The Storm of the Southern and Northern Dynasties: What happened between Gao Huan's seizure of power and Hou Jing's rebellion against Wei?
There are always strange voices in history: was Hou Jing's rebellion against Wei forced or active? It has always been a topic of discussion for posterity, and we may wish to analyze the situation at that time: whether it is Gao Huan's seizure of power or Hou Jing's rebellion against Eastern Wei, there are certain historical reasons, which must start from the relationship between Hou Jing and Gao Huan.
The relationship between the two of them can be traced back to the eve of the Six Towns Rebellion, when the two were friends, and the Six Towns Rebellion changed their relationship. Erzhu Rong took advantage of the rebellion in the six towns to recruit Hao Jie in order to achieve great ambition, and Hou Jing and Gao Huan both went to defect.
The difference was that Hou Jing defected to Erzhu Rong earlier than Gao Huan. When Erzhu Rong had just recruited troops and bought horses, Hou Jing threw himself into Erzhu Rong's account, and with his own ability, he naturally occupied an important position in the camp of the Erzhu clan and became a confidant of the Erzhu clan.
Gao Huan first voted for Du Luo Zhou, then for Ge Rong, and finally for the Shun Erzhu clan.
When Gao Huan defected to the Erzhu clan, the power of the Erzhu clan was already quite strong, and compared with Hou Jing's "sending charcoal in the snow", Gao Huan really belonged to the "icing on the cake". Here we may as well speculate that Gao Huan approached Erzhu Rong through bribery and other disgraceful means in order to fulfill his growing ambitions.
It is enough to prove that Gao Huan has both ability and ambition, step by step to the throne, and more and more make his colleagues jealous, so that he cannot be trusted by the Erzhu clan.
In the end, Gao Huan was still unable to become Erzhu Rong's confidant, so there was a "classic" persuasion of Erzhu Rong to claim that the emperor was self-reliant, and he wanted to take the opportunity to cause chaos so that he could profit from the chaos. But who could have predicted: after Erzhu Rong's death, Gao Huan collected the soldiers and horses of the six towns, and finally overthrew the Erzhu clan, established Yuen Long as emperor, and took over the power himself.
Perhaps because the previous friendship was still there, Hou Jing surrendered to Gao Huan after the fall of the Erzhu clan.
After the surrender of Gao Huan, Hou Jing's status was improved, but he lived in other places and had no practical impact on internal affairs, which precisely showed Gao Huan's distrust and vigilance toward Hou Jing. A lifelong rift between friends.
First, the political situation is like this, and the general trend is the trend
Looking at reality through history, there will be a different feeling. Historical records record: "Jing despotic Henan for fourteen years. This sentence is Gao Huan's statement, although it is not accurate, it also reflects Hou Jing's status in Henan.
In my opinion, Hou Jingren's appointment of Daxingtai in Henan (Xingtai was a government agency during the Southern and Northern Dynasties) was just the need for eastern Wei to change its internal affairs. Before he took charge of Henan, Eastern Wei and Western Wei fought for many years, and both sides had no time to take care of internal affairs. Later, when the war receded, Gao tried to change the political corruption and shrinking power due to Emperor Xiaowu's westward migration. Also in order to consolidate his rule, Gao Huan made concessions to the emperor and the official clique, respected the emperor, and tried to meet the material and power needs of the bureaucracy as much as possible.
Perhaps because of this, the imperial power and the noble class have been developed, which is equivalent to the division of the imperial power and the noble class. In this way, Gao Huan had a contradiction with the royal family and Xun Gui.
Among the Xun nobles, led by Sima Ziru, Sun Teng, and Gao Longzhi, Gao Huan began to rectify the phenomenon of corruption from the Xun noble class in order to prevent the power from falling away. Of course, there are also some improprieties in this move; if a drastic rectification is carried out, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the DPRK, and if it is not done well, civil unrest will occur and attract people from other places.
At that time, the capital of Eastern Wei was Yicheng, and Henan was both a gateway and a barrier, so it can be said that the stability of Henan was very important to the stability of the eastern Wei state.
Choosing a reliable person to guard Henan and stabilize the situation can make Western Wei and Liang unable to take advantage of the void to enter the country externally, and can deter dissidents internally. In this way, it can not only punish the corrupt officialdom, but also suppress the Xungui to control the emperor, killing two birds with one stone.
And this position is none other than Hou Jing.
Second, the appearance is inconsistent, centrifugal and detached from Morality
Hou Jing's administration of Henan was undoubtedly the best move for Gao Huan in an era of change, and it represented the security and stability of the entire Eastern Wei Dynasty. At this time, Hou Jing's role was to avoid war, not for war.
Here I am more inclined: in order to make Hou Jing die for him, Gao Huan abolished the Daxingtai of the Southeast Province, merged the original South And southeast province into the Henan Daxingtai, and handed over full authority to Hou Jing to take care of it. And gave Hou Jing the power to "randomly discuss defense" and "respond to the opportunity to ask for defense". At this time, Hou Jing can be described as a powerful person.
Let's think from another angle, starting from the position of Western Wei and Liang at that time: Hou Jing controlled nearly half of the entire Eastern Wei and an army of 100,000 troops, and neither Western Wei nor Liang could prescribe more favorable conditions for Hou Jing. It can be seen that it is precisely because Gao Huan gave Hou Jing great power and status that Hou Jing's loyalty was effectively guaranteed.
In addition, with Gao Huan's mind, it was impossible to really give Hou Jing such a great deal of power.
He retained the military and political capabilities of Dong Commandery and Puyang to guard against changes in Henan, so it can be seen that while Gao Huan handed over power to Hou Jing, he was still wary of him, not really trusting.
Third, "Hong En's mighty" will eventually become a vendetta
In fact, Hou Jing could more or less see through it, after all, he had been a true confidant of the Erzhu clan, and he was also skeptical about whether Gao Huan trusted him. Therefore, the relationship between Gao Huan and Hou Jing is more susceptible to fluctuations due to other factors.
Therefore, when Gao Huan said to Gao Cheng before his death: "After fourteen years of the Jing dictatorship in Henan, there are often flying and flying ambitions, and I can raise them. It was enough to reflect that Gao Huan had never trusted Hou Jing, let alone regarded him as a confidant.
Trust is often mutual, Gao Huan does not trust Hou Jing, Hou Jing naturally does not trust Gao Huan.
It is recorded in the Northern History Qi Benji Shenwu Ji that hou Jing, after learning of Gao Huan's illness, "heard of the shenwu disease and supported the soldiers to consolidate themselves." It is enough to explain Hou Jing's attitude towards Gao Huan.
Gao and Hou were suspicious of each other, and Gao Huan knew that his son Gao Cheng could not control Hou Jing, and was bound to weaken Hou Jing's power before he died and eliminate hidden dangers for his son. Because Hou Jing's prestige and power were above Gao Cheng, it posed a serious threat to the dominance of the Gao clan.
Such a scene made Hou Jing worry that The Gao clan "unloaded and killed donkeys" and "rabbits and dead dogs cooked", naturally could not hand over power, only choose rebellion.
Until Hou Jing's rebellion was put down, in a sense, it can also be said that Hou Jing's demise represented the complete annihilation of the remnants of the Erzhu clan.
This rebellion can be called the biggest division of the Beizhen forces in Eastern Wei, which dealt a serious blow to the politics of Eastern Wei. The negative impact of Hou Jing's rebellion against Eastern Wei was difficult to eliminate for a long time.
So-called: misfortune and blessing depend on, blessing and misfortune lie. The rebellion also consolidated the Eastern Wei regime from the Lingyi level. It eliminated the Gao clan's most formidable political rival in Eastern Wei, resulting in Gao Yang being able to quickly depose the Yuan clan and establish Northern Qi after Gao Cheng's assassination.
From all the above, it can be seen that Hou Jing's rebellion against Wei and chaos in Liang occurred under the pattern of the three kingdoms of Western Wei, Eastern Wei, and Liang after Gao Huan seized power.
After Hou Jing rebelled against Eastern Wei, he sent emissaries to Western Wei and Liang in an attempt to use the two kingdoms to contain Eastern Wei in order to achieve his goal of establishing himself in Henan.
However, Hou Jing still failed, in the author's opinion, but three points are the most deadly:
1. Lack of strategic vision and overall view.
The aforementioned places of Dong County and Puyang are of strategic significance like two knives, which are in the most uncomfortable position for Hou Jing. And the north of the Yellow River is the basis of the Gao clan, the location of Henan is not suitable for a wide range of strategic defense, there is no danger to defend, once it is winter, the north can drive straight in, and it is impossible to stop it.
2, the foundation is unstable, too impatient.
At the beginning of his rebellion, he had no more than a few jurisdictions. Only Hou Jing, west of Yanzhou and east of Hangu Pass, had real influence, and this place was in the gap between the Three Kingdoms of Western Wei, Eastern Wei, and Liang, with too many restrictions, too many threats, and it was difficult to survive.
3. Insufficient hardware strength in many aspects.
The time and place are not occupied, and the people do not support Hou Jing. At that time, the economic development of the Eastern Wei Dynasty was still good, and most of the people south of the Yellow River did not support Hou Jing, plus the army under Hou Jing was forced to be involved in the rebellion, and the number was far less than that of the Eastern Wei officials, and the overall combat strength was too different.
brief summary:
Yu Qing, Gao Huan's corpse was not cold, hou Jing rebelled against Wei liang, it was really unjust; Yu Li, if not, there was a disaster of killing, and it was also forced to be helpless. In the end, it is not a merit, and it is left to posterity to say.
The picture comes from the network, if there is infringement, contact to delete!