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Xiao Fangzhi, the last king of Southern Liang, was the ninth son of Xiao Yi, the emperor of Liang, and was later proclaimed emperor by Chen Ba, and died at the age of 16.
Xiao Fangzhi was born in 543, Xiao Yi's ninth son, and his mother was Xia Xianfei. Xiao Fangzhi has been crowned king since birth and enjoys the highest level of treatment, but he died when he was a teenager and was brutally killed.
Xiao Fangzhi was made Marquis of Xingxing Liang at the age of six, and was crowned the Prince of Jin An at the age of nine, with 2,000 households, although he was only nine years old, he was not much different from the imperial court officials, after all, he was the blood of the emperor. In 553, when Xiao Fangzhi, who was only ten years old, became the general of Pingnan and the assassin of Jiangzhou, his father Xiao Yi had only been on the throne for one year, and Xiao Yi had only reigned for two years in history. How can an ignorant ten-year-old child be appointed as the thorn in Jiangzhou, how can he bear the heavy responsibility? It's just a false name and a title.
A year later (554), Western Wei captured Jiangling, and his father Xiao Yi, the emperor of Liangyuan, and his brother Xiao Fangzhi, the crown prince of Huaihuai, were unfortunately killed, and the eleven-year-old Xiao Fangzhi was proclaimed king of Liang by Chen Baxian and became the "acting emperor". In 555, Xiao Fangzhi officially ascended the throne and became the eighth emperor of Southern Liang, in fact, Xiao Fangzhi was just a puppet emperor, but a tool of Chen Baxian. Although Xiao Fangzhi was the nominal emperor of Southern Liang, all the big and small things in the court were controlled by Chen Baxian and covered the sky with one hand.
Initially, after discussing with Wang Seng, Chen Baxian prepared to welcome Xiao Fangzhi (Emperor Jing of Liang), the ninth son of Emperor Yuan of Liang, as emperor, but Gao Yang, the emperor of Northern Qi (Eastern Wei had become the Northern Qi Dynasty), was dissatisfied with Yuwen Tai's occupation of a large area of Southern Liang and wanted a piece of the pie, so he sent someone to escort Xiao Yuanming, the nephew of Xiao Yan, the former captured emperor of Liang, Xiao Yuanming, the Marquis of Zhenyang, back to Jiankang to take the throne in order to control the Southern Liang regime.
A battle for the throne turned into a "presidential campaign", and the Southern Liang court was divided into two factions and fought fiercely.
After weighing the pros and cons, Wang decided that relying on the powerful Northern Qi was more advantageous, and decided to become Xiao Yuanming's running mate, welcome him to Jiankang, and elect him emperor.
If Xiao Fangzhi came to the throne, Chen Baxian assisted Wang Seng, and Southern Liang would continue to exist as an independent regime; If Xiao Yuanming had taken the throne, Southern Liang might have become a vassal of the Northern Dynasty like Western Liang, and Northern Qi's wishful calculation would have been quite slippery.
Gao Yang's sideways kick directly caused the alliance of Chen Baxian and Wang Sengbian to split.
Chen Ba first led troops to guard Jingkou (present-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), ostensibly accepting Xiao Yuanming's reward, but secretly planning a mutiny, he scattered his family wealth, distributed colored silk, gold and silver to the soldiers to boost morale, and then took advantage of the unpreparedness of Wang Seng's defense, decisively sent troops, attacked Jiankang by land and water, deposed Xiao Yuanming, strangled Wang Sengwen, once again supported the 13-year-old Xiao Fangzhi as emperor, and controlled the capital.
After that, Chen Ba first sent a letter to Northern Qi, bitterly accusing Wang Seng's crime of "please be a subject to Qi, forever a vassal state", and dumped the pot to Gao Yang.
Until this time, Chen Baxian finally became a powerful minister under Nanliang and above ten thousand people, and he appointed himself as Shang Shuling, the governor of Chinese and foreign military affairs, and the assassination history of Yang and Southern Xu. But in fact, at that time, the actual control of the prefectures and counties of the Southern Liang imperial court was quite limited, and the capital Jiankang suffered from enemies, Yuwen and Gao in the north, and the thorns in various places in the south, Taishou disobeyed Chen Baxian, and started a chaos.
In 557, Xiao Fangzhi gave the throne to Chen Baxian, and the historical Southern Liang perished, and Xiao Fangzhi also became the king of the dead country, will the historical king of the dead country have a good end? After Chen Ba ascended the throne first, he did not rush to get rid of the Southern Liang bloodline, but made Xiao Fangzhi the king of Jiangyin, and only drove people out and killed them the next year, Xiao Fangzhi was only sixteen years old when he died, and his two-year-old son Xiao Wenhua was also killed.
In the northeast of the Jiangyin West Stone Bridge, there is a large mound surrounded by blue water and lush vegetation, known as the imperial tomb by the locals since ancient times, which is the last emperor of the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty and the mausoleum of Xiao Fangzhi, the first king of the Jiangyin State, the Liang Jing Emperor.
Xiao Yan became obsessed with Buddhism in his later years, ignored the imperial government, and finally broke out in the Houjing Rebellion in the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty (549), and Xiao Yan was starved to death in Taicheng. In this year, the 7-year-old Xiao Fangzhi was made Marquis of Xingliang, and three years later his father Xiao Yi was declared emperor in Jiangling, for Emperor Yuan of Liang, Xiao Fangzhi was made the King of Jin'an, and the following year he was made a general of Pingnan and a thorn in Jiangzhou. Emperor Yuan of Liang reigned for less than three years before he was executed by Western Wei forces who had captured Jiangling.
It was also in this year that Jiangyin abandoned the county and established the county, the original Jiyang County was abolished, and the administrative structure was moved from present-day Changshou Mocheng to the southern foothills of Junshan. The newly established county, the area includes the original Jiyang County and Lanling County Licheng land, because it is located in the south of the river, according to the ancients "the south of the water is yin", named Jiangyin County, under the Jiangyin, Liangfeng and Licheng three subordinate counties, the name Jiangyin from this.
In the first year of Taiping (557), Xiao Fangzhi, who had just been a minor emperor for two years, was pressured to take the post of Chen Baxian and changed the name of the state to Chen, and the Southern Liang, which had lasted for 55 years, was replaced by the Chen Dynasty.
After Xiao Fangzhi took the throne, he was first made the King of Jiangyin by Chen Ba, and established the Jiangyin State with Jiangyin County as the last fief of the Liang Dynasty. In order to eliminate the future troubles, only half a year later, Chen Ba first instructed Liu Shizhi to kill Xiao Fangzhi. In this year, Xiao Fangzhi was only 16 years old, and after his death, he posthumously honored the emperor and was buried in Cangdun, Shiqiao, Xishiqiao, Jiangyin. After Xiao Fangzhi's death, Ji Qing and Xiao Yi, the marquis of Wulin, successively succeeded to the throne of Jiangyin. In 589, Emperor Wen of Sui destroyed Chen and abolished the Jiangyin Kingdom into Suzhou.
Xiao Fangzhi's life is sad, from a young and ignorant child to a puppet emperor, if there is an afterlife, it is estimated that he does not want to be born in a troubled world, let alone born in an imperial family.