The devil is coming

Chapter 191 East! ! !
The Jin Kingdom is mountainous. The Tianduan Mountains in the northern part of the Jin Kingdom is known as the longest mountain range in the entire East. There are reports of monsters appearing from time to time. However, these monsters are at best similar to the wild beasts raised by the royal family of the Yan Kingdom. Even if there are many, it is just a curiosity. Therefore, when the Jin merchants traveled around the world, the most popular goods were all kinds of strange monsters.
At that time, the great writer Yao Zizhan 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 captured by the savage settlement in the mountains. On his way back, if he hadn't happened to encounter a troop of soldiers from the Jin Kingdom who were clearing out the barbarians nearby and rescued him, this great writer from the Qian Kingdom might have withered away 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. Jin people call it Zhema Mountain, and Yan people 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 Eastern Continent and originated from Daze. The emperor of the Chu State even claimed that he was of the Golden Phoenix bloodline born deep in the 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 to match the terrain of the Matishan Mountains.
Outside the Nanmen 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.
Therefore, 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, a powerful man usurped the throne, and the king fled to Jin, pursued by soldiers. When they arrived at Nanmen Pass, they were repulsed by the Jin defenders.
However, due to the interference of Qian and Chu, the Jin State did not send troops to help the king restore the country, but only raised him as An Le Gong.
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."
Therefore, 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 anyone with a discerning eye can see it at a glance.
at this time,
Under the south gate, a huge caravan was undergoing inspection. This caravan had a total of seven or eight hundred people.
On the city wall, there are three people standing.
One person is wearing armor and is the guard of Nanmen Gate. The other is an old man in Confucian attire. He is the Minister of Household Affairs of Jin State. However, the Jin Dynasty’s court only retains a formality. What this Minister of Household Affairs does is to do business for the royal family. , has been leading teams here for more than ten years;
Behind the old man, there was a black-faced boy standing.
"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? Going to Qian Country now?"
"Gan Renfu, my cart contains mostly herbs from Tianduan Mountain, so I can sell them at a good price there."
"I'm not afraid of running into the Yan people in Qian Kingdom. When I see that you are Shanxi merchants, I will rob you directly. I won't even be able to save my life."
"As the saying goes, wealth can be found in danger."
"It seems that our Majesty is so short of money?"
The guard general of the south gate joked.
There was no respect for Emperor Jin 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. However, the Jin Emperor’s edicts sometimes cannot even leave the capital. They are more like a Mascots are enshrined there.
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 they have long since ignored the emperor above them.
Perhaps only the people of the Jin Kingdom and the royal family's pro-army in the capital area were more sympathetic to the Jin Emperor, so that the Jin Emperor would not appear 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, we have a hard time, right?" 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."
The three major clans will intentionally submit a sum of money from their fiefdoms to the Jin Emperor every year, but the money is pitifully small, and it is completely useless to rely on taxes from the capital. The inherited nobles relied on the stipends from the treasury to survive, but the taxes from the treasury were nowhere to be collected.
Therefore, 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 exists, it must be maintained. They must be decent, otherwise what they will lose will be the faces of the three major clans themselves and make other surrounding countries laugh at them.
"grown ups."
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 really hard, and they have to rely on pawning these old objects to make a living. Although there are not many, everything that comes out of the palace is 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 they probably won't last long. The two family backgrounds were mobilized, and the two sides combined had almost 60 troops.
And if the Yan people are 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 in the Tianduan Mountains and the Tianduan people 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 barbarians of the Jin Kingdom and the barbarians of the western desert of the Yan Kingdom.
"General, we will thank you greatly when we come back this time. Money is really tight right now and money is running out."
At that time, the Minister of Household Affairs said cautiously and shyly.
The guard nodded, not wanting to make things too difficult for them, and instead waved to the soldiers below the city to signal them to let them go.
The city gates were opened and the caravan began to march.
The guard pointed at the dark-faced young man next to the Minister of Tobe and said with a smile:
"It's really dark. Is Daxiao so dark?"
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 wasn't 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 quirks,
People in Qian like to wear clothes, while people in Jin like to be masculine.
Only the Yan people are the most barbaric, and they seem to have no other hobbies except fighting.
"Reporting to the general, you have been so dark since you were a child."
"Black is not bad." The guard couldn't help but reached out and raised his hand to the chin of the dark-faced young man, and said: "I heard that your Majesty's face is also quite dark. In the early years, I also went there with the head of the family. In Beijing to attend the birthday of the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother looks 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 dark-faced young man smiled and felt his eyebrows widen. For a moment, he actually let the guard lick his dry lips.
asked:
"Last name?"
"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 difficult life, let alone other royal families. It was really worthless. It has long been common for girls surnamed Yu to marry into merchant families. Son, anyone who has some wealth and family background wants to marry a girl named Yu, because they feel that they can 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, "Why does it sound so familiar?"
At this time, the Minister of Household Affairs next to him, who had been crouching low, opened his mouth and said:
"General, our Majesty is also called by this name."
"Oh, yes, we are actually the same as our Majesty..."
The guard's expression suddenly changed.
And then,
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. However, in a nearly face-to-face situation, even if the guard is an eighth-level warrior, he is directly hit by the crossbow arrow. Shot in the face.
The poison quenched 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, people in the caravan pulled out swords and guns from the cargo boxes and slashed directly at the soldiers guarding 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.
These are the personal soldiers of the Jin royal family. 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 abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
And at this time,
The dark-faced young man said to the Minister of Household Affairs next to him:
"Xu Aiqing, please change my clothes."
The minister of household affairs took half a step back.
"Sir, obey the order."
for 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! Long live!"
Yu Ciming took a deep breath, with a look of guilt on his face.
Road:
"I am not a good emperor."
Yu Ciming looked around,
Slowly said:
"I am very happy that you can stay with me and be willing to help me. I am self-aware and not a wise man with great talents and strategies, but I will try my best to let you and I live a good life together and protect you. We are young, and if I can, I am willing to give you a better future."
Beside him, the Minister of Tobe burst into tears when he heard these words.
at this time,
To the southwest of Nanmen Pass, a dark shadow appeared. 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 am loyal only to Your Majesty."
Yu Ciming nodded, with a sneer on his lips, and said:
"I, as the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom and a descendant of the Yu surname, should not have done such a treasonous thing, but I know it, and I also understand that a long time ago, the Situ family planned to divide the Jin into three families. But he gave up because of the opposition from the Helian family and the Wen family.
Because the Situ family controls the eastern part of the Jin Dynasty, while the Helian family and the Wenren family live separately in the west. If the families were separated like this, it would obviously be too much of a disadvantage for these two families, so they would try their best to maintain this situation.
But once the attack on Yan is successful, and the Helian family and the Wen family take over part of the territory of the Yan state, it will naturally become a foregone conclusion that the three families will be divided into Jin.
As an emperor, I will naturally be deposed;
To be more particular, let me surrender to the three families, offering sacrifices to the emperor and the empress, and telling the ancestors that the world should be filled with virtuous people;
Then they will keep my lineage in captivity, which is nominally a good life and prosperity, but then I will die in an unknown manner, and my descendants will also die in an unknown manner. Within three generations, they will definitely be extinct.
If you don't pay attention to anything, just let a rebel army lie and claim that the savages directly massacred the palace. It doesn't matter whether the people in the world believe it or not. They are just asking for 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 don't ask for or expect to rule the Jin Dynasty. I only ask for a feudal state that can protect you, protect them, and protect the blood of our ancestors. place."
Xu Qianhe breathed a long sigh of relief and said:
"Your Majesty, 800 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.
Today, Daxia has been dead for 600 years, but the Ji family still has not allowed the barbarians to cross the Yan territory. Even during the Northern Expedition of the Qianren people a hundred years ago, the Ji family only sent [-] riders back to help, and the main force of the country is still in the desert. Fight the barbarians.
In today's countries, there are many royal families. In terms of honoring their promises, none can match the Ji family! "
"Actually, Xu Aiqing, I understand what you said. It is this ancestral foundation that I have opened the door to outsiders like this. As an emperor, it is really ridiculous for me."
"Your Majesty, our country, the Jin Dynasty, has been in a state where the king is not a king and the ministers are not ministers. It has been too many years."
"Yes, yes, I, named Yu, have been emperors for several generations, but I still look like an emperor!"
said,
The Jin Emperor seemed to have adjusted his mentality, because the Yan army had already marched towards the city.
"Xu Aiqing, how useless do you think those gang members are? The Yan people's army has already come here in a roundabout way from his country. There are clearly millions of troops on three sides of his gang, but there is still no movement at all. No?
I used to think that if the Yan people couldn't get through, I wouldn't have to weigh the choice and suffer. But now, I suddenly feel that this destiny, this damn destiny, seems to really be favoring the Yan people. "
Xu Qianhe knew that Emperor Jin was looking for a reasonable excuse for his choice. The Yan people were destined to be destined, and he was complying with God's will. This was the best excuse.
"Your Majesty, I will wait and just obey God's will."
Emperor Jin sighed and waved his hand,
Road:
"That's all, that's it. Send the order, open the city gate, and I will personally go out of the city to greet the Yan people."
.........
"Wu Jing, will you kneel down later?"
The Marquis of Zhenbei sat on Pixiu and watched the south gate close in front of him. He couldn't help but ask Tian Wujing.
"His Majesty made a promise to Emperor Jin that he would keep his title of emperor. He is the emperor now and he will be the emperor in the future."
"Oh, it's not good, it's not good."
"Although once the south gate is opened, the backs of Jin's 60-strong army attacking our Yan State on the west side are already open to us. It can be said that the outcome of this battle has been decided.
But if he is willing to cooperate well, he will save a lot of trouble when managing and annexing these Jin lands in the future, and our subordinates will also save a lot of deaths. "
"I like to hear this. It can save my subordinates from suffering losses, and 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.
The army is approaching,
The Marquis of Zhenbei and the Marquis of Jingnan got off their mounts together and walked forward. Behind them were the main forces of the Zhenbei Army and the Jingnan Army.
however,
Just when the two princes were about to kneel down and salute the Jin Emperor,
Jin Emperor Yu Ciming suddenly knelt down to the two princes.
Sincerely said:
"Yu Ciming, the lord of the lower country, pays homage to the two princes!"
(End of this chapter)