There are actually many strange emperors in Chinese history, and the one I want to talk about today is Yuwen Yun, the Xuan Emperor of Northern Zhou.
Northern Zhou Xuan Emperor We know that this emperor is not a dimwitted emperor as soon as we look at this title, in fact, The Northern Zhou Xuan Emperor is indeed not a useless emperor, perhaps because of his short reign, his nonsense did not cause much harm to the country, on the contrary, he attached great importance to Sinicization, and it was during his reign that Northern Zhou achieved basic Sinicization. If he had not died too quickly, he might have completed the great cause of unifying the Chen Dynasty.
But that doesn't mean the emperor is perfect.
Yuwen Yun did many things, fully reflecting the absurdity, arrogance and cruelty of this emperor.
Yuwen Yun
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > at the beginning of his succession, Yuwen Yun was very unfilial</h1>
At the beginning of the Northern Zhou Xuan Emperor Yuwen Yun's succession to the throne, it was very absurd, and his father Yuwen Yong, the Emperor wu of Northern Zhou, had just died, and he ran over and scolded:
"Old thing, why did you die today?" You're dying too late!" ”
In fact, his father was not an "old thing" at all, and he was only 36 years old when he died.
subsequently:
At the beginning of his reign, he fulfilled his wishes. Da Xing was in the funeral, and once had no relatives, that is, he looked at the people of the former emperor's palace and forced him to commit adultery. - Book of Zhou
After scolding, he did not guard his father's funeral, but examined the palace daughters of the former emperor, and what he wanted to do did not need me to say more.
Something even more absurd was that after that, he saw his cousin Yuwen Wen's wife, Wei Chi, who was blazing and beautiful, and summoned him to the palace to occupy it. subsequently. Yuwen Wen's father Yuwen Liang stopped working, and his daughter-in-law was robbed, which was a great shame, so he rebelled, and Yuwen Yun killed Yuwen Wen for this reason.
Wei Chi was blazing
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > two houses side by side, five after the two appeared</h1> together
After doing all this, he felt that his position as emperor was not big enough, what to do? First of all, he wants to establish his power and be the most powerful emperor. Thus, two measures were taken.
1. Honor his own concubine Ashina as the empress dowager, and honor his birth mother Li Ezi as the empress dowager.
Li Ezi
Second, the whole world knows that an emperor can only have one empress, so he wants to do the most special one, that is, to establish five empresses. The five empresses were: Yang Lihua, the Grand Empress of Tianyuan, Zhu Manyue, the Grand Empress of Tianzuo, Chi Chifan, the Grand Empress of Tianzhong, Chen Yueyi, and the Grand Empress of Tianyou, Yuan Leshang.
Yang Lihua
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > abdicated as Emperor Taishang and called himself "Heaven"</h1>
Even if this was not enough, he felt that the title of emperor could not match him, so he proclaimed himself Emperor of Tianyuan, and Tianyuan and Yuan were both big meanings, great emperors, and it was really the only one in ancient and modern times.
But the emperor is still himself, how can he only change his title, but in fact he is still the emperor? What to do? He passed the throne to his son Yuwen Yan and later changed his name to Yuwen Yan. Be too emperor yourself. Emperor Taishang was of course bigger than the emperor.
Yuwen Yan
Then he is already too emperor, of course, he can't call himself "Yuan". He thought that his son was the Son of Heaven, so wasn't he "Heaven"? Thus, a very strange self-designation was born, that is, "heaven". Yuwen Yun spoke. It is never how "decay" is, nor how "I" is, but how "heaven" is.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > does not allow anyone else in ancient times to have anything in common with itself</h1>
The history books also record that Yuwen Yun compared himself to God and did not allow his car to be driven by any previous emperor, so his car was "twice the number of former kings". It is also not allowed for the royal family to have the same accessories as themselves, and the "golden cicada" accessories that have not been monopolized by the emperor, Yuwen Yun has also forcibly occupied it as his own, and Gao and Da are not allowed to have other people's names, so people with the surname Gao must change their surname to Jiang, people's ancestors, Gao Zu changed to Changzu, great-grandfather changed to sub-Changzu. The official position is also, the general is changed to the general, the big man is changed to the big Tsukasa, the big situ is changed to the long situ, and the official position has the word "heaven" to change his name, because there can only be one "heaven" under this day. Women all over the world are not allowed to apply powder, that is, makeup, only the concubines of the emperor in the palace are allowed.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "heaven" hit by the staff is called the heavenly staff</h1>
Since Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou was already a "heaven", he naturally had to treat himself as if he were an old heaven, so he needed to establish his power, what to do? He wanted to test the chancellor, so every day he took his bodyguards out early and returned home early and late, dressed up and fooled around, and even simply ran naked and played life everywhere. Let the men of the capital put on women's costumes and come to the palace to dance.
After the game is impermanent, in and out is not (played), (festival) Feather Guard, morning out and night also. Or the Xingtianxing Palace, or the Yudo Huiyuan, the officials who accompany the attendants, are all deadly. The tricks of the scattered music and miscellaneous dramas are often in the present. So that the young people of the capital dressed as women, entered the temple to sing and dance, and watched with the harem, thinking that they were happy.
It is reasonable to say that such an emperor should be very generous, but Yuwen Yun is very stingy, not only the meritorious ministers do not reward him, his close subjects do not reward, and he is also afraid that others will scold him for being stingy, so he sends spies to monitor, as long as someone says bad things about himself behind his back, or if there is anyone who wants to persuade himself, he will be rewarded with one hundred and twenty rods, called "Heavenly Staff". Even the harem concubines were often rewarded with a "heavenly staff" by him. A "heavenly staff" is not a stick, but a hundred and twenty sticks.
In 581, when Yuwen Yun died of a violent illness at the age of 22, he used his early death to interpret the words he said when his father died that year- that people who died more than 22 years old did die later than themselves.