On August 11th, the north bank of the Giant Horse River, Xiao Huangjinkou.

Pei Shiju, the Huangmen Minister, led a team to the west to Jumahe. Feng Deyi, a native of Neishishe, Duan Da, the remaining subordinate of Zhuo County, and Yin Shishi General of Xiaoguo Wu Benlang, welcomed him at Jinkou. After a brief meeting, Duan Da and Yin Shishishi said goodbye and left, and commanded the soldiers of the Weifu to cooperate with Pei Shiju's subordinates to start crossing the river and advancing westward.

In public, Feng Deyi and Pei Shiju always maintained a "distance" and did not show any intimate actions. The two exchanged and communicated on the decision-making content of the center on the eighth day of August. Pei Shiju was a little worried and was more pessimistic about the situation in northern Xinjiang and the direction of the relationship between the north and the south. The key reason was "passive". Whether the King of Qi went north to guard the border or the white-haired thief was obsessed with, they could not fundamentally reverse the passive situation of China-Turkey in national defense and diplomacy. Passiveness would be beaten, but if they could not beat others, they could only defend passively. Passive defense would further cause passiveness, resulting in a vicious cycle, which was deeply trapped in the quagmire and could not extricate themselves.

Feng Deyi deeply agrees. The current dilemma of Zhongtu is that internal and external troubles erupt together. The core of internal troubles is that reform and conservatism have become a ferocious situation. Both sides have to decide the outcome, but their strength is almost the same. Even if the conservative forces suffered heavy blows due to Yang Xuangan's defeat, they can still compete with the reformists. This leads to the fact that even if both sides make concessions, they cannot win a political stability and unity. The core of external troubles is that the East and West Turks have a strong desire to contain and attack Middle Turks, although the Western Turks were led by the Persians.

It was suppressed, but because of this, the Western Turks had to actively provoke the war between the North and the South and allow the East and the Turks to "fight" with the Middle-earth people. Only in this way can they concentrate their strength against the Persians, and the East and the Turks could only take this opportunity to join forces with the Western Turks to attack Middle-earth. Therefore, the Civil War is on the verge of the verge of the start and is about to break out. In this unfavorable situation, the primary task of Middle-earth is of course to prepare for war and fight with all their national strength. Only by winning can Middle-earth fundamentally reverse the passive situation in national defense and diplomacy.

It is not difficult to see from this that whether the King of Qi went north to guard the border or the white-haired thieves were dependent on the war, they were all a small part of the preparations for war in China. They could only alleviate the crisis of garrison in the northern border, and played a small role in the local area, but basically had no impact on the overall situation of the war, let alone any improvement. This is the reason why the Holy Lord and the Central Committee compromised on the King of Qi's border and dealing with the white-haired thieves. These two things are actually irrelevant to the overall situation. What really concerns the overall situation is Pei Shiju's journey to the west, as long as Pei Shiju makes a journey to the west

It can provoke conflicts between the Turks of the East and the West, effectively delay the outbreak of the war, and the third Eastern Expedition. As long as the Eastern Expedition is a great victory, it can conquer the enemy in the Far East and cut off the "arm" of the northern desert. Of course, there is more important, that is, to make concessions to the domestic conservative forces in exchange for stabilizing the political stability of the two capitals. Even temporarily, it is OK, because this directly determines the victory or defeat of the Middle Turkey in this war. Just imagine, if the conservative forces conduct another mutiny in Kyoto during the war, it would be a terrible disaster.

Feng Deyi could not provide any useful advice to Pei Shiju, so he could only comfort him, and the lines revealed his guilt and gratitude to Pei Shiju.

Pei Shiju is open-minded and outspoken. It is precisely because of Feng Deyi that he resolutely made a choice in the future direction of Middle Earth. Otherwise, he would not be able to make up his mind at all and would never be able to stop.

In fact, after internal and external troubles broke out, there were only two response measures between China and Turkey. One was to conserve the ruling and tactics. First, to stabilize the internal affairs and become an "ostrich" first, to defend passively in national defense and diplomacy, compromise and tolerate, concentrate all your energy to resolve domestic contradictions first, stabilize the political situation first, restore national strength, and then fight against the outside world and wash away the previous shame; the other was to aggressively fight the strategy, which was to carry out "resist foreign wars" and "security in the internal affairs" at the same time, fight on two lines, and fight to the death.

The two strategies have their own advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage of the former is that the Saint Lord and the Reformers must bear full responsibility for today's dilemma and admit that they have failed in political, military and diplomatic decision-making. The ruling status of the Reformers will be seriously shaken, the power of the Reformers will be severely hit, the reform will stagnate, regress or even fail. This is too expensive; the disadvantage of the latter is that once the "resistance of foreign power" fails, the ruling status of the Saint Lord and the Reformers will be also seriously shaken. In this way, "restoring the internal power" becomes an empty talk. Reform will fail, the risk is too great, but the risk is too great, and the gains will be great. Once the "resistance of foreign power" is successful, "restoring the internal power" will be natural, and the domestic opposition will collectively lose voice. The Holy Lord and the Central Committee can reverse the disadvantage overnight. Such a proud victory and the temptation are too great, and the Holy Lord and the Reformers cannot refuse it at all.

Pei Shiju's position and weight in the central core decision-making level is obvious. His field change in future decision-making directly leads to the "radical main battle" position gaining the upper hand in the central core decision-making level. Next, the central government will not passively and passively wait for changes in the general trend of China and foreign countries to make decisions, but will actively and actively promote the general trend of China and foreign countries to develop towards the established decision-making direction to ensure that the established decisions can be implemented smoothly and achieved expected results.

Pei Shiju and Feng Deyi handed over and parted, crossing the river and leaving.

The Yinshi Master personally led a thousand entourages of Xiaoguo to send him off.

Pei Xuanji greeted him at the Jinkou on the other side. The father and son got into the car, closed the car door, and talked in a low voice.

The news brought by Pei Xuanji surprised Pei Shiju. What was unexpected was not Li Pingyuan's resurrection from the dead and reappearing as a white-haired thief, nor was Li Pingyuan's firm refusal to Pei Shiju's pleading, but Li Pingyuan offered a strategy to go east outside the border.

The biggest advantage of this strategy is that it has won valuable time and space for Sino-Turkish war preparations. Of course, the premise is that this strategy must be successful. Once this strategy is successful, it will not only bring benefits, but also disadvantages to Sino-Turkish, that is, raising tigers as a disaster. The Holy Lord and the Central Committee used Sino-Turkish money, grain and weapons to raise an uncontrollable tiger, and eventually shot themselves in the foot and caused their own disaster.

Therefore, the risk of this strategy is huge. Once the tiger goes back on its word at the critical moment of the war between the North and South, blackmails the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, make "huge profits" for itself, and even betrays the faithful, attacks Central China with the Northern Barbarians, kills people with the sword, and uses the power of the Northern Barbarians to gain personal gain for itself, the situation will be overturned. Not to mention that the Civil War may lose, even the country's destiny will be in danger of overturning.

Of course, in order to prevent the occurrence of such worst results, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee will definitely take a series of preventive measures to achieve the goal of maximizing benefits and minimizing risks. For example, using the white-haired thief to achieve phased results as a condition for support. To put it bluntly, you make contributions first, you will first produce results, and then you can gain rewards. On the contrary, you should die by yourself. This is a transaction itself. Both parties want to use the other party to make profits. One is willing to fight and the other is willing to be beaten, and no one can blame anyone. If the white-haired thief is invincible and the battle is brilliant, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee gradually lose control of the risks, then of course, they must reduce or even cut off support to re-control the risks. If they have no choice, they have to kill them and use the power of the enemy outside the border to completely kill this risk that is about to lose control and eliminate future troubles forever.

So in the final analysis, it is still strength. If you have great strength, and with good strategies, you can maximize your benefits. On the contrary, you will be shaking the tree, overestimating your own abilities, maximizing the risks, and even in the end you make wedding clothes for others, and it will be a waste of effort.

In Pei Shiju's eyes, the strategy of moving east to the outside world will definitely play its greatest role in getting the greatest benefits for Middle Earth. Li Fengyun is arrogant and trying to use this strategy to grow and soar out of the nine heavens is simply delusional. How could there be such a cheap thing in the world? You, a native dog, dare to make a tiger's skin, and the result can be imagined. In the end, it will definitely be a tiger's belly.

Pei Xuanji finally revealed the mystery of Li Pingyuan's resurrection from the dead. Li Pingyuan was saved by Princess Kehe Dunyicheng of the desert tent.

Princess Yicheng was a daughter of the royal family of the Great Sui Dynasty. She was the wife of the Khan of Qimin. Qimin was a firm lord in the relationship between the north and the south. She surrendered to Central China and lived in peace with Central China. However, the decline of East. It was under the command of him and a group of like-minded people that they unified the desert in just ten years and rose again. Three years ago, Qimin Khan passed away, and his eldest son Ashinaduoji succeeded to the throne, named Shibi Khan, and married Princess Yicheng as his wife according to Hu customs.

The Turks once again dominated the desert, and the development strategy of the tent also changed. The firm representative of the pro-war faction, Ashinadujishi, succeeded the Khan of the tent, clearly showed the transformation of the northern desert in the highest strategy, and this transformation had a significant impact on the relationship between the north and the south. The clouds of war began to cover the inside and outside the Great Wall. It was precisely because of the future trend and actively prepared for war, and the first priority was to launch an eastern expedition to destroy Goguryeo.

The Eastern Expedition launched by Zhongtu made the Turks feel the approaching war, and the contradictions within the tent became intensified. The struggle between the pro-war faction led by Shibi Khan and the pro-polis with Princess Kehe Dun Yicheng as the "big banner" was sharp. The princes and nobles of the tent and the leaders of various tribes also held positions and argued endlessly. Therefore, from a diplomatic perspective, if Zhongtu can win over and bribe the pro-polis in the tent and use discord and instigation and further aggravate the internal conflicts within the tent, it is also an effective way to ease tensions between the north and the south and delay the outbreak of the war. The most critical figure among them is Princess Kehe Dun Yicheng.

The one who secretly engaged in a "heavy army" transaction with the Yuwen brothers was the radicals in the den. Later, the story of the Yuwen brothers was arrested. It was these radicals who chased Li Pingyuan in the desert. The ones who had been fighting for power and profit with Qimin Khan in the den. Therefore, the one who rescued Li Pingyuan was definitely not Princess Yicheng, who had just married Qimin Khan and had not yet gained a foothold in the den, but the master and faction of the den.

In other words, the reason why Li Pingyuan revealed this secret was to tell the Pei father and son that he had a connection with the tent leader and the faction, and this was his greatest reliance on his daring to go out to fight.

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