Four hundred years of agitation: Xiao Zhaoye's acting skills are superb and cold-blooded, and the devil's road to southern Qi is worrying

This article is the 437th in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

First, introduce the new emperor Xiao Zhaoye, a person with superb acting skills, deep thoughts, and cold blood.

Xiao Zhaoye is intelligent by nature, quick to react, has a beautiful appearance, elegant demeanor, is good at random response, and is also very good at disguise and mannerism, gentle and elegant on the surface, fierce and despicable in his heart, often messing with some bad villains around him, not distinguishing between food and clothing, and even sleeping.

When he was the King of Nanjun, Xiao Zhaoye lived in Xizhou with his uncle Xiao Ziliang, the King of Jinling.

Xiao Changmao often disciplined Xiao Zhaoye and restricted his expenses, and Xiao Zhaoye secretly asked for money from the rich family, and no one dared not give it to him. He also made another key, opened the back door of the Xizhou state capital at night, and went to the barracks with the left and right attendants to do something wrong.

Xiao Zhaoye's teacher Shi Renzu and the attendant Hu Tianyi were deeply worried and discussed: "If we report this matter to the lord or the prince, things will become very complicated. If he is beaten by someone else in the barracks, or if he is bitten by a dog, it is only that we are going to be convicted, and the whole family will be implicated. We are both seventy years old, and where will we be stingy for the rest of our lives! ”

Within a few days, Shi Renzu and Hu Tianyi committed suicide one after another, and neither Xiao Zhao nor Xiao Changmao knew about it.

Xiao Zhaoye's favored attendants were all knighted and appointed officials in advance, written on yellow paper, and let these people carry them in their pockets and carry them with them, promising to do so immediately after he took the throne.

During the period of serving Xiao Changmao to recuperate from illness and later to observe the funeral, Xiao Zhaoye's acting skills exploded, with sorrow, weeping and wailing, and even destroying his body.

However, as soon as he returned to his mansion, Xiao Zhaoye smiled and drank heavily, and often ordered the witch Yang Shi to pray for him to pray to the heavens for his grandfather and father to die soon.

When Xiao Changmao died, Xiao Zhaoye believed that it was the power of Yang Wuzhu and trusted her even more. When he was made the emperor's grandson, Xiao Zhaoye fell ill, and Xiao Zhaoye ordered the Yang clan to pray to heaven.

When Xiao Zhao was seriously ill, Xiao Zhaoye wrote a letter to his wife He Jingying, who was still in Xizhou, and wrote a big happy character in the middle of the letter, and wrote thirty-six small happy characters around the big happy word.

When serving Xiao Zhao, every time Xiao Zhaoye said a word, the tears couldn't help but flow, and he looked sad. Therefore, Xiao Zhao thought that he would definitely be able to undertake the great cause, and comforted: "Within five years after his death, the state will entrust it to the prime minister in advance. After five years you deal with it yourself and leave it to no one. If you don't achieve anything, don't be too stressed. ”

On the occasion of his death, Xiao Zhao took Xiao Zhaoye's hand again and said, "If you still miss your grandfather, you should do a good job." After saying that, Xiao Zhao died, and Xiao Zhaoye cried to the ground.

However, Xiao Zhao's body had just been placed in the coffin and had not yet been buried, so Xiao Zhaoye called all the kabuki of Xiao Zhao and asked them to play music one by one to celebrate.

When Xiao Zhaoye had not yet ascended the throne, the courtiers all suspected that They might want to appoint Xiao Ziliang, and for a while, rumors were spread and people were uncertain.

At this time, Xiao Ye (Xiao Daocheng's fifth son), the king of Wuling, openly declared in public: "If you want to establish a long, it should be me; if you want to establish a concubine, it should be the emperor's grandson." ”

Xiao Ye's statement in this way is equivalent to directly negating Xiao Ziliang. For this reason, Xiao Zhaoye was deeply grateful and trusting of him.

At the beginning, Xiao Luan, the Marquis of Xichang, was deeply favored by Xiao Daocheng, he was frugal and simple in nature, the carriages and horses he rode and the clothes he wore, as well as the honor guards, like ordinary people, he was competent for the official positions he held, and he was known as strict and capable, and Xiao Zhao also attached great importance to him.

In Xiao Zhao's will, Xiao Ziliang was made an assistant to the government, and Xiao Luan was made a zhishang scholar. However, Xiao Ziliangping was generous and did not like to deal with trivial affairs of the imperial court, and highly recommended Xiao Luan.

Therefore, Xiao Zhao's will and testament said that "matters inside and outside the imperial court, no matter how big or small, we must discuss and decide with Xiao Luan" is actually from Xiao Ziliang's proposition. Xiao Ziliang's move, on the one hand, brought Nan Qi into the ditch, on the other hand, it also allowed Xiao Luan to open up to his descendants after usurping the throne.

Wang Rong plotted to support Xiao Ziliang, making Xiao Zhaoye deeply jealous of Xiao Ziliang. When Xiao Zhao's body was transferred to the Taiji Hall, Xiao Ziliang lived in Zhongshu Province, and Xiao Zhaoye sent Hu BenZhonglang to garrison Pan Chang and lead two hundred soldiers to the west steps of the Taiji Hall to guard against the unexpected.

When Xiao Zhao's body was put into a coffin and all the kings left the palace, Xiao Ziliang asked for permission to wait in the palace until the day of burial before leaving, but Xiao Zhaoye did not agree.

On the fourth day of the first month of August in the eleventh year of Yongming (493 AD), Xiao Zhaoye claimed to have xiao Ye as the wei general, together with the general Chen Xianda of Zhengnan as the Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division, Xiao Luan as Shang Shu ling, and his grandson Zhan Shi Shen Wenji as the protector. The next day, Xiao Ziliang was made a taifu.

After that, Xiao Zhaoye ordered the exemption of three kinds of levies, the exemption of all taxes owed by the people, and the reduction of the provincial imperial government's offices, offices, and idle farms, ponds, houses, smelting and foundry yards, etc., to reduce the tax revenue of the checkpoints.

Previously, although there were also edicts exempting taxes, they were just empty words, and most of the imperial court did not seriously implement them, and they were still strictly levied as before. Now, when Xiao Luan is in power, all of them are strictly enforced, and the people are very happy and grateful to Xiao Zhaoye and Xiao Luan.

After stabilizing the situation, Xiao Zhaoye immediately arrested Wang Rong and handed him over to Ting Wei for trial, and ordered Gong Zhigui to accuse Wang Rong of being sinister and impetuous, rash and cunning, inviting rebellion, and openly slandering the imperial court.

Wang Rong asked Xiao Ziliang for help, and Xiao Ziliang was worried and afraid, and did not dare to speak out. Eventually, Wang Rong committed suicide in prison. In this year, Wang Rong was only twenty-seven years old, and the dream of reviving the Wang clan was shattered.

At the beginning, Wang Rong planned to get acquainted with Xu Mian, a native of the East China Sea, and often asked xu Mian to meet in Jiankang.

Xu Mian told others: "Wang Rong's reputation is very high, but he is frivolous and manic, it is difficult to treat him frankly, and share honor and disgrace." Soon, Wang Rong was in a catastrophe, and Xu Mian became famous in the world.

Wei Zhun, a student of tai, was deeply appreciated by Wang Rong because of his high talent and learning. When Wang Rong planned to support Xiao Ziliang's ascension to the throne, Wei Zhun vigorously encouraged it.

The tai students Yu Xi and Qiu Guobin privately discussed: "Xiao Ziliang's talent is weak, Wang Rong has no decisive ability, and their failure is at hand. ”

After Wang Rong was killed, Xiao Zhaoye summoned Wei Zhun to Zhongshu Province for interrogation, and Wei Zhun was scared to death because of extreme fear, his whole body was blue, and everyone thought that his guts were frightened.

On August 18, Xiao Zhaoye buried Xiao Zhao's coffin in the Jing'an Mausoleum, the temple number of the ancestor.

At that time, Xiao Zhao's coffin was to be boarded on the Qinhuai River in front of the Eastern Palace, Xiao Zhaoye bid farewell at the Duanmen gate of the imperial city, and the funeral car had not yet left the duanmen, so he immediately claimed that he was ill and went back to the palace.

Just after stepping into the palace, Xiao Zhaoye immediately played the music of the Hu people in the palace, and the sound of leather drums and brass bells resounded inside and outside the palace.

This scene, how similar to Liu Ziye at that time, is that the devil has descended into the world and came specifically for the destruction of the country.