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Li Xin stood with his hands down, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have visited Yunzhou City before. The Yunzhou army is strong and strong, even stronger than the imperial army. When they fight with Yuwen's tribes, the worst case is that they will not be able to catch up." It is unlikely to be defeated."

The entire Jin Dynasty knew that the Yunzhou Army was the Zhong Family Army. Even when the emperors of the past dynasties called the Yunzhou Army, they would sometimes directly call it the Zhong Family Army. The word "Zongjiajun" is, after all, theoretically speaking, it is the army of the imperial court, not the Zhongjia.

Directly talking about the family army is suspected of sowing discord.

The Son of Heaven smiled when he heard Li Xin's words.

"Hearing Chang'an's words, I feel much more at ease."

"However, my lack of horses in the Great Jin Dynasty is indeed a moderate problem."

The emperor turned his head to look at Li Xin, and said with a smile: "Chang'an, you are going to Jimenguan to take up your post, and you will probably stay for several years. There are several good horse farms further north there. With your ability in Chang'an, Can you get me a few horse farms to raise horses first?"

To the north of Jimen Pass, there are indeed a few good horse farms, but apart from Jimen Pass, it is not considered the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty. Obviously, the horse farms mentioned by the emperor belong to the various ministries of Yuwen.

The Marquis of Jing'an gave a wry smile: "Ye Shaobao is stationed at Jimen Pass, but he dare not go north easily, and I am no better than Ye Shaobao, so I dare not speak falsely."

Speaking of this, Li Xin paused, and then continued: "However, after I go to the north, I will probably fight with Yuwen's ministries. At that time, it is not impossible to get a few horse farms for His Majesty to raise horses."

The emperor laughed.

"With Chang'an's words, in a few years, my horses in Dajin will double."

After Emperor Wu ruled the world, under the handwriting of several generations of famous ministers, the Jin Dynasty had a fairly strict horse policy in terms of raising, breeding and taming horses, but suffered from the lack of good horse farms. As a result, there have been not many war horses.

Until the end of the seventh year of Taikang, there were only 15 war horses in the whole country of Dajin, and most of them were old horses that could no longer go to the battlefield.

There are also some reasons why the emperor looked north.

In this era, horses mean maneuverability, combat capability, and transportation capability, and are very important strategic materials.

"Your Majesty is wrong."

Li Xin was humble and stood quietly.

The emperor was in a good mood, and he said directly: "A few days ago, I gave Yunzhou City 300 million guan to let them fight against the Yuwen tribes. Now you have to go north to lead the army in Chang'an. I can't treat you badly. What do you need? Yes, just tell me, and I will immediately send the people below to the north."

Li Xin bowed his head and said: "I have already transferred some things from the Department of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of War with the status of Minister of the Ministry of War. Although it is not a lot, it can be used for a period of time. I only ask the court to send the food and grass of the Northern Army in Jimenguan Town. It’s autumn and winter is coming soon, the most important thing is to have enough food.”

"This is natural, I will tell the household department to do it."

Speaking of this, the emperor glanced at Li Xin, smiled and said: "I heard that you went to the Ministry of War a few days ago, not only to pick up things from the Secretary of the Ministry of Warehouse, but also stabbed the officials of the Ministry of War severely, and let them go. A lot of blood."

Li Xin blinked and smiled.

"Is it what Qian Sheng and Fatty Qian said to His Majesty?"

The emperor smiled and said nothing.

"This fat man, he can't control his mouth, and spreads the scandal of the Ministry of War everywhere."

Lord Jing'an said indifferently: "The things that I mentioned from the Secretary of the Ministry of Treasury are all in their books. If they can't give them out, it is their own problem."

As he spoke, he bowed his head to the emperor.

"Although I haven't managed the Ministry of War in the past few years, I am still the Minister of the Ministry of War. There is such a big gap in the Ministry of War. I am guilty of negligence."

"If your Majesty is interested, you can send Yu Shitai to the Ministry of War to investigate. Now they are making up for this shortfall. A large group of people can be found out after a single investigation."

At this time, it wasn't Li Xin who betrayed his colleagues, but that fat man who betrayed his colleagues from the Ministry of War. Since the emperor already knew about it, Li Xin, Minister of the Ministry of War, had no choice but to plead guilty on his own.

The emperor smiled and shook his head.

"They are willing to bleed to make up for a little omission. It's not easy. It's your Li Changan's ability. It's even more difficult to get these people to spit out what they eat."

"It was not a big deal to change a group of people in the Ministry of War, but now that the war is about to start, it is still not suitable to change people in the Ministry of War. Many things on the front line depend on them."

Emperor Taikang smiled slightly: "Let's wait until you come back from the north, and then consider whether to purge the Ministry of War."

It is actually not difficult for an emperor to know what the people below are doing. After all, as an emperor, there are many people like Qian Sheng who are willing to be their eyes and ears.

That is to say, many emperors know very clearly which of the ministers under their hands is greedy, which one is not, which one is more greedy, and how much they are greedy. Maybe they are all neatly placed on the emperor's desk.

It just depends on whether the emperor is willing to pursue it.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the line is not stepped on, no one is offended, or no one is impeached, the emperor is too lazy to take care of it.

After all, as an emperor, his duty is to ensure the peace of the country, the world is peaceful, and corrupt officials are not corrupt officials. That is the matter of Yushitai and has nothing to do with him.

After the monarch and his subjects talked for a while, Li Xin saw that the team downstairs had assembled. He took a deep breath, bowed his head and cupped his fists at the emperor: "Your Majesty, Ye Mao and the others are ready. If you don't leave, it will be noon in a while." , this day can’t go very far.”

The Son of Heaven nodded, and reached out to pat Li Xin on the shoulder.

"Chang'an, when you come back from the north, you and my brother can have a good talk."

"When the time comes, I'll buy you a drink."

Li Xin bowed deeply.

"Your Majesty, I must do my best to live up to your majesty's expectations and the court's expectations."

"The Great Jin Dynasty will flourish in the Taikang Dynasty!"

Chapter 718 Blood-stained Military Report

The team of more than a thousand people finally started slowly.

Li Xin used to lead an army of tens of thousands of people, and it didn't take much thought for him to bring only more than 1000 people. Besides, he was a lazy person and never thought of doing it himself, so he happily sent these forbidden troops to the army. The command right was handed over to Ye Mao.

Going to Jimen Pass this time is the beginning of the young grandfather Ye Mao taking over the Ye family in an all-round way. Taking this opportunity to let him get familiar with the feeling of leading troops is also a reasonable thing.

At this time, it was the end of summer, but the weather was still very hot. A group of people got up early and drove all the way, rested near noon, and continued on the road when the sun was not so strong in the afternoon, slowly heading towards Jimen Pass.

Half a month later, they were already more than 700 miles away from the capital. In the afternoon, just as Li Xin was about to lie down and take a nap, the young man in armor rushed into Li Xin's house with a military report. Shuai Zhang bowed his head and clasped his fists: "General, there is a battle report from Yunzhou City!"

Li Xin was originally sleepy, but this sentence made him sleepless at all. He sat up on the camp bed, reached out to take the battle report in Ye Mao's hand, and asked while opening it: "It came from Yunzhou City. Or did it come from the capital?"

In terms of geographical location, their current location is undoubtedly closer to Yunzhou City, but according to the rules, Yunzhou City must send battle reports to the capital first, and there is no reason to send them, the army that is escorting supplies, first. .

Ye Mao lowered his head and said, "It was sent from the capital."

Li Xin nodded, and secretly calculated in his heart.

Calculated at an accelerated speed of four hundred miles, at least four or five days have passed since this Yunzhou City battle report.

He opened the envelope, took out the paper inside, unfolded it for a look, and put it on the table.

Ye Mao lowered his head and said, "General, what's going on in Yunzhou City?"