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On the seventh day, Li Hu invited Zhe Yanzhi and Zhe Keqiu, and Luo Qinghan accompanied him. The concubine and three wives also participated. After three rounds of drinking, the princess and three wives retired. Li Hu immediately talked about the Western Expedition with the uncle and nephew of the Zhe family.

"In a few days, I will lead my army to the expedition." Li Hu roughly explained the strategy of the Western Expedition.

Zhe Yanzhi and Zhe Keqiu did not expect Li Hu to be so anxious about the Western Expedition. The two spoke in unison and firmly opposed it.

"According to the agreement of the Song and Jin Dynasties, in April of Xia, the Jin Kingdom withdrew its troops and returned the seven states in front of the mountain, and the Song army entered Yanjing. This process will take at least one month." Zhe Yan said, "However, the Song Dynasty did not have the Youyan Town Garage Army. Before the Youyan Town Garage Army was established, the Northern Expedition Army would also station Youyan. In other words, the troops in Yang Keshi, Wang Bing and Zhongshi will not return to the northwest until at least May or June. Youyan's journey to the northwest is long, and the normal itinerary will take about two months. The army will have to rest and replenish its troops when it returns to the northwest, which will take another two months."

"According to your opinion, the Northwest Army will not be able to complete preparations for the Western Expedition until at least October this year, right?" Li Hu asked.

Zhe Yan nodded, "October is already winter. The northwest winter is long. When there is heavy snow, the war cannot be carried out. So according to my estimate, the Western Expedition will not start until next spring."

"Next spring?" Li Hu and Luo Qinghan looked at each other speechlessly. By next spring, the situation in the north had long changed, and the strategy of the Western Expedition might have lost the conditions for implementation.

"This is impossible." Li Hu shook his hand and smiled, "According to the agreement, the Song Dynasty will launch a Western Expedition in late summer or early autumn this year. If you postpone the Western Expedition until next spring, wouldn't you violate the alliance?"

"As far as I know, the number of Western troops in the Northern Expedition Army was only more than 30,000. After the failure to attack Yanjing, the six thousand troops of Yang Keshi and Gao Shixuan were killed and injured. In this way, Yang Keshi, Wang Bing and Zong Shi had less than 30,000 Northwest troops in the hands of Yang Keshi, Wang Bing and Zong Shi." Luo Qinghan smiled and said, "Before Tong Guan launched the Northwest War, the number of Northwest troops was about 400,000, of which at least 200,000 elite troops were at least 200,000. In the Battle of Shuofang, Liu Fa and 100,000 troops were wiped out, but the elite troops were only 20,000, and the others were the Xiang army, the Fan army and the Township soldiers." Luo Qinghan pulled his finger and settled the accounts for Zhe Yan, "When he went to Jiangnan to fight Fang La, the Northwest Army suffered about 10,000 losses.

If you calculate carefully, the elite Northwest Army lost about 50,000 people over the years. If you deduct 30% of the gap, the elite Northwest Army is now at least 100,000. In other words, even if Yang Keshi, Wang Bing and Zong Shizhong did not return to Shaanxi in time, you can mobilize 70,000 elite Northwest Army to launch a western expedition within the scheduled time. In addition, there are also the Xiang army, the Fan army and the Township soldiers in the northwest. You can fully assemble 200,000 troops in the next four months."

Luo Qinghan stared at Zhe Yan and asked, "Now I want to know, is it your personal idea or Bian Jing's idea to set the time of the Western Expedition next spring?"

Zhe Yanzhi was secretly shocked. He never expected that Hulie Mansion would have a clear understanding of the Northwest Army. This was terrible. This was the highest military secret of the Song Dynasty. Even the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Road in Shaanxi, even the Privy Council and the Third Yamen, did not have such detailed figures. At present, in the Song Dynasty, there was only one person who could have such clear understanding of the Northwest Army. That was Tong Guan.

After the negotiations between Bianjing and Li Hu broke down, Tong Guan secretly rushed to Yanjing. Then Li Hu gave up Yanjing. Only a very few people knew about Tong Guan's trip to Yanjing. Liu Yanqing was one of them. Of course, Liu Yanqing would not leak the secret. But his son Liu Guangshi told his brother-in-law Xin Xingzong. Xin Xingzong and Zhong Jiadi had a very good relationship. He immediately told Zhong Shizhong. As a result, Zhe Yanzhi knew.

Li Hu suddenly gave up Yanjing. It must be directly related to Tong Guan's secret trip. But no one has any evidence. Moreover, Zhe Yanzhi and the Northwest General have achieved one goal. That is, Tong Guan is finally going home and no longer going to the Northwest to preside over the military. Therefore, there is no need to be a villain and sue the emperor.

However, Zhe Yanzhi never dreamed that Tong Guan actually betrayed the Northwest Army at the last moment and leaked all the secrets of the Northwest Army to Li Hu. Tong Guan's goal was very clear. He wanted to provoke a conflict between Li Hu and the Northwest Army. There was a conflict between the two. The Western Expedition would definitely be defeated. If the Western Expedition was defeated, Bian Jing would come forward to save the situation in the Northwest. The only competent minister was Tong Guan. The emperor wanted to invite Tong Guan out again.

Zhe Yanzhi felt a little hot and uncomfortable all over. If Tong Guan stepped down this time, it was just a strategy for him to make a comeback. Then after the failure of the Western Expedition, the emperor and Tong Guan would have to settle the northwest generals. The crisis in the Zhe family was approaching step by step.

Zhe Keqiu saw Zhe Yanzhi's panic and uneasy look. He knew that Luo Qinghan had hit his point. He couldn't help but feel angry. When is it now? The Zhe family and Li Hu are already tied together. What are you still hesitating? Want the Emperor of Bianjing to destroy our Zhe family? "What do you mean?" Zhe Keqiu asked without hesitation. "What do you want to do?"

What Zhe Yanzhi wants to do, several people know in their hearts

I don't want to say it out loud, and I will turn my back on it if I say it out loud.

The wine glass kept turning in Zhe Yanzhi's hands, and his thoughts were like the wine in the glass, shaking up and down, and fluctuating. He had to weigh the gains and losses. He had been in Bianjing for many years and knew the power of the whirlpool of Bianjing. He had to come up with a proper way to protect both the Zhe family and himself.

Zhe Yanzhi hesitated for a long time and decided to focus on the future of the Zhe family and go to the same path as Li Hu. He could not fight against Cai Jing, nor Tong Guan. Over the past twenty years, the Song Dynasty has been the world of Tong Guan and Cai Jing. If a son from a prominent general family wanted to get rid of the shackles of the Song Dynasty by studying to win scholars, it was actually impossible. In comparison, Zhe Keqiu's strategy is more pragmatic, more practical, and more conducive to the survival of the Zhe family.

"The affairs of Bianjing are directly related to the success or failure of the Western Expedition." Zhe Yanzhi finally spoke, "If we cannot gain the trust of the emperor, even if we win the Western Expedition, we will not have any achievements. On the contrary, both sides will suffer losses. Whether it is Hulie Mansion or the Northwest General, they will become victims of the Western Expedition."

He explained his analysis of the situation in Bianjing and the future development of the situation in Bianjing in detail.

"I have told Li Gang, Yuwen Xuzhong and others that we must clearly tell the emperor that we support the emperor in deposing the legitimate and establishing the illegitimate wife in order to win the emperor's trust."

This idea was discussed at the Hulie Mansion Center. Li Gang and others had already mentioned it, but after careful discussion with Yuwen Xuzhong, he felt that it was meaningless. The emperor was not an idiot. Didn’t he know that Li Hu was coaxing him? He would not be fooled, how should he treat Li Hu or how to treat him?

"Both Li Sima and Yuwen Sima think that this matter is meaningless." Li Hu asked, "What do you think? Why do you have this suggestion?"

"Don't believe their words, they are deceiving you." Zhe Yanzhi frowned, his face was cold, and his momentum became increasingly urgent. "Are you a vassal state, a vassal king, or a nominal central member of the Secretariat, a nominal central member, but he does not participate in political affairs decisions. In your identity, if you publicly support the emperor to abolish the legitimate and establish a vassal state, it is equivalent to telling Bianjing that you are very concerned about the situation in the court and have a strong grasp of the central control authority. This is what Bianjing is most afraid of, which means you are no longer satisfied with being a vassal state, and you are already planning to interfere with the political affairs of Bianjing."

"The dispute over the imperial reunification has been the biggest internal affairs and the biggest source of disaster in all dynasties. If you suddenly jump out and join the imperial reunification dispute, it will quickly intensify the development of the imperial reunification dispute over the Bianjing."

"The temptation of imperial power is too great, big enough to make people turn into a beast, so if nothing unexpected happens, the king will violate the laws of the ancestors and risk the country's destruction to form an alliance with you. In this way, he has the support of the emperor and his close ministers inside and the support of powerful vassals outside, and it is only a matter of time before entering the Eastern Palace."

"In order to be the emperor, Prince Yun can do whatever he wants and lose his mind, but the ministers of Bian Jing will not go crazy with him."

"The Song Dynasty used civil war to control military affairs and was the cause of the disaster of the vassal states. A hundred years later, the military officials were in a low position and the civil officials had firmly controlled their power. At this moment, if the vassal states appeared again, the military officials showed their strength to fight against civil officials, which not only shook the foundation of the founding of the Song Dynasty, but also seriously violated the interests of civil officials. This is something that civil officials would never tolerate."

"In this way, the situation in Bianjing suddenly changed drastically. It is impossible for the emperor to abolish the legitimate and establish the illegitimate. Those ministers who originally supported the emperor to abolish the legitimate and establish the illegitimate and establish the illegitimate will also be slandered and fight against the emperor, while the number of ministers who support the crown prince will suddenly increase."

"The emperor will be angry because of this, and will curse the ministers because of this, and think that these ministers have betrayed him, so the conflict between the emperor and the ministers will quickly intensify in a short period of time."

"The emperor could not seek support in Bianjing, so he had to settle for the second best, go crazy with Prince Yun, seek support from the vassal states, and seek your support. At this time, the Northwest generals jointly submitted a report to support the emperor in abolishing the legitimate legislature and establishing the illegitimate wife."

"This incident will sensation in Bianjing, and it will change the power structure of Bianjing. The warriors of the Song Dynasty will become the third force in the Song Dynasty with the vassal states. The Song Dynasty will no longer have only emperors and civil officials, but also strong warriors."

"The sudden change in the power structure of the Song Dynasty will lead to the dispute over the imperial rule becoming more complicated and dangerous, but the emperor took the initiative because of this. He can use this to threaten civil officials. If you want to defeat the military man back to his original form, it is very simple. Just support me to abolish the legitimate and establish the illegitimate wife."
Chapter completed!