Chapter 237 Young frivolous

Su Hexiang came and went in a hurry.

The Northwest Knights woke up in the morning light, but did not hear the sound of assembled calls. While they were confused, they heard the order from Galan. Cijian Road was seriously blocked, and rebels were found in nearby mountains and forests, so they suspended their march today.

The Cavaliers' nervous mood relaxed a little, and they called in groups to play Polo balls in groups of three or three to play. The young people in Hebei in Longwei's mansion were quite interested in this kind of barbarian fight scene, and their killing spirit made people's bloody blood. Compared with the Cuju and Kok Rei in Central Earth, the Polo balls are more attractive to passionate men, so it is natural that the Han barbarians bravely formed a team, galloping on horseback, and fighting fiercely.

The atmosphere in the main tent was tense. Jialan gathered all the Northwest Wolf Brothers and the former Longwei Brigade Commander-in-Chief, and invited Li Shimin and Gao Shilian to inform him of the relevant matters in detail.

The Xijing army walked in front and stuck the throat of Longwei Mansion. What's more serious is that if Longwei Mansion wants to enter Longyou safely, it still needs to pass through the Sanfu in Guanzhong. The nobles of Xijing have countless ways to delay the speed of Longwei Mansion's march in the Sanfu. Once the Longwei Mansion delays its trip, it will seriously violate the military laws and the consequences will be unimaginable.

From Hongnong Palace to Hangu Pass, and then to Tongguan, the terrain was very dangerous along the way, and many rebels fled into the mountains and forests. If the nobles of Xijing were interested in "beating" the emperor's face by destroying the Longwei Mansion and threatening the reformists, then they could completely pretend that the rebels were ambushing the Longwei Mansion in the area of ​​the ancient road of Wuhan. Therefore, the Longwei Mansion was facing life and death. Due to the situation, the Longwei Mansion had to compromise with the nobles of Xijing.

The conditions for compromise are not difficult, but the risks are very high. The Longwei Mansion was ordered to go to Longyou to fight, not to wander around the mountains and rivers. Therefore, Jialan had sufficient reasons to establish the Longwei Mansion. At this extraordinary moment, Xiangdongdu left Fan Zigai to propose an extraordinary proposal, temporarily recruiting elite soldiers from the rebels to surrender the troops to supplement the shortage of Longwei Mansion's troops. Then, use this strategy to rescue the noble children who participated in the rebellion and were captured, and take them to Longyou to avoid the upcoming liquidation storm.

Undoubtedly, Galan has to bear all responsibilities. Once the emperor and the reformists "chased relentlessly" and held accountable, Galan is the first to betray the emperor and Pei Shiju. This behavior is equivalent to betraying the emperor and Pei Shiju, and cannot be forgiven. Secondly, the northwest brothers who followed him, including Su Dingfang, Hebei, and even Li Shimin, would be implicated.

The Northwest Wolf Brothers disdained this. They depended on Galan for life and death. Galan did whatever he wanted, no matter whether it was right or wrong.

Li Shimin patted his chest and was full of passion. Since he was a brother, he would certainly share life and death. Jialan sneered secretly. Li Shimin was too smart and too smart. He had such a scheming at a young age. No wonder his brother Li Jiancheng, and even his father Li Yuan was defeated by him in the end. The key to this matter was Li Shimin. Without Li Shimin, there would be no Gao Shilian's appearance. Without Gao Shilian's "spring-like tongue", Jialan would never fall into the trap so easily, and would not even have the chance to resist.

Although you cannot resist, you still have to "struggle to death".

Jialan left Fu Duanyi and the traveling west to stay in Yingpan, and took the Northwest Wolf brothers to the east capital and rushed to the Duke of Guanguo's mansion as quickly as possible.

Duke Yang Gongren of Guanguo had already accompanied King Yang Tong of Yue to the north of Beijing. The second and third son Yang Xu were both accompanying the emperor. The only one who was in charge of family affairs was Yang Shidao. As Jialan expected, Yang Shidao was indeed waiting in the mansion.

In order to deal with the upcoming liquidation storm, the conservative forces and neutral factions in the Guanlong noble group launched a series of plans at the fastest speed and with all the power they could use, and Galan and his Longwei Mansion became the best and only tool to save people at present.

When Jialan saw Master Yang, he asked, "Why did Your Majesty give him a certain Dragon Guard Mansion?"

"Your Majesty may not be the one who formulated the plan for the Longwei Mansion."

"Where can the Dragon Guard Mansion come from without His Majesty's approval?"

"Your Majesty is a man, not a god. How much does he know about the affairs of the world? How many are the national policies of Middle-earth designed by him? How many are they known and approved by him? How many are the consequences of the implementation of the national policies come from his original intention and in line with his wishes?"

On the top, the more concentrated the power, the more likely it is to lose control; on the bottom, the power is limited due to dispersion, so each of them does their own affairs, each of them sweeps the snow in front of the door, and there are policies and countermeasures from the bottom. Since ancient times, all of them have been like this. Galan suddenly realized, "In this way, this matter has nothing to do with Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty has two ears, and he hears different voices. Which voice tells the truth and which voice tells a lie. He must distinguish it himself. No one can help him, and he will not believe that anyone can help him." A trace of contempt and cunning flashed through Yang Shidao's eyes, "Now, do you still have any questions?"

Galan was silent for a long time and shook her head, "What do you need to do?"

Yang Shidao picked up a document from the desk, put it thickly, and handed it to Jialan. Jialan opened it and saw that there were dense names of people on it, with more than 2,000 people.

Jialan went back before he even finished flipping, "Do you think someone is a fool, or do you think Mr. Fan is an idiot?"

Yang Shidao sorted out the scattered papers and pushed them to Galan again, "Since you are here, you are ready. The plan depends on others and the success is in heaven, you should do your best. Everyone will be grateful to you, no one will resent you, and all the grudges in the past will be written off."

Jia Lan looked at the book of the book and frowned. What can really be changed? Most of Yang Xuangan's gangsters were Yang Su's old subordinates, all of whom were ordinary soldiers in the army, and were also the main force of the Dongdu garrison. During this storm, most of the Dongdu garrisons turned against each other, which is also the reason. Now, in addition to those who died in battle, there are still 20,000 or 30,000 people who survived, but from officers to ordinary soldiers, in the subsequent liquidation, they either beheaded or exiled. The entire Dongdu garrison was completely destroyed, which was an unbearable loss for the empire.

If they can be saved, brought them to the northwest battlefield, and let them fight bravely with the Western lands and continue to serve the empire, then one day when the empire is in a state of drooling and bringing them back, they may be able to turn the tide and save the empire.

However, will the emperor forgive them? Will the reformists leave them behind? Their own ideas are too naive and too ideal. In fact, whether between the reformists and the conservatives, or between the Guanlong people and the Shandong people, their hatreds are unresolvable. They are all life-and-death battles that will never end.

Suddenly, Galan thought of Gao Shilian's words. The role of Longwei Mansion is to compromise. The losers compromise with the winners. The conditions for compromise are of course to support the emperor in accelerating the process of reform. However, the prerequisites for reform have been lost. Accelerating the reform process under the current situation in Middle-earth is tantamount to catalyzing the internal and external contradictions of the empire and accelerating the collapse of the empire.

This is a big strategy. Once the imperial conservative aristocrats were successful, the emperor and the reformists were trapped. The empire would be like an out-of-control carriage and rushed into the bottomless abyss at an incredible speed. However, it is foreseeable that the emperor and the reformists would definitely fall into the trap.

Of course, the premise is to compromise, and the premise of compromise is that the liquidation storm must be controlled within a moderate range and within an acceptable range of conservative forces, otherwise it will be a situation where both sides will be defeated and both will be injured. Obviously, the emperor's purpose is not to die together or the collapse of the empire.

This is an opportunity. Whether you can seize the opportunity depends on whether you can judge the situation and come up with the right strategy. Whether you can complete the strategy depends on whether you are brave enough and whether you have the determination to sacrifice your life or not.

Galan stood up, bowed, and then left without looking back.

Mr. Yang smiled slightly, called the elder of the family, handed over the document, "burned."

At noon, Jialan entered the imperial city, rushed to the left-behind mansion, and visited Fan Zigai.

"Is someone stopped?" Fan Zigai smiled, "I guess you should come too."

Galan's face turned gloomy and said coldly, "I don't like being plotted against."

"Young and frivolous." Fan Zigai shook his head calmly, "Are you here to cry or ask for help?"

"Someone said that, I don't like being plotted against."

Galan gritted her teeth and was murderous.

"Don't be impulsive." Fan Zigai's face suddenly turned serious and he scolded sternly, "In the battle of Yiwu, your impulse killed many people, but this time, if you are impulsive, you will kill countless people."

Jialan gritted his teeth, turned over and knelt down, "Please give me advice."

"You have seen the value of Longwei Mansion." Fan Zigai said, "What you have to do is to bring the value of Longwei Mansion to the extreme."

Galan thought for a moment and said coldly, "It's a knife."

"Some people are arrogant and think that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it. They think that temporary compromise can 'betray the enemy without fighting'. They can subvert everything just by waiting for the political situation to deteriorate." Fan Zigai smiled and shook his head, suddenly thought of something, his face involuntarily showed a look of loneliness, and his eyes were filled with melancholy and helplessness.

Jialan looked at the loneliness on his face, tasted the sorrow in his eyes, and his thoughts suddenly became enlightened.

Of course, the grand strategy of conservative forces cannot be hidden from the backbone of reformists like Fan Zigai, so Fan Zigai must have his own ideas.

The backbone of the reformists had different reform concepts. For example, Su Wei and Pei Shiju insisted on adapting to the times and being down-to-earth, while Pei Yun and Yu Shiji supported the emperor to make great progress. Fan Zigai walked step by step from local officials to the central decision-making level. He had a deep understanding of the empire. Of course, he would not support the "radical" reform strategy. Therefore, from the previous war in the Eastern Capital, he always maintained a certain degree of "tactic understanding" cooperation with the conservative forces, which is enough to show that he hoped to "cooperate". Facts proved that "cooperation" won the victory. So in future development, he may be the same as Su Wei and Pei Shiju, and he still hoped to continue to "cooperate" with the conservative forces.

Just imagine, under the current situation, if the emperor wants to launch the third Eastern Expedition, it will inevitably bring immeasurable damage to the empire. The situation in China-Turkey may be out of control, but in order to push the situation in China-Turkey into being out of control, the conservative forces will inevitably support the emperor in launching the third Eastern Expedition in order to realize their grand strategy of destroying the empire. For this reason, many people in the reformists will find ways to stop it, and if they want to prevent it, they must first win "cooperation" with the conservative forces. In this case, the compromise strategy of "Dragon Guard Mansion" emerged.

If Fan Zigai and Pei Yun’s liquidation strategies are different, one is to exchange "liquidation" for "cooperation" of conservative forces, and the other is to use "liquidation" to severely attack conservative forces, then conservative forces can take advantage of the conflicts within the reformists and seize the opportunity in front of them. Indeed, this is true, Galan is the "opportunity". He was "calculated" by all parties and "utilized" and eventually had to climb to the forefront and fight the wind and waves with one's own strength.

Who can save him? Fan Zigai, Yang Shidao, Li Dan, Wei Jin and other nobles in Xijing. The only one who can save him is himself, the knife in his hand, the nobles who were held hostage by the Longwei Mansion.

"I have no way out, I can only fight, so I ask the cabinet master for help, and I need more."

Galan no longer hesitated and made a decisive request.

"Everything is the most important thing for the war in the northwest. All surrendered soldiers can be arbitrarily transferred by the general." Fan Zigai's answer was also firm, "I kept my promise and asked people to give them money, and I would like to support them with all my strength."

Fan Zigai gave the "suburban soldiers". In the future, Fan Zigai's responsibility will be limited. He can find several subordinates to be "scapegoats", and the main responsibility will be Galan.

Galan is "a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water". Anyway, you have to do it if you don't do it. It's better to let go of your courage. There are too many hostages in your hands, which is also beneficial to Pei Shiju's resolution of the Northwest crisis.

On the night of the 11th, with the cooperation of all parties, Galan transferred 10,000 people from the prisoner camp, including dozens of regiment-level officers in the palace, and almost "catched all the brigade and team-level officers", and all other civilian personnel such as the subordinates and officials were taken away, and most of these people were aristocratic.

The situation in Dongdu is still very chaotic at this moment, and the war situation outside the Dongdu is even more tense. Heishi, Hulao, Yique and other passes are all controlled by the rebels. The rebellion in the counties and counties of Xingyang, Liangjun and other Henan are in full swing, and the rebel leaders such as Han Xiangguo are leading their troops to advance to the Dongdu. Although Yuwen Shu and Lai Hu'er's army have launched an attack on the outside of Dongdu, it will take time to completely quell the rebellion in various parts of Henan. It will be necessary to organize food and grass transportation to ensure the needs of various troops to suppress the rebellion.

The primary task of the left-behind government in Tokyo was to recruit civil servants, so it became a problem to recruit civil servants, because most of the civil servants in the eastern capital, including the surrounding counties, were conquered by Yang Xuangan, and they scattered with Yang Xuangan's defeat. They could not gather in a hurry, so they could only call prisoners temporarily, and the prisoners fled on the way. Therefore, the ten thousand prisoners who left by Kalanchi quickly "escaped" in the next few days in the "rumors" consciously fabricated by all parties.

On the night of the 12th, the Longwei Mansion arrived at Xin'an City after a day and night of rapid marching, and camped outside the city and quickly reorganized the army. However, a series of problems followed one after another. First, there was a shortage of food, followed by a large number of Yingyanglang generals, Yingjilang generals, Yueqi lieutenant, and infantry lieutenant mistakenly thought they were going to be massacred, so they actively conspired and planned to raise the flag to rebel again. The situation was very tense.

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