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Feng Chen didn't answer.

"Although a country is big, warlike will surely perish." Qi Yan stroked his beard, looked into Feng Chen's eyes, and said slowly: "Ten years ago, apart from the old gentleman, only the second prince was aware of this problem." gone."

Feng Chen: "It's no wonder that the old man and the second elder brother both ordered to shorten their military service during their reign, and adjusted the military establishment many times to reduce the size of the army. At that time, I thought that the imperial court wanted to reduce military expenditures, but I didn't expect that there were these hidden secrets behind it. "

"There are so many things you can't think of, but the king has thought of these things beforehand. The previous king seems to have mediocre aptitude, but in fact he is far more farsighted and insightful than all of you imagined. It will not be a waste of the talent of the former king."

Feng Chen curled his lips in dissatisfaction.

"But the former king also had a shortcoming."

Feng Chen raised his eyebrows, and asked with great interest: "What shortcoming?"

Qi Yan looked at his face like three aunts and six wives, raised his hand, and slapped him on the head hard.

After being beaten, Feng Chen curled his lips in dissatisfaction again: "Usually, I seldom interact with my second brother, so I haven't heard of any shortcomings in him. You suddenly mentioned it, so I'm naturally curious."

"That can't show this appearance, as a general..."

"Okay, okay." Feng Chen hurriedly begged for mercy: "Your apprentice made a mistake, I will correct it right away. Teacher, you should finish what you just said first."

Qi Yan still glanced at him with some dissatisfaction, and then continued: "A king must be kind and generous, treat all people in the world as his sons, but also be ruthless, like wolves, tigers and leopards. The former king..." Qi Yan Yan shook his head, and said with regret: "The former king could do the first point, but he couldn't do the second point."

Feng Chen's face twitched very obviously, the expression on his face seemed to say: Are you kidding me?He coughed, and said: "Second brother trapped me in Beiling for four years, and didn't allow me to leave even a single step. It's no different from a gangster. Isn't that callous?"

Qi Yan: "That's why you are ignorant. If the previous king was really a ruthless person, he would have tried to get rid of you long ago, why would he keep you running wild in Beiling, and how could you have the opportunity to monopolize Beiling like today? Completely ignoring the orders of the imperial court, he pretended to be a king by himself. Besides, if the former king really had the heart to deal with you, would the old gentleman need to go out in person? It is precisely because the king knows that the previous king cannot suppress you, so he will To do so much work while being seriously ill." Then he shook his head again and said, "It turned out to be a mistake, leaving you as a future trouble."

Feng Chen snorted with some disdain, and said: "Why did I fall into the law? I didn't know how well-behaved I was back then. I never made friends with officials and never talked about state affairs. In order not to make the old man suspicious, I didn't even have a hundred cars Why, I have been working for the imperial court all year round without a single complaint, I can almost be written into the history books by historians as a model of loyal ministers, and you are the ones who forced me to get to where I am today."

Qi Yan squinted at him: "You, the third prince, and King Pingnan are all in the same boat. Even if no one forces you, if they rebel, will you rebel?"

Feng Chen thought about it for a while, and felt that it was very likely that he would help the evildoers instead of destroying relatives righteously, so he shut his mouth very wisely and stopped talking.

Qi Yan looked at Feng Chen's silent appearance, and then thought of his later situation, his heart softened a little, and he couldn't say anything to reprimand him, so he persuaded him: "Teacher, no matter what, Your Majesty and the imperial court are indeed ashamed of you, and it is human nature to feel unwilling to be forced to live in such a land today, but these are all grievances between you and the imperial court, and the people of the feudal country should not be implicated."

Feng Chen looked at him and blinked: "Teacher, although your apprentice is not a broad-minded person, you will not be so careless. Although I have always felt resentful, it is only against the old man. I have never had any hatred for the imperial court or the feudal state, nor any dissatisfaction with the people of the feudal state."

Qi Yan seemed to be in disbelief, frowned slightly, looked at Feng Chen and asked, "What about the Zhuyu City? Back then when Qiong Kingdom marched northward, if you hadn't led the troops to rescue it, the Zhuyu City might have been destroyed." It was captured by the Qiong army a long time ago, but when you and the Qiong army finally came back victorious after many days of fighting, the people in the city of Zhuyu were unwilling to open the city gate..."

Feng Chen snorted softly: "Later, I led the Beiling army around Zhuyu City, dragged the exhausted soldiers and remnants of armor, and walked all the way back to Beiling in the heavy snow. During this period, I never asked any city to open the city for us. door." Feng Chen paused for a moment, with a chill in his eyes: "I originally brought 1 people, but I lost 1000 in the battle with Qiongguo, and on the way back..." He stared at Qi Yan's eyes slowly said word by word: "[-] people died of starvation and freezing."

Qi Yan was silent for a while, and took a deep breath.

Feng Chen: "I will never forget these things. If I say that I don't have any resentment, it is of course impossible. Even today, every time I think of those soldiers who died in vain, I still have sympathy for them, but at the same time I also feel sorry for them." Understand, these thoughts don't make sense at all."

He looked at Qi Yan, with the light and shadow of candlelight flowing in his amber pupils, making it impossible to fathom his emotions.

"What can the common people know? Even if I rebelled in a very helpless situation, would they know this?" Feng Chen had a mocking smile on his lips: "All they know is about the imperial court. It’s just something I want them to know. As long as the court says I’m a traitor, they’ll think I’m a traitor, and if the court says I’m a traitor, they’ll think I’m a traitor. Teacher, what can you say about me and them? ?”

Qi Yan didn't expect Feng Chen to have such thoughts, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

He looked at Feng Chen for a while, stroked his beard, and asked in a deep voice: "The old man knows that you have never coveted the throne, and now it is naturally impossible to treason for the sake of usurping the throne, so I always thought you were raising troops to take revenge on the people of the country. , but now it seems that the old man guessed wrong, so why did you attack Fengguo?"