Emperor Xiaoming was born in 510 AD and ascended the throne in 515 at the age of 6 and was killed in 528 at the age of 19.
Emperor Xiaoming
When Emperor Xiaoming ascended the throne, he was only 6 years old and was led by his birth mother, Empress Dowager Hu. This Empress Dowager Hu chonghua, who believed in Buddhism and Daxing Temple Pagoda, built the Yongning Temple on the side of the palace to make it more magnificent, and excavated a Buddhist shrine at the Dragon Gate, which cost countless times.
Upward and downward effects, the emperor and the powerful also competed for sexual immorality, coupled with successive years of drought and floods, local officials embezzled and stripped, so that the people were hungry and cold, and their lives were precarious, so thieves were everywhere, and the whole world rebelled.
Although this empress dowager believed in Buddhism, she could not bear to be young and widowed, and she had great power in her hands, so she felt that there was nothing that could not be done. When she saw that Wang Yuanyi of the Qinghe Literature was young and beautiful and had a dignified appearance, she forced him to have an adulterous affair with herself and fornicated with the harem.
In February 520, the rumors of the empress dowager's adultery with Yuan Yi reached the ears of Emperor Xiaoming Yuanxuan, who although he was only more than 10 years old, he already understood the accident and felt that his face was very embarrassing, so he hated the empress dowager and hated Yuan Xuan even more, so he and the attendant, the leading general Yuan Yi, and the Wei general Liu Teng designed to kill Yuan Yi, remove the power of his mother to listen to the government, and personally govern himself.
Yuan Yi conspired with Liu Teng to make the staple food Emperor Hu Ding confess himself: "Yuan Yi bribed me to poison the emperor, promising him to become the emperor and making me rich forever." Emperor Xiaoming listened, of course believing, and acted on July 4, making a surprise attack, capturing and killing Yuan Yi and imprisoning Empress Dowager Hu in the Xuanguang Temple. Since then, Yuan Yi and Liu Teng have taken the opportunity to assist the government in exercising power.
In March 523, Liu Teng died of illness, and Yuan Yi alone ruled the dynasty. In February 525, Empress Dowager Hu asked Emperor Ming to let her go under the pretext of cutting her hair as a nun. Emperor Ming thought that his mother really wanted to cut her hair as a nun, and cried to stop it, and felt that Yuan Yi had already been killed anyway, so he also lifted the ban on Empress Hu.
After Empress Dowager Hu lifted the ban, she designed to get rid of Yuan Yi and return to the dynasty herself; subsequently, she began to spoil Zheng Yu, Xu Qi, Li Shenlu and others, expelled Emperor Xiaoming's cronies one by one, and strictly controlled the emperor, and Emperor Xiaoming's pro-government problems fell short. As a result, Emperor Xiaoming and his mother created new contradictions.
In February 528, Emperor Xiaoming hated Zheng Yu, Xu Qi, and others, and forced Empress Hu to get rid of them, but Empress Dowager Hu did not agree. Emperor Xiaoming secretly ordered Zhu Rong, the governor of jinyang in the town of Jinyang, now taiyuan in Shanxi, to send troops to Luoyang to coerce Empress Dowager Hu into handing over power.
When Erzhu Rongbing was supreme, near the present-day city of Changzhi in Shanxi, Emperor Xiaoming secretly told him to stay on standby. However, it was at this time that Xu Qi and Zheng Yu heard that Erzhu Rong had sent troops to Luoyang, knowing that he had come against himself and Empress Dowager Hu, and was very harmful, so they rushed to Empress Dowager Hu to plot to kill Emperor Xiaoming. Yuan Xue was only 19 years old at the time of his death, Emperor Xiaoming.