Chapter 522 Resignation

"But you have already got a lot of things."

The elegant hall with a gorgeous landscape screen stood quietly in the dark brown deep decoration. The moonlight reflected on Xu Yuan's face with the elegant dim gold lamp. After thinking for a moment, he uttered this sentence slowly:

"Even, it has exceeded what you deserve."

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The look in Li Yunqing's eyes changed slightly.

There was surprise, but more of it was uneasiness.

He suddenly realized the purpose of Xu Xiang and even the Xiang party's silence in the court these days.

They have gained a lot of benefits in this feast of division.

Through the fault of the Xiangfu, many important positions in the court were re-controlled by the royal family.

Breaking the rules and paying the price is the logic of power operation.

The Xiangfu provoked the Sage Xien and put the Great Yan Imperial Capital in danger. This is a fault.

The high-level Xiang party was imprisoned and dismissed. This is a punishment.

The fault and punishment have been offset. Now they want more. Those who break the rules have become their Li family.

Everything should end here, and it must end here.

But the father seemed to want more, and wanted to play rogue to the Xiangguo Mansion, but from the perspective of strength, their royal family did not have the qualifications to play rogue to the Xiangguo Mansion.

"Calling Xu Xiang, what a good trick."

Li Yunqing let out a long breath, and looked at the wine in the bronze dish with his eyes downcast:

"Using stillness as movement, he teased the world with applause. When the world discovered his purpose, it was completely too late."

Xu Yuan shook his head and said softly:

"This is just a simple information gap, and hasn't my Xiangguo Mansion paid such a big price?"

At this point, Xu Yuan glanced at the dark sky outside the window:

"You have completely removed the hands of my Xiangguo Mansion from the city defense of Di'an."

This is actually a very dangerous signal.

The experience summarized from countless lessons in history tells the world that coups often take place in the imperial capital of the dynasty.

Di'an is the center of Da Yan and the center of the Xiangfu. The Xiangguo Mansion is in Di'an City, and Xu Yinhe lives in the Xiangfu.

Once the royal family wants to take action without warning, no one in the city defense system means that the Xiangfu cannot respond in the first time, let alone use the people in the city defense system to take countermeasures.

Li Yunqing shook his head gently:

"Willing to pay such a high price can only mean that you get more."

For Li Yunqing's tentative words, Xu Yuan smiled without comment and asked:

"So, you are still going to come to ask for people?"

"If there is a choice, I will say no, but I have no choice."

Li Yunqing's voice is quite resentful. Looking at the idle expression of the boy opposite, he is envious.

As the second generation of the top officials of the dynasty, this boy can not only participate in the highest decision-making without scruples, but also hold a large-scale private army, while he can only be a cannon fodder to lead the charge.

Xu Yuan was not surprised, and chuckled and said:

"Who told you not to fight or compete?"

Li Yunqing snorted:

"Of course you don't have a backache when you talk while standing."

Xu Yuan grinned and whispered:

"Li Zhaoyuan's current situation is much worse than yours, but what about now? With your ability, you should not be worse than him, but unfortunately you don't want to take the risk."

Li Yunqing rolled his eyes and wanted to speak back, but found himself speechless.

Because what this kid said was the truth.

After a pause, Li Yunqing shook his head helplessly:

"Personality is something that is innate, there is nothing you can do about it."

Xu Yuan took a sip of the spiritual wine in the cup, and then smacked his lips.

His physique could no longer absorb the spiritual energy in the wine, so he could only satisfy his appetite.

At this time, Li Yunqing directly changed the subject and said:

"By the way, does our previous cooperation still count?"

"Toyo Island?"

Xu Yuan put down the wine glass, and a hint of hope flashed between his eyebrows: "Of course it counts, but after what happened that night, you should no longer need my support, right?"

Li Yunqing raised his eyes and glanced at Xu Yuan, snorting:

"You are asking even though you know it, right? In theory, it is true. After all, the imperial capital was almost destroyed. Even if it is for face-saving, the court will pay enough attention to Toyo Island, but the problem is now..."

"Speak to the point, don't talk about these empty things."

"."Li Yunqing.

"My brother and my father talked about this privately. My father promised to increase the troops, but the person in charge is a commander of the imperial army, and I will become a military supervisor."

After speaking, Li Yunqing looked eagerly at the beloved relative opposite.

Xu Yuan's eyes flickered slightly, but he did not speak immediately.

This change caught him off guard.

It was natural for the emperor to arrange a general to accompany him. After all, Li Yunqing didn't know military affairs. With a large army, the food, accommodation and transportation of the soldiers alone would be enough to make an outsider's scalp numb, not to mention marching and fighting. However, it was a bit unreasonable to demote Li Yunqing from his original position of commander to a military supervisor.

In terms of emotion and law, this expeditionary army should be led by the prince Li Yunqing.

However, after thinking for a moment, Xu Yuan suddenly smiled at Li Yunqing and whispered:

"Your father really sees through your character."

The reason is that the sky is high and the emperor is far away from Japan. Once he goes to Japan to gain a foothold, Li Yunqing will most likely play the game of "generals are away from home and do not obey the orders of the emperor".

This is something Li Yaoxuan cannot tolerate.

In the past, the symbolic investment could be regarded as a gift between father and son, but now the scale is large, the investment naturally needs corresponding returns.

Li Yaoxuan wanted to use Li Yunqing's ability to stabilize the situation in Japan, and also wanted to take control of the actual control of Japan Island in his own hands.

Li Yunqing said lightly:

"Can you stop talking nonsense here? If you don't increase the stakes, I will probably not be able to fulfill your demands over there."

Xu Yuan was silent for a while, and asked softly:

"How many people will your royal family send?"

"My royal brother said that there will be at least two battalions of imperial guards."

Two battalions, a staff of 10,000 people, and the elite level of the imperial guards is a strong army that can be ranked in the Great Yan Dynasty.

After a little thought, Xu Yuan nodded:

"I know about this."

Li Yunqing immediately asked tentatively:

"How many people can you add for me?"

Xu Yuan did not answer directly, but asked with a smile:

"Li Zhaoyuan has nothing but can swallow 100,000 clan alliance troops. As a prince, you have a natural legitimacy for the imperial guards. Can't you swallow 10,000 people?"

"It's different."

Li Yunqing's face froze, and his speech speed slightly accelerated: "The clan alliance troops are put together by various clan alliances, and there are too many ways to divide them, but the royal imperial guards are a solid block. The two are not comparable at all."

"If Li Zhaoyuan sat in your position, do you think he couldn't swallow it?"

"You can choose the easy difficulty, are you willing to go to hell?"

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They stared at each other for a moment.

Xu Yuan shook his head gently.

He probably understood the intention of Li Yunqing telling him these things.

Although it seemed like a joke on the surface, Li Yunqing was actually reminding him that the situation was changing rapidly, and now the status of the two of them working together was close to equality.

If I don't raise the stakes, I now have other options, I can choose the same path as Li Zhaoyuan, and then you will have no chance to intervene in Dongying Island openly.

"I have sent people to count the exact number of people. The army needs to pass through the northern border to go south. There is still chaos there and there may be some trouble, but I should be able to give you a definite answer after the New Year."

Li Yunqing smiled and slowly stood up from the futon:

"Then we will discuss the details in detail at that time?"

Xu Yuan frowned when he heard this:

"Do you have anything else tonight?"

Li Yunqing shrugged helplessly:

"If I don't have a legitimate reason, I dare not ask you, a "dead man", out at this cusp."

Xu Yuan was silent for a moment, lowered his eyes and whispered:

"It seems that your father wants you to come to my prime minister's residence tonight to ask for someone?"

Li Yunqing straightened the wrinkles on his robe, walked slowly to the window frame, the cold wind blew his hair, and he whispered softly:

"Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, it seems that this year will not be a good year, haha."

In the 46th year of Jiajing,

On the night of the 29th of the year, Prince Qing went to the prime minister's residence to ask for Princess Xien, and the prince stopped him.

Later that night, on New Year's Eve, the prime minister submitted his resignation to the imperial desk.