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Someone asked: When the Chu and Han dynasties fought, a small soldier got a thigh from Xiang Yu and was given the title of Marquis of Chiquan by Liu Bang. Then there were 2 emperors and 12 prime ministers, is it true?
Taking history as a mirror, it is responsible to say that the descendants of this little soldier have a great influence, and his family has not only produced 2 emperors and 12 prime ministers. There are also many literati and inkers who are extremely famous in Chinese history, and even many major historical events in China have their family backs.
This family is the famous Hongnong Yang clan! This little soldier was Liu Bang's subordinate Yang Xi! Taking history as a mirror to give you a brief introduction to the history of the Hongnong Yang clan, everyone knows that this is true.
The ancestors of the Hongnong Yang clan could be admitted to Liu Bang's general Yang Xi. Yang Xi only served as a small Lieutenant under Liu Bang of Han Gaozu, and he did not have much merit in fighting in ordinary battles, if in the long run, he was just an ordinary high-ranking soldier.
However, when the Chu-Han rivalry reached the final stage, Xiang Yu was besieged, and Liu Bang ordered that those who killed Xiang Yu would be given thousands of gold and sealed the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households. Although Xiang Yu was invincible, he saw that defeat was imminent, and he refused to cross the river to fight again, shouting: I am also a crime of war! So he swung his sword and killed himself. Liu Bang's soldiers saw that the overlord had killed himself, so they scrambled to snatch the corpse, and finally Xiang Yu's body was snatched away by five people. Wang Yi took his head, Lü Matong, Lü Sheng, and Yang Kai each got a piece, and Yang Xi grabbed one of Xiang Yu's thighs.
Back in the Han camp, Liu Bang simply divided the prize money and the marquis equally among the five people because of his five people's pursuit and killing of Xiang Yu, so all five became marquises, and Yang Xi was named the Marquis of Chiquan, with 1900 households.
At the time of the Chu-Han war, the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms had been eliminated, and new nobles like Liu Bang and Yang Xi began to enter the stage of history. It was just that it took at least three generations to cultivate an aristocrat, and although Yang Xi was given the title of Marquis of Chiquan, after him, the Yang family did not have outstanding talents born. Until the time of Emperor Zhao of Han, the Yang family produced a talent.
During the han zhao emperor period, the Yang family produced a talent named Yang Chang. Yang Chang was not very skilled, but with great luck, he followed a person who was particularly bullish in Chinese history: Huo Guang.
At the beginning of Emperor Zhao, when Huo Guang was a general, Yang Chang was Huo Guang's military commander. When Huo Guang came to monopolize power, Yang Chang also became a high-ranking official such as Yu Shi Dafu, Grand Si Nong, and Xiang Xiang.
When Emperor Han Zhao died, Huo Guang first sought liu he the prince of Changyi to succeed him, and as a result, 27 days later, Huo Guang was ready to depose Liu He, and Huo Guang made a decision and found someone to inform Yang Chang. At first, Yang Chang did not agree, but Yang Chang married a good daughter-in-law, Sima Qian's daughter-in-law, and persuaded: Huo Guang is here to inform you, not to ask for your opinion! If you don't take a stand, I'm afraid you're going to be in trouble.
Yang Chang patted his thigh and suddenly realized. So I quickly agreed. So Yang Chang followed Huo Guang and sat firmly in the position of Chancellor. Since then, the Yang family has begun to rise and become a tycoon. Yang Chang is also revered as the ancestor of the Hongnong Yang clan.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Changxuan's grandson had another big figure, that is, Yang Zhen, the great Confucian at that time. Because of his learning, morality, and many disciples, people gave him the title of "Confucius of Kansai". In history, he can be called a very famous person with Confucius, and Yang Zhen has also established a wealth of spiritual wealth for future generations.
Yang Zhenguan to Tai Wei, once a friend of his paid him a bribe in the middle of the night, Yang Zhen did not accept. This friend said: Now in the middle of the night, no one knows, you will receive it.
As a result, Yang Zhenyi said in words: Heaven knows the earth, you know I know, why does no one know?
So this friend could only retreat in embarrassment.
This is the famous "Four Knowledges" allusion, and the Hongnong Yang clan also established the Four Knowledge Halls as an heirloom motto. Moreover, the good name of "four knowledge" has been passed down for thousands of years, and so far in the speeches of the Discipline Inspection Commission, it can be seen many times that the speeches asking to study the "four knowledges" can be seen, which shows the great influence of them.
Yang Zhen's sons Yang Bing, grandson Yang Ci, and great-grandson Yang Biao all inherited Yang Zhen's fine legacy, behaved very reliably, were appreciated by the imperial court, and all officials were up to the rank of lieutenant, so they became the famous "Four Dynasties and Three Dukes" house in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was comparable to the famous Runan's Yuan clan in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
In Yang Biao's generation, Yang Biao married Yuan Shu's sister as a daughter-in-law, and in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and Yang Biao's son was the famous Yang Xiu who defected to Cao Cao, but unfortunately Yang Xiu was crazy and was eventually killed by Cao Cao. In addition to Yang Xiu's political side with Cao Zhi, another reason for Yang Xiu's death was that Yang Xiu was Yuan Shu's nephew.
However, although Yang Xiu died, the Hongnong Yang Clan had no damage to its foundation and was still a Hao clan, and sure enough, it was not long before the Yang Clan re-emerged.
After Sima Yan replaced Cao Wei to establish the Jin Dynasty, the Yang clan rose again, but this time as a foreign relative.
Sima Yan's empress Dowager Yang Yan was a member of the Yang clan of Hongnong, and she bore Sima Yan a concubine, Sima Zheng. In order to ensure that his foolish son Sima Zheng could sit on the throne, Yang Yan went to great lengths to pull Yang Zhi, a sister of the Yang family, into the palace after his death, and let her inherit the position of empress to protect Sima Zheng. There was also a lot of support from Yang's foreign relatives in the court, and Yang Jun of the Yang clan of Hongnong and his brothers Yang Jue and Yang Ji were known as "Three Yangs" because they assisted Sima Yan, the founding monarch of the Western Jin Dynasty, and took charge of the military power.
Therefore, with the help of both inside and outside, the fool Sima Zheng was finally able to sit on the emperor's throne and become the Emperor Hui of Jin. However, later, because of Sima Zheng's idiotism, the dictatorship of Empress Jia Nanfeng, and the foreign relative Yang family, a political dispute arose, and as a result, Jia Nanfeng's superior skills directly led to the extermination of the three tribes of Yang Jun in the Western Jin Dynasty. This was also the first scourge of the Hongnong Yang clan.
However, Jia Nanfeng and Sima Zheng then triggered the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and Zhongyuan fell into the tragic situation of Wuhu Chaohua. Although the Yang clan that remained in the Central Plains had fish that slipped through the net, they could only drift in the chaotic world.
Although the Hongnong Yang clan has experienced the tragedy of extinction, after all, the Yang clan has experienced many years and accumulated a lot of deeply, no matter which dynasty governs the country, it needs to read people, and the Yang clan is precisely the heirloom of poetry. Therefore, we can see that in the subsequent history, during the reign of Murong Shi and Tuoba Clan in the north, many Hongnong Yang talents were produced and became high-ranking officials at that time.
According to Professor Tao Xinhua's statistics, there were thirty Hongnong Yang out of northern Wei, three of whom were up to the third duke, eight of whom were guanglu masters, and seven of whom had served as nine secretaries.
Later, Yang Zhong, an important general of Western Wei and Northern Zhou, and his son Pu Liuru, claimed to be the queen of the Hongnong Yang clan. Pu Liuru later established the Sui Dynasty, once again unified the world, and changed his name to Yang Jian, which was the famous Sui Wen Emperor.
Emperor Yang Jian of Sui's son Yang Guang of Sui. The famous chancellor of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo, and his son Yang Xuangan, were also descendants of the Yang clan of Hongnong.
Although the Sui Dynasty II died, but by the Tang and Song dynasties, the Hongnong Yang clan still had a very famous figure born, the Tang Dynasty's "Li Wu Wei Yang" four surnames to marry the political group of the Yang surname "Eleven Prime Ministers" family, Wu Zetian's mother Yang clan are from the Hongnong Yang clan.
Hongnong Yang clan to the Tang Dynasty also has a new development, according to statistics Yang family members worship eleven people, Dengke nearly ninety people, the rest of the petty officials are more, which shows its influence.
The four great poets of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yang Wanli, who wrote that "the little lotus shows its sharp horns, and there are dragonflies standing on the head" is also from the Hongnong Yang clan.
This article has been written for a long time, and if you look at such a large family, it has played an extremely important role in Chinese history. In fact, the earliest came from a warrior grabbing one of Xiang Yu's thighs, which can be said to be extremely legendary.
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