Yuan Kuo, the last emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty, was forced to ascend to the throne, forced to give way, and forced to change his surname
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In 554, Yuwen Tai, a western Wei vassal, deposed Emperor Yuan Qin and imprisoned him in Yongzhou. Yuan Qin was the deposed emperor of Western Wei. Subsequently, Yuwen Tai made Yuan Qin's fourth brother Yuan Kuo the Prince of Qi emperor, emperor, as Emperor Gong of Western Wei. In the hands of Yuwen Tai, the fate of the two emperors was determined from then on.
In April of that year, Yuwen Tai sent someone to bring a cup of poisoned wine, and Yuan Qin saw this, hugged and cried with Empress Yuwen, and then drank and died. Empress Yuwen was overwhelmed with grief and heartbroken, and she also took poison and committed suicide.
Unlike the last emperors of other dynasties, Yuan Kuo has nothing to write about. It was pushed into the emperor's seat, and then, and then pushed down. In the end, even Xiao Feng took it.
Yuan Kuo (537–557), courtesy name Yuan Kuo, was the fourth son of Emperor Wenzhao of Wei, emperor Yuan Baoju, and the half-brother of Emperor Yuanqin of Wei, who was the last emperor of Western Wei and the last emperor of the entire Great Wei Dynasty.
Yuan Kuo was born in the third year (537) of the reign of Emperor Wenzhao (537) and the fourteenth year of the reign (550), and was made the King of Qi at the age of 13.
Yuan Kuo did not want to be this emperor in his heart, and he saw from his brother Yuan Qin that the puppet emperor was not good. However, at this time, this situation, when the emperor himself has said that it does not count. Under the coercion of Yuwen Tai, Yuan Kuo inherited the throne, and still did not set an era name, called the first year.
After Yuan kuo succeeded to the throne, Yuwen Tai proclaimed himself Taishi and Ōtsuka Zai. He threatened Yuan Kuo to restore his original surname Tuoba, and Yuan Kuo had to change his name to Tuoba Kuo, and the achievements of the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of the ancestors were blown by a wind. In all the dynasties and dynasties, only the emperor asked the minister to change his surname or give him a surname, and the minister asked the emperor to change his surname.
Yuan Kuo reigned for less than three years, and the only thing worth mentioning is the war against the Southern Dynasty launched in the name of Emperor Yuan Kuo under the leadership of Yuwen Tai.
This war was the Battle of Jiangling during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, in the first year of Emperor Gong of Wei (554), when the Western Wei army conquered Jiangling (present-day Jingsha, Hubei) and captured the Liangyuan Emperor Xiao Xuan.
The Northern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty split into the Period before and after the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, and the Southern Dynasty was also in a state of flux.
In the third year of the Southern Dynasty Liang Taiqing (549), Hou Jing attacked the Liang capital Jiankang, and the Liangwu Emperor Xiao Yan starved to death at Taicheng. Most of the counties in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River were occupied by the Eastern Wei. The kings of The Liang Dynasty, who were stationed in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, were independent and began to use Western Wei forces to attack each other and compete for the throne.
According to Liang Yongzhou's Assassin History and Yueyang Wang XiaoXuan attacked Jingzhou Thorn History and Xiangdong King Xiao Xuan, who was defending Xiangyang, after the defeat of the army, defected to Western Wei and was made the King of Liang.
In the third year of Dabao (552), Xiao Xuan was proclaimed emperor at Jiangling (for Emperor Yuan of Liang). Western Wei was asked to send troops to capture Liang and Yi'er Prefectures, and to cut off Xiao Ji, the King of Liang Yi Prefecture and Wuling, who had already claimed the title of emperor in Chengdu.
This move gave Western Wei an opportunity to take advantage of it, and Yizhou fell. At that time, Western Wei was still under the reign of Yuan Qin.
In 554, Xiao Yi wrote another letter to Yuwen Tai of Western Wei, asking for the redrawing of the border according to the old map, and his words were extremely arrogant. Yuwen Tai was greatly dissatisfied and ordered The Duke of Changshan, Yu Jin, and the general Yang Zhong to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Jiangling.
In October, the Western Wei army marched from Chang'an (northwest of present-day Xi'an) to Fan (present-day Xiangfan, Hubei) and Deng (present-day Dengzhou, Henan), with Xiao Qin leading an army to assist in the battle. When Emperor Yuan of Liang heard the news, he ordered martial law and mobilized troops to resist the Western Wei army. In November, the Western Wei army crossed the Han River, and Yuwen Hu and Yang Zhong were ordered to lead the elite horse to first take Jiangjin (present-day southeast of Jingsha) and cut off the river road, so that the Liang defenders had no way to retreat to the east, and the downstream reinforcements could not cross.
Emperor Yuan of Liang sent the main points of Jiangling to divide the main points of Jiangling, and the trees were fenced in the outer city. Yu Jin arrived and ordered the construction of a long siege to isolate the inside and outside. Liang Xinzhou's assassins Xu Shipu and Sima Renyue led an army to build a fort on the south bank of Jiangling, matou, and supported it from afar. When the soldiers and horses recruited throughout Liang did not arrive, the Western Wei army attacked the city in many ways, initially frustrated, then attacked fiercely, and entered the west gate with the help of the internal response. Emperor Liang Yuan surrendered the inner city, and that night he ordered his subordinates to burn 140,000 volumes of books, and the next day they descended.
At the Battle of Gangneung, Xiao Xuan was defeated and surrendered, and was soon smothered by Xiao Zhen with an earthen bag.
In December, Yu Jin returned to his division and drove the captured Liang princes and tens of thousands of people to Chang'an. Western Wei Li Xiao was the lord of Liang. After that, the jing, yong, liang, and Yi prefectures in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River were all owned by Western Wei.
In the second year of Emperor Gong of Wei, the Liang general Chen Baxian established Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an, as emperor, and changed his name to Yuan Shaotai. Until 557 AD, the Liang Dynasty was destroyed, and Chen Baxian established the Chen Dynasty.
At the same time, in the northern Eastern Wei, in 550 AD, Gao Yang dai Wei was proclaimed emperor, Eastern Wei was destroyed, and Northern Qi was established.
In Western Wei, Yuwen Tai originally wanted to replace the Western Wei regime and establish himself as emperor, but unexpectedly died of illness on October 556, the third year of Emperor Gong of Wei's reign (556). Before Yuwen Tai died, because his son was young, he asked his nephew Yuwen Hu to help his son Yuwen Jue preside over the military affairs.
After Yuwen Tai's death, Tuoba Kuo made Yuwen Jue the Prince of Taishi, Ōtsuka Zai, and the Duke of Anding; soon after, Yuwen Jue was made the Duke of Zhou. On the day of Gengzi in December of the same year, Yuwen Hu felt that the time had come to usurp Wei, so he threatened Tuoba Kuo to give Yuwen Jue the throne.
In the first month of 557, Yuwen Jue officially proclaimed Wei emperor and established the Northern Zhou regime for Emperor Xiaomin, and Western Wei was destroyed. Emperor Xiaomin was proclaimed empress dowager, and Tuoba Kuo was made the Duke of Song. Soon Yuwen Hu found a reason to kill Tuoba Kuo.
Tuoba Kuo's empress dowager (several empresses) was the daughter of Sikong and Changle Zhenggong.several hui. Tuoba Kuo was a concubine of King Shi Na of Qi. After Tuoba Kuo ascended the throne, she was made empress.
After the fall of the Western Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Kuo was killed and several empresses became nuns, and later died in Buddhist temples.
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