The main executor of the Western Tujing rule was the people of the Northwest, and the most important force was the West Army. Therefore, the biggest beneficiary of the benefits of the Western Tujing was of course the northwest, that is, the Guanlong region. More specifically, the Guanlong noble group. For the Dongdu, the Guanlong noble group was a conservative force with Xijing as the "base camp".

In today's fierce struggle between reform and conservative, the more successful the Western Tu's governance is, the more resources it needs to consolidate and increase the strategic results, and this is actually support for Xijing. The more resources it occupies, the more national strength it consumes, the stronger the conservative power it will be, and the greater the resistance to reform. This is what the reformists do not want to see and cannot accept it from the East Capital. Therefore, while the Holy Lord and the Central Committee insist on actively defending the national policy, the support for the West and the North Xinjiang has also undergone major changes.

The result is that the Holy Lord and the Central Committee must do their best to survive the northern desert, and the East Metropolitan Government must contain and weaken the northern desert. The Eastern Expedition broke out, and all the resources of the Middle Earth were concentrated in the northern border. When an attack on a Goguryeo, they had to devote all their national strength. The fact hidden behind the Eastern Expedition was that the Western Capital Administration stopped, and the central government's support for the Northwest suddenly decreased. The East Metropolitan Government must "silently" curb and weaken the conservative forces with Xijing as the "base camp".

This will inevitably lead to a result. The Western Xinjiang turned into passive defense, and the northwest enemy took advantage of the momentum and actively counterattacked. As a result, the results of the Western Turkish rule were gradually lost. The Guanlong people were under heavy pressure, and Xijing had to "low down" to the Dongdu to seek resource support. At the same time, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee achieved a great victory in the Eastern Expedition, and their authority increased greatly. Then they began to plan the Northern Expedition and carry out a war between the North and the South. They also needed to concentrate resources in the Northern Xinjiang. In this situation, Xijing had to compromise and retreat step by step, while Dongdu grabbed the "weakness" of Xijing, pinched the "neck" of the Guanlong people, and finally curbed and weakened the conservative forces.

However, planning is up to people and success is up to heaven. No one expected that the Eastern Expedition would be defeated, and the Holy Lord and the Central Master shot themselves in the foot.

The turning point is here. The reformers will not admit failure. They attribute the reasons for the failure to the conspiracy of the conservatives; they cannot admit failure. Military failure means political failure; they dare not admit failure. Once the conservative forces make a comeback and control the government, reform will inevitably stagnate or even regress, and they will surely become the burial objects of the failure of reform.

So they decided to launch the second Eastern Expedition and acted like a stance of dying. For the conservatives, this move was not a reform party for Goguryeo, but a stalemate for them. Since this point has come, it is meaningless to compromise and concessions. If you compromise and concessions, can he still save your life? It’s a death-to-death battle.

As a result, the situation this year took a sharp turn and collapsed thousands of miles. The Dongdu mutiny, the northwest crisis, and the second Eastern Expedition failed. The general trend of China and foreign countries began to deteriorate at an unprecedented speed.

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"My dear, Honghua has no news yet." The Holy Lord saw Pei Shiju's expression was grim, and he was meditating and silent, and took the initiative to speak, "It's intriguing."

This matter is indeed intriguing. Li Yuan, Duke of Tang, rushed to Honghua with an edict as early as May. More than two months have passed and there is no news. Why? What happened to Honghua? Did Yuan Hongsi raise troops to rebel and arrest Li Yuan? However, in the report from Xijing, there was no mention of Yuan Hongsi and Honghua's left-behind mansion. This is enough to show that there was no rebellion in Honghua and everything was fine. There was only one possibility left. Yuan Hongsi had lost military power and Li Yuan was unable to control military power. The Northwest Lingshuo Legion was controlled by Xijing. The actual control of military power was Deputy Honghua, Deputy Commander of the Northwest Army, and Feng Xiaoci, General of the Right Guard.

This is a reasonable explanation. For Xijing, the threat of the Honghua Lingshuo Legion to Xijing is far greater than that of Yang Xuangan, far east of Tongguan. Therefore, before Yang Xuangan was in Tongguan and actually threatened the security of Xijing, Xijing must firmly control the Lingshuo Legion to avoid being attacked by the rebels on both sides and being trapped in the dilemma of being attacked from both sides.

But how to seize military power is not to give people a handle and put the population into a real population? After all, military power is too sensitive, and public seizure is equivalent to rebellion. If there is no safe and proper strategy, you must not use fire to burn yourself. So after the Second Eastern Expedition began, Xijing suddenly attacked Yuan Hongsi and attacked him in groups. This is a plan of killing two birds with one stone. It can not only force the Holy Lord to make concessions to Xijing on the candidates of the Northwest Army Commander, but also force Yuan Hongsi to make trouble. In a panic, Yuan Hongsi will definitely reveal "flaws", which gives Xijing the opportunity to "take action" and can seize military power with justification.

As for Li Yuan, he was from Guanlong. Although he belonged to the Wuchuan aristocratic group headed by the Dugu family, the Wuchuan aristocratic group belonged to part of the Guanlong aristocratic group, but his political stance was relatively neutral. Therefore, when it was related to the overall interests of Guanlong, it is easy to know how Li Yuan chose.

The Holy Lord said that it was "intriguing", but in fact he had guessed the result, which made him very anxious. He was worried that the negotiations between Yuwen Shu and Xijing would break down. Xijing was furious and allowed Yang Xuangan to enter Guanzhong, and even formed an alliance with Yang Xuangan. The domestic situation would inevitably be out of control and the storm would become more and more intense.

The time when Xijing's report was sent was probably after receiving the news that the rebels had withdrawn from the Dongdu, the next step was to work together to encircle Yang Xuangan. So Xijing's meaning was very obvious. I fulfilled my promise, but I did not believe Yuwen Shu's promise. I needed the Holy Lord's personal promise, otherwise there would be no guarantee that the center would do its best to save the Northwest crisis and would continuously provide the urgently needed "resources" to the Western Xinjiang.

According to the principles, the Holy Lord issued an edict to appease Xijing. After all, the situation in China and abroad has developed to this point, and the room for maneuver between the Holy Lord and the Central Committee is already very small, and political compromise is inevitable. The two capitals work together to cut off gold. Only by cooperation can the situation be quickly stabilized and restored vitality.

However, the Holy Lord not only summoned Pei Shiju urgently, but also opened his mouth to Honghua. This was obviously a threat to Xijing. Not only did he not want to compromise with Xijing, he was in a stance to fight with Xijing.

Pei Shiju had to stop talking, but he didn't want to say it. To be honest, it would inevitably anger the Holy Lord, and to tell lies would inevitably worsen the situation, which made him unable to stop and was in a dilemma.

Pei Shiju supported the Eastern Expedition, but opposed the exertion of the country's efforts; Pei Shiju also supported the Northern Expedition, but believed that the timing was inappropriate and needed to wait patiently. He insisted that the opportunity for the Northern Expedition was in the Western Land, so he had to maintain and increase support for the Western Land Administration. However, things went against people's wishes, and the development of the situation went against his wishes.

Pei Shiju has been in charge of diplomatic affairs since the late emperor and has a good understanding of the Western Land and the Desert. As early as the beginning of the throne, when the Holy Lord ascended the throne, he analyzed and deduced the situation west of the Palacio to the Holy Lord in detail when he presented the Western Land and ruled the situation west of the Palacio Lord.

To the west of the Palacios, the Persians and the Great Qin people (Byzantine Empire) were old enemies for generations. The two sides fought for more than 300 years and fought endlessly. More than ten years ago, the Persians launched another war. The Persian emperor Kuslu's army was invincible and was invincible. The people of the Great Qin people were worried and had difficulty outside, so Chiraclu rose up and ascended the throne. The first thing he did to turn the tide was to ask for help from the Western Turks.

The "Silk Road" links the Western Turks, the Persians and the Great Qin people.

On the one hand, the Persians needed huge military funds to maintain the war, so they were eyeing the benefits of the Silk Road. At the same time, in order to continue to attack the Qin people, the Persians also needed to cut off the Silk Road that reached Middle-earth. So the Persians naturally "targeted" the Silk Road.

The benefits of the Silk Road were too important for the survival and development of the Western Turkic Khanate. The Persian ambitions for the Silk Road not only seriously damaged the interests of the Western Turkic people, but also directly endangered the survival of the Western Turkic people. Therefore, the Western Turkic people would inevitably form an alliance with the Qin people, and the two sides joined forces to attack the Persians.

In Pei Shiju's Western Land Strategy, the alliance between Shekui Khan was the core link.

The sphere of influence of the Shekui Khan was just west of the Palaciori. In order to survive, he had to unite the Qin people to defeat the Persians. Therefore, the strategy of the Shekui Khan was to join the Great Qin people in the West, merge with Tiel and the Western Regions to attack the ******* Khan by alliance with the Central Earth, and try every means to stabilize the situation in the east and west directions of the Palaciori. Only in this way can the Western Turks gather all their strength to go south to the Amu River without any worries and fight bloody battles with the Persians.

At that time, the "boss" of the Western Turkic Khan was Nijuechuluo Khan. This man made enemies from all sides and was armed with military force, which made the Western Turkic Khan in danger. It just so happened that Zhongtu wanted to expand his sphere of influence to the Western Regions, and Nijuechuluo Khan was the biggest obstacle. So Pei Shiju and Shekui Khan hit it off and successfully "stripped" Nijuechuluo Khan. Then Zhongtu expanded his territory in the Western Regions and successfully destroyed Tuyuhun. Shekui Khan re-stabilized the tent, annexed Tiel, and shared the Western Regions with Zhongtu. Both sides took the needs and cooperated happily.

As for the situation of the Western Turkic Khan west of the Pamir and the strategy of the Shekui Khan, the Western Turkic people needed to form an alliance with Central Turkic, because its biggest enemy east of the Pamir were the East Turkic people. The Western Turkic people were the most urgent task of survival, and the Eastern Turkic people regarded themselves as orthodox, and they always had to conquer the Western Turkic people and establish a unified Great Turkic Khanate. Therefore, the Western Turkic people were helpless. Unless it completely defeated the Persians, it would fight on both sides and could only pull the Middle-earth people to fight against the Eastern Turkic people.

This is good news for Central China. As long as the Western Turks are firmly united, they can not only attack the northern desert and the north, but also consolidate and strengthen the benefits of the Western Land, stabilize the garrison situation in the Western Xinjiang, and kill multiple good things in one fell swoop.

The opportunity for the Northern Expedition mentioned by Pei Shiju was like this. Before attacking the Persians, the Khan of Shekui must solve the threat from the East and Turks. For this reason, they must unite with Middle-earth to attack the desert. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Middle-earth. As long as they seize it, they will not be able to rebuild the great cause of Han Wu.

However, the vast world west of the Pamir Mountains is too far and unfamiliar to the Central Plains, especially the civil and military officials in the Eastern Capital. They let Pei Shiju talk so much that they can only listen to the story. They basically talk about it with chickens and ducks, and have no effect on cows playing the piano.

They did not believe in the promises of the Western Turks, did not believe in the sincerity of the Shekui Khan, nor did they believe that the Western Turks would join forces with Zhongtu to attack the northern desert. They bluntly rejected the marriage request of the Shekui Khan, imprisoned the "protons" of the Shekui Khan mercilessly, and humiliated the tooth envoys who came to Beijing to form an alliance. The result was today's result.

What do you ask Pei Shiju to say now? Pei Shiju wants to say it in one sentence, to form an alliance with the Western Turks, otherwise the crisis in the northwest will not only fail to alleviate, but will become more and more serious.

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