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Chen Baxian was the founder of Southern Chen during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the character Xingguo, the small character Fasheng, now a native of Changxing, Zhejiang, and a descendant of Chen Yi, the chief of han Taiqiu, and was born in a humble background.
Later, he was appreciated by Emperor Qizong's xiao Ying, and successively served as an official in the Army of Guangzhou Fuzhong, the Governor of Xijiang, and the Gaoyao Taishou.
In October of the second year of Taiping (557), Chen Baxian gradually took control of the Liang dynasty, deposed the Liang Jing Emperor Xiao Fangzhi, and proclaimed himself emperor, in favor of Emperor Chenwu.
On June 12, 559, in the third year of his reign, Emperor Chen Ba of Chen Wu fell ill and died on June 21, leaving Chen Xuan the Prince of Linchuan to succeed to the throne.
Interject a postscript: 30 years after Chen Baxian's death, Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty attacked Southern Chen, and Wang Monk identified his son and his father's old department, dug up Chen Baxian's mausoleum, smashed open the coffin, pulled out the bones, burned them, and dumped the ashes into a pond to feed the fish.
Come back and talk about succession.
On the twenty-ninth day of the month of Chen Baxian's death, Chen Xuan rushed to the capital, and after entering the palace, he resigned several times and refused to succeed to the throne.
Empress Dowager Zhang was also hesitant to make a decision, and the ministers hesitated, and later, with the strong support of the Zhenxi general Hou Andu, Chen Xuan was able to take the throne, and was known as Emperor Wen of Chen.
To get to the point, Emperor Chen Wen of Chen was not the son of Chen Baxian, but the son of his brother Chen Daotan.
Why did Chen Baxian pass the throne to his nephew, did he not have a son?
In fact, Chen Baxian had at least six sons, Chen Ke the Prince of Xiaohuai, Chen Li the Prince of Yuzhang, and Chen Quan the Prince of Changsha, and two other sons are not recorded in the history books, but unfortunately all five sons died prematurely.
When Chen Baxian was dying, only the sixth son, Chen Chang, the Prince of Hengyang, was still alive, and he was being held hostage in Northern Zhou at that time.
Mr. Chen Ba had sent envoys many times before to ask Northern Zhou to release people, but the Northern Zhou side had made verbal promises to release people, that is, they would not put them into action.
Chen Chang, the King of Hengyang, was born to Empress Xuan. Before Chen Xuan ascended the throne, Zhang Yao'er was reluctant to hand over the jade seal because his own son Chen Chang had not yet returned.
After ascending the throne, Chen Xuan honored Zhang'er as empress dowager, Crown Prince Chen Bozong as Crown Prince, Li Shen Miaorong as Empress, Crown Prince Chen Bomao as King Sixing, and younger brother Chen Bo as King Ancheng.
Soon after Chen Xuan came to power, the Northern Zhou side released Chen Chang. The reason is that the reason why Northern Zhou did not let Chen Chang go was to create an incident and cause civil unrest in the Chen Dynasty. Now that I felt that there was no drama, there was no point in detaining Chen Chang.
On the way back to China, Chen Chang wrote a letter to his cousin Chen Xuan as the concubine of Emperor Xian, and very unceremoniously demanded that Chen Xuan return the throne.
Why was Chen Chang so anxious? There are two reasons to explain:
First, do a good job of public opinion support at home, and when he returns to China, the water will be gathered, and things will be much easier to handle.
Second, if it is not a good thing to probe the cousin's tone, it is better to escape halfway than to send death.
However, Chen Chang thought too well. The ending is:
Chen Xuan sent Hou Andu and others to meet Chen Chang, and when crossing the river, when no one was paying attention, Hou An pushed Chen Chang into the water. Externally, it was declared that Because of the damage to the ship, Chen Chang drowned.
After that, Chen Chang's coffin was welcomed back to Southern Chen. At this time, the emperor of the film began to perform, and Chen Xuan cried bitterly, sad...
Relieved, Chen Xuan didn't have to mention how happy he was.