As the saying goes: Tiger father has no dog.
But when people read more history books and look at the dynasties, they will find a very strange phenomenon: Dad is a hero of the world, and his son is
The rogue rat generation seems to have become a law of repeated unhappiness. Since the Han Dynasty, When Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, gave up his hand and returned to the Heavenly Queen, his son Liu Ying, the Emperor hui, only knew that After Yang Lü was sniffling, he was desolate all day long, and he ignored government affairs; liu Bei of the Three Kingdoms Shu Han Liu Bei was even more "unsupportable" Liu Chan, who reigned for forty-two years, even with the assistance of such a sage as Zhuge Liang, he would eventually lose the country and "not think about Shu"; Sima Yan, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, had a stupid and stupid Hui Emperor Sima Zhen, and the chancellor reported that there was no food to eat in the domestic famine, and many ordinary people starved to death, and he actually said: "Why don't those people eat meat porridge?" "Emperor Yang Jian of Sui had the extravagant and dim-witted son Yang Guang, who was so fortunate that he was killed with the honor of the Son of Heaven; Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, who was cowardly and cowardly, and was afraid that his wife would die, and empress Dowager Wu eventually changed Tang to Zhou; The weak prince of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang died early, and bequeathed the country to the hesitant and fearful grandson Emperor Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, and the throne of the great emperor was actually taken by the uncle... The descendants of this generation are not only ordinary faint and incompetent, but also spoil the old man's exhaustion and the great rivers and mountains that run his life, and even finally give up the home country to people. If the dead had known, their famous fathers and fathers would have been so angry that they could not rest in the grave!
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Northern Zhou Wu Emperor Yuwen Yong shen wu was superior, resolute and wise, and unpredictable. At the same time, this brave emperor also advocated frugality, usually wearing cloth robes, sleeping cloth quilts, no gold, silver and jade decorations on his whole body, and forbidden those carved and engraved palace rooms and splendid clothes. The palace of the former dynasty had magnificent decorations, and he strictly ordered it to be demolished and changed to a few feet of earth steps, which was frugal. During the nineteenth year of the reign of emperor, he first raised obscurity in Taoguang and destroyed the clan's power minister Yuwen Hu, and then personally took charge of Wanji and destroyed the Northern Qi Gao clan.
Shi Zai, this Zhou Wu Emperor Lao Qian took over, self-improvement, walking in the valley when fighting, walking in the valley, performing diligent and hard work, ordinary people can not tolerate, Zhou Wu Emperor himself is as willing as a glutton. When marching, he saw soldiers walking barefoot, and Emperor Wu of Zhou even took off his boots to put on the small soldiers. With the enemy line, he personally risked yashi, took the lead, and almost fell into the death line with the dignity of the emperor many times. After the destruction of Qi, he surrendered to the Turks and attacked the Southern Dynasty. Judging from the momentum of the Zhou Dynasty at that time, within a year or two, the unification of the world would soon become a fact. However, Heaven was jealous of the talents and did not give up the year, Yuwen Yong suddenly encountered a violent illness on the northern expedition and died on the military vehicle, only thirty-six years old. Testament, Crown Prince Yuwen attacked The Great Treasure. And it was precisely this son who was less than twenty years old, known in the history books as "Zhou Tianyuan" Emperor Xuan of Zhou, who ascended the throne for more than two years, tossing the great rivers and mountains that Emperor Wu had worked so hard to beat down into smoke, and the people were not happy, and it was difficult to say anything!
When Emperor Wu of Zhou was alive, he was very strict with several sons, especially the crown prince Yuwen Yun, who occasionally had a small transgression, beating him with a big stick at every turn, and warned: "Since ancient times, there are a lot of deposed princes, can't my other sons be able to succeed to the throne?" At the same time, he strictly ordered the officials and subordinates of the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace to write a detailed report every month, detailing the behavior of the crown prince for a month. In this way, the drunken and lustful prince tried his best to suppress his habits, and like many of his subordinates, he stood outside the palace gate at five or six o'clock in the northern winter waiting for the early dynasty, which can be described as well-intentioned and devoted to acting, after all, he was afraid of coming from the heart, and he was really afraid that his father would abolish him in anger and set up another brother as the crown prince.
History said: "When Emperor Xuan first established, he wanted to be extravagant. Emperor Zhouwu's huge coffin was still placed in the palace, and before he could enter the palace, Yuwen Yun not only did not have the sad face of his dead father at all, but also stroked the staff marks on his feet and shouted at Emperor Wu's coffin: "It is too late to die!" As soon as he turned around, the new emperor immediately summoned Emperor Wu's concubines and palace ladies to the front and lined up to read them, and all the handsome-looking ones were included in his harem. In the feudal era, Lun was often rigorous, even if Emperor Wu of Zhou's concubines were younger than Yuwen Yun, they were still mothers, princess-level figures in terms of generations, and the new emperor completely disregarded these imperial etiquette, embracing those young stepmothers into the flowers, and the spring breeze was everywhere. At the same time, the first administrative order he issued after becoming emperor was now to promote Zheng Yi, a subordinate doctor who had been advising him when he was crown prince, as a great general of Kaifu Yitong and a doctor in the history of the interior, and entrusted him with the administration of the dynasty. (It was this Zheng translator who, two years later, as soon as Yuwen Yun died, defected to Yang Jian, and ordered Yang Jian to enter the imperial auxiliary government, helping Yang Jian usurp Zhou to make the first contribution.)
As soon as Emperor Yuwen Yun was seated, he immediately killed his uncle, Yuwen Xian the Prince of Qi.
At the beginning of Yuwen Yong's reign as emperor, he was subject to the power of the chancellor Yuwen Hu and remained silent all day. At that time, Yuwen Xian had a good relationship with Yuwen Hu, often leading a large army to fight against the Qi army, and defeated the famous Northern Qi generals Huo Lu Mingyue, Gao Changgong and others, and their power gradually grew. Yuwen Xian was in awe of his half-emperor, often mediating the delicate tension between the courtiers and the emperor, and Emperor Zhou wu was very clear about this, so after destroying Yuwen Hu, not only did not kill Yu Wenxian, but also often let this brother who could fight a good war lead the front army and attack the four battles. When Northern Qi was fought, Yuwen Xian led his army to fight Northern Qi and then the lord Gao Wei ran wildly, and also captured Gao Yanzong, the most capable warrior of Northern Qi, Gao Huan, the king of Rencheng, and Gao Xiaoheng, the king of Guangning, who could be said to be the first-class heroes of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in destroying Northern Qi. At the same time, this benevolent and old prince was also a wise man who knew the rapids and retreated, and he knew that the brother of the emperor was not only wise and resolute, but also the lord of great talent. After the destruction of Northern Qi, Yuwen Xian felt that his prestige was too heavy, so he deliberately often said that he could not get sick, no longer followed Emperor Zhou Wu to attack the foreign tribes in the north, and wanted to raise his life and make himself a good home.
As soon as Emperor Wu of Zhou died, Yuwen Yun, who had just ascended the throne, immediately thought of his uncle, who had achieved great feats. One night, he sent down the kings of the imperial court to meet him, and when everyone gathered at the door of the palace, he summoned Yuwen Xian, the king of Qi, to join him. Just after entering the door, the door of the temple suddenly closed, and a group of brave men rushed forward to hold the imperial uncle to death. Yuwen Xian's words were not distorted, and Chen said that he did not have any guilt. The clerk who recorded the testimony next to him advised him: "With the situation of the Great King today, do you still need to say so much?" Yu Wenxian sighed, "My position is very respected, and you are the emperor's brother and uncle, once you encounter this difficulty, you are also dead and alive, and I don't want to live,...... I just linger on the old mother in the church, and no one takes care of me..." As soon as the words fell, the strong men rushed up and killed this Qi wang in the hall. Shi Chinese New Year's Eve was five years old, and he gave birth to six sons, except for the eldest son Yuwen Gui, who had died of illness earlier, and the other five sons were also ambushed. In the feudal era, it was not surprising that the grass was cut and rooted, and this fate was not surprising. According to the reasoning, if Yuwen Yun is the young lord who is on the throne, the lord is less suspicious, and the respected ministers set out for the sake of the country's grand plan, it is not a bad thing to kill an emperor like Yu Wenxian, who is highly respected, this kind of practice can maintain the legitimate continuation of the feudal imperial system, and perhaps Yu Wenxian will drive his nephew from the throne like Emperor Xiaozhao of Northern Qi. However, Yuwen Yun, who was twenty years old at the time, was in full bloom, and Qian Gang was in charge, and immediately wrongfully killed this benevolent and warlike uncle for the crime of no name, and was immediately disappointed by the expectations of the world.
When Yuwen Yun was crown prince, he was surrounded by Shuo Confucian guidance, read a lot, and studied Han chinese classics. It is reasonable to say that this young emperor is not low in talent, but he only knows the meaning of the text, and only the superficial things. Soon after he came to power, he assembled a group of courtiers, stipulating that everyone should wear Han Wei clothes and crowns according to the ancient system, Eguan Cloud Belt, Bo Collar and Big Sleeves, fluttering and immortal, good looks are good-looking, but the practicality is certainly not as practical as the narrow and tight beard clothes of his father Emperor Zhouwu when he was alive. During the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao rode and shot, taking advantage of many opportunities in the chaotic world, Yuwen Yun did the opposite, using the Han and Wei Dynastic Instruments, flashy and unrealistic. Of course, after his death, the old man Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, and the process of changing from "Hu" to "Han" was completed for most of the time.
When he first succeeded to the throne, Yuwen Yun also believed that the punishment in Emperor Wu of Zhou's "Punishment Book System" was too harsh, so he ordered it to be abolished. In order to buy people's hearts and minds, and amnesty for prisoners, for a time the thieves ran out of the prison, and the township thought that they were in trouble. Seeing that the state's sentence was too light, the surrounding people also "tested the law by example", and the society was in chaos. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, the masses were divided, and the so-called "chaotic world use of heavy codes", the criminal law of Emperor Wu of Zhou should be necessary. Yuwen Yun young man did not understand things, ruled the country according to books, did not know how to be flexible, did not understand current affairs, and for a time he could not get off the stage. In addition, he himself was "extravagant and more negligent", and in order to intimidate his subordinates, he promulgated a new law, the "Sacred System of Punishment", and staged a trick of sacrificing heaven and earth to carry out the new law, and the punishment was heavier than that of Emperor Zhouwu, and the people of his subjects were immediately beheaded and destroyed.
A few months later, Yuwen Yun suddenly remembered the old incident of him being beaten by his father's staff, and he asked his favorite minister Zheng Yi in a small talk: "Who should blame the staff marks on my feet?" Zheng Yi immediately replied, "They all blame Wang Lu and Yuwen Xiaobo!" Originally, these two important ministers were selfless, and when Emperor Wu of Zhou was alive, they all gave good advice and advice, hoping that the crown prince Yuwen Yun would be able to strengthen himself. At that time, Wang Lu once pretended to be drunk, touched the beard of Emperor Zhouwu and said, "Such a good father, but unfortunately there is no good son!" Emperor Wu of Zhou was also well aware that Yuwen Yun was good at wine and lustful, but the second son was even more immoral and incompetent, and the other sons were children, and in the end they did not adopt Wang Lu's words. At this point, Yuwen Yun remembered the "old evil", and with Zheng Yi's provocation, he killed Wang Lu in Xuzhou and died yuwen Xiao Boshi at home. Before Wang Lu was killed, he had been mentally prepared, knowing that a catastrophe was imminent, and said to his cronies: "Xuzhou is close to Chen Guo, if I want to save myself, it is as easy as a palm (meaning surrendering to Chen Guo), but the festival of loyalty and righteousness cannot be violated, and moreover, the former emperor (Emperor Wu of Zhou) is so kind to me that I cannot forget it." I will wait for death here, and I hope that I will know my loyalty in the future..."
After the death of the parents of the ancients, they had to live in mourning for at least three years, could not listen to music, could not laugh, and wore simple and unadorned clothes. Yuwen Yun completely ignored these funerals. He watched the song and dance performance in front of the palace every day, and his favorite minister Zheng Yi reorganized the song and dance team of Gao Wei, the late emperor of Northern Qi, who had been destroyed by the Zhou Kingdom, and recruited them to the front of the palace, known as "fish and dragon hundred plays", including dragon dances, dwarf funny, cross-talk, roller coaster attacks, giant elephant parades, tug-of-war performances, killing horses, skinning donkeys, and so on, day and night, busy day and night; and gathered countless beautiful women in the harem, and added countless strange concubine titles, and even the historians who wrote the notes of the Zhou Kingdom could not record so many names; indulging in wine, All month long in the palace, the ministers played by the eunuchs, and the chaos was made.
Less than a year after he ascended the throne, in order to live the addiction of being the "Emperor Taishang", Yuwen Yun, who was only twenty-one years old, passed the throne to his eight-year-old son Yuwen Yan, calling himself "Emperor Tianyuan", and the palace where he lived was called "Tiantai". He also wore a crown of twenty-four Yu, doubled the number of costumes than the ancient emperors, changed the old rituals at will, did not call himself "朕" when speaking to his subordinates, called himself "Heaven", arrogantly arrogant, and loaded his food with strange things such as bottles, yi, jue, and zhen recorded in the classics when eating. He himself also wears a high "tongtian crown", plus ornaments made of golden cicadas, and wears exaggerated large ribbons, which can be said to be the best among ancient emperors who like strange costumes. Before the minister saw him, he was required to fast for three days, to be clean for one day, and to be clean inside and out before he could go to the temple. Emperor Wu of Zhou once destroyed the statue of the Buddha on the grounds of unfavorable to the country and extravagant waste, Yuwen Yun rebelled against his father's deeds, and made a large Buddha statue, a statue of the Heavenly Emperor, he himself sat in the middle of the two statues, sat facing south, and sent people to perform acrobatics in the square in front of him, so that the people of Chang'an could look at it, and indeed had the style of "Heavenly King Superstar".
Zhou Tianyuan Yuwen Yun also loved to beat his subordinates, and beating people also had "customization", with one hundred and twenty rods as the degree, called "heavenly staff", and later doubled, increased to two hundred and four, even the favored queens, concubines, concubines and many beautiful women were not spared, and moody, who wanted to hit whomever they wanted.
Yuwen Yun also particularly liked the grand pomp and circumstance of the army, often he was fully armored and shiny, riding a high-headed horse around, the most grand one was his military parade in the grand (Royal Buddhist Temple), more than 100,000 horse infantry lined up on the edge of Xuanwu Lake, more than 500 large building ships and warships slowly sailed out of the Mouth of the Guabu River, the flag covered the sun, magnificent. Soon, he went to Tongzhou to patrol the luck, and there were three hundred and sixty non-commissioned officers who were ordered to be the vanguard, and between tens of miles, the flag was raised in a big way, the music was loud, and countless samurai were holding halberds on horseback, and its spectacular scenery could certainly not be achieved even with today's digital technology, and the general movie scene was certainly difficult to repeat the grandeur of the emperor of the past. If the "time machine" comes true in the future, people can have the honor of traveling back to the time of Emperor Yuwen Yun of the Zhou Dynasty, and they will certainly be amazed by such a grand and peculiar pomp and circumstance.
Yuwen Yun also had the quirk of pursuing names, and several of his empresses were named Tianyuan Grand Empress, Tianzhong Grand Empress, Tianyou Grand Empress, Tianzuo Grand Empress, and so on, and his official empress was only called an unadorned adjective in front of the empress. Soon after he ascended the throne, he also took a fancy to the beauty of his nephew Wei Chishi, the wife of Yuwen Wen of Xiyang, and drunk this niece and daughter-in-law during the imperial meeting, forcing her to commit adultery. When Yuwen Wen's father learned that the emperor's cousin had taken over his daughter-in-law, he was very worried in his heart, afraid that the emperor would kill his son and bring the whole family, so he rebelled fiercely. The name was not right, and he was soon defeated and killed, and even Yuwen Wen, who wore a big green hat, was dragged to be beheaded. After slaughtering his cousin and nephew's family, Yuwen Yun welcomed his cousin's daughter-in-law, Wei Chi, into the palace and officially accepted her as a noble concubine.
Although the little emperor was absurd, the national strength and combat effectiveness of the Zhou Dynasty were not weak. All the ministers joined forces to capture Shouyang, Huangcheng, Guangling and other places in the enemy state of Chen guo in the southern dynasty, and all the lands in the north of the river entered the Zhou. In order to celebrate the victory, Yuwen Yun gathered hundreds of officials in the magnificent Zhengwu Hall, and let the palace people and internal and external women participate in the ceremony en masse. In order to be funny and happy, he also got a bunch of Hu people to wander around the courtyard naked in the winter, pretending to ask for rice and flowers and begging for cold clothes, and the emperor himself and the ministers and palace people the guys and poured cold water randomly, and saw those Hu people being provoked by the cold water to jump around and scream, and everyone laughed in unison. After playing, he suddenly toured Luoyang again. Moreover, the emperor himself rode a stagecoach and traveled three hundred miles a day. (At that time, this speed was probably equivalent to driving 300 kilometers per hour today) Unfortunately, his four empresses were ordered to follow him in the car and drive side by side, and the wenwu guards were terrified, and if they were not satisfied, they would be reprimanded, and they would be subjected to the emperor's self-determined "Heavenly Staff" with 120 as a return. Along the way, the people and horses were servants, and the flags were scattered, much like the scene of the great defeat and the rush to escape.
It is estimated that it was excessive play, indulgence in alcohol and debauchery, coupled with cold and heat, Yuwen Yun soon fell seriously ill after returning to the palace, and returned to the west a few days later, dying at the age of twenty-two.
At a time of chaos in the palace, there was another period of panic among orphans and widows. Yuwen Yan, the eldest son of the emperor at the age of eight, was officially made emperor. Emperor Tianyuan's favorite minister Zheng Yijiao ordered Yang Jian to enter the imperial government. At this time, Empress Yang of Tianyuan was also happy that her father held the power, so as to prevent him from usurping the throne by the surname of a powerful courtier or an ambitious person in the imperial family. Unexpectedly, this Yang Jian did not hesitate to seize the throne of his grandson (Yuwen Yan's biological mother was surnamed Zhu, and Yang Jian's daughter was nominally mother and son), and within two years, he went all over the Yuwen imperial family, killing a total of twenty-five descendants of Emperor Wen of the Zhou Dynasty, six descendants of Emperor Jiemin and Emperor Ming, twelve descendants of Emperor Wu, and Yuwen Yan, the son of the absurd emperor Yuwen Yun, who was killed after he ascended the throne, at the age of nine. Yuwen Yun's other two young sons were still in their arms, and in order to cut the grass and remove the roots, they were also killed by Yang Jian. Coupled with the rest of Yuwen Zong's relatives, almost all of them were killed by Yang Jian, and thousands of Fengzi Longsun were slaughtered in more than a year.
Zhao Yi, a historian of the Qing Dynasty, lamented: "In ancient times, the world was easy to come by, and no one like Emperor Wen of Sui sat down and ascended the throne as a woman... Stealing the kingdom of men, and killing its descendants to the point of no end, this cruelty and cruelty, how can it be a little more popular! However, Emperor Wen of Sui boasted of being a "true brother" of his five sons (i.e., the five sons were born to Yang Jian and Empress Dowager Du), and the eldest son, Yang Yong, was deposed and died. The second son, Emperor Jue, was strangled to death by his subordinates. Wang Jun of the Second Qin Dynasty died early. The second Yue Wang Xiu, abolished, the difficulty of death. The second King of the Han Dynasty, Yang Yu, was accused of plotting rebellion. The ten sons of Yang Yong were all demoted to death by Emperor Jue in Lingnan. The sons of Yang Jun, Yang Yu, and Yang Xiu all died in the Jiangdu disaster. Emperor Jue's three sons were also killed in Jiangdu, and the descendants of the Yang clan were also left behind. The most coincidental thing is that the person who destroyed the Sui Dynasty and killed the Emperor was exactly surnamed Yuwen (although Yu Culture had the same surname as the Zhou Dynasty imperial family, but it was not the same sect), in the darkness, it was lamentable, and the Buddhist Retribution seemed to be a true word.
When reviewing this historical fact, the Qing Dynasty thinker Wang Fuzhi believed that although the political achievements of Emperor Yuwen Yong of the Zhou Dynasty were permeated in the annals of history, his exhaustive military and military efforts had alienated the people's hearts; coupled with the fact that Emperor Tianyuan had been poor and extravagant for more than two years, the two generations of kings had forgotten to rule the country with virtue, resulting in the bones of the two emperors, young and old, and the clan community had moved.