It is true that most of China's emperors were lustful, but there was also one emperor who was known for his longevity and lack of femininity, and he was Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang.

"History of Liang" records that Xiao Yan "broke off the room when he was fifty years away", and in the twelfth year of Tianjian (513 AD), Xiao Yan began to "not share the same room with women". If he died at the age of 86, he has not touched a woman in nearly 40 years.

Is Emperor Wu of Liang really not close to women for forty years? Can you believe it? If so, what exactly is the truth about his "abstinence"? This is an old question, but it needs a new explanation.

Judging from historical data, Xiao Yan is proficient in martial arts and is a master of literature, and he is indeed a rare emperor in Chinese history who is "both civil and military".

Xiao Yan's nicknames are "Lian'er" and "A Lian". Born in 464 A.D. and died in 549 A.D., at the age of 86, he was one of only a handful of long-lived emperors in ancient China. As the founding emperor of Liang in the "Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen" periods of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xiao Yan's wisdom and talent are extraordinary. The history book says that "born with a strange nature, two hip bones, a bulge on the top, and a text in the right hand called 'Wu'".

Xiao Yan, who was in his early 20s, worked under the powerful minister Wang Jian, Wang Jian knew a little about the art of physiognomy, and after seeing Xiao Yan's face, he said, "This Xiao Lang is regarded as a servant within thirty years, and it is unspeakably expensive to come out of this." ”

Sure enough, in the last year of Xiao Yan's "thirty years", that is, when he was 39 years old (502 AD), Emperor Xiao Baorong Chan of Qi was located in him, and the capital was still located in Jiankang. In fact, what kind of Zen is Xiao Baorong, it is completely forced by Xiao Yan.

After besieging Taicheng, Xiao Yan planned to kill Xiao Baojuan, the Marquis of Dongdu, and killed 5 of the 7 sons of Emperor Xiao Luan of Qiming. The unkilled one fled to the Northern Wei Dynasty in disguise, and the other was mute and a waste. Can Xiao Baorong, who was temporarily helped up, not afraid, but he was killed soon after the Zen position.

Xiao Yan is abstinent, "don't share a room with women", where are all those women in the harem? In history, except for the noble concubine Ding Lingguang who stayed in the capital, the other concubines let Xiao Yan go away and went to live with their sons.

The ancient emperors "three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines", except for those who died before they reached adulthood, were mostly deserted. Many people therefore believe that Xiao Yan is a good emperor, which is commendable.

In fact, Xiao Yan was deified, in fact, Xiao Yan was also an absurd emperor.

At that time, in a state of division between the north and the south of China, in the context of the strong south and weak north, Xiao Yan had many "northern expeditions", but he never defeated the Northern Wei Dynasty and "recovered the lost territory".

At that time, the northern forces were once divided and leaderless, if Xiao Yan was a Shengming monarch, with the strength of the Southern Dynasty, there would be no problem in unifying China, and there was no need to wait for the appearance of Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, 50 years later.

Xiao Yan not only failed to be a good emperor, but also made multiple farces such as the "monk show", and his family style also made him a mess.

After Xiao Yan became the emperor, the ** harem seemed impatient, although there was no record of Song Duzong Zhao Yugang as the emperor, summoning 30 women in one night, but it was also very powerful, it can be said that it was as "faint" as Xiao Baojuan, the Marquis of Dongdu, and spent all day drinking.

The emperors of the Southern Dynasty were extravagant and rotten. "Southern History? It is recorded in the second chapter of Qi Benji (volume 5) that the harem beauties of the Marquis of Donghuang are like clouds, and there are many beauties, among which there is a concubine named Pan Yuer who is the most favored.

In that year, in order to please Concubine Pan, Xiao Baojuan overhauled the palace and renovated the palaces in the Yuewu Hall of the residence. The road that Pan Yuer traveled through was paved with a pure gold floor carved with lotus decorations, which was called "this step by step lotus flower".

According to research, the custom of ancient Chinese women to wrap their little feet is to imitate Pan Yuer's "three-inch golden lotus".

After Xiao Yan became the emperor, he did not have the courage of Qin Shi Huang to unify the six countries, but he learned the practice of Ying Zheng to accept the harem beauties of the six countries, moved his residence to the place where Xiao Baojuan had fun, and "collected" Xiao Baojuan's harem beauties.

Here's a pretty beautiful story. Hearing that Pan Yuer is the most beautiful, Xiao Yan has long coveted it, hoping to take it for himself. Now that he is the emperor, he will naturally not let Pan Yuer go.

The general Wang Mao felt that something was wrong, and strongly admonished Xiao Yan, saying that Pan Yuer was not a good woman, but a scourge, "Those who die of Qi will be afraid of foreign discussions", Xiao Yan had to strangle Pan Yuer to death.

Later, Xiao Yan took a fancy to Concubine Yu, the No. 2 beauty in Xiao Baojuan's harem, and his staff member Fan Yun hurriedly persuaded him not to mess around, saying that Concubine Yu was not a good woman, "Concubine Yu is faint in the east of the country, which is quite a disturbance to political affairs." It was Xiao Yan in his prime who was so horny that he didn't listen at all, and later Wang Mao persuaded him together.

But Xiao Yan still didn't let go of the other women in Xiao Baojuan's harem, and took everything he liked into his arms.

Among the women around Xiao Yan, in addition to the original Xi Hui, there are 7 women (not counting those who have not given birth): noble concubine Ding Lingguang, Shuyuan Wu Jinghui, Shuyi Dong, Chonghua Ding, Contouring Ruan Lingying, Ge Shi, etc. Among them, Wu Jinghui and Ruan Lingying are the women in Xiao Baojuan's harem, and these two women also gave birth to two sons for him, namely the second son Xiao Zong and the seventh son Xiao Yi.

This Xiao Zong, in addition to the romance, also made two tomb robbery stories, by the way.

It turned out that Xiao Zong was Xiao Baojuan's widow, and Wu Jinghui gave birth to this son 7 months after becoming Xiao Yan's woman. Xiao Yan has always regarded Xiao Zong as his own son, and carefully cultivated and entrusted him with important tasks, not only dominating his wife, but also occupying his son. But when Xiao Zong was fifteen or sixteen years old, Wu Jinghui told his son the secret.

Xiao Zong didn't believe that his father was Xiao Baojuan, so he stole Xiao Baojuan's grave, dug up the bones, and "dripped blood to recognize his relatives". The Book of Liang? The forty-ninth (volume fifty-five) of the book records as follows: "However, there is still no self-confidence, and it is said that the blood of the living drains the bones of the dead, and seeps, that is, father and son." Zongnai privately sent Qi Dong's tomb, out of the bones, and drained the blood of the arm to try it. ”

Xiao Zong still didn't believe it, and brutally killed an unrelated man and conducted a "blood test" to see the similarities and differences in the results. After proving that he and Xiao Baojuan had a "father-son relationship", Xiao Zong had two hearts, "since then he has always had different aspirations", and took the initiative to serve in a remote place where no one else wants to go.

In the sixth year of ordinary (525 AD), Liang Northern Expedition, Xiao Yan appointed Xiao Zong as the commander-in-chief, sitting in Xuzhou. As a result, Xiao Zong, who had two ambitions, made a secret agreement with the Northern Wei Dynasty, abandoned the army and defected, the Liang army was defeated, and the Northern Expedition was seriously defeated.

After Xiao Zong entered Wei, he declared that he was the son of Xiao Baojuan after the Qi room, and changed his name to "Xiao Zan". Xiao Yan was so angry when he heard about it, although he felt very ashamed, he refused to admit the facts, and cried that Xiao Zong was his biological son, and what Xiao Zong said was crazy.

Everyone was laughing at it behind their backs. Someone asked Xiao Zong's official title to be removed, and Xiao Zong's surname was forbidden to be "Xiao" and his surname was changed to "Contradictory". But soon Xiao Yan issued another edict to restore everything about Xiao Zong.

Xiao Zong was buried in Wei after his death, but Xiao Yan did not give up and never forgot this "son". In the fourth year of Datong (538 AD), Xiao Yan asked people to go to the tomb to rob him, got Xiao Zong's bones back, and buried them in the Xiao family cemetery with the gift of the prince.