Speaking of the Southern Dynasty, Xiao Yi was proclaimed emperor in Xunyang, and Xiao Gang was unable to conquest, so that the two beams stood side by side, so that in the eyes of Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling was inevitably tempted.

If Xiao Ji had no intention of taking the throne, he would not have gone east to fight for hegemony in the original time and space, and was attacked and occupied by Yuwentai.

This time, Chen Ba first returned from Jingnan to his division, bringing a large number of people and materials, which fueled Xiao Ji's ambitions.

It's just that Xiao Ji is called the lord of Lingnan, but the real power is in the hands of Chen Baxian, and all the Han and Slang in the army obey him, if he wants to ascend to the throne, he must obtain Chen Baxian's support.

On the third day of December, Xiao Ji visited Chen Baxian's military camp again.

As soon as the two entered the camp, Xiao Ji pretended to be sad and said:

"There are no two days in the sky, how can there be two kings in a country, the country will collapse once, and Ji will not be able to swallow it every time he thinks about it."

What a character Chen Baxian is, he can see through Xiao Ji's mind at a glance, but he is also fed up with being shackled by the Jiankang court.

"The rise and fall of the country is tied to the top, if the Ming ruler rules the world, excite to be strong, although the northerners bow and horse prosperity, there is nothing to fear; If the lord is in power, the court will be filled with small nights, and although there are millions of people, it will be difficult to reverse the decline. ”

Chen Baxian's words made Xiao Ji's heart excited, and he took the opportunity to ask:

"The third brother of the lonely one, who has been in the East Palace for twenty years, is now the Son of Heaven, and his person is elegant and well-read, can he be the master?"

Chen Baxian shook his head and said:

"If the Son of Jiankang was born in an ordinary family, he should be a generation of Wenzong, but as a monarch, he is not in the article words, but in planning military and political affairs, the Son of Jiankang was defeated by the two kings first, and then bent to the north of the Jiangbei, and has become a puppet of the Qi people, what is the Ming Lord!"

Xiao Jiqiang couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and asked again:

"The lonely seventh brother Xiangdong Wang Yi, the elite soldiers under his command will be wide, and he will set up another center in Xunyang, and the government and the opposition are silent, and his power is so powerful, can he be the master?"

Chen Baxian denied again:

"The king of Xiangdong is mean and unkind, and his suspicion is worse than that of the lord of Qi, I heard that where he raised his army, the general Wang Seng under his command argued that he was afraid that the Qi people would benefit, and dissuaded him, but he was suspicious of Jiankang, and he drew a knife to hit him, such a temperament, how can he be the master!"

Xiao Ji asked again:

"Could it be that what General Chen said is the lonely's sixth brother, Shaoling Wang Lun?"

Hearing this, Chen Ba laughed first:

"I heard that King Shaoling often has the intention of killing his father and killing his brother, if such disloyal and unfilial people are the masters, won't they make the world laugh!"

Xiao Ji sighed:

"The three brothers of the lonely are not the masters, so I, the Xiao family, I am afraid that they will be merged by the thieves, and they will not be able to live for a long time."

Chen Baxian changed his previous reserve and said eagerly:

"The king has counted the three sons of the first emperor, but he only missed himself, when the king was ordered to Shu, the government was harmonious, and he could win the hearts of the bureaucrats; When ruling Lingnan, know people and make good use of them, and make slang people attached, now the people of Lingnan are solid, the soldiers are full of food, all the king's merits, want to save the Liang Sheji, not the king, no one can do this! ”

"This, this, how does this make."

Xiao Ji pretended to excuse himself.

Chen Baxian immediately ordered someone to summon the generals, and when all the generals arrived, Chen Baxian said in a loud voice:

"The heart of the northerners is not dead, and now it is when the country is in trouble, the son of heaven is a thief, the kings are vying for profit, and only the king of Wuling (Xiao Ji) is cheering up.

"In an extraordinary time, do extraordinary things, Chen has the ambition to help the community, and is willing to serve the king of Wuling as the king, help him reorganize the country, all the kings and I are one heart, please give your right arm!"

As soon as the words fell, the handsome tent generals showed their right arms one after another and echoed in unison.

Xiao Ji was happy and worried when he saw this, he was happy that he had won Chen Baxian's support, and there was no obstacle to the road to becoming emperor, and he was worried that Chen Baxian's prestige was so high, which also made him deeply uneasy.

But it doesn't matter, first set the name of the monarch and the minister, now it is the chaos of the four seas, it is the time to employ people, and be patient, and wait for the future to do the rabbit dead dog cooking, the bird is hidden in the bow.

Xiao Ji left as he wished, and prepared to discuss the enthronement ceremony with his cronies.

The rest of the generals also withdrew, leaving only Hou Andu and Chen Baxian's nephew Chen Qian.

"Uncle could have been self-reliant, why should he serve King Wuling as the master!"

The young and vigorous Chen Qian said indignantly.

Chen Baxian and Hou An both looked at each other and smiled, and in Chen Qian's puzzled gaze, they explained to him:

"Qian'er doesn't know, although the Xiao family is now immoral and fratricidal, but if we stand on our own feet in Guangzhou, it may make the northern three Xiao use this as an excuse to abandon their previous suspicions and attack me together, besides, our foundation is still shallow, and we can't act eagerly."

Xiao Ji is the emperor, that is the internal contradiction of their Xiao family, if Chen Ba is self-reliant first, it may provoke the Xiao family to attack, which is also the reason why Chen Baxian decided to support Xiao Ji.

Chen Qian realized.

On December 12, after only nine days of preparation, Xiao Ji officially took the throne of the emperor in Panyu County, Guangzhou, established the imperial court, sealed the civil and military officials, worshiped Chen Baxian as the prime minister, and supervised the military posts of China and foreign countries.

When the news reached Jiankang, Xiao Gang was furious.

Xunyang has no ability to exterminate a puppet emperor, Xiao Ji has set up another central government in Lingnan, the two beams stand side by side, and the eyes have become the three beams, maybe it won't be long before Xiao Lun in Jingnan will also take action, that is not a master of peace.

Sure enough, not long after Xiao Ji became emperor, Xiao Lun also painted a tiger according to the cat, proclaimed himself emperor in Changsha in Xiangzhou Prefecture, and set up a hundred officials.

The changes in the situation in Jiangnan made Gao Cheng very enjoyable.

On the first day of the fifth year of Zhaode, the little king of Gao, who went out of the city to worship He Liuhun in Pishan, did not forget to inform his father of this, and at the same time sighed that He Liuhun was not blessed to see the current scenery of Yaoguang Temple.

As far as King Xiaogao's filial piety is concerned, he has to sacrifice his deceased father from time to time, how can he really bury He Liuhun under the Jade City, and it will be troublesome to come and go.

Gao Cheng simply took Jiankang Xiaogang as the east beam, Xunyang Xiao Yi as the west beam, Changsha Xiao Lun as the north beam, and Panyu Xiao Ji as the south beam to distinguish the four beams of the Southern Dynasty.

At the moment when the Northern Qi was hindered by the covenant and could not annex Jiangnan for the time being, there was no threat from foreign enemies, and this Xiao Liang really fell apart.

The Lord of Qi Gao Cheng worshiped He Liuhun and said mostly happy events.

Outside Jiankang City, Xiao Gang worships Xiao Yan, which is a real crying temple.

To say that Xiao Gang did not complain about Xiao Yan, it was all self-deception, Xiao Yan only cared about himself, leaving him a mess, several brothers and towns, all of them were strong vassals, laying the root cause for today's national division.

Xiao Gang snorted and cried in Xiao Yan Temple, crying about his hardships, he didn't want to grovel to Gao Cheng, according to his generation, Xiao Gang is still an old man.

But the situation is stronger than people, if you don't bend your mind to serve, the 30,000 Qi troops are in the Gyeonggi region of Eastern Liang, and your position as the Son of Heaven will not be stable at all, but who can understand your difficulties.

Now everyone in Jiangnan spurns him as the emperor, and he already knows that being the Son of Heaven is such a situation waiting for him, Xiao Gang can't wait for Xiao Yan to come back to life, and it is better for him to be the prince for another twenty years than such a nest.

When Xiao Gang was crying at the temple, Wu Mingche, the general of the Eastern Liang Dynasty, was also faced with a difficult choice.

To this day, Wu Mingche can't forget a secret meeting with the Son of Heaven of Northern Qi when he was called out of the city a few months ago.

The emperor of Northern Qi is a very kind person, and his first words left a deep impression on Wu Mingche:

'Don't care about those vulgar rites, I know that most of you people in Jiangnan call me a high thief, a Beilu, a Xianbeier, I reintroduce to you, my surname is Gao, my name is Cheng, the word Zihui, born in Bohai Gao, although my deceased father is with Beizhen Xianbei, but it is indeed a Han person. ’

The emperor of Northern Qi was very concerned about his Han identity, which was something that Wu Mingche had never been exposed to in the past.

When Wu Mingche was still shocked that he was secretly received by Gao Cheng, Gao Cheng asked him another question:

Since the rebellion of Yongjia in the former Jin Dynasty, China has been divided for 240 years, during which the north and south have faced each other, and the war is endless.

I heard that General Wu had broken his family to help his neighbors, and I thought that I also had a benevolent heart, and I didn't know that I was willing to work with me, a man from the north, to end this troubled era, so that the people of the north and south could become one family and no longer suffer from military disasters. ’

Wu Mingche was in turmoil for a while, but the Northern Qi Heavenly Son smiled and said with a gentle smile:

There is time, and General Wu does not need to reply in a hurry. ’

During this period of time, Wu Mingche was restless all day long, with his wisdom, of course, he knew that taking refuge in Northern Qi in secret, whether it was for himself or the clan, it would be of great benefit, after all, people of insight knew that Xiao Liang had been defeated many times before, and had lost Huainan and Jianghan, and now it was divided, and it was even more difficult to compete with Gao Qi.

But I can't turn the bend in my heart, as Gao Cheng said, after two hundred and forty years of separation between the north and the south, many things have been used to, such as hatred of the barbarian regime in the north, even if Gao Cheng emphasized his Han identity, it made Wu Mingche difficult to adapt for a while.

Just the accident happened on the first day of the fifth year of Zhaode, and in the evening Wu Mingche returned to the mansion and received a secret letter.

The letter is Gao Cheng's condolences to him on the first day, and a Yuefu poem from the Han and Wei dynasties is attached:

"Fifteen from the army, eighty years to return.

Daofeng villagers: 'Who is there in the family?' ’

'From a distance, it is the Jun family, and the pine and cypress mounds are numerous. ’

The rabbit enters from the dog's sinus, and the pheasant flies from the beam.

The atrium is born in the valley, and Inoue is born in the valley.

The spring valley is held as a soup, and the sunflower is held as a soup.

The soup is cooked for a while, and I don't know who Yi'a is.

When I went out to look east, tears stained my clothes. ”

After the poem, there is Gao Cheng's emotion:

Although this poem is an old work of the Han and Wei dynasties, it is not a true portrait of countless soldiers in the past two hundred and forty years, the deceased father was born in poverty, if it were not for fate, Cheng was just one of them, so he had the ambition to end the troubled times, the heart of the north and the south, so that the people were not subject to the hardships of conscription, so that Li Shu could enjoy the joy of reunion, more than 200 years of troubled times, it should be over! ’

Of course, Wu Mingche knew that this letter could not have been sent from Luoyang, it should have been left to Duan Shao when Gao Cheng left Jiangnan, and asked him to give it to him in the Yuan Ri.

But Wu Mingche really felt this intention.

After reading the full letter, Wu Mingche, who had already retired from the slave and maid, said sincerely to the messenger:

"Please tell Your Majesty that you have received great love and gratitude, and you are willing to serve the king as a dog and horse."