Chapter 101 Chapter 100 Zhaocheng Emperor Feng Hong

Feng Hong is the younger brother of Feng Ba, the king of Northern Yan.When Feng Ba was called the king of heaven, Feng Hong was named Shizhong, General Zhengdong, Shangshu Youpushe, and mastered the Central Guards.In the 21st year of Taiping (429 A.D.), Feng Ba fell ill and was bedridden. He appointed his second son Feng Yi as the prince to take charge of state affairs.Feng Ba's concubine, Song, wanted to make her own son live in her house, and not let Feng Ba's other sons have contact with Feng Ba.In September of the following year, Feng Ba was critically ill. Hu Fu, Song's confidant, told Feng Hong of Song's plot. Feng Hong rushed into Feng Ba's room with dozens of strong men in military uniform. After the death of the court lady who served Feng Ba and frightened Feng Ba to death, Feng Hong hurriedly assumed the throne of heaven, and then killed the prince Feng Yi and more than 100 sons of Feng Ba.In the first month of the following year, the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Taixing.In July of the second year of Taixing (AD 432), Tuoba Tao of the Northern Wei Dynasty personally led an army to conquer Beiyan, but within two months, several counties of Beiyan fell successively.After Tuoba Tao evacuated with 30,000 households of Yan people, Shangshu Guo Yuan advised Feng Hong to send his daughter and money to the Northern Wei Dynasty as soon as possible, in order to become a vassal.Feng Hong said angrily: "We have already formed a deep hatred with the Northern Wei Dynasty. Even if we surrender, it will be a dead end. It is better to insist on independence for the time being and find a way later."

Seeing that Feng Hong was very stubborn, Tuoba Tao ordered Leping King Tuobapi and Zhendong General Qu Yuan to lead 40,000 soldiers to attack Beiyan in June of the fifth year of Taixing (AD 435).Seeing the arrival of the army, Feng Hong secretly sent someone to ask Gao Li to send troops to pick him up.In May of the sixth year of Taixing (AD 436), Feng Hong burned down the palace and moved all the households in Longcheng east to Korea, where they were resettled in Pingguo, and soon moved to Beifeng.Although Feng Hong lived under the fence, he punished the Goryeo people as he would his own subjects. The Goryeo people were so angry that they took his prince Wang Ren as a hostage and drove away his attendants.Feng Hong felt insulted, and sent someone to contact Liu Song, preparing to defect to Emperor Wen of Song. Emperor Wen of Song sent someone to Goryeo to meet him. Gao Qiu went to Beifeng and killed Feng Hong and more than 10 descendants.Beiyan perished.