Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 448 Competing in the Central Plains (21)

half year later

Summer of the 170th year of Marquis Yan (380)
Fu Jian's million-strong army has finally been recruited and is now rushing to various battlefields one after another.

Among them, the Jiangling and Guangling battlefields have already started, the Western Regions battlefield has just started, and the Mobei battlefield has also begun to leave. Only the Liaodong battlefield has been delayed again and again.

It was the conscripts from Jizhou who were in charge of attacking Liaodong, but Jizhou was severely affected by the disaster and the conscription was very difficult, so the local officials could only keep delaying, for fear of causing civil uprisings and large-scale rebellions.

Fu Rong was in charge of the Jiangling battlefield, and Fu Pi was in charge of the Guangling battlefield. The war started smoothly. The Jin army was not only smaller than the Qin army, but also inferior in combat effectiveness. It was defeated by Murongchui and Yao Chang. As a prisoner of the Qin army, Huan Chong, the governor of Jingzhou in the state of Jin, was about to wear his left coat.

However, Xie An, the supreme commander of the Jin Kingdom, was very calm, not panicking at all, and was interested in playing chess and betting on villas with others.

After Huan Wen's death, his younger brother Huan Chong took over the military power in Jingzhou, and the power of the government was in the hands of Xie An.

Jiankang
Royal Palace
main hall
"Xuan, the envoy of Yan Kingdom will meet you!"

"Xuan, the envoy of Yan Kingdom will meet you!"

"Xuan, the envoy of Yan Kingdom will meet you!"

Su Lan, Yan Hu's granddaughter, came to the Jin Dynasty with a few guards.

A month ago, when the people of Yan State were nervously preparing to guard against the invasion of Qin State, Yan Houxue died, and his grandson Taishi Hu ascended the throne.

His great-granddaughter Su Lan was born to his grandson and Su Jun's great-granddaughter, and he and Su Jun often drink together and call each other brothers.

Not only that, the great-granddaughter Su Lan's aunt, also the granddaughter of Tai Shihu, was very much loved by Yan Houxue. Yan Houxue also spent two hundred gold to make a dress for Su Lan's aunt. Later, Su Lan's aunt married Su Jun's great-grandson.

And Su Jun's great-grandson is Su Lan's mother's elder brother, so in terms of seniority, Su Lan's aunt is also Su Lan's aunt.

According to the usual practice, the great-granddaughter Lan was named Su Lan after her mother's surname because she did not have a seat in the parliamentary nobility. (If the mother is from the royal family and the father is an outsider, then follow the father's surname in turn.)
Marquis Hu of Yan was established as the crown prince at the age of 30, and he officially ascended the throne at the age of 80, which is equivalent to being a crown prince for 50 years, and he is the longest crown prince in the country of Yan so far.

The second oldest is Wang Ding, who was established as the crown prince when he was just born, and came to the throne at the age of 40, which is equivalent to being a prince for 40 years.

As soon as she came to the throne, Yan Hu felt that her time was running out, so she wanted to train her great-granddaughter Su Lan to be her heir.

Letting her go to Jin country is an important training for her.

Su Lan has just turned 16 years old this year. She has a lively nature and likes beautiful clothes. Her biggest hobby in her life is to collect a lot of beautiful clothes.

The ministers of the state of Jin felt insulted when they saw a young girl sent by the state of Yan.

"Does your country not understand diplomatic etiquette? Why did you send a woman as an envoy? Could it be that you look down on me, the Great Jin?" Sima Yao said dissatisfiedly, he felt that he, the emperor of Jin, was underestimated.

"Miss Su Lan is the crown prince of my country of Yan, and there is nothing wrong with inheriting the throne in the future!" The guard of the country of Yan said nothing or humility.

hiss--

Everyone in the hall gasped, and they all looked at the girl who seemed very peaceful.

I saw that the girl was wearing a Chinese dress that only men would wear, and she also wore a hair crown on her head, but the shape of this dress was much smaller than that of men, and it seemed that it was specially made for women.

"Since he is the crown prince of the Yan Kingdom, there is nothing wrong with it." Xie An, the attendant in the main hall, rushed to the rescue.

After the Southern Transition, there were many changes in official positions in the Great Jin Dynasty, that is, the actual power of official positions such as Sangong Jiuqing was weakened, and some inconspicuous official positions were strengthened in actual power.

This is normal. For example, if you are a general of an army, you flee after a failure. During the escape, some soldiers with relatively small ranks are very loyal, so you will naturally let them hold the real power. If you are fast, you will naturally refuse to give him real power.

The most important of these is that the powers of Shangshu Sheng and Zhongshu Sheng have been greatly strengthened.

Zhongshu Sheng began as a small team of secretaries of Emperor Sima Yan, and gradually developed into an authority to assist the emperor in making decisions.

Shangshu Province was originally called Shangshutai, and Shangshutai was also a small team of secretaries of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che at the beginning. Gradually, because of its close relationship with the emperor, its power became more and more powerful.

Similarly, there are the Military Aircraft Department, the inspection, and the cabinet. When a small team surrounds the core of power, it will inevitably gradually replace the institution that should have held power.

There is also a similar case that the Liaodong royal family's Jiacheng, and later Shang Shuling and Jiaqing, were just secretaries who assisted the patriarch in governing at the beginning, but gradually became the core power organization, and finally surpassed the patriarch in power.

Where the core of power is, there is the authority, which has nothing to do with the name of the authority.

Therefore, although Xie An was not a high-ranking official in the Han Dynasty, his rank was much lower than that of Jiuqing, but in the Jin Dynasty, he was actually the core of power, and his rank was higher than that of Jiuqing.

In addition to the changes in the status of official positions, more than 20 official positions with a clearer division of labor have also appeared in Jin, such as the Minister of Officials, the Minister of Rites, etc., a total of more than [-] ministers assisting the work of the Ministry of Shangshu.

(Different from ordinary people’s imagination, most people may think that the system of three provinces and six departments and the imperial examination system appeared out of thin air in the Sui Dynasty, but it’s still the same sentence, everything has a prototype and a developmental context, not a whim and appearing out of thin air , as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was already a rudimentary form of the system of three provinces and six departments. However, there were more than 20 departments in this period. The system of three provinces and six departments.)
(The same is true for the imperial examination system. Enrollment through examinations already existed in the Jin Dynasty, but it was not the mainstream, and generally it was just a formality. The back door had long been opened to the children of the aristocratic family. The proportion of examination admissions increased, and it was not until the Sui Dynasty that it became a formal recruitment system.)
Xie An, who has already entered the core power level of the Jin Dynasty, is currently in charge of the construction of the defense line of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, stepping up the expansion of the army, and ordered the people of Jin to be exempted from taxes for three years, so as to avoid civil uprisings in Jin when they resist the Qin army.

The Great Jin court has never done anything good to the people since it went to the south. It suddenly exempted them from taxes for three years, and all the people of the Jin country felt like a dream.

All in all, Xie An is not a pedantic person, and he will not be inflexible for the sake of his status in the aristocratic family. In order to win, he can lower his status, and he can also do things that other aristocratic families disdain to do.

It can be compared to Wang Jue, everything is for winning, everything is for victory, if you can't win, it's a lie to say more, and you are qualified to talk about the future if you win.

In order to defeat the state of Qin, even if she lowered her noble status as a family, so what if she got close to the common people?
(End of this chapter)