The question is over.
From the time when Sun Mo was speechless by Su Chen's refutation, Lin Wenjun knew that Su Chen could not be defeated. Although he could still ask Su Chen about the Sanyang Potion, he knew that Su Chen could easily push the matter out.
Any witnesses can be pushed clean by him, not to mention the lack of witnesses
In fact, it doesn't matter how profitable Su Chen's mouth is. What matters is how many people in Liujin Fortress are supporting him.
In a real power system, truth and axioms are sometimes the least important. What is important is the power and the supporter.
As the hero who saved the Tianwei Army, Su Chen was greatly appreciated, grateful and supported by most generals in Liujin Fortress. Therefore, let alone Su Chen easily defeated Sun Mo, even if he could not refute Sun Mo, the generals would protect him. . On the contrary, if there is no such support, even if Su Chen talks about the sky falling into the sky, if everyone wants him to die, then it doesn't matter whether there is Sun Mo or not. Everyone can just find an excuse to let him die.
Here, axiom, justice, truth, and clever rhetoric are not without effect, but their effect is actually the consumption of human favor and credit.
If Su Chen is speechless by Sun Mo, then Su Chen will still be exonerated, but this belongs to the joint protection of the generals, which is equivalent to using his fame to save the heavenly army in exchange for the punishment of offsetting collusion with the Palace of Immortality. And owed a bunch of general debts.
On the contrary, Sun Mo was refuted, and Su Chen proved himself innocent, the credit will not be offset, and the debt will be weakened to the lowest level. At best, it is a "thank you all for justice in law enforcement."
Therefore, axiom justice here determines the cost, not the result, and the latter is determined by the relationship of influence.
This may be the limitation and tragic nature of judicial trials in this era—perhaps not only this era.
But for Lin Wenjun, this is nothing.
His original purpose was not to deal with Su Chen.
Although Lin Wenjun was very dissatisfied with the fact that Su Chen rescued the Tianwei Army and slapped him in the face, he did all this today not because of this, but because of more important reasons.
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Late at night.
In the deputy commander's mansion, Lin Wenjun stood in the courtyard with his hands folded, looking up at the sky, as if thinking about something.
Qiu Qingzhi came over: "Your Highness."
"Well, did you see what happened today?" Lin Wenjun asked.
Qiu Qingzhi replied: "Yes, you can see clearly about the humble position. Two military leaders believe that Su Chen is guilty, three are neutral, and five believe that Su Chen is innocent. Among other officials, more than half support Su Chen. Your Highness is in Liujin Fortress. Support is far from enough."
Lin Wenjun snorted, "Axiom, no standpoint, no matter how upright a person like this is, how can he be capable, what will it benefit me?"
Qiu Qingzhi said immediately: "His Royal Highness, don't be in a hurry. After all, the time for your Highness to be in charge of Liujin Fortress is short, and it takes time to lay a solid foundation."
"I am a prince, it is only natural for them to be loyal to me, so they want me to spend time and energy to win them over to please them?" Lin Wenjun said harshly.
Qiu Qingzhi sighed.
Lin Wenjun is not stupid, but like most princes, it is inevitable that he feels self-righteous and believes that the world should belong to him.
One of the very important purposes of interrogating Su Chen is to see how many supporters there are in the Liujin Fortress.
True confidants, true supporters, will not care about things like justice and justice, they will only have a stand!
In Lin Wenjun's eyes, the generals of Liujin Fortress should have been naturally facing him.
Unfortunately, this is not the case.
In the case of Su Chen, it can be seen that at least half of the generals did not buy his account, and a quarter was vacillating, and only a quarter of the generals who were less than there insisted on standing on Lin Wenjun's side.
Even so, it is questionable how credible these people are.
Naturally, Lin Wenjun was very dissatisfied with this result.
Fortunately, he was still sober. After saying this, he said to himself: "Of course, I also know that I was a little hastily a while ago."
This can be regarded as an account of the Tianwei Army, which is tantamount to a disguised confession.
Unfortunately, this confession was neither sincere, nor was it just to Qiu Qingzhi alone, so it was meaningless.
Qiu Qingzhi lowered his head, just as if he hadn't heard him, and said, "His Royal Highness has the overall situation in mind and has done nothing wrong."
I sighed in my heart. No wonder your Royal Highness should be self-righteous. He is surrounded by people who praise his own merits. Even if the prince says he is wrong, he has to say that he is right. He has grown up like this for decades. It's weird. It is a pity to ask him to say that the prince did something wrong, he is determined not to do it. Those who once thought they could wake up the prince and teach him how to be a man, eventually became dead bones on the side of the road.
Lin Wenjun is very satisfied with Qiu Qingzhi's statement. When he modestly says that he did something wrong, what he needs most is not that the other party says "Yes, you are wrong", but "No, you are not wrong, you are also for a bigger goal... ".
Qiu Qingzhi did a good job, so he could always be by his side.
Lin Wenjun already said, "What do you think of Su Chen?"
Qiu Qingzhi thought for a while and replied: "It is not easy to be able to rescue the mighty force of the sky."
I know that Lin Wenjun doesn't like Su Chen, but Qiu Qingzhi can't say that Su Chen is a weak chicken, so he can only prove it with the Tianwei Army.
It's not easy to talk to the boss, you have to say everything carefully.
Lin Wenjun sighed: "It is indeed a powerful person, just like his teacher, it is a trouble. But for the peace of mind of the domestic guys, I still have to deal with this trouble."
Lin Wenjun felt very bitter.
Obviously as a prince, he wanted to please others, to please a group of domestic nobles, and gain their support, so he had to deal with the stone reclamation, and the result was that he offended a lot of generals in the Liujin Fortress. Partial Stone opened up wasteland and did not die, and the Tianwei army came back, was beaten in the face, and did not say that he was a wicked person.
How does Lin Wenjun not feel aggrieved
Now that Shi Kaihuang has returned, Su Chen has also returned, and Lin Wenjun's pressure has suddenly increased.
Now he not only has to deal with Shi Kaihuang, but also with Su Chen.
Because of the news from the country that the hemolysis totem was invented by Su Chen, in the days to come, the shock wave method might also appear from Su Chen's hands.
The nobles do not want this to happen, so they can only continue to entrust him to deal with it.
Damn, if it wasn't for his own damn third brother to repeatedly put tremendous pressure on him, how could his dignified prince work for that group of nobles
Countless thoughts flashed in Lin Wenjun's mind, and his heart was extremely irritable, and his face gradually became hard to look.
Qiu Qingzhi saw that Lin Wenjun was in a bad mood, and said hurriedly, "Maybe we can try to win him over?"
Lin Wenjun shook his head: "Do you know how much money he made by selling the Shock Boiling Method and Shock Kaiyang Method? Hundreds of millions of source stones! The reason why he was able to save the Heavenly Army was because he had more money than the royal family. You let me tell him, boy, if you invent the bloodless shock shaking light method, don't publish it, we will give you enough benefits. How much should I give? How much can I give?"
Qiu Qingzhi was dumb.
Shi Kaihuang didn't need money at all. This can be known only if he gave his invention to his disciples, but Su Chen was too rich.
The common feature of not needing money and being too rich is that they cannot be bought.
At least it can't be bought with money.
This is also the reason why Lin Wenjun wanted to directly harm the stone to open up wasteland in the first place.
It's not that I haven't thought about soft knives, but they have no meaning for Shi Kaihuang.
Money can't buy it, it can only be used for life.
So in the end, we still have to use a choice of coercion.
The only question is, what to use to coerce.
force
that power
Lin Wenjun paced repeatedly and thought for a while. He said, "Su Chen's meritorious service is too heavy. Forcibly suppressing it will only trigger dissatisfaction. This matter cannot be done in public, because I am afraid it will only come in secret. "
Qiu Qingzhi carefully worded the wrong sentence: "If it is done secretly, the meaning of your Highness is..."
If it is to use assassination and other means to deal with Su Chen, then there is no need to use the prince, the nobles can solve it by themselves.
Lin Wenjun can choose this method, but it undoubtedly means his powerlessness. Therefore, the use of assassination methods by those in power itself means a failure.
From this point of view, even if Lin Wenjun succeeded in assassinating Su Chen, it would be a failure.
Political failure.
After listening to Qiu Qingzhi's reminder, Lin Wenjun also felt a headache.
He asked, "Su Chen, it's really hard to start."
Qiu Qingzhi replied: "Actually, it is not just money and fate to make a person bow his head. Some things that seem to be unimportant to us may be important to others."
"Huh? What do you mean by this?" Lin Wenjun asked.
Qiu Qingzhi said: "Have your Highness ever thought of using the people around him?"
Lin Wenjun immediately shook his head: "The people next to him? It's useless. He and Linbei Su's family have already fallen out, and now they are regarded as strangers. The only thing he cares about is his mother, but he has been secretly picked up by him now. People know where... This guy has been prepared."
Qiu Qingzhi said immediately: "I'm not referring to the people around me."
"Isn't it referring to them?" Lin Wenjun was taken aback: "Who is that referring to?"
"Tianwei Army."
"Tianweijun?" Lin Wenjun was stunned.
The old Tianwei army has been disbanded by Lin Wenjun, and the newly-built Tianwei army does not have many old people, so Lin Wenjun also stayed for a while, only to realize that Qiu Qingzhi was referring to the old Tianwei army.
Qiu Qingzhi said: "Yes, it is them. The Tianwei Army was rescued by Su Chen, and they established a deep relationship with Su Chen. This can also be seen from what they said when they came back. The relationship is two-way, those people Tianwei veterans are grateful to Su Chen, and Su Chen must also attach great importance to their friendship. If they are in trouble..."
Lin Wenjun understood: "But it's not easy for these people to unite together."
"That's why I suggested to your Highness to break them up. It's not difficult to deal with the scattered Tianwei army one by one. We don't need to attack all the Tianwei veterans, only part is enough to persecute them. Su Chen lowered his head."
(End of this chapter)