"Yelubei is about to march westward, and the grassland will be on fire again, although Min'er has tried to dissuade him a thousand times, it will be to no avail, if the situation is like this, what can I do?" Ye Lu Min unreservedly expressed her helplessness to Li Congjing.

"Yelu Bei is bent on going his own way, naturally no one can dissuade him, but at that time, he will personally lead the army to the battle, how can Yelu Deguang let go of this great opportunity?" Li Congjing collected his emotions and started making tea again.

"Yelubei will leave the city guards in the west building, and will arrange a heavy army in Raozhou, once Yelude's light soldiers enter the west building, they will fall into the predicament of being attacked from both sides." Yelu Min said slowly, "This is the reason why Yelu Bei dared to personally go west, and it is also the trap he dug for Yelu Deguang, according to his intentions, if Yelu Deguang raises an army, it is just to sit on the crime of treason, and he can use this to bring him to justice to prevent future troubles." ”

"It's a good ploy." Li Congjing's hand didn't stop, "But Yelubei is still too arrogant." What kind of character are Yelu Deguang and Shu Luping, since they decided to raise an army, they will not be without support. ”

Although Raozhou's soldiers and horses are well arranged, it is still unknown whether the general who commands the army, the general who is regarded as the humerus by Yelubei, will attack Yelu Deguang or sit on the shore and watch the fire.

"What would you do if the Khitan were to be caught in the middle of a war and the two sides were at a stalemate, or if they were generally evenly matched?" Li Congjing made a hypothesis.

Yelu Min was shocked when she heard this, she saw the certainty in Li Congjing's eyes, which showed that in the eyes of the other party, it was almost an inevitable situation, but this was the last thing she wanted to see.

"If you don't do anything, neither Yelu Bei and Yelu Deguang can help each other for a while, and the Khitan is likely to split into the east and west." Li Congjing continued to analyze, his eyes sharp, "Years of war, endless fighting, the land of the Khitan will be stained red with blood." ”

Ye Lumin's face gradually turned pale, and in all fairness, Li Congjing's analysis is indeed the most likely situation. At that time, the Khitan country has been fighting for many years, the people's livelihood has withered, and the people who have suffered the most must be the low-level civilians, which is a situation that Yelu Min cannot accept no matter what!

"Me, what should I do?" Yelu Min looked at Li Congjing with a pleading look, hoping that he would show her a way.

Li Congjing said seriously: "After several years of operation on the Eastern Front, Yelu Deguang has become a trend, and many powerful people in the Khitan country favor him, and Yelu Deguang was the generalissimo of the Khitan soldiers and horses, quite a bit of old forces, Shu Luping and Yelu Abaoji's residual power, once he came to the West Building, openly acted up, with Yelu Bei's ability, it was categorically impossible to quickly extinguish it, right?" ”

Yelu Min had to admit that, as Li Congjing said before, the two would be roughly evenly matched.

"But if Jerod loses your support, and Jerod loses your support, the balance of power will change radically, and the situation will be very different." Li Congjing's words were surprising, and he finally laid out the core argument.

Ye Lu Min's eyes widened and he froze there, looking at Li Congjing in disbelief, as if he didn't believe that the words came from Li Congjing's mouth.

Instinctive resistance caused her to keep shaking her head and her eyes flustered, and she almost curled up and stepped back, "No, it's impossible, absolutely impossible"

Li Congjing gently pushed a cup of hot tea in front of Yelumin, relaxed his body, and his gaze softened, so as not to further irritate her, "According to the facts, the situation will generally evolve like this, you should know that even if the Khitan is divided into the east and west, this situation will not last." The final result must be that Jerod won and Jerod was defeated and died. Yelubei can't stop Yerod's resurgence, so how can he suppress him after Yerod's light has become a trend? ”

"Compared with Yelu Bei, Yelu Deguang is more ambitious, Yelu Bei may not offend the Tang Dynasty, he just wants to restore Yelu Abaoji's old business, but if Yelu Deguang is called the emperor, the grassland will not satisfy his appetite, he will inevitably have the heart of coveting the Central Plains, and when the Khitan and the Tang Dynasty are at war, the suffering of the people will be even deeper."

"For the sake of the Khitan people, the dispute between Yelu Bei and Yelu Deguang should not be protracted, and Yelu Deguang cannot be allowed to really take charge of the Khitan in the future." After Li Congjing said this, he couldn't bear to see Yelu Min suffer again, so he stopped forcing her, "It's not difficult to weigh the weight, and I won't urge you, I know it's difficult for you to choose, you just think about it slowly." ”

Jeremiah sat there in despair, like a pedestrian drenched in a torrential rain, unable to see the direction and where to go.

She has already left Li Congjing, and if she leaves Yelubei again, she will really be alone in the entire grassland.

The seemingly nihilistic life ambition and the concept of politics under the Li Min people, and the blood brother who can be touched, is it possible to have both? No. Even if Jerod overcame Jerod's light, it couldn't. Over the years, Yelubei's statecraft has become very clear, he needs to squeeze every bit of Khitan national power to support his hegemony war, and then plunder more wealth. And here in Yelumin, she doesn't want to see bloodshed and sacrifice, and she doesn't want to see the whole country full of orphans and widows.

Behind the hegemony is a mountain of bones, a deserted pasture, and an old man and a young child who have lost their pillars. This is not the peaceful and prosperous era in Yelumin's heart.

However, this trade-off is still too difficult for Yelu Min.

Li Congjing slowly got up and leaned on the railing to look into the distance. The river is quiet, the sky is far away, the green mountains outside the mountain are outside the building, I don't know where the end of the world is, the rain hits the duckweed, and the night sighs.

Li Congjing can empathize with Yelumin's loneliness and difficulties, but whether it is for the Tang Dynasty or the ambitions of their group of people, he must unswervingly go down the road under his feet. People can't help themselves, and many times they seem to have a choice, but in fact it is just a multiple-choice question with only one option.

I don't know how long it took, until the wind outside the building became colder and colder, Yelu Min finally spoke dryly, and she asked, "If I help Yelu Deguang succeed to the Khitan Emperor, what will happen after that?" ”

"Within a few years, the Khitan will be fine, Yelu Deguang will sit on the throne, and you will continue to be the prime minister of the Northern Courtyard. A few years later, the Khitan state has recovered, and if Yelu Deguang has the idea of invading south, I will prepare a pit for him and wait for him to jump into it; If Yelu Deguang does not have the idea of invading the south, there will also be grassland tribes, and ask the Tang army to go north to attack the injustice. No matter what the situation, Yelu Deguang's throne will not sit forever, and it is up to you whether the people of the Khitan Kingdom will finally enjoy the prosperity of the balance. ”

At this point, Li Congjing did not need to hide it, so he made plans and plans.

"If Yelu Deguang succeeds to the throne as emperor, reins in his ambitions, and does not invade the south or seek hegemony, what will he do?" Jeremiah asked again.

"Isn't that what you want?" Li Congjing said.

Yelu Min pondered for a long time, and finally asked, "If the Khitan really goes to the last step, what will happen?" ”

"The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." Li Congjing said solemnly, the same sixteen words, he also said to Yelu Deguang.

This sentence has a profound meaning, and Li Congjing believes that Ye Lumin can understand it.

Jeremiah fell silent again.

Li Congjing also stood still in front of the railing.

The breeze blows the clothes, the standing people dance lightly with the green robes like a picture scroll, the sitting people have black hair flying like catkins on the big gam, the drapery hangs low in the attic, the tea kettle is soft, the city outside the attic is like a chessboard, and the heaven and earth rise and fall.

No matter how beautiful the time is, no matter how difficult the situation will pass, what should come will eventually come, and what should go will not be kept. It is easy to say that you have to always do not forget your original intention, but how many people in the world can do it?

The so-called original intention, when can the heart be called the original intention?

Ye Lumin finally stood up and said goodbye to Li Congjing, but Li Congjing did not keep her or ask her about the results of her consideration. When she was about to go downstairs, Yelu Min stopped suddenly, she didn't look back, it seemed that she didn't have the courage to turn back, and she seemed unwilling to face the cruel reality, she asked in a low voice: "If I help Yelu Deguang, will Yelu Bei die?" ”

"Yes." This is a simple question, Li Congjing has no need to avoid it, his tone is even heavy and solemn, "This is war!" ”

Then he saw that Yeremin's shoulders trembled slightly, and she went downstairs.

The attic became empty again, and Li Congjing let out a long breath and sat down rather tiredly. This conversation was exhausting, even with his current temperament, he was a little unbearable, and in the end, he still felt a little guilty about Yelumin. Although what happened to her was not directly caused by him, it was also inseparable from him.

Who called this troubled times? Who called this war?

To this day, whether it is for troubled times or war, he has a heart of awe.

"Although the process is difficult, I hope there will be a good ending in the end." Li Congjing can only comfort himself like this.

Today's conversation with Yelumin is not a failure, at least Yelumin did not refuse his proposal, in all fairness, this is already a very good situation, to let Yelumin directly agree to this matter, Li Congjing also feels that it is unrealistic.

Coming out of Yipinlou, Li Congjing stood on the street in front of the door for a while, the pedestrians on the street were in a hurry, with different expressions, at this time they could not have imagined that a storm related to the fate of each of them was about to sweep this seemingly calm city.

Glancing in the direction of Yelu Min's departure, Li Congjing's heart suddenly rose a trace of strangeness, he thought for a moment, I don't know where this strange appearance came from, just as he was about to leave it behind, the corner of his eye suddenly caught a figure in Tsing Yi, which was the sharp soldier of the military intelligence department who secretly guarded him.

Feeling something, Li Congjing turned back to Meng Songbai and said: "Pass my order to the Military Intelligence Department, send additional people to guard the Prime Minister's Mansion in the North Courtyard, if Ye Lumin travels, be sure to take care of the whole process, and there must be no gap." ”

After giving this order, Li Congjing didn't think about it anymore, after all, it was just a flash of strangeness in his heart. As the prime minister of the North Courtyard, Yelu Min naturally had people around her to protect her thoughtfulness, and Li Congjing felt that his arrangement was a bit excessive.