It has been almost half a year since Li Xin left the capital. He went to the southwest in the middle, and I'm afraid everyone in the capital knew about it. However, in recent months, especially after he returned to Yongzhou, there have been more unknown people in Qiyang County, staring at the Li family openly or secretly.

Qiyang County is Li Xin's hometown. Chen Gang and his subordinates have been here for a while. Anything happens in the county town can naturally be hidden from him. However, Li Xin didn't care much about these people, just pretended not to see them.

Ninety-nine percent of these people are from the court. Now the court's attitude towards Li Xin is obscure. Li Xin can't tell what he looks like. He will not be able to return to the capital until the situation is settled.

The Ninth Princess was just three months pregnant. When the child was born, it would be at least May and June of the following year. At that time, it would be not far from Emperor Yuan Zhao's leadership, and the situation in the southwest should stabilize.

Shangshu Ye sighed slightly, he looked up at Li Xin and said in a deep voice: "Chang'an, the old man treated you like his youngest son during his lifetime. You also treated my father like his old father. You and my family were very careful about you over the years. You and I can be said to be a family, so you take the liberty to ask you for your brother."

Speaking of Ye Sheng, Marquis Jing'an's face also became serious. He lowered his head slightly and said, "Senior Brother, please ask."

Ye Lin's face was full of seriousness.

"At this time, you and my brother are the only ones. I am not the Minister of War, but the fourth son of the Ye family. I will only ask one question."

He looked at Li Xin and said in a deep voice: "What do you want to do?"

"Want to be the emperor?"

Li Xin was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Senior brother became an official much earlier than me, and he also knew much more about the Great Jin court than me. Senior brother thinks that if I want to rebel and become an emperor, how likely is there to win?"

"I have no idea."

Ye Lin slowly breathed.

"Li Zhijie and Li Shen from the Li family have two generations of outstanding people. They have been operating the southwest for more than 30 years, and have kept the southwest unbreakable. Even my father thought it was difficult to defeat the southwest again, but you just defeated it."

"After the recovery of the southwest, the late emperor could be said to have worked hard to govern. The Jin Dynasty reached its prosperous era in the Taikang Dynasty. In theory, no one could resist the imperial power in the prosperous era, let alone splitting more than thirty palaces from the court, but you did it."

Ye Lin smiled bitterly and said, "At this point, neither brother nor me, I don't know what you can do in the future, nor do I know what you will do in the future."

After taking a deep breath, he spoke, "Before I came to Yongzhou, I went back to Ningling to meet my elder brother. The elder brother asked me to ask clearly what you want to do, and then he would consider what the Ye family should do."

Marquis Jing'an was silent for a while, picked up the teacup and took a sip. Suddenly, the teacup in his hand was thrown on the bluestone floor. It was smashed with a "bang" and the tea and tea leaves in the cup were sprinkled all over the floor.

Shangshu Ye was shocked and almost thought that Li Xin was about to throw a cup.

Marquis Jing'an smiled and said, "Drinking tea is boring, my senior brother will have two drinks with me?"

Ye Lin breathed a sigh of relief and said unhappy: "Brother Wei thought you had ambushed hundreds of knives and axes at home and were about to come out and tie me up with the sacrifice flag!"

Marquis Jing'an laughed: "I can't tell, my senior brother is quite imaginative."

The teacup was quickly removed, and the servants of Li's mansion only took less than a stick of incense to set up a table of wine and food on the low table. Li Xin picked up the wine pot, poured Ye Lin full of wine, and filled himself with it.

The two of them clashed.

This is Zhurong wine produced by the Beijing Imperial Wine Department. The strongest spirit in the world. The old wine from Li Xin’s mansion is still more than eight years old. There are not a few jars left in the entire Jin Dynasty.

After all, it’s all the best, Zhurong Wine is only ten years old.

After drinking a glass of strong wine, Li Xin felt much more happy. He put down his glass, filled it up again, and burped it.

"In the 17th year of Chengde, I went to Beijing to look for relatives. At that time, I barely survived that winter by selling fake animal carbon to the brothels by the Qinhuai River. At that time, I thought to save some money. After the spring of the next year, I would take Xiaoxiao and her grandfather to leave the capital, find a wealthier Jiangnan city to settle down, do some small business, and live a good life."

In the 17th year of Chengde, Li Xin almost froze to death in that winter. At that time, he went to the city to sell charcoal every day, and did not think he could compete with the Pingnan Marquis Mansion. At that time, he thought about saving some money by selling it, and then waited for the spring to warm up, and left the capital with the charcoal seller and charcoal seller whom he had just met, and went to Suzhou or Yangzhou to earn some money and live a good life.

Speaking of this, Li Xin paused and had another cup with Ye Lin.

"Later, I accidentally got involved in the fight between Emperor Zhao and Li Shen. Outsiders couldn't understand the situation at that time, but I knew it myself."

Li Xin recalled the old things back then and closed his eyes.

"At that time, neither Emperor Zhao nor the Marquis of Pingnan Li Shen had ever seen me. I was just a chess piece on the chessboard, or a useless piece that Emperor Zhao had nothing to do and fell on the corner. In that stormy situation, if either of them was unhappy, I would die."

"At that time, what I thought was to take one step at a time, try to save my life, and bring that girl in my family to grow up."

Speaking of this, Li Xin smiled.

"Later, it was the change of Renchen Palace, and my senior brother knew about it."

Ye Lin nodded silently, clinked glasses with Li Xin, and the two of them drank another glass of strong wine on their throats.

After drinking, Marquis Jing'an spit out a sip of wine and continued, "After the Renchen Palace, I only had a little voice in the capital. I was no longer passive in doing things and no longer controlled by others. I was considered to have gotten rid of my identity as a chess piece."

"At that time, I was wondering whether I could get some justice for my mother."

Li Xin was drinking and talking.

"After this, it will be the Western Expedition. My senior brother also knows the specific matters. The Southwest Pingnan Marquis Mansion was destroyed, and Li Xin died in Zhaoling and accompanied Emperor Zhao underground."

As he said that, he looked up at Ye Lin and smiled.

"In theory, after Li Shen died, I was almost the most powerful minister. At that time, I was only in my early twenties. I had done what I should do in this life and married a princess. I just need to lie on the credit book to enjoy my happiness in the rest of my life."

The two brothers clinked glasses again, one spoke and the other listened quietly.

"I think so myself."

"So after I returned from the Western Expedition, Master Ye advised me not to take credit or be so arrogant. I took care of the children at home for five years, but never went anywhere. I became a wise minister for five years."

Ye Lin frowned slightly: "But..."

"But I shouldn't have left power in the southwest?"

Marquis Jing'an smiled: "The people from the Hanzhou Prefecture in the southwest brought their old subordinates from South Shu back then. I came forward to let them surrender to the Dajin. If I let go, few of them, such as the "Shu people" who had fought against the court for more than 30 years, would have a good ending."

"I didn't think so much at that time. My selfishness was to leave a backup plan and leave a way out for myself."

This time, he did not worship Ye Lin, but drank a glass on his own.

"The purpose is to let the king die, but the minister doesn't want to die very much."

Shangshu Ye wanted to speak but stopped.

Li Xin said with a smile: "I know that this idea may be a bit ruthless in my senior brother's opinion, but I am a different person than others' ideas. I am not too devoted to the court or the court."

He picked up the dish with chopsticks and drank another cup with Ye Lin.

"After another, the late emperor died."

Speaking of this, Li Xin sighed: "To be honest, I am still very sad when he died. I thought I would repeat the story between Emperor Zhao and Li Shen with him. I have loved each other for decades, but who knew that the story had just begun and he went."

The Marquis Jing'an looked calm and smiled gently at Ye Lin.

"These are things I once wanted to do. Now the late emperor has been in vain for more than half a year. The new emperor ascended the throne and the auxiliary minister is regent. My senior brother asked me what I want to do."

Li Xinying had a glass of wine.

"At the beginning of the year, the assistant ministers had to attack the right camp of the imperial guards without saying anything, which made me feel very uncomfortable. At that time, what I thought was that if His Majesty could stand on my side, take charge of the government in advance, and depose these assistant ministers, I would enjoy my blessings in peace and no longer worry about other things."

After drinking here, Marquis Jing'an's face was already a little flushed.

He picked up the wine glass and met Ye Lin.

"I am half a member of the Ye family, and I will say something heart-to-heart to my senior brother."

"Since he doesn't believe me..."

Li Xin said a little, raised his head and drank a sip of wine, and burped.
Chapter completed!