The major was stunned, then narrowed his eyes slightly: "General, do you mean... and hold others accountable?"

Li Zhen asked him quietly: "What do you think?"

The major thought about it, stepped closer to Li Zhen, and lowered his voice: "So how much do you want to pursue?"

Li Zhen smiled slightly: "What is the concept of degree? Of course, if you are guilty, you will be convicted."

He looked up at the ruins in front of him: "Today's incident, and the past, are settled together. I heard from someone tell me that Xiao Heng wanted to be independent. Then I will calculate this matter clearly. How could a lieutenant colonel in the past be so bold? Even if he is a alien or a species - those clowns who fueled him, no one can escape."

The major widened his eyes: "Do you know how many of the people you mentioned are who fuel the fire?"

Li Zhen didn't say anything. He looked at Li Zhen's face and whispered: "Now half of Yuzhou is almost all promoted by Xiao Heng. They didn't make any noise today, on the one hand, because they were concerned about your reputation, and on the other hand, because of the news about Xiao Heng. But this is also limited - you can kill the main evil, and you can severely punish one or two or five or six. But as you said, if you don't let anyone go..."

He took a deep breath: "Then Yuzhou is going to be a big deal. You have to know that Yuzhou is a municipality directly under the central government, half of Yuzhou, not half of the main urban area of ​​Yuzhou, but half of the urban area of ​​Yuzhou - you are from Pingyang, maybe you are not very clear about this concept. Let's put it this way - we have to be as big as three Pingyang urban areas."

Li Zhen still didn't say anything.

The major hesitated a little. But after thinking for a while, he still plucked up the courage to continue saying: "There are more people in such a big place. Unit 1431 now has nearly 10,000 people. In the past, this was a first-level security area and had its own military-industry system. Xiao Heng was very concerned about military equipment for several years, so the equipment of this 10,000 people is quite well-equipped. Even if only half of the people are motivated... things are very difficult to handle."

Li Zhen glanced at him with interest: "Who wants you to say these words?"

The major's face changed and he straightened his body: "General, these are what the officials think of."

"Then you will do it yourself this time, others don't know?" Li Zhen smiled coldly, "Or you have been facing Xiao Heng in the past... He even asked you to be a major?"

A slightly strange expression appeared on the major's face. This expression was mixed in Li Zhen's eyes with a little pride, a little loss, a little shame, a little helplessness and a little dilemma. His slightly longer face became distorted, like a bitter gourd barely ironed by an iron.

You don't need to observe carefully to know that this expression cannot be disguised - because a person really cannot control the muscles on his face in such a complicated way.

It took a long time before the major whispered: "General, the lower official surname is Zhu. Zhu Dipang."

Li Zhen didn't react for a moment.

Seeing that he didn't understand, the major had to say again: "The ancestors of the Xiaguan... are King Qing."

Li Zhen suddenly realized. He stared at the major's face for a while, and almost laughed out loud inappropriately - his surname was Zhu. He was a descendant of King Qing. This means that he was a descendant of... Taizu of this dynasty.

No wonder he gave birth to such a face - he looked more like their common ancestor than the current emperor.

In other words, this major belongs to the "royal family" in a sense.

However, King Qing is a person of more than 200 years - Emperor Hongguang's youngest younger brother. The title is cut down from generation to generation. I believe that this ancestor was already a "school citizen" a long time ago. There are many descendants of this Zhu family, and there are at least tens of thousands of people in the empire. However, it seems that this person is still proud of his own bloodline, and he still has a stubborn arrogance in his heart.

Li Zhen thought for a while, and his tone became slightly gentle: "Are you saying that because of your identity, Xiao Heng did not make things difficult for you?"

Zhu Dipang smiled with a complicated expression: "Maybe it is for this reason. After he proclaimed himself a major general, he promoted the title of the lower official - you can see that it is more obvious. But the lower official has always despised his actions and has never been in the past."

Li Zhen snorted: "That's better to quit."

Zhu Dipang said seriously: "General, the lower officials think that is the most irresponsible behavior. Some people can protect themselves and claim to be noble, but others must also devote themselves to it - leaving the mud without being stained is also a kind of struggle. If you do not do your part, how can you know that something is destined to be irreversible?"

It was not until he said these words that Li Zhen looked at him seriously. Then he said in a deep voice: "But your words are somewhat contradictory to your previous views. Since you are proud of yourself and do not agree with Xiao Heng's approach, why should you persuade me?"

Zhu Dipang smiled: "The officials are not talking to those people, but talking to the people of Yuzhou. If you have another conflict with those people, then look at the scene in front of you-"

He pointed to a ruin in the distance: "Forgive me for offending. This tragic phenomenon may be mostly due to Xiao Heng, but whether you are intentional or not, you are responsible. Even if it is Sanbaoyan, Sanbaoyan from the Philippines used to be-"

He paused for a moment and looked at Li Zhen's expression.

Li Zhen frowned slightly and then sighed softly: "If you continue, someone should have said that."

"Yes." Zhu Dipang pursed his lips, "Even if it was Sanbaoyan. You destroyed the species there at that time - and at the same time destroyed the entire city. At that time... there should be people. There are all tragic situations there. If the war starts in Yuzhou again - I have no doubt about your ability. However, then more innocent people will die, and they are all people of the empire."

Li Zhen shook his head gently, took two steps back, and sat on the front cover of the off-road vehicle. Then he looked up at the sky for a while, and suddenly said to Zhu Dipang: "Is there any cigarette?"

These three words seemed to have taken off the heavy burden on Zhu Dipang. The expression on his face was obviously relaxed. A man in his forties seemed to be a new soldier at this moment. He took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket and handed them over.

Li Zhen looked at it and laughed: "Feiyun. I smoked this when I had no money back then. You royal family member also smoked this cigarette?"

Zhu Dipang lit a cigarette for Li Zhen with a lighter, waved his hand to go to the front to rescue the disaster with his subordinates, and then laughed and said, "You are joking. It's because the cigarette is strong enough."

Li Zhen nodded and narrowed his eyes and leaned over to light the cigarette, before breathing a sigh of relief.

A faint smoke spurted out of his mouth and turned into a thin line.

Then Li Zhen thought about it and whispered: "What you said just now has been in my heart for a long time."

"Actually, the situation was much more tragic than you thought. I took the egg of Zamboanga. At the beginning, someone wanted to completely destroy it, and I stopped it. Although I had many reasons to defend myself... But the facts are the facts."

"I took it over, and it woke up there. Later, the official propaganda of the Empire was that the species tried to rush into the city from the coast of the Philippines, and I stopped it... Haha, is it all he nonsense. Not only did I have part of the responsibility for that matter... In fact, most of the responsibility lies with me."

"When it awakened, there were hundreds of thousands of people in Zamboanga, and some people ran away, but I knew there were more people who didn't. The species polluted them...at least tens of thousands of people turned into alien species - I mean those who had escaped from the city. In fact, more... maybe they were buried when I was fighting with it."

"I have never dared to look at the casualties statistics, nor have I dared to ask more questions." Li Zhen lowered his head and looked at the sand on the ground, and then looked at Zhu Dipang, "So I thought... I had to kill that thing even if I sacrificed my life. It had nothing to do with things like justice and responsibility, because it was something I caused."

"But no one held me responsible, I became a hero. But in fact I was an executioner... I killed more than 100,000 people."

"You are the first to speak in front of me."

Li Zhen's voice fell down. Zhu Dipang moved his feet uneasyly and said, "You... Actually, you...ah, we couldn't have predicted everything."

Li Zhenyi smiled: "So after that incident, I also understood some of the previous policies of the imperial government - why they are so strict with those who are capable. Because we are all non-humans with power far beyond ordinary people... Once this power is not controlled, it will cause endless harm."

Zhu Dipang also lit a cigarette for himself and thought for a while: "Then do you agree with my suggestion?"

Li Zhen looked at him and shook his head.

"No, my decision will not change."

Zhu Dipang was slightly stunned.

"I thought too much in the past." Li Zhen sighed, "I think too much in the past, and some people say I am too kind. This may be an advantage for an ordinary person, but it won't work for me."

"Many things have pushed me to my current position step by step, but in fact, my biggest dream in the past was a stable job and a happy family. But now I have figured it out--because I am destined to do something, I must be determined to do that matter with a sharp and decisive way."

"Major Zhu, you said that if I went to war with them in Yuzhou, I would hurt innocent people. I agree with your opinion. But what about the empire? There is more than one Yuzhou in the empire now. Xiao Heng wants to be independent, and everyone else has the same thoughts. I will only punish the evil people and will not blame others for the past... So what is the meaning of what is done here?" Li Zhen shook his head, "I want a deterrent force - even if it will hurt some people here."
Chapter completed!