Friends who like history have paid attention to an interesting thing in the Southern Dynasty, that is, the monarchs who ascended the throne at a young age and were abolished in the Southern Dynasty were all compared to the Emperor, such as Liu Yifu, Liu Shao, Liu Ziye, Liu Yu of the Liu Song Dynasty, Xiao Zhaoye of the Southern Qi Dynasty, Xiao Baojuan, etc., there were five or six in just a few decades, which is far more likely than other eras.
And their virtues are very poor in the historical materials, basically they do what people don't do, it's just alive **, and they can't help but cry outrageous, and they can't help but think that as long as the Southern Dynasty is a deposed young master, they are all brutal, so it is also a very reasonable thing to be overthrown.
There are 480 temples in the Southern Dynasty, and how many buildings are in the smoke and rain.
But in the ancient political ecology, the monarch's good or bad is not really related to politics, the monarch can be playful, can be lustful and greedy, as long as it does not destroy the existing normal political order, it will not cause any great man-made disasters.
For example, Li Longji is lustful as his life, which does not prevent him from creating the "rule of Kaiyuan", for example, Zhu Zhanji likes to play crickets, but it does not prevent him from creating the "rule of Renxuan", even if Ming Muzong, who is lustful and has no action, does not prevent him from creating a "rule of Longqing".
From these examples, it is not difficult to see that the quality of private morality has nothing to do with politics, so the behavior of Liu Ziye and Xiao Baojuan and others in the Southern Dynasty seems suspicious, could they be deliberately smeared by usurpers? Of course, the first history will certainly not be restored.
Tang Xuanzong was lustful, but he also created the rule of Kaiyuan.
After all, which emperor is not a harem with countless concubines? Which emperor lived a frugal life? It's just a matter of more and less, but now it seems that their private morality is not important, and the fundamental reason for being abolished is that they have broken the original political ecology and touched a lot of interests.
So the question is, what is the political ecology of the Southern Dynasties? In fact, you can look at it with the next five generations, during the five dynasties, there were many feudal towns, and the young monarch could not sit in a stable position at all, in order to maintain the regime, many people passed it on to the older people, if it was a son, it was okay, but if the son was too young, it was either passed on to the adopted son or to the brother.
The only exception is Chai Rong, who did not believe in the evil passed on to the young Chai Zongxun, and was usurped by Zhao Kuangyin when he turned his head, Zhao Kuangyin learned a lesson to avoid Song becoming the sixth short-lived dynasty, and planned to pass the throne to his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, as for whether Zhao Guangyi was poisoned and ascended to the throne is another matter.
Chenqiao mutiny. In short, the same is true of the Southern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasties threaten the imperial power is also the feudal towns and ministers, but these feudal towns are their own families, the Southern Dynasties because of the confrontation with the Northern Dynasties, its political ecology is completely dependent on the Yangtze River defense line, and the various important towns along the Yangtze River in order to guard against the Northern Dynasties, the military strength is extremely strong, each military town has the strength to compete for the capital Jiankang, which is representative of Jingzhou, every rebellion, there must be Jingzhou.
In this way, it directly leads to the natural instability of the imperial power politics of the Southern Dynasty, the imperial power must be deeply bound to the military, in order to guard against them, Jiankang City and outside must form a strong forbidden army, and the forbidden army must be in their own hands, which forms the power of the ministers, so that the outside of the feudal town, the internal power of the ministers, become two threats to the imperial power.
Liu Yifu, Liu Shao, Liu Ziye, Liu Yu, and Xiao Zhaoye were either abolished by Jiankang's powerful ministers who controlled the forbidden army, or were defeated by the important towns upstream.
Several important states and counties in the Southern Dynasties.
Specifically, Liu Yifu was deposed by Xu Xianzhi, Xie Hui and others who held the real power of Jiankang, and Liu Yilong, who served as the assassin of Jingzhou, was proclaimed emperor, and then Liu Yilong was able to sit firmly in his position after cutting off the ministers;
Liu Shao was because the position of the crown prince was about to be abolished, and he directly raised troops to kill his father and stand on his own, and was finally attacked by Liu Jun, the king of Wuling in the upper reaches, and the city fell and was killed.
Liu Ziye was much smarter, and on the basis of his father, he cut off the powerful clan kings on a large scale, but he was accidentally killed by Liu Yu, the king of Xiangdong, and others.
After Liu Yu ascended the throne, although there was no clan power to threaten the throne, he had the power to ministers, and after cutting off the ministers, he was raised by Liu Xiufan, the king of Guiyang, and let Xiao Daocheng become bigger in the rebellion and lost the throne.
Xiao Zhaoye was abolished by the clan Xiao Luan, it can be said that all the young masters, without exception, were either controlled by the ministers or threatened by the clan, they must resist immediately, and the one who gathered the culmination was Xiao Baojuan, the Marquis of Dongdu.
Xiao Baojuan is the smartest of these young main forces, but he is also the most ruthless one, and he has won the true inheritance of his father, Emperor Xiao Luan, Emperor Qi Ming, who can't do things behind people, and of course the price is also the greatest.
Stone carvings from the Southern Qi period.
Father Xiao Luan was on the throne, and almost slaughtered Xiao Daocheng, but his reign was short, only four years, leaving his son Xiao Baojuan with a ruined clan, a political environment where monarchs and ministers were suspicious, a court full of careerists and a group of local governors who sharpened their knives.
He was also worried that his son would not be able to sit for long, and before he died, he left a last word that he could not do things behind others, and in order to keep the throne, he did not trust anyone, and in his eyes anyone could be a pretender to the throne.
He wants to keep getting rid of all those who have the strength to abolish him, kill all the auxiliary ministers left by his father in the first year of his reign, and use bloody killings and brutal suppression to eliminate potential threats one by one, and the veterans and veterans of the Southern Qi Dynasty for decades such as Xiao Yaoguang, Xiao Tanzhi, Chen Xianda, Xiao Yi, etc. were all defeated under his hands.
Corresponding to the superb means is to completely collapse the political order of the Southern Dynasties, which is tantamount to quenching thirst by drinking water, from Yizhou to Jingzhou, from Jiangzhou to Huainan, these are all the places where the rebellion originated for a while, and even Jiankang has had countless coups d'état.
Xiao Baojuan was finally defeated at the hands of Xiao Yan, a more sophisticated, smarter, and ruthless political machine, but Xiao Yan did not escape the fate of internal friction in the Southern Dynasty, and watched his father, son and brothers kill each other, and Xiao Liang, whom he was proud of, was destroyed.
This is the fate of the Southern Dynasty, but also the tragedy of the Southern Dynasty, from the moment the Southern Dynasty was established, unlimited struggles, unlimited coups, and endless internal friction upstream and downstream doomed the Southern Dynasty to be difficult to undertake the mission of great unification, all the contradictions were detonated at the moment when Xiao Baojuan took power, he detonated everything in order to survive, and the Southern Liang born in **, but the Southern Liang could not avoid the political ecology of the Southern Dynasty, and finally fell apart.
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