Chapter 94 Chapter 93: Empress Yao Hong

Yao Hong is the eldest son of Yao Xing, the emperor of the later Qin Dynasty.Because he is tolerant and generous, does not know how to play tricks, and is often sick, he has not been established as the prince for a long time.Until the fourth year of Hongshi (AD 402), he finally got the crown prince. Yao Hong likes to study, chant poems, and is also good at eloquent discussions. He often summons Shangshu Wang Shang, Huangmen servant Duan Zhang, Shang Shulang Fu Yunwen, and Hu Yitong and Xia Houzhi, who write good articles, to discuss poetry and prose.Yao Hong was educated by Dr. Chun Yuqi, and respected Chun Yuqi very much. When Chun Yuqi fell ill, Yao Hong visited him personally and worshiped Chun Yuqi by his bedside.Because of his exemplary behavior, Hou Qin developed an atmosphere of respecting teachers. From then on, all the princes of Hou Qin had to bow down when they saw their masters.

Yao Hong is kind-hearted and advocates that the punishment should be light and the law should be lenient.When Yao Xing was in Pingliang, Feng Yiren Liu Jue gathered thousands of people to start a rebellion.Yao Hong, who stayed in Chang'an, sent Peng Bailang, the general of the town army, to lead the banned soldiers in the East Palace to kill Liu Jue, but pardoned all those who participated in the rebellion.At that time, all the generals believed that there should be no mercy for the rebels, but Yao Hong said to them: "Before he left, my father entrusted me to manage the country and defend against aggression. I have not managed it well, so that the rebellion broke out. I should blame myself. How can I Add crimes to them!" In September of the seventeenth year of Hongshi (AD 415), Yao Hong's younger brother Yao Bi attempted to take advantage of Yao Xing's serious illness to seize the crown prince.In a fit of anger, Yao Xing arrested Yao Bi's accomplices Tang Sheng, Sun Xuan and others and prepared to kill them. Yao Hong interceded for them, and Yao Xing pardoned Yao Bi and his accomplices.

After Yao Hong came to the throne, life was not easy.First, the Qiang chieftain party raised troops to demonstrate to him, and then Di Wang Yang Sheng challenged him, attacked Qishan in the later Qin Dynasty, and advanced towards Qinzhou.When Yao Hong was about to send someone to deal with Yang Sheng, Xia Zhu He Lianbobo took advantage of the fire to loot again, captured Shangyu (now Tianshui, Gansu), Yinmi, Anding, and Yongcheng in the Later Qin Dynasty, and marched towards Meicheng.Yao Hong had just repelled Helian Bobo with great effort, and Liu Yu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty led his troops to attack the Later Qin Dynasty in the north. He quickly captured Qiqiu, Xiangcheng, Cangyuan, and Yingkou, and reached Chenggao.Yao Kuang, who was guarding Luoyang, saw that the Jin army was coming so fiercely that he could not resist it with his own strength, so he sent someone to rush to Chang'an for help.Knowing Luoyang's important position, Yao Hong immediately dispatched 3,000 cavalry led by Yue cavalry school lieutenant Yan Sheng to the rescue, and General Yao Yinan led 10,000 cavalry to help defend Luoyang.However, because Yao Guang's subordinates secretly communicated with the Jin army, the Jin army was able to drive straight in, and Luoyang soon fell.

In the first month of the second year of Yonghe, Yao Hui, the Duke of Qi, called himself the Great Governor, and led 38,000 stable townspeople from North Yongzhou to Chang'an to rebel against Yao Hong.Yao Hong himself led Qingqi to the front line of Lingtai to fight Yao Hui.Yao Hui was attacked and killed.Yao Hong is an emotional emperor. Although he was very angry when he first heard that Yao Hui raised his troops, he cried bitterly after seeing Yao Hui's body. He wished he could leave the world with Yao Hui. Just as Yao Hong buried Yao Hui grandly with the ceremony of a prince, the army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had already captured Puban.Yao Hong asked his younger brother Yao Yu, the chariot general, to lead the vanguard to resist the Jin army, and then led the army himself to set off.Yao Yu was defeated as soon as he fought the Jin army. Yao Hong had to retreat to Bashang, and then to Shiqiao. In the end, he had no way out, so he had to lead his wife and children to surrender to Liu Yu, and was sent to Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) to be killed. 30 years old.Later Qin died.