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He turned around and ran all the way into Weiyang Palace.

Li Xin, on the other hand, was waiting under the steps of Weiyang Palace. He looked up at this familiar yet unfamiliar palace, feeling rather complicated.

After a while, Xiao Huai ran back, panting slightly.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has called you in."

Only then did Li Xin step up the stairs, and under the leadership of Xiao Huai, he quickly entered a side hall of Weiyang Palace. In the side hall, the emperor in purple casual clothes was writing something on the desk.

Li Xin stepped up and knelt down to salute.

"Your Majesty, Li Xin, kowtow to Your Majesty."

The emperor put down the brush in his hand, looked up at Li Xin, and took a deep breath.

"Mu Ying did not negotiate with the envoys I sent in the past."

There was a hint of anger in the voice of the Son of Heaven.

"Ten days ago, they captured the Jiange!"

Chapter 791 Please Your Majesty Believe Me

It was a matter that Li Xin and Zhao Jia had discussed beforehand that the Hanzhou Army took the Southwest. Therefore, after hearing what the Son of Heaven said, he was not surprised, but said calmly: "Your Majesty, you will send another party to deal with the Southwest. It has nothing to do with the ministers, and since the Hanzhou army is rebelling, it will be a matter of time before they attack the Jiange, and the court should have taken precautions."

The emperor gritted his teeth.

"But I have already agreed to your request!"

"Xie Jing, he went to the southwest with the imperial edict to seal the king of Shu, but Mu Ying and the others avoided him and continued to wage war in the southwest!"

Originally, it was most appropriate for Li Xin to go to the southwest to deal with this matter, but the emperor was worried about letting Li Xin go out of Beijing, so he could only appoint someone who was close to him, so that general Qianniu Zhonglang, Empress Xie's younger brother Xie Respect, I just took over this errand and led a battalion of captains from Qianniuwei to the southwest.

But obviously, neither Zhao Jia nor Mu Ying will buy Xie Jing's account. The empress's reputation is popular in the capital, but it is useless in the southwest, so the uncle Guo was put on hold in Jincheng for a long time. For a month, it was not until Jiange was brought down by Mu Ying that the Southwest side proposed to negotiate with the imperial court.

Li Xin took a deep breath and said: "Your Majesty, I have friendship with Mu Ying, but friendship is not worth living. I can't control what he is doing in the southwest at this time."

"You can't control it?"

The Son of Heaven sneered and said, "The magistrate of Liyang, Zhao Jia, who you took the initiative to ask me for an official position, resigned from office a few days ago, and left Liyang in a grand manner, heading southwest!"

"As far as I know, after this Zhao Jia went to the southwest, he entered the official office of Jincheng and became the prefect of Jincheng Mansion!"

When Li Xin sent someone to escort Zhao Jia out of the capital, it alarmed the court, not only the court, but even Shen Gang's subordinates clashed with the court, causing many casualties.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven would naturally know the news of Zhao Jia leaving the capital, but for the past month, the Son of Heaven has been holding back and did not mention this matter to Li Xin.

As for the news from Jincheng, it is even simpler. Even Li Xin can secretly cultivate an intelligence organization, let alone the royal family. What's more, Jincheng is an important place in the southwest. People from the imperial court have always provided information to the imperial court in the city.

Li Xin was silent for a while, then suddenly took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, may I stand up and speak?"

Usually, when Li Xin enters the palace, he usually does not need to kneel down to salute, but recently the relationship between the two of them has deteriorated, and Li Xin will kneel down in a proper manner when entering the palace. But this time, the emperor kept talking to him, so Li Xin could only kneel like this.

He was not used to kneeling and talking like this.

The emperor snorted: "You just get up."

Li Xin stood up from the ground, stretched out his hands and rubbed his swollen knees, then looked up at the Son of Heaven, and said slowly, "Your Majesty, if things continue to escalate like this, it will be of no benefit to anyone."

After Li Xin paused, he continued: "Your Majesty should understand this minister. I am not the kind of ambitious person, and I have never thought of becoming an emperor. Now that the chaos in the Southwest cannot be resolved by itself, I can go out of Beijing." A trip to help His Majesty quell the chaos in the Southwest."

A disdainful smile appeared on the emperor's face.

Li Xin turned a blind eye and continued: "There will be a king of Shu in the southwest, but he will still pay tribute to the court and be a minister to the court. The rise and fall are the actions of benevolent monarchs in ancient times. Your majesty will help you to restore the country. In future history books, your majesty can be with you The ancient benevolent kings are tied together."

The emperor glanced at Li Xin expressionlessly.

"In the past five or six years, you have lied to me countless times, why should I trust you?"

Li Xin lowered his head slightly.

"Your Majesty, I have never deliberately deceived Your Majesty. What happened today, if not for Pei Jin's expedition to the southwest, would not have led to such a mess."

"I was in Jizhou City last year, and I have already made a plan. If there is nothing wrong with the southwest, I am still in Jibei. The plan has already started to be implemented. Within a few months, there will only be two remaining departments of Yuwen. I can no longer afford to go south, and when the time comes, the Southwest of the Great Jin Dynasty will be stable, the northern border will be firm, Your Majesty will sit firmly on the throne, and I will be able to be my Lord Taiping with peace of mind in the capital."

The emperor was expressionless.

"You mean, it's all because of my stupidity that I'm in today's predicament?"

Li Xin shook his head, knelt on the ground again, and bowed his head deeply.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to intervene in this matter. The southwest will still be the southwest of the Great Jin Dynasty. Just pretend that nothing happened. Just pretend that General Pei never left the capital."

The emperor said coldly: "You mean, Hanzhou Muying can return to Jincheng, return to Jiange, continue to retreat to Hanzhou city, and become a minister to my Dajin?"

To be honest, the Son of Heaven also regretted letting Pei Jin go west at this time, but as the supreme being in the world, the Son of Heaven could not admit that he was wrong, so he could only stand in a stalemate.

But if the situation in the Southwest can return to the way it was before, as Li Xin said, the emperor is still happy to see it.

Li Xin shook his head.

"I have already said that there will be a king of Shu in the southwest. Now that the Hanzhou army has captured Jincheng and Jiange, the southwest is basically separated. If you want them to spit it out for no reason, no one can do it. arrive."

Lord Jing'an said in a deep voice, "I can't do it, and neither can Mu Ying."

Li Xin's words are true. A group's will is often not changed by the leader, but will influence the leader. The Hanzhou Army is not monolithic. They only laid down Jincheng and Jiange after they died. Li Xin, even if Mu Ying asked them to return to Hanzhou again, it would probably cause dissatisfaction.

"There will be a nominal Cheng Han in the southwest, a Cheng Han who will be a vassal to the Great Jin."

The emperor looked at Li Xin angrily.

"Emperor Wu overcame obstacles and conquered the north and south for eight years before he unified the world. Do you want me to split off the land that Emperor Wu brought down?"

Lord Jing'an lowered his head and said, "Then His Majesty has no choice but to order General Pei to march west with the imperial army."

The Son of Heaven sat on the throne with an extremely ugly expression on his face.

"I... will never trust you again."

He gritted his teeth and said, "You can go to the southwest, but Xiaojiu and the others must go back to Yonglefang, to Jing'an Hou's Mansion, otherwise you have no restraint, and I can't let you go out of Beijing like this!"

Li Xin shook his head slightly.

"Your Majesty, as a king, you shouldn't use other people's wives as a threat, it's too disrespectful."

The emperor snorted and said: "I will not harm my sister and nephew, let them stay in the capital, and you will come back to the capital."

Lord Jing'an stood up straight in the hall, bowed his head and cupped his hands towards the emperor, and sighed deeply.