«——【Preamble】】 ——»
When he was born, he was not only physically strong, but also twice as heavy as an ordinary baby. He was able to speak very early, and his grandfather, the king of the king, was very fond of him.
When Tuoba was six years old, Shi Yiqian was killed due to civil strife in the tribe, and the tribe was divided into two by Liu Kuren and Li Weichen. Liu Kuren took over Tuoba and his mother.
At this time, although Tuoba was still young, he showed his outstanding character in his life under the fence. In the Kuren Department, Tuoba and her son lived a stable life for several years.
A few years later, Yan killed Murong Wen and others Liu Kuren, Liu Kuren's son Liu Xian established himself as the master, and Liu Xian conspired to kill Tuoba.
After receiving the secret report, Tuoba Jue anxiously discussed secretly with his mother He, and finally He decided to invite Liu Xian to a banquet, and let Tuoba Jue frequently persuade Liu Xian to drink at the banquet, and Liu Xian was very drunk.
Tuoba Jue led several old ministers to ride to Helan's uncle He Ne, who was surprised and delighted when he saw Tuoba Jue, who was young and old and had extraordinary knowledge, and hoped that Tuoba Jue would one day be able to rebuild his family and country and restore his homeland.
1. After hardships, the old country was restored
Tuoba Jue worked hard in Helan Province, very popular with the people, Tuoba Jue thought that Niuchuan was a remote place, and there would be no great achievements here, and soon after ascending the throne, he moved the capital to Shengle, and the prairie east of the Hetao was occupied by Tuoba Jue.
In April of the same year, the sixteen-year-old Tuoba Jue changed his name to Wei and proclaimed himself the King of Wei. Tuoba Jue actively took advantage of the contradiction between Hou Yan and Xi Yan to form a good alliance with Murong Chui's Hou Yan, and advantageously contained Murong Yong's Xi Yan to attack.
Tuoba Jue also actively allied with the Western Yan, effectively restraining the continuous expansion of the Later Yan and ensuring the security of the south. While stabilizing and strengthening his neighbors, Tuoba was devoted to the internal administration of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Tuoba continued to make efforts in all aspects, but the Northern Wei Dynasty still had civil strife shortly after Tuoba Jue ascended the throne. In order to compete for the throne, Tuoba's uncle and Shi Yiqian's youngest son, Gu Du, secretly colluded with Liu Xianbu, causing a big commotion in the ministry.
Tuoba Jue thought that the internal difficulties were endless, and the plot was difficult to prevent, so he had to cross Yin Mountain again and defect to the Helan Department, and at the same time Tuoba Jue sent people to Houyan for help. For the sake of his own interests, Murong Chui, the lord of Yan, immediately ordered his son to lead his troops to rescue Tuoba.
Soon after Tuoba entered the grassland area east of the Hetao with the support of the Later Yan, Tuoba Gulu also entered the grassland area east of the Hetao with the support of the Western Yan.
The grassland area east of the Hetao not only has an important strategic position, but also is rich in war horses, and is the main supplier of war horses from various countries. At the same time that Tuoba Jue asked for help from Hou Yan, Gu Du and He Rangan, the commander of the Helan Department, attacked Tuoba Jue in a flank.
The situation was very unfavorable to the Tuoba Army, who was attacked by the enemy on his back, with holes in front and dry in the back, and the situation was very critical, and the people were all frightened and lost their fighting spirit.
The young Tuoba Jue was in danger, trying to get out of the danger of being attacked by the enemy on his belly and back, waiting for a favorable opportunity to counterattack, and on the other hand, he ordered people to contact Murong Chui's son and make an appointment to attack the cave.
In the 15th year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, Tuoba Jue conquered the Helan tribe at the northern foot of the Yinshan Mountain, and in the 16th year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, he conquered the Xiongnu Tiefu tribe west of the Hetao.
In just five years, Tuoba eliminated strong opponents in the steppes of southern Mongolia and northern Shanxi, and his power grew rapidly.
Subsequently, Tuoba Jue acquired a large amount of land, population, and livestock by annexing weak tribes such as Kumoxi, Gaoche, and Suturin, so that his strength was enriched.
Murong Chui exterminated the Western Yan in June of the 19th year of the Taiyuan Dynasty and occupied a large area in central and southern Shanxi. At this time, the only one who had the ability to compete with Houyan in North China was Tuoba Jue's Northern Wei Dynasty.
At this time, the Later Yan rulers were carried away by the victory of the Western Yan War and believed that the Later Yan would be able to eliminate the Northern Wei in one fell swoop. In July of the twentieth year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, Murong Bao, the prince of Later Yan, led 80,000 elite horsemen to drive directly to the Hetao and approached the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The Tuoba Department heard that Murong Bao led 80,000 elite cavalry to attack, and in order to avoid unnecessary losses, Tuoba led the tribe to avoid Henan. Murong Bao led 80,000 elite cavalry to Wuyuan, but he couldn't find Tuoba Jue's main army at all.
At this time, the rumor of Murong dying of illness came from Houyan, and the Houyan army listened to the rumors, so the army's heart was turbulent. And Murong Bao was anxious to go back to fight for the throne after hearing the rumors, and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops.
Taking advantage of the withdrawal of the Later Yan troops, Tuoba Jue led the elite cavalry to cross the river in pursuit, and surrounded the Yan army's camp at Shenhepi. The Yan army was unprepared for the attack of Tuoba Jue's army, the commander Murong Bao was in a hurry to return east, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit.
In the face of Tuoba's sudden attack, the Yan army was completely annihilated in this battle, almost all the soldiers were captured, only Murong Bao escaped on horseback, and Tuoba Jue collected the Yan army's grain and weapons.
For the tens of thousands of Yan troops who were captured, in order to get rid of the future troubles forever, Tuoba Jue ordered all of them to be killed on the spot. This battle brought about a great change in the balance of military power between the Northern Wei and Later Yan.
Murong Chui led a large army into the clouds in the 21st year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, but Tuoba Jue still took countermeasures to avoid its edge, leading his troops to retreat north to Yinshan to preserve the strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Although Murong Trai once captured Pingcheng, he was never able to fight a decisive battle with Tuoba, and soon Murong Trai returned due to serious illness and led his troops and died on the way home. Since then, Hou Yan has never been able to recover the decline in the military. At this time, Tuoba was only 25 years old.
Soon after Murong was dying, Tuoba Jue drove into the Central Plains with his superior cavalry. Tuoba Jue was proclaimed emperor in Shengle in July of the 21st year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, changed to the beginning of the Yuan Emperor, and became the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In August, there was civil strife within Houyan due to the death of Murong Chui, and Tuoba Jue took the opportunity to personally lead an army of more than 400,000 to attack Houyan. The Wei army captured Later Yan and the state in September.
Tuoba Jue led the army all the way like a bamboo, and the Yan soldiers either fled or surrendered, only Yecheng, Xindu and Yandu Zhongshan closed the city and held on, Murong Bao stuck to Zhongshan City, Tuoba Jue personally supervised the siege, and the siege was fruitless for several days.
Tuobali believed that a hasty attack on Zhongshan Castle would only injure more soldiers, and that a slow attack would waste grain and grass, so he ordered to attack Pingxindu and Yecheng first, and then capture Zhongshan.
Murong Bao held in the city, the two sides stalemate with each other for nearly a year, in September of the first year of Jin An Long'an, the city of Zhongshan was empty of grain and grass, and the soldiers and people in the city were hungry.
Seeing the lack of grain and grass in the city, Tuo Bei Jue ordered the army to cut the rice around Zhongshan, cutting off the supply of grain and grass in Zhongshan City, causing the famine in the city to be even worse. Soon, Zhongshan City fell, and Houyan officially perished.
After pacifying Zhongshan, Tuoba occupied the hometown of Houyan. The remnants of the Murong clan had no choice but to avoid it, one led by Murong Bao and established the Northern Yan regime in Longcheng, and the other led by Murong De and established the Southern Yan regime.
In just ten years, Tuoba Jue took the throne and destroyed Houyan in Pingzhongshan, which made the Northern Wei Dynasty achieve unprecedented development and growth, and the Northern Wei Dynasty became the most powerful regime in the north.
Second, suspicious and jealous, the disaster caused Xiao Wall Road
Although Emperor Wu Tuoba was wise and brave in his early years, he became a blindly confident and self-righteous person in his later years. He was afraid that others would covet his throne, and he was often suspicious and suspicious of others without reason.
Tuoba Jue issued two edicts in the third year of Tianxing, one of which said: People think that Han Gaozu has the world as a commoner, which is not right.
Han Gaozu became the emperor because of the Mandate of Heaven. Without the Mandate of Heaven, and vainly trying to divide the wrong, you will suffer. Another edict repeatedly explained and explained that fame, fortune and title are secondary, and morality is the most important and fundamental thing, and the cart cannot be reversed.
And from it, he admonished the ministers to preach morality and not to covet fame and fortune. Tuoba Jue regarded the Mandate of Heaven and Morality as a spiritual medicine stone, but the spiritual medicine stone of Heavenly Mandate and Morality could not make him peaceful.
Today he suspects that his subordinates are disloyal to him, and tomorrow he fears that his subordinates will plot against him. In his early years, the high-ranking ministers, generals, and Tuoba royal families who fought the world together with Tuoba were the objects of his suspicion.
If suspected, he will be exiled at least and beheaded at worst. Gao Yi Gong Mo Di once shot an arrow to the cave in the process of fighting for the throne between Cave and Tuoba, and the gist of the letter was: "Tuoba is just a three-year-old calf, how can he carry a heavy car!"
In the letter, he expressed his willingness to support Cave Du as king. The letter happened to be intercepted by Tuoba in the middle of the process, and Tuoba had always held a grudge against it.
In the fifth year of heaven's gift, someone reported to Tuoba that Mo Di lived in a mansion, was proud and rude to his subordinates, and despised the emperor to his superiors.
And ordered someone to ask: "Take a good look, how is my three-year-old calf now?" Seeing this scene, Mo Di's father and son knew that they couldn't survive, so they hugged each other and cried, and soon Gao Yi Gong Mo Di was beheaded by Tuoba Jue.
Tuoba's cousin Tuoba Yi was one of the famous generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who had made great achievements in the battle of Shenhepi and the destruction of Yan, and he enjoyed high prestige among the Tuoba nobles and Han ministers, and his prestige became the object of Tuoba's suspicion.
In the sixth year of Heaven's gift, Tuoba ordered the divination officials to divination, and the divination results showed: "There will be abnormal changes in astronomy this year, and it is very likely that there will be rebellion among the ministers." ”
After listening to the divination, Tuoba Jue became more suspicious of the ministers, and the people in the court were panicked, and the generals and ministers all felt that the day was precarious, worried that the disaster would affect them, and they were panicked all day long.
Although Tuoba Yi later fled on his own, in the end, Tuoba Yi still sent someone to hunt him down and give him death. Later, Tuoba's suspicion became more and more serious, and famous generals and ministers were often executed by Tuoba on trumped-up charges because of a little thing.
He Digan, a northern lord who had been imprisoned by Qin for many years, returned to Pingcheng, but Tuoba not only did not appease him.
Seeing that he was dressed in Qin clothes and spoke with a strong Qin accent, he and his younger brother were put to death for the crime of He Digan's admiration for Hou Qin.
3. Summary
Someone accused the minister Sikong Gengyue of being too ornate in his clothes and imitating the emperor's behavior, and he was also beheaded by Tuoba Jue. When Tuoba was in the imperial court, he often killed people at every turn.
What's more, if the minister's face is abnormal, his breath is not smooth, or his words make Tuoba feel unpleasant, and his voice is high, he will be executed. Tuoba will display the bodies of the executed in front of the Tian'an Temple.
All of a sudden, the court was up and down, everyone could not protect themselves, the officials were all unintentional, and thieves were rampant in the streets and alleys. In his later years, in order to seek immortality, Tuoba Jue often took cold food and scattered food.
Not only can Hanshisan not make people immortal, but it is also a chronic poison made of minerals such as cinnabar and quartz. When the medicinal nature of cold food powder attacked, Tuoba Jue became even more manic, moody, often without eating or sleeping for several days, and talking to himself alone against the wall.
The more people Tuoba killed, the more worried he was that others would come to murder him, so he kept changing his dormitory every day, and the ministers and cronies around him did not know where he would live every day, but his most favored concubines knew where he lived every day.
It just so happened that Wan Wan had an affair with his second son Tuoba Shao. Tuoba Shao was born to Mrs. He, the sister of the Empress Dowager He, and was also a fierce and cruel person.
Mrs. He fell out of favor and was imprisoned in the sixth year of Tianci, and Mrs. He asked someone to let Tuoba Shao try to rescue her. One night, Tuoba Shao and Wan Li joined forces with the outside world, found the residence of Daowu Emperor Tuoba Jue, and stabbed the 39-year-old Tuoba Jue to death.
In September of the second year of Yongxing, Tuoba Jue was called "Emperor Xuanwu" and was buried in Shengle Jinling, with the temple name "Liezu".