June 13, Xijing.

Wei Jin, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Duke of Wuyang, arrived in Xijing, and he was greeted by his nephew Wei Yuanzhao, the Duke of Henan, who is now the city gate lang of Menxia Province.

After the uncle and nephew met and exchanged pleasantries for a while, Wei Jin asked eagerly, "What is the situation in the Eastern Capital?" ”

"The latest news, Yang Xuangan has captured Luokou and Heishi on the tenth day of the first month." Wei Yuanzhao was concise and to the point. Xijing is more than 800 miles away from the eastern capital, and the post station system of Zhongtuda can ensure that the news of the two capitals can be delivered to each other within two days.

Wei Jin frowned slightly, and asked again, "Did the Eastern Capital ask Xijing to send troops to support?" ”

In the sixth year of the first month, Yang Tong, the king of Yue, was persuaded to rush to Xijing as a special envoy in the eastern capital, with the purpose of "asking for help" rather than "sending troops to support". "Asking for help" and "sending troops to support" are two different things. "Asking for help" is to seek political support, it is a compromise in the interests of the major political groups in the two capitals, and it is to do everything possible to control the storm within a certain range, and "sending troops to support" is the ultimate means in the political field, which not only involves greater and more core interests, but also leads to the loss of control of the storm, and the consequences caused by this loss of control are unpredictable, so it is absolutely impossible to ask Xijing to "send troops to support" until the moment of life and death.

Wei Yuanzhao shook his head, "So far, Dongdu has not made this request. ”

Wei Jin lightly bowed and continued to ask, "Is there any news of King Qi?" ”

"Pengcheng stayed behind, Zuo Xiaowei general Shunzheng Dong Chungong has led the army to Tongji Canal, and Chen soldiers are on the north bank of Jishui on the Fengqiu and Jiyang line." Wei Yuanzhao stroked his beard and smiled, "Since Shun Zhenggong has arrived, will King Qi be far away?" ”

Wei Jin thought for a moment, thought for a moment and then asked, "Is there any news from Liyang?" ”

"So far, we have not received any news that the Weifu army is attacking Liyang, but what makes us concerned is that it is Li Zixiong who guards Liyang, and Li Zixiong took the initiative to ask Ying to stay in Liyang." Wei Yuanzhao said this, there was a trace of worry in his eyes, "Li Zixiong took the initiative to ask Ying to stay in Liyang and clearly conveyed two messages, one of which must be related to the King of Qi, and the King of Qi has the influence of Li Zixiong, so he will inevitably be more cautious in entering Beijing; The second must be related to the white thief, and according to Wei Fusi, the white thief, Li Zixiong and the king of Qi had reached an agreement in Qi County to go north, and now the white thief is in Baima, and Li Zixiong is in Liyang, which is across the river, and the two sides will join forces to further affect the decision-making of the king of Qi. ”

Wezin was surprised. He already knew that Li Zixiong had fled to Liyang before he left the Eastern Capital, but there was no evidence that Li Zixiong would stay in Liyang, and once Li Zixiong stayed in Liyang, he would be in charge alone, with his personal prestige and outstanding strategy, which would inevitably bring a series of variables to this storm. However, Li Zixiong is still secondary, the important thing is the white thief, although Webster has never "ignored" the white thief from beginning to end, but the key and important role that the white thief may play in this storm still surprised Webster.

Wei Jin thought for a while and said, "With the current strength of the white thief, he will not be able to rush into this storm and fall into the danger of annihilating the whole army, so the target of the white thief should be Liyang Cang, as long as he loots Liyang Cang, neither Li Zixiong nor King Qi will be able to stop him from going north to fight."

Wei Yuanzhao shook his hand again and again, and said to Wei Jin with a solemn expression, "According to the latest news from Wei Fusi, Li Baiyao, the Duke of Anping, accepted the invitation of King Qi and has now arrived at King Qi's side to give advice to King Qi. ”

Wezin was taken aback. Although Li Baiyao has been curbed and attacked, his career is bleak, and he is also hopeless in Confucianism, and he seems to have no reputation and strength, but the political legacy left by a large number of old ministers of Shandong Gaoqi with his father Li Delin is too huge, its power is too amazing, and the consequences are too strict once it explodes. The rebellion of the Han king Yang Liang is a clear example, the wounds it caused to Middle-earth have not yet healed, and Li Baiyao is precisely one of the few people who can effectively use this political legacy and completely detonate its great power at the right time, so the two emperors of the first emperor and the holy lord, as well as the major political groups in the two capitals, have never despised Li Baiyao and his people, and the Guanlong people have even attacked him en masse, trying to depose him to the distant southern wilderness and keep him away from Shandong. However, as the resistance to reform grew, and the reformers needed more and more the support of the Shandong aristocratic group, the Holy Lord was forced to dismiss Li Baiyao from his official position by issuing an edict, so that he finally got out of the "cage" and returned to Shandong from southern Xinjiang.

However, Guan Long people have always been highly vigilant against Li Baiyao's potential "confidant", and the "long sword" has always hung above Li Baiyao's head, forcing Li Baiyao to deal with it carefully, however, today Li Baiyao actually risked his death and went to the side of King Qi to assist King Qi, what this means is self-evident.

Why did Li Baiyao launch a fierce counterattack? Why did Li Baiyao choose King Qi? If the people of Shandong support the King of Qi, then the King of Qi is very likely to repeat the mistakes of the King of Han Yang Liang, but the strength of the King of Qi today and the strength of the King of the Han Dynasty Yang Liang ten years ago cannot be the same at all, and there is a world of difference, so Li Baiyao will not be stupid enough to instigate the King of Qi to rebel and kill each other, so today Li Baiyao assists the King of Qi, and there is only one possibility, which is to use this storm to obtain enough benefits for the King of Qi, and then help the King of Qi to grow stronger, so that the King of Qi can win the world in the future.

If Li Baiyao and the Shandong people chose the King of Qi and focused on the future, then the choice of the King of Qi in this storm would be completely different, even if the King of Qi was greedy for the imperial system and tried to enter the Eastern Capital, but Li Baiyao and the Shandong people would not give him this opportunity, so that the goal of the Guanlong people may be frustrated, and if the Guanlong people want to achieve their set goals, they must quickly adjust their established strategies to ensure that they can grab the maximum benefits they need from this storm.

"Do you have a solution?" Wezin asked.

Wei Yuanzhao frowned, muttered a little, and said slowly, "Before coming up with countermeasures, we must know why Li Baiyao chose King Qi?" Is Li Baiyao's sudden move his personal impulse? Or is it a plan of Shandong people? ”

"Does Wei Fusi have an analysis?" Wei Jin asked.

Wei Fusi believes that the key is the white thief. The identity of the white thief may be more complicated than we think. Wei Yuanzhao said Wei Fusi's inference.

Suppose that there is a huge force behind the white thief, the long-term goal of this force is the prosperity of Middle-earth under the situation of great unification, and the short-term goal is to establish a solid national defense and foreign policy with active defense as the core, then they need reform, but they do not need to strictly endanger the great cause of unification and the security of Middle-earthThe short-term goal of the bureau is to do its best to expose and eliminate all the hidden dangers that may affect domestic stability, including the king of Qi, Yang Xuangan, and the traitors all over the north and south of the river, and the long-term goal is to establish a stable North-South relationship with the Great North-South War.

Of course, this inference is a bit bizarre and far-fetched, but many of these coincidences really can't be explained reasonably, for example, the white thief's looting of the Tongji Canal happened to help the King of Qi "escape" from the Eastern Capital, if the white thief was a normal "thief", he would rob the Tongji Canal regardless of life and death? For example, the white thief persuaded Li Zixiong and King Qi, and the three parties reached a secret agreement, if the white thief was just a thief who killed people and oversold goods, what did he use to persuade Li Zixiong and King Qi? The strategy that the white thief came up with to go north seems to be very reasonable, but if you think about it carefully, if the white thief is just an ordinary rebel leader, will he have the courage and courage to go all the way to the north of Xinjiang? Li Zixiong and King Qi are the same, if the white thieves don't come up with something weighty and don't show their absolute strength to impress them, will they seek to go north to exhibit? Therefore, if we want to explain these things reasonably, we must first assume that the white thief is an extraordinary person, there is a strong force behind him, and what he is carrying out is a big plan that is up and down, colluding with the inside and outside, and complementing each other, otherwise they can only be said to be "coincidences", miraculous coincidences

"Actually, we all thought of one person." Wei Yuancheng said, "This person is too powerful, there are Shandong people behind him, about the Long people, and he can also rely on the power of the Jiangzuo people, the two generations of emperors trust and rely on him, every time the storm comes, he can be safe, even if the storm is big, even if he is deep in the center of the storm, he can't shake him at all, and he always stands at the peak, standing tall." He is the only one who can set up such a subtle situation, and only his subordinates can have such a rare person as the white thief. ”

Wei Jin pondered and was silent for a long time.

He knew that Wei Yuanzhao was talking about Pei Shiju, and if Pei Shiju, Shandong people, Li Baiyao and the white thief were connected, they could all be reasonably explained, from the concept of governing the country, the political position, to the exquisite planning, all kinds of coincidences could converge and weave a huge net.

"Li Baiyao was able to survive in southern Xinjiang, return to Shandong safely, and re-enter the official career, all because of that person." Wei Jin said slowly while thinking, "If that person asks Li Baiyao to assist King Qi, and asks Li Baiyao to help King Qi go north to garrison Xinjiang, in order to get rid of the terrible danger of life and death, alleviate the fierce battle for imperial domination, and at the same time strengthen the strength of Northern Xinjiang to make contributions in the Great Northern War, it is a wonderful move." ”

Speaking of this, Wei Jin looked up at Wei Yuancheng, "If the King of Qi does not have the possibility of entering the capital, and this crisis is accused of being within the scope of the mutiny, then we must change the established strategy and enter the Eastern Capital as quickly as possible, while destroying Yang Xuangan, we will not give the King of Qi any chance to make profits."

Wei Yuancheng nodded, "Since the King of Qi has fallen, we can't give him a chance to stand up, especially not to give the Shandong people a chance to take advantage of, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past." ”

The Holy Lord relied on the absolute support of the Jiangzuo people to seize the imperial unity, but as a result, the Jiangzuo people took a large piece of the "cake", and the Guanlong people "suffered heavy losses". In the future, if the king of Qi also seized the imperial throne with the support of the Shandong people, wouldn't the great cause of unification that the Guanlong people had worked so hard to establish and the fruitful fruits obtained from it be snatched away by the Shandong people? Whether it is tolerable or unbearable, the same mistake will never be made by Guan Longren again.

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