Shandong is the place with the largest number of old people serving as officials in the south of the Yangtze River. It is also the place where construction and development started quickly after the end of the war. Of course, it is also the place where conservative ideas are reviving the fastest.
Not only the old people in Jiangnan, but also some people from Shandong who are second only to the old people in Jiangnan are also confused and frightened by such changes.
Most of them are people who do not have the ability to go further and are forced to stand still. They are deeply dissatisfied with Su Yonglin's governance. They are just intimidated by his prestige and dare not do anything.
But now Su Yonglin is going to abdicate and no longer be the emperor. He is going to form a nine-member decision-making group. He doesn't even want the empire anymore. What does this mean?
Without Su Yonglin, would they still have a chance to succeed?
Of course, this is not enough to make some people who are afraid of Su Yonglin's authority have any radical ideas.
What really made Liang Yuankai despair and decide to give it a go was that his activities in Zhongdu were discovered by the Metropolitan Procuratorate during an inspection and they were preparing to launch an investigation.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate is very concerned about the contacts between officials from the Central Capital and local officials. Whether it is normal or abnormal contacts, as long as they discover them, they will definitely investigate to the end.
And Liang Yuankai's behavior is absolutely unjustifiable.
Once this kind of thing is found out, his future and future will be gone, and everything he has now will be lost. The Ming Dynasty's "Official Law" is merciless in dealing with people like them.
You are lucky to be able to go to Sakhalin to build a frontier.
This fact completely shattered Liang Yuankai's already depressed mood.
He was desperate.
In the boundless despair, Liang Yuankai decided to give it a try with full of resentment and unwillingness.
While he was contacting people who were willing to work with him, he was trying to use Du Fei's intelligence network to find out about Su Yonglin in Zhongdu.
Later, as he moved up and down and coerced and induced, he won over his cronies within Shandong Shangshu Province, Jiang Jin and Ma Wen, who were responsible for civil affairs, and Shi Yangrong, who was responsible for financial work.
Jiang Jin and Ma Wen had a "filial" relationship with him for a long time. They could not get rid of Liang Yuankai and had to follow him all the way to the dark side.
Shi Yangrong had little qualifications. In order to climb up the ranks, he gave various gifts to show his loyalty. In the end, Liang Yuankai used his connections in the provincial organization department to promote him, and he could not refuse his request.
Although Shi Yangrong himself was unwilling to participate in such things, Liang Yuankai immediately used threats to force Shi Yangrong, so Shi Yangrong had no choice but to join his team and fight for his life.
In addition to these three people, there are also some colleagues who have become friends with him in the past years.
For example, Mu Ming, the governor of Yidu Prefecture, Zhang Ming, the governor of Yizhou, Huang Gang, the governor of Mizhou, and others.
When Liang Yuankai was preparing to move to Zhongdu, these officials who had been serving as governors for a long time also tried to seek breakthroughs, "befriend" Liang Yuankai, and give some valuable gifts overtly or covertly.
This becomes the handle.
But it should be said that although there are threats to the cooperation between them, there are also "like-minded" factors.
Because they don't want to be abandoned in the post-Su Yonglin era, let alone be implicated by Liang Yuankai after his downfall.
If Liang Yuankai is unlucky, they will definitely not survive. Going to Sakhalin or the Western Regions to engage in frontier construction is their best outcome.
After these people had no choice but to cooperate with Liang Yuankai, they took their respective cronies and formed a gang with Liang Yuankai.
They began to secretly exchange intelligence and organizational relationships and cooperate.
Because of Du Fei, the Skynet Army intelligence system could not pose a real threat to them. They contacted each other, held meetings in Yizhou and Mizhou, and finally decided to play a big game.
They were keenly aware of how involved Su Yonglin's decision to abdicate was. It could make them feel desperate, and it could also make others feel uneasy, worried, and so on.
In particular, Liang Yuankai very cleverly pointed out that the emperor system has been running in China for a long time. Not to mention how much everyone likes it, at least they are used to it.
Su Yonglin suddenly decided to abandon the emperor system. No matter how much preparation he had made before, once the matter was finally decided, it would inevitably have a huge impact. Not only officials like them would find it difficult to adapt, but ordinary people would also feel panic and incomprehension.
And this kind of panic and incomprehension is the best medicine they can use.
Taking advantage of people's panic and incomprehension, they incited people's anxiety and spread rumors, saying that Su Yonglin did not want to abdicate at all. The reason why he abdicated was because he was neglected when he was ill and was sidelined by the so-called nine-member group.
Now Su Yonglin is making all kinds of terrible decisions under their coercion. The nine-person group in Zhongdu are dangerous traitors. We must oppose the nine-person group, organize ourselves, march to Zhongdu, launch a second revolution, and go to Zhongdu Rescue Su Yonglin and protect him again as he ascends to the throne.
After Liang Yuankai's suggestion was put forward, everyone in the gang felt that he was a genius. This idea was very good.
The risk factor is just too high.
And once the people are really incited to march towards Zhongdu, a large army will inevitably enter Shandong. Wouldn't they face a very severe test, and even risk their lives?
They are not members of the military system. Even if they instigate, they can only incite the Shandong militia. With only the Shandong militia system, they may not even be able to defeat the Marine Corps stationed in Ninghai Prefecture.
Just marching into Zhongdu?
Liang Yuankai smiled slightly, with a dangerous light flashing in his eyes.
"The march is just a cover. Think about it, what would Su do if he knew about the chaos in Shandong? Will he mobilize the army to come to Shandong, or come to Shandong himself?"
Everyone hesitated for a while and then gave their answers.
The answers are very consistent.
Su Yonglin will come by himself instead of asking the army to come.
Based on their understanding of Su Yonglin's usual style of doing things, Su Yonglin will definitely come to Shandong and appear in person to give a speech to appease the crowd's emotions and eliminate a disaster.
And with his prestige and ability, he will definitely be able to achieve this goal.
By then, what awaits these people is probably the end of death.
Liang Yuankai knew this very well, so he proposed the final solution.
When Su Yonglin comes to Shandong, assassinate him and get rid of him.
Once Su Yonglin dies, given the current situation, chaos is bound to happen.
At that time, they immediately climbed up and shouted, taking the lead in blaming Su Yonglin's death as the work of the nine-member group in Zhongdu. This violently incited the emotions of the masses, causing the militia system to respond in large numbers, and the restless Shandong people would inevitably follow them to attack Zhongdu.
And the entire Shandong bureaucracy will be kidnapped by them and become a knife in their hands, serving their ambitions and goals, and "sprinkling their lives and blood" for this. In the end, they don't even know what they are dying for.
The perfect and strong grassroots mobilization force in Shandong will become their greatest reliance.
What will happen by then is not something that can be decided by the few people in the Zhongdu court.
This is so much fun!
Liang Yuankai's plan was quite bold. He actually wanted to assassinate Su Yonglin and cause chaos in the world. He could even be described as crazy.
Everyone else felt that this plan was too dangerous and terrifying, but Liang Yuankai believed that only such a bold plan could kill Su Yonglin and secure a future for them.
Because Su Yonglin was arrogant, he would never have thought that someone would plan to assassinate him.
Moreover, assassinating Su Yonglin seems difficult to operate, but in fact, with Du Fei in hand, the plan to assassinate Su Yonglin is by no means impossible.
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