Chapter 453: Yang Xuangan who was locked in a cage
The situation is complicated, both for the Holy Lord and for Laihu'er himself.
The risk of forcible action against the Second Eastern Crusade is well known, and the Holy Lord and the Central Committee have also fully considered this and prepared a number of emergency plans, among which there are two crises that are most likely to lead to the failure of the Second Eastern Crusade, one is that the rebel army has cut off the North-South Grand Canal, and the other is that the radical conservative forces take advantage of a mobile military coup, and the countermeasure of the Holy Lord and the Central Center is to hand over the responsibility of protecting the North-South Grand Canal to Yang Lan and Cui Hongsheng, the kings of Qi, and cut off the head of which canal is broken, and the military coup will definitely eventually turn into a great war for imperial unification. A simple military coup d'état can't set off a storm, so the holy lord changed the principle of imperial succession, personally launched a new round of imperial war, and tried to stifle the military coup that might exist by splitting conservative forces, but it went against people's wishes, the more worried about what was scared, the more something came, the military coup still exploded, and the Grand Canal was cut off, and the two crises that might lead to the failure of the Second Eastern Crusade exploded together.
Lai Hu'er not only survived last year's storm in the Eastern Capital, but also became an official and promoted to the rank of knight, and participated in the decision-making of the Second Eastern Crusade and the preparation of related emergency plans on behalf of the military as General Youyiwei, so he knows a lot about the power game at the top, such as the reason why Li Zixiong and Dong Chun have come back successively, such as why he handed over the responsibility of supervising grain and grass in Liyang to Yang Xuangan. The use of these three military and political bigwigs is very inappropriate and has great hidden dangers, and the sudden change in the current situation is directly related to these three military and political bigwigs.
At that time, the controversy at the central decision-making level was very fierce, but the battle for the imperial system was always a high hanging sword, and it was a nightmare for the middle earth government, so that everyone had a fear in their bones, in fact, since the records of the imperial disputes of all dynasties and dynasties directly affected the fate of the national Zuo, and Guan Long in the rise of just a few decades of its national change and the imperial battle is particularly close, is a bloody history of the imperial war, and the Holy Lord and this generation of central members are the survivors of a bloody road from the cruel imperial war, So the "imperial rule" is the nightmare in their souls, and even so far they don't have enough courage and courage to face this "nightmare", and they are still trembling and moaning in this terrible "nightmare", the result of such a mentality is disastrous, when they are forced to abandon the king of Qi Yang Lan due to the difference in political concepts, they are difficult to choose, and they delay and delay, and they can't drag it on, so they come up with a "group of kings compete for the prince" strategy, Trying to split the conservative forces in the court to achieve the goal of continuing to delay the explosion of the imperial war, so in the use of Li Zixiong and Dong Chun, in the end, they still met the requirements of the king of Qi, first appeased the king of Qi, stabilized him, and formed an effective clamp on the other kings and the forces behind them, and when the victory of the Second Eastern Crusade was over, the grand strategy of national defense and diplomacy was basically realized, and the situation between China and foreign countries entered a relatively long period of stability, and the holy lord and the center could put all their energy on domestic affairs and go all out to solve the crisis of imperial unity.
In the use of Yang Xuangan, it is representative of the game between reformers and conservatives.
The Holy Lord still trusts Yang Xuangan, and the alliance with the Heluo aristocratic group with Yang Xuangan as the leader is still strong. The reason why the Holy Lord was able to win the Imperial War was directly related to the strong support of Yang Su, the old Yue Duke at that time, if Yang Su, the old Yue State Duke, failed to "defeat" Gao Ying, the first auxiliary minister of the first emperor, the crown prince Yang Yong would not have been defeated in the Imperial War. The problem is here, the alliance between the crown prince Yang Yong and the first minister Gao Ying is too strong, where does the old Yue Gong Yang Su get the motivation, courage and confidence to fight to the death? What conditions did the Holy Lord use to impress Yang Su in exchange for Yang Su's support?
Moving the capital to Luoyang, the Holy Lord used the move of the capital to Luoyang in exchange for the full support of Yang Su, the old Duke of Yueguo, and the Heluo aristocratic group with him.
After the unification of China and Earth, it is necessary to carry out a great unification reform, power and wealth must be redistributed, and the pattern of interests must be redivided, and if the Heluo aristocratic group with Hongnong Yang as the leader wants to get the largest piece of the "big cake" of the unification of Middle Earth, the best and most convenient way is to move the capital to Luoyang, so that it can "defeat" the local aristocratic group of Guanlong in a fair and high-sounding manner. In this way, this political clique that has always influenced and even decided the fate of Guozuo has always been the most influential since the rise of Guanlong.
Where the Jingshi is located, it is where the political and cultural center is located, and it is the place where power and wealth are concentrated. During the period of the three-legged tripod, the division of hegemony and the existential crisis were great, and it was necessary to "work together", and the contradiction in the distribution of this "cake" was still within the controllable range. After unification, the general environment has completely changed, and the contradiction between the redistribution of power and wealth has become more and more intense. The "appetite" of the Guanlong aristocratic group is opened, the more you eat, the more enjoyable you eat, the more you eat, but the Shandong people and Jiangzuo people are not there, this is all unified, everyone is working in a field, and they are all eating in a pot, why do you eat two bowls, I can only eat half a bowl? It's not fair. If it is unfair, it must be reformed, and the first emperor's method is to make the cake bigger, so that everyone can share a little more, so that the contradiction will be smaller. At that time, all kinds of waste were flourishing, and the conditions for a big exhibition were met, but soon, after the national strength was developed to a certain extent, it was difficult for the "cake" to become bigger, and this method would not work, so the contradiction was fierce again.
At this time, the radical reform concept of the Holy Lord appeared, and the "cake" could only be drastically reformulated to reformulate the pattern of interest distribution, and the first step was to move the capital.
The proposal to move the capital was there in the time of the first emperor, but at that time, the move to Luoyang lacked theoretical and practical support in politics and economy and culture, and after the great display of national strength, the move to Luoyang was basically mature in theory and practice, and the key was that the pattern of interests was difficult to break, and the biggest resistance came from the vested interests of the local aristocratic group of Guanlong. However, the contradiction is irreconcilable, and it is no longer possible to speed up the pace of reform, so this political concept of the Holy Lord has not only won the support of the first emperor, won the support of the Shandong people and the Jiangzuo people, but also won the support of the Heluo aristocratic group with the Hongnong Yang clan as the core force of the old Yue Gong Yang Suwei, after all, the most benefited from moving the capital to Luoyang is the Hongnong Yang clan and the Heluo aristocratic group, and the Yuan family and the eight surnames Xungui are also very supportive, because since the sinicization of the surname Yu, their roots are in Luoyang, and the rise of military merits to the Wuchuan group as the representative of the emerging noble group in Guanlong, and the fundamental interests of the local aristocratic group in Guanlong are completely consistent, which strictly restricts the exhibition space of the noble group surnamed Yuan and the eight surnamed Xungui, and moving the capital to Luoyang will inevitably allow them to distribute more benefits on the "big cake", which gives them the motivation to support the move of the capital to Luoyang.
After the Holy Lord took over, the decision to move the capital to Luoyang was quickly made and quickly implemented, but the resistance was conceivable, and the old Yue Guogong Yang Su naturally became the commander of the charge, in order to break through the resistance, he had to win the support of more political forces, so he made greater compromises to the Shandong people and Jiangzuo people on the political government, which further intensified the contradictions between him and the local group of Guanlong, and accelerated the split within the Guanlong group.
The Holy Lord and the radical reformers immediately seized this rare opportunity to win the compromise of the local aristocratic group of Guanlong by suppressing Yang Su, the prince of the old Yue Kingdom, and the Heluo aristocratic group, and then forced the Heluo people to compromise with the compromise of the local aristocratic group of Guanlong, so that the conservative forces in the court retreated step by step, while the reformists made great strides, formulated and implemented a series of reform measures in a short period of time, and went faster and faster on the road of centralization.
After the death of Yang Su, the old Yue Guogong, the huge political inheritance left behind was inherited by Yang Xuangan, the prince of Xiaoyue, and if the holy lord and reformers want to carry out radical reforms, they must maintain the existing political pattern unchanged, so it is natural to support Yang Xuangan, the prince of Xiaoyue, let the Heluo people and the local people of Guanlong continue to fight, so that the conservative forces in the court can never form a unified political alliance, but this is also an opportunity to weaken the conservative forces and accelerate radical reforms, so this kind of support is limited. Neither can Yang Xuangan, the Duke of Xiaoyue, be so powerful that he can directly affect the fate of Guozuo like his father, nor can Yang Xuangan, the Duke of Xiaoyue, lose the strength to compete with the natives of Guanlong for a long time, so as to affect the construction of centralized power.
In this kind of political background, the Holy Lord must not only trust and respect Yang Xuangan, but also control Yang Xuangan like an arm, and it is best to let Yang Xuangan become his sharp weapon to promote the reform of great unification, so the countermeasure is to win over and contain, on the one hand, he is entrusted with a heavy task, the Ministry of Rites, the central core, and extremely favored, on the other hand, he resolutely prevents him from leading the army to establish military exploits, and continues to weaken the "military legacy" left to him by Yang Su, the old Duke of Yue, so whether it is Duan Wenzhen, the secretary of the Ministry of War, strongly recommending it, or Yang Xuangan himself actively striving for it, the Holy Lord resolutely refused to give him a chance to lead the army.
Of course, there is another important reason why the Holy Lord trusts and values Yang Xuangan, which is to maintain the political status of the Hongnong Yang family, a wealthy family. The Yang royal family and the Hongnong Yang family are the same qi and branches, they are blood relatives, and the relationship between the tree and the roots of the tree, the two are interdependent, and the brothers are united in their interests and gold, which is an unbreakable truth. Although from a historical point of view, all clans and relatives closely connected with the imperial power are unreliable, and the tragedies of fratricidal brothers abound, but after all, Hongnong Yang is the foundation of the royal family, the national fortune is prosperous, the royal family is prosperous, the foundation must be firm, and the soil must be fertile, so Hongnong Yang can only grow stronger, and cannot waste food because of choking, which is beyond doubt.
Yang Xuangan's political situation is "ice and fire", the reformers want to hit him, and the local aristocratic group in Guanlong also wants to hit him, in the left and right sandwiches, the holy lord fights for help, but the holy lord's "support" has a price, in essence, it is "robbing while the fire is fired", to turn him into a sharp weapon to promote the reform of great unification, to turn him into a paving stone for centralized power, in a word, everyone is using him, consuming him, robbing him, and waiting until the reform of great unification is completed and the centralized system is established, His usefulness is gone, and he and his political clique have come to an end, and the conservative and decadent ones will certainly be replaced by the advanced and new ones.
Yang Xuangan can only fight to the end, what he wants to maintain is not the interests of a person, a family and a wealthy family, but the interests of an entire aristocratic group, so he has no choice, so the Holy Lord and the reformers have always maintained their vigilance, just like when he always maintained a high level of vigilance against the old Yue Gong Yang Su, no one wants to be a "prisoner" in a cage and allowed to be slaughtered, Yang Xuangan is no exception, he will also be angry and resist, as for when to "rage at the sky", it depends on where the "bottom line" is.
During the Second Eastern Crusade, there were three opinions on Yang Xuangan's use, one was to leave him in the Eastern Capital, but the potential threat was too great, and no one was at ease; the second is to follow the Holy Lord to the east, but the Holy Lord is unwilling to give him the right to lead the army and give him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions; In the end, the compromise was to sit in Liyang to supervise the grain and grass, tie him to the victory or defeat of the Second Eastern Crusade, and tie his hands and feet, if there was a problem in the Second Eastern Crusade, he would be the best scapegoat, and he could take the opportunity to weaken him, on the contrary, his merits were not large, not enough to support his development.
However, it turns out that the Holy Lord and the reformers finally touched Yang Xuangan's "bottom line", the Holy Lord and the center's decision-making made a fatal mistake, Yang Xuangan rebelled, when the Holy Lord needed Yang Xuangan the most, at the most critical moment of Guozuo's fate, when he should have worked together with the Holy Lord and lived and died with Guozuo, he betrayed the Holy Lord, betrayed Guozuo, and led Hongnong Yang to a road of no return.
Hongnong Yang is the foundation of the royal family, and the fate of the royal family is closely related, the foundation is decayed, dead, the fate of the royal family can be imagined, and the fate of Guozuo can be imagined.
Laihu'er was extremely shocked, and he was shocked here. Yang Xuangan's rebellion is equivalent to the rebellion of the Hongnong Yang family, and the rebellion of the Hongnong Yang family is not equivalent to burying the royal family with the same root and origin and burying his own kingdom?
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