The Western Zhou Dynasty was playing so lively, the courtiers of the two parties together played the little emperor again, and Nanchu, which was separated from him by a Tianjiang River, also had a big incident.

In the fiftieth year of Tianyao, at the beginning of June

Just when the Western Zhou Dynasty was in turmoil, the seventy-three-year-old Emperor Tianyao had a serious illness and lay in bed for more than a month before the Southern Chu Imperial Doctor was dragged back from the Ghost Gate.

In mid-July, Emperor Tianyao, who was about to take care of his body for the first time, felt this accident and specially ordered the emperor's grandson Xia Chen to supervise the country and take full charge of the Southern Chu Dynasty.

In fact, in recent years, as Emperor Tianyao is getting older and older, his energy is not as good as before, and he only seeks the Tao every day, and he has long been ignoring political affairs.

However, due to various concerns, Emperor Tianyao gave the imperial grandson the right to govern, but did not give him the title of supervising the country, because although the imperial grandson could handle the government with full power, he did not have the right to appoint personnel.

That is to say, although the imperial grandson is in charge, there is no way to justifiably install and promote his own people in the court, especially the important ministers above the third grade, and the appointment has to be nodded by Emperor Tianyao, so although the imperial grandson is free, it is not without restraint at all.

And if Emperor Yao officially decreed today that the imperial grandson should be in charge of the country, even if the power of personnel appointment was also delegated to him, the Southern Chu dynasty, the imperial grandson could make a decision in one word, like an emperor.

In fact, such as Emperor Yao's holy decree today, in addition to the military power is still in the hands of Emperor Tianyao, the rest of the power of the emperor's grandson is not much weaker than the emperor, at most there is a emperor on his head.

After this incident, the status of the imperial grandson has become more and more stable, of course, his prince was also very stable before, he can be called a half-monarch, and now he can be regarded as two-thirds of the monarch, just waiting for the military power to arrive, he, the second generation of the emperor of Southern Chu, is considered to be solid.

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In the fiftieth year of Tianyao, at the beginning of August, it was a scorching summer, and seeing that the imperial grandson made the court look good, Emperor Tianyao was relieved, and then handed over the capital to the imperial grandson, and he took a few close ministers out of the palace to the garden on the outskirts of Beijing to escape the summer.

It doesn't matter if Emperor Tianyao goes out of the palace to escape the summer, the emperor's grandson in Tianjing City has completely become the boss, and he will come out as soon as he gives the order, and the hundred officials bow their heads, and they are extremely majestic.

As mentioned earlier, this imperial grandson is a man with great ambitions and talents, and he has just been entrusted with a heavy task by Emperor Tianyao, and his heart is when he is happy.

On this day, I don't know what he thinks, he suddenly summoned all the ministers into the palace to discuss, he wanted to send troops to exterminate the Southern Barbarian Baiyue.

The so-called Southern Barbarian Baiyue are some barbarian mountain people entrenched in the south of Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou is mountainous, and there are many barbarians living in it, and later because of the war, gradually some people also fled to the mountains and became mountain people.

Because these mountain people and barbarians intermarry, over time, the two ethnic groups become a family, Jiangzhou was called Yue in ancient times, these mountain people consider themselves indigenous, so they call themselves Yue people, and because they live together with the Nanban, they are called the Nanban Yue people by the outside world.

At the same time, because these Yue people are scattered and multi-tribes, gathering hundreds of people, they are also called Nanban Baiyue.

Most of the Nanban Baiyue were mainly agricultural, growing grains, and Jiangzhou was rich in copper and iron, so they forged their own armor and defended themselves from the group.

Because the Southern Barbarian Baiyue has the blood of barbarians and mountain people, they are naturally strong, good at martial arts, loose in nature, and unwilling to be subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court, so they rely on the mountain danger in Jiangzhou to form an armed group, and the leader calls himself the king of Baiyue, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, independent of the Southern Chu court.

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To tell the truth, although the Southern Barbarian Baiyue has self-respecting troops, they have their own cultivated fields and minerals, and they are self-sufficient, and they are not like the grassland Rongdi of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the pirates of the East China Sea of the Northern Jin Dynasty who raided and plundered the people of Southern Chu, and they have always been peaceful and self-sufficient.

However, no matter how honest they were, the Southern Chu court couldn't stand such a large number of troops in their own country who did not obey orders, so soon after the establishment of the state in Southern Chu, Southern Chu and Nanban Baiyue fought each other.

At the beginning, Emperor Tianyao didn't think about sending troops to recruit, he meant to recruit Annan Barbarian Baiyue.

Nanban Baiyue is not resistant to Nanchu's Zhao'an, anyway, they have no ambition to rebel, Zhao'an will recruit An, and their outstanding children can still get an official, and glorify their ancestors.

So, the two sides hit it off, and Zhao'an made rapid progress, but it didn't take long for the matter to collapse.

Here's the thing, in the process of recruiting An, Emperor Tianyao issued a decree proposing several regulations:

1. After the Nanban Baiyue Zhao'an, the acres of land were retained, and the copper and iron minerals should be collected as state-owned, of course, the imperial court could give some compensation.

Second, the armed forces of Southern Chu must be disbanded, and the young and strong people in the clan must be incorporated into the Southern Chu army.

3. The title of the king of Baiyue was abolished.

Fourth, the people of the Nanban Baiyue tribe were scattered and separated to the prefectures and counties of Southern Chu.

As soon as these conditions came out, they immediately aroused strong opposition from Nanban Baiyue, which is Zhao'an, this is to dismantle them.

The first and third articles can be barely endured, but as soon as the second and fourth articles come out, the fool can also see that Emperor Tianyao has no good intentions, so the matter of recruiting an is invalid.

At that time, the king of Baiyue also asked people to write a letter to Emperor Tianyao, scolding him for being shameless, saying that they sincerely took refuge, but Emperor Tianyao intended to split Baiyue, plotted to harsh his subjects, and had no bearing of a benevolent monarch, and his heart could be punished.

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At that time, Emperor Tianyao had just established the country, and it was when he was young and vigorous, otherwise he would not have put forward such harsh conditions for Baiyue.

Therefore, when he received the letter from the king of Baiyue, he was furious and directly asked people to cut down Baiyue's messenger, and then sent 200,000 troops, preparing to attack Baiyue and forcibly absorb it.

Nanban Baiyue naturally will not be restrained, under the roar of the king of Baiyue, the Nanban Baiyue responders gathered, and in a short period of time gathered more than 300,000 young people, and then relied on the terrain to give the vigorous Nanchu soldiers and horses to the ruthless.

Southern Chu was defeated, and the prestige of Emperor Tianyao, who was personally conquered, was almost wiped out, and he had robbed his nephew of the position and forcibly "inherited" the power of his brother King Xianchu.

Within Southern Chu, there was a large part of the sworn party of the king of Xianchu who opposed Emperor Tianyao, and he relied on the founding of the country to barely control the situation.

Waiting for Emperor Tianyao to regain control of the situation, King Baiyue had already used his troops for a long time, training 300,000 Baiyue Qingzhuang into 300,000 elite soldiers, and was waiting for Emperor Tianyao to conquer it again.

Emperor Tianyao had just come out of the fire pit, how could he crash into it again, when he didn't see Bai Yue's movements, as long as he hadn't rebelled, he could turn a blind eye for the time being.

In this way, Baiyue and Southern Chu were peaceful for nearly twenty years, until the death of King Baiyue, who defeated Emperor Tianyao.

Emperor Tianyao thought that the British lord of Baiyue was gone, and his court was stable, so he attacked the southern barbarian Baiyue for the second time.

This time, Emperor Tianyao pinched the point, the old Baiyue King died, the new king couldn't suppress the situation, and the Baiyue tribes fought separately, not forming an army, and they were not the opponents of the Southern Chu army at all.

In the second expedition to Baiyue, Emperor Tianyao won a great victory, not only killing more than half of the hundreds of thousands of young men and captives of the Southern Barbarian Baiyue, but also seizing the fertile land, minerals, and goods of the Baiyue.

The remnants of the Nanban Baiyue Party were forced to flee into the mountains to survive, and did not dare to go out easily in the next few years.

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Emperor Tianyao was humiliated back then, but he was happy but he didn't expect that this seemed to be a big victory, but it left a lot of troubles.

After this battle, Nan Chu and Nanban Baiyue formed a mortal enemy, and the people of Baiyue hated and hated Nan Chu very much, but in this battle, although Baiyue suffered heavy losses, it was not eradicated and retained a certain vitality.

After a few years of silence, the Southern Barbarian Baiyue, who had regained some strength, under the leadership of the new Baiyue King, regained his strength and walked out of the mountains, vowing to take revenge on Southern Chu and recapture their acres of minerals.

With this heart of revenge, the Southern Barbarian Baiyue no longer had the previous rules, they began to become murderous and cruel, and began to plunder and burn the people of Southern Chu everywhere, and conquered the city and encircled the territory.

After Emperor Tianyao heard the news, he naturally sent troops to suppress it, but the Baiyue soldiers were not vegetarians, and they were inseparable from the Southern Chu army.

In the following decades, the two sides fought fiercely more than a dozen times, each won and lost, Nanchu has been unable to completely exterminate Nanban Baiyue, Baiyue is also under the suppression of Nanchu, unable to capture more territory, can only stalemate with each other, Nanban Baiyue has gradually become Nanchu's henchmen.

This time, the imperial grandson planned to send troops to attack Yue, and also had the meaning of consolidating and enhancing his prestige, if he really let him destroy Baiyue, who had been in trouble for many years, it is estimated that Emperor Tianyao could abdicate in advance and let him ascend the throne.

Thinking of this, the imperial grandson was even more excited, originally scheduled to send a general to lead the troops, but later he actually gave birth to the idea of "royal" driving a personal expedition.

This can frighten the ministers of Southern Chu, Emperor Tianyao is a descendant of this lineage, if he breaks on the battlefield, what should he do with the storage position, the imperial grandson has a son, but he is too young to stabilize the situation at all.

So, I didn't care whether to send troops to recruit Baiyue, the courtiers of Southern Chu first took turns to persuade the emperor's grandson to extinguish this idea, the son of a daughter can't sit down, and it's not a big crisis to destroy the country and destroy the dynasty, what battlefield are you going to.

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The ministers of Nanchu spoke bitterly, but they did not impress the imperial grandson at all, but made him more and more energetic, and openly said at the court meeting that the battle of Baiyue must be fought, and he must also "royal" drive the personal expedition.

When the hundred officials saw that they could not persuade the emperor's grandson, they went to ask Emperor Tianyao, who was taking refuge in the summer, to stop him, but he was closed.

Emperor Tianyao makes people feel the wind, the imperial grandson is the supervisor of the country and has full authority to govern, so as long as there are no major mistakes, he will not ask more.

Seeing that Emperor Tianyao also acquiesced to the nonsense of the imperial grandson, the hundred officials of Southern Chu were completely desperate, but the imperial grandson was quite happy, thinking that his grandfather trusted him, and he also made a special trip to the summer garden to thank Emperor Tianyao for releasing power.

Looking at his grandson kneeling in front of him, Emperor Tianyao had mixed feelings.

To tell the truth, at the beginning, when he heard that the imperial grandson wanted to lead the troops to attack Yue, he disagreed in his heart, others didn't know what virtues his grandson had, and he himself didn't know how many catties and taels the imperial grandson had?

Let him lead his troops to attack Baiyue, isn't this a joke?

Emperor Tianyao wanted to send someone into the palace to let the imperial grandson take it honestly, and broke the idea of leading troops, but he looked back and pondered, this is also a method.

After all, Emperor Tianyao is now over the age of old, to put it mildly, he really doesn't have a few years to live, and the emperor's grandson will ascend the throne sooner or later, and he wants to hone this grandson's ability again.

Southern Chu is a small country, not necessarily when it will be bullied and invaded by the Jin Dynasty, if Emperor Tianyao is gone, then the emperor's grandson will not be able to pass through the military, so this expedition is a good opportunity for the emperor's grandson to exercise.

No matter what, although Nan Chu Baiyue is a difficult bone to gnaw, Nan Chu still has an advantage, and there is room for the imperial grandson to play, which is better than directly facing the two behemoths of Jin and Zhou.

Thinking of this, even if Emperor Tianyao thought that this move was a little inappropriate, he also acquiesced to the fact that the imperial grandson led the troops to the battle.

Of course, for the sake of the overall situation of the imperial court, Emperor Tianyao still sent two generals to assist his grandson, saving him from acting recklessly and burying the imperial court soldiers and horses in vain.

The fiftieth year of Emperor Tianyao, the end of August

The emperor's grandson called himself the generalissimo of Pingyue, worshiped the left general Mu Li, and the later general Fan Weizhong as the left and right deputy marshals, starting with 300,000 horsemen and soldiers, and killed Jiangzhou mightily, intending to level the southern barbarian Baiyue in one fell swoop.