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When Shen Gang followed Li Xin, he was already in his 30s. Now he is in his 40s and nearly [-]s, and his hair has turned gray. He took a deep breath and bowed his head deeply to Li Xin: "Your Majesty, capital city There's news from there."

Shen Gang paused and spoke.

"Chen Guogong...is critically ill."

Chapter 954 Remember to come back

After hearing the news, Li Xin was stunned for a moment, then fell silent.

After a while, he looked up at Shen Gang, and asked slowly, "What's the situation?"

"People are already lying in the Duke's mansion, bedridden."

Shen Gang lowered his head, and said: "The news from the capital was seven or eight days ago. Seven or eight days ago, more than 20 imperial physicians had been admitted to the Duke's Mansion. It is said that General Xiaoye of Jimen Pass , and now I am on my way back to the capital, and I used the identity of the Li family to ask the Duke's mansion, and the family members of the Duke's mansion said..."

"The situation is very bad."

Speaking of this, Shen Gang paused, and said: "It is said that Ye Guogong has been bedridden for several months, and the medicine stone is useless. It should not be possible to survive this winter."

Li Xin was expressionless, and let out a breath slowly.

To be honest, the relationship between him and Chen Guogong Ye Ming is far less deep than the relationship with the old man Ye Sheng. After all, in those few years, Li Xin ran to the mansion of the mansion almost every day, and accompanied the old man. Chess, and Ye Ming was either at Jimen Pass or Ningling, the two of them didn't get along for long, and they didn't get along as well as they did with Ye Cheng.

But Ye Ming is also Li Xin's respected elder brother. Hearing that he is critically ill, Li Xin really wants to go to Beijing to take a look. Yongzhou is more than 2000 miles away from the capital. arrive.

But... now, it is not convenient for him to go to Beijing.

In the past three years, the imperial court invited him to return to Beijing with more than one imperial edict, but he refused all of them because of his illness. Moreover, during the three years, the conflict between Southwest and the imperial court became more and more intensified. military.

In the past, the Southwest soldiers and horses were reorganized by the Hanzhou Army of the Mu family and the Pingnan Army of Li Shuo, but there were some problems. Fighting on the battlefield basically depends on thunder, otherwise the local garrison led by Pei Jin would not be able to defeat it, let alone the forbidden army in Hanzhong.

In the past three years, a large number of old soldiers have been discharged from the Southwest Army. Ordinary soldiers who are over 45 years old will all be sent back to their hometowns. Those who have no land at home will be allocated land for them to cultivate by Zhao Jia.

Not only the original Hanzhou Army, but also the Pingnan Army in the Southwest Army. Most of them are still the same group of people who followed Li Shen back then. However, the military quality of the Pingnan Army is much stronger. If the above-mentioned people still want to stay in the army, they will not be forced to leave the army.

If these people retire, they will naturally recruit a group of new recruits. In the current Southwest Army, young people aged 20 account for more than half, and the scale is also larger than before, with 5 people in Hanzhou and 5 people in Jincheng. , and Li Shuo's Ningzhou also has 5 people.

A total of 15 troops.

Although the number of people has not increased too much, the overall combat effectiveness has risen to a higher level compared to three years ago.

And the imperial court was not idle either. In addition to the 9 or 15 people stationed by Ye Lin in Hanzhong, Pei Jin had recruited more than [-] troops in Ankang, the southwest gateway, in the past three years. They were trained according to the standards of the Imperial Army, and by now it had basically formed. Combat strength, counting some scattered local garrisons, the imperial court also displayed [-] troops at the southwest gate.

The two groups competed with each other, and the situation became more and more tense.

In the past three years, Mu Ying asked Li Xin more than once for instructions to lead troops to raid the Ankang Army that had not yet completed training, but was blocked by Li Xin. Even so, small-scale conflicts between the two sides still occurred from time to time. There are a lot of beams.

At the same time, Emperor Yuanzhao used the "Sky Thunder" given by Li Xin, but did not produce any results. Therefore, in the past three years, the court has almost exhausted all means to infiltrate into the southwest. Get Tianlei's prescription.

In Jincheng alone, at least hundreds of people from the imperial court were killed in three years, and many of them were the elusive Plum Blossom Guard.

As for Li Xin's Qiyang County, the past three years have not been peaceful. The Qishan mountain behind Li's house has buried at least hundreds of corpses.

Now that the relationship between the two sides is very tense, it is unlikely that the court will kill Li Xin when he enters Beijing at this time, but it is estimated that it will be difficult to let him go out of Beijing again.

After closing his eyes and meditating for a long time, Lord Jing'an slowly opened his eyes, and said, "Send information about the capital to me at any time, find a way to enter Ye's house, and send a letter to Senior Brother Ye for me."

Shen Gang bowed his head respectfully.

"This subordinate will do it."

After Shen Gang left, Li Xin's face was a bit gloomy. After sitting alone in the room for a long time, he slowly got up, pushed open the door of the study, and came to the yard of the eldest princess.

The eldest princess is currently studying delicious food in the yard with her eldest daughter Li Shu. The mother and daughter are grilling skewers while brushing oil on them. The mother and daughter are sitting on a small bench, looking at the skewers with bright eyes.

At this moment, Li Shu was ten years old, and her height reached Li Xin's chest. Seeing Li Xin coming, she quickly stood up, handed a bunch of grilled meat skewers to Li Xin, and smiled sweetly: "Daddy, this For you to eat."

Li Xin smiled and shook his head: "Father won't eat it, you can eat it yourself."

"You two are quite relaxed today."

The eldest princess said with a smile: "Xiao Xiao has worked a lot in the past two days, and offered to help me look after Jing'er. Otherwise, where would I have time to grill skewers here?"

There are quite a few servants in the Li family now, but they usually take care of the children themselves, so outsiders are not at ease.

Li Xin coughed at his eldest daughter, and said, "Ah Han, go and play with your younger brother first, Dad has something to tell your mother."

Little Ah Han rolled her eyes, bent down and picked up all the dozen or so boat barbecues on the grill, barely managed to grab them with her two chubby little hands, and ran out bouncing around.

By the time the eldest princess reacted, the little girl had already run away.

She glanced at Li Xin with some annoyance.

"Well, what's the matter?"

Li Xin let out a breath slowly, and forced a smile: "Madam, I want to go out for a while."

"Going to the southwest again?"

The eldest princess sat down again and began to fiddle with the grill.

"You, you are not at home for four or five months a year. Every time you say that you have business in Jincheng, you have resigned. If there is any business, you probably raised a baby boy in Jincheng. The foreign house, spend half a year with me, and spend half a year with her."

Grand Duke Li smiled wryly, and sat down to help the eldest princess clean up the grill.

"Look at what Madam said, old husband and wife, when did I lie to Madam?"

"You lied to me too much."

The eldest princess gave Li Xin a white look.

"You just treat me like a fool, and don't want to tell me anything, that's all, I don't want to know what you're doing, if you want to go out, just go out, you, Taifu Li, are busy with business, how can I, a woman, restrain you ?”

Hearing the words, Lord Jing'an sighed helplessly.

"Ma'am, the news just came from the capital. Brother Ye may not be able to last for too long. The Ye family has treated me with kindness. I can't stay in Qiyang with peace of mind for such a big matter, can I just turn a blind eye?"

Ninth Princess curled her lips.

"You just want to go out, when did I stop you?"

She lowered her head and sighed as she turned over the grill,

"Just remember to come back."

Chapter 955

Ye Ming's serious illness is actually a big problem, because the descendants of the Ye family were not prosperous at all, and the second generation after Ye Sheng only had Ye Ming and Ye Lin, but Ye Lin also separated from Chen Guogong's family. Another Ninglinghou Mansion was established.