Chapter 173 Chapter 172 Changguang Wang Yuanye

Yuan Ye, courtesy name Huaxing, nicknamed Penzi.The grandson of Nan'an Wang Yuanzhen, the younger brother of Emperor Gaozong Wencheng.Mild temperament.During the reign of Emperor Xiaozhuang, Yuan Ye was granted the title of King Changguang and served as the prefect of Taiyuan.In September of the third year of Yong'an (530 A.D.), Emperor Xiaozhuang killed Er Zhurong, the powerful minister of Tianzhu, the general of Tianzhu, Erzhu Shilong, Erzhu Rong's younger brother, and Erzhu Zhao, his nephew, and others took revenge.In October, Erzhu Shilong and Erzhu Zhaofeng Yuanye were the emperors, with the year name Jianming and their capital Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). Eight members of the Erzhu family proclaimed themselves kings.The Erzhu clan, with Yuan Ye as the puppet emperor, confronted Luoyang Wei Xiaozhuang Emperor.In December, Er Zhuzhao captured Luoyang, and Emperor Wei Xiaozhuang was captured and killed.In February of the second year of Jianming (AD 531), Er Zhu Shilong and others believed that Yuan Ye was alienated from the lineage of the Wei clan, so Yuan Ye was abolished and Yuan Gong was established as emperor.After Yuan Gong came to the throne, he made Yuan Ye the king of the East China Sea, and he lived in ten thousand households.In November of the following year, Yuan Ye was killed.