Chapter 326: Yan Fu and his son.

Kyoto, the capital.

"Father, the eldest princess's shadow is involved in this matter!" Yan Bingyun looked at his father with a look of shock and anger on his face, and his expression was ferocious. He hadn't shown such an expression for a long time, not to mention that the man was his father.

"You are now in charge of the four places and are the chief organizer of the four places. Don't you know that killing innocent people and taking credit for it is a capital crime!"

"Killing innocent people and claiming credit for their crimes is indeed a serious crime, but this kind of thing is common in the bitter cold of the frontier. How easy is it to completely stop it?"

Yan Ruohai sneered, "This is just a reward from the court to balance the extra rewards given to the border generals."

"Haha, lying about military achievements, and acting with other countries!"

Yan Bingyun stared coldly into his father's eyes, as if trying to understand something from them.

Unexpectedly, Yan Ruohai glared back, not giving in at all, "Are you saying that there is something wrong with this great victory in Cangzhou? Could it be that the people of Northern Qi are acting together with the border generals?"

"If it was just killing innocent people to claim credit, the nature of this matter would be different, and the border guard would be beheaded. But this matter involves Northern Qi, does the court want to hide it from the world?" Yan Bingyun said coldly: "The Northern Expedition Army reported that they lost 5,000 people in the battle! There wasn't even a battle, how could there be 5,000 deaths!"

Yan Ruohai stopped talking, but slowly stood up, looked at his son indifferently, and said word by word:

"Do you really know what you're talking about?"

As he spoke, he threw a secret document on the table. "You beheaded 8,000 people, but only lost 5,000 of your own men. If this isn't a great victory, what is it? Do you think you can see through everything? If you didn't rely on the intelligence system in the hospital, what kind of person would you be?"

"Even if the court was planning to cooperate in this big show, so what? You think you are the only smart one and everyone else is a fool for reporting it privately. This matter alone is enough to expel you from the Overwatch Council!"

"Cooperate in the play?" Yan Bingyun felt pain in his lungs, and his heart was filled with endless anger. "Five thousand people! Where did the five thousand people who survived go? Father, have you ever thought about this question?"

As he spoke, Yan Bingyun pointed at the map of Qing Kingdom on the table and shouted, "Your Majesty is now offering sacrifices to the heavens at Dadong Mountain, and Cangzhou is only 500 miles away from there! If the 5,000 people who were supposed to be 'dead' written in the battle report suddenly appeared at Dadong Mountain, what do you think will happen, father?"

Yan Ruohai frowned and said coldly: "You are really stupid. Perhaps you have been in Northern Qi for a long time, so you have forgotten the geographical environment of Qing Kingdom. Although Cangzhou and Dadong Mountain are close, there is a Xiao Mountain in between! How steep and harsh the Xiao Mountain is, do I need to explain it in detail?"

The Cangzhou victory happened just half a month ago, and it happened in Dadong Mountain? Absolutely impossible.

Seeing that his son was still sneering, Yan Ruohai continued, "If this army is really still alive, they would have to go around Mount Xiao to reach Mount Dadong, and the distance would increase exponentially, not to mention that they would have to pass through many cities. Do you think they can do all this silently?"

"What if we don't have to take a detour?"

Yan Bingyun refused to give in and spoke out all the speculations in his mind: "In addition to going through the country, they can also go through Dongyi City and directly appear at the foot of Dadong Mountain!"

"I told you you're stupid and you really are stupid!"

"Who do you think Si Gu Jian is? He can have nothing and kill all the people in the City Lord's Mansion. What is he doing for? It's just for the Dongyi. According to what you said, these 5,000 people who should have died are still alive. Do you think Si Gu Jian will let them pass through his country? These are all the troops of my Qing country. He must be very afraid and unwilling to open the country's borders."

Yan Bingyun couldn't bear it any longer when he looked at his strange father. He slapped the table, causing the water cup on it to jump and liquid to spill out. "I am the acting supervisor of the Supervisory Council. Now that the intelligence shows that there are doubts, I will report it. What's wrong with that? But you, father, are so unreasonable and even suppressed the matter with the old dean. What exactly are you planning to do?"

When Yan Ruohai heard this, his body trembled and his heart became complicated.

“I did this alone.”

The faint words floated in the room, as if they were not real.

"What?" Yan Bingyun couldn't believe it, and then he said in a trembling voice: "Father, do you know the consequences of doing this?" Once this matter was exposed, the entire Yan family would be wiped out in an instant!

What on earth was my father thinking? Why would he take such a risk as to bet the entire Yan family to do this?

"The dean is no longer in Kyoto. Sigh, maybe the dean is no longer alive now."

Yan Bingyun's eyes were blank, and he recalled the scene where Dean Chen seemed to have left his last words, and he fell weakly into the chair.

He understood. With the eyesight of the dean and his father, how could they not see that this was a conspiracy by the eldest princess in cooperation with the Qin and Ye families?

Who is behind the Qin family?

They supported the prince and had been his die-hard supporters before.

And what about the Ye family?

Now the only daughter of the Ye family is married to the second prince.
Add to that the fact that the eldest princess was supposed to be imprisoned, and it seems like they are really rebelling!
"Father, what should our Yan family do now?" Yan Bingyun murmured.

Unexpectedly, Yan Ruohai did not answer this question at all. He just opened the door and said to the trusted guards outside: "Young Master is not feeling well, so let him rest in the mansion. No one is allowed to visit him, and he is not allowed to go out!"

"Yes!"

Yan Ruohai took a few steps and suddenly turned around to ask his son softly, "If you were asked to choose between the courtyard and His Majesty, what would you choose?"

Hearing this, Yan Bingyun finally turned his gaze over.

"The dean asked me this question before in Chen Garden."

"And what was your answer?"

Yan Bingyun shook his head. "I didn't have a definite answer at the time. I just responded verbally. I believe the dean should have seen it."

After a pause, Yan Bingyun slowly asked: "What about you, father? What is your choice?"

There was one thing he didn't say.

In his heart, Emperor Qing would never fail! This might be a kind of blind worship, or it might be a kind of fear, which made him unable to make a decision that went against Emperor Qing.

He is devoted to Qing Dynasty.

But after using this reason too much, it often becomes his excuse.

"Son, I will naturally choose the courtyard, otherwise I would not ask you these questions today." After saying that, Yan Ruohai walked out of the courtyard without looking back.

Perhaps, Your Majesty is no longer alive at this time.

Just like you are afraid of Emperor Qing's methods, I, your father, am also in awe of the Dean's methods.

Since Chen Pingping dared to take action at this time, and even went there in person, he must have some chance of winning.
Chen Pingping would not live long anyway, and perhaps Emperor Qing would not die, but Yan Ruohai believed that the greatest possibility for the two of them would be to go to the underworld together and continue their friendship as monarch and subject!

(End of this chapter)