Chapter 663 The Importance of Li Jincai
Yu Rou is the son of Yu Shiji, the Minister of Internal Affairs. In the central core level, Shiji is the leader of the Jiangzuo Noble Group, and Pei Shiji is the mainstay of the Guanlong Noble Group. The two "mountain kings" are fighting openly and secretly, and the contradictions are fierce. Under this background, it is of course the most appropriate for Yu Shiji to rescue Li Dewu. No matter how you interpret it, it will not cause trouble for Pei Shiji.
"In this sentence, you should tell Duke Jianchang (Li Zixiong) that Yu Rou is now under his tent, and he is quite respectful to Duke Jianchang, but he is disdainful to this thief coach."
Li Fengyun knew that Pei Xuanji saved his sister-in-law and that it was true that he used Pei Shuying to resolve hatred to get closer. To put it bluntly, since Pei Xuanji came, he would not return empty-handed, nor would he accept Li Fengyun's "release" proposal. He must control this power for his own use.
"How can you say such a thing?" Pei Xuanji said with a pun, "If you want to say it, you can only say it, and you will entrust it to Duke Jianchang."
Li Fengyun glanced at him, sneered, and told me, wouldn’t it mean to expose the truth? And Pei Xuan was confidentially telling Li Zixiong the truth, but this truth was not what he needed. It would tie his hands and feet, make him unable to fly freely. "Brother is old and has a high method. He is so sly and can be comparable to the old man. I admire him."
Pei Xuanji smiled, "After the accident, my wife often talked about you and used you to mock this brother, saying that if you were alive, you would definitely help her at all costs. Now, you will not only come back from the dead, but also save her from danger. A certain book to write a letter, and she will be ecstatic and sad."
Pei Xuanji became more and more aggressive and pressed him step by step.
Li Fengyun frowned and weighed the gains and losses. At this point, Li Fengyun couldn't break up. After all, if Li Pingyuan was alive, he should be very fond of Pei Shuying, and even was willing to sacrifice his life for her. He would have to eliminate this cause and effect for Li Pingyuan in terms of emotion and reason. However, in this way, the price he paid would probably be high. Due to the special relationship between Li Pingyuan and Pei, and the huge political risks that this brought to Pei, especially Pei Shiju, he had to make some compromises, because once Pei Shiju was "injured" as a result, his power was greatly reduced or he was excluded from the central core level by his political enemies, it would inevitably affect the direction of the general trend of China and foreign countries and would inevitably have unpredictable obstacles to his future planning.
"How is Li Dewu like this? Is it worthy of the young lady's entrustment for her life?" Li Fengyun asked.
"The son-in-law whom a certain family likes is of course the most popular among people. There is no doubt about this, but unfortunately the luck is too bad." Pei Xuanji sighed, "In fact, since the death of Duke Shen Ming, the Li family in Longxi has declined from prosperity to decline, and each generation is worse than the other."
"I remember that Li Dewu should be the nephew of Duke Li Hun of Duke Li Hun and the cousin of Duke Wencheng Li Shanheng." Li Fengyun asked again, "I'm very strange. Duke Li Hun of Duke Li Hun has been smooth sailing. Why did he violate the law? In the end, he actually implicated Li Dewu in Lingnan?"
Li Hun's character is Jin Cai. The Li Jincai mentioned by Pei Xuanji is Li Hun, the general of the Right Guard. In Li Fengyun's memory, Li Hun and his entire family were "stopped" by the Saint Lord and the Reformers and the Reformers in the spring two years later, before the outbreak of the North-South War, when the reformers and conservatives broke out again in fierce confrontation, they were "stopped" by the Saint Lord and the Reformers. As one of the members of the Chengji Li clan, Li Dewu was one of the members of the Chengji Li clan and was compatible with Lingnan. The Chengji Li clan of Longxi is the first wealthy family in the Guanlong noble group, and the "leader" of the entire Northwest family. The three brothers Li Xian, Li Yuan and Li Mu are even more
The meritorious ministers of Guanlong, especially Li Mu, not only in the Western Wei, but also in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, they were already the only general, and played a crucial role in the early days of the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty. If Li Mu had not firmly supported the late emperor, it would be a different story to whether there was a Great Sui Dynasty. Therefore, after the founding of the country, the first emperor gave the Li Mu clan a "gold medal to avoid death", but it was in great prosperity and declined. As centralized reforms increasingly eroded the interests of wealthy families, the Li Mu clan, as vested interests, finally reached the opposite side of reform and was killed by the Holy Lord and the reformists.
Later history put the responsibility for the destruction of Li Mu's lineage to the Holy Lord, saying that the Holy Lord believed in the slander of the alchemist and was confused by the prophecy of "Li is the emperor", and finally killed innocent people. The one who acted as the "killer" was Yu Wen Shu, the confidant of the Holy Lord, who said that Yu Wen Shu deliberately framed Li Hun for his personal revenge in order to make a public prosecutor and destroyed his entire clan.
In fact, the internal situation is far more complicated than the rumors. Considering that the general situation between China and foreign countries had deteriorated rapidly at that time, the oppression of the Western Turks and the invasion of the ******* outside, the internal conservatives took this opportunity to launch a crazy counterattack against the Holy Lord and the reformists, trying to use the rise and fall of the Middle Earth and the survival of the country to force the Holy Lord to give up reforms and try to regain the ruling power from the revolutionary faction. In order to fight the invasion of the Northern Barbarians, the Holy Lord and the Reformers resolutely decided to devote all their national strength to the Civil War. They must first stabilize the country when the compromise could no longer win the unanimous conservatives to the outside world.
The butcher's knife hit the conservatives with heavy blows, using force to curb and attack opponents, thereby winning the temporary stability of the political situation between the two capitals. As a result, it can be imagined that killing the Li Hun clan and killing the Li clan in Longxi did severely hit the Li clan in Longxi and gave the Guanlong noble group a heavy blow, but the rabbit died and the fox was sad. While this attack hit the arrogance of the conservatives, it also completely angered the Northwest Warrior Group and completely angered the conservative forces headed by Xijing. The two sides became in trouble and turned against each other, and they met with swords and swords and spears. Suddenly, the tide of rebellion swept across the Middle Earth like a tsunami.
The Holy Lord and the Reformers were attacked from both sides, and the Civil War was defeated by the outside world, and the internal reforms were even more defeated. Both internal and external fronts were lost to the sky. As a last resort, the Holy Lord and the Reformers went south to Jiangdu in the second year after the war in the north and south, and admitted their failures in disguise. Although the Holy Lord and the Reformers "defeated" Su Wei and his family in order to vent their anger and hit the conservatives with a heavy blow, this could no longer change the fate of failure. They bid farewell to Dongdu, bid farewell to the political situation of the two capitals, bid farewell to centralized reforms, and then died with the country.
Therefore, the "Li Hun Clan Destruction Incident" was politically the last straw that crushed the Holy Lord and the Reformers. It occupied an important position in the last three years of the Great Sui Dynasty. Even though later generations deliberately smeared the Holy Lord, smeared Yuwen Shu, and deliberately downplayed the matter, as long as this incident was placed in the fierce battle between the two factions of reform and conservative factions in the later dynasty, it would not be difficult to find its importance.
Pei Shiju, who was the minister of the Huangmen at that time, forced his daughter Pei Shuying to divorce his son-in-law Li Dewu in order to protect himself. From this, we can also see that the "Li Hun Clan Exposure Incident" had a great impact on the political situation of the two capitals at that time. Otherwise, as the chief clerk of the central core level, there would be no reason to do such a despicable and shameless thing to destroy his reputation.
However, the current historical trajectory seems to have deviated in some aspects. Li Hun has not yet been involved in the disaster of the clan destruction, but Li Dewu has been misled. What is the mystery? What impact does these mystery have on Li Hun himself and his family?
Li Fengyun was very concerned about Li Hun. Even during the war in Dongdu, he passed the message through Li Min, trying his best to convince Li Hun that after the Yang Xuangan mutiny was over, when the liquidation storm swept across the two capitals, he took the initiative to go north to guard the border to leave Kyoto to avoid the storm. In fact, it was to change the fate of Li Hun himself and his family.
In Li Fengyun's view, the three Li Mu brothers had too much influence among the northwestern martial artists. The noble families who were vassed in Chengji, Longxi were spread all over the Western Xinjiang, and the disciples who were loyal to the Li Mu family were also spread all over the government and the country. Their power was no less than that of the Heluo Group, which was painstakingly run by Yang Su, the Duke of Old Yue and Yang Xuangan, the Duke of Young Yue. Therefore, if this huge strength was not pushed to the opposite side by the Saint Lord and the Reformers, they would destroy the Great Wall themselves, but would join hands after political compromise.
If the Great Wall is strengthened, then the war between the North and South may be another ending. Even if you cannot defeat the Beilu and cannot defend the enemy outside the national gate, at least you can draw in the Daibei area after luring the enemy deep into it, so that the Holy Lord and the Central Committee will not be surrounded by the Beilu and suffered unprecedented shame. From then on, you will lose your authority, lose control of the government and lose control of the local government, which will lead to the collapse of the country's destiny and the collapse of the great cause of unification.
So far, Li Fengyun has successfully changed Cui Hongsheng's fate and changed the life trajectory of King Qi, Li Zixiong, Wei Fusi and Li Shanheng. However, except for King Qi, the role that others can play in the Civil War is not as great as Li Hun, so Li Fengyun also wants to do his best to change Li Hun's fate, change the fate of Dong Chun, the general left by Pengcheng, and then change the result of the North-South War.
Li Hun is the leader of the Chengji Li clan of Longxi, Li Shanheng is the pillar of the Chengji Li clan of Longxi, and Dong Chun is the most important capable general under the Chengji Li clan of Longxi. If all three of them are transferred to the northern border to guard the border, and Li Zixiong, the head of the Bohai House of the Li clan of Longxi, then it is conceivable that once the war between the north and the south begins, the northwest warriors will definitely follow their banner and fight the enemy bravely. In addition, Cui Hongsheng, if the sect leader of the Boling Cui clan can also go north to guard the border, the power of Hebei and even the entire Hebei will be mobilized to fight the enemy together. As for Wei Fusi, who was born in the wealthy family in Guanzhong, Yang Gongdao, the royal family member of the royal family, the five great sects
Zheng Yan of the Zheng family of Xingyang, Han Shiyan, Luoyang nobles, Zhou Zhong, Yu Rou, Lai Yuan, etc., are supported by powerful political forces behind them. As long as the role of these people are fully utilized, they will be able to temporarily unite these large and small political forces belonging to different political groups and unite to the outside world. In this way, the result of the war between the North and the South will inevitably change. At least, the northern enemy will not be allowed to march straight into Yanmen, nor will the Holy Lord and the Central Guard be surrounded by the Northern Guard and suffer unprecedented shame in Yanmen. In this way, the authority of the Holy Lord and the Central Guard can be saved and the political situation of the two capitals will be won by the war.
Li Fengyun's idea is beautiful and irreproachable, but with his ability, he must not be able to do so. He must rely on the King of Qi. With the King of Qi's ability, it is difficult and basically unlikely to achieve this goal. From the perspective of King of Qi, this is equivalent to transferring all his "teams" to the northern border, which is equivalent to clearly telling the Holy Lord that he wants to dominate the northern border. From the standpoint of the Holy Lord and the Central Government, we must prevent the King of Qi from becoming a big man and not being able to lose the big man. Of course, we will not agree to these excessive requests of King of Qi. Therefore, even if Li Fengyun strongly instigates and lobbies to the King of Qi, the King of Qi may not dare to speak. After all, the consequences of angering the Holy Lord are terrible, and it is not good to do so. Instead, it forces the Holy Lord and the Central Government to "take action" on Li Hun and Dong Chun early, and use two bloody heads to severely warn and severely attack the King of Qi.
Li Fengyun was exhausted and thought hard, and could only put his last hope on Pei Shiju. Therefore, he was very conflicted because Pei Shiju had to take huge risks for this. With Pei Shiju's cautiousness, he might not be willing to take such risks. Even if he took a step back, Pei Shiju was willing to take such risks. The premise was that King Qi and Li Fengyun had to pay the price to satisfy him. So what was this price? It goes without saying that everyone knew that this was the price that King Qi and Li Fengyun could not pay for.
Out of Li Fengyun's expectations, Pei Xuanji came on his own initiative, which gave Li Fengyun a glimmer of hope. Pei Shiju stretched out his "hand" so impatiently, which shows that the current trend of China and foreign countries is very unfavorable to China and Turkey, and its future trend also makes China and Turkey very passive. With no choice, Pei Shiju can only unite all forces that can be united, first resolve the crisis of the northern border garrison, and first carry out the preliminary preparations for the Civil War, so as not to be caught off guard by the Northern Captains, detonate internal and external crises, and trap Central China in the abyss of collapse.
Li Fengyun decided to raise the negotiation price so that he could bargain and see if he could achieve the expected goal. Both sides still have some time now. If this time is not reached, we can talk again next time. After the third Eastern Expedition, the dark clouds of the war between the North and South will inevitably be shrouded inside and outside the Great Wall. The pressure of the Holy Lord and the Central Secretariat doubled. At that time, although both sides can still negotiate, the situation is not good for both sides. Under heavy pressure, both sides may make a mistake in decision-making, which will lead to failure. Therefore, Li Fengyun believes that the key at the moment is that Pei Shiju must clearly know his bottom line, so that the two sides may reach an agreement before the third Eastern Expedition, so that they can get enough time for war preparation for northern Xinjiang.
Li Fengyun was far-sighted, and Li Hun was a key figure in his overall planning. So when he suddenly heard Pei Xuanji say that Li Jincai was illegal, Li Fengyun became alert and immediately asked the reason. This question seemed normal, but Pei Xuanji was full of doubts, because Li Fengyun's attention could not be focused on this small matter. Both sides were "warming up" the negotiations and were very focused. If it were not for the negotiation issues, it would be impossible to waste words on unnecessary trivial matters.
"There are rumors that the reason why Li Jincai was able to inherit the title of Shen Minggong as the tenth son of Shen Minggong was because he designed to kill Li Yun, the eldest grandson of Shen Minggong, who had already inherited the title, cleared the biggest obstacle to succession. Li Qutan, who was regarded as a murderer at the time, was just a scapegoat." Pei Xuanji had to explain patiently, "The late emperor refused to let Li Jincai succeed him on the grounds of illegality.
It was not until the Holy Lord ascended the throne that Li Jin bribed his wife and uncle Yuwen Shu, and Yuwen Shu was able to succeed him after he was lobbying in the middle. He got what he wanted. After the death of King Qi's virtue broke out, Li Jincai and Yuwen Shu were their masters and turned against each other, so this old case was revealed. Li Jincai could not fight Yuwen Shu, but Yuwen Shu could not fight Li Jincai. In the end, Li Qutan's younger brother Li Dewu became a victim and became a scapegoat again."
Li Fengyun nodded repeatedly. He had some impression of this incident. There was indeed a record in history in his memory. It was said that the reason why Yuwen Shu falsely accused Li Hun and destroyed his clan was because Li Hun went back on his word and did not fulfill the money he promised to pay for bribery Yuwen Shu for his successor. Of course, this statement really cannot stand scrutiny and laughed it off. However, Pei Xuanji's statement proved one thing: Li Hun and Yuwen Shu turned against each other because of political disagreement, and the Li Dewu case also allowed Li Hun to see the danger of staying in the capital. This may be the reason why Li Min lobbying him to guard the border before and his intentions were moved.
"Good!" Li Fengyun waved his hand and made a promise very readily, "I've helped this guy."
Pei Xuanji laughed. Li Fengyun finally made a compromise. As long as he agreed to save the person, he had to ask for help from Li Zixiong, which was equivalent to telling Li Zixiong that the relationship between him and Pei was as close as Li Zixiong thought.
"As it said, what are your conditions?" Pei Xuanji asked.
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Chapter completed!