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Chapter 1161 Li You's Journey to Heaven

"By the way, now that you're talking about this, what did I want to ask you?"

Li You immediately asked in confusion: "If I want to ascend the throne, I cannot do without the support of those noble families. Are you planning to let me take over Hebei and then take back these lands and return them to the noble families in order to gain their support?"

"But if that's the case, you only need to hold these land deeds in your hands. If you just distribute them like this, how are you going to get them back in the future? With so many people, will there be a civil uprising?"

Shi Guirong was stunned and extremely shocked.

What did he hear? He had just praised Li You for his steadiness, but now he was calling him "I". There hadn't even been any progress yet, but wasn't he too impatient?
Seeing Li You's nonchalant look, Shi Guirong thought to himself, as mentioned above, Li You is a man with great ambitions but little talent, and extremely stupid. Such a person is perfect to be used as a chess piece. After silently despising him for a while, he explained.

"Your Highness, please forgive me for speaking frankly, but even if you return all those lands to them, the nobles will not support you. Li Chengqian is the legitimate emperor, and he is the spokesperson for the nobles. You are a bastard, and even if the Hebei nobles support you, what about the Guanlong clan and the Jiangshan clan?"

"They can't possibly accept you. What you can give them, Li Chengqian can also give. What Li Chengqian can't give, you can't give either. If that's the case, why would they give up the legitimate son who is of noble birth and in accordance with etiquette and laws, and recommend you, a bastard?"

"If you become the emperor, who among the other princes will be convinced? They will certainly call on all the princes in the world to come to the throne, and the world will be in chaos."

When Li You heard this, the comfortable smile on his face froze and instantly became extremely gloomy. He was not angry that the other party spoke harshly, but that what the other party said was true. His background was his shortcoming. Apart from anything else, even Li Ke would not obey him.

If he ascended the throne, Li Ke would be the first to fight back.

Hegan saw this and quickly eased the atmosphere, saying, "Mr. Shi, our prince is naturally aware of what you said. Since you have also thought of this, there must be a safe solution, otherwise you will not be able to convince the prince to betray the court."

"Don't blame me, Your Majesty. I am a straightforward person. I have never been to school and I am rude. I speak bluntly."

After extinguishing Li You's traditional path and ideas to become emperor, Shi Guirong said solemnly: "In fact, the Khan has already planned an extremely powerful path to heaven for the prince. As long as it goes smoothly, even if the nobles and princes join forces, they will not be able to stop the prince."

"Oh, tell me soon." Li You was overjoyed.

"If the prince wants to ascend to power, he has to rely on another huge group?"

"Who?"

After Shi Guirong's cold water, Li You dared not be arrogant anymore and changed the title of "I" back to "I am ignorant, but I also know that the world is now ruled by the nobles, and there is no force stronger than them."

"No, there is a group that is more powerful than all the aristocratic families combined."

Shi Guirong said decisively: "In this world, tens of millions of people are the largest group. They have endless power and can destroy the world and recreate it. But these people are usually scattered, and no one can gather them together."

"Once someone can do this, it will be easy to overthrow the dynasty, not to mention the nobles."

Li You's eyes flashed with a sharp light. He already knew what Shi Guirong meant. He stammered twice but did not object or question.

"Your Highness, think about it. Under normal circumstances, the common people would not abandon their families and follow you to do such a deadly thing. But now it is different. The Khan has distributed land in Hebei and given the land that originally belonged to the nobles to the peasants."

"The people who have been allocated land must be worried now. They are very worried that the court will not recognize it. They are even more worried that the nobles will take the land away again after they return."

Shi Guirong said with a twinkling look in his eyes: "Of course, the Khan's army is still here, and the court must be vague about this. They are afraid that declaring the Turkic people's land distribution illegal now will force the people to rebel and add variables to future wars."

"But they dare not admit it, for fear of offending the nobles and losing their support. This subtlety is the prince's opportunity."

"After the Tang cavalry is eliminated, the war in Hebei will become a mess, and the government and the people will be shocked. At this time, the prince can take advantage of the situation to announce his recognition of the Turkic people's land distribution, gain the support of these people, and then recruit soldiers in the name of protecting the land."

"There are six or seven million people in Hebei. It is not a problem to recruit hundreds of thousands of troops to support the prince. These people are the prince's direct forces."

"At this time, the court will be in a dilemma. If they do not recognize the prince's actions, they will be forced to rebel against the prince and the soldiers and civilians of Hebei. Then, in order to prevent the court from taking back the land again, they will have to follow the prince wholeheartedly."

"If you admit it, then the prince can legitimately represent the court to win over the people's hearts and expand his power."

"With these forces, the Qi area in Hebei can be taken back by the prince. With the cooperation of my Turkic army, we can divert the disaster to Henan and Hedong. The prince's army will follow behind. When all the land in Shandong is taken, we will have the capital to confront the court."

'hiss'

Li You's body shook violently, and he stood up suddenly. He had already made countless guesses, but he didn't expect that the Turks would come up with this idea. Using the land that ordinary people regard as their life to lure them, if this is the case, it is indeed a way. It is also an unprecedented way to directly gain the support of tens of millions of people at the bottom of the society. This road to heaven will be extremely solid.

No wonder the other party said that no matter whether it was the aristocratic family or the royal family, no one could stop him.

Li You walked around the study room excitedly, his heart was extremely excited. What a genius! The person who could come up with this plan was simply a genius.

Who on earth is so talented, so sharp-sighted, and so clear-minded that he has found a seemingly dangerous but actually upright and bright road from an impossible road. In this way, he will no longer be a villain who seeks to usurp the throne.

Instead, he is a hero who acts on behalf of heaven and represents the people.

Although he had formed an alliance with the Turks beforehand, facing the entire court and the powerful aristocratic groups behind it, Li You still saw no hope of escaping. After forming an alliance with the Turks, the first thing he did was to consider a way out for his family.

Then I would go to Shandong and fight to the death.

Now that the battle has begun, Shi Guirong has revealed his trump card. Li You only needs to think about it for a moment to know that this is definitely the right way to go. As long as he has the support of more than 90% of the people in the world, he will have a steady supply of troops.
With military power in hand and the Turks as an excuse, he could legitimately follow the Turkish army to "conquer cities and territories."

He had the territory, the soldiers, the money and food, and even the excuses. The chances of success were much greater than he had expected.

It has been said since ancient times that he who wins the hearts of the people will win the world.

The hearts of the people were generally in the hands of the nobles, and winning over the nobles meant winning over the hearts of the people. However, this inevitably led to the addition of a middleman, and in the end all the benefits went to the middleman, and both the emperor and the people became victims.

Since there is an opportunity to directly win the hearts of the people, then the support of the nobles is not so important.

Li You could certainly see that the path to heaven planned by the Turks for him was to stand on the opposite side of the nobles. However, at this stage, it was good to have a path to follow, as Li Ke, Li Tai, and Li Zhi were princes who were more worried than him.

We have to give up because there is no other way to go.

Since those nobles were unwilling to support him, they were his enemies. Li You had no psychological barriers to being ruthless to his enemies. For the throne, he would dare to fight his father with a sword, not to mention some outsiders.

After learning about the overall plan, Li You finally put his mind at ease and felt more confident about the road ahead.

Afterwards, the two discussed for a while. Shi Guirong seemed to be unaware that Li You, the commander-in-chief, was just a figurehead. Not only did he give Li You enough respect, he also revealed more military intelligence in Hebei, which completely strengthened Li You's determination.

After Shi Guirong left, Hegan returned to the study and saw Li You thinking deeply about something, so he asked, "Your Majesty, the Turks seem to be planning everything for you. I guess they are just using you, too?"

"How could this king not know this?"

Li You said disdainfully: "It was just mutual exploitation, but the Turks were very smart and found the points of interest for both sides. They got countless money and food, the people got their own land, and I also got land and soldiers."

"The only ones who suffered losses were the imperial court and the noble families."

"That is to say, the Turks are outsiders. Otherwise, it would not be my turn to win over the people's hearts, right?"

At this point, Li You smiled gloatingly: "Shi Luodie is a Turkic man, how could he be so smart? The one who can come up with this idea must be a vicious person who wants to bring disaster to the world. He needs extraordinary wisdom and a thorough understanding of the internal affairs of the Central Plains Dynasty."

"Who on earth is it?"

"If there is a chance to find this person in the future, I will definitely win him over to my side. With such a person as my assistant, my great cause will be accomplished."

Hegan's face froze, and he asked in surprise, "Your Highness, you mean that there are experts from our Central Plains around the Turkic Khan."

"of course."

Li You said calmly, "Without internal thieves, there will be no external enemies. When have you ever seen nomadic peoples moving south without internal support from the Central Plains dynasty? With their primitive minds that only eat raw meat and drink blood, how can they be a match for my Han people?"

Well.
Hegan looked at Li You with a strange expression, and thought to himself: "Isn't it true? Aren't you the traitor?"

(End of this chapter)