Chapter 248: Alarmist
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Of course, Li Fengyun made such an inference on the basis of the Second Eastern Crusade of the Holy Initiative, and the radical forces in the Eastern Capital would raise troops to usurp the country, and Wei Fusi would be suspicious of this "foundation", after all, Li Fengyun's purpose was obvious, and he wanted to cooperate with the King of Qi, which led to another important question, what was the purpose of Li Fengyun's rebellion? Where will he go from here? Li Fengyun is a native of Shandong, and there is no doubt that he has the support of powerful Shandong forces behind him. The goal of the Shandong people is to make a comeback in the government, and to achieve this goal, the Shandong people have only two paths, one is to defeat the Guanlong people to control the government, and the other is to overthrow the Yang family and rebuild a new dynasty with the Shandong people as the ruling core.
It can be inferred from this that the purpose of Li Fengyun's rebellion is nothing more than two, one is to use himself as a weapon to help the Shandong people fight against the Guanlong people, and the other is to overthrow the Yang family and establish a new dynasty. Obviously, the second target is too difficult and there is no hope in sight at the moment, so the purpose of Li Fengyun's rebellion must be the first target, that is, to create an opportunity to attack the Guanlong people. According to Li Fengyun, there is such an opportunity in front of them, and the radical forces in the Eastern Capital will take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the Second Eastern Crusade of the Holy Initiative, the political turmoil in the Eastern Capital, and the deteriorating situation at home and abroad to raise troops to usurp the country. If Li Fengyun can help the King of Qi successfully defeat these usurpers, then it will be equivalent to a heavy blow to the Guanlong people, and Li Fengyun can take advantage of this opportunity to transform himself into a gorgeous turn, from a heinous thief to a hero to save the country.
Although Wei Fusi had only come into contact with Li Fengyun twice, he admired his intelligence and strategy more and more, and he felt that this person was extremely talented, a genius, and his achievements were limitless over time. Regardless of whether Li Fengyun's deduction is true or not, and whether his prediction of the future is correct or not, just his deep knowledge and understanding of the political situation in the Eastern Capital, and his plan to maximize the interests based on it, is enough to ⊥ people to be amazed. At the very least, Wei Fusi was now attracted by Li Fengyun's short-term and long-term plans, and gradually felt that he was about to be persuaded by them.
"If according to your prediction of the future and the plan you have made based on it, can the King of Qi kill the usurper rebel?" Wei Fusi asked quietly.
Li Fengyun gave an affirmative reply.
"What's next? What's next? Wei Fusi asked meaningfully.
"The Third Crusade."
Wei Fusi was stunned for a moment, Li Fengyun's answer was beyond his expectations. And the Third Crusade? Aren't the Holy Lord and the Central Pillar crazy? The First Eastern Crusade failed, the Second Eastern Crusade returned in vain, and the two Eastern Crusades not only intensified the domestic contradictions, worsened the domestic situation, and even broke out a mutiny, which led to a huge political storm. How is this possible? Not to mention that the national strength is difficult to support, even the political and military conditions for the Eastern Crusade are no longer available.
Wei Fusi laughed and shook his head again and again, "It's impossible, this is too ridiculous to stand up to scrutiny."
Li Fengyun also smiled, "Ming Gong, if the Eastern Expedition can destroy Goguryeo with the momentum of destroying the withering and decaying, it will definitely be able to demonstrate the national strength of Middle-earth and deter all kinds of Northern Captives, but if the two consecutive Eastern Crusades end in failure, and the domestic rebellions are repeated, the situation is chaotic, and the national strength is even more severely damaged, and even the number of garrisons in Northern Xinjiang has been greatly reduced, let me ask, is the Northern Capture ready to move?" Will the ambitions of the Turks swell to the extreme and raise troops to the south? ”
Wei Fusi's face changed suddenly, his expression froze, and a trace of shock flashed in his eyes.
A year earlier, he had been in the center, and of course he knew that relations between the North and the South had deteriorated dramatically with the death of Qiming Khan and the succession of Shibi Khan. Since the Tooth Tent came under the control of the anti-Sui and ambitious radical Turkic aristocracy, relations with the Eastern Capital have deteriorated. The reason why the Holy Lord and the central center hurriedly started the eastern expedition to Goguryeo after the western expedition to Tuyuhun was precisely because they felt the threat from the desert and the increasingly fierce domestic contradictions, coupled with the increasingly fierce domestic contradictions with the reform, so they did not hesitate to use their national strength to launch foreign wars, trying to replace defense with offense, deterring the northern captives with absolute force, delaying the outbreak of the Civil War, and winning more time for the establishment of a centralized system.
Wei Fusi's attention was all in the Eastern Capital, but he was negligent in the desert, and after Li Fengyun reminded him of this, he suddenly realized the severity of the problem. If both Crusades had ended in defeat, the Civil War had not been effectively delayed, but had been rushed in advance. The Beilu are not a group of kind sheep, but a group of ferocious wolves, this group of wolves has always been eyeing the rich Middle-earth, and now seeing the deep situation in Middle-earth, how can they turn a deaf ear and turn a blind eye? Such a great opportunity, of course, cannot be missed, of course, it is necessary to invade the south, take advantage of the fire to rob, and fall into the well. This is a matter of course, and anyone with a modicum of common sense can think of it.
"If the Northern Captives invade and the relationship between the North and the South breaks down, the Holy Lord should put the Weifu Army in the northern Xinjiang to defend the Great Wall, instead of continuing the Third Eastern Crusade." Wei Fusi still couldn't accept Li Fengyun's prediction, and immediately questioned it, "Goguryeo is a small country, ravaged by war, and its national strength is overwhelmed, and it can't pose a threat to our frontier in the short term, so why does the Holy Lord need to launch the Third Crusade?" ”
"The Third Crusade was fought not by Goguryeo, but by Goguryeo's allies in the Far East." Li Fengyun explained, "After Goguryeo's hegemony in the Far East was heavily attacked by our Middle Earth, it was no longer able to control the Xi, Xiao, Khitan, Heishui Saddle and Northern and Southern Murwei of the Far East, and the Turks would definitely take advantage of the situation and quickly spread the power of the tooth tent to the Far East. The Far Eastern races had no choice but to form an alliance with the Turks in order to survive.
"When relations between the North and the South were broken and the Turks were to invade south, the Turks must be fully prepared to fight a war in order to ensure that they seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to extend their territory south of the Great Wall. It is foreseeable that the Turks are very likely to go south in three routes, and the west road will take the Lingwu and Shuofang lines to threaten Guanzhong in order to contain the garrison army in the northwest of our country; The eastern road is dominated by the Far Eastern captives, and attacks are launched from the direction of Youyan, Liaoxi, and Liaodong to contain the garrison of Youyan, Liaoxi, and Liaodong; The middle road is the main direction of attack, with the desert northern captives as the main force, from the direction of Baidao and Wuyao Beiyuan to the south to cross the Great Wall and enter Daibei. ”
"The strength of our Northwest Army is strong, enough to block the northern captives at the foot of Helan Mountain, and the main force of our Northern Xinjiang Zhulu Zhenshu Army participated in the two Eastern Crusades, if the losses are heavy and the strength is drastically reduced, then it is conceivable that the Great Wall defense line has been difficult to hold, and what is more terrible is that the Northern Xinjiang armies will fall into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, once the whole line collapses, then Daijin, Youyan and even Hebei will all be in danger of falling."
"If the Holy Lord launches the Third Eastern Crusade, its purpose is definitely not to destroy Goguryeo, let alone to maintain the authority and face of himself and the center, but to prepare for the upcoming Great War between the North and the South, to deter the Far Eastern captives, to break their alliance with the Turks, so that they can remain neutral in the Great War of the North and South and dare not invade our northeastern frontier, so that our Northern Xinjiang garrison army can avoid the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, and at the same time, our Middle Earth can also concentrate money, food, and weapons on the battlefield of Daijin in the Great War of the North and the South, and fight to the death with the Northern Captives."
Li Fengyun spoke eloquently, obviously very familiar with the situation between the north and the south, which reminded Wei Fusi of his own speculation.
Li Fengyun is a secret soldier deployed in the desert in Middle-earth, and a close confidant of Pei Shiju, who is in charge of national defense and foreign affairs in the center, and the reason why Li Fengyun was captured by the border army before the Eastern Expedition and was ordered by Yuwenshu to be escorted to the Eastern Capital is probably because he mastered the secret of the northern captives and the southern invasion, and was chased and killed by the northern captives. It's a pity that there are traitors in the high-level of the Eastern Capital, and Li Fengyun was chased and killed many times in the process of returning to the Eastern Capital, and the possibility of arriving safely in the Eastern Capital is very small, so Li Fengyun rebelled in the White Horse Prison. As for the secret of the invasion of the north and the south, judging from the fact that Li Fengyun and Pei Shiju maintained a private contact, it had already been sent out, and as for why Li Fengyun continued to stay in the ranks of the rebels, the mystery was unknown, but Wei Fusi believed that he would figure it out one day after all.
Now Li Fengyun's mysterious identity is more and more traceable, because of this, most of the secrets he revealed are true and credible, and his deduction of the political situation in the Eastern Capital, the situation at home and abroad, is basically grounded, and the prediction of the future implicitly expressed in his words is actually a unique road he designed for the King of Qi to win the throne.
After Li Fengyun finished speaking, Wei Fusi pondered for a long time, although he still could not accept Li Fengyun's prediction, and did not believe that the situation in Middle-earth would deteriorate to such a terrible point in a short period of time, but he could not find evidence that could directly refute these alarmist speculations. Li Fengyun's speculation is based on the worst and worst results, but the facts are not necessarily the case, such as the Eastern Crusade may not fail, it will be carried out three times in succession, for example, the Civil War may not break out immediately, so Wei Fusi still has great hopes for the future of Middle-earth.
"If the Holy Saint takes the initiative of the Third Crusade and achieves the effect you said about deterring the Far Eastern captives, will the Civil War break out in the near future?" Wei Fusi asked.
Li Fengyun asked rhetorically, "If Ashina Jishi had done his best to prepare for this war with the radical nobles in the tent since he sat in the position of Khan, do you think they would give up?" ”
Wei Fusi was speechless.
"The Holy Lord's Third Crusade will definitely achieve its goal, but it will not delay the outbreak of the Civil War, on the contrary, the Northern Captives are worried that Middle-earth is too strong and will recover its vitality in the shortest possible time, and it is true, once Middle-earth has two or three years of recovery time, the Northern Captives will lose the best opportunity to invade the south, so the Northern Captives will inevitably speed up the pace of the war, and they will inevitably attack Middle-earth in the south as soon as possible."
Wei Fusi looked at Li Fengyun, who looked a little excited, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly had a new guess about Li Fengyun's purpose of rebellion, could it be that he was preparing for the upcoming Civil War? Judging from what Li Fengyun has done so far, it seems that he did not overturn the idea of the Holy Lord destroying Guozuo, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to cooperate with the King of Qi, but with the radical forces in the Eastern Capital.
"You want to go to the northern frontier, you want to defend against the northern captives?" Wei Fusi asked tentatively.
"If our cooperation is successful, when the Civil War breaks out and the King of Qi goes north to defend the enemy, he is willing to charge for him, even if he is broken."
Wei Fusi confirmed his suspicions, but there was no joy in his heart, his whole body and mind were filled with the gloomy picture of the future of Middle-earth in deep crisis depicted by Li Fengyun, and his feelings were low and melancholy.
He wants to calm down, he must calm down, he not only has to design the future for the King of Qi, but also think about his own future, although the future depicted by Li Fengyun is all fiction and fabrication, but who dares to say, it is not the future of Middle-earth? If this is the future of Middle-earth, how should the King of Qi face it? How will you plan it?