Chapter 96 Chapter 95: Emperor Huimin Murong Bao

Murong Bao is the fourth son of Murong Chui, the emperor of Hou Yan. He lived in a superior family environment since he was a child. He was still idle and had no ambitions until he was a teenager. At the age of 16, he fled Qianyan with his father Murongchui, and defected to Fujian of the former Qin Dynasty, and was named Prince Xima.One year later, the former Yan was eliminated by the former Qin Dynasty. Murong Bao saw the former Yan King Murong Riwei and the civil and military ministers being escorted to Chang'an, and suddenly became sensible. Turned to sympathy, and later saw that the survivors of the former Yan were treated coldly by Fu Jian, and turned from gratitude to hatred for Fu Jian, and vowed to restore the Yan State.

In the nineteenth year of Jianyuan (AD 383), Fu Jian was defeated by the Eastern Jin Dynasty and brought more than 1,000 cavalry to the Murongchui barracks without any loss.Seeing that the opportunity for revenge had come, Murong Bao persuaded Murong Chui to kill Fu Jian and restore Yan.Although Murong Chui did not agree at that time, he finally decided to part ways with Fu Jian and became independent. In the first year of Yan Yuan (384 A.D.), he called himself the King of Yan. Bao was established as the prince. As he grew older and experienced the ever-changing political situation, Murong Bao began to change.After becoming the prince, he vowed to change his past mistakes, flattered the ministers around Murong Chui, and bought Murong Chui's attendants with small favors.Murong Bao's painstaking efforts were not in vain, and he soon won a good reputation among the ministers, and this reputation was quickly reached to Murong Chui's ears through various communication channels, so he was assured that Murong Chui would inherit the throne.

Murong Chui died of illness in 396 AD.As soon as Murong Bao succeeded to the throne, Hou Yan was attacked by the Northern Wei Dynasty. Murong Nong, who was ordered to resist the Northern Wei Dynasty, fled back to Zhongshan in embarrassment.Seeing this, Murong Bao ran around like ants in a hot pot, hastily summoned the ministers to the east hall to discuss countermeasures.Yin Fumo of Zhongshan was the first to speak and said: "Northern Wei's army is strong and strong. Once it enters the plain, it will drive straight in. Therefore, we should occupy dangerous terrain and block its approach." , live by plunder, if we implement the policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, so that they will not get food, they will evacuate automatically after eating up all the food they carry with them in two months."

At this moment, Houyan also had internal problems.Shangshu Murong Hao planned to assassinate Murong Bao in the middle of the night in March of the second year of Yongkang (397 AD) and support Murong Lin as emperor.Because Murong Hao's brother-in-law Su Ni had tipped off Murong Bao, Murong Bao ordered Murong Hao to be arrested.Murong Hao knew that the matter had been exposed, so he defected to the Northern Wei Dynasty with his accomplices.Murong Lin jumped over the wall in a hurry, approaching the left guard general Murong Jing and leading troops to kill Murong Bao.Unexpectedly, Murong Jing was a loyal minister, and he scolded Murong Lin sharply, Murong Lin was furious, killed Murong Jing, and defected to Ding Ling.Murong Bao was worried that Murong Lin would attack his son Murong Hui, Duke of Qinghe, so he hurriedly led more than 10,000 cavalry with Murong Ce, Murong Yi, and Murong Long to Jihui to meet Murong Hui. After the meeting, Murong Bao distributed his army to Murong Nong and Murong Long.Murong Hui was originally strongly dissatisfied with Murong Bao's abolition of his crown prince status shortly after succeeding to the throne and making another son Murong Ce the crown prince, but now that he has been deprived of his military power, his expression is naturally very ugly.Seeing this, Murong Bao had a premonition that keeping Murong Hui would be a disaster, so he frankly told Murong Nong and Murong Long his thoughts, but Murong Nong and Murong Long said: "Murong Hui is too young, and only knows how to act like a baby to you. There is no other meaning at all. Let's just teach him a lesson."

As soon as the news of Murong Bao's deprivation of Murong Hui's military power came out, Murong Hui's military camp was like water dripping into a frying pan, and there was a sudden explosion. They all came to Murong Bao's residence by coincidence and said in unison: "Murong Hui is talented He is smart and powerful, and we are willing to live and die with him. I hope that His Majesty and the Crown Prince will stay in Jigong temporarily, allow Murong to lead us to lift the siege of Zhongshan by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then come back to take you back to the capital."

The ministers around Murong Bao were already deeply jealous of Murong Hui's ingenuity. Seeing that Murong Hui was so popular, they hated him even more, so they persuaded Murong Bao to kill Murong Hui as soon as possible.The next day, Murong Bao sent Murong Teng to assassinate Murong Hui. After being injured, Murong Hui fled into the barracks and commanded officers and soldiers to attack Murong Bao.As soon as Murong Bao looked fierce, he fled with more than a hundred cavalry. In February of the third year of Yongkang (AD 198), Hou Yan Shang Shulan Khan led troops to welcome Murong Bao back to the city.Murong Bao's men and horses were pitifully small, he was like a frightened bird, because he didn't know what kind of medicine was in Lan Han's gourd, so he didn't dare to enter the city blindly.Not long after, Lan Khan sent the left general Su Chao to meet Murong Bao. Murong Bao thought that Lan Han was his uncle and the father-in-law of his son Murong Sheng, so he dismissed his worries and followed Su Chao back to the city.When approaching Longcheng, Yu Chong, who was traveling with Murong Bao, saw that the atmosphere was not right, so he advised Murong Bao to act cautiously.Murong Bao had had enough of the suffering of being displaced, he just wanted to return to Longcheng as soon as possible, and he didn't listen to Yu Chong's advice at all.As soon as he entered the residence of Lan Han in Longcheng, Murong Bao was killed by Lan Han's younger brother Jia Nan at the age of 44.His posthumous title is "Emperor Huimin" and his temple title is "Liezong".