I believe that friends after the 80s should have seen an idol drama, called "Love Deep rain", the theme song of this idol drama is very good, which has a lyric "how many buildings are in the smoke and rain".
One might ask, what does this idol drama and its theme song have to do with the topic we're going to talk about today?
I am afraid that few people know that this lyric is from the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "Jiangnan Spring Absolute Sentence", and there is another sentence in this poem, called "Four Hundred and Eighty Temples of the Southern Dynasty", which expresses the author's feelings about the Obsession of Emperor Liangwu of the Southern Dynasty with Buddhism.
Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu was originally a thorn in southern Qi, and the official was not small. However, he was not satisfied, so he rebelled, forced Emperor Qi and Emperor to give up the throne, became emperor himself, and changed the name of the country to "Liang", at the age of 38.
Emperor Wu of Liang could be described as both literary and martial, but although he became emperor, he became one of the few outliers among the emperors. As we all know, emperors from the grassroots either love power, or love sex, or greed for money. Xiao Yan had nothing to do with all this, all he liked was his obsession with Buddhism and other things related to Buddhism.
The specific manifestation of Lao Xiao's obsession with Buddhism is that one is to spend a lot of money to build various temples, which directly leads to more than 500 temples in the capital Jiankang (Nanjing), and the number of monks in the temple has reached more than 100,000, which has caused a heavy burden to the people; the second is to find ways to become a monk, and several times in succession, Lao Xiao has used the excuse to go to the monastery to incense, but in fact he will not leave, and he will become a monk. The helpless ministers had to spend money to redeem him, and the money spent to redeem him reached more than 400 million yuan (copper coins)!
As we all know, Buddhism advocates vegetarianism and abstinence, Lao Xiao has done a good job in this regard, he reigned for 48 years, he has eaten vegetarian food for more than 40 years, and the concubines in his harem have also been widows for more than 40 years!
I am afraid that even Lao Xiao himself could not imagine that his obsession with Buddhism would eventually bring great disaster to himself.
In 574, Eastern Wei had a man named Hou Jing who came to surrender. This Hou Jing was of bad character and often surrendered and rebelled, so the ministers did not agree with his surrender. However, in the name of my Buddha's compassion, Lao Xiao took Hou Jing in with great kindness and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.
When Hou Jing heard about it, he was ostensibly grateful to Lao Xiao and vowed to be loyal to Lao Xiao, and Lao Xiao himself was also satisfied, believing that he had done a great good deed. However, Hou Jingben was a capricious villain, and the villain's words could not be believed at all, and he temporarily surrendered, in fact, waiting for the opportunity.
Later, because Emperor Wu of Liang's nephew was captured by Eastern Wei, in order to save his nephew, the kind old Xiao decided to make peace with Eastern Wei. When Hou Jing heard about this, he believed that once peace was made, Eastern Wei's condition was likely to extradite himself back to the crime. Therefore, Hou Jing reversed again. Knowing that Hou Jing was opposed, Old Xiao repented that he was not in the beginning, and he actually appointed his nephew Xiao Zhengde as the commander to attack Hou Jing.
Xiao Zhengde is Lao Xiao's nephew, and Xiao Zhengde's father Xiao Hong once wanted to rebel, and when Lao Xiao learned of this, he not only did not punish Xiao Hong, but instead reinstated him as an official, and Xiao Zhengde, like his father, actually had a hidden antipathy.
Hou Jing was very happy to know that Old Xiao had actually sent Xiao Zhengde to attack him. He immediately sent a letter to Xiao Zhengde, telling Xiao Zhengde that if they joined forces to overthrow Old Xiao, then xiao Zhengde would be supported as emperor after the matter was completed.
Xiao Zhengde was overjoyed when he saw the letter, and immediately rebelled, not only sending ships to transport the rebels, but also personally leading the way for the rebels. As a result, the rebels quickly invaded the city of Jiankang, quickly surrounded the palace, and cut off all supplies for the palace.
Hou Jing's rebellion was successful, and Xiao Zhengde was still dreaming at this time, but he may have forgotten that Hou Jing was actually an untrustworthy person, so he did not become emperor in the end, but only became a nominal Sima Ma.
An angry Xiao Zhengde scolded Hou Jing for rebelling, and even prepared to give Hou Jing a look at the color, so he quietly plotted a rebellion. However, jiang was still old and spicy, and Hou Jing knew in his heart that there would be such a day. Hou Jing was not Old Xiao, and he, who had always been fierce and fierce, immediately sent someone to kill Xiao Zhengde.
Poor Emperor Wu of Liang, because of his stupid benevolence, caused him to lose his life in vain, and eventually became the "laughing stock of eternity".