Before the two envoys arrived in Jingzhou, Cui Qian, who had returned to the court for a banquet, had already returned to Jingzhou and went straight to Shicheng to report to Li Tai in advance the personnel changes he had seen during his return to the court.
"The current emperor has a very different temperament and is very ambitious. I'm afraid this is not a blessing to the country!"
After telling some details about the personnel changes, even though Cui Qianxuan told his biggest feelings about returning to the DPRK during this trip, his expression was quite worried when he spoke about it.
For a normal regime, a young, powerful and ambitious monarch can be said to be a blessing to the country. But the Western Wei Dynasty itself was in charge of the hegemony. If the emperor was not satisfied with his puppet status and situation, he would inevitably try to challenge the order of the hegemony.
This caused turmoil in the upper-level political structure, which in turn triggered serious internal strife.
After hearing Cui Qian's evaluation of the current emperor, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh.
If the life of the current emperor Yuan Qin could be summed up in one sentence, it would be that he was either planning how to mess with his father-in-law or messing with his father-in-law. The so-called never forgetting must have repercussions. In the end, what he did exceeded the limit of Yu Wentai's tolerance and he took action.
Kill this son-in-law.
After explaining the current situation in the country, Cui Qian looked at Li Taifa and asked: "What do you want the general manager to do about the matter of the imperial court?"
After Li Tai heard this question, he first laughed and said: "I was listed as the choice of Zhuguo. It seems that everyone in the world thinks highly of me!"
"Yes, especially many relatives and friends in Guandong are very enthusiastic about this. They have been cardinals for a long time and are not familiar with the current situation, so they hope that you, Boshan, can bravely assume the honor."
After Cui Qian heard this, he also replied that he had a thorough understanding of the thoughts of these old acquaintances in Guandong. When they recommended Li Tai, they also hoped to form an alliance and become a party and become a political force that could influence the situation in Korea.
"I'm afraid I will live up to their love. Now that the situation in the southeast is still evolving, there will definitely be more opportunities to take advantage of it in the future. The Qi people are also eyeing Huainan. Under this situation, I am afraid that it is not enough to focus on the southeast. In fact,
There is no time to look elsewhere!”
After expressing some emotion, Li Tai directly stated his attitude towards this matter.
Of course, the position of Zhuguo sounds more majestic than that of general. If it is just an improvement in reputation and does not involve other situational disputes, Li Tai is of course willing to go further.
Although there is no clear definition of the eight pillar states in the Western Wei Dynasty, except for Daxingtai Yuwentai, everyone else basically left front-line command positions and no longer held real power after being promoted to the pillar state.
If Li Tai is promoted to Zhuguo, will he return to the imperial court to be a royal supporter, or will he continue to stay in Jingzhou and preside over the military and political affairs of the southeast?
Living a life of retirement so early is obviously not in line with Li Tai's wishes. But if he still insists on being on duty, he will be equivalent to another special Zhuguo besides Yuwen Tai. In other words, his Jingzhou Military Mansion has already begun to have the ability to resist
Qualifications of Huazhou Chinese Foreign Language Institute.
If Li Tai is promoted to Zhuguo this time, the most ideal situation for him is to continue to be in charge of the Jingzhou General Mansion, and then rely on the advantage of being from the Li family in Longxi to collude with many members of the Guandong family in the country and let them serve in the court.
As his own spokesperson, these internal and external personnel headed by him, by virtue of his position as the pillar of the country, can be said to have escaped the control of the Chinese and Foreign Governments and become another pole.
Cui Qian said that the Kanto clans who enthusiastically supported Li Tai's promotion to the Zhuguo must have similar ideas and wanted to achieve such a situation and create another one controlled by the Kanto clans in addition to the Zhongwai Mansion with Zhenbing as the main body.
The dominant military government.
Presumably this is the main reason why Emperor Yuan Qin specifically brought this topic to Li Tai, just like how Emperor Xiaowu supported the Heba brothers to compete with Gao Huan. Thinking about it this way, history really moves from one cycle to the next.
Cycle, as expected, the essence of human beings is a repeater.
Li Tai couldn't help but start to think about it. If the emperor couldn't win over his father-in-law in Guanzhong, would he go south to Wuguan and come to Jingzhou to join him? Then he could learn Yuwentai's operation and simply stay in Jingzhou.
Establish a Southern Wei Dynasty and let our Nanyang military nobles regain their glory...
Such a development route is really exciting to think about, but it is just a thought.
After all, the premise of all this is not whether Li Tai dares to start a new business, but whether Emperor Yuan Qin can run out of Wuguan and give himself the remaining legal value of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
And to be honest, the Eastern Wei Dynasty has already been overthrown. In addition, the Jianghan area is not the traditional sphere of influence of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Even if Yuan Qin comes, it will not mean much. He can not win over the people of Jianghan and Han Dynasty as much as the King of Liang in Xiangyang.
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So the question comes back again, is he so idle that he changes his skin to Nanliang because he wants to be a Zhuguo?
No one wants to be the boss. Li Tai will ravage the Yuwen family eight hundred times in his mind every day from when he wakes up to when he goes to bed at night, but this situation is really not a good time for him.
The biggest conflict in the country today is obviously between the emperor and the powerful ministers. The balance of strength between the two sides is very unbalanced. If Li Tai accepts the emperor's solicitation in order to get ahead, he will have to invest a lot of manpower and material resources into this competition.
Maintain the balance of the confrontation between the two. This requires the emperor to be dealt with in minutes. When a new emperor comes to power, will he be embarrassed?
At present, there is a huge incremental market in Jianghan waiting for Li Tai to develop, and he is nominally a confidant of Daxingtai who has cultivated and promoted him all the way. If he does not seize the opportunity to develop and instead turns back to engage in internal fighting, that is the real thing.
Can't carry it clearly.
Therefore, Li Tai was really unmoved by this, and was even a little bored. He frowned and said to Cui Qian in a deep voice: "The chief minister returned to the town to entertain the imperial envoys and government envoys on my behalf. After the courtesy, he will send them back. There is no need for them to come south again."
Even if we meet, I have nothing to say. Even if everyone in the court does not read history, how can it be that they have not seen anything? The Eastern Wei Dynasty was destroyed, and the Southern Liang collapsed. If these things are used as a lesson, isn't it enough to give the kings in the court something to learn from?
Alert?
Today, I am gathering momentum by the river to expand the territory of our country. The purpose is to strengthen our country's power and promote our country's prestige. Could it be that we are doing it to enhance our selfish power? Those who live in the border areas are generous and work tirelessly, but those who establish the government are intrigues and causing chaos.
Provocative, and now you are disturbing me with evil things, isn't this the passion of a man with cold blood!"
Speaking of this, Li Tai was really a little angry. Originally, the entire Western Wei Dynasty was a bunch of flirting boys, but I was the only one who was concentrating on hurdling hurdles for the club. You didn't stop helping me, and you did this to me.
It is really unreasonable to disturb my Taoist heart! Regardless of whether I am the pillar of this country or not, I am already the pillar of this regime. I am really worried about you!
Of course, the actual reply cannot be so direct, unless Li Tai wants to experience mixed doubles. No matter how he responds to this question, it is not appropriate for him, so he simply avoids it.
Even if he continues to show his loyalty to Yu Wentai and act cute, it would be wrong. After all, Shiliu has already recognized that he has the potential to compete with Daxingtai. At least his age and appearance are absolutely right. If his posture is still too humble,
On the contrary, it looks suspiciously artificial.
And there is no need. Anyway, as long as his best son-in-law is here, Yuwentai will never force himself, a confidant of the domineering government, to rebel: Because my son-in-law doesn’t deal with me, so I should take off my own arms to scare him? No.
Such logic!
This matter will inevitably come to nothing in the end, and Li Tai is too lazy to waste his energy on it. For him, this is another opportunity after Hou Jing bribed him not long ago and made him understand his weight in the eyes of outsiders.
Determine your position in the hearts of the Chinese people.
In the Western Wei Dynasty recently, apart from mourning and fighting with the father-in-law, it was not that nothing else happened, but it was not a good thing.
In the second half of last year, when the army of the Western Wei Dynasty was busy with the Eastern Expedition, some changes also occurred in Shuzhong. Qiu Chidi and Yang Fachen asked to be the governor of Lizhou, but they were rejected and severely reprimanded by Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling in Nanliang, so he turned to
Juzhou surrendered to the Western Wei Dynasty.
After the Eastern Expedition, Yuwentai was somewhat disgraced, so he planned to abuse vegetables to regain some dignity. He took the situation in Shuzhong seriously and ordered Wang Yue, Yang Shao and others who were in Hanzhong to lead their troops into Shu to help.
Di chieftain Yang Fachen resisted Yizhou's crusade and made a trial attempt to seize Sichuan.
But this test turned out to be a problem. After learning that the Western Wei Dynasty sent troops to intervene in Shu, Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, quickly increased his troops to conquer. Wang Yue and others led their troops just after they entered Shu, they were immediately besieged by the Shu army.
Yang Fachen's hometown, Pingxing City, has been unable to advance or retreat for several months.
The Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office did not publicize this matter, and even deliberately concealed it. After all, it was too embarrassing. Last year's Eastern Expedition had not yet recovered, and Shuzhong was directly surrounded by heavy siege after a slight advance.
The passing year is unlucky. Compared with the Jingzhou General Manager's Office, no wonder Guanzhong Shiliu has the idea of creating a new prefix.
Although the heat of the matter has been suppressed, the problem must always be solved. If Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, was not worried about having a deadly feud with the Western Wei Dynasty, and would be constantly harassed and attacked by Hanzhong, Wang Yue and his soldiers might not have
Even if he has been able to hold on till now, he may have been killed or captured by Shu soldiers long ago.
Li Tai did not get the news from Bafu, but Li Qianzhe, who had returned to Jingzhou from Brazil, came back to tell him.
"Due to the disturbance of this war, all places in Shu are heavily guarded. Although the other side is unique, the general's achievements in regaining the south of Lianghan Mountain are really amazing. The people of Shu are also afraid of being disturbed by this attack, so all parties
Blockage, no communication allowed. Even the Hanzhong troops trapped in Pingxing City were affected by this..."
When Li Tai heard Li Qianzhe's narration, he felt a little proud for a moment. He didn't expect that his reputation was so loud in the relatively remote Shu. He was immediately dumbfounded. In addition to Wang Yue and other soldiers who were worried about being affected by his reputation, Li Tai also felt a little proud.
What's more important is that because of the martial law in central Shu, all the Shu brocade that Li Qianzhe purchased and exchanged from Shu during this period could not be shipped out.
Last August, Li Qianzhe was ordered to go to Brazil in central Sichuan to conduct business with the Shu people. Faced with the huge profits from sugar, those Brazilian Shu people also responded enthusiastically, agreed to various conditions proposed by Li Tai, and sent protons
He came to Jingzhou and gathered manpower and material resources to build a small town for trading goods on the border.
In the past half year, Li Qianzhe has been sitting in the other realm to promote the transaction, and exchanged more than 30,000 pieces of Shu brocade from Shu. Although there is still a huge gap compared to the 100,000 pieces Li Tai requested, this is still
This is already a very impressive result.
However, due to the rugged roads and inconvenient transportation, although the Sichuan brocades obtained from the trade have been transported back, more than 10,000 pieces are still accumulated in the small city named Sugar City in the middle of Sichuan.
Nowadays, due to the invasion of the Western Wei Dynasty, various places in central Shu are heavily guarded. Some Brazilian wealthy families involved in trade do not dare to have much contact with Li Qianzhe in this limelight. Not only has the trade come to a standstill, but even the Shu brocade stored there
and other current goods cannot be transported, and it is no longer safe.
Speaking of this, Li Qianzhe also had a bitter look on his face and sighed: "Nowadays, the Shiliu families in Brazil still dare not make any changes because of their frequent comings and goings. But if the two sides continue to be at odds with each other and the customs blockade remains the same,
I’m afraid they won’t be able to live in peace anymore…”
Li Tai also felt a headache when he heard this, because Hanzhong was recovered in advance, which made Yuwentai speed up his strategy against Shuzhong. He also expected this situation, so he arranged for Li Qianzhe to penetrate the business.
However, due to the excessive vigilance of the Shu people, Yuwentai's temptation was kicked directly on the iron plate, and it also had such a serious impact on his arrangement, which was really unexpected for him.
More than 10,000 pieces of Shu brocade plus other fashionable goods are still a very considerable fortune even for today's Li Tai. Naturally, he is not willing to give it up. But if he wants to successfully transport it out, he must resolve the tense situation between the two parties.
manner.
Li Tai knew that Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, had great ambitions and was not satisfied with being trapped in Shu as a local emperor. Moreover, he had always looked down on the king of eastern Hunan and had always wanted to leave Shu. He was probably not very happy to fight with the Western Wei Dynasty in Shu.
.So as long as the Western Wei people bow their heads and admit their small mistakes, they can probably negotiate peace.
However, the situation in the Western Wei Dynasty was not very optimistic. Yuwentai encountered military obstacles one after another, and when the new emperor ascended the throne, he stared at the sensitive node that was looking for trouble, and he was afraid that he was not willing to bow his head.
However, Li Tai happened to capture Xiao Yuanzheng, the son of King Wuling. If he could use this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Shuzhong, he could achieve a more decent ending.
Li Tai did not intend to hand over Xiao Yuanzheng to the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office, but wanted the Jingzhou General Manager's Office to negotiate with Shuzhong so as to have the right to speak on the matter, so he wrote a letter and sent it back to China as quickly as possible.
Zhoubafu.
At this time, in the Chinese Foreign Affairs Office in Huazhou, Yu Wentai was agitated by various internal and external affairs. When he received Li Tai's memorial and browsed it for a while, he couldn't help but smile and sighed with relief: "Boshan and I really have a heart to heart.
, If you have new difficulties, you can find solutions, but if everyone in the house is like this, why should I worry!"
This plan proposed by Li Tai can be said to be a great solution to his urgent needs. In addition, the recent performance of the Jingzhou General Manager's Office has been remarkable, so Yuwentai simply transferred the governorship of Hanzhong Liangzhou from the Qinzhou General Manager's Office.
He returned to the General Manager's Office in Jingzhou, and appointed Yan Qingchou as the Sima of the General Manager's Office in Jingzhou to handle Liangzhou affairs and coordinate with the General Manager's Office to properly handle the matter.
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