Chapter 137: Feng Yi Wang!
To be honest, it is not easy for the Jing'an Hou Mansion family to leave the city, at least it is not as easy as he said.
During this period in the capital, not only Tianmujian, but also the people from the Meihua Guard were staring at the Jing'an Marquis Mansion. Even if he had the authenticity to leave Yonglefang, it would be difficult for him to leave the capital.
Fortunately, in the past few years, the people under Li Xin have all had an open identity, spread across all walks of life, and more than 100 people worked together. It took ten days to send the eldest princess and Li Xin's two children out of the capital.
During this period, Li Xin hid everyone. In order to keep it a secret, even the servants of the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion still did not know that their mistress and the young lady left the mansion. They still thought that they were still living in the courtyard in the backyard, but they were sick and unwilling to see anyone.
The meals are delivered to you normally.
As for Li Xin, he could not leave the city with the eldest princess. He himself was the biggest target of the court. I don’t know how many people were staring at him. Every day, he would deliberately go to the door of his house and show his face in front of Qianniuwei to "cover" his wife and children out of the city.
After his wife and children left the city, there were many places to go. The forces Li Xin cultivated in the past five years had enough ability to protect them.
If they are not in the capital or under the control of the emperor, then Li Xin's weakness will no longer exist.
He raised his neck and waited for Emperor Taikang's butcher knife.
It seems that asking for death is actually a provocation.
He was sure that the emperor would not dare to kill him.
He is a hero of the state and even a representative figure among the military generals of the Jin Dynasty. If he was killed for no reason, not to mention how the government and the public would discuss it, it would even cause dissatisfaction among the military.
Especially the dissatisfaction of the Ye family.
At this time, the southwest was in chaos, and the emperor was not even sure to take back the southwest soon. In this case, once Li Xin died in an unknown way, the entire Jin Dynasty would be in chaos, and the influence of the Ji family royal family might plummet.
The state will even decline from prosperity!
Emperor Chengde refused to kill Li Shen at that time because he was afraid that national strength would be damaged. But now if Emperor Taikang killed Li Xin, it would not only be that national strength would be damaged, but would even shake the foundation of the country!
In the face of such national affairs, unless the emperor is a naughty person, he will soon make the right decision.
The emperor finally fell silent.
He waved his hand and signaled that all the palace people in the study to retreat. Then he personally moved a chair next to Li Xin, turned around and moved a chair for himself, placed it opposite Li Xin, and after taking a deep breath, he sat down on the chair.
The emperor looked up and looked at Li Xin.
He was silent for a moment and breathed out a breath with some difficulty.
"After saying that, what do you want?"
This is to negotiate with Li Xin.
The emperor knew very well that at this time, as long as Li Xin said one word, the southwest could stabilize. He asked what the conditions meant to allow Li Xin to take action to pacify the southwest.
Li Xin was not pretentious either, and sat carelessly opposite the emperor. He looked at the emperor in front of him with a calm expression.
"Your Majesty will have a wrong idea. It's never what the minister wants to do, but what the emperor wants to do?"
"If Your Majesty doesn't send people to attack Hanzhou, there will be no future happenings."
Speaking of this, Li Xin paused and continued, "Even after the incident in Hanzhou, there was still room for maneuver. Hanzhou was willing to surrender, and I did not pretend that nothing had happened. I set out to return to the capital to mediate. At this time, the court turned a blind eye and recruited Mu Ying. This matter was over. However, His Majesty did not choose to turn a blind eye, but instead he had to argue with me."
The emperor had no expression on his face.
"If there is no such thing, I can naturally turn a blind eye, but you have such a powerful weapon and have deceived me for five years. How can I not care about it?"
"Five years."
The emperor exhaled a breath of turbid air and said in a muffled voice: "Five years ago, you handed this thing to me. Until now, let alone the Yuwen tribes in the north, even the Tubo in the west, I should have captured it!"
"I have always regarded you as a brother before, but you treat me like this. It would be fine if you don't want to deal with me. I actually gave this thing to the thieves in the southwest!"
The Marquis of Jing'an lowered his eyebrows and said, "Your Majesty, if you don't treat them as traitors in Hanzhou, they will be the people of the Great Jin Dynasty. If you want to talk about it, it will be the imperial court that forced them to rebel."
Emperor Taikang's face was a little unfavorable. He had a gloomy face and said, "Don't you come to preach to me. You, Li Chang'an, won this game, and I admit defeat. After you say that, what do you want to do to pacify the southwest?"
Li Xin shook his head.
"Southwest can't reply to what it used to be."
He was silent for a while and continued, "Say a few heart-wrenching words to Your Majesty. Your Majesty said that I raised the Hanzhou army as a private soldier. This is wrong. I do have contacts with Hanzhou, but it is only limited to contacts. No one can control an army thousands of miles apart."
"The Mu family is in charge of the army in Hanzhou, and the Mu family has the final say. They may listen to what they say, but they will never listen to them all."
"At this time, chaos in the southwest has arisen. Unless the imperial court is willing to use the imperial guards to suppress the rebellion in the southwest, it will be difficult to pacify the southwest."
Speaking of this, Li Xin paused and continued, "And even if the court intervened, it would just fall into the quagmire. The Mu family in Hanzhou is very different from the Pingnan Army. The Pingnan Army was a foreigner entering Shu, while the Mu family was a native Shu people. The people in the southwest would recognize them very quickly."
The emperor looked at Li Xin and smiled coldly.
"When it comes to Pingnan Army, you, Marquis Li, deliberately letting out tens of thousands of Pingnan Army, probably just waiting for today?"
Li Xin stood up and bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, things have come to this point. You can hate me and blame me, but the Western Expedition Army back then had no strange intentions. At that time, the Pingnan Army was at a loss and was trapped in Jincheng. If we continue to fight, I will take General Ye to the right camp of the imperial guards in the southwest. Not to mention that all casualties are gone, at least ten or eight out of ten times!"
"That is why I agree to let Pingnan Army leave the city."
"Until today, neither I am from the minister nor Hanzhou, I have contacted this Pingnan Army scattered in various parts of the southwest. It is too disappointing to say this."
The emperor did not say a word, but the expression on his face was very obvious. He did not believe a word about Li Xin's words.
"You just say the conditions are that I will respond to what I can do."
Li Xin sighed slightly and said, "If Your Majesty asked Mu Ying to be at most a third-rank official. Now that Your Majesty wants to settle the southwest, he may have to be granted a king of Shu in another surname."
"King of Shu?"
The emperor's face was gloomy and he said angrily: "Fen Mu Ying?"
The Ji family of the Great Jin Dynasty has always been quite stingy about titles. Take Li Xin as an example. He has made so many contributions, and he is only Marquis of Jing'an. Old Man Ye Sheng and Ye are the only Duke of a different surname in the past hundred years of the Great Jin Dynasty.
There has never been a precedent for being a king of another surname.
"Of course it's not for Mu Ying."
Li Xin's face was calm and said, "As far as I know, this time Mu Ying and others raised the flag to rebel, which was the Cheng Han Dynasty, that is, the big banner of the Southern Shu Kingdom. They supported a Cheng Han royal family as the king of the country. Your Majesty gave the king a title of King of Shu. If the southwest suffers, it will be successful in recruiting."
The emperor looked ugly.
Chapter completed!