Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 511 Competing in the Central Plains (39)

one year later
Spring of the third year of Duke Yan 210 (523)
Since Empress Dowager Feng and Emperor Xiaowen Sinicized reforms and moved the capital to Luoyang, the ethnic conflicts in Wei State have gradually eased.

However, although ethnic conflicts gradually eased, class conflicts continued to accumulate.

Woye Town, Huaishuo Town, Wuchuan Town, Fuming Town, Rouxuan Town, and Huaihuang Town were originally military towns used by Emperor Xianbei and the nobles to defend the capital. Reused, the status is similar to the Liangjiazi of the six counties of the former Han Dynasty.

Just like the later Han Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, so the good families of the six counties were gradually left out in the cold, so that the people of Kansai chose to rebel.

As the Wei State moved its capital to Luoyang, the Xianbei warriors and Han Chinese nobles in the six towns near Pingcheng were left out in the cold. Trying to curry favor with the high-ranking family, so they also chose to rebel.

The Han Empire snubbed the warriors from the six counties of Kansai, which caused dissatisfaction among the Kansai people, and the Wei Empire snubbed the Xianbei warriors from the six towns, which caused dissatisfaction among the soldiers and civilians of the six towns.

History repeats what happened in the past over and over again.

The people of Rouran suddenly rebelled and plundered the six towns, which were not rich at all. The soldiers and civilians of the six towns finally repelled Rouran. I hope the Luoyang court can take care of the soldiers and people of the six towns as compensation.

However, neither the Xianbei clan nor the Han clan in the Wei state were willing to help the victims of the six towns, and allowed the Xianbei warriors and Han warriors in the six towns to starve to death.

Not only did they refuse to provide relief, but the officials of the state of Wei also went to the six towns to collect wealth and suck the bones of the victims.

And all of this is just to satisfy the extravagant enjoyment of Queen Mother Hu and the children of many powerful families.

Buddhism became popular again in the state of Wei, and Empress Dowager Hu ordered that Buddha statues be made of gold.

And high-ranking families are also immersed in extravagance. Yuan Chen imitated Shi Chong in the Western Jin Dynasty, competing for wealth with others, and comparing whose family is richer. There are thousands of prostitutes in the family, tens of thousands of servants, and the mansion garden is comparable to the palace. , and left a famous saying: "I don't hate that I don't see Shi Chong, I only hate that Shi Chong doesn't see me."

This means that even Shi Chong, the richest man in the Jin Dynasty, would feel ashamed when he saw me.

As the upper class of the Wei State gradually became the Jin Dynasty after the establishment of the clan system, it became more and more decadent.

The soldiers and civilians in Huaihuang Town and Woye Town launched an uprising, and defeated several other military town generals who wanted to resist, and led several other towns to rebel together.

Wei Guo sent [-] troops to suppress the rebels in the six towns, but they were defeated.

The imperial army's counter-insurgency army was defeated, and the news spread all over the world, and many forces hidden in the dark took advantage of the chaos and rebelled one after another.

The rest of the Hu people also took the opportunity to launch a rebellion and stand on their own.

However, under the background of such turmoil in the world, the dignitaries of Wei State still indulged in enjoying themselves, immersed in the power struggle in the Luoyang court.

The Great Wei established by the Xianbei people has now gradually become the shape of the Sima Jin Dynasty.

A few months later, Wei's civil strife became more and more serious, and many Wei generals in the Central Plains went south to defect to Liang.

Seeing this, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Kingdom immediately launched the Northern Expedition, hoping to take the opportunity to regain the Central Plains.

However, the commander of Liang Guoxi Road Army was incompetent. When marching in his own country, he lost his way with [-] troops. When he came back, there was a mutiny again.

Liang Guo's so-called Northern Expedition failed as soon as he left the house without even seeing the enemy.

The head coach of the Eastern Route Army was lucky. He had just arrived in Pengcheng. The Wei Guoshou general in Pengcheng stood by the Queen Mother Hu in the party struggle between the Queen Mother Hu of Luoyang and the power minister Yuan Yi. The Queen Mother Hu suddenly fell from power. Liang Guo surrendered.

However, a few months later, Yuan Yi's dictatorship aroused dissatisfaction among all the people. Empress Dowager Hu took the opportunity to kill the powerful minister Yuan Yi and regained control of the government.

So the general of Pengcheng, who had surrendered to Liang, returned to Wei and attacked the unsuspecting Liang East Route Army who was resting in Pengcheng.

As a result, the Liang Guodong Route Army was defeated and lost Xuzhou.

And in Liang State, Xiao Zong, the son of Xiao Yan, suspected that he was not Xiao Yan's own, because his mother was originally Xiao Baojuan's favorite concubine, and after Xiao Yan usurped the throne, he took his mother into the harem, and at that time, he mother was already pregnant.

Based on this logical reasoning, Xiao Zong suspects that Xiao Baojuan is his biological father, and regards his current father, Xiao Yan, as his father-killing enemy.

In order to avenge his real father, Xiao Zong turned to Wei State, hoping to rely on the power of Wei State to help him kill his father and enemy.

Xiao Yan was very angry at first, and ordered to punish Xiao Zong's family members who stayed in Liang, but after a while, he forgave Xiao Zong and Xiao Zong's family members.

At the same time, because Xiao Zhengde, the Prince of Liang, was dissatisfied with being deposed as a prince, he directly rebelled and went north to defect to Wei, hoping to rely on the power of Wei to seize Liang's regime.

However, Wei's domestic turmoil was frequent, and he was busy suppressing all kinds of rebels, and had no time to take care of the south, so he refused to send troops to the south.

Xiao Zhengde saw that Wei State had no intention of going south, so he returned to Liang State.

In the face of this treasonous "prince", Xiao Yan once again brought into play his tradition of giving preferential treatment to the clan and aristocratic families and suppressing common people from poor families, and forgave the "prince" for his treasonous behavior.

However, the "Prince" Xiao Zhengde was not grateful. Instead, he ran to the Xuzhou area and raised his troops to rebel. He was defeated and captured alive soon after.

Facing the "prince" who first treasoned and then rebelled, Xiao Yan, who believed in Buddhism, once again showed kindness to the children of the clan and aristocratic family, and once again forgave him and pardoned the "prince"'s crimes.

But don't look at Xiao Yan's forgiveness to the traitorous clan children again and again, you really think that he believes in Buddhism and is merciful.

The mercy of Emperor Xiao Yan of the Liang Kingdom was only aimed at the children of the clan and aristocratic families. If the target was ordinary people, even if there was even the slightest complaint against the Liang court, they would be punished immediately.

In the second year, he regrouped and went on the Northern Expedition again. When he attacked Shouyang City, Xiao Yan ordered his soldiers to build dams to store water. When the water level was full, he dug the Huai River dams to flood Shouyang.

As a result, halfway through the construction of the dam, there was a sudden continuous rainstorm, which caused the dam to be washed away by the heavy rain and flood, and the 20 Liang people who were building the dam were drowned alive.

He wanted to flood the country of Wei, but none of the soldiers of Wei country were drowned, but hundreds of thousands of people in his own country were drowned. Xiao Yan did this kind of "garden mouth" behavior, but he didn't kill hundreds of thousands for himself The people felt guilty, and instead vented their anger on the families of the people who built the dams, thinking that these people did not do enough to build the dams, which led to the failure of his plan for the Northern Expedition, so all the families of 20 people were reduced to slaves.

On weekdays, Xiao Yan never questioned the children of the clan and aristocratic families who harmed the common people. Once a commoner's children complained that the children of the clan and aristocratic family were too greedy and shameless, Xiao Yan would immediately have these common people who dared to complain be executed.

The powerful can ravage the people at will, and even treason can be forgiven, but ordinary people are not allowed to have the slightest complaint. This is Xiao Yan's "compassion".

(End of this chapter)