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"Until today, neither Chen nor Hanzhou have contacted the Pingnan Army scattered throughout the southwest. It is too chilling for His Majesty to say so."

The emperor didn't say a word, but the expression on his face was obvious. He didn't believe a word of Li Xin's words.

"You just said that the condition is that I will do it to anyone who can agree to you."

Li Xin sighed slightly, and said: "When His Majesty recruited An Muying back then, it was at most a third-rank official. Now that His Majesty wants to settle down in the Southwest, I am afraid that he will give a different surname to the King of Shu."

"King of Shu?"

The emperor's face was gloomy, and he said angrily, "Give it to Muying?"

The Ji family of the Great Jin Dynasty has always been quite stingy with titles. Take Li Xin as an example. He has made so many contributions, and he is only the Marquis of Jing'an until now. Old man Ye Cheng is the only one in the past century of the Great Jin Dynasty. He has a different surname.

There has never been a precedent for a king with a different surname.

"Of course not to Mu Ying."

Li Xin looked calm, and said: "As far as I know, this time Mu Ying and others set up a flag to rebel, and they set up the banner of Cheng Han, that is, the Southern Shu Kingdom. Lord, Your Majesty bestows on this Lord the King of Shu, and if the Southwest accepts it, it will be regarded as a successful recruitment."

The emperor's face was ugly.

"Since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, there has never been a king with a different surname..."

Chapter 779 I Have Difficulties Too

"But now there is."

Li Xin looked calm, and said indifferently: "If Your Majesty is not willing to let a king with a different surname go out, then Mu Ying and others will stand on their own. When the Southwest establishes a country, Your Majesty, as the co-lord of the world, will fight or not?"

"Since ancient times, Zhu Xia has had the rule of supporting the ancestral temple. Your Majesty is willing to go out with a king with a different surname at this time, and still have the reputation of a benevolent monarch who will continue to rise and fall. Once the southwest is established, your majesty will be dragged into this quagmire and never move again. No, by then not only will the matter of the Northern Expedition to the Yuwen Department be lost, but the Taikang Dynasty of His Majesty will probably all be dragged into the quagmire in the southwest, unable to move."

The emperor's face was very ugly.

"But... you can obviously make them stop!"

Li Xin looked at the emperor indifferently.

"Your Majesty, five years ago, it was indeed the mediation by the ministers. At that time, the forbidden army brought the power to destroy the Pingnan army, and the survivors of Nanshu had agreed to be naturalized into the Jin Dynasty. In the past five years, Hanzhou has never had any place to offend the court. , even taxation did not lose a single grain of the imperial court."

"If this continues, at most two to thirty years, that is, a generation of work, they will truly become the people of the Jin Dynasty and become naturalized into the Jin Dynasty, so that Nanshu will completely cease to exist."

Having said that, Li Xin looked up at the emperor with a calm expression.

"But at this time, the imperial court suddenly sent troops to surround Hanzhou, beat up 1 of them, and even burned down many villages in Hanzhou Prefecture."

"Five years ago, the minister was able to persuade them, but after the court's actions, does your Majesty think that the minister can still persuade them?"

"They originally thought that the imperial court would really agree with them. How could these people believe in me, Dajin, after General Pei won the battle?"

"At this time, anyone who goes to the southwest to bring them back to the way they were before, they are unlikely to agree."

Li Xin took a deep breath and continued: "At this moment, it is no longer a matter that can be solved as a citizen of the Great Jin Dynasty. If His Majesty does not spend money, they will not stop. It doesn't matter if His Majesty doesn't want to give it to the King of Shu. There are still more than 30 forbidden troops in Gyeonggi, whether they are from the Zhong family or the Xie family, His Majesty will appoint one to lead the right or left battalion of the forbidden army to march west again. I think it will only take two or three years, and the southwest will be pacified. "

If the Son of Heaven had "Tianlei" in his hand at this time, he would agree to Li Xin's words without hesitation, and send people from the Zhong family, or directly send Hou Jingde to go west again, but right now he doesn't know what the "Tianlei" is. To what extent.

Losing a Southwest is at most a shame, not to the point of being seriously injured. After all, the Southwest was not in the hands of the court 30 years ago from Emperor Wu to Emperor Chengde. Dragging in the quagmire in the southwest, then it is not as simple as a serious injury...

But to shake the country!

The emperor frowned.

After the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, it was a small and peaceful country. It was not until Emperor Wu's time that he counterattacked in one fell swoop and succeeded in unifying it. Then the Holy Emperor came to the court, and the national power became stronger and stronger. When it was passed to him, this was a dynasty in its heyday. It is impossible for him to let this prosperous dynasty go to the point of shaking the country in his own hands!

For a southwest, it is not worth it.

The emperor frowned and thought for a long time, and finally closed his eyes slowly.

"I agree with the conditions you said."

The emperor was expressionless, and said slowly: "But Muying's behavior in the southwest must be stopped immediately, and the so-called Lord of Southern Shu will also come to the capital to kowtow to me as a minister, so that I can bestow him the king of Shu. "

"From now on, in the southwest, except for Hanzhou, other places still have to pay taxes to the imperial court. Hanzhou is considered to be the fiefdom I gave to the King of Shu."

In the final analysis, this time it was the emperor who wanted to pull out the wings of the Marquis of Jing'an, but finally found that these wings were made of iron.

What he pays now is the blood shed.

Li Xin looked calm.

"Your Majesty is so enlightened, I admire you very much."

The emperor looked at Li Xin angrily: "Can you write letters with Mu Ying now?"

Li Xin shook his head.

"Your Majesty misunderstood. I have never been able to control Muying. This time he caused chaos, and it was not my intention. Now His Majesty has set out his own conditions. You can send someone to the southwest with the imperial decree to recruit the Hanzhou Army. It doesn't matter."

He took a deep breath and said, "I served as a guarantor five years ago, but His Majesty blatantly violated the contract. Now I have lost my credibility in front of the people of Hanzhou. It is not easy to intervene."

The emperor almost slapped the table.

His voice was furious.

"Li Chang'an, I have already given in. If the rebels in the southwest don't know what to do, then I will immediately send the imperial army to the southwest to suppress the rebellion. I will do a great job to the Yuwen tribes in the north. I will stop fighting!"

Li Xin got up and bowed deeply to the emperor.

"If your majesty trusts me, I can be bold again and go to the southwest on behalf of the court, and have a good talk with Mu Ying and others."

Having said that, he paused.

"It's just that I can't guarantee whether it will be successful or not."

"You can't leave Beijing."

The emperor's words were firm, and there was no room for negotiation.

Of course Li Xin can't go out of Beijing. Now the Pingnan Army in the southwest has rebelled. If Li Xin goes to the southwest again and contacts the former Pingnan Army, his wife and children are not in the capital, so he can raise the flag to rebel at any time.

A Mu Ying raised a flag in the southwest to rebel, which has already caused the emperor quite a headache. If Li Xin went to the southwest to become a rebel, I am afraid that the emperor will not be able to sleep for the rest of his life!

In a short period of time, it is impossible for the emperor to let Li Xin out of Beijing.

Lord Jing'an took a deep breath, and said: "Everything is under His Majesty's arrangement, and I will leave first."

The emperor was silent for a while, then spoke slowly.

"I won't kill you, just take Xiao Jiu and my nieces and nieces back. No matter how cold-blooded I am, I will never kill my relatives, let alone use them to threaten you."