Chapter 65 Eighteenth, Emperor Tianyuan

The coincidence of history often makes people helpless.It took one and a half years from Emperor Wu of Zhou's first large-scale attack on Qi to the unification of Qi in the north, and it happened to be a year and a half from the unification of the north to the death of Emperor Wu.In another two and a half years, the Northern Zhou Dynasty will fall. As a dynasty, such a rapid decline rate can be called "its prosperity is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden." Although the time was short, Emperor Wu vigorously promoted the New Deal in the unified north. The first is the large-scale release of slaves and miscellaneous households.This time the abolition of slavery was wider than that of the first year of Jiande. It was not only implemented in the territory of the original Northern Qi Dynasty, but also all slaves, regardless of whether they were official or private, were very thorough (the last time only official slaves were released).

Secondly, the "Primary Book of Penalties" was promulgated. Although Northern Qi attached great importance to legislation and had a very advanced "Qi Law", due to extreme political corruption, the law became a dead letter.Aristocratic families plundered, plundered property, concealed their household registrations, and seized land by force, causing social turmoil. "Several Codes for Troubled Times", "Sentence Book Yaozhi" is a timely dose of powerful medicine, which stipulates: armed robbery of more than one silk, unarmed robbery of more than five silk, officials guarding and stealing more than 20 silk, thieves and officials Fraudulently stealing more than 30 horses (here silk is just a unit of measurement, which means property of the same value), and local tyrants hide five households and more than ten ding, or land of more than three hectares, all shall be sentenced to death.

Emperor Wu of Zhou released the slaves with one hand, and with the other hand used heavy codes to attack the nobles and nobles. He grasped them with both hands, and both hands were very hard. Naturally, he won the support of the people in the Kanto region.At the same time, he also let the world see that the emerging Guanlong Group is not only a new political force, but also created a new culture, which is different from the past Han culture and the past Xianbei culture. Transforming the Northern Qi Dynasty according to the model of Guanlong, including the forbidden Buddha.Buddhism flourished in the Northern Qi Dynasty, even more than in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It is said that there are more than three million Buddhists alone.After the capture of Yecheng, Emperor Wu personally ascended to the palace to evaluate the three religions, resisted all opinions, and ordered to copy the method of banning Buddhism in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Faced with the contradiction between the nobles of the six towns and the powerful clans of the Han family that the three generations of the Gao family have not been able to resolve, Emperor Wu gave full play to the inclusiveness of the Guanlong Group and absorbed the forces of the two factions in a gentle way.When Jinyang was conquered, Emperor Wu issued an edict: "Zou Lu Jinshen, You and Knights, one can be called, and should be recorded." Regardless of Han people, Xianbei people, civil servants and generals, as long as they have talents, they can be directly transcribed as Officials of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.After the annihilation of Qi, Emperor Wu named and called 18 famous officials from the Guandong clan, including Yang Xiuzhi and Yuan Yuxiu, to enter the pass and appointed them. Yan Zhitui, the author of "Yan's Family Instructions").

After drastic rectification of the old land of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Emperor Wu did not wait for a rest, so he turned his energy to foreign military use. Emperor Chen Xuan in the south heard that his ally Northern Zhou had destroyed the Northern Qi. While admiring Zhou Wudi's speed, he couldn't help but regret that he moved too slowly and didn't get a share of the pie.Therefore, he ordered his beloved general Wu Mingche to go north again, hoping to take advantage of the fact that the Zhou army had just destroyed Qi and had a weak foothold, and robbed Xuzhou, Yanzhou and other places in Huaibei.

However, the Zhou army is a master of a hundred battles, and its morale is high. How can it be compared to the Qi army back then.Liang Shiyan, who made great contributions in the battle of exterminating Qi, was appointed as the governor of Xuzhou by Emperor Wu of Zhou, and firmly defended Pengcheng.Wu Mingche led the navy to attack the city. He was too aggressive and couldn't attack for a long time. Instead, he was blocked by Wang Gui's reinforcements from the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Eighty elite cavalry led by He broke through the siege and fled back to Chen Guo.Emperor Wu of Zhou appointed Wu Mingche as a general, but he was full of worries and anger, and died soon after.

After repelling Chen's attack, the proud Emperor Wu was going to deal with another former ally once and for all - the Turks who had repeatedly violated the frontier recently, and then went south to eliminate Chen and rule the world. In May of the first year of Xuanzheng (578 A.D.), Emperor Wu of Zhou led his army into five groups to attack the Turks in the north.Halfway to Yunyang (the place where Yu Wentai died), suddenly fell ill.Four days later, Emperor Wu died at the age of thirty-six. The untimely death of Emperor Wu of Zhou was the turning point of the Northern Zhou Dynasty from prosperity to decline and to extinction.

Emperor Wu made few mistakes in his life, but two mistakes were fatal: the first was to bestow Feng Xiaolian to his younger brother Yu Wenda; the second was to make his eldest son Yu Wenyun the crown prince. After the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Wei was escorted to Chang'an and named Wen Guogong.Gao Wei was able to survive, but he was not happy. He felt that life would be meaningless without Feng Xiaolian, so he boldly asked Emperor Wu to return Xiaolian.Emperor Wu was not lustful, and when he heard this, he curled his lips and laughed: "I see the world as if I took off my shoes, an old woman, I will reward you!"

Gao Wei happily went home with Xiao Lian in his arms.It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and only half a year later, someone falsely accused Gao Wei of treason (as long as there is a need, false accusers can always appear in time), Emperor Wu sent Gao Wei and his son, Gao Yanzong and dozens of Northern Qi clans, as well as the jester Mutipo All of them were sentenced to death, only Gao Wei's younger brothers Gao Renying and Gao Renya, an idiot and a mute, who were not threatened, were exiled to Chengdu and survived by luck. Feng Xiaolian became a widow, and Emperor Wu bestowed her on behalf of Wang Yuwenda.Yu Wenda was frugal, not sensual, honest and self-disciplined. Emperor Wu intended to set up a moral example and educate the former courtiers of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Emperor Wu was wrong. After Yu Wenda saw Xiao Lian, he doted on her so much that he even neglected his wife, Concubine Li.Concubine Li saw her well-behaved husband suddenly change his mind, she couldn't think about it, and almost committed suicide. Feng Xiaolian once broke a string while playing the qin, unconsciously recalling the benefits of Gao Wei, and chanted casually: