"Ability is a skill, but a person may not be a good person."

This is how Wu Qiuyang judged Meng Shulandao.

Liu Xiyuan and Yuan Luzhi looked at each other and asked, "Where do you start talking about this?"

Wu Qiuyang glanced at the two people who were playing vigorously on the field and confirmed that Yan Qing had no time to pay attention to this side. Wu Qiuyang lowered his voice and gossiped to Liu Xiyuan mysteriously: "That boy came to our Western Xinjiang for that purpose.

Very impure!"

Liu Xiyuan and Yuan Luzhi looked at each other in confusion, their expressions becoming a little more serious. They both thought that they had accidentally snooped out some inside story, and were about to learn about some conspiracy of the imperial nobles.

It’s no wonder they thought this way. The main reason was that as Meng Shulan was the emperor’s favorite nephew, how could the emperor be willing to let him go to the frontier to suffer hardships?

Especially since Meng Shulan was only thirteen or fourteen years old at the time, and he was going to Western Xinjiang, where wars were most frequent.

Even if there is a intention to let Meng Shulan go to the army to gain experience and gain knowledge, no matter how you look at it, it is still in the hands of the royal family. It is more suitable to be in the most stable and prosperous Eastern Xinjiang, right?

But even if the emperor let Meng Shulan go to Western Xinjiang, he still stayed there for four years.

In four years, Meng Shulan made good friends with Zhenxihou's family, won the trust of Zhenxihou, and worked hard to cultivate them, thus taking root in Western Xinjiang.

There was a big battle afterwards. Although the Xirong people were brave and good at fighting and had a large number of people, the Marquis of Zhenxi had been dealing with the Xirong people for so many years. How could he easily fall into the trap of the Xirong people?

And in the end, the Xirong troops escaped unexpectedly, bypassed the southwest joint defense camp, passed through the Blind Forest, and attacked Tahrir by surprise, leaving the Western Xinjiang defense line completely useless!

This is really suspicious!

The Western Rong soldiers who made a surprise attack divided the battlefield and defeated them one by one. If it had not been for the Marquis of Zhenxi, the Prince of Zhenxihou and others led the Yan family's army to fight to the death, the Western Territory would have been lost long ago.

The timing of the surprise attack by the Xirong people happened to be when Meng Shulan left Western Xinjiang.

Although he finally brought troops to rescue him, saved Yan Qing, and saved the last bloodline of Zhenxihou.

But later, he also relied on this to gain Yan Qing's trust, and Yan Qing willingly handed over the Xijiang Commandery Seal to him.

The emperor knew that there was something fishy about the defeat in the Western Region, but he did not delve into it.

If the emperor had investigated deeply, he might have discovered Li Dingshan's disobedience long ago...

In other words, the emperor already knew about Li Dingshan's disobedience, and even allowed Li Dingshan to collude with Xirong, catching Xijiang off guard.

Or perhaps, this was the emperor's order from the beginning. He knew Li Dingshan's ambitions, so he used this to get rid of Zhenxihou Ling Meng Shulan and take power, and he could frame Li Dingshan's fault and drive Yan Qing to become hostile to Li Dingshan.

But then I thought about it, although the Yan family has the power to shake up the master, the four border areas are originally restricting each other. If the emperor rashly touches the western border, it will affect the whole body and may cause turmoil in the entire country.

This doesn't seem like a stupid thing that an emperor would do.

The current situation can be said to be caused by the collapse of the Yan family's power in Western Xinjiang.

Although Meng Shulan is in charge of the vacancy of the Western Xinjiang garrison, major aristocratic families are taking advantage of every opportunity. After all, Meng Shulan is not from the Yan family. Even if he is highly regarded by the Marquis of Zhenxi, he may not be able to support some of the old families in Western Xinjiang.

Moreover, when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. When the Yan family falls, there will always be people who change their minds. Even if Yan Qing, a member of the Yan family, takes over Xijiang, the situation will probably not be any better than when Meng Shulan took over.

Western Xinjiang had too much time to take care of itself, so naturally it could no longer suppress Li Dingshan in southern Xinjiang. In a sense, it contributed to Li Dingshan's rebellion.

If Li Dingshan had not rebelled, and the southern Xinjiang guards had not been left empty due to Li Dingshan's transfer of troops back to Beijing, the flood storage dam on the upper reaches of the Xiangzhang River in Yuhuai County would not necessarily have collapsed.

If the dam is not destroyed, there will be no floods, civil unrest, or disasters.

This chain of decline of the country is definitely not what an emperor wants to see.

But to say that these are all just coincidences would be too much of a coincidence, making people feel like they are in a puzzle, occasionally getting a glimpse of the real situation, but not knowing the whole picture.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that there is a deep conspiracy in it.

After thinking about it in this way, some parts that were originally unreasonable and inconsistent seemed to have reasonable explanations in an instant.

The emperor must have had a plan when he asked Meng Shulan to go to Western Xinjiang.

But what is his intention?

Whether this situation was what he had expected now was something they could not possibly know.

Liu Xiyuan and Yuan Lu's expressions were both serious and doubtful.

Yuan Luzhi thought of some of his father's abnormal behaviors recently, and his mood became heavier. He even wanted to go home immediately and confront his father.

He always felt that his father should know something, but he was hiding it.

Wu Qiuyang seemed to have never heard of the two men's calm expressions.

Some people naturally don't like to think too much and live in the present and enjoy themselves at the time.

Wu Qiuyang is such a person.

Therefore, as he was very interested in gossip, he did not notice the sudden change in the expressions of Liu Xiyuan and Yuan Luzhi. He just thought he was trying to whet people's appetites, shook his head, and whispered to them mysteriously.

"Don't look at that guy Meng Shulan as if he's a slut. He understands this and that's fine. In fact, he's just a stubborn coward who loves beauty but not the country."

Speaking of Meng Shulan's behavior of abandoning his country and choosing a beautiful woman, Wu Qiuyang was very contemptuous, "A good man should have high aspirations and take it as his own responsibility to govern the country and bring peace to the family and the world. He is not good! We, Yan Shuai, value him so much that we want to mention him to ourselves

He works as a counselor, but he wants to rely on our young general! In four years, the young general has been promoted from captain to commander of the forward battalion, and he has always been the military advisor to the young general."

"Anyway, if the young general is promoted, his status will be moved a little, otherwise he will be unbeatable!"

When Wu Qiuyang talked about the promotion opportunities that Meng Shulan had given up over the years, he felt envious and regretful at the same time. He only hated that Meng Shulan was unmotivated!

"If it weren't for the fact that he is the emperor's nephew, who would agree to assign a military advisor to the squad leader? Even if he is a junior general, it is impossible for him to receive such treatment!"

Their minds were spinning very fast. In a short period of time, Liu Xiyuan and Yuan Luzhi, who had already brainstormed a conspiracy theory that could overturn the country, suddenly learned from Wu Qiuyang what he called "Meng Shulan's impure purpose."

I just feel like my mind is a little hard to turn around.

It felt like an old man bending down and then suddenly rising up to his waist.

It's just that this should be considered...a flash in their minds?

Liu Xiyuan, who was speechless, twitched his lips and asked Wu Qiuyang with a strange look on his face: "Is pursuing General Yan the impure purpose of His Highness Prince Shu's coming to Western Xinjiang?"

"Um!"
Chapter completed!