Northern Dynasties

Before the two envoys arrived in Jingzhou, Cui Qian, who had returned to the court for a banquet, had already returned to Jingzhou and went straight to Shicheng to report to Li Tai in advance the personnel changes he had seen during his return to the court.

"The current emperor has a very different temperament and is very ambitious. I'm afraid this is not a blessing to the country!"

After telling the details of some personnel changes, Cui Qianxuan even told his biggest feelings about returning to the DPRK on this trip, but when he said this, his expression was quite worried.

For a normal regime, a young, powerful and ambitious monarch is a blessing to the country.However, the Western Wei Dynasty itself was in charge of the hegemony. If the emperor was not satisfied with his puppet status and situation, he would inevitably try to challenge the hegemonic order, causing turmoil in the upper political structure, and then triggering serious internal strife.

After hearing Cui Qian's evaluation of the current emperor, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh.

If the life of the current emperor Yuan Qin could be summed up in one sentence, it would be that he was either planning how to deal with his father-in-law, or he was messing with his father-in-law.As the saying goes, if you never forget something, there will be repercussions. In the end, Yu Wentai finally exceeded the limit of his endurance and killed his son-in-law.

After explaining the current situation in the country, Cui Qian looked at Li Taifa and asked: "What do you want the manager to do about the matter of the imperial court?"

After Li Tai heard this question, he first laughed and said: "I was listed as the choice of Zhuguo. It seems that everyone in the world thinks highly of me!"

"Yes, especially many relatives and friends in Guandong are very enthusiastic about this. They have been cardinals for a long time and are not familiar with the current situation, so they hope that you, Boshan, can bravely assume the honor."

After Cui Qian heard this, he also replied that he had a thorough understanding of the thoughts of these old acquaintances in Guandong. When they recommended Li Tai, they also hoped to form an alliance and become a party and become a political force that could influence the situation in Korea.

"I'm afraid I will live up to their love. Now that the situation in the southeast is still evolving, there will definitely be more opportunities to take advantage of it in the future. The people of Qi are also eyeing Huainan. Under this situation, it is not enough for me to focus on the southeast. In fact, There is no time to look elsewhere!”

After a brief sigh, Li Tai directly expressed his attitude towards this matter.

Of course, the position of Zhuguo sounds more majestic than that of general. If it is just an improvement in reputation and does not involve other situational disputes, Li Tai is of course willing to go further.

Although there are no clear regulations for the eight pillar states in the Western Wei Dynasty, except for Daxingtai Yuwentai, everyone else basically left front-line command positions and no longer held real power after being promoted to the pillar states.

If Li Tai is promoted to Zhuguo, will he return to the imperial court to be a royal supporter, or will he continue to stay in Jingzhou and preside over the military and political affairs of the southeast?

Living a life of retirement so early is obviously not in line with Li Tai's wishes.But if he still insists on being on duty, he will be equivalent to another special Zhuguo besides Yuwentai. In other words, his Jingzhou Military Palace will already have the preliminary qualifications to fight against the Huazhou Zhongwai Palace.

If Li Tai is promoted to Zhuguo this time, the most ideal situation for him is to continue to be in charge of the Jingzhou General Administration, and then rely on the advantage of being from the Li family in Longxi to collude with many members of the Guandong family in the country and let them serve in the court. Act as your own spokesperson.And these internal and external personnel headed by him, due to his position as the pillar country, can be said to have escaped the control of the Chinese and Foreign Governments and become another pole.

Cui Qian said that the Kanto clans who enthusiastically supported Li Tai's promotion to the Zhuguo must have similar ideas and wanted to achieve such a situation and create another one controlled by the Kanto clans in addition to the Zhongwai Mansion with the Zhenbing as the main body. The dominant military government.

Presumably this is the main reason why Emperor Yuan Qin specifically brought this topic to Li Tai, just like how Emperor Xiaowu supported the Heba brothers to counter Gao Huan.Thinking about it this way, history really moves from one cycle to the next. Sure enough, the essence of human beings is a repeater.

Li Tai couldn't help but start to think about it. If the emperor couldn't get his father-in-law in Guanzhong, would he leave Wuguan south and come to Jingzhou to join him?Then he can learn from Yu Wentai's operation and simply establish a Southern Wei Dynasty in Jingzhou, so that our Nanyang military nobles can regain their glory...

Such a development route is really exciting to think about, but it is just a thought.

After all, the premise of all this is not whether Li Tai dares to start a new business, but whether Emperor Yuan Qin can run out of Wuguan and give himself the remaining legal value of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

And to be honest, the Eastern Wei Dynasty has been overthrown. In addition, the Jianghan area is not the traditional sphere of influence of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Even if Yuan Qin comes, it will not mean much. He can not win over the people of Jianghan and Han Dynasty as much as the King of Liang in Xiangyang. .

So the question comes back again, is he so idle that he changes his skin to Nanliang because he wants to be a Zhuguo?

No one wants to be the boss. Li Tai will ravage the Yuwen family eight hundred times in his mind every day from when he wakes up to when he goes to sleep at night, but this situation is really not a good time for him.

The biggest conflict in the country today is obviously between the emperor and the powerful ministers. The balance of strength between the two sides is very unbalanced. If Li Tai accepts the emperor's solicitation in order to get ahead, he will have to invest a lot of manpower and material resources into this competition. Maintain a balance between the two.This will take the emperor to be dealt with in a matter of minutes. If a new emperor comes to power, will he be embarrassed?

At present, there is a huge incremental market in Jianghan waiting for Li Tai to develop, and he is nominally a confidant of Daxingtai who has cultivated and promoted him all the way. If he does not seize the opportunity to develop and instead turns back to engage in internal fighting, that is the real thing. Can't carry it clearly.

Therefore, Li Tai was really unmoved by this, and even a little bored. He frowned and said to Cui Qian in a deep voice: "Chang Shi returned to the town to entertain the imperial envoys and government envoys on my behalf. After the courtesy, he will be sent back. There is no need to send envoys to the south again. Even if we meet, I have nothing to say. Even if everyone in the court does not read history, how can it be that they have not seen anything? The fall of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the collapse of the Southern Liang Dynasty. Taking these events as a lesson, isn't it enough for the kings in the court to learn something? Alert?

Today, I am gathering momentum by the river to expand the territory for our country. The purpose is to strengthen our country's power and promote our country's prestige. Is it to enhance my own personal prestige?The people on the edge of the town sacrificed their lives generously and worked tirelessly, but the people who established the government intrigued and provoked chaos and provocation. Now they are disturbing me with evil things. Isn't this the blood of Hanliang people with lofty ideals! "

At this point, Li Tai was really a little angry.Originally, there were a bunch of flirtatious guys in the entire Western Wei Dynasty, but I was the only one who focused on hurdling hurdles for the community. You didn't help me more than that, and you still disturbed my Taoist mind with such nonsense. It's really unreasonable!Regardless of whether I am the pillar of this country or not, I am already the pillar of this regime. I really worry about you!
Of course, the actual reply cannot be so direct, unless Li Tai wants to experience mixed doubles.No matter how he responded to this question, it was inappropriate, so he simply avoided it.Even if he continues to show his loyalty to Yu Wentai and act cute, it is inappropriate. After all, Shiliu has already recognized that he has the potential to compete with Daxingtai. At least his age and appearance are absolutely right. If his posture is still too humble, On the contrary, it seems artificial and suspicious.

And there is no need. Anyway, as long as his best son-in-law is here, Yuwentai will never force himself, a confidant of the domineering government, to rebel: Because my son-in-law doesn’t deal with me, so I should take off my own arms first to scare him?There is no such logic!

This matter will inevitably come to nothing in the end, and Li Tai is too lazy to waste time on it.For him, this can be regarded as once again confirming his position in the hearts of the Chinese people after Hou Jing bribed him not long ago and made him understand his weight in the eyes of outsiders.

In the Western Wei Dynasty recently, apart from mourning and fighting with the father-in-law, it was not that nothing else happened, but it was not a good thing.

In the second half of last year, when the army of the Western Wei Dynasty was busy with the Eastern Expedition, some changes also occurred in Shuzhong. Qiu Chidi and Yang Fachen asked to be the governor of Lizhou, but they were rejected and severely reprimanded by Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling in Nanliang, so he turned to Juzhou surrendered to the Western Wei Dynasty.

After the end of the Eastern Expedition, Yuwentai was somewhat disgraced, so he planned to abuse vegetables to regain some dignity. He took the situation in Shuzhong seriously and ordered Wang Yue, Yang Shao and others who were stationed in Hanzhong to lead their troops into Shu to help. The Di chieftain Yang Fachen resisted Yizhou's crusade and tried his best to seize Sichuan.

But this test turned out to be a problem. After learning that the Western Wei Dynasty sent troops to Shu to intervene, Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, quickly increased his troops and went to conquer.Wang Yue and others had just entered Shu with their troops, but were immediately besieged by the Shu army in Yang Fachen's home base of Pingxing City and unable to advance or retreat. It had been several months.

The Chinese Foreign Affairs Office did not publicize this matter, and even deliberately concealed it. After all, it was too embarrassing.Last year's Eastern Expedition has not yet slowed down, and Shuzhong was directly surrounded by heavy siege after a slight advance. It can be said that the year has been unfavorable.Compared with the Jingzhou General Manager's Office, no wonder Guanzhong Shiliu had the idea of ​​​​creating a new prefix.

But although the heat of the matter has been suppressed, the problem still needs to be solved.If Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, was not worried about having a deadly feud with the Western Wei Dynasty and would be constantly harassed and attacked by Hanzhong, Wang Yue and his soldiers might not have been able to hold on till now. They might have been killed or captured by the Shu soldiers. .

Li Tai did not get the news from Bafu, but Li Qianzhe, who had returned to Jingzhou from Brazil, came back to tell him.

"Due to the nuisance of this war, all places in Shu are heavily guarded. Although the other side is unique, the general's achievements in regaining the south of Lianghan Mountain are really amazing. The people of Shu are also afraid of being harassed by this attack, so all parties Blockage, no communication allowed. Even the Hanzhong troops trapped in Pingxing City were affected by this..."

When Li Tai heard Li Qianzhe's story, he felt a little proud for a moment. He didn't expect that his reputation was so loud in the relatively remote Shu, and soon he was a little bit dumbfounded. In addition to Wang Yue and other soldiers who were worried about being affected by his reputation, Li Tai also felt a little proud. The important thing is that because of the martial law in Shuzhong, all the Shu brocade that Li Qianzhe purchased and exchanged from Shuzhong during this period could not be shipped out.

Last August, Li Qianzhe was ordered to go to Brazil in central Sichuan to conduct business with the Shu people. Faced with the huge profits from sugar, those Brazilian Shu people also responded enthusiastically, agreed to various conditions proposed by Li Tai, and sent protons He came to Jingzhou and gathered manpower and material resources to build a small town for trading goods on the border.

In the past half year, Li Qianzhe has been sitting in the other realm to promote transactions, and exchanged more than 3 pieces of Shu brocade from Shu.Although there is still a huge gap compared to the [-] horses required by Li Tai, this is already a very impressive result.

However, due to rugged roads and inconvenient transportation, although the Sichuan brocades obtained from the trade have been transported back, more than 1 pieces are still accumulated in the small city named Sugar City in the middle of Sichuan.

Nowadays, due to the invasion of the Western Wei Dynasty, all places in central Sichuan are heavily guarded. Some Brazilian wealthy families involved in trade do not dare to have much contact with Li Qianzhe in this limelight. Not only the trade has come to a standstill, but even the Shu brocade stored there and other current goods cannot be shipped, and it is no longer safe.

Speaking of this, Li Qianzhe also had a bitter look on his face and sighed: "Nowadays, the Shiliu families in Brazil still dare not make any changes because of their frequent comings and goings. But if the two sides continue to be at odds with each other and the customs blockade remains the same, I’m afraid they won’t be able to live in peace anymore…”

Li Tai also felt a headache when he heard this, because Hanzhong was recovered in advance, which made Yuwentai speed up his strategy against Shuzhong. He also expected this situation, so he arranged for Li Qianzhe to penetrate the business.

However, due to the excessive vigilance of the Shu people, Yuwentai's test was kicked directly on the iron plate, and it also had such a serious impact on his arrangement, which was really unexpected for him.

More than 1 pieces of Sichuan brocade plus other fashionable goods are a very considerable fortune even for Li Tai today, and he is naturally reluctant to give it up.But if you want to successfully transport it, you must resolve the tense attitudes of both parties.

Li Tai knew that Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, had great ambitions and was not satisfied with being trapped in Shu as a local emperor. He had always looked down on the king of eastern Hunan and had always wanted to leave Shu. He probably was not very happy to fight with the Western Wei Dynasty in Shu. .Therefore, as long as the Western Wei people bow their heads and admit their small mistakes, they can probably negotiate peace.

However, the situation in the Western Wei Dynasty was not very optimistic. Yuwentai encountered military obstacles one after another, and at the sensitive point of the new emperor's accession to the throne, he was looking for trouble, so he was probably not willing to bow his head.

However, Li Tai happened to capture Xiao Yuanzheng, the son of King Wuling. If he could use this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Shuzhong, he could achieve a more decent ending.

Li Tai did not intend to hand over Xiao Yuanzheng to the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office, but wanted the Jingzhou General Manager's Office to negotiate with Shuzhong so as to have the right to speak on the matter, so he wrote a letter and sent it back to China as quickly as possible. Zhoubafu.

At this time, in the Chinese Foreign Affairs Office in Huazhou, Yu Wentai was agitated by all the internal and external affairs. When he received Li Tai's memorial and browsed it for a while, he couldn't help but smile and sighed with relief: "Boshan and I really have a heart to heart. , If you have new difficulties, you can find solutions, but if everyone in the house is like this, why should I worry!"

This plan proposed by Li Tai can be said to be a great solution to his urgent needs. In addition, the recent performance of the Jingzhou General Manager's Office has been remarkable, so Yuwentai simply transferred the governorship of Hanzhong Liangzhou from the Qinzhou General Manager's Office. He returned to the General Manager's Office in Jingzhou, and appointed Yan Qingchu as the Sima of the General Manager's Office in Jingzhou to handle Liangzhou affairs, and cooperated with the General Manager's Office to properly handle the matter.

I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and happy holidays! ! !