The Southern and Northern Dynasties is a special period in Chinese history, since the collapse of the Western Jin Dynasty, the northern land has fallen into a long period of war, while the south is relatively stable, and later the Eastern Jin Dynasty was replaced by Liu Song, and the North was also unified by the Northern Wei, the two sides were evenly matched, no one could destroy anyone, and finally entered the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties that lasted for more than a hundred years. The Northern Dynasty successively experienced the Northern Wei Dynasty, then the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, then the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi, and finally the Northern Zhou Unification, followed by the Sui Dynasty. The Southern Dynasty was relatively stable, starting from the Song Dynasty and successively experiencing the four dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen.
Southern Qi was the second dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, the founder was named Xiao Daocheng, he was originally a general of Liu Song, because the Liu Song imperial family killed each other, gradually grasped the military power of Liu Song, and then deposed The emperor Liu Yu after the abolition of Liu Song, and established Liu Zhun, who threatened the princes to become cao Cao's vassals.
Becoming Cao Cao, he naturally wanted to replace him, so he entered the king of Qi and took charge of the military state. However, Xiao Daocheng did not want to be a lifelong minister like Cao Cao, he wanted to be emperor himself, so the long-lost "Zen Rang" drama was staged again. Interestingly, Emperor Liu Song claimed to be a descendant of Liu Jiao, the younger brother of Liu Bang of Han Gaozu, the King of Chuyuan, while Xiao Daocheng claimed to be a descendant of Xiao He, which is equivalent to saying that Xiao He usurped the liu family's world, which is estimated to be something that Liu Bang Xiao He did not expect.
Xiao Daocheng was able to successfully seize the world without the help of his children and grandchildren, among which his favorite was his eldest grandson Xiao Changmao.
Xiao Changmao was the eldest son and eldest grandson of Xiao Daocheng, and when he was born, his father Xiao Zhao was not yet twenty years old, which was typical of early marriage and early childbearing.
Xiao Daocheng, who has not yet entered old age, got a grandson early, and he was very happy to successfully upgrade to become a grandfather, after all, this means that his family is endless. Thus Xiao Changmao became the grandfather's favorite grandson, his treatment was always different from other brothers, Xiao Daocheng named this grandson Xiao Changmao, and at the same time stipulated that other grandsons could only be named Xiao Zimou, in order to highlight Xiao Changmao's special status, and at the same time gave him the word "Yun Qiao", and because he grew up white and lovely, he gave him a nickname "Bai Ze".
Although grandpa loved him, but because grandpa was busy with work, Xiao Changmao later followed his father to garrison outside, and his father Xiao Zhao was very strict with him, so he was very afraid of his father. Due to the different attitudes of his grandfather and father towards him, he eventually cultivated him into a two-sided personality.
Xiao Changmao later combined wisdom and luxury, burdened with hope and disappointment, and eventually caused his untimely death, and his death eventually caused Xiao Daocheng's loss of power, and finally the destruction of the country and the family.
Xiao Daocheng continued to rise in Liu Song's position, in order to consolidate his power, he sent his son Xiao Zhao to Yingzhou to further control Xiangyang and other military towns, Xiao Changmao also went with him, only to encounter Shen Youzhi's rebellion, which made Xiao Daocheng worried, and later after the rebellion was quelled, Xiao Daocheng quickly transferred his grandson back, and happily said to him: "Ru return, I will do the work." He then gave an order to his subordinate general, Shu Xun Boyu: "On the day of my trip, the army in the city was under the command of The Long Mao Festival. Although I can't do it, I will directly defend inside and outside and the armor of the various doors, and order the long mao to perform it from time to time. This is equivalent to saying that he has established Xiao Changmao as his second heir.
And in order to consolidate Xiao Changmao's emperor, Xiao Daocheng ascended the throne as emperor, and after the eldest son Xiao Zhao was made crown prince, he immediately crowned his grandson as the king of Nanjun, knowing that since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, no emperor has ever been crowned king, Xiao Changmao was directly crowned king with his uncles, which shows how much he is loved by his grandfather. Jiang Zuo did not have the title of Emperor Sun, and he began from here.
Xiao Daocheng struggled for half a lifetime and finally became emperor, but he did not reign for a long time, and died after just a few years, and then Xiao Zhao inherited the throne, and naturally Xiao Changmao, as the eldest son of Concubine, was promoted to crown prince.
Xiao Changmao, who became crown prince, was a virtuous prince in the eyes of his father's subjects throughout the country. He was gentle and elegant, always polite to the literati scholars, sincerely received these literati and scholars, and discussed learning with them, in the winter of the fifth year of Yongming, "the prince came to the country to study, personally came to test the students", here he did not have the shelf of the crown prince at all, just like a scholar, and the young Fu Wang Jian launched a discussion on "respect and inferiority", "filial piety and respect", the two people launched a fierce discussion, here there is no crown prince and young fu, only scholars discuss learning, they cite the scriptures, each expressing their own opinions, It caused the surrounding students to sigh one after another, and for a while, "the prince has been studying for many years, and he has not been in the previous generation" has spread throughout the capital.
At the same time, because his father gradually grew older, he began to share his father's work as the crown prince, and a busy work began to overwhelm Xiao Changmao, although the state affairs were complicated, But Xiao Changmao handled it in an orderly manner and won the praise of the government and the public. At the same time, Xiao Changmao and his younger brother Xiao Ziliang also founded the "Six Diseases Hall", which is an institution dedicated to helping widows, widows, loneliness, poverty and illness and no one to take care of them. For a time, the crown prince's virtue spread throughout the country of Qi.
The gentle and elegant Prince Xianming was Xiao Changmao's impression to the world, but after returning to the Eastern Palace, he became another person.
However, although Xiao Changmao is a wise man, but there is a problem is luxury, he was born in the rise of his grandfather's career, from the beginning of understanding is to remember the luxury of the princes and nobles in the last years of liu Song, coupled with his grandfather's love for him, so that he developed a luxurious habit, there is no inheritance of grandfather and father frugality.
After Xiao Daocheng ascended the throne, he vigorously eliminated the extravagant behavior since the Liu Song Dynasty in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and successively promulgated more than ten prohibitions, the use of gold and silver products and silk satin was not allowed in the palace, and only vegetarian food was eaten on weekdays. But what the father and son didn't know was that Xiao Changmao, whom they both thought was the most virtuous, was doing something extravagant under their eyes.
Xiao Changmao was still honest not to be the prince, because right in front of his father, he did not dare to act beyond the rules. After becoming the crown prince, he moved into the Eastern Palace, took advantage of the favorable environment under the lights, and began his own unknowing pleasures.
Xiao Changmao first played his father, used his excellent literary talent to deceive his father, and obtained a large amount of land, so he built a large number of civil engineering on this land, used countless labor, and built his own back garden "Dongtian". "Prince Wenhui's building is located at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain, called 'Dongtian', and the prince has traveled to the throne many times." This piece of Dongtianli, where only he will come, "where the towers look at the towers, gather more strange stones, and wonderful landscapes." "For a time it became a grand scene of Jiankang," Miyagi Garden Lane, the grandeur of the system, the viewer poured into the Beijing Division. ”
While building his own garden, he also further built his own East Palace, so for a time his Xuanpu TaiCheng, the East Palace was lined up one after another, surpassing the palace of his father's emperor. "The charm is even and the sex is quite luxurious, and the palace halls are all carved and decorated, which is too upper to the palace."
Xiao Changmao enjoyed himself in this splendid palace, and his eating clothes and other utensils exceeded the regulations of the prince's system and had reached or even exceeded the emperor's standards. "Weave peacock feathers for fur, brilliant and golden, too pheasant head" .
Xiao Changmao was so extravagant under his father's eyes, didn't Xiao Zhao know? The fact is that Xiao Zhao really did not know, he had always been very important to this eldest son, coupled with Xiao Changmao's well-behaved and intelligent, outstanding ability, he would not have thought that his son would do something he hated, coupled with busy political affairs, usually do not go out, so he never saw Xiao Changmao's luxurious palace, and no one ever dared to tell him. After all, Xiao Changmao was the crown prince, the next emperor, he did not make a big mistake himself, just some extravagant pleasures, the emperor said a few words at most, and Xiao Changmao once investigated who reported who was unlucky, so no one wanted to make a vendetta with the future emperor, so Xiao Changmao's affairs except Xiao Zhao everyone knew, although the emperor was all over the world, but he knew nothing about his son. "The prince is sick and strong, often in the palace, and is simple to travel." Playing with Yu Yi, many doubts, although it is forbidden by the palace, but the upper finally does not know. ”
However, it just can't contain the fire, Xiao Changmao blatantly repaired the illegal construction, and sooner or later, when the filling was revealed, finally Xiao Zhao still knew, but no one reported it, it was Xiao Zhao himself who found it.
Xiao Zhao was invited out of the palace once at the invitation of his younger brother Xiao Ling, and when he returned, he accidentally found Xiao Changmao's Dongtian Garden, and when he saw the palace that was "far away and magnificent, zhuang and beautiful", he was shocked, and then looked at his own dilapidated and dilapidated palace next to him, which was really a heaven and an underground.
Who dared to build such a luxurious palace next to his own palace, he asked the people around him, and these people did not dare to say. At this moment, Xiao Zhao understood that this was the prince's palace, only the prince dared to do this, and only the prince could make the people dare not speak. I really did not expect that I had been frugal all my life, as an emperor living in a broken house and eating shoddy food, I wanted to save money for the country, so as to leave a rich world for my son, and I did not expect that this son actually dared to live a luxurious life under his own eyes.
An angry Xiao Zhao returned to the palace and found Xiao Changmao and scolded him, of course, he could not depose the prince he had cultivated for many years for this matter, he thought that the son was seduced by the people around him to do this, so he ordered the arrest of the people around the prince to punish, and then let Xiao Changmao go back to think about it.
Although Xiao Changmao was not punished, after being severely reprimanded by his father, he felt fear. Since the ancient ruthless imperial family, although his father did not punish himself in any way, he knew the seriousness of what he did this time, his father hated extravagant behavior the most, and he deceived him for many years, which made his father very angry, and his father was not only his own son, what if the father abolished himself and set up another brother? If you are deposed, then what will happen, there is only one death.
Every day he was afraid that his father's holy will would come and destroy himself, this fear made Xiao Changmao worried, and soon he became seriously ill, and after a few months of delay, he actually died, sick and sick, and the above table said: "The subject belongs to Yuanliang, karma is three good, the light path tree wind, Yu Yan gai que, morning and night are afraid, there is Ruo Linyuan." Regents and peace, constructing defects, the great gradually only a few, employing the yin to be thankful. The guard is difficult to be eternal, see the food long violation, look up to the kind face, and feel choked inwardly. Stealing only the fixed points of life and death, the reason is not enough to be sad, the mourning of the wish is cut off, the wounds of the past, the treasure guard is sacred, the same hugh is seven hundred, although the subject has no nine springs, there is nothing to hate. "Chinese New Year's Eve six years old.
When the news of Xiao Changmao's death came out, the government and the public were shocked, everyone knew that Xiao Zhao was old and in poor health, and I was afraid that he would soon die, and xiao Changmao, who had participated in the government for many years, would inherit the throne. However, the news they got was actually Xiao Changmao's death.
However, what was even more sad was Xiao Zhao, who never wanted to beat his most important eldest son to actually walk in front of him, and he had to bear the pain of the white-haired person sending the black-haired person.
Xiao Zhao walked painfully to the East Palace, looked at his dead son and wept bitterly, he ordered Xiao Changmao to be given the title of "Prince Wenhui", and in order to make up for his son's regret that he did not ascend to the throne, he ordered Xiao Changmao to wear the emperor's crown and be buried.
Originally, Xiao Changmao's life ended, but what happened afterwards surprised everyone, Xiao Zhao actually wanted to tear down the East Palace, it turned out that when he was crying for his son, Xiao Zhao stepped into the East Palace for the first time, after crying for his son, after the mood calmed down, he was angry after seeing everything in front of him.
Xiao Zhao looked at the East Palace and the relics left by Xiao Changmao, actually completely surpassed himself, all of them were emperor specifications, he originally thought that Xiao Changmao was just seduced by people, the palace was tall and magnificent, he did not expect that in his daily life he actually exceeded the system, lived the emperor life in the East Palace, and did not put himself in the eyes of the emperor at all, so he ordered that all the places in the East Palace that were beyond the system were rebuilt, this behavior was basically equivalent to demolishing and building a new one, and then changed the East Field into a Chongxu Hall.
Although Xiao Zhao was very angry that his son had deceived himself, after all, it was a son, and he could not give up this feeling, and in the end he still established Xiao Changmao's son as his grandson and passed the throne to him.
Xiao Changmao's son Xiao Zhaoye inherited the throne, so he posthumously honored Xiao Changmao as Emperor Wen and the temple name Shizong.
However, Xiao Changmao did not expect that his emperor had not yet enjoyed several sacrifices, so he was withdrawn and thrown aside, and even his own descendants were slaughtered, and this opponent was Xiao Luan.
Xiao Luan is Xiao Daocheng's nephew, his father died early, it was Xiao Daocheng who raised him as a parent. Because of this relationship, Xiao Luan was very much used by Xiao Daocheng's father and son. However, Xiao Changmao did not like this cousin very much, because he felt that this Xiao Luan was not a good person and left him a scourge, so he wanted to get rid of him, but was dissuaded by his younger brother Xiao Ziliang. "I don't like this man in my opinion, because of his thin merit."
After Xiao Zhao's death, Xiao Changmao was worried that it had finally happened. Although Xiao Luan was raised by his uncle, and his brother Xiao Zhao trusted himself very much, he was not grateful, there was no affection in front of power, he had ambitions, and he did not want to succumb to his uncle's line all the time.
So after Xiao Zhaoye took the throne, taking advantage of Xiao Zhaoye's fainting, he expanded his strength, and finally deposed Xiao Changmao's two sons successively, and finally took the throne himself, in order to never have any trouble, he began to massacre Xiao Daocheng's descendants, and Xiao Changmao's four sons were all killed, thus verifying Xiao Changmao's prophecy, and this was exactly what Xiao Changmao did not want to see, but he had no way.
His death led to Xiao Luan's usurpation of the throne, and also led to the end of Southern Qi's establishment from Xiao Daocheng in the last twenty years, and the Southern Dynasty entered the third dynasty, the Liang Dynasty.