At the end of March, the Holy Lord's edict was delivered to Qilu area, and Zhou Fashang, deputy general manager of the Navy, immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, although Zhou Fashang had a tough attitude and refused to go ashore, Zhang Xutuo's escape from Qi County did make him retreat and worry. The navy would inevitably confront the King of Qi when he went ashore, and if he didn't go ashore, he might be punished by the Holy Lord. However, Zhou Fashang was neither sure to drive away the King of Qi nor control the development of the situation in Qilu. The two evils were the least. In order to ensure the victory of the Eastern Expedition and to ensure that the navy could cross the sea for a long expedition within the scheduled time, Zhou Fashang would rather bear the anger of the Holy Lord than to go head-on into the turbulent political quagmire and seek death.

The Holy Lord's attitude in the edict was very clear. For the sake of the Eastern Expedition, he ignored the political conflicts hidden behind the situation in Qilu, turned a deaf ear to the current open and secret struggles between various forces in Qilu, and even turned a blind eye to the current deterioration of the situation in Qilu, not to mention accusing a certain military and political chief or blaming a certain force. The Holy Lord's solution is very simple. Since the situation has deteriorated and the difficulty of suppressing thieves has increased, then increase troops to suppress the rebellion, treat the headache, treat the pain, and do not seek the root cause, cover up all deep-seated contradictions and crises, suppress them, and wait for the victory of the Eastern Expedition to deal with it.

Since everything is for the Eastern Expedition, it is very correct for Zhou Fashang to adopt a conservative strategy on the battlefield of Qilu's suppression of rebellion. It is also a wise move not to take the initiative to confront the King of Qilu in order to prevent the further deterioration of the situation in Qilu to the greatest extent. However, the Holy Lord was very concerned about the situation in Qilu, and the urgent transfer of troops from Hebei to the Qilu to suppress the rebellion further showed that he urgently needed the stability of the situation in Qilu, so the navy could not evacuate for the time being. At least in the next more than a month, he would continue to suppress the thieves, and cooperate with King Qi Yang Nan and the upcoming ambassador Cui Hongsheng on the battlefield of suppressing rebellion.

King Yang Nan of Qi and his subordinates also received this edict. Wei Fusi and Li Zixiong's worries became a reality. This time, the King of Qi was "played" and angered the Holy Lord. Cui Hongsheng's arrival will surely bring a series of trouble to the King of Qi, which will directly hinder or even destroy the King of Qi's plans in the next few months.

However, there is still room for rescue, because Cui Hongsheng is definitely unwilling to have a head-on conflict with the King of Qi. His pace of going south must be very slow, and he must leave enough time for the King of Qi to "move" and wait until the King of Qi defeats the rebels and stabilizes the situation in Qilu, so he has no need to enter Qilu.

Who is Cui Hongsheng? How could the little tricks and tricks of the Holy Lord be hidden from him? Cui is currently in a new round of imperial struggle and cannot extricate himself from danger. The King of Qi is now like an angry wild bull, completely crazy, and hit anyone. Seeing Cui, a political opponent that directly endangers his life and death, how could he let go? The Lord of the Holy Lord transferred Cui Hongsheng to Qilu. To put it bluntly, he was sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and angered the King of Qi and forced the King of Qi to attack Cui Hongsheng. Cui Hongsheng had no choice but to fight back and "overturn" the King of Qi to the ground. Zhou Fashang and Zhang Xutuo dared not do this, and they were afraid of avoiding it. However, Cui Hongsheng had to do it. Either you die or I live, you had to fight.

The result is conceivable. Cui Hongsheng would not enter Qilu without having to. In order to ensure his own interests, the King of Qi must find ways to prevent Cui Hongsheng from crossing Henan and moving south. For this reason, he must defeat the rebels as quickly as possible and stabilize the situation in Qilu. Therefore, the Holy Lord's goal was achieved. A shocking tiger shocked the King of Qi who was "playing" in Qilu.

When Li Zixiong heard the news, he immediately sent an envoy to meet Li Fengyun, and was in a very urgent mood.

Recently, he contacted Yang Xuangan and took the initiative to inquire about the situation in the border, mainly news about the northwest border. Yang Xuangan provided some high-level secrets in his reply, such as the deterioration of the situation in the western border and the situation in Longxi was particularly tense. Yuyang, the supreme commander of the Northwest Army, Yuyang, Hongsi, was unable to establish enough prestige in the Northwest Army, which was full of factions in the past year, but instead intensified the complex contradictions in the northwest border, resulting in constant internal strife in the Northwest Army and clashes of various forces in the northwest, which directly endangered the interests of Zhongtu in the northwest border and severely hit Zhongtu’s national defense and diplomatic strategies.

Now the Western Turkic Khan has defeated the Tiel people in the Western Regions, built a tent in Sanmi Mountain in the north of Kucha, and collected all the land south of Altai. Most of the kingdoms in the Western Regions bowed down and surrendered. All the achievements of Central Earth's previous pursuing the Western Regions were basically lost. But Murong Fuyun, a Busaber Khan of Tuyuhun, took the opportunity to counterattack the Western Sea, intending to regain his hometown and rebuild Tuyuhun. If the Northwest Army cannot stop it, all the results of the previous Saint Lord's Western Expedition will be gone.

Yuan Hongsi was in a difficult situation, with the attacks between the Western Turks and the Tuyuhun people outside, the battles between local forces in Longyou and the internal storm of the Northwest Army inside. It can be said that he is worried and difficult to deal with the situation. With his reputation and ability, he will inevitably lose sight of one thing and retreat step by step, and may even be defeated on both the internal and external battlefields. In other words, Yuan Hongsi is now in a panic and has no time to care about mutiny. It would be nice if he could handle his own affairs.

For this reason, Yang Xuangan sighed in his letter that Yuan Hongsi had the best conditions to launch a mutiny, had troops, and was close to Xijing. If he took over Guanlong, the eastern capital and even the Central Plains would be under control. Unfortunately, he was not lucky and was trapped by the large cage of Xijiang. He could not move. Now he could only rely on himself. After all, this opportunity in front of him was once a lifetime, and if he missed it, he would be gone. Therefore, Yang Xuangan was determined to fight to the death.

, but there are too many difficulties, countless, and there are too few people who can help Yang Xuangan, which made Yang Xuangan exhausted and feel exhausted while working hard. Fortunately, Li Zixiong returned, entered the Wei Mansion, led the army in the Donglai Naval Division, and was also actively planning the mutiny. This made Yang Xuangan see the hope of success of the mutiny, so he expressed his intention to cooperate fully with Li Zixiong in the letter.

The focus of cooperation is to choose the heirs of the imperial throne. The political situation in Dongdu is too complicated today. Even the conservative forces are divided by the new round of imperial throne disputes launched by the Holy Lord. The princes and grandsons who are qualified to compete for the inheritance of the imperial throne have no reputation for everyone due to various complex reasons, and no one has the strength to respond to. So Yang Xuangan was at a loss when he chose the candidate for the new emperor.

The candidate for the new emperor is the most core and important part of the mutiny, which is directly related to the success or failure of the mutiny. At present, King Zhao Yang Gao and King Yan Yang Zhen both followed the Holy Lord to the east and were not considered. The Dai Wang Yang You who stayed in Xijing was the target of the local aristocratic group of Guanlong. Although the Guanlong local aristocratic group and the Heluo noble group were both the largest conservative forces in Zhongtu, both sides have always been tit-for-tat political enemies. If the Heluo noble group launches a military coup, the Guanlong local aristocratic group will be from the conservative group as a whole.

Considering interests may not necessarily lead to injury and stabbing the knife in the back, but the difficulty of cooperation is very high. Unless the situation is clear and beneficial to the Heluo noble group, and the two sides reached an agreement on the distribution of interests, the local aristocratic group in Guanlong will never be able to participate in the coup, so the King of Dai Yang You is not considered for the time being. The King of Yue Yang Tong, who stayed in Tokyo, was assisted by the Cui family and supported by the Shandong aristocratic group, and the conflict between the people of Guanlong and Shandong is inherently irreconcilable, so King of Yue Yang Tong is not considered for the time being.

In the end, only King Yang Nan of Qi was left. King Yang of Qi was always the best candidate for the heir of the imperial throne in the minds of Yang Xuangan, Li Zixiong and others. Whether it was identity, ability, qualifications or political ideas, they were the most suitable candidates for the new emperor. However, King Yang of Qi has always been the local aristocratic group of Guanlong. If King Qi took office, it would be equivalent to making a "wedding dress" for the local aristocratic group of Guanlong. This made Yang Xuangan and others lose the motivation to push him to the throne. In the end, Yu Qian cooperated with the Holy Lord and the reformists to "suppress" him to the ground, and even deprived the right to inherit the imperial throne.

Although Li Zixiong had a close relationship with Yang Su and Yang Xuangan and was also a political ally with Hongnong Yang, he was still the Li clan in Longxi after all, and his political interests were still focused on the local aristocratic group in Guanlong. Therefore, he was very dissatisfied with the Heluo people such as Yang Xuangan and the reformists to "destroy" King Yang Nan of Qi. In addition, he was implicated by the King of Qi and "resigned" and suffered too much loss of his own interests, which further increased the conflicts between the two sides and deepened the barriers between them. Therefore, although Li Zixiong was very active in the military coup, he even planned secretly after he arrived at the navy, but never told Yang Xuangan and other allies. This is the reason, and the trust between the two sides was not enough.

Another more important reason is that Li Zixiong tends to hold up the banner of King Yang Nan of Qi and attribute the political benefits obtained from the coup to King Yang Nan of Qi, but this obviously does not receive the support of the Heluo people led by Yang Xuangan. Without the firm support of Yang Xuangan and others, Li Zixiong is willing to do so and the possibility of a mutiny is very small. Therefore, when King Yang Nan of Qi firmly refuses, coupled with Li Fengyun's analysis and deduction, Li Zixiong basically gave up the idea of ​​mutiny.

However, if he gave up, it does not mean that Yang Xuangan gave up. Once Yang Xuangan launches a military coup, as an ally, Li Zixiong must respond to it in terms of emotion, reason and interests, and share life and death, honor and disgrace. This is why Li Zixiong learned that Yang Xuangan stayed in Liyang to supervise the Eastern Expedition and Li Fengyun's prediction was verified, and he took the initiative to contact Yang Xuangan.

As a result, he got more confidential information from Yang Xuangan, and further verified the accuracy of Li Fengyun's prediction. Now he basically believed in Li Fengyun's deduction of the situation in Zhongtu in the next few months. That is to say, in more than two months, a mutiny will break out in just over two months. However, he was not ready, and Yang Xuangan was not ready, and King Qi was not prepared at all, so he was eager to meet Li Fengyun and discuss future countermeasures in detail.

Wei Fusi seemed to have a premonition and told Li Zixiong the first time that he would tell Li Fengyun that the secret meeting between him and Li Fengyun must be together, otherwise the consequences will be borne by one.
Chapter completed!