A Brief Introduction of Qi Taizu Xiao Daocheng

Qi Taizu Xiao Daocheng (482,427), whose name was Shao Bo, was the grandson of Xiao He XXIV, the prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty. His ancestral home was Lanling County, Donghai County (now Lanling County, Shandong Province), and he was the founding emperor of the Southern Qi Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties (reigned from 479 to 482).

He studied the Spring and Autumn Annals by Li and Zuo under the famous Neo-Confucianist Lei Cizong. He was a general in the Southern Song Dynasty, with a deep temperament and studied the history of Confucian classics. Later, he was named King of Qi, accepted Zen as emperor, changed his title to Qi, and built his capital and health. In 482, Xiao Daocheng died at the age of 55 and was buried in Tai 'an Mausoleum. After death, the temple name Mao was called Emperor Gao.

Early experience

Xiao Daocheng is the grandson of Xiao He, the 24th Prime Minister of the Western Han Dynasty. Xiao He lived in Pei County (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province), and his son Xiao Biao lived in Zhongdu Township, Lanling County, Donghai after being dismissed from office. In the first year of Yuankang in the Western Jin Dynasty (29 1), the East China Sea was assigned to Lanling County. In the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huaiyin ordered Zheng Xiao to cross the river and live in Dongcheng, Wujin County, Jinling (now Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu). At that time, northerners living in the south of the Yangtze River were all named after the local names in the north in the south, so the Xiao Daocheng clan became Lanling people in Nanlanling.

In 427 AD (the fourth year of Song Yuanjia), Xiao Daocheng was born in an old house in Li Dongcheng, Wujin County, Jinling. Xiao Daocheng's father, Xiao Chengzhi, was a famous military general in Liu and Song Dynasties. Xiao Daocheng is handsome and charming, with a dragon neck, a bell voice and scales all over his body.

When Xiao Daocheng was thirteen years old, the famous scholar Lei Cizong founded a learning hall in Jiankang Jilong Mountain (now Nanjing, Jiangsu). He went to study Confucian classics, such as The Book of Rites and Zuo's Chunqiu.

Military life

In 440 AD (the 17th year of Yuanjia), Liu Yikang, the king of Pengcheng, was deposed and guarded Zhang Yu (now Nanchang, Jiangxi). Because his father, Xiao Chengzhi, was stationed in the army, Xiao Daocheng gave up his studies and went south with the army.

In 442 AD (the 19th year of Yuanjia), the barbarians in Jingling (now Tianmen, Hubei) were up to no good. Song Wendi sent Xiao Daocheng to lead an army against the barbarians in the north. In 444 AD (the 21st year of Yuanjia), Xiao Daocheng marched eastward to Rousseau, and the barbarians fled.

In 446 AD (the 23rd year of Yuanjia), he followed Yongzhou's secretariat to defend Xiangyang and Mianbei, and conquered barbarians such as Fan and Deng in the mountains, and became a soldier in the army. In 450 AD (the 27th year of Yuanjia), Rousseau besieged Chen Xian, commander in chief of Runan (now Zhumadian, Henan Province), and the court sent General Zangzhi of Ningshuo and Sima Liu Kangzu of Anman to rescue him. Song Wendi asked Xiao Daocheng to declare the imperial edict and authorized the army to save the festival. The enemy commander Tuoba Tao defeated Xiao Daocheng in Guanshan and besieged Song Jun. The situation was critical and he finally returned to Beijing smoothly.

In 452 AD (the 29th year of Yuanjia), Xiao Daocheng led an army to conquer Qiu Chi, Gao Lan garrison and five-star garrison. Eight miles away from Chang 'an, Liu Xiuzhi, the secretariat of Liangzhou, sent Si Mazhao to help conquer Tandi City. When the enemy reinforcements arrived, Mao considered that there were not many troops and he was very tired. When he heard that he was dead, he set fire to the city and withdrew to Nanzheng (now Hanzhong, Shaanxi). Attack and seal the fifth baron of Venus County.

In 454 AD (early years), Ren Xiaodao joined the army as Jiangxia Wangfu and was transferred to Taizai with the court. He was promoted to Yuan Wailang, Zhi Ge Zhongshu Sheren, Xiyang Wang Fujun, and joined the army to make a health order. Ziyuan Liu, the king of Xin 'an, chose his assistant, so he became a corps commander in the north. After the expiration of his mother's death, he was called General Wu Lie and resumed his health, still serving as a corps commander. In 465 (the first year of Jinghe), he served as the general of the rear army.

In 466 AD (the second year of Taishi), Emperor Liu of the Song and Ming Dynasties ascended the throne and was promoted to the rank of general of the right army. At that time, the four sides rebelled. Among the 274 counties, only the first county in Danyang supported the court, and the prefect of Huiji, Liu Zifang, the king of Xunyang, and several counties in the east rebelled. In the face of the crisis, he was ordered by General Jia to go to Jinling to fight against the rebel strikers Cheng Yi and Sun Tan F, breaking the enemy's 12th base in one day and putting down the rebellion.

Xuzhou secretariat surrendered to the Northern Dynasties, and sent his son Xue to attack Huaiyin, advancing to Qinghai and Hebei. Cheng Tianzuo, the satrap, rebelled, and Xu Zhou, the secretariat of Shen, surrendered. Emperor Song and Ming sent troops to the north, defeated Xue in Huaiyin and chased the enemy to Zhongli near Xuzhou, winning. The imperial court appointed Xiao Daocheng as General Xiaoqi and appointed 600 households in Xiyang County.

Xiao Daocheng was appointed as the Sima of Wang Weijun in Baling, and then guarded Huiji. At this time, Jiangzhou secretariat, Jin and Liu rebelled again, and went straight into Sanwu from Poyang Mountain Road. The situation is very tense. Xiao Daocheng took 3000 men to intercept the enemy, and there was a shortage of ordnance. He weaves harness with brown leather, cuts bamboo and fills arrows, and marches with torches at night. When the enemy saw the constant torches, they fled without fighting. Xiao Daocheng was promoted to Wang Zhengbei Sima, Guiyang and Nanhai Magistrate, and served in South Xuzhou.

In August of 467 AD (the third year of Taishi), Emperor Song Ming sent Shen Youzhi to the Northern Expedition, and Xiao Daocheng was appointed as the fake top scholar general, holding our time as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, guarding Huaiyin and guarding the rear for Shen Youzhi.

In July of the following year, Shen Youzhi, Wu and other northern expedition troops were defeated by Suikou, replacing Shen Youzhi as the secretariat of Nanzhou and guarding Guangling. In the past five years, I have been in charge of Yanzhou, Qingdao and Hebei. In six years, except Assistant Minister Huang Men, Yue was invited to ride a captain, not to worship. Award the champion again, general. Leave your post. Ming Di collapsed, and the testamentary edict was General You Wei, who led Wei Bing and 500 soldiers. Yuan charm with Tang Shuling, the guard, and the team leader Liu Yecang Ping. Don't lead the Northeast to choose things. Find Wei Wei, add Shi Zhong, and lead Shi Shoujun.

Take power in North Korea

In May of the second year of Hui Yuan (474), Liu Xiufan, the king of Guiyang, rebelled against the imperial court, and Xiao Daocheng led the troops in counterinsurgency and won. Xiao Daocheng was promoted to be a public official because of his active counter-insurgency, and was transferred to the post of General Zhong Tong to take charge of the Guards and supervise the military affairs of Wuzhou, but in fact, Xiao Daocheng was in charge of state affairs alone. At that time, he was called "Four Nobles" together with Yuan charm, Liu Bing. Since then, members of the Song royal family have been fighting for power with each other, and the real power of the imperial court has gradually gathered in Xiao Daocheng.

In the fourth year of Hui Yuan (476), Xiao Daocheng was promoted to Zuo Assistant Minister of Shangshu (equivalent to the prime minister of the imperial court). In July of the same year, Liu, a rebel in South Xuzhou, assassinated Jianping Wang, thinking that he was his eldest grandson and had the merit of being a diligent king, and wanted to seize the throne. Decisively conquered, fighting downstairs in Jingkou, Liu was defeated and beheaded.

Dictatorship and statehood

In June 477 (the fifth year of Hui Yuan), the weather was hot, and Xiao Daocheng was shirtless and taking a nap at home. Liu Yu rushed in and hit his navel with a bone arrow. After this scare, Xiao Daocheng knew that he could no longer help such a bad king. He ordered Wang Jing, a captain, to buy 25 people, including Yang Yufu and Yang Wannian, the attendants of the emperor, waiting for an opportunity to destroy Liu Yu.

On July 7, Liu Yu went through customs incognito, returned to Renshou Palace in the evening, and went to bed as drunk as a fiddler. Before going to bed, I told the waiter Yang Yufu, "Today is July 7th. When you see the Weaver Girl meet the Cowherd, report to me and I will kill you if you can't see me. " Yang Yufu knew that disaster was coming and decided to kill it first. After the little emperor fell asleep, Yang Yufu cut off Liu Yu's head with a knife. Xiao Daocheng immediately entered the palace on a red dragon horse, and made Liu Zhun, the king of Ancheng, the emperor, known as Song in history, and renamed it Ming Dynasty. Xiao Daocheng was an ancient general in charge of the military.

Yuan charm and Liu Bing were dissatisfied with Xiao Daocheng's autocratic power and plotted to destroy him. They planned to hold an event on1February 23rd. When it came to light, Xiao Daocheng killed him, killed Yuan Mei and Liu Bing, and cleared two political opponents on the way to the throne.

On the second day of March in 479 AD (the third year of Ming Dynasty), the Song Dynasty appointed Taifu as the prime minister, in charge of officials, and sealed him ten county fiefs, which was called nine in history, making him still a general of generals in ancient times, a shepherd in Yangzhou and a secretariat in South Xuzhou. In April of the same year, the Song Dynasty issued a letter to the King of Qi to abdicate and proclaimed himself emperor in the southern suburbs of Jiankang, with the same title as Qi. Gaiyuan Jianyuan, known as Nanqi in history.

die of illness

In February of 482 (the fourth year of Jianyuan), Xiao Daocheng was seriously ill. On the eighth day of March of the same year, Xiao Daocheng died in Guanglin Temple at the age of 56. On the sixth day of April, the minister or secretary went to the temple for Xiao Daocheng, whose name was posthumous title, the high emperor. On April 22nd, he was buried in Tai 'anling, Wujin County.

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