At this time, Hou Jing wanted to cross south, but the soldiers were unwilling to cross south. Therefore, his cruel and cruel temper emerged, causing the generals and their soldiers to surrender to Murong Shaozong. Hou Jing's army collapsed!
Hou Jing and his confidants, with only a few horses, arrived at Xia Shi (today's west of Huainan City, Anhui Province) to Jihuai. Here, they gathered the scattered soldiers and got 800 people on horseback. With Liu Shenmao's advice, they rushed to Shouchun (today's Shouxian County, Anhui Province).
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Previously, in order to support Hou Jing, Xiao Yan sent Yang Yaren, Yang Sijian and others to occupy the county of Hu (today's Runan, Henan). Now, Hou Jing's army was defeated, and Murong Shaozong brought an army of 100,000 to pursue him.
As a result, Yang Yaren and Yang Sijian both abandoned the city and left. The Eastern Wei Dynasty immediately recovered the territory Hou Jing dedicated to Nanliang, and Hou Jing's planned Yuzhou became a daydream.
After much calculation, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty each got the land before Hou Jing, while Nanliang got nothing except Hou Jing, a man who was difficult to control.
After Hou Jing settled in Shouchun, he sent Yu Ziyue to Jiankang to plead guilty for the defeat and beg to be demoted. However, Xiao Yan did not blame him. Not only did he not blame him, he instead awarded Hou Jingnan the position of governor of Yuzhou.
In the court, Xiao Jie, who served as Guanglu's doctor, expressed dissatisfaction with this and said to Xiao Yan:
"Hou Jing, who is always in a hurry, is not a long-term person. This time he lost his army and lost his land, all because of this man. Your Majesty loves this man, but he abandoned the good relationship with the country. This, I think, is not advisable.
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However, Xiao Yan refused to listen and simply sent Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang, as the governor of Hezhou to guard Hefei.
This rebellion, this Northern Expedition, occurred in the year of Gao Huan's death, that is, 547.
Gao Cheng saw that Liang Jun and Hou Jing had been thrown out of the territory of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and he did not want to fight anymore.
The Eastern Wei Dynasty can be regarded as inheriting the mantle of the Northern Wei Dynasty, while the Western Wei Dynasty only established a military group rather than a political group when He Bayue quelled the rebellion. Based on this military advisor group, the Western Wei Dynasty was established. It can be said that in many aspects
, the Western Wei Dynasty had to rebuild it themselves, and could not be used directly like the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
When Xiao Yan seized the throne in Nanliang, he indeed made a series of reforms to deal with corruption and other issues in Southern Qi. Taking advantage of the civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which relieved the military pressure on Nanliang, he vigorously developed the country and improved its national strength.
recovered and showed an upward trend.
However, our lovely His Majesty Xiao Yan is also an emperor who cannot start well and ends well, and is always wary of danger. When everything is on the right track and developing in an orderly manner, Xiao Yan gradually loves success, loves flattery, hates admonishment, and develops into a sycophant of Buddhism.
Believers, Xiao Yan felt that his own belief in Buddhism was not enough, so he also tried his best to create a Buddhist atmosphere in Nanliang and encouraged the princes and nobles to also believe in Buddhism.
Everything must be done in a certain way. Too much is too little. No matter how good things are, once they develop to the extreme, they become bad. Therefore, Xiao Yan's whole country has become a miasma. What is hidden under the miasma is...
It is political corruption. When politics is corrupt, various contradictions will appear, and even the original contradictions will become acute. These contradictions will inevitably lead to military incompetence. In fact, one move can affect the whole body.
Therefore, at the beginning of the "Later Three Kingdoms", the Eastern Wei Dynasty was the strongest among the Three Kingdoms.
However, even a powerful country could not withstand the exhaustion of successive battles. Therefore, in the second year of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, in 548, the captured Xiao Yuanming sent an envoy to Nanliang to put the olive branch of the Eastern Wei Dynasty on Xiao Yan's table. Not only did he want to
To reconcile, I also want to make peace with Nanliang.
When Xiao Yan saw it, he was of course happy. Who would be willing to fight back and forth, especially when the country was not strong enough to support the ruler's ambitions, and would rather stay in his own one-third of an acre of land as a dead house.
However, there will always be people who agree with something and some who disagree.
I won’t talk about those who agree. Among those who disagree, Fu Qi thinks:
"Gao Cheng has just succeeded to the throne and his power is not weak. Why does he want to make peace with us? This must be a plan to alienate Zhenyang. He deliberately asked Zhenyang to send an envoy to make Hou Jing suspicious, thinking that he wanted to exchange Hou Jing for Zhenyang. Hou Jing
He must be uneasy and plot trouble. If he agrees to Gao Cheng's agreement today, he will surely fall into the Eastern Wei's plan. Moreover, last year we were defeated in Pengcheng and lost our army, and we were defeated again in Guoyang. Today, we have agreed to an agreement. This is a sign to our country.
Wei is showing weakness."
I have to say that this objection is indeed justified, especially about Hou Jing. To Hou Jing, Nanliang is like a stepmother. She has no feelings and is prone to resistance. Hou Jing is a person who is difficult to control. Since Xiao Yan
If you want to keep him here, you have to carefully handle the relationship between them.
Furthermore, when Nanliang was retreating steadily, the Eastern Wei extended an olive branch. No matter whether the Eastern Wei thought much about it or not, it did make people think of using the strong to suppress the weak, and it was indeed inappropriate to agree to the Eastern Wei's request for peace.
However, Zhu Yi and others who agreed were very stubborn and resolute, and Xiao Yan also had good intentions.
The reason why Xiao Yan agreed was probably because he wanted to make peace with it.
Among those who opposed it, Hou Jing was the one with the most determined attitude.
Hou Jing, who was the source of the Southern Liang Northern Expedition last year, was very reluctant to see peace between the two countries. It was not that he was warlike. As the saying goes, if the two countries have good relations, Hou Jing will be pushed out by Nan Liang.
As a bargaining chip for good relations, after he expressed his objection, he also said that he was willing to make another northern expedition, etc. In short, he drew one piece of not-so-palatable pie after another for Xiao Yan.
Because the cakes painted by Hou Jing were not delicious, Xiao Yan was not moved, let alone ignored Hou Jing's suggestion, and still considered making good friends with the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
Hou Jing wrote to this person and to that lobbyist, but to no avail. So Hou Jing thought of a trick and wrote a letter to Xiao Yan, pretending to be from the Eastern Wei Dynasty, asking Xiao Yan to exchange Hou Jing for Xiao Yuanming.
, Xiao Yan immediately agreed and wrote a reply to Eastern Wei:
"Zhenyang comes back in the morning, and Hou Jing can go back in the evening."
Zhenyang refers to Xiao Yuanming's title - Marquis of Zhenyang.
This reply was naturally known to Hou Jing, who cursed:
"Old man Wu'er, you are really cool!"
Because Nanliang was in the Wu region during the Three Kingdoms period, Hou Jing here called Xiao Yan "Wu'er Husband".
Some people have raised objections to this matter. Whether it is a forged letter or Xiao Yan's reply, it is too easy and too rash, so I think this may not be the case.
Gou Xiong thought, perhaps it was not Hou Jing who forged the letter for Xiao Yan to read. This matter might be true. Gao Cheng planned to exchange Hou Jing for Xiao Yuanming. The reason why Hou Jing knew about it was because someone was chewing his tongue in front of Hou Jing;
Or it could be that this didn't happen at all, or that there was already a tendency to develop in this direction, and Hou Jing was afraid that it would come true, so he went against it.
In short, regardless of whether it is true or not, "Hou Jing was replaced by Xiao Yuanming" became Hou Jing's plan.
When Hou Jing first entered Liang Dynasty, he eagerly proposed to Wang Xie Mingmen. However, although Xiao Yan accepted Hou Jing, in the eyes of Nan Liang, he still looked down on Hou Jing, who was from the Jie clan, so Xiao Yan rejected his proposal.
The proposal made Hou Jing feel dissatisfied.
At this time, it can be said that there are old and new grudges. Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust, so you took advantage of the contradictions in Nanliang and prepared to rebel!
What is the conflict in Nanliang? Listen to Gou Xiong slowly tell me——
First of all, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of the Southern Liang Dynasty, abolished the system of lot in view of the weight of the lot in the Southern Song and Qi dynasties, and the concentration of power in the emperor, which resulted in the royal family being at odds with each other and the power being seized by the Su tribe.
In this way, the kings were no longer subject to the lot and became vassal towns with real power.
This is a bit like the "Zhou Dynasty" in Chinese history. The Zhou royal family established the center and was surrounded by princes. No matter how you mess around in your own territory, as long as it does not threaten the stability of the royal family, the Zhou royal family will not care. At most, they will scold two people.
Sentences, threats, threats, no matter how great they are, are just beating and beating.
It is also similar to the various shogunates in Japan. Looking at the history of the Warring States Period in Japan, the great names are equivalent to the princes of China, and they have jumped out of the shogunate one after another. The emperor has been overshadowed by the glory of the shogunate, so that at the end of the Edo shogunate,
The foreigners had been dealing with the Tokugawa family for a long time, and suddenly they discovered that there was Kyoto behind the shogunate, and there was an emperor! Although the emperor was a puppet, he was the ruler of Japan in the traditional sense! Every time I think of this, I
I want to see the expressions on those foreigners’ faces when they realize this. They will definitely laugh until their stomach hurts.
Well, I mentioned the various shogunates in the Zhou Dynasty and Japan because the shortcomings of this system are obvious:
The Zhou Dynasty split and finally perished because the princes became more and more powerful. The Japanese shogunate, except for the last Edo shogunate, was eliminated by history. The previous Kamakura shogunate and Muromachi shogunate were also because of the strong power of the daimyo.
Got knocked out by KO.
In fact, Xiao Yan's move is equivalent to a disguised real feudal system. From the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, the shortcomings of the real feudal system have been proven time and time again. Xiao Yan's painted-like real feudal system will also
Reproduce the contradictions proven by history again.
Secondly, Xiao Yan also believed that the Eastern Jin Dynasty relied on the support and maintenance of everyone in the family, and the national destiny lasted for more than a hundred years. Therefore, Xiao Yan paid special attention to restoring and improving the rights of everyone in the family, and treated all descendants of the royal family, everyone in the family, and ministers.
Preferential treatment, tolerance, even indulgence! Even if they commit a crime, they will not be punished by law.
Historical records record that Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty, said:
"The criminal law is sparse and simplified. Since the ministers and ministers have no intention of jailing. Traitors use power to play tricks, and bribery becomes a market. There are many abusers... At that time, the children of princes were often arrogant and promiscuous."
Emperor Wu of Liang was also well aware of these disadvantages, but did not prohibit them.
Finally, in the later period of Xiao Yan, political corruption, official corruption, and social atmosphere were flashy and luxurious, but the people were exploited at all levels and displaced, leading to migration and escape, which were all extremely serious.
He Chen wrote to Emperor Wu and pointed out:
"The number of household registrations in the world has been reduced. It is an urgent matter today. The counties cannot be controlled by the states, and the counties cannot be reduced by the wishes of the counties. The people are unable to live, and everything has been moved around, either relying on the common surname, or gathering in villages and towns. Today, the prime ministers are guarding
, all are greedy and cruel, and few are honest and beautiful."