Unparalleled Concubine

"fragrant."

At this time, the little eunuch stared at the smiling Uncle Li in front of him, and was stunned for a while.

During these years of contact, it was Li Xin who taught him and led him. Before he knew it, he subconsciously regarded Li Xin as an elder. Seeing Li Xin like this, he suddenly realized that his uncle was a A young man who is a few years younger than himself.

With a wide palm in his hand, he took the fried rice handed over by Li Xin, raised his head and stuffed it into his mouth. After chewing a few mouthfuls, his tongue became fragrant immediately.

Because there was food in his mouth, the little father-in-law's speech was a little slurred.

"A few years ago, I knew that my uncle was good at food, but I thought my uncle was no longer good at it these few years."

Lord Jing'an reached out and grabbed a few handfuls of fried rice, put them into a small cloth bag, stuffed them into Ye Mao's arms, and said with a smile: "Take it home and eat it, don't let others see it, or they will know that we eat small stoves." gone."

Ye Mao nodded, raised his head and asked Li Xin: "Uncle Master, in fact, we can enter Jizhou City today, and the generals of the Northern Army will have to welcome us when we enter the town, and then we can have a good meal. Why do you have to wait another day?"

Li Xin was stuffing fried rice into Zhao Fang's pocket at the moment, after hearing Ye Mao's words, he smiled slightly: "It's unlucky to go to the city at night, we have to go to the city early in the morning, so that we can look dignified."

The little father-in-law stuffed another handful of fried rice into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Uncle Master always treats me as a fool, it must not be because of this reason."

After Li Xin finished his busy work, he sat back on his main seat and said with a smile: "A few days ago, I sent a letter to Yunzhou City, and now the reply from there should be back."

"I'll wait here for a day, and wait for the reply from Yunzhou City to arrive before entering the city."

Lord Jing'an's voice was calm.

"Besides, it may not be a good thing to enter Jizhou City early. If we enter the city earlier, the imperial court will force us to send troops earlier. It is still unclear what is going on with the Yuwen tribes. It will be a day if it can be delayed."

With that said, Li Xin looked up at Ye Mao.

"Do you recognize the people in the Zhenbei Army who can talk?"

"I don't know."

Ye Mao shook his head again and again: "It's also my first time to come to Jizhou City, how could I recognize him, but during the last western expedition, there were several generals in the Zhenbei Army who followed his father to the west expedition, I do recognize them."

"As for the others, they just know a name and have never met."

Chapter 726: Zhong Xuantong's Reply

About half a month ago, Li Xin sent someone to Yunzhou City and sent a letter to Zhong Xuantong. The content of the letter was also very simple. What do you want Yunzhou City to do.

After all, there are a total of four tribes in the Yuwen tribes in the north. Together, these four tribes can gather at least [-] strong, that is, a total of [-] cavalry.

Of course, the Yuwen tribes have declined in the past few decades. Some of them may have horses, but they don't have good armor, and most of their bows and crossbows are self-made, and their combat effectiveness is much inferior to that of the Northern Zhou cavalry.

Otherwise, if it was the [-] Northern Zhou cavalry in the past, then the two armies of Yunzhou and Jizhou, not to mention conquering the Yuwen tribes, would be commendable if they could hold the border towns.

It is impossible for Li Xin's Zhenbei army to fight with these one hundred thousand men. At least Yunzhou City must eliminate the Qigui tribe, otherwise, no matter how brave the Zhenbei army is, it is impossible to fight with one enemy and three.

At the end of the letter, Li Xin made a special mention to the handsome Zhong from the Zhong family.

That is, no matter what orders the imperial court has, Yunzhou City can no longer fight for the time being. If the Qigui Department is gone, the other three departments will definitely unite, and it will be very difficult to attack the north.

For Li Xin, the attitude of the Zhong family is very important. If the attitude of the Zhong family is firmly towards the court and does not cooperate with Jimenguan, then Li Xin is not prepared to really fight with the Yuwen tribes. He just spent a few years in Jizhou City, and returned to the capital to do business.

If Zhongjia is willing to cooperate with him, then things in the north will have a lot to do.

However, the two major frontier armies in the north of the Great Jin Dynasty have contacts with each other, which is a taboo thing. Therefore, Li Xin can only send his own people in the dark to deliver the letter to the Chong family, instead of using the post road of the imperial court, let alone Li Xin. The forbidden army with the letter.

That night, when Li Xin was sleeping in the handsome tent, a general from Jing'an Hou's residence walked to the door of the handsome tent and lowered his voice: "Master, Shen Gang is here."

Li Xin, who had been sleeping relatively lightly, immediately woke up from his sleep. He sat up from the bed in his unlined clothes, and said in a deep voice, "Let him in."

Not long after, a man wearing the clothes of the Jing'an Hou's family came in with his head bowed, half-kneeling in front of Li Xin, took out a letter from his sleeve, and said in a deep voice: "Master Hou, this is a kind of general reply."

Li Xin took the letter and looked up at Shen Gang.

"How many people did you bring out of Beijing with me?"

When Li Xin left the capital, he brought a thousand Imperial Guards and fifty family generals with him on the surface, but secretly a group of people left the capital with him. These people were led by Shen Gang and hidden in the dark by Li Xin. The "hand" of

From the third year of Taikang to the eighth year of Taikang, Li Xin put most of his energy on this hand in the dark. In just five years, this hand has grown from four or five people to hundreds of people. Most of these people are hiding in the dark places of the capital, another part is in the southwest, and some are in Li Xin's hometown of Yongzhou.

This hand was very thick and strong by Li Xin.

This time when Li Xin went out of Beijing, he brought Shen Gang out of the capital for convenience. As for how many people Shen Gang brought out, Li Xin did not ask.

Shen Gang lowered his head, and said in a deep voice: "Go back to Lord Hou, a total of 170 people have left Beijing with the humble staff."

He was Li Xin's subordinate in Habayashi Guardi back then, and to this day, he still calls himself a "humble job".

Li Xin nodded.

170 people, about half of the manpower in the capital, Shen Gang has done a lot of things in the dark these years, and the sense of proportion is also in line with Li Xin's mind.

"How many are there in Jizhou now?"

These people are no worse than Li Xin's brigade. They are all lightly dressed and most of them have horses. Naturally, they can arrive at Jizhou City before Li Xin. In fact, as early as a month ago, there were already many people in Jing'an Hou Mansion. Lurking in the city of Jizhou.

"Returning to Lord Hou, there are more than 100 in Jizhou City, and some are scattered around Yunzhou City according to Lord Hou's order. If there is any disturbance over there, Lord Hou will be notified immediately."

Li Xin nodded.

"You've done a good job. You've worked hard all the way. Let's go down and have a rest. We'll talk about it when we enter Jizhou City."

Shen Gang bowed his head deeply.

"Retire from humble office."

When Li Xin entered the Yulin Guard, it was Shen Gang who spoke out to provoke the inner guard, so that the two guards fought at the gate of Yong'an Gate. Li Xin took up this responsibility by himself. From that time on, Shen Gang followed It has been ten years since Li Xin passed away.

He became Li Xin's secret "backhand".

After Shen Gang retreated, Li Xin opened the reply letter sent by Zhong Xuantong, and after carefully reading it several times under the flickering oil lamp, his expression became a little complicated.

Zhong Xuantong's reply was very simple, to the effect that Yunzhou City was safe and sound, as to whether there would be any next move in Yunzhou City, it would depend on the arrangement of the imperial court.

That is to say, if the imperial court makes the Zhong family fight against the Yuwen tribes again, the Zhong family will probably still join.

Lord Jing'an frowned deeply.

But as he looked down, he saw the last line at the end of the letter.

"The Zhong family has been loyal for generations, but the imperial court has edicts, and they all order and prohibit them. They have never been rebellious. Now that a strong enemy is on the side, as long as the imperial court gives an order, the Yunzhou army will have nothing but life!"

This sentence is very official, so official that even if this letter is handed to the emperor's desk by Li Xin, there will be no problem. It is indeed the style of the overly cautious patriarch of the family.

But this sentence also has another meaning, that is, the Yunzhou Army can't bear the strong combat power of Yuwen's various tribes. If they continue to fight, they will only "life".