Chapter 389 Dazzling
Li Min's mission was completed and he immediately said goodbye. Although he did not win any benefits for Li Fengyun, this was originally expected by Li Fengyun. In fact, what Li Fengyun was most urgent was not to obtain food or "eat" Han Xiangguo, but to influence Yang Xuangan's decisions and prepare for a mutiny in advance. This obviously helped Yang Xuangan win greater results on the battlefield in the Dongdu.
After Li Min left, Yang Xuangan and Hu Shidan and others discussed for a long time, but in the end they made a decision to prepare for mutiny in advance and make all preparations for mutiny in the next month.
If you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of if you are. The real key is not whether the mutiny is exposed or not, nor is it a question of who can inform, because those who really know that the mutiny are stakeholders and are suspected of being accomplices, and the intruders will not escape death in the end. So far, there are still very limited whistleblowers who can get exact evidence, and this matter is still within controllable range. Therefore, the key to truly endangering the mutiny is in other aspects, such as the situation in Longxi that Li Fengyun guessed suddenly deteriorated.
If Li Fengyun's prediction is accurate, Yuan Hongsi, the commander of the Northwest Army, caught Yuan Hongsi, and lost the other side, he would indeed make wrong decisions. Once the Northwest decision is wrong, the consequences will be very serious, which will directly destroy the defense and diplomatic strategy of Zhongtu in Western Xinjiang. Then Yuan Hongsi's situation will be very bad, and his control over the Northwest Army will inevitably decline, and the threat to Guanzhong and even Xijing will inevitably decrease or even disappear. Yang Xuangan lost the great help of Yuan Hongsi, and his chances of winning a mutiny will also be reduced sharply. In this way, Xijing's attitude will change. At that moment, Yang Xuangan will be passive and things will be troublesome.
So what is the situation in Longxi now? Since last year, the Western Turks expanded their sphere of influence to the Western Regions again, and the countries in the Western Regions surrendered one after another. After the Hexi army deployed by the Central Turkish tribes in the three counties of the Western Regions was forced to shrink their defense, the Central Turkish tribes in the southeastern part of the Western Regions were "nameless but not real". These two counties were the sphere of influence of the Tuguhun people in the past. It is obvious that the Tuguhun people would definitely seize these two counties, and then with the secret support of the Western Turks, taking advantage of the Central Turks that the Middle-earth people had no time to look west to attack Goguryeo, they made a comeback and launched a counterattack to the West Sea to restore the country.
Therefore, Li Fengyun's prediction of the situation in Longxi is credible and has some factual basis. Although Dongdu has not received news that the Tuyuhun people counterattacked the West Sea and the situation in Longxi has deteriorated sharply, based on the climate laws of the West Sea and the time of the Eastern Expedition of Middle-earth, if the Tuyuhun people want to restore their country, they should have launched a counterattack at this moment. Considering that the West Sea is too far away from the East, the message transmission is very inconvenient, and the Northwest military and political officials deliberately concealed the crime and other factors, this news is probably going to take some time before it can reach Dongdu, and it may not make Dongdu immediately notice that a serious crisis broke out in Xijiang.
However, as the commander of the Northwest Army, Yuan Hongsi, must be very clear about the crisis in the West Xinjiang. He must choose between resisting foreign invaders and maintaining the security of Western Xinjiang and launching mutiny to control Xijing. So, what choice will he make? If he chooses to resist foreign invaders and give up launching mutiny, what will Yang Xuangan do? Will he also give up the opportunity to raise troops in Li Yang? However, at that moment, even if Yang Xuangan wants to give up, because Xijing wants to protect himself, Xijing will never let Yang Xuangan seize his own handle and pull himself into a life-threatening danger. Besides, this is also the best opportunity to destroy Yang Xuangan and his political forces headed by him. Xijing will not let it go. As long as Xijing fights bloody battles with Yang Xuangan and does his best to protect the Dongdu, even if the Holy Lord and the Reformers want to conduct political liquidation in the future, there will be no sufficient reason to attack the local aristocratic group in Guanlong.
From this we can see that Yang Xuangan's situation is very bad and full of dangers, and he must be prepared for a mutiny in advance. If he wants to mutiny in advance, the only target of attacking Dongdu is Dongdu, and the other person in Xijing is caught off guard, so that he can win a glimmer of life in desperate situations. But everything has its pros and cons. If you concentrate on completing things that should have been completed within two months within one month, the risk of mutiny exposure will be greater and the exposure will be earlier.
Fortunately, the entire Li Yang was under Yang Xuangan's control and had the conditions to keep secrets strictly. However, Li Yang was the territory of Hebei people after all, and Hebei people were all over the world. It was quite difficult to keep the secret. The most important person posed a threat to Yang Xuangan in Hebei was Cui Hongsheng, so the most urgent task was to provoke Hebei bandits to plunder Yongjiqu and force Cui Hongsheng to devote all his energy to suppressing the bandits. It would be best to lure him to Hejian County in northern Hebei and keep him away from Li Yang. In this way, even if the news of Li Yang's army reached his ears, he would not have time to stop Yang Xuangan from attacking Dongdu.
This matter was done for granted by Kong Yingda, a famous scholar in Hebei. Kong Yingda immediately left Liyang and rushed to Qinghe and Bohai counties day and night to secretly seek help from local wealthy families, and these wealthy families secretly "connected" various rebel army commanders on both sides of Yongjiqu.
Soon, Gao Shida, Dou Jiande from Gaojipo, Ge Qian from Bohai County, Gao Kaidao and other rebel generals launched an attack on Yongji Canal. In Qinghe, Cui Hongsheng, the Hebei ambassador who was suppressing thieves and guarding the Dahe defense line, immediately ordered his soldiers to advance rapidly along the banks of Yongji Canal and head north in a row.
Just as Cui Hongsheng tried his best to protect Yongji Canal and the atmosphere in Hebei was becoming increasingly tense, the atmosphere in Dongdu was also tense and even a little suffocating. The reason was that bad news recently came one after another, making the powerful and restless people in Dongdu overwhelmed and overwhelmed.
The situation on both sides of Tongji Canal in Henan continued to deteriorate. The rebellious team of white-haired thieves not only caused trouble in Liang County, but also crossed the Ji River north to enter the East County to plunder. The chaos gradually spread to the bank of the Dahe River. The leader of Liang County, Han Xiangguo, took the opportunity to gather people to rebel on the banks of Tongji Canal and quickly entered Yuzhou to cause trouble. Now, the two counties of Huaiyang and Yingchuan are in chaos and are gradually threatening the safety of the capital.
The situation in the Yongji Canal in Hebei has also begun to deteriorate. Hebei thieves burned, killed, plundered and looted on both sides of the canal. The channels have been interrupted several times. Yang Xuangan, the Minister of Rites in Liyang, was furious about this and has submitted a memorial to impeach Hebei ambassador Cui Hongsheng, accusing him of raising the enemy for being the most important thing and failing to suppress the rebellion.
At the same time, the border situation suddenly deteriorated, and a crisis broke out in Longxi thousands of miles away. The Tuyuhun people made a comeback, attacking the West Sea and causing a critical moment. However, Yuan Hongsi, who was in charge of the military affairs of the 13 counties of Longyou, had a fierce conflict with some generals of the Northwest Army, especially those who guarded Longxi. Even the Hexi Army, which guarded the Western Regions, was trapped in, which led to a sharp decline in the entire Western Xinjiang situation, and the Longxi Zhenshou was even in danger.
The situation in Longxi deteriorated, the situation in the Western Regions was tense, and the Turks on the desert were also ready to move north of Helan Mountain. The Northwest Army was attacked on three sides. The defense pressure of the three major legions of Hexi, Longxi and Lingwu of the Northwest Army suddenly increased. However, since the Western Expedition, the East has devoted all its strength to the east, and all resources in Zhongtu have concentrated in the Northeast, resulting in the increasingly difficult difficulties of the Western and Northwest Army. The military and political chiefs of the thirteen counties of Longyou were overwhelmed by the double squeeze of internal conflicts and external pressure, and they were struggling, "not humans inside and outside", so the deterioration of the situation in Longxi is like digging a hole in a crumbling dam, which is out of control.
The power centers of Zhongtu went to the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition with the Holy Lord. The power left to the Dongdu was very limited, and the means to deal with the crisis were extremely lacking. King Yang Tong of Yue and Fan Zigai were very few. In addition to reporting to the Holy Lord urgently, they could only urge Xijing to find ways to provide money and grain support to Longxi, urged Cui Hongsheng, the ambassador of Hebei to do his best to ensure the safety of Yongji Canal, and urged military and political officials along the Tongji Canal to ensure the smooth flow of channels at any cost. As for military matters, neither Yang Tong nor Fan Zigai dared to easily make decisions on the Wei Prefecture. Honghua left Yuan Hongsi, the right guard Zheng Yuanshou, who stayed in the Dongdu, and Li Hun, the right guard general who stayed in the Dongdu, were not what they could command and urged.
At this moment, for Dongdu and Xijing, it is far more important to quickly deal with the Northwest crisis and defeat the invading foreign invaders in the country than to suppress the rebellion and suppress the bandits in the country, because in terms of national strength, Sino-Turkish forces cannot support two foreign wars at the same time, and in terms of military, the Guards' army is also unable to fight on two foreign fronts at the same time.
Dongdu turned his attention to Longxi, and Xijing, which is closer to Longxi, pays close attention to it. In this way, the highest military and political chief in the northwest who is in charge of the military affairs of the thirteen counties of Longyou, Yuan Hongsi, became the focus of the two capitals. His every move, every word and action were related to the safety of the northwest and the security of the Middle Earth. So Yuan Hongsi naturally became the "target of attack" of many political forces and became the "scapegoat" to bear the blame for the emergence of the crisis. Suddenly, Yuan Hongsi was pointed at by thousands of people and became the target of public criticism.
The powerful people of the two capitals "declareed" Yuan Hongsi and wanted to drive Yuan Hongsi out of the northwest. On the surface, it was a game of political interests, but in fact it was a power-grabbing war around the Northwest Army's military power.
The northwest is already in crisis, and the powerful people of the two capitals have also become "fucked", but the Holy Lord and the Central Government are far away in Liaodong, and the message transmission takes time. During this period, the powerful people of the two capitals can do many things, such as adding fuel to the Tongji Canal crisis and the Yongji Canal crisis, making the channels break and smooth, so as to put pressure on the Holy Lord and the Central Government, forcing the Holy Lord to compromise and concessions, and forcing the Holy Lord to "take away" Yuan Hongsi and replace someone they are satisfied with.
Yang Xuangan in Li Yang was frightened and even more dazzling in the face of the ever-changing political situation of the two capitals. A wise man would have made mistakes, and he calculated everything. The situation in the northwest became increasingly tense, but he did not count Yuan Hongsi's mishandling the crisis and pushed himself to the forefront. Now it is certain that Yuan Hongsi has lost control of the Northwest Army and has lost the conditions for launching a mutiny, and has lost the support and response of Yuan Hongsi, a heavyweight, and has lost the strong cooperation of Yuan Hongsi in the Guanlong direction. Is there any possibility of success in this mutiny aimed at overthrowing the Holy Lord and reform attempted by Yang Xuangan? Can it continue?
Chapter completed!