Agitated for 400 years: Hou Andu was captured for passive counter-rebellion, and Wang Lin led his army to the east to watch

This article is the 639th in a long series, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

When the world was first decided, Chen Baxian couldn't wait to put Zen Dai on the agenda. After all, he was already fifty-three years old, and he would be old if he dragged it on any longer.

On August 28 of the first year of Yongding (557 AD), at the behest of Chen Baxian, Xiao Fangzhi promoted Chen Baxian to the rank of Taifu (太傅), adding Huang Yu (黄钺) and Special Ceremony (钺钺), and praising him without a name.

On the fifth day of the first month of September, Chen Baxian was promoted to Xiangguo again, the chief of the Hundred Hundred, the Duke of Chen, the Beijiu Xi, and the Chen Guo set up hundred officials. On the third day of the first month of October, Chen Baxian became king.

On the sixth day of the first month of October, Xiao Fangzhi gave Chen Baxian a Zen seat. On this day, Chen Baxian sent Liu Shizhi ( Liu Shizhi ) , a member of the Zhongshu She , to lead the Xuanmeng general Shen Ke to command soldiers into the palace and escort Xiao Fangzhi to live in the palace.

Shen Ke rushed to open the gate to meet Chen Baxian, prostrated his head and apologized, "I personally served Xiao Shi, and today I can't bear to force the palace." It is my duty to die against my orders, but I must not accept such an appointment! Chen Baxian remembered his loyalty, no longer forced him to take on this fate, and replaced him with the lord Wang Shengzhi.

On the tenth day of the first month of October, Chen Baxian took the throne as emperor in the southern suburbs, and after returning to the palace, he pardoned the world and changed his name to Yuan Yongding, known in history as Southern Chen, which was the last dynasty of the Southern Dynasty and the weakest.

From the perspective of the entrepreneurial process, Chen Baxian's ordeal was second only to Liu Yu, but due to excessive internal friction, by the time he took over, the territory of the Southern Dynasty had shrunk significantly.

Not only that, Chen Baxian also faced a bigger problem, that is, the territory occupied by his concubines was not large, and most of it was collected through incorporation, very similar to the later Chiang Kai-shek.

At that time, Xiong Tanlang was guarding Yuzhang, Zhou Di was guarding Linchuan, Leaving a Different Stronghold to defend Dongyang, and Chen Baoying was guarding Jin'an, all of whom had certain strength, nominally submitting to Southern Chen, secretly connecting with each other and echoing each other, and the local tycoons in central Fujian also established camps to defend themselves, forming large and small separatist forces.

Among them, Chen Baoying, who is also a local warlord with great prestige in the chaotic world, is also introduced. Chen Baoying, a Fujian official-in-waiting, was originally a major surname of the Minzhong family, and his father Chen Yu was quite talented.

In the last years of southern Liang, armed struggles against the official government often broke out in Jin'an County, and the county generals and chief officials were killed repeatedly, chen Yu often plotted from them, expanded his power, and later defected to the official army and eliminated the major surname forces, thus controlling the military power of Jin'an County.

In the first year of Dabao (550 AD), taking advantage of Hou Jing's rebellion, Chen Yu forced away Jin'an Taishou and Binhua Marquis Xiaoyun by force, and independently administered the county, because of his old age, ordered Chen Bao to be a soldier.

After experiencing Hou Jing's rebellion, there was famine everywhere in the eastern borders of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the meeting was particularly bad, and the starving people accounted for 78 out of 10, and the hungry people sold their lives to survive, only Jin'an had a bumper harvest.

Chen Bao should take the opportunity to send troops to capture Lin'an, Yongjia, Huiji, Yuyao, Zhuji, and other places from the sea, and then transported a large amount of grain and rice, retrieved a large amount of jade and population, and those who could drive boats and cars between Jiangsu and Zhejiang also returned to Minzhong, and Chen's wealth increased greatly, and his troops were widespread, and he became a local power faction.

After Hou Jing's rebellion was put down, the Southern Liang court recognized the fact that Chen Yu and Chen Bao should divide Minzhong and made Chen Yu the Taishou of Jin' An. After Chen Baxian seized the auxiliary political power of Southern Liang, Chen Yu returned to his old age and requested that the county administration be passed to Chen Baoying, and Chen Baoying was awarded the title of General of Zhuangwu and Taishou of Jin'an.

After the establishment of Southern Chen, Chen Ba first set up Minzhou, with jurisdiction over Jian'an and Jin'an Counties, and granted Chen Bao the title of Commander of the Order of The Liberation Horse, General Xinwu, Assassin of Minzhou, and Inspector Taishou.

For the other minzhong local tycoons, Chen Baxian also mainly recruited an and sent Xiao Qian (Xiao Zifan's son) to advise the yellow door attendant. With his three-inch tongue and personal prestige, Xiao Qian persuaded the local tycoons in central Fujian to submit to Southern Chen, and Chen Baxian appointed him as the Taishou of Jian'an.

Through huairou tactics such as incorporation or recruitment, Chen Baxian temporarily stabilized the situation in Jiangdong. But the premise of Huai Rou's plan is that you must have the strength to suppress them, otherwise it is still a false appearance. How do you prove that you have strength? Getting Wang Lin right had become Chen Baxian's top priority.

In October of the first year of Yongding (557 CE), Hou Andu arrived in Wuchang, and Wang Lin's general Fan Meng abandoned the city and fled, and Zhou Wenyu set out from Yuzhang to join him.

At this time, Hou Andu heard the news that Chen Baxian had been zen, and he sighed, "I must have failed this time, because the master is unknown and cannot serve the people." ”

Hou Andu's sentence is quite interesting. At that time, when he followed Chen Baxian to attack Wang Shengxuan, it was impossible not to know Chen Baxian's ambitions. Therefore, shi's nameless words were just excuses, and Hou An was dissatisfied with Chen Baxian's claim to the emperor before he did not consult with him, nor did he give him an official and knighthood.

After Zhou Wenyu and Hou An both converged, the two advanced together, but they did not have a relationship between the commander and the subject, and the subordinates quarreled with each other, and gradually a gap arose.

When the army entered Yingzhou, Wang Lin's general Pan Chuntuo fired arrows at them from a distance in the city, and Hou Andu was furious and commanded his army to surround Yingzhou.

Before Yingzhou could be defeated, and Wang Lin's army had already arrived at Yikou, Hou Andu had no choice but to withdraw to the siege of Yingzhou and lead all his troops to Rushaokou, leaving one of Shen Tai's troops to guard Hanqu.

On the way, Hou An encountered strong winds and could not move forward. Wang Lin held the east bank, hou an held the west bank, and the two armies held each other for several days before fighting.

As a result, Hou Andu and others were defeated, and together with Zhou Wenyu and his generals Xu Jingcheng, Zhou Tiehu, and Cheng Lingshi, they were captured by Wang Lin, and Shen Tai fled into the wilderness.

Hou Andu and Zhou Wenyu were Chen Baxian's right and left arms, why did they lose to Wang Lin so easily? From the words before Hou Andu set off, it can be seen that he simply did not contribute to the work, and deliberately raised Kou to be self-respecting, but the scale was not grasped well, giving Wang Lin an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Wang Lin summoned the captured generals and tried to persuade them to surrender, but Zhou Tiehu was tough in his words and refused to give in, Wang Lin killed him, imprisoned Hou Andu and the others, tied them all together with a long chain, locked them all together, and locked them in the large ship he was sitting on, and ordered his close eunuch Prince Jin to watch over them.

Wang Lin then moved the military palace in Xiangzhou to Yingcheng, and sent his general Fan Meng to attack and occupy Jiangzhou. For a time, Chen Baxian's situation became very unfavorable, and other warlords also had different intentions.

In the first month of the second year of Yongding (558 AD), Wang Lin led his troops to the east, arrived at Xiangcheng, and was stationed at Baishuipu, with a total of 100,000 armored soldiers under his command.

At this time, the Beijiang Prefecture Assassin Shi Lu Sidda, who was guarding the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, became a key figure, and Wang Lin appointed him as the general of Zhenbei, and Chen Baxian appointed him as the general of Zhenxi, and also sent bands and kabuki to do their best to win him over.

Rusita was able to live in good health, accepting appointments and gifts on both sides, but delaying in action, and neither side took office.

Chen Baxian was very annoyed and sent Shen Tai to attack Lu Sida, but did not win, Wang Lin sent emissaries to persuade, Lu Sidh still remained neutral, and after all, no one would obey.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Wang Lin sent emissaries to Northern Qi for help, requesting xiao Zhuang, the King of Yongjia, who was stranded in Northern Qi as a proton, to preside over the Southern Liang Sect. Gao Yang was happy to be profitable and readily agreed.

Zhou Di wanted to occupy Nanchuan himself, so he summoned all the eight counties of Taishou to form an alliance and claimed to enter the dynasty together. Chen Baxian was worried about their rebellion and sent people to give generous comfort and appeasement.