How could she not know Li Chengqian’s ambitions and ideals?
But now, Li Chengqian said such words.
Don't seek merit, but seek no faults.
When Li Chengqian said these eight words, he felt so helpless.
Lu Wanjie sighed softly: "This is not your usual style."
"my style?"
Li Chengqian was happy: "What is my usual style?"
"Confidence, pride."
Lu Wanjie said these two words without hesitation.
Then, after some thought, she added: "Cynical and a little melancholy."
After hearing these words, Li Chengqian threw his head back and laughed out loud.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"To be honest, this is the first time I heard someone commenting on me like this."
Li Chengqian pointed to Dongfang and said, "Then do you know what those people in the court said about me?"
"Arrogant, no rules."
Lu Wanjie pursed her lips, looked up at Li Chengqian and said, "And..."
"You still don't deserve to be a prince."
Li Chengqian sighed softly and said: "In the eyes of these people, I am just an uneducated person who has achieved some achievements by luck."
"Everyone in the court thinks this way, so what do you think these local officials will think?"
Speaking of this, Li Chengqian shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said: "Wanjie, you must have forgotten what we experienced in Yangzhou."
Before Li Chengqian went to Yangzhou, he was already well-known in the capital and had a certain influence in the army and even the government and the public.
In addition, he has the status of Prince Qin, so it stands to reason that no one in the world would dare to compete with him, right?
But those aristocratic families in Yangzhou still dared to raise troops to surround him?
"But...but what does this have to do with you doing something in Liangzhou?" Lu Wanjie frowned and said: "In the future, you will be the governor of Liangzhou, and you will also be the vassal king stationed in Liangzhou. Do they still dare to besiege you like those aristocratic families in Yangzhou?"
Li Chengqian raised his eyebrows and looked at Lu Wanjie: "Why don't you dare?"
Lu Wanjie said with confusion: "As long as you do everything perfectly, they will definitely work hard for you."
"It's useless to be perfect."
Seeing Lu Wanjie's serious analysis of current affairs for him, Li Chengqian couldn't help but smile.
He said: "Giving small profits to others, if done properly, can of course be exchanged for big profits, but it cannot win others' life-long loyalty."
"Not to mention the veteran in Liangzhou's official circles, even the ordinary soldiers in the army would not entrust their lives to me for some small favors."
"These veterans of the Liangzhou Legion are different from the veterans in other armies, and they are even different from my brothers in the Ganzi Camp."
"They are truly veterans of many battles, and their inner strength has been forced out by years of war."
"The reason why those old soldiers were willing to fight with me was not because I was a prince, but just because I was the general of the Tang Dynasty."
"If you ask who can be loyal to me, don't say there are none. There are so many people."
"For example, those who followed me out of the pile of dead people, I am 100% sure that they will fight for me."
Li Chengqian looked straight at Lu Wanjie and said, "But do you know what I got in exchange for that?"
"We walked through hell together in a serious manner."
"At that time, I and even they had no hope of survival and were determined to die."
"But the result was something none of us expected. We won."
“And it’s the smallest price you can pay.
That’s how we achieved the greatest results.”
"This is why they are willing to believe in me, are willing to meet me on the way to the expedition, and will give me greetings."
Lu Wanjie, who was sitting next to Li Chengqian, felt heartbroken for no reason.
In the past, when I looked at Li Chengqian, he only attracted me based on his talents, temperament, and appearance.
But now, she felt like there was more than just these things that attracted her.
Li Chengqian is much better now than before, and he has too many shining points.
…
Longyou Road is the poorest place among the ten roads in the Tang Dynasty.
The further west you go, the more desolate it becomes, and in the end there is even no human habitation within a hundred miles.
On the westernmost side of Longyou Road, there is a city pass standing between the ravines. It is a medium-sized city. Compared with Tongguan in the Tang Dynasty, it is as big as heaven and earth.
But for Datang, the strategic location here was extremely critical.
Not long ago, Li Chengqian also came here.
This is the northwest gateway of the Tang Dynasty, and the only city in Longyou Road that can defend the Western Turks in the northwest, Yumen Pass.
Since the Han Dynasty, Yumen Pass has stood here, and the surrounding permanent population is only a few thousand.
But it is such a small town with a permanent population of less than 10,000 people, but it has made countless heroes of the Tang Dynasty pour their blood and even their lives.
Perhaps during these three hundred years, the world has forgotten the hardships and dangers of Liangzhou in the northwest, and only remembers the arrogance and rudeness of Liangzhou people.
In the far south, the so-called Qingliu celebrities even directly called Liangzhou people savages.
It's just that these people never seem to have thought that without these "savages" risking their lives.
Today's northwest frontier is no longer the northwest of the Chinese nation.
Instead, it became an attack by the northwest barbarians and even the northwest Western Turks. The springboard of the Central Plains.
At that time, the people of the Central Plains would be like the people of Longyou Road today, living under the shadow of the barbarians all year round.
But there are no ifs in this world, and they have never seen how bloody and tragic the war with the barbarians is.
Northwest is still northwest.
It is still a bitter and cold place in the eyes of the world.
It is still a wild place in the eyes of the world.
On the official road leading to Humaguan, a carriage was driving slowly and leisurely. The driver was a young man, and sitting in the carriage were his two wives.
The weather was not cold today, so Lu Wanjie and Su Qingling opened the curtains and sat on the edge of the carriage chatting with Li Chengqian who was driving.
Li Chengqian was naturally very happy about this.
After all, it is much better to have someone to chat with you than to drive alone in a boring car.
Originally, he took the two women out to see the road he had traveled and to relax.
What does it mean to be silent all the way?
But just as the carriage was driving slowly, he suddenly saw a large group of people approaching.
There were about fifty people in this team, all dressed in black armor and white robes with red tassels on their heads. They were obviously dressed as soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
The leader was in his early thirties, with a muscular build, a face full of flesh, and a ferocious appearance, especially a pair of large ring-shaped eyes with a fierce glare, which made him particularly scary.
After the man came over, he scolded the team and kept his eyes on the two women in the carriage, never turning away.
Both women are stunning beauties.
Lu Wanjie is as beautiful as a fairy, and Su Qingling is as smart and lovely as her name suggests.
At this time, a horse came out from behind the man and came to his side.
This man raised his finger and pointed at Li Chengqian, and said angrily: "Sir, he was the one who saved those bandits. I think he and the bandits are the same..."