Chapter Seventy-One: The Dusty Past

Time buries the past, forgetting the past in the gaps of time.

Seven years ago, Mu Yun's emperor was still Xiao Jingyue, and except for Li Junye, who had participated in politics since childhood, the others had not officially participated in politics.

Xiao Jingyu was only 17 years old at that time, and he was still a prince, proficient in the six arts, and his talent and fame were overflowing in Taicheng.

In the previous list of Mu Yun Simei, there was no Murong Bai, but his second brother Murong He, because Murong Bai was only 13 years old at that time, and he was not famous.

Murong He's appearance is elegant and delicate, his personality is more sunny and cheerful than Murong Bai, and his literary talents are very famous in the city, but he is not particularly outstanding in martial arts.

Everyone often compares the three brothers of the Mu family in private, saying that the eldest Murong Qiang, his appearance is too rigid and strong, and he is not delicate, but he is a martial artist and has no literary talent.

The second Murong He is too soft and handsome in appearance, with enough literary talent, but not as good as martial arts, and lacks the leadership style of a general, but the third Murong Bai combines the advantages of the two, and is handsome and handsome, both civil and military.

Muyun Simei, the relationship between the four is quite iron, but Murong He and Xiao Jingyu have a particularly close relationship, born in the same year and month, the two grew up together since childhood, often going in and out together, eating and sleeping together, and sleeping together.

Li Junye and Yan Zijin, although the relationship is also very close and good, but it does not have the physical intimacy between Xiao Mu and the two of them.

Li Junye and Yan Zijin often joked that Murong He could be Xiao Jingyu's wife.

When Xiao Jingyu heard this, he didn't refute it, but took the initiative to recognize Murong Bai as his wife, and even took a flamboyant bite in private, calling Murong He a lady.

Whenever Xiao Jingyu called like this, Murong He was often a little embarrassed, but he didn't hate it.

Because, as everyone knows, it's just a nickname with a joking nature.

However, Li Junye and Yan Zijin didn't expect that their relationship would go beyond the intimacy between friends and go in the direction of lovers.

Xiao Jingyu said afterwards that the relationship between the two people took that step that night because of the two boys with strong blood, looking at the spring palace picture together, comforting each other after being emotional, and accidentally having a physical relationship.

Because, the male style of the upper class of Muyun is more prevalent, and the two of them don't feel that there is anything wrong.

Afterwards, the relationship between the two began to be ambiguous, Xiao Jingyu felt that it was very novel and fun to interact with men at that time, and the two often secretly did things in private.

Li Junye and Yan Zijin still accidentally bumped into each other, only to know that the two had become lovers, but in order to protect the relationship between the two, they kept it secret and did not say anything.

Xiao Jingyu became a lover with Murong He just for novelty and fun at the beginning, but Murong He really invested in this relationship.

Therefore, when Xiao Jingyu began to fall in love with a beautiful actor who sang opera, and took him to four-person parties many times, the relationship between the two broke down.

Murong He asked Xiao Jingyu to choose one of the two, but Xiao Jingyu hesitated, and then Murong and Negative went to the battlefield, hoping to get a result when he came back.

To be honest, Xiao Jingyu actually prefers that Fang Guan's temperament, Murong He's personality is too soft, so he has no passion, and the main reason is that he has eight points of friendship and two points of love for Murong He in his heart.

If Xiao Jingyu chooses a lover in his heart, he will definitely be Fang Guan, but if he breaks up with Murong He, the friendship between the two for more than ten years may be over, so he abandoned Fang Guan after weighing it.

Fang Guan is also a beautiful young man with a strong temper and chastity, and he is also sincere to Xiao Jingyu, and when he learned that he chose to give up on himself, he actually hanged himself in sadness.

Xiao Jingyu was holding Fang Guan's corpse here, just feeling guilty and blaming himself, and learned that when Murong He and Sima Huan went to recover Fengqing Kingdom, they accidentally died of an arrow in their bodies, and the Mu family also lost a seedling.

Xiao Jingyu's first paragraph and the second same-sex love ended in a miserable way, which made Li Junye and Yan Zijin sigh.

In addition to Li Junye and Yan Zijin knowing about this relationship, Murong Bai also knew about it, because the second brother had a very close relationship with him, and the two brothers had nothing to say.

Once the second brother complained to him privately that Xiao Jingyu's phoenix eyes were too merry and bright, and he always looked affectionate when he saw those handsome men and beauties, and he always inadvertently provoked a few peach blossoms, which made him jealous.

He watched his second brother get deeper and deeper into this forbidden relationship this year, and watched him begin to suffer for love, but he couldn't do anything about it.

Murong Bai also complained about Xiao Jingyu in his heart, but he was very beautiful and took care of himself, and this resentment was slowly resolved.

After the death of Murong He, Li Junye became famous and sharp because of his talent, and he participated in the political arena at the age of seven, and he was disgusted by the ugliness of officialdom at an early age, so at the age of sixteen, he resigned and went to a clean mountain village to live in seclusion and cultivate himself.

Li Junye's family also allowed him to rest temporarily and adjust his mentality.

Yan Zijin continued to study in Taixue, preparing for a clear political form, and then officially debuted.

Because the royal family only covers half of the sky with its hands, the only one who can fight head-on with it is the Mu people. The royal family and the Mu clan fought in the dark, even when they sent troops to attack the Fengqing Kingdom.

In addition, the old emperor was sick and about to abdicate, and the competition for imperial power between the four princes became more and more fierce, and each prince had a clan behind him.

Among the eight major clans of the imperial court, the royal family has the merit of founding the country, and its power is the strongest among the eight clans. They supported the crown prince Xiao Jingli to succeed to the throne, because he could rightfully succeed to the throne, although his virtue and talent were not good, but they needed such a puppet emperor even more.

The Sima clan is a clan that has gradually risen in power and is very brave, and has been promoted by the emperor. They supported the second prince Xiao Jingmu to succeed to the throne, because the crown prince was not virtuous, and the old emperor seemed to be dissatisfied. The second prince's virtue and ability, although not the best among the four brothers, are honest and a good partner.

The Jiang clan and the Zhao clan, the declining old clans of the north and the south, often act together after coming to the south, standing in the position of the third prince Xiao Jinghong, the three princes are very good, and their performance is very dazzling among the princes.

The Mu people supported the fourth prince Xiao Jingyu, although Xiao Jingyu was uninterested in the struggle for imperial power, and liked to travel in the mountains and rivers and play with literature. But they intuitively felt that he had great potential.

The Yan clan and the Li clan secretly prefer to support Xiao Jingyu, but the form is not clear, they do not support any prince on the surface, and they have an ambiguous attitude towards everyone, while the local clan in Jiangnan is a thorough centrist, and no one supports it.

The struggle for imperial power is getting more and more fierce, but Xiao Jingyu is getting more and more away from the eye of the political storm, and he loves to play and dance more and more.

Even more than once in front of everyone, Ming said that he didn't want to be an emperor, he preferred literature and art, and just wanted to be a chic prince.

As a result, Xiao Jingyu made friends with a large number of literati and artists, and it was not happy to travel with them.

At that time, Xiao Jingyue was riddled with illness, and in the selection of the person to succeed the throne, he abolished the prince who made a big mistake, so that he lost the qualification to inherit the throne, and set up another second prince as the crown prince, when he had to succeed to the throne the next day.

The royal family instigated the crown prince to unite and kill the second prince, intending to forcibly ascend the throne, and then force the palace to ask the old emperor for guilt.

When the old emperor found out, he was very angry, united with the other seven clans, and after suppressing the rebellious royal family of the royal family, he severely punished the crime, and demoted the abolished prince to a concubine and sent him to the frontier and never returned.

The old emperor also assigned the personnel directly involved in the royal family to the frontier, and issued a ban, the children of the royal family, women are never allowed to enter the harem to be the queen and the third concubine, and men are never allowed to be first-class ministers, unless the ban is lifted.

Just as the Sima clan, the Tao clan, the Zhao clan, and the Jiang clan triumphantly congratulated in advance that the three princes were about to become the next emperor, and when they were stammering, the old emperor issued a holy decree to summon Xiao Jingyu, who was traveling in the mountains and rivers, to come back.

On the day the new emperor was announced, the three princes were full of ambition, and Xiao Jingyu also congratulated the three princes in advance on becoming emperors, and everyone thought that Xiao Jinghong was the next emperor.

Xiao Jingyue announced that Xiao Jingyu became the emperor, and the ministers in the hall thought that their ears had heard it wrong, and even Xiao Jingyu himself couldn't believe it.

The Mu clan, the Yan clan, and the Li clan laughed secretly, in fact, the winner and the loser were divided from the beginning.

Li Junye is a far-sighted person, when he has not become friends with Xiao Jingyu, the clansmen asked him which of the four princes can be the emperor, and he definitely said that it was Xiao Jingyu.

Later, when the war for the emperor began, his Li clan secretly supported Xiao Jingyu and remained neutral on the surface.

Yan Zijin and Li Junye have a good relationship, and once asked him, and found that the two had the same opinion, and they firmly believed in their own position, so they used this way.

And the Mu clan supports Xiao Jingyu because his biological mother is a member of the clan, and before Murong He died, he also explained that his clansmen should firmly support Xiao Jingyu.

Perhaps, Xiao Jingyu really didn't want to be an emperor in his heart, but his choice of self-preservation method of freeing himself from the eye of the storm and making friends with the elites of the literati has already sent him to the throne.

Xiao Jingyue gave a reason for making Xiao Jingyu the emperor: because he is more talented than Xiao Jinghong, his personality is benevolent and calm, and Xiao Jinghong likes to make great achievements, which is easy to destroy Muyun's century-old foundation.

Xiao Jingyu refused to be the emperor in front of him, and the old emperor said with a smile, then you can commit suicide inappropriately.

As a result, Xiao Jingyu was forced to become the emperor, and with the support of the literati friends he had met before, as well as the support of the Mu, Li, and Yan peoples, he ascended the throne as the new emperor.

At this time, it was the second year of war between Fengqingguo and Muyun, the two countries were stalemate, and the soldiers began to get tired.

The soldiers, whose morale was boosted, soon joined forces to attack the next city, and the momentum was like a bamboo.

In the third year, Fengqing Kingdom was already at the end of its strength, and the people could not bear the pressure of life brought about by the war and the enslavement of the government, so they took the initiative to open the city gate to welcome Mu Yun's army in, and the three-year war came to an end.

The court of Fengqing also took the initiative to surrender, and since then Fengqing has become Fengqing County.

Xiao Jingyu stabilized, lacking a talent who could do things for himself, thinking of Li Junye, who was in seclusion, he sent three urges and four people to invite his friend who had been in seclusion for three years and was not enough to come out, and let him become the right minister.

Xiao Jingyu's third relationship between the same sex is even more vigorous. In the second year when he became the new emperor, suddenly the leader of the Hu tribe in the north, Beihan Mo, protruded in a different place, drove away others, laid down a piece of land, and established himself as the king in Chang'an, known as the Northern Han Kingdom.

Muyun is a big country, how can he endure a small country, shouting on the other side of his home, he sent the two brothers of the Mu family to exterminate it with 20,000 people.

Unexpectedly, he suffered two defeats and suffered more than 5,000 casualties, so I realized that this Beihan may not be simple.

Murong Bai wrote from the front line that there were 100,000 people in Beihan, half of whom were Han Chinese, and only 50,000 people could fight normally. The three brothers and sisters of Beihan are all powerful people, and the leader Beihan Mo is cunning and steady, and he has a strong ability to call.

The second, although Bei Hanjian was born with one eye, he was extremely brutal and ferocious, and he fought very hard.

The third, Bei Hanjing is a woman, with infinite strength, and the army she leads is extremely united and united.

In the letter, it was especially emphasized that there was a man named Han Qing under Bei Hanjing, who was cunning and treacherous and very good at fighting, good at ambush sneak attacks and guerrillas, and brought 3,000 people to defeat his brother with 10,000 soldiers and horses.

He fought with Rong Bai and ended in a draw. Murong Bai's ability to lead troops to fight is definitely not weak, especially when he helped Sima Huan attack Fengqing together, which accelerated Fengqing's demise in advance.

This can't help but arouse the curiosity of Xiao Jingyu and others, and they want to go to the front line to see this small and tenacious Northern Cold Country in person.