The history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties is a chaotic history, let's say the Southern Dynasty, from the Sima family to the south to establish political power, until the Chen Dynasty was destroyed. During this period, a total of Eastern Jin and Liu Yu deposed Emperor Gong of Jin, established Liu Song and Xiao Daocheng to kill and depose Emperor Liu Yu, established Southern Qi and Xiao Yan to replace Southern Qi as emperor, established Southern Liang, and Established Southern Liang and Chen Baxian to replace Southern Liang and establish Southern Chen. The south has gone through five dynasties, and the first four are young lords who have no power and have been usurped by their vassals.
The northern regime has been very stable, starting from the establishment of the Northern Wei by Tuoba Jue, until the Western Wei Zen ceded to Yuwen Jue, and the Tuoba family has continued for more than one hundred and seventy years. When did the Tuoba family's Jiangshan begin to decline, that is, from the time Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital, Tuoba Hong was an outstanding politician and reformer.
His intentions for moving the capital and reforming were good, but unfortunately, the later incumbents did not have his domineering spirit. The ethnic contradictions that have always existed, coupled with the fact that the emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty were all short-lived, so after Tuoba Hong's death. The imperial court was controlled by powerful ministers, and the Northern Wei Dynasty began to decline, and soldiers and civilians from all over the country revolted against the imperial court.
Since Tuoba Hong's death, every emperor in the late Northern Wei Dynasty has lived at the feet of the powerful subjects, and at this time, the Tuoba family has been unable to turn over. After the Northern Wei dynasty separated, Gao Yang of Eastern Wei replaced Eastern Wei to establish Northern Qi. In Western Wei, Yuwen Hu forced the Western Wei emperor Chan to cede to the Yuwen family, establishing the Northern Zhou, and the Tuoba family declared its demise.
Northern Zhou was again usurped by the powerful minister Yang Jian, the little emperor was young, did not understand anything, helplessly could only hand over the Jiangshan to others, the only regime that existed at that time was the Southern Chen Dynasty, Northern Zhou, and Northern Qi Three Kingdoms, also known as the Later Three Kingdoms. Northern Zhou was because the emperor was small and had no real power in his hands, and Yang Jian, a foreign relative of the North, usurped the throne. Southern Chen and Northern Qi are different, those in power have real power in their hands, let's talk to you about how these two defeated emperors played the good cards in their hands step by step.
Let's talk about Northern Qi first, the last little emperor Gao Heng is not counted, after all, it is the disaster caused by his father Gao Wei, and he was only seven years old when he died. Let's say Gao Wei, the foundation that Northern Qi established from his grandfather Gao Huan, to the expansion of his territory to the largest during the period of his second uncle Gao Yang, and finally to the hands of Gao Wei and his father Gao Zhan. His father was a cruel man who killed his brothers and nephews over and over again, and when Gao Zhan died of illness, he passed the throne to Gao Wei, when he was only thirteen years old, his life was the best, so young as an emperor, the assistant minister did not have two hearts.
Northern Qi had three masters at that time, so that Northern Zhou did not dare to move under the leadership of Yuwen Yong, and the famous generals Duan Shao, the famous general Gao Changgong of Lanling, and zuo Cheng Xiang Hu Luguang. There were three of them, Northern Zhou and Northern Qi were on an equal footing, each with five or five open bars, and the famous general Duan Shao died of illness in the second year after Gao Wei ascended to the throne.
Less than three years after ascending the throne, he killed Huo Luguang, the most feared general in Northern Zhou. When Northern Zhou Yuwen Yong learned of this news, he granted amnesty to the world. Then, in the following year, he poisoned his cousin, Gao Changgong, the King of Lanling, because Gao Changgong had made many military achievements and was suspected by Gao Wei, presumably because he was afraid that the Lanling King would seize his throne, so he did this kind of thing that was painful for his relatives and happy for his enemies. The most outrageous thing is to spoil Feng Xiaopi, treat the battlefield as a child's play, and treat the soldiers as inappropriate.
In addition to Duan Shao, the other two were killed by Gao Wei, and the two famous generals died, and there were basically no famous generals in Northern Qi who could take it out against Northern Zhou at that time, so Northern Zhou was no longer jealous, and in the same year Northern Qi was attacked by Northern Zhou. The Northern Zhou Unified the Northern Region.
Speaking of Southern Chen, the last emperor was Chen Shubao, and when his father, Chen Xuandi, took the throne, he continued to implement a policy of lightening the thin endowment, and the economy of Jiangnan gradually recovered. At the beginning of Chen Shubao's reign, he actually did something, and he pardoned the world several times, which was considered to be more diligent in government and loved the people. As soon as he took the throne, he was summoned to rely on the assistance of his courtiers to benefit the people of the ancestors, and to continue to reform the people's livelihood. Then he issued an edict to adopt the advice, and even said, "If the court folds, there is no fear of criticizing the scales." This means that even if there is any remark that offends the royal family, as long as it is right, he can accept it.
It didn't take long for the drastic axe to be done, and he began to spend all day drinking and not listening to political affairs, and the southern dynasty all believed in Buddhism, so he ordered the construction of the Great Emperor Temple, built a seven-level floating map inside, and began to work hard and hurt the people. Since the founding of Chen Baxian, the inner court furnishings of the imperial palace have been very simple, which is related to Chen Baxian's origin.
Later, Chen Shubao was too simple to be worthy of a few beautiful women he favored, and he spent a lot of money to build several high-rise buildings for his golden house. At this time, Northern Zhou was usurped by his foreign relative Yang Jian and established Sui, who had ambitions to communicate with Huaxia and began to prepare to attack Southern Chen. And Chen Shubao didn't care about these things, the border soldiers came to report that the Sui army had sent a large army south, and Chen Shubao laughed after hearing this.
It is said that since the founding of the Chen Dynasty, the Northern Qi army has attacked three times, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty has also attacked several times with large troops, and that time it was not all fruitless, and now that the Sui army has come, what can it do. Minister Kong Fan went on to say, We have the Yangtze River Graben, which cuts off the north and the south, and now the Sui army is attacking Chen from the south, can they cross the Yangtze River? After saying that, the emperor began to drink and have fun with the ministers, but in fact, the Sui army had already gone south, and the urgent reports sent by the border soldiers were intercepted by the loyal minister Shi Wenqing. Lord Chen Hou was bent on pleasure, so he entrusted the power of government to him, and the military generals all asked for orders to lead the troops to the battle, but Lord Chen Hou did not agree, thinking that it was no big deal.
When he crossed the Yangtze River with his army, Lord Chen Hou knew the seriousness of the matter, and the famous general Xiao Moke asked for orders to lead his army to meet the enemy. When Xiao Moke led his troops to engage the Sui army, he didn't know that Chen Shubao was the wrong one, so he actually took advantage of Xiao Moke to go to the battlefield, took Xiao Moke's wife for himself, and pulled her to the palace to give it to him. This incident made Xiao Moke sad and indignant, I was desperately bleeding for you in the front, and you were occupying my wife in the rear, is this what people do?
Xiao Moke led the army and was captured by the Sui army without a fight, at this time, only Lu Guangda was fighting to the death in Southern Chen, after all, it was difficult to fight with two fists and four hands. At this time, Lord Chen Hou, who had no master of the six gods, only knew how to cry his nose, and his confidant Ren Zhongzhong, seeing that the general trend had gone, surrendered to Han Huhu and led the Sui army to capture Chen Shubao. Chen Shubao had no choice but to hide in the well with several of his favorite concubines, and was soon captured by the Sui army, and several of his favorite concubines were also killed, Chen Shubao fell ill and died after surrendering to the Sui Dynasty, and Emperor Wen of Sui gave him the nickname of Jiao, which was the nickname given to Yang Guang by the Li Tang family later.