October 20th, night, Hebei, Gaoyang Palace.

The Holy Lord was angry.

It would be fine if the rebellion in Jiangnan was, after all, the unification time was short, and there were always some extreme people in Jiangnan who were unwilling to fail, fantasizing about rebuilding the small dynasty of the Southern people through division and war; the Jiangnan thief Liu Yuanjin publicly supported and responded to Yang Xuangan, which is understandable. After all, the old Duke of Yue Yang Su was too powerful, and there were too many disciples, disciples, relatives and friends. Yang Xuangan and his accomplices planned and deployed for the rebellion for many years. It is reasonable that such a rebellious armed force appeared in Jiangnan; however, Yang Xuangan was destroyed in early August.

His accomplice, the Prime Minister of Korea and the rebel army, were also suppressed in Yingchuan in the same month, and the political liquidation was also in full swing in the two capitals. Under such a good situation, the rebellious armed forces in Jiangnan were not quickly wiped out, but instead swept across the three Wus. The Jiangnan thief Liu Yuanjin was even more arrogant and even founded the country and became emperor, separatist, and dominated, openly divided Middle Earth, and publicly destroyed the great cause of unification of Middle Earth. This was to directly hit the face of the Holy Lord and the Reformers, and the face was swollen, and the authority was lost.

The Holy Lord has worked hard to manage Jiangnan for more than ten years. It is precisely because of the power of Jiangnan that he won the support of Jiangzuo Political Group and used this huge strength to win the imperial throne. Therefore, Jiangnan is the political foundation of the Holy Lord, the "backyard" of the Holy Lord. Jiangnan's inexhaustible financial resources are the economic backing for the Holy Lord to promote centralized reform. The Jiangzuo Political Group is also the core force of the reform faction headed by the Holy Lord, but now the backyard has fire and Jiangnan rebels the Party Gong.

To support Yang Xuangan and the conservatives is actually to openly betray the Holy Lord and the Reformers. What's more serious is that the Jiangnan thief party actually founded the country and became emperor, became a scattered ruler, and even split the Middle Earth. It was a rebellion and a rebellion that the Holy Lord and the Reformers insisted on. This was to remove the firewood from the bottom of the cauldron and turn against each other. The "his own family" slashed behind the Holy Lord and the reformers who were mainly Jiangzuo people, and it was bloody, and it had nothing to do with the face, so it was embarrassing to grandma's house.

It is obvious that the situation in Jiangnan has taken a sharp turn and deteriorated to such an extreme point. There must be a push behind it. Those who have contributed the fire deliberately took advantage of the hatred of the Jiangzuo people towards the Guanlong people, and the dissatisfaction caused by the damage to their vital interests by centralized reform, deliberately stirring up the fire, trying to disrupt the overall situation in Jiangnan to attack the Holy Lord and the reformists, and weaken Jiangnan's financial resources to fight against centralized reform. However, the situation has developed to this point, and the fierce political struggle is no longer important.

, What is important is that Yang Xuangan's "great cause" to usurp the country that changed the dynasty and changed the country, and the Dongdu Mutiny split Middle Earth and destroyed the goal of unification, two months after the Yang Xuangan's mutiny failed, all of them were achieved by the rebels in Jiangnan. The separatist rule of the Jiangnan thief Liu Yuanjin claimed to be the emperor, and opened the "magic box" of the split Middle Earth. The "surging flood" of the rebellion torn apart the solid "dam" of the great cause of unification, and roared out, destroying withered and rotting, and unstoppable.

What to do? How to deal with it?

The Holy Lord was thinking, and the central reform faction led by Yuwen Shu and Yu Shiji was also thinking, and the important officials at the core level of the central level who had just received the news were also eager to countermeasures.

First of all, of course, it is to suppress the rebellion, kill Liu Yuanjin and other people who committed serious crimes, as well as the hope of supporting and helping them, but this is secondary. What is important is how to completely eliminate the bad influence caused by Liu Yuanjin's emperor in the shortest time, close the "magic box" of division and war, and strengthen the "dike" of "breaking" unification. This is related to the future of Middle-earth and the survival of the country. We must do our best to achieve the goal, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. Once the "dike" of the great cause of unification collapses, the "flood" of the rebellion swept Middle-earth, and the separatist overlords are one after another. The central government quickly loses control of the local area, and the imperial power falls, and the country will perish. Middle-earth is in division again, war starts again, and the northern enemy roars down, and history will repeat the dark scene of the Five Barbarians invading China.

In fact, there are methods and the countermeasures are very simple. Politically, the reformists immediately compromised with the conservatives, stopped centralized reforms, and immediately ended the eastern expedition militarily. The expeditionary force quickly returned to the country. Some troops garrisoned the Great Wall to strengthen the defense of the northern border. Some troops immediately rushed to various places to suppress the rebellion to stabilize the domestic situation. Economically, they rested and tried to restore national strength as quickly as possible. As for national defense and diplomatic strategies, they immediately changed from active defense and rapid expansion to passive defense and self-defense.

The most critical and important part of this is to stop centralized reform.

The reason why the domestic political situation and the domestic situation have deteriorated to this point is that frequent external conquests are certainly one of the reasons, but not the fundamental reason. The fundamental reason is that the Holy Lord and the reformists have accelerated the pace of centralized reform, seriously damaged the interests of the aristocratic ruling group dominated by wealthy families, and seriously endangered the survival foundation of the aristocratic political system, leading to the rapid intensification of the core contradictions of reform and conservatism. Frequent foreign wars are the best political means to transfer internal contradictions, but the failure of foreign wars has infinitely amplified the drawbacks of this method, prompting the explosion of this core contradiction. The two opposing political groups then evolved from political struggles in the court to fighting on the battlefield. The civil war kicked off, and the "magic box" of division and war was opened, and darkness was about to cover Middle Earth.

So, can the pace of reform stop?

The answer is no. No matter whether it is the Saint Lord, Yu Wen Shu, Yu Shiji and other reformists, it is impossible for them to stop reforming.

Stopping reform means failure, and failure will cost a price. The reformists will inevitably lose control of the government, lose their ruling power, and then be politically liquidated. Then, these reformists, together with centralized reform, will become history. Therefore, even if the situation is dangerous, even if centralized reform is actually unsustainable or even failed, the reformists will not stop reform, and will not modify or abolish the reform policies promulgated and implemented before, and will not admit that the reform failed and hand over the ruling power.

So, how to deal with the current crisis? Since the root cause cannot be cured, we can only treat the symptoms. Since the problem cannot be solved from the core essence, we can only treat the headache and the foot pain.

The current crisis is still within a controllable range. Although the foreseeable consequences are serious, there are still many ways to prevent these consequences from occurring, and there are still many measures to kill the crisis in its infancy. From a political point of view, the most urgent task is to rebuild the authority of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, promote reform with absolute authority, suppress reform and conservatism, and the best way is to establish a worldly martial arts. Martial arts come from war, so from a military point of view, the most urgent task is to continue the expedition,

To eliminate Goguryeo to win the final victory of the Eastern Expedition, use this victory to wash away the shame of successive defeats in the early stage, so as to strive to maintain the authority of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, and then do your best to carry out the Civil War, and win extraordinary martial arts with the victory of the Civil War. The Civil War requires the support of national strength, and the deterioration of the domestic situation will inevitably seriously damage national strength. Therefore, in addition to increasing the efforts to suppress the rebellion, the central and local governments should also increase the collection of taxes and corvee to ensure the needs of the Civil War.

The Holy Lord and the Central Committee are still very confident in their authoritarianism, and the reformists also insist on their political ideas unwaveringly and uncompromising. The yearning, expectation and protection of unification after more than 400 years of division and war also made the Holy Lord and the Reformers mistakenly evaluate the solidity of the "dike" of the great cause of unification, and far underestimated the terrible and irreversible bad impact of the Jiangnan thief Liu Yuanjin's separatist purported to the domestic situation.

Therefore, on the road of "treatment of symptoms", the Holy Lord and the Reformers did not learn from the pain, did not review and reflect, and did not give themselves a "hard medicine" to restore their physical strength. Instead, they held arrogance, fantasy and luck, dragged their exhausted body, desperately drained their greatest potential, and forced themselves to run on the original road at a faster pace.

In this way, the Holy Lord and the reformists faced the new crisis. They clearly saw the huge danger hidden behind the new crisis, but they looked down on, underestimated it, consciously ignored it, continued to implement the established national policy, and continued to move on the road of reform. However, because various crises followed one after another, they were secretly panicked and became more and more urgent. They had to speed up and run wildly, and they had to ride their horses and run wildly, and they were so unaware of it that they were out of control.

After some thoughts and weighing, things returned to the origin, or the Eastern Expedition, the third Eastern Expedition must be launched, and the Third Eastern Expedition must be launched next spring, and then the Civil War must be carried out. This war depends on the result of the Huangmen Minister Pei Shiju's journey westward. If the result is optimistic, it is that Sino-Turkish and Western Turkic attack the desert. On the contrary, it is that the desert and Western Turkic attack the Central Earth. Although one is to take the initiative and the other is to fight passively, there is no big difference for Sino-Turkish. As long as Sino-Turkish wins the Civil War, the Holy Lord and the Central Government can establish extraordinary martial arts, and then everything can be reversed and can be achieved naturally. The pace of centralized reform will surely get faster and faster.

Therefore, the Holy Lord and the important officials of the reformist faction at the core level reached an agreement on how to deal with the new crisis that arises under the new situation. Then the Holy Lord summoned all the central core levels, central officials and generals of the Weifu Palace in the evening to discuss the adjustment of the national defense strategy under the current situation in the north and south. The core issue is only one. On the Far East battlefield, should we end the Eastern Expedition or continue the Eastern Expedition, thereby extending a new issue. On the Northeast battlefield, should we support Anzhou or openly intervene?

The debate was very fierce. The reformists and conservatives in the center each had their own opinions. The reformists led by Yu Shiji, the Minister of Neishi, and the conservatives led by Nayan Su Wei, had very different positions. One side wanted to continue the eastward expedition, and the other side wanted to end the eastward expedition. It was completely different, and there was no possibility of compromise at all.

Except for the left guard general Yuwen Shu and the right guard general who were in the center, the military commander did not dare to intervene in high-level political struggles. They mainly analyzed and deduced the chances of victory in the Eastern Expedition from a military perspective. They also held two completely different views. One view is that Goguryeo must fight against the enemy and should not be careless and underestimate the enemy. It is better to mobilize the army to fight steadily. Another view is that Goguryeo is at the end of his strength and vulnerable. As long as an elite army is sent to kill Pyongyang, the black tiger will be able to go down in one go. It will be determined by a battle. There is no need to mobilize troops and waste money.

The Holy Lord was worried and frowning.

If the third Eastern Expedition can win the greatest victory at the minimum cost, then political resistance will inevitably be reduced. But the question is, after the failure of the Eastern Expedition for two consecutive years, who dares to say that he can conquer Pyongyang and destroy Goguryeo with an elite army?

The issue of the Eastern Expedition was in a deadlock, which was actually a dead end and could not be solved. Continuing the argument was a waste of time and there would be no result. Just when the confrontation was in a stalemate, whether intentionally or unintentionally, everyone's focus slowly shifted to the Northeast battlefield, because the Northeast battlefield did not involve high-level political struggles, mainly military pros and cons, so the results were soon obtained.
Chapter completed!