Chapter 239: Li Mi's Wisdom

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Li Mi obviously saw what he didn't want to see from the battlefield of Tongjiqu, and the instructions from the top of the Eastern Capital obviously coincided with some of his ideas, so his attitude suddenly hardened, relying on the power of others, and threatened Li Fengyun.

"A certain is still the same sentence, a certain is willing to keep his promise and help you defeat the king of Qi, but a certain has a premise, that is, a certain must ensure that the interests of the alliance are not lost, if a certain insists on going his own way regardless of the interests of the alliance, the alliance heroes will inevitably join forces to fight, and a certain will lose control of the alliance." Li Fengyun's tone was calm, his attitude was very resolute, and he was not angry because of Li Mi's threat, "In a certain opinion, you are too optimistic about the situation of the Eastern Crusade, and you have not seen that the situation of the Eastern Crusade is changing, if you can be patient, wait a little longer, and then re-examine the political situation in the Eastern Capital according to the latest changes in the Eastern Crusade situation around the beginning of July, maybe you can make the most correct decision, instead of making the mistake of rushing for quick success because of too much haste like now, The guide is passively in the future situation. ”

Li Mi listened. Although he despised Li Fengyun's way of speaking and tone, and thought that he was suspected of pretending, Li Fengyun's analysis of the general situation at home and abroad, the political situation in the Eastern Capital, and the situation of the Eastern Crusade was very subtle, and his inferences were also repeatedly successful.

Just like this time the king of Qi went out of Beijing to fight the chaos, and the 20,000 army roared in, and no thief commander dared to block the sharp edge of the king of Qi, but Li Fengyun was not afraid, not only stayed on the battlefield of Tongji Canal, but also put on a posture of fighting to the death with the king of Qi. This approach seems arrogant, absurd, and incredible, but the people in the bureau have completely different views, because Li Fengyun continues to control the initiative on the battlefield of Tongji Canal, and they are all very passive, the King of Qi is like this, and Li Mi is also like this, as a result, the King of Qi has to bow his noble head and negotiate sincerely, while Li Mi finds another way to directly threaten Li Fengyun with the severance of Tongji Canal.

The reason why Li Mi wanted to blackmail Li Fengyun was, on the one hand, because he could not control Li Fengyun, and on the other hand, it was derived from Yang Xuangan's inference about the Eastern Expedition situation.

Yang Xuangan believes that due to the wrong decision-making of the emperor and the center, the Eastern Crusade has been unable to conquer Pyongyang this year, and the war will inevitably continue until next year, and at the same time, the contradictions between the central decision-making level and the military command have also intensified, and the emperor and the center complain that the military attack is unfavorable, while the military hates the emperor and the center for grabbing military power excessively, and the layman commands the insider, and as a result, the conflict between the two sides continues to escalate, and this conflict will have a profound impact on the outcome of this war. It is foreseeable that whether the Eastern Expedition can achieve the expected results in the future depends entirely on whether the central decision-making level, the military command and the Eastern Capital can reach a compromise on politics, and the stability of the political situation in the Eastern Capital is particularly important, so Yang Xuangan can't wait, in his opinion, as long as he defeats the King of Qi on the battlefield of Tongji Canal, destroys the King of Qi, and deals a heavy blow to the local aristocratic group of Guanlong with Wei as the leader, then he and Yuan Wendu and other political bigwigs can fully control the Eastern Capital, so that they can coerce the emperor, the center and the military, So as to win more benefits in politics.

However, Li Fengyun questioned Yang Xuangan's point of view, and he warned Li Mi that there would be new changes in the situation of the Eastern Crusade, and that it was not appropriate to make a hasty decision before the Eastern Capital learned of this new change, and once the consequences of this decision ran counter to his own interests and goals, it would be out of control.

"The rainy season in the Far East has begun." Li Mi pondered for a while, and said tentatively, "The expeditionary force is still under the city of Liaodong, there are still more than a thousand miles away from Pyongyang, and when the rainy season is over, it is already the beginning of July, and there are only more than two months left for the expeditionary force to attack at most, and even if the expeditionary force is overwhelmed by then, it will be August to kill the city of Pyongyang, unless there is a miracle, it will never be possible to conquer Pyongyang, so even if the emperor and the center are eager to end the war this year, the attack time of more than two months is too little, and the emperor and the center have to face the reality and continue the war until next year." Judging by a certain person, this year's expeditionary force will stop at Yalu Water, and it is absolutely impossible to reach Pyongyang. ”

"So so-and-so, you are too optimistic about the situation of the Eastern Crusade." Li Fengyun said with a smile, "If the emperor and the central government are forced to suddenly change their attack strategy, determined to destroy Goguryeo by force, and determined to end the war this year, will there be a serious change in the situation of the Eastern Crusade?" ”

Li Mi shook his head and vetoed, "The rainy season in the Far East has come, and the expeditionary force's attack time is already running out, this is an unchangeable fact, even if the emperor, the center, and the expeditionary force all want to end the war this year, no matter how urgent their mood is, in fact, it is impossible to come up with an attack plan to create a miracle." ”

Li Fengyun smiled slightly and asked, "What about the legacy of the Marquis of Beiping Xianghou (Duan Wenzhen)?" ”

"The last policy of the Marquis of Beiping?" Li Mi looked at Li Fengyun in surprise, "Does the Marquis of Beiping have a plan?" How do you know? What's the last policy? ”

Duan Wenzhen, the Marquis of Xiangzhen in Beiping, died of illness on March 12, and played on his deathbed, but because the proposed plan was contrary to the decision of the center, the emperor and the center did not make it public, nor did it convey it to the eastern capital, so as not to cause a bad impact, and few people knew about the result, even the military commander of the front line, it was not until the emperor and the center decided to implement Duan Wenzhen's last policy, that there was such a thing.

Yang Xuangan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, didn't know that there was Duan Wenzhen's will, and of course Li Mi didn't know, so Li Mi's surprise was reasonable, but how did Li Fengyun know about things that Yang Xuangan didn't know? If this news is true, there is only one explanation, Li Fengyun has a central core member behind him, and this core member is by the emperor's side and has won the emperor's trust. There are only five people in this dynasty, known as the "five nobles" today, namely the provincial governor Nayan Suwei, the deputy governor of Huangmen Shilang Pei Shiju, the deputy governor of the province of Inner History (Zhongshu) Neishi Shilang Yu Shiji, the governor of the Imperial History Observatory Pei Yun, and the first general of the Twelve Guards Mansion, Zuo Yiwei, the general Yu Wenshu.

In an instant, Li Mi's mind flashed, and he made countless assumptions and speculations. Li Fengyun is not from Shandong behind him? It was Yuwenshu who ordered him to be detained in the Eastern Capital in the first place, so Li Fengyun was definitely not Yuwenshu's person. Su Wei is the leader of the local aristocratic group in Guanzhong, while Pei Shiju and Pei Yun are both elites of the Pei clan in Hedong, and Yu Shiji is a native of Jiangzuo, who seems to have nothing to do with Li Fengyun.

Suddenly, Li Mi had a flash of inspiration and thought of a possibility. From the information known so far, the only one who really has anything to do with Li Fengyun is Yu Wenshu. If Yuwenshu deliberately designed the Tongji Canal, deliberately detained Li Fengyun from the Northeast to the Central Plains, and then set up a "bitter meat plan", then today's Tongji Canal battlefield is a big trap, and the people to be trapped in this trap are not only Yang Lan, the king of Qi, but also all the people who tried to use the Tongji Canal to sabotage the Eastern Crusade left in the Eastern Capital, and all the emperors and reformist enemies are the objects to be slaughtered by this trap.

Li Mi's heart suddenly welled up with a trace of fear. The Holy Lord's wisdom is very terrifying, which can be seen from the fact that he tried his best to manage Jiang Zuo, and then used Jiang Zuo's power to win the imperial rule, it can be seen that his high political methods, and among the cronies who helped the Holy Lord implement these methods, the most capable and strategic was Yu Wenshu. If Yuwenshu had laid out in advance and used the opportunity of this crusade to help the emperor eradicate the political opponents who were hindering reform, then even if Yang Xuangan defeated Yang Lan, the king of Qi, as he wished, his own head would not be able to be saved in the end, and he would have to land. Is this the so-called praying mantis catching cicadas, with the yellow finch behind?

Li Mi knew too much, he thought too much, and the more he thought about it, the more complicated it became, although he knew that things might not be as complicated as he imagined, but he was too smart, and the more complicated things were, the greater the temptation for him, so that he could not extricate himself from them. He peeled off the cocoon, reasoned layer by layer, thought that he was gradually getting closer to the truth, and concluded that behind Li Fengyun was Yuwenshu. Only in this way can we reasonably explain why Yang Xuangan's ability has not found out Li Fengyun's true identity. Yang Xuangan has great power, rich resources, and deep connections, it is still very simple to investigate a person, and he found out that there were Turks on the desert among the thieves who chased and killed Li Fengyun all the way, but if he continued to investigate, he fell into a dead end.

Why is it dead? Because Yang Xuangan didn't dare to check, if he continued to investigate, he would find Yu Wenshu's son Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhihe's head, which obviously touched Yu Wenshu's bottom line.

Yuwenshu is too powerful, if the old Yue Guogong Yang Su was alive, he could compete with it, but with the strength of the small Yue Guogong, the gap is big, once Yuwenshu is angered, the two sides fight, Yang Xuangan will be defeated.

Why did you find Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi and his head? In the third year of the Great Cause, the Holy Lord inspected the northern and eastern frontiers. The Turkic Khan of Qiming, Princess Kehe Dunyicheng, and the chieftains of the Northern Captives met the Holy Lord in Yulin. At that time, the grand occasion was unprecedented, happy and peaceful, but there was a very unpleasant thing, when Yu Wen Zhihe, who was the captain of the Janissary Guard's personal guard house, smuggled prohibited weapons to the Turks without permission, and this matter also implicated Yu Wen Zhihe's brother, Yu Wenhua, who was the servant Shaoqing.

This matter is very strict, but it can't be investigated, the more it is investigated, the bigger it is, it will definitely affect the reputation of Yu Wenshu, the general of Zuo Yiwei at the time, and Yu Wenshu is the first confidant of the Holy Lord, is the in-laws, is the core member of the center, and is the first general of the Twelve Guards, if the matter is big, it will definitely affect the reputation of the Holy Lord and the authority of the center, so this matter is forcibly suppressed.

The Holy Lord did not kill their brothers, but deposed them as the house slaves of Yuwenshu, which was regarded as sparing their lives, but "paper can't hold the fire", this matter is still well known in the circle of wealthy families, but the nobles have high political literacy, and after careful scrutiny, it is now a high-level political struggle, and the Yuwen brothers unfortunately became victims.

The Yuwen brothers must have done a very secret job of smuggling prohibited weapons to the Turks, but their father was the first powerful minister of the dynasty, a staunch reformer, and a "thorn in the side" of the conservatives, and the conservatives must find a breakthrough in order to fight Yuwenshu, so the Yuwen brothers became the "weapon" of the conservatives against the emperor and Yuwenshu.

Inside the tents of the Turks, the struggle between the heirs was no less fierce. Qiming Khan and Princess Yicheng are staunch pro-Sui factions, in order to maintain peaceful north-south relations, Qiming Khan of course needs a successor who can inherit his governing philosophy, but with the re-emergence of the Turks and the re-establishment of the great alliance of the captives that swept across the desert, the ambitions of some Turkic nobles also exploded, they wanted to invade Middle-earth, to dominate Middle-earth, to dominate the world, for this they wanted to destroy the peaceful north-south relations, so the Yuwen brothers became the anti-Sui Turks to deteriorate the "tool" of the north-south relationship.

After this incident, the political situation in the north and south invariably set off a storm. In Middle-earth, the emperor and the reformers won the victory, and the conservative leaders Taichangqing Gao Ying, Shangshu Youcheng Yu Wenbi, and the right Houwei general He Ruobi were all killed for "slandering the government and government". Subsequently, the reform process was accelerated, and a series of reform systems were introduced, the most prominent of which were the Western Expedition to Tuyuhun and the Second Scraping Campaign, the former was based on the domestic and foreign situation to implement a new national defense and foreign affairs strategy, and the latter was to weaken and curb the plundering of the wealth of Middle-earth by wealthy families once again after the first scraping campaign of the first emperor. In the desert, the pro-Sui conservatives led by the Qiming Khan and Princess Yicheng were violently attacked by the Yatent careerists, while the anti-Sui radicals led by the special service Ashina Jishi won a complete victory in the Ya Tent, and Ashina Jishi became the deputy of the Tooth Tent and sat on the throne of the Khan's heir. In the fifth year of the great cause, the Qiming Khan passed away, and Ashina Jishi ascended the throne, and the name was Bi Khan, followed by the frequent border of the northern captives, and the relationship between the north and the south became increasingly tense.

The Holy Lord's eagerness to launch a crusade to the east, the deterioration of relations between the north and the south, and the alliance with the Turks and Goguryeo, were directly related to the growing threat to Middle-earth from the northern captives. Just imagine, if the Civil War breaks out, the national strength will inevitably be concentrated on confronting the northern captives and maintaining the security of the frontiers, which will inevitably affect the advancement of reform, will inevitably intensify the contradictions and conflicts within the Eastern Capital, and will be very unfavorable to maintaining the stability of the political situation in the Eastern Capital and speeding up the establishment of a centralized system.

Before the start of the Eastern Crusade, Middle-earth must try to maintain peace with the Turks, and the Turks, in order to increase their own strength, must use this opportunity to try to get what they need from Middle-earth, but when the two sides do these things, there must be official superficial articles, and there are also private disgraces. Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi and his brothers are obviously special beings, for the emperor, these two brothers are absolutely trustworthy, many shady things can be done ⊥ them, and for the Turks, the two brothers are powerful and worth using, and both sides show their own powers, depending on whose means are clever.

The case in the third year of the Great Cause had a deep memory for Yang Xuangan, so he had every reason to believe that there must be some kind of unknown secret between Yuwenshu, the Yuwen brothers, Li Fengyun and the Turks, but he didn't dare to investigate, and he couldn't find out, with the energy of Yuwenshu and the emperor behind him, if he wanted to deliberately hide a secret, who could find out?

However, Li Fengyun's seemingly casual words today made Li Mi inadvertently spy on the secret that no one could find.

Duan Wenzhen's legacy? What is the content of Duan Wenzhen's last policy? Will the emperor and the central government implement Duan Wenzhen's legacy policy? None of this is important to Li Mi, the important thing is that Li Fengyun has a way to heaven, and Li Fengyun's identity is about to come out, which is the most important thing, and the resulting changes make him have to temporarily put aside all his thoughts and let Li Fengyun control the direction of the battle in Tongji Canal.