Li Daozong looked at Fang Jun, who had an indifferent expression, and immediately felt quite speechless.
What does it mean to start a war as soon as possible?
After all, you are also a subordinate of the East Palace, and you have to take the overall situation into consideration when necessary. How can you act as willfully as you did in the past?
He reminded: "Liu Jie and others may have nothing to do, but Erlang, you should also consider His Highness's position before acting. His Highness has a lot of favor and trust in you, and because you have always been there to help and support, you have a sense of indebtedness and cannot bear to be harshly criticized.
To you. But after all, Your Highness is Your Highness, the Crown Prince of the country, the dragon lurking in the abyss, and the Crown Prince's prestige cannot be blasphemed in the slightest."
These words can be said to be frank and honest, and speak from the heart.
Regardless of whether the king or the prince, they are the supreme existence in the world. They cannot be equated with relatives, friends, old friends, or official superiors. As the saying goes, "Thunder and rain are all the kindness of the king." The king's kindness to you is a reward, but you cannot equate it with
Take it for granted.
Otherwise, you will not know how to advance or retreat...
Many people understand this truth, but they can only experience it in their hearts. It is inevitably a bit taboo to say it out loud. If they are not close friends, they will definitely not say it casually.
Fang Jun nodded, smiled to show his appreciation, but asked: "What the prince said is reasonable... but how can the prince determine what His Highness the Crown Prince wants?"
Li Daozong was stunned for a moment, frowned and said: "In today's situation, the Guanlong rebels have always had the upper hand, and the East Palace is in danger of falling at any time. From your Highness's position, if you are making a false compromise with the rebels, you will suffer a little grievance and lose some prestige."
It is acceptable. The most important thing is to put down this mutiny as soon as possible. The prince is still there, so there is still reason to care about grievances and prestige. If the prince is not there, there is no room for grievances and loss of prestige."
The truth is easy to understand. For the prince, as long as he can keep his position as heir apparent, he can calmly reckon with it no matter how much he loses today and get it back twice as much in the future. If he even loses his position as heir apparent, the end result will be the annihilation of his entire family and misfortune.
If you die suddenly, what's the use of worrying about other things?
Li Jing on the side was holding a teacup and drinking tea, his brows slightly furrowed, thoughtfully.
Fang Jun shook his head slightly: "If the county prince is not His Highness, how can I know what His Highness thinks?"
"Hey!"
Li Daozong said angrily: "You are not His Highness, how do you know His Highness doesn't think so?"
Fang Jun took a sip of tea and asked with a smile: "I planned the attack on the East Neiyuan, and then used it as an excuse to start a war with the rebels, which caused the peace talks to be frustrated and forced to terminate... Guess what, prince?
"Does Your Highness know what's wrong with this?"
Although the Youtun Guards were reorganized by Fang Jun, he was selfless in his heart and allowed the army commander sent by the imperial court to control military discipline and act as eyes and ears. Therefore, how could any actions in the army be concealed from Li Chengqian?
Li Daozong was stunned for a long time, puzzled: "Isn't it because His Highness favors you and condones you doing such nonsense?"
Fang Jun shook his head and smiled without saying a word.
Li Jing, who had been silent all the time, said: "His Highness is indeed a bit softer in temperament, but he is not an ignorant person. No matter how much he favors his ministers, he cannot show unprincipled favoritism, especially when it comes to the overall situation of life and death."
He looked at Fang Jun: "So why does Your Highness sit back and watch you ruin the peace talks?"
Fang Jun said: "Of course His Highness does not want the peace talks to continue, but the civil servants are trying their best to promote the peace talks, and His Highness cannot insist on going his own way, lest he chills the hearts of the civil servants, so he indulges me and just goes with the flow."
Li Jing said dissatisfied: "I am asking your Highness the reason for doing this."
No matter how you look at it, peace talks are the best way to solve the current crisis. Especially the prince who is facing a life-or-death disaster should seek stability and work hard to promote peace talks.
Because once the army is defeated, Li Jing or Fang Jun may survive, but as a prince, he has no luck.
Fang Jun spread his hands: "I am not Your Highness, how can I know what Your Highness thinks?"
Li Daozong was angry.
These are the words he just said, and they were returned intact by Fang Jun, with a strong sense of ridicule...
However, since Fang Jun didn't want to say it clearly, he naturally avoided it, so he stopped asking.
But my heart was turbulent, and I was speculating on the reason why the prince was unwilling to negotiate peace, but I couldn't figure it out even though I tried my best...
*****
Compared with the joy and excitement in the inner gate, the atmosphere inside Yanshoufang is gloomy and depressing.
The officials who were coming and going were all very preoccupied. They held their breath and tiptoed as they walked, fearing to disturb the Guanlong bosses who were discussing matters in the hall and cause unexpected disasters...
In the side hall, Changsun Wuji was sitting behind the desk. Yu Wenji, Linghu Defen, Dugu Lan, He Lanyan and others were all present, but the whole room was silent and the atmosphere was solemn.
Both armies were defeated, and the eldest son Jiaqing was captured alive by an unknown person from the Youtun Guards in the midst of the chaos. A total of more than 100,000 troops lost their helmets and armor, which was like a thunder that exploded in everyone's head, shocking everyone. These usually dignified bosses felt dizzy and their heads were buzzing.
The consequences are too serious...
After a long time, He Lanyan broke the deadlock and said in a deep voice: "The two armies were defeated, and the news spread everywhere. The nobles and troops who came to Guanzhong to help were all panicked and frightened. They must find ways to appease them, otherwise there will be chaos. ."
When Changsun Wuji was forced to send private troops into Guanzhong to support the Guanlong army under coercion and inducement, he must have been deeply dissatisfied. It would be fine if the war situation went smoothly. After the victory of the military remonstrance, everyone might have more Maybe you can get some benefits.
But now the situation is urgent. More than 100,000 troops were defeated by the Youtun Guards, and the leading generals along the way were even captured alive. The shock caused by this was enough to make the resentful private armies unwilling to lie dormant, because once the military remonstrance failed completely, they Any accomplice who "helps the emperor to commit evil" will be severely punished by the East Palace.
You came here unwillingly, how unjust would it be if you were punished again?
Therefore, these private armies must be secretly dissatisfied and waiting for an opportunity to cause trouble. Either they unite and demand withdrawal, or they simply collude secretly with the Eastern Palace to strike back...
In any case, once these clans and private armies start to stir up trouble, the already serious situation is likely to collapse in an instant.
Changsun Wuji had a tea cup in his hand. He seemed a little distracted and could not reply for a long time...
Yu Wenshiji glanced at Changsun Wuji, and slowly said to He Lanyan: "Wait a moment, I will personally rush to the various armies to comfort them. Even though they are here, I can't leave even if I want to."
Now that Tongguan has been garrisoned by Li Ji's hundreds of thousands of troops, it is easy for those private armies to come but difficult to leave. The left and right have already boarded the ship. Apart from working together to plan a major event, is there any way out?
He Lanyan nodded and said no more.
The Helan family was also famous for a time, but now it has long been disloyal, and the situation has been declining. There is no one in the Guanlong clan, and their strength is not ranked at all. No matter what the choice, the Helan family can only rely on Jing Cong.
We are all grasshoppers on the same rope. If we want to live, we will live together, if we want to die, we will die together...
There was another silence for a long time before Linghu Defen took a deep breath and sighed: "At the beginning of the army, more than 200,000 troops were roaring like fire. I thought that we would be successful soon, but who could have expected it? How could it lead to the current situation? Fang Jun seems to be born to be against the clan of Guanlong clan, and he has never been able to get any advantages from his hands."
If we want to say that among the Guanlong clan, Changsun Wuji ranks first among the Guanlong clan who have suffered the most from Fang Jun, then the second one is naturally Linghu Defen. Although he has devoted himself to writing books and cultivating his character in the past two years, for the past two years, Most of the grudges and grudges have been put aside, but as long as I think about the embarrassment when I was forced to hit a pillar in the Tai Chi Palace and was knocked unconscious, and the humiliation when my face was scratched by Wu Meiniang, I still feel twitching in my heart.
No one is a sage, so who can really stand up to the world and not take face and dignity into consideration? The open-mindedness and relief that he usually shows are mostly just a cover-up. After all, with Fang Jun’s current status and qualifications, he The humiliation suffered may never be washed away...
Dugu Lan glanced at him and said nothing, but he didn't think so in his heart.
You know clearly that the guy is a stick, but you still rely on your old man to show off your old age. If someone doesn't slap you in the face, who will hit you? When you are hurt by someone, you not only don't think about how to go, but you stay at home and don't dare to see anyone, euphemistically calling it "" "Writing a book to establish moral principles and cultivating one's character", you are so thick-skinned...
It's strange that in the face of this huge defeat that could affect the situation of the war, the big bosses did not discuss countermeasures immediately. Instead, they each lamented and expressed their feelings, as if it had nothing to do with them, and as if hundreds of thousands of troops had been defeated. It’s no big deal if you lose your armor after being beaten...
It's quite weird.
Changsun Wuji, who had been wandering around the world as if he was vulnerable to a blow, just sneered, put the tea cup on the desk, raised his head, looked around at everyone, and said slowly: "This defeat has led to an urgent situation, all because of problems with my strategy. Every responsibility I bear will be borne by me."