Chapter 1099: Infighting
Chapter 1099: Overt and covert fighting
Chapter 1097: Overt and covert fighting
"it's me."
Li Keyong took off his mask and saw Wang Yunzheng looking at him as if he had seen a ghost. However, he was not surprised at all. Instead, he said calmly: "Wang Situ, long time no see."
“Li Keyong, Yang Jian has already regarded you as a thorn in his side. You were lucky enough to escape the previous assassination, but you still dare to leave the military camp?”
At this point, Wang Yun seemed to have remembered something.
Yang Jian regarded Li Keyong and other Tang clique members as his mortal enemies. If he knew that Li Keyong had secretly come to his home, he would probably regard himself as a member of the Tang clique, and would even involve other Han Dynasty veterans!
In just a moment, Wang Yun thought he had seen through Li Keyong's sinister intentions, and immediately said angrily: "You are looking for death yourself, don't hurt my family."
“Wang Situ, don’t get excited yet, you must know that anger can be harmful to your body.”
Li Keyong had a non-committal look on his face and said calmly: "Since I dare to come out for activities, it means that the end of Yang Jian is coming. I took the risk to come to meet you this time just to get your support, Lord Situ."
“I am just a Situ in name only. I will not get involved in the fight between you, nor do I have the ability.”
Wang Yun looked at Li Keyong coldly and said calmly: "You can go, I will treat you as if you have never been here this time."
Wang Yun looked like he didn't welcome Li Keyong, and directly issued an order to expel the guest, but Li Keyong didn't care at all.
“Master Situ, please don’t belittle yourself. No one knows that you are always the leader of the court, and all the officials in the court respect you, so how can it be...”
"That's enough. I have already said that I will not participate in the fight between you." Wang Yun shouted angrily.
Seeing Wang Yun's resolute attitude, Li Keyong immediately changed his tone and said quietly: "I'm afraid Master Situ doesn't know yet. In order to win over the Guanxi family, Yang Jian changed some of the policies formulated by Dong Gong before his death, but the core part is absolutely not the same." It will change, for example, holding the emperor hostage to order the princes."
“Haha, the emperor is no longer in Yang Jian’s hands, how can he hold the emperor hostage to order the princes?”
Wang Yun sneered. Li Keyong looked like there was something in his words, so he immediately frowned and said, "What exactly do you want to say?"
"After Liu Xie escaped from Guanzhong, with the support of Qin Hao, he might have established another court in Luoyang, but Yang Jian would never recognize Liu Xie as emperor. He was already planning to elect another person from the clan as emperor. And imitate Dong Gong and become king."
As he spoke, Li Ke flashed a hint of joking at the corner of his mouth and said, "Can you bear this, Mr. Situ?"
"What did you say?"
Wang Yun's expression suddenly changed when he heard this. Although the emperor had escaped from Guanzhong, the court was still in Chang'an, and all the civil and military officials of the Han Dynasty were still in Guanzhong.
Wang Yun originally wanted to wait for Liu Xie to ascend the throne in Luoyang, and then take the officials with him to coerce Yang Jian to move the court back to Luoyang, but he did not expect that Yang Jian actually wanted to establish a new emperor. Obviously, Yang Jian would never let the officials return to Luoyang.
Yang Jian, who controls the Han Dynasty, is indeed qualified to elect a new emperor. If he really succeeds in this matter, it will definitely pose a threat to the orthodox emperor Liu Xie. By then, there may even be several Han emperors standing side by side in the world. This situation is something Wang Yun cannot accept no matter what.
At this thought, Wang Yun was like a lion guarding its calf, staring at Li Keyong coldly and asked: "Li Keyong, I ask you, is everything you said true?"
Li Keyong couldn't help but laugh: "Everyone knows Yang Jian's intentions, how can this be false?"
Wang Yun was silent for a while and then said in a deep voice: "I am very curious, where do you get the confidence? It is absolutely impossible to overthrow Yang Jian with just the strength of Li Keyong and the Tang faction."
“Who said you rely on me?”
A strange look flashed in Li Keyong's eyes, and he said calmly: "I'm just following orders." "Who else in the Tang Dynasty can give you orders? Li Xiaogong?"
Seeing Wang Yun's unbelieving look, Li Ke opened his lips slightly and said three words silently.
Although Li Keyong didn't make a sound, Wang Yun understood what he meant just by the shape of his mouth, and he suddenly looked shocked.
“You mean, it’s Li, Li...I see, that’s the case, no wonder!”
Wang Yun couldn't help but murmured to himself that he should have thought long ago that only Li Shimin could unite the leaderless Tang clan, and only Li Shimin dared to challenge Yang Jian's position as the hegemon of Guanxi.
It’s just that Wang Yun didn’t expect that Li Shimin was still alive.
With Li Shimin, there is the possibility of overthrowing Yang Jian, but Wang Yun will not get involved so easily. After all, he does not represent himself alone, but the entire group of senior officials of the Han Dynasty.
“I’ve helped you, what can you get?”
After hearing Wang Yun's words, Li Keyong smiled brightly.
“Respect Liu Xie as emperor and move the imperial court back to Luoyang. What do you think of these two conditions, Lord Situ?”
A glint flashed in Wang Yun's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Deal." But in his heart, he thought: All this is to maintain the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty!
At the same time, a mysterious man dressed in black appeared in the mansions of Yang Biao, the former head of the Yang family, Li Ru, one of the three military advisors, and even Li Jue and Guo Si, who had their military power taken away from their families. And of course they were all sent by Li Shimin.
The first thing Li Shimin did after returning to Guanzhong was to activate the secrets planted among bad people, and even Li Xiuning didn't know about this power.
To bring down Yang Jian, it is not enough to rely on the power of the Tang clique alone, so Li Shimin must unite all forces that can be united. The Liang clique, Han Dynasty veterans, and Jianghu are all targets that Li Shimin wants to win over.
Of course, all this must be done in secret, and Yang Jian cannot be allowed to know that Li Shimin is still alive. Otherwise, once Yang Jian is on guard, Li Shimin's chance of success will be greatly reduced.
After deciding who to ally with and the next action plan, Li Shimin personally sneaked into the Dong family.
When Dong Zhuo was here, the Dong family was very powerful and was the dominant family in the entire Kansai region.
But not long after Dong Zhuo's death, the Dong family had already experienced changes in human relations. Even Yang Jian, who inherited Dong Zhuo's career, came to force marriages and bullied the orphans, widows, old and young of the family unscrupulously.
As for those close old generals who were loyal to Dong Zhuo and who were willing to stand up and speak for the Dong family, Yang Jian had already taken away their military power, so that no one dared to stand up to support the Dong family now. This also made people in the Dong family Miss Dong Xiaowan felt desperate.
“Xiaowan, just marry Yang Guang.”
“Yes, yes, General Yang Guang is both civil and military, how can he not be worthy of you?”
“Xiao Wan, if you don’t think about yourself, you should also think about this family!”
Dong Zhuo's wives and concubines surrounded Dong Xiaowan and kept trying to persuade him, but Dong Xiaowan, who was extremely stubborn, refused to listen and kicked them all out.
(End of this chapter)