There has been no shortage of powerful ministers since ancient times, and there were Yi Yin, Huo Guang and Wang Mang. Later, there were Liang Ji, Dong Zhuo, and Yuwen Hu. Some of them took advantage of the suspicion of the lord and the country to control the government, some of them supported countless armies to take over the situation of the dprk, and some of them stood out from the crowd by virtue of their family advantages. Each dynasty and each generation has the shadow of a powerful minister, and the powerful minister naturally acts according to his person to distinguish between good and bad. Although Yi Yin Huoguang was not tolerated by the royal family, on the whole, he still did a lot of things. Dong Zhuo and others, on the other hand, are a disaster to the country and the people, forever nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
When the power of the courtiers was great, it seriously threatened the imperial power, such as Zhang Juzheng, Yuwen Hu, Cao Cao, Sima Yi and Sima Zhao, etc., which were basically not much different from being emperors themselves. Moreover, in history, there were not a few powerful ministers who deposed the emperor, and even many powerful ministers who changed the dynasty of Zen Rang, such as Yang Jian, Xiao Daocheng, Huan Xuan and others.
And the powerful ministers in history, except for some of the big people who changed the dynasty, many people did not have a good ending, and they were jealous of the royal family before they died, and they were often liquidated by the royal family after death. And some of the courtiers may also suffer a counterattack from the royal family because they are too out of line.
In history, there are not a few powerful ministers who have been assassinated by the royal family into the palace, and next, we will talk about the famous courtiers who died in the history of the assassination of the court.
1. Yuwen Hu
Yuwen Hu( 宇文護), a prominent figure in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties, was the second generation of actual rulers of Western Wei and Northern Zhou after Yuwen Tai's death, and although he was greedy and brutal, he played an extremely important role in the stable development of the Northern Zhou imperial court, and during his reign, he completely reversed the multi-faceted inferior situation towards Northern Qi.
Yuwen Hu was the nephew of Yuwen Tai, a Western Wei chancellor, and because yuwen Tai's eldest son Yuwen Jue was only fourteen years old at the time of Yuwen Tai's death, yuwen Yu, although he was 22 years old, he seemed to be quite weak and weak enough to compete with Northern Qi and Southern Chen in the chaotic world. In the final analysis, it may be that Yuwen Tai's son is not as good as the son of his old rival Gao Huan, after all, Gao Cheng was an official at the age of fourteen and controlled the situation.
Therefore, Yuwen Tai entrusted the matter to Yuwen Hu, and Yuwen Hu was quite skillful, and after taking power, he forced the Western Wei Emperor Tuoba Kuochan to give up the throne, and soon killed him. Then he supported Yuwen Jue to ascend to the throne, kaiyuan to establish the country, and the Northern Zhou Empire was established from then on. However, Yuwen Jue was young and vigorous after all, did not know how to tolerate, and always wanted to personally control the situation after taking the throne, Yuwen Hu suddenly felt that his position was threatened, so he united several confidants and conspired to depose Yu Wenjue, first designing to kill Yuwen Jue's confidant Yi Fufeng, then eliminating Yuwen Jue's guards, and finally sending people to force him to abdicate, and soon after sending people to assassinate him.
Yuwen Hu then took the throne to the position of Yuwen Yu, who looked rather weak, and thought that he could easily control the situation. However, Yuwen Hu looked away this time, Yuwen Yu seemed to be weak, but in fact, he was quite rough, after taking the throne, he did not want to obey Yuwen Hu in everything, but had his own ruling skills, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty bureau entered a rigid situation, after three years of reign, he was poisoned by Yu Wen hu, fortunately, before his death, he issued a will and testament, and Li Yuwen Yong was made emperor, and Yu Wen Hu did not expect this move, so he had to obey the edict and did not dare to usurp the throne and stand on his own.
After Yuwen Yong took the throne, he first swallowed his anger and let Yuwen Hu be the master everywhere, and also insisted on swallowing the chronic poison escorted by Yuwen To paralyze Yuwen Hu. Later, Yuwen Hu's painstakingly planned eastern expedition to Luoyang and the annexation of Northern Qi were defeated by the joint efforts of Northern Qi's three masters Duan Shao, Hu Luguang, and Gao Changgong, and Yuwen Hu's prestige was greatly reduced.
Yuwen Yong and Yuwen Zhi took this opportunity to design a plan to kill Yuwen Hu. Pretending to persuade the empress dowager to drink less, Yuwen Yong personally took Yuwen Hu to see the empress, taking advantage of Yuwen Hu's lack of preparation, and hit Yu Wen Hu with a jade wat to succeed, Yu Wen Hu was suddenly knocked to the ground, Yuwen Zhi saw that the eunuch arranged next to him did not dare to shoot for a while, so he stepped forward and killed Yu Wen Hu. Then, with the power of thunder, he arrested Yuwen Hu's henchmen, a generation of powerful ministers, and Yuwen Hu of the Three Wastes and Three Li Emperors came to an end.
2. Fish Chao'en
Yu Chao'en, the first eunuch of the Middle Tang Dynasty, a native of Luxian County, Sichuan, entered the palace in the late Tang Dynasty. During the Anshi Rebellion, he escorted Emperor Xuanzong to flee, and then gave up his life to follow Tang Suzong Li Heng to the northwest to suppress the rebellion, and won the favor of Tang Suzong, who was responsible for supervising the hundreds of thousands of troops of the nine jiedu envoys.
In the Battle of Counterinsurgency, due to the misjudgment of the situation, which led to the siege of Luoyang, the Tang army was defeated at Mount Yao, and then returned to Guanzhong to continue to command the army. After the death of Emperor Suzong of Tang, Emperor Li Yu of tang dynasty was assisted by Li Fuguo and others to ascend the throne, but Emperor Zong of Tang had quite political skills and opened the way for Emperor Daizong to eliminate the three major powers. First of all, taking advantage of Li Fuguo's lack of preparation, he sent someone to assassinate Li Fuguo, who had a heavy army.
After that, Tubo attacked, bypassed Guo Ziyi's Weibei defense line, and directly attacked Chang'an from the southern front. Emperor Tang had no choice but to flee, and Yu Chao'en took the opportunity to meet Emperor Daizong, and was able to accommodate the tianxia Guanjun and command the Jingshi Shence Army, and later promoted to the throne of Zheng Guogong, becoming the most powerful vassal under Emperor Daizong.
Since then, Yu Chao'en has been extremely powerful, interfering in political affairs, intimidating hundreds of officials, setting up private prisons, and maiming Zhongliang, completely ignoring the Tang Dynasty Emperor. However, Yu Chao'en was still too easy to forget things, he forgot the fate of Li Fuguo, so his misdeeds soon caused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, Emperor Tang dynasty and the chancellor Yuan Zai (who later obtained power were also dealt with) made a plan to bribe Yu Zhao'en's close associates Zhou Hao and Emperor Fuwen with heavy gold, and obtained first-hand information. After a palace banquet, Yu Chao'en was specially left behind, pretending to discuss important matters, and then Yu Chao'en defected to his confidant Zhou Hao and captured it and hanged him in the Inner Servant Province.
3. Erzhu Rong
Erzhu Rong, ranked among the great traitors of history, a key figure in the historical trend around the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, a great figure with strong military ability, at the same time, also opened the road to the demise of the Northern Wei, after Erzhu Rong, the Northern Wei imperial family lost control of the imperial court, Erzhu Zhao, Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai rose one after another, and eventually the Northern Wei split into the Eastern and Western Wei.
In the last year of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because of the relocation of the capital to Luoyang, the role of the military and civilians in the six towns in the north was marginalized, and later because of the heavy loss of vested interests, a mutiny was launched, which triggered the famous six towns uprising. Erzhu Rong, who was born of a noble family, immediately recruited troops everywhere, and finally organized a strong Qihu army, in the name of loyalty to the Northern Wei court, conquest rebellion, recruited talents, and subdued a large number of rebel troops, and also had Gao Huan, He Bayue, Hou Jing, Yuwen Tai and other strong talents.
Later, Northern Wei Empress Hu rebelled and plotted to poison Emperor Xiaoming, Erzhu Rong had previously received a secret order from Emperor Xiaoming, and after learning of this situation, he sent troops to Luoyang in a fit of rage, attacked the capital in one fell swoop, killed Empress Hu and the young emperor he had established, and then the Heyin Rebellion killed a large number of Northern Wei vassals, and since then, Erzhu Rong and the Northern Wei court have irreconcilable contradictions and grudges.
Subsequently, Erzhu Rong broke Ge Rong, the northern Border Pass, the southern Liang, and the uprising in the Guanlong area, helping the Northern Wei court to unify the north. However, the Northern Wei imperial family and the imperial court did not tolerate Zhu Rong, and the contradiction with Emperor Xiaozhuang became increasingly acute. Erzhu Rong, who later remotely controlled the imperial court in Jinyang, did not heed the dissuasion and insisted on entering The capital. Emperor Xiaozhuang had already set up a plan, and when he first saw it, he said bluntly, saying that he heard many people outside saying that you were going to kill me.
Erzhu Rong couldn't hang on to his face after listening, and then he cut down the retinue that entered the palace. Then Emperor Xiaozhuang designed, on the grounds that Empress Erzhu was born a prince, invited Erzhu Rong to celebrate, secretly ambushed the killer, and although Erzhu Rong was aware of it, he was powerless and was personally killed in the palace by Emperor Xiaozhuang.
4. He Jin
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he Jin, because of his sister Empress He, held a high position as a foreign relative, and during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he was the chief town of Beijing and made great contributions. Later, Emperor Ling of Han died, and He Jin crushed the plot of The Zhongchang Servant Shuo shuo to support the crown prince Liu Xie, and welcomed the Han Shao Emperor Liu Xie to the throne. As an uncle, he controlled the situation, and at that time, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and others were all seeking positions under He Jin, and there were also wise and scheming people Feng Ji, He Yuan, Xun You, and so on.
He Jinjiu knew that the eunuchs were commonly ill and evil to the world, and after taking power, he deeply felt that the eunuchs were hindering his actions, so he made a plan with Yuan Shao and others, planning to eliminate the eunuch group that had caused chaos in the Eastern Han Court in one fell swoop. However, when He Jin's plan was informed to Empress He, he did not get Empress He's permission.
He Jin did not dare to disobey the empress dowager, but he was unwilling to give up the plan to kill the eunuchs, and without the help of Empress He, He Jin really did not have much military strength in his hands to ensure the success of the plan, so he thought of bringing foreign aid into Beijing, which created a reputation for Dong Zhuo to enter Beijing in the future.
The eunuch, under He Jin's actions, did not have the slightest awareness that it was impossible, and after that, the ten permanent attendants headed by Zhang Rang plotted to kill He Jin, under the pretext of the empress dowager's edict, requiring He Jin to enter the palace alone, and then killed He Jin in the palace, and He Jin died, and the world began to be in chaos.
5. Dong Zhuo
After He Jin was killed by the eunuchs, Yuan Shao and others led an army into the palace and massacred the eunuchs, and there was a power vacuum in the central part of the Eastern Han Court, with the Western Liang army in hand, and Dong Zhuo, who supervised the prefecture, knew that this was a soaring opportunity, so he still entered the capital according to the previous edict of He Jin.
Dong Zhuo easily controlled the Eastern Han court, and after that, deposed the Young Emperor of Han and established the Han Emperor. He killed Liu Di and his mother Empress He, honoring Empress Dong. At the same time, attacking He Miao, after capturing He Miao, took the army that He Jin had previously mastered in one fell swoop, and then recruited troops and horses, gradually becoming the most powerful force in the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a strong army outside and internal control of the government.
Dong Zhuo was far more skillful than He Jin, and after that, he installed cronies and cultivated his own power, and soon succeeded in blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes. However, Dong Zhuoqi's people, cruel and unkind, purged dissidents in the DPRK, and their methods were cruel and vicious, coupled with the extremely poor military discipline of the Qiang soldiers under his command, they often plundered and plundered, and wantonly destroyed tombs, which caused anger and resentment for a time.
Later, Sun Jian, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and others rebelled against Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo was forced to move the capital to Chang'an, and Wang Yun alienated Lü Bu and Dong Zhuo, and took Lü Bu as the internal response. Then a plan was made to destroy Dong Zhuo, and after some planning, when the emperor was seriously ill and celebrating the Manchu Dynasty, an ambush was set up at the palace, waiting for Dong Zhuo to enter, and Lü Bu led the jia soldiers to kill him and attack dong Zhuo's three tribes.
6, did not hide the false Pang
There is a more difficult story to tell, no Tibetan clan was originally the wife of Li Yuanhao's generals, but Li Yuanhao's dissension was mistakenly killed by mistake, so under the advice of the empress, he visited the ai general's house, got the Wuzang clan, and welcomed him into the palace, which caused the empress to be dissatisfied, and the no Tibetan clan was ordained, secretly having an affair with Li Yuanhao, giving birth to a son, under the support of Wuzang Pang, replacing the empress's son Ning Lingge, Li Yuanhao then captured Ning Lingge's wife and deposed his mother as empress, and then Ning Lingge's rebellion failed, and he was subsequently killed and seriously injured Li Yuanhao. Then the Wuzang clan became the strongest foreign force in the Western Xia court.
After Li Yuanhao's death, Pang completely disregarded the edict and directly made his nephew Li Yuzuo emperor, while he himself recognized himself as minister of state and presided over the imperial situation. At that time, his sister was the empress dowager, his nephew was the emperor, and his daughter was the empress. However, with the death of Empress Wuzang, the power of Wuzang and Pang was not limited, and he constantly plundered the country and set off foreign wars, which for a time caused anger and resentment.
In the face of the monopoly of Power of Not Hiding Pang, Li Yuzuo had already accumulated countless grievances, and later did not hide the daughter-in-law of Pang, Liang Shi, and had an adulterous affair with Yu Zuo, and did not hide and blackmail Pang and his son to discuss assassinating Emperor Li Shuzuo at Liang's residence. However, this matter was discovered by the Liang clan and informed of Li Shuzuo, who was horrified, and immediately made a plan, inviting Wuzang to enter the palace to discuss important matters, ambushing the samurai in the palace, killing him, and destroying the whole family, deposing the Tibetan empress, and setting up the Liang clan as the queen.
7. Sun Qiang
Sun Qi (chēn), great-grandson of Sun Jian's younger brother Sun Jing, emperor of Eastern Wu. He was the cousin of Sun Jun, who had killed Zhuge Ke to become a generation of powerful courtiers, an important figure in the middle of Eastern Wu, and one of the key figures that led to the transformation of Eastern Wu from prosperity to decline.
In 256, sun jun, who was only thirty-seven years old, fell ill and died on the way to send off the Northern Expedition army, because Sun Jun's reign intensified the contradictions between the imperial family and the clan, so on his deathbed, for the sake of family honor and disgrace, he entrusted the affairs of the family and the country to his cousin Sun Qiang, and after Sun Jun took power, he killed Sima Tengyin, the general Lü Zhao, and other important ministers, acting recklessly, and because of his greed for power, the contradictions with emperor Sun Liang intensified.
Under the impulse of Sun Qiang, he went so far as to arbitrarily abolish the establishment of Sun Liang and establish Sun Xiu, the king of Langya. Sun Qiang has since taken sole control of the power, and in order to brush up his sense of existence, he jumped up and down to do something wrong, destroyed folk beliefs, and planned to take full control of the Eastern Wu army. After Emperor Sun Xiu sat firmly on the throne, he immediately began to plan to kill Sun Qiang.
Sun Xiu, with the help of the chancellor Zhang Bu, with Ding Feng as the specific implementer, used the day of the wax festival to set up a banquet, invited Sun Qiao to the banquet, and then assassinated him during the banquet, and then Sun Xiu ordered that Zhuge Ke and Lü Be's reputation be restored and Sun Shu's entire family be killed.