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Li Fengyun urgently ordered Zhen Baoche, the chief manager, to attack Fule and Fugou in the west of Huoxi, and help the victims cross Caishui and enter Yuzhou to survive.

At the same time, Lu Xingxing, the deputy commander of the Xuanfeng Army, was urgently ordered to lead five regiments to cross the Tongji Canal from the direction of Chenliu, advance to Caishui, and threaten the front line of Kaifeng and Wei, so as to contain Xingyang Yingyang, attract the Yingchuan garrison, and help Zhen Baoche Shun Lì to enter Yuzhou.

In order to ensure that Zhen Baoche and Lu Xingxing obeyed the orders of the Grand Governor's Office, Li Fengyun deliberately revealed to the two marshals the secrets that he had reached with the official envoys, and clearly told them that the officers and troops on the front line of Tongji Canal would not fight fiercely with the rebels in the short term, and the current goal of the officials and the rebels was to save the victims at any cost, but this "tacit understanding" between the two sides had no basis for trust, so the rebels should remain highly vigilant during the attack and must ensure their own safety.

The actions of the rebels were very fast, Zhen Baoche directly killed Huaiyang, Lu Xingxing directly killed Yingchuan, the victims of Henan crossed Cai Shui like a tide, and Yuzhou suddenly became nervous. The military and political chiefs of Yingchuan and Huaiyang counties were in an urgent situation in the east, and severely reprimanded the military and political chiefs of Xingyang and Liang counties for being despicable and shameless, and deliberately conniving at the traitors to advance westward in order to alleviate the crisis and shirk their responsibilities, causing trouble to the west and harming Yuzhou, and the crime was unforgivable.

Since the main force of the rebel army rushed into Liang County with millions of victims, Liang County's shape was subverted overnight, and the large and small cities were like flat boats floating on the angry waves, crumbling, precarious, and about to be destroyed. He said the form shì very strictly, and there was a suspicion of exaggeration, but of course Dongdu ignored it, and when Yingchuan and Huaiyang were in a hurry, Dongdu fell into passivity in a blink of an eye. Li Dan seized the opportunity and put most of the responsibility on Dongdu.

The Eastern Capital has not responded for a long time, on the one hand, because sending troops to fight the chaos is a matter of great importance, and it is necessary to wait for the emperor and the center to make a decision, and the emperor and the center are both on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition, so it is normal for the information to be transmitted inconveniently and the response is slow, on the other hand, because several important political forces in the Eastern Capital have completely different interpretations of the shape of the Tongji Canal, and some heavyweight civil and military ministers do not support sending troops to fight the rebellion, they believe that the Tianqian Pass has not been attacked by the rebels so far, Gyeonggi is impregnable, and the Tongji Canal is unimpeded. Therefore, this qiē proves that the danger of the rebels is not great, the shape of the Tongji Canal is not so bad that it is irretrievable, and the frequent emergencies of the local government are just to shirk responsibility for their own incompetence and inaction.

The east can pass the buck, but Xingyang can't, Xingyang borders Liangjun and Yingchuan, and is close to Jiyin, now Jiyin has fallen, Liangjun is in danger, Yingchuan is in crisis, if Xingyang continues to turn a deaf ear, turn a blind eye, and ignore the requests for help from neighboring counties, if Zhu Yingyang in the eastern defense area of Tianqian Pass continues to watch coldly and let the situation on both sides of the Tongji Canal continue to deteriorate, then the emperor and the center will be investigated in the future, and the crime of inaction is ironclad, and they can't run away.

However, whether it is Fei Yao, the general of the Weifu Wu Benlang who is sitting in Junyi City, or Cui Baode, the governor of Xingyang, they have no intention of sending troops to fight the rebellion, after all, their duty is to defend Gyeonggi and protect the Tongji Canal, now that Gyeonggi is safe, the Tongji Canal is also unimpeded, and the rebels have not touched their bottom line, so what reason do they have to send troops to fight the rebellion? The crisis in Jiyin, Liangjun, Yingchuan and Huaiyang counties mainly stemmed from the disaster victims who were struggling on the line of life and death, and as long as the survival problem of the disaster victims was solved, the crisis would be solved.

Since the Xingyang military has no intention of sending troops to fight the chaos, then Yang Qing, the supreme administrator of Xingyang, is of course happy to see it happen and does not want to do much, but as one of the important members of the imperial family, at this time of violent political turmoil, it is absolutely impossible to stay out of the matter and be a turtle with a shrunken head. On this day, he received a letter from Dugu Cheng, the Taishou of Dongjun, and met to go boating on the river and drink as a gift.

Dugu Cheng is one of the core members of the Dugu clan and has a considerable amount of voice in the family, and his invitation actually represents the invitation of the Dugu clan. Yang Qing, the king of Xun, did not hesitate too much, immediately went out of the city to board the boat, and went north along the Tongji Canal into the big river.

Dugu Cheng is the nephew of the literary queen Dugu Jialuo, the cousin of the current emperor, and Yang Qing is the younger brother of the current emperor, both of them are relatives of the emperor, both are nobles in charge of real power, they are very close to the emperor, and they live next to each other, of course, there are more people who move around, but Dugu has always been far away from the center and low-key people, and Yang Qing, the prince of the raider, is even more timid and cautious, walking for fear that the leaves will fall and break his head, and he can't be low-key anymore. However, as today's hot and powerful people, in the treacherous political waves, every move is widely implicated, how can they be low-key? If you don't make a head bird and don't stand on the cusp, it doesn't mean that you can stay out of the matter and be alone.

Dugu Cheng is close to the age of sixteen, with a gray beard, a pair of sharp eyes on his thin face, majestic and wise. Yang Qing is younger, only in his forties, handsome, polite, always full of warm smiles on his white face, humble and friendly. Two people with very different styles sat together, and they seemed to complement each other, but Dugu Cheng went straight to the topic after a few innocuous idle words, which caught Yang Qing off guard, and the smile on his face turned into a thick haze between the messages, his eyes were melancholy, his expression was depressed, and he did not have the slightest meaning of cooperation.

Dugu Cheng asked, "The Tongji Canal is broken, what should King Xun do?" ”

King Xun was very depressed, helpless, and painful, and it took him a long time to hold back a few words, "Now, the Tongji Canal is still unblocked." ”

Dugu Cheng sneered, his eyes even colder, "If the Holy Lord knows that the materials that can be transported by the Tongji Canal today are less than forty percent of what they used to be, can King Xun know the consequences?" ”

Yang Qing's face was even more ugly, and he had vaguely guessed in his heart Dugu Cheng's purpose for meeting him, but what puzzled him was why Dugu Cheng took the initiative to get involved in the battle for imperial domination in the Eastern Capital? Could it be that something happened on the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade? Or was there a problem inside the palace, and the emperor had a new idea on the matter of imperial unification?

"If the canal is broken, the main responsibility is not mine." Yang Qing sighed, "The Eastern Capital failed to fulfill the trust of the Holy Lord and failed to ensure the safety of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and the crime is unforgivable. ”

"If the Tongji Canal is broken, the Eastern Crusade suffers a heavy setback, and the success falls short, who will the Holy Lord hold responsible?" Dugu Cheng asked unceremoniously, "The Holy Lord will hold the remaining Zaizhi accountable, and the Weifu generals accountable, but before they are held accountable, they will first kill all the military and political chiefs on the front line of Tongji Canal, and leave none of them behind, in order to vent the hatred in their hearts." ”

Yang Qing bowed his head and was silent. Dugu Cheng's words go straight to the point. Now everyone in the Eastern Capital knows that the purpose of the white thieves entering the Central Plains is to cut off the Tongji Canal, destroy the Eastern Crusade, and deal a heavy blow to the emperor and the reformers, and the double defeat in military and political affairs will surely push the emperor and the reform forces in Middle-earth into the abyss of destruction. At that moment, if someone raised their arms in the eastern capital, the responders gathered, the civil war broke out immediately, the war swept Middle-earth, once the national Zuo collapsed, the great cause of reunification would disappear, and the disintegrated Middle-earth would fall into boundless darkness again under the attack of internal and external troubles.

For the Gatelords of Middle-earth, they are desperate to destroy the reform, because the end result of the reform is to destroy them. If you don't let me live, I can let you live alone? But the result of the same fate is something they absolutely do not want to see, it is a catastrophe that they cannot afford, so they must control the situation and keep the trajectory of Middle-earth in their interests.

What Yang Qing is most afraid of is the defeat of Guozuo, the country is gone, the Yang clan will be defeated, and he will no longer exist, so from his standpoint, he also does not support radical reforms, because such reforms will endanger the stability of Guozuo, but he is resolutely opposed to the termination of reforms, and opposes the politics of the gate lords, because this political system also endangers the security of the dynasty.

The purpose of the white thief's attack on the Central Plains has been clearly revealed, and there must be a huge political force behind the white thief, and this political force must be a conservative, but it is impossible to know whether this conservative force is an ultra-conservative force that resolutely opposes reform, or a moderate conservative force that opposes radical reform. The Dugu clan was a moderate conservative, in a sense a centrist, who supported reform but opposed radical reform, and wanted to establish a centralized system that would retain the privileges of the clan.

If there are ultra-conservative forces behind the white thief, then once the Tongji Canal is interrupted, once the Eastern Crusade fails, once the civil war breaks out, and a certain tyrant takes advantage of the situation, Guozuo is in danger of defeat, on the contrary, if the white thief is behind the moderate conservative forces, then although the civil war explodes, the national Zuo may not be overturned, at most it is to change an emperor and change the imperial system. This kind of thing is not uncommon in all dynasties, and the change of emperor has long been the most cost-effective political means to solve domestic crises, but of course, the risks it carries are also enormous.

At this moment, Yang Qing had no intention of exploring the truth about the "black hand" behind the white thief, and he was already frightened by Dugu Cheng's words. Dugu Cheng revealed a lot of information in a few sentences: the Eastern Crusade will suffer a heavy setback, it will fall short, the emperor and the reform forces will suffer a heavy blow, and they will fall into the political trap of both military and political defeats, and the initiator is the white thief, that is, the rebels cut off the Tongji Canal.

After carefully scrutinizing these words, Yang Qing could not help but maliciously speculate about Dugu Cheng's true intentions.

The ultra-conservatives and moderate conservatives in the Eastern Capital may have reached a compromise to destroy the Crusade by cutting off the Tongji Canal and overthrowing the Emperor by changing the imperial system, so that the reform of Middle-earth could be put back on the right track. If the shape has reached this point, then the most important thing at present is to let the Eastern Capital send troops to fight the rebellion, and let Yang Lan, the king of Qi who is closest to the position of the prince, establish meritorious deeds on the battlefield of the rebellion, and when the time is ripe, he will decisively cut off the Tongji Canal, launch a military coup, put Yang Lan on the throne, and directly push the emperor and the Eastern Expeditionary army into the abyss of defeat. The emperor's authority was lost after the defeat, the central reform forces were completely annihilated because they took responsibility for the defeat, and the morale of the Eastern Expeditionary Army was weakened.

And if you want to push Yang Lan, the king of Qi, onto this road of coexistence of opportunities and risks, the support of the imperial family and political forces is indispensable, and this may be the real purpose of Dugu Cheng's appointment with him.