Chapter 243: Confused

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Li Fengyun revealed to Wei Fusi the two secrets of the defeat of the Eastern Crusade: Duan Wenzhen's legacy and the central traitor

Before, he relied on these two secrets to successfully "fool" Li Mi, but now he concocted them in the same way, and took them out to "fool" Wei Fusi, and the effect was also surprisingly good.

Wei Fusi didn't know that Duan Wenzhen had a plan, but he knew Duan Wenzhen's strategy for the east. Wei Fusi was a member of the Inner History House before he was deposed, and he participated in the discussion of the strategy of the Eastern Crusade, and he was very clear about Duan Wenzhen's proposition. With Wei Fusi's understanding of Duan Wenzhen's character, it is certain that Duan Wenzhen will not let go of any opportunity to give advice, and with Duan Wenzhen's identity, his deathbed performance must be very heavy, and Duan Wenzhen will never let go of the last opportunity to admonish, so when Li Fengyun told Duan Wenzhen's last advice, Wei Fusi immediately believed that this secret was absolutely true, and Li Fengyun could not make up such a true story out of thin air.

As for the central traitor, Wei Fusi also believed it, and when Li Fengyun said this secret, a familiar figure suddenly flashed through his mind.

This person and Duan Wenzhen have a fierce contradiction, the two are in the same military department, water and fire are incompatible, and the holy lord put him in the military department, obviously wanting to restrain Duan Wenzhen, lest Duan Wenzhen monopolize power. When discussing the strategy of the Eastern Crusade, the two went toe-to-toe and had a heated argument, but because this person had the support of the Holy Lord, Duan Wenzhen fell behind. For this reason, Duan Wen was furious, and in front of many central ministers, he pointed at this person's nose and scolded him, and even said something unscrupulous, saying that he was insidious and cunning, and was suspected of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. Before the Eastern Crusade, Duan Wenzhen was "expelled" from the central decision-making level in disguise, which is estimated to be related to his "unscrupulous words" at that time. The contradiction between the two became public, and the Holy Lord came out of maintaining the unity of the center, of course, he had to favor this person and let Duan Wenzhen temporarily leave the center to lead the troops on the front line.

Wei Fusi and this man are political enemies and have a deep grudge. This person contributed to the "immorality" case of King Qi, and also "showed his skills" in the process of defeating Wei Fuhei, and repeatedly fell into the ground.

In the era of the first emperor, this person's political position was quite conservative, but after the Holy Lord ascended the throne, the "general climate" changed, and this person turned into a reformer, waving the flag and shouting for the Holy Lord, charging into battle, and thus won the trust of the Holy Lord. For this kind of "riding on the wall" speculators on the political zhì, the magnates of the Eastern Capital are quite disdainful and have a bad impression of them. Because Wei Fusi was a political enemy of this person, he knew more about him and knew some secrets about this person, the most important of which was that this person was a political ally with Yang Xuangan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. Yang Xuangan is one of the leaders of the conservative forces in the Eastern Capital, so it is certain that this person's political stance is conservative, and the reason why he deceived the Holy Lord is just to enter the center and make internal responses to the conservative forces.

Wei Fusi was also one of the important figures of the conservative forces, and he was well aware of the attitude of the conservative forces towards reform and the Eastern Crusade. The conservative forces in the Eastern Capital, under the heavy pressure of politics and the heavy loss of interests, were determined to destroy the reform, and if they could destroy the Eastern Crusade at this stage, they would definitely be able to deal a fatal blow to the Holy Lord and the reformers. And this man is now in charge of the military department, and he knows the secrets of the Eastern Crusade well, and if he collaborates with the enemy and betrays the country, the Eastern Crusade will be defeated. Therefore, Wei Fusi has a considerable degree of certainty and presumes that if there is a traitor in the center, someone betrays the emperor and destroys the great cause of the Eastern Crusade, there is a good chance that he will be this person.

Since Wei Fusi believed in the two secrets provided by Li Fengyun, of course, he had to re-examine Li Fengyun, not only to deduce his true identity, but also to redefine Li Fengyun's status and weight in the current complex situation.

Li Mi had deduced a lot of what he needed from these two secrets, and then repositioned Li Fengyun and put him on an equal footing with himself, and the cooperation between the two sides immediately became more sincere, and Wei Fusi also went through some careful deliberation, but the conclusion he came to was very different from Li Mi's.

Wei Fusi did not investigate Li Fengyun like Yang Xuangan, but he had a very close relationship with Su Wei, and he could be sure that Li Fengyun's news did not come from Su Wei. At the same time, he also knew that there was some kind of unknown secret between Li Fengyun and Yuwenshu, so he first suspected that Li Fengyun's source was Yuwenshu, but Li Fengyun immediately affirmed that there was an undying hatred between himself and Yuwenshu.

Wei Fusi immediately turned his gaze to the other important ministers in the central core. He first excluded Yu Shiji, the servant of the inner history. There is no doubt that Yu Shiji is from Jiangzuo, and Li Fengyun is definitely not from Jiangzuo. Then there were Pei Shiju, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, and Pei Yun, the imperial historian. Pei Shiju and Pei Yun are both from the Pei family in Hedong, among which Pei Yun is the relict of Jiangzuo, who was in the reunification war, "please be the internal response", appreciated by the first emperor and reused, in the early years of the great cause, the holy lord evaluated the performance of the officials, Pei Yun and Fan Zigai had the best official reputation, so they were promoted and reused, and then won the trust of the Holy Lord because of presiding over the second scraping movement, and entered the central core, so with Pei Yun Jiangzuo's relict and the identity of a firm reformer, it is impossible to have anything to do with anti-thieves like Li Fengyun.

In the end, Wei Fusi's suspicion was only left by Pei Shiju, the squire of the Yellow Gate.

Pei Shiju was a relict of Gaoqi in Shandong. Gao Qi perished, and Pei Shiju entered the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The first emperor was founded by Chan, and Pei Shiju charged into battle for him, made great contributions, and was one of the founding ministers. In the last years of the emperor's reign, Pei Shiju presided over national defense and foreign affairs together with Changsun Sheng, successfully defeated the Turks, and stabilized the northwest territory. After the Holy Lord ascended the throne, the reform ideas turned radical, and the old ministers of the former emperors such as Gao Ying, Yang Su, Su Wei, and Pei Shiju changed from reformers to conservatives in a blink of an eye, and the contradictions between the two sides intensified. Pei Shiju was unwilling to have a fierce conflict with the Holy Lord on the matter of reform, and at the same time wanted to retain his power, so he found another way and presented a grand strategy to the northwest, in order to concentrate on national defense and foreign affairs, and to build a new national defense and foreign affairs grand strategy, so as to skillfully avoid the fierce political struggle caused by the reform.

In today's central core decision-making level, Su Wei existed because of political checks and balances, Pei Shiju rose to power because of the relationship between the north and the south, and Yu Wenshu was the spokesperson of the Holy Lord in the military, and only Yu Shiji and Pei Yun were staunch radical reformers and the right-hand men of the Holy Lord to speed up the reform process. Obviously, as long as there are people and things involved in the relationship between the north and the south, they are inextricably linked with Pei Shiju.

If Li Fengyun has Pei Shiju's shadow behind him and is controlled by Pei Shiju's remote control, then what is Pei Shiju's purpose in allowing him to rebel? Wei Fusi believes that anything related to Pei Shiju must be inseparable from the relationship between the north and the south.

As far as the current situation at home and abroad is concerned, the Eastern Crusade must be victorious in order to deter the desert northern captives who are eyeing the tiger, but there are many people in the Eastern Capital who deliberately sabotage the Eastern Crusade and want to use the defeat of the Eastern Crusade to hit the Holy Lord and the reformers, so from Pei Shiju's standpoint, it is indeed possible for him to set up a "bureau" in the Tongji Canal, and use this "bureau" to provoke a struggle between the forces of the Eastern Capital, so as to confuse the situation in the Eastern Capital, ensure the smooth flow of the Tongji Canal, and ensure the victory of the Eastern Expedition. Only in this way will he be able to ensure the smooth implementation of the new grand strategy for national defense and foreign affairs formulated with him as the core. It can be imagined that if the Eastern Crusade fails, the North invades the south, and the relations between the North and the South break down, then it is enough to prove that Pei Shiju's grand strategy of national defense and diplomacy has failed, and Pei Shiju will definitely take responsibility for this and step down.

Of course, Wei Fusi also believed that there were many mysteries behind Li Fengyun's rebellion, and the forces behind it were definitely not only Pei Shiju, which was far from being as simple as deduction, but in terms of the special origin and close relationship between Pei Shiju and the Shandong people, even if Li Fengyun's rebellion was not directly related to Pei Shiju, Pei Shiju could also use Li Fengyun and the Shandong people behind him to seek political interests for himself.

If, as Li Fengyun deduced, the Eastern Crusade has become a situation of inevitable defeat, then the emperor and the reformers will definitely have to compromise with the conservative forces in order to stabilize the political situation in the eastern capital, then the chances of the king of Qi entering the eastern palace will be greater, but why did Li Fengyun say with great certainty that as long as the king of Qi does not change his ruling philosophy, it is absolutely impossible to win the imperial unity

For Wei Fusi, the matter of the Eastern Expedition is secondary, and the matter of the King of Qi is the top priority, so after a little weighing, he still asked, "If the Eastern Expedition fails, the situation at home and abroad will inevitably be tense, the Holy Lord and the central body will be attacked by the enemy, and the crisis is everywhere, it is reasonable to compromise to save the crisis, and the canonization of the prince is obviously the best way for the holy main force to turn the tide, but you think that the king of Qi has no chance to be the prince, why is this?" ”

Li Fengyun looked at Wei Fusi with a stern expression, and asked word by word, "If the Holy Lord and the Central Authority use compromise as a means and the imperial heir as a condition to coerce you into supporting him in launching the Second Eastern Crusade, will you accept it?" Will he support a Second Crusade? ”

Wei Fusi was slightly stunned.

The Second Crusade? Then use the power of the whole country to launch the Second Crusade? This is too crazy, there is a suspicion of losing reason, and the national strength is unbearable, but the purpose of the Holy Lord and the reformers is to win the absolute authority of the government with military victory, and then speed up the reform process with absolute authority, if the First Eastern Crusade fails, the authority of the Holy Lord and the reformers is greatly damaged, and they have to compromise with the conservative forces, then the reform will definitely stagnate or even regress, which is absolutely unacceptable to the Holy Lord and the reformers, so it is indeed possible for them to move the Second Eastern Crusade and rebuild their authority with the victory of the Second Eastern Crusade. It is necessary to maintain the existing achievements of reform, to continue to maintain the advantages in politics, and to unremittingly promote reform.

However, the essence of the government is fraud, and the promises of the government are not credible, if the compromise between the Holy Lord and the reformers is essentially a delaying tactic, after the victory of the Second Eastern Crusade, they will break their promises, break their promises, and fight against the conservative forces, and ask the old and new accounts to be settled together, then the conservative forces will be finished, and the dream of the prince of the king of Qi will be completely shattered.

The more Wei Fusi scrutinized, the more he felt that Li Fengyun's words were credible, and his mind couldn't help but be a little confused, and he was silent.