Author: Zheng Jian
(Yuwen Yong)
All parents want their children to become excellent people, hoping that their children will become dragons and their daughters will become phoenixes, which is an eternal fact, and the emperor is no exception. Emperor Yuwen Yong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was also such a father.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (i) the stick education of a generation of British lords</h1>
Emperor Wu of Zhou was called a generation of British lords. At the age of seventeen, he became the Emperor of Northern Zhou, and after twelve years of stoicism under the control of his courtiers, he finally killed the chancellor Yuwen Hu in one fell swoop. After pro-government, he exerted great efforts to govern, made great strides, reformed internal affairs, enriched the country and strengthened the army, opened up territory and expanded territory, and finally unified the north.
Emperor Wu of Zhou was a good emperor, and he also wanted to be a good father and cultivate a good son. In order to cultivate a successor, he painstakingly and dismally managed, but his painstaking efforts did not cultivate a qualified successor, but he trained a gravedigger for the Northern Zhou.
Prince Yuwen Yun is well-behaved, not good at reading, likes to have fun, and after a little longer, he is addicted to alcohol and likes beauty. Emperor Wu of Zhou knew that this son was not a tool, but neither could the second elder Yuwen Zan, and the other sons were still too young. Emperor Wu of Zhou had no choice but to strengthen discipline for this son, hoping to change his mentality through strict discipline.
(Northern Zhou Emperor Yuwen Yun)
Emperor Wu of Zhou pursued the concept of "filial piety under the stick". Yuwen Yun was crowned crown prince at the age of fourteen, and Emperor Wu of Zhou asked the crown prince and his ministers to go to the court together, listen to the government and read the chapter together. No matter whether it was severe cold and heat, or wind, frost, rain and snow, the prince could not have a little rest and delay, and if there was a little difference, Emperor Wu of Zhou would severely reprimand and serve the prince with sticks.
Yuwen Yong had the crown prince participate in military and political management very early on. Once, Yuwen Yun traveled to the western region and captured two white deer in Qizhou to offer his father Yuwen Yong. In ancient times, people thought that the white deer was a sign of good fortune. Yuwen Yun felt that he could take the opportunity to please his father, but unexpectedly, his father reprimanded him: "The key to ruling the world lies in having virtue, not in whether there is auspiciousness." Emperor Wu of Zhou had no love as a father, no temptation, only reprimands from the emperor from above.
Later, Emperor Wu sent the crown prince to patrol the Western Territories, and by the way, he attacked Tuguhun and ordered the general Wang Lu and Gong Zheng Yuwen Xiaobo to accompany him. The crown prince only listened to the outcome of their handling, and the aggressive dispatch of the army entrusted the two of them. Gong Yin Zheng Yi was the prince's favorite letter, and the prince did a lot of depraved things in the army, of course, these things Zheng Yi participated in. After returning from the Western Expedition, Wang Lu reported to Yuwen Yong that Emperor Wu was furious, whipped the crown prince and Zheng Yi, and removed Zheng Yi from his post. The officials of the Eastern Palace who were trusted by the crown prince were all condemned by Emperor Wu.
The crown prince liked to drink, and Emperor Wu of Zhou thought that drinking disturbed people's hearts, so he strictly forbade the transport of wine to the Eastern Palace. Emperor Wu of Zhou also arranged for officials to monitor the crown prince and ordered the officials of the Eastern Palace to record the words and deeds of the prince and submit them according to the month. As long as he found the slightest problem with the prince, he would punish him severely, and with the addition of sticks and sticks, Yuwen Yun was often beaten and scarred. He also often trained Prince Jin and warned him: "How many people have been deposed by Prince Gulai?" Can't my other sons be made princes? ”
In Emperor Wu of Zhou's educational dictionary, there is no gentleness and generosity, no exhortation and inducement like a spring breeze and a drizzle, only harshness and harshness, only reprimands and scoldings like a wild wind and rain. Emperor Wu of Zhou hoped that through his own discipline, his son would become a hard-working person and a qualified successor, but this backfired.
Emperor Wu of Zhou's reprimands frightened corporal punishment, did not educate a good boy who was diligent and self-motivated, but forced out a master performer.
In order to avoid his father's punishment, Yuwen Yun sent his own cronies to spy on his father's whereabouts, and behaved in front of his father, not daring to cross the thunder pool. To the subordinate officials who recorded his words and deeds, he was both flattering and threatening. Outside his father's sight, he is in his original form, eating, drinking and having fun, and whatever his father forbids, he will not fall behind.
His father drove Zheng Yi out of the East Palace, and the prince recalled Zheng Yi and played as before. Zheng Yi was a traitorous villain, and he often said to the prince, "When will Your Highness be able to refuse to have the world?" The prince often thought like this, the master and servant, the same mind, the prince became closer and closer to Zheng Yi.
(Northern Zhou Xuan Emperor Yuwen Yun, Empress Yang Lihua)
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (ii) absurdity and absurdity after release</h1>
Under the strict discipline of Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yuwen Yun lived like a year. When his father died suddenly, Yuwen Yun was ecstatic, and the resentment and anger that had been suppressed for many years were suddenly released. When his father died, he did not feel a little sad, but instead touched his own scars, pointed to his father's coffin and scolded: "Old thing, you died too late." At that time, Emperor Wu of Zhou was only thirty-six years old, and he died young, but his son complained that he died too late. He had long since killed his father.
Before his father's bones were cold, Yuwen Yun included his father's harem people, regardless of age and ugly appearance, into his harem.
Emperor Wu of Zhou died, and the crown prince Yuwen Yun naturally became emperor, and he was Emperor Xuan of Zhou. With supreme power, Yuwen Yun took absurdity and absurdity to the extreme.
In ancient times, polygamy and concubinage were observed, and the emperor was no exception, and the general emperor only had one empress, but Yuwen Yun suddenly created five empresses. The first is Yang Jian's daughter Yang Lihua, Yang Lihua is his original wife, with complete moral appearance, outstanding temperament, and the absolute advantage of the mother's world! However, he was not satisfied with having only one empress, so he disregarded the traditional system of imperial succession and made Zhu Manyue, the daughter of the criminal minister, empress. Zhu Manyue was originally a maid with no status, and with her unique charm, she captured Yuwen Yun's heart, and she gave birth to a son Yuwen Yun for Yuwen Yun, and her mother relied on her son to dominate the harem! The third was Wei Chifan, the wife of Yuwen Wen of Xiyang. Yuwen Yun coveted Wei Chi Weaving's beauty, drunk him with a trick, forcibly occupied Wei Chi, and killed Wei Chi Weaving's husband for treason, and got Wei Chi Weaving, and Yuwen Yun also made her empress!
In order to satisfy his lustful desires, Emperor Xuan of Zhou also ordered a nationwide election of beautiful women to enrich the harem. All women of the country, including the daughters of officials above the same level, are not allowed to marry without being selected by the court. In this way, a large number of young girls were selected into the harem and became Yuwen Yun's playthings.
Among the beautiful women who were selected this time, there were two beauties who particularly satisfied Yuwen Yun, one was Chen Yueyi, the eighth daughter of the great general Chen Shanti, and the other was Yuan Leshang, the second daughter of Yi Tong Yuansheng, both of whom were very favored by Emperor Xuan and were also named empresses.
Emperor Xuan of Zhou liked to make an empress, "five queens standing side by side", breaking Liu Cong's record of "establishing three queens", which was really no one before and after the ancients.
Emperor Xuan of Zhou, who had no moral constraints, ascended the throne for the second year, and suddenly on a whim, the next edict was passed down to the crown prince Yuwen Yan, who was only 7 years old, and the power of state government was still controlled by the Taishang Emperor Yuwen Yun. He called himself Emperor Tianyuan, and he thought that this had reached the peak of his power, because the Emperor Taishang had more power than the emperor.
Yuwen Yun became the Emperor Taishang, and his behavior was even more grotesque. He compared himself to the Heavenly Emperor, with his residence called "Tiantai", and his subordinates called himself "Heaven", changing the "system" to "Heavenly System" and changing "敕" to "Heavenly Edict". When the minister went to the rooftop to see him, he had to fast for three days in advance and purify himself for one day, and it was strictly forbidden for people to use words such as "heaven, high, upper, and greater", and all those who had the same words as the above were corrected. Those with the surname Gao changed their surname to Jiang, and Gao Zu changed his name to Changzu. Except for the palace people, women in the world are not allowed to apply grease and powder.
What is even more absurd is that Yuwen Yun resented his father, and he would oppose whatever his father approved; if his father opposed it, he would approve of it. Soon after he ascended the throne, he abolished the laws of Emperor Wu of Zhou. Emperor Wu of Zhou's laws were relatively harsh, and it would have been a good thing to abolish them. However, the old law was abolished, the new law was not amended, and the criminals who had been detained were released, and there was misdeeds everywhere, and society was in chaos. When Emperor Xuan of Zhou saw that he was very faceless, he formulated a law that was even harsher than his father's law.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (iii) the tyranny of Emperor Xuan of Zhou</h1>
Emperor Xuandi of Zhou's absurdity was unparalleled in the world, and his tyranny was unmatched. The harsh education of his father, Emperor Wu of Zhou, not only did not change Yuwen Yun's obedient disposition, but evolved into the cruel atrocities of Emperor Xuan of Zhou.
Emperor Xuan of Zhou was grumpy and liked to be jealous of others. He wants others to be respectful to him. If there were ministers who came to the court, he would send his own cronies to investigate the speech and behavior of the ministers, record even the slightest mistakes, and then beat up the ministers who had entered the counselors as his father had beaten him, one hundred and twenty times each time, and specially named "Heavenly Staff", the purpose of which was not to let the ministers speak, and there was only one person who could speak, that is, himself, who was a veritable hall of words, so that he could feel addicted.
For the ministers, for those delicate harem beauties, Emperor Zhou Xuan also had no pity. In the cold winter of the Waxing Moon, Emperor Xuan led the empress and hundreds of Wenwu guards to rush from Chang'an to Luoyang on horseback. He rode his horse with great enthusiasm against the cold wind, and made the queen ride alongside him, and if he was a little ahead or behind, he would be cursed and whipped. Poor queens with fine skin and tender flesh, where they ate so bitterly, at this time they could only grit their teeth and follow closely. The Wenwu attendants also stumbled, and even the rolling belt crawled and ran after him desperately. A few days after arriving in Luoyang, he ordered him to rush back to Chang'an, and the empress and her attendants were all bitter and unbearable, but he was endlessly happy.
Once, the Great Empress of Tianyuan, Yang Lihua, offended him, and he immediately became angry and roared at Yang Lihua, even though Yang Lihua was not afraid, Yuwen Yun fainted and drank to make her cut herself.
When the news came out of the palace, Yang Lihua's mother, Du Gushi, rushed into the palace when she heard the news, prostrated her head like a garlic, and interceded for her daughter. Yuwen Yun ignored it, until Du Gushi's head was broken and the blood flowed, and he spoke arrogantly and forgave Yang Lihua.
Due to excessive indulgence, elephant in May of the second year, twenty-two-year-old Yuwen Yun, the young Emperor Taishang, suddenly fell ill, and died, ending his absurd and tyrannical life.
Emperor Wu of Zhou was a generation of Heroes, but his son was so absurd, which he could not have imagined. It must be said that his stick education was a failure. Sticks make people afraid and make people afraid, but they will not teach people lofty aspirations, teach people to be firm, and teach people to be persistent and diligent, but may let people learn to disguise, learn to resist, and move towards paranoia. How to do a good job in family education is really a problem that deserves the deep consideration of all parents.
【About the author】Zheng Jian, a middle school teacher.
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