Chapter 289: Trouble in the North (12)
Lin Fengxiang put down the paperwork that Shi Dakai gave him with a straight face, he also thought that Shi Dakai would take action, but he didn't expect Shi Dakai to really do it so quickly.
Even if Lin Fengxiang was killed, Lin Fengxiang would not believe the nonsense that Shi Dakai said about the sudden attack on the Taiping Army by the Liberation Army. If the Guangfu Army really wants to attack the Taiping Army, when Shi Dakai sends this document to Lin Fengxiang, the Guangfu Army will at least break Tongguan, and even the soldiers will force them to Chang'an City. Shi Dakai stabbed the hornet's nest himself, but now he wants to pull everyone into the water. This made Lin Fengxiang extremely annoyed.
Lin Fengxiang wanted to go to Shi Dakai immediately to theorize and reprimand Shi Dakai for this kind of nonsense in person, but when he got up and was about to let people prepare the horse, he stopped again. Shi Dakai can actually go directly to Lin Fengxiang to tell this matter in person, in that case, Lin Fengxiang can reprimand Shi Dakai in person. The reason why Shi Dakai sent a document was for only one purpose, that is, to let Lin Fengxiang take the initiative to find him. It is estimated that when Lin Fengxiang goes to find Shi Dakai, there will be a bunch of princes who stand up with Shi Dakai and ask Lin Fengxiang to take a tough stance against the Liberation Army. If Lin Fengxiang didn't agree, they were afraid that they would ask Lin Fengxiang to let the Guangfu Army show goodwill, and the matter would be lightly revealed.
As far as Lin Fengxiang's heart is concerned, the best way at this time is to delay, if it really can't be delayed, then surrender under the condition that Wei Ze gives the Taiping army good treatment. Now the Guangfu Army has promised to give good treatment to the lower-class brothers of the Taiping Army. The Guangfu Army carried out land reform in the areas under its rule, and this method of public ownership of land, division of land among the people, and the government's intervention to organize cooperatives and popularize agricultural technology was very much in line with Lin Fengxiang's thoughts. He has no opinion that this kind of system is really implemented in the areas controlled by the Taiping Army. As for the treatment of the upper echelons of the Taiping Army, Lin Fengxiang actually didn't have any special ideas, even if he didn't give him an official, just the money that the kings had made over the years, and Ken An'an's life would not be exhausted for ten lifetimes.
So Lin Fengxiang's last choice was to write the word "know" on the document and let people give it to Shi Dakai.
Seeing the word "know" on the document, Shi Da was stunned when he boarded. Jiang is old and spicy, he originally tried to make Lin Fengxiang excited first, but he didn't expect Lin Fengxiang to come to a cold treatment. Shi Dakai didn't really have to worry about what Lin Fengxiang thought, he was only worried that Lin Fengxiang would hold a meeting and ask if what Shi Dakai said was true or false. Some people want to be part of the princes and important ministers who hope that the Taiping Army will move now, but there are still such a group of people, including Lin Fengxiang, who don't want to move.
If these people who don't want to move are really as stable as Mount Tai, Shi Dakai will be bad. Those who didn't want to move probably wouldn't want to cut off Shi Dakai's head and sacrifice it to Wei Ze, but without their cooperation, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be divided. Shi Dakai's gang can only jump on their own.
Shi Dakai immediately changed his strategy, agreed on a time with Li Xiucheng, and the two arrived at Lin Fengxiang's prime minister's mansion.
"King Zhang, the Guangfu Army has raided our army, if we can't respond quickly, I'm afraid that the Guangfu Army will come to the door." Li Xiucheng simply made his position clear to Lin Fengxiang.
"And what are you going to do?" Lin Fengxiang didn't talk about his attitude first, but asked about Li Xiucheng's attitude.
Li Xiucheng replied: "I will simply continue to advance westward, and then go west after taking Xinjiang." However, before that, I also asked King Zhang to go to the Guangfu Army and persuade them not to overly persecute our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. ”
Shi Dakai felt that something was wrong when he heard it, why was Li Xiucheng's words different from before? In the past, Li Xiucheng meant to move the capital and resist the Guangfu army at the same time. Now how did it become that Lin Fengxiang was asked to appease the Liberation Army. If Lin Fengxiang can appease the Guangfu Army, then what should Shi Dakai be in? Will you be held accountable for this conflict?
But Shi Dakai is very keen to find that if Li Xiucheng's suggestion can be successful, it is not without feasibility. At present, the internal problem of the Taiping Army is that there are too many defeatists, and everyone has neither the confidence to seize the world with the Liberation Army, nor the impulse to continue to expand the territory. These people are just staying in the northwest without dying, and they just want to keep the benefits they have obtained.
Shi Dakai also had such a day back then, and he knew that the result of doing so would be complete destruction. As long as it can moderately stir up contradictions and cut off everyone's illusions of a stable life, then everything can be saved. Although Li Xiucheng's approach is very immoral, it is not very bad on the whole. What's more, Shi Dakai's current identity, who can move Shi Dakai.
For the time being, he made an account of Li Xiucheng in his heart, but Shi Dakai did not publicly oppose it. Among the kings, Lin Fengxiang is actually the only one who can really talk to the Guangfu Army, and so far, the benefits that can be won from the Guangfu Army are all Lin Fengxiang's actions. If Lin Fengxiang is willing to come forward, a new peace may not be reached.
Lin Fengxiang didn't speak, and when Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng said everything they had to say, and only looked at Lin Fengxiang with blank eyes, Lin Fengxiang said: "I know your thoughts, so that the brothers feel that even if they can't defeat the Guangfu Army, they can still fight." By the way, everyone felt that the Liberation Army could accept everyone's thoughts. Then you will bring you to revive the kingdom of heaven. ”
Hearing Lin Fengxiang say this, Shi Dakai just nodded, if he could get Lin Fengxiang's cooperation, it would naturally be the best. Although Li Xiucheng is very young among the kings, he is actually the third-ranked powerful faction. When Li Xiucheng retreated from Zhejiang during the Northern Expedition of the Guangfu Army, there were a lot of troops. This young and successful general heard an ominous taste from Lin Fengxiang's words.
Lin Fengxiang continued: "I can indeed talk to King Qi, but the reason why I can talk to King Qi is different from that of the two brothers. I know very well that I can't compare to King Qi, so no matter what, I don't dare to calculate King Qi. But the two brothers not only want to calculate me, but also to calculate the king of Qi. I know the painstaking efforts of the two brothers for the kingdom of heaven, so I don't blame them. But the two brothers hit the king of Qi with their ideas, I think you really miscalculated! ”
"King Qi is angry, we can think of it." Li Xiucheng said.
Lin Fengxiang shook his head, "King Qi won't be angry. If you don't let me go to the King of Qi to talk about it, the King of Qi may still wait and see for a while. If you let me talk to the king of Qi, with the wisdom of the king of Qi, will he not know that we are now unstable. Now that he has a reason to send troops, and we are unstable internally, you say that he will hesitate in the slightest. It must have been a thunderous blow. ”
When Lin Fengxiang said this, Shi Dakai's expression was quite calm, and Li Xiucheng's face had changed greatly. He originally wanted to fool Wei Ze, but after listening to Lin Fengxiang's words, Li Xiucheng realized that he was indeed very wrong. Although Li Xiucheng is not as proficient in tactics as King Chen Yucheng, he is more strategic than King Chen Yucheng. At the beginning, he thought about the problem according to his own calculations, and after Lin Fengxiang's reminder, Li Xiucheng finally determined his problem. Although he still didn't think there was anything wrong with it, he found that his overall calculation was problematic.
"Then King Zhang, is he going to sit back and watch the Guangfu Army come over?" Shi Dakai asked calmly. Unlike Li Xiucheng, what Shi Dakai has to do is to cheer up the unenterprising Taiping army, and it doesn't make much difference whether it is a fake fight or a real defeat.
Lin Fengxiang looked at the opposite wing king Shi Dakai and the loyal king Li Xiucheng without the slightest regret, but insisted on going their own way. He sighed.
At this time, Zhang Yingchen called two subordinates to talk. Li Peiyuan and Zhou Guben sat on the chairs and listened carefully to Zhang Yingchen's words.
"If I'm not mistaken, you two should be King Qi's subordinates." Zhang Yingchen asked calmly.
Li Peiyuan and Zhou Guben's faces changed immediately, and Zhou Guben immediately said loudly: "King Yong, don't be joking!" How could a subordinate be a subordinate of King Qi! ”
"Do you think I don't know about you being in contact everywhere and delivering letters? You have worked hard in the past two months, and you have received letters from the brothers' families from Tongguan to the hands of the brothers, and the brothers of the family remember your feelings very much. Even if you accidentally slip out, my brothers beg me not to embarrass you. Zhang Yingchen said slowly.
If Zhang Yingchen jumped up angrily at this time and scolded, Li Peiyuan and Zhou Guben both thought that there was still a chance to defend themselves. But Zhang Yingchen's attitude is so calm, obviously he has a plan for a long time. The two looked at each other and stood up together. Zhang Yingchen's personal guards immediately took two steps forward, holding their weapons, ready to guard against any abnormal movement between the two.
Li Peiyuan lowered his hands and said seriously to Zhang Yingchen: "King Yong, we are indeed the subordinates of King Qi. But we are also doing this for the sake of our brothers, what is the benefit of the Taiping Army and the Liberation Army fighting. The princes all value their status, but their status is supported by these hundreds of thousands of Taiping Army brothers. King Yong, you have been with the King of Qi for so long, you know better than anyone that the King of Qi relied on him to support the country of the Liberation Army. Now in this situation, the brothers voted for King Qi, so they can live a good life. If you continue to follow the princes to the dark, you will only end up in nothing. ”
"Oh? Are you trying to make me defect to the King of Qi in turn? Zhang Yingchen asked expressionlessly.
"King Yong, King Qi has never been a narrow-minded person, even if there were any festivals before, more than ten years have passed. How could King Qi still take it to heart. We don't dare to persuade King Yong, but we just ask King Yong to think twice. Zhou Guben said.
"In other words, you two are indeed the people of King Qi. That's right, right? Zhang Yingchen was sure of what he was most concerned about.
Li Peiyuan and Zhou Guben didn't expect Zhang Yingchen to care about this, the two of them glanced at each other, and they both saw fear and a trace of firmness in each other's eyes. Turning around, both of them replied, "We are indeed the people of King Qi!" ”
"In that case, the rest will be easy." Zhang Yingchen said calmly.