Chapter 133: Chen Houzhu
Chen Shubao, the last emperor of Chen in the Southern Dynasty, he reigned for eight years, he was the eldest son of Emperor Chen Xuan, after the death of Emperor Xuan, the crown prince Chen Shubao succeeded to the throne. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć During his reign, Tran's politics became increasingly corrupt.
Chen Shubao is absurd in wine, does not care about political affairs, takes President Jiang as the book order, does not hold government affairs, and feasts in the backyard with more than 10 so-called guests such as President Jiang, Chen Xuan, Kong Fan, etc., day and night, and makes beautiful poems. He also built a large palace and inflicted punishments indiscriminately, and was defenseless against the powerful Sui State.
The Sui State, with Yang Guang, the king of Jin, as the marshal, led 80 governors and 510,000 soldiers to the south. Chen Shubao was afraid of the Yangtze River's natural danger and didn't care. The Sui army divided ways and invaded Jiankang, and the Empress Chen, Zhang Guifei, and Kong Guiren were captured in the well, and the Chen State perished.
"The smoke cage is cold and the moon is long and sandy, and the night is close to the restaurant in Qinhuai. The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the backyard flowers across the river. ā
This is a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty Du Mu felt the fall of the Chen Dynasty and wrote a seven-character quatrain, the poem said "Houyuan Flower" is also called "Yushu Houyuan Flower", is a poem written by Chen Houzhu.
After the reign of Chen for seven years, Emperor Wen of Sui destroyed Chen, he was captured and taken to Chang'an, died in Luoyang, and was buried in Bishan at the age of fifty-two. The emperor who was born in the deep palace and grew up in the hands of a woman was politically mediocre and corrupt, but he was quite accomplished in poetry, such as "Three Women's Absolute Beauty" and "Yushu Backyard Flower", etc., are all works worth mentioning in the history of Chinese literature.
Around the time of the birth of the queen, Jiangnan was experiencing a war. Hou Jing, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, surrendered to Liang, and the following year crossed the river to attack Jiankang, broke through Taicheng, ransacked Jiankang, and Emperor Wu of Liang starved to death. Soon after, Hou Jing was defeated by Xiao Yi in Jiangling, returned to Jiankang, and established himself as emperor. Because of the burning and looting everywhere he went, it aroused the strong resistance of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, Hou Jing's army was defeated and fled north from the sea route, he was killed by his subordinates, and Xiao Yi ascended the throne in Jiangling as Emperor Yuan of Liang.
At that time, the father of the queen Chen Ji served as a general of the Zhige and a squire of the Chinese book under Xiao Yi, and was very relied on by the Yuan Emperor, who married his niece Liu Shi to him. Liu was born in a family of hairpins, and his father Liu Yanshang married the daughter of Emperor Wu of Liang, Princess Changcheng, and served as the Taishou of Poyang, and died in office, when Liu was only nine years old.
Hou Jing was in turmoil, and the Liu family went to Jiangling to rely on his uncle Emperor Liang Yuan, who treated her very much. Not long after she and Chen Ji got married, the queen fell to the ground. At that time, the war was in full swing, and the Western Wei and Northern Qi took advantage of the Hou Jing Rebellion to send troops to invade the south, the Western Wei captured Yidu, and the Northern Qi occupied Huainan.
Emperor Liang Yuan's nephew Xiao Jing took refuge in the Western Wei Dynasty, and the Western Wei Dynasty took the opportunity to capture Jiangling, killed Emperor Liang Yuan, and established Xiao Jing as the puppet emperor, known as the Later Liang in history. The Western Wei Dynasty sacked Jiangling, and tens of thousands of officials and civilians were plundered into slavery. Chen Ji walked away from the right side of the pass, and the mother and son took refuge in the city. The ancestor of the later lord, Chen Ba, first killed Wang Sengbi and replaced him with Liang to establish the Chen Dynasty, which was for the ancestor of Gao, and the family of the latter lord worked hard to become the upstart of the Chen Dynasty from the downfall.
Although Chen Baxian was a yellow robe, the good times did not last long, and he died after only two years on the throne, and his nephew and uncle Chen Qian was the heir to the throne for Emperor Chen Wen. Later, the family returned to Jiankang, and Chen Ji was named King Ancheng and became Emperor Wen's assistant. Four years later, Emperor Wen fell ill and was succeeded by his son Chen Bozong, who was the deposed emperor.
Chen Ji rose all the way, serving as a servant, governor of the Chinese and foreign military, hussar generals, and promoted to the position of Taifu. The abolished emperor was fifteen years old when he ascended the throne, and he was a child who had little to do, and all the power was in the hands of Chen Ji. Although Chen Ji is powerful, he is only a courtier after all, and he dreams of becoming the supreme son of heaven.
After counting a series of mistakes of the abolished emperor, the Empress Dowager Cixun issued an edict to depose him as the king of Linhai County and return him to the domain, and the heir of the prince and Ancheng king Chen Xuan was Emperor Chen Xuan. Of course, this farce was directed by Chen Ji, and he deliberately moved out the surviving people of his uncle Chen Baxian, just to hide people's eyes.
Chen Ji justifiably became the Son of Heaven, granted amnesty to the world, and made Concubine Liu the queen and Chen Shubao the crown prince. The fifty-three-year-old Emperor Xuan was sick and tossed and turned, and although he was treated by many parties, it still had no effect. When he was seriously ill, he issued an edict saying: "The crown prince Uncle Bao is the successor of the body, the young man is young, he is the master of Hongji, and the society is the master." The ministers of the public, the civil and military inside and outside, all exhausted their efforts, and they were sent to the residence, fulfilled the festival of loyalty, served as officials, and led the wings to shine, and did not violate the will of the people. ā
Since the edict of Emperor Daxing, it should be a natural thing for the queen to ascend the throne, but unexpectedly, it turned into elbows and armpits, and there was an uproar around the issue of succession.
It turned out that Emperor Xuan had forty-two sons, except for three who died early, the eight kings were not crowned kings, and the queen lord had been made princes, and the remaining thirty people were crowned princes. The king of the world has a great temptation for everyone, and the most urgent to covet the throne is the half-brother of the queen, Chen Shuling, King of Shixing.
He was a vassal king with an unscrupulous heart and an unscrupulous evil spirit, and when he was serving as the assassin of Xiangzhou, all the proceeds of the conquest went into his own pocket, and he refused to reward his subordinates at all; the common people had misdemeanors, and they were sentenced heavily, and they were often not tried for several years. As for digging graves, analyzing human bones, snatching people's wives and daughters, and taking them as concubines, it is even more common. After the death of his biological mother Peng, he actually excavated the tomb of the late Taifu Xie An to bury his mother, all kinds of lawlessness, which was despised by the people of the time.
Emperor Xuan was seriously ill, Chen Shuling had different ambitions, and ordered the medicine clerk to sharpen the medicine knife, and he wanted to take the opportunity to stab his brother to death and stand on his own. When Emperor Xuan died, when he entered the court, he shouted left and right to take the sword, and the left and right did not know what his intentions were, so he took the wooden sword he wore on weekdays, Chen Shuling was furious, discarded the wooden sword and took out the medicine knife in his arms. At the same time, there were also the mother of the later master, Liu, the nurse of the later master, Wu, and Chen Shujian, the other half-brother of the later master, the king of Changsha.
Taking advantage of the time when the queen was mourning and prostrating, Chen Shuling viciously pulled out the medicine knife and slashed at the neck of the rear master, the queen lord had no time to take precautions, and suddenly the blood flowed like an infusion, and he fainted to the ground, and the queen mother Liu stepped forward to rescue, and her body was also slashed several times. The nurse Wu who was standing behind the Queen Mother was anxious and wise, and pressed his elbow from behind Chen Shuling, so that the knife did not continue to be cut, and the queen was able to take the opportunity to stand, but Chen Shuling still grabbed the clothes of the queen and was struggling to break free by the queen master.
At this critical moment, Chen Shujian, the powerful king of Changsha, quickly stepped forward and hugged Chen Shuling, snatched the medicine knife, tied him to the temple pillar with his sleeve, and asked the queen how to deal with it, and the queen had been helped to the apse by the nurse Wu.
When Chen Shuling was anxious to find the queen to ask how to send it, Chen Shuling took the opportunity to break free from the shackles, galloped back to the mansion, and shouted to the armor to occupy the Qingxi Bridge and release the prisoners as soldiers.
He also called on the kings and generals, but except for Chen Bogu, the king of Xin'an, who responded, the rest of the kings refused to give his life, and Chen Shuling only gathered more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, intending to hold the city. At that time, the forces of the Chen Dynasty were along the Yangtze River to guard against the attack of the Sui army, and there were no troops to adjust, so Chen Shujian sent the Empress Dowager to send Sima Shen, the prince of the prince, to urgently summon the right guard general Xiao Maha to send troops to quell the rebellion.
Chen Shuling knew that Xiao Maha was a general who could conquer and was not to be underestimated, so he sent someone to woo him and said: "If the matter is successful, it should be given to the public as Jiuding." ā
Xiao Maha pretended to agree and said, "It must be the henchmen sent by the king of the county to come here, so that I can obey my fate." ā
Chen Shuling sent his henchmen Dai Wei and Tan Qiduo to go, and the two were killed by Xiao Maha and hung their heads on the Suzaku Gate. Chen Shuling wanted to resist stubbornly, but he was no match for Xiao Maha, and he wanted to surrender, but knowing that he was too guilty to be pardoned, he indulged his beloved concubine Zhang and the seven favored concubines in the well to avoid being bound.
He still had some soldiers stationed in Xinlin, so he and Chen Bogu led his subordinates to meet with him, and then tried to figure out how to move later. Unexpectedly, when he walked halfway, he was attacked by the army, Chen Bogu saw the enemy soldiers coming, took refuge in the alley, and was chased back by Chen Shuling with a knife. Chen Shuling's subordinates saw that Chen's army was huge, and they abandoned their armor and fled. Xiao Maha's generals Chen Zhishen and Wang Feiyao hacked Chen Shuling to death, another general, Chen Zhonghua, dismounted and cut off his head, and Chen Bogu was also killed by the rebels, so a disaster was declared peaceful.
After the rebellion was quelled, Empress Chen took the throne in the front hall of Taiji, and the first thing after ascending the throne was naturally to reward meritorious deeds. Xiao Maha has the greatest merit, awarded the scattered cavalry attendants, the general of the chariot cavalry, and sealed the Suijian county duke, 3,000 households, Chen Shuling's accumulated gold and silk accumulated a huge amount of gold, and the queen Chen gave it to him after knowing it, and later he and his daughter were the crown princess, and they were extremely pampered.
Chen Shujian was named the hussar general, the Kaifu Yitong three divisions, and the Yangzhou assassin history, looking for the relocation of Sikong. His mother, Liu, was revered as the empress dowager, and before the queen was in power, the power of the court was in the hands of Empress Liu and Chen Shujian.
A year later, Empress Liu returned to the reign of the Queen, who was thirty-one years old after the age of his establishment. At the beginning of his pro-government, he was well-fed and worked hard, and in all fairness, he was still a very accomplished emperor. Looking at the edict he issued two months after his accession to the throne, it was full of concern for the people.
When he was the crown prince, he had people compile the witty words and warnings in the ancient books into a book for his daily use.
In the seven years that the latter lord was in power, there was only a short period of political clarity, perhaps because he thought that the Chen dynasty was already solid and did not need to be prepared for danger in times of peace; perhaps he was bewitched by the courtiers around him, and he was no longer worried and diligent, and was happy to indulge in wine and profligateness.
The queen of the queen is named Shen Wuhua, her father is Shen Junli, the third division of Yitong, and her mother is Princess Huijimu, the daughter of Chen Baxian, the founding emperor of the Chen Dynasty. She is dignified and virtuous, smart and strong, dabbling in scripture and history, working in Shuhan, but weak and sick, although she is the queen, the queen treats her very thinly.
When the queen ascended the throne, he was cut by Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, and recuperated in Chengxiang Pavilion, the queen and the concubines were excluded, but Zhang Guifei Lihua was on his side, so Zhang Guifei favored the harem.
Every time Empress Chen had a banquet, he ordered the concubines and concubines to give new poems to the female bachelors, the guests and others, and gave each other a gift, and selected the gorgeous ones to compose songs, and selected more than 1,000 palace maids to learn to sing, so as to enjoy it. Commonly used tunes include "Yushu Backyard Flowers", "Linchun Music", etc., and most of the content is a vulgar work that praises Zhang Guifei and Kong Guifei's good looks.
Monarchs drank from dusk to sunrise, as they often did. Concubine Zhang Lihua was originally the daughter of a military general, her family was poor, her father and brother were weaving straw mats as a business, and when she first entered the palace, she was the maid of Gong Guifei. Empress Chen fell in love with her at first sight, and was extremely pampered, and after ascending the throne, he named her a noble concubine and gave birth to the prince Chen Shen.
Her hair was seven feet long, black and shiny, and the wind was clear and bright, and the walls of light were shining. Every time I dress up in the attic, I look at it from afar, her figure is like a fairy, she is good at observing words and colors, she has the right to skill, every time the queen invites guests, she recommends the palace maids to participate in the banquet, and the palace maids are very grateful, and they all say that Zhang Guifei is kind.
She also likes the art of disgust, which is placed in the palace to worship and gather witches to encourage her. At that time, the queen Chen was negligent in political affairs, and hundreds of officials invited them to play, and they were all able to reach the front of the queen through the eunuchs Cai Tuo'er and Li Shandu, and the queen held Zhang Guifei on his lap to make a joint decision. What Li and Cai can't record, Zhang Guifei takes care of them one by one, and a letter of folds will not be missed.
Zhang Guifei took the opportunity to interfere in politics, any remarks in the government and the opposition, any major events, can be inquired clearly in advance, and then tell the queen, and then the minister played, and there is no difference with what Zhang Guifei said, the queen saw that she could know everything in detail without leaving the palace, which was more and more favored.
Therefore, eunuchs and ministers, internal and external collusion, Qi Wan nobles, rampant and lawless, selling official positions, bribing public offices, rewards and punishments do not come out of the Zhongshu Province but out of the palace; even if the harem violates the law, Zhang Guifei is invited to intercede in front of the queen, and she can often get her wish. In order to find internal help, he actually climbed the dragon and attached the phoenix, and became a brother and sister with Kong Guifei, and tried his best to flatter the queen, and was very favored, and obeyed his words.
The eldest son of the queen is named Chen Yin, and his biological mother Sun Ji died because of childbirth, and Queen Shen adopted him as her son, and the queen ascended the throne and made Chen Yin the crown prince. He is smart and studious, good at writing and ink, and once went to Taixue to preach the "Book of Filial Piety". Just because Queen Shen couldn't get the favor of the queen, Chen Yin was also suspicious, Zhang Guifei and Kong Guifei slandered the queen many times, often saying bad things about the prince, Kong Fan and others added fuel to the fire, he was deposed as the king of Wuxing, and Chen Shen, the son born to Zhang Guifei, was the prince, although some people in the court were upset about the prince, but the queen refused to accept it, and could only sigh in vain.
Empress Chen was absurd with wine and disregarded political affairs, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the upright people in the DPRK and China. Minister Mao Xi repeatedly admonished and was demoted from the court. Fu Wei, the general of the Right Guard and the general secretary of the Zhongshu, expressed his dissatisfaction with Shi Wenqing, Shen Keqing and others for their arrogant and authoritarian court, and Shi Wenqing framed him for accepting bribes from Goryeo envoys and was imprisoned.
When the ministers of the DPRK and China saw that the main plaything was demoralized and refused to admonish and pretend to be wrong, they all knew how to protect themselves and kept silent, not daring to cause trouble anymore. A good country was put in danger by the Empress Chen, and in the face of the attack of the Sui Dynasty, the demise of the Chen Dynasty was only a matter of time.