Liu Bang and Xiao He can be regarded as models of mutual knowledge between kings and subjects in Chinese history. But even so, Liu Bang was not very confident about Xiao He in his later years, thanks to Xiao He's selflessness and knowledge of advance and retreat, he let the rogue emperor reassure himself.
Six centuries have passed, and I don't know how the two old men would feel if they saw the descendants of the Xiao family usurping the throne of the Descendants of the Liu Family under the spring.
As mentioned earlier, Liu Yu was a descendant of Liu Jiao, the Prince of Chuyuan, liu liu's younger brother, and Xiao Daocheng, who usurped the Song Dynasty and established himself, is said to be Xiao He's twenty-fourth grandson. Although both of them have a bragging element in their own lives, it is still a bit emotional to put the cause and effect in the first place. What's more, although it is difficult to say whether Xiao Daocheng is a descendant of Xiao He, it is a fact that he is the descendant of Xiao Wangzhi, another famous minister of the Han Dynasty.
Xiao Wangzhi was a famous courtier during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty and Emperor Yuan, originally just a child from a peasant family, but later became rich, he forcibly related himself to Xiao He. He lived in Lanling, and later after the Yongjia Rebellion, he crossed south to Yangzhou, and lived in Nanlanling County, becoming a local clan.
By the Time of the Liu Song Dynasty, the Yu and Huan, which were once known as the four major families, had fallen, and new families were rising, of which the Lanling Xiao clan was a typical representative. Xiao Daocheng was born in such an environment and thrived under the glory of his father and grandfather. Inheriting his father's title of Baron, as soon as he left the mountain, he took up the position of the highest local administrator of the capital, Jiankang Ling, which made others have to sigh: "In the past, Emperor Wu of Wei was a lieutenant in the north of Luoyang as soon as he came out of the mountain, and today Xiao Xian Ling is even more glorious than Wei Wu's future!" ”
Then Xiao Daocheng's life trajectory also basically verified the accuracy of this sentence - he started as a civilian official, but like his father, he eventually embarked on the road of military service. In the late Liu Song Dynasty, the rebellions of various princes rose and fell, and the war in the north was also tightened, and Xiao Daocheng marched south to the north, and became one of the few generals in Liu Yu's dynasty.
However, Xiao Daocheng, who had made great achievements in battle, also attracted the suspicion of the emperor, and Liu Yu, the Emperor of SongMing, moved to kill him several times. When it came to Liu Yu's son Liu Yu, the suspicion between the monarchs and courtiers became stronger and stronger, which eventually led to the scene we talked about yesterday- Liu Yu took Xiao Daocheng's navel eye as an arrow target.
In the story describing how Brutal Liu Yu was, it basically ends here when "Liu Yu pulled out the arrow and shot Xiao Daocheng with an arrow pole"; but in the main history, the story is not over. Because the little emperor seemed to be more and more aware of Xiao Daocheng's threat to himself, he also carved a woodcut of Xiao Daocheng in the palace, holding it as an arrow target every day; he even ran to Xiao Daocheng's leading mansion and wanted to burn the great general to death!
Things have developed to this point, and it is really a situation where the fish is dead and the net is broken. Therefore, when Liu Yu's head was cut off, and the guards actually rushed straight to Xiao Daocheng's mansion to throw the head in from outside the wall, the meaning was very deep -- was it the people's will, or was there your Xiao Daocheng behind this bloody case?
By the time the heavy ministers gathered the next day, the problem was even more obvious: when Xiao Daocheng pushed his authority to the other auxiliary ministers, others hesitated slightly, and he already had all his eyebrows and beards twisted together, and the gold medal thug Next to him, Wang Jingze (not the deformer one), even yelled while putting the white hat worn by the emperor on Xiao Daocheng's head:
Everything under the heavens should be guan Xiao Gong, those who dare to say a word, blood stained respect is a knife! Whoever dares to move again today, things must be hot!
At this point in the play, everyone should have a basic score in their hearts - Liu Yu's death may have been unexpected by Xiao Daocheng, but it is likely that he had planned it long ago. The emperor took over power within a day after his death, and if there was no long-term arrangement, I would not believe it anyway.
Of course, no matter how appropriate the arrangements in Jiankang City are, they can't block the leisurely mouth of the people in the world. Soon, the Jingzhou side turned the other way around. Xiao Daocheng seized the opportunity to eliminate the rebels in Jingzhou and at the same time eliminate several auxiliary ministers who were also the orphans of the Song Ming Emperor, thus realizing his own oligarchy of respect.
After everything was in place, Xiao Daocheng finally couldn't hold back his temperament, and like the powerful minister sixty years ago, he ousted the little emperor from power and became the new emperor himself. And his methods were even more ruthless than Liu Yu's—Liu Yu had only killed the two Sima Dezong brothers, and he hadn't moved much in the other clans of the Jin Dynasty; when xiao Daocheng arrived, he basically slaughtered all the Liu Song clans. Poor generation hero Liu Yu, his descendants themselves are dying of infighting, and they have been wiped out by people with foreign surnames!
However, it is worth saying that although Xiao Daocheng was more than Liu Yu in dealing with the former emperors, he had similar ideas and means to Liu Yu in governing the country. He deeply resented the increasingly extravagant style of the Liu Song imperial family, and as early as the period of the auxiliary government of monopoly of power, he strictly practiced frugality and abolished all kinds of luxurious ornaments in the palace; after becoming emperor, he repeatedly reformed all kinds of red tape, striving to be frugal and lenient, and resting with the people, so that the miserable people who had been tortured at the end of the Song Dynasty had a certain breathing space.
Xiao Daocheng had full confidence in his own ability, and he once said proudly: "Let me come to the world for ten years, and make gold and earth at the same price." Of course, this sentence violates the laws of economics and is basically impossible to achieve. But at that time, no one thought he was bragging, not only because he was the emperor, but also because he did not sit for ten years.
After sitting on the dragon chair for more than three years, Xiao Daocheng also had to drive the crane west. After his death, his throne passed to the crown prince Xiao Zhao as Emperor Wu of Qi. The emperor was forty miles away when he ascended the throne, and was the oldest heir apparent to the throne in more than sixty years of the Southern Dynasty. And he also created a famous prosperity - the rule of Yongming, whose popularity can be comparable to the previous "rule of Yuanjia".
When Xiao Zhao died, what was left to Emperor Xiao Zhaoye was a world where the country was rich and the people were strong. At that time, people should not have doubted that this Qi Dynasty, which had just been founded for fourteen years, had sufficient vitality and a better tomorrow. However, all this is not a harbinger of the peace of the world, but a return to the light of the Qi Dynasty. In less than a decade, the shortest dynasty of the Southern and Northern Dynasties will come to an end.