Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 396 Redemption (3000)

The current decline of Nanliang can be seen clearly even by the Xia family. Ever since Gao Cheng said that he would not treat Xiao Fangzhi as a prisoner and allowed him to be rich, the Xia family has never proposed to send his son back to the south.

Xiao Yi currently has six sons in existence. In addition to the fourth son Xiao Fangju, the ninth son Xiao Fangzhi, the tenth son Xiao Fanglue, and the No.11 son Xiao Fanggui who fell into the hands of Gao Cheng, there is also a long-term servant of Xiao Yan who has served Xiao Yan on behalf of his father in Jiankang. The second son Xiao Fangzhu, and not long ago Xiao Yan ordered the eldest sons of the kings to visit Beijing, so Xiao Fang, the eldest son of eastern Hunan, entered the court.

Xiao Fangzhi is a concubine, if not for the second elder brother Xiao Fangzhu who was killed by Hou Jing in Jiankang, the eldest brother Xiao Fang and others drowned in defeat, and the fourth brother Xiao Fangju was killed together with his father Xiao Yi after the Western Wei Dynasty broke the city, how could it be his turn? He came to be the last emperor of Nanliang.

Knowing that his son had no chance of succession to the throne, the Xia family also planned to keep Xiao Fangzhi in Jiangbei.

Perhaps because of Ai Wu Ji Wu, Xia's flattery and flattery over the past few days have reaped rewards, and Gao Cheng recognized Xiao Fangzhi, who was only six years old, as a fake.

Of course, Xiao Gaowang is very careful about his own son, let alone a fake son who is not related by blood, destined to only be rich and powerful, and rare to have power.

But this identity is a life-saving talisman after all, no matter which family rules the world in the end of the Qi-Liang dispute, as the fake son of the Northern Qi emperor and the Southern Liang clan, Xiao Fangzhi will be able to live a rich life.

The beloved son of the parents has a far-reaching plan, and the Xia family has worked hard for this only son.

Unlike the six-year-old Xiao Fangzhi who is ignorant, the fourth brother Xiao Fangju is much older than him and knows more. He harbors resentment for his mother Yuan Shi and Gao Cheng's adulterous relationship. It happens that Gao Cheng also hates Xiao Fangju's temperament, which is similar to his father Xiao Yi. , being violent and suspicious, he made up his mind to send him back to Jiangnan.

Yuan shi washed her face with tears every day, begging Gao Cheng to recognize the fake son, but was rejected, which annoyed Gao Cheng even more, so she only favored the younger Xia shi. There has been a lucky move.

At the same time, when Nanliang fell in Jiangling, the core of Jiangbei, news of the success of the frontline Northern Qi soldiers was frequent.

To the east of Hanshui, under the cover of Hu Luguang, Murong Shaozong opened up the connection with Huainan, and to the west of Hanshui, Peng Le led troops to capture it, and Gao Aocao also included the east of Yiling.

Gao Cheng defeated Xiao Yi in the first battle, and the offensive ended when the Northern Qi swallowed the Jianghan Plain.

In the second year of Zhaode (549), on August 23, Gao Cheng ordered himself to go down the river to Jiankang, and went to Nanliang as an envoy to discuss matters such as the redemption of captives.

Prior to this, Xiao Yi and his party were the first envoys from the Northern Qi Dynasty to arrive in Jiangling.

Xiao Yi lost his land in the north of the Yangtze River and went back to the court to plead guilty. Although some ignorant people really thought that he had plotted to assassinate Gao Cheng to cause this military disaster, Xiao Yan could see it clearly and knew that it was just an act of framing Gao Cheng, so he lost his land. For this crime, Xiao Yan also felt that he had made a mistake in choosing a general, and chose Liu Zhongli, so that [-] elite soldiers were wiped out in Anlu.

So he didn't blame Xiao Yi, but transferred him to the governor of Jiangzhou to guard Xunyang.

Jiangzhou was first placed in the first year of Yuankang in the Western Jin Dynasty (291), under the jurisdiction of 10 counties including Yuzhang, Poyang, Luling, Linchuan, Nankang, Jian'an, and Jin'an in Yangzhou, and Wuchang, Guiyang, and Ancheng in Jingzhou land.

Yuzhang was first ruled, and later changed to Xunyang. In the past, Liu Jun, Emperor Xiaowu of the Liu Song Dynasty, raised troops in Xunyang and took over Jiankang. However, if the Southern Dynasties wanted to use Jingzhou as the teacher to go down the river, they had to break through Jiangzhou. hinder.

As for the governor of Jiangzhou, Xiao Yan originally had a more suitable candidate in mind, that is, the former governor of Yizhou, Xiao Ji, Prince of Wuling.

However, when the Northern Qi invaded Jiangling, there was another rebellion in Lingnan.

In Xiao Yan's original plan, it wasn't just Liu Zhongli who led the way. He ordered Chen Baxian to lead the army north to rescue, but Yuan Jingzhong, who was the governor of Guangzhou at the time, had a different ambition.

Yuan Jingzhong defected to Nanliang with his father Yuan Faseng 24 years ago. After Yuan Faseng's death, he became the Duke of Zhijiang County. It has been 542 years now.

With this arrangement, Xiao Yan also took a fancy to his identity as the Yuan Wei clan, and decided that it was impossible for him to cooperate with the Gao family who was plotting to usurp Wei at that time. After all, there were so many cases of slaughtering the clans of the previous dynasty in the Southern Dynasty.

However, Gao Cheng Jianguo did not commit any acts of persecution other than the Duke of the Yuan Dynasty, which made Yuan Jingzhong have other ideas. Even the Xia family can understand the situation of Qi being strong and Liang being weak, let alone him. .

Yuan Jingzhong had secretly sent a letter expressing his willingness to surrender the land of Lingnan to Gao Cheng, but Gao Cheng's reply letter asking him to wait for the time was still on the way, and Yuan Jingzhong was already dealing with Chen Baxian who controlled the military power of the seven counties.

Chen Ba first learned of his plan, and after discussing with Wang Huaiming, the governor of Chengzhou, and Yin Waichen, the Xuanlang of Xingtai, he sent a message to the South of the Five Ridges in Nanhai County, where Fan Yu was located in Guangzhou, to attack Yuan Jingzhong. Yuan Jingzhong raised his troops in July and was defeated by the To be killed by hanging, Chen Ba first went to Xiao Yan to explain in detail the cause and effect of the Guangzhou riot, and asked to send another governor to sit in charge.

Xiao Yan thought that the Lingnan rebellion happened from time to time, so he sent his most valued son Xiao Ji out of the town. After all, aside from the indiscriminate defeat in Guanzhong, Xiao Ji's previous governance in Shu was obvious to all.

Before Xiao Ji took office, another change occurred in Lingnan. It was not only Yuan Jingzhong who made his own claim to respond to the Northern Qi Dynasty. Lanyu and Lan Jingli instigated ten counties including Shixing (Shixing, Guangdong) to attack Hengzhou (Hengyang, Hunan) ), Ouyang Wei, who was the envoy of Linhe (Hezhou, Guangxi) at the time, was in the city of Hengzhou, and he hurriedly asked Xiao Ji for help.

Xiao Ji, who was on the way, hurriedly sent people to Guangzhou first, and it was reported that Chen Baxian led the army to Hengzhou to suppress the rebellion.

Chen Baxian dispatched troops as ordered, defeated the rebels, captured Lan Yu and Lan Jingli alive, and sent them to Jiankang to be executed.

Previously, Chen Ba first quelled the mutiny of Du Tianhe, Du Sengming and others from Lu Zixiong's old subordinates, relieved the siege of Guangzhou, recovered Jiaozhou and other places, and destroyed Wanchun Kingdom. Lan Jingli and other rebels became even more famous.

For example, Hou Andu, Zhang Si and others led more than a thousand people to defect to Chen Baxian, and Mrs. Xian, the leader of the slang, also sent people to express their attachment.

It was only when Xiao Ji arrived in Lingnan that he realized that he seemed to be just a puppet, and Chen Baxian had all the military power in Lingnan.

However, Chen Baxian behaved respectfully. As soon as Xiao Ji arrived in Guangzhou, he led the army back to the station after paying homage to him. He did not see any intention of annexing the Liang armies from all over the country, which made Xiao Ji feel relieved and relied on Chen Baxian as his confidant. With his loyalty and bravery, he devoted himself to military affairs and governed politics with all his heart.

Xiao Ji went to Lingnan, and Jiangzhou naturally fell on Xiao Yi's head.

Xiao Yi bid farewell to his father, and led Wang Sengbian, Du Shi Liujun, Du Kan, and uncle Wang Lin, the eldest son of Xiangdong Prince Xiao Fang, etc., out of the town of Xunyang.

When the Qi envoy sailed across the Xunyang River on a boat, he met Xiao Yi once. Xiao Yi asked about his family members in Jiangling City, and learned that Xu Zhaopei and his three lovers were executed by Gao Cheng. He wrote "Slut Qiusi Fu" to ridicule his wife.

Xiao Yi is not ignorant of Xu Zhaopei's licentious actions, and even more hates Xu Zhaopei for killing his concubine Wang Shi, but because of his family background, he had to swallow his anger and never had an attack.

He also asked about his concubine and his sons, Qi envoy only vaguely revealed that Xiao Fangzhi worshiped Gao Cheng as his adoptive father, and his mood reversed in two levels in an instant.

Of course, Gao Cheng is lustful, and the world knows that if the concubines fall into his hands, how can he keep his innocence? Xiao Yi has long been mentally prepared, and besides, concubines and wives have different names, and among nobles, concubines are often given , Xiao Yi comforted himself with this, and asked Gao Cheng if he could allow himself to redeem his son.

The Qi envoy replied truthfully that he could send people to Jiangling to discuss the ransom of Xiao Fangju, Xiao Fanglue and Xiao Fanggui. Only Xiao Fangzhi, as Gao Cheng's fake son, could not be redeemed.

Xiao Yi was not angry at the beginning, but then he thought about it, if the Great Liang Society were toppled, there would still be Xiao Fangzhi in Jiangbei to continue his blood, and he turned his anger into joy and let the envoys of Qi go.

The envoy of Qi continued to travel downstream. Xiao Yi, while looking for beauties in Jiangzhou, also sent his confidant Du An to Jiangling to discuss with Gao Cheng the redemption of his third son, collection of books, and his concubine Wang's younger sister, Xiao Yi, who died early. I have been coveting my sister-in-law for a long time.

When Du An came to Jiangling, he proposed the name of the Wang family, but was told that this person had been favored by Lord Qi, and that the collection of books had been shipped to Luoyang, so he could only target the three brothers Xiao Fangju, Xiao Fanglue, and Xiao Fanggui for negotiation.

Gao Cheng considered that most of Xiao Yi's property was in Jiangling, and he could not afford to buy it with much money, so he only offered [-] pieces of cloth for each person. The sum of the three people was equivalent to Xiao Yuanming's, a total of [-] pieces, and no counter-offering was allowed. .

Du An readily agreed, the price was fair enough. Before he came to Jiangling, Xiao Yi was still worried that Gao Cheng would demand the same price on the grounds that Xiao Yuanming had sold [-] bolts of cloth.

The private negotiations between Gao Cheng and Xiao Yi went quite smoothly, but the Qi envoy and Nanliang Chaotang who arrived in Jiankang had a lot of difficulties.

The more than [-] captives in Anlu City were all elites in the army. Xiao Yan naturally wanted to redeem them, but he was only willing to take the Liyang peace talks as an example and pay each person a piece of cloth.

Gao Cheng, however, used his elite as an excuse to ask for two bolts of cloth per capita. After some haggling, they each took a step back, and at the price of one and a half bolts per ordinary soldier, they sold the batch of cloth that was popularized by the Qi army in Anlu City to promote the northern land policy. The Liang Jun captives sent back to the south of the Yangtze River received more than [-] horses.

As for the officers and men in the army, the price ranged from [-] to [-] horses. For example, Liu Zhongli and Liu Zili paid [-] horses each and redeemed them for their father Liujin, and they got [-] horses.

The rest of the generals and guards from all over the country have a sporadic sum of nearly [-] horses. Of course, this is all raised by their families.

A total of 12 bolts of cloth were shipped to Jiangling as a ransom, which made Jiangnan's economy worse. Before the Lingnan rebellion, there was a reason for the decline of people's livelihood.

The Northern Qi Dynasty tore up the peace agreement, fabricated crimes at will, and sent troops to crusade against Xiao Yi, which also made the Southern Liang Dynasty and the gentry recognize Gao Cheng's wolf ambitions.

The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River contributed their efforts to support the imperial court in recruiting soldiers, hoping to resist the Qi army going south and let them continue to enjoy various privileges in the south of the Yangtze River.

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