December 25, Hebei, Gaoyang Palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Pei Shiju, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, returned to the palace.

Pei Shiju's westward journey of more than four months basically achieved the predetermined goal.

After the Middle Earth and the Western Turks reached a series of agreements and consolidated and strengthened the alliance between the two sides, the deteriorating situation in the Western Xinjiang was contained, the increasingly serious crisis in the Western Xinjiang was also controlled, and the general trend of the world also changed dramatically.

In this situation, the Middle Earth seized the food, took advantage of the favorable opportunity of the forces headed by Li Fengyun and Li Zixiong to sweep through Anzhou and Northeast China, successfully appeased them with lightning speed, and incorporated Anzhou and Northeast China into the territory of China and Northeast China at an unbelievable speed, and took away a piece of fat from the mouth of the desert very strongly and domineeringly, which will inevitably make the tooth tent interpret that China and Turkey are deliberately sabotaging the relations between the North and the South, and to actively provoke a civil war, a series of countermeasures will be launched. The purpose of Pei Shiju's westward journey was to provoke the fratricidal fighting of the two Turks in the east and west, so that the fishermen could benefit and win enough time to recuperate and gain valuable opportunity to attack, so that the immediate enmity with the desert and the premature outbreak of the Civil War were actually not good for Middle-earth.

The contradiction is here, and Pei Shiju is helpless, so he can only choose the lesser of two evils. From the perspective of the domestic crisis, the Holy Lord and the reformers do need to take Anzhou and the Northeast, need to open up the territory to save their authority, and need to firmly control the ruling power to maintain the existing reform results, and from the perspective of the external crisis, this move will inevitably lead to the rupture of North-South relations, and will inevitably lead to the early outbreak of the Civil War.

Pei Shiju did not expect that the situation in Anton would change subversively more than four months later.

Before leaving Shanggu in the west, Pei Shiju had already "walked" through Pei Xuanji's secret "walk", and determined that the white-haired thief with the pseudonym Li Fengyun was Li Pingyuan, knowing that Li Fengyun was going to fight out of the fortress, to attack Anzhou and the Northeast, and vainly trying to dominate the Northeast and rise into a new force that could affect the relationship between the North and the South. However, Pei Shiju does not agree with and is not optimistic about this strategy, in his eyes Li Fengyun's battle out of the fortress is just a desperate fight at the end of the road, even if Li Fengyun succeeds and takes Anzhou and Northeast China, even if this result does help Middle-earth to seize the opportunity in the upcoming Civil War, but this is not a decisive opportunity, nor is it a key advantage to determine the outcome of the war, and the risk taken for this opportunity and advantage is fatal, it may backfire and detonate the war in advance, and it is possible to raise a tiger to bring disaster upon itself. Therefore, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, Pei Shiju categorically refused and decided to completely exterminate Li Fengyun once and for all, so when he left Shanggu, he reported to the Holy Lord and issued a solemn warning to the Holy Lord and the center, clearly stating that Li Fengyun, a rebel force, must be exterminated within the Great Wall, and Li Fengyun must never be allowed to get out of the fortress, and all uncontrollable risks must be completely stifled.

However, the Holy Lord and the center seriously underestimated Li Fengyun, and regarded Pei Shiju's warning as a "deaf ear", not only implemented the plan of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, borrowing a knife to kill people, and letting Li Fengyun go away, but also after Li Fengyun entered Anzhou, he decisively made a decision to support it, trying to take the opportunity to confuse the situation in Anton, and take the opportunity to attack and weaken the power of the Turks. In this good situation, the huge benefits brought by appeasing Anton make all beneficiaries happy, and the uncontrollable risks brought about by this are bound to be infinitely smaller, or even deliberately ignored.

Of course, the Holy Lord and the reformers still took into account the risks and came up with countermeasures, the first countermeasure is to prevent trouble before it happens, that is, to use the Third Eastern Crusade to eradicate Anton's main forces, resolve the risks once and for all, and then completely control Anton, and the Weifu army entered in large numbers to clamp down on the desert from the east and south directions, so that it can not only cooperate with the Western Turks to attack the desert from the direction of Dajinshan, continue to consume the living strength of the Turks, but also effectively delay the outbreak of the Civil War, only wait for the two Turks in the east and west to defeat both sides. After recuperating and accumulating enough strength, he made a decisive northern expedition and swept across the desert.

The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. In the face of the wishful thinking of the Holy Lord and the reformers, Pei Shiju could only sigh secretly. It's good to have self-confidence, and it's okay to be proud and arrogant, but the premise is that you must know yourself and your opponent, and you must first have the "capital" of pride and arrogance, and you must have absolute strength, otherwise you will be shooting yourself in the foot and bringing disaster upon yourself.

Pei Shiju was worried and frowned.

Pei Xuanji saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and waited until it was quiet in the dead of night, the officials and subordinates had left, and Pei Shiju was ready to rest, before he found an opportunity to ask, "My lord, has the central committee unanimously passed the proposal to appease Anton today?" ”

Pei Shiju nodded, "Opening up the territory martial arts means that the authority of the Holy Lord and the central government is unstoppable. ”

Pei Xuanji shook his head with a wry smile, "My lord, in this way, your worries that day have become a reality, and the Civil War will not only not be delayed, but will break out in advance." The results of the adult's westward journey were completely hedged by the opening of the territory of Anton, and this trip was a waste of time, and nothing was found. ”

Only by showing weakness to the enemy can Middle-earth provoke the two Turks in the east and west to kill each other, win time to recuperate, and seize the opportunity of "profiting from the fisherman" after restoring its national strength, and march north to the west, each of which will be defeated, and deal a heavy blow to the two Turks in the east and west. It was this strategy that was implemented by the first emperor during the opening of the emperor, which not only successfully split the Turkic Khanate, but also severely damaged the eastern and western Turks.

After the defeat of the Eastern Crusade and the crisis in the western frontier led to a heavy setback in the foreign strategy of active defense in China and Turkey, Pei Shiju tried to repeat the old plan, taking advantage of the heavy setback of the Chinese and Turkish in the battlefield of foreign conquest to "show the enemy weakness", and taking advantage of the favorable opportunity for the Western Turks to rush to solve the strong opponent of the desert under the threat of the Persians, and provoke the fratricidal killing of the two eastern and western Turks, so as to delay the outbreak of the Civil War, first solve the internal crisis of Middle-earth, restore the national strength, and then make a comeback on the battlefield of foreign conquest. He never expected that Li Fengyun and Li Zixiong, the rebellious combination of the old and the young, coupled with a dying King of Qi, would join forces to create an incredible miracle, and in just four months of his westward journey, he swept Anzhou and the Northeast, directly changing the overall situation of the confrontation between the north and the south, and as a result, the scene he least wanted to see appeared. Middle-earth is actively promoting the outbreak of the Civil War, and a new round of fateful war between Middle-earth and the desert is about to break out.

Middle-earth is so strong, so aggressive, so sharp, of course the desert is afraid, of course it wants to fight to the death, of course, it must make the greatest compromise to the Western Turks, in exchange for the cooperation of the Western Turks with the greatest benefits of concessions, and the Western Turks are of course happy to see it, what it is most willing to see is that Middle-earth and the desert fight each other, it is better to fight and lose, so that it will have no worries for a long time in the future, and can concentrate on fighting the Persians.

Therefore, it is certain that Pei Shiju's trip to the west was in vain, and all the achievements were lost, and the culprit of this disastrous result was Li Fengyun, who was his most relied on protégé disciple and loyal subordinate Li Pingyuan.

"Li Pingyuan......" Pei Xuanji sighed, "He finally rose strongly, and finally had the power to take revenge, the uncontrollable risks that the adults were worried about before all broke out, and posed a threat to both the north and the south, and the Holy Lord and the center still underestimated him, and even took it for granted that he could be eliminated with the help of the Third Eastern Crusade, don't you want to think about it, since he can sweep Andong, how can he be defeated by Goguryeo?" ”

Pei Shiju smiled indifferently and shook his head, "He is not Li Pingyuan, he is Li Fengyun." Then he looked at the thoughtful Pei Xuanji, and said solemnly, "Li Pingyuan is dead, this is what he said personally, how can it be fake?" ”

Li Pingyuan is dead? When this sentence came out of Pei Shiju's mouth, the meaning was very different, and Pei Xuanji understood it and made sense at one point.

The Turks spread rumors, saying that the white-haired thief is the secret knife, openly implementing the divisive plan, and although the holy lord and the center refuse to be fooled, and the reformers also resolutely defend it, but there is no faith in politics, only interests, once it turns out that Li Pingyuan is the secret knife, and the secret knife is the white-haired thief, then Pei Shiju and the political forces with it as the core will be pushed to the crater, and the slightest wind and grass will definitely be wiped out, and there is no power to fight back, so in today's situation, Li Pingyuan is Pei Shiju's "political noose", It is impossible for Pei Shiju to admit the fact that Li Pingyuan is still alive.

Pei Xuanji sighed again, "Whether in the past or now, Li Pingyuan has not betrayed the adult, and in the future, he will not betray the adult, and he gave the position of Anton's protector to the adult, which is a clear proof." ”

"Anton Daduhu?" Pei Shiju sneered, "The vertical man has ill intentions, uses a certain as a shield, the fox is a fake tiger, while arriving at the attack of the north and the south, while hiding under the wings of a certain to develop and grow, the cunning of the depth of the scheming, especially in the past." ”

"It's come to this, how to deal with it?" Pei Xuanji asked, "There will eventually be a war between the north and the south, even if there is no Li Fengyun, even if Middle-earth does not take Anton, this battle cannot be avoided, and it cannot even delay the outbreak of war, after all, the common enemy of the two Turkic tribes in the east and west is our Middle Earth, and the pain of the division and decay of the Turkic Khanate back then is unforgettable for them, how can they forget?" How can they repeat the mistakes of the past and kill each other again? Perhaps the two Turks of the East and West are working together to calculate Middle-earth, paralyzing and deceiving us, only to give us a fatal blow when war breaks out. ”

"You have to control your own destiny." Pei Shiju bowed his head again and again, stroked his beard and said, "I never believed in foreign captives, let alone pinned the victory or defeat of the war and the fate of Middle-earth on the Turks. ”

Pei Xuanji understood and smiled.

= (To be continued.) )