Li Xingchen nodded slightly. This was actually his bottom line. Rather than delineating the dividing line between the two sides, it was better to say it was delineating an armistice line. What's more, it was just a verbal agreement now. Whether or not it really needs to be abided by is still up for grabs.
It depends on the tacit understanding and strength gap between the two parties. If the strength gap is too big, naturally everyone will not hesitate to break up.
"Where did Yulin ride to?"
"Now the first group of people has entered Guanzhong, and the other group is also transferring to Hanzhong. It should be very soon," Chen Yu said in a deep voice. "While Yang Jian is busy setting up the defense line against Tongguan, we still have enough time."
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"When Yang Jian turns his attention to Wuguan, we have to be careful." Li Xingchen said carefully. In matters such as assassination and instigation of rebellion, what matters is not how many people there are, but whether they can keep it secret. In this regard, Li Xingchen still has
I really have to admit that Chen Shuling should indeed be considered in the upper half of the experts. Li Xinchen benefited a lot from the battle of wits and courage between Jiang Ling and Chen Shuling.
"But Your Majesty," Chen Yu said with concern, "According to the current national policy of the Han Dynasty, it seems difficult for us to help Yuwen stabilize the situation. Once Yang Jian and his followers counterattack, how should we make a decision?"
Helping Yuwen was a strategy formulated by the Han Dynasty based on the previous national policy of quickly solving Guanzhong, in order to achieve the effect of cooperating internally and externally. But now that the Han Dynasty has slowed down the pace of the attack and only takes Nanyang as the target for the new year, then Guanzhong
It's chaotic, and it doesn't seem to have much to do with the big man.
Especially now that Li Xinchen understands the situation in Huainan, he has a better idea of what the rest of the Han Dynasty is like. Therefore, rectifying the internal affairs and making this mess into a whole is Li Xinchen's top priority. In comparison, Guanzhong is far away.
It's on the horizon.
Now Li Xingchen can also understand why the Southern Dynasty has been unable to open up the situation for so long. The chaos in the country alone is enough to make the court anxious, especially the interest entanglements and disputes between various aristocratic families, which are like a hidden picture.
The underwater net is imperceptible and extremely tough. The court is like the fish that falls into the net and cannot escape no matter what.
Although the Hou Jingzhi Rebellion later cut a big hole in the net, Nan Chen, the "fish" who was exhausted from all the work, did not have the strength and courage to rush out, and could only watch the net being darned again.
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Now Li Xingchen undoubtedly has enough power, and what he has to do is to finally use this net for his own use and take it to catch other fish. Now Li Xingchen has not fully controlled the net, so naturally he can't take care of it.
fishing.
But in any case, it is not a bad thing for the Han Dynasty that the enemy is in chaos. At least it can buy enough buffer time. More importantly, if the center is in chaos, the peripheral areas will naturally relax their vigilance, and even people's mentality will change.
Li Xingchen waved his hand: "What we need is not just Chang'an. Once chaos breaks out in Chang'an, we will have opportunities in the directions of Wuguan and Xiegu. As long as we can take advantage of the chaos to capture these passes, Chang'an
It doesn’t matter whose it belongs to, it must all be in my possession.”
After a pause, Li Xingchen spread his hands and said: "But because of this, the main goal of you Baipao and Yulinqi is no longer how to let Yu Wen replace Yang Jian in charge of the Zhou Dynasty, but how to take advantage of the opportunity to lurk after the turmoil is set off, and do something for you."
Make preparations for sending troops to Guanzhong in the future."
Now the Han Dynasty is beyond reach of Guanzhong
"No!" Chen Yu agreed hastily.
"How sure are you of assassinating Yang Jian and supporting Yuwen?" Li Xingchen asked again.
He presided over this matter single-handedly, and the ones sent out were all the absolute elites of Baipao and Yulinqi. Naturally, Li Xingchen did not want one of the trump cards in his hand to maintain governance to be wasted in such a struggle.
This is why he now regards being able to retreat and turn around as a basic requirement for the Yulin Cavalry and the White Robe.
Chen Yu took a deep breath. Apparently they had discussed and deliberated on this issue many times: "It's 20% that you can get away with it after it's done. It's 40% that it can be done with more than half of it lost.
The chance of failure is 60%, and the chance of the whole army being wiped out but being able to cause the enemy to disorganize his position is more than 80%."
This is already higher than Li Xingchen expected.
"Remember, if you can't move Yang Jian, kill his minions as much as possible." Li Xingchen said in a deep voice.
The reason why Yang Jian was able to step from half-brother-in-law to today is not only because of his in-law relationship, but more importantly, because the officials under him perform their respective duties and can maintain the operation of the system. Perhaps this is
The civil servants and military generals were not as talented as Yang Su, but they were able to clearly divide their labor and complete the operation of a dynasty. This is what Li Xinchen admired.
Perhaps they did not have many opportunities to leave their names in history, but it was their joint efforts that ended a troubled time that lasted for three hundred years and opened another prosperous period in Chinese history.
Li Xingchen had to admit that Yang Jian was indeed very capable in terms of overall planning. If it were anyone else, it would not necessarily or even be difficult for him to reach Yang Jian's level of ability.
Now Li Xingchen is trying to build such a system and try his best to maintain the balance in this system.
Li Xingchen has gathered enough strength before, and what he has to do now is to build a solid framework and fill it with these forces. Whether it is the checks and balances formed in the court before or the foreign Confucianism and internal law that Li Xingchen is preparing or implementing now, as well as improving
Policies such as education levels are actually strengthening this framework.
Of course, this is not a world that compares who is better, but who is not so bad. After all, Chinese people have always been submissive. Unless their families are broken and their families are destroyed, and there is a sea of hatred, it is rare for the government to force the people.
Opposite things, especially the Confucian thought of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, have been widely spread with the promotion of "Confucianism alone" in the Han Dynasty. It is said that both officials and common people will try their best to endure beyond their own bottom line of endurance.
Therefore, when two forces collide, you cannot expect that the other party will collapse at the first touch. In other words, if you want to truly defeat the other party, you must strengthen yourself and weaken the enemy. A two-pronged approach may be able to achieve some desired effects. And Li Xingchen wants to
If you want to cause trouble for Yang Jian, naturally you can't just focus on Yang Jian.
Those cronies and minions who helped him control the government were equally important, even indispensable.
Once Yang Jian loses these people, he will quickly lose control of the court. Li Xingchen does not believe that people such as Yuwen Shenju and others will watch Yang Jian fill the vacancy. By then, the turmoil in the court of the Northern Zhou Dynasty will only become more intense.