If Li Zehe, the middle commander of Liaodong Town, had been at the scene at this time and heard Ximen Sheng's words with his own ears, he would definitely be convinced.
At the same time, Li Zehe would secretly ridicule Ximen Sheng and Shi Cheng in his heart.
What is it that Li Zehe betrayed Liaodong Town, put himself in the position of a blameless loyal minister, and moved himself from the moral high ground...
But if you are really loyal, then be loyal to the court. Didn't the court pay you any salary? Or is it that the old Zhu family's success in the country was unfair? Turning a blind eye to the justice of the court, but being loyal to a domineering military leader like He Yu who is full of selfishness, will appear
Are you morally noble?
This kind of "loyalty" is not only narrow-minded and hypocritical, but also very ridiculous!
Li Zehe never regarded himself as a "loyal minister", whether it was to the imperial court or Liaodong Town. For Li Zehe, the word "loyalty" was just a slogan and a means.
In Li Zehe's eyes, he is just a smart person.
As a smart person, one of the important criteria is to never forget your original goal, let alone lose your way in the process of chasing the goal, and do stupid things that ignore the important and the important.
Li Zehe's goal is very simple, just to get promoted and make a fortune.
Li Zehe used to be loyal to Liaodong Town just to get promoted and make a fortune more easily, but never the other way around, to be more loyal to Liaodong Town and work hard to get promoted and make a fortune.
Therefore, Li Zehe now chooses to abandon Liaodong Town and He Yu without any psychological burden at all.
In fact, ever since Zhao Junchen wanted to imitate the "Tweening Order" and tried to completely change the status quo of food and salary distribution in Liaodong Town, Li Zehe had already decided to betray Liaodong Town and He Yu.
This method of building vassals together is an irreversible conspiracy. When Zhao Junchen thought of this plan, it was already destined that Liaodong Town would lose its independence and autonomy sooner or later.
The so-called conspiracy is actually what people want, so even with He Yu's strength, prestige, and strength, he can only suppress the selfishness of his soldiers in a short time, but he cannot always suppress the selfishness of his soldiers, at most.
It can only suppress the selfishness of some soldiers, but it cannot suppress the selfishness of all soldiers.
After opening this Pandora's box, sooner or later the situation in Liaodong will be completely out of He Yu's control.
Therefore, even if He Yu was not kidnapped, Li Zehe was already having strange thoughts and began to think about his own options.
However, Li Zehe originally thought that if Zhao Junchen's conspiracy wanted to gradually ferment and produce obvious results, it would take at least another three to five years, so he also had a lot of time to think long term and slowly consider the future.
However, Li Zehe never expected that Zhao Junchen would be so eager. In order to speed up the fermentation process of this conspiracy, he took the risk of using conspiracy methods to catalyze it.
In other words, Zhao Junchen used the four legendary schemes at the same time, but in addition to the grace order, the other three schemes incorporated some conspiracy techniques.
For example, Zhao Junchen managed to imprison He Yu, which was actually a disguised form of "holding the emperor hostage to order the princes".
For example, Zhao Junchen temporarily left the position of the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Town in suspense. Isn't it like "two peaches kill three soldiers"?
There is also "surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao". Zhao Junchen has not implemented it yet, but Li Zehe has vaguely noticed some signs... Now everyone only cares about He Yu's kidnapping, so they gradually ignore another matter Zhao Junchen
They have been trying to shake the military morale of the lower-level soldiers in Liaodong Town, which is obviously not without purpose.
After noticing these situations, Li Zehe also made a decisive decision and decided to escape Liaodong Town in advance, which would collapse sooner or later, and take the opportunity to obtain the greatest benefits for himself.
This approach is very risky. After all, He Yu may get out of trouble at any time, and he will definitely take action to liquidate all those who have different intentions.
But Li Zehe has carefully considered all the consequences and believes that his adventure will definitely make a profit without losing any money.
If everything succeeds, you can take the opportunity to reap a lot of benefits, and He Yu may not be able to liquidate him at that time; if it fails in the end, you can also take advantage of the situation and get on Zhao Junchen's path, then escape from Liaodong in advance, rush to the capital to stand by, and then use Zhao Junchen
Junchen's influence seeks a new job.
I heard that there is a vacancy for a general in Jiangsu, which is a good place to go.
In Li Zehe's eyes, there wasn't much to miss in the land of Liaodong. It was too dangerous and too remote. Although being a military attache in Liaodong was very powerful, it was far less comfortable and comfortable than staying in the luxurious land in the south.
All in all, just like Ximen Sheng's evaluation, Li Zehe has already considered everything clearly. It seems to be treacherous and extremely stupid, but for Li Zehe himself, it is the best choice after carefully weighing the pros and cons.
It was precisely because of these considerations that Li Zehe secretly contacted Jiang Quan, a member of the Imperial Army, that night.
Although Shi Cheng sent people to keep an eye on Li Zehe secretly, there were still omissions in his information, because Li Zehe did not send his confidants to contact Jiang Quan, but went to see Jiang Quan in person.
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When Jiang Quan saw Li Zehe, he was greatly surprised.
He also expected that a high-level military attaché from Liaodong would take the initiative to contact him, but he did not expect that this person would be Li Zehe, nor did he expect that Li Zehe would act so quickly.
After all, Li Zehe had made it clear long ago that he had seen through Zhao Junchen's alienation plan, and his attitude towards Jiang Quan had always been lukewarm.
But soon, Jiang Quan had put aside his surprise, warmly invited Li Zehe to take a seat, and then asked Li Zehe's purpose of coming.
Li Zehe shook his head and sighed: "I came to see Jiang Baihu this time because I want to ask Jiang Baihu for help."
Jiang Quan was stunned again and asked: "With Li Shen's influence on your power in Liaodong, why do you need help from a humble position?"
Li Zehe explained patiently: "In recent times, due to various reasons, the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Frontier Army have been somewhat unstable in military morale. Now that the commander-in-chief is uncertain about his life or death, this unstable military morale has become more and more obvious...
… Therefore, after discussing with several other generals, I believe that the most important thing at the moment is not only to rescue the Commander-in-Chief, but also to stabilize the increasingly turbulent morale of the military."
After a pause, Li Zehe further explained: "If a general wants to stabilize the morale of the military, the specific method is very simple, that is, to make rewards and punishments clear, so that the soldiers can see justice and find hope!
Therefore, until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, this general and several other generals want to summon all Liaodong soldiers to publicly summarize the merits and demerits of everyone during this period, and then reward the officers and soldiers for their merits and punish them for their faults. In this way
The soldiers' morale will be stabilized, and then they can no longer have any worries and make every effort to rescue Zhao Gechen and the General Soldier!"
Jiang Quan's eyes flashed and he asked again: "It is indeed a good thing, but this matter is more of a household matter in Liaodong Town, and the humble position is just a forbidden army household. Not only is the military position low, but he is also an outsider, and he should
How can we help?”
Li Zehe shook his head and said: "Li Baihu is too modest. Although you are only a member of the Forbidden Army, you are also the leader of Zhao Gechen's bodyguard. Now that Zhao Gechen and the general have been kidnapped, you will be responsible for keeping all the information collected by Zhao Gechen."
, and these information are exactly what we need!
These days, for us in Liaodong Town, in addition to the kidnapping of the commander-in-chief, there are three other things that have shaken the morale of the military!
First, after the Liaodong soldiers had contact and exchanges with the Forbidden Army soldiers, they all believed that their salary income was too low; second, some of the family members of the border army soldiers in the West Road Defense Zone were oppressed and persecuted by the military attachés stationed nearby.
The third thing is that when the Liaodong Cavalry and the Guanning Cavalry were competing, they suffered a disastrous defeat..."
Speaking of this, Li Zehe looked at Jiang Quan meaningfully, because these three things were all related to Zhao Gechen.
But Li Zehebing did not show any intention of pursuing or blaming, and just continued: "So, I and several other generals plan to calm these three things as soon as possible!
Among these three things, the first thing is relatively easy to solve. All you need to do is take out a sum of money from the arsenal and distribute it to the soldiers. Even if it is a small amount, it is enough to temporarily appease the soldiers' emotions.
But the last two things are related to merits and demerits, rewards and punishments, so we must have conclusive evidence. But we don’t have time to slowly collect evidence now, so we thought of you Jiang Baihu...
Zhao Gechen has been investigating these two matters and has mastered a large amount of evidence and intelligence. Therefore, if Jiang Baihu is willing to transfer the evidence and information collected by Zhao Gechen to us, we can quickly find detailed basis for rewards and punishments.
, and then to calm disputes and stabilize military morale!
But I wonder if Jiang Baihu is willing to help us with this?"
After hearing what Li Zehe said, Jiang Quan was stunned again.
Because he completely failed to see the necessity of Li Zehe's request.
Although Zhao Junchen has collected a lot of intelligence and evidence during this period, Zhao Junchen is not from Liaodong Town and is even hostile to Liaodong Town. As a Liaodong general, how could Li Zehe blindly trust Zhao
The intelligence and evidence that Junchen collected? And then rewards and punishments will be based on this intelligence and evidence?
Even if Liaodong Town doesn't have time to collect evidence carefully, can't it be fabricated temporarily? How big a deal is it?
He even personally came forward to request for this information and evidence, and then took the initiative to owe himself a favor?
No matter how you look at it, there is something fishy about this matter!
For a moment, Jiang Quan felt that he could not understand Li Zehe's true thoughts at all, so he hesitated to agree directly.
After seeing Jiang Quan's hesitation, Li Zehe suddenly smiled and asked: "If Jiang Baihu doesn't dare to agree to this, then... why not ask Zhao Gechen for his opinion?"
Hearing what Li Zehe said, Jiang Quan's expression suddenly changed.