Chapter 484: The Two Emperors Passed Away
Yuwen Yong died on the day Wang Ze completely defeated the Daluo Department under Liaodong City.
When hundreds of thousands of Northern Zhou troops completely defeated Southern Chen, Yuwen Yong learned that Xia was at war with nearly a million Turkic troops, so he prepared to destroy the local Xia forces in Sanqi in one go, so he once again gathered 300,000 troops to personally lead and support the front line.
Thanks to the rapid growth of national strength after the Northern Zhou Dynasty eliminated the Northern Qi Dynasty, 300,000 government soldiers were quickly assembled in Chang'an and other places.
Originally, Yuwen Yong wanted to recuperate in Luoyang, and then continue to go on the expedition, but who knew that Yu Wenyong's condition deteriorated very quickly, and he was bedridden in just a few days, and Yuwen Yong suddenly fell ill and died in less than ten days.
Wang Ze was not surprised by the sudden death of Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yuwen Yong, he had long known that Yu Wenyong would inevitably die a bad death, which would inevitably fall when Yuwen Yong carried out political reform and the campaign to destroy Buddhism.
Although Wang Ze did not know much about how Yu Wenyong died in history, Wang Ze knew that Yang Jian controlled state power through his young grandson because of his knowledge of the background before the establishment of the Sui Dynasty.
Since Yu Wenyong's grandson ascended the throne so early, it means that Yu Wenyong and his son must have died very early.
Whether it is the death of Yu Wenyong in the original history or the death of Yu Wenyong this time, both are full of strangeness, but in Wang Ze's analysis, I am afraid that it is indispensable to intervene in the big forces whose interests have been greatly touched in the political, economic, and military reforms of Yu Wenyong.
Especially according to the information from Wang Ze's detailed work that Wang Ze had arranged in the Northern Zhou Dynasty a long time ago, Yuwen Yong's sudden death actually had the shadow of the Futu Sect faintly inside, and it was likely that the Futu Sect and some forces within the Northern Zhou Dynasty jointly killed Yuwen Yong.
In fact, it is natural to think about it, since the Futu sect became strong in history, it has always been a big problem for the Central Plains Dynasty, they control more than 30% of the country's fertile arable land, control nearly 30% of the country's young and strong population, do not have to pay taxes, do not bear the burden of forced labor.
In addition, there are many monks who take advantage of the convenience of entering and leaving the inner courtyard to fornicate the government and the opposition and rape the people's daughters.
Even in history, Emperor Taiwu of Wei, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong, and Zhou Shizong Chai Rong exterminated the Buddha regardless of their personal safety, causing the country's strength to increase dramatically, but because of the fundamental interests of the Futu Sect, they all died violently in the prime of life.
If there is no intervention of the Futu Sect in this, and I don't believe it when I am killed, it is a pity that the Futu Sect in later generations used this to publicize it, and these three people were angry with the gods and Buddhas because of the destruction of the Buddha, so they died and the country was destroyed, so that the emperors of later generations were more in awe of the Futu Sect.
No matter what later generations say about Yu Wenyong, it was during his reign that made the Northern Zhou leap to surpass the Northern Qi to become a powerful country, and then it was to defeat the Northern Qi to unify the north, and made the most fundamental contribution to the great unification of China after hundreds of years of war.
After Yu Wenyong's death, his eldest son, the crown prince Yu Wenyun, ascended the throne with the support of the generals, clans, and ministers of the Zhu Kingdom, and the former crown princess Yang Lihua became the queen, and Yang Jian jumped from the prince of the country to the national ruler, and his status became more high.
Yu Wenyun took Empress Ashina as the queen mother, his biological mother Li Zi'e as the queen mother, and his eldest son Yu Wenyan as the crown prince, and the following year as the first year of Dacheng, as if a new atmosphere.
For the sudden death of Yuwen Yong, the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were in mourning, while the upper officials of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the nobles, and even the Buddhists and Taoists were almost all celebrating in the crown, and Yuwen Yong's death after defeating the Northern Qi Dynasty was too perfect.
Although Yu Wenyong has strong personal ability, he has a reputation for being 'mean and unkind' in the history books.
It is precisely because of his great ambition that he is very strict with his subordinates, causing these people to resent him, Yu Wenyong's sudden death is undoubtedly good news for them, this time it is finally easy, is it still possible to get some benefits?
For the Futu sect, the death of Yuwenyong is a great news, because Yuwenyong's extermination campaign led to the forced return of millions of monks in the northern Futu sect, and a large number of monasteries and Buddhist scriptures were destroyed, but Yuwenyun was extremely obsessed with Buddhism and Taoism.
When Yuwenyong died less than a month ago, Yuwenyun ordered the restoration of the destroyed monastery, and also rewarded a large number of Taoist priests of the Futu sect and the Northern Heavenly Master Dao and Louguan Dao, and even ordered a large number of Buddhist scriptures to be engraved and printed.
For a time, the monks all over the world were praising Yuwenyun's wisdom, the monks restored their status as a Futu sect, the magnates got their own power, they were satisfied one by one, and only the small people who no one looked at were grieving for Yuwenyong's death.
What made the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty dissatisfied was that Yu Wenyun did not act in accordance with the etiquette law at all after Yu Wenyong's death, and Yu Wenyong was buried in just ten days, and on the day of the burial, Yu Wenyun began to take off his filial piety clothes and celebrate his liberation, he had had enough of his father.
Emperor Wu of Zhou was very strict with his son Yuwenyun, and every time he met him, he asked Yuwenyun to behave the same as the minister.
In addition, he also has high requirements for Yuwenyun's studies and government affairs, even if it is a harsh winter and heat, he is not allowed to rest, but Yuwenyun is good at drinking, and Emperor Wu of Zhou ordered that alcohol and all wine-related drinks and food cannot be sent to the East Palace.
Whenever Yu Wenyun made a mistake, Emperor Wu of Zhou beat him with sticks and whips. He also said to him: "There are many princes who have been abolished in all dynasties, can't my other sons be made princes?" "Look at the Chinese network
So Yu Wenyun ordered the officials of the East Palace to record Yu Wenyun's words and deeds and report to him every month.
Under the long-term oppression, Yu Wenyun was afraid of the majesty of his father Emperor Wu of Zhou, and his words and deeds were performed according to the rules every day, and he never expressed his true feelings, so many serious evil deeds were not known to outsiders.
After Yu Wenyong died, no one could dissuade Yu Wenyun anymore, so he became more and more promiscuous.
On the day that Yuwen Yong died of illness, Emperor Chen of Southern Chen also died of illness at the same time.
Compared with Yu Wenyong's death, which was delayed by one year in history, Chen Ji's death was three years earlier.
Originally, Chen Ji was ambitious and prepared to take advantage of the opportunity of the Central Plains melee to continue to march into the Central Plains, although he did not seek to completely defeat the Northern Zhou Dynasty and occupy the Central Plains, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to continue to expand the strength of Southern Chen, but all this disappeared.
Under the guise of attacking Wang Yong, the Northern Zhou Dynasty sent hundreds of thousands of troops southward in a blink of an eye, and almost wiped out more than seventy percent of the Southern Chen army without any psychological preparation in one go, and most of the generals of Southern Chen were killed or wounded.
Although the Northern Zhou Dynasty failed to cross the Great River, a large amount of land in Jianghan, Lianghuai, and Huaibei, which took two generations and three emperors to recover at the beginning of the Southern Chen, was lost in one go.
These lands are the most elite land in Nanchen, even if Nanchen has now developed the land of Lingnan, and the Xiangshui and Ganshui basins are far more prosperous than the same period in history, but the population of these lands north of the river still accounts for more than 30% of the population of Nanchen.
After losing the north of the Great River, the Northern Zhou and Nanchen shared the natural danger of the Yangtze River, not to mention the strategic depth of the two Huai, and the Southern Chen also lost more than 2 million people, and the remaining population south of the Yangtze River was only 4 million.
It seems that after Nanchen lost these populations, there were still four million people, but you must know that Nanchen's elite soldiers have always been mainly established by the Han people in the north of the Lianghuai region, and almost more than ninety percent of the soldiers in Nanchen's army came from these lost lands, which means that Nanchen has lost almost all of its soldiers.
After learning that the Chen army on the front line suffered a large number of casualties, the Jiangbei army lost almost all of them, and the Northern Zhou army drank the Yangtze River, Chen Ji immediately vomited blood and fainted to the ground.
So the anxious Nanchen civil officials and military generals had no choice but to put the crown prince Chen Shubao out of the temporary regent, as the future generations of Chen Shubao, known as the queen of Chen, but far from the ability of the uncle, uncle, father, so Nanchen is still in a mess.
A few months later, on the day of Yuwenyong's death, Chen Ji finally died of a serious illness, and the two emperors could be companions on the road.
Chen Ji died suddenly, and it was said that Chen Shubao was naturally going to be enthroned as emperor, but on the day of Chen Ji's funeral, Chen Shubao was almost killed by his younger brother Chen Shuling.
Since ancient times, there has been no family affection, this sentence is not just talking.
Chen Shubao's younger brother Chen Shuling was quite dissatisfied with Chen Shubao as early as when he was the crown prince, and when Chen Shu Bao died, he carried a sharpened blade with him.
When Chen Shubao was crying on Chen Shubao's coffin during the funeral, Chen Shuling suddenly pulled out a knife and slashed at Chen Shubao's neck, and immediately cut at the back of Chen Shubao's neck, who was not psychologically prepared.
It may be because Chen Shuling, the kid is young after all, and he is only in his twenties, and he is a little panicked, and the knife is cut quite accurately, but because the strength is not enough, it does not cause fatal damage, but is escaped by Chen Shubao under the escort of the guards.
Chen Shubao, who escaped, was shocked and angry, and immediately ordered the general Xiao Maha to lead the army to capture and kill Chen Shuling, and then Chen Shubao was taken care of by Zhang Guifei Zhang Lihua alone, and after the injury was healed, he loved Zhang Lihua more and more.
After Chen Shubao ascended the throne, he was not at all concerned about the unfavorable situation of Southern Chen, and some people advised him to continue to be diligent and thrifty, so as to continue to increase armaments in case the Northern Zhou Dynasty moved south.
However, Chen Shubao took the fact that Chen Baxian defeated the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou successively and said: "In the past, the Qi army failed three attacks, and the Zhou division was defeated again!" Jiankang Wang Qi is here, although there are few soldiers and generals, but there is a big river to separate the north and south, how can Zhou Shi fly across? ”
Therefore, Chen Houzhu ignored these opinions at all, and Chen Shubao was even more annoyed by some ministers who persuaded him to continue to reconcile with the Xia State, he thought that he was the orthodox of China, and even wanted to bow his knees to a small country in the East China Sea, and even exiled these ministers to Qiongzhou.
Nanchen has developed Lingnan for nearly 20 years, and Chen Shubao still doesn't know that Lingnan, especially Qiongzhou, has become a rich place, but all of this does not affect Chen Shubao's unscrupulous enjoyment of life.
After Chen Shubao ascended the throne, the officialdom of Nanchen became even darker, because of Chen Shubao's mediocrity, aspiring ministers resigned one after another, and the struggle for power and profit among the remaining ministers became more intense, and no one cared about the life and death of the people, especially those who came to Jiangnan to escape the war.
No one noticed that when a large number of people who fled did not know where to go, there was a wave of immigration between Huainan and Lingnan, and a large number of Han people from the north and south of the Huaihe River had to move their families in order to escape the military disaster.