Patting their heads to determine the things of ancestors, ancient people did not do less. For example, during Hou Jing's rebellion, Hou Jing usurped the throne of Southern Liang, and at this time his subordinates wanted to build an ancestral temple for him.
Hou Jing was a big old man, and he didn't even know what his father's name was, let alone his ancestors. So the horse ass elves began to pat their heads to make up the names of their ancestors for Hou Jing.
The irony is that Hou Jing is a member of the Qi people, and these people actually regard the Eastern Han Dynasty Situ Hou Ba as Hou Jing's ancestor, obviously in order to improve the legitimacy of Hou Jing's identity.
In fact, not only did Hou Jing do this, but even the Lanling Xiao Group did this. Unlike the Langya Wang Clan, the Lanling Xiao Clan debuted relatively late, and in the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Lanling Xiao Clan did not produce any outstanding figures.
Therefore, when Xiao Daocheng seized Liu Song's foundation and established Southern Qi, the Lanling Xiao clan did not agree! How can a noble family not have an ancestor of cattle breaking? Since there is none, let's make it up!
In this way, celebrities such as Xiao He and Xiao Wangzhi of the Western Han Dynasty became the ancestors of the Lanling Xiao clan. In fact, the relationship between Xiao Wangzhi and Xiao He may not be able to hit the eight rods, not to mention Lanling Xiao and Xiao He.
First, after the establishment of the two major dynasties, you must always put gold on your face.
The family lineage of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er will definitely cultivate the family tree extremely strictly. For example, the Langya Wang clan, the Qinghe Cui clan, the Taiyuan Wang clan, the Hongnong Yang clan and other legitimate family clans, the ancestral lineage is extremely strict, and each generation has a detailed record.
This made the Lanling Xiao clan a little embarrassed, after all, they only began to make a fortune in the middle of the Southern Dynasty, and in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they were the small followers of these legitimate family families, and there was no need to record the genealogy in detail.
For example, Gao Zu of Xiao Daocheng, the founding prince of Southern Qi, and Xiao Yan, the founding prince of Southern Liang, were only the Huaiyin County Order of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and this official position was really not worth mentioning, but there was no way to cheat.
Xiao Zhen's two sons divided the southern dynasty into two branches:
The first branch: Xiao Zhensheng is Qiu Ling Xiao Jun, Xiao Junsheng auxiliary state to join the army Xiao Lezi, Xiao Lezi born the right army general Xiao Chengzhi, Xiao Chengzhi was born Xiao Chengzhi, Xiao Chengzhi was born Xiao Daocheng.
The second branch: Xiao Zhensheng Jiyin Taishou Xiao Zhi, Xiao Zhi Sheng Prefecture Zhizhong Xiao Vice Son, Xiao Vice Son Sheng Nan Tai Zhi Shu Shi Yu Shi Xiao Daoshi, Xiao Dao Zhi Sheng Leading General Xiao Shunzhi, Xiao Shun Zhi Sheng Xiao Yan.
These two branches have established dynasties successively, so it is said that the Lanling Xiao clan will be directly made bigger and stronger, not playing those vain things, and directly shooting the family into the sequence of top giants.
You see the Wang clan of Langya, who has worked hard for several generations, Wang Dao and Wang Dun have disappeared, and the most famous one is actually Wang Xizhi, who wrote. Chen Jun's Xie clan saved the Eastern Jin Dynasty many times, xie an and Xie Xuan worked hard, and the result was still diluted in the dust of history.
Therefore, although the Lanling Xiao clan has just started, they do not want to follow in the footsteps of these clans, they want to directly step into place and learn the deeds of the Sima family. Thus the two dynasties of Southern Qi and Southern Liang were established.
2. Xiao Daocheng established the Southern Qi Dynasty.
Xiao Daocheng, the founder of Southern Qi, originally worked for the Liu Song Dynasty. After Liu Yu established Liu Song, his descendants were quite crotch-pulling, and it was difficult to produce a Song Emperor Liu Yilong, but because of the defeat of the Northern Expedition to the Northern Wei Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao, Liu Song was devastated from then on.
After Liu Yilong was killed by his son Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu's Liu Jun avenged his father and destroyed Liu Shao. Unfortunately, Liu Jun's son Liu Ziye was not able to give power, and the throne was robbed by his uncle Liu Yu, the Emperor ming of Song.
The Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu was worried about another rebellion within the clan, so he cleaned up Liu Song's clan. As a result, his son Liu Yu was an, and Xiao Dao's achievements were so sudden.
Xiao Daocheng was a chancellor in Liu Yu's time, holding the power of the military state, but Liu Yu wanted to shoot an arrow through Xiao Daocheng's stomach, you said Xiao Daocheng came to fire, right? Without saying a word, this dude was ruined.
Xiao Daocheng then replaced Liu Yu's other son, Liu Huai, as puppet emperor, and soon after usurped the throne and established the Xiao Qi regime, which was the second regime of the Southern Dynasty.
3. Xiao Yan established the Southern Liang Dynasty.
Xiao Daocheng tossed and turned for half a lifetime, and finally made a good start for the Lanling Xiao Clan. His son Xiao Zhao was also a ming emperor of the generation, but unfortunately, the failure of several reforms made Xiao Zhao feel at a loss for the future.
After Xiao Zhao's death, his son Xiao Changmao died early, so his grandson Xiao Zhaoye directly succeeded to the throne. Unfortunately, Xiao Zhaoye was a loser, and handed over military and political power to Xiao Daocheng's nephew Xiao Luan, which led to Xiao Luan deposing Xiao Zhaoye and establishing Xiao Zhaowen as emperor.
Xiao Zhaowen was a puppet, and it was not long before he was deposed by Xiao Luan. After that, Xiao Luan also did not pretend, and directly ascended the throne as emperor. In order to repay Xiao Zhaoye, the son of a loser, Xiao Luan directly destroyed the direct descendants of Xiao Daocheng and Xiao Zhao.
After Xiao Luan died, his precious son Xiao Baojuan was also an indisputable guy. Xiao Yan's brother Xiao Yi helped Xiao Baojuan put down the rebellion, but was actually poisoned by Xiao Baojuan.
Does this have to be done? Think that our lanling xiao clan branch is empty? Xiao Yan, who was then the Assassin of Yongzhou, resolutely raised an army, killed Xiao Baojuan, and replaced Xiao Luan's other son, Xiao Baorong, as emperor.
Obviously, Xiao Baorong was also a puppet. A year later, Xiao Yan, who could not wait, deposed Xiao Baorong, established himself as emperor, and established the Xiao Liang regime. This is the third dynasty of the Southern Dynasty. From the perspective of generations, Xiao Yan had to shout Xiao Dao as an uncle!
Fourth, thank Xiao Zixian for "finding" the ancestors for the Lanling Xiao clan.
Xiao Qi and Xiao Liang established the country successively, which was definitely great good news for the Lanling Xiao clan. As the descendants of the Xiao family, one by one, they are eager to try, planning to blow their ancestors one by one, so that their families can become a famous family in history.
But to do this, there is really no level. Xiao Daocheng's grandson, Xiao Zixian, the son of Xiao Ling, the Prince of Yuzhang, was a very talented historian within the family.
When the elder brother was 13 years old, Xiao Yan overthrew the Xiao Qi Dynasty and established the Xiao Liang Dynasty. This is a blessing in disguise, why? Anyway, Xiao Yan was also a member of the Lanling Xiao clan, and Xiao Zixian's family was not qualified to succeed to the throne, and for Xiao Zixian, there was actually no difference.
Therefore, during the reign of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, Xiao Zixian won the trust of Emperor Wu of Liang by virtue of his profound literary skills, and thus had the opportunity to be responsible for compiling the Book of Southern Qi.
In the Book of Southern Qi, Xiao Zixian blew his ancestors away, and by the way, xiao He and Xiao Wangzhi, all of whom regarded these celebrities as their ancestors. Xiao Wangzhi is a Lanling person, and his ancestors are all cultivating land in Lanling, and we can understand him as an ancestor. But Xiao He was a Peixian native of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, and with Liu Bang testifying, why could he be so blind?
Anyway, under the operation of Xiao Zixian, the Lanling Xiao clan successfully ranked among the sequence of the family clan, and became a top magnate, after all, people have established two major dynasties, who dares to compete?
Fifth, the two branches of the Lanling Xiao clan have produced 10 prime ministers.
In addition to the two major dynasties of Xiao Qi and Xiao Liang, in fact, the Lanling Xiao clan also produced 10 prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty. Again, this is a big thing to brag about. The Lanling Xiao clan is divided into two major rooms: the Imperial Uncle's Room and the Qi Liang Room.
Among them, in the emperor's uncle's room, there was 1 prime minister: Xiao Zhizhong.
In the Qi Liang room, there were 9 prime ministers, namely: Xiao Yi, Xiao Song, Xiao Hua, Xiao Mi, Xiao Fang, Xiao Fu, Xiao Zhi, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu.
Obviously, Xiao Daocheng and Xiao Yan were both people in the qi liangfang line. After all, the family has been emperors, so the education received by future generations is quite outstanding, and it is not surprising that there are so many prime ministers.
But what's going on in the Emperor's Room? It turned out that in addition to the two descendants of Xiao Daocheng and Xiao Yan, there was another branch:
Xiao Zhensheng served the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor Xiao Liang, Xiao Liangsheng Taoyang County Ling Xiao Zhuo, Xiao Zhuosheng Liu Song Emperor's uncle Xiao Yuanzhi.
Now we know that the emperor's uncle's statement is based on Xiao Yuanzhi. Xiao Yuanzhi was originally a Yellow Gate Attendant of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but his sister Xiao Wenshou was the stepmother of Liu Yu, the founding prince of the Liu Song Dynasty.
Liu Yu was a very filial piety, and after he succeeded to the throne, he honored his stepmother Xiao Wenshou as the empress dowager. Xiao Wenshou's life expectancy was relatively long, living for 81 years, so after Liu Yu's death, she also served as empress dowager for a while.
Because of this relationship, Xiao Wenshou's younger brother Xiao Yuanzhi naturally became the imperial uncle of the Liu Song Dynasty, and his descendants were also known as the imperial uncles of the Lanling Xiao clan.
Among Xiao Yuanzhi's descendants, there was a man named Xiao Zhizhong. He relied on his family connections to mix with a Luoyang County lieutenant in the Tang Dynasty. Later, after attaching himself to Wu Sansi, the official position became higher and higher, and he always achieved the Tongping Zhangshi and became the prime minister.
Unfortunately, after the Tang Long regime, Xiao Zhizhong became a member of the taiping princess line (at that time, there were 7 prime ministers in the dprk, and 5 of them were all taiping princesses). Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was very upset, and launched a congenital coup d'état to uproot Princess Taiping, and Xiao Zhizhong was destroyed.
Summary: Lanling Xiao clan, caught the last train of the family.
In fact, the family clan was the best time to mix in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Unfortunately, at that time, the Lanling Xiao Clan had not yet made a fortune, and even did not understand who the ancestors were.
After the establishment of Xiao Qi and Xiao Liang Dynasties, the Lanling Xiao clan began to grow bigger and stronger. But at this time, the development of the family clan has begun to be limited.
In the Northern Wei Dynasty, emperor Tuoba Tao of the Taiwu Emperor took advantage of the case of the prison of state history to wipe out the Qinghe Cui clan, the Fanyang Lu clan, the Taiyuan Guo clan, the Hedong Liu clan and other clans, and all the direct descendants were slaughtered.
In the south, in the later period of Emperor Wu of Liang, the Hou Jing Rebellion broke out. Hou Jing, who was born in The Cold Gate, was looked down upon by the shi family at that time, and after the army, Hou Jing starved Emperor Wu of Liang, and by the way slaughtered the Langya Wang clan, the Chen Junxi clan and other tycoons.
Therefore, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was already very unfriendly to the family clan. At this time, lanling Xiao clan still had to squeeze in to eat mixed food, which was considered to be catching the last train.
In order to suppress the family clan, the Sui Emperor began to focus on promoting the imperial examination, but the result was the collective opposition of the scholars, resulting in the demise of the Sui Dynasty. Tang Gaozu Li Yuan made a compromise with the family clan, so he won the trust of these people, which established the Tang Dynasty.
However, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was also aware of the harm of the family clan, so Emperor Gaozong of Tang once ordered that the intermarriage between the clan clans was not allowed to marry each other, so as to break their marriage.
After that, Wu Zetian once again focused on promoting the imperial examination, setting up martial arts, and selecting talents from the cold door to curb the monopolistic behavior of the family clan. It can be seen that history is gradually abandoning the family family step by step. After all, monopolizing education is something that no one can tolerate.
Until the final appearance of Huang Chao and Zhu Wen, it was simply a heavy blow to the family family. They want these giants to work for themselves, but people are very proud, and if they don't work for 1,000 years, their children and grandchildren will not die of hunger.
Since you are so proud, let's destroy it! So Hu Huangchao and Zhu Wen successively swept away the main members of this gang of clans. Since then, the family has gradually faded out of history.
References: Book of Southern Qi, Book of Liang, Old Book of Tang