Chapter 92 Chapter 91 Emperor Wu Zhao Yao Chang

Yao Chang was born in a Qiang aristocratic family, and he followed his brother Yao Xiang for a long time to fight north and south.In the first year of Shengping (357 A.D.), Yao Xiang was killed, and Yao Chang led his troops to surrender to the former Qin Dynasty.Yao Chang was very capable and willing to use his brains, and soon won the trust and respect of Fu Jian. He successively became General Yang Wu, General Zuowei, and the prefect of Longdong, Jijun, Hedong, Wudu, Wuwei, Brazil, and Fufeng. , the governors of Ning, You, and Yanzhou.Conquering the South and the North, he made outstanding achievements in battle.

In the eighth year of Taiyuan (383 A.D.), Fu Jian mobilized all the troops to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty.Before leaving the army, Fu Jian said to Yao Chang: "You also know that I used to build up my career as General Longxiang, so I never gave away the name of Longxiang easily. Now I specially designate you as General Longxiang, a member of Yizhou and Liangzhou. The military is entrusted to you, I hope you can do it yourself." Yao Chang was very excited after hearing this.Unexpectedly, Fu Jian was defeated by the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the Battle of Feishui.In March of the following year, Murong Hong rebelled against Fu Jian, and Fu Jian sent his son Fu Rui to attack Murong Hong, but it was a bad start and Rui died on the battlefield.Yao Chang was Sima at the time and assisted Fu Rui in the battle. He felt that he was also responsible for Fu Rui's death, so he sent Chief Shi Zhaodu to plead guilty to Fu Jian.Fu Jian was in a bad mood because his son was killed. Hearing that Zhao Du came to plead guilty, he immediately killed Zhao Du.

The killing of Zhao Du surprised Yao Chang. He immediately realized that this was a dangerous signal that Fu Jian was about to attack him. In order to avoid being killed, Yao Chang fled to Weibei and then to Mamu.Considering their own interests, Yin Xiang, Zhao Yao, Di Guang, Zhang Gan and others from Xizhou's noble families persuaded more than 50,000 Qiang people to join Yao Chang and made Yao Chang the leader.In the ninth year of Taiyuan (AD 384), Yao Chang claimed to be the Great General, Great Shanyu, King of Qin Wannian, Jianyuan Baique, and named Yin Xiang and Pang Yan as the left and right long history, Yao Huang and Yin Wei as the left and right. Right Sima.Soon, Yao Chang marched to the north, and more than 100,000 Qiang Hu from Beidi, Xinping, and Anding defected to Yao Chang one after another. Yao Chang was here to watch the development trend of the current situation.In October of the same year, Yao Chang saw that Xiyan Murong Chong was besieging Chang'an, so he summoned his ministers to discuss the next action plan.The ministers all believed that Chang'an should be seized first, a base area should be established, and then the rear should be managed.However, Yao Chang believed that Xiyan would not stay in Guanzhong for a long time, and should temporarily pull the army to Lingbei. When the former Qin Dynasty perished and Xiyan withdrew its troops, they could occupy Chang'an without any effort.So he let his son Yao Xing stay in the north, and he led the army to conquer Xinping and seize the cities in the north of Lingbei.In May of the following year, Fu Jian fled into Wujiang Mountain under the pursuit of Xiyan. Yao Chang took advantage of the fire to rob and sent Wu Zhong, a strong cavalry general, to surround Wujiang Mountain and capture Fu Jian.Yao Chang asked Fu Jian for the jade seal, but Fu Jian refused; he also asked Fu Jian to abdicate, but Fu Jian scolded him severely.Yao Chang became furious and sent someone to strangle Fu Jian to death in Xinping Buddhist Temple.

Yao Chang's judgment on the situation was quite correct.Xiyan soon left Chang'an and went east, and Yao Chang took the opportunity to enter Chang'an.In the eleventh year of Taiyuan, Yao Chang proclaimed himself emperor, changed to Yuanjianchu, and the country was named Dafeng, which was called Houqin in history. Although Yao Chang was invincible on the battlefield and reported successes frequently, he could not always gain advantage in the battles against the former Qin Emperor Fu Deng, so he thought it was Fu Jian's ghost who was causing trouble.He set up a statue for Fu Jian in the army, and prayed to the statue: "My brother Yao Xiang was killed by the former Qin Dynasty. When he was dying, he asked me to avenge him, so I was ordered to use troops against the former Qin Dynasty. Your distant relatives still want to avenge you, how dare I forget my brother’s entrustment! Now I erect a statue for you, I hope your spirit in the sky will not care too much about me.” Who knows that after the statue was erected, the army of the later Qin Dynasty still often In defeat, the soldiers were often frightened for no reason in the middle of the night, and Yao Chang thought it was Fu Jian's undead who refused to forgive him, so he was so angry that he beheaded the statue of Fu Jian and gave it to Fu Deng.Yao Chang still didn't think he was cruel, so he dug Fu Jian's body out of the grave, beat him wantonly with a whip, and then stripped Fu Jian's body naked and buried it in a pit.

In the fourth year of Jianchu (389 A.D.), Fu Deng conquered Pingliang in the Later Qin Dynasty and marched towards Anding.Later Qin generals persuaded Yao Chang to fight Fu Deng, but Yao Chang decided to use tricks to win.He asked Shang Shuling Yao Min to stay in An Ding, and he led 30,000 people to attack Fu Deng's luggage in Dajie in the middle of the night, and captured dozens of famous generals and more than 50,000 people from the former Qin Dynasty. In the seventh year of Jianchu (AD 392), Yao Chang fell ill in Chang'an.He called Shangshu Ling Yao Min, servant She Yinwei, Yao Huang, general Yao Damu, and Shangshu Di Bozhi to the ban, and received the imperial edict to assist the government.He also said to Yao Xing: "No matter what slanderous rumors slander these ministers, you must not listen to them. You must treat brothers and sisters with friendship, treat ministers with etiquette, communicate with people with credit, and treat people with benevolence and righteousness. If I can do the four things, I have nothing to worry about." Yao Huang asked Yao Chang with tears how to eliminate Fu Deng, and Yao Chang said angrily, "Yao Xing's intelligence is enough to destroy Fu Deng, why do you ask me?" In December of the eighth year of Jianchu (AD 393), Yao Chang died in Chang'an.At the age of 64, he was buried in the original mausoleum, with the posthumous title of "Emperor Wu Zhao" and the temple title of "Taizu".