How to evaluate Emperor Xiao Zhuang of Wei?

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Among the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's descendants made a tragic move, that is, Cao Mao, a noble rural duke, died when he stood still. It should be said that the puppet emperor is quite bloody.

In history, there are many puppet emperors who dare to struggle in this desperate situation, such as Zhao Gao who was punished. Among them, Yuan Ziyou, the emperor of Xiao Zhuang in the Northern Wei Dynasty, was the most outstanding one.

The imperial clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty was originally divided into the throne. Due to the civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Le 'an Erzhurong led the army to Beijing to seize power. At this time, Er Zhurong claimed to be a servant, commander-in-chief of Chinese and foreign armies, general, secretary-general and leading general. He is just an overlord. Only in order to strengthen his momentum and gain more support, he took Emperor Yuanyou as the banner to seize power.

This is a typical puppet emperor, and his opponent Er Zhurong is a very cruel and cunning opponent. People in middle school history may remember that there was an uprising in six towns in Jung, and Jung's million-strong army was wiped out by Er Zhurong. At the same time, Er Zhurong was well aware of the prevention of power, so when he captured Luoyang and gained political power, he created a tragedy known as the "River Yin Change", which killed more than 2,000 people, including the imperial clan ministers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and completely destroyed the political foundation of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Speaking of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was also a powerful country established by riders. At the beginning, when Tuoba GUI, Emperor Daowu, founded the People's Republic of China, he was severely punished, and all his tribes were often put to death for committing crimes, but he was afraid of his majesty and took his family and mouth to the death. After several generations, the imperial clan was weak and was killed by the powerful ministers. The reason is actually related to the rapid civilization of the Northern Wei Dynasty. With the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of Wei Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty quickly merged with the Han nationality in culture and made progress. At the same time, the nobles of the Northern Wei Dynasty immediately indulged in the dissolute life advocated by the Han nationality-wow, there is such a decadent lifestyle! As a result, the nobility, as the core of the ruling class in the Northern Wei Dynasty, declined rapidly, which brought opportunities for the rise of the powerful ministers. Another direct cause of civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty is even more ridiculous. There was a barbaric and backward custom in the Northern Wei Dynasty, that is, when a son was born, he killed his mother. After Emperor Xiaowen's reform, the people of the Northern Wei Dynasty became civilized. When Emperor Xiaoming was established, he did not kill his mother Hu Chonghua. As a result, this Hu Chonghua Hu Taihou soon became an autocratic empress dowager of the Northern Wei Dynasty. To make matters worse, this Hu Taihou consumes a lot of electricity. In order to avoid the fight between Emperor Xiaoming and himself, he poisoned his son alive. At the same time, she is called "the most greedy and dissolute woman" by historians. Hu is not only poisoning the world, but also dissolute. Huayang, a famous soldier in the Northern Wei Dynasty, is a figure similar to Luo Cheng. I took a fancy to Yang's bravery and forced him to be a traitor. Yang is a man of backbone and refuses to eat soft rice. As a result, he pushed an anti-Southern general. Hu's misdeeds soon led to the disintegration of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Erzhurong was able to take power lightly because the ruling group in the Northern Wei Dynasty was in chaos.

Erzhurong's power reached its peak after the change of Yin He, even worse than that of Si Mazhao. He can openly discuss the issue of usurpation and cast a statue to predict whether it is auspicious to usurp the throne immediately. It was only because the statue happened to fail and Zhu Rong was superstitious that the matter was shelved.

In such a harsh living environment, Emperor Xiao Zhuang could not bear to put on a show. He knows in his heart that people can't wait for freedom and equality when pigs are full for the New Year.

However, he has no soldiers and no power. What shall we do?

Cao Mao took the method of trying to find a gap to establish his own power, but it was a pity that Sima Shi saw through it. The solution of Yuan Ziyou, the emperor of Xiao Zhuang, has the distinct personality of his nomadic ancestors.

He just made a simple arrangement with a few cronies, and there was no more elaborate preparation at all. In September of the third year of Yong 'an (530), when Er Zhurong held a routine sacrifice, several cronies of Emperor Xiao Zhuang suddenly rushed to Er Zhurong. Er Zhurong was frightened. I didn't expect this boy to play hardball without preparation. But after all, he was an old soldier, so he immediately jumped up and pounced on Emperor Xiao Zhuang, who was going to take Emperor Xiao Zhuang as a hostage.

Who knows this cold boy's next move is even more surprising.

Seeing that the hostage was about to be seized, Emperor Xiao Zhuang suddenly drew a nod from under the cushion. Yuanziyou practiced martial arts since childhood and was very brave. He fought bravely and killed Er Zhurong in the temple with a horizontal knife!

After the news came out, officials and people who were afraid of Jules' cruelty rose to support them.

Although Emperor Xiao Zhuang finally failed in the battle with the army and was captured and killed by Zhao, I'm afraid this bloody battle is a rare swan song among puppet emperors.