The situation in Shanggu County is very bad, and there is only one core problem, the thieves are too strong, and the killing is too powerless, which leads to a series of serious consequences, and the county government is in a predicament in all aspects of the military, government, and finance, and the officials are anxious, exhausted, very passive, and helpless, so that the situation deteriorates rapidly, and there is a tendency to get out of control. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info read books at zero o'clock

Of course, the local government has to bear subjective responsibility for this bad situation, but objectively the local government is indeed in difficulty, the rebellion in the eastern capital has just been settled, and it is too busy to take care of itself, and it is impossible to count on it, and the local government here is too powerful, and the local government is constrained, and it is difficult to do anything, and the main energy of the Zhuojun Left-behind Mansion is focused on the border of Youyan and Liaoxi and Liaodong, plus it is necessary to ensure the safety of the Holy Lord and the palace, and it is also powerless to take care of Shanggu, and it is difficult to take care of it, and the strength of the local government alone cannot solve the rebels who gather in the mountains and forests.

The rebels of the white-haired thieves captured a mountainous area with a radius of hundreds of miles centered on the three cities of Lingqiu, Ulcheng and Flying Fox, and this mountainous area happened to be located at the intersection of Taihang, Hengshan and Sangganshui, and the terrain was very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, Lingqiu belongs to Yanmen County of Daiheng, Weicheng belongs to Zhuo County of Youyan, and Feihu belongs to Shanggu County of Hebei.

The white-haired thief occupies the mountain as the king, and there is no threat to Daibei, and of course the Daibei Zhenjun army has no motivation to suppress the thieves, it is purely perfunctory and goes through the motions, neither work nor effort, deal with it, and just have an explanation to the above. Yanmen City, the capital of Yanmen County, is more than 400 miles away from Lingqiu, along the way there are lofty mountains and mountains, deserted, all of them are poor mountains and bad water places where birds don't, it is too difficult to enter the mountains to suppress thieves, it is better to wait for the rabbits, just wait for the traitors to go down the mountain to plunder, dig a pit and bury them, so the thieves of Yanmen County are just thunder and no rain, and the momentum is big, but the actual action is not.

Yanbei has internal and external troubles, the situation is very tense, and the Yin Shishi has an unstable foothold, there are too many things that need to be prioritized, and he can't take care of the thieves at all, in addition, he has an agreement with Li Zixiong, and the two sides have a tacit understanding, before the results of the rebels' battle come out, he will not suppress the thieves, not because he is afraid of offending Li Zixiong, but because he is worried about angering the King of Qi and bringing more trouble to himself.

In this way, Shanggu County is in big trouble, it has the worst conditions for suppressing thieves, the eagle Yangwei in its territory has gone to Liaodong, the township regiment in the territory has also gone to Liaodong, and the war materials such as grain and grass in the territory have also been sent to Liaodong, there is no money to ask for money, no one wants people, of course, it is not poor and white, there are local forces in its territory, and "squeezing and exploiting" can still barely deal with the current crisis, but these local forces do not listen to the government, they all listen to the wealthy, and now the wealthy families in Youyan and Hebei have reached a secret agreement with the white-haired thieves, Under the pretext of the severance of Yanbei's north-south return, everyone rushed to Anle County, Youzhou, and all the limited manpower and materials left Shanggu in a short period of time.

However, Ueya County can't help but suppress thieves. Shanggu is adjacent to Zhuo County, and Shanggu's every move is under the noses of the Holy Lord and the Imperial Palace. Even if the crime is minor, it is inaction. In addition, Shanggu County is a low-class county, the area is small, now the rebels occupy the Flying Fox, take Puyin, the Taihang Mountains in the territory are under the control of the rebels, the towns on the edge of the mountains are under the direct threat of the rebels, the lives and property of the civilian people are not safe, so they have fled their homes, forming a refugee flow, and the refugee flow will cause a series of new problems and new crises, so the situation is getting worse and worse. This is a big culpability for the government, and it can't keep one party safe, so what do you want the government to do?

In a fit of rage, the Holy Lord dismissed the Upper Valley Taishou Yuhe and several key officials of the county government on the spot.

Yu He is from the Jiangzuo Yu clan, a close confidant of the Holy Lord, and a reformer. The Holy Lord's killing of his cronies certainly has the meaning of killing a hundred and killing chickens and monkeys, but at the same time, it also shows the seriousness of the Shanggu crisis, and the core problem that led to the Shanggu crisis is the ineffective suppression of thieves, if this problem is not solved, if the rebels stationed in the Flying Fox are not completely killed, not to mention that the Shanggu crisis cannot be resolved, and soon this crisis will spread to Boling, Yanmen, Youyan, Daibei and even the entire northern Xinjiang region, then the problem will be serious, directly threatening the security of the Changcheng Town and affecting the safety of Guozuo.

The Holy Lord was anxious and worried.

Late that night, Zhuojun stayed behind in Duan Da to play urgently, and Gubeikou made three urgent reports on the night of September 24, which finally confirmed that Li Zixiong, Han Shige, and Yang Gongdao captured Yanshan Panlong Fort of the Xi people on September 23. After the two sides established contact, according to Li Zixiong's messenger, Zhou Zhong and Lai Yuan captured Baitan City, an important town in the southwest of the Xi nationality, on September 22, and the white-haired thief led the main army to capture Guifang City, an important town in the north of the Xi people, on September 18, and also captured the Songshan Pass, cutting off the retreat of the main army of the Xi people who were on an expedition to the Khitan. If what Li Zixiong's messenger said is true and credible, then Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief have achieved a great advantage on the battlefield of Anzhou, and then they only need to capture Fangcheng where Xi Wangfu is located before the main army of the Xi people retreats to Xi Wangfu, then the overall situation has been decided, the victory is in hand, and Anzhou can basically be recovered.

Duan Da then analyzed and extrapolated the future situation in Anzhou. In order to ensure their control over the Donghu races and their interests in the Northeast, the Turks will definitely send troops to support the Xi people and help the Xi people recapture Anzhou, so for a period of time in the future, Anzhou will have frequent wars, Li Zixiong and the white-haired thieves have a stable foothold, and it is difficult to deal with it, although the Great Wall will give support, but after all, the battle outside the Saiwai, just when winter is coming again, the snow is falling, there is neither the right time and the place, nor the "people" to help, the difficulties are many, and the negative is greater, so Duan Da suggested whether to consider giving appropriate support in the direction of Yanbei, As long as they effectively contain the Turks in the southeast Yaqi, they will definitely be able to relieve the heavy pressure on Li Zixiong and the white-haired thieves, and ensure that they can gain a foothold in Anzhou and win a chance to breathe, so that in the future, they can sweep through the Donghu tribes and deal a heavy blow to the powerful other parts of the Turks, so as to achieve the goal of containing and weakening the Turks.

As for the support, Duan Da also put forward a suggestion, if Li Zixiong and the white-haired thieves want to get strong support from the Great Wall, they must take practical actions to win the most basic trust of the imperial court, and the actual action is to withdraw all the rebels who remained in the Flying Fox to Anzhou in the shortest possible time, and exchange the stability of Youyan and the security of the northern frontier for the full support of the Great Wall.

Duan Da believed that Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief had no reason to refuse this suggestion, unless they had ill intentions and other plans, of course, if they had other plans, then they were serious troubles and had no value, and the imperial court could not give them any support. This is a matter of principle that brooks no compromise and cannot be compromised. Considering that the Great War between the North and the South is getting closer and closer, when necessary, it is necessary to make a decision and simply directly enter Anzhou, confront the Turks head-on, and leave Zhuojun to stay behind to complete the task of containing and weakening the Turks.

After reading this recital, the p> Holy Lord did not show any joy, his face was gloomy, and his mood was extremely bad.

Yu Shiji, the waiter of the Inner History who came to present the chapter, saw the Holy Lord's gloomy face and his eyes helpless and disappointed, and immediately realized that Duan Da had done something wrong.

Duan Da's countermeasure is indeed feasible, after all, with Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief rushing ahead, the resistance of Middle-earth to take Anzhou has been infinitely reduced, and Duan Da has benefited from the fisherman, and the credit is at his fingertips. However, the bad is here, Duan Daming wants to grab the credit, his selfishness is still heavy, his mind is not big enough, his courage is not enough, and his intelligence is also lacking, I don't know if it is because he was deceived by Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief, and he was annoyed and angry, or because he was the absolute confidant of the Holy Lord, the chief hero who overthrew the former prince Yang Yong, not only could not enter the core decision-making level for a long time, but even the highest decision-making level of the center could not enter, he was lost and anxious, he couldn't control it, he wanted to grab it when he saw the credit, and he was already hungry.

However, as far as this matter is concerned, it just proves that the Holy Lord is wise, Duan Da is indeed not qualified to enter the highest decision-making level of the center, his wisdom, mind and virtue are not enough, he is not of great use, he is barely able to be a feudal official, let alone enter the center, in fact, his ability is only worthy of being a commander of the Praetorian Guard.

Even if the Holy Lord succeeds in the Third Crusade and wins the victory, it will still be a symptom but not a cure, and it will not be able to solve the situation of confrontation between the two capitals in the domestic politics, the fierce contradiction between reform and conservatism, nor the situation of the two Turkic tribes in the east and west of the country, nor can it delay the outbreak of the Great War between the North and the South; on the contrary, the more serious the domestic political crisis, the faster the Great War will break out.

The core issue of the domestic political crisis is the dispute between reform and conservatism, that is, the redistribution of power and wealth, and now that the reform has reached a certain point, the redistribution of power and wealth has seriously affected and even damaged the vested interests of the aristocratic ruling group, mainly the huge vested interest groups represented by the wealthy families that hold the most power and wealth, so this contradiction is irreconcilable and unsolvable, and it has reached the moment of fierce confrontation and explosion. Why did the Western Expedition, which used less manpower, material and financial resources, succeeded, while the Eastern Expedition, which exerted all the national strength, failed? The reason is that at the time of the Western Expedition, the contradiction between reform and conservatism had not yet intensified, and the two sides could still cooperate, but by the time of the Eastern Crusade, the contradiction between reform and conservatism had completely intensified, and the two sides turned against each other and fought fiercely.

Since the domestic political crisis cannot be resolved at home, what should we do? Of course, it is to launch foreign wars, transfer contradictions, and then build up martial arts with the victory of foreign wars, strengthen imperial power and strengthen the authority of the central government with martial arts, and then defeat political opponents with absolute strength, continue to promote reform with strength, solve the core contradiction between reform and conservatism once and for all, and resolve the domestic political crisis.

Therefore, the Holy Lord needs the victory of the Civil War and the martial arts of expanding the territory, but as far as the current domestic and foreign situation is concerned, Middle-earth does not have the absolute certainty of winning the Civil War, and the Holy Lord needs more time to prepare for the war, including political, economic, and military preparations.

From this purpose, the Holy Lord needs to win the final victory of the Eastern Crusade to save the central authority, he needs to establish an alliance with the Western Turks, and he needs to maintain stable relations with the desert Turks with all his anger, but Middle-earth is the common enemy of the Eastern and Western Turks, and the Eastern and Western Turks are brothers with the same roots, and at the critical moment, it is normal for the Eastern and Western Turks to join forces to attack Middle-earth, and Middle-earth must be prepared, and must find ways to separate the Eastern and Western Turks, and must do everything possible to use all means to contain and weaken the East, the Western Two Turks.

At this moment, Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief's plan to recover Anzhou can be described as a stroke of genius, which just helped the Holy Lord solve the problem of containing and weakening the desert Turks, and at the same time created the best conditions for the Holy Lord to launch the Third Eastern Crusade and achieve the final victory of the Eastern Crusade, so after the Holy Lord received the urgent performance of the King of Qi, his attitude was very clear, everything was in the interests of Middle Earth, no matter what the identity of Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief was, and no matter what their real purpose was, not to mention worrying about the possible future hidden dangers caused by this, as long as they recovered Anzhou, Confusing the Northeast, pinning down the Turks, and creating more advantages for Middle-earth to win the Civil War, then support, unconditionally, and with all their might.

The core decision-making level of the center is also this attitude, the opportunity is rare, and the fighter plane is fleeting, as long as what Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief do is conducive to Middle-earth, then resolutely support it, don't hesitate to look forward and backward, if you miss this village, you won't have this store, and the opportunity you should seize must not be missed.

As a result, Duan Da came up with a "demon moth" at a critical juncture, and he had to support Li Zixiong and the white-haired thieves conditionally, asking them to withdraw all the rebels stationed in Flying Fox into Anzhou, nominally to stabilize the situation in Youyan, but in fact they dug a big pit to grab credit.

Duan Da judged that Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief would definitely agree to his conditions, but in fact, from the standpoint of Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief, the two sides have no trust, and in order to survive, they must grasp the initiative on the battlefield and do everything possible to influence and even control the development of the situation inside and outside the Great Wall, so the rebels they left in the Flying Fox have become an excellent "chess piece", and this "chess piece" has been used well, forming a certain degree of threat and restraint to the Chinese and Turkish officials, and even if the two sides do not have trust, they can cooperate on the basis of common interests. On the contrary, Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief have no means to threaten and restrain the Middle-earth officials at all, allowing the Middle-earth officials to pinch their necks with assistance and let the Middle-earth officials slaughter them, the relationship between the two sides is that of master and slave, what is there to cooperate?

It was impossible for Duan Da not to see this, so he deliberately dug a pit and waited for Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief to jump down.

The Holy Lord's anger is like this, Duan Da can't see the overall situation from a high vantage point, even if he can't fully comprehend his intentions, he disobeys his orders, and even puts his personal interests above the interests of Middle-earth, this is not because he is ambitious and talented, but because there is a problem with morality.

Yu Shiji sighed secretly. Duan Da, you are smart but you are mistaken by cleverness, you shoot yourself in the foot, this is a great opportunity for your promotion, but you buried it with your own hands.

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