Later, I became the prince of the group

It is widely rumored among the people that the emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty had no ambitions, no heart for the people, extravagant lewdness, fatuous and incompetent... After several "no" characters were suppressed, he was definitely a foolish emperor who would be punished by history books in later generations.

And judging from Chu Yan's short conversation...it's not completely wrong.

At least there is nothing wrong with having no ambitions.

He originally thought that the Emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty must have other plans for such a big farce, but who knew that this person came up and shook his cup at Chu Yan, saying: "Use General Liu's hand to escape, when Thank you for a cup, oh, General Liu will not thank you, his soldier injured my arm, it is considered equal.”

"Get out?"

"It's just suspended animation." The Southern Jin Emperor readily admitted, "The throne is empty. How can the prime minister and the Huaibei one have so much patience? Naturally, they say I'm dead first, and then try to fight for that seat. It doesn't matter even if the body can't be found." , buried in secret with two pieces of clothing, no one dared to question anything—it’s a pity that my imperial mausoleum is so beautifully built, and it can only be cheap for a bunch of dead things.”

Chu Yan listened to him for a long time, subconsciously answered: "No hurry, when you die, I will stuff you in."

As soon as these words came out, the two stared at each other for a while.

The Southern Jin Emperor pointed at Chu Yan with some displeasure: "Since he ascended the throne, no one has dared to talk to me like this. After all, I am still in power now."

Chu Yan picked up vegetables leisurely: "What does that have to do with me? You are the emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty, and I am the prince of the Northern Qi Dynasty. We can't fight together."

The words were not polite, but at any rate, it gave the face an honorific title.

The Southern Jin Emperor choked, and said again: "In fact, you should also thank me for a cup."

"What about the chaifang?" Chu Yan did not lose any momentum in front of the somewhat unpredictable emperor, "Speaking of which, those officers and soldiers came to search for you, not us, right? It’s all right in front of the city, and the pursuers wouldn’t arrive so soon, and you almost exposed them in advance, and the matter of borrowing the woodshed to hide should be evened out.”

The Southern Jin Emperor smiled faintly: "It's not about this. You have a lot to thank me for. I'll ask you for this cup just to intercept the urgent letter from the Huaibei Palace for you. If it is exposed, will King Huaibei and the prime minister still obediently fight among themselves?"

Chu Yan's heart shook slightly, but he also had a sudden feeling. After a while, he raised his glass to salute, and drank to the bottom of the glass very sincerely.

They were thinking to each other: now they can have a good talk.After entering the Southern Jin Dynasty, Chu Yan had already had doubts about Xing Yi at that time. Seeing that he was watching closely, he did not have the opportunity to report to Xing Yi, but it was the first time he arranged for his own people to join the Southern Jin Army, and let them pretend to be After making meritorious service, the Southern Jin Emperor, who was far away in the imperial capital, thought of the possibility of Chu Yan being in the Southern Jin Dynasty, because when Xing Yi was still in Liangzhou, he sent him a message, saying that King An was prepared in Liangzhou and seemed to be going out. What far door.

The Emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty suspected that there were Chu Yan in the army, so he took advantage of the situation to support him. Relying on his own "faintness and incompetence", he just didn't have to listen to the minister's advice, and could "make trouble" in court affairs at any time. Because of this, Chu Yan Talented people will be promoted so quickly.

The reason for doing this is very simple. Firstly, he wanted to get on line with Chu Yan, so he gave Chu Yan a reminder. Second, he wanted to rely on this outsider who does not belong to any faction to lead an army, so as to contain the prime minister. military.

Sure enough, Chu Yan sent Xing Yi back, and it happened that the Emperor of Southern Jin wanted to do one thing - he wanted to get out of the cage-like palace full of eyeliners and no place to make people feel at ease.

"Those so-called troubled refugees from various places are your people."

The Emperor of Southern Jin used a self-deprecating tone: "I have been on the throne for two years, and I can't really have no one of my own."

In addition to providing Chu Yan with an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos, the troubled refugees are also the first step to provoke conflicts between the prime minister and the King of Huaibei.

The prime minister thinks that it was the king of Huaibei who did it. If the prime minister chooses to quell the civil unrest, his troops will be dispersed. Then he will provoke the king of Huaibei to take advantage of the situation, which will easily cause conflicts between the two parties. If the prime minister chooses to ignore it , then these places will not be able to defend sooner or later. After the Northern Qi marched straight in, the prime minister had no choice but to withdraw troops to protect Jinling, while the King of Huaibei could only rely on Huaibei. It doesn't matter whether the two are in opposition at this time.

The prime minister chose the latter, and at this time the Southern Jin Emperor's eyeliner who was walking outside told him that King An had entered Huaibei. The contradiction between the two.

So he sent someone to send a letter to Chu Yan to send troops to the border of Northern Qi, so that he could escape before the situation in Jinling broke out completely.

Chu Yan asked: "How did you ensure that you can conquer in person? It couldn't have been proposed by you, could it?"

If the emperor, who has always been indifferent to political affairs, suddenly offered to take the imperial conquest, a fool would be able to see that there was a ghost, and it would be even more impossible to leave Beijing at that time.

The Southern Jin Emperor said: "Xing also has a younger sister, who is the concubine of King Huaibei, and she is also a half-counselor."

Chu Yan wondered: "My brother belongs to you, and my sister is a counselor for King Huaibei?"

"My little emperor uncle didn't know about it. The Xing family was an aristocratic family. It was supposed to work for the royal family. Unfortunately, during my father's reign, the prime minister condemned me. The whole family's men were exiled, and the women became prostitutes. The little emperor uncle took a fancy to the Xing family. Because of his craftsmanship, he redeemed Xing Ji." The Southern Jin Emperor said with some nostalgia, "Little Huang Shu was not favored, and he was rarely in the palace when he was young, so naturally he didn't know that I relied on Xing Yi and Xing Ji when I was a child. The brothers and sisters help each other so that they can live well."

The Emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty was born in a humble family, and he was born in the cold palace, so he grew up in that square inch of land. Later, his mother passed away, leaving him struggling alone in the cold palace. His father, who was addicted to singing, dancing, and drinking Unexpectedly, there is such a son in the cold palace.

At that time, Xing Yi and his younger sister Xing Ji were still the children of the family of imperial organ masters. Their father was favored, and even brought them to and from the palace for a long time. They accidentally met the Southern Jin Emperor, and the three secretly established a friendship.

Later, the Xing family was sent down, and not long after, the Southern Jin Emperor accepted the prime minister's help and voluntarily became the prime minister's puppet.

At that time, the other sons of the late emperor were murdered one by one, no matter how dull he was, he could understand something, but at that time the late emperor had already handed over the jade seal and the tiger talisman, and the power in the court seemed to be in the hands of the prime minister. Compared with revitalizing the ancestral business, the cowardly emperor was more worried about his own safety, so he dared not speak out.

"He has been absurd all his life, and only a few years before he died, he came to his senses. He secretly planned some people, and took back the people left by the Xing family and placed them secretly, and handed them over to me." The Southern Jin Emperor sneered, "It seems For my own good, but almost harming me, I am surrounded by the prime minister’s people, and there are people who will report when I eat, drink, and sleep, once the prime minister discovers something, how can I still be alive?”

There was a pause when I said this, and I returned to the original topic, "I told the king of Huaibei through Xing Ji's mouth about the imperial conquest, so it didn't take long for someone to make a suggestion. Naturally, I have to act like I don't want to, When the rioters were all over the place, the Northern Qi came fiercely, and the morale of the border troops became more and more unstable, the ministers who originally blocked me also wanted to send me to the battlefield, so I could go on the expedition logically. By the way, your letter was also stopped by Xing Ji. "

Chu Yan understood a little when he heard this. The Southern Jin Emperor didn't need to tell him such details. The reason why he said it was probably because he wanted him to save Xing Ji.

"Then what do you want?" Chu Yan narrowed his eyes suspiciously, "You got rid of the court, got rid of the eyeliner, but also lost the throne, don't you want nothing?"

The Southern Jin Emperor was silent for a long time, let go of the wine glass he was playing with in his hand, picked up the whole pot, and poured it into his mouth.

At the end he laughed "haha" and said, "Chu Yan, not everyone is the same as you."

He didn't say what he had in mind, on the contrary, he intentionally ended the meeting, hummed a ditty in southern accent, and walked out the door.

Chu Yan heard him say outside: "Prepare a few rooms for King An and his people."

In the next few days, they lived in this house. During the period, they learned that the owner of this house was the county magistrate's brother-in-law. The Southern Jin Emperor's personal soldiers raised horses.

There are still many darkrooms and secret passages in this house, the pursuers outside were not reconciled, so they came to check twice, and they all escaped by these darkrooms.

After a while, the eyeliner of the Southern Jin Emperor brought back the news that the prime minister directly sealed off Jinling City, so that Huaibei King could not get out, and threatened Huaibei to send troops to the south.

Huaibei pretended to be obedient, but in fact the army went out and hid in the mountains, taking advantage of the emptiness of Huaibei to capture tens of thousands of people who were sent by the prime minister to occupy the granary.

Chu Yan quickly thought of the blunder.

After Chu Yan entered Huaibei that day, he did not forget to immediately send someone to give the picture of the granary that Liu Qi had drawn to the prime minister. He thought that the prime minister would send troops to attack Huaibei, so that there would be fewer pursuers chasing him. , but found an opportunity to detain the Huaibei King, and came to attract Huai soldiers to the south.

But he didn't know that the prince of Huaibei knew Chu Yan's identity, sent a letter to his father, and his father was detained at this time, he would inevitably think that Chu Yan and the prime minister were in the same group.

Chu Yan came to Huaibei for the granary. As long as the prince of Huaibei is willing to investigate, it is not difficult to find out. Therefore, when the prime minister came to the idea of ​​the granary again, he fell into the trap of the prince of Huaibei.

As for whether killing so many people in the prime minister would put his father trapped in the prime minister's hands in danger, Chu Yan felt that the prince of Huaibei would not care at all, and the grandson would not be an honest guy at first sight.

The internal turmoil in the Southern Jin Dynasty was out of control, Liu Wen captured Yongcheng like a bamboo shoot, and then the border army almost collapsed, and a large number of soldiers surrendered.

As estimated by the Southern Jin Emperor, Jinling and Huaibei eventually became two tortoise shells, and it was only a matter of time before the shells were pried open.

After the frontier army was overwhelmed, they no longer had to hide. Chu Yan packed up his things and was about to go to Yongcheng to join Liu Wen, but was blocked in the yard by the Southern Jin Emperor.

His expression sank, and before he had time to say anything, he heard the Southern Jin Emperor say: "You don't have to worry too much, my people have checked for you, Liu Qi is fine, he has arrived in Yongcheng safely."

Chu Yan breathed a sigh of relief because of this sentence, motioned the person behind him to put down the knife, and asked, "You didn't wait for me here just to tell me this, did you?"

The Southern Jin Emperor made a gesture of "Take a step to speak", and the two avoided people and paced on the stone path.

"This time, I want to ask you for a guarantee." The Southern Jin Emperor looked far away and spoke lightly.

Chu Yan felt a feeling of "it's finally here", and said, "Tell me about it."

Until he got on the horse, Chu Yan was still slightly shocked. He thought that Emperor Jin would make some request for his own benefit.

However, the Southern Jin Emperor only wanted one thing - freedom.

"Your honor as an emperor, won't you feel unwilling?"

"What is there to be unwilling to do? I have been a dog emperor for two years, and then I will be a dog vassal king in your Northern Qi Dynasty for a lifetime?" The Southern Jin Emperor laughed at himself, "I will be imprisoned in the vassal land all my life, and be watched by people for big and small things. It's better to be the same as before. , Indulging in wine and sex, Yeyu Ten Daughters, the more absurd you are, the more at ease you are... These days are too tiring, I tried my best to escape from one cage, just to put myself in another cage?"

"I don't have the ambition of fighting, so forget it, let me take up less space in the history books. What's more, for people like you, no matter whether you don't hear about it or investigate, it's better than allowing others to be a vassal king." , I'm afraid it's even more difficult?"

Chu Yan suddenly figured out what the Southern Jin Emperor said, "Not everyone is the same as you".

Chu Yan's freedom is the freedom of being in the highest position and can no longer be coerced by anyone, and the freedom of Emperor Jin is the freedom of being in the form of a wild crane, and no one can find him anymore.

Perhaps the Emperor Jin would have the highest ambition even if he was in a different place, but he was in the worst position, so he chose the best path for him.

The author has something to say: Jiageng failed, and I will return to Beiqi tomorrow