Gu Qi saw that Ji Qingchen had regained his former self-confidence in just a moment, he was very happy in his heart, and secretly thought that he really didn't follow the wrong person, so he began to explain, "Your Highness, Kaizhi's best strategy is to take advantage of the situation, that is, we can help the crown princess's strength, strengthen ourselves, and then use the princess's strength to deal with other princes who want to compete for the position of the East Palace." ”

Seeing that Ji Qingchen was concentrating on his own explanation, Gu Qi continued, "The crown princess is the granddaughter of the patriarch of the Wei clan, one of the seven great families of Dayan, the crown prince died in Yanmen Pass ten years ago, which made the Wei family's expectations for the prince go down the drain, and now they need someone who can replace the prince and be able to fight for their greatest interests in the future, and His Royal Highness has such ability, if you throw an olive branch to the Wei family at this time, presumably they will not refuse." Your Royal Highness, although the influence of the Wei family in the court has declined in the past few decades, but they have embarked on the road of doing business in another way, and after decades of development, they have won the title of imperial businessman, which shows how strong the financial resources are, as long as His Royal Highness can get the trust of the crown princess, he can get the support of the huge financial resources of the Wei family of Shangzhou, and it will not be a problem for His Royal Highness to gather some people in a short period of time. ”

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded slightly.

Gu Qi continued, "However, if you want to gain the trust of the crown princess, Your Highness must give up her desire to compete for the crown prince, and instead support the king of Huaide County wholeheartedly. The king of Huaide County is the only son of the crown prince, and the crown princess is the mother of the king of Huaide County, how can he not want his son to inherit the throne? However, although she was the daughter of the Wei family of the Eight Great Families of Dayan, she was suffering from no one in the court and no one supported her, and her strength was not enough, so she chose to forbear and retreat. Now that His Royal Highness has returned to King's Landing, as long as he shows his heart to the Crown Princess, I believe that the Crown Princess will not refuse His Highness's kindness. ”

"No, Qingchen must not give up the position of the prince and preside over Ji Zhao." Ye Qingchen immediately retorted, because of the reason he blurted out in a hurry, he called Ji Qingchen with a title that the two of them could only use in private.

"Brother Zhongkang, don't worry, since it is said to be a strategy, how can you really let His Highness support King Huaide? This is just a delaying tactic for us, just a trick to cover our eyes, using the strength of the crown princess and the Shangzhou Wei clan, as long as we wait until His Royal Highness's strength grows, we will start anew, and it will not be too late to compete for the position of the prince at that time! Gu Qi said with a smile

As Ye Qingchen's old friend, Gu Qi knew the other party's temper very well, so he didn't care about Ye Qingchen's cold rebuttal.

"This is not good, you can't let Your Highness lose your trust in the world!" Ye Qingchen continued to retort, but this time he did not call Qingchen again, but changed his name to His Royal Highness, and he said righteously, "Since ancient times, kings should abide by benevolence and righteousness, and win the world with trust......

"Brother Zhongkang, now that the eight kings are vying for the crown prince, it is the time of life and death, who will talk about morality? What do you want to do with morality? Morality, you can only wait until you are strong first, you are weak, and your life may not be saved, what qualifications do you have to be moral? Gu Qi interrupted Ye Qingchen's tirade and retorted conciliatorily.

Ji Qingchen saw that his uncle and Gu Qi were about to start arguing again, so he immediately said, "Mr. Gu, please continue to explain the middle strategy." ”

"Your Royal Highness, this middle strategy is to be like the King of Linjiang, the King of Changsha Ji Yong and His Royal Highness the Seventh to cling to a certain prince, hide his true intentions, and slowly develop his strength, and when the princes fight to the point that their Royal Highness is defeated, then they will reap the benefits." After Gu Qi finished speaking, he paused and continued, "The advantage of the middle strategy is to be safe, not to put yourself in a dangerous situation, and to be able to protect yourself wisely, the disadvantage is that you need to wait too long, and you have to send someone to the fence, maybe you may have to make a wedding dress for someone else." ”

Ji Qingchen nodded slightly, did he mean anything.

Gu Qi continued to say to himself, "As for the next strategy, after His Royal Highness returns to King's Landing, he will make his position clear, that is, he wants to compete for the position of the prince and compete with several princes of King's Landing." The advantage of this is that His Royal Highness has an obvious position, and it will definitely immediately attract the support of a group of people with lofty ideals who have grudges with several princes, and will also be favored by His Majesty because of His Royal Highness's bright behavior and open-mindedness. As for the disadvantages - presumably Kaizhi does not mention that His Highness himself knows it very well. ”

After Gu Qi finished speaking, he stared at Ji Qingchen with blazing eyes, waiting for Ji Qingchen's ruling.

Ji Qingchen pondered for a moment and asked, "Qingchen still has a question for Mr. Gu." ”

"Your Highness, please speak."

"Since the Wei family has supported the eldest brother, even if the eldest brother dies in battle, there is still his only son, Ji Zhao, the king of Huaide County, as the eldest grandson of Ji Zhao, he still has the qualifications to compete for the position of the prince, coupled with the strength and connections of the Wei family, it is not difficult to become a powerful force, but why would the Wei family be willing to give up this nephew and support Qingchen, an outsider?" Ji Qingchen asked puzzled.

"Your Highness, in fact, in the past ten years, the Wei family has always focused on the King of Huaide, so he has not chosen to support several other princes. It's just that more than ten years have passed in a flash, and the king of Huaide County is already eleven years old, but His Majesty still doesn't have any expression, not only does not express, it seems that he has long forgotten the existence of this emperor's eldest grandson, but several princes are able to stay in the center to participate in the government, and they have a faint tendency to stay in the East Palace. That's why Gu Qi is so sure that the Wei clan will no longer waste money and energy on the King of Huaide, because with the current situation of the King of Huaide, they can't see a little expectation in him. And Your Royal Highness you are different, Your Highness has been in Yan for ten years, and this time you can return to China, it is the will of Your Majesty to personally give you, and let you participate in the school competition, which obviously has the meaning of cultivation. The Wei clan is not stupid, how can they not know how great the future of His Royal Highness Lu Dao will be in the future, with the profit-seeking nature of the Wei family's merchants, how could they let go of such a good opportunity? Gu Qi carefully analyzed to Ji Qingchen.

"If that's the case, why do we have to get involved with the crown princess?" Ji Qingchen asked suspiciously, he felt that since he could directly get the support of the Wei family, there was no need for him to take another detour to use the crown princess. After all, such an insidious use of a pair of orphans and widows, he was a little unhappy in his heart. Besides, let him support a nephew who has not met once and does not know the temperament of the Dao, even if it is only temporary, he is unwilling.

"Because the crown princess is a buffer, a buffer for the cooperation between His Highness and the Wei family, and a buffer between His Highness and the princes of King's Landing. If there is no crown princess, His Royal Highness must face Wei if he wants to get the support of Wei, and until now, His Royal Highness has not had any intersection with Wei, and it is a bit inappropriate to cooperate with Wei. There is also the current strength of His Royal Highness, even with the support of the Wei family, if you want to fight with several princes in King's Landing, it is also an egg to hit a stone, but with the crown princess, it is different, with the identity and strength of the crown princess, His Royal Highness can avoid a lot of conflicts in King's Landing in the future. Gu Qi calmly analyzed, "And the most important point is that the crown princess still has a strong force in her hand, if His Royal Highness doesn't get this force, he will not talk about competing for the position of prince, because he is not qualified at all." ”

"What kind of force is it?" Ji Qingchen didn't expect Gu Qi to say this, and couldn't help but be curious while being surprised, and his eyes flashed with a terrifying gaze.

"Northern Liao Iron Cavalry!" Gu Qi said word by word.

"Northern Liao Iron Cavalry?" Ji Qingchen repeated, he knew that ten years ago, his eldest brother supervised the Yanmen Pass, because he must take the lead in every battle, he was known as the first lance of Dayan, and was deeply respected by the Northern Liao soldiers, but now it has been ten years since the eldest brother died in battle, and the crown princess has never been to Yanmen Pass, what does a weak woman like her have to do with the Northern Liao Iron Cavalry?

"Yes, Your Highness, aren't you going back to King's Landing this time to prepare for the school competition? With the strength of His Royal Highness's disciple Li Qingyi, the god of the country's army, it is not difficult to win the leader, but it is rare that His Majesty will reward you and where he will seal you. Therefore, Kai Zhi boldly suggested to His Highness that if he waited for His Highness's victory in the school field, His Majesty wanted to ask His Highness where he wanted to go, and asked His Highness to take the initiative to invite Ying to Liaozhou. ”

"For what? Is it just for the Northern Liao Iron Ride? This time, Ji Qingchen was quite surprised.

Because on the way back to China, he and Ye Qingchen thought about it several times, and thought that after the victory in the school field, he should go to Xizhou to take up a post. Because Ningzhou is the territory of the Liu family, the Liu family has been operating in Ningzhou for hundreds of years, even if he goes to Ningzhou, it is useless, he can only be a trapped dragon. And Yizhou has Jiang Rengui in charge, Jiang Rengui is one of the four famous generals of Dayan, the leopard general, and the supporter of Lao Bajiqian, how can Yizhou with Jiang Rengui have his turn to speak. The remaining Liaozhou is a place of war, and there are many power dumps, and the Northern Liao army is even more mountainous, and it is difficult to grasp it in a short time. Only Xizhou is different, there are not many garrisons of Dayan near Jianmen Pass, if the Xizhou Governor's Mansion is established this time, the Governor's Mansion will definitely have to train a new army in order to be able to defend Xishu, and as the newly appointed Governor of Xizhou, Ji Qingchen can train the new army all over the place, cultivate his own strength, and master this army.

This is the strategy that he and Ye Qingchen finally decided, and now Gu Qi's suggestion is completely contrary to his strategy, and Gu Qi is such a sincere request, how can he not be surprised!

What is surprising is that this time Ye Qingchen did not refute again.

"It's for the Northern Liao Iron Ride. The world's elite soldiers go out of Northern Liao, as long as you master the military power of the Northern Liao army, Your Highness, you are qualified to compete for the prince. In addition, the four governors set up under His Majesty, in terms of geographical location, even if the three governors of Ningzhou, Xizhou and Yizhou are facing the three kingdoms of Liguo, Xishu and Southern Xinjiang, but because of geographical problems, the governor's office can only govern the military affairs of two or three states, which is not enough to meet the qualifications of setting up a metropolitan governor, and Liaozhou is different, Yingzhou and Liaozhou are mostly pastures, and if Dayan wants to deal with Beirong with all its might, it is necessary to gather the military strength around Yingzhou, Liaozhou, Shangzhou and Yunzhou, so the Liaozhou Governor's Mansion will govern the four prefectures of Yingzhou, Liaozhou, Yunnan and Shang. His Majesty will definitely set up a metropolitan governor's mansion in Liaozhou, and if His Royal Highness goes to Liaozhou, he will be a veritable governor of Northern Liao, and he will definitely surpass the other three governors in terms of authority and the number of troops. Gu Qi said with a smile, as if he had already guessed that Ji Qingchen was going to Xishu and intended to tempt Ji Qingchen.

After listening to Gu Qi's explanation, Ji Qingchen nodded slightly, expressing his agreement with his statement, but he did not give an immediate reply, but fell into deep thought. After a long time, he came back to his senses from his contemplation, took a deep breath, and said to Gu Qi, "Mr. Gu's words today are indeed deafening and deafening, which has benefited Qingchen a lot, and the upper, middle and lower three strategies that Mr. Gu just said have been spurred into the inside, so that Qingchen has a kind of broadness after seeing the clouds, and the haze in his heart shrouded in the past has been swept away. I was really happy. It's just that what Mr. Gu said today has a lot to do, and it is difficult to think about it for a while, and it will take a few days, so I hope Mr. Gu can understand. ”

"King's Landing is still a few days away, so your highness doesn't need to be anxious." Gu Qi also said with a smile, he was very useful to Ji Qingchen for being able to salute him like this, and he was also moved from the bottom of his heart.

At this time, Ji Qingchen looked out the window and found that it was already late, and it was already late at night, so he said to Gu Qi and Ye Qingchen, "If you have already discussed the book, and Mr. Gu has just come to Qingchen's side, although the pavilion is simple, the etiquette cannot be wasted, let Qingchen pick up the wind and wash the dust for Mr. Gu, and we will get drunk tonight!" ”

Gu Qi is a good drinker, and when it comes to drinking, he naturally won't refuse. Ye Qingchen and Gu Qi haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and they also want to catch up with old friends. The two nodded in agreement.

The problem in Ji Qingchen's heart was solved, his expression was happy, he immediately instructed Guo Lun outside the study to prepare wine and food, Guo Lun promised to leave, and the three of them slowly walked out of the study and walked to the front hall.