Northern Wei was a regime established by tuoba jue, a Xianbei man, but in northern Wei there was a Hanchen who could be described as very powerful, and he was Cui Hao. As the mastermind of the Unification War of the Northern Wei Dynasty, he participated in the major military decisions of the three generations of emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and was resourceful and decisive, and he often compared himself to Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty. But it was such a powerful minister who was deeply favored by the emperor, but he was suddenly executed and destroyed by the Nine Tribes.
Cui Hao was born in a family of official eunuchs, and his family was the "Qinghe Cui Clan" of the Northern Gaomen Clan. There were officials in several generations, and his father alone was an official to the official Shangshu and gave him the title of Duke of White Horse.
During the Daowu Emperor period, because he wrote well, he often followed around, and this also opened an extraordinary life. Emperor Daowu was later killed by his son Tuoba Shao, and was later succeeded by Emperor Daowu's eldest son Tuoba Si, emperor Mingyuan.
Emperor Mingyuan did not give up on this big red man around his father and attached great importance to him. Cui Hao often gave Fortune To Emperor Mingyuan and gradually became deeply favored. And Cui Hao also began to participate in state affairs from this time.
Emperor Mingyuan died, and Tuoba Tao took the throne as Emperor Taiwu. Although Emperor Taiwu was also a generation of ming lords and was also very fond of him, in the end Cui Hao also died at his hands.
However, Emperor Taiwu ordered Cui Hao and others to compile a national history of the State of Wei, which was originally reserved only for the descendants of the imperial family by the emperor, but Cui Hao listened to the rumors of others and created a forest of steles for the Records of the State and the Notes on the Five Classics three miles east of the Temple of Heaven, and the stone stele was erected next to the Tongqu Road, causing discussion among pedestrians. This records some of the early history of the Tuoba clan that is not known.
This was not a slap in the face, so the nobles of the Northern Wei Dynasty were not happy, they thought that Cui Hao was deliberately scandalizing them, so they sued one after another. As a result, Emperor Taiwu killed Cui Hao, and hundreds of people were implicated, known in history as the "Prison of National History".
On the surface, it is no problem for Cui Hao to die in the prison of national history, but in fact, it is not difficult for us to find that Cui Hao is beautiful, but the dangerous factor has long been buried.
Cui Hao had offended too many Northern Wei nobles for a long time. Let's not say whether Cui Hao is wrong, these nobles alone are enough to make Cui Hao ruined.
After all, Cui Hao is a Han Chinese, and some of his ideas are Han chinese thoughts, such as he wants to delineate the ranks of the nobility, which has offended many humble nobles. There are many more such examples, and it can be said that Cui Hao has invisibly pushed himself to the opposite side of the nobility.
Cui Hao was superstitious about Taoism, he jumped up to the emperor to suppress Buddhism, and there were many people who believed in Buddhism at that time, so Cui Hao offended too many people. Originally, when Emperor Taiwu had just ascended the throne, many people had sued Cui Hao, so he could only let him return home and live as a duke. Look for him when you have something to do.
With the origin of the Prison of National History, at the instigation of many Northern Wei magnates, Emperor Taiwu also had to get rid of Cui Hao.