Yang Gongren sighed secretly. It was not that he didn't want to trust Fan Zigai, it had nothing to do with Fan Zigai's personal abilities and qualities, nor with their personal friendships. The political struggle was cruel and ruthless, either you die or I lived. Although he had no intention of killing Fan Zigai, it did not mean that others would not kill him, nor did it mean that Fan Zigai was not hurtful. So at this moment, Fan Zigai took the initiative to act in cooperation, which was obviously a forced act of helplessness. Just wait for the time to be ripe, he would take revenge. Since that was the case, how could Yang Gongren do what he wanted?

I helped you, and the final credit is yours, and the guilt is mine. When you become an official, I suffered a lot of blows. Even with your deliberate revenge, I couldn't even save my life. If that's the case, why should I help you? Of course, I have to "pull you" into the water and make you bear the blame for your crimes. Only by sharing good fortune and good fortune can we share honor and disgrace. In this way, in the future political liquidation, I can use your "help" to get rid of political difficulties and maintain my vested interests. Even if I can't go further, I can't work hard without any effort or even be guilty. I was hit hard and retreated to the end for no reason.

Fan Zigai looked at Yang Gongren with anticipation. Yang Tong, Yang Hao, Cui Jie, Yuan Wendu, Dugu Sheng, Wei Jin, Wei Yunqi and other princes and ministers also looked at Yang Gongren and waited for his decision.

Now Fan Zigai finally got to know each other and made wise compromises. This is conducive to Yang Gongren's control of the overall situation. If he can turn the tide, he will inevitably be able to rescue himself from the current political dilemma. There is still great political potential in the future. In fact, since the Saint Lord accelerated the speed of reform, it is the reformists who truly curbed the expansion of the power of the royal family and tried every means to weaken the influence of the royal family on national policy, while the conservatives have always won over the royal family to resist political enemies. The royal family must not support the Saint Lord in politics and must keep a certain distance from the conservatives. However, in the unified reform, the royal family is also the one who suffers interests, so the royal family reforms radically.

Ge always held an attitude of not supporting but not opposing it. The Holy Lord and the Reformers definitely did not like this attitude, so the royal family became "suffering" and the two sides were not pleased. Yang Gongren "returned" and was "hanged up" by the conservatives and reformers in just a few days later. This is the reason. Everyone was very conflicted, they wanted to win over the royal family, but they were worried that the royal family would be used by the other party, and they wanted to use Yang Gongren to save the Dongdu, but they were worried that Yang Gongren would be unfavorable to their own side after he grew up. Driven by this ambivalent psychology, Yang Gongren was like a "roller coaster", and was always in danger of destruction.

Yang Gongren was angry and tried his best to get rid of the predicament in front of him. However, before Yang Gongren could take any measures, Yang Xuangan raised troops in Liyang and led a large army to kill Dongdu. At this moment, Dongdu was still a mess. Yang Gongren's comeback was too short, and various means had not yet begun to be used. He had not achieved the goal of bringing together all kinds of political forces from Dongdu after his comeback, so he was helpless.

If you want to defend Dongdu now, the forces of Dongdu must first work together, and to work together, and to work together, we must have the same interests and the same interests. First, we must push all the major forces in Dongdu to the edge of the "cliff", and life and death are hanging on the front line. Everyone does not put aside the contradictions and has to join forces to fight. What is this situation? Yang Xuangan came in a flash and lightning, breaking through the Dongdu defense with a lightning momentum. Dongdu is about to fall, and everyone is in a desperate situation.

But the situation is very unclear. Xijing has not taken action yet, the Holy Lord has not responded yet, and even the local county governments still know nothing about this storm. It is unknown who will win. At this moment, the major forces in the East Capital are bound to surrender to Yang Xuangan, and will never put all their lives on Yang Xuangan. In the end, everyone can only cooperate and fight hard, waiting for the situation to become clear in the painful torture, and then make the last most correct and most beneficial choice.

Before, these military and political tycoons "cut" Yang Gongren and "hanged" Yang Gongren, making Yang Gongren's future bleak. Now Yang Gongren has made it difficult. Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. Anyway, his future is bleak, so what are you afraid of?

Since you are fearless, then do whatever you want. If you cheat me, I will cheat you. I will let Yang Xuangan attack the city of Dongdu, and even hand over the outer capital of Dongdu, send you all to the "guillotine", killing your future to death, and sharing good fortune. I see how you plan, and in the end you will inevitably force you to work together, have to put your life to death, and have to burn your boats.

Of course, it is very dangerous to implement the "burning the boat" strategy in today's disarray. If you are not careful, you will lose all your plans. At that time, it will not be burning the boat, but digging your own grave. However, Yang Gongren has no choice but to do anything. The military and political tycoons who are all seeking their own profits and have their own thoughts cannot count on them at all. The strategies brought out by any force will be rejected by other forces. The conflict of interest is too fierce. In this case, Yang Gongren can only survive and die with Dongdu.

"Since the truth or falsehood of the news cannot be verified, it is impossible to make a correct judgment and can't come up with corresponding countermeasures."

Yang Gongren was calm and composed, touched his long beard with his hands and spoke slowly.

King Yang Tong of Yue was stunned, and was incredible about Yang Gongren's decision. Whether this news is true or false, from the Eastern Capital, it should be "preferred to believe that it exists rather than not". Regardless of the situation, we should prevent problems before they happen, and strengthen the defenses in the east and north directions of the capital. Chen's heavy troops were on the Dahe defense line, Luoshui defense line, and heavy troops were stationed in Luokoucang and Heishi Pass to ensure the safety of the Eastern Capital. The Eastern Capital was safe and the capital was stable, so that the safety of the North and South Grand Canals could be ensured, and the safety of the North and South transportation arteries were safe, so that the second Eastern Expedition would be carried out smoothly. This is obvious. How could Yang Gongren not know? How could he ignore the priorities that a young prince could distinguish between him? How could Yang Gongren turn a blind eye?

Ministers such as Wei Jin, Yuan Wendu, Cui Jie were all as deep as water and remained silent.

Everyone is a master of gamers, and you will know the whole story with a turn of your eyes. Yang Gongren counterattacked and dug a hole. But with his current mentality and the timing of digging a hole, everyone is really helpless and helpless. If you want to oppose and stop it, you don’t know where to start unless everyone unites, concentrates their strength together, drives Yang Gongren out of the decision-making level, and lets him go home to continue to be filial, so that he will no longer take power under the name of King Yang Tong of Yue. But wouldn’t that hit Yang Gongren’s thoughts? If Dongdu is lost, he will always find a scapegoat that can be taken advantage of? Fan Zigai’s weight is definitely not enough, and he will be beheaded.

Someone must be with him, and Yang Gongren's weight is enough. His head is worth the lives of several people. More importantly, everyone is the driving force behind this storm and wants to use it to gain personal gain. If Yang Xuangan fails to reach Dongdu, fails to worsen the situation, fails to force the Holy Lord to interrupt the Eastern Expedition, and fails to attack the reformists politically and militaryally again, then can this storm be called a storm? What is the point? What selfish benefit can everyone gain? In the end, it will be a waste of money and shoot himself in the foot. Not only will he get nothing, but he may be hit in a state of desperation.

If you want to dig a hole, then dig it. Everyone cooperates, for fear that you will not dig or can’t dig it down, that’s the problem.

Fan Zigai was furious, but he could only bear it and could only express his anger and disappointment at this moment with a cold face. His impression of Yang Gongren was also subverted at this moment, and his fair evaluation of Yang Gongren also collapsed at this moment. It was not until this moment that he understood why the Holy Lord was "cold" towards Yang Gongren.

After the defeat in the first Eastern Expedition, the Holy Lord urgently needed to strengthen the strength of the royal family to consolidate his absolute authority in the center. At that time, Yang Gongren was the only candidate. As long as the Holy Lord issued an order, Yang Gongren would "return", but the Holy Lord did not make a decision for a long time. Even after some central ministers actively recommended him to cater to the superior intention, the Holy Lord temporarily "closed" Yang Gongren's entrance to the core level of the central core level in the name of being unable to bear to "snatch love". Many people do not understand, Fan Zigai was one of them. At that time, he also actively recommended Yang Gongren to enter the core level to replace Yang Xiong and Yang Da brothers to rebuild the balance of power at the core level. After all, they are all a family, and their elbows will not turn outwards. Besides, with Yang Gongren's personality and governance style, they will not hinder the Holy Lord, but the Holy Lord just doesn't nod. Now Fan Zigai understands that Yang Gongren is indeed a "unpredictable" person, and the Holy Lord has the wisdom to know people.

Yang Xuangan rebelled. From the perspective of the Dongdu, of course, he was defending the enemy outside the capital. With Yang Gongren's reputation and strength, as long as he ascended the high ground, he would gather people. He would lead the army to the front line and fight bloodily. He would definitely block the rebels on the front line. In this way, the situation would be beneficial to the east. Later, reinforcements from counties and counties around the capital would come one after another. Even if Yang Xuangan could still hold on for a while, as long as he did not disturb the capital, the Dongdu would be safe. The rock-solid Dongdu would definitely leave the King of Qi and the King of Dai who were ready to move. In the end, Tushi had to give up his "delusion" and instead actively suppress Yang Xuangan, protect the Dongdu, protect the Grand Canal of the North and South, and ensure the smooth progress of the Eastern Expedition, to seek some political benefits. In this way, the situation would reverse and the storm would be easily calmed down.

At the critical moment, Yang Gongren did not stand up for the country's destiny, but the Holy Lord was a beautiful word. The facts proved that he stood up for his own interests and the interests of the royal family. This also proved that Yang Gongren's political philosophy was conservative. Perhaps he supported the unified reform and the construction of a centralized system. But at the same time, he also opposed the Holy Lord's use of radical means to promote reform, oppose the Holy Lord's excessive expansion of imperial power, and oppose the central government's use of the interests of aristocratic families to achieve its own high centralization.

In other words, Yang Gongren’s so-called “for the national destiny” is to push the unified reform to the right track. For this reason, he needs to curb and weaken the absolute control of the Holy Lord and the reform faction over the national affairs. At the same time, he also needs to crack down on and destroy radical conservative forces to ease the fierce contradiction between reform and conservatives and maintain political stability. Only by stabilizing the national policies formulated under the political situation will meet the interests of all classes in China and Turkey. Only when the country is prosperous and the country is prosperous can the Yang royal family stay firmly. Therefore, Yang Gongren is also the driving force behind this storm and also wants to use this storm to achieve his political goals.

"With Guan Gong's opinion, Dongdu just watched it change?" Fan Zigai suppressed his anger and questioned, "If the news is true, wouldn't Dongdu delay the counterattack?"

"I just talk about the matter. As for whether to wait and see if it is to prevent it early, you still need to make decisions together." Yang Gongren smiled and shook his hand, "I dare not make any suggestions for the king, nor dare to make decisions at will."

Yang Gongren pushed it and directly rejected Fan Zigai's intention to cooperate.
Chapter completed!