(Portrait of Emperor Xiao Daocheng of QiGao)
In the fourth year of Yuan Jia, in 427 AD, Lanling County, Nanlanling County, under the rule of the Liu Song Dynasty, gave birth to a person named Xiao Daocheng.
The small county town is not large, and most of the people living in it are ordinary farmers, but Xiao Daocheng's family background is not ordinary.
His father, Xiao Chengzhi, was a famous military general of the Liu Song Dynasty, who was a fierce man who bravely championed the three armies and fought against the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The identity of the father is quite cattle, and the ancestor of Xiao Daocheng is even more cattle.
Following Xiao Daocheng's family tree, the author was surprised to find that his ancestor was actually Xiao He, a famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty.
Yes, it was the one who chased Han Xin under the moon.
Therefore, in terms of seniority, Xiao Daocheng is xiao He's twenty-fourth generation grandson.
After the door tiger, celebrity, Xiao Daocheng's starting point can not be said to be high.
We know that Xiao Daocheng will become emperor in the future. So he was born very unusually.
(Image of Xiao He, a famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty)
When the emperor is born, there are always visions, either the seasons change suddenly, then the weather is very abnormal, or the emperor himself has certain characteristics compared to ordinary people.
The posture is heroic, the dragon jaw bells, and the scales are all over the body. - Book of Southern Qi
The history books say that Xiao Dao's appearance and heroism are compelling, and he is a real handsome man.
Not only that, he was born with a loud voice and a loud voice, and when he spoke, he would make people deaf and deaf.
You think that's the end of it? No, it's not over.
Xiao Daocheng's skin was full of lines, and above the lines, a thick layer of scales grew.
Although all of the above content is from the canonical history, the authenticity is actually debatable.
Because this seems to be a deliberate law, since you want to be an emperor, you must be different from others in all aspects.
These are different from true and false, but whether true or false, it is to tell you a truth, and children are different from others, so you can only be the common people, and you can become the emperor.
His father was a military general, and Xiao Daocheng was influenced by his father Xiao Chengzhi, and when he grew up, he also joined the military and aimed to serve the country.
(Image of Xiao Chengzhi)
From the seventeenth year of Yuan Jia, that is, 440 AD, to the first year of Jinghe, that is, in 465 AD, Xiao Daocheng had been leading the local army.
Who to hit?
Fight the Northern Wei Dynasty.
We know that the Liu Song Dynasty was not a unified national power, and before and after Liu Song's founding emperor Liu Yu unified the south, overthrew the Eastern Jin Dynasty and established Liu Song on this basis, the Xianbei people from the grasslands also developed and grew, gradually unifying the northern grasslands and establishing the Northern Wei.
The world is divided into two parts, facing each other across the river.
Liu Song wanted to recover the Central Plains, while Northern Wei also wanted to annex Jiangnan.
The two regimes often fought each other on the border, with Xiao Daocheng bearing the brunt of it, often leading his army across thousands of miles to crush the Northern Wei army.
From this point of view, Xiao Daocheng can also be regarded as a great achievement in battle.
Therefore, by the time the Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu ascended the throne in the first year of Jinghe, Xiao Daocheng had been transferred back to the central government from the local area and became a guard lieutenant in the capital Jiankang City.
Wei Wei , the commander of the forbidden army of the court.
Xiao Daocheng, who fought bloodily on the battlefield, saved enough military merit and was transferred back to the rear from the front line and became the captain of the Jiankang Palace Security Team.
For Xiao Daocheng, in fact, this is also a small promotion.
The border generals have a lot of power, but the wind and sand outside Saiwai are bitter and cold all year round, and the environment is not good, where are the well-treated Beijing officials with good treatment?
What's more, Xiao Daocheng had fought back to Jiankang, and the emperor used him very much, even as a heavy minister, and finally the emperor even elected Xiao Daocheng as a minister before his death.
In Chinese history, there is no system called the "gu order minister system".
But the emperors of the past and the present, if they had not died violently, would have left a few reliable ministers for the new emperor.
(Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu image)
Although the Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu was nicknamed "Ming", he himself was not a very wise emperor.
In the later period of the emperor's reign, he was hesitant to enjoy himself and did not practice government affairs, which led to a significant decline in the comprehensive national strength of the dynasty.
The old emperor was very aware that the dynasty he had left behind had a hidden decline, and the crown prince Liu Yufang was nine years old, not to mention ruling the country independently, and Shangkang was a bit difficult.
The new emperor was young, and he was bound to arrange several ministers for him to help him grow up in the years after he was a dragon and a guest.
Of course, the fewer the number of ministers, the better.
The so-called Gu Ming means giving the minister considerable power to help and guide the emperor before he governs the country alone.
If the ministers are loyal and bold, the monarchs and ministers are harmonious, and they can cooperate with each other, it is naturally a good thing.
But if the minister of gu orders is not very honest and has a small nine-nine in his heart, then I am afraid that it will become a constraint on the imperial power.
The more ministers left behind, the more people who could control the emperor, and even the more people who could divide the imperial power.
However, Comrade Liu Yu, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, seemed to be very unconfident in his son, and before he died, he actually left behind a total of eight ministers who took care of his orders.
Who these eight ministers are, I will not repeat them here, we just need to know that one of them is Xiao Daocheng.
(Portrait of Liu Yu, deposed emperor of the Later Song Dynasty)
After the new emperor Liu Yu ascended the throne, Xiao Daocheng was actually unable to speak among these eight ministers.
The ministers in front of him were Shangshu, Yushi, and Shizhong, and their official ranks were above Xiao Daocheng, and most of these people were civilian officials, and they were the best at drumming their lips and tongues in the central political arena, dancing and ink, and even more suppressing Xiao Daocheng, who was born a military general, could not lift his head.
Xiao Daocheng was not a thing in the pool, he had always wanted to find an opportunity to turn over above the court.
But the court of the Liu Song Dynasty was not a battlefield, and the weapons here were paper and pen, not swords and swords.
He can fight bravely on the battlefield, take the head of the enemy general, and can also stand out when the enemy is encircled.
On the real knife and real gun, Xiao Dao became a top ten.
But in the red tape of the imperial court, Xiao Daocheng suffered a loss of no culture.
Folding him down, he wrote unfavorable questions, played him and said he did not understand, the courtiers impeached him, squeezed him, suppressed him, he could not say a word, can only think that he suffered losses and bad luck.
Xiao Daocheng really needed a chance.
A chance to prove yourself, a chance to shock the ministers.
Xiao Daocheng, who was born a military general, had difficulty making a breakthrough in the field of culture and politics, and he wanted to prove himself, but he could only choose to establish military merit on the battlefield.
However, at this time, the world was at peace, there was no disturbance in Liu Song's territory, and if he wanted to fight, he could only go to clean up northern Wei.
However, it is okay to fight guerrillas on the border in peacetime, and if he really attacks on a large scale, he may not be the opponent of the Northern Wei Iron Horse.
The most crucial thing is that the supreme leader of northern Wei at this time, that is, The Wei Xiaowen Emperor Tuoba Hong, was a rare Ming Emperor in ancient and modern times. Why should I beg him for his displeasure?
(Statue of Tuoba Hong, Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei)
But besides the Northern Wei Dynasty, who can he fight with?
No need for Xiao Daocheng to be worried, this person who sent experience soon took the initiative to come to the door.
In the second year of Yuan Hui, in May 474, the emperor's uncle, Liu Xiufan, the King of Guiyang, rebelled.
The reason for Liu Xiufan's rebellion was simple, that is, the little emperor Liu Yu was really a very faint emperor.
This emperor of the late Liu Song Dynasty was brutal all his life, killing people every day except pleasure, and doing everything except good things.
Liu Xiufan raised a large army of land and water, and the army directly attacked Jiankang, and the discoloration of the government and the public changed, and the ministers were very afraid, but when Xiao Daocheng learned of this news, his heart was happy.
Not only was he happy, Xiao Daocheng was simply too happy to sleep.
He was worried that there was no battle to fight, and Liu Xiufan actually sent it to the door himself.
As a result, within two days of our ambitious Comrade Liu Xiufan's army, he was destroyed by Xiao Daocheng, who was anxious to make meritorious achievements.
(Liu Xiufan image)
After this battle, Xiao Daocheng used this to establish a huge military feat, and on top of the rapid increase in prestige in the imperial court, he quickly defeated many courtiers and became the number one military general of the Liu Song Dynasty.
When the civil servants were in power, they were nothing more than restraining the emperor and making the emperor uncomfortable every day.
But when the military general is in power, he can pay a little attention to it, and he can take the emperor's old life.
Liu Yu was faint, but he still understood this truth, and as Xiao Daocheng's power grew larger and larger, the emperor decided to eliminate Xiao Daocheng to ensure that his throne was worry-free.
If you want to eliminate ordinary ministers, the emperor directly issued an order to pull out of the palace gate and beheaded, the process is very simple.
However, if we want to deal with a minister like Xiao Daocheng, who holds a lot of power, naturally we can't be so simple and rude, but we must plan step by step and gradually dismantle his power.
But Liu Yu didn't care about this, he was worried and uneasy when he thought of Xiao Daocheng, so in the fifth year of Yuan Hui, in 477 AD, the emperor rushed to Xiao Daocheng's house alone with a bow and arrow.
Catching up with Xiao Daocheng who was lying at home sleeping, the emperor bent his bow and took an arrow, and it was an arrow against Xiao Daocheng, but unfortunately, the arrow was general, and this arrow hit Xiao Daocheng's navel.
Xiao Daocheng, who was shot an arrow by the emperor on his navel, was very angry for the rest of his life.
I still confiscated to pick you up, did you pick me up first?
Today you shoot me in the navel, tomorrow are you going to shoot me in the head?
Well, I don't wait for you to get me, I'll kill you first!"
In the same year, Xiao Daocheng became a thunderbolt and sent someone to assassinate Liu Yu in the palace.
Liu Yu died, but Xiao Daocheng did not immediately pat his ass and sit on the throne.
The change of dynasty did not happen overnight, and he had the intention of becoming emperor, but he also had to give the Manchu Dynasty civil and military officials a reaction time.
After killing the emperor on the front foot, the back foot will ascend the throne, how do the ministers think about it, how do the people talk about it, and how will the relevant media report it?
Wait, wait, wait.
(Song Shun Emperor Liu Zhun image)
As a result, Xiao Daocheng established the Liu Song imperial family, and Liu Zhun, the king of Huai'an, became the new emperor, that is, the Song Shun Emperor.
As the last emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, Liu Zhun's story is very simple.
He was hastily proclaimed emperor by Xiao Daocheng, and after two years as a puppet emperor, he was hastily given the throne to Xiao Daocheng.
In the third year of Shengming, in 479 AD, Xiao Daocheng ascended the throne by Zen and replaced Song Jianqi as the Southern Dynasty Qi, and he himself was later known as Emperor Qi Gao.
At this point, the 59-year-old Liu Song Dynasty was declared dead.
Xiao Daocheng ascended the throne, and he became the new master of the south.
On the day of his ascension to the throne, the gongs and drums were noisy, the bells were chiming in unison, and the emperor was crowned in a burst of cheers.
The bells are joyful bells that celebrate a new era and dynasty.
But this bell is also a death knell, and this death knell is sounded for the sake of Liu Song, who has disappeared in the long river of history.
Xiao Daocheng had worked hard and stalked for many years, and finally had results at this moment.
He became the founding emperor, a generation of emperors.
Ambitious, right now!
Crown the King, just this evening!
Xiao Daocheng was very happy, and this kind of thing should be very happy for whoever put it on the stall.
But what he would not have imagined was that the future of the Southern Qi Dynasty would not be as smooth and bright as he had imagined.
The future will not be better, only the worst.