Stirring for four hundred years: Xiao Baoxuan voluntarily surrendered and was finally killed, and Xiao Baohuan expanded and released himself even more

This article is the 469th in a long series of articles, "Four Hundred Years of Turmoil."<

When Xiao Baoxuan first arrived in Jiankang, he was stationed in Dongcheng, and the soldiers and people came to surrender. After Cui Huijing failed, the relevant departments collected the people from all over the government and the public who had defected to Xiao Baoxuan and Cui Huijing, listed them in the roster, and prepared to track them down one by one. This move greatly added points to Xiao Baojuan, and it can also be seen that he is not a stupid person.

After a few days of escape, knowing that there was no way to go, Xiao Baoxuan voluntarily surrendered himself. Xiao Baojuan summoned him into the back hall and surrounded him with cloth tents, ordered dozens of people around him to beat drums and trumpets, run around him, and then sent someone to say to him: "This is what you looked like when you besieged Yuan. Such humor made Xiao Baoxuan cry and laugh.

At the beginning, Cui Huijing wanted to befriend the virgin He Dian, and He Dian did not pay attention to him. During the siege of Jiankang, Cui Huijing forced He Dian to come, and He Dian had to go to his army, but he talked with Cui Hui Jing all day about righteousness, and did not involve military matters.

He Dian, a native of Lujiang County, grandson of He Shangzhi, son of He Shuo, and his elder brother He Qiu and younger brother He Yin were all famous hermits in the world, and they were known as the three highest of the He clan, and had a close relationship with Xiao Yan.

After Cui Huijing failed, Xiao Baojuan wanted to kill He Dian, and Xiao Chang said to Ru Fazhen: "If He Dian does not induce Cui Huijing to talk about xuan theory together, and let Cui Huijing concentrate on attacking the city, the safety of the imperial court is immeasurable." From this point of view, he should not only not be killed, but also react to giving him the title of official. "He Dian escaped the disaster."

In the second year of Yongyuan (500 AD), on the tenth day of the first month of May, Xiao Baoxuan was cursed. On May 13, Xiao Bao issued an edict pardoning those who had followed Cui Huijing in rebellion. However, Xiao Baojuan's favored dictatorship did not act according to the edict, and some innocent and rich people in the family were all framed as rebels, killed all of them, and confiscated their property, while in fact, they surrendered to Cui Huijing but the poor people in the family did not ask for the crime.

Someone said of The Way of The Zhongshu Sheren Wang Xuan: "The pardon of the imperial court has no credibility, and people have a lot of opinions. Wang Yuzhi replied, "Then pardon again." ”

In June, the Southern Qi court once again granted amnesty to the world. But after the amnesty order was issued, the spoiled gang continued to kill innocents.

From Chen Xianda to Pei Shuye to Cui Huijing, the Southern Qi military circles rebelled one after another. Since they all hated Xiao Baojuan so much, why didn't they do it together?

The answer is very simple, although their demands are the same, they are not convinced of each other, they are still competitors, and they want others to rebel first and take advantage of the opportunity to become bigger. So each pregnant with a ghost fetus can only be broken by each one.

This gave Xiao Baojuan a strong illusion that I was the true son of heaven and was invincible. Under such psychological cues, his self-confidence swelled beyond measure, and he let go of himself.

At that time, There were thirty-one attendants on the left and right who were favored by Xiao Baojuan, including ten eunuchs. Zhi Ge and the Xiao Riding General Xu Shiyi had always been trusted by him, and everything that killed was carried out by him.

When Chen Xianda was in charge, Xiao Baojuan added Xu Shiyi as an auxiliary general, and although he appointed Cui Huijing as the governor, the military power was actually in The hands of Xu Shiliang.

Xu Shiyi was aware of Xiao Baojuan's fainting frenzy, and secretly said to Ru Fazhen and Mei Worm: "Which dynasty's Heavenly Son has no dignitaries around him?" But this master of mine is too bad. ”

Ru Fazhen and the others were vying for power with Xu Shiyi, so they reported his words to Xiao Baojuan. Xiao Baojuan's trust in him was instantly gone, and he immediately sent palace guards to kill him.

From then on, Ru Fazhen and Mei Yu'er had exclusive powers, and together they served as foreign prisoners, verbally announcing Xiao Baojuan's edicts, while Wang Yuzhi was in charge of documents and closely colluded with Ru and Mei.

Xiao Baojuan called pan baoqing and Ru Fazhen, the father of the favored Concubine Pan Guifei, as Azhang, and called Mei Worm Er and Yu Lingyun as Brother A.

Once, Xiao Baojuan, Ru Fazhen and others went to Pan Baoqing's home to visit, and he actually went to fetch water himself, and also helped the cook cook, and became a son-in-law for a real time.

Pan Baoqing prided himself on the position of the ruler of the country, bullied others, committed adultery, and framed the rich on charges, and all the fields and houses and property were occupied. After being framed by him, he also had to harm his relatives and neighbors, and he was afraid of leaving a future trouble, and finally killed all the men in the family.

Treating his cronies, Xiao Baojuan was very approachable, and went to their homes several times to play and eat and drink. Once there was a red and white celebration in their home, he would go to celebrate or mourn.

The eunuch Wang Baosun was only thirteen or fourteen years old, nicknamed "The Servant", and was most favored by Xiao Baojuan. He participated in the government, and even Wang Yuzhi and Mei Yu'er's generation also respected him.

With Xiao Baojuan's favor, Wang Baosun could control the ministers, tamper with the Holy Will, and even ride into the palace on horseback, slandering Xiao Baojuan in person, and when the Minister of Public Secretaries saw him, the atmosphere did not dare to breathe.

In August, the Southern Qi harem suddenly caught fire. At that time, Xiao Baojuan was shopping outside, and the people in the palace could not go out, and the people outside did not dare to open the palace door to fight the fire without authorization, and when the palace door was opened, the bodies of the dead were burned everywhere, and more than thirty houses were burned.

Because of the many evil deeds, the people of the time called the spoiled people around Xiao Baojuan ghosts, and there was a ghost named Zhao Ghost who could read the "Xijing Fu", quoting Xiao Baojuan as saying: "Bai liang is a disaster, and Jianzhang is a camp." ”

The old ones do not go, the new ones do not come, this statement is in line with the meaning of Xiao Baojuan, he began to build a large number of civil engineering, building Fangle, Yushou and other halls, and painted musk on the walls, magnificent, extremely luxurious. The laborers who participated in the construction worked day and night, but they still could not reach the speed required by Xiao Baojuan.

As for the costumes and utensils of the harem, Xiao Baojuan did not hesitate to select rare items, so that the old items in the treasury could no longer meet their use, so he sent people to buy the people's gold and jade treasures at a high price, the price was several times higher than the normal price, and the wine tax of Jiankang was converted into silver money and handed over to the official treasury, which was still not enough.

Xiao Baojuan was extremely fond of Pan Guifei, and ordered someone to chisel the gold into a lotus flower and paste it on the ground, let Pan Guifei walk on it, and then said triumphantly: "This is a step-by-step lotus flower." ”

In order to satisfy his personal desires, Xiao Bao ordered the people who paid the taxes to pay tribute to the chicken heads, white crane feathers, and egret feathers, while the cronies took this opportunity to take a big fish, ask for ten times the amount they should pay, and then ran to the states and counties to force people to pay, and converted into money to collect immediately, and then filled their own pockets.

In this regard, the Taishou and the county orders did not dare to say a word, they were even more greedy, and once again apportioned and plundered, so repeatedly extorted and extorted, endlessly, causing the people to ruin their homes, and all of them cried and cried on the road.

If heaven wants to perish, it must first make it crazy, and for an emperor like Xiao Baojuan, everyone can be said to be cursed. Chen Xianda, Pei Shuye and Cui Huijing and others could only prove that Xiao Baojuan was unqualified, but they could not prove that they were the true son of heaven, and it was time for the receiver to surface.