Since Ye Sheng destroyed the country, the war god of Great Jin has never been able to leave the capital for a second. After that, the Ye family fell into an embarrassing situation of being incompatible with each other. Later, the eldest son of the Ye family stepped forward and allowed the Ye family to regain their position in the military.

He was a middle-aged man in his thirties back then, and now he is an old man who has passed his destiny.

The father and son met again, and they sighed deeply.

Ye Sheng pulled his eldest son and sat down, sighed: "It's hard for you all these years."

In just a few words, General Ye’s eyes turned red and he lowered his head and said, “Compared to his father, his son does very little.”

Seeing this, Li Xin retreated sensibly and let the father and son speak.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the yard, Li Xin saw the young master Ye Mao waiting at the entrance of the yard.

Li Xin smiled: "Young master, come in quickly, the old man is calling you."

Ye Mao quickly lowered his head and responded.

"Hey, I'll go in now."

Li Xin put his hands in his sleeves and waited for a while at the gate of the yard. Not long after, the young master ran out in shame, with a clear footprint on his butt.

Then he looked up and looked at Li Xin resentfully.

"Uncle Master, I won't take you like this..."

Li Xin smiled and pulled the young master's sleeve, found a place to sit down in Duke Chen's mansion, and then said, "Young Master, do you understand the military books and battle formation?"

"This is homeschool, so I naturally understand it."

Li Xin nodded: "That's good."

Ye Mao scratched his head: "How can uncle hide his head and tail when he speaks..."

Li Xin glanced at him and showed a strange smile.

"My husband, you may be scolded by many people in the future."

"Why?"

Ye Mao didn't understand a little.

Li Xin smiled mysteriously: "You will know in the future."

It is worth mentioning that in the near future, Li Xin's words come true. The young master Ye Mao became the worst-known Duke of Chen in the history of the Ye family, and was scolded by Shi Lin for more than a hundred years.

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Half an hour later, General Ye Ming opened the yard gate and saw Li Xin and Ye Mao waiting at the yard gate. He smiled: "I haven't seen my father for a long time, so I've been waiting for a junior brother for a long time. Come in and have a meal together."

On the surface, Li Xin is an apprentice of the Ye family and is barely considered a member of the Ye family. However, in fact, Li Xin and the Ye family have a cooperative relationship with their allies, so Ye Shaobao is very polite to Li Xin.

Ye Mao asked hesitantly: "Father, where is me?"

General Ye glanced at his son and waved, "You go and urge the food and pour wine later."

The young master lowered his head again, his heart full of resentment.

I, Ye Mao, don’t deserve a name?

In fact, it's really not worthy.

There is no need to say more about the three people in the yard, Ye Sheng, the old man Ye, the general of the yard. Ye Ming was originally a second-rank general. After being named Shaobao, he was a first-rank general. Li Xin is now also a second-rank imperial guard general. The three people in this inconspicuous small courtyard are the three of the top ten people in the Jin army. Ye Mao is naturally not qualified to attend the meeting.

In the small yard, three people sat down accordingly.

Because he was not very familiar with Ye Ming, Li Xin restrained himself a little and held the disciple's gift in a regular manner, pouring wine for Old Man Ye and Ye Ming.

General Ye stood up, acted to take the wine pot from Li Xin's hand, and said with a smile: "This is the Ye family, my junior brother and the guest, no guest can pour wine for the host, I'll do you come and I'll do it."

"Senior brother is wrong."

Li Xin poured wine and said, "Master Ye is my mentor, and I am also half of the Ye family. To be honest, the number of times I have entered and left the Ye family over the past year is almost the same as the number of times I have returned to my own family. Where can I distinguish between a host and a guest?"

Ye Ming sat down helplessly.

"I heard from my father just now that my junior brother is unparalleled in eloquence and is indeed very powerful."

Li Xin finished pouring the wine and sat down.

"If you have the right to take the blame, you will naturally speak louder."

Ye Sheng was not as hypocritical as these two people. The old man raised his head and drank a drink, cursing and said, "This kid is usually a big or a small person here. Now that you come back, he has become a rule."

Li Xin looked embarrassed: "What are you talking about by Master Ye? Don't you respect you very much on weekdays?"

Ye Ming laughed.

Overall, the atmosphere between the three of them was pretty good for this meal.

Since the birth of wine, the descendants of Zhuxia have born a long-standing tradition, which is to talk about things at the wine table.

After the three of them took turns to drink, Li Xin respected Ye Ming with a cup and asked with a smile: "Senior brother came to the palace to meet the saint, what did Your Majesty say to the senior brother?"

Ye Ming hesitated for a moment and glanced at his father.

Ye Sheng drank a drink by himself.

"Say whatever you have, Chang'an is his own person.

Old man Ye put down his wine glass and said slowly.

"If it weren't for Chang'an, the fourth brother could not leave the capital, and you wouldn't be back to the capital. In a few years, if you retreat, the Ye family would be defeated."

Old Man Ye said very alone: ​​"Just treat him as the old fifth in the Ye family."

Li Xin took a deep breath and his tone became solemn.

"Master Ye is serious. It's not the Ye family, and the disciples are not as rich as they are now."

After Old Man Ye’s words, Ye Ming’s eyes at Li Xin were very different.

He whispered to Gene: "Your Majesty said, let me rest at home for a while first and see the situation. If there is a change in southern Xinjiang, then I will be the head coach of the Nannan."

Li Xin nodded and said, "It's very similar to what I and Master Ye predicted before."

Ye Ming frowned and said, "What I haven't figured out yet is what happened in the Pingnan Marquis Mansion this year? How could Li Shen's temperament suddenly force himself into this situation?"

The father and son were talking just now, and they had only time to talk about the specific situation of the mutiny last year, and they had not had time to talk about the Pingnan Marquis Mansion.

Old Man Ye stroked his beard and smiled: "Since Li Zhijie's land cedes autonomy, conflicts have been inevitable. Now it has only been a few years in advance. There is nothing strange about it. What we need to talk about now is how to fight this war well."

Li Xin took a sip of wine and said slowly: "When my disciple was in Yongzhou, he received a message."

"For more than 30 years, southern Xinjiang has been recruiting new soldiers and then releasing veterans, and it is estimated that no less than 300,000 soldiers to fight."

Ye Ming smiled: "Don't worry about this. They may have someone, but they will definitely not have more than 300,000 sets of weapons and armor. Even the imperial court's army that raised more than 300,000 people would be a little difficult, let alone a Shu County?"

"There was no more than 100,000 people in the country in Nanshu at that time."

Li Xin nodded.

This is true.

The large army is a bottomless pit, a monster that eats everything. Only the state machinery can raise such monsters. Generally speaking, even a unified dynasty has a permanent army of about 500,000.

The Zhenbei Army at Jimen Pass and the Zhong Family Army in Yunzhou are all in a scale of 100,000 people.

In ancient times, wars of millions of people were impossible.

As long as the forces of both sides are combined exceeding 10,000, it will be a particularly large-scale war.

"The problem now is to depose the prince."

Li Xin's face was solemn.
Chapter completed!