Pei Shiju tried his best to advise the Holy Lord, but his mood was also very bad.

Pei Shiju was very dissatisfied with Feng Deyi's practice of presenting the chapter to the Holy Lord through his "back door", although Feng Deyi did have the intention of telling him important information for the first time, but there were many ways to tell him secrets, and Feng Deyi's method was the most undesirable, with the intention of using Pei Shiju, without thinking too much about Pei Shiju, once Pei Shiju did not handle it well, it was very likely to bring disaster to Pei Shiju, in other words, Feng Deyi's intentions were sinister, Trying to use this method to force Pei Shiju to make a compromise on the decision of the Eastern Crusade, he had to go from resolutely opposing the continuation of the Eastern Crusade to conditionally supporting the Holy Lord to carry out the Eastern Crusade to the end.

The reason for this result is that Feng Deyi not only explained to Pei Shiju in detail the changes in the battle situation in Shanggu and the sudden Boling crisis, but also made a strong hint that the white-haired thief might be the key person in the Yulin storm back then, and clearly and unabashedly tested Pei Shiju's attitude towards the white-haired thief again.

In addition, Feng Deyi also mentioned the traitor Li Zixiong in the recital, and said that Yang Gongdao, Han Shige, Zhou Zhong, Yu Rou, Pei Shuang and other nobles who participated in Yang Xuangan's mutiny may have been hiding under the white-haired thief's tent.

This nature is serious, and the involvement is too large. Such a big event, Pei Shiju openly "bypassed" the center to report directly to the Holy Lord, openly violating the rules, the central ministers must be indignant, and more serious is that the internal history of Yu Shiji, the imperial historian Pei Yun, Dali Qing Zheng Shanguo and other ministers involved Although they can only remain silent on the surface, they must be extremely resentful of Pei Shiju in their hearts, misunderstanding Pei Shiju deliberately concealed it, and deliberately caught them off guard. This charge of hitting the opponent in a hole can be regarded as a backdrop.

Pei Shiju can't become the target of the public, can't offend a large group of central ministers, after all, the westward mission is important, and the support and cooperation of the center is very much needed, and as far as the overall trend of China and foreign countries is concerned, the current Middle Earth is in a critical moment, and the national defense and diplomatic strategy are in urgent need of adjustment and revision. In order to win the understanding of the opponent and maintain the unity within the center. But in this way, Pei Shiju betrayed the "allies" of the same camp, and in desperation, Pei Shiju could only admit that he was dizzy, accidentally fell into the opponent's tricks, and fell into the trap dug by Feng Deyi, in order to seek the understanding of his allies.

Suddenly caught in this dilemma politically, Pei Shiju's bad mood can be imagined, fortunately, he and Feng Deyi are not ordinary political allies, and the cooperation between the two is not once or twice, so Pei Shiju still believes in Feng Deyi, and believes that Feng Deyi is not deliberately "digging a pit" to frame himself, but using this means to remind himself that he must correctly understand the current predicament, and in order to successfully complete the mission of the westward journey and adjust the diplomatic strategy in a timely manner, he must make necessary compromises to the opponent.

Pei Shiju's compromise is what the Holy Lord needs, and the Holy Lord needs Pei Shiju to support him in carrying out the Eastern Crusade, so at this moment, Pei Shiju's initiative to make concessions just happened to "curry" favor with the Holy Lord.

The main battle faction in the center also needs Pei Shiju's compromise, Pei Shiju is in charge of foreign affairs, is an important figure in the center's position of "main peace", and is a "big banner", "big banner" defects, and the voice of "main battle" can also sweep through the center like a withering and decaying force.

In addition, with the rapid defeat of Yang Xuangan, the end of the crisis in the Eastern Capital, the imminent beginning of political reckoning, and the storm of political struggle between the two capitals, the conservative forces in the center urgently need to ease the fierce contradictions between them and the reformers in order to safeguard the interests of Xijing to the greatest extent. As the "leader" of the central conservatives, Nayan Suwei naturally needs an opportunity to ease the contradictions, and it just so happens that Nayan Suwei also holds a "main peace" position in future decision-making, so Pei Shiju's compromise just gave Su Wei such an opportunity, I can give up the "main peace" and support you to continue the crusade, but the premise is that you must control the political liquidation within an appropriate range and not damage the political interests of Xijing.

Pei Shiju was nominally exhorting, but in fact he was expressing to the Holy Lord his optimism about the current domestic situation, and if the Eastern Crusade wanted to continue, it still needed the cooperation of the external situation, and how the external situation would go depends on the relationship between the Eastern and Western Turks and Middle Earth. Pei Shiju was confident of consolidating and deepening the alliance with the Western Turks and quickly reversing and stabilizing the situation in the West and the East. On the Turkic side, because of the serious shortage of military forces in northern Xinjiang, it is in fact difficult to improve relations between the north and the south by diplomatic means alone, and even if China and Turkey compromise and concessions, there will not be much results, and the top priority at the moment is to consolidate and strengthen the forces of northern Xinjiang to suppress and strengthen the military forces in northern Xinjiang, and only in this way can the tense north-south relations be eased and good external conditions can be created for the continuation of the eastward crusade.

The Holy Lord was in a good mood when he heard this. At the central core decision-making level, the biggest resistance to continuing the crusade came from Su Wei and Pei Shiju. Su Wei is easy to do, Yang Xuangan is defeated, the crisis in the Eastern Capital is over, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee can coerce Xijing to make a compromise with political liquidation, and Su Wei can only give up the "Lord Peace" in the end. Although Pei Shiju's westward journey takes time, and he may not be able to return to the Eastern Capital in the spring of next year, but as the most authoritative central minister in foreign affairs, his support is crucial, which not only means that he is optimistic about the future situation and can affect a large number of central ministers, but also he has the motivation to carry out the Eastern Crusade to the end, and this motivation is enough to ensure that Pei Shiju will not "passively slack off" in the westward journey or use the western soil crisis to coerce the central to give up the Eastern Crusade, on the contrary, He will actively carry out his mission to the west to ensure the success of the crusade.

In the middle of the night, the Holy Lord urgently summoned the central ministers to discuss the situation in the northern Xinjiang again, but in fact, everyone knew in their hearts, that is, to discuss the decision of the Eastern Crusade.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the Holy Lord convened the central ministers to discuss the situation in northern Xinjiang, and made a decision to make personnel adjustments at an appropriate time in order to consolidate and strengthen the garrison force. What is the appropriate time? The "main war" and the "main peace" faction are at loggerheads, and no one can convince anyone. The Holy Lord was very dissatisfied, and ordered Feng Deyi, a person from the Inner Shi She, to quickly go south to Gaoyang, and clearly expressed his will to the core of the center, although this will was very uncertain, but at least it showed that the Holy Lord was in an anxious mood, and desperately hoped that the crisis in the northern Xinjiang could be alleviated or even resolved in the shortest possible time.

Today, the situation is very different. After the end of the crisis of Yang Xuangan's defeat in the Eastern Capital, the domestic conditions for launching the Third Eastern Crusade are basically met, and the possibility of a large natural disaster in the country in the next few months is not large, mainly because of the political liquidation of rebellion and the military rebellion and the suppression of thieves, on the one hand, it will deal a heavy blow to the conservative forces, stabilize the ruling position of the holy lord and the reformers, and ensure the absolute control of the government, on the other hand, to quell the rebellion in the north and south of the river, to ensure that the fields are harvested, and to ensure the unimpeded flow of the Grand Canal. In this way, whether or not the Eastern Crusade can be continued depends on the external conditions, and in the external conditions, Pei Shiju has already undertaken the important task of stabilizing the western soil alone, so that the Northern Xinjiang is left to suppress the army, as long as the situation in the Northern Xinjiang is stable and the Changcheng Town is as solid as a rock, the Third Eastern Crusade is very likely to become a reality.

The positions and attitudes of the central core ministers have also changed, first of all, Pei Shiju's position has changed.

Considering that if the mission of the Western Journey to the Western Territories is completed, the Western Turks and Middle-earth will inevitably join forces to take the East. The Turks drove out of the Western Regions, and the three powerful forces immediately confronted the Dajin Mountain (Altai Mountains). In order to prevent the Western Turks from crossing the Great Golden Mountain, they had to go all out, and for this they must have a choice, they must compromise with Middle-earth, and they will inevitably reduce the forces invested in the Far East, which is obviously conducive to the Third Crusade of Middle-earth.

But at the same time, the northern part of the desert will strengthen the defense in the southern direction of the moraine, and accumulate heavy troops on the front line of the Yinshan Mountains to ensure that they fall into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, so that the pressure on the northern Xinjiang to suppress the garrison will be greater, and more seriously, the eastern and western Turks will have the same root and the same origin after all, and the Western Turks will definitely try their best to provoke the east in order to concentrate their forces on fighting the Persians. The war between the Turks and Middle-earth, so in the next few years it is no longer whether there will be a war between the North and the South, but when the war will break out.

From the current general trend of China and foreign countries, in order to ensure that Middle-earth wins the victory of the Great War between the North and the South, first of all, it is necessary to find ways to delay the outbreak of the Great War of the North and the South, and to win more time for the recovery of the national strength of Middle-earth, and in order to achieve this goal, the first task is to strengthen the forces of the Northern Frontier. In turn, they will win more advantages in the confrontation between the north and the south.

Pei Shiju's "loosening" stance directly affected Su Wei, and Su Wei was forced to accept the fact that Pei Shiju "gave" the opportunity to change his attitude in due course.

As soon as these two major "resistances" were gone, the atmosphere at the core decision-making level of the center suddenly changed.

Yu Shiji, the servant of the inner history, and Pei Yun, the imperial historian, fell into a personal crisis because of the problem of their son, and they also made their attitude clear at this moment, although they supported the Holy Lord before, they were cautious in continuing the Eastern Crusade, after all, the conditions were not met, they could not be impulsive politically, and blindly supporting the Holy Lord could only harm the Holy Lord in the end, but at this moment they had no hesitation, and resolutely supported the Eastern Crusade, and their attitude was very clear.

The central core decision-making level gradually converged on whether to continue the Eastern Crusade, and in this case, what urgently needed to be resolved was the crisis of the Northern Xinjiang Suppression.

Zhao Cai, the general of the Right Guard, who temporarily acted for the affairs of the military department, put forward two countermeasures in response to the crisis of suppressing the garrison in northern Xinjiang, one was to increase the number of troops to suppress the garrison, and the other was to suppress the thieves, among whom the thieves who needed to be killed urgently were the white-haired thieves.

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