If you want to ask Li Yan's mood at this moment, then it should be very appropriate to use the word "tangled". If you want to use four words to describe it, it is "very entangled".

Does Li Yan want to be an official?

The answer is obvious. Of course, I think, it was just that he offended the local county magistrate and local wealthy gentry before, and the road to his career had been cut off. This is why, as a son of an official, he easily accepted Li Zicheng's recruitment.

Although there are factors that are disappointed with the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is that he asked himself what he learned is better than most of the officials in the court today, but because he wanted to stand out for the people, offend county magistrates and gentry, he would not make any progress in his life. Those incompetent people who only know how to plunder the people's wealth and ointment secretly occupied high positions.

Li Yan was dissatisfied. He wanted to take down all the corrupt officials and greedy gentry. He wanted everyone in the world to know that he could do something grand and grand.

But sometimes things were not varied by his will. Li Zicheng, who had been in glory for a few days, was chased by the Jiangning Army like a dog, and he himself became a prisoner. He originally thought that he could not escape death, but now the other party ran out an olive branch and asked if he was interested in becoming an official. Such ups and downs made Li Yan feel unbearable.

The entanglement on Li Yan's face was so obvious that even Cao Yingmao beside him noticed it. If there were only two of them here now, Li Yan would inevitably be ridiculed. But now, he would not dare to be arrogant in front of Yang Feng with his courage. He could only endure the contempt in his heart and count the rubble on the roof with his eyes facing the sky.

"How is it, the famous Mr. Li is also in a dilemma?" Yang Feng asked slowly at Li Yan with a gloomy face.

Li Yan shook his head: "I have learned the kindness of Duke Xin. Although Li dared not compare with the ancients, he at least knew that loyal ministers would not serve the second masters. Since he had defected to the King of Chuang, how could he vote for others again!"

"You..." Seeing Li Yan's rejection, Cao Yingmao's eyes immediately glared. His country's prince was already so polite and polite, and this guy was so ungrateful.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Yang Feng smiled so hard that he leaned back and forth, and his right hand hit the table without knowing it, slapped the teacup on the table with a thumping sound.

After a long time, he held back his laughter and couldn't help laughing: "Li Yan, Li Yan, I originally thought you were a smart person, but I didn't expect you to be a brainless person."

"Let me ask you, your ancestors and the family members have many officials. Although they are not very famous, it should be no problem to say that you are the son of an official?"

"Yeah!" Li Yan could not deny this, so he could only nod in silence.

Yang Feng said again: "Also, Li Zicheng is just a mud-legged man from an in-house soldier. He relies on the fact that the court has no money in finance in recent years. After rescinding the in-house train, he had to return home in disgrace. However, he found that his wife committed adultery with someone and killed people in anger. In the end, he had to die in the world and finally became a bandit. Such a person would be your wise ruler?"

Li Yan raised his thick eyebrows: "Mr. I'm sorry, please forgive me. As the saying goes, heroes don't ask about their origins. Isn't the Emperor Taizu of this dynasty also a beggar? He was a monk and had to eat. In the end, he built a huge country and created hundreds of years of foundation in the Ming Dynasty. Compared with Taizu, the origin of King Chuang is nothing?"

"Li Zicheng, he is worthy of competing with Taizu?"

Yang Feng smiled contemptuously.

"If you don't say that far away, it's what he has done since the uprising. Do you dare to pat your chest and say that he is a wise master? He is just a bandit who can only be in a nest by luck. He has the cruelty of the bandits, but he has not learned even the grandeur of Taizu. If he achieves a little success, he will start to be jealous of the virtuous and able to suppress dissidents. If such a person can accomplish great things, I, Yang Feng, dare to pick out his eyes and trampl out for you."

Li Yan remained silent. He was a proud person and disdained to lie.

Yang Feng's words are correct. Li Zicheng is such a person, and he cannot change the bandits' style at heart. He originally promised to be good and to strictly control military operations and restrain his subordinates from plundering the people, but in fact, Li Zicheng basically turned a blind eye to what the people below did.

Just like Liu Zongmin killed so many innocent people in Raozhou Prefecture and robbed so much gold and silver, Li Zicheng didn't even scold him. Instead, he was so angry that Li Zicheng was so annoyed that he finally left him in Huizhou Prefecture to defend the city, and he took his main force to attack Hangzhou.

Li Yan is such a smart person. Of course, it can be seen that Li Zicheng is already a little tired of him. This time he asked him to stay in Huizhou Prefecture and was hitting him, telling him that if he still wanted to continue to be under his hands, he would have to calm down.

Originally, Li Yan was also reflecting on whether his actions had passed over the past few days, which made his boss start to disgust him. Should he apologize to Li Zicheng after a while, but now after Yang Feng opened the scar, he felt that the wound was so painful.

"Li Yan, I am not afraid to tell you openly that Li Zicheng and the others are rabbit tails that cannot grow, and will be wiped out by me at most a few months. If you don't want to die with him, it's still time to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. If you say this, please do it yourself!

I will give you a few days to consider. If I still insist on following Li Zicheng in a few days, I will only be able to kill Ma Su in tears!"

After saying that, Yang Feng waved his hand, and the two servants outside the door walked in, grabbed Li Yan's arm and pressed him down.

"Wait a moment!"

Li Yan, who was caught by the servant, suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at Yang Feng and asked, "Dude, I have a question, don't have it in my heart for a long time, and I can't figure it out. The strength of the Jiangning Army has long been seen. It is worthy of being the strongest army of the Ming Dynasty. In theory, with the strength of the Jiangning Army, it should be easy to destroy us bandits. Why has your movements been so slow, as if you deliberately forced the Rebel Army into the hinterland of Jiangnan? Could it be that you did it intentionally?"

Yang Feng just smiled and gave a wink at Cao Yingmao who was standing beside him. Cao Yingmao, who had long been unable to help but laughed and said, "You still have a little self-knowledge. If the Duke of the State deliberately let you go, Li Zicheng would have wiped you out when he was still running around in Henan Prefecture a few months ago, and that would have made you run around."

"I see."

Li Yan took a long breath and looked at Yang Feng deeply, "The Duke of China is easy to calculate. He wants to clean Jiangnan but doesn't want to do it himself, so we are the swords in your hand. After we harm all Jiangnan, the Jiangning army can end it rightfully, which can not only gain a good reputation, but also embrace Jiangnan in your arms!

Tsk tsk...good...what a person who killed someone by borrowing a knife..."
Chapter completed!