then did Li Xin stop, and said with some embarrassment: "Well...he wants to be an official."

The emperor frowned slightly.

"Since you have talent and learning, why don't you take the scientific examination?"

"He came from a military household and is not allowed to take scientific examinations."

Although Zhao Jia's father was a military adviser who followed Ye Cheng, he had a position in the Northern Expeditionary Army back then, so that he became a military household and was not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

The emperor nodded, and said with a wry smile: "Chang'an, you praise this man like a dragon and phoenix among men. Could it be that you want him to go directly to the three provinces as a prime minister?"

"no, I'm fine……"

Li Xin waved his hand and said with a dry smile, "Give him a county magistrate or something like that, and he'll be fine. If he does a good job, he won't be too late to be promoted..."

Chapter 708 I'm Going North