Chapter 431: Yang Gongren's Goal
The power structure of the Eastern Capital has changed again, although Yang Tong, the king of Yue, nominally monopolizes the military and political power, but in fact it is the clan that controls the Eastern Capital, and the clan takes Yang Gongren, the Duke of Guanguo, as the person who holds the bull's ear, so now the most authoritative person in the Eastern Capital is Yang Gongren.
This dazzling power teleportation made Fan Zigai afraid, and the power of the left-behind mansion was squeezed to the extreme, and Fan Zigai basically lost control of the situation in the eastern capital, which shows the severity of the current crisis. Fan Zigai no longer dared to hide the true face of the situation in the Eastern Capital from the Holy Lord for his own selfishness, he planned to write a chapter overnight, 100,000 rushed to report to the Holy Lord, after a detailed selective and targeted account of the recent changes in the situation in the Eastern Capital, he clearly told the Holy Lord that the first thing after the "comeback" of Yang Gongren, the Duke of Guanguo, was to seize the military power of the Weifu with lightning speed, and Yang Tong, the king of Yue, obeyed his words, so now Yang Gongren has the heaviest authority in the Eastern Capital, which can be said to be a promise and no one can stop him.
Fan Zigai's recital does not mean "complaining", it is purely a shirk of responsibility. Compared with Yang Gongren, Fan Zigai does not have any advantages, and Yang Gongren always puts the interests of the royal family in the highest position in order to monopolize power, and waves the advantages of the clan to the extreme, Fan Zigai has no power to fight back at all, but Fan Zigai is also smart, he doesn't want to be the "scapegoat" of the crisis in the Eastern Capital anyway, so he doesn't do it endlessly, Yu Crisp directly "picks out" to the Holy Lord, it's not that I don't want to control the supreme power of the Eastern Capital, but I can't control it at all, it's not that I don't have enough ability to do things, It's that my personal strength can't be matched by Yang Gongren at all.
After Yang Gongren took control of the military power, his defensive thinking was completely different from the passive defense of the previous commanders of the Wei Mansion such as Li Hun and Zheng Yuanshou, and the passive adherence of the central officials such as Cui Zhen, Fan Zigai, and Yuan Wendu.
Yang Gongren was determined to prevent the outbreak of the imperial war at any cost. There can be a crisis and a military coup d'Γ©tat in the Eastern Capital, but we must not allow the crisis in the Eastern Capital and let the military coup turn into a great war for imperial unification, we must not allow the rebels with evil intentions to step on the corpse of the royal family to grab personal gains, and we must never allow the aristocratic officials who oppose the reform to sabotage or even destroy the great cause of the unification of Middle-earth. To put it more strictly, Yang Gongren would rather let the Eastern Capital be in ruins than suffer the slightest harm to the imperial family. As long as the royal family is intact and the clan is sincerely united, the foundation of the country will not be shaken, the kingdom will not decline, and the unified country will not fall, then the crisis can be passed, the eastern capital can be rebuilt, and all difficulties will be solved.
Yang Gongren stood on the commanding heights of morality, and the large and small political forces in the eastern capital were powerless to contend with it, if they resisted, they must be harboring evil intentions, they must be rebellious, they must be enemies of the clan, and they will inevitably be ruthlessly killed by the Holy Lord after the crisis, so everyone has "surrendered", whether it is a supporter or an opponent, whether it is a frank person or a conspiracy rebel, at this moment they are extremely obedient, what you tell me to be, I will be in what I am, never bargain, and I will not disobey the yang and the yin.
Yang Gongren asked Zheng Yuanshou, the general of the right guard, and the Baigu Governor's Mansion to immediately concentrate all the troops east of Tongguan and west of Hangu Pass, and garrison Tongguan with heavy troops. Without the order of Yang Tong, the king of Yue, not a single soldier in Xijing and Guanlong could not set foot in Gyeonggi, and those who violated it would not be killed.
He also asked Wu Benlang to make every effort to defend Hangu Pass, and then take into account the safety of the eastern capital. If Hangu Pass falls, Zhou Zhong will engage in military law, and on the contrary, if the east is crumbling, Zhou Zhong can turn a blind eye.
He also asked Yang Qing, the king of Xun, and Cui Baode, the governor of Xingyang, to concentrate all the troops in Xingyang and hold the city of Junyi, and without the order of Yang Tong, the king of Yue, no one or any army outside Gyeonggi should cross the moat defense line.
He also ordered Gu Jue, the defender of Luokou, Pei Shuang, the guard general of Heishi, and Captain Lai Yuan, to immediately dispatch the main force into the Tiger Prison Pass to strengthen the defensive strength of the Tiger Prison.
Yang Gongren ordered the Tiger Prison to guard Liu Changgong, once the defense line of the Heavenly Trench is lost, the Tiger Prison Pass must assume the heavy responsibility of blocking the enemy army from entering the Eastern Capital, if the Tiger Prison falls, Liu Changgong will engage in military law, on the contrary, no matter how dangerous the Eastern Capital is, Liu Changgong can turn a blind eye.
He also ordered Pei Hongce, the governor of Henan, to immediately dispatch men and horses from the local army in Henan to rush to the three passes of Luokou, Heishi and Yanshi to make up for the defensive forces of these three passes.
He also ordered Hu Benlang to transfer some of the elite from the army stationed in the Yamato Valley on the eastern line of Pishan to the lower reaches of Luoshui, so as to support the Sandao Pass from the flank direction when Luokou, Heishi, and Yanshi were attacked. At the same time, he also ordered Li Gongting to immediately dispatch his powerful subordinates to command the army of the Hayang Governor's Mansion to march east along the Yongji Canal to Linqingguan, and garrison Linqingguan with heavy troops, no matter what the situation is, it is necessary to hold Linqingguan to ensure the safety of northern Gyeonggi.
He also asked Li Hun, the general of the Right Xiaowei, to temporarily hold on to the Hyeongin Palace to ensure the safety of the Luoshui defensive line, and to provide him with strong support after the adjustment of troops was completed and the new Gyeonggi defense deployment was completed.
Yang Gongren issued a series of orders, striving to complete the new defense of Gyeonggi in the shortest possible time, so as to achieve his goal of blocking the imperial king Yang Yu and the king of Qi Yang Lan from entering Beijing, however, his "contempt" for the thief and marshal Han Xiangguo, and his "ignorance" for the possibility of a rebellion or even a military coup within the eastern capital, gave great convenience to those with ill intentions and conspirators and rebels.
That night, Li Hun, the general of the Right Xiaowei, first received a secret letter from the King of Qi, and then received an order from Yang Tong, the king of Yue, and a confidential document sent by the Wei government to adjust the defense strategy and troop deployment of Gyeonggi.
Li Min came and went in a hurry, and soon appeared in Li Fengyun's handsome tent again.
With Li Min's narration, Li Fengyun's face became more and more solemn, and he had a strong sense of foreboding, this trip to the Eastern Capital may fall short, and his previous ideas are very likely to be in vain, and what is even more serious is that if his strategy of using the Eastern Capital Mutiny to seek benefits fails, so that it is difficult to get out of the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, then the result will be terrible, and the entire army will be wiped out.
There are indeed discrepancies between the history in my memory and the history of the real world, especially in the details, sometimes it cannot be said that it is "inconsistencies", but two unexpected things, plus the history of the Holy Lord has been deliberately concealed, maliciously slandered and even blatantly tampered with by black and white reversal by later dynasties, many historical truths have long been completely annihilated, but I have copied this period of history that is not completely true to the completely real world, and of course there will be self-destructive mistakes in decision-making
I didn't expect that Yang Gongren, the Duke of Guanguo, would stand up at the moment of crisis in the Eastern Capital, nor did he expect that the clan had such a huge authority and could easily control the military and political power of the Eastern Capital, and what he didn't expect was that Yang Gongren would firmly grasp the key point of the crisis in the Eastern Capital and strike a fatal blow, not at all giving the powerful conservative forces in Middle-earth and the radical opposition of the conspiracy of Yang Xuangan to overthrow the reform by force, and to destroy the Holy Lord and the imperial family and shake the foundation of the country.
The acting king is not allowed to leave Xijing, nor is the king of Qi allowed to return to the eastern capital, and the eastern capital is only a Yue king Yang Tong, then no matter how the crisis in the eastern capital worsens, it cannot evolve into a fratricidal imperial war, and without the imperial war, the crisis in the eastern capital will not be complicated, it is just a simple violent struggle between the holy lord and the rebel, so that the calculations of the ill-intentioned people have failed, there is no way to provoke the royal infighting, there is no way to profit, and in the end you can only choose to support the holy lord who has an absolute advantage, Help the Lord beat the mutineers' water dogs. In other words, deducing from the current situation, history is still marching on its inherent trajectory, and the East will not fall, and this military coup will fail after only two months.
Seeing Li Fengyun's sluggishness, Li Min knew that he was also shocked by the changes in the political situation in the eastern capital, and he was also at a loss, "Guan Gong (Yang Gongren) is very clever in this move, and it is foreseeable that once Yue Gong (Yang Xuangan) enters the eastern capital of the city, Guan Gong will definitely hold on and wait for help." As long as he has the eastern capital, as long as the eastern capital is in hand, he will control the initiative, while Yue Gong will fall into passivity. β
Li Fengyun frowned slightly, frowned and asked, "Yang Gongren does not allow the acting king to leave Xijing, nor does he allow the king of Qi to return to the eastern capital, so who will come to the rescue of the eastern capital?" Could it be that he was sure that the Holy Lord would suspend the Eastern Crusade and return to his division to quell the rebellion after learning that Yang Xuan had moved him to mutiny? β
Li Min shook his head and sighed, "With the strong defense of the eastern capital, coupled with the fact that the soldiers are well fed, they can hold on for two or three years, so in a certain opinion, Guan Gong does not need reinforcements at all, nor does he need the Holy Lord to suspend the Eastern Expedition and return to the division to quell the rebellion, he only needs the great victory of the Eastern Expedition, as long as the news of the Eastern Expedition is transmitted to the Eastern Capital, the overall situation can be determined, and at that time, even if Yue Gong has swept the Central Plains, it is meaningless." β
Li Fengyun nodded again and again, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "King Qi's goal is neither the imperial throne nor the Eastern Capital, so he will definitely not enter the Eastern Capital battlefield, but what about Xijing?" Yang Gongren is from the standpoint of the clan, he would rather the eastern capital become a ruin than the imperial family internal strife to shake the foundation of the country, but Xijing must come out of the overall interests of the Guanlong people, if they let the eastern capital become a ruin, then at the moment of liquidation in the future, how can they escape the pursuit of the Holy Lord? Therefore, from the standpoint of Xijing, they must enter the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, they must transform the crisis of the Eastern Capital into a great battle for imperial unification, and they must force the Holy Lord to give up the Eastern Expedition and return to the division to quell the rebellion, otherwise Xijing is a fish on the chopping block, and they can only be slaughtered by the Holy Lord who returned from the Eastern Expedition victoriously, and their fate will not be better than Yang Xuangan and those mutineers, and the reform forces in the court will firmly seize this opportunity and sweep away the conservative forces that hinder the reform. β
Li Min pondered for a long time and sighed again, "One of the important reasons why the Duke of Yue abandoned the King of Qi and favored the king of Italy, and why he had the determination and confidence to launch this mutiny, was because the two major forces of reform and conservatism were sharply opposed, and they had reached a situation of endless death. If Yue Gong falls, the conservative forces will be hit hard, and the conservative forces in Xijing will be unable to support themselves, so how can they be left alone? β
Li Fengyun realized.
The reformers wanted to destroy the conservatives, and the victory of the Eastern Crusade was an important bargaining chip, so they threw themselves into the Eastern Crusade. In order for the conservatives to destroy the reforms, they must first sabotage the Eastern Crusade, so Yang Xuangan resorted to violent means, while Xijing, another conservative force, tried to use Yang Xuangan to provoke a "snipe and clam fight", and then "the fisherman profited", winning the maximum benefit at the lowest cost.
There must be an injury when two tigers fight, and the one who wins is also drenched in blood, and the third tiger standing by and watching the excitement is of course the last winner. Xijing's strategy looks quite clever, but you are clever, and people are not stupid, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer.
Li Min saw Li Fengyun's eyes slowly glowing, and couldn't help asking, "Where is the plan?" β
"Wait and see."
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