5. Bright and dark countermeasures

Then in the pavilion, Li Yuanping screamed and waved his short arms, saying that this time the court must not be appeased, why did the Zhongshu servant Dou Shen die, the princes thought about it.

"Isn't it because of collusion with Xifan?" Wang Biao asked loudly.

Li Yuanping immediately looked at this person with sympathetic eyes, and thought to himself, how did you pass the Jinshi examination of the Southern Academy of the Ministry of Rites in the first place?

"Dou Zhonglang's death is indeed a slander by the traitor Gao Yue, but the court is so convicted, and we can't refute it, we can't raise troops and say that we want to avenge Dou Shen, so wouldn't it mean that we are also conspiring with Xifan, so we will lose our trust in the world." Zhai Zuoping was in the Xuanwu Army and also had a grudge against Gao Yue, but he still dared to launch a mutiny in private, and openly clamored for revenge for Dou Shen, but it was his forbidden area.

But Li Yuanping's next words made everyone in the pavilion tremble, "In this case, we should contact Xifan in Guandongfang Town, attack from east to west, capture Chang'an, and overthrow Li Tang's Jiangshan Sheji!" ”

"You're crazy." Zhai Zuoping and Wang Biao were suddenly frightened, and they couldn't wait to raise their four hands and accuse Li Yuanping of being bold and reckless.

"Princes, as long as this court still exists for a day, it is impossible to resolve the enmity between Fang Zhen and it, whether it is to marry a princess, or to allow the father to die and the son to succeed the festival, after all, it is just an expedient measure of the imperial court, as long as the son of heaven is healthy and the imperial court soldiers and horses are strong, it will inevitably entrust a fierce and violent person like Gao Yue to level us and others. Dou Zhonglang just wanted to improve the relationship between Kanto and Chang'an, so he died in the Evil Yang Ridge, I don't kill Gao Yue today, Gao Yue will kill me one day, just like Dou Shen. Then Li Yuanping ignored the obstruction and continued to make a lot of nonsense, he pointed to everyone present and said: "You can send secret envoys to see Zampu and agree that Xifan will raise troops together." After the great success is completed, I Huaixi will get Eyue, Shannandong and Jingnan, Biansong can get Henan and Huainan, Ziqing can get Zhejiang and east, Wei Bo can unify Heshuo Youyan, as for Xifan, you can let Helong, Jiannan, Northwest and Guanzhong give it. Since then, the world has been divided, and you all have a foundation, and then you will chase the Central Plains, each depending on the destiny of heaven, and there is no resentment in victory or defeat. ”

"Li Yuanping, you are brazenly luring Qiang into the Central Plains of China and splitting the country into several pieces, you are simply a chaotic minister and thief." Wang Biao couldn't hold back any longer, and the halberd pointed at Li is scolding.

And Zhai Zuoping also felt that Li's plan was too bad and absurd, and he didn't echo it at all.

"Actually, Li Bingshi (Li Yuanping is now the judge of the Huaixi Shogunate, and his official rank is already the squire of the military department of the inspection school) is right, no matter what, the relationship between the court and us is one of death and death, after Dou Shen's death, we have no one in the court who can return to Huan, that is to say, once the official army breaks through the Tongwan City, it may be the turn of the next Kwantung region......" At this moment, the veteran Wei Bo Xing Caojun, who was always silent on the side, opened his mouth.

Then the veteran looked at the king's watch with his shining eyes, "Perhaps, soon the Holy Lord will want us to destroy these three cities." ”

Wang Biao shrank his neck and stopped talking.

Xing Caojun looked at Zhai Zuoping again, "After Liu Situ, even if the imperial court lets the son of the Situ family succeed the festival, it is suspected that the gap has already been deeply planted, and judging from the location of Xuanwu Town, it is impossible for the imperial court to tolerate it in the long run." ”

Zhai Zuoping also groaned when he said this.

Just when Li Yuanping was overjoyed and thought that this old military leader of Wei Bo was actually a confidant, and was about to make a move on him, Xing Caojun also stroked his beard, his bald forehead was shining in the sun, and he stared at Li Yuanping, "Your Huai Ningjun said this, the motive is also very impure, how can the death of Han Jingong, the former prime minister of the imperial court, have anything to do with your Huaixi?" In the future, when the imperial court mobilizes troops, Shen Guangcai will inevitably bear the brunt, and your words are nothing more than hoping to coerce other towns. ”

These words went straight to the point, and Li Yuanping was red-faced.

Before he set off in Caizhou City, he pouted Wu Shaocheng and said, now the Chang'an court is bloody and bloody, and the people's hearts are in turmoil, we have to seize this opportunity to join forces with Wei Bo and Ziqing to oppose the Tang Dynasty, even if they sell themselves to Xifan, they will not hesitate, "No, after Gaoyue Pingqiang and Wei Gao and others have become a big climate, in order to invite favor to the emperor, the next step must be to invade my Huaixi, Shenguang Cai has only 400,000 households, the land is narrow and the wealth is weak, and it does not produce salt and horses, and it is also under the tuantuan of Tang Eyue, Shannan Dongdao, Jingnan, Huainan, and Chen Xu. Stretching out your head and relaxing your feet is not yet free, such as greedy for comfort at this moment, and when the officials and soldiers cover up and kill on a large scale, and all roads attack, you will regret it too late. ”

As soon as Wu Shaocheng heard that it made sense, he asked Li Yuanping to participate in the secret meeting of Sanchao City.

Who thought of his purpose, but Xing Caojun easily saw through it, not only that, Xing also mentioned the great relationship between Han Yun's assassination and Huaixi Town, which made Li Yuanping even more frightened.

"What, it turns out that Han Jingong's death also has your Huaixi's black hand behind it?" Wang Biao was furious again.

Just when Li Yuanping was about to argue, "Okay! At this time, Xing Caojun stood up and put an end to the controversy of this secret meeting:

The Xuanwu Army, the Pinglu Army, the Tianxiong Army, and the Huaining Army formed an offensive and defensive alliance, and once the imperial court intervened in the affairs of any of the towns, these four towns must be defended together;

Since then, the four towns have raised their own official subordinates, and the taxes are not entered into the imperial court, and the state and county thorn history and county orders have also slowly used their own natives, not allowing the court officials to come, but in order to ease the relationship with the imperial court, the four towns each privately send hundreds of thousands of dollars into the inner treasury of Fengtianzi every year.

The Daitang along the Caoyun Road, as well as the "Poor Gang Law" left by Dou Shen, we continue to implement the Fang Town, and if the two taxes and Hudou rice in the southeast of the imperial court are transferred from the Yangtze Patrol Academy, not only will we use our Daitang to draw money to collect taxes, but also be heavy, the heavier the better, so as to trap the finances of the imperial court;

Once there is any flaw in the military and political affairs of the imperial court, we will take the opportunity to come out, and we must take advantage of this to deal a serious blow to the imperial court, so that it will not have the spare strength to go east;

Huaixi Li Yuanping's strategy was too radical and rebellious to be used.

In short, Xing Caojun's plan is eight words - "no unification, no independence, clear and dark reverse".

Li Yuanping wanted to take the initiative to collude with the Western Tibetan to oppose the Tang Dynasty, but Xing Caojun disagreed, and his idea was that "we did not collude with the Western Tibetans, but pulled behind the scenes, exhausted the Tang Dynasty, and when the Western Tibetan counterattack was overwhelming, we would choose the opportunity to rebel and divide the territory."

At this time, Li Yuanping retreated and second, so he echoed Xing Juncao, and the four towns also reached an agreement, that is, the Lu army of Ziqingping used the group of "mountain sheds" and "river thieves" all over the mountains and rivers of Huaishui to secretly support horses and salt in large quantities to Huaixi along the Yangtze River, and consolidated Huaixi as the frontline barrier against Tang.

Ziqing itself can take the sea route and buy good horses from Liaodi, and the sea salt of the Pinglu army is not a problem, and it is more than enough to sell it to Huaixi - but Huaixi will also sell the remaining part of the salt bought to Shannan Dongdao and Jingnan regions that lack salt at a high price, and make a huge profit from it.

So Li Yuanping was overjoyed, and then he thought about it again, so he offered a more vicious strategy.

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