"You're a duke of the realm. Your eyes shouldn't be fixed on the gains and losses of one city or one region. You should have the whole world in your heart!"
"Governor Ye, if you can disregard the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people right before your eyes, then how am I supposed to have the whole world in my heart? Li Fei can't achieve a heart like that!"
"Now the entire Great Blue Dynasty is besieged by enemies. If the Eastern Border falls, the greater situation will collapse. How many people might die beneath the butchers' blades in the future? More than a hundred thousand? It'll be millions! Tens of millions! Are you willing to see such a future?"
"Governor Ye, Li Fei has never boasted about his accomplishments, but every battle I was supposed to fight, I won. Everything I was supposed to do, I did. The Former Emperor bestowed the title of Jing'an, Marquis upon me. Li Fei dares say that I have done justice to the words 'Eternal Stability'!"
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"This expedition may indeed be, as you said, an act of disregard for the greater situation. So be it. Li Fei has always acted on impulse throughout his journey! Whatever the result of this battle, I'll shoulder all the rights and wrongs, merits and faults!"
Inside the secret chamber, Ye Jingfu fell silent once more.
Even the harshest person had to admit that Li Fei's accomplishments along the way were simply too substantial! There was no way to accuse him of having done too little or not done well enough!
In truth, if Li Fei hadn't single-handedly turned the tide in the Northern Barbarians' territory, killing Boerhu at the fastest possible speed and driving back the Northern Barbarians' army, the Great Blue Dynasty's situation