Emperor Wu was a wise and resolute monarch. During his reign, he inherited the style of Emperor Qi Gao, advocated frugality, cared about the well-being of the people, opened more schools, and selected learned people to teach in order to cultivate virtue.
Taking the rich countries as the first, they do not like to travel to banquets and extravagant things, and continue to implement the policy of checking nationality.
In the third year of Yongming (485), the rebellion of Tang Yuzhi in Fuyang County was quelled, but the policy of checking the nationality was still fiercely opposed by the Shu people.
In the eighth year of Yongming (490), the "foreign nationality" was declared invalid, and the original state contained in the household registration during the Liu Song Shengming period was restored.
The external communication with the Northern Wei is good, and the border is relatively stable. The ruling environment of the Qingming Dynasty promoted the economic development and social stability of Jiangnan.
In the eleventh year of Yongming (493), he died at the age of fifty-four, and was buried in the Jing'an Mausoleum.
Yin Fu, the prime minister of Shixing, led 10,000 troops to Xunyang to defect to Liu Zixun, and it was suggested that Xiao Zhao intercept Yin Fu.
Considering that the number was too small and outnumbered, Xiao Zhao retreated to the Jieyang Mountains and recruited troops to grow to three thousand.
Liu Zixun sent his general Dai Kaizhi to serve as the minister of southern Kang, and also appointed more than 1,000 troops of The Army's Zongzong to assist. Xiao Zhao led his troops to Nankang Commandery (南康郡), where he repelled hundreds of men from Cheng Chao, the leader of Dai Kai's army, at Nankang Pass, and then attacked Zhang Zongzhi, defeating Zhang Zongzhi's troops and beheading them, so the soldiers besieged the city of Nankang County.
Liu Zixun's troops held Dai Kaizhi with thousands of men, and Xiao Zhao personally led his generals to attack the city, and finally fell, Dai Kaizhi fled, and Xiao Zhao killed Tao Chongzhi, the county commander of Ganxian County appointed by Liu Zixun.
Xiao Zhao occupied the county seat and sent an army to attack Yuzhang with three thousand men, Deng Huizhen. Liu Zixun sent 7,000 men, including Tan Xiuzhi, the military commander, to confront Zhang Yingqi in Xichang and build a fortification, and the two sides fought many battles and lost. Hearing that Xiao Zhao was ready to fight in person, Tan Xiuzhi and the others retreated.
After the rebellion was put down, the Liu Song court transferred Xiao Zhao into Beijing to serve as Shangshu Kubu Lang and Zhengbei Zhongbing to join the army, Feng Xiyang County, and concurrently served as the Southern Dongguan Taishou, the Yue Riding Lieutenant, the Zhengyuan Lang, liu Yunfu military commander Shi, and the Xiangyang Taishou.
He also sealed Ganxian County, and three hundred households. Xiao Zhao resolutely resigned and refused to accept it. So he was transferred to the general Of Ning Shuo and Guangxingxiang.
In the second year of Yuan Hui (474), Liu Xiufan, the king of Guiyang, rebelled, and Xiao Zhao sent troops to attack Xunyang, and by the time he arrived at Beijiao, the rebellion had been put down.
After the Deposed Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty promoted Xiao Zhao to the position of Anxi counselor of Liu Xie, the Prince of Jinxi,
Xiao Zhao did not accept it and returned to his own county. Later, he was transferred to Situ Right Changshi and Huang Menlang.
In the fourth year of Yuan Hui (476), the imperial court appointed Xiao Zhao as the Western Changshi of Liu Xie,the Prince of Jinxi, the History of Jiangxia Neishi,and the Governor of Xingyin Prefecture(Xingyin Prefecture).
In the fifth year of Yuan Hui (476), the Song Shun Emperor Liu Zhun took the throne, transferred Liu Xie the Prince of Jinxi to Fujun and Yangzhou Assassin History, and made Xiao Zhao a general of the Left Guard, assisting Liu Xie in his post.
In December of the same year, Shen Youzhi rebelled, and at that time, the appointment of the imperial court had not yet been issued, and Xiao Zhao saw that Shen Youzhi's march could be used to wait for the enemy in the middle of the road, so he led his troops to occupy The City of Penkou and prepared for battle.
Xiao Zhao's father, Xiao Daocheng, said happily after hearing this: "It is really worthy of my son!" Xiao Zhao asked to go west to seek the enemy, but was not approved, so he sent a partial army to support Yingcheng. At that time, the Pingxi general Huang Hui and others were all under Xiao Zhao's control. Jia Ren Xiao Zhao was the champion general and held the festival.
In the second year of Shengming (478), Shen Youzhi's rebellion was put down, and the imperial court transferred Xiao Zhao to be a regular attendant of the Scattered Horse, and the military governors of Jiangzhou, Yuzhou, Xincai, and Jinxi Counties, and the general zhengyu and the assassin of Jiangzhou remained intact. Fengwenxi County Hou, food Yi 2,000 households.
In the same year, he was transferred to the post of squire and leading general. And give a trumpet band. Fuchu set up Sashi. He also served as a stone warrior. Soon after, he added the military of Zhijie and Gyeonggi.
In the third year of Shengming (479), Xiao Zhao was transferred to the position of Scattered Horse ChangShi, Shangshu Servant, Great General of the Chinese Army, and Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division, and was enfeoffed as the Duke of Wenxi.
He still held the positions of governor, governor, and leader. Rationed to twenty people of The Sword. In March of the same year, Emperor Shun of Song crowned Xiao Dao, who was then the Prince of Qi, and Jia Jiuxi, made Xiao Zhao the Duke of Qi. Instead, he was given the title of Shizhong (侍中) and The Assassin of Southern Yu Prefecture (南豫州刺史), and was given to Xiao Zhao (赜赜) oil rollers, Yu Bao (羽葆), and Drum Blow (鼓鼓) and other items, and increased the number of Ban Jian Yi guards to forty.
The Stone Palace was used as the Qi Dynasty's womb, and it was allowed to set up subordinate officials below the left and right guards, and the official office, uniform system and The Eastern Palace were exactly the same. Later, he was crown prince of Qi.
In April of the first year of Jianyuan (479), Xiao Daocheng ascended the throne and established the Southern Dynasty Qi as Emperor Gao of Qi and Xiao Zhao as crown prince.
On the eighth day of March in the fourth year of Jianyuan (482), Emperor Gao of Qi died, and Xiao Zhao took the throne as Emperor Wu of Qi.
The edict ordered that the town, the governor of the prefecture and county, and the military camp should each mourn for three days and not leave their posts without authorization; the garrison troops stationed in the city should not return to the capital.
On March 11 of the same year, Emperor Xiao Zhao of Qiwu appointed Situ Chuyuan as the Lu Shang Shu Shi, Shu Zuo Shu On the first day of June, Emperor Wu of Qi made his eldest son Xiao Changmao crown prince.
Emperor Qiwu was very concerned about the well-being of the people, and after he took the throne, he issued an edict saying: "This year's harvest is not too good, the people are very poor and have no food, and the people on both sides of the Yangtze River near Jingshi are not happy." Be sure to send zhongshu people to the relief. In the second year of Yongming (484), he issued an edict to repatriate prisoners in the army as appropriate and grant amnesty to prisoners.
Widows and widows among the people and the poor must be given relief. He advocated and rewarded Nongsang, and in the event of a disaster, he also reduced taxes. Emperor Qiwu advocated frugality and did not like feasts and extravagance. He had ordered that weddings should not be extravagant, and even after his death, they sought simplicity. He pioneered agriculture in the rich countries and ordered more schools and the selection of learned people to teach in order to cultivate people's virtues.
He attaches great importance to the harm of natural disasters to civilians. At that time, there were harvest failures and floods, and the victims were immediately subsidized shortly after taking the throne. When a disaster year occurred in Yang and Southern Xuzhou, he reduced taxes and fees to reduce the burden of the victims, thinking that it was a permanent system.
In order to further ease the situation between the north and the south, Emperor Wu of Qi sent Fan Zhen as an emissary to northern Wei, and Fan Miao's knowledge and ability were praised by the northern Wei dynasty and opposition.
Since the Southern Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, many Shu landlords, in order to become clans to exempt them from the enlistment they have undertaken, often paid bribes to officials and added forged paternal titles to the yellow book of the clan household.
As early as the time of Emperor Qi Gao, he set up a school official and ordered shi to check the household registration. Emperor Qiwu continued his father's policy of returning those household registrations that were considered forged to the county for correction and calling them "foreign household registrations".
Those who should have served and paid for the endowment but used the fraudulent household registration to evade it must continue to bear the service, which is called "regular nationality".
However, in the process of checking the nationality, due to the corruption and cheating of the procurator, the result is that the previous registration has not been completed, and the trouble in the back has followed, and the population that should be registered has not been registered, and those who do not need to be registered have been deposed.
In the fourth year of Yongming (486), Tang Yuzhi of Fuyang rebelled against this, and although this rebellion was quickly quelled by Emperor Qiwu, the policy of checking the nationality was still fiercely opposed by the Shu people.
Finally, in the eighth year of Yongming (490), Emperor Wu of Qi was forced to compromise, declaring the "qizhi" invalid, allowing the people who had been assigned to shubian because of the "shu nationality" to return to their hometowns, restoring the original state of the household registration recorded in the Liu Song Shengming period.
Because Emperor Xiao Zhao of Qiwu was well connected with Northern Wei, the border was relatively stable and military movements were reduced. During the eleven years of the reign of Emperor Wu of Qi, political clarity and domestic social stability led to economic and cultural development, bringing a well-off and stable situation to the State of Qi.
On the 25th day of the first month of the eleventh year of Yongming (493), Crown Prince Xiao Changmao died, and his title was Prince Wenhui.
On April 14, Emperor Wu of Qiwu made Xiao Zhaoye, the eldest son of Xiao Changmao, the Prince of Nan commandery, the emperor's grandson.
In July of the same year, Emperor Qiwu fell ill. On July 30, Emperor Qiwu was critically ill, and issued an edict for emperor's grandson Xiao Zhaoye to inherit the throne, let the hundred officials do their best to assist, and the funeral ceremony was simple, and the burial place he chose was named Jing'an Mausoleum, and towers and monasteries were not allowed to be built.
On the same day, Xiao Zhao died at the age of fifty-four, and he was called Emperor Wu of the Temple. On September 18, he was buried in Jing'an Mausoleum.
After Emperor Wu of Qi succeeded to the throne, he was sometimes pardoned and acted decisively. In March of the first year of The Reign of Yongming (483), Emperor Wu of Qi issued a pardon for 50 days, and granted amnesty to the four prisoners, regardless of their crimes.
In August of the following year (484), the two counties of Zhaodu were buried according to the situation, and the dead without relatives were buried.
The troops led by the general Chen Tianfu were not strict in military discipline and plundered the people, and Xiao Zhao immediately ordered Chen Tianfu to behead him in the street market.
During the reign of Emperor Gao of Qi, he ordered Huangmen Lang Yu and others to re-edit their household registrations.
After Emperor Wu of Qi ascended the throne, he set up a separate school official and set up Ling Shi, limiting Ling Shi to find out several cases of adultery and falsification per person every day. This has not stopped for several years, and the people are worried and complaining about it.
Lü Wendu, a foreign supervisor and auditor, thus initiated Emperor Qiwu, who ordered that all those who had their household registration revoked should be sent to guard the frontier from afar, and most of the people fled in fear of their crimes.
However, because the nationality inspection policy was not well implemented, a rebellion by Tang Yuzhi, a commoner in Fuyang, broke out. Although the riots were quickly quelled, the struggle of the Shu landlords against the censorship did not stop.
In the eighth year of Yongming (490), Emperor Qiwu was forced to stop checking the nationality and declared the "nationality" invalid, and allowed the people who had been assigned to the border area to return to their hometown and restore the original state of the previous household registration.
As a result, many Shu landlords and merchants were granted the privileges of exemption from military service granted by the gentry.
In the winter of the third year of Yongming (485), Tang Yuzhi ,Tang Yuzhi, a commoner in Fuyang (Tang Yuzhi in the Zizhi Tongjian), took the opportunity to trick people into rebellion and captured Fuyang.
People in the Sanwu area whose household registrations have been revoked have defected to Fuyang, and the number of people has reached 30,000.
In the first month of the fourth year of Yongming (486), Tang Yuzhi attacked Qian tang, declared himself emperor in Qiantang, made a crown prince, and set up a hundred officials of civil and military affairs. Then, he sent his general Gao Daodu and others to attack Dongyang, kill Dongyang Taishou Xiao Chongzhi, and send the general Sun Hong to attack Shanyin.
Emperor Wu of Qiwu sent thousands of forbidden troops and hundreds of warhorses to attack Tang Yuzhi to the east. The forbidden army arrived in Qiantang, Tang Yuzhi's men were a group of rabble-rousers, very afraid of the cavalry, the two sides just fought, Tang Yuzhi's entire army collapsed, the forbidden army captured Tang Yuzhi, beheaded him, and then quelled the rebellion in the counties.
Afterwards, many of the people who participated in the riots were punished to repair Baixiacheng (then the seat of the Southern Lang Evil County, the former site was outside the jinchuan gate in present-day Nanjing), or sent to the Huai River area as a pawn for ten years.
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