Chapter 22 Beheaded by minions

The little emperor killed ministers indiscriminately and overhauled the palace, which not only attracted the attention of the government and the public, but also made him feel less at ease.But his solution is to ask the gods to bless him, and the god he believes in is "Jianghou".The origin of this fairy is also quite strange.His real name was Jiang Ziwen, and he served as Moling Captain at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Once he went to the mountains to catch a robber, but the robber broke his head and died.Originally, such a small person can be said to be a car-mounted car, and there is nothing rare.But this Jiang Ziwen thinks very highly of himself, and often says that he has a peculiar physique, that even if he can't be a high-ranking official in life, he can be a god after death.When others heard him say this, they thought it was just crazy talk, and no one paid attention to it. After the death of the old man, he was honest and honest for a long time, and did not do anything wrong.But I didn't expect that when Sun Quan established his capital in the Three Kingdoms period, he suddenly saw his old man riding a white horse, holding a feather fan, dangling around Zhongshan.It was not far from his death at this time, and someone still remembered his old man's wild words, so he told Sun Quan.When Sun Quan heard that, gods, this should not be offended, so he named him Marquis Jiang and built a temple for him on Mount Zhong.So Zhong Shan is often called Jiang Shan because of this Immortal Jiang.The southern dynasties all established their capitals in Jiankang, so Xiao Baojuan was also very affectionate to this Immortal Jiang who was based in Zhongshan. He enshrined this Immortal in the palace and prayed day and night.There was a cunning guy named Zhu Guangshang on the left and right of him, who pretended that he could see the gods, and later, he simply said that the gods had attached himself to him.So the emperor also confessed him as a god, respected him very much, made him a chancellor, and then honored him as "Emperor Ling".But this Zhu Guangshang saw that the emperor was making too much trouble, so he also planned to persuade him in the name of a god.Once, the emperor wanted to go out to have fun again. When he reached the gate of the palace, the horse he was riding suddenly started up.Zhu Guangshang took the opportunity to say: "This is the late emperor's anger, and he doesn't want His Majesty to go out for fun." But Xiao Baojuan didn't care about the late emperor or not, and he was so angry that he wandered around with a knife, insisting on finding his father's ghost. Come out and cut it.Naturally, such a day-to-day ghost thing would not have any results, so the emperor tied straw into the shape of his father, beheaded the scarecrow's head, and hung it on the city gate to prevent him from coming out to cause trouble again.

The emperor is not even afraid of ghosts, and naturally he is even less afraid of people.So, after chopping off Father Ghost's head, when he was happy, he also poisoned Shang Shuling Xiao Yi to death.This Xiao Yi was a loyal minister, and when he was about to die, he actually sighed: "My younger brother Xiao Yan is in Xiangyang now, and I am very worried about the court." The emperor also listened to the last words of this loyal minister, and died of poison. After killing him, he ordered a search for his brother across the country.But his tyrannical behavior has long caused dissatisfaction among the ruling and opposition parties, and people have lost their hearts.At this time, except for Xiao Rong, Xiao Yi's nine brothers either occupied the prefectures or counties, or hid in the villages, and no one reported them.And Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi's younger brother, who had always been worried, heard that his brother was poisoned to death by the emperor, so he summoned all the generals in Xiangyang to fight all the way to the capital.

Although Xiao Yan raised troops, the emperor was not nervous at all.He has experienced three rebellions, and not every time he came over without incident.Well, this Xiao Yan, it won't be long before he will give his head.So he should play as he should, and make trouble as he should, and boasted to his favorites: "What's the rush now, when the enemy army comes to the White Gate, it won't be too late for me to fight him to the death." But Xiao Yan was different from those pussies in the previous few times. He led the army like a broken bamboo all the way, and soon surrounded Jiankang City.Xiao Baojuan began to prepare for defense, but he felt that it would be no problem to repel Xiao Yan, so he was still careless. The necessary logistical materials such as firewood and rice in the city had only been prepared for a hundred days.He released the prisoners in the prison and gave them weapons to serve as guards, but how could such a mob be able to stop Xiao Yan's army? In addition, his favorite ministers were extremely arrogant and insulted the general at will. Make people feel uneasy.As a result, the defending army was defeated soon, Xiao Yan led his army into Jiankang, and Xiao Baojuan had to retreat to the palace city to hide.

At this time, there were still 70,000 troops in Miyagi, so it was not impossible to stand firm and wait for change, but the fun-loving emperor was willing to put his heart into it.He was calm, sleeping during the day and getting up at night as usual.Sometimes when the interest came, I would wear a big red robe and go up to the Jingyang Tower to look at the enemy soldiers outside the city. Several times I almost let the arrows shoot.He refused to be idle, and began to play the game of war again.Wearing military uniforms in the palace, gold and silver are used as armor, decorated with feathers and precious stones.He also put silver armor on his horse and covered it with peacock feathers.He gave the guards weapons made of gold and jade to the palace people, and let them fight each other. Some people pretended to be killed, and then carried them out with the door panel, as a "disgusting victory", intending to use this method of pretending to make the enemy retreat.The sergeants saw that the emperor was so absurd, and no one wanted to fight for him.

The morale of the army was low, and the emperor, who always liked to spend money recklessly, suddenly became stingy.In desperation, Ru Fazhen kowtowed and begged him to take out property to reward the soldiers, but he said: "The thief came only to kill me, why only ask me for something." He wanted to use it to strengthen the city defense, but Xiao Baojuan was reluctant. He wanted to keep it as the gate of the palace, but he ordered it not to be given.He is reluctant to spend money on serious affairs, but he has leisure time to put on airs.He urged the imperial government to hurry up to produce 300 elite guards for the guard of honor after Xiao Yan retired, and took out a large number of gold and silver treasures to decorate the armor of the guard of honor.When the soldiers in the city heard the news, they became even more angry and wanted to flee and surrender.At this time, the emperor listened to the slander of his favorite minister and planned to kill the general Wang Zhenguo who failed to defend the city.Therefore, Wang Zhenguo got in touch with Xiao Yan secretly, and conspired with the eunuchs and guards in the palace, planning to strike first.

One night, the emperor had just passed a singing and dancing banquet and was about to go to bed when he heard a cry of killing.So he jumped up and ran out of the north gate, trying to escape to the harem.Unexpectedly, the gate of the palace was closed, and he had no weapon in his hand.At this time, the rebels had already stepped forward, and the eunuch Huang Taiping stabbed Xiao Baojuan's knee with a knife. He fell to the ground and shouted: "Is the slave going to rebel!" His head was given to Xiao Yan again. At this time, Xiao Yan obeyed Qihe Emperor Xiao Baorong, so after he entered the city, he discussed with the Queen Mother Xuande, thinking that Xiao Baojuan's behavior was really a grudge, so he abolished his emperor title and named him Marquis of Donghun.Xiao Yan executed all the courtiers whom the Marquis of Donghun favored during his lifetime.But for his beloved concubine Pan Yu'er, Xiao Yan was also moved by her overwhelming beauty, and felt that Pan Yu'er had contributed to the crime of Donghunhou and should have been sentenced to death, but it was a pity that such a beauty was killed like this.So, he discussed with the leader Wang Mao and asked him if he could take Pan Yu'er into the palace.

But Wang Mao is not as compassionate as he is. He believes that Pan Yu'er is the root cause of Qi's death, and Xiao Yan must not let her be sent to the palace.Xiao Yan had no choice but to give Pan Yu'er to his general Tian An.However, Pan Yu'er "had never been able to find water in the sea", and resolutely refused to "be inferior to other people", so she hanged herself and died.This can quite arouse people's emotion later on, and Su Dongpo once lamented that "the jade slave will never fail to live up to the dusk".This sense of emptiness and impermanence is more clearly expressed in Li Shangyin's "Qi Gong Ci":