The story of Emperor Xiaowen

Emperor Xiaowen refers to Tuoba Hong, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, whose real name is Tuoba. After moving the capital to Luoyang, the royal family changed its surname to Yuan, saying. He became an emperor at the age of five, because his father gave the world the heart of Emperor Wen and liked Huang Lao's methods. I think this has something to do with Feng Taihou's excessive power.

When it comes to two generations of emperors, Emperor Wendi and Emperor Xiaowen, we cannot but mention Feng Taihou. Feng Taihou's actual birth is also a powerful person. She is the granddaughter of Emperor Hongfeng of Houyan. After the death of Yan, his father was an official in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and was later killed for breaking the law. This woman was allowed to enter the palace as a bridesmaid and later became the queen of Tuoba GUI in Wen Chengdi. Wen Chengdi only lived for 26 years, so this Feng Taihou is actually a young widow. Xian Di Wendi TaBaHong was not born to her. Traditionally, his mother Li died as a prince, so Feng Taihou raised Wendi as her mother. After Wen Chengdi's death, Yuan Cha, the powerful minister, monopolized the power, and Feng Taihou designed to be the actual ruler of the Northern Wei Dynasty except Yuan Cha at that time. Feng Taihou is a Han Chinese, so the ethnic integration in the Northern Wei Dynasty actually started from her. But not as thorough as Emperor Xiaowen's administration.

Feng Taihou has been in power for a long time, and she and Xian Wendi are actually deeply affectionate. However, Feng Taihou's boudoir was inappropriate, and he felt very embarrassed after offering Wendi to lead the government. This is not to say that he has no actual power. Once in court, he said that he wanted to give the Zen position to his uncle Zhao Jing Wang Tuoba, but his ministers were afraid to make any noise. Only Ren Tuoba's cloud was resolutely opposed by his uncle, so Yuan He, a great politician in the Northern Wei Dynasty, also opposed it at the same time. Shu Wei records as follows:

Jin Yun said, "Your Majesty's country is rich and the people are safe, and the four seas are home. How could he disobey the ancestral temple and abandon the people? It has been handed down from generation to generation for a long time. The rise of Emperor Wei was not a revolution. The crown prince is orthodox and the seal of holiness is sacred. Your majesty will want to cut down and donate dust. If it is easy, give it to me and pay attention to it. It is shocking and touching to want to give up storage and lightly move Chen Ji, fearing that it is not a saint's intention. Moreover, the world is the world of ancestors, and your majesty needs to change the artifact, be good at the spirit of the seven temples, and be evil and chaotic. This is the cause of misfortune, and I am willing to think about it carefully. " Qiu Yuanhe went in again and said, "Your Majesty wants to choose a king from outside and meditate on his uncle. I'm afraid of chaos in the Spring and Autumn Period. After leaving this world, there will be ridicule. I deeply want to think about being a city. " Dongyang AD Pi and others went in and said, "Although the Crown Prince is virtuous, he is really young. Your majesty is rich in the spring and autumn, and he began to look at machine politics, longed for the world and territorial system, and wanted to be a good person. He didn't care about anything if he lived in a temple! If it is one trillion! " Xianzu said, "The Palace is orthodox, and it will end in Wen Zu. Why not? " So it was passed on to Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Xiaowen.

In this way, Emperor Xiaowen became emperor when he was only about five years old, while Emperor Xianwen became emperor's father before he was twenty years old. In fact, it is Emperor Xianwen who is in power.

Feng Houchuan recorded that the queen mother acted improperly and was partial to Li Yi. Empress Dowager Cixi was dissatisfied that her ancestors were punished for some things. The ancestor suddenly collapsed, and it is said that the queen mother did it.

In other words, Emperor Xianwen could not take coercive measures against the boudoir of the Empress Dowager, nor could he persuade the Empress Dowager not to commit adultery. So he had to take extreme measure to Empress Dowager Cixi's inner pet, killed two inner pets and annoyed Empress Dowager Cixi who raised him, so Empress Xianwen poisoned him. Emperor Xianwen was only 23 years old when he died, and the Queen Mother regained power until Emperor Xiaowen grew up.

Emperor xiaowen is very filial to the empress dowager. After the emperor ascended the throne, he began to build his own mausoleum. The mausoleum built by Emperor Xiaowen is much smaller than that of Empress Dowager Cixi. At that time, the mausoleum should be built near Pingcheng, which is Datong today. At that time, Datong was the capital and was called the city of peace. "Some officials told Empress Dowager Cixi what to do, and Empress Dowager Cixi killed dozens of emperors with a stick; The emperor silently accepted it, not justified it; And the queen mother, no longer ask questions. "

Taihe 14 years old, that is, Emperor Xiaowen 19 years old. After the death of the queen mother, he monopolized the power. After the death of the Queen Mother, "those who couldn't drink Gaozu spoon for five days mourned and ruined the ceremony." In fact, before his death, the Queen Mother had asked him to study politics and left some government affairs to him. Feng Taihou is completely different from the infamous Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty. Feng Taihou is an outstanding politician. During her reign, the political and economic development of the Northern Wei Dynasty reached its peak. This laid a good foundation for Emperor Xiaowen to develop the Northern Wei Dynasty to the most prosperous after he took office.

After Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang, he began the policy of sinicization, forcing courtiers to speak Chinese and wear Hanfu. Needless to say, Chinese can also take care of old courtiers, but you must wear Hanfu.

Tuoba Pi, the king of Dongyang, is the grandson of Tuoba Huai, the fierce emperor. (Tuoba Huai is the younger brother of Tuoba Shi Jianyi), who is over 80 years old and works with Tuoba, the ancestor of Emperor Xiaowen. A generation, probably five or six generations taller than Emperor Xiaowen, still wore Xianbei clothes when they went to court. Emperor Xiaowen did not punish him, but prepared a suit of Hanfu in court. Topi put it on himself when he was in court. The emperor dressed him, did he dare to disobey? From then on, I had to wear Hanfu to court.

More thoroughly, the complex Xianbei surname was changed to Han surname, and even the royal surname "Tuoba" was changed to "Yuan". "Change Rio Tinto colophon for stone, greatly, for uncle, Qiu Muling for Jose, Bu Liugu for land, He Lai why, Du Gu for Liu, He Lou for Lou. Don't. The rest changes are invincible. " Now it seems that our common surname Liu He can't say that their ancestors were Xianbei people, haha. Which famous Mu Guiying, if it really exists, must be a descendant of Xianbei people. There is no doubt that the eldest grandson of Li Shimin Taizong is also a Xianbei.

Emperor Xiaowen has always taken good care of the Feng Taihou family. He himself married two Feng girls as queens, the daughter of his younger brother Feng and his niece. According to the rules of the Han nationality, there are generations, but fortunately, the localization was not deep at that time.

Hou Feng, who later entered the palace, was a beautiful and favored sister. Shortly after entering the palace, it turned out that Hou Feng was her sister. She became a monk and died in the temple. My sister actually became the queen instead of my sister, and soon became a monk because of illness, probably because of urticaria and so on. After Feng Taihou's death, Emperor Xiaowen's mourning period expired, and Prince Gong was welcomed back as the queen. Who knows that after Feng's misconduct, he was widowed by the Queen Mother and suffered from a boudoir, which is understandable. After all, he is a young widow. And this queen feng is favored. When Emperor Xiaowen went south, he had an affair with the senior official Bodhisattva. It is said that when you become a nun, you have fornication. Emperor xiaowen fell ill in the south during his southern tour. She is even more unscrupulous, and no one dares to take care of it. To make matters worse, she told her mother to practice witchcraft and cursed Emperor Xiaowen to die early, so that she could follow her aunt Feng Taihou and become the queen mother in power. Unfortunately, something happened and exposed her ugly behavior. Her younger brother wanted to marry Princess Pengcheng, the younger sister of Emperor Xiaowen, who had just been widowed, but the princess didn't want to. Hou Feng wanted to force others, so the princess and several servants and maids secretly fled to her brother's garrison. Emperor Xiaowen was very surprised, but told not to reveal it. After I came back, I arrested the adulterer and cronies of Empress, Bodhisattva Gao and Shuang Meng, and interrogated them to find out the truth. Call the queen for interrogation, and order the eunuch to search her clothes and kill her immediately if there are weapons. The queen knelt down and wept, making her sit down and answer. When the queen told others to go away, Emperor Xiaowen ordered Chang Qiuqing to put cotton in her ear with a knife until she could not hear, so that no one knew what the couple were saying.

After investigation, Emperor Xiaowen remembered Feng Taihou's kindness, did not abolish the immoral queen, put her name in limbo, and returned to the front to continue the expedition. But his health is still not good. When he was seriously ill, he called his younger brother, told him to commit suicide after giving a gift, and buried him with a gift from the queen, thus covering up the big fault of the Feng family.

The famous holy king Yuan Xie is also a bit cunning. His name is Beihai Xiang, and he is also another younger brother of Emperor Xiaowen's imperial edict. Long Qiuqing, who had cotton in her ear, poisoned the queen. The phoenix queen refused to admit it, saying that several kings wanted to kill him, but the emperor wouldn't let her die. Had to be forced to poison and die. If Emperor Xiaowen had not died of illness and lived for a long time, he would not have killed the queen with a testamentary edict. Emperor xiaowen is going to die. If we don't kill this Queen Feng, she will come to power in the future and threaten the imperial regime.

Feng's sister, the murdered queen, was originally established as a queen in the palace, but the abolished queen was more beautiful and favored than her sister after entering the palace, so she spoke ill of her sister in every way in front of Emperor Xiaowen, so that her sister became a nun after being abolished and died in the temple.

Another thing that makes Emperor Xiaowen very sad is that the original father of the Prince, because of obesity, did not adapt to the sultry climate in Luoyang after moving the capital. Several old ministers plotted to drag him back to Pingcheng, that is, Datong, and set up another court. After the defendant was sent away, he was abandoned, shut down and died in the Forbidden City. My mother, Lin, was originally the beloved princess of Emperor Xiaowen, but was appointed as a prince and will die as usual. At that time, because Emperor Xiaowen was very kind, he begged Feng Taihou to stop this cruel rule, but Feng Taihou wouldn't allow it. In this way, if his son didn't become emperor, Lin died in vain.

Please refer to the historical records for details.