Faced with this sudden turmoil, the Nanliang court also showed different attitudes. Some generals voluntarily surrendered to Hou Jing's rebellious army. They aided Zhou and wreaked havoc on all sides.

Hou Jing's Rebellion was a turning point in the national destiny of Nanliang. This turmoil almost knocked Nanliang to the bottom overnight in its heyday. Faced with this sudden turmoil, the Nanliang court also showed different attitudes. Some generals voluntarily surrendered to Hou Jing's rebellious army. They aided Zhou and wreaked havoc on all sides. There were also some dignitaries and soldiers who raised troops. Hou Jing led his troops down the Yangtze River to build King Kangqin. Under such circumstances, warlords from all sides emerged one after another, and Chen Baxian, the founding emperor of the future Chen Dynasty , was one of them. He can be said to be a typical hero in troubled times. From the chaos of the country, he took control of the army through war and military exploits. He gradually became a warlord fighting for hegemony in the world, and finally established the Chen Dynasty, the last dynasty of Southern Dynasties .

Chen Baxian was born in the Chen family of Yingchuan, which was theoretically a wealthy family. However, after more than a hundred years of internal strife in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the aristocratic families in the Northern Dynasties gradually declined, and it was difficult for them to regain their ancestral status in the Southern Dynasties. Chen Baxian lives in the name of a wealthy family, but in fact his life is not much different from that of ordinary people in Shengdou. However, one advantage of a wealthy family is that it has abundant educational resources, which gave Chen Ba the opportunity to study first and laid the foundation for his ability to build the Chen Dynasty. The personal connections of the Chen family in Yingchuan also enabled Chen Baxian to work as a minor official called an oil depot official in Jiankang , and start his political career. Because of this opportunity, Chen Baxian was able to attach himself to the powerful people of the Nanliang clan and step by step embark on the path of warlord.

Judging from the rise of Chen Baxian, he is completely a typical example of a hero emerging from troubled times. Every rise in his life was due to the melee in Nanliang. Among them, the Hou Jing Rebellion brought the greatest benefits to Chen Baxian. Chen Baxian's initial rise was due to the rebellion of Jiaozhou local tycoon Li Ben, which gave him the opportunity to enter the crowd of Liang Wu Emperor Xiao Yan's attention. At that time, Li Ben, a local tycoon in Jiaozhou, launched a rebellion and drove away Xiao Zhen, Marquis of Wulin, the governor of Jiaozhou. Xiao Yan then sent a large army to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion. During the process of quelling the rebellion, King Lin Yi, Xinzhou Governor Lu Zixiong, and Gaozhou Governor Sun Jiong all led their troops to fight against Li Ben. However, Xiao Yan was very dissatisfied because of the unfavorable outcome of the battle. Xiao Yan asked Xiao Ying and Xiao Shen who were in Guangzhou to organize the rebellion, and planned to kill Lu Zixiong and Sun Jiong, but this triggered a rebellion by Lu Zixiong and Sun Jiong's subordinates.

At that time, Chen Baxian was attached to Xiao Ying, the new prince of Yu. After Xiao Ying became the governor of Guangzhou, Chen Baxian became a direct soldier and joined the army. Chen Baxian organized thousands of troops and stationed them in Songlong County. He successively put down the unrest in Anhua County and was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Xijiang and the governor of Gaoyao County. After the Jiaozhi Rebellion broke out, Xiao Ying, as the governor of Guangzhou, became the commander-in-chief to quell the rebellion. Chen Baxian was Xiao Ying's most capable general. When Lu Zixiong's old generals Du Tianhe, Du Sengming and others launched a mutiny to besiege Guangzhou City, Chen Baxian led his troops to rescue Guangzhou from Gaoyao and defeated the rebels in one fell swoop. Du Tianhe, Du Sengming and other rebel generals were also captured by him. With this meritorious service, he came into Xiao Yan's sight, and was appointed as General Zhige, granted the title of Viscount of Xin'an, and had 300 households in the city.

After Xiao Ying died of illness in Guangzhou, Chen Baxian wanted to attend the funeral and return to the capital to Jiankang, but he was appointed by Xiao Yan as Sima of Jiaozhou and followed the newly appointed Jiaozhou governor Yang Qian to attack the Jiaozhi rebel Li Ben. At that time, Xiao Bo, the governor of Dingzhou who was ordered to cooperate with Yang Qian to quell the rebellion, was not willing to send troops to deliver troops to the state, so he was both obedient and secretive on the issue of sending troops, and even persuaded Yang Qian to postpone the invasion. Chen Baxian put forward the suggestion of resolutely marching to Jiaozhou, which exposed Xiao Bo's idea of ​​self-respect and self-interest in supporting troops, and became an important pioneer general in pacifying Jiaozhi. In the war to pacify Jiaozhi, Chen Baxian stood out, repeatedly defeated Li Ben's rebels, and wiped out tens of thousands of them, which laid the foundation for his prestige in the Nanliang Army. After Jiaozhi was pacified, Chen Baxian was granted the title of General Zhenyuan, Governor of Xijiang, Governor of Gaoyao, and military commander of seven counties by Xiao Yan for his first contribution.

In quelling the rebellion in Jiaozhi, Chen Ba first tasted the sweetness of taking advantage of the chaos to rise, which also laid the foundation for his later struggle for world hegemony. He successively put down the rebellions of Du Tianhe and Du Senming, and the rebels of Li Bi in Jiaozhi. This not only enabled him to establish meritorious service, but also controlled a certain number of troops.The rise of Chen Baxian is a typical example of a hero emerging from troubled times, and a typical example of a warlord taking advantage of the opportunity to rise in troubled times. There were many such rising warlords in ancient Chinese history, but very few could reach the position of emperor, and Chen Baxian was obviously the best among them. It can be seen from these wars that Chen Ba first grasped the laws of Chinese historical development and took the lead in adapting to the historical trend. This created a favorable situation for his step-by-step upgrade from warlord to emperor.

At that time, he took advantage of the situation. When the country was in chaos, there were many powerful people seeking the throne, and more than 80% of them were above Chen Baxian in status and power. But in the end, only Chen Baxian succeeded. There is a very intriguing reason for this. Judging from Chen Baxian's performance during the Hou Jing Rebellion, it can fully illustrate the difference between him and other contenders. Hou Jing launched a rebellion and captured Jiankang, the capital of Southern Liang. Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, was trapped in the palace city, and the country was in danger. At this time, the Nanliang court had issued an edict from King Qin, and the dignitaries leading troops from all over the country led their troops to Jiankang to join King Qin, but there were only a handful of people who really had King Qin's thoughts. Most of the dignitaries who said that King Yanqin harbored evil intentions and had their own little plans, but Chen Baxian was different.

When the order of King Qin from the Nanliang court arrived in Guangzhou, Chen Baxian actively expressed King Qin's intentions. However, the then Guangzhou governor Yuan Jingzhong had evil intentions. Yuan Jingzhong was the son of Northern Wei clan Yuan Faseng . Because of the failure of the rebellion, he fled to Nanliang with his father and was reused by Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan. Hou Jing himself was also from the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Northern Wei Dynasty split into the East and West Wei Dynasty, followed by Gao Huan into the Eastern Wei Dynasty . After Gao Huan's death, he was unwilling to succumb to Gao Huan's eldest son Gao Cheng, so he led his army to launch a rebellion. After the failure, he also defected to Nanliang. After Hou Jing captured Jiankang, he sent someone to contact Yuan Jingzhong and expressed his willingness to make Yuan Jingzhong emperor on the grounds that he was originally from the clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Therefore, after Yuan Jingzhong received the order from King Qin, he violated it and planned to raise troops to join Hou Jing and seize the world of Nanliang.

Unfortunately, before Yuan Jingzhong's plot could be implemented, Chen Baxian, together with Wang Huaiming, the governor of Chengzhou, Yin Waichen, the Xingtai Selector, and others launched an army to attack him, and were eventually defeated and killed. Then Chen Baxian and others elected Xiao Bo as the garrison of Guangzhou and sent troops to quell the surrounding forces that took advantage of Hou Jing's rebellion to launch rebellions. In the process, Chen Baxian defeated many rebels, recruited a large number of civilian forces and heroes, and greatly increased his military strength. However, Chen Baxian's efforts to build a military force for King Kangqin did not receive Xiao Bo's support. Chen Baxian had no choice but to take his army to Jiangling and seek refuge with Xiao Yan's seventh son, King of Xiangdong Xiao Yi. Then Chen Baxian followed Xiao Yi to participate in the siege of Jiankang. In the war, he defeated Hou Jing's army and became one of the people who made the greatest contribution to quelling Hou Jing's rebellion.

From the analysis of historical data, Xiao Bo disapproved of Chen Ba's first attempt to establish King Kangqin, and he also had very selfish ideas. Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, starved to death in the imperial palace. Hou Jing supported the puppet emperor, and a pattern of heroes vying for supremacy emerged in Southern Liang. Since Xiao Yan's legitimate sons and grandsons died one after another in the chaos, the descendants of the clan's collateral lines had the opportunity to seize the throne. For example, Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan, was originally the seventh son of a concubine. In the melee, all the princes and grandsons who were more qualified to inherit than him were killed one after another, so he became a strong contender for the throne. And in the process of serving the king, he also acted in both positive and negative ways, using Hou Jing's rebel army to attack political opponents, and robberies in various ways, with the purpose of killing people with borrowed knives and clearing the way for him to ascend to the throne.

Similar to Xiao Yi, Xiao Bo also had a similar idea, so he did not support Chen Ba's first attempt to build King Kangqin. Xiao Bo is Xiao Yan's cousin and theoretically has no qualifications to inherit the throne. However, during the siege of Jiankang, Xiao Yan's sons and grandsons killed each other, giving Xiao Bo a chance to inherit the throne. Except for Xiao Yan's biological descendants, Xiao Bo is the person closest to Xiao Yan in the collateral lineage, so he also has the intention to compete for the throne. His attitude towards King Jiankang Qin was to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers, hoping to make a profit as a fisherman.Therefore, he was unwilling to let his forces actively intervene in the Jiankang war. Instead, he wanted to wait until Xiao Yi and others and Hou Jing were both injured before sending troops to clean up the mess, and by the way, take the position of Emperor of Nanliang into his pocket.

But Xiao Bo's idea was not supported by Chen Baxian because it was detrimental to Chen Baxian's interests. King Chen Baxianqin was not very loyal to Nanliang, but he could not give up the opportunity created by Hou Jing's rebellion. Hou Jing's Rebellion caused great chaos in the world and was an opportunity for the army to make contributions. With King Qin's righteousness at the forefront, whether the army is dispatched to attack Hou Jing, pacify the rebels in various places, or even take advantage of the fire to rob, it is an opportunity to increase one's strength. If you make a contribution in pacifying Hou Jing's rebellious army, it will be a matter of fame and fortune for the warlord. If he misses this opportunity, Xiao Bo can continue to be the governor of Guangzhou and continue to enjoy the wealth of the Nanliang clan, but Chen Baxian will get nothing.

Chen Baxian advocated the establishment of King Kangqin, and his purpose was to take advantage of the country's turmoil to gain military glory and political benefits. This idea prompted him to seize the opportunity of Hou Jingzhi's rebellion and maximize his own interests as much as possible. Therefore, he was opposed to Xiao Bo's attitude, so he took the initiative to join Xiao Yi, who was actively competing for the throne. In the end, Xiao Yi's army became the main force in quelling Hou Jing's rebellion and helped him ascend to the throne of Nanliang. And Chen Baxian also became Xiao Yi's general because of his military exploits, and officially entered the Nanliang court. Judging from this result, Chen Ba first seized the opportunity of the country's war and gained enough benefits. If he had listened to Xiao Bo and hunkered down in Guangzhou, he would never have had the chance to take advantage of the chaos and rise up in the Nanliang court and army.

In troubled times since ancient times, soldiers are the kings of grass. This is a truth that remains unchanged through the ages. Chen Baxian understands this truth well and will naturally not give up the opportunity to take advantage of troubled times to expand military power. As long as we have military power, we have the initiative in troubled times. Without military power as the ultimate means, our political voice cannot stand. Therefore, Chen Baxian looks like a Qinwang, but he is actually seeking his own military and political rights and preparing for the future.

Compared with Chen Baxian, both Yuan Jingzhong, who joined forces with Hou Jing, and Xiao Bo, who was seeking profit as a fisherman, had very short-sighted plans. Hou Jing has been despised by everyone in the world, and his demise is inevitable sooner or later. Yuan Jingzhong is seeking his own death. Xiao Bo is actually just a clever guy. How can a clever guy who has lost the justice of the country win the support of the princes from all sides? Only Hou Jing gained both great righteousness and military power. It can be said that he gained both fame and fortune and won in chaos.