This young man, who actually joined the East Palace only a few months ago, has a clean background and is witty. More importantly, his achievements are enough to win the support of most young civil and military generals and officials, thus naturally forming a public opinion that cannot be ignored.
.
In particular, outstanding figures among the younger generation such as Xiao Shilian and Pei Zilie have always been on Li Xinchen's side, which of course makes Li Xinchen's words even more unignorable.
He also understood what role he played in the entire East Palace system, so when all eyes were focused on him, Li Xingchen did not refuse and whispered in a low voice: "Although this is possible, my intuition tells me that
This possibility is not high."
"Oh?" Zhou Que and Xiao Mohe both looked over curiously.
Although Yuchi Jiong was a veteran of the Northern Dynasty, he had been mainly responsible for the attack on the Northern Qi in recent years. The last time he fought against the Southern Dynasty could be regarded as the time to attack Bashu. Therefore, in fact, whether it was Zhou Que, who was a civil servant, or Zhou Que, who was a military official.
Xiao Mohe, a military attache, didn't have many opportunities to interact with Yuchi Jiong, and most of his knowledge of him came from hearsay and the short and unsuspense Battle of Jiangling.
Compared with Zhou Que and others, Li Xingchen knew even less about Yuchi Jiong, but at least he knew more about Yuchi Jiong's performance in history that Zhou Que and others could not know. Li Xingchen did not think that this veteran who had always been upright and steady
Would he collude with Chen Shuling? More importantly, would colluding with the Northern Dynasty really be beneficial to Chen Shuling?
After considering the words, Li Xingchen said slowly: "As for the Northern Dynasties, perhaps we are happy to see conflicts and struggles between us and the Yangzhou governor, but this does not mean that they are still willing to support the Yangzhou governor, or support a puppet like they supported the puppet Liang.
Ordinary Chen Guo.”
Li Xingchen's words seemed a bit disrespectful to Chen Chao, but everyone present was thinking carefully about what he meant. How could he care so much?
After a pause, Li Xingchen then said: "What's more, for the governor of Yangzhou, if he ascends to the throne with the support of the barbarians of the Northern Dynasty, what is the difference between him and Xiao Kui who does not have much real power in his hands? In the end, he might as well be the emperor.
An idle prince is so comfortable."
The entire meeting hall fell into silence as Li Xingchen's words fell, but after a moment, Xiao Mohe opened his mouth to break the somewhat awkward and nervous silence:
"The barbarians of the Zhou Kingdom have now unified the north. There is really no need to support a puppet anymore."
Xiao Mohe's words were a bit nonsense no matter how you looked at them, but they made several people present subconsciously look at each other, showing a relaxed expression.
The previous establishment of Xiliang was ultimately due to the fact that Northern Zhou did not have the power to completely defeat Nanchen. Even at that time, due to the restraint of Northern Qi, Nanchen could even maintain a certain advantage over Northern Zhou in Jingzhou, so Northern Zhou had to support a puppet regime as a
buffer, and can use this as an excuse to send troops to Jiangling for rescue when necessary.
For example, nine years ago, the Northern Zhou Dynasty marched into Jiangling with the purpose of protecting Xiliang, thus effectively avoiding the embarrassment of "unknown troops".
In history, when the Sui Dynasty formed an overwhelming advantage over Nanchen, as a puppet regime, Xi Liang naturally lost its meaning of existence and disappeared with a single word from Yang Jian.
Therefore, in Li Xingchen's view, as Nanchen captured Jiangling and the armies of the Northern Zhou Dynasty moved south one after another, the war between the two sides was about to escalate from a local conflict to a full-scale war, which meant that it would be a non-stop situation.
And more importantly, for Chen Shuling, what he wanted from beginning to end was power, no matter whether this power was in the form of emperor, regent or other forms. If he was really allowed to become a powerful person with the support of the Northern Zhou people,
Puppet, then he might as well be his Yangzhou governor.
After all, as long as Chen Shuling admits defeat, the East Palace will naturally not be able to really attack an idle prince who has considerable influence and reputation. It can only send people to watch him and not cause any trouble.
"So this time is a coincidence?" Zhou Que murmured, somewhat disappointed and confused. In fact, there was no need to use a question, Zhou Que himself already knew the answer to this question.
Obviously, this complicated and confusing relationship also made him dizzy. For a moment, he didn't know how to determine the various connections among them, so he could only simply throw out the question, or rather the conclusion.
Li Xingchen nodded slightly. Psychologically, he did not object to Chen Shuling's collusion with the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He even had great expectations for it. However, neither the spies and chess pieces around Chen Shuling nor the spies lurking in the Northern Zhou Dynasty found out.
There are clues that the two parties may cooperate, otherwise as long as they can seize a piece of evidence, Donggong can use all his strength to directly knock Chen Shuling to the ground.
Presumably not only Li Xingchen, but everyone present had such thoughts, otherwise Zhou Que would not have looked disappointed just now.
But Li Xingchen never dared to think of Chen Shuling so simply. He was a difficult and deadly opponent. In fact, in addition to these reasons, there was another reason that Li Xingchen did not say out loud, but he believed that everyone present knew it.
That is Chen Xu.
Because when internal conflicts turned into external struggles, Chen Xu, who had been sitting on the throne and watching the fight between tigers and tigers, would definitely not remain motionless. After all, no matter how hard he fought before, it was his own people. If Chen Shuling colluded with the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it would be treason.
, Chen Xu would never allow his dynasty to be handed over to Chen Shuling.
No matter how stupid Chen Shuling is, he will understand this truth. Naturally, it is impossible for him to take such a bad strategy. Whether it is Cong's instigation of rebellion against Deng Qing and other prince guards, or his collusion with Lingnan, or his training of black-clad killers, Li Xingchen can see this.
The guy was so cold and meticulous, so naturally he didn't believe that he would foolishly violate Chen Xu's bottom line.
However, although it was certain that this time was just a coincidence, Li Xingchen still became more vigilant. He didn't know how Yu Chijiong made his judgment, but he had to be more cautious about this Northern Zhou veteran.
After all, being able to act decisively shows that Yuchi Jiong has not become too old to dull his thinking. He is still the famous general who used a two-pronged approach many years ago to conquer Sichuan and Sichuan!
Squinting his eyes slightly, Li Xingchen looked at Xiao Mohe who was meditating. He knew that through this battle, Xiao Mohe could also clearly understand the difficulties that Yuchi Jiong had to deal with, and after Li Xingchen left, it was Xiao Mohe and
Yu Chijiong's solo confrontation.
For a moment, Li Xingchen didn't even know whether he should be grateful that he no longer had to battle with Yuchi Jiong in such a tiring battle of wits and courage, or whether he should worry about whether Xiao Mohe was Yuchi Jiong's opponent.
However, Li Xingchen also believes that if history continues to move forward on its original track, there may be a turn for the better in the future.
After Yu Wenyun ascended the throne, I am afraid no one will be able to curb the conflicts between Yang Jian, Yu Chijiong and others.
King Yu Wenxian of Qi is not Yuwen Yong after all...