Chapter 57 The Terrible Vortex
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"Tell me, what's the matter?" Zhe Kecun sat upright and asked solemnly...\\\\
"Li Hu will definitely agree to our conditions, because in Li Hu's view, we focus on future interests and will do all the benefits to him without any harm. He is too happy, so how could he object? However, Li Hu is not an idiot, and he will soon find out that he has been fooled. What choice will he make at that time? Should he choose to join forces with us to support the prince, or to choose the official family to support the deposed legitimate and establish a illegitimate family?" Zhe Ke asked.
"This question is very complicated, we have discussed it." Zhe Kecun thought for a moment, shook his head, and looked helpless. Who can predict the future? If you know the future, you still have to spend your brain here?
This question is indeed very complicated.
Li Hu is a Han Chinese, and a Han Chinese who has been away from China for more than a hundred years. Now the Chinese call them Han barbarians and say they are foreigners. In fact, they are no longer willing to admit that the Han people in the north and south were once a nation more than a hundred years ago. This directly led to Bian Jing not believing in Han people and discriminating against Han people. In other words, once the Song Dynasty successfully recovered Yanyun, Bian Jing must take advantage of the fact that the northern foreign tribes were still in a melee, and they can't wait to crack down on and even destroy the vassal state of Li Hu and pull out this hidden danger.
Of course, Li Hu would not be tied up. Bian Jing forced him into a hurry and he would have to turn against him. Therefore, if Bian Jing did not change his policy on Li Hu, it would definitely bring a crisis to the northwest. The government of Bian Jing was controlled by a group of birds without birds. These people were blinded by power, fame and fortune, so they would not consider the safety of the northwest.
If Li Hu turned against him, whether he turned to the Western Xia, the Jin Kingdom, or even the Khitans, he would eventually confront the north and south. Although the border in the northwest has not changed, the power structure in the northwest has changed. Once the Song army fell into the two battlefields of the northwest and Hebei at the same time, the Song Dynasty will be in danger. All the generals and families in the northwest know that the generals and families in the northwest have thirty-seven generals, but there are two or three ten and they have no combat power at all. If the foreigners go south from Hebei to the Central Plains, the Song Dynasty will be in danger. At that time, the generals and families in the northwest will be in danger, not to mention maintaining their own interests, they will even have problems in survival.
In the Northern Expedition, Bianjing had a pro-war faction and a pro-policy faction. The pro-policy faction had a strong understanding of the crisis of the Song Dynasty. They had a very contradictory attitude towards Li Hudi, and their policies were also contradictory. They wanted to use and kill him, but they had a common understanding that before the deep crisis of the Song Dynasty was resolved, the Song Dynasty needed Li Hu to guard the northern border for them.
Among the Northwest generals and clan families, there are many clear minds, and most of them belong to the Lord and Peace faction. The Lord and Peace faction ministers of Bian Jing tried to use these generals and peasants and clan families in the Northwest and Li Hu, the vassal state, to build a community of interests. Using the strength of this community to threaten and threaten Bian Jing, and then achieve their goal, that is, to support the prince.
After the prince ascended the throne, he must also follow the old rules of the emperor and his ministers. Especially now, the emperor and a group of close friends in other places are racking their brains to depose the legitimate and establish the illegitimate concubines. The prince is incompatible with them. After ascending the throne, they will naturally be wiped out, and then the masters and ministers will be able to take over the government and then implement strategies to strengthen the country and enrich the people.
The Northwest General Family will receive generous rewards after the prince ascended the throne.
The country was prosperous and the people were at peace. The deep crisis in the Song Dynasty was improved. It was easy to resolve the vassal state of Li Hu. It was natural.
The dispute over the imperial reign of Bianjing actually started long before the Northern Expedition. But the emperor was still young and the prince was very low-key. The traditional concept of inheriting the imperial reign also seriously restricted the ministers of the court. The resistance to abolishing the legitimate and establishing the illegitimate land was too great. As the Northern Expedition entered the agenda, the emperor also began to use his mind. He wanted to let Prince Yun Zhao Kai take charge of the army at the right time, recover Yan Yun and build a meritorious contribution. Prince Yun had this meritorious contribution. The emperor found an opportunity to abolish the prince and let Prince Yun inherit the imperial reign. That was very sufficient.
Of course, the prince would not wait for death. The ministers in the court were not all those who were ignorant of being vicious. There were also a group of loyal ministers, a group of people who strictly followed the laws of the Song Dynasty. Of course, there were also a group of people with ulterior motives. But without exception, the motivation for them to firmly support the prince was still derived from the rich rewards in the future. For the expected benefits of the future, they did not hesitate to bet on their own lives.
The emperor and his confidants were all determined to solve the hidden danger of Li Hu. There are too many internal crises in the Song Dynasty. Of course, we must first deal with the most harmful ones.
The prince and his supporters wanted to use Li Hu to achieve their superior position. Only by being above the command can we control authority. Only by holding authority can we completely eliminate the disasters left over from the previous dynasty.
So what about Li Hu? What did Li Hu think? He was really willing to be a vassal state? He was really determined to return to the Song Dynasty?
Li Hu's choice is the core of the problem.
No one could guess Li Hu's thoughts. Even Li Hu himself had to adjust his strategy as the situation changed. Therefore, after repeated consideration, the East Palace and the Zhe family in Bianjing area decided to use the Datong Battle to pull Li Hu to the same front, and then use the emperor's strategy of eliminating the vassal states to promote the development of the situation. Li Hu naturally had to fight back. At this time, he had the support of the East Palace and the Northwest General. He had the strength in both open and secret, so that he would not turn against the Song Dynasty and would not turn against the Song Dynasty.
Holding Li Hu is equivalent to affecting Li Hu's choice, and to some extent, it can even determine Li Hu's choice.
Li Hu's counterattack will promote the development of the situation in Bianjing, and the struggle between the emperor and the Eastern Palace will become more and more intense. Although this will play a role in protecting the prince to a certain extent, what is terrible is that Li Hu is a fierce tiger. The struggle between the emperor and the Eastern Palace will not only fail to curb Li Hu, but instead gives Li Hu the opportunity to profit from it and develop rapidly.
What the Eastern Palace and the Zhe family are most worried about is that if Li Hu is too big for this, it will really become the biggest hidden danger of the Song Dynasty. Then, if the prince ascended the throne in the future, how should he deal with Li Hu?
Regardless of whether the Eastern Palace does not want these problems now, the current Crown Prince Zhao Heng is not only the problem of the failure to protect the crown prince, but also the problem of the failure to protect his life. Zhao Heng must first solve the problems in front of him and talk about the future.
The East Palace has no time to consider the future, but the Zhe family cannot ignore it, because the Zhe family is in the northwest and Li Hu is also in the northwest. Once the two form a community of interests, they will prosper and lose together. The Zhe family cannot ruin four hundred years of foundation for a prince.
Zhe Keqiu was not willing to involve the dispute over the imperial throne in Bianjing. The most profound one of the family precepts of the Zhe family’s four hundred years of history is to never interfere with the imperial throne. From ancient times to the present, no matter how great your achievements are, you will eventually die and die. No one can escape this terrible curse.
However, in this generation, even if you can't escape. Zhe Yanzhi, who was an official in Bianjing, fell into the trap and fell into the vortex of the imperial throne. Cai Jing was the one who pushed Zhe Yanzhi into this trap.
The continuous wars in the northwest and the strength of the Zhe family in the northwest determine the status of the Zhe family in Bianjing. Any emperor or prime minister hopes that the Zhe family will fight bloody battles for the Song Dynasty. Under the premise that military men cannot interfere in politics, the Zhe family's threat to the Song Dynasty was reduced to a minimum. Therefore, whether it is the emperor or the prime minister, they are all good at the Zhe family. At least it is very good, and they take care of all the people who can take care of them. The Zhe family also follows the rules and is loyal to the emperor, and is also very charming to the powerful and nobles of Bianjing. There are too many villains in this world, and I will not offend you, but it is difficult to guarantee that you will not cause trouble for me. Therefore, the Zhe family spends a lot of money in Bianjing every year. Even if they cannot buy wealth, they must at least buy peace.
The Zhe family and Cai Jing have this kind of relationship, but since Cai Jing fell out with Tong Guan, Cai Jing started taking care of the Zhe family. It was really taken care of and tried his best to win over it. Of course, the purpose was to deal with Tong Guan. Tong Guan is not a fool. When he was fighting in the northwest, he had to establish a good relationship with the general family. Now you poach my secrets, that's all right? So Tong Guan also increased his efforts to "care". The final result was that Zhe Yanzhi was promoted continuously and entered the center within several years and became the prime minister.
The relationship between Cai Jing and the emperor is well known to the world, but Cai Jing remained silent in the matter of imperial throne. In fact, Chaozheng silence was not supported. The emperor thought that he was stupid and held his ancestors' family rules unchanged. This was a good quality, and the emperor didn't want to blame him. Cai Jing was in power all over the world, and he did not support the emperor in abolishing the legitimate and establishing the illegitimate concubines, so the prince Zhao Heng was relatively safe.
Cai Jing is old, and he may die with one kick at any time, so he must consider the future of the Cai family. Now the crown prince and the prince of Yun Zhao Kai may inherit the throne. Before the situation is clear, you must keep a low profile to avoid standing in the wrong team. For example, his younger brother Cai You expressed his position early to support the emperor in abolishing the legitimate and establishing the illegitimate wife, which is simply a gambling game with his life, which is too stupid.
But with Cai Jing's status, it was also a wishful thinking that he wanted to get rid of this huge vortex and stay out of the matter. I don't support or object, this is not possible, so he retired and went home. Of course, the reason for his retirement is not the only reason.
Cai Jing returned home to retire and was very low-key, but the prince Zhao Heng came to him. If you want to find Cai Jing, you have to find him when he is low-key. Cai Jing doesn't like Zhao Heng because Zhao Heng is mediocre in his qualifications, and his piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs and essays are useless, and it is too bad compared to Zhao Kai. However, Cai Jing helped Zhao Heng.
Chapter completed!