"Reading with Feeling": Royal family wonder, good actor Xiao Zhaoye

The long river of history has flowed endlessly, and the two Jin Dynasties have become ancient hills in the blink of an eye.

Middle period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Southern Dynasty, Xiao Daocheng destroyed Liu Song and founded the southern Qi.

His son Xiao Zhao became the second emperor of Southern Qi.

The third generation of Xiao Changmao died early, and was known as the Prince wenhui of Southern Qi.

The fourth generation of the Emperor's grandson, Xiao Zhaoye, was intelligent by nature, quick to react, beautiful in appearance, elegant in demeanor, and good at coping.

This son is emotionally rich, whether sad or joyful, more intense than others, and thus attracted the favor of his grandfather and Emperor Wu Xiao Zhao.

When serving Emperor Wu seriously ill, xiao Zhaoye couldn't help but shed tears every time she said a word... Emperor Wu believed that he would be able to take on the great cause of the state.

Before he died, Emperor Wu took his hand and asked, "If you still miss your grandfather, you should do a good job." ”

But in fact, Xiao Zhaoye is extremely talented as an actor and is a completely two-faced person. He is good at disguise and mannerism, good on the surface, but vicious and despicable on the inside.

When he was the king of Nanjun and lived in Xizhou, his father Xiao Changmao was strict and limited his expenses, so he quietly asked for money from rich people, and no one dared not give it to him, and no one dared to tell his father Xiao Changmao. Xiao Zhaoye also copied a key, opened the back door of the Xizhou State Capital privately at night, and went to various military camps with the attendants on the left and right to go to the absurd feast. He mixed day and night with some of the villains around him, with no distinction between food and clothing, and even sleeping.

His teacher Shi Renzu and his attendant Hu Tianyi were impatient but helpless. The two elder brothers discussed privately: "If we report this matter to the emperor (Xiao Zhao) or the crown prince (Xiao Changmao), the matter will not end well." If Xiao Zhaoye was beaten by someone else in the barracks, or bitten by a dog or something, then it was only us who were going to be convicted, and even our whole family would be implicated! Our old brothers are seventy years old, have lived enough, where do you still have to be stingy about the remaining years! So, within a few days, Shi Renzu and Hu Tianyi actually committed suicide one after another.

Xiao Zhaoye often ordered the witch Yang Shi to pray to the heavens on his behalf, praying that his grandfather and father would die quickly. When his father died, Xiao Zhaoye believed that it was the result of yang's wuzhu power, so he respected and trusted the Yang clan even more. After being made the emperor's grandson, Emperor Wu fell ill, and he ordered Yang to pray to heaven that Emperor Wu would die soon. At this time, his main chamber He Jingying was still in Xizhou, and when Emperor Wu's illness began to be serious, he wrote a letter to He Jingying, and wrote a big happy character in the middle of the letter, and around the big happy word, he wrote thirty-six small happy characters next to it.

At the beginning, when Xiao Zhaoye was serving his father to recuperate from illness and later observing the funeral, he was sad, weeping and crying, and even cried his body, and the people who saw him were also moved to cry by his behavior. However, as soon as he returned to his home, Xiao Zhaoye immediately smiled and drank heavily. Emperor Wu died, and as soon as the body was placed in the coffin, Xiao Zhaoye summoned all the kabuki in the palace and asked them to play various music one by one.

Xiao Zhaoye's beloved attendants were all knighted and appointed officials in advance, written on yellow paper, and let these people carry them in their pockets, promising to do so when he ascended the throne. After ascending the throne, Xiao Zhaoye and his left and right attendants put on civilian clothes and played in the downtown area, and also liked to throw mud in the tomb of his father Chong'an Mausoleum, compete in high jumps, and do all kinds of vulgar and vulgar games. As soon as he saw the money, he said, "In the past, I couldn't get ten of you, but now I can still use you?" "He rewarded his entourage with great force, thousands at any time. Emperor Wu had amassed money before his death, and there were as many as 500 million in the upper treasury, more than 300 million in the Zai treasury, and even more insurmountable gold and silver cloth, and Xiao Zhaoye had been on the throne for less than a year, and he was squandering it. He often went into the main cloak storehouse and had Empress He and her beloved concubines throw at each other with various precious instruments until they were broken into pieces, in order to make fun of them.

The result of multiple acts of injustice is predestined.

On the last night of Xiao Zhaoye's life, in the face of Xiao Luan's armed forced entry into the palace, he hid in the favored concubine hall and committed suicide. At that time, the guards around him were all looking at his eyes, as long as the emperor said a word, these guards could give up their lives, but the 21-year-old Xiao Zhaoye could not say a word. Xiao Chen stopped the guards from stirring, took Xiao Zhaoye to the west side of the Yande Hall and killed him directly. Later, Xiao Luan posthumously created the deposed emperor Xiao Zhaoye the Prince of Yulin by order of the Empress Dowager.

The previous Liu Song Dynasty, the current Southern Qi, and the two dynasties of the Southern Dynasty basically died in their own hands after three generations.