In everyone's eyes, the gorgeous gold powder southern dynasty ended after the fall of the Southern Liang. The later Chen Dynasty was basically a "dog-tailed sable". The general public is also familiar with the Jingyang Gongjing. But this was not the case, and the establishment of the Chen Dynasty was also crucial, delaying the unification process of the Northern Dynasty and continuing to preserve the original Southern Dynasty culture. If not, let Northern Qi conquer the territory, maybe the future Northern Qi royal family will repeat the story of Nandu. This was not only a disaster, but the humble Northern Qi might not be able to gain a foothold in Jiangnan, and it would also bring about a large-scale attack by Northern Zhou, which was not comparable to the later Battle of Pingchen.
Chen Baxian (503~559), zi xingguo, small character fasheng, Han chinese. A native of Changcheng County, Wuxing County (長興县, Huzhou, Zhejiang). At the beginning, he served in Liang, and once assisted Wang Monk in quelling Hou Jing's rebellion. In the first year of Tiancheng (555), Chen Baxian killed Wang Shengxian, supported Emperor Jing, and proclaimed himself xiangguo and the king of Chen. Later, he defeated Northern Qi, excluded Wang Sheng's Yu Dang, was favored by the people, and finally received the title of Emperor of Zen, the state name Chen, the capital Jiankang, reigned for three years, Emperor Wu, and the temple name Gaozu.
Chen Baxian Temple
The character Kou Zhong in Huang Yi's novel "The Legend of the Double Dragon of the Tang Dynasty" can be called a "human master". Chen Baxian's biography also has a bit of a "Southern Dynasty Double Dragon Biography".
According to historical records, Chen Baxian's distant ancestors were Ling Chen Yi (Chen Taiqiu in the "New Sayings of the World") in Taiqiu County at the end of the Han Dynasty, and Shiju In Yingchuan Xu County (Xuchangdong, Henan). The tenth ancestor's name was Chen Da, and during the Yongjia period, he crossed the river with the Jin Dynasty and moved south. Chen Da served as the Commander of the Great Wall and settled down in the local area. Chen Da once prophesied: "The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and when there is a king who is prosperous, after two hundred years, my descendants will be lucky." "Chen Baxian practiced martial arts as a teenager and had a wide range of interests. Zheng shi has such an evaluation: He was generous and generous, ambitious and far-reaching, ignoring family property, "Ming Da was decisive and was persuaded by the time", also known as "Long and long, dabbling in historical books, good at reading military books, Ming Wei Hou, lonely, the art of concealing armor, multi-martial arts". By the time of Chen Baxian, the Chen family had become a large family with a large number of people after ten generations of reproduction, but the door valve system of the Southern and Northern Dynasties prevailed, and the Changxing Chen family was still a cold door.
In the eleventh year of Datong (545), Chen Baxian was appointed Sima of Jiaozhou and concurrently served as the Taishou of Wuping (present-day Yong'an, Vietnam), and went to Jiaozhou to fight against the local separatist forces. Because the society at that time was extremely particular about his family lineage, Chen Baxian, who had distinguished himself, was still not highly valued by the imperial court, and after jiaozhou was pacified, he was still appointed as the governor of Xijiang and Gao Yaotaishou, and even a thorn history was not promoted, and only a military post of supervising the military of the seven counties was added.
After Hou Jing's rebellion, Chen Baxian learned that the capital was under siege and immediately prepared to aid Jiankang. At the end of the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty (549), Chen Ba sent an envoy to Jiangling and surrendered to xiao Xuan, the king of Xiangdong, and obtained the legal right to the Northern Expedition. After defeating various local separatist forces in the south, Chen Baxian's army sent an army to Nankang in June of the second year of Dabao (551) and marched north along the Ganjiang River. In the first month of the third year of Dabao (552), Chen Baxian's southern expedition set out from Yuzhang (Nanchang, Jiangxi), by which time there were already 30,000 soldiers. After Chen Baxian and the Governor of Xilu, wang monks, met the master, in March, they fought a great showdown with Hou Jing at Jiankang. Xiao Xuan was proclaimed emperor at Jiangling, that is, the historical Liang Yuan Emperor. Chen Baxian was ordered to guard the town at Jingkou (Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), and Wang Shengzhen to guard the town in Jiankang.
At this time, the southern dynasty stood side by side, which can be described as "double dragon"!
Emperor Wen of Chen
After the Jiangling Rebellion, Northern Qi Gao Yang was not willing to accept the expansion of Western Wei's power to the south, and also wanted to take advantage of the ruin of the Liang state to send his younger brother Gao Zhuo, the King of Shangdang, to lead an army to invade the south and escort Xiao Yuanming, the Marquis of Zhenyang, to ascend the throne of the Liang state. At the beginning of the debate, Wang Shengdi resolutely refused to agree. In March of the fourth year of Chengsheng (554), the Qi army came to Dongguan (Chaohu, Anhui), and Wang Shengquan sent Xuzhou to assassinate Shi Pei Zhiheng to lead the troops to intercept it, Pei Zhiheng was defeated and killed, and Wang Shengquan personally led his troops out of the city and stationed in Gushu in fear. During this period, Wang Hadi had a continuous correspondence with Northern Qi on the one hand, and with Chen Baxian on the other. At first, Chen Baxian insisted on not accepting Xiao Yuanming, but Wang Shengjie gradually weakened with Pei Zhi's defeat and death, and finally had to succumb to the pressure of Northern Qi, and welcomed Xiao Yuanming to Jiankang in July to claim the title of emperor. Chen Baxian struggled bitterly to no avail, and in his heart he resented Wang Monk for defending himself and abolishing it without authorization. In September, he raised an army at Jingkou, raided Shicheng, killed Wang Shengjie, ousted Xiao Yuanming from power, and installed Xiao Fangzhi as emperor. Later he ascended to the throne himself!
China's reunification has always been the common aspiration of the north and the south. Chen Baxian was no exception, and after defeating Hou Jing, he led an army to Guangling (Yangzhou, Jiangsu) three times in an attempt to regain lost territory; his attack on Wang Shengjian showed that he did not succumb to the oppression of Northern Qi, which was relatively economically and culturally backward. Therefore, we cannot simply understand the Chen Dynasty established by Chen Baxian as a partial security regime. But a variety of factors prevented him from achieving his greater political ambitions.
Without a strong emperor, the southern Han culture since the Eastern Jin Dynasty would have been seriously damaged. Therefore, history chose Chen Baxian, who was ordered to be in times of danger and to hold his arms in a time of hopelessness. The founding of the Chen Dynasty coincided with Hou Jing's rebellion, and several years of continuous wars caused serious damage to the economy and culture of the south. Several monarchs of the Chen Dynasty, while pacifying large and small local divisions, healed the wounds of war, and the economy and culture of the south were gradually restored. After Chen Baxian laid the foundation, the heir Chen Wendi exerted great efforts to govern, and the country gradually became stronger; in order to realize Chen Baxian's will to unify, Emperor Xuan of Chen raised troops in the Northern Expedition, defeated Northern Qi, and possessed the land of Huainan, which was the peak of the Chen Dynasty.