After the Wuhu Rebellion, the Eastern Jin Dynasty crossed south through the Huanxuan Rebellion, and Liu Yu, the general of the Beifu Army, became the de facto ruler of the entire dynasty, and the last two Northern Expeditions recovered Shandong, Henan, and Guanzhong. With the merits of restoring the land, he was given the title of Duke of Song and received the Nine Xi Special Ceremony, and after completing all the necessary procedures for preparing for the throne, he killed Emperor An of Jin, established Emperor Gong of Jin, and usurped the throne of the Eastern Jin Dynasty two years later, in 420 AD, taking Song as the state name, changing the name of Yuan Yongchu to Liu Song in history.
It can be said that Liu Yu, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, created a new dynasty that allowed people to see the hope of the northern expedition to recover Heshan in victory, but it also laid the groundwork for various ways of ascending to the throne in the future.
In the first and seventy years of the four dynasties of the Southern Dynasty, there were twenty-six emperors, four usurpations between dynasties, five usurpations within dynasties, a total of nine times, it can be said that one-third of the emperors were usurpers, one-third of the emperors were usurped, and another six emperors were stepping stones or puppets in the process of usurpation.
Among them, the last Chen Dynasty was the only dynasty that did not have a tyrant, and its founding emperor Chen Baxian was far-sighted and heroic. Ming Gui Youguang is called: Emperor Jiangzuo, the most sage. And Lü Simian said that he who has never been a king has won the country, and there is no one who is as righteous as Emperor Chen Wu.
Emperor Wu of Chen (503–559), courtesy name Xingguo , small character Fasheng , a native of Ruoli under the Great Wall of Wuxing (present-day Changxing County, Zhejiang Province ) , whose ancestral home was Yingchuan ( present-day Yuzhou , Henan Province ) , is said to be a descendant of Chen Yi , the chief of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Words "Since yun han taiqiu long after the long widow also." Emperor Xuansun Jin was a lieutenant. Zhunsheng Kuang, Kuang Shengda, Yongjia Zhongnan moved south, washed horses for The Prince" (丞相掾), which means that his grandparents were all important members of the imperial court and were born into a family of officials and eunuchs, and it is also said that his "young ladies have great ambitions, are good at strategy, are ambitious, and do not produce." And long, dabbling in historical books, good at reading military books, Ming Wei Hou, lonely, the art of concealing armor, multi-martial arts, Ming Da decisive, for the time to be persuaded. This can be seen that Chen Baxian not only has good family conditions, but also has few great ambitions, understands more, allows him to be a martial artist, and is wise and decisive, which is simply like a leader in the chaotic world.
Emperor Wu of Chen (503–559)
However, even if they are bullish in the township and their lineage is more prominent, compared with the family clan, the Chen family can still only be regarded as a "cold door", so even if the Chen leaders have the resources of heaven and heaven, they can only start from the grass-roots work first, the book says, its initial Shixiang is Lisi, and then Jianye is an oil depot official. That is to say, his first job was as a village official in the local village, that is, a village official, and later ran to Jianye to become a petty officer in charge of the oil depot.
Note that Jianye is today's Nanjing, that is, the capital of Southern Liang at that time, although it was only to be a warehouse keeper, but it is not something that ordinary people can go if they want to. If a person wants to succeed, ability, opportunity, and noble people are indispensable. And Leader Chen now has the ability, the difference is only a noble person who can take him to the sky and carry Qingyun. And this nobleman was Xiao Ying, the nephew of Emperor Wu of Liang, and at first when Xiao Ying, the new Marquis of Xinyu, ran to the village to investigate and explore the situation at the grass-roots level, Chen Baxian, who was not yet a gatekeeper of the oil depot, talked with him as a village official, and let Xiao Ying remember it. So when Xiao Leader returned, he brought the newly recognized Old Brother Chen back to Beijing with him and asked him to be an oil depot administrator. In this way, the future Leader Chen silently waited for the opportunity that belonged to him to soar into the sky when pouring oil and water day after day.
In the sixth year of Datong (540 AD), Xiao Ying was promoted to guangzhou, and when he left, he did not forget to take his younger brother with him, and Chen Baxian went with him as a confidant. Xiao Ying first promoted him to the rank of army, and soon promoted him to be a supervisor. During his tenure as governor, Chen Baxian successfully quelled the rebellion of the mountain thieves in his jurisdiction, and Xiao Ying therefore made him the sheriff of Gaoyao County. During his tenure as overseer, Chen Baxian successfully quelled the rebellion of the mountain thieves in his jurisdiction, and Xiao Ying therefore made him a high-ranking county guard. The victories of these two conquests also made Xiao Ying more determined in his previous view of him. And the road for Old Brother Chen to become the leader of Chen still needs a more grand victory as a stepping stone for his future hegemony, and this opportunity is not too late. Just after Chen Baxian finally counterattacked step by step from a small village cadre to become the high-ranking mayor of Jiaozhou, the following year Li Ben of Jiaozhou disobeyed Southern Liang's rule and launched a rebellion. Emperor Wu of Liang initially sent Lu Zixiong to suppress the rebellion, and Lu was then the Assassin of Xinzhou, and along with him was the Gaozhou Assassin Shi Sun Yuan, but although these two men were nominally the commanders of the Quorum rebellion, holding the military power but the government decree was not in the account, because the person who presided over the counter-rebellion was Xiao Yan's two nephews Xiao Ying and Xiao Chen, and Xiao Chen was the Jiaozhou Assassin History who was driven home by Li Ben, and for the counter-rebellion to prove that his ability was also to export the evil spirit of the family door being taken away, Xiao Chen was eager to immediately carry a machete to hand blade the thief who dared to cause trouble on the head of Tai Nian. As a cousin of the same clan, Xiao Ying naturally sided with his brothers. Therefore, in the face of the main generals Sun Ji and Lu Zixiong, they thought that the miasma was too heavy now, and suggested that they attack again in the autumn. Xiao Ying and Xiao Chen immediately rejected their proposal and asked them to enter the army immediately, immediately, and quickly. So although all four of them were assassins, Xiao Ying and Xiao Yu were clan members, and Sun Yu and Lu Zixiong had to obey their orders. In desperation, Sun Yu and Lu Zixiong had to harden their scalps, and as a result, when they walked to Hepu, the soldiers were poisoned and killed two-thirds of the way, and they collapsed without a fight. Faced with defeat, Xiao Ying and Xiao Yu did not listen to Sun Yuan and Lu Zixiong's explanations at all, and directly reported them for colluding with the anti-thieves and deliberately staying in. On the side of Emperor Wu of Liang, he believed that he not only built the Four Hundred and Eighty Temples of the Southern Dynasty, but also often pretended to be a monk and forced his ministers to drain the treasury to redeem him. He paid so much protection to the Buddha, how could he not be blessed, it must be because the Lord will collaborate with the enemy and kill! So he ordered Sun Lu and Lu Zixiong to commit suicide to apologize. Who can bear this, born into death for the country to sell their lives to the end was smashed to death by a cauldron, poor old Lu, beaten by the rebels to have half a life left, and went home and was chopped by the boss. Therefore, the old subordinates were indignant and simply collaborated with the enemy to rebel, and Lu Zixiong's younger brothers Lu Ziliu and Lu Zilie, as well as his subordinates Du Tianhe, Du Shengming, Zhou Wenyu and others, led his subordinates to attack Guangzhou in one breath, hoping to kill Xiao Ying and Xiao Chen, and clear Lu Zixiong's grievances. Xiao Ying saw the situation and hurriedly wrote an email to Chen Baxian: Brother danger, quick return!
The opportunity that he had been waiting for forty years finally appeared today, and he led three thousand elite soldiers to rush to Guangzhou day and night, destroying Lu Ziluo in the First World War, beheading Du Tianhe, capturing Du Shengming and Zhou Wenyu, and incorporating them under his command. The rebel adjutant general was also captured alive. This battle made Emperor Wu of Liang look up to Chen Baxian, and Chen Baxian also met his second nobleman, Emperor Wu of Liang, and Xiao Yan was greatly impressed by Chen Baxian's exploits, and awarded him the title of General of Zhige, the Viscount of Xin'an, and three hundred households, and sent painters to paint Chen Baxian's appearance to watch. This is no longer simply appreciated, it is already enrong for the usual meritorious ministers to lead the troops to suppress rebellion and add officials to the knighthood, and Xiao Yan's side also makes people look like a fool, which can be said to be valued.
Before Old Brother Chen could come out of the joy of victory, in the winter of the tenth year of Datong (544), Xiao Ying died of illness in Guangzhou. The elder brother was gone, the first nobleman in his life was gone, if there was no Xiao Ying, he might still be just a small village official in the village, busy dealing with the loss of chickens and dogs every day, sending warmth to the widowed and the elderly, but he did not have time to grieve at the moment, he was already relied on by Emperor Wu of Liang, and when he returned to Jingshi Jiankang for Xiao Ying's funeral, when he went to Dayu Ridge, he was ordered to be the Sima of Jiaozhou, led Wuping (present-day Yong'an City, Vietnam) Taishou, and went to Jiaozhou with the new Jiaozhou Assassin Yang Wei to fight Li Ben. Poor Li Ben was destined to become a stepping stone for Chen Baxian's hegemonic hongtu to begin.
Shi Zai: When the army reached Jiaozhou, emperor Qiutui was the forward, and he was destroyed. Ben sneaked into the Cave of Qu Fang, and Qu Fang beheaded Ben; chuan Shou Jianye. It is also the first year of the year of the Taiqing Dynasty. Brother Tianbao escaped into Jiuzhen, and together with the robber Li Shaolong collected the remaining soldiers, killed Chen Wenjing, the assassin of Dezhou, and entered Aizhou, where the emperor begged for peace. In addition to the Xijiang Governor, Gao Yao Taishou, and the Military Governor of the Seven Counties.
Chen Baxian's rebel army reached Jiaozhou, and Li Ben led tens of thousands of troops to set up a city fence at the mouth of the Suli River to resist the Liang army. Yang recommended Chen Baxian's troops as the forward, and Chen Baxian led his army to break Li Ben's battle front, and Li Ben's rebel army collapsed. In the first year of the Taiqing Dynasty (547), Li Ben escaped into Qu Fang's cave, and Qu Ben beheaded Li Ben and passed on the capital to the capital. Li Ben's brother Li Tianbao fled into Jiuzhen, and together with the bandit leader Li Shaolong gathered the remaining 20,000 soldiers and horses to kill Chen Wenjing, the assassin of The Southern Dynasty Liang Dezhou, and besieged Aizhou, where Chen Baxian once again led an army to quell the rebels. Emperor Wu of Liang enfeoffed Chen Baxian as the general Zhenyuan, the governor of Xijiang, the governor of Gaoyao Taishou, and the military governor of the Seven Counties.
At this point, Chen Ba became the last shining star of the crumbling regime of Southern Liang, and during the Battle of Hou Jing a year later, he keenly sniffed out that this was a heavenly opportunity to achieve his hegemony, and he also firmly seized this opportunity and leapt to become the number two person in the empire who was in charge of the government with Wang Shengquan, but how could he allow others to sleep on the bed on the side? The two had a great opinion on the choice of the new boss, but Chen Baxian has always been a very straightforward person, you don't agree with me, then I will do it for you, and soon Wang Shengjie tasted the severed head meal that Chen Baxian ordered for him. And the old king may not have imagined that when he was waiting for the scene of counter-rebellion together, he sent charcoal to himself in the snow and sent takeaway relief grain and grass thousands of miles away, and he would ruthlessly kill himself because of political discord, but the political struggle was so ruthless, only you and I lived, written by the victors.
After killing Hou Jing and Wang Shengdi, two sworn enemies who had hindered his ascension to the throne in their lives, Chen Baxian deposed Xiao Yuanming, installed Xiao Fangzhi as emperor, and changed Yuan Shaotai to Emperor Jing of Liang. He served as Shang Shuling (尚書令), the governor of various Chinese and foreign military and cavalry generals, leading Yang and Southern Xu Erzhou to assassinate history, entering and leaving Dian Province, and it can be said that he completely grasped the real power of Southern Liang.
Later, after killing all the disobedient little brothers through a series of troops, he also fought to take advantage of his internal contradictions to take advantage of the fire to rob Northern Qi, who did not dare to attack. In August of the first year of Yongding (557), King Liang promoted Chen Baxian to be a taifu and gave him Huang Yu (黄钺) and special gifts. On the fifth day of the first month of September, he was promoted to Xiangguo (相国), the general leader of the imperial government, and was given the title of Duke of Chen,Bei jiuxi (备九西), and Chen Guo (陈国) set up a hundred officials. On the third day of the first month of October, the Liang Dynasty made Chen Baxian the Duke of Chen the King.
In October of the second year of taiping (557), Xiao Fangzhi zen was located in Chen Baxian, and Southern Liang fell. Chen Baxian was called emperor, changed his name to Yuan Yongding, and the national name Chen was for Emperor Chenwu
Finally, a small village official whose children were very small relied on their own abilities and opportunities to create their own dynasty step by step, and during his reign, they worked hard to improve people's livelihood. Relying on his own strength, he led a group of two Guangdong barbarians to raise an army, and at the time of the turmoil in the southern dynasty, Wuding Qiankun gave the southern dynasty a life of more than thirty years, and in this short period of time, the northern dynasty took earth-shaking changes in the jiangshan, and the Han emperor Yang Jian successfully ascended to the throne and finally unified the world. It can be said that it was the efforts of the two of them that made China unified, and did not let the Han people fall into the hands of the Hu people. From this point of view, Chen Baxian had done a great job.
In 559, Chen Baxian died of illness at the age of 56. 30 years later, Southern Chen was attacked by Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. Wang's son gathered his father's old subordinates, dug up Chen Baxian's mausoleum, smashed open the coffin and pulled out the bones, burned them and dumped the ashes into the pond.
It can be said that it also confirms that sentence, and sooner or later it will be repaid when it comes out.