A trace of disappointment flashed across Tao Yuanming's face: "Could it be that with so many arrangements this time, Liu Yu still can't be defeated?"
Doupeng smiled slightly: "My primary goal this time is to defeat Heipao, not Liu Yu, do you understand?"
Tao Yuanming's eyes widened in surprise: "Master, you, you actually want to destroy the black robe? Have you really decided to do this?"
Doupeng said coldly: "Isn't that a good thing you did? In order to steal Wang Miaoyin, you let Mingyue escape from the control of Heipao and accepted your order. No matter whether it succeeded or not, Heipao would only think that I was the one who instigated you. In addition, I asked you to ask him if he wanted me to help in the south, which made him even more convinced. The fact that he rushed back to Guanggu City to defend instead of joining me shows that he has already made up his mind. He wants to break up with me. This time he wants to defeat Liu Yu and annex his army, so as to regain his prestige in the north and fight against me. Therefore, I have to change my goal and regard the elimination of the black robe as a greater goal than defeating Liu Yu. Important things. Do you understand?"
Tao Yuanming gritted his teeth: "If my actions cause a misunderstanding between the two gods, then I will never be able to atone for this sin. I can go and explain to him now. Even if I risk my life... …”
Doupeng waved his hand: "No need, this kind of thing will only become darker and darker. Even if I kill you directly and give your body to him, he will think it is murder and silence. Anyway, I cooperate with Heipao After all these years, we have reached this stage, and it is indeed time for us to show off. No one wants to let the other party take advantage of completing the Ten Thousand Years of Peace Plan on his own. This is the fundamental conflict between him and me."
Tao Yuanming was a little confused: "But, isn't this Ten Thousand Years of Peace Plan something that you have worked together for many years and spent your whole life to accomplish? How could it happen at this time..."
Doupeng said coldly: "From the beginning, he and I have no real cooperation. There is a curse on Heipao, and even on his family. He will cooperate with me only if he wants to break this curse." , his motives were not simple from the beginning, and now at the last step, I expect that he will become the biggest obstacle to my completion of the Ten Thousand Years of Peace Plan, so I must take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate him and replace him with the desire to cultivate immortality and become a god. The apostle ascended to the position of god."
Tao Yuanming's eyes flashed with joy, and he said quickly: "I will definitely do my best to do my best for my lord!"
Doupeng nodded: "Yuan Ming, do your best. Continue to cooperate with the old monk here. You can also talk to him about Buddhist scriptures and the like. If you have to fight with Liu Yu for a long time in the future, you should use your strengths to come. Only by controlling his shortcomings, do you understand what I mean?"
Tao Yuanming said to himself thoughtfully: "That's right, don't compare with Liu Yu's fighting ability, but compare with him in ideas, culture, and country governance. Is this what you mean, my lord?"
A cold light flashed in Doupeng's eyes: "Yes, the metaphysics of the aristocratic family talks about being independent. The way of Huang and Lao is to rule by doing nothing. The court cannot interfere with the people. In fact, it cannot touch the wealthy families like them. This is okay if it is the puppet emperor of the Sima family, but it is no longer easy to deal with a powerful and powerful minister like Liu Yu. He is just like Emperor Wu and Qin of the Han Dynasty. What he wants is to be promising and powerful. It is a great achievement, and what he wants is military merit. He needs to pool all the country’s resources and let the wealthy families use their profits to serve his great cause of the Northern Expedition. This is a righteous honor that no one can refuse.”
Tao Yuanming gritted his teeth: "We can use Sima Guofan to make an issue. If even the emperor Sima takes the lead in opposing Liu Yu, then how much of his great righteousness in the Northern Expedition is left?"
Doupeng sighed: "Yuan Ming, you are thinking too simply. Do you think that the Sima Emperor or the clan represents the righteousness? If their status as emperor is really so effective, will they give it to the family? The big families have been arrogant for hundreds of years, and the emperor has no real power? They can't even fight against those big families. To put it harshly, the main culprit that caused the Eight Kings Rebellion and the fall of the north was the Sima family. They dared to say anything about the Northern Expedition. If so, then they no longer need to sit on the throne, Liu Yu can directly establish himself as emperor, do you understand?"
Tao Yuanming sneered and said: "In this way, Liu Yu has become the traitor he once called on the world to defeat, and a usurper like Huan Xuan, and he no longer has the reputation of righteousness!"
Doupeng shook his head: "Didn't the Sima family usurp the Wei Dynasty through foreign campaigns and meritorious service? The world is not named Sima. Since Qin, it has been the Liu family and the Han family. If Liu Yu wanted to expel the barbarians, The name is much more upright than the royal bloodline of the Sima family. Even the wealthy family dare not openly oppose him. Besides, Wang Miaoyin is now the queen and controls the harem. Sima Dezong is under her control. As long as Sima Dezong couldn't directly rise up against Liu Yu, so he just relied on a few clans to raise an army, which was just a banner, and no one would follow him."
Tao Yuanming gritted his teeth: "But my lord just asked me to tell Yao Xing that those aristocratic families would invest their power in northern Henan and Huaihe River under the name of the Sima clan to form a rebel army. Could it be that..."
Doupeng sneered: "That's just to convince Yao Xing to cooperate with us. If the big families really still have these powers, they would have used them long ago when Wu Di was beaten by Tianshi Dao. Do we have to wait until now? Those refugees from the Huaihe River, bandits and the like, have always only recognized money but not people. If you really want to mobilize them, people like Liu Jingxuan can order them better. What kind of person is Liu Yi? He Will you let these brave men exist in Yuzhou and not recruit them yourself? Sima Guofan can only gather a few thousand mobs at most, and Liu Yu can send a few generals to beat him to pieces."
Tao Yuanming's eyes flashed with disappointment: "So, we are deceiving ourselves and others? Then why do we still need Yao Xing to do these things?"
Doupeng curled up his lips and said, "I want Yao Xing to bring out some food, grass and weapons for Sima Guofan and the others to toss. Anyway, Sima Guofan doesn't need to fight Liu Yu head-on. He just needs to raise a flag. It's okay to win over some mobs. I need Qiao Shu and Huan Qian to be active. They can still achieve something in Jingzhou. However, these will not affect Liu Yu's Guanggu battle. What I really want is for Liu Yi to take the opportunity to expand his power. In the future, there will be He has the ability to compete with Liu Yu."
Tao Yuanming sighed: "In that case, what am I still doing here? Yao Xing can't be counted on anyway, so what can we talk about with this old monk? I have always believed in Qingxuan and Huang Lao, and I have no respect for Buddhism. I’m not interested in theory.”
Doupeng said coldly: "You'd better start getting interested from now on, because if you want to defeat Liu Yu in the future, you will have to rely on this Buddhist theory!"
