At this time, Hou Jing wanted to cross to the south, but the soldiers were unwilling to cross south, so the cruel and cruel nature appeared, causing the generals, with their soldiers, to surrender to Murong Shaozong, Hou Jing's army, and collapse!

Hou Jing and his henchmen, only a few horses, arrived at Kipshi (now the west of Huainan City, Anhui Province) Jihuai, here, gathered the scattered soldiers, got 800 horses, got Liu Shenmao's plan, and rushed to Shouchun (now Shou County, Anhui).

Before, in order to meet Hou Jing, Xiao Yan sent Yang Yaren, Yang Sijian and others, into the county (now Runan, Henan), now, Hou Jing's army was defeated, Murong Shaozong brought 100,000 troops to chase, so, Yang Yaren, Yang Sijian abandoned the city and left, the Eastern Wei Dynasty immediately recovered Hou Jing's territory dedicated to Southern Liang, Hou Jing's plot of Yuzhou, and thus became a pipe dream.

After calculation, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty each got the land before Hou Jing, while the Southern Liang had nothing to gain except for Hou Jing, an uncontrollable person.

After Hou Jing settled in Shouchun, he sent Yu Ziyue to Jiankang to plead guilty for the defeat and ask for debasement, but Xiao Yan did not blame him, not only did he not blame, but instead awarded Hou Jingnan the position of Yuzhou Assassin.

In the court, Xiao Jie, who was appointed as a doctor of Guanglu, expressed dissatisfaction with this and said to Xiao Yan:

"That Hou Jing, who is in the twilight of the day, is not a long-term person, this time the loss of the army and the loss of the land, all because of this horseman, Your Majesty loves the horseman, but abandoned the good with the country, this, the minister thinks it is not advisable!"

However, Xiao Yan didn't listen, and just sent Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang, to assassinate Hezhou and guard Hefei.

This rebellion, this Northern Expedition, took place in the year of Gao Huan's death, that is, in 547.

Gao Cheng saw that Liang Jun and Hou Jing were thrown out of the territory of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, so he didn't want to fight anymore.

The Eastern Wei Dynasty can be regarded as inheriting the mantle of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Western Wei Dynasty, only in order to quell the rebellion, He Bayue built a military group, not a political group.

In the Southern Liang, at the beginning of Xiao Yan's seizure of the throne, he did make a series of reforms on the corruption and other problems of the Southern Qi Dynasty, just taking advantage of the civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which allowed the Southern Liang to reduce the military pressure, vigorously developed, so that the national strength was restored, and it showed an upward momentum.

However, our lovely Majesty Xiao Yan is also an emperor who can't start and finish well, and is prepared for danger in times of peace, when everything is on the right track and develops in an orderly manner, Xiao Yan gradually rejoices in his achievements, likes and hates admonitions, and develops into a Buddhist believer. Xiao Yan didn't think it was enough to believe in Buddhism, and he tried his best to create a Buddhist atmosphere in Nanliang, encouraging the princes and nobles to also believe in Buddhism.

No matter how good things are, once they develop to the extreme, they will become bad, so Xiao Yan is so whole, and the whole country is in a miasma, and what is hidden under the miasma is political corruption, and political corruption leads to various contradictions, and even makes the original contradictions sharper, and these contradictions will inevitably lead to military incompetence, and it is really a move that affects the whole body.

Therefore, at the beginning of the "Later Three Kingdoms", the Eastern Wei Dynasty was the strongest of the Three Kingdoms.

However, even if it is a strong country, it can't stand the consumption of years of war, so in the second year, 548, the captured Xiao Yuanming sent an envoy to the Southern Liang to put the olive branch of the Eastern Wei on Xiao Yan's table, not only wanting to reconcile, but also wanting to make peace with the Southern Liang.

Xiao Yan looked at it, of course he was happy, who was willing to fight around, especially when the national strength was not strong and it was not enough to support the ambitions of the ruler, he was more willing to nest in his own one-third of an acre of land as a dead house.

However, there will always be people who agree with one thing and some people who disagree.

Don't say anything about those who agree, and among those who don't, Fu Qi thinks:

"Gao Cheng has just succeeded to the throne, and his power is not weak, why do you want to make peace with us? This must have set up a plan to disconnect Zhenyang, deliberately ordering Zhenyang to send an envoy, making Hou Jing suspicious, thinking that Hou Jing should be exchanged for Zhenyang. Hou Jing must be uneasy, he will plot trouble, if he agrees to Gao Cheng's good today, he will definitely fall into the plan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Moreover, last year we lost our army in Pengcheng, and we were defeated again at Wuyang, and now we are all right, which is a sign of weakness to the Wei State. ”

I have to say that this objection is indeed reasonable, especially about Hou Jing. Nan Liang is a stepmother to Hou Jing, she has no feelings, and she is prone to resistance, and Hou Jing is a person who is not easy to control, since Xiao Yan keeps him, he has to deal with the relationship between them carefully.

Again, when the Southern Liang was defeated and retreated, the Eastern Wei handed out an olive branch, no matter whether the Eastern Wei Dynasty thought much or not, but it would indeed make people have the idea of suppressing the weak with the strong, and it was indeed inappropriate to agree to the Eastern Wei Dynasty's good requirements.

However, Zhu Yi and others, who agreed, were very stubborn and resolute, and Xiao Yan also had good intentions.

The reason why Xiao Yan agreed, I am afraid that he also had the idea of stealing peace.

Among the people who opposed it, the most resolute attitude was Hou Jing.

As Hou Jing, who was the source of the Northern Expedition of Southern Liang last year, was very reluctant to see peace between the two countries, not that he was belligerent, as the saying goes, the gun shoots the first bird, and the two countries are friendly, Hou Jing is likely to be pushed out by Southern Liang to make good bargaining chips, so after he expressed his opposition, he also said that he was willing to go on another Northern Expedition and so on, in short, he drew one after another not very delicious cakes for Xiao Yan.

Because the cake painted by Hou Jing was not delicious, Xiao Yan was not moved, and he ignored Hou Jing's proposal, and still considered making friends with the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Hou Jing wrote a letter to this and lobbied for that, but to no avail, so Hou Jing thought of a trick and wrote a letter to Xiao Yan, pretending to be written by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, asking Xiao Yan to exchange Hou Jing for Xiao Yuanming, Xiao Yan immediately agreed and wrote a reply to the Eastern Wei Dynasty:

"Zhenyang will come back in the morning, and Hou Jing can go back in the evening."

Zhenyang refers to Xiao Yuanming's title - Marquis of Zhenyang.

This reply was naturally known to Hou Jing, and he scolded:

"Old man Wu'er, it's really cool!"

Because Nanliang was in Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, Hou Jing here called Xiao Yan "Wu'er's husband".

Some people raised objections to this matter, whether it was a forged letter or Xiao Yan's reply, it was too easy and too rash, so I think this is probably not the case.

The bear thought about it, maybe it wasn't Hou Jing who forged the letter to Xiao Yan, this matter may be true, Gao Cheng planned to exchange Hou Jing for Xiao Yuanming, and the reason why Hou Jing knew about it was because someone chewed the root of his tongue in front of Hou Jing; Or, there is no such thing at all, or there is already a trend of developing towards this surface, Hou Jing is afraid that it will come true, so he will do the opposite.

In short, whether it is true or not, using "Hou Jing for Xiao Yuanming" has become Hou Jing's ***.

When Hou Jing first entered Liang, he hurriedly proposed to Wang and Xie Mingmen, but although Xiao Yan accepted Hou Jing, in the eyes of Nanliang, he still looked down on Hou Jing, who was a member of the Liang clan, so Xiao Yan rejected his proposal, which made Hou Jing dissatisfied.

At this time, it can be said that there is a new hatred and an old hatred, since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust, so I took advantage of the contradictions in Nanliang and prepared to rebel!

What contradiction is there in Nanliang? Listen to the bear slowly-

First of all, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of the Southern Liang Dynasty, in view of the weight of the canonical signatures of the Southern Song and Qi dynasties, the power was concentrated in the emperor's body, resulting in the cannibalism of the royal family and the situation that the power was seized by the Su people, Xiao Yan abolished the pawn system. In this way, the kings were no longer subject to the pawn and became feudal towns with real power.

This is a bit like the "Zhou Dynasty" in Chinese history, with the Zhou royal family as the center, surrounded by princes, how do you toss on your own territory, as long as it does not threaten the stability of the royal family, the Zhou royal family does not care, at most it is a scolding, threatening and threatening, and no matter how great it is, it is knocking and knocking.

It is also similar to the various shogunates of Japan. Look at the history of Japan's Warring States period, the major names, quite Chinese princes, jumped out of one shogunate after another, the emperor has been covered by the glory of the shogunate, so that at the end of the Edo shogunate, foreigners and the Tokugawa family for a long time, suddenly found that there was a Kyoto behind the shogunate, and an emperor! Although the emperor is a puppet, he is a ruler in the traditional sense of the word! Every time I think of this, I want to see the expressions of those foreigners when they realize this, and they can definitely laugh until they have abdominal pain.

Well, the Zhou Dynasty and the various shogunates in Japan are mentioned because, the shortcomings of this system are obvious:

The Zhou Dynasty was divided and finally perished because the power of the princes became stronger and stronger; The shogunate in Japan, except for the last Edo shogunate, was eliminated by history, and the previous Kamakura shogunate and Muromachi shogunate were also knocked out because of the strong power of the daimyo.

In fact, Xiao Yan's move is also equivalent to a disguised real sealing system, from the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, it has proved the shortcomings of the real sealing system again and again, Xiao Yan's paint-like real sealing system, will also reproduce the contradictions that history has proven.

Secondly, Xiao Yan also believes that the Eastern Jin Dynasty relied on the support and maintenance of everyone in the family to extend the national fortune to more than 100 years, so Xiao Yan paid special attention to restoring and improving the rights of everyone in the world, and gave preferential treatment, tolerance, and even indulgence to the descendants of the royal family, the family and the ministers! Even if they commit a crime, they are not punished by law.

Historical records record that Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan said:

"Simplify the criminal law, since the minister of ministers, Xian does not mean to be imprisoned. Traitors recruit power and manipulate the law, and bribe goods into a market, and there are many people who abuse it...... When the princes and princes were children, they were so arrogant and lewd. ”

Emperor Wu of Liang was also well aware of these drawbacks, but did not prohibit them.

Finally, in the later period of Xiao Yan, political corruption, corruption of officials, and flashy and extravagant social atmosphere, while the common people were exploited and displaced at all levels, resulting in displacement and flight, which were extremely serious.

He Chen pointed out to Emperor Wu:

"The decline of the world's household registration is an urgent task for the present, the county is unbearable for the state, and the county is unbearable for the county. The people can't bear their fate, and everything flows, or depends on the big surname, or gathers in the tunfeng. Today, they are all corrupt and cruel, and there are few incorruptible people. ”

However, Xiao Yan ignored it at all.