Chapter 167 Chapter 166: Emperor Wencheng Tuoba Jun

Tuoba Jun was born in the sixth year of Taiyan (AD 440), the eldest son of the former prince Tuobahuang.Tuoba Tao deeply regretted that his suspicion and jealousy made Tuoba Huang fearful and died of illness, and he especially loved Tuoba Jun.When he was young, Tuoba Jun was clever and intelligent, and was often brought by Tuoba Tao's side, personally taught him, and he was called the grandson of the emperor.In the fifth year of Taiping Zhenjun (AD 444), Tuoba Tao drove north to inspect the people's conditions. One day, he encountered an official who tied up a servant and was about to punish him.Seeing the emperor coming, the officials hurriedly knelt down and said: "This servant has committed a serious crime, and the minister is about to punish him." At this time, Tuoba Jun, who was only 5 years old, stuck out his small head from a car next to the emperor and said , "This servant happened to meet me today, maybe it's God's will, you let him go!" The official released the prisoner according to the order.Tuoba Tao looked at his grandson in surprise, and said to himself: "Although this child is young, he behaves like an emperor!" When he was a little older, he was asked to participate in state affairs.

In October of the second year of Zhengping (AD 452), Tuoba Yu, Emperor Wei, was murdered by an eunuch, and Tuoba Jun ascended the throne with the help of his ministers.At this time, although the Northern Wei Dynasty had unified northern China and was becoming stronger day by day, the national power was wasted because of the unification war of the Quartet during Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao's time.The internal servant Zongai killed two emperors in a short period of time, and the people in the government and the opposition were panicked.Therefore, after Tuoba Jun ascended the throne, he firstly imposed lenient punishment and simplified administration to stabilize the people's hearts.

In the seventh year of Taiping Zhenjun (AD 447), Tuoba Tao, Emperor Taiwu, ordered all recluses to be punished, Buddhist scriptures were burned, and people were strictly prohibited from believing in Buddhism.All the scriptures in the world were burned for a while, and monks and nuns were executed.But Buddhism had become a trend of thought at that time, and there were still many folks who secretly turned to Buddhism.After Tuoba Jun ascended the throne, he accepted the advice of his ministers and decided to let the popularity of Buddhism take its course and impose some restrictions.He issued an edict ordering each prefecture, county and county to build a monastery, and the people do not have to stop those who are willing to become monks.However, the number of monks cannot exceed 50 in large states and 40 in small states.Tuoba Jun also personally shaved five monks, including Shi Xian, and asked Shi Xian to serve as the chief photographer of the monks and manage the affairs of the monks.In this way, the antagonism between the recluses and the government was virtually eliminated, but it also allowed the government to control the monks and nuns.

Tuoba Jun accepted the lesson of his grandfather Tuoba Tao's indiscriminate killings, and tested the slander in detail, and did not kill because of credulity.At that time, when Xu Zongzhi, the governor of Dingzhou in the Northern Wei Dynasty, was in office, he was corrupt and extorted bribes and squeezed the people.A man named Ma Chao accused him and was beaten to death by thugs sent by Xu Zongzhi.After the incident happened, Xu Zongzhi was afraid that Ma Chao's family would sue, so the villain filed a complaint first, saying that Ma Chao slandered the government and plotted wrongdoing.Tuoba Jun read the book and said: "This must be a lie. As the lord of the country, I have no harm to Ma Chao. Why did he come to slander me? It must be that Xu Zongzhi has something to hide and deliberately framed Ma Chao. Ma Chao." He sent officials to Dingzhou to investigate the case in detail, and then executed Xu Zong.

Officials in the Northern Wei Dynasty had no salaries, and relied on looting during the war, and corruption after the war of conquest.The emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty used Xianbei nobles and Han surnames as state governors and county prefects.There are three governors in one state, two are Xianbei nobles, and one is a Han landlord.Xianbei nobles and Han landlords worked hand in hand.As long as there is no shortage of income owed to the government, no matter how much he corrupted and accepted bribes in office, the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty would let it go and did not think it was a crime.The looting during the war was resisted by the people of all ethnic groups, and the corruption in peacetime deepened the contradiction between the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the people.In the third year of Xing'an (AD 454), a people's uprising broke out in Yan County (now in the north of Renqiu County, Hebei Province). Tuoba Jun personally led troops to suppress it. service.In the first year of Heping (460 A.D.), the people of the two neighboring counties killed the county magistrate who had embezzled and oppressed the people.Tuoba Jun has gone through many rounds of inspections and inspections, and indeed saw that many local officials colluded with wealthy businessmen, took advantage of the opportunity of ordinary people to pay rent and taxes to lend usury, buy cheap and sell expensive, and then sit on the ground and distribute the stolen money to make a lot of money for peace. In the second year (AD 461), corruption was banned, and it was stipulated that those who committed more than ten pieces of stolen silk would be sentenced to death.Although this did not fundamentally eliminate the crux of corruption, it also forced officials to restrain themselves.

When Tuoba Jun was in power, he was at the age when he was young and energetic and wanted to make a big career.However, because Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao's war to unify the Quartet caused a considerable loss of national power, so after Tuoba Jun came to the throne, he always adopted a policy of recuperating with the people, and did not make any big moves that cost the people and money.As a Xianbei tribe who is good at bowing horses and riding, Tuoba Jun has not forgotten to practice martial arts.When he was in power, every year during the slack season of farming, the ministers taught martial arts.He practiced martial arts with all his ministers at the foot of the mountain south of Lingqiu (now Lingqiu, Shanxi). He asked them to shoot upwards at the mountain peak, which was more than 400 feet high. And he held a heavy bow in his hand, bent the bow and fired the arrow, and shot out, crossed the mountain for more than 30 feet, and fell more than 220 steps to the south of the mountain.Tuoba Jun was very proud, so he erected a monument at the place where he shot the arrow as a memorial.

In May of the sixth year of Heping (AD 465), Tuoba Jun died of illness in Taihua Hall at the age of 26.Posthumously titled "Emperor Wencheng" and temple named "Gaozong", he was buried in Jinling in the clouds.