Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 707 The Son of Heaven's Three-Year Plan

   After hearing Li Xin's words, the emperor was silent for a while, then took out another memorial book from the table and handed it to Xiao Zheng next to him.

   Xiao Zheng took it with his sensible hands and sent it to Li Xin.

   "This is the letter Ye Ming sent to the capital yesterday."

   Li Xin frowned, and after reading the letter, his brows began to jump.

  Senior Brother Ye, I want to…

   Letter of resignation.

The reason for    is very simple. First of all, he is old, and he is in his early 60s this year. He has not been in good health for the past two years and is unable to handle military affairs, so he wants to resign as the general of the Zhenbei Army.

  Secondly... He also received the news of his father's death, and wanted to go back to his hometown in Ningling to keep a few years of filial piety to his father.

   This memorial book, between the lines, is full of filial piety, especially one sentence, which made Li Xin feel a little sad when he saw it.

"I have been guarding the border for the country for decades, and I have seen my old father only four or five times. The hard work is not enough for outsiders. When I was young, I was weak and did not dare to shoot arrows or hurt people and shoot deer. Everyone in Kyoto knows it. , has never been disliked by the old father."

   Ye Sheng's eldest son, Ye Ming, has a very different personality from his father. When he was young, he didn't like dancing with knives and guns, but rather liked reading.

  The second and third sons of the Ye family all love to practice martial arts and were taken by Ye Sheng to the north, but all died on the battlefield.

   It is for this reason that Ye Ming's personal force has not been very good.

But later, Ye Sheng was trapped in the capital, and the Ye family needed someone to stand up. general.

   "The nature of man is inherently fixed, and it cannot be changed or changed. However, for decades, the minister has been able to join the army, fight the enemy bravely, and defend the border. It is not because of easier temperament, but for the country and home."

   "It's also for the old man in the family."

   "Now my old father has passed away, and as the eldest son, I have not done my filial piety, and I have not dealt with the funeral. Instead, I am unable to move in the northern Xinjiang.

   "Now that the minister is in his sixtieth year, his body is broken, and he is afflicted by illness. I don't know when, so I left with my old father. Please allow the minister to resign. Rongchen will return to Ningling to show his filial piety."

   After reading this memorial, Li Xin let out a long sigh and said in a low voice, "General Ye, this memorial, it seems that your Majesty is not good."

  The descendants of Xia have always regarded filial piety as a moral standard, especially in this era, it is a universal standard, even if the emperor wants to prevent a person from doing filial piety, he will be stabbed in the spine.

   Therefore, it is unlikely that the emperor will reject this memorial.

   "It's not good or not."

The emperor smiled bitterly and said, "It's just that when Ye Shaobao returns to Beijing, I have no one to take over his position as the general of the Northern Army. I have been thinking about the capital where the book arrived yesterday, and it was only this morning that I was invited. Come into the palace and discuss with you."

Having said this, Emperor Taikang looked at Li Xin and said solemnly, "Chang'an, now that the war in the North is about to start, and all of it will be handed over to the Yunzhou Army, I am not very relieved, and if Yuwen's clans resist, so will Jimen Pass. The key point is that at this time, Jimen Pass cannot lose its backbone."

   "Nowadays, you are the only one in the capital to sit in this position, and you can sit safely."

The Jimenguan garrison was nominally called the Zhenbei Army, but everyone in the capital knew that this army should actually be called the Ye Family Army. After all, the Ye family had presided over the Zhenbei Army for two generations, although there were not many generals surnamed Ye in the Zhenbei Army. , but the whole army recognizes people with the surname Ye.

  Li Xin took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty's meaning is that you want the minister to take the position of General Ye?"

  The Son of Heaven nodded.

   "In the capital, only Chang'an is competent."

There is nothing wrong with this sentence. According to the position, the general of the Zhenbei Army is the position of the second rank. The seal of the lesser security on Ye Ming is from the first rank. Li Xin is the Marquis of Jing'an, and the position is the second rank Minister of the Ministry of War. There is a Prince Taibao who is also from the first rank. He can only be regarded as a pacifist at most when he takes this position.

  According to the statement of one of the local officials in Beijing, he could not even be regarded as a pacifist, but was "relegated".

   Li Xin blinked and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this minister is not named Ye, so I may not be able to sit firmly in this position."

   "The Ye family recognizes you."

The emperor said: "It's really not good, you can take another Ye family member, Ye Mao, the young master of the Ye family, isn't he going to exercise in Beijing long ago? Let him go with you and make you one. Deputy."

   Li Xinxin sighed slowly.

   He has a very good relationship with the Ye family now, but if he becomes the general of the Zhenbei Army, the Ye family may point at him behind his back.

   Some people even say that he colluded with the emperor to seize the authority of the Ye family.

  Li Xin was silent for a while, and finally said: "Your Majesty, you should discuss this matter with the Zaifus before making a final decision. If the imperial court issues an imperial decree, the minister, as a subject of the Great Jin, will naturally bow and obey."

   A smile appeared on the emperor's face.

   "You have to communicate with you in advance, otherwise, if an imperial decree is pressed down, I'm afraid you will be unhappy."

After he said that, he asked Xiao Zheng to move another chair, sat next to Li Xin, pulled Li Xin's sleeve and said, "Chang'an, after you arrive in the north, the affairs of Yuwen's ministries will be handed over to you and Chong Xuantong. Personally, if the Zhenbei Army needs anything, you can report it to the court, and I will make the Ministry of Household cooperate as much as possible."

   He let out a breath and continued: "My initial plan is...three years."

   "Within three years, this Northern Expedition will end, but I will have no external troubles in Great Jin, at least another forty or fifty years of peace!"

Seeing the appearance of the Son of Heaven, Li Xin smiled a little embarrassedly, and whispered: "Your Majesty, this kind of important matter still needs to be negotiated slowly, it is impossible for the two of us to settle it down by just talking here. You might as well put it aside for now, I have something else to do now and ask Your Majesty for help."

   Seeing Li Xin say this, the emperor was intrigued and said with a smile: "What can make you so concerned about Chang'an that you don't even want to talk about Beizheng?"

   "That's it..."

   Li Xin coughed and said slowly, "The minister's family...there is a staff member who is very capable."

   "When the minister went west five years ago, he relied on this person to give advice, otherwise it would not have been so smooth back then, so he helped His Majesty to pacify the southwest."

   "This is the talent of Wang Zuo."

  …

   Li Xin bragged about Zhao Jia as rare in the sky and rare on earth.

  The emperor also coughed and said, "Chang'an has something to say, you might as well say it..."

  Li Xin then stopped and said a little embarrassedly, "Well...he wants to be an official."

  The Emperor frowned slightly.

   "Since you are talented and learned, why don't you take the scientific exam?"

   "He was born in the military and is not allowed to take scientific examinations."

   Zhao Jia's father, although he was a military advisor with Ye Sheng, he had a position in the Northern Expedition Army that year, so that he became a military household and was not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

  The Emperor nodded and said with a wry smile: "Changan, you praised this man like a dragon and phoenix among people. Could it be that you want him to go directly to the three provinces to be the chief minister?"

"no, I'm fine…"

  Li Xin waved his hand and said with a dry smile: "Give him a county magistrate to know the state or something like that. If he does a good job, it won't be too late to be promoted..."

   (end of this chapter)