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

Chapter 472 Competing in the Central Plains (33)

Yandu
Yan Palace
"Liu Yu of the Jin Kingdom wants us to send their emperor back. What's your opinion?" Yan Houlan asked Jiu Qing for his opinion.

"As long as the price he offers is high enough, not to mention an emperor, he can give the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom."

"If an emperor exchanges a population of one million, it depends on whether Liu Yu agrees or not."

"A jade seal of the Chuan Kingdom is exchanged for a population of 200 million. Anyway, it is just a piece of jade. Our country of Yan does not need this thing to prove its legitimacy. It is better to exchange some people to open up wasteland."

"Liu Yu is now a powerful minister of the Jin Kingdom, and he probably wants to usurp the throne. If he does this, he may break with Jiang Zuo."

"If you break up, you will break up. If Jiangzuo doesn't pay Liao, Wei will naturally give it up. How can you give up the meat that is on your lips?"

"Now is not the time for the unification of the Central Plains. If the South does not give us, we will help the North. If the North does not give us, we will help the South. This is the benefit of the division of the Central Plains, which gives us more choices."

"..."

Listening to Jiuqing's discussion, Yan Houlan said calmly: "In that case, then arrange for an envoy to go to Jiangzuo, and let Jiangzuo use the population to find us in exchange for their emperor."

"By the way, prepare the envoys to go to Pingcheng (the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty), and it's almost time to pay them the Liao salary."

After Yan Houlan finished speaking, a senior official on the side reminded: "The change of the tribute recipient is a relatively big matter, and a report needs to be made so that it can be explained clearly to the parliament when the next parliament is held."

"I know." Yan Houlan nodded and replied.

……

One month later

Jiankang
"Hehe, a useless puppet emperor wants to exchange 100 million people, wishful thinking!"

After learning of the conditions offered by the Yan Kingdom, Liu Yu sneered, and then he did not intend to redeem the emperor, and directly established a new puppet emperor.

Another half a month later, Liu Yu and others selected a three-year-old boy from the Sima royal clan to be the emperor.

Another three months later, the three-year-old little boy Emperor Zen was located in Liu Yu, king of the Song Dynasty. Liu Yu accepted the abdication, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and the country was named "Song".

"Yao, Shun and Yu in ancient times also gave way in this way. Our Great Song Dynasty has the style of the ancients!" Fu Liang laughed.

Another six months later, after securing the position of emperor, Liu Yu began to eradicate the Sima clan.

The Sima family was killed until blood flowed like rivers. Some of them fled to the state of Wei, and some fled to the state of Yan.

Langya Wang's and Chenjun's Xie's trembled, they could only hide in their manor, for fear of offending Liu Yu.

Xie Lingyun wanted to become a prime minister, but because he came from a wealthy family, he was feared by Liu Yu's staff from a poor family, so he was never reused.

Depressed and frustrated, he traveled around the mountains and rivers with Liu Yizhen all day long, and also began to plan to immigrate to the country of Yan.

At this time, the time has come to the summer of Yanhou 210 (421).

Heijo
Royal Palace
"Xuan, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom have an audience!"

After a while, the envoy of Yan State, who was wearing the uniform of an envoy, came to the main hall and respectfully said to Tuo Basi, the emperor of Wei State who was seated on the main seat: "The ministers have seen Your Majesty, Your Majesty has been around for ten thousand years!"

In the past few years, Wei Guo has been fighting Rouran and Hu Xia. Last year, he wiped out [-] cavalrymen in Rouran and captured millions of livestock.

Rouran has become the experience baby of the Wei State, and when she has nothing to do, she goes north to the grasslands to grab livestock.

Knowing that she was not Wei's opponent, Rouran also changed her thinking, stopped going south for the time being, and instead went west to attack the countries of the Western Regions.

However, most of the millions of livestock captured by Wei State were sold to Yan State in Liaodong.

Using livestock to buy a large number of armored armor, iron tools, books, silk porcelain, wool cloth, glassware, fine wine, etc. from Yan State in Liaodong.

Now Wei State has [-] armored cavalry and [-] light armored cavalry. It is a well-deserved cavalry empire.

After the exchange of courtesies, the envoy of the Yan Kingdom returned to Honglu Temple. Emperor Tuoba Si summoned Cui Hao and asked him: "Now Yan Kingdom has surrendered to our country, but according to the usual practice, I, a big country in the Central Plains, should be rewarded. The envoys of the Yan State want a reward of one billion dollars per year, how much do you think this reward is appropriate?"

"According to the number of Nanguo." Cui Hao replied.

The amount of the Southern Kingdom, that is, the amount of the previous Jin Dynasty, gave the Liao Dynasty [-] million yuan to the Yan Kingdom every year, as a reward from the great country of the Celestial Dynasty to the surrender of the small state.

"The reward is so little, what if people make fun of me, Dawei, for being stingy?" Tuoba Si frowned.

"Now the country is exhausted and needs to recuperate. When the country is rich and the people are strong in the future, we will give enough rewards. Naturally, no one dares to mock us for being stingy." Cui Hao comforted the emperor Tuo Basi.

Another month later, the Yan State envoy happily returned to Yan State with a cart full of gold, escorted by Wei State soldiers along the way.

Another year later, Liu Yu, the emperor of Liu Song, died suddenly while preparing for the Northern Expedition, and his son Liu Yifu came to the throne.

During the mourning period, Liu Yifu played with his concubines and wombs. He even kissed his concubines on the grave of the first emperor Liu Yu, and showed his father how to make a woman pregnant.

After the mourning was over, Liu Yifu ignored government affairs, built a commercial street in the palace, and played role-playing, letting his favorite concubines sell themselves to bury their fathers in the commercial street, and then let his guards rob people Female, in the end he played the hero to save the beauty.

The auxiliary ministers left behind by Liu Yu saw the emperor being so absurd, so they wanted to follow Huo Guang's example.

A few months later, the auxiliary ministers staged a coup and killed the emperor Liu Yifu, and then when the new emperor was established, they began to struggle.

According to the line of succession, Liu Yizhen should be the emperor, but Liu Yizhen is a heavyweight. When he was 12 years old, he led soldiers to rob his own people, and now he goes to the mountains and rivers with Xie Lingyun to visit brothels every day.

This heavyweight is obviously even more unsuitable to be an emperor.

Therefore, the auxiliary ministers demoted Liu Yizhen to a commoner, then killed Liu Yizhen, and finally welcomed Liu Yilong to the throne.

However, they thought they were imitating Huo Guang, but they were actually imitating Rick.

In the past, Rick killed two foolish monarchs in a row, but was killed when he welcomed the third monarch in the end.

You can kill the previous monarch, can't you kill me, the new monarch?
Whenever a new monarch encounters such a loyal minister who dares to kill the king, he will be so vigilant in his heart.

As the saying goes, it is better to strike first, in order to prevent yourself from being regicide, it is better to kill the other party in advance.

Adhering to this logic, shortly after Liu Yilong ascended the throne, he killed the three assistant ministers left by Liu Yu.

When Liu Song was in chaos, Wei Guo in the north took the opportunity to go south and occupied Luoyang and other places in Liu Song.

However, Tuobasi also died of illness after conquering Luoyang, and the crown prince Tuobatao came to the throne.

Another month later, in the first month of the fifth year of Yanhou 210 (425), Emperor Wei Tuoba Tao granted Yanhou Lan as Yangong and Xingfancheng Lord Zheng as Yanhou.

This was Cui Hao's suggestion. After hearing that Yan State had two monarchs, Cui Hao canonized one as the Lord of Yan and the other as the Marquis of Yan, in order to divide the interior of Yan State.

However, people in the Central Plains obviously do not understand the political system of the Yan State. The Yan State is not an autocratic monarchy in the Central Plains. The power is not in the hands of the monarch, but in the hands of the noble council and the Jiuqing, so it is meaningless to provoke the relationship between the monarch.

Yanhou Zheng, whose real name is Huan Zheng, is the eldest son of Huanxuan's granddaughter and a nobleman of the royal family. According to the practice of the royal family over the years, the descendants of the royal family and outsiders all have the outsider's surname.

Therefore, nowadays, the Wang family is not surnamed Wang, and there is a high probability that the surname Wang is not the Wang family, unless that outsider happens to also be surnamed Wang.

The Wang family with the purest blood have all changed their surnames to "Yan", and the rest have the surnames of outsiders.

Huan Zheng first made Yan Houlan a male pet, and was later designated by Yanhou Lan as the successor of Yanhou and Yanhou in the southern capital, so he changed his surname to "Yan", so he can be called "Wang Zheng", "Huan Zheng" and "Yan Zheng". sign".

(End of this chapter)