Realm of Power

Li Tai leaned on a brown-red armchair in an old manner, sitting in the courtyard. His slightly squinted eyes fell on the peach blossoms in full bloom in the garden. After seeing the prosperity disappear, at this moment, there was no trace of anything in his eyes. His turbid appearance was still bright and scary. In front of him, Li Ke, a confidant of the Li family who had rushed back from the North Bank, was telling the real helmsman of the Li family everything that happened on the North Bank in detail.

"So, the emperor is indeed in the imperial capital?"

"It shouldn't be wrong. Even if the empire finds a replacement with someone who looks the same, it can't be hidden from the eyes of Mr. Zhuang Long. Moreover, Mr. Zhuang also asked a few things about when he was the emperor's master."

"If it's Zhuang Long, then that's right."

After hearing the confirmed news, Li Taicai nodded and slowly stood up from the chair. His thin body was clad in a long robe. It seemed that a gust of wind could blow it away. However, no one thought so. The old man mastered the middle ratio. In the past thirty years, Yachaotang has experienced several ups and downs, but it is still standing. As long as the old man is still there, no one will really think that the Li clan is finished.

The old man's disciples and old officials are all over Zhongbia. Even if the guards in various places do not sell the face of the Zhongbia court, they will sell the old man's face. In many cases, the old man's words are still very influential among the local nobles.

In fact, everyone knows very well that a big family like the Li family, which has been glorious for hundreds of years, may look smooth and majestic, but in fact no one is very clean behind the scenes. If they are really tortured, they will definitely dig out what they need, but Whoever dares to do this is tantamount to breaking the bottom line of the ministers of the entire Central and Asian courts.

If the Long family deals with the Li family like this today, they will naturally use this method to deal with other clans. This means that the Long family is in the ascendant, and they just send Li Long to the north of the river, hoping to use the hands of the grassland people instead of directly Although the Long family entered the court by force, the reason why they were arrested and imprisoned was that if the entire court was turned into a mess, the Long family would not be able to bear the counterattack from the court. After all, behind the court was Zhongbi. The various forces in Asia are the various provinces in Central Asia,

"Master Li Long specially sent me back to ask when the emperor will return to Beijing?"

"Since he is really the emperor, he must be brought back, and he must be brought back as soon as possible. It is best to be accompanied by Li Long. You must not rely on others. You must ensure that it is me, the Li clan, who protects the emperor when he returns to the capital." Li Tai snorted, looked away from the peach blossoms in the garden, turned around and said, "As long as this matter is done, it will be a great blessing for our Li clan, no matter how unpopular the emperor is. ,At least He is still the emperor, even if he ran away twice in a row, signing an armistice agreement with the Yelu family this time is enough to regain most of the lost hearts. There is no essential difference between welcoming the return of the saint and Conglong. What he wants is the emperor! The favor in my heart, when I retreated bravely, all I asked for was that the emperor could still remember that friendship. As long as the emperor still thought about the friendship with the Li people, the revival of the Li people would be a matter of words."

"No way, just an armistice agreement can restore the emperor's heart?" Li Ke blinked, with a look of disbelief on his face. Originally, he was still worried that the emperor's reputation was already bad in the streets, and he didn't know how many people were worried about it. Secretly cursing the emperor to death, now that he is taken back by the Li clan, the Li clan may also be implicated

"What do you know!"

Li Tai saw that he was in a very gentle mood, and even had a smile on his wrinkled orange mouth. "Don't underestimate this agreement, but it will allow China and Bia at least a few years of rest and recuperation, and if China and Bia... After the marriage of the Yelu family is achieved, it is completely possible to achieve a long-term truce with the Yelu family. Naturally, you cannot see this kind of thing, but will the ministers in the court not know it?

Li Tai paused for a moment, then sighed and said, "Since the grassland people went south, our country, Central Asia, has been tortured. Two imperial capitals were destroyed. Millions of people were displaced. Millions of hungry people froze to death and starved to death. Half of Central Asia was shaken in panic. , Don’t look at the Long family who bucked the trend and fought so vigorously. In fact, the prairie people’s longbows and fast horses are so easy to fight? "

“This time it’s the Northern Expedition again. After the Northern Expedition, we’ll go to the Northern Expedition again!”

The corner of Li Tai's mouth twitched and he smiled coldly. "The Long family marched north, attacked the northwest, and killed Yeluguda. Their momentum was soaring, sweeping half of the north. It can be said that they were so majestic that they killed the people of Central Asia. Whenever the news spread, Come, everything is noisy in the streets, but the result So what, the Long Family's 100,000 Western Army marched north, and in the end 300,000 returned to the Southwest, with a full 200,000 more young men. But what about the millions of Central Asians in Yanzhou and Daizhou in the northwest? Only 300,000 people followed Long Po back to the southwest. Where did the others go?

The Long family marched northward in panic, and the entire northwest was almost dead in the winter. The Yanzhou army was no longer inhabited, and half of the six million people in Daizhou were empty. Do you really think that the Long family is a benevolent and righteous army? What a joke, in order to capture Dragonstone Castle, the Long family drove millions of refugees to cross the border. It was Daizhou that was captured with the lives of the refugees.

This Northern Expedition was just to fill our lives.

Although the Yelu family has weakened, it is absolutely impossible to conquer the Imperial Capital in one fell swoop without killing hundreds of thousands of people. It is impossible for the Long family to really let their direct descendants go up. This is why they suddenly disrupted the flattery before the Northern Expedition. Established by the military The reasons are all incorporated into the Long family army. No matter how they are manipulated, they will not be true to the truth. The Long family really thinks that everyone is blind. This kind of blinding method can deceive the civilians. This kind of trick has been played in the court."

"I see"

Li Ke's face showed a look of sudden enlightenment. No wonder the ministers heard that the emperor and the Yelu family had signed a truce agreement. Although they did not immediately stand up and demand to take back the emperor, the major clans had already privately sent people to the north of the Great River. It seemed that the one in the imperial capital at the moment was a saintly monarch praised by everyone, and they had completely forgotten how bastard this emperor was!

Who said that these ministers were all idiots who were just sitting in office and doing nothing?

They were all blind. Which one of them was not a ruthless person who had endured for many years? They were all first-class vision and means, and they knew the way of power struggle. When the Long family was strong, they would never raise their heads obediently. Now that they knew the news about the emperor, they immediately changed their faces. Indeed, although the emperor was a bit of a bastard, it was much better than the Long family pushing him to death.

I don't know why, Li Ke felt a kind of sadness in his heart.

"Are you sad? It's not worth it"

Li Long was such an experienced person, he naturally saw Li Ke's expression in his eyes and smiled slightly. He smiled, plucked a peach blossom that was in full bloom on the tree with his fingers, and said in a cold voice, "Escaping and compromising is not humiliating. Although strength is admirable, it is also easy to break. The people of Zhongbia have not always been strong since ancient times. I don't know how many times they have experienced crises like the current one. But no matter what, the powerful enemies in the north will always be wiped out, and I, Zhongbia, am like the peach blossoms blooming in spring. When it is time to bloom, it will be full of branches and trees, covering the entire yard, expanding outward, and more and more. As the people who take care of the garden, we need to judge the situation, so What we need to do is to preserve the roots of peach blossoms in difficult times, so that the fragrance of the garden can be promoted at the right time! "

Everyone has been scared by the grassland people. They moved to Beijing twice. There was a sea of ​​blood and corpses each time. I don’t know how many people died. It was bloody and tearful. From nobles to civilians, everyone seemed to have been cleansed.

If the Northern Expedition fails this time, it will be another disastrous defeat. Who can bear this result? The Long family can only pat their butts and return to the southwest for refuge. What about others? Under the pressure of the big tree, who can have a stable life? And they know that it will attract grassland people. What a tragic revenge

"Just a ceasefire, stop fighting, just don't go south! Dividing the river is good, this is the people's mind! This is the court! Li Tai sighed, sat on the armchair again, and murmured in a low voice" From the court to the people, no one wants to go to war, they are all afraid of killing people, but no one wants to say this kind of thing, if anyone says it, it will not only be cursed, but also be engraved in the history of Central Asia. Who can bear this eternal infamy? Now it's good, the emperor himself bears it, what else can he do if not be an eternal saint!

Fell asleep again, the fourth time this month I fell asleep while writing, too tired. .Update fastest The work of three people in the unit is now pressed on the heads of two people, and the axle is spinning, and the physical reaction is becoming more and more obvious...