Chen Shubao was a native of Zhejiang and the last emperor of the Southern Dynasty. In fact, his throne was not easy to come by, and his main competitor was his younger brother Chen Shuling. While guarding the spirit of his father Emperor Xuan, Chen Shubao was stabbed in the neck by Chen Shuling with a file knife, but fortunately escaped with the help of Empress Liu and her nursing mother Wu Shi, and later ordered the general Xiao Maha to kill his brother Chen Shuling's family.
After Chen Shubao ascended to the throne, he still wanted to make a difference at the beginning. To this end, he deliberately issued edicts seeking talents who could help him manage the country, and then issued edicts for the ministers to speak freely, even if it was really useful to the country, even if it was very ugly.
When an official named Mao Xi heard about it, he came to see Chen Shubao. Chen Shubao set up a banquet in the palace to entertain him, and the banquet was very luxurious. At that time, less than a year after Emperor Xuan's death, Mao Xi was very dissatisfied and was ready to start his own advice, but found that Chen Shubao was already drunk. So he pretended to have a heart disease, took a few steps and fell directly to the ground, and was carried out of the palace by the people around him.
When Chen Shubao woke up, he heard about this incident and said to the minister in charge of the officials, "I don't like Mao Xi very much. I had a good wine and a good feast to entertain him, but he pretended to be sick at my feast, which was a deliberate use of treacherous schemes to gain my favor, please do not reuse him. ”
After a few days, sure enough, there was rumor that Mao Xi was demoted from Jiankang and sent to Yongjia to make a small internal history. Since then, Chen Shubao's ears have never heard ugly words again.
In the ninth year of the Sui Kai Emperor, Yang Jian's general He Ruobi attacked Jiankang. Chen Shubao, with Zhang Lihua and other favored concubines and a dozen palace people, fled to the Back Hall Jingyang Hall, and was about to prepare to jump into the well. Yuan Xian, a sword-bearer in the palace, and Xiahou Gongyun, a member of the Hou Cabinet, thought that Chen Shubao and the others were going to commit suicide by jumping into the well, and resolutely opposed not allowing Chen Shubao and the others to go near the wellhead.
Xiahou Gongyun, a member of the Hou Cabinet, even used his body to block the wellhead, and Chen Shubao was furious, and after scolding a few words and seeing that neither of them answered, he had to say: "I did not jump into the well, but ran to the well to hide, and when the Sui army left this palace, I would wait until I came out again." ”
Yuan Xian and Xiahou Gongyun only then gave way to chen shubao and several favored concubines and others to drill into the well. Not long after entering, Sui Jun found the wellhead, looked down and found no one, so he deliberately said loudly: "The people in the well listen, I count three times, and if I don't come out, I will throw stones inside." ”
Chen Shubao was horrified and couldn't help but shout: "Someone, someone, I am Emperor Chen Shubao, don't throw stones." After the Sui army heard this, they went to find a few ropes and pulled them all up, not daring to dispose of them without authorization, and escorted them all the way to Yang Jian's hands.
Yang Jian was still quite good to Chen Shubao, and often invited him to banquets. And because he was afraid of his sadness, he never played Jiangnan music at the banquet he attended. However, Chen Shubao did not care, what he cared about was that when he was in the upper dynasty, he had no rank, and it was inconvenient to enter the dynasty, and he wanted to get an official position.
Yang Jian heard this and sighed, "Chen Shubao has no heart at all. Then he conveniently sealed a Sanpin official and gave it to Chen Shubao.
After Chen Shubao surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, he lived in the Sui Dynasty for sixteen years. In the fourth year of Renshou, he died of illness in Luoyang at the age of fifty-two.
When the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu traveled to Jiankang, he heard about Chen Shubao's deeds and left a poem "Po Qinhuai":
Smoke cage cold water moon cage sand, night berth QinHuai near the restaurant. The merchant girl did not know the hatred of the country, and sang the backyard flowers across the river.
Since then, Chen Shubao's "Yushu Backyard Flower" has been called the sound of the subjugation of the country to this day.
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