Chapter 173: Wei Yuanjun's Dilemma

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The post station system is the most up to in the Central Plains, 30 miles of a post, fast horses, the transmission degree of official documents can reach up to 600 miles a day, and the remote areas of the border, because there are fewer post stations, the transmission degree of official documents is slower, but in an emergency, it can still reach 300 miles a day.

Jiyin is more than 800 miles away from the eastern capital, and the normal transmission degree of urgent official documents is 600 miles a day, that is to say, the official documents sent out at noon today will arrive in the eastern capital at midnight tomorrow. Wei Baoluan sandwiched the secret letters to Yang Lan, the king of Qi, Li Hun, the general of the Right Xiaowei, Wei Ji, the Taichang Shaoqing, Wei Jin, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and his cousin Wei Fusi, and sent them to the Eastern Capital in a hurry.

The three-way army of the Southwest Lu Righteous Army Alliance advanced strides along both sides of the Heshui River, and the front of the troops is directed at the three cities of Chengshi, Dingtao and Jiyin. These three cities are lined up on both sides of the Heshui River in a north-south direction, and are the center of Jiyin County, with dense population, prosperous economy, and a large number of nobles and wealthy people. At this moment, the rebel army is killing all the way, and the momentum is like a bamboo, and the shape is extremely nervous. Because of the Eastern Expedition, the main forces of the two Yingyang Mansions in the county were transferred away, and the garrison force left behind was extremely thin.

Jiyin County is in an unprecedented predicament. The aftermath of last year's flood has not subsided, this year's drought has spread everywhere, the house leak happened to rain overnight, ** fell from the sky again, the righteous army in southwest Lu suddenly turned west to attack Jiyin County after the disaster Lu County, the unscrupulous burning and looting will further worsen the situation in Jiyin, starvation all over the wilderness, the tragic situation of life has been clearly visible.

The aristocratic bureaucratic tycoons of Jiyin County began a great exodus. If you don't escape, the current situation of Jiyin County is too bad, there are too many people who have no food to eat and are homeless, once these people join the ranks of the rebels, the Righteous Army in Southwest Lu will expand rapidly in a snowballing way, and this crazy expansion will bring uncontrolled burning and looting, and the brunt of it is the rich aristocratic bureaucrats and tycoons, they will be tortured by hunger and poverty to the point that they have completely lost their minds and the soldiers of the rebel army are killed in two, so they can only escape, especially in the case that the Jiyin military and government are unable to protect them, How far to escape, how far to escape.

Wei Baoluan was anxiously waiting, and the alarm signals came one after another, and the deterioration of the shape was much greater than he expected, and he had to urgently call the surrounding county government for help.

If Jiyin County is lost, the thieves will be greatly prestigious, and then they will inevitably attack the Central Plains and plunder the two golden waterways of Dahe and Tongji Canal, and the Dongjun, Xingyang and Liang counties around Jiyin County will inevitably be affected. At this moment, Dongjun, Xingyang and Liangjun rescued Jiyin and resolutely intercepted the Southwest Lu Rebels, which was actually equivalent to saving themselves, however, the truth is such a truth, but the reality is not necessarily so, under the principle of interests first, the subversion of common sense is commonplace.

The current county guard of Dongjun is called Dugu Cheng, from the wealthy Dugu clan surnamed Guan Longyu. The Dugu clan is a large tribe of Xianbei, and the surname is a big noble. Dugu Cheng's grandfather is Dugu Xin, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, his father is Dugu Xin's second son Dugu Shan, and his aunt Dugu Jialuo is the mother of Jinshang, Queen Wenwen, so Dugu Cheng and Jinshang are cousins.

There are two major political factions in the Guanlongyu aristocratic group, one is the Xianbei aristocratic group with the Yuan clan as the core force at the beginning of the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the other is the emerging Xianbei aristocratic group with the Yuwen clan and the Dugu clan rising with military merits, because most of them came from Wuchuan Town in Daibei and participated in the Six Towns Uprising that year, so they are also called Wuchuan Group. After the fall of the Dugu clan in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Yuwen clan became the "banner" of the Guanlong Wuchuan group, and the literature queen Dugu Jialuo became the leader of this political group. When Dugu Jialuo was alive, he insisted that "relatives are not allowed to be in politics", and since then the children of the Dugu clan have stayed away from the central core, but this does not change the strong influence of the Dugu clan and the Wuchuan group with it as the "banner" on the political situation in Middle-earth.

The current county warden of Xingyang County is Yang Qing, the king of Xun. Yang Qing's father, Yang Hong, was the cousin of the first emperor and the cousin of the present day, who was both civil and military, and made outstanding contributions to the unification of China and Turkey, border security, and domestic stability. After ascending the throne today, he trusted Yang Hong, the king of Xun, Yang Xiong, and Yang Da, who had always supported him, and unceremoniously used thunderous means to Yang Lun, the king of Teng, and Yang Ji, the king of Wei, who secretly helped the Han king Yang Liang, removed his name from the people, exiled him to the border, and expelled him from the capital forever. After the death of Yang Hong, the king of Xun, his son Yang Qing succeeded him and became the king of Xun. Yang Qing is cautious, alert, shrewd and strong, and is deeply liked by today.

The current county warden of Liang County is Li Dan. Li Dan was the grandson of Li Bi, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, who came from the Li clan in Liaodong. The Li family of Liaodong originated from the Li family of Zhao County, one of the five wealthy families in Shandong, and its ancestor was Li Mu, a famous general of Zhao State. After more than 1,000 years of exhibition, the Li family of Zhaojun has formed six major housing systems, of which Liaodong is one of them. Li Bi is a powerful family. Li Bi's second son, Li Hui, married the eldest princess of Yi'an, the daughter of Yuwentai, the founder of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Li Bi's grandson Li Changya, that is, Li Dan's elder brother, married the daughter of the first emperor of this dynasty and the younger sister of Princess Xiangguo. Both royal families married Li Bi, which shows the prominent position of the Li family in the Guanlong aristocratic group.

The Taishou of these three counties, one is the prince of the imperial family of this dynasty, the other is the core member of the Wuchuan group, and the other is the son of a wealthy family in Shandong, and Wei Baoluan, a local Han nobleman in Guanzhong, is not an ally in politics, since he is not an ally, of course he is not a person on the same road. At this critical moment, everyone is facing danger, and it is difficult for the mud bodhisattva to cross the river himself, where will he help Wei Baoluan?

When he was in a hurry, Wei Baoluan received a secret letter from his cousin Wei Fusi from the Eastern Capital.

There is only one word in Wei Fusi's secret letter: goodness. This means that Yang Lan, the king of Qi, Wei's uncle and nephew in the capital, and Li Hun, the general of the right Xiaowei, all agreed with Wei Baoluan's construction to create a seemingly powerful enemy in the shortest possible time, and let it threaten the security of Gyeonggi and even the eastern capital, and threaten the ongoing Eastern Crusade, and then Yang Lan, the king of Qi, came forward to kill the enemy at the Gyeonggi Pass, resolve the crisis, turn the tide and fall, build a great feat, rebuild authority, and once again "impact" the position of the crown prince of the Eastern Palace.

Wei Baoluan had already drawn up a careful plan, and after receiving a response from the Eastern Capital, he immediately arranged for his cronies to implement them one by one.

The gentleman should take care of his roots, although the King of Qi Yang Lan was pushed to the position of the prince, which can bring immeasurable benefits to the Wei family, but opportunities and risks coexist, and now in the huge whirlpool of the imperial battle, Wei has broken a high Wei Fusi in the center, and the Li family of Longxi Chengji has also broken off the loyal ally Zuo Xiaowei General Dong Chun, the loss is already very large.

If you want to ensure your future, Wei Baoluan must stick to Jiyin County, and you must do your best to hold the line of Chengshi, Dingtao and Jiyin, no matter how rampant the thief army in southwest Lu is, and no matter how the thief army uses the manpower, material and financial resources on both sides of the river to grow rapidly, he can't take a step back, let alone abandon the city and flee, but Wei Baoluan was at the end of last year, that is, before the emperor went north to the east, he made a heavy personnel adjustment to the central government, the twelve Wei mansions down to the localities, and the governor's mansions, and only came to Jiyin County to take office, and his tenure was very short. He had not yet gained a foothold in Jiyin, and it was difficult to win the support of local haowang, so if he wanted to hold on, the only way was to get support from the eastern capital and its surrounding counties.

However, this is a luxury for Wei Baoluan. Before and after the Eastern Crusade, the political situation in the Eastern Capital was extremely complicated, the major political groups were worried about the acceleration of the reform process after the victory of the Eastern Crusade, and the reformers and conservatives fought even more vigorously for their own interests.

At present, King Yang Lan of Qi is at the center of the whirlpool of the battle for imperial domination, and Wei and King Yang Lan of Qi are in the same boat, and they are also caught in the whirlpool and cannot extricate themselves, and other political factions, whether they hold a conservative position or a neutral position, do not dare to approach the whirlpool to avoid being wiped out. For the three of Xun Wang Yang Qing, Dugu Cheng and Li Dan, considering the severity of the current crisis, they may have the heart to rescue, but when they think of this matter and Wei's relationship, once they are framed by someone with a heart, they insist that the three of them rescued Wei Baoluan, intending to support Yang Lan, the king of Qi, to enter the East Palace, then even if they jump into the Yellow River, they can't wash it away, and they are dragged into the whirlpool of the battle for the imperial system, so from the perspective of politics, the only way to do it is perfunctory Wei Baoluan, and it is okay to talk about it, and it must not be put into practice, so as not to catch the handle.

Wei Baoluan can only save himself, and he only has one way left, which is to get a "tacit understanding" with the thief. You can loot unscrupulously on both sides of the river, but don't attack Fujiyin and some important towns, once Fujiyin and Dingtao, Chengshi and other important towns are lost, and Jiyin County as a whole falls, then it will inevitably shock the eastern capital, the eastern capital for its own safety, in order to ensure the eastward crusade, will inevitably send out the garrison to suppress the thieves, the result can be imagined, so you and I fight to die and break the jade and burn, there is no benefit to you, but there is a disaster of destruction, it is better to take a step back, each take what they need.

Wei Baoluan was confident in convincing the thief, and he had to convince the thief, only in this way could he realize his plan and create a seemingly powerful enemy in the shortest possible time, giving Yang Lan, the king of Qi, a perfect opportunity to turn over.

Wei Baoluan has been coming to Jiyin County for half a year, and he has a detailed understanding of Jiyin through various channels, and knows that in Dongjun and Jiyin, the strongest underworld force is the former Dongjun Fa Cao Shu Zuo Zhai Rang, and the Jiyin Haowang who is most closely related to Zhai Rang are Jiyin Fang, Jiyang Wang and Caocheng Shan.

Fang Xianbo, the Fang Xian of the Jiyin Fang clan, has been in Wei Baoluan's "line of sight", and now, Wei Baoluan plans to invite him to the mansion to talk.