Ho Choi: The Tragic Ending of the Prophet in the Northern Wei Dynasty

If the chaos of the Sixteen Countries in Wuhu is compared to a large-scale "werewolf killing" game, most of the cards that Ho Choi touched in the Northern Wei Dynasty were "prophets".

Ho Choi began to use his skills for the first time because of a small court matter. When Tuoba Sichu was in office, a rabbit of unknown origin was found in the palace. Tuoba Si, who is very superstitious, wants to find a divination for someone who has studied Yin He's books since childhood. Ho Choi said after calculation: "The white rabbit indicates that there will be concubines in neighboring countries, which is a good sign." (When there are neighboring countries, it should be good. ) Sure enough, in the second year, the late Qin Emperor Yao Xing married his daughter (Princess Xiping) to Tuoba Si.

Later, Ho Choi successfully calculated the sensational historical events such as Yao Xingzhi's death and Emperor Wu of Song's usurpation according to the astrology. People who originally intended to see jokes have to accept this.

Besides these legendary stories, Cui Hao is really capable of assisting the monarch to govern the country. For example, in Famine, do you want to move the capital? "Emperor Wu of song cut Qin to borrow, borrow or not?" "Want to expand the territory, play soft or attack the fox summer?" Ho Choi showed outstanding analytical judgment ability in making important decisions that made senior officials in the Northern Wei Dynasty indecisive, and the result afterwards proved that he was correct. There was nothing to be done, and many battles were defeated, so that Tuoba Tao (the third emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty) said to everyone: "In the future, if you can't decide on military affairs, you should consult Ho Choi first, and then implement it." If you can't decide on any major military plan, you should consult with Hao first and then implement it. )

However, it is such an outstanding technical person who finally failed to figure out his fate and left sadly.

In 450 AD, 70-year-old Ho Choi touched the sensitive nerve of the royal family in the Northern Wei Dynasty because of the compilation of national history, and was written by Tuoba Tao as a campaign to destroy the nine clans. Before he was executed, dozens of guards climbed into Ho Choi's prison van and peed on his head. The poor old minister of the Three Dynasties who made great contributions to the development of the Northern Wei Dynasty could not even get the last bit of dignity before he died. Wei Shou, the author of Wei Shu, can't help but sigh: He Si was so cool and so sad!

The "national history case" in the Northern Wei Dynasty is a mystery in history. As the lead author, Ho Choi actually wrote something that made TaBaTao angry and willing to kill him. There is no clear record in the history books. Future generations speculated that most of them involved some scandals in the early Northern Wei Dynasty. For example, Tuoba GUI, the founding monarch, was probably a thief who killed his father for glory.

The Northern Wei Dynasty, based on the Central Plains for more than half a century, naturally could not tolerate these disgraceful histories entering the public eye. But he, Ho Choi, decided to take the idea of "recording and handling affairs" as the concept, and not to "keep it secret", and printed "National History" in the forest of steles on the suburban avenue for everyone to know. So, Ho Choi had to die, and became the * * * knowledge of the Northern Wei royal family. Even if you have made great contributions, by this time, everyone has chosen to forget.

Prophet Ho Choi was so annoying that he was killed by a mob. Of course, this also has Ho Choi's own personality defects (get carried away, unreasonable, etc.). ), but from the root, the increasingly fierce contradiction between Hu and Han is the irresistible driving force of death. The death of Cui Hao also indicates that the wave of sinicization in the early Northern Wei Dynasty encountered a landmark obstacle, and the momentum was not reversed until Emperor Xiaowen Tuoba Hong carried out the overall sinicization reform.