Chapter 22 colorful northern zhou

Thirty-four years after Tuoba Hong, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved his capital to Luoyang, in 528 A.D., Er Zhurong, chief of Qihu, entered Luoyang, killed Queen Mother Hu and Emperor Yuan Zhao, and established Yuan Ziyou as emperor (at that time Tuoba clan It has been fully Sinicized, and even the surname has been changed to the Han surname "Yuan").In 530 AD, Yuan Ziyou personally killed Er Zhurong, Er Zhurong's nephew Er Zhuzhao killed Yuan Ziyou again, and made Yuan Gong emperor.Immediately, Gao Huan, the great warlord who occupied Jizhou, sent troops to kill Yuan Gong, defeated Er Zhuzhao, and established Yuanxiu as emperor.In 534 AD, Yuan Xiu had a conflict with Gao Huan, so he fled to Guanzhong and attached himself to Yu Wentai, another local powerful figure.Gao Huan had no choice but to establish Yuan Shanjian as emperor and move the capital to Yecheng.A year later, Yuan Xiu was killed, and Yu Wentai found another member of the royal family, Yuan Baoju, to be the emperor.So after such a mess, two emperors appeared in the Northern Wei Dynasty at the same time. According to the customary statement in history books, they split into the Eastern Wei Dynasty ruled by Gao Huan and the Western Wei Dynasty controlled by Yu Wentai.

It doesn't matter whether this Wei is east or west, after all, they are all Wei, so the two Weis are all water virtues in name.Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. In 550 AD, Gao Huan's son Gao Yang abolished Yuan Shanjian and established the Northern Qi Dynasty; seven years later, Yu Wentai's nephew Yu Wenhu also abolished Wei Gongdi Yuan Kuo and supported his cousin Yu Wenjue to establish the Northern Zhou Dynasty.So the Central Plains continued to split, forming a situation where Zhou and Qi confronted each other. As a result, the problems that have caused headaches for many dynasties have surfaced again.There is only one Wei, and only one De, and now they are divided into two, how should this be counted?Both Gao Yang and Yu Wenhu came from princelings, and they both had the spirit of being a hero in the world, and felt that their own family was the orthodox, so they ignored each other and focused on their own virtues.

The Northern Qi Dynasty first claimed that they had inherited the virtues of water, wood, and greenness from the Wei Dynasty, but what was strange was that the mascot omen they got was "the red sparrow was obtained by the capital and dedicated to the southern suburbs" - the red sparrow, which is obviously red, should be red. Fire virtue. But compared with Northern Zhou, Northern Qi was considered normal.The Northern Zhou Dynasty also called themselves Mude, but this "Mude" should be very strange. The Mude was still green, but the clothes of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were still dark, which was the color of water virtue; they also announced the implementation of the ancient Xia Dynasty's calendar, and the The Xia Dynasty is clearly Jinde; what is even more outrageous is that in the genealogy published by the Yuwen family, the earliest ancestor is Yandi Shennong, but Yandi should be Huode... This is completely messed up.Originally, one color is the same, and it is custom-made. Even Cao Rui only made two colors. When he arrived at Yuwen's house, it became a colorful kaleidoscope.

Weird Although it is weird, this colorful Northern Zhou Dynasty really achieved some hegemony. In 557 AD, the Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed and the North was unified. Presumably, God was also confused by the Yuwen clan who did not play cards according to the rules. The fourth emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty——Emperor Xuan of Zhou Yu Wenyun is a wonderful thing. In addition to his life span, he can compete with Xiao Yan in the south to compete for the trophy of "the most unreliable emperor".He was only 20 years old when he succeeded to the throne, but after being the emperor for a year, he got bored and gave up the throne to his seven-year-old son Yu Wenyan. He called himself "Emperor Tianyuan" and hid in the harem to continue ruling. Trouble.

Yu Wenyun's queen is named Yang Lihua, and her father, Mr. Yang, is Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty who will create a "prosperous age" in the future. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty came to the throne very strangely and dangerously.First of all, Yu Wenyun is a lascivious and irritable boy. As soon as he hid in the harem, he made all four favorite concubines queens, making him equal to the real Empress Yang.The four new wives competed for favor, and all pointed their finger at Empress Yang, causing Yu Wenyun to speak harshly to his father-in-law Yang Jian: "Sooner or later, I will kill your whole family!"

Yang Jian was so frightened that he jumped up and down, so he wanted to find a chance to get out of the way and leave Chang'an, the capital, to go to a place to recuperate.But before he left, Yu Wenyun was exhausted in the harem life of "as long as you work hard, you can grind an iron pestle into a needle", so the ministers elected Yang Jian to assist the government - just kidding, this is the real old queen of the real queen Dad, the little emperor's real grandfather, those four new empresses and their natal family are nothing, who knows where it came from! What happened next can be imagined even by friends who have never heard of this period of history.As soon as Yang Jian came to power, he immediately carried out a big cleansing, including the vassal kings of Yuwen's family, as well as the ministers who opposed him, all of them were blamed.Then in 581 A.D., he forced his little grandson to abdicate and ascended to the throne himself-the Sui Dynasty, which was about to complete the unification, was born like this.

Virtue in troubled times has finally come to an end.