Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 571 Competing in the Central Plains (57)

Jiankang
Envoys from Yan State arrived in Chen State, and a large number of Yan State ships moored on the Yangtze River, loaded with various luxury goods, were gifts from Yan State to Chen State.

In the main hall of the imperial palace, the emperor Chen Shubao nervously waited for the envoy from the Kingdom of Yan.

Although he is the king of a country, he has no opinions. On weekdays, state affairs are handled by those flattering ministers. Poetry Fu.

"Your Majesty, it's just a few envoys, so don't be nervous."

A minister next to him encouraged Chen Shubao.

"I... um... I... know." Chen Shubao wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then summoned the envoy of Yan: "Let the envoy of Yan come in."

"Yes." The little yellow gate on the side nodded, and then shouted loudly: "Xuan, the envoy of Yan Kingdom is here."

All the eunuchs shouted at the top of their voices.

"Xuan, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom have an audience!"

"Xuan, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom have an audience!"

"Xuan, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom have an audience!"

After a while, envoys from the Kingdom of Yan entered the main hall.

Since Yan Lan came to Jiankang as an envoy 200 years ago, the country of Yan has not been to Jiankang City for a long time.

In the past 200 years, Yan's attention has been shifted to the Northern Dynasty and Goguryeo, so it has been lax about the Southern Dynasty.

The envoy of Yan State is a 26-year-old young man named Wu Chengen, who is Yan Xu's nephew.

Although it belongs to the clan of the Yan Kingdom, it can only be regarded as a commoner because there is no quota of nobles.

However, Yan Xu is ready to let Nangong Wentian inherit his nobility status, so Wu Chengen can also change his name to Yan Chengen in the future.

Wu Chengen originally wrote the novel "Journey to the West - Mythology Edition" at home, and he also opened a book "Fengshen Bang" by the way. Before he finished writing, his uncle Yan Xu arranged a task for him to go to the country of Chen, which was regarded as an experience for him. .

The background of "Journey to the West - Mythology Edition" is the whole world, adding all the journeys from Yan Kingdom to Rome into myths and legends. It tells the story of Xu Xiake going to the west to find the blood of his ancestor Wang Changye. Four apprentices with great powers.

"Fengshenbang" tells the story of the ancestor Wang Jue who ruled the Central Plains. Wang Jue fought the world for Yuan Shao, the son of destiny, and was finally canonized as a god by Yuan Shao, who became the emperor of heaven.

It is also a myth of the history of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty. For example, Cao Cao is described as "Hua Zizai Heavenly Demon", Sun Quan is described as "Blue-eyed Heavenly Demon", Zhang Jiao is the "demon way" that can call wind and rain, and Lu Bu is "the one who knows how to return when lost". The Holy Son of the Monster Race" and so on and so on.

Wu Chengen was allowed to wear a weapon to enter the main hall, but he just stood in the hall and saluted the emperor Chen Shubao: "Foreign minister Wu Chengen, I have met the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty. May the great emperor live as long as the heavens."

In order to strengthen the relationship with Chen State, Yan State recognized Chen State as the orthodox of the Central Plains, and respectfully called Chen Shubao the "Emperor of the Heavenly Dynasty" and "Great Emperor", and at the same time scorned Yang Jian as "Sui Captive", "Xianbei Legacy", "Northern Barbarian" and "Western Yi". .

"Your envoy, please sit down." Chen Shubao was still a little nervous. As an emperor, he didn't have the slightest majesty of an emperor, and only looked like a timid scholar.

Also a scholar, Wu Chengen is tall and tall, with a height of 180 feet [-] inches ([-]cm), he stands out from the crowd in Jiankang City.

Generally speaking, people from the Northern Dynasties are taller than people from the Southern Dynasties, at seven feet and six inches. Even in the Northern Dynasties, they are relatively burly, let alone in the Southern Dynasties.

"Thank you, great emperor!" Wu Chengen saluted again, then sat on a chair, and said respectfully to Chen Shubao: "Nowadays, the Sui captives are arrogant and intend to usurp the orthodox. My Great Yan was originally a vassal state conferred by the Central Plains Dynasty. Now the orthodoxy is in trouble. I can’t sit idly by, so I’m willing to join forces with the Great Emperor to resist the Sui captives and defend my great China!”

"Last time I sent many beauties to the Sui Kingdom, and also cut a few cities to the Sui Kingdom. The Sui Kingdom has promised that the well water will not violate the river water, and will not attack our Chen State." When Chen Shubao said this, he didn't believe it. .

"Emperor, the Sui captives are building ships. The ships they built are all flat-bottomed river boats. If they didn't want to invade the Celestial Dynasty, why would they do this?" Wu Chengen said. The information he said is well known in the world.

Chen Shubao naturally knew about it, but he didn't dare to be an enemy of the Sui State, so even though he knew that the Sui State was preparing for the Southern Expedition, he still played and sang every night without making any preparations for the decisive battle.

"Your Majesty, what the envoy of Yan said is true, now that the northern captives are staring at them, we need to make early preparations!" The ministers on the side also advised Chen Shubao.

"How does the country of Yan need my cooperation?" Chen Shubao didn't even dare to ask for conditions. The cowardly man seemed to have found a life-saving straw. As long as the country of Yan can help the country of Chen through the crisis of destroying the country, then no matter what the country of Yan wants, he can give it to him. .

"Emperor, don't worry!"

Wu Chengen came slowly, and said the conditions he had been pleasing to him before:

"Our country of Yan is willing to resist the Sui captives for the great emperor, but for the convenience of the battle, we still need the following cooperation from the great emperor."

"First, let go of the Yangtze River waterway and allow our Yan country ships to enter."

As soon as Wu Chengen finished speaking, Chen Shubao replied, "It's only natural."

"Secondly, during the war, because the country of Yan was too far away from Jiangzuo, all logistical supplies were borne by the Celestial Dynasty. This way the distance was closer and the allocation of supplies was easier. If it was the kind of supplies that the Celestial Dynasty could not provide, it would be converted into Adult population, the Celestial Dynasty can use population to pay."

"It's natural." Chen Shubao agreed, isn't it just to provide logistics supplies, what's so difficult about it?
"Thirdly, my country of Yan's army is under the command of my country of Yan. I hope that the Celestial Dynasty will not interfere with the command."

"Eh..." Chen Shubao hesitated for a while, but finally nodded and agreed: "It's natural."

"Fourth, after our soldiers of the Yan Kingdom are killed in battle, the Celestial Dynasty will pay the pension and rewards."

"How much is your country's pension and rewards? I will double it! I only hope that your country can fight to the death!" Chen Shubao waved his hand, very generous, and wanted to show the vastness of the land and resources of the heavenly kingdom in this way.

"Fifth..."

Wu Chengen made twelve consecutive requests, all of which were agreed by Chen Shubao. In the end, the two parties happily signed the "Yan-Chen Military Mutual Assistance Agreement", which was also called "Jiankang Twelve Articles" by later generations.

After the agreement was signed, Wu Chengen accepted Chen Shubao's invitation and participated in Chen Guo's grand court celebration.

Originally, according to the old rules of the Han Dynasty, the Great Court Meeting was only held once a year.

But during the hundreds of years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the emperors did whatever they wanted, and when they wanted to hold a grand meeting, they held it temporarily, so now there is no limit to the number of times.

At the Great Court Meeting, Chen Guo called many domestic literati and scholars to compose poems and fus at the banquet, and also asked some scholars with good literary talents to write poems to praise Yan and the friendship between Chen and Yan.

At the same time, he also asked his beloved concubine Zhang Lihua to dance for Wu Chengen in person.

After the banquet, Chen Shubao selected another hundred beautiful maids from the palace, and gave them to the State of Yan as a gift symbolizing the friendship between the two countries.

"Thank you, Great Emperor."

Wu Chengen was also polite and accepted these gifts from Chen Shubao.

(End of this chapter)