Fu Duanyi, Xue Deyin, Kong Yingda and others from the Yanbei headquarters all suggested that Jia Lan take action to kill Shi Shu and Hu Xi as soon as possible.

What the two sides are fighting at this moment is morale. The empire is temporarily unable to fight the northern expedition, and it is even difficult to resist the invasion of the northern expedition. Therefore, if we can use the power of destroying Goguryeo to make an aggressive move against the northern expedition, we may be able to scare the northern expedition and curb the northern expedition's ambition to invade the southern expedition.

However, Feng Yi, Xixing and other officers persuaded Jialan not to be lucky in the Civil War. The Northern Barbarians have both force and wisdom. The deterrence of bluffs may not achieve the expected goals, and may even backfire. Therefore, they must face the reality and suppress the rebellion as soon as possible to ensure that the water and land passages connecting the north and south are unobstructed. Otherwise, once the Yongji Canal and other grain channels are cut off and the northern border towns lack support for food and grass weapons, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Feng Yi was worried about traveling west, which is why the conflict between the north and the south is suddenly intense.

Due to the Western Expeditions of several consecutive years, the Eastern Expeditions caused serious loss of national strength. In addition, domestic rebellions broke out, and many areas were deserted and the country was unable to recover, resulting in a sudden decline in national strength. In fact, the empire was no longer able to maintain the needs of the entire border town garrison. In this case, the emperor and the central government naturally supported Galan to purify Yanbei and cut off private markets from the north and south. This could not only curb the development of the northern empires, but also help improve the shortcomings of border town garrisons, killing two birds with one stone.

However, what the emperor, the center and the specific executor of the policy, did not expect that the Northern Lu had responded extremely fiercely to this matter, because this move not only curbed the development of the Northern Lu, but also seriously endangered the survival of the Northern Lu. Although the official Huiyi of the North and South sides continued, it can be foreseeable that after the Central Turkish Empire completed the Western Expedition and the Eastern Expedition, its spearhead had been aimed at the Northern Lu in the desert. The next step to cut off the private market Huiyi must be to interrupt the official Huiyi between the North and the South. This threat to the Northern Lu was too great. As a result, the Northern Lu had no choice but to take a risk. Taking advantage of the Central Turkish Empire's continuous western expedition and exhausted after the Eastern Expedition, it devoted all its strength to fight south, and used force to force the Central Turkish Empire to make concessions, and then won the long-term and stable Huiyi of the North and South.

This is true. When the national defense and diplomatic strategy planned by the emperor and the center have advanced to this day, we must do our best to deal with the northern desert. Of course, we must interrupt the two sides' rebirth. In addition, from the current domestic situation, the empire is actually unable to maintain the current rebirth of the north and south. The food weapons produced by the empire can no longer guarantee the needs of the frontier garrison. Not to mention maintaining the official trade between the north and south.

In other words, even if Galan fulfilled the orders of the emperor and the central government, split the northern desert and killed Shi Shu and Husse, it could not actually stop the invasion of the northern desert and the northern desert. The general trend of the world has its own trajectory of progress, which is not varied by personal wishes, nor is it influenced by a certain political force. The battlefield that is about to break out is inevitable for the Central Earth Empire. For the northern desert and the northern desert, it is a death to survive, and neither side wants to fight. But now that things have come, you have to fight if you don’t fight.

From the development of the world's general trend, the changes in the current situation were derived. Galan also found the reason for the invasion of the northern enemy south. From this reason, it is not difficult to foresee that Shibi Khan and Yazhang might have formulated the plan for the invasion of the south at this moment and began to implement it.

Similarly, the same is true for the Dongdu. The emperor and the central government must have seen the crisis in the northern border. For this reason, they first sent Jialan to Yanbei and granted him great power. Then they used the strategy of marriage to win over Chiji to set up Ashinaduo Na to try to split the tent. However, after the failure of diplomatic methods, the outbreak of the Civil War was inevitable. However, domestic conflicts were fierce, the central government was losing control of the local area, and the emperor had limited control over the army. For this reason, the emperor had no choice but to personally rush to the northern border to command the enemy. Only when he personally rushed to the northern border, the troops and food weapons from all over the country could arrive in the northern border continuously. This is why the emperor resolutely left Beijing to patrol the north when the political situation was extremely unfavorable.

When later generations recorded this history, in order to deliberately smear the emperor, they completely covered up the resurgence of the northern desert and the changes in the north and south trends caused by this. This change led to a fundamental change in the empire's national defense and diplomatic strategies. The emperor was not a militaristic person, and the center led by the reformists was not a foolish and incompetent. The reason why they failed was that the reform of the centralized system seriously endangered the interests of the imperial aristocratic group, which led to a "bloody battle" between the empire's political groups. Therefore, under the double attack of internal and external troubles, the emperor fell down, and the center led by the reformists also fell down. Even the empire collapsed, and countless creatures in the Middle Earth were wiped out in the disaster.

However, Galan was unable to change all this. Just imagine that with the power of the emperor and the entire reformists of the empire, neither the crisis could be reversed, let alone his meager power.

Galan's body and mind were filled with despair. He was very depressed. He and his Yanbei Army could neither stop the invasion of the Northern Barbarians nor quickly quell the rebels on the northern and southern foothills of the Northern Taihang. They could only watch the empire collapse and watch the creatures in the Middle Earth struggled to die in the dark.

In front of the civil and military bureaucrats in Yanbei, after Jia Lan gave a detailed description of his deduction of the general trend of the world, the civil and military bureaucrats all looked solemn, silent, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

Galan's prediction of the future has always been accurate, which is his innate talent. After many facts proved this talent, it has been accepted by his subordinates. Everyone has formed a consensus that Van Galan's prediction will come true. This has increased Galan's weight in the minds of everyone, and his authority is becoming increasingly important.

After a long time, Kong Yingda took the lead in breaking the silence.

"The general predicts that the northern enemy will invade south this summer, and His Majesty will definitely go north to patrol the border. How likely is this? Or does the general have a definite source of information?"

"If the northern enemy invades the south, with the current domestic situation and the current situation of the northern border, I think there is any other way besides the emperor personally going to the northern border to fight against the enemy?" Galan asked back.

Kong Yingda smiled bitterly. If the northern enemy invaded the south, the garrison troops in the northern border were obviously insufficient, and the war materials needed for the northern border were also seriously lacked. However, the Dongdu political group was fighting fiercely at this moment, the emperor and the central government lacked authority, the central government's control over the local area was particularly unbearable, and the government orders were not fulfilled. In this situation, how could the empire carry out the Civil War with the whole country?

During the third Eastern Expedition, the emperor ordered the troops of the guards from all over the country to gather in Zhuo County and ordered the counties and counties to supply food and grass weapons. What was the result? Until Pyongyang fell and the third Eastern Expedition was actually over, there were still very few troops to gather in Zhuo County, and the food and grass weapons transported to Zhuo County were far from enough. This is the reality. The reality is cruel. The emperor and the central government knew it well. They were eager to change this situation, but various contradictions broke out one after another, and the domestic forces could not work together. The northern enemy even took the opportunity to invade south, causing the emperor and the central government to be attacked by internal and external enemies. There was no time to change the status quo, and they could only passively deal with moves, or even demolish the east and west walls. The result was of course that they lost one thing and had many flaws and suffered repeated injuries.

Therefore, Galan's prediction is correct. If the emperor and the central government learn that the northern empires are actively preparing to invade south, then the emperor must go north to patrol the border, and the central government must place its main force on the northern border. At this moment, the emperor and the central government have no choice but to take risks and gamble with the emperor's life, the fate of the empire and the dignity of the Middle-earth people, and then force local guards and local counties and government agencies to do their best to carry out the battlefield in the north and south. This is the tragedy of the emperor and the empire, the helplessness of the emperor and the empire, and it is also a true portrayal of the current political status of the empire.

Back then, the late emperor relied on the aristocratic group to steal the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the new dynasty, and then relied on the aristocratic group to achieve the great cause of unification in Middle-earth. Now these aristocratic groups are pushing the empire step by step to destruction. Success is aristocratic, defeat is aristocratic. This is the entire history of the empire.

"The Northern Barbarians will definitely invade the south?" Kong Yingda asked again. His tone was very uneasy. He did not want to believe this fact, but various signs proved that this fact must exist.

Jia Lanzheng focused on it, "The domestic crisis is getting worse and worse, and the national strength is gradually declining. The empire's own survival is difficult to preserve. How can we still have the energy to maintain the North and South Hui Yi? The North and South Hui Yi Yi is easily cut off, and the survival of the North Hu is seriously threatened. Of course, the North Hu must actively go south and use force to coerce the empire to rebuild the North and South Hui Yi Yi."

Kong Yingda couldn't accept this reason. In his opinion, although the Northern and Southern Hui Yi would have a certain impact on the survival of the Northern Lu, this was not the root cause of the Northern and Southern battlefields. He believed that the real root of the Civil War from ancient times to the present was the collision of two completely different cultures, the confrontation between barbarism and civilization. However, in the face of the reasons listed by Galan, such as whenever the desert grasslands falls into disaster and famine, it is the moment when the Civil War reaches its climax, and he cannot give a reason to refute it.

"General, what are the plans?" Feng Yi was in a heavy mood. He was dissatisfied with the endless debates of Confucian scholars such as Kong Yingda, so he asked straightforwardly.

Galan had to make a choice. His power was limited. He either resisted external enemies or suppressed rebellions. The Yanbei Army could only do one thing, and it was impossible to take into account both and fight on both internal and external fronts.

"The king Xuba wants to be king." Jialan said slowly, "Once Wang Xuba becomes king, the rebels from the north and south foothills of the North Taihang will definitely form an alliance. Wei Daoer, Zhen Zhaier, Zhao Wanhai, Zhao Deyan, and Yang Zhongxu will definitely be able to form a huge army in a short time, and then run rampant on the north and south foothills of the North Taihang, hindering the connection between the eastern capital and the northern border, interrupting the large access between the north and the south, and causing a fatal blow to the northern border."

As soon as this statement was made, the civil and military officials at the headquarters understood that Jia Lan had decided to quell the rebellion, rather than using all the strength of Yanbei to implement the strategy of splitting the Northern Territory entrusted by the emperor and Pei Shiju.

If Galan's inference was accurate and the Northern Barbarians were already preparing for the southward invasion, no matter how hard China-Turkish efforts were to conduct diplomatic mediation and unite with the captives, it would be impossible to change the fact that the Civil War broke out. Since the Civil War was bound to break out, and the Central Barbarians and the Northern Barbarians must fight, of course, they had to prepare for the war. The prerequisite for the Northern Territory was the unobstructed transportation channel, so as to ensure that the food, grass and supplies could be transported to the border continuously.

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Chapter completed!