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Feng Chen didn't answer, but couldn't help squinting his eyes to look at Qi Yan, as if he had vaguely guessed what he meant.

"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."

"It's no wonder that the old man and the second brother both ordered to shorten the period of military service during their reign, and adjusted the military establishment many times to reduce the size of the army. I thought the court wanted to reduce military expenditures to expand the national treasury. I didn't expect that there was something behind These secrets."

"There are so many things you can't think of, but the king has thought of all these things beforehand." Qi Yan stroked his beard deeply, and his eyes narrowed, which was subtly similar to Feng Chen's expression: "The former king looks qualified You are mediocre, but in fact you are far more farsighted and insightful than all of you imagined, but fortunately, Laojun has a unique insight, so that the talent of the former king will not be wasted in vain."

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, "Teacher, aren't you telling a joke? My second brother trapped me in Beiling for four full years, and he didn't allow me to leave even a single step. It's no different from being imprisoned. It's not called cruelty." ?”

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 knew that the previous king could not suppress you, so he You will spend so much time and effort doing so many things when you are seriously ill." Then he shook his head again and said, "It turned out to be a bad move, 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, curled one corner of his mouth, and said with a strange expression: "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 gates for us." Feng Chen paused, his eyes were a bit chilly: "I originally brought 1 people with me, but I lost 2000 in the battle with Qiongguo. In..." He stared into Qi Yan's eyes, and slowly said word by word: "[-] people died of starvation and freezing to death."

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

Feng Chen poured a glass of wine, raised the glass, closed his eyes and sniffed the mellow and clear aroma of the wine, then said leisurely: "I will never forget these things, if I say I don't have any resentment, of course it is Impossible, back then I even wanted to kill everyone in Zhumo City, and even today, every time I think of those soldiers who died in vain, I still feel sympathy. But at the same time, I also understand that these thoughts are meaningless at all."

He put down his wine glass and looked at Qi Yan again, the light and shadow of the candlelight flowed in his amber pupils, making it impossible to understand the hidden emotions in his eyes.

"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?"