Yuan Zigong was a Member of the Xianbei clan, whose original surname was Bald Hair, and was the grandson of Yuan He, the Tai Wei of the Northern Wei Dynasty, whose father Yuan Huai ren Situ, was born from a relatively high starting point. Both his father and grandfather were Important Ministers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and in the early days, they held positions such as Sikong joining the army and Situ Sacrificial Wine. Yuan Zigong was intelligent and studious, and at first he also participated in political affairs and belonged to the literati faction, but as a minority in the north, he would more or less point out riding and shooting kung fu, but there were no famous generals.
What is rare is that a politician also has the ability to lead troops to fight, at that time, the Qiang people of Hezhou rebelled and killed the chief executive, and the Northern Wei court ordered Yuan Zigong to lead the army to fight. This rebel force should not be very large, the first time to lead the troops out of the yuan zigong, first of all, should not have any combat experience, there is a politician he can think of and the level of the military generals think is not the same. Therefore, yuan zigong only took twenty days to break up this rebel force, and the rebels surrendered to Northern Wei.
At this time, there was serious corruption within the Northern Wei Dynasty, and where there was oppression, there was resistance, and soon the Qi people in the Qin Yi region began to rebel against the imperial court. The Northern Wei court ordered Wang Yuanchen of Hejian to go on a crusade, and Yuan Zigong was made the governor of Hejian as a military master of Wang Yuanchen of Hejian. As soon as the two joined forces, the rebellion of the Yu clan was put down in the first battle, and in order to stabilize the Qinyi region, the imperial court let Yuan Zigong stay and pacify the local people.
When Genzi Gongzheng led the local people to develop, this was when the great historical event came, and the Six Towns Uprising broke out. The imperial court was employing people, and Yuan Zigong's previous two counterinsurgency performances were also recognized by the imperial court, so He dropped Yuan Zigong and returned to suppress the Six Towns Uprising. After Yuanzi Gong returned to the dynasty, he served as the Taishou of Hanoi and the general of The Queen. Seeing that the internal uprisings of the Northern Wei Dynasty continued, Ping Daishu and Jianxing Shu secretly colluded to rebel against the imperial court. For this kind of ethnic minority uprising, Yuan Zi Gong ping they still had some experience, so Northern Wei added Yuan Zi Gong as the governor of Zhengjian Xingdu. He zhengping governor Sun Zhi jointly attacked these two rebel forces.
As soon as the two men left, the rebels were packed up, and the leaders of the two rebel forces had to surrender to Northern Wei, and after quelling the two rebellions, the imperial court Ren Yuanzigong was made a general of the Fu army. It was really a wave of unrest, a wave of rise, this side just calmed the rebels, Southern Liang came to invade. At that time, the Northern Wei Dynasty assassin Shi Yuanyuan wanted to surrender the city of Yingzhou to Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, and Yuan Zigong was ordered to go to retake it, at which time the Southern Liang general Xiahou Kui led tens of thousands of troops to attack Yuanzi Gong. This was the first time that Yuan Zigong fought against the regular army, and Xiahou Gong took advantage of his large number of generals to divide the army into two ways to attack Yuan Zigong, and Yuan Zigong was not in a hurry, and took a powerful counterattack according to the current form, defeating Xiahou Gong.
After Xiahou Kui was repulsed, Southern Liang Yuzhou sent four more generals to lead a 30,000-strong army to find the field, and Yuan Zigong led the army to meet the attack, once again defeating the Liang army. The invading Liang army was defeated, and the imperial court made Yuan Zigong the general of Zhennan. The Southern Liang army, which had been defeated twice at the hands of Yuan Zigong, was still unwilling, so under the leadership of the Southern Liang General Hu Zhida, they came to find Yuan Zigong's trouble for the third time. It was once again defeated, and this battle also killed Hu Zhida. A politician became a general on the battlefield, and won several battles in a crushing way.
Although the Northern Wei Dynasty was in turmoil at this time, and Emperor Xiaoming was poisoned by Empress Dowager Hu, Erzhu Rong entered Luoyang and staged a major coup d'état, proclaiming Yuan Ziyou emperor. Yuan Zigong has completely risen from politician to military general, anyway, he is fighting for the Northern Wei Dynasty, and whoever becomes this emperor is the same, as long as he is not a foreigner. Because Erzhu Rong launched the Heyin Rebellion, some princes of the Northern Wei imperial family fled to Southern Liang and asked Emperor Wu of Liang to send troops to help, such as Yuanhao, the King of Beihai.
Emperor Wu of Liang was also willing to help, and with a big wave of his hand, he sent the general Chen Qingzhi to lead seven thousand men and horses to go to northern Wei, what Master Xiao did not expect was that Chen Qingzhi, with seven thousand horses, sent Yuan Hao into Luoyang and drove Yuan Ziyou away. At the same time that Yuan Zigong accepted Yuan Hao's canonization, he also secretly inquired about the whereabouts of Yuan Ziyou, fortunately, it was not long before Erzhu Rong beat Yuan Hao away again, and Yuan Ziyou returned to Luoyang and added Yuan Zi Gong to the general and right servant.
Soon Yuan Zigong ushered in his first defeat, and after Emperor Xiaozhuang Yuanziyou killed Erzhu Rong, several big men of the Erzhu family definitely stopped working and wanted to attack Luoyang and kill Emperor Xiaozhuang Yuanziyou. Erzhu Shilong and Erzhu Dulu occupied the river bridge, and Emperor Xiaozhuang's yuanzi you appointed Yuan Zigong as the governor of the capital to attack the people of the Erzhu family. Although he defeated Erzhu Shilong, Yuanzigong's men betrayed him, causing Yuanzigong to be defeated by Erzhu Zhao. Because the Yuanzi Gong family has been a courtier for several generations and has a certain prestige, and Yuan Zigong is also a talented and virtuous person, the people of the Erzhu family are not difficult for him, and soon let him go.
The Erzhu family established Yuan Gong as emperor, Yuan Zi Gong as the general of the Hun Horse, and Master Xiao of Southern Liang wanted to cause some trouble for Northern Wei, so he appointed the barbarian Lei Chaoqing as the assassin of Yanzhou and led his barbarians to rob everywhere, Yuan Zi Gong was ordered to go on a crusade, a group of rabble-rousers were taken care of by Yuan Zi Gong in minutes, and the imperial court asked him to manage Yanzhou, eliminate the remaining bandits, and take care of the people.
After Gao Huan ascended the throne to the throne of Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei, Yuan Zigong entered the dynasty as an official Shangshu and added a general to ride a horse. Later, based on his military exploits, he was given the title of founding son, and after Yuan Xiu surrendered to Yuwen Tai, Gao Huan established Yuan Shanjian as emperor, and Northern Wei was divided into Eastern and Western Wei, and Yuan Zigong was appointed by the Eastern Wei Emperor as Wei Yin by virtue of his military merits, and gao Huan's military division, Gao Huan's traitors all worshiped him as a military master, which showed that his strategic thinking and vision were admired by Gao Huan, but unfortunately he died of illness just after his promotion, and the imperial court gave Yuan Zigong the title of Sikong Gong and Yanzhou Assassin History.