On March 31, 528, Emperor Xiaoming of northern Wei of China died. The tenth emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, reigned from 515 to 528. The second son of Emperor Xuanwu Yuan Ke, his mother was Empress Dowager Hu of Xuanwuling.
Yuan Xue (元励; 8 April 510 – 31 March 528), in the first year of Yanchang (512), became crown prince. In the fourth year of Yanchang (515), Emperor Xuanwu died, and Yuan Xuan took the throne as Emperor Xiaoming. After Yuan Xuan ascended the throne, his mother Hu Shi began to arbitrarily and chaotically govern, which directly led to the collapse of Northern Wei. In the first year of Wu Tai (528), Yuan Xue was very dissatisfied with the dictatorship of the Hu clan, so he sent a secret edict ordering Erzhu Rong to lead troops to help. Unexpectedly, the secret edict was discovered, and Hu Shi was furious after seeing it, so he poisoned and killed Yuan Xue, who was nineteen years old at the time, with the title of Emperor Xiaoming and the temple number Suzong, and was buried in Dingling.
Yuan Xue was the grandson of Emperor Xiaowen Yuanhong and the second son of Emperor Xuanwu Yuan Ke, the mother of Empress Xuanwu Ling of the Hu clan, Yongping 3rd year of March 14 (April 8, 510), Yuan Xue was born in the northeast of Xuanguang Hall, it is said that Yuan Xue was born in the court. On October 18, 512, the first year of Yanchang (512), Yuan Xue, who was only three years old, was made crown prince by his father Emperor Xuanwu.
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On the thirteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Yanchang (February 12, 515), Emperor Xuanwu died, and on the evening of the same day, the then six-year-old crown prince Yuan Xue assumed the throne as Emperor Xiaoming and changed his era name to Xiping. The emperor ordered Taibao and Gaoyang Wang Yuanyong to enter The Western Baitang and decide to handle government affairs. He also issued an edict appointing Yuancheng, the king of Rencheng, as Shang Shu Ling, and the hundred officials dispatched to obey the second king. Empress Gao was honored as empress dowager, and her biological mother Hu Chonghua was made an imperial concubine.
On February 25 of the first year of Wutai (March 31, 528), Yuan Xue died at the Xianyang Temple at the age of nineteen. On February 26, Empress Dowager Hu, Yuan's mother, in order to be able to control the imperial government of Northern Wei, falsely claimed to be emperor under the false title of Yuan's daughter Yuan Shi (元姑娘), and Yuan Shi was deposed on the same day that she ascended the throne. Empress Dowager Hu also issued an edict and installed Yuan Zhao, the great-grandson of Emperor Xiaowen and the son of Yuan Baohui the Prince of Lintao, as emperor. On March 27, He gave Yuan Xue the title of Emperor Xiaoming and emperor of the temple as Emperor Suzong. On March 28, he was buried in Dingling.
In April of the first year of Xiping (516), due to the famine of the people of Yingzhou, he issued an edict to open a warehouse to help the people. In December, Yuan Xue issued an edict that Luoyang, Heyin, and various ministries of Cao Za people over seventy years old, widows, widows, and poor people who could not support themselves, plus young people who were disabled due to illness and poverty, would be reported one by one after verification.
In the first month of the second year of Xiping (517), Yuan Xue sent an ambassador to inspect the four directions, ask the people about their sufferings, sympathize with widows and orphans, and depose you and ascend to the ming. He also issued an edict saying: "In selecting and appointing people, we must be able to obtain talents, and we must seek out people who live in the wilderness and jointly govern the country." State and county city defenses, each order to strengthen. Gather in the fast to punish those who participate in the demon. Prisons must be built, and the shackles must be small. Skilled craftsmen, no hidden skills. Silk satin with a long and short fit. Those who fake military merit must be eliminated in their entirety. Where the place of origin is false, the general envoy will picket and check them, listen to their surrender, and disobey and add to the crime. ”
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