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Jingzhou Prefecture, Xiazhou Yiling Nanjin Pass.

After the river rushes out from Nanjin Pass, Pingkou, the Three Gorges, there is no longer any obstacle from high gorges and deep valleys. The Yangtze River crosses thousands of miles, looking at Chu Tianshu. The Yangtze River ends its rushing and surging upstream and enters the middle and lower reaches of the vast water and sky line. After passing Nanjin Pass, it starts from Yidu, Shaanxi to the west of Jingzhou to Baling, Yuezhou, which is at the junction of Jingchu to the east. This section of 800-mile river road is also called Jingjiang. The Jingjiang River channel is winding and twisted, and is known as the "Nine-Curve Heart". To the north of Jingjiang is the ancient Yunmeng Daze area, and to the south is Dongting Lake. In addition to the Han River in the north, the rich water flow and fertile soil, the Jianghan Plain, the hometown of fish and rice, and the Jianghan Grain Store is formed here. It is connected to the Jianghuai River in the upper reaches of Bashu, the Central Plains in the north, and the Guanzhong in the west. It has an important position and becomes the southern gate of the imperial court.

In the Jingjiang River dozens of miles west of Jiangling, Jingzhou Prefecture City, there is a huge alluvial island called Bailizhou because it is more than a hundred miles away. Bailizhou has a flat terrain and fertile soil. However, because it is surrounded by Jingjiang River and has a low terrain, it is also called Bailizhou in the heart of Jiangxin. Nine out of ten species will not be harvested, planted for three seasons a year, and it will be empty until the year. In the end, this wealthy land almost became a deserted island.

Yang Qing narrowed one eye and exhaled gently. ◇ In one breath, the horn ribs in his hand had been pulled open like a full moon. When it reached its limit, the entire rhinoceros horn bow made a creaking sound. The three-feathered eagle feather arrows had already pointed at a fat deer sixty steps ahead.

The fat buck was standing in a low bush, chewing the tender green leaves comfortably, without knowing that it had been locked up. On this already deserted island, wild beasts reproduced rapidly, and the deer had long regarded this place as their paradise. It would not have thought that today, a large group of young nobles from the court came to hunt here in Jiangling City.

What Yang Qing has to do now is just to easily open the fingers that hooked the bowstring, and then the tightly collapsed bowstring will pop the bow and arrow out. The sharp bow and arrow will pass through sixty steps in an instant, pass through the tender green leaves, pierce the hart's oily brown fur, penetrate the tender flesh, and kill it.

Time passed little by little, and finally Yang Qing shot the arrow. The arrow left the string and nailed it to the tree pole that was only about an inch by the side of the stag. The frightened buck was shocked. Then he jumped away, and the branches beside him shaking. Then it raised its four hooves and flew towards the depths of the woods in panic, and soon disappeared.

Yang Qing lowered his hand and looked at the empty forest and the shaking branches, showing a hint of chuckling. He put away his bow and walked forward. He pulled the best eagle feather arrow from the tree pole, held it in front of him and looked at it a few times. The arrow was still intact and inserted it back into the quiver with a smile.

A young man in hunting leather armor walked over from behind the grass beside him and patted the blade of grass on his body, "With the king's archery technique, he will not miss it."

"I can't bear it for a moment. A life." Yang Qing explained, "Look at how peaceful it is. We suddenly feel bored and want to kill it. It's too cruel to peel it and suck its tendons and eat its meat."

"That's just a beast, the king. What's more, in the jungle, the strong prey on the weak, the deer eats grass, the tiger and the leopard eats deer, and the king doesn't kill it, it will eventually be eaten. Since that's the case, why should your highness do this? Anyway, if you don't eat it, there will be others to eat it."

Yang Qing chuckled, "After that being said, I can't do it."

The young man shook his head angrily, "I didn't see the king not eating meat. After the deer I beat in the morning, wasn't your highness very happy to eat it, and he still said that the venison was tender?"

Yang Qing smiled embarrassedly.

"If you stop, you will suffer the chaos, your highness now cannot bear to kill a deer. It's nothing. Anyway, this deer will run away at most, and it will not turn back and take other deer to siege you."

"I have to think about that matter again," Yang Qing interrupted him.

"What else should I think about? If this continues, it will be too late. Don't you know that Yangzhou has been lost. It's only ten days and half a month since the entire Huainan is lost. You and I know that there are no soldiers left in Huainan at all. The emperor had never thought about retreating at all. He gathered all the troops and horses to Guanzhong. He thought that he could succeed, but now he is trapped in Jiangling, and he cannot take Guanzhong. He retreated and did not have time to defend Jiangdong. We are about to be finished. At that time, you, the King of Hejian, will be back again.

What's the use?" The young man had a very close relationship with Yang Qing. He was named Yuanmin and was newly promoted to the Neishisheshe. His father Yuanshou was a clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty. He was initially appointed as the Marquis of Longcheng County in the Zhou Dynasty. Later, he was renamed the Marquis of Yilong County. He was appointed as the Minister of the Shi Department. He was appointed as the Minister of the Shi Department with Yang Guang and was also the subordinate of Yang Guang's Marshal's Mansion. Therefore, he was also very close to the King of Jin. He was previously the governor of Fuzhou to the east of Jiangling. Yang Guang became emperor. Yuanshou and Yang Hong expressed his loyalty to respond. He was appointed as the Minister of Taifu Temple and General of the Left Guard by Yang Guang. His son Yuanmin was appointed as the Neishisheshesheshesheshes.

Yuanshou also had a relationship with Yang Hong, and Yuanshou's sister was Yang Hong's wife, so Yuanmin and Yang Qing were actually cousins.

Yuanmin actually has some relationship with Yang Lin. His father Yuanshou and Yang Lin's mother, Empress Yuan, are of the same clan. In terms of generations, they are siblings. Although they are a bit far apart, they are from the same clan after all. Therefore, Yuanmin can actually be regarded as Yang Lin's uncle cousin. Yuanmin's father Yuanshou and Yuanhong unanimously support Yang Guang, but Yuanmin is quite active. Seeing that Yang Guang's situation is now bad, he also began to have other ideas.

Yang Qing raised his eyebrows and said lightly, "Forget it, it's getting late, let's go back to the camp first." After he said that, he turned around and left, and Yuanmin followed with his bow. The two walked out of the forest together. Several servants outside the forest were sitting under the tree guarding the horses. Seeing them coming, he hurried forward and said, "The king and Yuanshe are back."

Yang Qing and Yuan Min ignored the others and got on their own, and the others quickly followed. Yang Qing and the two walked together.

After walking silently for a while, Yang Qing suddenly stopped and said to the person behind him, "You can't go back empty-handed, go and get some rabbits, pheasants, etc."

After the followers left, Yang Qing turned to Yuan Min and said, "There is an important news that I haven't told you yet."

"What?"

"The emperor has been in a coma for a long time and cannot be in charge of the director. In fact, all the memorials approved by the emperor during this period were criticized by Queen Xiao."

"Ah?" Yuanmin was shocked, "I have never heard my father say it."

"Because before yesterday, no one knew, even my father and the Censor. It was not until yesterday that Empress Xiao revealed it, but it only told me, father and son, Zhang Duan and Guo Yuwen, and even Guo Duan and others led troops to fight yesterday, but the emperor didn't know that, we were all discussing with the queen to decide."

"What's going on in the Emperor?"

"The queen said it was not a big problem, it just needed to rest. But I think the queen refused to let us see the emperor, which only means that the matter was even more serious. I was even wondering whether the emperor could wake up." Yang Qing sighed.

Yuanmin was shocked and then said anxiously. "It's all like this. Why are you hesitating about? You can't hesitate now."

"But you know my father, who is loyal to the previous emperor. After Yang Xiu killed the lord, he sent someone to see my father and gave him a lot of rewards, but my father directly killed the person and sent him back. My father now chooses to be loyal to the present. That will definitely not change. And your father, who is also a loyal person. If they are loyal to the emperor, what can we do?"

When he heard Yang Qing still chatting there, Yuan Min suddenly strangled his mount and sighed: "The more we do this, the more we need to make a decision. Your father is both pedantic and loyal. But what is the use of this in today's world? It will only bring a catastrophe to the family. At this time, what are you talking about loyalty and hesitation? Besides, if your father really wants to talk about loyalty, then after the death of the First Emperor, the crown prince Yang Yong is qualified to succeed the throne with justification. Your father should also be loyal to the Taiyuan court, why did he be loyal to the King of Jin?"

"My father always thought that King Jin was more talented, and the emperor always planned to make King Jin the crown prince."

"Do you say these are not self-deceptions? Regardless of whether the emperor wants to establish it or not, Yang Yong was the crown prince who had been nineteen years. After the emperor passed away, the crown prince naturally succeeded to the throne. What is there to doubt about this? King Jing is loyal to the present, which is his disloyalty to the previous emperor."

"How could you say that?"

"I'm telling the truth."

Yang Qing said: "My father supports the present day, so how can I change to Luoyang?"

Yuan Min sneered, "What kind of world is it now? If you just compete with Yang Xiu for the world, then I will naturally support today. But there is still a Luoyang court, and you know the current situation. Yang Lin is the regent prince of the Luoyang court. He holds heavy troops and is deeply loved by the people of Guandong. Now he sent troops to attack Pujin Pass, but then entered Luoyang and then rushed south to Yangzhou. Is there any hesitation? The emperor is now unconscious, and we don't even know whether he has died. In a short time, the prince died and the army was lost. Now, Yangzhou, the emperor's Longxing land, is lost, and only Jingxiang is left. This is a sign of defeat. We must make a decision early and arrange a way out."

When the emperor passed away, the world was in chaos. Yang Guang, who might have replaced Yang Yong as the crown prince, did not go smoothly in the struggle for the throne.

Not only was it not going well, but it could even be described as worrying prospects. Yang Guang proclaimed himself emperor in Yangzhou, and then raised an army to march westward. At that time, Yang Yong and Yang Lin were still in Taiyuan, and Yang Xiu was a lord killer. The situation was very beneficial to Yang Guang. Therefore, Yang Guang ruled all the troops in Jianghuai and advanced westward, and did not even intend to send troops to stay in Jianghuai. At that time, Yangzhou thought that when their army arrived to fight against rebellion, the officials and soldiers in Guanzhong would respond in groups and slaughter Yang Xiu to welcome him. But the fact was not so. The prince Yang Zhao led 50,000 Yizhou soldiers out of Shu, but was lured and killed by Yang Xiu at Jianmen. Five thousand Yizhou soldiers turned against each other and followed Shuzhong to change flags. Liang Gang also brought Yizhou soldiers to Jingzhou, making it difficult for them to advance westward. But when they returned, they wanted to wipe him out first, the other side did not face them head-on.

Now that the troops are trapped in Jingzhou, the emperor is unconscious, and such bad news comes from Huainan again.

During the period when they were trapped in Jingzhou, and during the deterioration of the situation in the Yangzhou court, the Taiyuan court also experienced major changes. Prince Yang Lin entered the pass to put the emperor Yang Yong under house arrest, but they did not have internal conflicts and struggles. Instead, they combined two into one and their strength increased greatly. Yang Lin not only sent more than 100,000 troops to attack Guanzhong, but also quickly divided the troops to take over the prefectures and counties in Guandong, and then quickly went south to Luoyang. Although Wei Chong of Yingzhou was loyal to Yang Guang and successfully borrowed a large army from Goguryeo, Yi Feng immediately sent 100,000 troops to block them outside the pass. Then Yi Feng still had the strength to send another army south to destroy the two major cities of Shouzhou, which had not much defense, and Yangzhou. Seeing that the entire Huainan was about to be lost, the next step was the fall of the vast and even less defenseless prefectures and counties in Jiangnan.

The situation is so bad that it is already desperate.

As a noble family member and a noble family in Guanlong, Yuan Min was the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Although the Northern Wei Dynasty was destroyed for decades and had several dynasties later, the Yuan family was still a wealthy family.

If there was no such civil strife and it would continue to be in the prosperous era of the Great Sui Dynasty, then he would rely on his family's power to be an emperor's guard in the imperial guards, and then become a low-level subordinate in the court, or a county magistrate in another county, or a county magistrate or a county magistrate or a magistrate in another county. If he was lucky, he would be able to become a general in his thirties, and might be a governor or general in his 40s, and he would be able to enter the court and become a minister of the nine ministers or six ministries after he was fifty. If he was lucky, he would be able to marry the top major families in the court to get a strong help, and he could even become a minister or a general before sixty. He might be able to further promote the title of county duke or county duke in the family marquis, bringing infinite glory to the family.

But as chaotic as it is today, a country has three emperors.

If you stand in the wrong team, if you end up being the loser, not only will the glory that the family has inherited for more than a hundred years be gone, but it will even be a little bit of whether the family can be preserved.

Who will eventually own the world?

Based on Yuanmin's clever mind, these three emperors today are not winners, and the most likely to end this chaos. The one who ascends to the Supreme Lord of the Nine Five is the current regent and the Crown Prince of the State Resident Yang Lin.

Yuanmin felt that there was no need to continue to wait and see the situation now, and he had to make a decision and make a choice immediately.

Why can he see so clearly, but his father can't see through it? Yuan Min sighed in his heart. Why did his father follow the mystery and insist on following Yang Guang. If it were two months ago, he did think that Yang Guang was the most likely to win the world, but now, hey, he doesn't know whether the emperor is dead or alive. But his father would not listen to his advice at all. Yuan Min shook his head, he wouldn't listen. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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