Li Jing seemed to be very puzzled in the face of King Xu's order, and asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty, before coming here, in order to live up to Your Majesty's trust, Li Jing had already handed over all the affairs of Chentangguan to the old general Yin Rui. If you want to enter the city, your majesty can go, why did you come to ask me? ”

In the face of Li Jing's such reversal of black and white, but it is reasonable and reasonable, there is no flaw, or there is no trace of lies, especially Li Jing's expression, it looks like this. The camp tent, including Huang Feihu and others, all had a feeling of powerlessness, and this General Li's ability to pretend to be stupid is really high.

The king looked at the old and spicy in front of him, not leaking, and he picked up the heavy soldiers of Chen Tangguan with one hand, and said secretly in his heart: Is this your original face, talking nonsense with your eyes open, I didn't expect that I would still hit my own foot in the end.

Knowing that Li Jing seemed to want to carry it to the end, there was no other room at all. The king retreated left and right, leaving Huang Feihu alone in this tent.

"Okay, now there are no outsiders in this camp, Li Jing, you say, what do you want to do, I have run out of patience, if you are not willing to help me, I am also ready to attack the city directly." ”

The previous series of offensives of the King of Xuan were all relatively imaginary things. In fact, it was also the misjudgment of the king himself, who wanted to oppress Li Jing from the righteousness, that is, the righteousness of the monarch and the minister.

It's a pity that Li Jing doesn't have this concept in his heart at all, or just that under normal circumstances, Li Jing will follow the customs of the countryside and properly express his respect for the emperor.

But deep down, Li Jing actually didn't take the position of King Su too seriously, so how could he be bound by these so-called morals. After all, Li Jing has been visiting immortals since he was a child, and now he is expected to become a god, which is different from Yin Rui and Huang Feihu.

If there is a similar person among the big businessmen, it may be Wen Zhong. I respect the emperor of the people, and I am loyal to the big merchants, but when I think that the actions and policies of the king of Shang are wrong, I will also point out mercilessly and use my own methods to make him correct.

"Your Majesty, why do you have to go to war, as long as you wait for another ten or a hundred years according to my policy, this Dongyi clan will naturally slowly integrate into my Great Shang, and it is not good to be able to solve this problem peacefully without killing. ”

Li Jing ignored the threat of the King of Zhou, and when he saw that the King of Zhou was so straightforward, he did not pretend to be pretentious, and persuaded directly.

"Li Jing, didn't we say it very clearly when we were in Muye, why do you regret it now. Or is it that from the beginning you were just trying to get a position as a general soldier, and the rest was all perfunctory. ”

The king suddenly stared at Li Jing solemnly, and a majestic aura as the lord of Kyushu suddenly appeared, and pressed directly towards Li Jing. Li Jing also looked at Zixin with dignity, and said with a clear conscience: "What I said back then, Li Jing, felt that it was sincere, and I was also very convinced of His Majesty's grand strategy, but I didn't dare to agree with some of His Majesty's policies. ”

At that time, although Li Jing felt that the strategy of King Xuan wanting to completely unify the eastern part of the flood wilderness directly through a war was inappropriate, he still supported it on the whole.

But later, Li Jing thought about it carefully and felt that it was impossible to rely on a war to be able to do as King Su imagined, once and for all.

In other words, only a temporary peace can be achieved, and the seeds of hatred will inevitably be planted, unless these foreign races, including other princes, can be completely exterminated, otherwise one day, the Great Chamber of Commerce will reap the consequences.

In order to do a good job as a general soldier, especially at Chentangguan, a place where the strength of all parties meets, Li Jing also made a lot of hard work and carefully studied it.

Throughout the history of the human race, except for the war against the fierce beasts, it can be said that the people who are not of our race will have different hearts. Since then, the growth of successive dynasties, the integration of various ethnic groups and tribes has never been through the means of war.

It is often peaceful and mutually beneficial, just like the Xuanyuan Holy Emperor for the Sanmiao, the descendants of Chiyou, and the Qingxu Emperor for Dongyi, they are not just wars.

Of course, this concept also coincides with Li Jing's proposition, or the path of Shinto. Li Jing, who took Dongyi as his Shinto foundation, was naturally even more unlikely to agree with King Xu's strategy.

"Your Majesty, you may not know, but you should also wonder why the Dongyi clan is so weak, and why His Majesty the Shang Kings of the past dynasties have not been able to completely annex Dongyi. Over the years, I have slowly figured out the most fundamental reason, that is, the Dongyi clan that is now left behind, their ancestors are still alive and have become the supreme of the underworld, with him, how can they sit back and watch Dongyi completely perish. In order to be able to convince the king, Li Jing also tried his best to stop having any reservations.

"Hmph, do you think that I, as the emperor of the Great Shang, will not count this, so my strategic purpose has always been not Dongyi, but the princes of the East China Sea and the North Sea, don't you know this. The King smiled disdainfully, then replied.

"Well, now that I've said that, I won't hold it back. Second brother, the reason why I don't want you to react to this war is that I haven't always advertised that I am all the people of Chentangguan, so that those Dongyi people can avoid the suffering of war. I am also selfish, and the second brother has also heard of the gods, which is different from the other group of immortals who can live forever. This Shinto is the path that I, Li Jing, are ready to take, and those Dongyi people are believers who have prepared for me, so I will not let this war come back no matter what, and I hope that the second brother can be fulfilled. ”

Seeing that the secret news about Dayi that he said could not shake the belief of King Xu, Li Jing changed his method. Tell the king directly, I, Li Jing, am because of selfish desires, in order to be able to become a god, and to live forever. At the same time, he also called the king the second brother, hoping to shake the king through family affection.

Hearing Li Jing say this, King Su was also a little surprised, but he felt that it was really reasonable. Unexpectedly, Li Jing was not ready to become an immortal, and he felt that it was reasonable because, he felt that maybe this was the fundamental reason why Li Jing fought against him to the end. In fact, the king really doesn't believe that there are sages in this world who are completely selfless, he thinks that as long as it is a human race, it will be selfish.

Therefore, Li Jing's words seemed to have had an effect, and the king was silent for a long time after listening to it, and even Huang Feihu looked at Li Jing with interest.

"Why do you need Dongyi people, can't people from other places? You need to become a god, you need believers, as long as you are willing to help me this time, you can spread your faith anywhere in Dashang. ”

However, the king was still unmoved, but instead used this to advise Li Jing, hoping that Li Jing could give up Dongyi and Chentangguan. Of course, Li Jing naturally wouldn't agree, feeling that he had already said what he should have said, and his attitude had been put here, and he was silent at the moment. In fact, the reason why Li Jing told the king everything was not for anything else, but to show how firm and unshakable his attitude was.

Seeing that Li Jing was unmoved, the king was a little helpless, then sighed and said:

"Li Jing, why didn't you say it earlier, now that I have announced to the world, I said that I was going to conquer Dongyi, and I also brought 100,000 troops here, how do you tell me to repent. Now it's not a question of whether I want to or not, for the honor of the Dashang royal family, for the majesty of being the Son of Heaven, I must fight this battle. ”