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Cui Deben repeatedly thought about and weighed, and returned to Duan Wencao, agreeing with his analysis and prediction of the situation in Lu County and its surrounding areas, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the Eastern Crusade, the stability of Qilu and Xuzhou was very important, so the top priority was to kill the rebels from all walks of life with the white thief, so he decided to wave his army to the north, and Duan Wencao fought north and south, putting the rebels to death.

In the last part of the letter, Cui Deben mentions the death of Nayan Yangda and expresses his deep concern for the emperor and the central government on this matter. The "intensive" death of the four supreme governors of the center had caused too great an impact, and during the Eastern Crusade, this impact inevitably affected the ongoing foreign war, and the originally stable conquest was thus overshadowed.

Cui Deben said a few words, which seemed to be general, but there were too many hidden things in it, which was enough to ponder and ponder.

Cui Deben immediately rushed to Zuo Xiaowei's mansion to visit Wu Benlang's general Liang Dezhong.

Liang Dezhong is under a lot of pressure now. There were nearly two million bureaucrats, troops, and civilians on the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade, and the daily consumption of military supplies was an astonishing number, and these military supplies were mainly transported by the Grand Canal that ran through the north and south of Middle Earth, among which the Huai River and Tongji Canal sections where Liang Dezhong was responsible for garrisoning were about 2,000 li long. At present, the number of Zhuying Yang troops left in Xuzhou is only more than 2,000 people, and Liang Dezhong has to protect the counties of Xuzhou and garrison the Grand Canal, so it can be imagined that he is overstretched in the deployment of troops.

However, what made Liang Dezhong feel lucky was that after the white thieves went far away from Mengshan and entered Qilu, they put the target of the plunder in Lu County, although they also went down the mountain in early spring to intrude on the area of Lanling and Tancheng, but they grabbed and left, and did not aim at the coastal transportation channel connecting Donglai and Jiangdu, otherwise Liang Dezhong must fall into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, and its limited forces must not only garrison the canal waterway, but also to suppress the thieves, it must be to take care of one and the other, it is difficult to continue, and the consequences are very strict, once defeated, it will repeat the mistakes of Dong Chun.

Therefore, Liang Dezhong paid close attention to the battlefield of Lujun, and when he learned that Duan Wencao had defeated Ningyang, he had a premonition that the situation was not good. Sure enough, within a few days, the white thief entered Xuzhou with his army and stormed Guting and Fanghe. Gu Ting was lost in an instant, Fang He was still insisting, Peicheng Yingyang Mansion and Tengcheng Yingyang Mansion 100,000 urgently called the Wei Mansion, and Peicheng Yingyang Lang General Wei Yunyue directly asked Liang Dezhong whether to send troops to rescue.

Liang Dezhong urgently ordered to hold on to the city, wait and see what happens, and do not act without an order from the Wei government. Liang Dezhong was worried that his subordinates would be arrogant and careless and would not obey orders, so he specifically mentioned Fei Huai, the former Yongcheng Yingyanglang general who was wiped out, and Dong Chun, the former Zuo Xiaowei general who had just stepped down, and Duan Wencao, who had just retreated under Ningyang City. These people have all been defeated by the white thief, so it can be seen that this thief is not easy to deal with, so you better be cautious.

With Liang Dezhong's current situation, he doesn't even have enough troops to complete his garrison duties, where is there any extra army to suppress thieves? Besides, with his background, if he wants to be promoted to another level and step into the ranks of senior commanders at the level of third-rank generals, it is simply impossible. There are twelve generals in the twelve mansions, twenty-four generals from the third rank, a total of thirty-six senior commanders, such a small number of positions, not enough for the middle-earth level and first-class wealthy families to divide up, where is the turn to get a second- or third-rate nobleman like Liang Dezhong? For Liang Dezhong, the martial arts general, who has been on the horse for decades, has made countless meritorious achievements, and can reach the top of his career, and he is already very satisfied. There are only forty-eight Wu Benlang generals of the Twelve Wei Mansion, there are many monks and few porridges, and there are too many people staring at this position, and if they accidentally make a mistake and give the opponent a handle, it will be a disaster. Liang Dezhong didn't want to "stumble" at the last moment of his life, so he was bent on stability, only seeking no fault, not merit.

Liang Dezhong's pursuit of stability was to put most of his troops on the garrison water 6 transportation channel to ensure the safety of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and put a small part of his troops on the northern line of Xuzhou to block the southward invasion of the rebels in the southwest of Shandong. However, the rebels in the southwestern part of the country still went south. This is different from Liang Dezhong's speculation about the situation in southwest Lu.

In Liang Dezhong's view, after Zhang Xutuo left Lu County and returned to Qi County, he could not control the situation in southwest Lu with the power of Duan Wencao, and the direction of the shape shì was also in line with Liang Dezhong's speculation, Duan Wencao defeated Ningyang and fell into passivity, and the rebel alliance in southwest Lu with the white thief seized the initiative on the battlefield, and then the rebel alliance should take advantage of the victory to attack, take Mengshan as the rear, and expand its territory to Lu County and its surrounding areas. As a result, the situation in Qilu deteriorated, and the security of Xuzhou was also threatened, which directly affected the expedition of the Donglai Navy Division across the sea and the plan of the Eastern Expedition. The rebel alliance in southwest Lu immediately became the target of public criticism. In this case, the eastern capital is about to send troops to fight the rebellion, and Zhou Fashang, who is in charge of the Qilu military, and Liang Dezhong, who is in charge of the Xuzhou military, will also send troops to suppress the thieves. There is no way, the thieves are too strong, they have been forced to the edge of the cliff, and the official hat on their heads is in danger, either you die or I die.

However, contrary to Liang Dezhong's expectations, the Southwest Lu rebel alliance with the white thief as the leader did not take advantage of the victory to attack Bianqiu, and chased Duan Wencao after him, but went south along Surabaya and attacked Kangfu, Gao Ping, Fang and Guting on the first line of Hehe and Si. These four cities are located in the hub of the Heshui and Surabaya waterways connecting the Central Plains, Qilu and Xuzhou, and have a certain strategic value.

Obviously, the white thief has a new attack direction, and this attack direction is definitely not Qilu, otherwise there is no need for the white thief to make such an abnormal move. The possibility of going south to Xuzhou is not large, the eagles who stay in Xuzhou are strong, and the south of the Huai River is Jiangdu, and Jiangdu is the place where it rises today, it has been operating with great effort for nearly 20 years, it is the first important town in Jiangzuo, there is a secret reputation of accompanying the capital, and its remaining army has undertaken the heavy task of defending the south of the Yangtze River, with tens of thousands of troops, once Xuzhou falls into a crisis, Jiangdu will inevitably send troops to help, which is bad news for the rebels. So after this calculation, the goal of the white thief is clear at a glance, and he wants to advance into the Central Plains.

Liang Dezhong suddenly realized why Zhang Xutuo and Duan Wencao suddenly turned against each other and left Lu County angrily, why Duan Wencao defeated Ningyang City under the dominant situation, why the Lanling Xiao clan suddenly withdrew from Lu County under the critical situation of Duan Wencao's defeat of Lu County, why the White Thief and the Southwest Lu rebel alliance did not take advantage of the situation to sweep Lu County, the reason is that the Shandong people used the rebels as weapons to control the situation in Southwest Lu and even the entire Qilu region for their own interests and in order to achieve the political goals of the Shandong people. And to promote the situation in the direction of the Shandong people.

The center of the Central Plains is the Eastern Capital, and the Eastern Capital is surrounded by Gyeonggi. On the occasion of his accession to the throne, Yang Liang, the king of Han, launched a military rebellion that swept through the entire Shandong region in order to seize the imperial unity. After the rebellion was put down, Imami felt the threat from the direction of Shandong, so he dug a large trench about several zhang wide along the area of Daegyeonggi, and then built a pass along this large trench, deployed troops, and built a strong fortress.

At the same time, the estrangement and contradiction between the Guanlong people and the Shandong people were further deepened because of the existence of this visible moat, so this moat naturally became a symbol of the opposition between the two major political groups.

Now, the Shandong rebel alliance wants to cross this moat, enter the Central Plains, and start a war against the Guanlong people. From a political point of view, this matter is not good for the people of Shandong, but it is beneficial to the people of Guanlong, and the people of Guanlong can use this as an excuse to intensify the containment and crackdown on the people of Shandong.

However, under the background that China was deeply caught in the double attack of internal reform and foreign war, and under the premise that the emperor and reformers urgently needed to strengthen the authority of the central government with the outstanding martial arts of foreign wars, and then accelerate the pace of internal reform, the interpretation of this matter in politics was different, not to the people of Shandong, but to the people of Guanlong.

Who are the conservatives who oppose reform? Vested interests. Who are the vested interests? The aristocratic bureaucracy that wields power. Who holds authority in Middle-earth? Guanlong people. The Guanlong people unified Middle-earth, and the Guanlong aristocratic group was the ruler of Middle-earth, and the Guanlong people rightfully controlled the dominance of power and wealth distribution in Middle-earth.

The Shandong and Jiangzuo people were defeated in the Great War of Unification, and as the losers, they naturally had to accept the fate of being ruled, so they naturally lost the dominant power and wealth in Middle-earth. However, the Shandong and Jiangzuo people have always considered themselves to be the Zhengshuo of Middle-earth, and the Guanlong people are just a group of vulgar barbarians, so the Shandong people and Jiangzuo people are determined to reverse the situation, and they use reform as a weapon, holding high the banner of peaceful reunification and centralization, trying to overthrow the Guanlong people in politics, regain the ruling power of Middle-earth, and regain control of the dominance of power and wealth distribution in Middle-earth.

However, the Guanlong people are also full of wisdom, especially those emerging nobles who have risen with military exploits, they also use reform as a weapon, and also hold high the banner of peaceful unification and centralization, trying to destroy the political affairs of the gate lords and clans, and completely cut off the road to the comeback of the Shandong people and the Jiangzuo people.

Everyone demanded reform, and the essence of reform is to redistribute the power and wealth of Middle Earth, as a vested interest group of the Guanlong people, they occupy the lion's share of power and wealth, once the reform continues, they are the ones who lose the most, as a result, when the reform is carried out to a certain extent, the Shandong people and Jiangzuo people are more and more active, while the Guanlong people are more and more negative, and finally they inevitably embark on the road of opposing the reform and become conservatives in politics.

The Shandong rebels attacked the Central Plains and threatened the Eastern Capital, in fact, to help the Shandong people win the Eastern Crusade, which can also be interpreted in a sense as an attack by the reformers against the conservatives, and this symbolism is what the emperor and the reformers need. After the emperor and the reformers had won foreign wars, established great martial arts, and established strong authority, they could use this to attack the conservatives and push forward the reforms.

Liang Dezhong was worried, and from his height, the future was blurry and confusing. Since I can't see the future, I have to ensure that the current interests are not lost, so Liang Dezhong decided to have a good talk with Cui Deben, as long as my interests are not lost, you Cui Deben will do what you like, I will turn a blind eye.

At this moment, Cui Deben took the initiative to come to the door.