To say that the position of the king of a country, there should be no one who does not want to have, after all, that can symbolize the supreme power, the most wealth and countless flowers and beautiful families, for these thousands of years everyone squeezed their heads, is to sit in this position, enjoy the taste of the people worship, but which is so easy, so whenever the old dynasty is on the verge of collapse, the forces of all sides are foolish, they know that the opportunity is coming, but the final winner is only one, as for who, Then it all depends on their creation.
Xiao Yan, who was born into a famous family at that time, can be said to have mixed well in the official field with a strong background, and later because of his meritorious escort, he was promoted again, and since then he has opened the road to canonization. In 498 AD, the Qi Ming Emperor Xiao Yu died, and his son Xiao Baojuan, who had planned to take the throne, also made everyone in the imperial court endanger himself because of his inability to govern the country and was absurd, and the whole country was also on the verge of collapse, so Xiao Yan, who saw the timing, decided to send troops at this moment, perhaps because the timing was correct, in less than a year, Xiao Yan did not spend any effort to attack the capital, and overthrowing tyranny was also a matter of pushing the boat along the water. After this battle, Xiao Yan successfully rose to the rank of Grand Sima and became an important vassal of the dprk.
People, often the higher the climb, the greater the desire, the more he wants, a few years later he chose to start the army again, this time he aimed at the throne, the rule of the Qi Dynasty also ended from here, and the glory of the Liang Dynasty began to really begin. At the beginning of the establishment of the country, Xiao Yan did make steady progress on the road to becoming a Ming Emperor, and if it was smooth, in time and history, he would be able to compare with the original Qin Emperor Han Wu, but there were so many assumptions in reality. In his later years, his obsession with Buddhism was almost to the point of enchantment. Once in a lifetime, the family is already at its limit, and as an emperor, he is even more outrageous, escaping into the empty door four times in his life to find the so-called Dharma in his heart.
In 527 he first chose to become a monk, but it did not last long, and he returned to the court three days later. The same was true of the next three times, each time he thought about it himself, and then he would return to the court under the bitter pleading of the ministers, but it was not in vain, and the courtiers also needed to pay hundreds of millions of silver to the temple to redeem their flesh. No matter which dynasty he placed in, these behaviors of his were far from the original emperor who ruled the country diligently, but his strangeness was far from drawing the end here.
He first found information from the Great Nirvana Sutra that monks need to eat vegetarian food, and since then he has continued this tradition; then he said that he was a monk, did not think about adultery, did not kill, and since then he began to abstain from sex, according to historical records, he died at the age of 86, probably for more than forty years before and after, did not go to the harem, so where did those concubines go? Except for Ding Gui's concubine Ding, all the rest were thrown out of the capital by him. Not only that, but he also brought the kindness of the monks to the extreme, but the price of this kindness was to pay him back with his life. After the death of Northern Qi Gao Huan that year, his general Hou Jing came to surrender, and Xiao Yan, who was soft-hearted, naturally could not bear to refuse, so he tried to accept the other side.
Some courtiers sighed and said that there would be great chaos in the Liang Dynasty after that, that they had been immersed in the officialdom for many years, and that their eyes were naturally poisonous, and that this minister was not wrong at all. In 548, Hou Jing, dissatisfied with the friendship between Liang and Eastern Wei, directly raised an army, and the suppression army in various places was also uneven, resulting in missing the best time to suppress, Xiao Yan, who had the heart of a bodhisattva, was captured, and at the age of 86, he could not die well, and he was starved to death, and that kindness became the laughing stock of everyone.
Originally 38 years old, he started a new era with a soldier is a very good thing, at first he has been practicing a very good concept of governance, but soaked in power for too long, the original intention will eventually be lost, in his later years indulged in Buddhism, and then he even lured the wolf into the room, this series of acts will erase his early achievements together, there is nothing left, so that when we mention him in the future, we can only think of the last sin, which is also a pity.