Ke smiled faintly: "The selection of talents is not only relatives, and the selection of talents is not to avoid relatives, is it really a dragon and phoenix?" The ants pretend to be dragons and phoenixes, and they don't burn them first? ”

Liu Bailiang slapped his thigh: "I love to listen to Lao Hu's words." ”

"Zhang Zhigao, I'm afraid they can't agree with this." Yang Zhengjin reminded.

Liu Bailiang sneered and said: "Boring political cleanliness, cursing the princelings when you are in the opposition, it is normal for people to promote their relatives and friends when they are in power, it is also human nature, if you are really talented, why bother to deliberately taboo?" Since it is a group that gathers the top elites in the country, if you insist on letting an idiot and incompetent come in, why don't you squeeze it out three times or two? ”

"You have to set a standard and set up a procedure, I said that my sons are all top elites, will you let them in?" It sounds like Yang Zhengjin still has reservations about Liu Bailiang's views.

"How the standards are set and how the procedures work is not up to the three of us to decide, it seems that a plenary meeting will be convened." Hook proposed.

Liu Bailiang frowned: "Plenary meeting? According to the procedure of the plenary meeting, the final decision is in the hands of the empress, and she obviously looks at us unpleasantly now, why should she give her a long face? ”

"She's just looking at your black face right now." Hook laughed.

Liu Bailiang sneered: "The day of the showdown is not far away." ”

"Why can't the empress build up her own power?"

Hearing Hu Ke suddenly ask, Liu Bailiang's eyes widened and he looked the other party up and down in a daze: "What do you want to say?" ”

"Any leader who is not willing to be a puppet has the will to build his own power, if we only want a marionette, we shouldn't push her up in the first place, just pick a little kid is more suitable than her. If the first emperor did not have his own layers of exclusive power, he just blindly relied on the loyalty of the princes and elders. How long will he live? ”

Liu Bailiang twisted his eyebrows, lifted the wine jug and poured himself a small half glass, touched his head, and swallowed it in one gulp.

"What if she builds up her exclusive power to exclude us or even endanger us?"

"What if it's just for self-preservation? As a person of the twenty-first century, do you think the empress would be naïve to think that our loyalty would naturally transfer from the former emperor to her? ”

"Lao Hu, pay attention to your position!" Liu Bailiang raised his voice unceremoniously.

Hook was unmoved, and replied calmly as always: "I'm just talking about things, and you're worried that she'll hurt us." Why wouldn't she be worried about us playing with the Void? Let's just say that the civilian officials who are temporarily united with us have not long been worried that we will use military force to interfere in government and military government in place? In the first and last years of Guangxing, there were really two major mutinies, and so many old comrades died, which was shocking. Monarchs and ministers and ministers are suspicious of each other, no one believes anyone, no one obeys anyone, and sooner or later something big will happen. ”

"Then you say, what are we going to do? Just like you didn't see anything? Blind? Liu Bailiang was a little anxious.

Hook did not answer. turned his gaze to Yang Zhengjin.

Yang Zhengjin clasped his hands on the table, shook his head and sighed, "We know what the Empress of the Dao Dao is thinking. The empress must also want to know our true meaning, but people's hearts are separated from their bellies, how do we know which words of the empress are true and which are false? And how can the Empress be sure that we won't set off a smoke screen? And in fact, we're really playing tricks to test her these days......"

Liu Bailiang waved his hand impatiently: "It's so troublesome, just change a puppet and come up, no one has to guess who ......"

Hook smiled coldly: "You want to rebel? ”

Liu Bailiang disagreed: "It's just abolished, and it's not without precedent since ancient times......

"The lord who is not at fault, what reason do you use to depose it? There is a price to be paid for breaking the rules, and none of us here can afford it. ”

Liu Bailiang scratched his head and thought about it, and came up with a new idea: "Then strategize the current tentative action." Instead, lure the snake out of the hole and let her fall into the trap herself? ”

"This is playing with fire, if you don't do it, it's another bloodbath, don't forget. The Empress also has the Tiger and Par Battalion and the Eagle Wolf Team in her hands, and the individual mecha obtained in the task force incident is also kept with her, and if she is hard, she is not sure who will be able to laugh the least. Hook had no joke on his face or expression.

Liu Bailiang slapped his thigh again: "Take a look." Look, just now I said that the empress was scared and wanted to protect herself, and now I say that I don't know who laughs the most, Lao Hu, your position, your position. ”

Hook sneered: "You can go to the Mausoleum of the First Emperor and ask, why did you give the tiger, leopard, eagle and wolf and individual mecha to the empress personally, instead of our five elders taking care of it?" People's hearts are separated from their bellies, the first emperor understands better than anyone else, it has been designed a long time ago, within ten or twenty years, no one will want to act rashly, and whoever moves will finish playing. Yes, the Empress may be able to get rid of us first, but can she wipe out the officer corps we have cultivated in one fell swoop? Killing the patriarch, will the civil officials support her? The civilian officials of the military department don't bird her, what does she rely on to maintain this huge empire? Without the strength of the group, she is a phoenix with broken wings, and she can only lie obediently in Xinhua Palace, listening to the embattled songs and hearing crazy. ”

Liu Bailiang sighed, turned his head and said angrily: "It's not cool to watch, you can't guess it, you can't move it, how can it be good?" ”

The three of them were silent for a long time, Yang Zhengjin rubbed his hair, and slowly spoke: "We need an intermediary, an intermediary that both parties can treat sincerely......"

"Who?" Liu Bailiang couldn't wait to ask.

"If both sides need it, this person will ......definitely appear," Yang Zhengjin muttered, as if reciting a mantra to the gods and Buddhas.

"Suzu—"

A rapid electric bell suddenly sounded in the corner of the rooftop, Yang Zhengjin took a long breath of wine, left the seat to answer the phone, and hung up and returned to his seat after listening to two sentences.

"Back to the base camp, there is an emergency military situation."

……

Xinhua Palace, the special conference room of the General Staff on the third floor of the Chengxian Hall.

Major General Su Mengxin, chief of the Intelligence Division of the General Staff, was reporting the situation to several military and political leaders who had arrived for the meeting overnight.

"The new German side has received an urgent report that it has been detected that the Allied forces will forcibly land in the Netherlands between the end of the month and the beginning of July, and the German army will have to intercept the follow-up forces originally planned to be sent to the battlefield against Russia in order to preemptively solve the Dutch problem......"

Liu Bailiang frowned again and again when he heard this: "Holland? They finally can't tolerate the Dutch stepping on two boats......"

It turned out that although the Netherlands had already declared war on China, it had never dared to declare war on Germany, China's de facto ally and close to it, nor did it allow the Allied forces to use Dutch territory to fight against Germany. Since the German Imperial Family and the Dutch Imperial Family had always been friendly with each other, the German General Staff also determined the general strategy of joining forces with Austria, China, and Turkey to settle Russia first, fearing that attacking the Netherlands would give Britain and France the opportunity to open up a new battlefield, and containing the forces originally intended for attacking Russia in the Netherlands, and also temporarily acquiescing to the "neutrality" of the Netherlands.

However, if the Entente forces succeeded in forcing their landing in the Netherlands, it would have driven a nail in the back of the German army on the Western Front, and used it as a base to strike at the back of the German army on the Belgian front to the west, cut off the supply lines of the German army on the French front to the south, and advance to the German hinterland to the east, and the entire German defense on the Western Front was likely to collapse completely - of course, provided that the Allied Army had a sufficiently strong mobile force.