The Jin Kingdom is mountainous, and the Tianduan Mountain Range in the north of the Jin Kingdom is known as the most continuous mountain range in the entire East, and there is news of demon beasts from time to time, but this kind of demon beasts are similar to the beasts raised by the royal family of Yan State at best, and even many are inferior, so when the Jin State Commercial Bank travels the world, the most handy goods are all kinds of strange monsters.

At that time, Yao Zizhan, the great writer of the Qianguo, had traveled to the Jin Kingdom when he was young, and wanted to take advantage of the majestic ruggedness of the Tianduan Mountain Range to brew the poetry in his belly, but he was not careful to be caught by the savage settlement in the mountain range.

The Tianduan Mountain Range is one of them, in the west of the Jin Kingdom, that is, the area bordering the Yan Kingdom, there is also a mountain range, the Jin people call it Zhema Mountain, and the Yan people call it Horseshoe Mountain.

This mountain range continues to the southwest of the Jin State, and it can be said that the Jin State is more like a wrapped egg, and the only missing opening, that is, the area of the Tantu, borders the Chu State.

In fact, a long time ago, the two countries of Jin and Chu were not bordering, Chu is located in the southeast region of the entire Eastern Continent, originated in Daze, the emperor of Chu even boasted that he was born from the depths of Daze, but for hundreds of years, the expansion of the Chu people has not stopped, constantly destroying the small countries around, and finally, successfully bordering the Jin State, the two sides will break out from time to time tens of thousands of wars.

In the southwest of the Jin Kingdom, the topography of the Horseshoe Mountain Range was followed and a South Gate Pass was built.

Outside the South Gate, there are a number of small countries, which are located between the three major powers of Jin, Chu, and Qian, and the three major countries have deliberately maintained the existence of these small countries as a buffer zone.

Therefore, although the South Gate Pass looks extremely majestic, the last time a war really broke out here was decades ago, that time was a coup d'état in a small country, the magnates usurped the throne, the lord fled to the Jin State, and the pursuers chased to the South Gate Pass, and were repelled by the Jin defenders.

However, because of the intervention of the two countries, the Jin State did not send troops to help the lord restore the country, but only made him an Anle Gong.

It is also said that the power of the three major clans in the Jin Kingdom was already very large at that time, and for this reason, there was also a rumor that "the lord of the country, the virtuous should do it".

Therefore, they think that since the monarch of a country cannot keep his throne, it means that his fate has been exhausted, which should be the common sense of the operation of the Heavenly Dao.

This means that a discerning person can see it at a glance.

At this point,

At the end of the South Gate, a huge caravan was being inspected, and this caravan numbered seven or eight hundred men.

On the city wall, there were three men.

A person wearing armor, is the guard of the South Gate, an old man in Confucian clothes, is the Jin State Household Servant, but the Jin Dynasty only retains a shelf, what this Household Servant has done, that is, to do business for the royal family, has been leading the team to come and go here for more than ten years;

Behind the old man, there was a black-faced little man.

"I said, in the west, our Jin Kingdom and Yan Kingdom are at war, and in the southwest, the Yan people are still fighting with the cadres, where is your such a big caravan going?"

"I went to Qianguo." The leader laughed.

"Go to Qianguo? Going to Qianguo now? ”

"Qianren is rich, my car is mostly herbs from Tianduan Mountain, and I can sell them at a good price if I go there."

"I'm not afraid of running into the Yan people in the Qianguo, and when the time comes, when I see that you are Jin merchants, I will rob you directly, and I can't even save my life."

"It's the so-called wealth and danger."

"It seems that your Majesty is so short of silver?"

The South Gate guard teased.

Between the words, where is half a point of respect for the Jin Emperor.

It is also 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 been in the hands of the three major clans for many years.

These three clans all have fiefs and soldiers and horses, to be precise, they are more equivalent to the three major princes in the Jin Dynasty, and the edicts of the Jin Emperor sometimes can't even go out of the land of Gyeonggi, and are enshrined there like a mascot.

At the beginning, after Zheng Fan had a preliminary understanding of the current situation of the Jin Kingdom, he said that this Jin Emperor was not similar to the Zhou royal family during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?

It is true that 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 there are conflicts in the Chu State in the southeast.

At the same time, it is also because the three major clans themselves feel that it is not yet time to really separate.

However, from the court to the people, the Jin Kingdom has long formed the consciousness of the three major clans, and it has long been inappropriate for the emperor above his head.

Perhaps only the people of the Jin Kingdom in Gyeonggi and the pro-army of the imperial family still have some hearts towards the Jin Emperor, so that the Jin Emperor will not look like a complete puppet like that.

"Isn't it, fighting with Yan has cut off the trade route from the west, and the Qianguo side is also fighting, and the caravan of the Qianguo can't enter.

These two trade routes were cut off all of a sudden, and so many princes and nobles in the capital couldn't send out the silver last month. ”

"Your Majesty, you're having a hard time, aren't you?" The general teased.

"Inevitably, Your Majesty is planning to rebuild the Taimiao, which has already been repaired halfway, but the silver behind it is broken, but I am worried about Your Majesty."

The three major clans will meaningfully hand over a piece of silver from their fiefdoms to the Jin Emperor every year, but these silver is also pitiful, and the taxes from the land of Gyeonggi are not used at all.

Therefore, the royal family of the Jin Kingdom had to do business and organize caravans by itself many years ago, and the three major clans also turned a blind eye to this, after all, as long as the royal family of the Jin Kingdom existed for a day, it had to maintain its dignity, otherwise it would lose the faces of the three major clans themselves, which made the surrounding other countries see the joke.

"Your Excellency."

At this moment, a young man with a black face walked over with 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 jewels and jade inside, he smiled.

It seems that the royal family is indeed on foot, and they have to rely on pawning these old objects to live, although there are not many, but the things that come out of the palace, those are all priceless.

He is the general of the Wen family, and he was ordered to guard the South Gate Pass, and now, the Wen family and the Helian family have joined forces, and they have fought with the Yan people in the west, and the Yan people can really fight, but it is estimated that it will not last long, and the two families are dispatched, and the two sides combined, are almost 600,000 troops.

And if the Yan people are the first in the world, then the second is the Jin people, although the Jin country is mountainous, but the Jin country also has many plains, there is no shortage of horse breeding land, and the wild people in the Tianduan Mountain Range and the extremely cold land further north of the Tianduan Mountain Range seem to have poor living conditions, but there are also many savage settlements, the Jin State often conquests them to get the supplement of war horses from them, and even go to catch some savages to come over to form savage cavalry.

Of course, the savages of the Jin Kingdom and the barbarians of the desert west of the Yan Kingdom are naturally incomparable.

"General, when we come back this time, there will be heavy thanks, now we are really short of money, and the money is pressing."

When the courtobe squire said with a cautious and shy face.

The guard nodded, not thinking too hard for them, but waved to the soldiers under the city, signaling them to let them go.

The gates were opened, and the caravan began to march.

The guard pointed to the black-faced young man beside the Tobe squire, and said with a smile:

"It's really dark enough, is it so black when you're so small?"

The black-faced youth nodded, a shy smile on his face.

"Tut-tut......"

The guard smashed it with some regret,

If this person weren't so dark, he would look handsome, and he would have been able to accept this person.

The number of men's style is very popular in the Jin Kingdom.

Each country has its own fetishes,

The dry people love to be scattered, and the Jin people love the male style,

Only the Yan people are the most savage, and they seem to have no other preferences except for fighting.

"If you go back to the general, it's so dark when you're young."

"Black is not bad, either." The guard still couldn't help it, stretched out his hand and put it on the chin of the black-faced young man, and said: "I heard that our majesty's face is also quite dark, in the early years, this general also went to the capital with the head of the family to attend the queen mother's birthday, the queen mother looks young, pretty widow;

Tsk, but our majesty, after a few glances from a distance, only saw black charcoal, hahahaha. ”

The black-faced youth laughed along.

The black-faced young man smiled, only to feel that his eyebrows and eyes were open, and for a while, he actually let the guard lick his somewhat dry lips,

Asked:

"What's the last name?"

"Back to the general, my surname is Yu."

"Yu?"

Yu is the surname of the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, that is, the national surname.

However, this surname has made the guard more and more hot, at the moment, the Jin Emperor himself is having a hard time, not to mention other royal families, it is really worthless, it has long been very common for a woman surnamed Yu to marry the merchant Jia family, but anyone who has a little wealth and family background wants to marry a woman surnamed Yu, and he feels that he can also touch the meaning of the emperor.

"The surname is Yu, what's it called?"

"Yu Ciming."

"Yu Ciming?" The guard blinked and muttered to himself, "Why does it sound so familiar?" ”

At this time, the Tobe waiter, who had been lying low and being small next to him, spoke:

"General, our majesty also calls this name."

"Oh, yes, I actually ......... with our majesty"

The guard's face changed suddenly,

And at this time,

The black-faced young man, who had been holding his chin all the time, raised his hand, holding a crossbow in his hand, and at the same time, pulled the trigger.

This kind of dark crossbow is too small in size to hide, but it is not suitable for use on the battlefield, and the people in the rivers and lakes use it more, but in a near-face-to-face situation, even if this guard is an eight-rank martial artist, he was directly shot by the crossbow arrow.

The poison quenched on the crossbow bolt immediately attacked, and the guard fell to the ground and quickly paralyzed.

The black-faced youth took out a dagger, squatted down, and cut directly into the neck of the guard.

Pretty widow?

Pretty Widow !!

At the same time, the people in the caravan drew their knives and guns from the cargo boxes and cut directly at the soldiers defending the city, and the defenders of the South Gate Pass were killed and caught off guard.

To the north, a troop of cavalry had already rushed over, taking advantage of the path opened by the predecessors, and rushed directly into it.

This is the Jin royal family's personal soldiers, the number is small, but they are loyal to the Jin Emperor, and they are the only soldiers and horses that the Jin Emperor can directly call in the Jin State at present.

The sound of the fight soon became quieter, and in the face of this sudden attack of stabbing knives, the guards of Nantianmen were unable to parry at all, and after being slashed and killed, the rest quickly abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

And at this time,

The black-faced young man said to the Tobe waiter beside him:

"Xu Aiqing, change my clothes."

Tobe Shirou took a half step back,

"Minister, obey the order."

Shaoqing,

The black-faced young man in coarse linen clothes changed into a dragon robe, and the surrounding pro-army armor soldiers knelt down together:

"Long live the Five Emperors, long live, long live!"

Yu Ciming took a deep breath, and his face showed guilt,

Road:

"I'm not a good emperor."

Yu Ciming looked around,

Said slowly:

"I am very pleased, and you can accompany me, willing to help me, I have self-knowledge, not a brilliant master, but I will try my best to let you and me live a good life together, keep your family small, if you can, I am willing to give you a better future."

Beside him, the Tobe waiter burst into tears when he heard these words.

At this moment,

In the southwest direction of the South Gate Pass, there was a black oppressive shadow, standing on the city tower and looking at the past, giving people a terrifying sense of oppression!

Yu Ciming opened his mouth and said to Xu Qian beside him:

"Xu Aiqing, do you think I did something wrong?"

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, is only loyal to Your Majesty."

Yu Ciming nodded, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said:

"I, as the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, as a child surnamed Yu, should not have done such a rebellious thing, but I know, I also understand, a long time ago, the Situ family planned to divide the three families into Jin, but because of the opposition of the Helian family and the Wen family, they gave up.

Because the Situ family controls the eastern part of our Great Jin Dynasty, on the other hand, the Helian family and the Wen family are separated from the west, if they are separated, it is obvious that these two families will suffer too much, so they will try their best to maintain this situation.

But once the Yan attack is successful this time, the Helian family and the Wen family will collect part of the territory of the Yan Kingdom, and the three families will be divided, which will naturally become a foregone conclusion.

I, the emperor, will naturally be deposed;

Pay attention to one point, let me give up to the three families, go to the emperor and the queen of heaven, and tell the ancestors and ancestors, the world, there should be a winner to live in;

Then I will be raised in captivity, nominally a good life and glory, but then I will die in vain, and my descendants will also die unexplained, and within three generations, they will inevitably die.

If you don't pay attention to one point, you will let a chaotic army lie that the savages will directly slaughter the palace, and it doesn't matter if the people of the world believe it or not, they are just asking for a cover in history. ”

"Your Majesty." Xu Qianhe sobbed again.

"Xu Aiqing, Yanren is right in front of you, you say, he Ji Runhao, will he keep his promise? I don't ask for or hope for the king to come to the Great Jin, I only want a feudal country, which can keep you, keep them, and keep the place where the ancestors sacrificed blood and food. ”

Xu Qianhe breathed a long sigh of relief and said:

"Your Majesty, eight hundred years ago, during the Great Xia Dynasty, the ancestor of the Ji family was enshrined in the bitter cold land of the northwest, and was ordered by the Great Xia Son to be the emperor of the East.

Now, Great Xia has been dead for 600 years, but the Ji family still has not allowed the barbarians to cross the Yan Realm one step, even if a hundred years ago when the Qianren went on a northern expedition, the Ji family only sent 30,000 horsemen back to help, and its main force in the country is still fighting a decisive battle with the barbarians in the desert.

In today's countries, many royal families, in terms of promises, there is no one who can reach the Ji family! ”

"Actually, Xu Aiqing, I understand what you said, it is this ancestral foundation that was opened to outsiders like this, and I, the emperor, are really a bit ridiculous."

"Your Majesty, I am a great Jin, a monarch is not a king, a minister is not a minister, it has been too many years."

"Yes, yes, I have been surnamed Yu for several generations of emperors, where is there still half an emperor!"

Saying,

Emperor Jin seems to have adjusted his mentality, because the army of the Yan people has already left for the city.

"Xu Aiqing, how wasteful do you say those cadres are, this Yan people's army has already made a detour from his Qianguo to here, and his cadres clearly have millions of troops on three sides, but there is still no movement at all?

I used to think that if the Yan people couldn't get by, I wouldn't have to weigh the choice and torment anymore, but now, I suddenly felt that this destiny, this damn destiny, really seemed to favor the Yan people. ”

Xu Qianhe knew that Emperor Jin was looking for a reasonable excuse for his choice, Yan Ren was destined to return, he was in accordance with the will of heaven, this was the best excuse.

"Your Majesty, I'll wait, just follow the will of heaven."

Emperor Jin sighed and waved his hand,

Road:

"That's it, that's it, give the order, open the city gate, and I will personally go out of the city to meet the Yan people."

………

"No mirror, will you kneel later?"

Zhenbei Hou sat on Pixiu's body, watching the south gate closed in front of him, and couldn't help but ask Tian Wujing.

"Your Majesty has promised Emperor Jin that he will ensure that he has been crowned emperor, he is now the emperor, and in the future, he will also be the emperor."

"Alas, it's not strong, it's not good."

"Although as soon as the south gate is opened, the back of the 600,000 troops of the Jin Kingdom attacking our Dayan on the west side has been opened to us, and this battle can be said to have been decided.

But if he is willing to cooperate well, he will be able to save a lot of trouble in the future when governing and annexing these Jin lands, and many fewer people will die under our command. ”

"I love to hear this, I can make my subordinates lose less, and I'm willing to let me lick his boots."

Tian Wujing shook his head and stopped making a sound.

Jingnanhou has a rigorous temperament, but Zhenbeihou has a free and heroic temperament, it can be said that the personalities of the two are two extremes.

The city gate closed at the south gate was opened, and a group of people came out of it, the leader of whom was dressed in a dragon robe, which was very eye-catching.

The great army marched near,

The Marquis of Zhenbei and the Marquis of Jingnan got off their mounts together and walked forward, and behind them were the main forces of the Zhenbei Army and the Jingnan Army.

however

Just when the two marquis were about to kneel down and salute Emperor Jin,

Jin Emperor Yu Ciming suddenly took the initiative to kneel down towards the two marquis,

Honest Voice:

"Yu Ciming, the lord of the lower country, meet the two marquis!"