In 502 AD, Southern Qi royal family Xiao Yan proclaimed the emperor ( Liang Wudi ), replacing the Southern Qi created by Xiao Daocheng , and another Liang regime was established, known in history as Nanliang .
Shortly after he was promoted to the emperor, Xiao Yan followed the Buddhist rules and long-distance vegetarian . Even if we worship the ancestors of heaven and earth and hold palace banquets, we only use vegetables and do not slaughter pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock.
Every time the people who committed crimes were executed, he always cried and sighed, sighed for many days, and was depressed. The princes and nobles committed crimes, and he always cried and taught and advised them. can be called "charity"!
During the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang, he often got up at 5 pm every day at to work. In winter, even if his hands were chapped, he ignored them and reviewed memorials and wrote manuscripts as usual. can be said to be "diligent"!
diligent Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan (stills)
Xiao Yan wears common clothes , and the dormitory is hung with kapok ; he wears a hat for three years and covers a quilt for two years; he does not drink alcohol, and does not like dancing ; he sometimes only eats one meal a day of vegetables and coarse rice. can be said to be "frugal"!
At any time, Xiao Yan is always dressed neatly. Even in the summer, is meticulous. gets along with the servants such as eunuch in the palace, and is polite and , just like treating VIPs. When meeting princes, nobles and scholars, they were even more polite and friendly. can be said to be "humility"!
The emperor who behaves like this will of course have a good feeling of . Therefore, when General Yunqi and the Central Army Xuancheng Wang Changshi He Chen accused the powerful and extravagant government officials of exploiting the people, and the corvee sent to the people by the court was too heavy, Emperor Wu of Liang could not accept it and felt deeply wronged.
So, how did Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan govern? Let’s learn about the situation through the following things.
1. I. I sacrificed myself several times, and I spent 40 million yuan.
529, Xiao Yan, who was devoted to the Buddha, sacrificed himself to Tongtai Temple, and his ministers raised ten million yuan to redeem him; in 546, Xiao Yan, sacrificed himself to Tongtai Temple, and claimed that he had given up himself, everyone in the palace, and even the entire country. At this time, the ministers raised 200 million yuan and redeemed him and the entire country. In 547, he sacrificed himself to Tongtai Temple again, and the ministers paid another 10 million yuan to redeem him, the "Emperor Bodhisattva" .
Emperor Wu of Liang sacrificed himself to Buddha (painting)
Three times, Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan made 400 million yuan in Tongtai Temple. However, he didn't know that the ministers paid forty million to redeem him with one hand; with the other hand reached out to the people, plundering them, and gaining far more than 40 million!
2. Build Fushanyan and ruined more than 100,000 people.
In order to expand territory, Liang State occasionally launched wars against Northern Wei , and Liang State's military and civilians suffered countless casualties and wounded.
514, Emperor Wu of Liang ordered more than 200,000 military and civilians in Xu and Yang Prefectures to build Fushan Weir in today's Huai River in Fengyang County, Anhui Province. The purpose is to block the waterway, raise the water level, and flood Shouyang City in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
After the ministers who knew about water conservancy knowledge learned about it, they advised Xiao Yan that the silt and sand in Huaihe were frivolous and could not build dams. Emperor Wu of Liang said that he could sink an iron tool into the bottom of the water to build a dam. Tens of millions of kilograms of iron tools successfully entered the mud and sand, but the Fushan weir was not built.
failed to achieve a plan, and Xiao Yan came up with another plan. According to his instructions, placed a huge box made of many wood in the river, and then placed the huge rocks in the middle of the box and added soil to it. So, the Fushan Weir that Xiao Yan expected appeared.
During the process, due to continuous burden of wood and stone, the military and civilians "killed shoulders"; is prevalent due to the epidemic, " corpses are all over the road" . In winter, due to the cold weather, countless military and civilians were frozen to death and frostbite .
"The road is full of corpses" (picture)
516, the Huai River surged, and the Fushan Imperial built with great effort, did not complete the task of flooding Shouyang City, and collapsed . As a result, the surging waves washed over 100,000 people living on the banks of the Huai River to the sea.
3. Condonize and protect the powerful and severely punish the people.
The Southern Dynasties The Song and Qi dynasties used the Su tribe to suppress the gentry, and Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan did the opposite. He believes that using the aristocratic race to suppress the sushi is more conducive to the stability of the regime.
For this reason, Emperor Wu of Liang did not use any law to treat the royal family and the gentry. No matter what sin they commit, they can receive forgiveness and pardon.
Emperor Wu of Liang's sixth brother King of Linchuan Xiao Hong is a luxury and greedy person. The more than 30 warehouses in his home, each of the stores 10 million yuan, totaling more than 300 million . Some warehouses are filled with countless cloth, silk and other items.
It is obvious that these are all stolen goods that Xiao Hong snatched from the people. When Emperor Wu of Liang met, not only did not investigate the source of his sixth brother's huge property, but instead praised his family for his great cause.
So, other princes and nobles also learned from Xiao Hong and vigorously "make a fortune."
Xiao Hong (Portrait)
Emperor Wu of Liang had no son in his early years and adopted Xiao Hong's son Xiao Zhengde as his heir. After having his own prince Xiao Tong, Xiao Yan asked Xiao Zhengde to return his original position and appointed him as the Marquis of Xifeng.
Xiao Zhengde resented Xiao Yan because he lost the opportunity to inherit the throne. In 523, he fled to the Northern Wei , attempting to use the power of the Northern Wei to usurp the Southern Liang regime, but Xiao Zhengde's goal was not achieved.
The following year, Xiao Zhengde fled from the Northern Wei Dynasty to Liang . When Emperor Wu of Liang saw Xiao Zhengde, he just taught him a lesson sadly. Not only did he not punish him accordingly, but he also continued to let him be the Marquis of Xifeng.
Xiao Yan's approach to ordinary people is exactly the opposite. Once ordinary people commit crimes, is used extremely strictly . For example, when you should sit, , no matter the age or the age, will be spared . If one person fled, the whole family and even the entire clan would be executed, or imprisoned or punished for hard labor.
People who were punished (painted)
Some officials and people have objections to the extreme practices of Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan.
In the spring of 511, when Emperor Wu of Liang went to the southern suburbs to worship the sky, an old man blocked his way and said to him righteously: " You are too strict with the people and too tolerant of the powerful. Doing this is not a long-term solution to govern the country and ensure peace! "
After hearing this, Xiao Yan completely ignored it.
4. Greed to rebel the land, causing a fatal rebellion.
547, the Eastern Wei general rebels Hou Jing surrendered to Western Wei and surrendered to Nanliang. Emperor Wu of Liang harbored part of the land south of the Yellow River , despite the opposition of the ministers, and accepted Hou Jing and appointed him as King of Henan.
In the year, Hou Jing rebelled against Emperor Wu of Liang and the Eastern Wei, and soon captured the Nanliang capital Jiankang (now Nanjing). solved Xiao Yan (starved to death) and took charge of the government affairs of Nanliang.
After successively abolishing the three puppet emperors Xiao Zhengde, Xiao Gang , and Xiao Dong , Hou Jing established himself as emperor in 551.
Hou Jing proclaimed himself emperor (portrait)
552, under the joint attack of Nanliang Xiangdong King Xiao Yi, garrisoning Lingnan Jiaozhou Sima Chen Baxian Hou Jing was defeated and died on his way to escape, and the rebellion ended. Although the rebellion ended, the Liang Dynasty, which was once known as " is like a golden bowl, without any harm", was already fragmented. A large area of land was taken by the Eastern Wei and Western Wei to take the opportunity to embezzle, and its economy and culture were also on the verge of collapse!
Five years later, Chen Ba first replaced Nanliang, which was in name only and established Nanchen.
To sum up, we can see that in order to consolidate the regime and expand territory, Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, ignored the lives of the people, and endlessly damaged and overdrawd the people's strength. In the end, suffered a bad consequence and pushed Nanliang to perish.
Therefore, we can say that Xiao Yan's "charity", "diligence", "thrift" and "humility" are all superficial articles, with the purpose of covering up his brutal rule in .
Main references: "Book of Liang", "Southern History"
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