[Zi Zhi Tong Jian 365] 7.4 Brothers fighting for the throne? Emperor Liang Yuan starved to death and killed his nephew

July 4th

Brothers fighting for the throne went to war

Emperor Yuan of Liang starved to death his nephew

Prince Xiao Ji of Wuling was Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty Xiao Ji Yan's eighth son became the governor of Yizhou and stayed in Chengdu for twenty years. Yizhou's terrain is closed, and there are noisy wars outside. As long as there is no civil strife, it is always peaceful inside.

Xiao Ji paid attention to agricultural production, developed well salt and iron ore, and traded with remote mountainous areas, and the local area gradually became wealthy. He has sufficient weapons, has 8,000 war horses, a strong military, and his political ambitions are constantly expanding. 552.4 The governor of Yizhou and Taiwei Wuling Wang Ji were quite talented in military affairs. In the seventeenth year of Shu, he opened Ningzhou and Yuexun in the south, and connected Ziling and Tuyuhun in the west. He cultivated mulberry, salt and iron in the interior, and communicated with merchants in distant places. It is profitable, so it can be used to make money. It has a lot of weapons and armor and eight thousand horses.

When Hou Jing captured Taicheng, he heard that Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan, was going to send troops to denounce him. He was very dissatisfied: "Qi Guan is a scholar, how can he denounce it? What a joke!" 552.4 Hearing that Hou Jing had captured Taicheng , the king of Xiangdong was going to fight against him, and he said to Liao Zuo: "How can seven officials and scribes help?"

Xiao Yi was the seventh son of Emperor Wu of Liang, so his younger brother called him Qiguan.

Xiao Ji didn't care about his father's safety. He watched the fighting between dragons and tigers down the river, and watched the fire and cool breeze from the other side. Sima Wang Senglue, Wang Sengbian's brother, and Xu Ping, who joined the army, persuaded Xiao Ji to send troops. Xiao didn't want to, and felt that these two people were deliberately showing off their shortcomings, and they held a grudge in their hearts. It happened that someone falsely accused Xu Ping of treason. Xiao Ji couldn't help but sentence him to death after he was caught. At the beginning of 552.4, during the siege of Taicheng, Ji was urged to rush in for reinforcements, but Ji did not want to do it, so he ordered it internally. Feihe, a man from Shu, reported that he was rebelling. He wrote to the general and said, "Everything comes from the mouth." Ji thought that he was rebelling.

He also said hypocritically: "We are old friends. Your son is my son. I guarantee that everything will be fine. You can go without any worries." 552.4 He said to Tai: "Because of your old friendship, I should make everyone "I'm fine."

Xu Ping was furious and cursed: "If my son is like you, why not die together!" 552.4 He said to him, "If you have a son like your highness, what's the use of keeping him!" "

Xiao Ji was humiliated and killed all the Xuping clan members. Even Wang Senglue was sent to the execution ground.

Xiao Ju (huT), Marquis of Yongfeng, sighed: "Xiao Ji's career will not succeed. Gentlemen are the foundation of the country. If they drag people to behead for no reason, can this rule last long? ?" In 552.4 Ji, he was executed. He led the leader to the city and also killed Wang Senlue. Marquis Yongfeng sighed and said: "The king's affairs are not going to happen! Good people are the foundation of the country. Kill them now. What will happen if they don't perish!"

Soon, a column around Xiao Ji's dormitory hall became wet due to the dampness of the earth. , giving birth to a group of patterns. He thought it was a symbol of good fortune, so he immediately declared himself emperor, changed the title of "Tianzheng" to "Tianzheng", appointed hundreds of officials, and made his son Xiao Yuanzhao the prince. 552.4 The cypress pillars in the inner bed are surrounded by flowers, which is considered auspicious. Yisi, the emperor's throne, was changed to Yuan Tianzheng, and his son Yuanzhao was established as the crown prince.

At the same time, Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan in Jiangling, also officially proclaimed himself emperor, the historical Emperor Yuan of Liang. 552.11 Gongqing Lanzhenshu persuaded the king of eastern Hunan to advance. In November, Bingzi, Shizu, the emperor, was located in Jiangling.

Xiao Ji could not tolerate his brother becoming emperor, so he sent troops down the river to fight.

Emperor Yuan was narrow-minded and stingy. When he heard that Lao Ba was calling, he was shocked and angry. He asked the alchemist to draw his portrait on a wooden board and nailed it to the ground himself. He cursed every day and wanted to use witchcraft to kill his brother. Curse to death. He also gave many of Hou Jing's accomplices to Lao Ba. 553.3 When I heard that King Wu Ling was going east to commemorate his death, he had the alchemist draw a block for the commemoration image, and personally nailed the body to show his displeasure. Tell him: "Jiankang has been conquered, and these prisoners are witnesses. If you raise troops to provoke, they are also your role models."

However, Xiao Ji didn't care about this at all, and quickly sent the warship to Padang.

Emperor Yuan could not help but be nervous, and immediately wrote to Yu Wentai, the Grand Master of the Western Wei Dynasty, saying: "Zijie, my dear, please ask for it." In 553.3, the Emperor was very frightened, and wrote to Wei Shu: "Zijiao, my dear. Yes, please discuss it.

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This sentence carries a lot of weight: Zijiu was a prince of Qi State in the Spring and Autumn Period. He had a conflict with his elder brother and fled to Lu State; later his elder brother became the king of Qi and regarded his brother Zijiu as his son. The traitor asked the State of Lu to kill him. Of course, this was to use other people's hands to eliminate political opponents. How could there be any brotherhood?

Emperor Liang Yuan asked Yuwentai to send troops to eliminate Xiao Ji, and at the same time promised to kill Yizhou. The land was given to him. Yuwentai was overjoyed and exclaimed: "Take Shu to make beams in one fell swoop!" "553.3 Taishi Tai said: "We are taking Shu to make beams, now we can do it in one fell swoop. "He wanted to take this opportunity to seize the land in central Shu and control the country of Liang Dynasty. It seems that Emperor Liang Yuan was betraying the future of the country.

The army of the Western Wei Dynasty invaded central Shu from Dashan Pass through Jiange. Chengdu was seriously threatened.

Xiao Ji should have gone back quickly to save the base, but he was proud and stubborn and did not want to lose to Lao Qi. Prince Xiao Yuanzhao also firmly supported it. In this way, the troops from Shu and Jiangling met in the area of ??Xiling (near today's Yichang). Lu Fahe, the guard of Emperor Liang Yuan, built a small castle on each side of the Xiling Gorge, and built a large castle. The stone blocked the waterway of the river and the iron rope blocked the river. He was still worried and asked Emperor Yuan to release Hou Jing's general Ren Yue from prison. Emperor Yuan even took the initiative to release the prisoner Xie Daren to help Lu Fahe. Two emperors, elder brother Lao Qi and younger brother Lao Ba, started a tug of war in the Sanyou Cave area above Gezhouba. Soon, Lao Qi's backup force Wang Lin also called, and the situation was not good for Lao Ba. The letter persuaded him to withdraw his troops and hand over Yizhou to him. In 553.6, the Liang Dynasty replied to Jishu and wrote very elegantly and politely:

"My year is only one day long. He has the ability to quell chaos, so he is happy to push for this, and everything will be done. If you send an envoy, it will be too late. If it is not the case, I will write here. Friendship with brothers, fractal energy. The fat brother and the thin brother will never see each other again; let the jujube push the pear, and the day of happiness will never end. I love you so much in my heart that I can’t express it enough in the book. "

The letter said, I am older than you, and I have contributed to the pacification of Hou Jing. People in the society support me as emperor, and I hope you will surrender and make peace. If you don't listen to the advice, the brotherhood will never be the same. It was cut off, and only swordsmen met.

Xiao Ji felt that Chengdu was in danger, and wanted to take the opportunity to step down, so he sent Shangshu Le Fengye to Jiangling to negotiate. Unexpectedly, Shangshu wanted to change the court, and took this opportunity to tell Emperor Yuan: "Shu Army." We have run out of food, people are starving to death, and failure is right in front of us. Why bother to make peace? Emperor Yuan then retorted and refused to negotiate. The two sides continued to fight.

Xiao Ji was greedy and accumulated a lot of property. He made cakes weighing a pound of gold and packed a hundred cakes into a box.* **There are one hundred boxes. There are five hundred boxes of silver, and there are piles of Shu brocade. When going to war, they are all moved to the big ship, and the soldiers are invited to see them, but they are never given a pound of gold as a reward. , hundreds of cakes are made into boxes, and when there are hundreds of boxes, the silver is five times as much as the gold, and the brocade and zhancai are called it. Every battle, the soldiers are shown, not as a reward.

Ningzhou Governor Chen Zhizu asked him to share it. These were given to the soldiers to buy people's hearts and morale, but he refused. Chen Zhizu actually died of worry, and the troops were distracted. 553.6 Chen Zhizu, the governor of Ningzhou, asked him to disperse to recruit warriors, but he refused, and Zhizu died in tears. . When someone came to ask for help, Ji Ciji disappeared, so the soldiers were disintegrated.

In July of that year, the lord of Xiakou City was killed, Xiao Ji's retreat was cut off, and Wangfeng, the fourteen cities along the river, collapsed. They could only move forward with the current, and were finally surrounded by the guerrilla general Fan Meng of Emperor Liang Yuan in 553.6 So the fourteen cities on both sides of the river surrendered. Ji did not retreat and went eastward with the current. The guerrilla general Fan Meng of Nanyang pursued him and Ji Zhong was defeated. , more than 8,000 people died in the water, and they surrounded and defended them.

Emperor Yuan ordered Fan Meng: "We don't want the alive, but the heads." "553.6 The secret edict said fiercely: "Survival is not a success. "

Fan Meng attacked Xiao Ji's ship and chased him around. Xiao Ji grabbed a box of gold and threw it to Fan Meng, shouting: "I'll give it to you as security for the freight. Take me with you. Meet Qiguan! "553.6 Meng led the troops to Ji's office. Ji walked around the bed in the boat, threw a gold bag and said fiercely: "I'll hire you here and send me to see the seven officials.

Fan Meng smiled and said: "What a pity, Qiguan doesn't want to see you!" Where will the gold go after Shisuke dies? "Immediately ordered people to kill Xiao Ji and his youngest son Xiao Yuanman. 553.7 Meng said: "How can the emperor see this! Kill them all, and the gold will be safe! "So Ji and his youngest son Yuan Man were executed.

Lu Fahe captured the three brothers of Prince Xiao Yuanzhao and sent them to Jiangling. Emperor Yuan put them in prison and ordered Xiao Ji's family to be expelled from their clan and their surnames changed. "Taotie family". 553.7 Lu Fa and the three brothers, Prince Yuanzhao, were sent to Jiangling and given the surname Taotie family.

The three brothers were so hungry that they bit each other. His arm, buttocks, was extremely miserable, and he died after thirteen days. When the people heard the news, they all sympathized with him, and secretly blamed Emperor Liang Yuan for being cruel and ruthless, and ordered him to go on a hunger strike in prison in 553.7. He bit his arm and ate it, and died on the thirteenth day. People far and near heard about it and were saddened.