Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3753 Fighting for Power
The current situation can be described as "clouds open and the moon shines" for Donggong, and everything is good.However, after all, the offensive and defensive reversal has not yet been reached. The Guanlong rebel army is still strong after receiving the support of the world's powerful, and still has an advantage in terms of military strength.

There are two roads before Donggong, war or peace.

If there is a war, it will inevitably be a bloody and brutal killing. The two sides together have more than 20 troops attacking and killing each other around Chang'an City, which will do no more harm to the empire.Although there is no need to make concessions to Guan Long to cede benefits, the victory or defeat is also unknown.

If there is a peace, this mutiny can be eliminated immediately, and the empire will quickly enter the recovery process, but it is bound to cede interests in order to win Guanlong to stop the war, and the resulting fall of monarchy and rampant power will take ten or even 20 years to unceasingly Fight to take it back.

Both war and peace have their own advantages and disadvantages, and how to choose is not easy.

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Liu Jie did his part, straightened his waist, and said: "Your Highness, although the situation has improved, the rebels have already taken a greater advantage. The battle to the end, the outcome is unknown, and it will bring irreparable damage to Guanzhong. Your Highness With righteousness and righteousness, it is natural to be responsible for the well-being of the people, and cannot be reckless and unscrupulous. The rebels are already rebellious officials and thieves, who only want to succeed in the mutiny and intimidate the people of the world, so they naturally have no scruples in their actions. Under such circumstances, The peace talks should be started as soon as possible, and we should take advantage of the current opportunity of a lucky victory to determine the overall situation."

Several bigwigs in the military curled their lips together, dismissive.

Fang Jun fought life and death, and he was willing to take strange risks to achieve the great victory of reversing the situation. In Liu Ji's mouth, it turned out to be a "fluke victory", which is really shameless.

Li Daozong said: "Liu Shizhong's words are wrong. Since His Highness is the righteousness of the world, how can he easily collude with the rebels? Even if the military disaster is eliminated in this way, it will inevitably become a stain that cannot be washed away. How can we convince the people of the world? ? Not to mention letting a group of rebellious officials and thieves still steal the court after the peace talks, where is the law and order? "

A series of questioning is also high-sounding.

Cooperating with the rebels today seems to stop fighting and avoid further loss of the foundation of the empire, but those rebels who have no king and no father will continue to stay in the court. If they bow down to serve the thief, the prestige of the prince will naturally be difficult to preserve, and he will suffer from it from now on. People all over the world criticized.

In the history books, this will also be regarded as the great shame and humiliation of Emperor Zhengshuo.

Liu Ji asked rhetorically: "But if the rebel army cannot be wiped out in the end and the chaos is right, who will bear the responsibility? Who can afford it? War is nothing but a continuation of politics. The duty of a soldier is to obey orders. To make a decision, the military can act according to orders, there is no need to say too much, let alone stretch your hand too far, intending to influence the government and deceive the saints.

In terms of bickering, how could Li Daozong be the opponent of Liu Ji, who was born as a censor?

He was so angry that he laughed, and was about to scold, Fang Jun said: "If the peace talks are resumed, what conditions will be given to the rebels? That is to say, what is the bottom line of the East Palace?"

Pointing to the core, Li Daozong also shut his mouth and looked at Liu Ji.

In fact, even if it continues to fight, it will be more in line with the interests of the military, but now the military does not reject peace talks. After all, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Guanlong clan has always occupied a high position, and the military was based on the Guanlong army. Sweeping the world and pacifying the Quartet, he has always been in constant contact with the Guanlongmen Clan.

If the Guanlongmen Clan is really wiped out, it may not be in favor of everyone's interests...

Of course, the military will never tolerate the civil servants headed by Liu Ji and others just for the sake of peace talks, and then sell too much Donggong's interests.

Because the problems are obvious, the most important condition for Guan Long to agree to the peace talks is the restriction on the East Palace army, otherwise as long as the East Palace Six Rates and the Right Tunwei continue to grow, the East Palace can counterattack the Guanlongmen Clan at any time.

Liu Ji had his own calculations in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it clearly at this time, because no matter what he said, he would inevitably attract opposition from the military, causing the situation to get out of control.

Therefore, he just said vaguely: "The peace talks have not yet started, so it is too early to talk about this point. After the peace talks, we will slowly test and play games. In the end, His Highness needs to agree to the final decision."

Fang Jun shook his head, ignored Liu Wei, turned to Li Chengqian and said, "Your Highness, the peace talks are very important, and the situation of the army is the basis of the peace talks, so I think the military should be involved in the peace talks , to be able to control the current situation at any time, so that Liu Shizhong's eyes will not be smeared, and he will be deceived by the rebels in the end, which will damage the interests of the Eastern Palace."

When Liu Ji heard this, he resolutely objected: "Absolutely not! The military has a tough style and can't rub the sand in its eyes. How can it be false in the negotiation and advance and retreat freely? Previously, the Duke of Yue blatantly attacked the rebels, which led to the termination of the peace talks. This time must not be repeated.”

Not only him, but Xiao Yu also nodded and echoed this time: "The war has just ended, and the rebels have suffered heavy losses. If the East Palace military participates in the peace talks, it will definitely arouse the hatred of the rebels, which will be detrimental to the progress of the peace talks."

Although he was extremely dissatisfied with Cen Wenwen's support of Liu Ji, both parties had the same interests in this matter, and the military must be excluded from the peace talks. In fact, as long as there are ministers in the hall who are interested in peace talks, no one is willing to let the military participate.

Li Jing has a high status and is impatient with these cumbersome affairs. As a royal family, Li Daozong has deep entanglements with Guan Long, and these two people are not suitable.If the military participates in the peace talks, Fang Jun can only participate in it personally. With Fang Jun's current status and qualifications, how can Liu Ji hold him back?

Besides, Fang Jun is clearly opposed to the peace talks. If he joins, the peace talks will definitely cause disturbances...

Li Chengqian waved his hand and said with a final word: "Let's focus on Liu Shizhong, who will host the discussion, find out what the rebels want as soon as possible, and then formulate the corresponding terms of the peace talks."

This is tantamount to complying with the wishes of Liu Ji and others, and the general is excluded from the peace talks.

No matter whether he is inclined to Fang Jun or not, he has to win over the civil servants of the East Palace. The way of the world, both civil and military, can't just leave the civil servants aside and dismiss them with the support of the military, right?

As a crown prince, he may have close and distant relatives in his heart, but he must be as fair as possible. With the civilian officials so opposed to the military's participation in the peace talks, it is impossible for him to insist on forcing the military into the peace talks.

After all, "balance" is everywhere...

Li Daozong was dissatisfied, and was about to express his disapproval, but was poked by Fang Jun secretly, and when he looked suspiciously at Fang Jun, the latter had already nodded and said: "Your Highness, the ministers and others all obey the order."

Liu Ji and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

With the prince's favor and trust in Fang Jun, coupled with Fang Jun's prestige of a big victory, if he insists on taking part in the peace talks, the prince may not be able to refuse.Fortunately, Fang Jun has a good understanding of the general situation and knows that peace talks are the most correct thing right now. Otherwise, Li Ji, who is stationed in Tongguan, will be a sharp sword hanging over the head of Donggong. No one knows if he will fall or when he will fall. ...

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At the end of the meeting, all the ministers withdrew, chatting in twos and threes and leaving.

Li Daozong stood at the door, waited until Fang Jun came out, and then let his soldiers hold up umbrellas to block the rain, and together with Li Jing who came out later, went back to his residence at the inner door.

This is a house not far from the prince's residence. Although it is not large in scale, it has exquisite architecture and the interior furnishings are different from ordinary barracks. It used to be the residence of generals.

The three of them took off their boots at the door, stepped on the clean floor, and sat at the coffee table by the window. Li Daozong boiled water and made tea himself.

The pot of water sprayed with white gas, Li Daozong took off the kettle and started to make tea, after the soldiers offered a few plates of pastries, Li Daozong waved his hands back.

After drinking tea and eating a snack, Li Daozong asked: "Why did Cai Erlang stop me just now? Those civil servants are now blinded by the merits of the peace talks, and they only want to hold all the merits in their hands. They don't care What kind of losses will the East Palace have, and what kind of restrictions will our army have... If we can't participate in it, who will protect our interests?"

Maybe he didn't care too much about what kind of benefits he would get in this mutiny, but as a member of the military, he watched the army belonging to the Eastern Palace fight to the death and turn the tide, but the fruits of victory were seized by the civilian officials, and even Selling part of the military's interests in exchange for Guan Long's side to complete the peace talks as soon as possible... Li Daozong was disgusted.

Fang Jun disagreed, took a sip of tea, and said calmly but full of domineering tone: "So what if you don't participate in the peace talks? The soldiers are in our hands. If you feel that the terms of the peace talks are not appropriate, at worst, you will go to war directly. A few civil servants who are greedy for profit will not succeed." climate."

(End of this chapter)