On the other side of the palace, Ling Chengsi and King Fenyang were still drinking tea in the council hall.

The bronze carved dragon incense burner in the hall smokes the dragon scale incense that King Fenyang loves, the fragrance is thin, but the fragrance is rich and long, and the white smoke is bent and bent, wafting upward.

The two didn't seem to talk much, but the atmosphere wasn't necessarily very calm.

"Tomorrow when Qi Guang returns to the DPRK, there must be another turmoil in the DPRK." King Fenyang sighed slightly, and a pair of thick eyebrows furrowed.

"Qi Guang is too young, and now His Majesty wants to promote him to two grades and six ranks in a row, and he will be directly promoted from Captain Zhaowu to General Xuanwei, and he will definitely be criticized by those civil officials."

"It is not an exaggeration for the prince to be named a general this time, not to mention that he is just a small Xuanwei general." Ling Chengsi's cold face had a hint of displeasure, "What Dongyun needs is such a young talent, not those wastes who work day in and day out. ”

"Third prince, please be careful." King Fenyang shook his head disapprovingly.

Ling Chengsi pursed his lips slightly and looked at King Fenyang.

Although Ruan Yingyang, the king of Fenyang, is close to fifty years old, he is still imposing, his thick eyebrows fly obliquely into his temples, his eyes are blazing, and his expression is not angry and arrogant.

He looked at Ling Chengsi with heavy eyes, and said in a low voice, "There are people in the court who don't want Qi Guang to come back and be sealed. ”

Ling Chengsi was shocked when he heard this, thinking that the King of Fenyang had left the council hall in a hurry before lunch, he had some guesses in his heart, and couldn't help asking, "Is the prince okay?" ”

"On the way back to Jinling, I encountered several ambushes, but fortunately, Qi Guang's subordinates were all good in the army, and they repelled those black-clothed masked thieves several times." King Fenyang's face was not very good-looking, "It's just that I failed to catch the live mouth and find out who was behind the scenes." ”

Ling Chengsi's face was slightly cold, "In my opinion, the motive of the Six Princes' Mansion is the greatest. ”

"It's hard to speculate at this point." King Fenyang shook his head, "Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, most of them are like this. ”

His thick eyebrows furrowed tightly, and he looked at Ling Chengsi with a hint of deep meaning, "Actually, this Xuanwei general, this king thinks it's still too high." ”

Ling Chengsi was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then immediately understood the implied meaning of King Fenyang's words, and his face, which had originally had a trace of vitality, slowly returned to expressionlessness and fell silent.

King Fenyang looked at Ling Chenghe, who was silently drinking tea, and stood up with a sigh. He paced back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, walked a few laps with heavy steps, and then stopped.

He seemed to have made up his mind in his heart, turned to look at the silent Ling Chenghe, his brows furrowed tightly, and he said to him with some seriousness, "Your Highness is so smart, you must have understood what I mean." ”

He put his hands behind his back, looked at Ling Chenghe, and said in a deep voice, "And I also know who His Highness is, so I don't shy away from it." ”

When Ling Chengsi heard this, a tangled and hesitant expression appeared on his cold face, and he opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he still didn't say anything.

"What the emperor is thinking now, this king can guess." King Fenyang said coldly.

"The most taboo thing you can do as a king is to have a scattered power, so that you can't control the whole country."

"Dongyun Kingdom has been the leader of the family for hundreds of years, and the family is precious. Historically, kings have come from the Cui family of Qinghe, the Meng family of Jinling, or the Ruan family of our Chenliu County. ”

"The family culture is deeply ingrained in this place, and it can be said that it threatens the rule of the king."

"Although this is the case, if you look at it on another side, the family and the imperial power are actually complementary to each other, and they cannot be separated separately at all."

"Therefore, this double-edged sword needs to be weighed and used by the king in order to make the Dongyun country strong and the people healthy."

King Fenyang snorted coldly, "However, our majesty is now making a wrong move, he wants to provoke the contradictions of the major families and weaken the power of the family to concentrate his power. ”

"But now, not to mention the huge cost of Sheng Jin's annual tribute to our country, the Akara tribe in the north is also eyeing Dongyun, and the south has just repelled the Nanning barbarians. In this case, he didn't think about appeasing the family and serving Dongyun well, but he was bent on provoking infighting to satisfy his selfish desires, could this be the work of a generation of Ming Jun? ”

"I deeply doubt it."

King Fenyang's emotions were quite excited, and he even changed his self-title.

When Ling Chengsi heard King Fenyang's words, his eyes were extremely complicated, and there seemed to be some fierce struggle in his heart.

He put down the teacup after a while, and said in a slightly low voice, "Indeed, my father made a mistake in this move. ”

"After all, this is the first generation of our Ling family's throne, and he sits on a high place, so he always feels that he is a little unstable."

He looked at the bronze incense burner with cigarettes in the distance, as if he was a little emotional, and a little trance.

King Fenyang calmed down, he glanced at Ling Chengsi and said, "You have half of the Ruan family's blood in your body, but our Ruan family didn't ask you to do anything because of this, and we didn't hesitate to stand on your side." You know why? ”

Ling Chengsi's eyes drooped slightly, and he did not answer King Fenyang's words.

King Fenyang didn't care, and continued, "In addition to the reason of your background, what this king values is that your selfishness is light and your public heart is heavy. What you care about most is not whether the imperial power is supreme and whether the throne can be passed on for many generations, but whether the Dongyun national strength is strong and whether the people can live and work in peace and contentment. ”

Ling Chengsi's expression was slightly moved, and he raised his eyes to look at King Fenyang tightly.

The last words of King Fenyang were like a thunderbolt, hitting Ling Chenghe's heart heavily, "If you become the monarch of the Dongyun Kingdom, the Dongyun Kingdom should achieve a prosperous era like Sheng Jin's. ”

A bright light appeared in Ling Chenghe's eyes, he glanced at King Fenyang deeply, and said lightly, "It seems that the prince has great expectations for Chenghei. ”

"The three princes actually agree with what the king just said." King Fenyang laughed and sat down on the chair opposite Ling Chengsi nonchalantly.

"The three princes are both the eldest and the elder, and they are the right candidates for the crown prince. Why does the emperor still drag on not establishing the crown prince? ”

"Lord Wang!" Ling Chengsi shouted in a low voice, his eyes heavy, "The prince has said too much today. ”

"This king doesn't say much, presumably the three princes have their own plans in their hearts." King Fenyang drank the tea in the teacup in one gulp, "It's just that I want to remind the third prince at the end, although the mother family of the sixth prince is the Qinghe Cui clan, which seems to be a great threat to you, but this king feels that Ling Chengyu, the seventh prince, is more worthy of your attention." ”

When Ling Chengsi heard King Fenyang's last words, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and said thoughtfully, "Ling Chengyu is a scheming man, and he seems to be generous and gentle, but in fact, he must be compared, I don't like him very much." ”

"The third prince knows what he knows," the king of Fenyang didn't say more, stood up, and ended this conversation, "What this king said today, please think about it." ”

Ling Chengsi also stood up, his face a little heavy. He nodded slightly, and his expression returned to a cold one.