Before the rise of the two families of the Marquis of Pingnan and Duke Chen, the Zhong family was the most dazzling general in the Jin Dynasty and the only general who trusted the royal family for more than 100 years. In the past 100 years, the Zhong family and the Ji family worked together to overcome many difficulties. During this period, the Northern Zhou Dynasty went south several times, and the Zong family led their troops to block the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Li Xin has always had a good impression of the Zong family because he had made a little good relationship with the veteran general of the Zong family, Zong family, and the eldest grandson of the Zong family, Zhongheng, who gave Li Xin a very good impression.

But the current behavior of Zhong Family Army really annoyed Li Xin.

At first, Li Xin asked Yunzhou City for help several times, but the Zhong family army was still indifferent. From beginning to end, there was no soldier and soldier coming out of the pass to meet Li Xin. It was fine. Finally, Li Xin returned from outside the pass, but the people of the Zhong family army treated them as enemies.

Li Xin almost used all his strength to fight hard. Zhong Wu lay on the ground, bowed his body, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat. He took a long time to recover before he recovered. After he got better, the eldest son of the Zong family barely got up from the ground, covering his abdomen with one hand and waved at the tension-stricken Zong family army around him with the other, and said barely: "Everything... retreat."

The Zhong family army, who was guarding him, immediately lowered his head when he heard this, and after putting his knife in the sheath, he stood behind Zhong Wu.

Zhong Wu was still very uncomfortable. He covered his stomach, looked up at Li Xin, and smiled bitterly: "If the Zhong family intentionally made things difficult for the Taifu, they would not have lent all the horses from Yunzhou City to the Taifu at the beginning. But in the capital... they already knew the news that the Taifu had left the customs, and they specially issued an edict to ask Yunzhou City to be careful... This cavalry that went out of the customs..."

Zhong Wu did not say all, but the meaning in the words was already very obvious. The court was afraid that after Li Xin left the customs, he would collude with the Xianbei people to break Yunzhou City and completely eliminate the defense force of the Jin Dynasty in the northern border, so he made Yunzhou City be careful.

Marquis Jing'an put his hands in his sleeves and looked at Zhong Wu with expressionless face: "The people who came out of seclusion with me are all imperial guards in the capital, and the uncle Xie Dai was following along the way. It is logical that Xie Dai would explain clearly to the court wherever we go and what we do."

"Please explain clearly how we collude with the Xianbei people?"

Zhong Wu was speechless.

His abdomen was no longer so painful. After he was silent for a while, he spoke: "Tao Fu, the Zong family is also on orders. The subordinate officials have sent scouts to investigate. If there are no Xianbei people following the more than 10,000 imperial guards outside the city, they can enter the city after removing their armor and knives. What to do at that time is the matter of the capital and has nothing to do with my Zong family."

Speaking of this, Zhong Wu looked up at Li Xin, lowered his head apologetically and said, "The Grand Tutor has made great achievements over the years. The Zong family has always respected the Grand Tutor very much and dared not make things difficult for the Grand Tutor."

"We were waiting outside the pass for several months, killing thousands of enemies, seizing thousands of war horses, and breaking the Xianbei tribes into pieces. No matter what, it can be considered a great victory."

Speaking of this, Marquis Jing'an sneered.

"I have been an official for more than ten years. This is the first time I heard that the triumphant soldiers have to disarm first when they enter their own city!"

After saying this, Li Xin took another look at Zhong Wu.

"In addition, will General Zhong also catch me and escort me to the capital?"

"Don't dare."

Zhong Wu was said by Li Xin, his face turned a little red. He lowered his head and said, "The Zhong family is just acting in accordance with the imperial edict. It is definitely not about treating the Taifu. The court only said that the Zhong family was careful of the cavalry outside the pass, and never said that they would treat the Taifu."

"Please understand the official..."

Li Xin looked at Zhong Wu with an expressionless face, then a sneer appeared on his face.

"I couldn't understand why my mentor made great contributions to the sky, but was unable to move in the capital outside the pass for decades. The family did nothing, but he could still firmly sit in the position of the No. 1 general of the Great Jin Dynasty. I finally figured out this matter now."

"It turns out that it is the world that cannot accommodate people who do things."

After saying this, Li Xin ignored Zhong Wu and left. Before leaving, he said lightly.

"I took the people outside the pass, and they were all outside the city at this time. General Zhong went to tell them himself. If they agreed to remove armor and remove swords, you would let them enter the pass. If they disagree, General Zhong would kill him with one knife."

To be honest, Li Xin only took these imperial guards for a few months, and his relationship was not very deep. The life and death of these imperial guards basically had nothing to do with him. To put it bluntly, even if these people died, it would be the loss of the imperial guards in the capital, and the losses of the imperial guards in the imperial guards in the capital were basically nothing to do with him.

The reason why he was so angry was that he just wanted to fight for a breath.

Zhong Wu looked at Li Xin's back, sighed slightly, and then bowed to the direction where Li Xin was leaving.

"Marty Li could have become the second Marshal Ye..."

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Li Xin and others arrived at Yunzhou City in the afternoon. After Li Xin negotiated with Zhong Wu, Zhong Wu went out of the city gate to discuss with Ye Mao. Then the imperial guards slowly began to unload their armor and disarm. By the evening, they had already started to enter the city in batches.

Ye Mao was full of resentment. In front of Zhong Wu, he took off his armor and threw it on Zhong Wu's face. Even the spear passed down from the Ye family's ancestral family was thrown in front of Zhong Wu by him, and then angrily entered Yunzhou City.

Zhong Wu sighed and ordered his subordinates to properly preserve Ye Mao's armor and weapons, and began to welcome the imperial guards into the city in batches.

After entering Yunzhou City, Ye Mao asked a few people and found Li Xin in the inn in Yunzhou City. At this moment, Li Xin was discussing things with Shen Gang. When he saw Ye Mao coming over, Li Xin smiled at him: "It's rare that you, Duke Ye, have also unarmed and entered the city."

This sentence was originally a joke, but Ye Mao was even more angry when he heard it. He sat down and gritted his teeth.

"Damn it, so frustrating!"

"We took such a big risk outside the pass and finally accomplished some things. When we come back now, we still have to be furious from their families!"

Li Xin punched Zhong Wu, and his anger was already relieved a lot at this moment. He patted Ye Mao on the shoulder and said slowly: "I was very angry just now. I beat Zhong Wu, but then I thought about it carefully."

Speaking of this, Li Xin looked at Ye Mao and sighed slightly: "What is our current situation similar to Master Ye back then?"

"Master Ye was probably even more depressed than we are now."

Li Xin and others just came out of seclusion to do some sow discord and killed thousands of Xianbei people. Ye Sheng, with 200,000 imperial guards, spent eight years to break through the most powerful country in the north!

This is a real contribution to the destruction of the country.

However, in the end, Ye Sheng gained reputation but did not get any benefits. After returning to Beijing, he was confiscated his military power and arranged to serve in the Grand Governor's Office. In fact, he was under house arrest at home. He had not left the capital for decades, and he had not even returned to Ningling's hometown.

The soldiers who followed him to the north were more or less suppressed by the court after returning to the capital, and their careers were quite unsuccessful.

At that time, Old Man Ye was probably extremely distressed.

But he still endured it for more than 40 years.

Li Xin did not have the restraint of Old Man Ye, so he could not be the second Ye Sheng.

After hearing Li Xin's words, Ye Mao fell into silence and did not speak for a long time.

The room was quiet for a while.

"I'm leaving."

After a moment of silence, Li Xin patted Ye Mao's shoulder again and said with a smile: "This time it will be like this. Eighty or ninety-mostly because of me, I can't stay in the imperial court anymore. When it gets dark for a while, I will set off and go back to the southwest."

"When all the imperial guards enter the pass, you can take them back to Yancheng and recruit Zhenbei troops in Yancheng, and then see how the court reacts."

Ye Mao slowly breathed out and looked up at Li Xin.

"Uncle Master, why don't I go to the southwest with you."

"What should you do if your wife and children in Beijing?"

Li Xin sighed and patted his shoulder.

"There was a problem with the Xianbei tribes, and Yuwen Zhao would not occupy Jizhou for long. You can take back Jizhou and gain a foothold in the northern border again. Only with military power can you speak have a voice."

"If the imperial court has an edict coming, you pretend that you didn't see it. If it really doesn't work, you go to the southwest."

Li Xin said quietly.

"In theory, as long as you recruit soldiers quickly enough, the court will not do anything to you. They don't have much spare time."

Ye Mao smiled bitterly at Li Xin: "Uncle Master will go back to the southwest this time... he will officially raise an army?"

Li Xin did not give a positive answer, but said lightly.
Chapter completed!