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Chapter 1141: Each Has Its Own Plans (Part )

When the rabbit dies, the fox mourns. The fate of the Lu family made the Cui family feel deeply chilled and fearful. Cui Benshan was from the Bo Ling Cui family. Compared with the Qinghe Cui family in the southeast and the Zhaojun Li family in the southwest, they were in imminent danger.

Youzhou is only a few hundred miles away from Dingzhou, and the cavalry can arrive there in two or three days. What if the Turks take advantage of this time to invade the two states of Hengyang?

Then the Cui family would repeat the mistakes of the Lu family and suffer a devastating disaster.

Therefore, he was more anxious than the Lu family, which was already doomed, and the other two families, which still had some buffer.

Liu Bo said that the Tang Dynasty had only 300,000 cavalrymen, scattered all over the place. How could he not know that?

As a member of the core aristocratic group, he also knew that the background of the Guanlong nobles was unfathomable.

The core of power is nothing more than personnel power, financial power, and military power. And the three major clan circles in the world just happen to occupy these three powers. The Guanlong nobles control the most important military power, and the Jiangnan Hua clan is the source of money and grain for the Tang Dynasty.

The Shandong noble families have a long tradition of poetry and literature, and have produced many talented people. Most of the capable people in governing the country and middle-level officials in the court come from Shandong.

Now, if we need to mobilize military forces, we can only turn to the Guanlong clans. Their power is even stronger than that of the royal family.

Cui Benshan knew that there were at least 200,000 elite cavalrymen in Hexi and Hetao, belonging to the Guanlong clan. They were not under the jurisdiction of the emperor, and would not be used to guard the place. They were the power used by the Guanlong clan to protect themselves.

After Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goguryeo three times in an attempt to eliminate the scourge of the aristocratic families through war, the aristocratic families no longer believed in the royal family. Although they re-elected the Li family to rule the country, they would no longer pin their hopes on the imperial power remaining honest.

The struggle between imperial power and the aristocratic families is an almost irreversible trend.

The Cui family is the top core force of this era, and they know many secrets that even the royal family is unaware of.

Two days ago, as soon as Lu arrived in Beijing, she found two families, the Cui family from Hebei and the Li family from Zhaojun.

The ancestors of the three clans then found the officials of their respective families in the court and asked them to use the power of the court to eliminate the Turks as soon as possible and take back Hebei.

One of the ancestors of the Boling Cui family revealed to Cui Benshan that the Guanlong clan had an elite cavalry of no less than 200,000 in the northwest. Usually, they were hiding in the name of local soldiers in the prefectures and roads of the northwest, and I am afraid that even the current emperor does not know about it.

The Guanlong nobles raised this powerful army, which was the foundation for them to weather many storms and always win.

Cui Benshan was shocked when he heard this. No wonder the Guanlong nobles were able to defeat the Shandong nobles in the end. The Northern Zhou they supported was able to destroy the Northern Qi supported by the Shandong nobles and rule the world. Whether it was the Sui Dynasty replacing the Zhou or the Tang Dynasty replacing the Sui, they were able to hold their ground like a mountain.

If Yang Guang knew that the Guanlong clans had such a strong foundation, he probably would not have launched three expeditions to Goguryeo, which was a futile effort, right?

At the same time, Cui Benshan smiled bitterly in his heart. While the Hebei nobles hid their wealth in cellars, or used it to build mansions, buy beautiful girls, annex fertile fields, and train students, and they were enjoying life, others were using it to raise troops.

No wonder the Guanlong nobles, as the first aristocratic group, are not as rich as the other two groups.

It turns out that they are the most sober. From the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty to the later Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yang Sui Dynasty, and Li Tang Dynasty, they have known from the beginning to the end that wealth, land, and even talents are not important. The most important thing is military power.

Military power is the foundation, everything else is just superficial.

As long as the military power is in hand, other things will naturally follow, and you can get as much as you want. On the other hand, without military power, no matter how much other things you have, they will disappear in an instant. The Turks' southward march this time made the Shandong clans see it clearly.

The power they used to restrict imperial power and suppress the people was almost vulnerable in the face of absolute Turkic violence.

They naturally had a clear view of the current situation in the court, and they also understood that with the court's current strength, they could only take their time to deal with the Turks. If they wanted to kill this powerful enemy in the shortest possible time, they could only use the special forces of the Guanlong nobles.

The ancestor of the Cui family revealed this biggest secret in the world because he wanted Cui Benshan to persuade the Guanlong nobles in the court to dispatch this powerful army to wipe out the 300,000 Turks in Hebei with lightning speed.

At present, this is the only force that can quickly clean up the chaos in Hebei.

Cui Benshan took a deep breath. How could he not know that neither gathering the cavalry from the northern border towns nor mobilizing the foreign troops from the south of the desert would work? He said this just to eliminate these two options and finally persuade the Guanlong clan to use that hidden force.

Cui Benshan knew that many people present knew his purpose, but he could not say it directly, otherwise he would make a deadly feud with the Guanlong clan. The existence of private soldiers was a taboo, and it could not be exposed to the emperor and the people of the world.

Therefore, he could only use the severe situation to force the Guanlong nobles to take the initiative to propose. "Your Majesty, colleagues, if it was just the Turks who were rampant in Hebei, the plan arranged by Lord Changsun and several important officials of the central government would have been very suitable. However, the Turks in Fanyang privately distributed the land of the nobles and county heads to the people. What kind of behavior is this?"

"Are you digging up the foundations of my family and the court?"

"If they had taken these fields for themselves or sold them, the problem wouldn't be serious. What's important is that the Turks distributed them to the people with malicious intent. They used these lands to stir up the people's dissatisfaction and resentment towards the nobles."

"They are using land to tempt the greed in the hearts of the people."

“Just think about it, how can the people who have obtained the land continue to hate the Turks?”

"The Turks have gained the support of the people, which means they have a foothold in Hebei. The Turks can use the excuse of defending the fruits of victory and protecting the land from being taken away to raise another army from Hebei. One hundred thousand or even two hundred thousand troops would not be a problem."

Cui Benshan analyzed the pros and cons and said in a sad and angry tone: "If that happens, the Turks will change from being bandits to a separatist force. With the support of the people, it will be difficult to drive them away."

"Besides, if the Turks have come up with this idea, how can they just use it in Youzhou? If 300,000 cavalrymen march south, they can occupy the entire Hebei province in less than ten days or half a month, and then divide the land in another month or two."

"Two months later, the imperial army arrived."

"What we have to face is not the 300,000 Turks, but the 6 to 7 million people in Hebei who have been given land."

"At that time, how many people will the court need to send to quell this rebellion?"

"Even if the situation is calmed down, how many more people will have to be killed? Are we going to turn the entire Hebei Province into a scorched earth? The Turks are not to be feared. What is to be feared is the civil strife, a civil strife between the people and the court caused by the distribution of land."

Cui Benshan's last words were like a thunderclap, resounding in the ears of the officials in the court. Everyone's expression changed drastically, and they seemed to be thinking about something.

An official from the Zhaojun Li clan also stood up and said, "Your Majesty, my colleagues, once the people of Hebei have tasted the sweetness, and the Turkic cavalry is rampant, this trend of dividing the land will spread beyond Hebei."

"It will blow towards Qi, Henan, Hedong, and will inevitably sweep across Guanzhong and Jiangnan. At that time, it will not just be a matter of dividing the land. With this storm, even the Tang Dynasty will be severely impacted, and the country will be unstable."

A single stone caused a thousand waves. The originally divided hearts in the court were instantly boiling, and countless people's expressions became solemn. Some of them thought of the harm of dividing the land, but they didn't expect it to be so serious.

It would be fine if it was just a matter in Hebei. But if it was really as the other party said, this kind of thing would be contagious. Once it spreads, they will also suffer greatly.

After all, they were all high-ranking carnivores, and naturally different from the poor at the bottom. This world was actually a stage for the three of them, and there were not many people who could force them to join forces to deal with it.

The previous Tian Khan was considered one person, and now, Shi Luodie from the northern grassland has become another person.

The ministers could no longer remain calm, and no longer cared about the emperor on the dragon throne. They all started to communicate with each other, some speaking eloquently, some with heavy faces, and more people kept speaking, adding something and speculating about something.

People kept gathering around Changsun Wuji, Xiao Yu, Cen Wenben and other important officials, talking in low voices.

After about half an incense stick of time, the arguing voices gradually subsided.

Zhangsun Wuji stepped forward and said loudly: "Your Majesty, changing the strategy to deal with the Turks cannot be explained in a few words. It is better to adjourn the court first, and we will discuss it again and try to find a proper method that can take into account the opinions of all parties."

"Besides, even if we dispatch cavalry as Lord Cui said, we still need to verify the situation of the border towns in northern Tang before making a decision."

Li Yan smiled slightly. He dropped a huge rock in Hebei just to see the reactions of all parties in the court. Although he is the emperor now, the people who really control the situation behind the scenes are not himself, but those aristocratic families.

Now that the effect has come out, Li Yan only needs to play the role of a puppet.

In order to deal with the Turks, Changsun Wuji, as the representative of the nobles in the court, would naturally consult with the major nobles in the interior of the country on how to resist the enemy. He only needed to observe quietly, and in times of turmoil, force out all their means of controlling the world.

With Shi Luodi's 300,000 troops and the threat of land division, there was no need to worry that they would not reveal their trump cards. Once the trump cards were revealed, they would no longer be trump cards. I could naturally find a way to crack these means and dismantle them calmly.

(End of this chapter)