Volume 1 The Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Chapter 137 The Past of the Jin Kingdom
In the small private room of Qifeng Building, this should have been a celebration of the release of the list for the guests and hosts, but now, it has suddenly become a symposium where young people loudly criticize the facts.
Among the three people, one is the only son of a high-powered Sima family of the dynasty, and the other is the eldest son of Taichangqing, one of the nine kings of the imperial court, all of whom are real upper-class people, born in powerful and wealthy lords, and the last one is an ordinary scholar from a foreign country.
Rao is Chen Jing and Zhu Fengxian, who have been exposed to it at home since childhood, and they already have a basic impression of the officialdom and society of the Jin Kingdom, but they never thought that they had been eroded to this point.
Yang Ansheng put down his wine glass, spit out a mouthful of rich wine, covered his face with his hands, and sighed in a low voice: " Thinking of my dignified Jin Kingdom, as early as thirty years ago, it was still a big country in the south with nearly five states, although it was not as good as those hereditary princes in the atrium, but it was also regarded as a hegemon in this remote south, and even the Weiguo next to it, it was all called a minister every year, and paid tribute every year, I never thought that in just thirty years, it had fallen to such a point, not to say that the barbarians of the Liang Kingdom plundered the land of my two states of the Great Jin, and said that in order to let the country send troops, the imperial court actually ceded the entire three counties to them! Hateful, hateful, pathetic!"
The words he said from the bottom of his heart after he got drunk even represented the voices of all the people of insight in the entire Jin Kingdom.
Decades ago, although the southern land was the same as the current atrium, it was a situation where the heroes were divided and fought for each other, but the Jin Kingdom back then was really the overlord of the hegemons, an insurmountable behemoth.
Although the standards for dividing states and counties into states and counties are different from each other, resulting in different sizes from state to state, such as Yanzhou, in terms of size, it is at least three times the size of Liangzhou, but the Jin State of that year, which is known as the land of five states, even if the size of the states is different, but it is completely conceivable how vast the territory is, and even the Wei Guo, which occupies the natural danger next to it, must take the initiative to bow down and pay tribute every year, not only that, but also to send the prince and princess to come over as protons to show submission, what a scenery it was back then, but after the sudden rise of the Liang Kingdom in the south, everything changed。
Thirty years ago, the Battle of Yanzhou completely defeated the strongest empire in the south.
Liang State commanded the cavalry army at that time, and the general Chang Dingfang, who mainly attacked the direction of Yanzhou, commanded the soldiers and horses, rapidly advanced, and directly chose to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Jin State by the Yanran Lake.
If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court decisively ceded the entire three counties to the country, and then sent a large amount of gold and silver to buy the high-ranking officials of the country to lobby in the court, and finally got the other party to send troops, and it coincided with the ice melting in spring, the soldiers and horses brought out by Chang Dingfang from Liangzhou generally did not know the nature of the water, and could not cross the natural danger of Yanran Lake, and then the general who commanded the whole army, Chang Dingfang, suddenly contracted a serious disease, and died of illness within a few days, I am afraid that the Jin State has already become the dust of history and only exists in the annals of history.
Chen Jing's father, now ranked as the third prince of the dynasty, was valued by the emperor at that time, and was ordered to restrain the remnants of the Jin army to resist the enemy, and with the help of various factors that can be called coincidences, he was able to protect the Jin State.
And the Liang general Chang Dingfang, sixteen years old in the army, the south and the north war, outstanding achievements, at that time has been passed to the second generation of the Liang Emperor appreciation, at the age of twenty to the official to the hussar general, meritorious service, Feng Wan Shenghou, at the age of twenty-one years to break the elite of the Jin Kingdom, staking land, captured Yanzhou, to this day, his portrait is still hung high in the imperial city in the merit pavilion, for future generations to admire, ask his spirit in the sky, can bless the Liang country Wansheng, just his name, so far to be mentioned, will still frighten the old people in the Jin army trembling, dare not speak, even in Yanzhou, by some locals as the reincarnation of the god of war in the sky to bow down, However, it is such a peerless genius who is as dazzling as a comet, but at the most glorious moment of his life, he suddenly contracted a vicious disease and died suddenly by Yanran Lake.
What's even more regrettable is that this young man hasn't even had time to leave an heir.
After the Jin people may be to save so little face, it is said that they heard that Chen Jing's father, when the dynasty Sima Chen Xiehu came to lead the troops, Chang Dingfang was afraid that his reputation would not be guaranteed, and he was scared to death, but this is just a joke circulated within the Jin Kingdom, Chen Jing himself knew his father's little catty, if he wanted to say that he led the troops well, it was true, otherwise he would not be ordered to be in danger, but to compete with this kind of brave crown of the whole human race, it was still a lot of catties and taels, not to mention that the main force of the Jin Kingdom had been completely wiped out, and his father wanted to scare Chang Dingfang to death with a group of old, weak, sick and disabledIt's almost the same as laughing to death.
Putting aside these past events for the time being, after hearing Yang Ansheng sigh and reprimand, Zhu Fengxian also spoke with feeling.
"Brother Yang is right, the Jin Kingdom back then, what a scenery it was, it's a pity that I was born at the wrong time, today, the Jin Kingdom has become what it is today, the ancestors opened up territory in the south, it is really fascinating, I only hate that I can't be born three hundred years earlier, back to that romantic era, indulge in singing, and write ink!"
"What's even more hateful is that the country of Wei should have been eradicated earlier, a bunch of wolf-hearted things, I don't know how to be grateful, I don't know how to reciprocate, but I fell into the well when my Jin country was in trouble, and took the opportunity to coerce and snatch the entire three counties from my Jin country, which is even more hateful than the barbaric Liang country!
When Yang Ansheng heard this, he sighed heavily, and said hatefully: "Alas, my generation has no future, but the upper class only knows lewd pleasures, such a country, where does the future come from!"
Zhu Fengxian and Yang Ansheng began to vent their dissatisfaction with each other about the current situation of the Jin Kingdom, the two were like-minded and chatted hotly, and the haze caused by falling off the list before was also temporarily swept away.
On the contrary, Chen Jing, who should have been the most uninhibited, just propped his hands on the table, turned his wrists, and gently put the wine glass into his mouth, and the wine went down one by one, he just looked ahead and didn't say a word.
Because from the words of the two friends, he suddenly thought of the prince who defended the country.
Duanmu Shuofeng!
Even if Wei Guo did something despicable and fell into the ground, but Wei and Jin have always been good neighbors, and there are many in-laws between each other, and now they have to face the threat brought by the Liang Kingdom in the south, under the pressure of the outside world, the two sides have to form an alliance, so they have been in frequent exchanges with each other, especially the royal families and ministers at the upper level of the two countries.
Duanmu Shuofeng was far away from the real throne, so he came to the Jin Kingdom with the delegation of the Patriotic State.
Chen Jing, as the son of Da Sima at that time, was born in a wealthy family, and was fortunate to see him once at the banquet.
In eight words, Chen Jing's impression of him can be summed up.
There is no one in your eyes, arrogant!
There is no one in his eyes, not because he was born in the royal family, and his self-esteem is very high due to small brocade clothes and jade food, that kind of person, in fact, most of them are straw bales that cannot be put on the table, just thinking about the opposite, he is because he is too good, so he instinctively despises the other people around him, in his eyes, what Jin royal family, in fact, is a bunch of shit, he doesn't look down on the other party's performance at all, in the eyes of outsiders, maybe he doesn't know the so-called domineering, but Chen Jing can deeply understand the other party's mood at the time, just like he saw the beggar on the street without covering his body, is it the only son of his dignified Sima, will treat the beggar on the side of the road as the same person?
Even if he didn't mean to discriminate against the poor at all, it was impossible for him to look at a ragged, unkempt, illiterate and spineless self-reliant person, and the Jin Kingdom in Duanmu Shuo's eyes was like he Chen Jing saw the beggar on the side of the road, no, maybe it was worse than that, because he Chen Jing at least had basic sympathy when he saw the beggar.
But understanding doesn't mean agreeing, not to mention that he himself is from the Jin Kingdom, and being despised by others is so despised what kind of humiliation should it be?
In short, from that time, he had a deep dissatisfaction with the entire Jin Kingdom, the current royal family, and those officials who only cared about power and disregarded the safety of the country.
What an incompetent fool can corrupt the karma of the great family passed down from his ancestors to this extent!
So he didn't bother to rely on his father's relationship to become an official in the court or go to the army for training, he chose to rely on himself, and gradually controlled all the shady and ninth-rate industries in the entire capital.
Maybe in the eyes of people who don't understand outside, he is lazy, he can't endure hardship, and he is willing to fall, but he only knows for himself, so what's the use?
Even if he goes to the army, even if he replaces his father in the future and takes over the position of Da Sima, does he have the ability to Chang Dingfang to block the attack of Liang Guo with this group of wastes that will only drag his feet?
He knows his own ability, his strength is not in leading the troops to fight, then it is even more impossible to be an official, the court officials, basically only the great Situ is the head of the horse, and he is not the other party's protégé, if he wants to get out of the way, how many years will it take? Even if he really mixes up, when is it, I am afraid that the Jin Kingdom has already been destroyed.
At the end of the day, it can be summed up in the simplest sentence.
He, Chen Jing, why did he help this group of corpses to eat vegetarian food, and they would only be arrogant and lascivious bastards all day long to guard the country?