Chapter 191 East! ! !
The Jin State is mountainous. The Tianduan Mountains in the northern part of the Jin State is known as the longest mountain range in the entire East. There are reports of monsters appearing from time to time. However, such monsters are at best similar to those in the Yan State. The wild beasts raised by the royal family were even more numerous and looked upon as a curiosity. Therefore, when the Jin Dynasty merchants traveled around the world, their most prolific products were all kinds of strange monsters.
In those days, Yao Zizhan, a great writer of the Qian Kingdom, traveled to the Jin Kingdom when he was young. He wanted to use the majestic and rugged Tianduan Mountains to brew his poetic thoughts, but he was inadvertently trapped in the mountains. The savage settlement was captured and brought back. If he hadn't happened to encounter a troop of soldiers from the Jin Kingdom who were killing the savages nearby and rescued him, this great writer of the Qian Kingdom might have withered before he could fully shine.
Tianduan Mountain Range is one of them. In the west of Jin State, that is, in the area bordering Yan State, there is also a mountain range. People in Jin State call it Zhema Mountain, and people in Yan State call it Horseshoe Mountain.
This mountain range continues to the southwest of Jin State. It can be said that Jin State is more like a wrapped egg. The only gap, which is the smooth area, borders Chu State. .
In fact, a long time ago, Jin and Chu were not bordering each other. The Chu State was located in the southeastern region of the entire Eastern Continent and originated from Daze. The emperor of Chu even claimed that his family was of the Golden Phoenix bloodline born deep in Daze. , but for hundreds of years, the Chu people's pace of expansion has not stopped, constantly destroying small countries around them, and finally, they successfully bordered the Jin State. From time to time, tens of thousands of wars broke out between the two sides.
In the southwest of Jin State, a Nanmen Pass was built on the terrain of the Matishan Mountains.
Beyond the South Gate Pass, there are many small countries. These small countries are between the three major countries of Jin, Chu and Qian. The three major countries deliberately maintain the existence of these small countries as a buffer zone.
For this reason, although Nanmen Pass looks extremely majestic, the last time a war actually broke out here was decades ago. That time was a coup in a small country, the powerful usurped the throne, and the king fled to In the Jin Kingdom, the pursuers pursued them to Nanmen Pass and were repelled by the Jin defenders.
However, due to the interference of Qian and Chu, the State of Jin ultimately did not send troops to help the king restore the country, but only granted him the title of An Le Gong and raised him.
It is also said that the power of the three major clans in the Jin Kingdom was already very large at that time. For this reason, there was a saying that "the virtuous person should be the leader of the country."
So, they believe that since the monarch of a country cannot hold on to his throne, his destiny is over, which should be the normal course of heaven.
This means that a discerning person can see it at a glance.
At this time,
at the south gate, a huge caravan was undergoing inspection. This caravan contained seven or eight hundred people.
On the city wall, there were three people standing.
One person is wearing armor and is the guard general of Nanmen Pass, and an old man in Confucian attire is the Minister of Household Affairs of the Jin State. However, the Jin Dynasty’s court only retains a prestige. What this Minister of Household Affairs does is, He is doing business for the royal family and has been leading teams here for more than ten years;
Behind the old man, there is a black-faced boy.
“I said, to the west, the Jin State and the Yan State are at war, and to the southwest, the Yan people are still fighting with the Gan people. Where is a caravan as big as yours going?”
"I'm going to Qianguo." The leader smiled.
"Going to Qian Country? Are you going to Qian Country now?"
"Qian Renfu, my cart contains mostly herbs from Tianduan Mountain, so I can sell them at a good price there."
"I'm not afraid of meeting the Yan people in Qian Kingdom. I'll take a look when the time comes. You are Shanxi merchants. If you are robbed directly, you will not even be able to save your life."
"As the saying goes, wealth is gained in danger."
"It seems that our Majesty is in need. Is the money shortage so severe? ”
The guard general of South Gate said jokingly.
There is no respect for the Jin Emperor in his words.
It is true that although the Jin State is called the Jin State and although the Jin State has an emperor, the military and political power of the Jin State has fallen into the hands of the three major clans for many years.
These three major clans all have fiefdoms and soldiers. To be precise, they are more equivalent to the three major princes in the Jin Dynasty, and the edicts of the Jin Emperor sometimes cannot even leave the capital. Go, be enshrined there more like a mascot.
After Zheng Fan had a preliminary understanding of the current situation of the Jin Kingdom, he said that the Jin Emperor was similar to the Zhou royal family during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?
This is indeed the case. The reason why the three major clans retain the existence of the Jin Emperor is nothing more than the stability of the Jin State as a whole. After all, there is the Yan State in the west, and the Chu State in the southeast, where conflicts break out from time to time.
At the same time, it is also because the three major clans themselves feel that it is not yet time to truly separate.
However, in the Jin Kingdom, from the court to the people, the consciousness of the three major clans has long been formed, and the emperor above their heads has long been ignored.
Perhaps only the Jin people in the capital and the royal family's pro-army still care about the Jin Emperor, so that the Jin Emperor does not seem to be such a complete puppet.
"Isn't that right? The war with the Yan State has cut off the trade routes from the west. The Qian State is also at war, and the Qian State's caravans cannot enter.
With these two trade routes suddenly cut off, so many princes and nobles in the capital were unable to pay out their salaries and wages last month. "
"Your Majesty, are you having a hard time too? "The general joked.
"It's inevitable. Your Majesty is planning to rebuild the Ancestral Temple. It's already halfway done, but the money behind it has been cut off, but Your Majesty is worried. ”
Every year, the three major clans will deliberately submit a sum of money from their fiefdoms to the Jin Emperor, but the money is pitifully small, and it is completely useless to rely on taxes from the capital. The entire family, as well as many nobles who were inherited from earlier years, are counting on the salary from the treasury to live, but the taxes from the treasury cannot be collected at all.
So, the Jin royal family had to do business and organize caravans on their own many years ago. To this, the three major clans also turned a blind eye. After all, as long as the Jin royal family existed, , it has to maintain its dignity, otherwise it will be the shame of the three major clans themselves and make other surrounding countries laugh.
"My lord."
At this time, a young man with a black face came over, holding a bag in his hand and handed it to the guard.
The guard frowned slightly at first, but after opening the bag and seeing the jewelry and jade inside, he smiled.
It seems that the life of the royal family is indeed at a loss, and they have to rely on pawning these old objects to make a living. Although there are not many, the things that come out of the palace are all priceless.
He is a general of the Wen family and was ordered to guard Nanmen Pass. At present, the Wen family and the Helian family have joined forces to fight against the Yan people in the west. The Yan people are really capable of fighting, but I guess They couldn't hold on much longer. The two families' backgrounds were mobilized. Together, the two sides had an army of almost 600,000.
And if the Yan people are said to be the best in the world in cavalry, then the Jin people are ranked second. Although the Jin country has many mountains, it also has many plains, and there is no shortage of land to raise horses. Moreover, the barbarians and Tianduan people in the Tianduan Mountains The extremely cold land further north of the mountain range seems to have poor living conditions, but there are also many savage settlements. The Jin State often conquers them to obtain a supply of war horses from them, and even captures some savages to form the savage cavalry.
Of course, there is no comparison between the savages of the Jin Kingdom and the barbarians of the western desert of the Yan Kingdom.
"General, when we come back this time, we will thank you very much. Money is really tight now, and money is running out."
The minister of household affairs at the time said cautiously and shyly.
The guard nodded and did not want to make things too difficult for them. Instead, he waved to the soldiers under the city to let them go.
The city gates were opened and the caravan began to march.
Shoujiang pointed at the dark-faced young man next to the Minister of Tobe, and said with a smile:
"He is really dark, how can he be so dark as a kid?"
The black-faced young man nodded, with a shy smile on his face.
“Tsk, tsk…”
The guard smacked his mouth with some regret,
If this man was not so dark, he would look handsome, and he would be able to accept him.
The masculine title was very popular in the Jin Dynasty.
Every country has its own hobbies,
Qian people like to wear clothes, and Jin people like men,
Only the Yan people are the most barbaric, and they seem to have no other hobbies except fighting.
“To tell you back to the general, I have been so dark since I was a child.”
“Dark is not bad.” The guard couldn’t help but reached out and raised his hand to the chin of the dark-faced young man. Said: "I heard that your Majesty's face is also quite dark. In the early years, this general also had a fight with the head of the family. I went to the capital to attend the birthday of the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager looked young and pretty like a widow;
Tsk, tsk, but our Majesty took a few glances from a distance and only saw black coal, hahahaha .”
The black-faced young man also laughed together.
The black-faced young man smiled and felt his eyes widened. For a moment, he actually let the guard lick his dry lips and asked:
"What's your last name?"< br>
“To tell you the general, my surname is Yu.”
“Yu?”
Yu is the surname of the royal family of the Jin Dynasty, which is also the national surname.
However, this surname made the guard more and more angry. At present, the Jin Emperor himself was having a hard time, let alone other royal families. It was really worthless. A girl named Yu married into a merchant family. It has long been a common thing that anyone with some wealth and family would want to marry a girl named Yu, thinking that they could also have the aura of royalty.
"The surname is Yu, what is your name?"
"Yu Ciming."
"Yu Ciming?" The guard blinked and said to himself: "How do you hear that? Does it sound so familiar? ”
At this time, the Minister of Household Affairs who had been lying low next to him said:
"General, our Majesty is also called by this name."
"Oh, yes, actually and Our Majesty is with..."
The guard's expression suddenly changed,
And at this time,
The dark-faced young man whose chin was kept raised raised his hand, holding a concealed crossbow in his hand, and at the same time, he pulled the trigger.
This kind of dark crossbow is too small and suitable for hiding, but it is not suitable for use on the battlefield. Jianghu people use it more, but in a nearly face-to-face situation, even if the guard is an eighth-grade The martial artist was also shot directly in the face by a crossbow arrow.
The poison on the crossbow arrows immediately took effect, and the guard fell to the ground and his body quickly became paralyzed.
The black-faced young man took out the dagger, squatted down, and cut directly into the guard's neck.
Pretty widow?
Pretty widow! ! !
At the same time, the people in the caravan pulled out swords and guns from the cargo boxes and slashed directly at the soldiers defending the city. The defenders of Nanmen Pass were killed and caught off guard.
To the north, a group of cavalry had already rushed over, and took advantage of the path opened by the people in front of them to rush in directly.
This is the Jin royal family's personal soldiers. They are not many in number, but they are loyal to the Jin emperor. They are the only troops in the Jin country that the Jin emperor can directly call upon.
The sound of fighting quickly subsided. Faced with this sudden stabbing attack, the Nantianmen guards were unable to parry. After most of them were killed, the remaining ones quickly gave up their weapons. Surrendered.
At this time,
the black-faced young man said to the Minister of Hube beside him:
"Xu Aiqing, change my clothes for me."
The Minister of Hube took half a step back. ,
“I obey the decree.”
After a while,
the dark-faced young man in coarse linen clothes put on a dragon robe, and the surrounding soldiers knelt down together:
"Long live my emperor!"
Yu Ciming took a deep breath, with a look of guilt on his face,
said:
"I am not a good emperor."
Yu Ciming looked around,
said slowly:
"I am very pleased that you can accompany me and are willing to help. For me, I am self-aware and not a great talent It’s a rough idea, but I will try my best to let you and I live happily together and keep your family safe. If possible, I am also willing to give you a better future.”
Beside him, the Minister of Tobe burst into tears when he heard these words.
At this moment,
a dark shadow appeared in the southwest of Nanmen Pass. Standing on the tower and looking out, it gave people a terrifying sense of oppression!
Yu Ciming opened his mouth and said to Xu Qianhe beside him:
"Xu Aiqing, do you think I did something wrong?"
"Your Majesty, I, I am only loyal to Your Majesty. ”
Yu Ciming nodded, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and said:
"As the emperor of Jin and a descendant of the Yu family, I shouldn't have done such a rebellious and unethical thing, but I know that I also Understand, a long time ago, the Situ family planned to divide the three families into Jin Dynasty, but they gave up because of the opposition of the Helian family and the Wen family
Because the Situ family controls the Jindong. On the other hand, the Helian family and the Wen family are separated in the west. If they separate, it will obviously be too much for the two families, so they will try their best to maintain the situation
But once the conquest of Yan is successful, He The Lian family and the Wen family took over part of the territory of the Yan Kingdom, and the division of the three families into the Jin Dynasty was naturally a foregone conclusion.
I, the emperor, will naturally be deposed;
To be more particular, let me surrender to the three families, offer sacrifices to the emperor and the empress, and tell the ancestors that the world should be filled with virtuous people; It is a good life and prosperity, but then I will die in an unknown way, and my descendants will also die in an unexplained way. Within three generations, they will definitely be extinct.
If you don't pay any attention to it, just let a rebel army lie and claim that the barbarians directly massacred the palace. It doesn't matter whether the people in the world believe it or not. They are just seeking a cover-up in the history of history. "
"Your Majesty. "Xu Qianhe sobbed again.
"Xu Aiqing, the Yan people are right in front of us. Do you think Ji Runhao will keep his promise? I neither ask nor expect to rule the Jin Dynasty. I only ask for a feudal state that can protect you, protect them, and protect the place where our ancestors sacrificed and ate blood. ”
Xu Qianhe breathed a long sigh of relief and said:
"Your Majesty, eight hundred years ago, during the Great Xia Dynasty, the ancestors of the Ji family were granted a title in the bitter cold land of the northwest, and were ordered by the Emperor of Great Xia to guard the barbarians in the East.
Now, Daxia has been dead for six hundred years, but the Ji family still has not allowed the barbarians to cross the Yan territory. Even a hundred years ago during the Northern Expedition, the Ji family only sent 30,000 riders back. The main force of the country is still fighting the decisive battle with the barbarians in the desert.
In today's countries, there are many royal families who can't match the Ji family's commitment!"
"Actually, Xu Aiqing, you. I understand all that I have said. It is really ridiculous for me, the emperor, to open the door to outsiders just like this ancestral inheritance."
"Your Majesty, in our Jin Dynasty, the king has not been the king, and the ministers have not been the ministers. It has been too many years."
"Yes, yes, I, the emperor with the surname Yu, have been emperor for several generations, and how can I still look like an emperor!"
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Speaking,
Emperor Jin seemed to have adjusted his mentality, because the Yan army had already marched to the city.
"Xu Aiqing, how useless are those Gan people? The Yan people's army has already come here in a roundabout way from the country of Gan. There are clearly an army of millions of Gan people on three sides. , but still no movement at all?
I used to think that if the Yan people couldn't get over, I wouldn't have to weigh the choice and suffer anymore, but now, I suddenly feel that this destiny, this damn destiny, seems to really be favoring the Yan people. ”
Xu Qianhe knew that the Jin Emperor was looking for a reasonable excuse for his choice. The Yan people were destined to follow the destiny, and he was complying with God’s will. This is the best excuse.
“Your Majesty, I will wait and just obey God’s will. "
Emperor Jin sighed, waved his hand,
said:
"That's it, that's it. Send the order, open the city gate, and I will personally go out of the city to greet the Yan people."
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"Wu Jing, will you kneel down later?" "
Zhenbei Hou sat on Pixiu and looked at the south gate closed in front of him. He couldn't help but ask Tian Wujing.
"His Majesty promised the Emperor of Jin that he would keep his title of emperor. He is the emperor now and will be the emperor in the future."
"Oh, it's not good, it's not good."
"Although once the south gate is opened, the back of Jin's 600,000-strong army attacking our country, Yan, has already been opened to us. It can be said that the outcome of the battle has been decided.
But if he is willing to cooperate well, he will be able to manage it in the future. When annexing these Jin lands, we can save a lot of trouble, and our subordinates can also save a lot of deaths."
"I like to hear this, it can save my subordinates from suffering, so let me go. I'm willing to lick his boots."
Tian Wujing shook his head and said nothing.
The Marquis of Jingnan has a rigorous temperament, while the Marquis of Zhenbei has a free and bold temperament. It can be said that their personalities are two extremes.
The city gate of Nanmenguan was opened, and a group of people came out. The leader was wearing a dragon robe, which was very eye-catching.
As the army approached,
Zhenbei Hou and Jingnan Hou got off their mounts together and walked forward. Behind them were the main forces of Zhenbei Army and Jingnan Army.
However,
Just when the two princes were about to kneel down to salute the Emperor of Jin,
Jin Emperor Yu Ciming suddenly took the initiative to kneel down to the two princes,
said sincerely:
"The Lord of the Kingdom, Yu Ciming, pays homage to the two princes!" (End of this chapter)