Gao Shengtai continued, "Meng Shengren has clouds, born in sorrow, and died in peace. The royal family of the Duan clan in Dali does have many unscrupulous descendants.

Dali has had few external troubles in the past hundred years, but internal troubles are endless, and Yang Yizhen's murder of the monarch and seizure of the throne did not arouse the vigilance of the children of Duan is royal family, but was more strict with the people than before.

Among them, many people ignore the government and do not think about the country and the people, but only think about accumulating wealth and enjoyment, and in recent years, they have been bullying the people and occupying the fertile land.

Emperor Baoding didn't want to take care of it at first, but later he couldn't stand it, and when he wanted to manage it, he couldn't manage it.

Yang Jungong came to Dali for a few days, I believe that he has seen the people of Dali, maybe it still looks peaceful, in fact, the people's livelihood is withering, so if it continues, it will not take a few years for the people to make a living.

Emperor Baoding saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, but he thought of many ways, but he still didn't have enough ability to confront the strong family, and the actual effect was better than nothing.

Therefore, in the past year, Emperor Baoding has forgiven the Yang family's past sins, reactivated some people of insight in the Yang family, and let them re-enter the court.

The original strength of the Yang family is still there, and he is grateful to Emperor Baoding for his magnanimity, and naturally slowly grows into a new force that Emperor Baoding can control.

At the same time, Emperor Baoding ordered the old man to lead the family forces to the west, gradually eroding the Duan family's sphere of influence in the central part of the country, and to a certain extent, let the Yang family and our Gao family form a three-sided encirclement of the Duan family. ”

Yang Huairen was very surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that Emperor Baoding, who was incompetent and incompetent in the eyes of outsiders, would have such a strategy, and he dared to fight against his family for the interests of the country and the people, such a mind is really admirable from the bottom of his heart.

What Gao Shengtai said was a secret in the government of Dali, Yang Huairen guessed that he could tell the truth, it seems that something is imminent.

Thinking of this, he asked, "What does Emperor Baoding mean by insisting on abdicating?" ”

Gao Shengtai said ashamedly, "The situation is compelling, and Emperor Baoding's move is also forced to be helpless." From the time the Yang clan re-entered the core of power in the Dali court, the actual power in the Duan family was dissatisfied with Emperor Baoding.

But Emperor Baoding's original explanation was to win the popularity of people in the west and north of Dali, so he had to do so. Later, our Gao clan's forces moved westward, and although the Duan clan was also dissatisfied, after all, due to the status of the old man, he did not oppose it to a large extent.

But in the past year, they gradually realized that something was wrong, and realized that the mild-tempered Emperor Baoding was slowly no longer under their control.

So recently, the Duan clan began to plan some secret things, and did a lot of things in Dali City and their family's sphere of influence.

These things naturally could not escape the eyes of the old man's children, who went around preaching bad words about Emperor Baoding, co-opting the middle forces in the court, and isolating the family forces that supported Emperor Baoding, so that the political situation of the entire Dali Kingdom fell into chaos.

The ultimate purpose of this is to find an opportunity to force Emperor Baoding to abdicate and make way for Xian, so that they can re-establish an obedient puppet emperor to ascend the throne and continue to do whatever they want in Dali.

Emperor Baoding is a kind person, but he is not stupid, and he naturally sees the things in the family clearly, and knows what kind of situation the Dali Congress will fall into if the throne falls into the hands of these people.

Therefore, he decided to become a monk, handed over the power to the old man in advance, and secretly instructed the old man to use the power of his own family to unite the Yang family and several other forces to prevent the next move of the careerists in the Duan clan, and then slowly squeeze their sphere of influence. ”

Yang Huairen seems to understand a little, Gao Shengtai is in charge alone, it turned out that it was not his personal intention, but was entrusted by Emperor Duan Zhengming of Baoding.

It is extremely risky to do so, in case a section is clear and unclear, Gao Shengtai is also an ambitious person who covets the throne of Dali, and the century-old foundation of the Duan clan was given up in his hands, and he became a sinner of the Duan dynasty in Dali.

But Duan Zhengming is really a good emperor who is kind and loves the people, and for the sake of the well-being of the people, he is willing to take risks in such an extreme way, which is really a bit too great.

However, from another aspect, since Duan Zhengming did this, on the one hand, he believed in the Gao family, especially Gao Shengtai's character, when the Gao family father and son led the Wu barbarian soldiers back to the court, and killed Yang Yizhen was still located in the Duan family, at that time, he had the opportunity and strength to stand on his own.

If we didn't do that then, we probably won't do it now.

Duan Zhengming's reactivation of the Yang clan is also using the power of the Yang clan's Dali to contain the Gao clan, and he has also taken due precautions, at this point, Gao Shengtai is such a shrewd person, naturally he will not understand the intentions of Emperor Baoding.

This forms a three-legged trend within the Dali Kingdom, if anyone wants to be dominant, they will be attacked by the other two families, and if a delicate balance can be maintained, it will allow the Dali Duan family to get the orthodox inheritance.

In this way, Duan Zhengming is really an extremely smart and open-minded person. Of course, the future successor must be a good emperor who can sympathize with the people of Dali.

Yang Huairen suddenly remembered that Gao Shengtai passed away two years later, and he was still in power with Duan Zhengchun, the younger brother of Emperor Baoding, Duan Zhengchun had no intention of taking the throne, and continued to pass on the matter to his son Duan Heyu.

Yang Huairen felt very interesting to know such a hidden history of Dali, since the political situation of Dali was destined to go through such a process, and this process would not have any impact on the Great Song Dynasty, he was relieved.

But there was one more thing he hadn't thought about clearly, so he asked Gao Shengtai, "So what happened yesterday, does Gao Xiangguo feel that it has anything to do with what you said just now?" ”

Gao Shengtai nodded and smiled, "Yang Jungong is really talented and intelligent. The Wuman King appeared outside the city of Dali, and spent time and effort digging an underground secret passage from outside the city into the city, his intentions are self-evident.

However, the old man believes in the wisdom of the Barbarian King, and he can't think of such an idea, behind him, there should be a huge black hand manipulating all this, and the Barbarian King is just a small character who is used by this black hand.

Although the Wuman Department has become stronger and stronger in recent years, if you want to shake the national capital of Dali, the strength is not enough at all, and the Wuman King is more than brave, and his resourcefulness is insufficient, and he can't become a big deal.

He is just a barbarian who sees money, maybe someone behind him made some promises, he stupidly thought that he could use this to realize his ambitions, but he didn't know that no matter how much he tossed, he was just a chess piece after all. ”