Agitated for 400 years: Tuoba Jue fell ill and was killed by his rebellious son, and Tuoba Heir was expected to succeed to the throne

This article is the 265th in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, a kind of immortal medicine called cold food powder was popular among celebrities, and it is said that after taking it, people became extremely excited, which was actually a drug that was extremely harmful to the human body.

I don't know who was seduced by whom, Tuoba Jue actually became a loyal fan of Cold Food. Long-term use of cold food scatter, so that his temperament becomes irritable, irritable, moody.

In April of the fifth year of Yixi (409 AD), lightning suddenly hit the eastern wall of the Pingcheng Tian'an Hall. Tuoba Jue was very annoyed, and ordered his men to hit the east and west walls with the punching car during the siege, knocking down all the walls.

The deepening of the toxicity of cold food dispersion, coupled with the repeated occurrence of strange things, makes Tuoba Jue become more manic, or not eat for several days, or do not sleep all night, reminiscing about the successes and failures of a lifetime, gains and losses, constantly talking to himself, physically and mentally into a sick state.

Then, Tuoba Jue began to be suspicious of the ministers and his attendants, and whenever the civil and military officials came forward to play state affairs, he would remember the past mistakes or sins of the initiators and kill them.

The rest of the people, if their faces change slightly, or their breathing is uneven, or their steps are unstable, or their words are wrong, they will think that there is a ghost in their heart, a bad intention, and they will kill people with their own hands.

For this reason, civil and military officials were precarious, and no one seriously handled political affairs, resulting in thieves in the Northern Wei Dynasty and few pedestrians in the streets and alleys.

Over time, Tuoba Jue also knew about this situation and said to the people: "Yuan's is just deliberately indulging them, and after this disaster year, He will personally clean up and rectify them." ”

The ministers were afraid of being innocently punished, and most of them did not dare to get close to Tuoba Jue, only the writer Lang Cui Hao (Cui Hong's son) was respectful and diligent, consistent, and sometimes did not go home all day.

Not long after, Tuoba Jue prepared to make Tuoba Si the Prince of Qi crown prince. According to the tradition of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Da Fan established the crown prince by killing his mother beforehand.

Tuoba Jue first asked Tuoba Si's mother, Liu Guiren, to commit suicide, and then summoned him: "Emperor Wu of Han killed Lady Hook Yi to prevent his mother from interfering in politics and foreign relatives from rebelling." You should inherit the great cause of the country, so imitate the ancients, this is for the sake of the country's long-term solution! ”

Tuoba Si was born filial piety, sad and weeping, unable to help himself, Tuoba Jue was greatly annoyed. Tuoba Si returned to his residence, still crying and weeping all day and all night, and Tuoba Jue heard about it and summoned him into the palace.

The attendants on the left and right said to Tuoba Si, "The Lord is angry, if you enter the palace now, it is difficult to predict the auspiciousness, it is better to avoid it for the time being, and wait for the Lord's anger to calm down before entering the palace." ”

Therefore, Tuoba Si fled outside and hid, only two henchmen Che Lutou and Wang Luo'er followed. Tuoba Si escaped the disaster, but also buried hidden dangers.

At first, Tuoba Jue went to the Helan tribe, saw the sister of his mother Empress He, and was impressed by her beauty, so he asked Empress He to take her little aunt as a concubine.

Empress He objected, "No. Something too beautiful, there must be something bad about it. Moreover, she is already married, and she cannot be robbed. ”

Tuoba Jue, who was obsessed with sex, did not heed the dissuasion and secretly sent someone to kill his little uncle, marry the little aunt into the palace, and give birth to Tuoba Shao, the king of Qinghe.

Unlike Tuoba Si, Tuoba Shao grew up fierce and rogue, like to wander the streets and alleys, often robbing pedestrians, stripping others of their clothes to make fun of them.

Tuoba Jue was very angry, and once hung him upside down in a well to punish him, and only pulled him up when he was dying. As an elder brother, Tuoba Si also reprimanded him many times, and Tuoba Shao was dissatisfied.

On October 13, Lady He annoyed Tuoba Jue with a small matter, and Tuoba Jue imprisoned her in a fit of rage, and threatened to kill her, but because it was dark, she did not carry it out.

Lady He was resentful and secretly sent someone to tell Tuoba Shao: "Son, how do you save the old woman?" The left and right attendants knew that Tuoba Shao was fierce and cruel, and he could do anything, and everyone was terrified.

Sure enough, tuoba Shao, who was only fifteen years old, was born with a fierce side, and that night, he conspired with the samurai under the tent and several eunuchs to jump the wall into the palace and come to the Tian'an Hall.

The palace guards noticed the anomaly and shouted, "There are thieves! Tuoba Jue woke up and sat up, but the bow and arrow waist knife were not around. Subsequently, Tuoba Shao rushed in and slashed Tuoba Shao to death with a knife.

This scene is similar to the Tuoba Yilu and Tuoba Shiyi Qian of that year, the more wise and divine the male lord, the more he will die at the hands of his son, which can be called the fate of the Tuoba clan.

The next day, the palace gate was not opened until noon, and Tuoba Shao lied that the edict would gather the civil and military officials in front of the end gate and stand facing north.

Tuoba Shao said to the hundred officials from the crack in the door, "I have an uncle and an older brother, who are you going to listen to?" The group of ministers was stunned, and for a moment they were all stunned, and no one dared to answer.

After a long time, Sun Song, the Duke of Nanping, said in a loud voice, "Support the Great King." Only then did everyone know that Tuoba Jue was dead, but they didn't know the cause of death, so no one dared to speak out.

Therefore, from the imperial court to the people, there was a lot of discussion, and everyone had their own plans.

Hou He of Feiru went to the north of Anyang City to light a beacon, and the people of the Helan tribe rushed to the scene, and the other tribes also gathered their troops together in preparation.

Tuoba Shao heard that people's hearts were uncertain, so he took out a large amount of satin cloth and rewarded them to officials below the prince, hoping to buy people's hearts, but Cui Hong did not accept it.

At this time, Tuoba Si heard that the capital had changed, and hurried back from other places, hiding in the mountains during the day and staying at Wang Luo'er's house at night, and Wang Luo'er's neighbor Li Dao secretly supplied him with food.

Gradually, some of the people learned of this and rushed to tell them happily. After Tuoba Shao heard about it, he arrested Li Dao and killed him, and then inquired about Tuoba Si's whereabouts, hoping to kill people and kill him.

After that, Wang Luo'er traveled to and from Pingcheng many times for Tuoba Si, got in touch with the important ministers of the dprk, and at night he also told the anyuan general An and the others, and when the civil and military officials heard the news of Tuoba Si, they rose up one after another to respond and rushed out of the city to greet him.

At this time, the hearts of the people had completely fallen to Tuoba Si, and after Tuoba Si came to the west of the city, the palace guards immediately grabbed Tuoba Shao and sent him to him.

Tuoba Si killed Tuoba Shao and his mother Lady He, and killed more than a dozen of his warriors and eunuchs who acted as internal responders. The first person to assassinate Tuoba Jue was chopped into meat sauce and eaten by the ministers.

On October 17, Tuoba Si took the throne, posthumously honored his mother Liu Guiren as Empress Xuanmu, and all the secretaries of state who had been deposed and returned home and did not participate in the affairs of the imperial court were all summoned back to be appointed.

In this year, Tuoba Si was already seventeen years old and had the ability to handle state affairs, but he was humble and generous, and let the eldest sun Song sit with eight people, including Northern Xinhou Antong, Marquis Xijin of Shanyang, Cui Hong of Baima, and Tuoba Qu of Yuancheng, and arbitrate state affairs together, which was then known as the Eight Dukes.

Subsequently, Tuoba Si also asked Yan Feng, an old minister of the Three Dynasties, to enter the palace together with Feng Yi, a high official who was sitting in the capital, to explain the scriptures to himself, and to participate in the discussion of political affairs in the palace.

Compared with Tuoba Jue, Tuoba Si is more like a shoucheng king, who can promote the meritocracy, move the people inward, rectify the displaced people, and care for the people. Under his leadership, the Northern Wei Dynasty was back on track.