Wang Yue curled his lip and said scornfully, "You've got it wrong. Bai Chou Fei did this because it'll let him grow much stronger in a short time. That gives him the means to resist the court and wait for it to offer him amnesty."
Su Mengzhen was curious at Wang Yue's words. "You have high hopes for Bai Chou Fei?"
Wang Yue shook his head and said indifferently, "Not really. I just gave him an opportunity. But the dragon-slayer eventually becomes a dragon. Bai Chou Fei is an extremely ambitious man. Once he gains enough power, the common people will only be entering the next cycle."
Su Mengzhen agreed with him. Still, he couldn't understand. "If that's the case, why support his rebellion? Won't all that effort be wasted in the end?"
Wang Yue looked at Su Mengzhen and said earnestly, "I have high hopes for you. If you rose up too, you might care for the people more than he does."
Seeing that Wang Yue didn't look as if he were joking, Su Mengzhen said with a strange expression, "You're not planning to have Six and a Half Hall rebel too, are you?"
Wang Yue didn't deny it. He thought this was the best time. Any earlier or later would be unsuitable.
The Liao Kingdom was locked in a desperate struggle with the newly established Jin Kingdom and had no strength to march south for the time being. If they took this opportunity to overthrow the Song dynasty quickly, then rallied all their elite forces to face the Jin troops advancing south, they might even reclaim the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun.
The only thing he had initially worried about was that after everyone joined forces to overthrow Great Song, there might be no suitable leader to