Chapter 116: Zhai Rang rebelled
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Zhai Hong returned to Wagang, and the news he brought back was like a basin of cold water, pouring on the heads of the Wagang people who were full of expectations, extinguishing the only hope in their hearts, and completely shattering the unrealistic illusions that they were always unwilling to give up.
A thief is a thief, black is black, unless heaven and earth are subverted, it is impossible for a thief to become a hero, and it is impossible for black to become white. Zhai Rang and the Wagang people have never been able to correct their positions, wishful thinking that the Xingyang Zheng clan will not abandon them, and even hope to rely on the huge power of the Xingyang Zheng clan to reverse the situation, turn from black to white, and re-enter the ranks of aristocratic prestige.
In fact, this wish is not out of line, they were originally victims of the political game, but in the game the Guanlong people have the upper hand, if one day the Shandong people have the upper hand, Zhai Rang and Wagang people do have hope to restore their noble status, but the premise is that Zhai Rang and Wagang people must have enough value to be worthy of Xingyang Zheng's help.
At present, the situation in Henan is obvious, Xingyang Zheng was hit by the Guanlong people with the help of natural disasters, basically lost the strength to fight back, and it was difficult to even breathe, where is the spare strength to save a group of little brothers? At this moment, the boss of the Xingyang Zheng clan urgently needs his little brothers to charge for it, sacrifice their lives to die, and buy it time to breathe and counterattack, instead of continuing to hide under its precarious wings, watching it suffer the enemy's crazy blows in front of it and be helpless, indifferent, or even flee.
The Zheng clan of Xingyang was furious, angry at the fear, cowardice, retreat, and inaction of the Henan nobles at the critical moment. When I need you most, you dare not fight for me, and do not want to die for me, so why should I protect you? Second- and third-rate aristocrats are powerful and powerful, have their own interests, and Xingyang Zheng are both allies and competitors, of course, it is impossible to do their best to safeguard the interests of Xingyang Zheng, but the last nobles, as well as former nobles such as Zhai Rang who fell into "hell", and Xingyang Zheng are actually masters and servants, and they are not willing to fight for their benefactor at a critical moment, that is betrayal, and for the rebel slave of the traitor, how can Xingyang Zheng forgive?
Zhai Rang and the Wagang people were indeed suspected of betrayal at a critical moment.
When Li Fengyun led the Southwest Lu Righteous Army Alliance into the Central Plains and the situation in Henan deteriorated sharply, Zhai Rang and the Wagang people saw that the Zheng clan in Xingyang seemed to be unable to support it, and seemed to have lost the ability to shelter them, and it would be difficult to help them recover their identities in the future, so they had the idea of changing the court and voting for another master, trying to help Jiyin Taishou Wei Baoluan to climb the big tree of Wei's in Guanzhong.
At that time, there were not many Wagang people who had this idea, but only Zhai Hong revealed it vaguely. Fortunately, the Wagang people are still sober and know that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Zheng family in Xingyang is a middle-earth giant, with a history of thousands of years, and the foundation is too deep, and a violent storm can't help it at all. So Zhai Rang sent Zhai Hong to Xingyang to inquire about the news, nominally to ask the benefactor for advice, but in fact to investigate the truth of the Zheng family in Xingyang, so as to plan for his future. In the final analysis, seeing the wind makes the rudder, once the wind direction is wrong, the betrayal of the Lord will betray the Lord, and the good birds choose trees to perch, it is justified, it is really cornered, and there is only a flag to rebel, and the road goes to the dark.
Xingyang Zheng is a thousand-year-old "old demon", who hasn't seen it? Zhai Rang's careful thinking has nothing to hide in their eyes, and Zhai Rang's value is not worth mentioning in their eyes, so after Zhai Hong arrived in Xingyang, he had no chance to enter the door of the Zheng family at all, but fortunately, he also had some friends in Xingyang, and after many days, he finally inquired about the attitude of the Zheng family in Xingyang from the mouth of a second-rate family to them.
Zhai Rang and the Wagang people finally paid the price for their foresight, and at the same time, they finally saw the harsh environment they were in. For them, if they want to return to the ranks of nobles, if they want to live a stable life again, they can only fight bloodily, only become the strongest, only rely on their own strength to subvert the world, there is a glimmer of possibility, for this, they must abandon unrealistic illusions, must be self-reliant, must fight a bloody way out of many dangers, must control their own destiny.
Zhai Hong was very frustrated. The Zhai family is just a second- or third-rate aristocrat in Henan, and its own strength is limited, if it wants to survive and pass it on from generation to generation, it must be attached to a wealthy family, otherwise it will be destroyed at any time. Countless aristocratic hopes in history have turned into dust, and generations of nobles have gradually formed a deep-rooted concept of survival under the oppression of cruel reality, that is, "dependence". The lower nobles are dependent on the higher nobles, and the higher nobles are dependent on the higher nobles, and the higher nobles are dependent on the higher nobles, and the higher nobles stand at the top of the pyramid of power and wealth, they are the rule-makers of this world, and they hold the distribution of power and wealth, they are the "towering trees". All those who cling to the "towering tree" will be swept away by the storm once they lose the protection of the "tree". In Zhai Hong's view, the Zhai family has lost the protection of the Xingyang Zheng family and has been abandoned by the Xingyang Zheng family, and the last hope of the Zhai family's comeback has been shattered, and the Zhai family is finished.
Zhai Rang was calm. The illusion is shattered, the pain and resentment in the heart can be imagined, but at the same time, there is an unwilling cry, since you can't count on others, then you can only rely on yourself, maybe under the favor of God, you can kill a bloody road, and you can also make an earth-shattering overlord's cause.
"What do we do next?" Zhai Hong sighed, looked at everyone, and a deep sadness was revealed in his low tone, "According to the meaning of the Xingyang Zheng family, we should charge for it, but at the moment when Wei Envoy Jun was in danger, we watched coldly and did not help. Now that Jiyin has fallen, Wei Envoy Jun will not escape the disaster of prison, and he hates us to the core, even if we have the heart to defect, he will not take him in. ”
Bing Yuanzhen was in a heavy mood, the future was dark, and the weight of the darkness made him almost suffocated, but at this moment, he could only fight to the death, and he could only fight to the death. He looked up at Zhai Hong, who was immersed in despair and couldn't extricate himself, and asked in a cold voice, "From the news you got from Xingyang, can you conclude that the Zheng family has formed an alliance with the Wei family?" Is it certain that Zheng wants to help Merriam-Webster to suppress the thieves? ”
This time Henan was in danger, and the heaviest loss was the Xingyang Zheng family, and the people who besieged the Xingyang Zheng family on all sides were the Guanlong people, which is a well-known thing. So based on this, what reason does the Xingyang Zheng clan have to ally with Webster? Could it be that among the Guanlong people who besieged the Zheng clan this time, there was no Guanzhong Wei clan? Under the current situation, the in-law relationship between the Zheng family and the Wei family can actually not resist the hatred brought by the Guanlong people's heavy attack on the Zheng family, and the blood-drenched Zheng family will never swallow his anger and lower his arrogant head, and form an alliance with the Wei family to join forces to attack the Shandong Righteous Army. Therefore, Bing Yuan really has reason to suspect that the news that Zhai Hong inquired from Xingyang is not accurate. If Zheng did not form an alliance with Wei, then the Wagang people did not help Wei Baoluan before, then the purpose of Zheng's denunciation of the Wagang people's treachery was to ask the Wagang people to attack Wei's and use the Wagang people's charge to change the situation on the front line of Tongji Canal, and then achieve the goal of counterattacking the Guanlong people.
"The scribe servant Shi Wei Yunqi has already left the customs, and now he is camping on the Yellow River Ancient Road north of Jishui, and the township regiments and sects from all over Henan are flocking away, which is not enough to prove that the Zheng clan is in alliance with the Wei clan?" Zhai Hong was physically and mentally exhausted, and his speech was also weak, "It is said that Wei Yunqi rushed to Tongji Canal at this moment to pave the way for the King of Qi to go out of Beijing and chaos, and his main goal was not Li Fengyun, but to reach a compromise with the local forces on the front line of Tongji Canal. Li Fengyun's strength is limited, and if the king of Qi leads his army out of Beijing to fight the rebellion, it will definitely be like a bamboo, and it will be decided with one drum, but if the local forces on the front line of Tongji Canal do not cooperate and secretly hinder them, then it is difficult to say whether the victory or defeat will be said. The King of Qi can't afford to lose, the goal of the King of Qi is the East Palace, which is the position of the crown prince, so if the King of Qi wants to win this battle, he must win the support of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and the current Zheng family in Xingyang is in a difficult situation, if the King of Qi and the Wei family take the opportunity to coerce and lure, does the Zheng family have any other countermeasures besides compromise? ”
"Of course, Zheng will definitely have to compromise." Bing Yuanzhen said, "But is Zheng really compromising or fake compromise? If it is really a compromise, sincere to ally with the Wei family, and determined to intervene in the battle for imperial dominance, then why didn't the Xingyang Zheng family send us to the battlefield of rebellion? Why do you have to push us into a corner, let us raise the banner of rebellion? At this moment, we are raising the flag in Dongjun, and we will inevitably form a north-south attack with Li Fengyun, and Wei Yunqi will immediately fall into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy on his back and back, so the next shape will be unfavorable to the Guanlong people again. ”
Bing Yuanzhen looked at Zhai Rang, exchanged glances with Shan Xiongxin, Wang Bodang and the others, and then continued, "If the shape is indeed as said by so-and-so, can we understand that this is a fierce counterattack by the Zheng clan against the Guan Long people?" And we have fulfilled our promise and charged for the Zheng family, so will the Zheng family ease their attitude towards us because of this? If we have the covert support of the Zheng clan and the help of the local forces in Henan, can we take the opportunity to rise in Henan? ”
Bing Yuanzhen once again made it clear that he would raise the flag publicly, and Shan Xiongxin, Wang Yaohan, Wang Bodang's brothers, and Wang Dangren, who supported the raising of the flag, all followed closely behind Bing Yuanzhen and strongly encouraged Zhai Rang to make up his mind immediately.
This time, Zhai Hong, Wang Ruxin and others, who opposed the flag-raising rebellion, were no longer stubborn, and Xu Shiyan, who did not support the public flag-raising, was secretly recruiting people and horses in the Lihu area and hoarding strength, so in this crucial military meeting, the opinions of Bing Yuanzhen, Shan Xiongxin and others occupied the absolute upper hand. Zhai Rang resolutely made a decision and openly raised the flag to rebel.
Since they openly raised the banner to rebel, at the beginning of the Wagang uprising, it was very likely that they would be attacked by Zhu Yingyang of Dongjun and Wei Yunqi, who was gathering people and horses north of Jishui, so the Wagang people thought of Li Fengyun for the first time.