Unparalleled Concubine

In April in Beijing, it has started to get a little hot.

In the backyard of Jing'an Hou Mansion, an old man with gray hair looked at the two babies in front of him with complicated eyes.

After a long time, she took the hand of Princess Jiu and asked softly, "Which one is Cheng'er and which one is Shi'er?"

Princess Jiu pointed to the baby on the left, and said softly, "Mother, this is Cheng'er."

The mother of the nine princesses is naturally the current empress dowager, she has lived in the palace for a long time, today the nine princesses went to pick her out of the palace in person, and went outside for a walk.

The Empress Dowager nodded, touched the head of the child on the left, and said softly, "This is my great-grandson."

The old lady looked at the one on the right again, and smiled kindly: "This is my grandson."

Li Xin stood by and accompanied him, and said with a smile, "If mother-in-law likes it, she can take this child into the palace for a few days."

The Empress Dowager looked up at Li Xin, shook her head slightly, and sighed, "It's better to keep him in your house. In this world, the Ji family who live outside your house may die at some point."

The old lady looked at her great-grandson again, turned her head to Princess Jiu and said, "Xiao Jiu, why don't you... change the child's name?"

"Auntie, no need..."

When the ninth princess heard this, her eyes were a little red. She lowered her head and wiped away her tears, and said, "No matter what, I can't let Seventh Brother lose his incense."

"He is Xinji."

The old lady turned her head to look at Li Xin again.

Governor Li smiled wryly and said: "Mother-in-law sees what I do, and I'm not a murderous demon. Since this child lives in my house, he will be able to grow up safely. His father's surname is Ji, so naturally his surname is also Ji."

The old lady felt relieved, lowered her head and sighed.

"I will represent our family, thank you."

Li Xin frowned and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a familiar one-armed figure waiting at the gate of the yard. Without hesitation, Li Xin said directly to Princess Nine: "My lady is here with my mother-in-law, I will deal with it." Issues."

Ninth Princess' voice was calm.

"Just go, I'll have something to talk to Aunt."

Li Xin lowered his head slightly, greeted his mother-in-law, turned around and walked out of the yard.

Outside the courtyard, seeing Li Xin coming out, the one-armed Chen Shiliu immediately stepped forward, bowed his head to Li Xin and said, "Master Hou, the north side..."

"It's up!"

Li Xin's eyes were fixed, and he said in a deep voice: "Ye Mao and the Xianbei people are fighting?"

Chen Shiliu nodded and said: "To be precise, it was Yu Wentao from the Helan Department who brought people to occupy the horse farm of the king's account, and the two sides fought. Let the Zhenbei army go out and encircle the Helan tribe!"

"Right now, there is only so much news over there, and the subordinates don't know exactly what the situation is now."

"However, as soon as there is news, Anbu will send it to Lord Hou as quickly as possible..."

At this moment, Li Xin was not quite calm either. With a solemn expression on his face, he said to Chen Shiliu in a deep voice, "If there is any news, no matter what time it is, send it to me immediately!"

"Also, try to contact Mu Ying, I need to know where they are now!"

"Subordinates obey!"

Chapter 1168 Cooperation between life and death enemies

Northern Xinjiang is more than 2000 miles away from the capital. Although the news from Anbu was transmitted quickly, when Li Xin received the news from Northern Xinjiang, the northern border had actually been fighting for five or six days.

Today's war in northern Xinjiang is not only related to the peace of the border and the future situation of the Jin and Xianbei sides, but also closely related to the future trend of the situation in the capital. At this time, every move in the north will be watched by the whole world .

At least people from the southwest department will see it.

It's just that although the fight has already started in the north, it is far from intense. The reason is that at the beginning of April, the Helan tribe among the Xianbei tribe occupied two horse farms in Wangzhang. Although Wangzhang was weak, he was thin. The dead camel was bigger than a horse, missing its youth but its skeleton was still there. A conflict broke out between the two sides immediately, and two or 300 people died in a few days.

Originally, both sides exercised restraint in this matter, so the major incident was reduced to a minor one. After Yu Wentao of the Helan tribe became the patriarch for two years, the Helan tribe went smoothly, and he also became the most powerful of the Xianbei tribes as he wished. Patriarch, the mentality is naturally different from before.

When he was last year, he begged for beauties from other Xianbei tribes to enrich the harem. Except for the king's tent, each of the other two tribes dedicated ten girls to him. The young man raising horses in the field became more and more arrogant.

In this collision, the Helan tribe and Wang Zhang were both injured, but Yu Wentao was unreasonable and directly sent a large-scale army to seize the two racecourses. Because of the fight between the two racecourses, two to three thousand people died in just four or five days.

At this time, Yu Wenzhao had already passed away. Yu Wendi, who was in charge of Wang Zhang, immediately sent someone to deliver a letter to Jimen Pass. Ye Mao was also very generous. After receiving the letter, he sent 1 people out of the pass. The troops disguised as the king's tent, under attack from both sides, defeated the Helan tribe, with more than 5000 casualties.

However, casualties of this scale were obviously far from what the court had expected, so this was only the beginning of the Great War in Northern Xinjiang.

In Jizhou City, Ye Guogong, who was only wearing a black robe, lay lazily halfway in his yard. In front of him, a young Xianbei man stood respectfully with his hands down.

This young man is Yu Wenzhao's youngest son, Yu Wenhu. This time he is mainly responsible for the connection between Wang Zhang and the Jin court. He lived in Jing'an Hou's Mansion for a while when he was young, and now he has returned to Northern Xinjiang. He is mainly in charge of contacting Ye Mao in Jizhou city.

However, the second son of the Yuwen Heavenly King was quite humble in front of Ye Mao at this time, he lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "Grand Ye, the Helan Department is already mobilizing troops, and will attack my king's tent soon, you How did the 1 people who were sent out before withdraw back?"

Ye Mao sat up from the reclining chair, first stretched his waist, then glanced at Yu Wenhu, and said lightly: "We agreed earlier that when your king's tent and the Helan tribe are in a decisive battle, we will suppress the northern army." You will only look for opportunities to take action, but last time, your Wang Zhang came to Jizhou to ask for help because of the trivial matter of two racecourses and hundreds of people fighting. At this time, I will be very suspicious. Did your Wang Zhang attack Helan's troops? thought."

He said coldly: "Do you want to destroy the Helan tribe, or do you want to use my Dajin name to protect yourself?"

Yu Wenhu's face was a little pale, he bowed his head and said: "Grandpa Ye, at that time my department thought that a fight was really going to happen, but I didn't expect that the Helan department would stop it..."

"But they suffered a loss last time. With Yu Wentao's character, they will never let it go this time. There are about [-] young men in the Helan Department. If the general doesn't send troops, my king's tent will be in danger!"

Speaking of this, he gritted his teeth and said: "General, you must be clear that my Wangzhang and Helan tribe belong to the same Xianbei tribe, and even both have the surname Yuwen. If the general doesn't intervene, our two families will not fight to the death. The tent can no longer hold up, and I will definitely surrender to the Helan tribe, and then the Xianbei tribes will once again merge into one..."

"Thinking about this situation, Ye Guogong is not willing to see it."

Ye Mao sneered: "Your Wang account is called the direct line of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, will you be willing to bow your head to the Helan tribe?"

"There's nothing I can do about it."

Yuwen Hu smiled bitterly: "Dignity is not as important as life."

"Grandpa Ye, I begged to meet the Governor Li in the capital a few months ago. The Governor has agreed to allow the Zhenbei Army to cooperate with our department. You...you can't ignore my department!"

Hearing Yu Wenhu mentioning Li Xin, Ye Mao seemed a little unhappy, he snorted and said: "Since the imperial court has already issued an order, I will obey it, if you really fight, of course our Northern Army will Send troops to rescue, but if it is still a small fight and our army sends troops, the Helan Department will be alert, and it will be extremely difficult to find an opportunity next time."

With a wry smile on his face, Yu Wenhu clasped his hands to Ye Mao and said, "General, if my king's tent can't resist this time, he will have to bow his head and surrender at the risk of life and death. Don't blame our troops when the time comes."

After finishing speaking, Yu Wenhu bowed to Ye Mao and said goodbye.

After Yu Wenhu left, after a while, a middle-aged man with a lot of white hair pushed the door and came out of the room. Before he could reach Ye Mao, Ye Mao, who was still lazy before, immediately He stood up and said respectfully, "Fourth Uncle."

This middle-aged man was naturally Ye Lin, the minister of the Ministry of War who had gone all the way north from the capital. After he arrived in northern Xinjiang, he was not at ease with the situation here, so he stayed in Jizhou to help his eldest nephew organize military affairs.

Ye Lin waved his hand at Ye Mao, signaling him not to be too polite, and then frowned slightly: "In the whole world, those who hate our Ye family the most should be the descendants of the Xianbei king's account, because my father single-handedly controlled all of their country and society. Destroyed, these people fought desperately to break through Jimen Pass two years ago, and almost wiped out the Zhenbei Army regardless of the cost, and it was also because of this enmity back then."

"Now my Ye family has a deadly feud with them, and I don't know what the court thinks, so that the Zhenbei Army will cooperate with the Xianbei King's Tent."