Chapter 347: borrow a mouth
Ye Anlan frowned slightly upon hearing this, "Then this capital city is just like a scary paper tiger?"
The city wall looks like a ghost, what kind of city gate do you want to hit when attacking the city? Isn't it better to just hit the hollow city wall they made with all your strength?
Li Jing waved his hand, "Not all city walls are like this. The section I asked Chang'an and Xiaotao to explore was rebuilt by the Ministry of Industry 15 years ago, and they did this at that time."
The previous few repairs were all when the little emperor's grandfather and even his grandfather were in power. At that time, the Great Zhou Dynasty was not as decadent as the later period.
"Then can we use this section of the city wall as a breakthrough?" Ye Anlan felt that such a good place is rare, if they just use it to escape, it would be too wasteful.
She said to Li Jing: "The gate of the capital is thick and the walls are high, easy to defend and difficult to attack. When the Xie family hits the capital one day, won't this section of the city wall be of great use in our hands?"
Li Jing actually thought so too, but Li Jing is still more worried about the immediate matter than the distant matter.
He said to Ye Anlan: "Back then we had other methods available, but now it's different. Right now we are all alone, if we abandon this way of retreat, we won't have a chance to retreat quietly if something happens. Out of the capital."
If they don't want to lose too much when attacking the city, they can send people to sneak into the capital in advance to seize control of the city gate, and even implement a strategy of besieging the capital without attacking it, forcing the royal family and powerful officials in the city to open the city and surrender .
But if they can't withdraw from the capital quietly now, they will inevitably lose their hands in the fierce conflict with the defenders. He believes that this is what Ye Anlan doesn't want to see.
"Then let's do this first." Sure enough, Ye Anlan quickly gave up her previous thoughts, and she said to Li Jing and the others: "Now we can only pray that things will not develop to the point where we need to use this retreat .”
Li Jing smiled, "I've already sent a message to the eldest brother of the empress dowager, hoping he can persuade the empress dowager who is furious."
Ye Anlan:? ? ?
She leaned forward slightly, "When did you do this? Who is the person who delivered the message for you? Is it reliable? Did you reveal your true identity in front of the other party?"
Li Jing shook his head with a smile, "Don't worry, I didn't show my true face, but I just said a few words unintentionally by using a fake identity."
After comforting Ye Anlan, he began to answer questions in an orderly manner.
"I went to a literary meeting yesterday, and that's what I did at that time."
"The person who gave me the message was the most favored concubine of the eldest brother of the Empress Dowager. He was raised by his aunt with big eyes and a hollow heart. He has always been ambitious but has no ability, and there are no smart people around him to help him wholeheartedly."
"During the meeting, everyone talked about the rumors that have spread all over the capital recently. I think he has been listening very carefully, and occasionally repeats other people's opinions in a very low voice. I guess he wants to use this matter to compete with his brother. "
"It just so happens that I have a solution that at first glance is beneficial to the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty but not harmful, so I took advantage of that person's preparation to leave the meeting and let him inadvertently hear my personal opinion on this matter. A little humble."
At that time, Li Jing was standing on the other side of the flower wall. He pretended not to notice that the target person had come to them, and said all he wanted to say to Chang An who was also wearing a scholar's robe.
He was different from the other scholars at the banquet. He neither defended Dingbeijun and Marquis Weiping, nor followed others in cursing them.
Li Jing directly skipped the issue of "Does Wei Pinghou's doing so mean that he has betrayed the court and the royal family?" He focused on "how the court should eliminate the bad influence of this incident".
He helped the court analyze three ways.
The first way is to directly kill Wei Pinghou's family members in anger to make an example.
According to Li Jing, if the royal family and powerful ministers choose to do this, they will certainly be able to vent their anger immediately, but there is no doubt that their approach will completely push Wei Pinghou and Dingbei Army to the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty the opposite of.
Wei Pinghou, who lost his loved ones, is very likely to directly join one of the rebels because of this incident, and it is even very likely that he will directly send troops to the capital in a fit of anger.
Li Jing briefly analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the Dingbei Army and the Imperial Guard Army, and finally came to the conclusion that if the two armies confront each other, the Dingbei Army has a 70% chance of winning.
Although the empress dowager's nephew was not angry with Li Jing for exalting Bai Qingzhi's Dingbei Army and belittling his father's Imperial Guard, the advantages and disadvantages listed by Li Jing were all objective facts. Happy, but there is no way to refute Li Jing with reason and evidence on the face.
As for relying on his status to oppress others, if he really does this, in order to avoid disasters from coming out, who will speak freely in front of him in the future?
If everyone keeps their mouths shut, how can he use other people's opinions to claim credit in front of his father?
The young master of Cheng En Gong Mansion, who thought he could endure humiliation, listened silently for the sake of his own good life in the future.
On the other side of the wall, Li Jing has already talked about the second way he thought of.
His so-called second way is to take this opportunity to recruit some foolish rebel forces under the banner of the overall situation and righteousness, and then let them consume each other with other rebels.
Of course, after talking about the second method, Li Jing did not forget to mention the low success rate of this method.
After all, the leaders of the rebels who were able to stay until now are not big fools. It is impossible for the Great Zhou court to let them go east and they will obediently never go west.
But he felt that compared to those rebels, Dingbei Army and Wei Pinghou could still try to recruit them. This is what he called the third way.
Facing Chang'an, he gave advice to the empress dowager's nephew who was upright in the corner, "The imperial court can completely put Weipinghou's family members under house arrest in the capital's Houfu, and use this to threaten him not to belong to any rebel army. Even If Wei Pinghou pays enough attention to his family members, the imperial court can also use this to coerce him to send troops to conquer the surrounding rebels."
Although Li Jing's words of "threat" made the empress dowager's nephew feel harsh, but he could not deny that Li Jing's realistic and meaningful words were better than any sentence he heard during the banquet. Empty remarks are better.
The young master, who has been trying to please his father for nearly twenty years, knows very well that what his father wants is such a "countermeasure", not the "attitude" he heard during the dinner.