Chapter 275: The Secret Behind the Mandate of Heaven

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There was a dead silence in the room, the atmosphere was very dull, although it was almost late autumn and the weather was cold, whether it was Li Baiyao and his son, or Li Fengyun, they all felt an inexplicable heat.

For Li Baiyao's father and son, the mission of this trip to Lujun has been completed, they met Li Fengyun, and verified Li Fengyun's identity, and the result was mixed.

Happily, there is no definite evidence to prove that Li Fengyun is the Li bloodline of Zhao County, and it is their deceased relative, even if Li Fengyun has to say that he is the Li bloodline of Zhao County, because his memory is from the third year of the Great Cause, it is from Yulin, and all the previous memories have been missing, to use the simplest analogy, let Li Baiyao's mother stand in front of Li Fengyun, but Li Fengyun does not know him, how can this prove that Li Fengyun is the Li bloodline and the son of Li Delin?

The worry is that although there is no definite evidence, and Li Fengyun himself denies it, Li Baiyao's father and son can be sure that Li Fengyun is their deceased relative, this is an intuition, a kind of intuition of blood affinity, and even they can be sure that in addition to them, other people in the Li family, such as their mothers, their brothers and sisters, will also have this extraordinary intuition after seeing Li Fengyun. This is their relatives, and with the family style of the Li family, with the character of the head of the family, Li Baiyao, the family will never abandon any of their relatives, in the past, Li Baiyao did this, and supported the whole family with his thin shoulders, and now, when the family fell into a trough, the Li family was more united, and Li Baiyao would not abandon his relatives who were outcast.

It's just that, with the current situation in Middle-earth, the current unfavorable situation of the Li family in the Eastern Capital, and the current bad reputation of Li Fengyun as the number one thief in Middle-earth, Li Baiyao and the Li family should not say that they have given Li Fengyun help, and they are afraid that they will not be able to avoid the capital, which will lead to a dilemma. If Li Fengyun takes the initiative to intervene and actively intervene, it will bring greater unpredictable risks to the Li family, and whether the Li family can intervene depends on whether the two parties can establish trust.

Li Baiyao, Li Anqi father and son must make a choice, although the mission of the trip to Lu County is to verify Li Fengyun's true identity, but the reason why the Li family of Zhao County asked to prove the true identity of Li Fengyun is not to recognize relatives, nor to avoid trouble, but to seek profit, is to use Li Fengyun, the biggest opposition force in Middle-earth, to seek the greatest interests for the Li family of Zhao County, who has fallen into a trough as a whole, and to bring a new opportunity for the crisis-ridden Shandong people to make a comeback and even control the fate of Middle-earth again, so, no matter from the interests of Shandong people, Or for the sake of the future of the Li family in Zhao County, the Li father and son must do everything in their power to win Li Fengyun's trust and see if they can establish some kind of limited cooperation, in fact, this is also the real goal of the Li family's father and son's trip to Lu County.

Li Fengyun also has the same intuition as the Li father and son, the person whose soul has entered heaven is the son of Li Delin, although there is no definite evidence to prove this at present, and there will be no evidence to prove this in the future, but whether there is evidence or not, it does not matter at all to both parties, what matters is what the purpose of the two parties is, if the purpose of both parties is to completely clear the relationship, there is no evidence, then the wish is granted, on the contrary, if the purpose of both parties is to seek cooperation, Then the foundation of trust comes from this kind of "tacit understanding" that has no evidence but has a clear heart, and this "tacit understanding" is supported by blood, and the firmness is visible and credible.

Since the Li father and son rushed all the way to Lu County at such a time, their purpose was obviously to cooperate, and this cooperation was for the benefit of the Li family of Zhao County and even the people of Shandong, so it is foreseeable that the cooperation between the two sides should be very deep, and the cooperation process is bound to be dominated by Li Fengyun. It is Li Fengyun's principle to control his own destiny, but Li Fengyun very much hopes to win the cooperation of the Li clan of Zhao County, after all, cooperating with the Guanlong people with Yang Lan, the king of Qi, is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, and the cooperation with the Cui clan and the Li clan, where the core strength of the Shandong people is located, is a win-win situation of mutual benefit, which is very conducive to the development and growth of the alliance, and is very conducive to Li Fengyun's realization of his ideals. Is there an urgent desire to establish cooperation?

The reason why Li Baiyao understands it is not because of Li Baiyao's revered position in the Confucian Grove of Middle Earth, nor because Li Baiyao wrote one of the 24 histories of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but because Li Baiyao is the culprit who destroyed the Du Fuwei Jiangzuo clique.

After Li Tang rose to Guanlong, he launched a battle for hegemony with Wang Shichong of the Central Plains, Dou Jiande of Hebei and Du Fuwei of Jiangzuo, among which the battle with Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande was the most fierce and arduous, and the recovery of Jiangzuo was effortless, because Du Fuwei of the Jiangzuo group surrendered without a fight.

Du Fuwei and Fu Gong were originally dominating Jianghuai, taking advantage of the defeat of Jiangzuo's heroes Shen Faxing and Li Zitong, they captured Jiangnan in one fell swoop and became the overlord of Jiangzuo, such a force, even if they couldn't beat Li Tang, at least they could fight according to Jiang and win the biggest bargaining chip in negotiations, but the result was unexpected, Du Fuwei didn't know what evil he had fallen into, he actually listened to Li Baiyao's words, and unbelievably took the initiative to leave Jiangzuo and went to Chang'an alone to surrender Li Tang. When a sheep enters the mouth of a tiger, how can it not die? Fu Gong Ji immediately raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, but the Jiangzuo group broke out again in incredible infighting, Du Fuwei's two most brave generals Kan Ling and Wang Xiongdan also "obeyed" Li Baiyao and refused to oppose Tang, as a result, Fu Gong Ji had to kill Wang Xiongdan, and Kan Ling helped Li Tang kill Fu Gong Tan, and finally Kan Ling's fate was also very miserable, and he was ruthlessly killed by Li Tang. The Duvowe clique, which dominated Jiangzuo, was thus unbelievably self-annihilated.

I have to ask here, Du Fuwei started as a rebel, doesn't he know how the wealthy and powerful of all dynasties treated the thieves? He doesn't understand the truth of becoming a king or losing a villain? What kind of evil did he fall for to go to Chang'an to die? Kan Ling and Wang Xiongdan are the same, they fell into evil like Du Fuwei, and they had to surrender to Li Tang, but Kan Leng's fate once again proved the correctness of history, become a king or lose a villain, if you don't die, who will die?

"Its rise is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden." The success or failure of the Du Fuwei Jiangzuo group is a very incisive interpretation of this sentence, just to dominate the Jiangzuo, it was defeated in an instant, what is the reason? The key to this is that the Jiangzuo clique led by Du Fuwei made the wrong decision to surrender Li Tang and exchange Jiangzuo's land for their personal glory and wealth for generations, and the key figure in this decision was Li Baiyao, which is Li Baiyao's "concept of destiny."

Li Baiyao was in Jiangzuo at the time, first assisted Shen Faxing, and after Shen Faxing was defeated, he assisted Li Zitong, and after Li Zitong was defeated, he served for Du Fuwei. Li Baiyao was born in a wealthy family, and he is a Confucian warrior in Middle Earth, he has both ability and political integrity, and any male lord will be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, but his "Mandate of Heaven" in the later stage of the Four Heroes of Middle Earth to fight for hegemony, but gave the Jiangzuo group a fatal blow, helping Li Tang to capture Jiangzuo in the shortest possible time and at the minimum cost, and unified the Middle Earth, but Li Baiyao did not make meritorious contributions, but was deposed by Li Yuan to the northwest border, until Li Shimin ascended the throne, Li Baiyao ushered in the glory of his career, and wrote and completed the "Book of Northern Qi" in his later years, In one fell swoop, he established himself in a lofty position in the historiography of Middle-earth.

What is Li Baiyao's "Mandate of Heaven"? Li Baiyao's father, Li Delin, once persuaded Jiang Zuo to surrender for the unification of Middle Earth, and wrote "The Mandate of Heaven", saying, "The emperor's artifact has a return to the past." The day of the birth of its virtue, the life of the person who responds to its time, is indeed unchanged, and it is beyond the power of man. To put it bluntly, it is a sentence, the monarch's power is divinely granted, the destiny of heaven is returned, and it cannot be changed by man, and the so-called princely general Xiangning has a kind of thing, which is purely self-deception.

On the one hand, it is because of the limitations of the ideological views of the rebels, which is the result of the times, and it is true that it cannot be changed by human beings, and on the other hand, it is also because Li Tang at that time had already defeated Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, basically unified the Yellow River Valley, and was very strong. It's just that they selectively forgot the shamelessness and cruelty of the wealthy and powerful, and died too much. Rather than being slaughtered like a dog, it is better to be like Liu Heimin in Hebei Province who would rather be broken than be a complete tile, and he will have to pull a cushion on his back when he is dying.

Li Fengyun is convinced of Li Baiyao's influence in Middle-earth, especially among the low-class nobles and cloth-clothed commoners in Middle-earth, although he believes that he has a firm position and will never repeat the mistakes of Du Fuwei, but he cannot guarantee that his subordinates will always believe that "the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning", so he has an instinctive fear of Li Baiyao, and the risk of cooperating with such a character is not ordinarily large, and it may even be to shoot himself in the foot and kill himself.

But at the same time, what Li Baiyao did after the troubled times still clearly proved that he and the Zhaojun Li family represented by him always adhered to the principle of interests first, and chose Li Tang very accurately. The reason for the choice of Li Tang is inseparable from the status of the Li family in Longxi and the huge power and wealth brought by this position. This point, as the Li family of Zhaojun, who is also a wealthy family, can see it clearly, the potential of the Li family in Longxi among the four overlords is far greater than that of Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, who are from lower backgrounds, and as for Buyi Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyi, there is no comparison, so it is normal for Li Baiyao to make such a choice.

It can be inferred from this that history may be changed. If Li Baiyao's father and son believe that Li Fengyun is their relative, then when the troubled times come, after Li Fengyun dominates the party, is Li Baiyao's so-called "Mandate of Heaven" Li Fengyun, not Li Yuan? If the five wealthy families in Shandong, led by the Li clan of Zhaojun and the Boling Cui clan, and even the entire Shandong aristocratic group, support Li Fengyun, will the Shandong people change their fate because of this, defeat the Guanlong people in one fell swoop, and regain control of the fate of Middle-earth?

Li Fengyun pondered for a long time and was the first to break the silence.

"What's your uncle's name?" Li Fengyun asked Li Anqi.

"Li Pingyuan."

Li Fengyun smiled slightly, feeling that this name was very ordinary. Li Anqi could see from Li Fengyun's expression that he was very unfamiliar with this name, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and explained with a smile, "The Li family of Zhaojun has four major princes, Li Mengwei, Li Pingyuan, Li Xinling, and Li Chunshen, all of whom are named after the titles of the four princes of the Warring States Period, and their meanings are self-evident. Now these four princes, except for a certain uncle who died in battle, the other three are all leaders of the younger generation of the Li family. ”

Li Fengyun was surprised, he didn't expect that there was such a story behind this name, and he had an impression of that Li Mengwei, if nothing else, he should be one of the nine generals of the Qin Wangfu in the Xuanwumen Mutiny, and he was as famous as Wei Chi Jingde, Hou Junji, Zhang Gongjin, etc.

"The general is not only a secret soldier, but also in the northern border, do you know a certain uncle?" Li Anqi decisively made a temptation.

Li Baiyao's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at Li Fengyun tightly, trying to get a glimpse of his true psychology from the changes in Li Fengyun's eyes. Ang Lee's temptation is too obvious, and it sounds a little unbelievable to build a bridge of trust between each other with the friendship of robes, but the basis of trust is attitude, and as long as each other is willing to believe in each other, that is possible.

"Perhaps......" Li Fengyun responded after a moment's hesitation, "The secret soldiers all act alone, even if the mission is dangerous, there is no possibility of joining hands, but they are also Mobei secret soldiers, even if they don't know each other, the love of the robe is actually there, and it cannot be erased." ”

Li Baiyao's father and son looked at each other and smiled lightly. It seems that Li Fengyun also has the intention of cooperating, which laid the foundation for the next in-depth conversation.

"In the past, when I was a secret soldier in Mobei, did the general directly follow the orders of Wen Xigong (Pei Shiju)?" Li Anqi continued to ask.

Li Fengyun shook his head and said with a stern expression, "Since the bad news came from Wen Xi Gongbao, your uncle has nothing to do with Wen Xi Gong. It's the same with a certain person, when a certain person was betrayed and hunted down by the Turks, there was no connection with Wen Xigong. ”

Li Anqi nodded in understanding. At this time, Li Baiyao asked, pointing directly to the point, "What is the purpose of the general's raising of the flag?" ”

Li Fengyun frowned, pondered for a long time, and slowly asked, "How much do you know about today's desert situation?" Relations between the North and the South are becoming increasingly tense, and a war between the North and the South is imminent, how much do you know about the impact on the situation in China and Turkey and even on the political situation in the Eastern Capital? ”

"I want to hear about it." Li Baiyao was humble, bowed his hand as a courtesy, and asked shamelessly.

Li Fengyun spoke eloquently. North-South relations determine the trend of the situation in China and Turkey, and the trend of the situation in China and Turkey is closely related to the reform of the centralized system. For this reason, after the Holy Lord ascended the throne, he adjusted the grand strategy of national defense and foreign affairs, and actively implemented it, moving the capital, opening the Grand Canal, repairing the Great Wall, passing through the Western Regions, and conquering Tuyuhun in the west, until the ongoing Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo, whose strategic purpose is to deter the northern captives and stabilize the relations between the north and the south, and its political goals are to speed up reform, strive to complete the construction of the centralized system in the shortest possible time, and complete the "great unification" of China and Earth in the true sense.

However, the stronger Middle-earth was, the greater the threat to the Northern Captives, and the faster the Civil War exploded, so with the death of the Qiming Khan, the succession of the Shibi Khan, and the adjustment of the strategy of the Northern Captives, the relationship between the North and the South took a sharp turn for the worse. In order to ensure the results of the reform, the Holy Lord and the reformers threw all their national strength into the Eastward Crusade in an attempt to complete the battle in one battle, and did their best to delay the outbreak of the Civil War indefinitely and buy enough time for the reform process.

However, with the acceleration of the reform process, as the interests of the vested interest groups, especially the Guanlong aristocratic clique, the backbone of the ruling class, are losing more and more interests, and the domestic contradictions are becoming more and more intense, in this case, if the Eastern Crusade achieves the expected results, if the Civil War drags on indefinitely, and the Holy Lord and the reformers gain enough time to build a centralized system, then the final result is that the vested interest groups have greatly weakened or even lost their right to speak in the distribution of power and wealth in Middle-earth. And all the wealthy families will completely lose their privileges, and the inevitable decline will be turned into the dust of history.

Although the Holy Lord and the reformers were not willing to accept defeat and carried out the Eastern Crusade to the end to make up for the huge losses suffered by the First Eastern Crusade, the facts will once again prove that they were wrong, the failure of the First Eastern Crusade has changed the political situation in the Eastern Capital, and has changed the balance of power between the opposing political groups, and the Second Eastern Crusade will be even more miserably.

As a result, the domestic situation was out of control, but the drums of the Civil War were already beating, and the Holy Lord and the center were in danger of being attacked and in danger, but they had no choice but to put all their strength on the Civil War.

It is foreseeable that when the Lord and the Center win the Civil War, they will have a chance to turn the situation at home, but with such fierce domestic contradictions, how likely are they to win the Civil War? If they are defeated, and they can control the military power of zhì in this war, then what can they do to defend themselves against the "attack" of the opposition in the Eastern Capital? Successive military defeats, successive political strikes, will inevitably destroy the authority of the Holy Lord and the center, and will inevitably destroy the reform, and at that moment, where will the Holy Lord and the reformers go? If there is another military coup, will the Holy Lord and the reformers still be able to hold the eastern capital and seize power?

At this point, the purpose of Li Fengyun's rebellion was about to come out, that is, he wanted to change the world and take power in the world, and the reason why he had this determination was completely out of a pessimistic prediction of the future situation in Middle-earth.

Li Baiyao's father and son were shocked again, not by Li Fengyun's plot against the world, but by the fact that he had such a deep understanding of the situation in Middle-earth, and the pessimistic deduction of the future situation in Middle-earth based on this profound understanding

"General, according to the information we got from the Zheng clan in Xingyang, the general took advantage of the Tongji Canal crisis to reach some kind of tacit understanding with the King of Qi." Li Anqi saw that Li Fengyun was very honest, so he also revealed some secrets, "I am very curious, what is the plan of the general and the tiger?" Just to solve the immediate existential crisis? ”

The Xingyang Zheng clan and the Zhaojun Li clan shared confidential information, which was not surprising to Li Fengyun at all, but unexpectedly, why did the Xingyang Zheng clan suspect that he was the Li family's bloodline?

"The aim is the Civil War." Li Fengyun said bluntly, "The Civil War cannot be defeated, the defense line of the Great Wall cannot be lost, and the border of the Heng Dynasty cannot be lost, which is directly related to the fate of Middle-earth, and the survival of thousands of living beings in Middle-earth. ”

"The second purpose is to go north to Hebei and dominate according to Hebei." Li Fengyun pointed around, "The Central Plains is the land of four wars, Qilu is in a corner, and Jiangzuo has the trouble of not adapting to the water and soil, neither is it a place of hegemony, nor does it have the potential to unify the Middle Earth, so a certain goal is Hebei, is to use the power of the King of Qi, take advantage of the opportunity of the Civil War, and go north to Hebei to achieve a generation of hegemony." ”

Li Baiyao, Li Anqi's father and son are no longer shocked, although Li Fengyun's plan is really shocking, but both of them take it for granted, which of Li Delin's sons is not amazing?