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In November, heavy snow fell and the river froze.

Li Fengyun led the army back to southwest Lu, and the main force of the alliance continued to assemble on the front line of Jishui, and the alliance commanders saw Li Fengyun's victory in Xuzhou and returned, and returned with a full load, and their strength further skyrocketed, and their complicated feelings can be imagined.

There is no regret medicine in the world, and in the face of Li Fengyun, who is becoming more and more powerful, they have gradually lost their ability to resist, and the idea of breaking away from the alliance and developing on their own has gradually faded. With their backs to the big trees to enjoy the shade, under the protection of Li Fengyun, a strong man, their lives will get better and better, their expectations for the future will be bigger and bigger, and their dependence on the alliance will of course become deeper and deeper, so the cohesion within the alliance will become stronger and stronger, which is very conducive to Li Fengyun's further control of the alliance and the further expansion of the alliance.

However, for the future of the alliance, Li Fengyun's sense of crisis is getting stronger and stronger.

The development of the alliance has entered a "bottleneck" period, the number of troops and the supply of money and food have been strictly imbalanced, and the plunder is limited after all, it can only save the emergency, but cannot solve the fundamental problem, just like locusts, after eating everything, the end will come, so if the alliance wants to maintain the existing number of troops and maintain the existing combat effectiveness, it must occupy a territory sufficient to feed itself in order to maintain sustainable development, otherwise it must be a "flash in the pan". However, the current prominent contradiction is that with the current strength of the alliance, compared with the current official strength of Qilu and the surrounding areas, the disparity is too great, relying on the power of the alliance alone, not to mention occupying the entire Qilu, and even occupying the southwest of Shandong is difficult.

Li Fengyun put the hope of alleviating the crisis of the alliance on the strategy of defeating Zhang Xutuo of Qi County with the Hebei Righteous Army and the Northeast Lu Righteous Army to reverse the situation in Qilu this winter. And in the spring and summer of next year, the attention of the Holy Lord and the center is on the battlefield in Liaodong, and the eastern capital is in danger of mutiny, and the official has no time or more energy to encircle and suppress the Qilu rebel army, so that the alliance can seize the rare opportunity to raise its own strength to a new height and lay a solid foundation for dealing with future crises.

Therefore, Li Fengyun was full of expectations for the battle of Qi County, and just when he was anxiously waiting for the news from the north of the Great River, Li Anqi came, accompanied by a young man from the Li clan of Zhao County, named Li Sixing.

As the contact between Li Baiyao and Li Fengyun, and as the secret envoy between Duan Wencao and the alliance, Li Anqi has been staying in the Lujun Mansion Bianqiu. Now that Duan Wencao has left office, the Lu County Government is controlled by the local nobles and bureaucrats of Lu County with Kong Zhongqing as the leader, and they need a tacit understanding with the alliance even more. Since the beginning of winter, Li Fengyun went to Xuzhou in the south, not only defeated Liang Dezhong and Xuzhou Zhuyingyang, but also successfully broke through from the siege and interception of Yang Lan, the king of Qi, and returned to the southwest of Lu, which shows that its strength is not what it used to be, and has crossed the Lu County Government and Yingyang Mansion, just at this moment the new Taishou Li Min is still on the way to take office, Lu County is in a power vacuum. For the sake of their own interests, the local forces in Lujun took the initiative to strengthen the "communication" with the alliance, and Li Anqi, a special being, naturally shuttled back and forth between the two sides and ran more diligently.

Li Anqi briefly introduced Li Sixing to Li Fengyun. Li Sixing came from the ancestral house of the Li family in Zhao County, with outstanding intelligence, both civil and military, when he was a teenager, he entered Beijing as a guard of the three guards, and then followed the elders of the clan to the northern frontier, and at the age of 20, he was promoted to the infantry captain of Yingyang Mansion in Hengshan, Hebei. The Taihang bandits were in trouble, and Li Sixing was ordered to suppress the thieves, but he was framed as a thief by his colleagues. Li Sixing was furious, killed the framer, and died from then on. Li Sixing is from a wealthy family, even if he is "outlawed", he is also under the care of the family "outlaw", because he has a chivalrous style, he is a man who promises to fight righteously, and he is quite chivalrous in Taihang black and white, and the family then waved his specialty, let him walk in the east and west of Taihang, and make friends with the thieves in the north and south of Taihang, so as to be used by the family at a critical moment.

This time, Li Sixing went south to Lu County and met Li Anqi to meet Li Fengyun, which was arranged by the elders of the clan, as for what the purpose was, they knew each other well and did not need to be repeated.

Li Sixing brought Li Baiyao's message, and in front of Li Fengyun and Li Anqi, he silently wrote Li Baiyao's message. Li Baiyao's message was written in code, and only Li Anqi could understand it. After reading his father's secret letter, Li Anqi told Li Fengyun the details of the content.

Li Baiyao went to Boling and met Cui Hongsheng's younger brother Cui Hongjun first. The next day, Cui Yu, the twelfth lady of the Cui family, showed up and took the initiative to visit Li Baiyao. This is the first time Li Fengyun has heard the name of the amazingly powerful twelve ladies of the Cui family, and the reason why Cui Yu took the initiative to visit Li Baiyao must be related to the conversation between Li Baiyao and Cui Hongjun on the first day.

Cui Hongjun is a freeman in Menxia Province. The free cavalry attendant is the emperor's close attendant, responsible for advising the emperor's mistakes, predicting important policies, and preparing advisers. This position is generally held by senior dignitaries, although it is purely an advisor, but because it is a close minister of the emperor, it is close to the position of the central minister, and it has the advantage of being close to the water and the first to get the moon, so the power is still very heavy, if it is deeply trusted by the emperor and can have a certain impact on the central decision-making, it will be even more hot. However, Cui Hongjun is not trusted by the emperor, and his governing philosophy is conservative, so he, a free horseman, is a real "adviser", who has been "set aside", and seems to be in a very high position, but in fact he has a dozen soy sauces.

In this Eastern Crusade, Cui Hongjun followed the Holy Lord to the battlefield in Liaodong, with his position, it was just a matter of watching the excitement, and he could not charge forward like his brother Cui Hongsheng, but the life and death of his brother was related to the interests of the entire Cui family and affected the future of the Cui family, so on the way back, Cui Hongjun stayed in Boling under the pretext of illness and discussed with the elders of the family how to save Cui Hongsheng.

The emergence of Li Baiyao means that the Li clan of Zhao County, a traditional political ally, has seen the crisis of the Shandong people from the crisis of the Cui clan, coupled with the motivation of the urgent need to curb their own "decline", they are willing to help the Cui clan at a critical moment, but at present, the Li clan of Zhao Jun is in decline as a whole and is in a very bad situation, so how to help the Cui clan get through the crisis?

Although Cui Hongjun is the core figure of the Cui family, he is the attendant of the Holy Lord, and he has limited mobility, so he rarely has time to sit with the core of the Cui family to discuss big plans, so he does not fully understand the core secrets of the Cui family, such as the special existence of the family, the twelve ladies who are high up, actually have a secret relationship with a notorious traitor, and even establish a limited cooperation with the other party on behalf of the Cui family. Cui Hongjun didn't know this secret, and of course it was difficult to deduce that there might be some unknown connection between Zhao Jun's Li family, Li Baiyao, and the white thief Li Fengyun. Fortunately, the twelfth lady Cui Yu happened to be in Boling, and she was also actively seeking the power of Shandong to save Cui Hongsheng, and when she learned that Li Baiyao had arrived in Boling, she immediately realized that there must be a secret behind it that she didn't know, and this secret might help her save her father.

The two sides met, and after Li Baiyao revealed his current official position in the casual chat, he returned to Lu County at the urging of Duan Wencao, and Duan Wencao's analysis and inference of the current complex shape of Lu County, Cui Yu immediately made many assumptions and deductions, and finally determined that Li Baiyao's trip to Lu County must be directly related to Li Fengyun. Li Fengyun inevitably exposed some of his own secrets in the Tongji Canal crisis because he had to deal with many forces such as Yang Lan, the king of Qi, the Wei clan of Guanzhong, the Zheng clan of Xingyang, and the nobles of Yingru, and if these secrets were related to Li Baiyao and the Li clan of Zhaojun, then Li Fengyun's true identity was about to be revealed.

At present, the Li family of Zhaojun will keep this secret, and Li Baiyao will not risk the survival of the family, so if you want to confirm this speculation, Cui Yu can only show her sincerity, that is, the secret between her and Li Fengyun, in exchange for Li Baiyao's trust, but Cui Yu guessed correctly, Li Baiyao not only gave her trust, but also gave her the answer she wanted to know, and the answer was actually a message that Li Fengyun asked Li Baiyao to pass on on his behalf, the alliance wanted to go south to Xuzhou, which would damage the interests of Cui Deben and Cui's in Xuzhou. Therefore, please respond in a timely manner.

Li Fengyun's ability to tell the top secret within the alliance and the secret of his cooperation with the Cui clan is enough to prove that there is an extraordinary relationship between him and Li Baiyao and the Li clan of Zhaojun, and the existence of this relationship is equivalent to closely linking the overall interests of the Shandong aristocratic group with the Li clan of Zhaojun and the Cui clan of Boling with the overall interests of Li Fengyun's righteous alliance, which greatly promoted the cooperation between the two sides, and the benefits brought by this are: The Shandong aristocratic group has a bigger bargaining chip and a sharper knife in the future political struggle, and Li Fengyun, who is a bargaining chip and a knife, also has a more powerful boost.

The conversation was more frank than ever. Because of the existence of Li Fengyun and the alliance of the rebels, the Li clan of Zhaojun and the Cui clan of Boling once again formed an alliance, and this alliance was of great benefit to both sides. At present, the Li clan of Zhaojun is declining severely, and its voice in the Shandong aristocratic group is weakening day by day, and it is even more difficult to see it in the political arena of the Eastern Capital, but they have the sharp knife of Li Fengyun in their hands. Boling Cui's family has been hit hard over the years, although Yu Wei is still there, but Wang Xiaoer's New Year's Eve is not as good as a year, especially this time Cui Hongsheng is in prison, once he dies, or his career is terminated, it is unbearable for Cui's family, so they urgently need Li Fengyun's knife. Both sides take what they need and hit it off.

Cui Yu confessed his strategy to save Cui Hongsheng, and with the help of the power of various heroes in Hebei, he defeated Duan Da, the general of Zuo Yiwei, so that the thieves in Hebei were rampant, and Yan zhòng endangered the Second Eastern Crusade. In order to ensure the progress of the Second Eastern Crusade, the Holy Lord and the Eastern Capital must stabilize the Hebei River in the shortest possible time, and the countermeasures are nothing more than two, one is to increase the number of troops to fight the rebellion, and the other is to compromise with the Shandong people in politics and use the strength of the Shandong people to alleviate the crisis in Hebei.

Undoubtedly, the second countermeasure is the most economical, affordable and effective, and the Holy Lord and Dongdu will choose this countermeasure, and once the Holy Lord and Dongdu decide to use the power of the Shandong people, then the first thing that comes to mind must be the Cui family, Cui Hongsheng who is locked up in prison, so Cui Yu's strategy to save Cui Hongsheng will be successful.

However, in order to seize the territory and grow stronger, Li Fengyun was planning to unite the Hebei Righteous Army and the Northeast Lu Righteous Army, and attack Zhang Xutuo in Qi County on three routes, which happened to be in conflict with Cui Yu's strategy to save Cui Hongsheng.

Cui Yu immediately asked Li Baiyao, and the two sides joined forces to put pressure on Li Fengyun, forcing him to temporarily give up attacking Zhang Xutuo of Qi County, and instead cross the river to the north and cooperate with the Hebei rebels to attack Duan Da, so as to aggravate the crisis in Hebei.

Li Sixing went south to visit Li Fengyun, and his purpose was exactly this, and Li Fengyun was in a dilemma.

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