I believe that many friends who know this history know that in the Northern Zhou dynasty of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was such a powerful courtier who once killed three emperors in a bullish way, but in the end he died at the hands of Yuwen Yong, the emperor of Northern Zhou, who was very reclusive.
However, in order to prevent some readers from not understanding this history, or being influenced by some film and television works, the author needs to recount this history.
In the TV series "Lonely World", Yuwen Hu missed the throne again and again because he loved solitude. In fact, this is what the novelist said.
Yuwen Hu
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > Yuwen Hu killed the first emperor, Emperor Gong of Western Wei</h1>
In 557, Yuwen Tai, a western Wei chancellor, died. Before his death, due to the young age of his son, he entrusted several of his sons to his nephew, Yuwen Hu, who was 44 years old at the time. Yuwen Is nearly 50 years old, it is the old age, it is impossible to waste the big thing because of the emotional matter. Yuwen Hu knew that this kind of trust in the name of an orphan was not justified, because the son of the powerful minister was a powerful minister, so what kind of thing was he, the person who took care of the power minister? What's more, which subordinate of the powerful minister is young and powerful?
So Yuwen Hu simply did not do two without stopping, directly abolished the emperor, let the power ministers be the emperor, and made himself the power ministers, and the problems were not all solved?
Of course, Yuwen Hu also knew that deposing the emperor did not work at all, and only by killing him could he be assured, so Yuan Kuo was killed soon after.
Subsequently, Yuan Xiaozun, one of the Eight Pillar States of Western Wei, also defected to Northern Zhou, but due to the loss of his royal status, the status of the Pillar State was also removed.
Yuwen Hu quickly slashed the mess, at this time, Yuwen Hu would definitely not want to become emperor, because he was serving Yuwen Tai's son.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > the second emperor killed by Yuwen Hu, Yuwen Jue, the King of Northern Zhou</h1>
After Yuwen Hu deposed Yuan Kuo, Yuwen Jue, the eldest son of Yuwen Tai, was the son of heaven, but in order to distinguish himself from Western Wei, Yuwen Jue could only be called the Heavenly King. Heavenly king means emperor in Buddhist parlance, so Yuwen Jue can also be regarded as emperor.
Judging from the identity of the Heavenly King, it is likely that the powerful minister Yuwen Goo believed in Buddhism. In fact, Yang Zhong, the great general of the Pillar State at that time (one of the twelve generals of the former Western Wei Dynasty), also believed in Buddhism, and even later sent his son Yang Jian to a nunnery to be raised, and the later Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian also believed in Buddhism. Therefore, it is likely that Yuwen Hu also believed in Buddhism. If you make up yuwen yong's hatred of Yuwen Hu, then Yuwen Hu's belief in Buddhism does not rule out that Yuwen Yong's destruction of the Buddha was one of the motives of Yuwen Yong, but the reason for the destruction of the Buddha by the Northern Zhou Wu Emperor Yuwen Yong and later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was mainly economic reasons, that is, the Buddhist temple had a large amount of money and population, which directly affected the country's financial revenue, and then affected the country's military strength. In addition, the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao destroyed buddhism for political reasons, because Tuoba Tao suspected that the Buddhist temple was involved in some rebellions, and the Northern Wei emperor was very jealous of his identity as a humble person, and Buddhism was precisely the rise of the Hu people. And Tang Wuzong Li Yan's extermination of Buddhism was also a political reason, buddhism at that time alienated many cults, and hidden population, often carried out secret associations to rebel, here is limited space, will not go into detail.
After Yuwen Jue sat on the "Emperor", he always felt that he was the Son of Heaven and should be in power himself, so he fought with Yuwen Hu, who was impatient, so he repeated the trick and killed Yu Wenjue.
That's it. Yuwen Hu's actual motivation for killing the emperor became, the emperor and I grabbed power, and I couldn't be bothered, so I killed him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > the third emperor Yuwen Hu killed, Yuwen Yu, the Ming Emperor of Northern Zhou</h1>
Yuwen Yu
After Yuwen Hu deposed yuwen jue, yuwen tai's eldest son Yuwen Yu was made the heavenly king.
Yuwen Yu is the husband of DuGu Xin's eldest daughter, Du GuShi. Dugu died in childbirth in 558. Yuwen Yu was initially called the Heavenly King, but in 559, he changed his name to Emperor in the name of being called the Heavenly King insufficient to dominate the world. Yuwen Tai was posthumously honored as Emperor Wen.
By the way, it is still more in line with history that the king of heaven calls himself "widow", but the emperor's self-designation is still "朕" and "I", and it is impossible for the emperor to use the self-designation of princes such as "widow". In this regard, the shooting of the TV series "Lonely World" is problematic.
Yuwen Yu became emperor, and after fighting with Yuwen Yu for three years, Yuwen Yu was once again impatient and directly poisoned Yuwen Yu to death. Later, Yuwen Yong was proclaimed emperor. This wave of operations surprised everyone, it is reasonable to say that they have killed three emperors, if they are not emperors, are they not dead? In fact, if we compare history, we know that Yuwen Hu actually does not want to be an emperor at all.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > Why didn't Yuwen Hu become emperor himself? </h1>
In fact, the first two emperors were killed, but in fact, they were not considered to be subjects. Why? Yuan Kuo was the emperor of Western Wei, and Yuwen Hu killed him and contributed to Northern Zhou. And Yuwen Jue, on the one hand, he is not an emperor at all, on the other hand, Yu Wenjue is not very good as the King of Heaven, although he is not a madman as said in the TV series, but Yuwen Jue is a great hero after all, and killing a deposed King of Heaven is not a subject for him. What's more, Yuwen Jue was not familiar with the government, so he was a puppet on the left and right, and Yu Wenjue was not smart at all, and the history books said that he was killed because he was wise, which was groundless, because it can be seen from the fact that he was deposed and killed when he became the king of heaven, such a person has no ability at all.
However, Yuwen Yu was different after all, he was the emperor, and he was many times stronger than Yuwen Jue, which could also be seen from the fact that he could fight with Yuwen Yu for three years. To say that Yuwen Hu did not have the idea of being called emperor at this time was simply impossible, because not calling himself emperor meant that his actions could never be legitimate, and he would definitely not get a good end.
However, at that time, the old ministers of Northern Zhou did not support Yuwen Hu, as can be seen from Du Guxin and Zhao Gui's attempt to murder Yu Wenhu. Dugu Xin and Zhao Gui were both one of the Eight Pillar States of Western Wei. At that time, the twelve generals of the Eight-Pillar State were basically Yuwen Tai's brothers, not only brothers and sisters, but also comrades-in-arms, and they were also officers from Wuchuan Town in the Rebellion of the Six Towns of Northern Wei who were coerced. Yuwen Hu encountered such a difficult bone to chew, and he had to set up Yuwen Tai's son. This is Yuwen Yong's turn.
Yuwen Yong
However, Yuwen Yong's next approach made Yuwen Hu dispel the idea of becoming emperor, that is, Yuwen Yong pretended to be a grandson everywhere, not only pretending that he had no ability, but it was reasonable for Yuwen Hu to deal with the affairs of the previous dynasty, and even in front of the chancellor, Yu Wen Yong personally greeted Yu Wen Hu and gave him a salute.
When Yuwen Hu saw such an obedient puppet, he dismissed the idea of becoming an emperor. Why? The reason is that after Yuwen Hu took power, he has been making enemies, but there are not too many enemies who can shake his power, but after Yuwen Yong's wave of operations, Yuwen Hu is oblivious and makes enemies on all sides, the most important of which is his own cronies Yuwen Zhi. Later, Yuwen Hu was assassinated, and Yuwen Zhi personally killed him. Originally, Yuwen Hu's enemies only planted trees in those who opposed him, but after Yuwen Yong pretended to be obedient in front of him, Yuwen Hu let down his guard, and also exposed his truest side, setting up the enemy in his own people.
Whether a powerful courtier wants to be an emperor or not depends on two things, one is whether he forced the emperor to make him king, and the other is whether he made allies everywhere during his reign.
Obviously, Yuwen Hu did not do these two things. There are no friends, there are enemies everywhere, how can he still be called emperor? Yuwen Hu's title of King of Jin was forced to him by Yuwen Yong on the grounds that he was a clan and that he had made great contributions to Northern Zhou. Coupled with the fact that Yuwen Hu is too old, even if he is an emperor, he can't do it for many days, and he still has to take the risk of opposition from the people of the world, and it is better to be a well-behaved and obedient ruler, anyway, there is an emperor covered, and he can basically raise his own life.
However, what Yuwen Hu did not expect was that Yuwen Yong actually thought about how to get rid of Yuwen Hu from the day he pretended to be a grandson, so it can be seen that Yu Wen Hu did not have the ambition to become an emperor from beginning to end, otherwise, he would not have died so tragically.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > digression</h1>
Finally, a few digressions, some people say that Cao Cao did not want to be called emperor, but Cao Cao bought people's hearts everywhere, plus the Han Dynasty basically did not allow people with different surnames to be crowned dukes and kings, and Cao Cao not only received nine gifts in this way, but also had "entering the dynasty without tendency, praising and worshiping without name, and the sword on the temple", and even more the deeds of killing Empress Fu, how could Such Cao Cao not want to usurp the throne?
I think the reason why Cao Cao did not call himself emperor was only because he was too old, plus there were Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the south, and he could not be called emperor.
The author believes that liking a certain historical figure or dynasty is not trying to wash everything away from him. Usurpation is in fact nothing, who stipulates that the emperor must be appointed from beginning to end by only one person with one surname? The right kind of like is to admit that it is not enough to like, otherwise, it will definitely cause disgust, but it will blacken the things you like, right?