Chapter 89 Abandon the land with great ambition

——Emperor Chen Xuan and Chen Xu After the death of Emperor Chen Wen, his prince Chen Bozong succeeded to the throne as Emperor Chen Fei, who was changed to Yuan Guangda. He was fifteen years old at the time.Chen Xu, king of Ancheng, was honored as his uncle, and was immediately named Hushi General, Situ, and Lushang Shushi, and he supervised all military forces at home and abroad.When Emperor Chen Wen was dying, he once faced Chen Xu in front of his ministers and said that he wanted to pass on to his younger brother. It must have been a temptation, and Chen Xu was not stupid. After the young emperor succeeded to the throne, Liu Shizhi from Zhongshushe, Shangshupushe to Zhongju, Yin Buying from Donggong Tongshishe and others thought that Chen Xu, the king of Ancheng, had too much "prestige and power", so they corrected the empress dowager to order Chen Xu Out of the town of Yangzhou.When Chen Xu saw the edict, he was very obedient at first, so he immediately packed up and prepared to take the officials and family members to the town.Mao Xi, a member of his senior bureaucrats, advised: "The Chen Dynasty has not enjoyed the world for a long time. Today's edict must not be the Queen Mother's intention. The king is so important to the royal family and ministers, how can you go lightly! Once you leave Beijing, you will be under the control of others. When the time comes, you want to be the emperor. It's impossible for a rich man!" Chen Xu felt that it was reasonable, so he said that he was slow, pretending to have something to do, and called Liu Shizhi into the mansion to discuss matters.At the same time, he sent Mao Xi to report to the Queen Mother Shen.The Empress Dowager Shen did not know about it, and said to Mao Xi: "Now Bozong (Shaodi) is young, and Erlang (Chen Xu) is entrusted with state affairs. I have not issued an edict to let him go out of town." Mao Xi went to see Shaodi again. I don't know where.Therefore, Chen Xu, the king of Ancheng, let go, arrested and killed Liu Shizhi and others, "naturally the state affairs belong to (Chen) Xu".Then, King Ancheng recalled Chen Mao, the young emperor's younger brother who was in East Yangzhou, back to Jiankang, and appointed him as the general of Zhongwei.

At the end of 568 A.D., Chen Xu issued an imperial edict in the name of the Empress Dowager, falsely claiming that the young emperor Chen Bozong conspired with Liu Shizhi and others, "violating the etiquette and forgetting virtue", abolished him as the king of Linhai, and lived in another hall.At the same time, Chen Bomao, the mother and younger brother of Shaodi, was abolished as Wen Mahou, and he sent people to kill the seventeen-year-old nephew on the way to the town.After more than a year, Chen Xu sent someone to kill the deposed young emperor, who was nineteen years old. Chen Xu succeeded to the throne as Emperor Chen Xuan.The concubine Liu was established as the queen, and the eldest son Chen Shubao was the crown prince.

Although he was only nested in a palm-sized place in the south of the Yangtze River as emperor, Emperor Chen Xuan had a good life when he succeeded to the throne, because the Northern Qi Dynasty at that time was during the reign of Emperor Wucheng Gao Zhan and his successor Gao Wei, and the government was corrupt.The Yuwen clan in the north had just established the country on behalf of the Western Wei Dynasty (Northern Zhou Dynasty), and had no time to send troops to attack each other.At the same time, Yuwen Hu, a power minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, sent envoys to Jiankang, and agreed with the Chen Dynasty to conquer Qi and divide the world equally.

Northern Zhou actually wanted Chen Jun to contain Northern Qi, so that the Northern Zhou army could destroy Qi in one fell swoop.Emperor Chen Xuan was ambitious and talented, so he agreed without hesitation, and started the Northern Expedition in the fifth year of Taijian. The two NFDA members were lucky, and the Northern Expedition of Chen Dynasty general Wu Mingche and others went very smoothly, conquering Liyang, Hefei, Shouyang and other important towns in one fell swoop, almost bringing the entire Huainan area back to the Southern Dynasty.During the battle of Shouyang, Wu Mingche also captured alive Wang Lin, who was the king of Baling County in the Northern Qi Dynasty at that time, who had always been an enemy of the Chen Dynasty.At that time, many people in the Chen army were Wang Lin's old subordinates, and they "complied to invite and give money to each other." Wu Mingche was afraid that things would change over time, so he ordered Wang Lin to be taken outside the city, and beheaded the loyal Liang Dynasty. General, at the age of forty-eight.Upon hearing the news of his death, the local people "cry like thunder".

Wang Lin is "elegant in appearance, well-behaved, happy and angry. Although she has no education, she has a strong memory of internal sensitivity. Thousands of military officials know her name. Punishment and reward are not excessive, and wealth and love are light. He has the heart of a general and a soldier. He has been a general for a few years, and he has experienced chaos many times, but he has loyalty and loyalty."Of course, some people in later generations doubted Wang Lin's integrity, accusing him of "going to China and becoming a barbarian" and proclaiming himself a vassal to the Northern Qi Dynasty.At the same time, in order to bring his wife back, he proclaimed himself a minister to the Yuwen clan, forgetting the deep revenge of Emperor Yuan's murder.If Wang Lin had been summoned by Emperor Liang Jing to enter the court, it is estimated that Chen Baxian would not usurp the throne so quickly.But history cannot assume that the situation at that time was also created by the difference of people's thoughts. Later generations just express their emotions and thoughts while sighing.

At that time, Gao Wei, the empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, heard that Shouyang had fallen, and he didn't feel worried at all. Instead, he said: "It's their place, let them take it back." Eliminate Northern Qi.However, the weak rulers of the Southern Dynasties only wanted to rule the Huaihe River, and dawdled in the local area, calling it a rest. In fact, they waited and watched, and missed a great opportunity.In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, while the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Chen Dynasty contained each other, Emperor Wu of Zhou defeated the Northern Qi Dynasty in one fell swoop and unified the North.

The Central Plains were unified, but Emperor Chen Xuan suddenly became energetic and wanted to compete with the Northern Zhou Dynasty for the land of Xu and Yan, and ordered a large-scale Northern Expedition in the ninth year of Taijian (577).In the spring of the next year, Wu Mingche, a general of the Chen Dynasty, assembled an army of tens of thousands and stormed Pengcheng.Due to a command error, the right time, the right place, and no one was on the same side, and the retreat was blocked by Zhou Jun. Chen Jun was defeated in the Battle of Qingkou. Wu Mingche and 30,000 to 40,000 Chen Jun were all captured. Only a few thousand people from the army fled back.

After that, the Northern Zhou Dynasty never mentioned the matter of "dividing the world" with the Chen Dynasty, and began to point the spearhead at the Chen Dynasty, and repeatedly won victories. The large areas of Jiangbei and Huainan belonged to the Northern Zhou Dynasty.If Emperor Wu of Zhou Yu Wenyong did not die, it is estimated that the Chen Dynasty would be over within a year or two.But Emperor Wu of Zhou died of illness in 578 AD. His son Emperor Xuan of Zhou was also a famous licentious tyrant in history.Soon, Yang Jian usurped the throne and established the Sui Dynasty. He tried his best to suppress the Yuwen clan's forces in the country and had no time to look south. This finally made the Chen Dynasty linger for nearly ten years.

Although Emperor Chen Xuan "opened up" a lot of territory while taking advantage of the danger of the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was actually the trip of a short-sighted villain.The state affairs of the Northern Qi Dynasty were in chaos, and they moved heavy troops to fight against the Yuwen family in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It was not because the military was weak and could not fight against the Chen Dynasty.There are always striking parallels in history.As soon as the Northern Qi Dynasty fell, Wu Mingche was defeated by the Northern Zhou Dynasty who vowed to "divide the world" with the Chen Dynasty; and in the Northern Song Dynasty, the generals joined forces with the Jin to destroy the Liao;As soon as the two kingdoms fell, the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties also perished one after another. The stupid move was the same as that of Emperor Chen Xuan.

Emperor Chen Xuan reigned for thirteen years and died in February of the fourteenth year of Taijian at the age of fifty-three.This Emperor Chen Xuan "has a beauty instrument, is eight feet three inches long, with hands hanging down to his knees. He has courage, is good at riding and shooting", and is also an all-rounder in civil and military affairs.Emperor Liang Yuan proclaimed himself emperor in Jiangling, and enlisted the nephews and nephews of the generals to be "servants", in fact, they were hostages, so Chen Xu and his cousin Chen Chang went to Jiangling.At that time, Chen Xu drank with his friend Mr. Li and fell asleep drunk. Mr. Li returned after going to the toilet.All these absurd things were recorded in Chinese history. Until the Republic of China, there were maids who saw Yuan Shikai as a "big dragon".Chen Xu, the "big dragon", was also very rough. Jiangling soon fell, and he was plundered and taken to Chang'an in the Western Wei Dynasty together with many Liang Dynasty clans and subordinate officials.If Chen Xu hadn't boarded the Ninth Five-Year Dragon Chair later, it is estimated that Mr. Li would not have made up that story to bluff people. Maybe he would tell the ancient times to future generations, saying that he saw a big bastard in a drunken eye (of course, this It is based on the assumption that Chen Xu was "repressed" by Liu Shizhi and others.)