Cui Hao As the Northern Wei The first Han minister of the Taiwu Dynasty was an unavoidable character. As this person's power and status increased, he gradually exposed many weaknesses. The most fatal thing is that he is arrogant and has committed the common fault of literati.
Relying on the favor of Taiwu Emperor , Cui Hao fought against the Xianbei nobles without regard for the consequences. The interests of the old Xianbei nobles were damaged during the reform of the government, and the Buddhist destruction movement annoyed the majority of Buddhist believers, and formed a bond with the devout prince Tuoba Huang.
These are not the most deadly things. After all, he still has the biggest backer of Emperor Taiwu, and no one can shake his status.
The one who sent him to death in the end was that he angered Emperor Taiwu.
This is a way to seek death, and I can’t save him.
As early as nine years before the National History incident, Cui Hao annoyed Emperor Taiwu. It was September of the third year of Shenyi (430). Cui Hao wanted to refer to the aristocratic system of the Wei and Jin dynasties to rectify the rank of officials, identify the surnames and origins of officials, and select officials strictly based on their origins.
Cui Hao's actions will inevitably arouse dissatisfaction among the Xianbei nobles. His cousin Lu Xuan advised him: "The design system must be based on the specific situation and cannot be copied rigidly. How many people can support the elder brother in this way? Please think twice."
Cui Hao did not listen to Lu Xuan's words at all, and insisted on implementing his new policy, which really violated the interests of the Xianbei nobles and public anger.
Later Cui Hao even angered the ashes of Situ, the King of Beiping Changsun Song . Changsun Song's status was simply a living fossil at that time. He was an old minister of the three dynasties and a noble Xianbei prince. He had a very noble position in the court, and the emperor wanted to give him some face.
How did Cui Hao offend this old Xianbei minister? In the final analysis, it was the trouble caused by Cui Hao's mouth.
Cui Hao was born in the famous Qinghe Cui family . This family was a famous aristocratic family in the north during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Cui Hao grew up in this environment and was inevitably deeply influenced by hierarchical concepts and thoughts. The most prominent manifestation is his attitude towards the southern family.
Eastern Jin Wang Yu, a wealthy Wang family in Taiyuan, was exterminated by Liu Yu, Wang Yu's grandson Wang Huilong by luck and escaped to the Northern Wei Dynasty for asylum. Cui Hao has always admired the reputation of Wang's family in Taiyuan. When he heard that Wang Huilong escaped to Pingcheng , he lobbied his younger brother Cui Tian to betroth his daughter to him and climb up to his relatives first.
Taiyuan Wang's family inherited rosacea for generations, and Wang Huilong was no exception. However, when Cui Hao saw Wang Huilong's rosacea, he blurted out: "It's indeed a man from the Wang family, and he is really a descendant of a famous family." Later, Cui Hao praised Wang Huilong many times in front of the Xianbei nobles. This provocative behavior angered the nobles, especially the senior elder Changsun Song.
The angry Changsun Song found Emperor Taiwu to sue Cui Hao, scolded Cui Hao for praising Wang Huilong, and belittled the customs and education of the Great Wei Kingdom were not as good as the south, and his heart was punished!
Emperor Taiwu was also very angry when he heard this, and called Cui Hao to scold him. Cui Hao had to admit defeat and took off his hat and apologized to Tai Emperor Wu .
In addition to offending the Xianbei nobles, Cui Hao also had a conflict with Prince Tuoba Huang in the matter of choosing a master for the emperor's eldest grandson Tuoba Jun . The three people he recommended were all their relatives, which made Prince Tuoba Huang very dissatisfied. He believed that Cui Hao was nepotism, forcibly promoting his relatives, and wanted to interfere in royal affairs.
Emperor Taiwu was also very angry when he heard about it because he also had a candidate he liked, that is Youzhou The son of Li Chong, the governor of Li Chong, Li Li Lu . Emperor Taiwu asked Cui Hao to ask why he didn't choose Li Li? Cui Hao argued that Li Jin had gone to another place, so he did not choose him.
When Emperor Taiwu heard this perfunctory, he became even more angry and said, "You can wait until Li Ji returns to Beijing before choosing. What are you anxious?"
finally abandoned the few people recommended by Cui Hao, and chose a few people as the crown prince master, and saved the prince's face. Only then did the matter be settled.
From these past events, it is not difficult to see that Cui Hao has long been in danger. He offended almost everyone in just a few years. Even his only backer, Emperor Taiwu, was quite dissatisfied with him, which was too dangerous.
Now the national history incident is in full swing. After dinner, the people of Pingcheng gather together to eat melon seeds and gossip about the royal family, and the sound of ridicule and sarcasm and slandering and slandering. Pingcheng was a famous big city at that time, and the information spread very quickly. Among the people who were eating melons, there were not only Han people, Xianbei people, but also Western Regions, Hu people, Goryeo people, and even envoys from the Southern Dynasty Liu Song Dynasty. This matter was probably spread to the south of the Yangtze River, which was unexpected to Cui Hao.
It turns out that I spent a lot of effort to do a stupid thing that humiliated the royal family?
Cui Hao seemed to have felt the anger of the Tuoba royal family, and his future and destiny were full of murderous intent. How would Emperor Taiwu deal with this matter? Faced with the anger of the government and the public, will he still protect Cui Hao?
In April of the eleventh year of Taiping Zhenjun (450), Emperor Taiwu returned to Pingcheng from the Xuanhu Front, and the first thing he did was to issue an order to arrest Cui Hao.
Cui Hao spread his hands: I'm going to rest...
June, under the interrogation of a department, Cui Hao admitted his crime of accepting bribes. His history-review team, except for Gao Yun, were all sent to prison and executed.
Gao Yun was able to escape and die because Emperor Taiwu appreciated him very much, and the prince Tuoba Huang had a good relationship with him. When Emperor Taiwu issued an order to arrest Cui Hao's party members, Gao Yun was on duty in the Secretariat and was unaware of this incident. When the prince heard the news, he immediately sent someone to take him to the East Palace to protect him.
The next day, the prince took Gao Yun to meet Emperor Taiwu to plead with him. On the way, he told Gao Yun to draw a clear line with Cui Hao and to separate his relationship. As a result, as soon as he met Emperor Taiwu, Gao Yun admitted that he was more responsible than Cui Hao in the history writing.
This sentence made the prince very anxious. He quickly explained, "Gao Yun was so scared that he was all supported by Cui Hao."
Emperor Taiwu asked Gao Yun again, "Is what the prince said true?"
Gao Yun is also a straightforward person. He insisted on his words just now and still insisted that he participated in the history review throughout the process. Seeing Gao Yun so frank, Emperor Taiwu thought he was a rare loyal minister, so he pardoned him.
Later, Emperor Taiwu ordered Gao Yun to write the crimes of Cui Hao and others. Gao Yun refused to write the order. He paid homage to Emperor Taiwu to state: "Cui Hao's review of history angered the power of heaven, but he would not die. If there are any other crimes, I don't know. Please tell the world."
This angered Emperor Taiwu again and ordered Gao Yun to be tied up and threatened to kill him if he didn't write it!
Gao Yun was still unmoved. This fearless spirit of being accused of two touched the cold-blooded animal Taiwu Emperor, and finally let him go.
I have to say that Gao Yun’s luck is so good that he escaped death several times, and finally lived to the age of 98 in one go. The old ministers of the five dynasties are highly respected and this life is worth it.
Cui Hao did not have the good luck like Gao Yun, his life has entered the countdown.
Under the joint efforts of the prince and the Xianbei nobles, Cui Hao finally failed and was thrown into prison for being punished. At this time, he was already 70 years old.
Cui Hao was convicted, and his family and in-laws did not escape the death of all. Not only did the Cui family in Qinghe not distinguish between far and near, but they were all killed. Even his wife, the Guo family, the mother family, the Lu family, and the Liu family of Hedong, were all beaten up, and the famous families of the northern gentry were severely hit.
As for Cui Hao himself, the ending was also very miserable. In June of the eleventh year of Emperor Taiping (450), Emperor Taiwu executed Cui Hao three months before the southern expedition. Cui Hao was killed in the west city of Pingcheng and was paraded in the streets before his execution. The people of Pingcheng did not have much sympathy for this former prime minister and first Han minister who severely suppressed Buddhism, and even felt relieved.
In order to humiliate Cui Hao, more than a dozen guards urinated on his head, and Cui Hao wailed from time to time. Cui Hao and Emperor Taiwu, a friend of his age, could have become a model monarch and minister like Fu Jian and Wang Meng , leaving behind a story that has been eternal, but he did not want to start with a scared end, and the comedy began with a tragedy.Cui Hao used his blood to paint a bloody exclamation mark for his decades of career.
This shocking case in the world is known as " Prison of National History ". It implicated countless people. Since then, history has become a nightmare for all civil servants and scholars. Everyone is afraid of avoiding it, for fear of becoming the next Cui Hao. Therefore, the historical work of the Northern Wei Dynasty fell to a standstill. It was not until Northern Wei split , and the Gao family replaced Eastern Wei to establish Northern Qi that the historian Wei Shou was ordered to officially write " Wei Shu ". The official history of the Northern Wei Dynasty was finally completed in the hands of Wei Shou in Northern Qi.
I wonder if Wei Shou was sweating in his palm when he wrote about Cui Hao Chuan? The lesson of wisdom is not far away, which makes people feel infinitely touching.
A year after Cui Hao was killed, the prince Tuoba Huang, who was highly valued by Emperor Taiwu, suddenly died mysteriously. Although the court claimed that the prince died of illness due to overwork, the secrets about the prince's death had already spread in Pingcheng and even in Jiangnan.
The death of the prince is not simple.
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