Taiping Inn

"Li Xuan likes open conspiracy. What he wants to do and what he plans to do. He put it on the table very early, but some people don't pay attention to it or disdain to look at it. This is a big loss. ”

In the shadow of the sundial, Chiyang Weng said slowly, his face was divided into two halves, like the yin and yang were divided into darkness, half bathed in the sun and half hidden in the shadow.

Opposite to Chiyang Weng is Old Man Long, who is still sitting on his recliner. This is also the third-floor terrace of the Imperial Heaven Supervision, and next to it is a huge sundial. The difference is that today is not only Old Man Long and Chiyang Weng, but also There are other Confucian hermits. Except for the dead lay Buddhist Qinghe and Zen Master Hu, all the hermits have arrived. This is a secret meeting for the hermits.

Old Man Long didn't say anything, and the Ziyanshan people asked, "What are he going to do? What is he going to do?"

Chiyang Weng said, "Do you still remember the last battle of Yuxu's sword fighting?"

Mr. Bai Lu whispered: "The world chess game."

"That's right." Chi Yang Weng nodded, "This chess game is actually an early deduction of the general trend of the world, and Li Xuandu fully demonstrated his layout."

"According to the time in the chess game, the 21st year of Tianbao, the ten-year period of the chess game. In this year, Xu Wugui left the temple, Emperor Tianbao killed all the royal party, and the whole dynasty was full of power. At the same time, Li Xuandu had a great momentum. Song Zheng fought desperately, led his troops north, and made a desperate bet, taking Zhongzhou and Jinzhou, and his troops were at the capital of the emperor. Emperor Tianbao invited the Liaodong army to enter the pass to serve the king, and promised to grant Qin Qing the title of Liao King. After Qin Qing was granted the title of Liao King, he did not He entered the pass immediately, but continued to wait and see the situation on the grounds that there was insufficient food and grass, which eventually led to the destruction of the imperial capital."

"It was not until this time that Liaodong rushed to the south." Chiyang Weng looked around and asked, "You should understand what this means, right?"

The blind Jin Chansou said, "It shows that Li Xuandu's established strategy is to first take the imperial capital and then enter the pass, rather than to attack the imperial capital."

Chiyang Weng nodded and said, "The imperial capital was broken, and the world was in chaos. With the time of the chess game, from the eleventh year of Tianbao to the 21st of Tianbao, Liaodong spent a full ten years to keep a low profile, to cultivate land and expand its army, to train troops with golden tents, and to The front was unstoppable. After fighting with the Qingyang Sect, the big and small won thirteen consecutive battles, forcing the Qingyang army to be able to defend the imperial capital, Jinzhou, Zhongzhou and some Zhili prefectures, while Liaodong took the opportunity to connect with Qizhou. Then he captured Chuzhou through the navy and advanced to Luzhou, and had already obtained half of Jiangbei."

Mr. Bai Lu said: "Li Daoxu has seen this, so he is ready to block the sea route, and this route has been cut off."

Old Man Long, who had never spoken, finally said: "Strategies are dead, people are alive. Qingweizong is the overlord of the sea and can block the sea routes, but Liaodong is the overlord of the land. If you enter Qizhou from land, Qingweizong can What? If the imperial capital is lost, the Liaodong army will enter the pass directly from Yu Pass, and Qizhou will have no danger to defend, and the Qing Weizong can only retreat to the sea. Therefore, the imperial capital is the top priority."

"Is Li Xuandu entering the imperial capital this time to open the way for the Liaodong army?" Mr. Bai Lu asked.

Old Man Long sat upright with a dragon-headed crutch and said, "From his strategy in the game of deduction, breaking the situation is due to the fall of the imperial capital. However, the variable is that Song Zheng broke the imperial capital in the game, and now Song Zheng is dead , Li Xuan could only come to the imperial capital in person.”

"Is there such a possibility?" said Ziyanshan people, "Li Xuan is just here to avenge the Zhang family. Could it be that we are thinking too much? After all, these are our guesses, and the situation is now as good as before. Chess deductions are very different.”

Chiyang Weng said: "This possibility cannot be ruled out, but I think it is better to consider what it has than what it has."

The people of Ziyanshan no longer say much.

Chiyang Weng continued: "Now many people advocate joining forces with Li Xuan to deal with Xie Zhi, and even some high-ranking priests. Although Wang Nanting died at Qin Su's hands, he was involved in the change of the Dazhen Mansion. It’s a disadvantage, so many people still have fantasies about Li Xuan. I’m afraid that after driving Xie Zhi away, we will make wedding dresses for others.”

Jin Chansou sighed, "The key is that these sounds are very loud and cannot be underestimated, and they will even affect some of our decisions."

Mr. Bai Lu worriedly said, "We must not only seek to completely control the situation in the imperial capital, implement our strategy, but also beware of someone who is profitable and the yellow bird who is in the future, but it is a dilemma."

Zi Yanshan people said: "You can't go against the dilemma. The chess game deduction is already very good.

I understand that if we delay it, from the tenth year of Tianbao to the twenty-year of Tianbao, the real situation in Liaodong has been achieved. Even if we have completely controlled the court, we still cannot defend the imperial capital. We are prepared for the front and the back and the front and the front, and everywhere. If we are prepared, there will be fewer things everywhere. We must take action in advance to have a chance to win. ”

"I think we might as well go with the flow." Old Man Long said again, "It's still too early to say who makes wedding dresses for whom, and then we will just rely on our means. As long as we prepare early and prepare for the future, we might be able to do so. Let Li Xuan make wedding dresses for us.”

Hearing Old Man Long say this, the other hermits looked at each other and never raised any objections.

After a moment of silence, Mr. Bai Lu turned to say, "When talking about that chess game, I don't care much about the process of competing for the world. Instead, it's what Li Xuan did after he seized the world, which is shocking."

Chi Yangweng said: "After Li Xuandu captured the world in the chess game, he still followed the old system of the Great Wei Dynasty, formed a cabinet, and dominated the six ministries. Then he began to implement new policies, including the examination of the administration of officials and the stalls for the gentry in the world. The system of raising the mu and gentry to pay food together, which naturally aroused opposition from countless people. He used Qingluanwei to launch a major case, implicating tens of thousands of people, and all his property was confiscated into the public. Then he used the power of this matter to modify it Tax law, increase commercial tax.”

Speaking of this, Chiyang Weng paused for a moment and looked at Old Man Long. Some words were not suitable for talking on the table.

Old Man Long said calmly: "There are only five of us here, but it's okay to say it."

Chiyang Weng nodded and continued, "As early as the Great Jin Dynasty, the proportion of commercial tax offices in the imperial court's tax revenue exceeded the agricultural tax, and the annual commercial tax revenue was 20 million yuan. However, Taizu of this dynasty despised merchants and traded Compared with farmland farming, the business tax is 1 at 30, and the business tax is considered as a violation of orders. You should know that commerce is different from farming. Because of the long cycle and layered exploitation, the agricultural tax is 10. First, it is normal, but generally speaking, tax revenues vary according to industry and scale, from 20 to 1, and from 30 to 1. In fact, it is better than nothing. Now the national treasury is deficient, not because of the weak trade, but because the court cannot receive commercial taxes at all, and is divided up by scholars, powerful people and merchants. The reason why Zhang Suqing's new policy failed was precisely because it involved this fundamental benefit. But we even know So what? It’s hard to turn around. This involves the foundation of our Confucian sect and the powerful Taoist sect, so you should not move lightly.”

All the five hermits were silent.

After a moment, Mr. Bai Lu broke his silence, "In fact, the strength of the Taoist sect comes from the sea trade road, the Western Regions trade road, the grassland trade road, etc., which are all dominant, so it is profitable and has little to do with whether there is or not. If you want to impose a commercial tax, the Taoist sect may not stand with us and fight against us.”

Chiyang Weng did not refute.

Mr. Bai Lu continued, "Looking at Li Xuan's methods in the chess game, he is very experienced. Killing people because of politics is not a siege on the battlefield. He first wins over one faction, stabilizes one faction, and kills one faction, leaving only two factions. . Then he pulled one sect and killed one sect, leaving only one sect. In the end, he killed the only one left. That sect was powerless to resist and could only wait for death. This is his method in the chess game."

"In the chess game, I divide it into three major factions: new, surrendered, and nobles. Newly-spirited officials are new officials who rely on the emperor's favor to rank. Submission means surrendering ministers, while nobles are old people from Liaodong who follow the world."

"Li Xuan first launched the new sect and the surrendered sect to kill each other. Will the nobles be sad about the death of the rabbit? No, they only think that the emperor is still aimed at us old people in Liaodong, and those who surrender to the wind will have more than their deaths. So Li Xuan They all win over the new sect, kill the one who is in favor of the other sect, and the one who is intact is the noble sect."

"In this process, the people who were accomplice to the new policy in the same faction were eliminated by Li Xuandu, and the rest were not in a state of chaos, leaving only the new and noble factions. The new and new talents were a knife, they had no merits and no foundation. Only by relying on the emperor can we highlight our value and be the sword of the emperor. Therefore, in the second stage, Li Xuan used the new sect to kill the noble sect. At this time, the new sect will be old because of the old. Are the nobles who die and the rabbit die and the fox feel sad? They don’t. They just think that if they kill these old guys, they should show their strength."

"After the destruction of the nobles, only the new sect was left. They took power from the imperial power and could not compete with the imperial power. Even if the king wanted the minister to die, the minister had to die. Li Xuan had to die after all these three steps.

It became his centralization and successfully implemented the new policy. ”

The faces of several hermits became solemn.

Mr. Bai Lu sighed, "We always feel that Li Xuan is a young man, and he may not be thorough in his actions and must be impulsive, but we have all forgotten one thing, how did Li Xuandu's immortality reach perfection? Because he entered the game It was transformed by the chess gamer with part of his soul. After Song Zheng died in the chess game, Song Zheng, who was outside the game, also lost part of his soul forever. On the other hand, Li Xuandu, after Qin Su became the empress in the game, he belonged to Li Xuan. The soul of Du left the chessboard by itself and merged with Li Xuandu. This soul has twenty years of experience in the chessboard. After returning to Li Xuandu's original deity, it is equivalent to giving Li Xuandu an indirectly extra twenty years of worldly experience. , This made his immortality finally complete. "

Chiyang Weng whispered: "So after Yuxu fought the sword, Li Xuan was acting more and more like a master. We thought our opponent was a young man who was in his thirties, but in fact he was an experienced old guy."

"That's right." Jin Chansou said with a sigh, "After all, we have never really entered the chess game, but we missed this."

Mr. Bai Lu said: "It seems that Li Xuan is probably using the same method in the imperial capital to stabilize and win over one faction first, and then kill another faction."

The people of Ziyanshan said, "First stabilize us, and win us over, then join forces with us to destroy Xie Zhi, and then he can attack us."

Everyone was silent again.

After a long time, Chiyang Weng said, "I said that Li Xuan likes to use open conspiracy. Now it seems that my statement is not wrong. Even if we know what Li Xuan planned, we still don't. Too good idea, because we cannot join forces with Xie Zhi to destroy Li Xuandu first. The strategy is dead, and people are alive. Not to mention the mutual distrust and conflicts between us and Xie Zhi, even if we force this to do so After doing this, Li Xuan can also adjust his strategy to stabilize and win over Xie Zhi, and then attack us first. After all, it involves Li Daoxu, their master, apprentice, and their son. This path still works. , we are in a disadvantageous position.”

"The reason why Li Xuandu can sway left and right is that his foundation is not in the imperial capital. He can withdraw from the imperial capital at any time, and neither we nor Xie Zhi can give up the imperial capital, which makes the conflict between us and Xie Zhi doomed to be irreconcilable. This is The biggest difference.”

Old Man Long said, "This is also the difference between Li Xuandu and Xu Wugui. Xu Wugui likes to use conspiracies, and Li Xuan likes to use conspiracies. He is forcing us to deal with Xie Zhi with him."

The people of Ziyanshan asked, "Then can we only act according to Li Xuandu's wishes?"

Old Man Long said, "I have said just now that many people inside us still have fantasies and believe that eliminating Xie Zhi is the key. There are many voices, and we cannot pretend not to hear them. There are also those officials. People are waiting to push down the Hou Party, and they can go further. We will go against the trend at this time, which is very unwise and will even form an internal struggle. As the same goes, it is difficult for the ship to turn around and the accumulated burden is difficult to return. ”

The five people sighed together.

The five of them understood everything in their hearts and could see everything clearly. But if they really wanted to do it, it would be a huge challenge. It really means that when the world comes, the world will work together, and heroes will not be free.

Old Man Long looked into the sky and sighed, "The younger generation is terrifying."

"It is indeed a fearful young man." Chiyang Weng said, "Since we have decided to follow the trend, we cannot be led by his Li Zi Mansion. We must take the initiative in our own hands."

"Or let Sikong Master drink to see Li Xuandu?" asked Jin Chansou.

Old Man Long shook his head and said, "Sikong Master Jiu is the last person to talk to the end of the journey, so he cannot come forward. Ning Yi is also in the imperial capital. I suggest that you ask Ning Master Jiu from the Vientiane Academy to rush to the imperial capital quickly, and then he will come forward. , contact Ning Yi first, after all, the blood relationship between the two will not be cut off due to the dispute between Confucianism and Taoism. Then, secretly contact with Li Xuandu through Ning Yi. In short, cooperation is OK, but how to cooperate is necessary We have the final say."

The hermits nodded one after another and agreed.

"If you have no objections, then do it." Old Man Long looked around and looked at Jin Chansou, "You have a good relationship with Ning Dajiu, so thank you for your hard work to write the letter to ask him to go to Beijing. ”

Jin Chansou replied, "Don't worry, senior brother."