Chapter 404: The Sandpiper and the Clam Fight
Li Min has greater confidence in the future and has a deeper understanding of his father's instructions. Of course, he is willing to do his best. Moreover, he has selfish intentions because his family is in Dongdu. He wants to take advantage of the situation in Dongdu before it gets out of control.
Li Zixiong prepared for the future and had arranged for the secret evacuation of Xijing's family more than two months ago. However, the Longxi crisis had not yet broken out and Yuan Hongsi had not yet become the "target of public criticism". Li Zixiong believed that Xijing might be the main battlefield of this mutiny, so he evacuated Xijing's family to Dongdu. Dongdu not only had security guarantees, but also a group of mutiny accomplices. Once Yang Xuangan raised troops in Liyang, these people would definitely support Yang Xuangan in various ways, and Li Zixiong could also use the help of these people to safely take away his family from Dongdu. However, man-calculation is not as good as heaven-calculation. The development of the situation has changed as Li Fengyun predicted. Now the main battlefield of this mutiny has become Dongdu, and Li Zixiong's family is in danger of life and death. In such a bad situation, Li Min certainly has to try every means to save his family.
Li Min bluntly told Li Fengyun that he had a way to let the alliance army break through Yiquekou. Han Shiye, the Wuyalang general who is now in Yiquekou, is his family friendship, and Han Shiye is the son of Han Qinhu, a famous middle-earth general. Han Qinhu was from the Han family of Yingchuan. When he was alive, he was the Dingzhu of the Yingru aristocratic group. He was a real power figure in the Heluo faction of the military. He was a political ally with the old Yue Duke Yang Su and had a close friendship with Li Zixiong of Jianchang. Because of the existence of common interests, the relationship between the older generation will naturally be passed down to the next generation. Yang Xuangan, Han Shiye and Li Min are all family friendships, and their political ideas are basically the same.
Yidu was damaged in the unified reform, and he had the intention and motivation to overthrow the Holy Lord with force to destroy the reform. Therefore, Li Min had reason to infer that Han Shiye, like him, was not a member of Yang Xuangan's core circle and did not participate in the planning of the mutiny, but he must know that the mutiny existed. Everyone was in a political interest group, prospered and lost. Yang Xuangan collapsed, and the political interest group led by him was destroyed, and Han Shiye would also be destroyed. Therefore, the mutiny broke out, and Han Shiye had no independent choice at all. He was definitely an important "chess piece" in the implementation of the mutiny.
Li Min patted her chest confidently and promised that as long as Yang Xuangan raised his troops in Liyang, Han Shiye would definitely respond in Dongdu. Therefore, Yiquekou could not stop the alliance's army from entering Dongdu.
Li Fengyun smiled and looked ecstatic, but he was very alert, because Li Mi had not mentioned the "intimate" relationship between Yique's general Han Shiyan and Yang Xuangan to him so far, nor had he ever made any hint to him that he would take Yique's mouth by non-military means. The Prime Minister Han did not mention it at all, and he seemed to know that Yique's general Han Shiyan was the contemporary backbone of the Han clan of Yingchuan. Li Min had already known that Li Mi was by his side and had reached a compromise and agreement with him, the Prime Minister Han, and the interests of the three parties were tied together, but he revealed such important secrets to himself. Why? Is Li Min's move trying to win more trust and establish deeper cooperation, or is he ulterior motives and provoke right and wrong to intensify the conflicts between him and Li Mi and the Prime Minister Han to achieve his ulterior motives?
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Fengyun decided to test it out, "At present, although we speculate that Li Yang might have to raise troops in advance, there is no way to guess whether Yue Gong raised troops in advance and when to raise troops in advance. Therefore, how to fight Yique in this battle and when we break through Yique must consider the pros and cons from the overall situation."
Li Min understands it. Li Fengyun accepted his "gift", but this "gift" came too abruptly, so Li Fengyun doubted his purpose.
"Do you firmly believe that the development of the situation in Dongdu is like your deduction?" Li Min asked.
Li Fengyun hesitated for a moment and nodded slowly, "I firmly believe that Li Yang had to raise his troops in advance due to the situation deteriorating rapidly, and it was in early June, otherwise the situation would worsen and worsen so that even the possibility of raising troops would be lost."
"If Li Yang raised troops in early June, it was only about ten days away, then in such a short time, should we take Yique immediately, threaten Dongdu, force Dongdu to dispatch more troops to attack Yique, and attract all the attention of Dongdu, so as to create the best opportunity for Li Yang to raise troops?" Li Min continued to ask, "This move not only takes care of Li Yang and the alliance, but also kills two birds with one stone. Is it more in line with your needs to promote the development of the Dongdu situation?"
Li Fengyun thought for a moment and said worriedly, "If someone took Yique in advance, he would be furiously counterattacked by the Eastern Capital Garrison. Although the alliance has a good geographical advantage, its strength cannot be compared with the garrison. Defeat is inevitable. Once defeated, he will be defeated thousands of miles away, and all of his plans will be wasted."
Li Min shook his head repeatedly, "I think you have seriously overestimated Dongdu. The Dongdu is now a mess. The King of Yue is young, but he is just a puppet. The real power is in the hands of Fan Zigai, but Fan Zigai is not very prestige and lacks power. He can't control Dongdu at all, so he must compromise with the Yue Palace and use power sharing to seek support from the Yue Palace. However, since the Holy Lord decided that King of Yue will stay in Dongdu and granted the King of Yue a special position in the inheritance of the Emperor's reign, the power game within the Yue Palace has suddenly escalated. The head of the Yue Palace, Cui Zhi, seemed to have monopoly on power, but in fact he was always suppressed by Anchang Gong (Yuan Wendu). His orders could not be out of the Yue Palace at all.
Li Fengyun looked calm, but his heart was filled with turmoil.
In order to convince Li Fengyun, Li Min explained and analyzed his words.
Behind King Yue, there was only the old noble group of the surnames of the Lie, mainly composed of the eight nobles of the Xianbei nobles. The "boss" in this group was the Tuoba family of the previous dynasty, which was the Yuan family after the sinicization of the Xianbei. The mother of King Yue came from the Liu family of the eight nobles, so the Yuan family and Liu family basically controlled the right to speak in the Yue Palace.
In the first Eastern Expedition, the Holy Lord and the Central Master were beheaded Liu Shilong, the Right Chief of the Shangshu, to thank the world. Liu Shilong was wronged, but who would not be a scapegoat? Yuwen Shu was the spokesperson of the Holy Lord in the military. He killed Yuwen Shu, who would help the Holy Lord control the Twelve Guards in the future? So Liu Shilong would die even if he didn't die, but his death was worth it. He exchanged his head for the "resignation" of Yu Zhongwen, the military leader. Yu Zhongwen died of grief and anger. His death further concentrated military power for the Holy Lord, controlled the Twelve Guards more firmly for the Holy Lord, and cleared obstacles for the central government to attack and weaken the conservative power of the military.
Liu Shilong left with a "notorious reputation", but he made contributions to the advancement of the unified reform of China-Turkey, especially laying a solid foundation for the centralized reform of the military. If you have any merits, you must reward them. The Holy Lord has always rewarded and punished them strictly. So the Holy Lord gave Liu Shilong generous compensation, or an exchange of political interests. King Yang Tong of Yue not only had the right to inherit the imperial unity, but was also pushed to the position of the first person to inherit the imperial unity.
In the new round of imperial conscience, the "upward" of King Yang Tong of Yue was exchanged for Liu Shilong's life and the political interests of the old noble group of the surname Lu, mainly the eight nobles of the Xianbei surname. Every step of the "forward" of King Yang Tong of Yue was full of hardships, covered with blood and tears. However, just when the old noble group of the surname Lu was excited and proud, and was about to reach out to take over the "reward" of the Holy Lord, there was a sudden change.
The Holy Lord gave this generous "reward" to the Shandong aristocratic group mainly composed of the five super wealthy families of the Cui family, including the Cui family. The Cui family "gathered for nothing" and suddenly became the core force to assist the King of Yue. The Shandong people picked up a huge advantage and suddenly entered the Yue Palace. The "strength" possessed by the super wealthy family of the Boling Cui family and the Shandong aristocratic group, the "behemoth" is not something that the old aristocratic group of the Lu family at sunset can be expected. The result can be imagined. The peaches cultivated by the eight nobles of the Xianbei surnames with blood and tears were finally "ripe", but the Shandong people picked them away. The two sides must fight. From then on, they can imagine how fierce the power struggle in the Yue Palace was and how sinister the political game was.
The Holy Lord's move was so powerful. The Cui family and the Shandong people knew they had fallen into the trap. The nobles of the eight surnames of Xianbei knew they had been fooled, but they had no choice but to go to the battlefield. Even if both of them were injured and both were burned, they would be willing to do so.
In this way, is the closest to the imperial throne as seen on the surface? The answer is obviously no. No one knows whether the King of Yue Yang Tong can win the imperial throne, but one thing is certain. Before "the truth is revealed", whether the Cui family and the Shandong people or the eight nobles of the Xianbei surnames, while "the snipe and the clam fight", they must also compromise and concessions to the "fisherman" of the Holy Lord, otherwise the Holy Lord will join forces with any of the two sides, and the other will be "dead".
"Cui Zi's order cannot be issued to the Yue Palace, and Fan Zigai's order cannot be issued to the left-behind residence. Neither of the two people who decide the fate of the Dongdu can control the situation of the Dongdu, nor can they command the Dongdu garrison. This is the current Dongdu." Li Min shook his head and sighed, "One of the important reasons why Li Yang dared to raise troops and the Duke of Yue (Yang Xuangan) dared to launch a mutiny is that the major forces in the Dongdu are in their own right, and they are in a mess and cannot resist the attack of external forces at all."
Li Fengyun nodded frequently, agreeing with Li Min's analysis. At the same time, an important figure came into his sight, namely Taifuqing and Anchang Yuan Wendu.
"If we capture Yique and threaten Dongdu, what will happen to Anchang Gong?" Li Fengyun asked.
"No response." Li Min answered very fragilely.
"What's the solution?"
"In today's Dongdu, Fan Zigai is just a political enemy of Duke Anchang, while Cui Zi is the one whom Duke Anchang must kill."
Li Fengyun woke up suddenly.
Chapter completed!