Talking about the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Northern Yan was the focus, and the Murong family ruled Northern Yan until the Murong Yun period, and major changes occurred. Murong Yun's original surname was Gao, and although he became emperor, he did not consider himself to be a descendant of the Xianbei people, so his inner inferiority was very heavy. In order to buy people's hearts and make the ministers obey him, he unscrupulously opened the treasury every day and used the state's money to reward the minister of culture and military affairs to win people's hearts.
During Murong Yun's reign, the chancellor Feng Bao was Murong Yun's supporter, but Murong Yun was also wary of him, and in order to prevent being assassinated, Murong Yun raised a group of warriors around him, and spent time with these warriors whether they ate or slept. But what he didn't expect was that among these close samurai there were also people who betrayed him, one called Ren Ban and the other called Tao Ren. The two men actually had wolf ambitions, and they also wanted to seize the throne and command the world. They had been by Murong Yun's side all day, and it was easy to assassinate Murong Yun.
After Murong Yun was assassinated, the chancellor Feng Bao led the army to quickly capture and behead Li Ban and Tao Ren in front of the palace. As a result, Feng Bao was also respected by everyone and became the first choice for succeeding Murong Yun to the throne, and soon Feng Bao was proclaimed emperor by feng Bao. From the beginning of Feng Bao, Northern Yan changed from Murong To Feng's world, and began the reign of the Feng family. However, after Feng Bao succeeded to the throne, there was still no peace, and his cousins Feng Wanni and Feng Nichen's uncles and nephews were dissatisfied with Feng Bao and planned to seize the throne, but they were suppressed by the army led by Feng Bao's second brother Feng Hong.
Feng Bao believed that the second brother Feng Hong had quelled the rebellion at a critical moment and maintained his rule, and had made great contributions, so he appointed him as a general on horseback and was promoted to the title of Duke of Zhongshan, and Feng Hong's power increased day by day. During the 22 years of Feng Bao's reign, Guotai Min'an, his policy of lightly dispensing with thin endowments and advocating Confucianism effectively promoted social stability and development, so that Northern Yan showed rare stability and prosperity during the long period of turmoil in the Sixteen Kingdoms.
In the autumn of 430, when Feng Bao was critically ill, the war for the imperial throne was staged again, and Feng Bao's favorite concubine Song Shi wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to rebel in order to establish her own son as monarch, but this matter was known to Feng Hong, who was full of power and had a lot of eyeliner. He quickly led his troops into the palace, imprisoned the Song mother and son, and controlled the overall situation. The old emperor Feng Bao, who was lying in bed, died quickly because he was frightened in the panic of this palace change.
Feng Hong
After Feng Bao's death, Feng Hong established himself as the Heavenly King, and he first beheaded the crown prince Feng Yi. He did not miss the old feelings at all, and in order to never have any troubles, he killed all of his brother Feng Bao's more than 100 sons. Whether it is a teenager or a newborn baby, as long as it is Feng Bao's descendants, Feng Hong will not stay and kill them all. In the long feudal monarchy society, there were not a few monarchs who usurped the throne and killed, and the bloody and cruel practice of Feng Hong of Northern Yan to cut grass and remove roots was indeed a rare existence in history.
After killing Feng Bao's descendants, Feng Hong also seized Feng Bao's beautiful concubine, which caused him to lose the hearts of the people when he first inherited the throne. Under the rebellion, several of Feng Hong's sons fled to Northern Wei in order to avoid being killed by their murderous father Wang. At that time, the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao was about to take advantage of the opportunity to send troops, wanting to annihilate Northern Yan in one fell swoop.
At the beginning of the war, the large army led by Feng Hong was defeated and retreated, and in order to protect himself, he had to send envoys to the Southern Dynasty Song Wen Emperor for help, promising the Southern Song Emperor that Northern Yan would be willing to become his vassal state. Emperor Wen of Song saw that it was profitable and was of course willing to send troops to help. He crowned Feng Hong as the "Lord of the Yellow Dragon State" and promised to send troops to aid Northern Yan. However, because the Southern Dynasty was far away from Northern Yan, and the distant water could not quench the thirst of the near future, Northern Wei quickly broke through the city of Northern Yan, and Feng Hong was forced to flee to Goguryeo.
Feng Hong's descent from the high position of the Ninth Five-Year Emperor to the end of the fence, his life in Goguryeo was not good. Later, in an attempt to restore the country, Feng Hong again turned to Emperor Wen of Song and asked Emperor Wen of Song to take him away. The King of Goguryeo was furious when he learned of this, and immediately ordered the murder of Feng Hong's entire family.
Feng Hong, who rebelled against his relatives, died in a foreign land and fell into such a situation, it was really self-inflicted!