Agitation for four hundred years: Gao Yang supported Xiao Yuanming by force, and Wang Monk defended Chen Baxian's dissatisfaction

This article is the 629th in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

In the first year of Shaotai (555 AD), on the second day of The first month of February, Xiao Fangzhi came from Xunyang to Jiankang and entered the imperial hall, temporarily known as the King of Liang, with The Prince of Taiwei as the Zhongshu Supervisor, Lu Shangshu, the Great General of the Horse Riding, and the Governor of various Chinese and foreign militaries, Jia Chen Baxian as the General of the Expedition to the West, Hou Yao of the Southern Yu Prefecture as the Assassin of Jiangzhou, Xiao Xun of the Xiangzhou Assassin as the Tai wei, the Guangzhou Assassin Shi Xiao Bo as the Situ, and the Zhendong general Zhang Biao as the Yingzhou Assassin History.

However, before Xiao Fangzhi's ass was hot, foreign intervention forces came and forced him to step down.

Before sending troops to escort Xiao Yuanming back to China, Gao Yang sent Shangshu Xingzi cai fei shu Jiankang and sent a letter to Wang Shengjie, saying: "The heirs you have established are young enough to bear the heavy responsibility of governing the country. Marquis Zhenyang was the nephew of Emperor Wu of Liang, and after the King of Changsha, with his age and seniority, he could keep Jinling from losing, so he was made the lord of Liang. You should arrange boats and ships to meet him and build a nation with him. ”

On the fourth day of the first month of February, Xiao Yuanming also wrote to Wang Sheng, asking to come and greet him. Wang Sheng replied: "The current heir is from the emperor, and he is ordered by the previous emperor, and he is the legitimate heir. If you can go to the imperial court as an official and support the royal family together, then the mission of Yi Yin and Lü Wang will all belong to you. If you come back to the imperial court to make a covenant, I don't dare to obey. ”

On February 23, The Northern Qi Shangdang king Gao Zhuo conquered Yu Commandery and put pressure on Wang Sheng. On February 28, Xiao Yuanming wrote another letter to Wang Shengjie, but Wang Shengdi still did not agree.

In March, Xiao Yuanming arrived at Dongguan and rode the changshi Pei Zhi to lead the troops to resist. Northern Qi's commanders Wei Jin and Yi Tong and Xiao Lu invaded the city of Anhui in the south, and Xiao Hui, the assassin of Jinzhou, surrendered the prefecture.

On the sixth day of March, the Northern Qi army conquered Dongguan, killed Pei Zhiheng, and captured thousands of people. Upon hearing the news, Wang Shengdi was stunned and led his troops to garrison YuGu, preparing to accept Xiao Yuanming.

In May, Wang Sent Emissaries to Xiao Yuanming to confirm the courtesy of the monarch, and then sent another emissary to Northern Qi to make his son Wang Xian, Wang Xian's mother Liu Shizhen, and his nephew Wang Shizhen hostage to Xiao Yuanming, and then sent Zuomin Shangshu Zhou Hongzheng to Liyang to greet Xiao Yuanming, and demanded that Xiao Fangzhi be made crown prince, and Xiao Yuanming agreed to him.

Xiao Yuanming asked to bring three thousand guards with him to enter Jiankang, and Wang Shengquan was worried that too many guards would cause chaos, and only accepted a thousand scattered soldiers.

On May 21, Wang Shengwei sent a dragon boat to prepare the Fa to meet Xiao Yuanming. Xiao Yuanming and Gao Zhuo pledged in Jiangbei and crossed the Yangtze River from quarrying the next day.

As a result, Southern Liang's vehicles crossed south, and Northern Qi's army returned to the north. Wang Shengquan was suspicious of the Northern Qi army and stopped the ship in the middle of the Yangtze River, not daring to go near the west bank. Pei Yingqi, a Northern Qi attendant, escorted Xiao Yuanming to the south and met with Wang Shengjie in Jiangning.

On May 24, Xiao Yuanming entered Jiankang and saw suzaku gate crying bitterly, and the courtiers who greeted him also wept bitterly.

On May 27, Xiao Yuanming assumed the throne as emperor, changed his name to Yuan Tiancheng, and in accordance with the promise, established Xiao Fangzhi as the crown prince, Wang Shengzhi as the Grand Sima and Chen Baxian as the attendant.

Wang Was forced to submit to Gao Yang under pressure, but the war between Hou Yao and Murong Yu was not over.

When Murong Yu had just entered Yingzhou, Hou Yan and others suddenly appeared under the city, and Murong Yu responded to the defense at random, and Hou Yu was never able to conquer it. Murong Yu also took the initiative to attack and defeated Hou Yao and others.

Later, when the grain in the city of Yingzhou was eaten, Murong Yu led the soldiers and civilians who guarded the city to cook the roots and leaves of grass and trees, boot skins, clothing belt horns, etc. to fill the hunger, and held out for half a year with happiness and hardship, and his subordinates never centrifuged.

In June, after Xiao Yuanming ascended the throne, he ordered Hou Yao and others to withdraw the siege of Yingzhou and return to the town of Yuzhang.

However, Gao Yang believed that the city of Yingzhou was south of the Yangtze River and was difficult to defend, so he ceded it to Nanliang. After Murong Yu returned to China, he looked at Gao Yang and was so sad that he could not help himself. Gao Yang told him to come closer, took his hand, took off his hat to look at his hair, and sighed for a long time.

It was an inexplicable war, beginning with Gao Yang's hot head and ending with the reconciliation between the two countries, and the only value was to prove that Murong Yu was very capable of defending, and no one cared about the dead and wounded soldiers.

On the third day of the first month of June, Gao Yang issued another edict, because the State of Liang was called a vassal, and all the people of Southern Liang were sent back to the south.

Xiao Yuanming was able to ascend to the throne of God by relying on Gao Yang. Now, Gao Yang took the initiative to withdraw his troops, and he had not left a single soldier in Jiankang, and he, the emperor, had become a puppet, all of whom were decided by Wang Shengquan and Chen Baxian. With the retreat of the Northern Qi army, the contradiction between Wang Shengquan and Chen Baxian began to intensify.

At the beginning, Wang Shengquan and Chen Baxian jointly eliminated Hou Jing, and their feelings were deep. Wang Shengquan married Chen Baxian's daughter to his son Wang Jun, just in time for the death of Wang Shengxuan's mother, and did not have time to get married.

At this time, Wang Shengxian lived in Stone City, Chen Baxian lived in Jingkou, Wang Shengxian pushed his heart to him, Wang Yan repeatedly persuaded his father to be wary of Chen Baxian, and Wang Shengxian did not listen.

When Wang Monk defended Na Xiao Yuanming as emperor, Chen Baxian sent emissaries to persuade him bitterly and argue endlessly, and the emissaries made several round trips to this end, but Wang Monk did not listen.

Chen Baxian was very puzzled and annoyed by this, and said to his cronies: "There are many descendants of Emperor Wu, and only Xiao Xuan can quell hou Jing's rebellion and avenge the shame of his ancestors." What sin did His Son have, and why did he depose Him? I and the prince are the same as the former emperor's lonely vassals, and the prince has suddenly changed his mind, attached himself to the state of Rong Di, and does not support the Son of Heaven in order, what does he really want to do? ”

Chen Baxian's meaning is very clear, you Wang Monk argue that you must have a different heart. In fact, Chen Baxian mistakenly blamed Wang Shengxuan, and it was he who had a different heart, and Wang Shengxuan was purely soft in bones.

In any case, Chen Baxian was not willing to become a vassal of Northern Qi, and he began to secretly prepare thousands of collared battle robes and gold and silver as rewards for his subordinates, preparing to start a rebellion and kill Wang Shengjie.

In August, there were reports on the border of Southern Liang that the Northern Qi army had made a major move and had arrived in Shouchun and was about to invade the south. Wang Monk believed that it was true, and sent Jiang Yi to inform Chen Baxian and make him wary. Chen Baxian took the opportunity to detain Jiang Yi in Jingkou and prepared to take this opportunity to sneak up on Wang Shengjie.

On September 25, Chen Baxian summoned the generals Hou Andu and Zhou Wenyu, as well as Xu Du and Du Ling, to plot together.

Du Ling thought it was difficult and unwilling to participate, Chen Baxian was afraid of the secret leak, and strangled Du Ling with a hand towel to make him suffocate on the ground, and then put him under house arrest.

Then, Chen Ba first deployed his soldiers, distributed gold and silver cloth, ordered his nephew and writer Chen Tanlang to stay in the town of Jingkou and take charge of the affairs of the prefecture government, and then sent Xu Du and Hou Andu to lead the water army directly to Shicheng, and personally led the infantry from Jiangcheng and Luo Luo to meet it.

That night, all the soldiers and horses set out together, and took Du Ling with them. The only people who knew the real purpose of this march were Hou Andu and four other generals, and outsiders all thought that Jiang Yi had come to recruit troops to resist Northern Qi's invasion, so no one was surprised.

Although Chen Ba's first soldiers were for personal merit, I still supported him. At least, he acted more like a grandfather, ambitious, face-loving, hard-bones, and a heroic spirit that did not accept defeat.