Chapter 607: Dig a pit and bury it yourself
Li Fengyun ordered to besiege the city, block the river, and send civilian farmers nearby, and try his best to move all the materials in the Gaoyang Jinkou warehouse to Changshan Pass in the shortest possible time.
At this order, Hao Xiaode, Liu Heimin, Sun Xuanya and other Hebei heroes were stunned. They were full of ambition, planning to take Gaoyang City and Gaoyang Palace in one go, and then loot them and make a lot of money, but they didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, their hopes would be disappointed, and Li Fengyun actually gave up, how could this be reasonable.
The heroes came to Li Fengyun's "theory" "in a swarm", why did they give up? Why did such a great opportunity go to waste? Why did the things that had already been said suddenly change?
Li Fengyun's face was gloomy, his eyes were not good, and he was very dissatisfied. When I pulled you to fight Gao Yang, you were reluctant, and even suspected that a certain harbor had evil intentions, until a certain revealed Gao Yang's "secret" and knew that Gao Yang was just an empty city, and your attitude changed greatly, and you ran faster than a rabbit one by one. Now the fragrant fat is in his mouth, but he can only see it and not eat it, and then he looks fierce, and he runs to yell angrily, he doesn't use his brain at all, and he doesn't want to think about the reason, which is speechless. No wonder in the competition for hegemony a few years later, these Hebei people actually capsized in the gutter under a good situation, and were beaten by Li Tang, defeated, and finally gained nothing.
Li Fengyun didn't bother to explain and ignored it, but Liu Xuan couldn't help but think about the people of Hebei, so he told him about the cause and effect.
The heroes all knew that Li Fengyun had three purposes for fighting Gaoyang, one was to grab food, the second was to attract the attention of the Holy Lord and the center, laying the foundation for the alliance to implement the follow-up plan, and the third was to help the King of Qi go north, but in fact, there was another purpose, that is, to coerce the wealthy families in northern Hebei to make a compromise on the alliance's foothold in Yanbei.
You can disagree with or even oppose the alliance to gain a foothold in Yanbei, but you can't exert influence on the Holy Lord, the center, and the Weifu for your own selfish interests, and then unite all forces to try your best to besiege the alliance, which is actually tantamount to helping the northern captives invade Middle-earth in disguise, which is tantamount to shooting yourself in the foot, and ultimately harming your own interests.
The truth is such a truth, but for those wealthy families who have long been blinded by their own selfish interests, this world is their world, and the rules of the game are also their rules of the game, and the truth they recognize is correct, and vice versa is wrong, so if the alliance wants to win enough time to gain a foothold in Yanbei, it must force these wealthy families to be in a "wait-and-see" state in the short term, rather than letting them regard the alliance as a thorn in the flesh, and they must want to get rid of it quickly.
Li Fengyun had already forced the Li clan of Zhaojun to choose "spectator", and then he had to force the Boling Cui clan to also choose "spectator". Although the twelve ladies of the Cui family have officially told Li Fengyun to "part ways", what is the essence of "parting ways"? Is it a stranger or an enemy? To be a stranger is to be a cold bystander, and to be an enemy is to be-for-tat or even to fight.
Li Fengyun didn't want to be an enemy of the Boling Cui clan. Among the three wealthy families in northern Hebei, the Cui family is still the most influential, and once the Cui family is an enemy of the alliance, the Zhongshan Liu family, who is also in Boling County, will inevitably follow. This will inevitably affect the choice of Youyan's wealthy family.
Youyan wealthy families are respected by Fanyang Lu, one of the five wealthy families in Shandong, followed by the Zou family, Jian's, Yan's, Shao's, and Yuan's five families, plus some big families with the surname of Yu, they constitute the most powerful local forces in the Youyan region, and the attitude of these local forces towards the alliance is not only directly related to whether the alliance can gain a foothold in Yanbei, but also directly determines the development of the situation in Yanbei. If the two sides do not compromise with each other and fight to the death, they will inevitably lose both sides in the end, and this will not only endanger the security of the northern Xinjiang garrison, but will also further deteriorate the relations between the north and the south, and there is even a risk of detonating the civil war ahead of schedule.
This consequence is unacceptable to all forces, but before the consequences appear, all forces are unwilling to give up their own interests, they are all lucky, and they are unwilling to compromise and forbear, and in the end they will inevitably create this consequence, so Li Fengyun must take precautions and come up with countermeasures, so as not to become the "culprit" of the Great War between the North and the South, for this he must force the Boling Cui clan to choose a "sidestand" position at the beginning of the alliance into Yanbei.
If the wealthy families in northern Hebei, such as the Boling Cui family, the Zhaojun Li family and the Zhongshan Liu family, are all "coldly watching" the changes in the situation in Yanbei, then it will inevitably make the Youyan wealthy family hesitate and make a difficult choice. Everyone wants to be a "fisherman" who is profitable, and they don't want to be a "sandpiper mussel" who is used by others, so the two sides can only "communicate" first and test each other. However, due to the contradictions and conflicts of regional interests, this kind of temptation is not destined to succeed, but will further complicate the situation.
What Li Fengyun needs is this complicated situation, the more complicated the situation and the more chaotic it is, the more beneficial it will be for the alliance to gain a foothold in Yanbei.
Li Fengyun firmly believes that it is impossible for the Boling Cui clan to be an enemy of it, and the reason why they "parted ways" is to really watch from the sidelines and see how the situation develops after the alliance enters Yanbei, and if the development trend is favorable to the Cui clan, of course the Cui clan will "continue the frontier", and the two sides will continue to cooperate. It's just that the twelve ladies of the Cui family are not the patriarch of the Cui family, she is at most the core member of the Cui family, and Cui Yu's position does not represent the position of the family, so what she said about "parting ways" is very vague, as for whether it is "a bystander" or "an enemy", her own family makes the final decision.
Cui Yu can be vague, but Li Fengyun must find out Cui's true attitude, so he clearly told Cui Yu at that time, I want to fight Gaoyang to grab grain and help King Qi go north, in fact, it is to coerce Cui's family, you better choose to "watch", this is good for you and me. Cui Yu affirmed the letter to Boling and asked the clan elders to make a decision, but before the decision came out, Li Fengyun was still quite apprehensive.
Zhaojun Li's attitude greatly increased Li Fengyun's confidence, and he was absolutely sure of winning Cui's "bystander", but before Cui made a formal commitment, Li Fengyun still had to put pressure on Gao Yang's survival.
Liu Xuan explained this to the heroes, and told them that Kong Yingda had rushed to Boling, and the heroes were immediately flustered.
Hebei wealthy families have a respected status in the minds of Hebei people, and it can even be said that they are god-like beings, which is where the belief lies. The surname of the wealthy family has lasted for one or two thousand years, and it has stood tall on the land of Yanzhao, on the contrary, in the past two thousand years, how many "big king flags" have fallen on the land of Yanzhao? The changing dynasties and countless heroes have long been annihilated in the long river of history, and only the wealthy surnames are like the sun in the sky, always hanging high on the sky dazzling.
The wealthy family is the spiritual pillar of the heroes, as long as there is the support of the wealthy family, the heroes are full of confidence in the future, so whether it is at the beginning of joining the alliance, or following the alliance to the north to fight, their most source of motivation is to come to the proud family, to be precise, from the Boling Cui clan and the Zhaojun Li clan to Li Fengyun's secret support, otherwise they would not join the alliance and succumb to Li Fengyun's account even if they were in deep trouble on the Qilu battlefield.
Before, they had already speculated that there was a fierce conflict between Li Fengyun and the wealthy family, after all, the profits of Yanbei's smuggling were too big, and Li Fengyun had to "end Yanbei in one pot", rob people's jobs, and take away people's rations, of course, it would become fire and water. It's just that they are still too optimistic, and they estimate their value too high, thinking that the wealthy family will not give up the powerful force of the alliance. Unexpectedly, Li Fengyun was really going to tear his face with the wealthy family, and what was even stricter was that Li Fengyun was insidious and cunning, and he quietly calculated them once, borrowed their knives to kill people, pushed them to the opposite side of the wealthy family, and then forced them to follow him to Yanbei in desperation.
The faces of Hao Xiaode, Liu Heimin, Sun Xuanya and others have all turned into "black pot bottoms", each one is uglier than the other. Li Fengyun was so terrible that he buried a group of Hebei heroes into the pit between talking and laughing, and what made people especially depressed and vomiting blood was that this pit was happily dug by Hao Xiaode and others, and now they couldn't wait to coerce Li Fengyun to bury them quickly, which was really an unbearable blow to the arrogant and arrogant heroes.
Now what? Still can't beat Gao Yang?
Now, if the alliance destroys Gao Yang, it is tantamount to openly slapping the Holy Lord and the center in the face. Before, Yang Xuangan and other traitors had already dealt a blow to the authority of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee to the point of "incompleteness", and now the Alliance has turned Gao Yang into ruins under the noses of the Holy Lord and the Imperial Palace, and then "sprinkled salt" on the wounds of the Holy Lord and the Central Palace, which will inevitably completely anger the Holy Lord, and the Holy Lord will definitely take revenge madly. How to retaliate? Of course, it is not only about encircling and suppressing the alliance, but also about killing those large and small forces that are known or potential, openly and covertly supporting the alliance.
Once the revenge begins, it will be difficult to control, and once it gets out of control, it will inevitably affect the innocent, and the wealthy family in northern Hebei is just on the cusp, although it will not be "broken" because of this matter, but at least the vested interests will be damaged, and more political compromises must be made to the holy lord and the center, which is unacceptable for the wealthy family above the interests of the family.
This is also unacceptable for the handsomes who respect wealthy families and urgently need the support of wealthy families, so Gao Yang can only surround and not fight.
Liu Heimin couldn't help but question, "What if they refuse to compromise or even decide to kill us?" Are we really going to burn Gaoyang with a fire? ”
"Of course." Li Fengyun said without hesitation, "Whether we can gain a foothold in Yanbei is not whether we have the support of wealthy families, but whether the major forces in the north can reach a consensus on the current north-south shape, and whether we can work together to prepare for the north-south war, otherwise, even if we have the support of the Holy Lord and the center, we will not be able to gain a foothold in Yanbei, because we have too many enemies, and we are attacked from all sides, even if we have three heads and six arms, we can't parry." ”
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