"So how many people have you conquered so far?" Shen Xi met his gaze directly.

"Do you know that just like Li Ingot was able to succeed in opposing Qin, as long as a person cannot obtain absolute power and suppress all the thoughts of everyone, he cannot be said to be able to dominate everything at all. ”

"It doesn't have to be absolute power, you forget, in addition to power, there is also the word power in the world. ”

He paced back to his place and said, "Do everything in your power to conquer what you can conquer, and balance and contain what you can't."

"People have seven emotions and six desires, and any emotions and desires can be regarded as human weakness, as long as you aim at this and make good use of it. ”

He was like a kind old man, who spoke patiently to her.

But under this seemingly benign face, the greed and cunning between the lines cannot be concealed.

Shen Xi stared at his eyebrows, and then said, "When did you start thinking of this?"

"It's hard to say exactly when. He smiled back, "It's not something that can be done overnight.

"When I was nine years old, I was finally quietly converted to the sect, and even kept a low profile to the point that I just went to the temple and kowtowed.

"I became a little boy who was never qualified to appear in the Qi family, and I just waited for the future when I grew up, and I found a foreign woman to get engaged and married before Qi Weifeng, so I completed my mission.

"Because of this existential value, I have gained some power accordingly. With an independent small courtyard, you can also read and practice martial arts.

"That winter, with Prince Cheng's permission, I bought a puppy to keep me company.

"It's very close to me, it's very clingy to me, and every time I come into the hospital, it chases me all the way out and wraps around my trouser legs.

"I also feed it very carefully, give it a name, and even quietly take it to sleep with me.

"Everyone thinks it's a treasure, but one day when I was playing with it, I imagined the tip of the knife cutting through its neck, and I was inexplicably excited, and then I actually found a knife and killed it.

"I still remember the look in my eyes as it lay in a pool of blood, twitching and mourning. Then I made up another stab and it couldn't move anymore. ”

The corners of Shen Xi's mouth twitched twice.

He smiled and looked over: "A noble girl like you who likes to give small favors to flaunt her goodness will definitely not be able to experience this kind of pleasure, but this is control."

"You have complete control over the power in your hands, and that's a fatal temptation for me. No one requires it to trust me, it cares about me, and I can't destroy it.

"My heart has been bewildered and lost since I was four years old, and after the killing, I have gained a long-lost excitement.

"It turns out that there are things in this world that I can control, as long as I am stronger than him, I can control him, this is the truth. ”

Shen Xi held his breath for a while.

At this point, Bi Shangyun's smile made her feel a little creepy.

In that kind of atmosphere, at first glance, they still had a bit of a heart-to-heart conversation, but at this moment, she only felt that her heart was already hairy.

How can you not be afraid of a person who can come to such a conclusion, a person who knows almost all his secrets and is able to know everything so calmly and so indifferently?

But this fear is not the fear of being threatened to life, but the inconceivable twist of the human heart.

Doesn't it mean that adversity only trains people? It turns out that it can also lead people in another direction.

"So later, Zhang Ying was killed like a pet by you?" she said with a wry smile.

"I didn't kill her, you know that. He said.

"Then when did you start working on your ambitions?" Shen Xi asked.

"At the age of thirteen. He took another sip of tea, "The palace invited a martial artist, and after I changed my surname to Qi when I was nine years old, I was also arranged to follow the martial arts."

"Martial artists can't do it, they also know that the children of the nobles, except for those generals, will not really want to practice martial arts.

"I am very careful, because I am afraid that I will be destroyed by the princesses and princesses immediately after I get married in the future, and I must learn the ability to save my life.

"So I'm very hard at learning, and I don't want people to find out, so I usually practice secretly when I find no one.

"Later, I realized that the level of martial artists was too poor, so I found another reason to borrow the mouths of the county kings to change someone who was really capable to come in.

"This martial artist is mixed in the rivers and lakes, knows a lot of sideways, and knows a lot of people in the rivers and lakes. Of course, he didn't know that I had eavesdropped on him in private.

"But at that time, I just had an impression in my mind, and I didn't really get in touch.

"Later, when I was thirteen years old, Concubine Liu finally found a Tuoba woman for me to wife, and the marriage was set, she was also relieved, and I could finally go out for a walk.

"But I found that I was still out of place in the circle, and even when I was standing in the crowd, I always looked like an invisible person. That year, I met Duan You. ”

"Yunnan Governor Duan You?" Shen Xi narrowed his eyes.

"I know a lot. He laughs. Then go down: "At that time, he was not the prefect of Yunnan, but a small prefect who came to Beijing in a remote place to report on work.

"He wanted to go to the door and transfer but there was no way out, so I lent him a sum of money, which was equivalent to sending charcoal in the snow.

Duan Yu regarded me as a benefactor, I invited him to tea, and he actually talked to me about a lot of current affairs.

"I have to say that the Helian people of your generation are more knowledgeable than ordinary people, and in short, knowing him has dispelled the idea of fishing him up from the bottom and giving him a taste of losing everything.

"-I really love this kind of game where people and things are firmly in my hands, but Duan You's insight made me decide to keep him. ”

"So he got your funding, and he got the shortage of Yunnan prefects, and then you planned to raise troops?" Shen Xi said the next words.

"The army was a later thing. Do you think that the Qi family can be defeated by saying it? No matter how high my heart is higher than the sky, the reality in front of me will only make me know how to forbear. Bi Shangyun sneered slightly, with a little disapproval.

"However, the appearance of Duan You is indeed the key, he has been outside Beijing for many years, and he has analyzed the situation of the three clans with me, and when he talks about the crisis that the imperial court is facing, I feel a lot more open in my heart.

"It turns out that Daqin is already going to be so tight, I think even if I can't overthrow Daqin by myself and stand in the position that those ten thousand people look up to, at least there are ready-made contradictions in front of me at that time.

"The conflict between the three races is my best weapon, maybe I can use it to finally get the honor I want.

"After Duan You went to Yunnan, I first set my eyes on the current situation.

At that time, the situation was that the imperial court was preparing to turn the tide and stabilize the people's hearts, but some of the rotten Helian nobles who controlled the soldiers and horses were still drunk and dreamed of death, and took the words of the imperial court as the wind in their ears.

"I felt like I was at my best time, so I waited for the opportunity to split. ”