In the winter of the tenth year of the great cause, the internal worries of the empire increased. Although the emperor and the central government tried their best to reverse the crisis, the government could not leave the Eastern Capital. The contradictions between the central government and local governments, reformists and conservatives were irreconcilable. Rebels in various places increased and were fearless. Many thieves took advantage of this rare opportunity to quickly expand and form a certain scale.

In late November, the Hu thief Liu Miao, Lishi County, Jinzhong gathered tens of thousands of troops to rebel, claiming to be the emperor. The bandit commander Yang Gongqing of Handan, Hebei, Wang Deren, Ji County, and Zhang Jin, the bandit commander Zhang Ji County, said that Gao Jibo thief Gao Shida and Dou Jiande, Dou Zigang thief Hao Xiaode, Ge Qian, Gao Kaidao and others gathered tens of thousands of people to cross Hebei, seriously threatening the water and land grain routes from the East Capital to Zhuo County. Henan is more bandit commander, among which Meng Rang, Zuo Xiaoyou and Lu Mingyue have the strongest development momentum. They are rampant in the Yangtze and Huai Rivers of Qilu, attacking cities and camps, burning, killing, and plundering, and doing everything.

The emperor was furious and killed the General of the Right Guard for the crime of ineffective suppression of bandits, prosecuted the prefect of Pengcheng Dong Chun, and ordered the rebels of Jiangdu to remain in Wang Shichong, and the governor of Qi County Zhang Xutuo to suppress the rebellion at any cost. Wang Shichong then led the Jianghuai army, and Zhang Xutuo then led the Qilu army to do his best to suppress the rebels. After hard battles, the imperial army finally defeated Meng Rang and Lu Mingyue before the end of the year, severely damaged the rebels, curbed the strong development momentum of the rebels, and at the same time barely maintained the face of the Eastern Capital and the authority of the central government.

The New Year is in a blink of an eye, and history has entered the early spring of the eleventh year of Daye (615 AD).

This winter was full of bitterness and helplessness for the northern border. Outside, the Northern Barbarians, led by the Turks, had formed an alliance and were eyeing Zhongtu. Although they were tolerant of the huge deterrence of the imperial army swept Goguryeo, the move of the soldiers to threaten Yanbei still clearly exposed their ambition to covet Central Barbarians. It can be foreseen that only by giving the Northern Barbarians a chance, hundreds of thousands of string-controlling men in the desert would definitely sweep south. Inside, the King of Gu Xuba, Hejian Wei Daoer, Boling Zhen Zhaier, Yanbei Zhao Deyan, and Youzhou Yang Zhongxu raised the flags one after another. They took advantage of the severe cold to expand and form an alliance, and in a very short time, formed a huge rebel force in the five major regions of You, Yan, Dai, Jin and Hebei.

At this moment, the entire northern border garrison army was in a dilemma of being attacked from both sides, from Zhuo County in Youyan to Yanmen in Daibei, and even the Helan Mountains in Lingshuo. The imperial garrison army was in internal and external troubles. External troubles directly affected the security of Middle-earth, while internal troubles seriously threatened the foundation of garrison. Once food, grass, weapons and other war materials cannot be transported to the border in time and sufficiently, what will the garrison army use to resist the invasion of foreign enemies?

In view of the increasingly serious domestic crisis, will the empire's strategy be "settled in the country" or "resist in the foreign country" in the new year? Structure of the country is necessary and is the basis for the survival of the country's destiny, while resisting foreign countries is imminent and we must prepare for war with all our might. The empire is in a dilemma and is in a dilemma.

Of course, the imperial reformists knew the importance of "settled the country". Instability in the country, how can we talk about reform? However, the reason why the empire was in a deep crisis was because the imperial conservative forces were fueling the fire. At that time, the purpose of conservative forces chaotic domestic situation was to prevent the emperor and reformists from launching an Eastern Expedition, but now this crisis has become the best way for them to coerce the emperor and reformists to stop or even give up reforms.

The emperor and the reformists will never compromise. Compromise means political failure, and political failure not only means that they will be deposed and driven away from the political center. It also means that the empire will retreat back to the aristocratic politics, which will surely destroy the great cause of unity in Middle-earth and will push Middle-earth into the abyss of division again.

Where to go? Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. If you create a domestic crisis and use domestic crisis to coerce me, I will use external crisis to counter you and take this opportunity to firmly control the army. As long as I control the army, I will take the initiative and I will always suppress you. When the domestic crisis develops to a certain extent, domestic rebellion will inevitably seriously damage the interests of the emperor and the reformists, and also seriously damage the vested interests of the conservative aristocratic group. At that time, the conservative forces of the empire will shoot themselves in the foot and cause trouble. In the end, in order to maintain their vested interests, they have to compromise with the emperor and the reformists, and have to make the greatest concessions to the reforms.

Therefore, the emperor and the reformists started from this idea and ordered the garrison troops in the northern border to focus their main energy on preventing the northern enemy and to prepare for the Civil War. As for suppressing the rebellion, they would hand it over to the prefects of each county and local army.

To put it bluntly, the purpose of the emperor and the reformists is to control the army through external troubles. I control my army and I protect my strength. The domestic crisis originated from the dispute between the imperial reformists and conservatives, the indulgence, instigation and inaction of various aristocratic groups and local forces, and even personally participated in it. Therefore, the emperor and the reformists "take the blame". Since you have all the mess, you should clean up. If you want power, I will

Give you power, but if you can't clean up the mess, I will justify and clean up you with a high-sounding reputation. In this way, you will kill more and more kills with one stone. While forcing the aristocratic groups and local forces to kill each other with the rebels, they will further crack down and weaken their strength. Just wait for the empire to curb external troubles, the emperor and the reformists can call on the army to sweep away the fallen leaves like the autumn wind sweeps away the fallen leaves and sweep away the opposition forces such as conservative aristocrats, local tyrants and rebels.

The sheep fattened up, indulged the wolf, and drove the wolf and sheep to fight each other. When both wolves and sheep were injured, it was the moment when the shepherds finally took action to ensure the victory.

However, although the emperor and the reformists had a good plan, they were too confident and optimistic. They didn't know that although the aristocratic groups and local forces were in danger of being in desperate situations, they could in turn put them to death and fight back. I can't force you to compromise, but they simply destroyed you completely. As long as I live and my interests still exist, it would be worth it even if I pay the price of destruction for this.

The fierce confrontation between the two opposing political groups in the Eastern Capital and Western Capital quickly affected the local situation in the domestic and local garrisons and the situation in the border towns.

After the New Year, Galan received a secret letter from the emperor's edict and Pei Shiju. The central government planned to use the strategy of marriage to win the surrender of the tribe leader of the southern Turkic tent, Chi Jishai Ashinadula. Then he split the tent and let the northern desert kill each other, in order to alleviate the crisis in the northern border, and then give the emperor and the reformists enough time to realize the new Chinese and foreign strategies they formulated.

Both the emperor and Pei Shiju were very anxious and confident in the strategy of marriage. Based on historical experience, they believed that the foreign enemy was proud to marry the princess of the Central Turkish royal family.

The strategy of marriage ties has been around for a long time. For Middle-earth, this is the most economical political means to deal with foreign enemies, and for foreign enemies, this is also the best strategy to win the political alliance of the Middle-earth Empire at the minimum cost. In recent history, the Shekui Khan of the Western Turks sent envoys to seek marriages repeatedly, and put his attitude low in order to win the political alliance with the Middle-earth Empire. However, the Middle-earth Empire was vulgar and ruthless, and has not yet agreed to the request of the Shekui Khan.

The marriage with the eastern and southern Turks began in the reign of the Kaihuang period of the late emperor. After the empire split and weakened the northern desert, it took the initiative to support the East. The Qiming Khan of the Turks maintained the stability of the desert situation, so he first married Princess Anyi. After Princess Anyi died of illness, Princess Yicheng married Princess Yicheng. After the death of the Khan of Qimin, Princess Yicheng was married to Shibi Khan according to the inheritance system of the desert. In this context, Dongdu took the initiative to use the strategy of marrying the royal princess of the royal family to marry Ashinadu, although in name it was to strengthen the political alliance with the East and the Turks. In fact, it was to support Ashinadu, deliberately creating two equally powerful tents in the desert and conduct a separatist plot.

The Eastern Turks knew it well, but Shibi Khan and the Tintang did not dare to openly stop the Middle Earth Empire from getting into a traitor. They did not expect that the brothers turned against each other and their brothers were killed, leading to the current formation of the Great Alliance of the Deserts to split. Therefore, Shibi Khan and the Tintang remained silent. However, Shibi Khan's brothers could not remain silent. They had to make their own position. Should they support Shibi Khan to fulfill the dream of the East and the Turks' dream of making a comeback in the East, or support Ashinaduarangdong. The Turks fell into the Middle Earth once again and re-took the mistakes of decline.

The result is self-evident. Ashina Duna was alone and alone. If he insisted on his own and put his personal interests above the interests of the den, then the Turks went through a whole generation of people to lie on firewood and eat gall, and worked hard to revive the den. The great cause of revitalizing the den will inevitably fail. Therefore, Ashina Duna had no choice at all. He chose to support the den without hesitation, loyal to Shibi Khan, and then delayed the negotiation time indefinitely on the grounds of serious illness.

After discussing with his subordinates, Galan and his subordinates agreed that if they wanted to successfully implement the Dongdu's marriage plan, they must design to alienate Shibi Khan and Ashina Duna. Once Ashina Duna is forced to a dead end, he can only compete with Shibi Khan by winning the support of the Middle-earth Empire, so that the purpose of splitting the Turkic tent can be achieved.

Jialan aimed at Shi Shu Husi. As long as he lured Shi Shu Husi during the negotiation process, he would be able to alienate Shi Bi Khan and Asuna Duna.

However, according to the historical process, the emperor would have to tour the north this year, and the Turks would take the opportunity to invade south this year and besiege the emperor in Yanmen for a month. If it weren't for Princess Yicheng's help, and with the swarm of troops from all over the king, the Turks might have continued to surround the emperor to coerce the emperor to sign a city alliance. Once the emperor is forced to bow to the Turks, it would be a fatal blow to the emperor and the central government, and the empire would collapse faster. Fortunately, the Turks took the initiative to evacuate in the end, but even so, the emperor and the central government still lost their authority because of this incident. In addition, this incident fully exposed that the emperor and the central government had basically lost control of the army. The reason why the garrison troops in the northern border was vulnerable to the irreversible huge damage caused by the deep domestic crisis to the empire's national strength, which was particularly destructive to the empire's national defense and diplomatic strategies.

What Galan wanted to know was that the emperor's route to the northern tour was a secret, and why did this secret be leaked? The East Turks chose to go south to invade when the emperor was visiting Yanmen in northern tour. Although the emperor was caught off guard, why did the East Turks come so quickly? For this southward invasion, Shibi Khan gathered hundreds of thousands of string-controlling men from various tribes in the desert. This required a long time of preparation and more careful planning. So, when will the plan for the Northern Gate invasion of Yanmen be formulated? Was it planned before the emperor decided to go north or after? From this, it is inferred that there may be traitors around the emperor, but if there were no traitors, then there were many doubts in this memory history. Later generations may have intentionally tampered with and concealed some important historical facts when recording this history.

Galan hesitated. What should he do next to save the authority of the emperor and the central government? Should he design to prevent the emperor from going north, or to prevent the Turks from going south to invade?

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Chapter completed!