Li Min's mission has been completed, and he immediately resigned and left. Although he did not win the slightest benefit for Li Fengyun, this was originally expected by Li Fengyun, in fact, Li Fengyun's most urgent thing was not to obtain food, nor to "eat" Han Xiangguo, but to influence Yang Xuangan's decision-making and make him ready to mutiny in advance, which obviously helped Yang Xuangan win more victorious results on the battlefield of the Eastern Capital.

After Li Min left, Yang Xuangan discussed with Hu Shitan and others for a long time, and finally made a decision to prepare for a mutiny in advance, and make all preparations for a mutiny in the next month.

The real key is not whether the mutiny is exposed, and it is not a question of who informs the mutiny, because those who really know that the mutiny is a stakeholder and are suspected of complicity, and in the end the informant will inevitably die, and so far, the informant who can actually get definite evidence is still very limited, and the matter is still under control, so the key to the real mutiny is in other aspects, such as the sudden deterioration of the situation in Longxi as estimated by Li Fengyun.

If Li Fengyun's prediction is accurate, and the commander of the Northwest Army, Yuan Hongsi, is caught off guard and takes care of one thing or the other, it is indeed possible to make a wrong decision, and once the Northwest decision is wrong, the consequences will be very severe, and it will directly undermine the national defense and diplomatic strategy of Middle-earth in Western Xinjiang, then Yuan Hongsi's situation will be very bad, his control over the Northwest Army will inevitably decline, and the threat to Guanzhong and even Xijing will inevitably decrease or even disappear, and Yang Xuangan will lose the great help of Yuan Hongsi, and the chances of winning the mutiny will also be sharply reduced. In this way, Xijing's attitude will change, and at that moment, Yang Xuangan will be passive, and things will be in trouble.

So what is the situation in Longxi now? Since last year, the Western Turks once again expanded their sphere of influence to the Western Regions, the countries of the Western Regions surrendered one after another, and after the Hexi Army deployed in the three counties of the Western Regions was forced to shrink its defense, the two counties of Jimo and Shanshan in the southeast of the Western Regions in the middle of the Western Regions have been "in name only". In the past, these two counties were the sphere of influence of the Tuyuhun people, and it was obvious that the Tuyuhun people would definitely take advantage of the situation to seize these two counties, and then, with the secret support of the Western Turks, took advantage of the time when the Middle-earth people had no time to go west to conquer Goguryeo, they made a comeback and launched a counteroffensive to the West Sea in an attempt to restore the country.

Therefore, Li Fengyun's prediction of the situation in Longxi is credible and has a certain factual basis, although the eastern capital has not yet received the news that the Tuyuhun people have counterattacked the West Sea and the situation in Longxi has deteriorated rapidly, but from the climate law of the West Sea and the time of the Eastern Expedition in China, if the Tuyuhun people want to restore the country, they should have launched a counteroffensive at this moment. Considering that the West Sea is too far away from the Eastern Capital, the transmission of information is very inconvenient, and many factors such as the deliberate concealment of the Northwest Military and Political Officials in order to evade criminal responsibility, it is estimated that it will take some time for this news to reach the Eastern Capital, and it may not make the Eastern Capital immediately aware of the outbreak of the Yan Zòng crisis in the Western Frontier.

However, as the commander of the Northwest Army, Yuan Hongji must be very clear about the crisis in Western Xinjiang, and he must choose between resisting foreign invaders and maintaining the security of Western Xinjiang, and mobilizing to control Xijing. So, what choice will he make? If he chooses to resist foreign invaders and give up mutiny, what will Yang Xuangan do? Did you also give up the opportunity to raise troops in Liyang this time? However, at that moment, even if Yang Xuangan wanted to give up, because Xijing wanted to protect himself, Xijing would never let Yang Xuangan grab his handle and pull himself into the danger of nine deaths, and this was also the best opportunity to destroy Yang Xuangan and the political forces that took him as his own, Xijing would not let it go, and as long as Xijing fought bloody battles with Yang Xuangan and did his best to protect the Eastern Capital, then in the future, even if the Holy Lord and the reformers wanted to liquidate the government, they would not find enough reason to make a move against the local aristocratic group in Guanlong.

It can be seen that Yang Xuangan's situation is very bad, full of dangers, and he must be prepared for a mutiny in advance, and if he wants to mutiny in advance, the only target of the attack is the eastern capital, and only by being caught off guard by the eastern capital and the western capital by surprise, can he win a glimmer of life in a desperate situation. But there are pros and cons to everything, and if what should have been done within two months is concentrated in one month, the risk of mutiny exposure will be greater, and the time of exposure will be earlier.

Fortunately, the entire Liyang is under the control of Yang Xuangan, and there are conditions for strictly keeping secrets, but Liyang is the territory of Hebei people after all, and Hebei people are everywhere, so it is still quite difficult to keep secrets. The most important person who poses a threat to Yang Xuangan in Hebei is Cui Hongsheng, so the top priority is to provoke Hebei thieves to loot Yongji Canal, forcing Cui Hongsheng to focus all his energy on suppressing thieves, and it is best to lure him to Hejian County in northern Hebei and keep him away from Liyang, so that even if the news of Liyang's army reaches his ears, he will not have time to stop Yang Xuangan from attacking the eastern capital.

This matter is naturally done by Hebei celebrity Kong Yingda. Kong Yingda immediately left Liyang and rushed to Qinghe and Bohai counties day and night to secretly ask for help from local wealthy families, and these wealthy families secretly "contacted" the various righteous commanders on both sides of the Yongji Canal.

Soon, Gao Shida and Dou Jiande of Gaojibo, Ge Qian, Gao Kaidao and other righteous commanders of Bohai County attacked Yongji Canal. Cui Hongsheng, the Hebei ambassador who was defending the defense line of the Great River while suppressing thieves in Qinghe and Wuyang, immediately ordered his soldiers to advance rapidly along both sides of the Yongji Canal and go north.

Just when Cui Hongsheng tried his best to protect the Yongji Canal and the atmosphere in Hebei became increasingly tense, the atmosphere in the Eastern Capital was also tense and even a little suffocating, because the recent bad news came one after another, which overwhelmed and anxious the elites left behind in the Eastern Capital.

The situation on both sides of the Tongji Canal in Henan continued to deteriorate, the rebel team of the white thieves not only caused trouble in the territory of Liang County, but also crossed the Jishui River to the north into Dongjun to plunder, and the chaotic situation has gradually spread to the banks of the big river, and the Liang County thief commander Han Xiangguo took the opportunity to gather a rebellion on the bank of the Tongji Canal, and quickly entered the territory of Yuzhou to cause trouble, and now Huaiyang and Yingchuan counties have been in chaos, and there are gradually signs of threatening the security of Gyeonggi.

The situation in Hebei's Yongji Canal has also begun to deteriorate, Hebei thieves have burned, killed, and plundered on both sides of the canal, and the channel has been interrupted several times.

At the same time, the situation in the border areas also suddenly deteriorated, and a crisis suddenly broke out in Longxi, thousands of miles away. The Tuyuhun people made a comeback, stormed the West Sea, and the northwest was in an emergency, but the Honghua left-behind Yuan Hongsi, who was in charge of the military of the thirteen counties of Longyou, had a fierce conflict with some generals of the Northwest Army, especially the generals of the town of Longxi, and even the Hexi Army of the town of the Western Regions was involved, which led to a sharp turn for the worse in the entire Western Xinjiang, and the town of Longxi was even more precarious.

The situation in Longxi has deteriorated, the situation in the Western Regions is tense, the Turks on the desert are also ready to move north of Helan Mountain, the Northwest Army is attacked on three sides, and the defensive pressure of the three major corps of Hexi, Longxi and Lingwu of the Northwest Army has increased suddenly, but since the Western Expedition, the Eastern Capital has done its best to the East, and all the resources of the Middle Earth are concentrated in the Northeast Xinjiang, and the Western Xinjiang and Northwest Army are becoming more and more embarrassed, and the military and political chiefs of the thirteen counties of Longyou are also overwhelmed under the double squeeze of internal contradictions and external pressures, and they are struggling, "inside and outside are not people", Therefore, the deterioration of the situation in Longxi is like digging a hole in a crumbling dam, and it is out of control.

The power centers of Middle-earth went to the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition with the Holy Lord, and the power left to the Eastern Capital was very limited, and the means of dealing with the crisis were extremely lacking, and there was very little that Yang Tong, the king of Yue, and Fan Zigai, who stayed behind, could do very little, except for 100,000 urgent reports to the Holy Lord, they could only urge Xijing to find ways to give Longxi money and food support, urge Hebei to arrest the ambassador Cui Hongsheng to do his best to ensure the safety of the Yongji Canal, and urge the military and political officials along the Tongji Canal to ensure the smooth flow of the channel at any cost, as for the military aspect, whether it is Yang Dong or Fan Zigai, They didn't dare to take the decision of the Wei Mansion lightly, and the Honghua left behind Yuan Honghe, as well as the right guard Zheng Yuanshou and the right guard general Li Hun who stayed in the eastern capital, were not something they could command and urge.

At this moment, for Dongdu and Xijing, it is far more important to quickly deal with the crisis in the northwest and defeat the invading foreign invaders than to fight the rebellion and thieves at home, because in terms of national strength, Middle-earth cannot support two foreign wars at the same time, and militarily, the Weifu army is also unable to fight on two foreign fronts at the same time.

The eastern capital therefore turned its attention to Longxi, and Xijing, which was closer to Longxi, paid close attention, so that Honghua, the highest military and political governor of the northwest who was in charge of the military of the thirteen counties of Longyou, stayed behind Yuan Hongsi and became the focus of the two capitals, and his every move, word and deed was related to the security of the northwest and the security of the Middle Earth, so Yuan Hongsi naturally became the "target" of many political forces, and became the "scapegoat" who wanted to bear the responsibility for the emergence of the crisis. It has become the target of public criticism.

The "denunciation" of Yuan Hongsi by the magnates of the two capitals and the desire to drive Yuan Hongsi out of the northwest was ostensibly a game of political interests, but in fact it was a battle for power over the power of the Northwest Army.

The northwest has fallen into a crisis, and the magnates of the two capitals have also "made a fuss", but the Holy Lord and the center are far away in Liaodong, and it takes time for the message to be transmitted, and during this time, the magnates of the two capitals can do many things, such as adding fuel to the flames behind the Tongji Canal crisis and the Yongji Canal crisis, so that the channels are interrupted and smooth, so as to put pressure on the Holy Lord and the center, force the Holy Lord to compromise and make concessions, and force the Holy Lord to "remove" Yuan Hongji and replace him with someone they are satisfied with.

Yang Xuangan of Liyang couldn't help but be frightened and even more dazzled in the face of the ever-changing and treacherous political situation in Liangjing. The wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts, he has calculated everything, and he has calculated the increasingly tense situation in the northwest, but he has not calculated that Yuan Hongji mishandled the crisis and pushed himself to the "cusp". Now it is certain that Yuan Hongsi has lost control of the Northwest Army, has lost the conditions for a mutiny, and has lost the support and response of Yuan Hongsi, a heavyweight, and has lost Yuan Hongsi's full cooperation in the direction of Guanlong. Can it go on?

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