A good family banquet fell into a dilemma, Xue Ji was respectful and humble in his words, and he did not contradict Xue Yao, but it made people feel blocked in his heart in one breath, and he didn't even have a reason to quarrel with the question.

Xue Qi clenched his hand into a fist against his mouth, coughed, and a sharp cold light was vaguely visible in his eyes. "Qingzhi, don't bring that set of officialdom into the house, my father and I haven't eaten it, who should you do?"

Xue Yao frowned, and then said, "When the imperial court fought Hu Rong back then, Chen You didn't give out less food, how much is this a merit? Why is it so difficult to find something good for this young master to him!"

Xue Ji's face is getting worse and worse, he doesn't want to put on a stand for an official, but the current situation is really too pressing......

"Back then, dozens of merchants in Jiangling, Jiangnan and Jiangling were all levied, could it be that whoever entered the imperial court had to be allowed an official position?"

"Besides, after the war, the imperial court lowered the commercial tax, and this matter is still Lord Chen...... Brother Ziliang personally invited it, doesn't my father know?"

"If Uncle Chen really wants to buy officials with money and food, tell him to wait for the next war in the imperial court."

Xue Yao's face was so blue that he was blocked, and he just wanted to open his mouth to reprimand, but Chang stopped him.

"Okay, it's been more than ten years, the child finally came home for a meal, and he kept saying that he didn't have anything to do, and he couldn't stop for a while after decades of father and son."

Persuasion is persuasion, but in the current stalemate, one person must bow his head first. Xue Yao is an elder, and it is impossible for him to give in first, but Xue Ji is stubborn in the end, and now he is in a high position, so he pulls down his face...... It's also difficult.

Chang Shi glanced at him a few times, but Xue Ji looked down at the bowl on the table, didn't speak, didn't care, and didn't know.

At this moment, Xue Ji's arm hurt, and he subconsciously wanted to 'hiss', but he didn't care about his face and swallowed it back. As soon as he looked up, Xue Qi, who was sitting next to him, had lost his patience, and there was anger in his eyes.

Xue Ji didn't dare to shake his face anymore even if he was helpless, he stubbornly picked up the wine glass on the table, stood up and bowed slightly to Xue Yao: "It's the child's fault, you shouldn't say this at home, father must not be angry."

After such a fuss, only the Chang family was left to ask Xue Ji from time to time, Xue Yao only asked Xue Qi about business, the atmosphere was not tense, but it was already extremely embarrassing, and in the end, it was unpleasant.

As soon as Xue Ji's front foot came out of Xue's mansion, Xue Qi followed with his back foot. Xue Ji was slightly stunned, hesitated for a moment in his heart, and waved his hand to signal Wang Qu to send his wife and them back first.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Xue Qi raised his eyebrows at him and chuckled, "Why, are you so reluctant to talk to your family now?"

Xue Ji's expression was as usual, and he replied, "What the eldest brother said, as long as it doesn't embarrass me, how can I be estranged from my family?"

"Father didn't mean to embarrass you."

"I didn't say he embarrassed me."

The atmosphere was a little more awkward.

Xue Qi opened his mouth several times to say something, but he knew in his heart that no matter how much he said for Xue Yao, it was useless, Chen Shao was a point that disgusted Qing Zhi, not to mention that businessmen should not interfere in matters involving the imperial court.

After hesitating again and again, there was only one sentence left when he spoke: "I have come to the house to accompany my mother for more than a few days, and you can't come back once in a few years, and my mother misses you very much."

Xue Ji was stunned for a moment, and as soon as he reacted, he responded. "Okay."

Xue Ji went home almost every day during the nearly ten days in Jiangling according to what his brother said, and left a pair of children in Xue's mansion for a few days. Chang was naturally very happy, as for Xue Yao, although he didn't say it, it was not difficult to find the smile hidden in his eyes.

The reason for the tolerance borrowed this time, Xue Ji had to do something practical, he visited several businesses in the city, and wrote a report at night to send people back to the capital.

Not long after the song was handed out, I was afraid that before he got to the table in the imperial study, there was a person who hurried to Jiangling with a talisman, this person did not go to the prefect's yamen, and went directly to the door of Xue Ji's house.

"Xiaguan Shangshu Provincial Langguan, please see Lord Xue."

As soon as Wang Qu heard this, he hurriedly led people into the door and went to the main hall, just as Xue Jigang was from the corridor outside

When I went up, I saw these two people frowning slightly, and then beckoned: "Go to the study and talk about it."

As soon as he entered the study, the person who came bowed his hand, and then said with an eager expression: "My lord, Hu Rong in the north has broken the covenant and led troops to invade my Yanzhou, Your Majesty has decided to go to war, and the details are still to be discussed, Your Majesty has summoned you to return to Beijing immediately."

Hu Rong? It's the other way around? As soon as he heard this, Xue Ji was greatly surprised in his heart, this Hu Rong was really capricious, and every time he rebelled, he was so caught off guard......

Thinking of this, Xue Ji suddenly felt a little ridiculous, he only told his father a few days ago, 'Chen Shao wants to buy officials, wait for Hu Rong to rebel next time", in a blink of an eye, Hu Rong really reversed, it was also a coincidence, his mouth was opened or what?

"Your Excellency?" Seeing that he didn't respond for a long time, the man called tentatively again.

Xue Ji came back to his senses, looked at the person in front of him, and his face returned to seriousness. "Got it, I'll pack up and leave for Beijing early tomorrow morning."

After the man finished speaking, he left, and hurried to the capital in a hurry, thinking that this matter was indeed not trivial.

"Wang Qu, you go to the Xue Mansion to inform you." Xue Ji stood up and paced back and forth in the study, faintly making a decision in his heart. "Madam, let's wait for two days to pack up and then go back to Beijing, I'm in a hurry, I'll leave later."

Wang Qu was just about to retreat to deliver the message, when he heard this, he was shocked. "Master is in such a hurry to go back?"

"Military affairs, do not delay." Xue Ji smiled helplessly: "Let people hurry up and prepare a fast horse for me."

The news of Hu Rong's invasion spread all over the capital, and it was surprising at first, this Hu Rong leader Hu Kui had already had an alliance with the imperial court, and had been friends for decades, how could he suddenly break the covenant with his treachery?

Just ask, you'll know.

Hu Kui's old illness relapsed, not long ago passed away, it stands to reason that the throne should be passed to his eldest son, but who knew that his beloved daughter Princess Yuanshan launched a mutiny, killed her siblings with her own hands, and seized power on the day of the new king's succession, and ruled Hu Rong in one fell swoop.

This princess of the distant mountains seems to have lofty ambitions, and at the beginning of the usurpation of the throne, she started the idea of Yanzhou, and made it clear that she wanted to bite Yanzhou off from Da Zhou, so as to establish her prestige.

The most surprising thing about this incident in the capital was not Hu Rong himself, but the reaction of those civil officials.

They scolded Hu Rong, scolded the princess of Yuanshan, and even scolded the weak and incompetent eldest son of Hu Kui, these can be regarded as understandable categories. But they turned over the old accounts, and they openly and secretly wanted to put Xue Ji together in this matter, which was jaw-dropping, and they were greatly amazed by this.

What did they turn over? It is nothing more than that when the siege of Hurong was relieved, it was Xue Ji's idea in the court, and now Yanzhou is in war again, they say that this is the fault of Xue Ji's proposal back then.

People with brains laughed out loud when they thought about it, it was Xue Ji's idea that Mingli put forward back then, but everyone knew that in fact, it had to be the old marquis nodding, since the old marquis was allowed to do this, it means that the old marquis also thinks so. Now turning over the old accounts, it's Xue Ji's old accounts, isn't it also the old accounts of the old marquis?

Where does all this dirty water come from? Some people speculate that maybe it is Chen Yu, these two people have long been at odds with each other, and Chen Yu is King An's person, so what thoughts are hidden in Baoqi......

Chen Yu didn't hear the wind, and he just smiled when he heard it.

"The matter of the official must come from the official, and these people are also dizzy and blind, and they are all led away by the wind and rain."

It was a different story in the Imperial Study.

Qin Xu piled up countless notes on the table, many of which were impeached by Xue Ji, he had a heart attack, but he knew that the border war was urgent, and these trivial matters could not be distracted.

When he stopped his pen and raised his eyebrows, he happened to catch a glimpse of Xu Yan coming in from outside, gently straightening his clothes, and kneeling down and saluting when he came to him, long live his mouth.

"Get up."

Xu Yan saw the piles of imperial cases and the waste paper that was crumpled into a ball and was still on the ground, presumably Qin Xu was already angry.

"The minister knows that His Majesty is worried about Yanzhou, but don't be so angry, angry and easy to hurt."

Qin Xu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, with a serious expression on his face, he raised his eyebrows and looked at him, and asked, "When will Xue Ji arrive in the capital?"

Xu Yan silently counted the days,

His jaw replied: "Back to Your Majesty, it is estimated that it will be within these two days."