“Cai Jun, do you think I should listen to Li Boshan’s advice?”
After the meeting, King Yueyang no longer had the expectation he had when he came back on the way back. He frowned and looked thoughtful and entangled. He looked at Cai Dabao, who was the first confidant of the disciple and the most in-depth exchanges between Mianbei, and asked.
Cai Dabao knew that this question was difficult to answer, so he pondered for a while before he spoke, “No matter how talented and ambitioned the governor Li Da, he was definitely not a person who could entrust co-conspirators in other countries.”
“Yes, no matter how much Li Boshan admired his righteousness and strength, he was a minister of other countries. No matter how unruly Du was, he was also a citizen under my rule in Yongzhou. It is indeed inappropriate to attract outsiders to attack himself.”
King Yueyang sighed after hearing this, but his tone was full of unwillingness and regret, which aroused dissatisfaction with Li Tai: “This general is really clever and despicable. The former had precious goods and lost to me. He won a short victory with his fresh goods in his hometown for a short time, but he boasted but could not fulfill it. He deliberately proposed a condition that I was inconvenient to promise to make things difficult for me. It was really annoying!”
As he said this, he still couldn’t let go and scolded Du again: “This thief household has corrupt officials and overpowered the people and is extremely fat, but he still refuses to be content! Even if there is no such thing as Li Boshan, if the green waves of the Han River can be used for me and are unobstructed, it is a good deed for the people of Dayizhou and a great benefit to the national affairs!”
Before the Shazhou meeting, Li Tai proposed that the transportation of materials could be carried out along the Han River, and the two sides could not only be limited to the transaction of white sugar, but other trades of goods could also be carried out.
But the problem is that the power of the Yueyang King is far from enough to cover the entire Han River Basin, and even Xiangyang, who is now in charge, took advantage of Li Tai’s invasion to control people, money and food. Not to mention the Han River Basin, the section of waterway controlled by the Du brothers is completely out of control of King Yueyang.
Li Tai took advantage of the situation and re-reported the old matter, expressing his willingness to send troops to help the King of Yueyang solve the Du clan. They worked together inside and outside to capture the city where the Du brothers were stationed by the Han River, and then the King of Yueyang then regained the lost land and actually took the city into his hands.
Although this proposal seems to be beneficial to the King of Yueyang, it can expand its sphere of influence without spending much money, and can also gain control of the Hanshui Channel and frosting, a luxury product with extremely high value and profit.
But in addition to considering pros and cons, people still have moral constraints. What’s more, King Yueyang is the serious King of Xiaoliang Sect. If he leads outsiders to invade his own territory, it will eventually be an act of breaking the bottom line for him.
“Ah, Li Boshan looks elegant in appearance and spirit, but his essence is still unavoidable. He used this plan to me, and really judged others by himself and looked down on me. Conspiracy and tricks are far more than the right path. In the future, we can’t continue to have a deep relationship with this person to avoid being invaded by his bizarre!”
After thinking about the pros and cons, King Yueyang still refused this tempting proposal in his heart.Although there are benefits, the risks are too great.
Their brothers are already in a sensitive situation. If they implicate other brothers due to their temporary greed and indulgence, they will not be able to see each other again. What’s more, even if the Du brothers were defeated, there were still many powerful people entrenched on the upper reaches of the Han River. It was not easy to fully control this waterway!
Although he said this, the King of Yueyang still felt regretful, whether it was to give up Li Tai’s proposal or give up the friendship with Li Tai.
What he received since childhood was the orthodox royal education of Nanliang, graceful and elegant. Although he had extreme thoughts due to his father’s early death and his grandfather’s dethronement of the legitimate legitimate, he did not completely put aside the constraints of family tutoring.
For him, although Li Tai is a famous family, he is rarely constrained by red tape. He is full of vitality and imagination in his life and work, especially his several extraordinary deeds make Xiao Xu full of envy and jealousy. Since the two sides contacted each other, they even fantasized that if they were like this…
King Yueyang said that he was avoiding his invasion, but he was worried that he would be influenced by Li Tai’s wild imagination, but he did not have enough courage and strength to achieve it. He just increased his annoyance. Just like a person knows that addiction is harmful, he is still trying to use his rationality to continue trying.
But in fact, people’s biggest addiction is their heart addiction. As long as you have thoughts in your heart, it will only be sooner or later to complete fall.
Since he decided not to be tempted by this, the King of Yueyang also
He put this matter behind his mind and did not think about it. After returning to Xiangyang, he buried himself in military and political affairs all day long, doing big and small things, and doing everything himself. It seemed that he wanted to use work to anesthetize himself and stop thinking about it.
But soon an accident interrupted the days when King Yueyang was striving for strength. The Du brothers had asked Xiao Yi, the King of Xiangdong who was in Jiangling for the military affairs of Xiangyang. Now Xiao Yi sent his envoy to come and ordered Du An of the Du family of Jingzhao to be the Sima of Yongzhou Prefecture and replace the surrendered general Liu Fanggui.
The King of Xiangdong is now the governor of Jingzhou and the commander of the military affairs of various prefectures between Jiang and Han, such as Jing Yong, is now the highest military and political chief in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. King Xiao Xu of Yueyang is also under his control and has great say in the appointment of the left of Yongzhou official. It is not considered as a transcendent to the power of the person who directly appointed Sima of Yongzhou Prefecture.