?December 25, Gaoyang Palace, Hebei.

Pei Shiju, the Huangmen Minister, returned to the palace.

Pei Shiju's journey westward for more than four months has basically achieved his predetermined goal.

After the Central and Turks reached a series of agreements with the Western Turks, the continued deterioration of the situation in Western Xinjiang was curbed, and the increasingly serious crisis in Western Xinjiang was also controlled. The general trend of the world changed dramatically, and the ambitious desert resurfaced and fell into the east-west attack between Central and Turks. The war was overwhelmed, and the relationship between the North and South sides suddenly became tense, and the Civil War could break out at any time.

In this situation, Zhongtu seized food from the tiger's mouth, took advantage of the favorable opportunity of the outbound forces headed by Li Fengyun and Li Zixiong to sweep Anzhou and Northeast China, and successfully recruited Anzhou and Northeast China at a lightning speed. Anzhou and Northeast China were included in the Central Earth territory at an incredible speed. It was very powerful and domineering to take away a piece of fat from the desert, which would inevitably lead to the interpretation of the den as China-Turkish deliberately destroying the relationship between the North and South China. To actively provoke the Civil War, a series of countermeasures will be launched. As a result, the current situation of Zhongtu, Zhongtu needs time to recuperate. Pei Shiju's purpose of going west was to provoke the killing of the two Turks in the East and West China, so that the fisherman could benefit and give Zhongtu sufficient rest time and precious attack opportunities. Therefore, immediately turned against the desert, and the premature outbreak of the Civil War was actually not good for Zhongtu.

The contradiction is here, and Pei Shiju is helpless and can only take the minority of the two evils. From the perspective of domestic crisis, the saint lord and the reformists do need to take Anzhou and the Northeast, and need to open Xinjiang martial arts to save their authority, and need to firmly control the ruling power to maintain the existing reform results. From the perspective of external crisis, this measure will inevitably lead to the breakdown of the relationship between the North and the South, which will inevitably lead to the early outbreak of the Civil War. However, the foreign war must be stabilized first, and the resolution of internal crises will be given priority over the resolution of external threats. If the internal scattered sand is inside, how can we resist foreign enemies?

Pei Shiju didn't expect that the situation in Anton would change in more than four months.

Before leaving Shanggu, Pei Shiju had already used Pei Xuanji's secret "walk" to determine that the white-haired thief with the pseudonym Li Fengyun was Li Pingyuan. He knew that Li Fengyun was going out to fight, attack Anzhou and Northeast, and attempted to dominate the Northeast, and rose into an emerging force that could affect the relationship between the north and the south. For this reason, Li Fengyun tried to exchange his illusory achievements in the development of the border to obtain Pei Shiju's secret support to help him solve the problem of food and grass shortage in the battle outside the border. However, Pei Shiju did not agree with and was not optimistic about this strategy. In his eyes, Li Fengyun's outbound battle was just a desperate attempt at the end of the road. Even if Li Fengyun succeeded and took Anzhou and Northeast, even if the result of this battle was indeed

It helped Middle-earth to seize the initiative in the upcoming Civil War, but this was not a decisive opportunity, nor was it a key advantage to determine the outcome of the war. However, the risks taken for this advantage and advantage are fatal, and it may counterproductively detonate the war in advance, and it is possible to raise a tiger to cause trouble for one's own disaster. Therefore, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, Pei Shiju flatly refused and decided to completely wipe out Li Fengyun once and for all. Therefore, when he left Shanggu, he reported to the Holy Lord, issued a solemn warning to the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, and clearly stated that Li Fengyun, the rebellious force, must be killed in the Great Wall, and Li Fengyun must not be allowed to go out of the frontier. All uncontrollable risks must be completely killed.

However, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee seriously underestimated Li Fengyun and regarded Pei Shiju's warning as "the wind in his ears". Not only did he implement a plan to drive tigers and swallow wolves and kill people with a knife, and allow Li Fengyun to leave the frontier, but after Li Fengyun entered Anzhou, he also made a decisive decision to support him, trying to take the opportunity to disrupt the situation in Anton and take the opportunity to attack and weaken the power of the Turks. But unexpectedly, if he accidentally planted willows and willows, Li Fengyun gave them a big "surprise", and actually swept Anton and gave them a martial arts skills to open Xinjiang. In this great situation, the huge benefits brought by the recruitment of Anton made all beneficiaries full of joy, and the uncontrollable risks brought by this will inevitably be reduced infinitely, or even deliberately ignored.

Of course, the Holy Lord and the Reformers took into account the risks and came up with countermeasures. The first countermeasure is to prevent problems before they happen. It is to use the third Eastern Expedition to eradicate Andong's main forces, resolve the risks once and for all, and then completely control Andong. The Guards entered in large numbers and suppressed the desert from the east and south directions. In this way, they could not only cooperate with the Western Turks to attack the desert from the direction of Dajinshan, continuously consume the living power of the Turks, but also effectively delay the outbreak of the Civil War. They just waited for the two Turks in the east and west to suffer the defeat and suffered a loss. After they had accumulated enough power, they decisively made the northern expedition and swept the desert.

The ideal is full, but now it is very skinny. Facing the wishful "paper talk" of the Holy Lord and the Reformers, Pei Shiju can only sigh secretly. It is good to be confident and arrogant, but the premise is that you know yourself and your enemy and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. You must first have the "capital" of pride and arrogance. Otherwise, you will shoot yourself in the foot and cause trouble.

Pei Shiju was worried and frowning.

Pei Xuanji saw it and was anxious. When it was late at night, the officials and officials left, and Pei Shiju was ready to rest, he found the opportunity to ask, "Sir, has the center unanimously passed the proposal to recruit Andong today?"

Pei Shiju nodded, "The martial arts of opening up Xinjiang means that the authority of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee is unstoppable."

Pei Xuanji smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Sir, your worries will become reality that day. The Civil War will not only not delay, but will break out early. The results of the journey west were completely hedged by Kaijiang Andong. This journey was considered a waste of time and nothing was gained."

Only by showing the enemy as weak can Central Earth provoke the East and the West kill each other, and win time to recuperate, and seize the opportunity of "fisherman gaining benefits" after restoring national strength. In the northern expedition, they defeated each other, and severely damaged the East and West Turks. During the Kaihuang period, the late emperor implemented this strategy to the outside world, not only successfully split the Turkic Khanate, but also severely damaged the East and West Turks. If it were not for the bloody imperial unity war that broke out in politics, forcing Central Earth to suspend its pace of external conquests, perhaps the territory of Central Earth had now expanded to the desert and the Western Regions.

After the defeat of the Eastern Expedition and the Western Xinjiang crisis caused a severe blow to China-Turkish foreign strategy of active defense, Pei Shiju tried to re-use the heavy blow to China-Turkish in the foreign expedition battlefield to "show the enemy to be weak", and took advantage of the Western Turks' powerful opponent to be forced to solve the favorable opportunity of the Western Turks, which was forced by the Persians, to provoke the killing of the two Turks in the East and West in order to delay the outbreak of the Civil War, first resolve the internal crisis in China-Turkish, and then make a comeback on the foreign expedition battlefield. No one expected that people were worse than God's plan, he never expected Li Fengyun

The rebellious combination of Li Zixiong, the old and young, and a dying King Qi, joined forces to create an incredible miracle. He swept across Anzhou and Northeast within just four months of his journey west, directly changing the overall situation of the confrontation between the north and the south. As a result, the scene he least wanted to see appeared. Middle-earth opens up the border with Andong, and goes east and west. The Turks in the two parts of the world showed that they would continue to adhere to the active defense strategy in the foreign countries. Middle-earth is actively promoting the outbreak of the Civil War, and a new round of destiny battle between Middle-earth and the desert is about to begin.

Middle-earth is so strong, so aggressive, and so sharp. Of course, the desert is afraid, of course, they have to fight to the death, and of course they have to make the greatest compromise to the Western Turks in exchange for the cooperation of the Western Turks with the greatest interests of the allowance. The Western Turks are of course happy to see it. What they most want to see is that Middle-earth and the Desert fight, and it is best to fight both sides. In this way, it will be worry-free for a long time in the future and can concentrate its efforts to fight with the Persians.

So it is certain that Pei Shiju's journey west was in vain, and all the results were lost, and the culprit of this catastrophic consequence was Li Fengyun, who was his most trusted disciple and loyal subordinate Li Pingyuan.

"Li Pingyuan..." Pei Xuanji sighed, "He finally rose strongly and finally had the power to avenge revenge. All the uncontrollable risks that the adults were worried about had erupted, and they posed a threat to both the north and the south. The Holy Lord and the Central Committee still underestimated him, and even took it for granted that he could be eliminated with the help of the third Eastern Expedition. Don't you think that since he could sweep Anton, how could he be defeated in Goguryeo?"

Pei Shiju smiled indifferently and shook his head, "He is not Li Pingyuan, he is Li Fengyun." Then he looked at Pei Xuanji who was thinking and said solemnly, "Li Pingyuan is dead, this is what he said in person, how can there be false?"

Li Pingyuan is dead? This sentence is very different when it comes to Pei Shiju's mouth, but Pei Xuan understands it with a little bit of understanding.

The Turks spread rumors that the white-haired thief was a secret weapon sword and publicly implemented a divisive plan. Although the Holy Lord and the Central Committee refused to be deceived, the reformists were also *********, but there was no political integrity, only interests. Once the facts proved that Li Pingyuan was a secret weapon sword, and the secret weapon sword was a white-haired thief, then Pei Shiju and the political forces with him as the core were pushed to the crater. If there was any slight disturbance, they would definitely be destroyed and there was no power to fight back. Therefore, in today's situation, Li Pingyuan was Pei Shiju's "political noose". Pei Shiju could never admit that Li Pingyuan was still alive.

Pei Xuanji sighed again, "Whether in the past or the present, Li Pingyuan has not betrayed the adults, and in the future, he will not betray the adults. He gave the seat of Anton's Great Protector to the adults, which is a clear proof."

"Anton's Great Protector?" Pei Shiju sneered, "The prince had ulterior motives and used someone as a shield. He used the fox as a tiger's power. While arriving at the attacks of both the north and the south, he hid under the wings of someone to grow and grow. His scheming and cunning were even more so in the past."

"It's over here, how to deal with it?" Pei Xuanji asked, "There will be a battle between the north and the south. Even without Li Fengyun's appearance, even if Middle-earth did not take Anton, this battle would not be avoided, and even the outbreak of the war could not be delayed. After all, the common enemy of the two Turks in the East and the West was our Middle-earth. The pain of the division and decline of the Turkic Khanate back then was unforgettable to them. How could they forget it? How could they repeat the same mistake and kill each other again? Perhaps the two Turks in the East and the West joined forces to plot against Middle-earth, paralyzing and deceiving us, and just wait for the war to break out, and give us a fatal blow."

"You have to control your own destiny." Pei Shiju nodded repeatedly and said with a caress, "I never believe in the alien race, and I will not place the victory or defeat of the war and the fate of Middle-earth on the Turks."

Pei Xuan understood and smiled knowingly.
Chapter completed!