Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 183 Father, Son and Brothers Are United
The Marshal's Mansion was heavily guarded, but there were not many guards inside. Gu Jize walked straight into Gu Beiming's study without being stopped.

Outside the study stood a middle-aged servant, who looked ordinary and was standing in the most inconspicuous corner under the eaves, making it very easy to be overlooked.

That was Gu Beiming's personal attendant Liu Gong. He was usually silent, but Gu Beiming would basically take him with him wherever he went.

When he saw Liu Gong, Gu Jize knew that Gu Beiming was in the study.

"Is father here?"

After asking casually, Gu Jize pushed the door open and walked in. Liu Gong wanted to stop him, but it was too late.

There was still the smell of ground ink in the study, and on the desk was a military registration book, half open.

Strangely, Gu Beiming was not in the study.

"Father?"

Gu Jize thought Gu Beiming was taking a nap in the back, so he walked around the screen to take a look, but saw that there was no one on the couch.

He felt strange and turned to walk out.

Glancing at the documents and maps piled on the table, he hesitated for a moment, and finally went over to open them, looking for clues that Gu Beiming wanted to rebel and establish independence.

I looked for a long time but found no clues.

Suddenly, Gu Jingze turned around and was surprised to find that Gu Beiming had walked out from behind the screen without him noticing.

"Father? You just...I have seen my father."

Gu Beiming was wiping his hands with a handkerchief. He nodded calmly and asked, "What are you doing?"

"baby……"

Gu Jize was not good at lying, so he asked directly, "I heard that father wanted to establish himself as a hero. Is this true?"

Gu Beiming asked, "Did you hear that from Eleven?"

"Yes."

For some reason, Gu Beiming knew it was Gu Jingnian who revealed the information as soon as he heard it.

It was as if he had only told Gu Jingnian about this matter.

Gu Jize clearly wanted to find out the reason, but when Gu Beiming glanced at him, he lowered his head as if he was the one who did something wrong.

"So?" Gu Beiming asked, "If your father really intends to do so, what will you do?"

Gu Jize lifted his robe, knelt on the ground, and said, "Father, please listen to what I have to say!"

"You don't have to say it." Gu Beiming said, "I know everything you want to say. You just need to obey my orders."

"Father! To achieve great things, one must have the right time, right place, and right people. Now the situation is not right for Jusai City..."

"Enough!" Gu Beiming shouted.

"Father, calm down. If it were something else, I would have obeyed your orders and kept silent. But this matter concerns the future and lives of the entire Gu family, and the countless soldiers and civilians who follow us. I beg you to think twice!"

Gu Jize's personality is indeed a bit difficult to deal with. He is very filial when he is filial, but once he becomes stubborn, even nine oxen cannot pull him back.

Seeing that his usually obedient son had become difficult to control, Gu Beiming angrily shouted, "If you dare to talk too much again, I'll put you in jail."

"I would rather die than see my father go down the path of self-destruction."

"Someone! Take this rebellious son down!"

Liu Gong, who had been guarding outside the door, walked in and bowed, saying, "Sir, please don't embarrass me."

"Get out of here!" Gu Jize shouted, "I'm talking to my father, it's not your turn to come near me!"

Liu Gong bowed and reached out to help Gu Jize.

Gu Jize was about to break free when he suddenly met Gu Beiming's majestic eyes. For some reason, he suddenly felt sore all over and had no strength at all. Liu Gong easily pushed him down.

He couldn't struggle free and was filled with great doubt. He couldn't tell whether Liu Gong had extraordinary strength or whether Gu Beiming's glance had frightened his heart.

On the other side, Gu Beiming watched his son being taken away, his face darkened, and he stepped out to meet Gu Jingnian in person.

Perhaps knowing that he had gotten into trouble, Gu Jingnian was staying at his residence obediently. When he saw Gu Beiming coming, he stood up, performed an unusually standard greeting, and said, "Father, why did you come to see me today? I should go and pay my respects to you, father."

"I don't usually see you being so attentive."

Gu Beiming snorted coldly and said, "I didn't expect you to tell Lao Si about my plan. Tell me, what do you think?"

Gu Jingnian said, "I think that brothers working together can break iron. Since we want to accomplish something big, we can't hide it from our fourth brother."

The words were still not said, but the attitude revealed was that he did not attach much importance to Gu Beiming's cause, or did not believe in it at all. This was a test of Gu Beiming, and it also contained a little resistance.

"I told you to speak up if you have anything to say." Gu Beiming said.

Gu Jingnian stopped his sarcastic tone at the right time and said, "I am worried that my father will use the benefits he promised me in a few words. Rebellion is not a trivial matter. If I really decide to do it, there is no reason to hide it from my fourth brother."

Although there was resistance, Gu Jingnian's attitude at this time was actually open to communication, and he was much more "filial" than the pedantic and stubborn Gu Jize.

Gu Beiming said helplessly: "The reason why I didn't tell Lao Si is because he is too pedantic. Look, he just found out about this today and started to talk about it non-stop. I had no choice but to arrest him."

"Fourth brother doesn't want to follow father in achieving great things?" Gu Jingnian said, "Then how about I try to persuade him?"

"You persuaded him?"

"Yes." Gu Jingnian said, "If father is sincere, I will do my best. I am afraid that father said so, but in fact he wants to refine the phoenix?"

Gu Beiming said frankly: "I did have this intention before, but people's ideas are always changing. Now that a greater opportunity has appeared, compared to a little personal cultivation, the hegemony of the world is what I want."

Gu Jingnian asked: "Can you promise not to refine the phoenix?"

Gu Beiming asked with a straight face, "Why? You are asked to help your father conquer the world. Is this the condition you put forward?"

"I don't dare to put forward any conditions." Gu Jingnian said, "This is just my child's request."

The two of them talked back and forth in order to achieve their respective goals. Now that it had come to the negotiation stage, Gu Beiming no longer acted pretentiously and nodded.

"Okay, I swear that I will never refine the phoenix."

Having said that, he naturally had to put forward his request.

"As a father, you should agree to your son's request. But will your son do his best to fulfill his father's wish?"

"I wonder what my father's wish is?"

Gu Beiming patted Gu Jingnian on the shoulder and sighed, "Yin Yuhe is weak and has no opinion, so he is not worth worrying about. If you and I want to accomplish great things, the only one we should worry about is Yin Jinggeng."

"what do you want me to do?"

"You have a good relationship with Yin Jinggeng. If you kill him, you and I can take Yin Kuo and take Yongjing directly. The kingdom of Yong will be within our grasp."

Gu Jingnian asked, "How can you guarantee that you will keep your promise after I kill Yin Jinggeng?"

"You want to protect your friends, but all you do is beg your father to keep his promise? I'll tell you what to do to increase your strength."

At the end of his words, Gu Beiming's tone unconsciously became stern.

He stared into Gu Jingnian's eyes and said, "I can give you a promise and I can also give you strength. Become my prince, lead the army and take power in person, and use your own strength to protect your friends."

"Okay." Gu Jingnian readily agreed and asked, "Then I will return to Yongjing to assassinate Yin Jinggeng?"

"It seems that you still don't trust me." Gu Beiming said: "Yin Jinggeng has clearly gone to the southwest."

Gu Jingnian looked slightly surprised when he heard this.

"We need more trust between father and son." Gu Beiming sighed and said, "Think about it and tell me everything you know... I know everything you have hidden from me, both about Rui and Yong. I am just waiting for the moment when you confess."

After saying this, he was not in a hurry for Gu Jingnian to respond immediately. He turned around and walked out, leaving behind the last words as he walked.

"I just hope that one day, you and I, father and son, will be of one mind."

Gu Jingnian looked at the tall figure going away, wondering whether Gu Beiming knew that he was a spy from the Rui Kingdom and was planning to escape to Woye with Ying Yao. He felt a little uneasy.

After a while, he went to see Gu Jize, and surprisingly he was not stopped.

It only took him two sentences to convince Gu Jize.

"If Fourth Brother wants to know father's true intentions, I have a way."

"what?"

"Fourth brother, you can give in first. Father will definitely have a long talk with me. Then, fourth brother can disguise himself as me and listen to what father has to say in person."

Gu Jize thought for a moment and agreed.

Little did he know that Gu Beiming had already talked to Gu Jingnian.

Next, if Gu Beiming had to choose which son to reveal his true feelings to, he would definitely choose Gu Jize.

Sure enough, the day after Gu Jize expressed his surrender, Gu Beiming told Liu Gong, "Go and call Lao Si. I'll take him to a place."

(End of this chapter)