Chapter 35 Five, the world is in chaos

525 A.D., the first year of Xiaochang in the Northern Wei Dynasty.In August, Du Luozhou, a soldier of Rouxuan town, led the army and civilians of six towns to revolt in Shanggu, following the reign title of "true king" that broke Liuhan Baling, and quickly grew to more than 100,000 people.In January of the following year, Xianyu Xiuli, a small soldier in Huaishuo Town, also revolted in Zuorencheng, Dingzhou, and changed the name to "Luxing", which also grew to more than 100,000 people.The two rebel armies responded to each other in Hebei, and soon occupied many counties. Seven months later, Xianyu Xiuli was beheaded by his general Yuan Hongye, who was then killed by another general, Ge Rong, and the army fell into Ge Rong's hands.Ge Rong was originally an officer in Huaishuo Town. After he took over Xianyu Xiuli's army, he marched northward to Yingzhou.In mid-September, Ge Rong attacked with a light cavalry and killed the Northern Wei general Zhang Wu Wang Yuanrong in Bainiuluo.He immediately called himself the Son of Heaven, established the country name "Qi", and changed the Yuan to "Guang'an".

Yuan Rong's death in battle frightened Guangyang Wang Yuanyuan, who had made great achievements in suppressing the Baling Uprising of Six Han, to stop his army. He was suspected by the court and suspected that he was planning to rebel.His mastermind, Yu Jin, was even inexplicably offered a reward by the court.In order to refute the rumors, Yu Jin personally went to Luoyang, the capital city, to explain to Queen Mother Hu that Yuan Yuan became dizzy as soon as he left.He was stationed in Dingzhou. Yang Jin, the governor of Dingzhou, suspected that he was going to rebel, and even his subordinates could not trust him, so they expelled him, so the prince of Guangyang had to flee from the army. Ge Rong's ranger captive, look at him!Ge Rong's subordinates were originally descendants of the Baling of the Sixth Han Dynasty. Yuan Yuan had been kind to them, so many people liked him.Ge Rong's own status as the boss was a bit unfair, so at this time, he inevitably became more uneasy, and simply killed Yuan Yuan.There are also legends that the prince surrendered to the enemy on his own initiative, so the court detained his family members.

After Yuan Yuan's death, there were no decent generals in the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty who could restrain Ge Rong.Ge Rong became more and more proud. In 528, he even attacked and killed Du Luozhou, the coach of the friendly army, and annexed Du's troops. His troops were called millions. Although Ge Rong has a strong military strength, he also suffers from headaches in dealing with the contradictions between Hu and Han.Among its troops, there is a common phenomenon of Xianbei people "bullying Han children". After conquering the city, they are still used to massacres, maintaining a barbaric ethos of the Hu nationality.Therefore, although he traveled across Hebei, he did not receive the support of the powerful Han family, and he was never able to establish his own base.

But it is said that after Huaishuo Town was captured by Wei Kegu, the heroes in the town scattered, Mr. Gao Huan, a former postman who had traveled far and seen the world, fled and took refuge in Du Luozhou. Gao Huan, whose name is He Liuhun, and its Chinese name "Huan", comes from the pronunciation of the Hu character "He Liuhun".This was the common practice of people with both Hu and Han names from the bottom of the Hu tribe at that time. When I was young, my parents randomly took a cheap name for the big guy. Later, when I was successful and pursued, I felt that it was unseemly to use the Hu tribe name, so I wanted to change it. Chinese name.Some guys are lazy, so they just find a Chinese character with a similar sound according to their Hu name, such as the small character "He Liuhun" written by Gao Huan in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the small character "Mo Lifa" written by Feng Ba in the Northern Yan Dynasty. , the small character is called "Black Otter", and it is also named "Tai" in Chinese because of its similar sound.Although he has an elegant Chinese name, the enemy often refuses to admit it. On the battlefield, he always calls him by the opponent's nickname of the Hu nationality to express insult.For example, in the Battle of Mangshan, Gao Huan's general Peng Le chased and killed Yu Wentai, but he failed, and reported back to Gao Huan, saying: "The black otter has lost his blade, and his courage has been broken!" On the road, they yelled: "He Liuhun, He Ba will kill you if he breaks the barbarian!"

Gao Huan's ancestral home is Bohai, and his grandfather Gao Mi was a senior official in the Northern Wei Dynasty to serve as a censor, but was moved to Huaishuo Town for breaking the law.He has been through three generations, and although he has Han blood, he is already an out-and-out Xianbei in customs.He lives in the south of Baidao, and often haunts monsters, "the number is as red as purple." The neighbors persuaded his father Gao Shu to move, but Gao Shu refused, and said carelessly, who knew it was not a good omen?Live at ease.Just after Gao Huan was born, his mother Han passed away, so Gao Shu had to foster him in the home of his relative Wei Jing.

Gao Huan was very poor when he was young, but he was handsome. The most striking thing was his big shiny white teeth.One day when he was on duty in the city, Zhaojun, the daughter of Pilou's family, fell in love with him.The girl and her father, Pilou Negan, were reluctant to marry their daughter to Gao Huan, but Zhaojun reluctantly agreed.Neigan has three daughters, the eldest married Duan Rong, the second married Dou Tai, and the third married Gao Huan—this is the poorest.After Gao Huan married Zhaojun, he had a horse. He was the captain of the town team, and later turned into a messenger. His job was equivalent to that of a postman today, and he often delivered official documents between Huaishuo and Luoyang.He worked in this line for six years, but he was still just a small postman, without any social status at that time.Occasionally, the supervisor of the unit who receives emails is happy, and he will also invite him to eat meat.Because of eating meat, it also caused a storm.Once Shi Maxiang rewarded him with meat, Gao Huan was not used to eating standing up (I'm afraid he didn't know that there was such a custom in Luoyang City), so he ate it while sitting down.Ma Xiang was furious, thinking it was disrespectful to him, so he dragged our future Northern Qi Emperor Shenwu out and beat him forty times.

In Huaishuo Town, Gao Huan had several close friends, such as Duan Rong and Dou Tai from Xianbei, Hou Jing from Jie, Liu Gui from Huns, Sun Teng, envoy of Hu Cao, Sima Ziru, Jia Xianzhi and others.They later became the pillars of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi regimes established by Gao Huan and his son. After Huaishuo Town was breached, Gao Huan defected to Du Luozhou's uprising army in Shanggu, but he despised Du's actions, and secretly planned to murder Du Luozhou with his buddies Wei Jing, Duan Rong, Cai Jun and others.However, Gao Huan's plan was revealed, and the group had to flee in a hurry. Du Luozhou sent cavalry to chase after him.Mrs. Gao Zhaojun fled with her husband, aspiring to have a son and a daughter, and rode a cow to mix with the fleeing team.However, children don't know how to understand the difficulties of adults. On the way to escape, Gao Cheng, the eldest son of the Gao family, was awkward and fell off the cow countless times.His father was angry and impatient, and after repeated warnings were in vain, he bent his bow and set an arrow to shoot him to death.This frightened his mother, so he had to call the child's uncle Duan Rong for help.Duan Rong jumped off the horse and carried the child onto his mount, Gao Huan gave up.This scene is similar to when Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, pushed his son Han Huidi and daughter Lu Yuan into the cart when he fled.This is probably the legendary heroism.

Gao Huan fled to Ge Rong first, stayed there for a while, felt that Ge Rong was not his ideal leader, and slipped away again.Looking around the world, the only decent hero left seems to be Xiurong's Chihu Chief Er Zhurong.So Gao Huan traveled thousands of miles and fled to Xiurong to join Mr. Er Zhurong.At this time, his hard-core buddies Liu Gui and others had already done well with Er Zhurong, and they strongly recommended Gao Huan to Er Zhurong, almost exaggerating his ability to the sky.Because of the bragging of these people, Er Zhurong was also a little curious about Gao Huan. So as soon as Gao Huan arrived in Xiurong, Mr. Er Zhurong personally received him.However, at this moment, Gao Huan, who had just experienced a long journey of fatigue, was frightened, unkempt, and haggard to death, did not arouse Er Zhurong's interest. The "Northern Qi Book" said: "First, Liu Gui is honored, and he speaks of martial beauty, It is not surprising that I can see it at the beginning, because I am haggard."

Since Liu Gui has already boasted to that extent, he naturally has to take some responsibility.He bought Gao Huan a new outfit out of his own pocket, and led him to see Mr. Er Zhurong again.This time, Er Zhurong decided to interview Gao Huan in the stables, and the topic was to shave a grumpy horse.Gao Huan flattered and served the horse as a prop comfortably, neither kicking nor biting, and the relaxation of the whole body allowed Emperor Shenwu to complete the task easily.After trimming his hair, Gao Huan stood up and said, "It's the same thing to guard against evil people." When Er Zhurong heard it, um, this is a bit tasteful, why don't we find a place where there is no one to talk in detail?So the two went to Er Zhurong's bedroom to whisper, Gao Huan said: "I heard that you have horses from the Twelve Valleys, and they are different from each other. What are you going to do with so many horses?" Er Zhurong: "I am a man. Naturally low-key, I don't like publicity...how about you talk about it?" So Gao Huan said, "I think you want to rebel. Fang is weak today, the empress dowager is promiscuous, and the government is not good. With the mighty power of the Duke of Ming, he will work hard at the right time, and in the name of the King of Qing, hegemony can be determined with the whip. Do you think I am right?"

Er Zhurong: "Hey... It seems that we can talk about some deeper issues!" So the two chatted from noon to midnight, very speculative.From then on, Er Zhurong took Gao Huan as his confidant and governor, and often participated in major military plans. At this time, major changes took place in Luoyang, the capital. As Emperor Wei Xiaoming grew up, he and his mother, the Queen Mother Hu, who was in charge of the government, had a series of disputes over the ownership of the highest power, and the contradictions between the two sides gradually developed to the point of irreconcilability.The history books say: "Since the Empress Dowager Wei Ling came to the court, she has been lucky enough to use things, political affairs have been relaxed, power has not been established, thieves have sprung up, and borders have been closed. The emperor, all those whom the emperor loves and believes, the queen mother always uses things to get rid of them, and her work is to block them, so that the emperor does not know about foreign affairs. Tongzhi Sanqi often serves Changli and the Gu Shihui favors the emperor, and makes the leaders around; the queen mother repeatedly ridiculed it and wanted to use it For the state, the scholar returned to his favor and refused to go out. The queen mother falsely accused him of a crime and killed him. There was a Miduo Taoist who could speak nonsense, and the emperor often placed him at his left. The estrangement between mother and son is getting worse." This mother Hu always kills the children who play with her son secretly, and her son is of course not happy.

In 528 A.D., at the beginning of the first year of Wutai in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaoming ordered Erzhu Rong to march into Beijing.Under the instigation of Yuan Tianmu, governor of Bingzhou, He Bayue, the famous general of Huaishuo Town under the tent, and Gao Huan, Er Zhurong raised the banner of the Qing emperor and marched towards Luoyang with Gao Huan as the vanguard. A Northern Wei version of "Dong Zhuo's Rebellion" is about to be staged! However, just as the Qihu army marched to Shangdang, Emperor Wei Xiaoming suddenly changed his mind and sent a private edict to prevent Er Zhurong from continuing to advance.While Er Zhurong was hesitating, news came from Luoyang that Emperor Xiaoming had passed away in February. Er Zhurong was overjoyed—now he finally found a legitimate reason to go to Beijing! It is said that Emperor Wei Xiaoming was poisoned to death by his biological mother, the Queen Mother Ling.After his death, the Empress Dowager Ling first pretended to be Emperor Xiaoming's newborn daughter as her son and made her emperor.Even the cutscene of the amnesty of the world was over, and the old woman suddenly realized her conscience. She felt that it was a crime to reverse yin and yang in this way, and instead named a three-year-old boy Yuan Zhao as emperor—the child will not grow up for a while, which is beneficial to the emperor. The post-party long-term monopoly. For a while, the city of Luoyang was in a mess. After Er Zhurong got the news, he said to his hard-core buddy Yuan Tianmu: "We just died and the emperor is nineteen years old, and the world still says he is a young emperor! Now let's make a child who can't speak yet be the emperor." , isn’t this making fun of the world? I’m going to lead the cavalry to the Mountain of Ai, cut off the traitors, and establish a new emperor, what do you think?” Yuan Tianmu encouraged: “Then you are the Yi Yin of today, Huo Guang!” Yi Yin Huo Guang and Huo Guang were famous ministers who assisted the young emperor in the previous generation. So Er Zhurong questioned the Empress Dowager Ling who was in charge of the government. The article was written quite fluently: "Emperor Daxing turned his back on Wanfang, and the people in the world said that poison and poison caused disasters. How could the emperor not hesitate to call for a doctor at the beginning, and the nobles and ministers would all If you don't serve the side, you will not be surprised by the far and near! You also use the emperor's daughter as the queen, and you pretend to forgive. You deceive the world, and you confuse the government and the people. You have chosen the king among the children. Gang Ji, how different is it to cover your eyes to catch birds, and plug your ears to steal bells! Today, the bandits are boiling, and the neighbors are peeping at them, and they want to use unspoken sons to stabilize the world. Ask the courtiers why the emperor died, visit the imperial guards for ignorance, accept Xu and Zheng's apprentices as his defeat, shame on the same heaven, thank the far and near for the grievances, and then choose the clan to inherit Baozuo." This is a high-sounding good article, and it is an understatement to scold everyone who deserves to be scolded.He also described his behavior of calling himself a soldier who committed Que Xing and rebellion as asking the courtiers about the cause of the emperor's death and investigating the crime of dereliction of duty by the guards.A piece of loyalty is beyond words. After this factual proclamation spread to Luoyang, it frightened the empress dowager Ling enough, and hurriedly sent Er Zhurong's cousin Erzhu Shilong, who was an official in the capital, to the front of the army to explain, but Er Zhurong's arrow was already on the line, how could it be Is there a reason to quit halfway?Shilong had to return without success. Er Zhurong led an army of less than 10,000 people to the south, and in April, Yuan Ziyou, the king of Changle, was installed in Hanoi as Emperor Xiaozhuang.What the Queen Mother Ling did was really unpopular. The troops she sent to resist Er Zhurong turned their backs or collapsed one after another, and even the famous general Fei Mu surrendered.Er Zhurong entered Luoyang City without a fierce battle. The queen party members showed their special abilities and fled for their lives.Zheng Yan, a well-known post-party figure, fled back to his hometown in Xingyang to hide in the old fashioned way, and then attempted to launch a rebellion, but was killed by his subordinates; another Xu He, who was as famous as him, stole ten fine horses used by the emperor, and fled quickly. Go to Yanzhou, Shandong, where Er Zhurong's influence is out of reach, and there encourage Wei Jiang Yangkan to defect to Xiaoliang.When Gao Huan died, Hou Jing surrendered to Xiao Liang, and then launched a rebellion to besiege Taicheng where Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan lived. It was this Yang Kan who defended Taicheng for half a year, almost making Hou Jing fall short.The process of history is so interlocking. The most creative one is the Empress Dowager Ling. She lost her hair and hid in a nunnery—it seemed that the scene of a person becoming a monk was not big enough, and she forced all the daughters-in-law to shave their hair and devote themselves to the cause of Buddhism.This stupid woman thought it would be all right. But of course Er Zhurong would not let her go.He sent Qihu cavalry to detain the bald queen mother and her young emperor Yuan Zhao together to Heyin where he was stationed, and personally received the two unfortunate prisoners.Here, the Empress Dowager Ling gave full play to her ability of elongating her tongue, babbling endlessly, and Er Zhurong felt so painful that she had to flee with her clothes off.The two captives were subsequently sunk into the Yellow River and drowned. In the name of offering sacrifices to heaven, Er Zhurong gathered many nobles and officials from the Northern Wei Dynasty who had come to welcome the new emperor to the bank of the Yellow River. Abuse, you can't Kuang Bi.Afterwards, the Qihu cavalry massacred these unarmed wretches, massacring more than 2,000 people under the prime minister Gaoyang Wang Yuanyong, Sikong Yuanqin, and Yitong Sansi Yiyang Wang Yuanlue. was dyed crimson. More than a hundred courtiers arrived late, and they were also surrounded by Er Zhurong's cavalry, shouting loudly: "Those who can write Zen texts will not die!" I wrote an abdication article to settle the matter. At this moment, Er Zhurong's eyes were red-eyed, and his heart of rebellion had sprouted. He didn't pay attention to his newly established Emperor Xiaozhuang at all. He ordered the army to shout: "The Yuan family is destroyed, and the Erzhu family is prosperous!" The whole army shouted long live, and the sound shook the rivers and valleys.He sent dozens of people to draw their swords and rush to Emperor Xiaozhuang's palace, preparing to kill even the puppet emperor and replace him himself.Emperor Xiaozhuang's two brothers were killed on the spot, and he himself was imprisoned. However, at this time, the generals in Erzhu's army had disputes over whether they should usurp the throne immediately.The rebel faction headed by Gao Huan supported Er Zhurong's usurpation of the throne and self-reliance, while the royalist faction headed by He Bayue firmly opposed it.Er Zhurong was suspicious, so he used the method of casting gold to perform divination according to the ancient customs of the Hu people.Four castings before and after failed to succeed (the casting level at that time was really bad), so he felt that the heavens did not support his usurpation of the throne, and gave up this treasonous idea.He Bayue beat up Gao Huan, the dog in the water, and asked Er Zhurong to kill him as apology. Thanks to Gao Huan's popularity, he excused himself by saying that although Gao Huan was stupid and didn't talk through his brain, but nowadays the world is troubled and generals are rare, so he should stay. He deserves his life for the crime and meritorious deeds.Although Gao Huan saved his life because of this, he forged a deep hatred with He Bayue from then on. This massacre was known as the "Heyin Change" in history, and the Northern Wei royal family in Luoyang was almost wiped out.However, the curse hanging over the descendants of Tuoba was far from over. Thirty-one years later, Gao Huan's son Gao Yang massacred the remaining 721 members of the Northern Wei clan by the Zhangshui River in Yecheng. Babies were not spared either. They were thrown into the air and carried with spears, and the bodies of the dead were thrown into the water.When the fish is dissected downstream, there are often human minions in the belly of the fish, so the people in Yexia do not eat fish for a long time. After hearing about the tragedy of the "Heyin Change", most of the Northern Wei clan who were abroad were very sad and indignant.Yuan Xianda, governor of Yingzhou, Yuan Xianda, Wang Yuanyue of Runan, Wang Yuan of Linhuai and others, who were in charge of defending the Xiaoliang Dynasty in the south, surrendered to Liang Dynasty one after another.Grand Tutor Beihai Wang Yuanhao, who was going to Xiangzhou to take up his post, also received news of the Heyin Incident and Ge Rong's southern invasion in Jijun.