Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

When Lin Yi walked to the door of Tianlao, he suddenly stopped.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Wang Jinzhong was walking in front. He suddenly felt Lin Yi stop and turned back to look at Lin Yi.

"Wait for me a moment." Lin Yi said to Wang Jinzhong.

Wang Jinzhong didn't dare not agree to Lin Yi's request, nor did he dare to urge it, so he just stood aside honestly.

Lin Yi waved to the guard on the side. A guard ran over quickly.

"Your Majesty." The guard saluted Lin Yi.

Lin Yi didn't say anything. Instead, he took out a few imperial silver coins from his pocket and stuffed them into the guard's hand.

"Run quickly, go to Cuiwei Building and ask them to prepare a table of wine and food. Be quick and be nice." Lin Yi put the money into the guard's hand and then said to him.

When the guard heard Lin Yi's words, his first reaction was to raise his head and look at Wang Jinzhong.

"Bitch, don't you understand what the prince is saying?" Wang Jinzhong felt that the guard was looking at him, and he immediately cursed at the guard.

"Yes." The guard responded quickly and ran away, fearing that if he were slower, he would make the two bosses unhappy again.

Wang Jinzhong looked at the guard who ran away and looked at Lin Yi with an awkward smile.

He was about to say something, but was directly interrupted by Lin Yi.

"It's okay, I understand." Lin Yi said with a smile. He knew that Wang Jinzhong was in charge of Bingsi, and that the Tianlao was also under the jurisdiction of the other party, so the guard asked Wang Jinzhong for his opinion.

Seeing that Lin Yi understood what he wanted to say, Wang Jinzhong said no more, just nodded to Lin Yi, then stepped aside and waited quietly.

Soon, the guard ran back quickly carrying two food boxes.

Lin Yi took the food box from him and rejected Wang Jinzhong's idea of ​​helping before he walked into the prison.

At this time, in the innermost cell of the Tianlao, Luo Chen was wearing prison uniform, sitting on a bed made of straw, looking at the sky outside through the small skylight on the wall.

His face was neither sad nor happy, and there was no trace of sadness.

Suddenly, Luo Chen heard footsteps coming from behind him, and he knew that the person he was waiting for was here.

"Open the door." Lin Yi looked at Luo Chen's back and said to the guard on the side.

The guard quickly took the key from his body and opened the cell door.

"Okay, you don't have anything to do here. You all can go out first." Lin Yi said to the guard.

Although the guard knew that the other party was Prince Rui, his duties did not allow him to leave.

Then the guard looked at Wang Jinzhong behind Lin Yi.

"What, the prince's words don't work? If the prince asks you to go out, you will go out." Wang Jinzhong said angrily.

"Yes." When the guard heard Wang Jinzhong's words, he quickly put down the key and ran out.

Wang Jinzhong looked at the leaving guards, put on a flattering face again, and prepared to continue following Lin Yi.

Then I heard Lin Yi say.

"Manager Wang, please go out too."

"Eh? Huh? Oh..." The smile on Wang Jinzhong's face suddenly froze, and he waited for a second or two before he reacted.

Then Wang Jinzhong did not dare to stay longer, and quickly exited the cell, and closed the cell door for Lin Yi from the outside.

Lin Yi looked at the entire cell, only himself and Luo Chen, and then said to Luo Chen: "Drink?"

"Then drink some." Luo Chen responded cheerfully.

Lin Yi put the food box on the ground and took out all the food and wine in the food box.

"This is Mr. Luo's hometown, Xinghua Village. Mr. Luo, you can drink more." Lin Yi said to Luo Chen while placing the bowls and chopsticks.

"The prince is interested, but I have been in politics for so many years and have never touched a drop of wine. Today I can just get drunk and rest." Luo Chen nodded to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi knew that what Luo Chen said was true. From what he learned, Luo Chen had been in court for decades and really didn't drink at all.

Moreover, this person, to be honest, has reached the level of a veteran of three dynasties and the number one civil servant, but his family background is very average.

Perhaps, you can say that Luo Chen is monopolistic, you can say that he is wrong in all kinds of ways, but he does not touch the word greedy at all.

Based on this alone, Lin Yi felt that he should toast him.

"Master Luo, this is our first time drinking. As a junior, I would like to toast Master Luo." After saying that, Lin Yi raised his head and drank the wine in the glass in front of him in one gulp.

Luo Chen looked at Lin Yi, and after seeing that he had really drank the wine, he asked: "Your Majesty, you are not angry at all?"

"Angry? What are you angry about?" Lin Yi showed a strange expression.

"Your Majesty, aren't you angry with me for sending rumors and slandering Your Majesty?" Luo Chen realized for the first time that he didn't seem to understand Prince Rui in front of him at all.

Lin Yi smiled faintly when he heard Luo Chen's words, and then said: "Don't be angry."

"Why?" Luo Chen was curious.

"Why? Then I want to ask Mr. Luo why he spread rumors about me." Lin Yi played with the wine glass in his hand and looked at Luo Chen.

"Because I think the prince will threaten His Majesty's rights." Luo Chen said without any secret.

"Master Luo, because I have the Longxiang Army in my hands, is worried that I will rebel and threaten His Majesty and Brother Xie?" Lin Yi looked at Luo Chen and asked.

When Luo Chen heard Lin Yi's words, he just nodded and said nothing.

"I'm not surprised that Mr. Luo would think so. Even if it were me, I would do the same thing, and even go further than Mr. Luo. Mr. Luo would think so, so why should I be angry? Lin Yi said calmly.

Luo Chen was a little surprised when he heard that Lin Yi agreed with his approach for the first time, because he never thought that Lin Yi would agree with his approach.

"To be honest, Mr. Luo, some of your ideas coincide with mine."

"Military power must be in the hands of our own people, and we cannot give too much power to the subordinates. Otherwise, these people with heavy fists will definitely choose to rebel."

"Since the prince knows all this, why would the prince choose to hold a heavy army?" Luo Chen became even more confused when he heard Lin Yi's words.

"Because I know what I want." Lin Yi poured himself another glass of wine, and then said leisurely.

"My ambition has never been to rebel, but to work for the empire. To train a strong army that dares to fight and kill."

"In recent years, the West has bullied Daxia too much and taken too many things from us."

"And my goal is to get these lost things back one by one."

"But if we want to get back what we lost, we can't do it without a strong army."

"After all, those bandits in the West will not reason with us. So I need a strong army, a strong army that can rival the Western countries!" Lin Yi heard Luo Chen's words and took another sip of wine in the glass. Drink it, and then speak slowly.