Text/Old Minister
Murong Chong
01
This story of love-hate between two men begins in the winter of 370 AD.
That year was the sixth year of Former Qin Jianyuan and the tenth year of Former Yan Jianxi.
It was also in that year that Former Qin's emperor Jian Jian, assisted by the chancellor Wang Meng, personally led an army of 100,000 to capture the Former Yan capital of Yi in one fell swoop, capturing the young emperor Murong Wei (pronounced wěi).
Former Yan, who had been the two lords of the three dynasties for a total of 18 years, thus destroyed the country.
At this time, Wang Meng's speech was heavy, with a strong and fierce killing spirit.
Former Qin Chancellor Wang Meng
The Zizhi Tongjian (Zizhi Tongjian) Taihe Four-Year Article contains:
Wang Mengyan insisted: "Murong Chui's father and son, such as dragons and tigers, are not tame things, if they are used by the wind and clouds, they will not be copied, it is better to get rid of them as soon as possible." ”
Cutting the grass without removing the roots is tantamount to raising a tiger, and the Murong family must be destroyed.
To be fair, Jian Jian should be considered a good emperor. Not only is the appearance super handsome, but also quite talented, generous and gentle. After killing the tyrant Gongsheng and crowning the emperor as the Heavenly King, he worked hard to rule and created the only peaceful world in the Sixteen Kingdoms.
History called "Guan Long Qingyan, the people of Fengle".
After that, after capturing the Eastern Jin Dynasty and conquering the Western Regions, Jian Jian never committed the atrocities of slaughtering the city. This is rare in the turbulent autumn of Wuhuhua.
This time, it is no exception.
Jian Jian then decided to move the Former Yan imperial family and 150,000 Xianbei people to Chang'an, provide food and drink, and add officials to the knighthood, hoping that they would surrender and live and work in peace and contentment.
In such a way, the prime minister Wang was suddenly angry and vomited three liters of blood. And Lao Wang didn't know that at this time, the boss Jian Jian was using a pitiful gaze to stare at a fancy teenager with a fixed gaze.
Jian Jian
This teenager was Murong Chong. Death by the death of Jian Jian.
The depth of love is bound to be hated.
02
The Fourteenth Book of Jin reads: In the beginning, Jian Zhi extinguished Yan, And Chong sister was the Princess of Qinghe, fourteen years old, with special colors, Jian Nazhi, and the back garden of the favored crown. In the twelfth year of Chong, there is also the posture of Long Yang, strong and fortunate. The sisters and brothers are exclusively favored, and the palace people are not progressive.
Murong Chong, the son of Murong Jun, the Former Yan Emperor, was made the Prince of Zhongshan at the age of 9 and promoted to Sima Dai at the age of 10.
Sima Da, above the Three Dukes, is equivalent to the Bingbu Shangshu of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Proper real power.
What made Jian Jian's heart flutter was the appearance of Murong Chong, who was 12 years old at the time. Bright eyes and teeth, ice muscles and jade bones, just a glance, people can no longer move their eyes.
Therefore, Lao Chen speculated that what really prompted Jian Jian to shelve the butcher's knife and treat the Former Yan royal family kindly was this beautiful young man in front of him.
There is panic in the heart, but it is forced to be calm, and it makes people feel pity when they look at it.
Next, there is the well-known dog blood plot: Jian Jian accepts Murong Chong as a child of Lou (pronounced Luán).
In fact, lou, originally a positive word, means beautiful, delicate appearance. By the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Emperor Jianwen of Liang had made a poem "Lou. The poem "Tong" first let this word be soaked with a little wind and dust, a different charm.
The emerald quilt contains the color of the mandarin, and the carved bed is cut with ivory, Miao Nian is the same as Xiao Shi, and Shu looks better than Chao Xia. Sleeves cut with wall brocade, bed weaving fine flowers, The pants are light red, and the sideburns are tilted...
Since the Western Han Dynasty, male style has prevailed. For example, Emperor Gao's Liu Bang was to The Widow, Emperor Hui's Liu Ying was to Hong's Widow, and Emperor Wen's Liu Heng was to Deng Tong.
However, what really deeply hurt Murong Chong was another move made by Jian Jian——
The sister is the darling, the younger brother is the prostitute. child.
Is this pampering?
No, it's humiliation. For Murong Chong, who was born into an imperial family and had a noble bloodline, it was a great ridicule and bullying.
The seeds of hatred were quietly buried in Murong Chong's heart.
Once the bud breaks through the ground, the time comes, and it will turn the former Qin upside down and push it to the end of the road.
03
Soon, in the city of Chang'an, the capital city, children were singing: "One female and one male, both fly into the Purple Palace." ”
Yixiong, Murong Chong; and one female, naturally Murong Chong's eldest sister Princess Qinghe. The sister and brother were the same as the waiter, which once became the most explosive topic in Chang'an City, attracting countless melon-eating masses to watch and gossip.
Archaeological restoration of the Princess of Qinghe
Finally, the prime minister Wang Meng couldn't sit still.
Book of Jin and Record 14: Salty fear is chaos. Wang Fiercely advised, and Jian Nai rushed out.
Jian Jian spoiled his sister and brother, sang day and night, attracting people up and down the government, and everyone was worried that there would be trouble. Therefore, wang meng cut advice.
Cut advice, not ordinary advice, with anger, righteousness and sternness. If you don't listen, I'll be spattered with blood!"
Three years later, in 373, Jian Jian, who had to give in, finally released the 15-year-old Murong Chong and made him the Taishou of Pingyang.
In the blink of an eye, 10 years have passed.
In 383, the Heavenly King Jian jian personally led an army of 800,000 (including 500,000 waters) and insisted on sending troops to the southern expedition to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty not only had a large number of talents, but also cultivated an invincible special force: the Beifu Soldiers.
The two sides faced Shuishui (淝水; southeast of present-day Shou County, Anhui).
The Battle of Shuishui
As a result, the wind was loud, the grass and trees were all soldiers, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty almost destroyed the 800,000 southern conscription army of Zhijian with 80,000 troops.
This was the Battle of Shuishui, and Former Qin was seriously injured.
In March of the following year, Murong Hong, the king of Jibei, collected thousands of Xianbei people and took the opportunity to raise an army in Huayin. Murong Chong, who was in Pingyang, received the news that the Seven Brothers were pulling the pole, and immediately responded, leading 20,000 elite soldiers to attack Pusaka.
The seeds of hatred have finally grown into towering trees, and the time for revenge has come.
04
In 384, Murong Chong marched straight in and captured the city of Afang. As soon as I entered the city, I found a strange phenomenon.
The city is filled with thousands of bamboo trees and sycamores. The breeze blows, the foliage sways, and the lush greenery is pleasant.
Murong Chong was curious, so he asked passers-by, "Who planted this?" ”
"It was planted by the King of Heaven." Passers-by replied.
Murong Chong: "Then why did he plant so many sycamores and bamboo?" ”
Passerby: "Haven't you heard that song?" Phoenix Phoenix Stop AFang. ”
In folklore, the phoenix is the king of the birds, inhabiting only sycamore trees and eating only bamboo rice.
Bamboo blossoms, after flowering, fruit, known as bamboo rice, also known as bamboo fruit.
Hearing this, Murong Chong unconsciously tightened Qingxiu's brow.
And his nickname is "Phoenix".
Book of Jin, Book of Records 14: Chang'an also rumored: "Fenghuang Fenghuang stops Afang." "Insist that the Phoenix Emperor does not inhabit the sycamore, does not eat the bamboo, but plants hundreds of thousands of trees of bamboo in Afang City to wait." Chong xiao zi Feng Huang, to the end, is a strong thief, into the Afang City Yan.
Afang Palace diagram
In September, Murong Chong arrived at Chang'an City.
The autumn wind has risen, and the chill is getting stronger. Standing at the head of the city to watch for a moment, Jian Jian ordered his men to leave the city and delivered a brand-new brocade robe to Murong Chong's hand.
Murong Chong did not answer, and fell to the ground: "I regard the world as my responsibility, how can I look at this robe Xiao Hui?" If you tie your hands and come down, our Murong family will treat you no worse than you did in the past when you treated our family. ”
Seeing that the love face was rolled up, Jian Jian pointed at him and scolded: "Boy, don't know what to do." I really should listen to Wang Jingluo's words and kill your entire clan!" ”
Wang Jingluo, also known as Wang Meng, the prime minister. From then on, if anyone who destroys the country has compassion and does not issue a killing order, the counselor will take The "Rou ren" of Jian Jian as a negative teaching material to promote the way of torture.
However, after scolding and anger returning, Jian Jian did not kill Murong Chong in the end.
Zizhi Tongjian Vol. 16: Jia Yin, Qin Wang Jian and Western Yan lords rushed to fight at Qiu Banqu and broke it. Yi Di, fighting at the sparrow, and breaking it.
In the first month of 385, Murong Chong proclaimed himself emperor at Afang and changed his era name to Changshi. Then, Jian Jian and he first fought against Banqu, then qisang, winning both battles, and then pursuing and killing all the way to Afang City.
The morale of his generals was greatly boosted, and they repeatedly asked Jian Jian to break through the city and completely kill Murong Chong.
Unexpectedly, Jian Jian squeezed two words out of the corner of his mouth: "Collect the soldiers." ”
05
Jian Jian withdrew. Murong Chong, however, made a comeback and gathered heavy troops to besiege Chang'an City.
After several months of siege, the city of Chang'an began to run out of water and food, and even the tragedy of cannibalism occurred.
When there is a great famine in Chang'an, and people cannibalize each other, they will return and spit out meat to feed their wives.
Jian Jian gave everything he had and gave the general a few pieces of meat to eat. The generals stuffed it in their mouths but couldn't swallow it, and when they got home, they spit it out for their wives and children to eat.
Another time, Murong Chong was anxious to break through the city, and raided the south gate in the dark of night. Former Qin soldiers fought bravely and defeated Murong Chong. The war report is creepy:
Behead the thousand and eight hundred levels, and divide their corpses and eat them.
Finally, the curtain opened.
Chong led the crowd to the city, firmly penetrated the armor, and refused to supervise the battle. Flying arrows are all over the body, and the blood is flowing on the body.
Although Murong Chong had already claimed the title of emperor, he braved a rain of locusts and arrows and personally led the crowd to attack the city. Jian Jian also wore a cloak and oversaw the battle, and soon his body was scaly and wounded.
On the battlefield, this pair of wrongdoers killed each other. See the love of the past. Tong, now incarnated as a cold-blooded demon, Jian Jian's body is bleeding, and his heart is bleeding...
Whether it is feelings or wars, there will be a moment when the curtain will come to an end.
In the midst of the poisoning storm, everyone was scattered, the road was cut off, and there was no smoke for thousands of miles.
Murong Chong finally took the posture of a victor, no longer the beautiful boy who had been bullied, with a full of anger, with his head held high, he entered Chang'an, who had given him infinite humiliation, and slaughtered him.
In October 385, He jian was captured by the Qiang leader Yao Cang and hanged at the age of 48. And his dream of creating a multi-ethnic empire came suddenly. It was not until more than 200 years later that it was realized by Datang.
In 386, Murong Chong, who had been revenge for his great revenge, felt lifeless and had no fighting spirit, and was also beheaded by his subordinates at the age of 28.
06
Dust returns to dust, soil returns to earth, love and hate are like smoke clouds, and the wind passes without a trace.
On the Internet, I often saw manuscripts about Jian Jian and Murong Chong, mostly hunting gossip. And the responsibility for the slaughter of the city in Chang'an was blamed on Jian Jian's vileness, abuse, and lack of private morality.
Indeed, the pet sister and brother-in-law, with the same bed, are indeed damaged and dirty enough from the perspective of today's people.
However, in the chaotic times in which they lived, did their tribal groups already have such customs?
A careful reading of the historical data shows that although Murong Chong hated Murong Jian to the bone and took revenge tyrannically, Murong Jian had pity and admiration for Murong Chong more than hatred.
If not, Former Qin annihilated Former Yan, and the chancellor Wang violently forced the Chen Jie clan, how could Jian Jian let them go?
How could you plant a city full of plane trees in Afang, just to wait for one person? And that person was Murong Chong, the "phoenix.".
If not, if the autumn wind outside Chang'an City was blowing, how could Jian Jian send Murong Chong a golden robe to protect him from the cold in front of thousands of soldiers?
When the two armies fought, Jian Jian had at least two chances to take Murong Chong's life, so how could he let him go, but he caused himself to kill himself?
However, this is history and there will never be an if.
Including emotions, love or hate, and never start over.