Li Yuan hurriedly got up and shouted towards the reassurance of Jinling City, "The minister is ashamed! The emperor's grace is immense, and the ministers have nothing to repay, but to die effectively to repay His Majesty's grace!"

"Huh." Li Hongji smiled faintly, "The emperor's grace is mighty? In the eyes of this king, you don't have to be grateful for the emperor's grace, do you think your father really trusts you?"

Li Yuan paused, still calmly and said, "Your Majesty's holy will will not allow your subordinates to speculate, and your ministers are always grateful for Your Majesty's kindness......

Li Hongji snorted and said, "There are no outsiders here, why do you want to behave like this in front of this king? If you are really grateful to your father, this king suggests that you might as well go to the imperial court, take the initiative to relieve the military power and return to Jinling, and become a general ready to call at any time, hehe......

Li Yuan, all your actions in the past year have made this king really a little chilling. Li Yuan, this king believed in you very much before, when he was in Qingliang Temple, this king himself said that he would treat you as a guest in the future, because your old father-in-law treated me with sincerity and loyalty, and this king believed in his vision.

But now this king has to doubt his ability to recommend people, because this king finds that he is becoming more and more unable to see through you, can you tell me that you are really willing to help me? Can this king trust you?"

Li Hongji turned around and looked at Li Yuan with his eyes like electricity.

Li Yuan frowned, and arched his hand and asked, "Your Highness, the minister doesn't know what happened to arouse His Highness's suspicions, but the minister has always been cautious in his words and deeds, and he has never done anything unfavorable to His Highness."

"You didn't answer the king's question." Li Hongji said coldly: "It is true that this king did not agree with you in the past, and you have been the king's person since then, but don't you know your father-in-law's position? Or is it that you and he are one family, but they do not have the same heart?"

Li Yuan responded calmly: "My father-in-law supports His Highness, and my ministers are naturally inclined to His Highness because of his father-in-law's great favor. Your Highness remembers that it was the minister who suggested that His Highness beware of King Zheng—"

"Yes." Li Hongji interrupted directly: "If you want to say that, this king is a little speechless. That's right, you suggested that the king test the heart of the sixth Tao, and the result was really as you said, since then the king secretly admires your eyesight, but unfortunately the king acted carelessly at that time, but the sixth seized the opportunity to take the throne, and was counterattacked.

Since that incident, you have gone west with the army, and then you have built a festival in Chudi, thousands of miles away from this king, and since then you have cut off contact with this king, but this king once naively thought that you built a section to take charge of the army in order to become the king's arm, so he also went with you.

However, when this king led his army to the north, he specially instructed Zhou to stay behind, and asked him to try to inform you that he wanted you to lead your army north to help, but you were full of promises, but you shirked it on the grounds that you urgently needed to expand the army, and when your father refuted Zhou's reluctance, you went to do your own thing."

Li Yuan said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, at that time, when Wuping was first established, the elite of the Wei Shengjun under the command of the minister was taken away a lot by Chen Envoy, in addition, all the Langzhou soldiers who had not been decided for a long time after surrendering, and there were strong enemies all around Chudi......

Furthermore, since His Majesty has clearly decreed that the minister will not be allowed to lead the army north, and the minister is ordered to concentrate on calming down Dongxi, should the minister resist the decree?"

In fact, Li Hongji had long understood that even if Li Yuan was harshly criticized in front of him, Li Yuan would definitely have a very legitimate reason to justify, but he still shook his head with resentment on his face and said, "It is true that the will of my father cannot be violated, but you are really obedient!" A decree should be kept for a long time, until the whole army of this king is destroyed! The battlefield is changing rapidly, you need to know that a town festival envoy has the right to dictate himself in times of war, do you know the pain and suffering of this king who was defeated and returned in a hurry! What a shame!

Li Yuan, after returning to the dynasty, this king always vaguely feels that you are deliberately evading the instructions given to you by this king, and in fact, you have been taking the opportunity to expand your strength, and you are really so angry that this king can't sleep for a few days, and I can't wait to pull you here and cut you a few times! But I still thought that you went to Shouzhou to quell the rebellion at that time, and at that time you were in a bitter battle, and it was Yu Guochao's merit that made me feel better."

Is it pain? Is it regret? Or jealousy? Li Yuan suddenly understood that the bitter and hateful King Yan in front of him should also know that he couldn't justifiably blame himself, anyway, he was probably venting his long-standing dissatisfaction and frustration in his heart, after all

King Yan was defeated too badly, but on the other hand, he won many battles......

However, thinking about his isolation and helplessness in Xiapi City at that time, and thinking about the fact that only a few dozen horsemen of the 50,000 army fled back in embarrassment, I couldn't help but feel a deep pity, a kind of pity for the strong for the weak.

Li Yuan then let out a long sigh, shook his head and said, "Your Highness, you are really wrong! Do you think the minister doesn't want to go north to help you? At that time, he was really weak, so the minister also deliberately advanced the date of marriage, originally thinking that he would go to Jinling to welcome his relatives during the expansion period, and the expansion of the army would be completed after returning to Langzhou, and he would immediately send troops to the north.

It's a pity, alas, people are not as good as heaven, but on the way to welcome relatives, they happened to encounter Li Jinquan's rebellion, which no one expected.

In fact, at the beginning of the Bagong Mountain outside Shouzhou City, Haozhou Assassin Shi Mengwat had suggested that the minister lead the army north to rescue His Royal Highness, but the rebels were helpless to hold on to the city, and the war was difficult to determine for a while. If it threatens Jinling and the imperial court, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Your Highness thinks about it, if the country is broken and the monarch dies, even if His Highness helps His Highness win a battle in the north, it will definitely not last long with a lone army, even if we are lucky enough to return to the south, you and I will not be able to face the people of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the minister and Liu Renzhan and Liu Dashuai thought about it again and again, and finally did not dare to lead the army north, but in fact, it was for the sake of His Highness and the overall situation!

The defeat of His Royal Highness is not the fault of His Highness, but the will of heaven for a while, and it is just because of the peak of Zhou's national qi."

"Zhou Guo, the number of qi is at its peak?" Li Hongji frowned and muttered for a while, and suddenly remembered the palpitating figure in his mind, the commander of the Zhou army named Guo Rong, who felt remorse in his heart, and then sighed lightly: "Forget it, in the end, is this king wrong to blame you?"

Li Yuan immediately said, "Your Highness, you also mentioned it just now, and the minister said it bluntly. Throughout the ages, it has been difficult for those who are in charge of heavy troops outside the country not to be feared by the imperial court. And the minister's father-in-law has always been loyal to you, even if the minister doesn't admit it, who in the Manchu Dynasty doesn't think that the minister is your person? Therefore, the minister had to be cautious in his actions, because no matter what kind of behavior the minister had, the court would definitely associate it with His Royal Highness.

Besides, the relationship between the minister and King Zheng, presumably His Royal Highness should know, and the minister does not support His Highness, is there a choice? The minister will inevitably consider for His Highness, which can be seen every day!

Therefore, the minister sincerely hopes that His Highness will not doubt the appointment of people, and he will definitely trust the minister in the future."

Li Hongji raised his head and sneered, "Are you saying that this king is suspicious? If this is the case, will you still be alive today? Or do you think that now that the king has lost power and has no power, he will not be able to clean you up? This king tells you that once you have entered the troubled waters of the court, you should never have the childish idea of staying out of it."

Li Yuan was silent for a while, and wanted to reorganize the language in his heart to deal with it, but he heard a word that caught him off guard and was enough to make his heart feel like a darkness.

"Zhou Xingfeng, do you think he is really the sixth person?"

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