Chapter 19 Li Changan, Minister of War
The Ye family is in the capital and has always been a legendary family. Since the old man Ye Sheng started to establish a gate in the capital. With the contribution of destroying the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he became the most powerful general in the Great Jin Dynasty, but he must be the most dazzling general in the world.
Of course, this kind of dazzlingness comes at no cost. When he was conquering the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Ye Sheng's troops also suffered heavy casualties, and the second and third brothers of the Ye family were gone at that time.
At that time, Old Man Ye was only in his early forties, the second, third, one was eighteen and the other was sixteen. They all died on the battlefield and did not even have any descendants left.
At that time, the youngest young master Ye Si was not long after he was born.
Because of this, when Ye Lin was remembering, the Ye family had such a huge family business. Therefore, when Young Master Ye was young, he was a bit of a bastard. He had mostly done what the yamen in the capital could do.
The old man Ye Sheng didn't know whether it was out of revenge for the court or apologizing to the other two sons, but he always maintained a condonese attitude towards the youngest son. This led to Ye Lin's reputation in the capital was not very good. He did not work in the court until he was almost thirty. When he was in his thirties, he was arranged by Emperor Chengde in the Yulin Guard and became the General of the Yulin Guard at that time.
Li Xin had experienced all the things that happened later.
This young master Ye is considered a prodigal son. After the Renchen Palace changes, he was named Marquis of Ningling and takes the initiative to leave the capital to share the pressure of his elder brother in the north. This time, eight years have passed. The fourth master of the Ye family, who was in his early thirties, has now become a middle-aged man in his forties. He was a little free from it back then, and now he has become much more calm.
Seeing that his old father was already old, Ye Lin felt aching.
"Father, your body..."
Old Man Ye patted the younger son's younger generation and smiled: "It is normal for people to get old. I killed so many people back then, how could I not suffer any injuries?"
"Don't worry, nothing serious."
When the father and son met, Li Xin was far away with a wink. After the father and son talked for a while, he stepped forward and bowed to Ye Sheng and Ye Lin: "Sir Ye, Senior Brother Ye, you father and son have not seen each other for a long time. Let's talk here first. I still have some official duties, so I will deal with it first."
Ye Sheng waved happily.
"Go, go, it's no reason to let you be the Minister of War and be a waste of time here."
Li Xin smiled bitterly and said, "Why did Master Ye say such words to mock his disciples? The time he spent in the Ye family in recent years was even more in his own family."
Ye Sheng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It's the truth, it's not a ridicule of you."
"When I was leading the army to fight, I was originally just a military leader. After I made some contributions to the bandit suppression, I should go to the Ministry of War to ask for rewards according to the rules. At that time, there was not even an official rank, so I could only wait in the Ministry of War's yard."
Speaking of this, the old man remembered the old things when he was young and sighed: "I still remember that I was waiting for a head of the Ministry of War Military Selection Department. In the middle of winter, we waited for five or six hours in the Ministry of War's yamen before we waited for this sixth-rank chief of the Ministry of War."
"After meeting, we were just looking at each other, and if someone among our brothers had a wink and gave some money, the brothers would have sacrificed their lives to suppress the bandits, they might have lost it."
The Ministry of War Wuxuan Department, the Ministry of War is the most powerful department among the four departments. The assistant minister, the doctor, the official, the official, and the chief officer, are all officials in the fourth level, and are responsible for some specific affairs. In Li Xin's eyes, this level is not even considered dust, but in the eyes of the young Ye Sheng at that time, it is already the blue sky above his head.
Li Xin's growth experience is very different from Ye Sheng. After joining the Yulin Guard, Li Xin rose to the top with the opportunity. He also ascended the sky with the help of the dragon. Ye Sheng really climbed up from a soldier little by little back then. It took him more than 20 years to become a general.
How many of these are sad and painful is not worthy of being told by outsiders.
So what Old Man Ye said just now was not a sarcastic thing. In the old man's opinion, Li Xin, the Minister of War, should not waste too much time on him.
Li Xin was silent for a while when he heard this, he sighed: "Master Ye, I'll go first."
Ye Sheng nodded: "Be careful."
Li Xin hugged Ye Lin and smiled reluctantly: "Senior Brother Ye has a break at home today, and tomorrow I will hold a banquet at home to welcome Senior Brother Ye."
Ye Lin nodded to Li Xin.
Marquis Jing'an left the Ye family. He got on his carriage outside the Ye family. Without much hesitation, he spoke: "Go to the Ministry of War."
Li Xin, the Minister of War, was actually very incompetent. He was the Minister of War who took office in the third year of Taikang, but it was not until the sixth year of Taikang that he began to occasionally report to the Ministry of War and take over some affairs of the Ministry of War. However, even so, Li Xin did not devote much effort to the Ministry of War. He only went to take a look when he remembered it.
The servants of the Marquis of Jing'an often had to go to the Ministry of War. After hearing this, they did not hesitate much, and immediately drove the carriage and took Li Xin to the Ministry of War.
Before the afternoon, Li Xin dismounted at the gate of the Ministry of War. He did not wear an official uniform, but just a black robe. He walked into the Ministry of War.
However, he had been the Minister of War for five years. After all, he was the Minister of War. After seeing him, the official at the yamen immediately bowed his head deeply: "Sir, Lord Shangshu."
Li Xin ignored them and walked straight in. He walked to the front yard of the Ministry of War. Qian Sheng, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, had already come out and bent down deeply at Li Xin.
"The lower official has met Lord Shangshu."
Li Xin looked at the fat man deeply, then asked with a smile: "Mr. Qian, what did you say to His Majesty when you presented your pictures to His Majesty?"
When this fat man presented the map of Northern Xinjiang to Emperor Taikang, he must have betrayed Li Xin, otherwise the emperor would not have said that to Li Xin.
Qian Sheng's fat body shook and lowered his head and said, "Sir Shangshu... I don't understand what you said..."
Li Shangshu groaned and said in a deep voice: "You don't know how to grasp the opportunities you give you, and you shook everything out in one go, right?"
Qian Sheng was so scared that he almost knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "Sir Shangshu, the official really doesn't understand what you are saying..."
Li Xin glanced at the fat man, squinted his eyes and asked, "Did you tell His Majesty that those northern geoscopic maps have been drawn since the sixth year of Taikang?"
Qian Sheng's body trembled and said nothing more.
Chapter completed!