Introduction: When the Northern Dynasty was fighting fiercely, the Southern Dynasty also quietly completed the change of dynasties, and the last dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, Chen, appeared on the stage of history, but the storm clouds of the Chinese land actually had nothing to do with the Southern Dynasty.
In the early days of Emperor Wu of Southern Liang's reign, domestic politics were harmonious, and the north was once again divided, and under this circumstance, the strength of the Southern Dynasty surpassed that of the Northern Dynasty. Since the failure of the Northern Expedition of Emperor Wen of the Liu Song Dynasty, the strength of the southern regime has surpassed that of the north for the first time. But the good times were not long, Emperor Wu of Liang believed in Buddhism, and once the emperor's profession was mixed with other professional factors, he would not be able to do a good job in the emperor's profession. Emperor Wu of Liang's faith placed a heavy burden on the country, and government affairs were in a mess, and the state's finances were consumed in vain.
The monk Emperor Liangwu Emperor Xiao Yan
At the end of Emperor Liangwu's reign, hou Jing's rebellion occurred, Emperor Wu of Liang was starved to death, and Southern Liang was also caught in a rebellion. The social economy of the Jiangnan region was devastated, and the advantages that the Southern Dynasty had so hard to build up were gone. Western Wei even took the opportunity to encroach on a large amount of land in the Southern Dynasty during Hou Jing's rebellion, resulting in the re-established Southern Chen regime without any strategic depth, the country was small and narrow, and it completely lost its qualification to compete with the Northern Dynasty.
Southern Chen was the only regime in Chinese history that used the surname of its founder as the state name, and the founding emperor of Southern Chen, Chen Baxian, was highly regarded by Emperor Liangwu, so when the Hou Jing Rebellion broke out, Chen Baxian ascended to the altar and swore an oath to destroy Hou Jing's rebels. The thief army fought a decisive battle with Hou Jing's forces in Jiankang, and finally destroyed Hou Jing's forces and killed Hou Jing.
However, the aftermath of Hou Jing's rebellion has not yet subsided, it can be said that Hou Jing lit a flame in Southern Liang, but this flame was not beyond his control, even if he died, the flames of war still spread in Southern Liang. First of all, the struggle of Zhuxiao of Southern Liang, suppressed by the long-lived Emperor Wu of Liang, officially came to the surface. What was more serious was that these members of the imperial family ignored the state and sold Liang liang to the two Wei for glory, and the Han regime was in jeopardy.
Hou Jing's rebellion
Faced with this situation, Chen Baxian did not want to see the Han regime become a vassal of The Xianbei Northern Qi, so he led his troops to participate in the domestic struggle, and finally won the victory, supporting a puppet emperor and the military and political power of the Liang Dynasty.
At this point, we also seem to be able to find a law, the power change of the Southern Dynasty is replaced within the original regime, such as Liu Yuben was a courtier of the Western Jin Dynasty, Xiao Daoshou was a courtier of Liu Song, Xiao Yanben was a courtier of Southern Qi, and Chen Baxian was a courtier of Southern Liang. Now that Chen Baxian had once again ascended to the top of power, the reason why he had not yet established himself on behalf of Liang was because external troubles were still there.
Northern Qi saw that the political situation in Southern Liang was turbulent and brazenly invaded Southern Liang, and Chen Baxian could only take the outside first, leading his army to defeat the two invasions of Northern Qi and protect the people of Jiangnan from foreign poison. The advantages of this were obvious, and Chen Baxian's actions won him a good reputation and cleared the obstacles to becoming emperor.
In 557 AD, Chen Baxian accepted the emperor's throne and the Southern Chen regime was established.
The influence of Chen Baxian's defeat of Northern Qi not only caused a huge reaction at home, but also set off a huge wave in the Northern Dynasty, and the weakening of Northern Qi's strength allowed Northern Zhou to seize the opportunity to unify the north. Although the waves in the north were later enough to affect the pattern of the world, this had little to do with Southern Chen, at least for the time being, Northern Qi and Northern Zhou had no time to take care of Southern Chen.
Chen Baxian
Chen Ba was first a British lord, but he died young, and the stable situation of Southern Chen did not last for several years. In 582 AD, Chen Shubao, the lord of Southern Chen, became emperor. This Lord is also a number of emperors in Chinese history.
Chen Ba, of the Chen Dynasty, was born in the cold door, and after becoming emperor, he has always advocated the style of frugality and lightly dispensed with thin endowments. This policy was also inherited by several later emperors of Southern Chen, so although Southern Chen's military strength was not good, its economic strength was more prominent among the four southern dynasties. When Chen Shubao ascended the throne, he changed his previous frugal royal style, built a large number of palaces, was extravagant and lascivious, and turned the phoenix upside down with concubines, and made beautiful words with courtiers.
The afterglow of Gao Wei's absurd past is still there, but Chen Shubao's performance is much more "smart" than Gao Wei's.
At this time, the north had completed a change of dynasty, and the Sui Emperor Yang Jian, who had a long strategy, after handling his relations with the Turks, began to prepare for the destruction of the Chen state. Compared with the emperors of the same period, Chen Hou lord looked even more unbearable, and Emperor Wen of Sui was a very brilliant one even if it was placed among the imperial stars.
Emperor Yang Jian of Sui
Since ancient times, military affairs are secret affairs, and many victories in wars have come from sudden blows under the conditions of information asymmetry, such as the later famous general Li Jing's surprise attack on the Turks; such as the classic battle of Maling in the Warring States period. These battles are essentially the use of asymmetry between their own information and the enemy's information to achieve strategic objectives. However, Emperor Wen of Sui was upright in his war against Chen, and issued an edict to show the world several reasons for attacking Chen Guo. This is like the war in the Spring and Autumn Period, the division is famous and upright.
However, Lord Chen Hou did not realize that this war was a war of annihilation, and when Yang Jian was preparing armaments, preparing grain, preparing warships, and sending troops and horses to cut down Chen, Lord Chen Hou was also facing new troubles. His palace was not built within the construction period, so he set a fire to burn the palace.
Sui soldiers entered the Chen Realm, and the urgent documents came like snowflakes, Chen Shubao was very calm, and his favorite courtiers were also very calm, since ancient times, the Yangtze River was dangerously divided between the north and the south, and even Cao Mengde was folding on the Yangtze River. However, they did not see that the last emperor of Eastern Wu relied on the Yangtze River to think that the rivers and mountains were eternally solid, but he was still broken by the Jin.
Southern Chen Hou Lord Chen Shubao
Chen Shubao feasted with the courtiers at night, intercourseed with concubines, and had fun and play, but the battles ahead were defeated one after another, and there were many famous generals of the Sui Dynasty, Han Huhu and Yang Su, this time as deputies to assist Yang Guang, the King of Jin. Poor soldiers are tight in the front, and Lord Chen Hou is eating tightly in the rear, so the emperor, does it have the reason that the country will not die?
What made Chen Hou lord spurned by his descendants was that when The State of Chen was breached, he did not assume the responsibility of a king for Jiangshan Sheji, and hid in a dry well in the palace with two concubines. In the end, he was found out by the Sui soldiers and captured in Chang'an.
After the fall of the Chen Dynasty, the Sui unified the world, and since the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the land of China, which had been divided for more than three hundred years, was finally unified. If the unification of the Qin State is the initial establishment of the idea of great unification among the bones of the Chinese nation, then the unification of the Sui Dynasty is a new life that is once again rejuvenated after the precipitation of this bloodline factor.
Conclusion: The unification of the Sui Dynasty will also open a round of unparalleled prosperity, China once again stands at the center of the world, and the self-confidence of the Heavenly Dynasty and the Kingdom of Heaven became a norm during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The cultural self-confidence we often talk about today, after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, became an indelible memory in the bones.