Cui Chuzhi focused on his mind for a moment and suddenly realized that it was not good. You Yuan fell into Liyang. If he was used by someone with ulterior motives and deliberately framed him, it would not only be very unfavorable to the people of Hebei, but it would be more likely to have a fatal blow to Cui.

However, with the wisdom of my father, he must see this. He must find ways to rescue You Yuan. He took a step back and said that even if he could not rescue him, Yang Xuangan would temporarily not release You Yuan in order to successfully raise his troops. His father would give Yang Xuangan a clear hint through some Hebei people who participated in the mutiny that you must ensure You Yuan's safety. After all, as long as You Yuan dies in Liyang, no matter who takes the action, the one who ultimately bears the bad reputation will be Yang Xuangan. The final result is that the conflict between Shandong people and Guanlong people will be further intensified. More Shandong people will stand on the side of the Holy Lord and support and help the Holy Lord use this mutiny to deal a heavy blow to the Guanlong people. This will inevitably affect and even directly determine the outcome of the mutiny. Therefore, Yang Xuangan will protect You Yuan's life safety at all costs.

However, the "hint" brought by Cui Jie from his political enemy Yuan Wendu is enough to show that You Yuan is in danger.

Who will kill You Yuan? When You Yuan dies, the conflict between Shandong people and Guanlong people will suddenly intensify. Shandong people who once supported Yang Xuangan will also betray Yang Xuangan because of anger and disappointment. This is very unfavorable to Yang Xuangan and the mutiny alliance, so Yang Xuangan will never kill him. It is not good for Cui Hongsheng and Hebei people, because Shandong people may make a wrong interpretation of You Yuan's death, misunderstandings and resentment against Cui Hongsheng and Hebei people, and then trigger a split within the Shandong aristocratic group. Therefore, Cui Hongsheng is absolutely impossible to "destroy each other", so who will kill You Yuan? In fact, from the perspective of interests, whoever is beneficial to You Yuan's death is beneficial to whoever is the motive to kill You Yuan, so those who oppose the mutiny or try to use this mutiny to take advantage of the fire may be the murderers who kill You Yuan, and this range is not too wide. The most likely person to kill You Yuan is the local aristocratic group of Guanlong.

However, in politics, this analysis and deduction are not accurate. Behind the political game, it is essentially the redistribution of power and wealth. The two major camps for the power and wealth redistribution of China-Turkey are reform and conservative. Based on this, to analyze and deduce the political situation of Dongdu today, it is not difficult to see that the people who are fighting to the death on the battlefield of Dongdu are all conservatives, whether it is the local nobles of Guanlong, Heluo nobles, the old nobles group of the Yuan clan and the eight nobles, and the five super rich families in Zhongtu.

The leaders of Shandong nobles, even the Jiangzuo people, essentially had the greed desire to seize power and wealth of China and the greatest extent, they all wanted to protect and increase their vested interests to the greatest extent, and they all had the intention and motivation to curb and crack down on the reformists. The problem lies here. Since this is the case, they should form alliances and cooperate and join forces to overthrow the Holy Lord and the Reform. However, the reality is very different from the expectations. Conservative forces of all sizes in the East not only did not cooperate, but instead fought. Why is this?

We must look at the essence through appearance. Although the conservative factions who are currently performing hard on the "political stage" of Dongdu are all conservative factions, don't forget that there are reform factions on this "stage". Now they are either waiting behind the stage or playing drums and drums off the stage. More importantly, all people with clear minds must figure out a fact that the big "stage" of the game is provided by them, and the "play" being staged on the stage is also directed by them. The decision of how this "play" ends in the end is in the hands of the screenwriter of this "play", and this "screenwriter" is the Holy Lord and the center that is loyal to him.

The failure of the first Eastern Expedition was a turning point. The reformists lost their commanding heights in politics. The conservatives took the opportunity to counterattack. The two sides fought equally. If this political situation cannot be reversed in time, reform will stagnate and will be unsustainable. Once the reform regresses, the reformists will be defeated politically and will lose control of the government and lose their supreme authority. For this reason, the Holy Lord and the Reformers must regain the political commanding heights, so the Second Eastern Expedition was made.

If the real purpose of the Second Expedition is not military, national defense and diplomatic strategy, but political, it is to attack political opponents, regain political advantages, and maintain the absolute control of the reformists over the government, then is the military victory or defeat important? Obviously not important, because the Second Expedition is just a political means, with the purpose of attacking political opponents, and military victory is not the purpose of the Second Expedition, so the military victory or defeat is irrelevant.

From this we infer that the Second Expedition was a political smoke bomb, a political trap, and a political bait.

In the case of a great defeat in the first Eastern Expedition, the national strength was severely frustrated, and the authority of the Holy Lord and the central government were seriously damaged, the risk of hastily launching the Second Eastern Expedition has been infinitely magnified. There are slight changes, such as large-scale natural disasters, such as interruption of the food pipeline, such as political storms, etc., which may lead to the failure of the Second Eastern Expedition. The Second Eastern Expedition was a decision made by the Holy Lord and the Reformers. If it fails, the Holy Lord and the Reformers will suffer unprecedented political damage, and reforms will inevitably stagnate or even regress. This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that they will lose control of the government and lose the highest authority. Since there is such a great risk, why should the Holy Lord and the Reformers act alone?

This is the mystery of the political trap. If I fail, I will push the blame to you. I will let you stay in the two capitals and let you supervise the food and grass. As a result, you did not complete the task, which led to my failure. Of course, I will punish you. At worst, both jade and stone will die together. On the contrary, if I win and win military victory, I will restore the political downturn. After I go back, I will continue to promote reform. If you insist on being an obstacle to my progress, I will clear it up without mercy.

For conservatives, there is no choice. They cannot lose this game. If they lose, they will lose their voice in the redistribution of power and wealth. Then they will be wiped out by the sound of the triumphal horn of the unified reform. But the question is, how can we destroy the second Eastern Expedition on the basis of protecting our own interests? In other words, in order to avoid fighting with the Holy Lord and the Reformers, we must find a "scapegoat", and this "scapegoat" is Yang Xuangan and his mutiny alliance.

Is this the reason why the reformists are "shocking" in today's chaos in Dongdu?

Cui Chuzhi revealed his thoughts and sought Cui Jie's opinions.

Cui Zi understood as soon as he heard it. Cui Chuzhi's doubts were very reasonable. Dongdu had so many conservative forces, why did he "point" to Yang Xuangan? Why did Yang Xuangan become the "scapegoat" of the ultimate game between reform and conservative political groups? Yang Xuangan's original intention was to unite all conservative forces to fight against the Saint Lord and the Reformers, that is, to fight to the death, but Yang Xuangan obviously did not learn from the lessons of Yuchi Jiong, Wang Qian, Sima Xiaonan and Wang Yang Liang of Han, who brought troops to rebel in the past, blindly overestimated his strength and overbeared the morality of wealthy families. As a result, he made a mistake in one step. Now he ended up being alone and surrounded by enemies. In the end, he could only try his best to leave the fate.

"You mean..." Cui Zi pointed his finger at the south side and pointed to the sky in vain, "All this comes from the control of the power behind the white hair?"

Cui Chuzhi hesitated for a moment and boldly assumed, "Is it possible that the Holy Lord behind the white hair is the Holy Lord? Otherwise, after the great defeat of the Eastern Expedition last year, the Holy Lord still stubbornly and eagerly launched the Second Eastern Expedition even though he knew that the Second Eastern Expedition could not be won and would inevitably be deliberately destroyed by the radical forces in the Eastern Expedition. The Holy Lord wanted to win the Eastern Expedition, and also wanted to use this opportunity to kill the rebellion of the Eastern Expedition, trying to kill two birds with one stone. However, such a good plan is needed to have a suitable executor. From the current situation, the White Hair is obviously the most suitable executor."

Cui Zi's heart suddenly hangs high. He thought of the twelfth lady Cui Yu. It was because of her encounter with Bai Hai and she got many secret messages from Bai Hai that Cui had repeatedly seized political opportunities in the past two years and struggled to save the vested interests little by little, allowing Cui to see a glimmer of hope for revitalization. However, this game was doomed to Cui's failure, and Cui Zi had to sacrifice himself to protect Cui. However, what will Cui go after the Dongdu crisis ended?

"There is definitely not the Holy Lord behind the white hair." Cui Zhi said flatly, "If the storm in Yulin originated from white hair, then the Bohai Duke (Gao Ying). In the current center, Wenxi Duke (Pei Shiju) and Meiyang Duke (Su Wei) both have close ties with Bohai Duke, while Yue Duke's father Yang Su had a fierce conflict with Bohai Duke during his lifetime, so..."

Cui Chuzhi thought for a long time, and the more he thought about it, he became more and more confused. He couldn't help but shake his head, "In fact, I haven't understood the white hair, but I can see through Fan Zigai thoroughly. I can be sure that the reason why he bowed to King Yue was to use Cui to avoid the edge of the moment. Just wait for the right time to show his edge. You must be careful, especially after you reach a compromise with Anchang Gong (Yuan Wendu), your value of use is not much left. Just wait for Fei Yao to return to Dongdu, Fan Zigai will control this army by controlling King Yue to win cooperation with Xianbei people. Cooperation with Xianbei people is far better than cooperation with us, the Han surname. Xianbei people will bring huge guarantees to the security of Dongdu. Then Fan Zigai can do whatever he wants, and joining forces with Xianbei people can strike all the targets he wants, and I, Cui and Shandong people must be the targets he strikes.

Cui Jie heard the implicit sound and looked shocked, "You mean, he might be the one who killed You Yuan?"

"You Yuan arrived in Liyang and contacted Dongdu every day, and the person who contacted him directly was Fan Zigai, so the first person in the imperial city to know that You Yuan had an accident must be Fan Zigai." Cui Chuzhi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "In Dongdu, everything we see and hear from our eyes and ears, analyzed and deduced according to common sense, is false, and the truth is obliterated at the moment when it happened. Just like white hair, who knows his past? Who can understand his every move now? In the future, who can find the truth about white hair? So, but everyone speculated that when the Guanlong people killed You Yuan, the Guanlong people would be innocent, and the real murderer hid in the dark and laughed loudly.

Cui Zi pondered silently. If Fan Zigai wanted to kill You Yuan, then Fan Zigai knew that something happened in Li Yang and Yang Xuangan's mutiny conspiracy. From this, it is inferred that today's Dongdu crisis is a trap, a bottomless pit dug by the reformists. Is Cui Chuzhi's speculation correct? The Holy Lord really wants to kill two birds with one stone. While winning the victory of the Eastern Expedition, he also needs to win the victory of the Dongdu mutiny? If the Holy Lord wins a great victory on both battlefields, it will be very unfavorable to Cui in the future.

"Contact white hair as soon as possible." Cui Zi said decisively, "It's time to get faster, it's not too late."
Chapter completed!