Ye An breathed a sigh of relief after leaving Cao's house. Qin Mumu beside him was already waiting for his explanation with his arms folded. Ye An's behavior today was very abnormal. Based on his understanding of him, he must have a deeper purpose.
"Why are you looking at me like that? I didn't know beforehand that Cao Wei was injured. I originally planned to use the Cao family's connections to come back for the New Year. Now, I even have an excuse, right?"
Qin Mumu looked at Ye An strangely: "What's the point of coming back for the New Year?"
"Hey! It's for lobbying! The situation in Ganzhou and Liangzhou is completely beyond my expectation. According to Cao Wei, there are still some areas in Liangzhou under the control of the imperial court, but Ganzhou has been completely corrupted, and there is no such thing as
Our dynasty has the final say, but it is the Uighurs in Xizhou who have the final say. They set up tents there and established a khanate!"
Ye An's words surprised Qin Mumu, who did not understand the history of the Western Regions: "Are the Xizhou Uighurs the ancestors of the Uyghurs?"
Ye An paused for a moment, frowned and said: "So be it! But the Xizhou Uighurs will eventually split. They are quite complicated internally. Because of the same beliefs, some people became the later Weilwu people, and some people retreated westward.
We have become common people of all ethnic groups in the Middle East. This period of history is so confusing that even the records in history books are complicated and it is almost impossible to sort out the clues."
Qin Mumu was stunned. She didn't expect the history of the Western Regions to be so complicated. In her impression, the Western Regions had always been one nation.
Ye An raised the car curtain and looked at the merchants from the Western Regions who were shouting loudly on East Cross Street and said: "But there is one thing. Although the Xizhou Uighurs are considered a political power, due to the dispersed power, they have a vast territory and are independent in their own affairs. They cannot cooperate with any of the surrounding countries.
A political power competes with each other, so the Xizhou Uighurs are now a "vassal state" of the Liao Dynasty, a "friendly state" of the Dangxiang people, and the "nephew of Xizhou" of our Central Plains Dynasty."
"Then what are you worried about? Since the Ganzhou Uighurs cannot compete with the imperial court, after we go to Ganliang, with the imperial court's decree, I believe they will surrender soon, right?"
Qin Mumu's naive idea left Ye An speechless for a while: "Since they dared to occupy Ganzhou, they had already thrown the majesty of the country into the clouds. After the tentative embezzlement, the court did not make an effective counterattack, and the result was a fait accompli!
Now that the Uighurs have occupied Ganzhou, the dynasty has done nothing but issued a few indifferent edicts of rebuke. What will happen next?"
"Liangzhou?!" Qin Mumu couldn't help but exclaimed, and at this time she also understood the problem: "Since the Uighurs occupied Ganzhou and the court did not take any action, then the party members dared to occupy Liangzhou! The Uighurs are in the northwest
They are not afraid of the imperial dynasty, but they are afraid of the Dangxiang people! That means... the Uighurs may have occupied Ganzhou because of Dangxiang's instructions! It was Li Deming's test behind the scenes!"
Sure enough, he was a police officer! Qin Mumu's logical analysis ability is very strong. Even if he doesn't understand this period of history, he can still deduce suspicions from what happened. This is a reasonable guess and there is no problem.
Ye An put down the car curtain, nodded slightly and said: "Yes, the party members have been plotting against Cui Yan in Ganliang and Liangzhou for a long time, and Li Deming is plotting secretly. The chaos in Huanzhou is just a trigger. Li Deming did not stir up trouble in Huanzhou, but Gan
He had already begun to plan the matter in Huanzhou. If he succeeded in Huanzhou, the civil strife among the Western Qiang people would be enough to waste the country for several years, and in these few years, Liangzhou might really be in ruins... Sigh,
Oh...my wife...it hurts!"
Qin Mumu held onto Ye An's ears and didn't let go, and at the same time, he did a rotation in a circle. Ye An screamed in pain and then said: "So when you came back from Huanzhou, you planned to go to Ganliang?! You too?"
Don’t discuss it with me before telling me at the end!”
Ye An chuckled awkwardly. It was obvious that Qin Mumu's concealment had made her furious. Women could not stand deception, even if it was a white lie.
"I didn't have time at the time, and then I was so busy that I forgot...be careful next time."
Qin Mumu glared at Ye An and said: "There is no door! Do you want a next time? If you don't tell me the truth in the future, be careful with your third leg!"
Seeing Qin Mumu's hands like scissors, Ye An was slightly cold and said he didn't dare. It's time to give in. What's more, what he did was wrong.
The relationship between the two parties has long been separated from the ordinary relationship between husband and wife, and is more like husband and wife, partners and confidants. Ye An revealed his plan in detail.
"What the enemy wants is what we want to defeat. Compared with the Liao people and the Dangxiang people, the threat to the country is greater, because the Liao people occupy the geographical advantage. Without the strongest barrier of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the Liao Dynasty
The people's cavalry can drive straight in, which means that the Guochao is passively defending, while the Liao people take the initiative to attack. Under this situation, as long as the Liao people do not launch a war, the possibility of the Guochao launching the Northern Expedition is very low.
The Second Northern Expedition has proved this, not only because there was a problem with Taizong's leadership and command, but also because the Liao people occupied a lot of geographical advantages."
"You mean the main threat to the Guo Dynasty is not the Liao people who have been at war for decades, but the Dangxiang in the west?"
Qin Mumu had some doubts. In her understanding, the hostile relationship between the Liao Dynasty and the Guo Dynasty had lasted for a long time, and the Liao Dynasty was also the main enemy of the Guo Dynasty. But today, Ye An's words broke her perception.
"Yes, history is different from martial arts novels. In fact, the friction between the Liao Dynasty and the Guo Dynasty only stayed on the territorial disputes at the border, and those small disputes were often caused by farmers in local and state capitals cultivating land across the border.
The fundamental purpose of causing conflicts is to prevent farmers from encroaching on their own land through this method, it’s that simple!”
Qin Mumu nodded understandingly: "So the Dangxiang people are a group of bandits and robbers?"
"It can be said that the rule of the Liao people has been quite stable, and they have begun to gradually learn the ruling methods of the Central Plains dynasties. When a nomadic civilization begins to transition to an agricultural civilization, the inevitable result is to converge towards an agricultural civilization, and the Han family's
Agricultural civilization has developed for thousands of years, and everything from culture to system illustrates one thing: be virtuous!
This is the foundation of Confucian culture. The governance of a country requires virtue, the consolidation of imperial power requires virtue, the division of classes requires virtue, and the launching of war requires virtue even more!
When the Liao people began to gradually move closer to the Han civilization, they were even more completely dominated by Confucian culture! They began to seek stability, and began to demand others as well as themselves as the "Celestial Kingdom"!
But the Dangxiang people are different. They are simply a group of uncivilized barbarians. They even retain the country's system based on feudal slavery. The Xia Kingdom is not a dynasty, but a small country. They demand more from the dynasty.
Their march south was an invasion and robbery, not a conflict or war caused by border conflicts!
The relationship between Song and Liao is like two neighbors who are at odds with each other. They are wary of each other whether the expansion of each other's homes will harm their own interests. The relationship between Song and Dangxiang is like the relationship between a family and a robber. Now
Understand?"
Qin Mumu nodded slightly: "So there is a difference between civil disputes and criminal cases, right?" Seeing Ye An nodding, Qin Mumu added: "So the party members pose a greater threat to the country!"
Ye An nodded slightly: "Yes! The threat of the Song Dynasty lies in the northwest, the threat of the northwest lies in Dangxiang, and the key point of Dangxiang lies in Ganliang. As for the Uighurs... they have never been the opponents of the Han family."
"What's the chance of winning?" Qin Mumu was quite nervous, but Ye An smiled slightly: "Ten percent! You know me, I have never been a risk-taker, and I will not go to Ganliang without being completely sure.
We still have the entire Qinfeng Road behind us. If we can't fight, we'll retreat. Guerrilla warfare is the magic weapon of us Communists."
"That's true! If you can't defeat them, just retreat tactically. You can still counterattack by accumulating strength. If you save people and lose land, you will lose both people and land."