The Demonic Crown Prince

He had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.

Look into my eyes and answer me!

"Do you want to kill me, or did I just hit you?"

Li Yuan continued to shout angrily.

"I, I... I didn't send anyone to kill you... The witness is framing me."

Li Yu shuddered and swallowed hard.

"Oh? So, in that case, no one can prove that I hit you just now, right?"

"Yes, yes...you didn't hit me, I touched it myself, I touched it myself..."

Li Yu answered with a long face, completely trapped in Li Yuan's logical fallacy.

Upon seeing this, all the officials shook their heads. The Fifth Prince was indeed far inferior to the Prince of Qin.

However, the King of Qin was truly too formidable. Not only was he incredibly brave and skilled in martial arts, but he was also adept at sophistry!

All of this is clearly unreasonable, but he has managed to turn fallacies into truth, and many people are still racking their brains trying to figure out how to refute his fallacies and heresies!

But still, no one can figure out how to solve it!

"Are you sure you bumped into it yourself, and that I didn't hit you?"

Li Yuan laughed and asked.

"You didn't hit me, I bumped into it myself!"

Li Yu gritted his teeth and nodded.

Damn it, let's swallow this for now and talk about it after he leaves the capital!

Li Yuan stood up, looked at Emperor Jinglong, and smiled slightly. "Father, my fifth brother has already confessed that he touched it himself, not that I hit him. So, I should be innocent, right?"

Emperor Jinglong's chest heaved, his eyes filled with rage that he could not vent. He could only suppress his anger and slowly nod, "Whatever you say, goes."

"As Fifth Brother just said, he didn't do it."

"In that case, I'll trouble Eunuch Wang to continue the investigation, until it's resolved, whether I leave the capital or not."

Li Yuan asked with a smile.

In fact, he knew very well that, no matter what, with this biased father around, especially since the prince was involved, this matter could not possibly have any outcome.

Since you've already vented your anger, you might as well back down gracefully.

Continuing this stalemate is pointless. If we really anger the emperor, there might be unforeseen consequences, which is not worth it.

Some struggles must be fought within the rules; if you go beyond the rules, things can easily go wrong.

He understands this principle very well!

Wang Dahai gave him a deep look but didn't say anything. He simply turned to look at Emperor Jinglong.

Emperor Jinglong breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the young man was sensible and hadn't kept pushing him into a dead end.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to handle the situation well.

……

Funing Garden.

Li Feng stood by the window with his hands behind his back, listening to his subordinate's secret report, his eyebrows twitching.

He had many connections in the court. Even though he didn't attend court, he could always get the news immediately no matter what happened in the court.

"My good elder brother actually used sophistry to beat up the fifth brother, and forced all the officials to pretend to be blind. The fifth brother was forced to admit that he was the one who touched it and that it had nothing to do with Li Yuan."

Impressive, truly impressive.

Every time I hear news about my older brother, I'm always amazed.

Including last night, he took advantage of Wang Dahai's influence to directly sweep through Black Wind Corner. Fortunately, I was prepared and burned Black Wind Corner down.

Some things simply wouldn't end up in his hands.

Otherwise, it would be easy for him to find some weakness in our strategy.

After hearing the secret report, Li Feng couldn't help but clap his hands and laugh.

The subordinate knelt on the ground, looking at Li Feng in astonishment. "Your Highness, why are you cheering for the Prince of Qin?"

"You mean I shouldn't cheer for the enemy?"

Li Feng seemed to have seen what he was thinking, and turned to ask with a smile.

"Your subordinate wouldn't dare..." The subordinate quickly shook his head.

"Actually, that's to be expected. The stronger he is, the happier I am."

Because the stronger he is, the more worthy he is of being my opponent.

Isn't that right?

Li Feng laughed even more heartily and looked out the window.

"..." The subordinate dared not speak.

"Of course, the more powerful he is, the more enemies he will make, and the more people will hate him."

What we need to do now is help him accumulate hatred, and then help his enemies kill him when the time is right.

Wouldn't it be better if we didn't have to lift a finger?

Li Feng seemed to be talking to himself, or perhaps to his subordinate.

"So, what should we do now?"

The subordinate asked in a low voice.

Li Feng didn't answer him, but looked up at the sky. "Brother, didn't you want to go to Yanbei Road?" Of course, he didn't know what awaited him in Yanbei Road now.

However, his journey to Yanbei may not be smooth sailing!

What we need to do is help certain people make up their minds so that my older brother can't reach Yanbei.

What do you say, is it good or not?

"Excellent, excellent, truly wonderful!"

The subordinate seemed to understand but not quite, yet he quickly nodded.

Subordinates who didn't know when to nod in response have all disappeared.

……

Li Yuan had nothing more to do at the court assembly, so he withdrew, and Emperor Jinglong continued to discuss state affairs with a group of people.

Afterwards, Li Yuan didn't stay in the capital. Since he had already emptied the Eastern Palace, there was nothing left for him to miss. He left the capital and returned to the military camp.

However, as soon as he entered the military camp, he sensed that something was wrong. All the soldiers were dejected and avoided him, as if they were ashamed to see him.

"What's going on?" Li Yuan asked, bewildered, as he looked at Wang Wanquan and the others who had come to greet him.

"Apart from the men brought by Instructor Yan, the rest of the army, organized by battalion, challenged those fighting slaves, uh, I mean, the new brothers of the Yuan Battalion. As a result, whether it was the ten-mile cross-country race with heavy loads that you mentioned, or fist and foot fights, weapons, or even horse battles, they all suffered a crushing defeat."

In terms of archery, these guys managed to salvage some face, but that's about it.

After all, the new brothers hadn't touched a crossbow in a long time, so they were somewhat rusty.

These guys were clamoring to join the Yuanzi Battalion, but out of the 305 new recruits, they couldn't even beat one of them. They were no match for the weakest of them.

So now they're all ashamed, how could they possibly face you?

Wang Wanquan couldn't help but laugh.

"Oh? Are they really that strong?"

Li Yuan was taken aback.

He had considered that those fighting slaves were indeed very strong, but he had never imagined that with nearly two thousand people from the entire army launching challenges, not a single one of them could defeat them.

That's really amazing!

"Where are they?" Li Yuan asked.

"It's over there. They've set up a separate camp for them, where they train and live separately."

Zhang Chuang pointed north.

"Let's go take a look." Li Yuan nodded and walked in that direction.

Upon closer inspection, they saw that the former fighting slaves were practicing the newly popularized drills under Scarface's guidance, indicating that they had already obtained the training syllabus.

Although they were still a bit rusty, it has to be said that their faces had come alive, and they were no longer like walking corpses as before. Moreover, they were practicing very seriously.

As soon as they saw Li Yuan approaching, the group of fighting slaves became excited, and someone shouted, "The prince is back!"

Then, a group of people ran towards this side, even forgetting about the queue.