While Yang Ji was discussing with Yang Zhao and Yang Jian in Furong Tower, the head of the Dugu family, Dugu Zheng, was also a guest of the Dou family.
Although the Dou family is not the family of the twelve major generals of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms, the Dou family has a long history and a long history. Its historical heritage is beyond the reach of the twelve major general families of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms. This family has numerous talents and ubiquitous connections. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it gradually became one of the most powerful and important families of the Guanlong aristocracy. Because Li Yuan's wife was the daughter of Dou Yi, the Dou family initially supported Li Yuan in his bid for the position of leader of the Wuchuan League.
Although they and the Dugu family are Li Yuan's strongest supporters, the two families and factions each have their own interests and demands, and both want to outdo each other, so there are many overt and covert fights between them; this time, because the Yuan family slowly Because of the madness, the two families came together by chance, and Dou Wei originally wanted to invite Dugu Zheng to come over to talk to him, but he didn't expect that Dugu Zheng himself would come.
However, they never thought that before the two started to communicate formally, Yuanwei would also come. Looking at the head of the family, Yuanwei's mood was as gloomy as the night.
Yuanwei is brave and resolute, and has many martial arts skills. When he first served in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he followed King Yu Wenxian of Qi to fight, made many military exploits, and was awarded the rank of general. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, he was added to the throne of Shangzhu State, Duke of Wuling County, General of the Left Guard of the School, and Governor of Yuhao and Zhejiang Provinces, and was transferred to the general manager of Lingzhou to resist the Turkic attack. Later, he was promoted to General Youwei due to his meritorious service. However, he was imprisoned by King Yang Xiu of Shu and was convicted and expelled. In his life, he went from a highly respected big shot to a miserable and precarious prisoner. In the second year of Renshou, he became a right-wing general. However, he was soon implicated by He Ruobi and lost everything. He experienced countless turmoils, dangers and power struggles. , has always been able to maneuver both sides, turn danger into safety, and turn adversity into a smooth road, but the way that the Dugu family and the Dou family secretly joined forces to deal with their Yuan family made him feel very troublesome and very angry.
Yuanwei stared at Dugu Zheng and Dou Wei closely, but saw that the other party was drinking tea with his head down and was silent. He said with great sadness and anger: "Two family heads, the late emperor benefited from the joint recommendation of our Guanlong nobles and was able to replace the decadent family. The Yuwen family was in decline, but after the late emperor ascended the throne as he wished, he not only deprived us of our military power, but also deposed the kind and kind Yang Yong; today's saints are even more bullying and completely treat us Guanlong nobles as a thorn in their flesh. This is what we did back then. One of the important reasons for the creation of the Wuchuan Alliance."
Yuan Wei's gaze swept across Dou Wei's face, preparing to find a breakthrough from him, and said in a low voice: "Trees without a foundation cannot become towering trees, and crops without a foundation cannot bear full fruits. Yang's If you personally dig out the foundation of the Sui Dynasty, you are destined not to last long. Facts have also proved that after the Sui Dynasty passed into the hands of the saints, it was gradually moving towards the edge of the interior. Not to mention that our Guanlong nobles were alienated from morality and everyone was in danger. Even the noble clans have their own plans."
"The current Sui Dynasty is just short of an opportunity. As soon as the opportunity comes, the Sui Dynasty will be in danger of falling apart. But before any dynasty is on the verge of falling apart, there will be a period of madness. If we can survive this madness, this dynasty will It will suddenly become enlightened, and the game will be over if we can’t survive it. For us, the only way to survive smoothly is to work together and unite as one; otherwise, we will be defeated by the saints one by one. When the time comes, who will It won’t end well, Mr. Dou, what do you think?”….
The Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty originated from the Guanlong nobles and prospered from the Guanlong nobles, but they also suffered deeply from the Guanlong nobles. Yang Jian relied on the power of the Guanlong nobles to succeed the Sui Dynasty and unify the world, ending hundreds of years of In the troubled times, even a generation of emperors who resembled Qin Shihuang with great talents and strategies also realized that the Guanlong nobles were at their peak and their power was unstoppable, so they supported their second son Yang Guang and replaced the cowardly Yang Yong who was supported by the Guanlong nobles. But as Yuanwei said, Yang Guang was far more hostile to the Guanlong nobles than Yang Jian. The Guanlong nobles followed his routine and were divided and declined time and time again.
Dou Wei put down the teacup, sighed, looked at Yuanwei, and said with a very sincere expression: "We have many noble families in Guanlong, each with their own interests and thoughts, and there are serious internal differences. The will cannot be unified. I am not afraid of your jokes, Duke Yuan. To this day, the various families of our Yuan sect are doing their own thing. Many of the family heads believe that the throne of the saint is stable and has unparalleled authority. Among the royal family, there are Yang Ji, Yang Lun, Yang Zhiji, Yang Xiong, Yang Da and other outstanding people provided full assistance. At the moment, everyone believed that they were invincible and advocated closing the Wuchuan Alliance and
Avoiding the edge for the time being... Duke Yuan wanted the various aristocratic families of the Dou sect to cooperate with the alliance leader in a head-on game with the royal family. I'm afraid that not only will it be difficult to achieve what you want, but it will also be resisted by some powerful officials. "
This is a true statement, but there is also a lot of water in it. This is simply because it has been difficult for the family members to live in peace and share interests equally since ancient times, even within factions and families. Even when disputes suddenly occur, the struggle within the family is more serious than that of outsiders. The Guanlong nobles and the Shandong nobles, the Guanzhong nobles, the Central Plains nobles, the Hedong nobles, and the Jiangnan nobles are all alliances of aristocratic families united by region. For the sake of their own interests and in order to cope with the attacks of other forces, they use marriage and trade to bring each other together. The connection between them is getting closer and closer, achieving the purpose of staying together for warmth and monopolizing a place.
However, it is precisely because they are too close to each other that the spheres of influence of various aristocratic families inevitably overlap, and there are huge differences in the distribution of interests. Although everyone's differences have been temporarily suppressed due to unanimous external relations, but Once it breaks out, coupled with the entry of the emperor and other political forces, it often evolves into a never-ending situation.
When it comes to the seriousness of "involution", the Shandong nobles are far more serious than the Guanlong nobles. After all, the Guanlong nobles still have three leaders and a nominal alliance leader. Between the choices of advancement and retreat, there are three masters who appear to coordinate the interests of each family and work hard to eliminate conflicts among them. However, the Shandong nobles are all millennium-old nobles. They have profound heritage and The power is so huge that no one can obey anyone, no one can rule anyone, and no one can do anything about anyone. Therefore, they are indeed united on the surface, but in fact, their differences and contradictions are countless times more serious than the Guanlong nobles.
For example, Er Cui and Er Li in the Seven Sects of the Five Surnames are of the same origin, but the conflicts between the two sects are not small. They are even more hostile and wary of the same sect than those with other surnames. Therefore, the Cui family of Qinghe has been married to the Li family of Longxi and the Lu family of Fanyang for generations; the Cui family of Boling has been married to the Li family of Zhaojun for generations, and the Lu family of Fanyang has been married to the Zheng family of Xingyang and the Li family of Longxi... And this rule, It has not been broken yet, what does this mean? ….
It shows that the Cui family of Qinghe, the Li family of Longxi, and the Cui family of Boling are in an alliance with the Li family of Zhaojun. They all want to use the power of their allies to annex or kill "traitors of the family".
This kind of "involution" also made Li Ziquan of Zhao County in the Council of Ministers unable to represent the Shandong gentry at all, and because the position of the Prime Minister he took over originally belonged to Cui Zhongfang of the Cui family in Boling; when Cui Zhongfang was dismissed, Yang Guang immediately appointed Li Ziquan became the prime minister, which also caused a huge conflict between the two families. Although the two families would not break the good relationship between the Boling Cui family and the Zhaojun Li family for generations, if If you don't have a grudge, you won't believe it even if you beat Dou Wei to death.
As for the dissatisfaction of the various families of the three Guanlong aristocratic factions with the Yuan family, firstly, in the various major actions led by the Yuan family, each family family invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. However, the Yuan family was unstable in Yang Guang's throne. At that time, it ended in disastrous defeats time and time again, which disappointed everyone; and today's Yang Guang is no longer the Yang Guang of the past, but the Yuan family still plans to use the previous method to launch a violent coup. This makes everyone dare to continue to support " "Incompetent" Yuanshi?
Second, the major Guanlong clans had too much time to take care of themselves: As mentioned above, the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui dynasties were of the same origin. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian conferred civil and military casual officials, titles, and honorary officers to the Guanlong nobles in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties. They all admitted it, and in addition, a large number of false officials were rewarded, so there were many false officials in every household; these people were greedy and cruel things happened from time to time, and they even considered bullying good people, bullying men and women, and bullying the market as a part of their lives. However, the Political and Legal Affairs Department secretly established by Yang Guang suddenly targeted redundant and empty officials. Anyone who was corrupt, perverted the law, or had bad records would first confiscate their homes and interrogate them all. This caused heavy losses to all the powerful officials and ruined their reputation.
However, Xiao Yu, Yang Gongren, Yu Wenhua and the Department of Justice led by Yu Wenhua seemed to be addicted to confiscating homes. They won the appreciation of the emperor and the support of the people, so they expanded the scope of their suppression and made confiscation of homes gradually become a mainstream operation this year. The various noble families of Guanlong are now eager to protect their own families, so how can they bother to listen to Yuan's general talk?
Third, the Dugu family and the Dou family had already obtained what they wanted from the Yuan family, and as they were not optimistic about the Yuan family, they all had other ideas. They no longer believed in the Yuan family, who was ambitious and incapable of talent. In response to the suggestions of his subordinates, he and
The Yuan family gradually drifted away. However, although the two factions have different thoughts about the Yuan family, they are far from splitting. After all, everyone needs a leader, so even if they no longer obey the orders of the leader of the alliance, the Yuan family, and no longer respond to the leader's orders, Even though they called for it, they did not express any opposition on the surface.
After hearing Dou Wei's unscrupulous words, Yuanwei's heart grew increasingly angry. These two dog-like things encouraged the Yuan family to act as pawns against Yang Guang, but now they have forgotten their own good in spite of their own interests. It is really abominable. But who can blame this? It's no wonder that the Yuan clan was too ambitious at the beginning and was blinded by the position of leader of the Wuchuan Alliance.
It's just that Yuanwei is scheming and not the impulsive Yuan Shou. Although he is furious in his heart, he knows that the Yuan family has been suppressed by the emperor and is in a difficult situation. At this moment, he still needs the support of the Dugu family and the Dou family, so he doesn't say anything. , but drank tea soup with a gloomy face and remained silent, silently expressing his dissatisfaction with silence. ….
After a while, Yuanwei put down his teacup, stared at Dugu Zheng coldly, and asked in a deep voice: "Master Dugu, do the heads of the various families in your sect also think so?"
"I can't make the decision on behalf of each family without authorization. I have to discuss with the heads of each family before I can give Duke Yuan a clearer answer. However, please rest assured, Duke Yuan. All the major families of the Dugu Sect attach great importance to the covenant. Everyone The head of the family also understands the principle of sharing weal and woe and sharing weal and woe. No matter how great the difficulty is and how much the loss of interests is, he will not ignore the oath." Dugu Zheng was very dissatisfied when he saw Yuanwei, knowing that the other party was on the verge of an outbreak. He looked at him Dou Wei glanced at him, then softened his tone, and said seriously to Yuanwei: "The Wuchuan Alliance must continue to exist, and the cooperation of the three factions must still be cooperation. This is that when we unite, we are stronger, and when we divide, we are weak. My brother and I both I believe that the only way out for the three factions is to join forces to deal with the oppression of the saints and control the army, instead of letting the saints divide them and defeat them one by one. This is also the reason why I came to Dou Mansion."
After hearing these high-sounding words, Yuanwei felt very uncomfortable in his heart. He understood that Dugu Zheng's words and attitude were just to avoid making everyone look bad in the future. There was nothing real at all. At the same time, they were also a foreshadowing for future negotiations. ; Let his Yuanwei see the toughness of the Dugu faction, so that in the future negotiation process, their Yuan faction can satisfy them as much as possible and give up more benefits.
Although Yuanwei was still very dissatisfied with Dugu Zheng's attitude, he at least knew that the bottom line of the Dugu sect was to make profits, and since the other party wanted something, it would be easier to handle in the future. At most, he would never do it. It's just a game and a negotiation.
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Dou Wei next to him listened to Dugu Zheng's words, but his eyes were cold. From the other party's words, he could completely hear the thoughts of both sides of the Dugu family, as well as the attitude of having both sides. This Dugu family is obviously based on the principle of They wanted to make a profit by joining forces with the Dou family to devour the power of the Yuan family, and to join forces with the Dou family to support Li Yuan as the leader of the Guanlong nobles, but they were unwilling to tear off the mask of disguise with the Yuan family, and even had great hopes for Sui and Yang. .
Especially when it comes to dealing with Li Yuan, the Dugu family does not intend to put all their bets on Li Yuan, but this is also in line with the tradition of the Dugu family. Wasn't that what Dugu Xin was like back then?
Thinking of this, Dou Wei sneered secretly in his heart, the Dugu family didn't understand Li Yuan who was greedy for sex and had no ambition at all. He knew Li Yuan very well. He looked loyal on the outside, but was actually cunning and deceitful. He seemed timid and cowardly, but in fact he was ambitious.
What's funny is that the Dugu family actually thought that this person was a soft persimmon who was easy to control, but they didn't know that Li Yuan, a guy who seemed to be harmless to humans and animals and had no future, was actually just like Gou Jian. Anyone who dared to underestimate him would be killed. Suffer.
But that’s fine too. Since the Dugu family regards Li Yuan as a weak puppet and the Yuan family does not take him seriously, then the Dou family should treat him as an ally with equal status. When the time comes, let's see who gets more. .
Bihai Siyun
