Xiao Xun

Xiao Xun

Xiao you (440-493), a native of Lanling County, Donghai County (now Linyi City, Shandong Province), was born in Xuanyuan, a small name of Long'er. The second emperor of Qi in the Southern Dynasty, Xiao Daocheng, the eldest son of emperor Gao of Qi, whose mother was Liu Zhirong, empress Zhao. Born in Lanling, Xiao's family lived in Qiliang house, and then lived in Nanqi house.

In 479, he became the crown prince. Jianyuan four years (482 years), officially ascended the throne, is the Qi Wudi, Yongming. Emperor Qi Wu was a wise and just broken monarch. During his reign, he inherited the style of Qi Gaodi, advocated thrift, cared about the sufferings of the common people, ran more schools, and selected learned people to teach in order to cultivate virtue. The rich country first, do not like to travel banquet, extravagant things, continue to implement the naturalization policy. In the third year of Yongming Dynasty (485), Tang Yuzhi's rebellion in Fuyang county was put down, but the policy of citizenship inspection was still fiercely opposed by the common people. Yongming, in eight years (490 years), declared that "Ji Ji" was invalid and restored the original status of registered residence in the Liu Song Shengming period. It had a good connection with the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the border was relatively stable. The ruling environment of Qingming promoted the economic development and social stability of Jiangnan.

Yongming 11 years (493 years), died of illness, at the age of 54, temple

Shizu

His posthumous title is

martial

, buried in Jing'an mausoleum.

Life of the characters

Yingwu in his early years

In 440, Emperor Wendi of Song Dynasty was born in Qingxi house of Xiao Daocheng in Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province). It is said that on the night of birth, Liu Zhirong's mother dreamed of a dragon sitting on the house. Therefore, his father Xiao Daocheng took the nickname "Long'er".

At first, he served as the Minister of Xunyang state (Liu Zifang), Cao shuzuo in the west of Jiangzhou, and magistrate of Ganxian county. In 466, the governor of Jiangzhou and Liu Zixun, king of Jin'an, conspired against each other. Xiao Yu was imprisoned by Nankang Prime Minister Shen Suzhi for disobedience to Liu Zixun. Later, Xiao Xinzu, a clansman, and Huan Kang, a disciple, broke through the county city to meet and rescue Xiao you. Shen Suzhi led hundreds of officials to pursue. Xiao Yu fought to the death with the people around him, captured Shen Suzhi alive, decapitated more than 100 people, and led more than 100 people around him to volunteer.

Yin Fu, the Prime Minister of Shixing, led 10000 troops to seek yang to take refuge with Liu Zixun. Someone suggested that Xiao you intercept Yin Fu. Considering that the number of people was too small and outnumbered, Xiao Yu retreated and stationed troops in Jieyang mountain, where he recruited 3000 people. Liu Zixun dispatched Dai Kaizhi, the Minister of Nankang, and appointed more than 1000 troops from the military department to assist. Xiao Yu led his troops to Nankang County, where he defeated several hundred of Cheng Chao, the leader of Dai Kaizhi's other army, and then attacked Zhang Zongzhi. He defeated Zhang Zongzhi and beheaded him, so he surrounded Nankang county. Liu Zixun will defend Dai Kaizhi with thousands of people. Xiao you leads his soldiers to attack the city all day long, and finally the city is captured. Dai Kaizhi runs away, and Xiao you kills Tao Chongzhi, the magistrate of Ganxian County appointed by Liu Zixun. Xiao Yu occupied the county and city, and sent troops to defend Yingji and Deng Huizhen. Three thousand people attacked Yuzhang. Liu Zixun sent the army leader Tan Xiuzhi and other 7000 people to confront Zhang Yingqi in Xichang and build barracks. The two sides fought many times and were hard to win. I heard that Xiao Yu was going to fight in person, so tan Xiu and others left.

After the end of the rebellion, the Liu Song court transferred Xiao you to Beijing to serve as the Minister of shangshuku, the soldier of the northern expedition, the son of Xiyang County, and concurrently as the prefect of South Dongguan, the captain of Yueqi school, the zhengyuanlang, the commander of Liu Fujun and the prefect of Xiangyang. He also granted ganxianzi, a food town of 300 households. Xiao Yu resolutely refused to accept. So he became general Ning Shuo and Prime Minister Guangxing.

The success of pacifying the chaos

In 474, Liu Xiufan, the king of Guiyang, conspired against him. Xiao you sent troops to attack Xunyang. When he arrived in Beiqiao, the rebellion was put down. After the Song Dynasty, Liu Yu, the deposed emperor, was promoted to Xiao you, the king of Jin Xi. Liu Xie's advice on Anxi was not accepted by Xiao you, but returned to his own county. After that, he was transferred to situ Youchang Shi and huangmenlang.

In 476, the court appointed Xiao you as the governor of the west, the governor of jiangxianei and the governor of xingyingzhou. In 476, Liu Zhun, Emperor Shun of Song Dynasty, ascended the throne and transferred Liu Xie, king of Jin Xi, to Fujun and governor of Yangzhou. Xiao Xunwei was appointed as general of Zuowei to assist Liu Xie. In December of the same year, Shen Youzhi rebelled. Before the appointment of the imperial court was given, Xiao you saw that Shen Youzhi could wait for the enemy in the middle of his March, so he led his troops to occupy the city of penkou and was ready to fight. Xiao Yu's father, Xiao Daocheng, was overjoyed when he heard that he was my son Xiao Yu asked to go west to seek the enemy, but he didn't get permission, so he sent a partial army to support Yingcheng. At that time, Huang Hui, the general of Pingxi, was controlled by Xiao you. He was appointed a champion general and a chaste man.

In 478, Shen Youzhi's rebellion was put down, and the imperial court transferred Xiao you to be a regular official. He was in charge of Jiangzhou, Xincai and Jinxi military of Yuzhou, general of Zhenglu and governor of Jiangzhou. Fengwenxi County Hou, food city 2000 households. In the same year, he was transferred to serve as a servant and a leading general. And give one to the advocacy band. There is a history assistant in the government. He also served as the stone garrison. Soon he was appointed governor of the capital.

Crown prince

In the third year of Shengming Dynasty (479), Xiao Yu was transferred to the position of Sanqi Changshi, Shangshu pushe, Chinese general and Kaifu Yitong, and was granted the title of Wenxi. He still held the posts of Chijie, governor and leader. Twenty people were allocated to banjian. In March of the same year, Emperor Shun of the Song Dynasty canonized Xiao Dao, who was then a Taifu, as Duke of Qi. He added Jiuxi and made Xiao you the son of Duke of Qi. In addition, he served as the governor of central and southern Yuzhou, and gave Xiao you Luo Che, Yu Bao, Gu Gu and other things, and increased the ban Jian guard of honor to 40 people. Taking the stone palace as the uterus of Qi Dynasty, it is allowed to set up subordinate officials below the rate of left and right guards. The official office, service system and the East Palace are exactly the same. The late Prince of Qi.

In April of the first year of Jianyuan (479), Xiao Daocheng ascended the throne by Zen and established the Southern Qi Dynasty. He was the emperor of Qi and made Xiao you the crown prince. On the 8th of March in the fourth year of Jianyuan (482), Emperor Gao of Qi died, and Xiao you ascended the throne for Emperor Wu of Qi. The imperial edict was issued to order the officers of towns, prefectures, and military barracks to be absent without permission after three days of mourning; no garrison stationed in the city was allowed to return to the capital. On March 11 of the same year, according to the edict of emperor Gao, Emperor Wu of Qi appointed situ Chuyuan as the Minister of Lu Shang Shu, Shu Zuo pushe Wang Jian as the Minister of Shang Shu, and Zhang Jinger as the general of Kai Fu. On the first day of June, Emperor Qi Wu made his eldest son Xiao Changmao the crown prince.

arouse one 's all efforts to make the country prosperous

Emperor Qi Wu was very concerned about the sufferings of the people. After he ascended the throne, he issued an imperial edict, saying, "this year's harvest is not very good. Many people are poor and have no food. On both sides of the Yangtze River near the capital, people are in dire straits. We must send zhongshushe people to provide relief. " In the second year of Yongming (484), he issued an edict to repatriate the prisoners in the army and grant them amnesty. Relief should be given to the widows and the poor among the people. He advocated and rewarded agriculture and mulberry, and reduced taxes in disaster years. Emperor Qi Wu advocated frugality, but did not like traveling, feasting and extravagance. He once ordered that the wedding ceremony should not be extravagant, and even the affairs behind him should be simple. He put the rich country first, advocated agriculture, and ordered more schools and selected learned people to teach in order to cultivate people's morality. He attaches great importance to the harm of natural disasters to civilians. At that time, there was a crop failure and flood, and soon after succeeding to the throne, the victims were subsidized. In the disaster years of Yangzi and Nanxu, he reduced taxes to reduce the burden of the victims, and regarded them as permanent system. In order to further ease the situation between the north and the south, Emperor Qi Wu sent fan Zhen as an emissary to the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Since the Song Dynasty, many of the registered residence owners often bribed the officials to bribe officials, and forged their fathers' ancestral title in the Yellow nationality of the clan. In the early days of emperor Qi Gao, he set up a school official and set up a census to check the registered residence. Emperor Qi continued his father's policy, and he redeemed all the registered residence which was considered to be forgery, which he called back to his county. However, those who should have served the Nanfu but used the fake household registration to escape, must continue to bear the service of the "registered residence". However, in the process of naturalization, due to the corruption and cheating of the prosecutors, the previous naturalization has not been completed, and the following troubles have come one after another. The people who should be naturalized have not been naturalized, and those who do not need to be naturalized have been naturalized instead.

In 486, Tang Yuzhi launched a rebellion against it. Although the rebellion was quickly put down by Emperor Qi Wu, the policy of naturalization was still fiercely opposed by the common people. Finally, in the eight years (490 years) of Yongming, Emperor Qi Wu was forced to compromise, declared that "Ji Ji" was invalid, and the people who were assigned to garrison for "Ji Ji" were allowed to return to their hometown, and the original records of the registered residence in Liu Song Shengming period were restored.

Because of the good communication between emperor Xiaoyu and the Northern Wei Dynasty, the border was more stable and military mobilization was reduced. During the eleven years of emperor Qi Wu's reign, the political purity, the domestic social stability, the economic and cultural development, brought a well-off and stable situation for Qi.

He died in his old age

On the 25th of the first month of the 11th year of Yongming (493), Xiao Changmao, the crown prince, died, and his posthumous title was Prince Wenhui. On April 14, Emperor Qi Wu appointed Xiao Zhaoye, the eldest son of Xiao Changmao, as his grandson.

In July of the same year, Emperor Qi Wu fell ill. On July 30, when Emperor Qi Wu was critically ill, he ordered his grandson Xiao Zhaoye to succeed to the throne. He asked all officials to do their best to help him. The funeral ceremony was simple. He named his chosen burial site jinganling, and did not allow the construction of pagodas and temples. Xiao Yu died that day at the age of 54. He was named Shizu in the temple and Emperor Wu posthumously. On September 18, he was buried in jinganling.

Political initiatives

The wind of benevolent government

After emperor Qi Wu succeeded to the throne, he was merciful and resolute. In March of the first year of Yongming (483), Emperor Wu of Qi issued a 50 day amnesty to all the prisoners, who had no serious crimes. In August of the next year (484), zhaodu went to the two counties to bury the dead in the wild according to the situation, and the dead without relatives. Military discipline of the troops led by General Chen Tianfu

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