Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 355 Are you scaring me?

   This sudden "brother" made Li Xin a little overwhelmed to be honest.

   But soon he reacted.

   No matter what, his initial purpose is still very clear, that is, to let the Li family or the Pingnanhou mansion collapse.

Whether    is dead or not is still up for debate, but the building of Pingnanhou Mansion must collapse!

Up to now, this is not only Li Xin's personal hatred, but also his political goal, because the Emperor Taikang also urgently needs the collapse of the Pingnan Houfu. Li Xin can only rely on the power of the Emperor Taikang. Opportunity to take it to the next level.

   In other words, in any case, Li Xin has no chance of reconciling with the Li family.

   Even if he wanted to, Emperor Taikang would not be willing, neither would Mu Ying, nor would the "Yu Lin Wei Family" led by Li Xin.

   At this time, Li Xin was no longer the poor boy who had just entered the capital. He had become the core of an interest group. The temporary goal of this interest group was to deal with the Marquis of Pingnan.

   This goal was built up by Li Xin himself, little by little, trying every means to slowly pile it up, but until now, there is no way he can go against this goal, otherwise he will lose people's hearts.

   What's more, he didn't want to abandon this goal.

   His mother's tomb is still buried on Qishan Mountain.

  Li Shuo looked up at Li Xin, and slowly lowered his head: "Brother, little brother wants to tell you something."

  Li Xin smiled lightly.

"I do not want to hear."

   "About the Pingnan Army."

   Li Xin was silent for a while, and then walked towards his study in Qi's house with his hands on his back.

   "You come with me."

   The two "brothers" sat down in the study. Li Xin poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip: "I want to drink it myself."

  Li Shuo shook his head, indicating that he was not thirsty, then he lowered his voice and said, "Brother, you and I are not enemies."

   Li Xin put down the tea cup and looked at the young man.

"I think it is."

   Li Shuo said with a wry smile, "Brother, you have too much resentment in your heart."

  Li Xin's face turned cold: "Your mother is not dead, my mother is dead."

This incident is actually a tragedy. Not only Xiao Qinglan died, but also her uncle and the charcoal seller. These people have one thing in common, that is, they are all small people, people at the level of Li Shen. It seems that they are all innocuous little people.

   Originally, their deaths would not cause any trouble in this world. If it wasn't for Li Xin, no one would even know that they were dead.

   The former Li Xin is also a small person in Li Shen's eyes.

   But, little people are people too.

   "If that's what you want to say, you can go out."

  Li Shuo said, "Brother, do you know how many people there are in the Pingnan Army?"

   Li Xin laughed: "150,000?"

  Li Shuo slowly shook his head.

   "More than 300,000 soldiers to fight!"

  Li Xin stood up directly from the chair and sneered: "You scare me?"

  Li Shuo said to himself: "Brother, the Pingnan Army started from the generation of the old marquis, and it has been more than 30 years now."

He raised his head to look at Li Xin, and said solemnly: "In thirty years, at least the army has to be replaced three times. The Pingnan Army starts from the old marquis Li Zhijie, and those who are over forty will leave the army and be replaced by the Pingnan Army. Allocate cultivated land to them in Shu County, and these people who fill the gap will be recruited again by the Pingnan Army. Anyway, there are 100,000 people, and the imperial court will support them."

   said, Li Shuo said solemnly: "There are many iron mines in Shu, do you know that brother?"

   This Li Xin knows.

  In the Song Dynasty in another world, because of the lack of copper in Shu, there was no way to make copper coins, but only iron coins. The face value of iron coins was low, and five iron coins were worth one copper coin, so it was extremely inconvenient to go out to buy things.

  Because of this, the birth of a kind of paper money, Jiaozi.

  Li Xin nodded slowly.

Li Shuo went on to say: "Because there are 100,000 people to be supported by the imperial court, and the military and government of the entire Shu area are controlled by the Pingnan Army, so the Pingnan Army can also deduct a lot of taxes and so on, after more than 30 years. , General Pingnan's mansion has no idea how many weapons and armors have been made, and there are still many retired people!"

   "My little brother said that 300,000 people can fight, that's the minimum estimate..."

Soldiers in ancient times were very different from those of later generations. At this time, there were no training standards. They were often forced to recruit strong soldiers. If you fight a few times on the battlefield and don't die, those who survive can be considered elite soldiers.

   There are very few well-trained and well-equipped ones like Yulinwei.

   Some soldiers don't even have armor.

  As Li Shuo said, if the Pingnan Army had started preparations thirty years ago, it is no exaggeration that there are now 300,000 soldiers in Shu.

  Li Xin twitched the corners of his mouth in confusion.

   "Amazing, there are reservists."

This set of Shu land cannot be regarded as a reserve, it is more like the military system of the Tang Dynasty, but this kind of thing can only be strictly enforced in areas controlled by the military government like Shu County. It is very difficult to achieve such a behemoth of the Jin court.

  Li Xin slowly closed his eyes, many things that he didn't understand before suddenly became clear.

   No wonder Li Shenren is still alive and well in the capital!

   No wonder there are only hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the southern border, and the court is still indifferent!

   It's no wonder that the emperor of Chengde didn't confront Nanjiang until his death!

  If there are more than 300,000 soldiers in the southern border, even in the current Jin Dynasty, if you want to bite down, you will become disabled.

  Li Xin took a deep breath, then opened his eyes to look at the young man Li Shuo, and said slowly, "Why did you tell me this?"

Li Shuo raised his eyes to look at Li Xin, and said, "What the younger brother Fangcai said is not particularly secret in southern Xinjiang. The emperor of Chengde knows about these things, and the emperor of Taikang now knows it, but you don't know about brother, which shows that the Ji family I don't have the same heart as my brother."

   Li Xin was silent.

   "You want to sow discord?"

   "It's not to sow discord."

  Li Shuo stood up, bent over to Li Xin and said, "Little brother admires brother very much. I came here today just to see brother. By the way, I remind brother to be more careful in the capital."

   Li Xin waved his hand.

   "I accept your love, you can go."

  Li Shuo got up, politely greeted Li Xin, and said respectfully, "Brother take care, little brother is leaving."

   said, he slowly exited the Qi family compound.

  Li Xin was alone in the study and closed his eyes.

   "Li Shuo... is much stronger than Li Chun."

   Li Xin muttered to himself.

   "Although I don't know what you are going to do, your understanding of the current situation in the DPRK is still too shallow."

  Li Shuo believed that the Ji family was using Li Xin to deal with southern Xinjiang, but he did not know that Li Xin was also using the Ji family to gain momentum.

   At this time, although Li Xin already had some wings, but these wings were not plump enough, and secondly, they were not strong enough. He still had to work hard to make his wings **** the big tree of Ji's house.

  Before this, he must and must be a loyal minister of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Marquis of Jing'an who was most keen to conquer the southern border in the Taikang Dynasty.

   The biggest hawk in the new dynasty!

   This matter is very complicated. Li Xin has to grasp every inch of the scale, so that his small boat will not be overturned between two big waves.

   He knew very well.

   Neither the imperial court nor the Marquis of Pingnan could be trusted.

  The only one you can trust is yourself.

   (end of this chapter)