Throne Steps

Chapter 196 Reviewing the Past and Learning the New

The Fudexi who came back had no sense of right and wrong, but had reservations about certain situations.

For example, when Li Chen asked someone to talk about something, apart from Li Chen, Clement and Fodsi, there was also his little devil who came out of nowhere——Dominique in the study.

"What's the matter with this kid?"

Fudexi half leaned on the back of the chair, raised his chin, and his eyes fell on Li Chen in front of him... the young man sitting behind him.

Li Chen smiled but didn't answer, just glanced back at Dominic, then turned back to the front, and said leisurely: "Say it yourself, what are you here for?"

Dominic smiled obediently: "My lord asked me to come to 'classes'."

"Class? What did you learn? Fake smile?" Fudexi sneered, "When you led people to exercise this morning, you looked serious. Are you pretending to be good now?"

For an 11-year-old child, this kind of question is really harsh, even a little unbelievable.However, Fudexi was determined to see how far the child had reached, and the question he asked was a bit aggressive: "Which one is the real face?"

Dominique was unexpectedly not stumped, but was taken aback for a moment, and then replied: "It's all me."

"Oh... I now believe that you are here for 'classes'." Fudexi raised his eyebrows, "You learned exactly the same as Li Chen."

His tone was full of mockery, and Dominic didn't dare to answer it for a while, but Li Chen replied, "I take this as a compliment."

Fudexi glanced at him when he heard the words, but didn't say anything, so he just skipped this topic.

Leaving aside the children who were watching, the adults finally started a formal conversation.

It was a conversation, but it was actually conveying the current situation to Fudesi.After all, he had been away from Retia for five years. Even if Li Chen and the elves had occasional correspondence, there would be no space to write such a thing in the letter—after all, there was only a small piece of paper that could be tied to the windbird.

First of all, it is the current overall situation.

Li Chen was not too wordy, and the news headline-like summary came up: "The princesses of the royal family are indeed going to attack the throne, and the position of the little prince's heir is in jeopardy. However, the royal family took advantage of the complicated situation to push several pure ministers to the throne Among them, the Minister of Military Affairs has already begun to weaken the current military power, and the Southwest Garrison is the first to bear the brunt. Oh, yes, the person who jointly promoted the Minister of Military Affairs with the royal family is a great lord, who originally formed an alliance with Cang Heizhise Relationship. Now...it's hard to say."

"Wait." Fudexi raised his eyebrows, "I remember five years ago when the Minister of Military Affairs came to power, it was the princesses who wanted to disrupt the situation. Now that the Minister of Military Affairs is engaged in the southwestern garrison, does that mean that Fugeral is the prince's faction?"

Li Chen glanced at him: "Good memory."

Fu Dexi said: "At the beginning, I didn't figure out whether the first pure minister was the prince or the princess faction? Why are Lailier and the little Highness hooking up with him?"

Li Chen asked back: "So, what did you deduce based on these?"

"I can't push it out." Fudexi rolled his eyes, "You said that you forced the pure minister to the throne, just to shake the position of the little prince's heir. But at least two pure whites have been mixed in, and it can still be regarded as pure." Is it a minister? And now that the pure ministers are starting to use Fujalal's influence, what are they trying to do? The princesses don't think about it, so the younger brother is fighting with the eternal color?"

"...I can only say that you remembered it correctly, but guessed it wrong." Li Chen sighed, "Didn't I just say that the Minister of Military Affairs was promoted by a lord."

"I heard it." Fudexi replied indifferently, "so none of these pure ministers are pure. But, what do you want to say? That lord and Cang Heizhi's 'cut off'?"

Li Chen looked at him silently.

Fudexi didn't speak for a while, and after a few breaths, he suddenly realized: "Wait, he's not 'cutting off the robe' with Cang Hei, but he is at odds with all eternal colors!"

After Fudexi said this, he showed an expression of disbelief.He looked at the other three people present, and found that even Dominic had a calm expression on his face, realizing that what he just said was not his whims.

"This... who is so bold?" Fudexi said, "The color of warehouse black, the color of rose, and the color of pure white, he has offended at least three families at once!"

Li Chen glanced back at Dominic, and the boy immediately found out a document and sent it to Fudexi.

Fu Dexi frowned: "No matter how powerful the lord is, it is impossible to deal with so many forces..."

"So, he is not alone, Fudexi." Li Chen put away the relaxed expression on his face and said seriously, "You must know that the enemy of the enemy is a friend."

Fudexi quickly flipped through the documents in silence, and put them aside.After listening to Li Chen's two words just now, the lord's information is no longer the first thing he should know.

"You mean... the royal family and the nobles are going to deal with the eternal color?"

Fu Dexi originally thought that after five years, the greats would each produce some moths, and they would not reach the earth-shattering step.

However, when the pure white color and the royal family's struggle for succession have not yet become clear, bigger dark clouds have begun to envelop.

Since the human pact, the power of Eternal Color has grown stronger day by day, covering the sky and the sun.The real "Heaven" of the Redia Alliance - the royal family - of course taboos this, but suffers from gradual decline, and can only watch helplessly as the distance between itself and the world in power grows further and further away.

On the other hand, although the League of Redia is called the "Alliance", it is not the parliamentary system that Li Chen is familiar with, but a union of major territories and royal territories.

Among the nine lords, five are not Eternal Color.

From this point of view, it is not surprising that the royal family and the non-eternal color are united when the eternal color is dominant.

"It's just that the royal family and the pure white color can be said to be infighting..." Fu Dexi squinted his eyes, "If the two sides are seriously injured at that time, the lords and nobles who are the third party... are purely picking up leaks. "

"Do you think it's easy to pick up this leak?"

Li Chen glanced at him, bowed to refill all the glasses on the table, and replied, "Not to mention which side won this struggle in the end, the people involved can't just talk about it." .”

Just like the lord who supported the current minister of military affairs, the past ally of Cang Heizhi, the blood of the king before the human pact.If he wants to avoid Eternal Color and push a new Minister of Military Affairs, he must use his own strength.Once these forces fall into the swamp of struggle, they will be mixed together like a cart of rice of different colors. In theory, it is possible to separate them, but in practice it is quite difficult.People with deep mud feet do not have enough height, strength, and skills to climb out of this quagmire to survive.

Even if the battle is over in the future, it is absolutely impossible for them to have any alliance with most of the eternal colors—especially the color of rose and black, and it will be difficult to ease the relationship for hundreds of years.

"And, actually, you're thinking a little bit wrong." Li Chen pushed the cup back in front of everyone, and continued, "Frankly speaking, the royal family itself is not very powerful. The power in their hands... To be honest, Nothing to be afraid of."

Li Chen is an open-minded person who dares to take advantage of legal loopholes, as can be seen from the fact that the fleet arranged by him and Amoya has already set out to sea.

"It's not so much that the royal family and the nobles are united to contain and deal with the eternal color..." He dipped his finger in the tea, and then drew a triangle on the table, "It's better to say that the nobles used the royal family as an excuse to attack Refers to the color of eternity."

He drew two more points, and then drew another point near one of the points, and then drew an arrow from the direction of the two points, pointing to the opposite point.

This represents the nobles standing behind the royal family, aiming at the eternal color.

"The royal family's own heirs still don't know it. At this time, making an attack on Eternal Color is simply 'injuring one thousand enemies, and eight hundred self-injury'." Fudexi looked at the pattern and said, he paused, then sneered again , "Oh no, according to the power of the royal family, it may be counted as hurting the enemy by [-] and hurting yourself by [-]. Why should the royal family get involved in such an obvious future?"

"Don't they still want to watch the snipe and the clam fight and reap the benefits?" Li Chen shook his head, "They have no choice."

"The royal family, especially the princes and princesses, is too strange to attack the eternal color at this time. If they want to get the throne, they cannot do without the support of the eternal color." Fudexi replied, "For example, the current king If they turned against the Patriarch of Pure White, the Redia Alliance would never be so peaceful. If it had been a few years earlier, without Saenz, the unrest in the Northland might not have been suppressed so quickly."

"Don't divide the relationship between the three parties so clearly, Fudexi, and don't think how strong the bond between the royal family and the nobles is." Li Chen said, "Remove the power gap between Eternal Color and other nobles, and you think the relationship between the nobles What is the difference between the royal family and the eternal color for the royal family?"

Fudexi looked at him with a complicated expression: "...Is there no difference?"

"Yes, there is no difference." Li Chen replied, "Even going back to when the human agreement was formulated, even the difference in strength is very small, let alone no difference."

At that time, the royal family was born in blood and truly controlled the life and death of the country.

"...The more you talk about it, the more confused I become." Fudexi frowned, "Who is with whom?"

"There is no absolute in everything, my dear, I will tell you in detail who is the enemy and who is the enemy of the enemy." Li Chen laughed, "The sky will be in chaos, just don't let yourself be stabbed."

"Let yourself be stabbed? Who will the black swan be stabbed by?" Fudexi raised his eyebrows, "Or, whose knife are we going to block for the pure white color?"

"The pure white color has a longer history than the Redia alliance, and formed a climate earlier than the royal family, and it is the only family in the eternal color that is openly supported by the people... Oh, and it can also create temples and shine grace." Li Chen leisurely After speaking, he asked back, "What do you say?"

Fudexi was quiet for two seconds, then clicked his tongue: "Why do they all sound like enemies?"

This is not surprising.Li Chen thought to himself, political power and religion are eternal topics.

"Why does it feel like we have to fight again, and have to sign another agreement..." Fu Dexi wiped his face, "Well, why don't you just talk about Black Swan's current countermeasures."

"Our countermeasure... is that there is no countermeasure."

Fu Dexi was taken aback: "...Huh?"

"The situation is unclear, and no one dares to act arbitrarily." Li Chen said, "If His Highness is like this, we can't decide the direction for him."

At first, Fudexi felt that this was true, but after a while, he realized: "No, didn't he win over those two little ones?"

Li Chen looked at him.

Fu Dexi glanced at his eyes, and immediately confirmed some guesses: "He wants to use the hands of His Royal Highness to influence the battle for the throne?!"

Five years ago, the pure white boss and fourth child got involved with the Minister of Finance, and now Fudexi would not think that they were purely aiming at the law-making power.

And the fact that Laryl wanted to use the black swan to drag Saenz into the water, and Saenz sold the favor to His Royal Highness after changing hands, seemed to vaguely foretell the current situation.

After Fudexi finished speaking, Li Chen suddenly smiled.

He didn't reply to Fordhi's words, but turned his head to look at Dominic: "Here, Don, see, you can get in touch with things from five years ago, you have to be so sensitive."

Dominic said obediently, "Okay, my lord."

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