In history, the three emperors of great talent and untimely death, Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, Yuanhong

From the beginning of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC to the abdication of Xuantong in the late Qing Dynasty in 2132, there are three emperors who have super high personal qualities and personal charm, they are heroic, young and promising, but unfortunately they all died young, thus completely changing the direction of history. Let's sigh.

The first, Northern Wei Xiaowen Emperor Yuanhong (467-499 AD), Northern Wei is the xianbei established regime, Xiaowen Emperor Yuanhong (Tuoba Hong) is the seventh emperor, 5 years old, ruled by his grandmother Empress Feng, with the unification of the north Northern Wei has gradually begun to cooperate with the Han clan class, Empress Feng during the reign of a series of bureaucrats and Sinicization reforms, the implementation of the juntian system and the three-chief system, the reuse of Han Chen, showing superb political means, Tuoba Hong from childhood deeply influenced by his grandmother, familiar with the classics, very talented.

After Emperor Xiaowen took power, he vigorously promoted Sinicization, and the capital of northern Wei at that time was in Pingcheng, which is today's Datong, after the unification of the north, it was obvious that Pingcheng was no longer suitable as a ruling center, and at the same time, in order to prepare for the unification of Jiangnan, Luoyang became the first choice. Emperor Xiaowen commented on Pingcheng, "This is a place of use, not a place of civil rule." Emperor Xiaowen first claimed to be going south to conquer Qi, and when he arrived in Luoyang, it rained heavily, and he took advantage of the fear of his subjects to resolutely move the capital to Luoyang. He also issued an edict to comprehensively promote Sinicization, requiring a change of wearing Hanfu, ordering officials under the age of thirty to speak Chinese, changing their Surname to Han, and intermarrying with han Chinese

Emperor Xiaowen's policy of comprehensive Sinicization was met with fierce resistance from the Xianbei nobles at the time, and also caused many contradictions. However, Emperor Xiaowen's decisive killing, execution of crown prince Yuan Gong, and quelling the rebellion, Emperor Xiaowen's Sinicization measures showed his super high political foresight and had a positive and far-reaching impact on future generations.

After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, many ethnic minority regimes took turns like marquees, known in history as the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, when the northern nomads only occupied a territory, it was difficult to gain a long-term foothold, and often caused fierce ethnic contradictions.

Emperor Xiaowen's sinicization policy not only greatly promoted ethnic integration and alleviated ethnic contradictions, but also profoundly affected the emergence of several powerful dynasties in the Later Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties.

After Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang, while carrying out reforms, he also actively marched south and prepared to unify the whole country. From the twenty-first year of Taihe, he began to personally lead a large army on the southern expedition, during which he fell ill, and Taihe died of illness during the southern expedition in the twenty-third year.

Wei Shu commented: "... To be a man of great talent, to love a good man, to regard the inferior as a wound, to serve one's own interests, and to have nothing to call it. Its longitude and latitude heaven and earth, how vain is it! ”

谥孝文, "The Sayings of the Heavens and the Earth..."