Chapter 43 "Blind boy with a tear" palm life and death

——Fu Sheng's Tyranny Fu Jian soon became seriously ill.The crown prince, Fu Chang, died when Huan Wen entered the pass, and the third son, Fu Sheng, was established as the crown prince.Royal Fu Jing was Fu Jian's nephew. Hearing that Fu Jian was seriously ill and dying, she hurriedly led a group of people into the East Palace, planning to kill his cousin Fu Sheng and make himself king. This Fu Jing is not an unknown person, but also a brave general who is good at fighting. Back then, he and Fu Jian both advanced in the north and south of the Yellow River, leaping horses and spears, and made outstanding achievements repeatedly.Fu Jian got up from the sickbed when he heard the chaos, and went to Duanmen to display the soldiers. The rebel soldiers who followed Fu Jing saw that the emperor was still alive, so they rushed away, and Fu Jing was caught and killed.A few days later, Fu Jian died of illness at the age of thirty-nine and reigned for four years.

Prince Fu Sheng succeeded to the throne.This Fu Sheng is a well-known brutal monarch in Chinese history.According to historical records, Fu Sheng was "young and rascal", and he was extremely vicious when he was a child.Grandpa Fu Hong hated him very much at that time.Fu Sheng was born blind in one eye. When he was about ten years old, one day Fu Hong wanted to tease him and asked the waiter beside him, "I heard that a blind child only sheds tears in one eye. Is it true?" The waiter replied "It's true." Fu Sheng was very annoyed when he heard it. He pulled out his saber and stabbed himself in the face. The blood gushed out, and he said bitterly, "This is also tears." Take a whip and lash this fierce grandson.Fu Sheng didn't dodge either, but wanted to provoke the old man, saying, "My nature likes to resist the blows of knives and lances, but I can't bear the humiliation of whipping."

Fu Hong shouted angrily: "If you continue like this, I will treat you like a slave." Fu Sheng replied: "Maybe I will become a character like Shi Le." At that time, Shi Hu was in power in the post-Zhao Dynasty of the Shi family. Although he killed all of Shi Le's sons, he still regarded himself as Shi Le's successor and made the post-Zhao's brutal regime flourish.The Shi family is famous for killing people like hemp, and the Fu family is just an army attached to them, and they will be slaughtered by the Shi family at any time.Fu Sheng dared to call the Emperor Daxing by his first name, and exposed the scars of the emperor's slavery (Shi Le was a slave when he was young). If he really let the upper eunuchs of Zhao know, it is estimated that when Shi Hu gets angry, the Fu family may be a chicken and a dog. exhaustive.

Hearing Fu Sheng's unrestrained speech, Fu Hong was so frightened that he put on his shoes and rolled off the Hu bed, covered Fu Sheng's mouth, turned to Fu Jian and said, "This child is extremely aggressive, he should be killed early, otherwise When he grows up, the family will be ruined!" Fu Jian drew his sword and wanted to kill him, but the grandfather Fu Hong sighed to dissuade him: "This child should improve when he grows up, so he won't kill him now." After Fu grew up, he was powerful, brave and easy to kill. He was able to fight fierce animals with his bare hands, catch up with horses when he ran, stab, ride and shoot.During the Northern Expedition of Huanwen in the Jin Dynasty, Fu Sheng often entered the battle alone, held the flag and beheaded the general more than a dozen times, and won the three armies bravely.I used to listen to storytelling by Shan Tianfang, Liu Lanfang, Yuan Kuocheng, etc., talking about the ancient war generals being equal to a hundred, and what kind of "ten thousand men should not be worthy" of courage, I always feel it is an artistic exaggeration.If you really study history, you will find that before the Song Dynasty, especially the Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, until the Sui and Tang, the role of generals in the army was extremely important.In the era of cold weapons, it will be the courage of soldiers. One man can fight against thousands of people. It is not an exaggeration.

When Fu Sheng first stood up, he started killing. First, General Qiang Huai was killed in battle, and his son Qiang Yan should have taken the title of general, but it was at the time of Fu Jian's death and funeral that he had not been given the title.When Fu Sheng was traveling, Qiang Huai's wife, Fan Shi, wrote a letter to Taoist priests, asking Fu Sheng to recommend him as the queen of Zhonglie.Fu Sheng's You Xing was hindered, and the new emperor was furious, so he shot Fan's family with a bow and arrow. The Zhongshu Supervisor of the State of Qin wrote a letter saying that the celestial phenomena warned that within three years, there would be a state-owned funeral, and the ministers would be killed.Hearing this, Fu Sheng said with a smile, "I and the empress are facing the world, so we can cope with the change of the great funeral. As for the ministers, Taifu Mao, Liang Cheqi, and Liang Pushe were ordered by the will to help me rule the world and kill them." Then you can respond to the sky police." Then, Empress Liang and several auxiliary ministers were pushed to the guillotine and killed.

Soon, Fu Sheng killed Lei Ruo'er, the upright and outspoken prime minister, his nine sons, and his twenty-seventh grandson. When Fu Sheng was in mourning, he played games, drank freely, and was absurd and sadistic. He often met with courtiers with a bow and arrow in his hand. Once, Fu Sheng entertained the ministers to drink in the palace. He sang loudly and the bells and music rang together. Drunk all over the place, with disheveled hair and dirty clothes, Fu Sheng took pleasure in this. The capital city of Chang'an was blowing strong winds, houses were pulled down and trees were pulled up, and the palace people were disturbing. Fu Sheng caught those running palace people and wanted to cut his heart.His own uncle Qiangping advised him to love court officials and be diligent in political affairs. Fu Sheng was furious and pierced the top of Qiangping's head with a chisel.Seeing his younger brother being chiseled to death by his son, Empress Dowager Qiang died of grief.

At that time, under the rule of the Qin State, wild beasts cannibalized people, and Fu Sheng killed people. There were some strong remonstrances from the officials. Fu Sheng replied: "The wild beasts are hungry and eat, and they stop when they are full. Now I kill only a few thousand people, which is not a severe punishment." The pedestrians on the street stand shoulder to shoulder, so it can’t be said that there are fewer people.” When I went to Efang for a visit, I saw a brother and sister walking together on the road, and the tyrant forced them to have incest again.Fu Sheng was furious when he refused, and killed his brother and sister together.

At the banquet in the old city of Xianyang, Fu Sheng saw that some of the ministers were a little late, and immediately ordered them to be beheaded. Fu Sheng was fond of wine, and became intoxicated every month.Usually when asked about the attendants around him, some of them said: "Your Majesty is wise, the Son of Heaven." Fu Sheng was angry: "Fawn on me!" He dragged him down to behead; Fu Sheng was angry again: "How dare you slander and slander me!" He dragged on and beheaded. The wives and concubines around him were unsatisfactory. As long as they showed signs of color, Fu Sheng would immediately kill them and throw them into the Wei River to feed the fish.He also likes to skin cattle, sheep, donkeys and horses alive, in a group of thirty or fifty, and laughs at these newly skinned animals running around the temple, and likes to skin off the faces of condemned prisoners, let them sing and dance, and let the ministers gather to "appreciate", Thought it was fun.

Since Fu Sheng himself is a "one-eyed dragon", there are many taboos, and his ministers' letters and speeches cannot involve words such as "insufficient, unqualified, few, nothing, lacking, injured, disabled, ruined, partial" and other words. innumerable.Fu Sheng had a murderous nature, so he sawed the necks of his left and right subordinates, cut their hearts out, amputated their limbs, and cut them in half. Fu Huangmei, the royal family of the Fu family, made great contributions, and Yao Xiang, a hero of the Qiang chieftain, was defeated and died in the hands of this master.Fu Sheng didn't reward him at all, and often insulted him in public.Fu Huangmei was angry and annoyed, and wanted to kill Fu Sheng to stand on his own feet.After the incident, not only the whole family was killed, but a lot of relatives surnamed Fu who had a little relationship were also implicated and killed, which made people panic and precarious.

When Fu Sheng came to the throne, he dreamed that big fish were eating cattail leaves.Later, there was a nursery rhyme in Chang'an, the capital city: "The big fish in the East China Sea turns into a dragon, and the man becomes the king and the daughter is the father. Ask where he is in the east of Luomen." Fu Sheng thought about it and thought that the omen in the dream and the nursery rhyme must be The minister surnamed Yu—immediately kill Shizhong, Taishi Yuzun, and his seven sons and ten grandsons. After the incident happened, one member of the Fu royal family was overwhelmed and could no longer sit down—Fu Jian, King of the East China Sea.Fu Jian was Fu Sheng's cousin, and his father, Fu Xiong, was Fu Jian's younger brother. He had many strategies and was good at military art, but unfortunately died of illness when he was young, leaving behind two brothers, Fu Fa and Fu Jian.Fu Jian's title of King of the East China Sea coincides with the nursery rhyme, and his house is east of Luomen. Seeing that Tai Shi Yu Zun was killed and there was no one left in the family, Fu Jian's souls were all haunted, and he could not sleep or eat.

One day, Fu Sheng drank until night, and said to the maid next to him, "Brothers Afa can't be trusted, and I will kill them tomorrow." However, this maid had received many benefits from Fu Fa and Fu Jian brothers on weekdays, so she slipped away late at night. Go out of the palace to report.The two brothers were startled, and in a hurry, Fu Fa led hundreds of people to sneak into Yunlong Gate. Fu Jian led 300 strong men to clamor for an attack. The Imperial Forest Army on duty put down their weapons and joined Fu Jian's team. When the crowd broke into the inner palace, Fu Sheng was still unconscious, dragged into a small room and killed in a daze. He was twenty-three years old at the time and had reigned for two years. According to "Luoyang Jialan Ji", the Northern Wei hermit Zhao Yi said: "Although Fu Sheng was brave and addicted to alcohol, he was benevolent and did not kill. Judging from his governance code, he was not violent. If you look at his history carefully, all the evils in the world belong to him. Fu Jian is a virtuous lord of his own accord, but if the king of thieves goes to the throne and writes falsely about the king's evil, all historians are of the same kind." From this, it can also be seen that Fu Sheng's cruelty was largely exaggerated by Fu Jian's historians As a result, the Fu regime has never had any tyranny over the Han people similar to that of the Shizhaojie people.