Four hundred years of agitation: Tuoba Si died tuoba tao succeeded to the throne, believing in Taoism rouran's lifelong enemy

This article is the 303rd in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

Although the Southern Expedition to Liu Song suffered heavy losses, after all, it seized a large area of land, which was completely acceptable for Northern Wei, and Tuoba Si was also very satisfied, and after the end of the war, he began to patrol the great rivers and mountains.

On June 21 of the first year of Jingping (423 CE), Tuoba Si toured north, arriving at Sanhepi and then at Sanhuiwu Houquan. On the seventh day of the first month of August, he arrived in Mayi again and inspected Haoyuan.

In September, Tuoba Si finished his inspection and returned to Pingcheng, recalling Xi Jin, leaving the army to guard the Tiger Prison, while at the same time hitting the leader E Qing and the general Zhou Jizhen shoufangtou, and the troops led by Sima Chuzhi set up the four counties of Runan, Nanyang, Nandun, and Xincai, expanding the jurisdiction of Yuzhou.

In November, the northern Wei and Liu Song border wars resumed, and Zhou Ji took the initiative to attack Xuchang, Xuchang City collapsed, and Liu Song Yingchuan was too defensive of Li Yuande to flee to Xiangcheng.

On the fifth day of November, the Northern Wei army besieged Ruyang, and Liu Song's Prince Gongdu of Ruyang Taishou also fled to Xiangcheng.

Liu Song's Yuzhou Assassin Liu Chu sent the general Yao Shutian and others to lead reinforcements and hold Xiangcheng. The Northern Wei army razed the city of Xuchang, destroyed the walls of Zhongcheng, determined the new borders of the Wei and Song dynasties, and then returned.

Of course, the reason why the Northern Wei withdrew was not because they did not want to continue south, but because of the great domestic mourning.

On the sixth day of the first month of November, Tuoba Si died suddenly, at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

Tuoba Si's reign was not long, and his merits were not particularly prominent, but no one could deny his importance to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and really played a role in inheriting the past and enlightening the future.

On the ninth day of November, the crown prince Tuoba Tao succeeded to the throne as emperor, so Northern Wei temporarily stopped using troops abroad. At that time, Liu Song was internally unstable and did not take the opportunity to launch a counter-offensive.

After ascending the throne, Tuoba Tao took the title of Prizeng from the situ Sun Song, with Lu Luyuan, the Duke of Xiangcheng, as the Zhongshu Supervisor, Liu Shu (劉絜) the Duke of Hui as the Shangshu Ling, the Si Wei Supervisor (司衛監) and Liu Kuren (劉庫仁), the Scattered Horse Attendant, and eight others in charge of the four departments, and the town of Hanoi made Luo Jie the Grand Official of Shizhong and Waidu, with the governor of Thirty-six Cao.

Luo Jie was a strange man, this year has been one hundred and seven years old, still energetic, Tuoba Tao believes that he is loyal and straight, very respectful and trusting him, ordered him to concurrently serve as Chang Qiuqing, responsible for managing the daily affairs of the harem, and can enter and exit the bedroom and bedroom.

It was not until Luo Jie was 110 years old that Tuoba Tao allowed him to return to his hometown, but whenever there was a major event in the imperial court, he still sent people on horseback to ask him for advice, and it was another ten years before he died.

As one of Tuoba Si's most trusted ministers, Zuo Guanglu's physician Cui Hao was well versed in Confucian classics and was particularly familiar with the imperial court system and the functions of institutions at all levels.

Therefore, all the imperial court ceremonial rules and military edicts were all responsible for Cui Hao.

Cui Hao disliked Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, and openly criticized: "These are all false and sentimental doctrines, which are not close to human feelings. Lao Nie studied etiquette, and kong Qiu was revered as a teacher, so why did he write works that corrupted etiquette and messed up the way of the ancient saint kings? He was particularly unbelieving in Buddhism, shouting, "Why worship this Hu god?" ”

After Tuoba Tao ascended the throne, the right and left loyal ministers often attacked Cui Hao, and Tuoba Tao had no choice but to order Cui Hao to keep the duke and return to his private residence.

Nevertheless, Tuoba Tao still greatly recognized Cui Hao's ability, and whenever there was a dispute or difficult problem in the imperial court, Tuoba Tao always had to summon him and listen to his opinions.

Cui Hao's skin is white and delicate, like a beautiful woman, often thinking that her talent can be compared with Zhang Liang, and surpassing Zhang Liang in terms of identifying ancient systems. After returning to the first place, he began to study the art of self-cultivation.

The Songshan Daoist monk Kou Qianzhi practiced Zhang Daoling's spells, claiming to have seen Lao Tzu descend into the world, and Lao Tzu ordered him to inherit Zhang Daoling's legal system as a heavenly master, and taught him the art of breaking the valley and light body, as well as the twenty volumes of the spell "Scientific Ring", and ordered him to clean up and rectify Taoism.

Later, Kou Qianzhi met the god Li Puwen, who was said to be the grandson of Lao Tzu, and gave him more than sixty volumes of the TuzhenJing, ordered him to assist the Northern Taiping Zhenjun, and taught him the method of the Heavenly Palace Jinglun.

Kou Qianzhi presented the book to Tuoba Tao, and many people in the government and the public did not believe it, but Cui Hao regarded Kou Qianzhi as a teacher, followed him to learn spells, and praised Kou Qianzhi's way: "The emperor accepts the mandate of heaven, and the heavens will have auspiciousness." The words of the River Chart and the Book of Luo are profound and wonderful, unparalleled since ancient times, so how can we ignore the will of Heaven because of the world's concerns? The minister was deeply frightened by this. ”

At the instigation of Cui Hao, Tuoba Tao gladly accepted, and ordered the gurudwara to carry jade and sacrifice to Songshan, and welcomed Kou Qianzhi's disciples to Pingcheng, expressing their reverence for the Heavenly Master, displaying the Dao Fa, and telling the world. In the southeast of Pingcheng, the Tianshi Dojo was established, the altar was five stories high, the imperial court provided 120 Taoist monks with clothes and food, and the dojo set up a kitchen every month to provide meals, and thousands of people attended the meeting.

It is also quite strange to say, Cui Hao sneered at Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, but he worshipped the Heavenly Master Dao as a god, and had the meaning of removing its essence and taking its dross. Under his influence, Tuoba Tao also began to get closer to the more native Taoism and alienated from foreign Buddhism.

In August of the first year of Yuan Jia (424 AD), the young tuoba Tuoba Tao, Rouran Khan Yujiu Lu Da Tan personally led a cavalry of 60,000 people to attack Yunzhong, massacred and plundered the people, and captured shengle palace.

Tuoba Tao was furious and personally rode lightly to the crusade, and it took only three days and two nights to reach the clouds.

Yu Jiulu Led the Rouran cavalry to encircle Tuoba Tao's light horses for more than fifty weights, and the iron horses pressed against Tuoba Tao's horse heads, arranged in turn, like an iron wall.

The Northern Wei generals were greatly frightened, but Tuoba Tao looked at ease, and the military's heart was stable.

Yu Jiulu Da Tan took his nephew Yu Jiu Lu Yu Jin as a general and prepared to launch a strong attack, the Northern Wei army immediately shot Yu Jiu Lu Yu Lu Jin with arrows, Yu Jiu Lu Da Tan was greatly panicked and led his army to escape.

Shang Shu ordered Liu Yu to say to Tuoba Tao: "Yu Jiulu's great sandalwood battle has many generals and will definitely make a comeback." Please wait until the autumn harvest is harvested, and then we will send a large army to divide the troops into two roads, and march simultaneously from the east and west directions to fight them. Tuoba Tao agreed with his suggestion.

In December, Tuoba Tao sent the Anji general Sun Han (son of Changsun Fei) and the Anbei general Wei Yu to attack Rouran north, and Tuoba Tao personally led his troops and garrisoned them at Zaoshan.

When the Rouran people heard the news and fled north, several large armies of Northern Wei pursued them closely and returned with a great victory.

On October 21 of the second year of Yuan Jia (425 AD), Tuoba Tao once again launched a major crusade against Rouran, five roads of soldiers and horses, and marched at the same time: Changsun Han and others sent troops from the East Road to the Black Desert; Ting Wei Qing Changsun Daosheng and other troops sent troops between the White Desert and the Black Desert; Tuoba Tao personally led the army straight into the Middle Road; Dongping Gong'e Qing sent troops to Li Garden; Xi Jin and others sent troops from the West Road to Erhan Mountain.

After several armies arrived in the south of the desert, they abandoned their heavy weights and changed to light horses, and each person took only fifteen days of dry food to go deep into the desert. The tribes of Rouran were horrified, and all retreated, fleeing northward, and Northern Wei returned without success.

On the surface, Rouran was not an opponent of Northern Wei, but every time Northern Wei used troops on a large scale, the cost was huge, but it failed to inflict a devastating blow on Rouran, becoming a lifelong enemy of Northern Wei and Tuoba Tao.