#长文创作激励计划#
(Nanchu Ma Yin image)
In the fifth year of Tiancheng, in 930 AD, Ma Yin, the founding monarch of Southern Chu, died of illness.
Seventy-nine when he died, a difference of one year to eighty.
Looking back on this life, there are sighs and touches, and overall it is not bad.
Southern Chu under the governance of Ma Yin, well-developed and thriving, he is not a lawless king, he does not like to kill ministers, he is not a war maniac, he does not like to take the initiative to provoke wars, but he has adopted the strategy of "serving the five generations of Zhengshuo, and serving the people and the people", focusing on protecting the territory and the people.
On the water side of Hengyang, Ma Yin slept here, leaving the foundation to his son Ma Xisheng.
This Ma Xisheng, originally he couldn't take over the shift, the reason is very simple, he is Ma Yin's second son.
In the era when the primogeniture inheritance system is the mainstream, the fate of the second son is often destined, the second son, that is, there is no hope, if there is hope, Taizong Li Shimin will not be blood-spattered Xuanwumen.
Ma Xisheng was able to inherit Nanchu as his second son, thanks to his mother Concubine De.
Concubine De is the favorite concubine of the old man Ma Yin, Ma Yin loves the house and Wu, and when she changed her mind, she left the inheritance to Concubine De's son.
When people are old, they are inevitably confused, and the eldest son Ma Xizhen is known as virtuous, but he missed the throne.
But come to think of it, Ma Xizhen shouldn't care, he himself doesn't have much pursuit of power, his biggest hobby in life is to work poetry, chanting and talking, after Ma Xisheng inherited the throne, he simply resigned from all his positions in the court and became a monk.
When Ma Yin died, he not only passed the throne to Ma Xisheng, but also left a profound rule, that is, he hoped that Ma Xisheng could pass the throne to his younger brothers when he passed on the throne.
For this reason, Ma Yin also put a sword in the ancestral hall of the Ma family, and had the following last words:
Whoever disobeys my will kill him with this sword.
The father had explained everything and died, but Ma Xisheng didn't seem to feel any sad or sad.
(Nanchu Jiangshan)
When his father was still controlling Southern Chu, Ma Xisheng was a son-in-law and also held a position in the Southern Chu court, although he was Ma Yin's son, but in the face of his majestic father, he never dared to relax.
Historical records record that Ma Yin has a total of more than 30 sons, and in order to stand out among these more than 30 sons, it is of course not enough to rely on the help of his mother Concubine De, he also needs to perform seriously, at least to show a humble and virtuous appearance, so that Ma Yin is basically satisfied.
On the surface, Ma Xisheng is gentle and frugal, but judging from the things he killed Gao Yu in vain before, he is not a smart person.
Not only is he not smart, but he is also hedonistic and flashy.
When he was young, in the five generations or the Later Liang had the world, Ma Xisheng heard that Zhu Wen, the Taizu of the Later Liang, liked to eat chickens, and he could eat thirty or fifty a day, he was very envious, but he didn't dare to buy so many chickens to eat every day, it was too extravagant and indulgent, and it was easy to arouse his father's disgust, so he could only envy in his heart, and he was hungry every day, and when his father died, he became the king of Southern Chu, he didn't pretend anymore, and he had a direct showdown, and he had to call him to kill fifty chickens to eat every day.
Think about it, don't talk about the big rooster and the old hen, even if it is fifty eggs, one person can choke enough to eat them in a day, then to put it bluntly, Ma Xisheng is pursuing pomp, and most of these chickens are wasted by him.
And at this time when he began to eat chicken every day, his father Ma Yinxin died, and before he was mourned, he ate and drank, and there was no sadness at all, and on the day of his father's burial, he did not show how sad he was, but other sons and ministers were mourning the old King of Chu, sighing sadly, but Ma Xisheng didn't care, and he also made several bowls of chicken soup in a row.
Yes, how could Ma Xisheng be sad and sad? He has endured it for so many years, isn't this day what he is waiting for?
You are my kind and loving father, but you are also a stumbling block on my way forward, if you don't die, when will I come out?
But it's also strange, when Ma Yin was in power, the wind and rain in Nanchu had been smooth for many years, and as soon as Ma Xisheng took over, there was a big drought in Hunan, and it was not an ordinary drought, but a drought for many years.
The fields were devastated and the people's livelihood withered, and the fields were green and yellow, and the rice and wheat were all withered, as if they had been burned by flames.
The water level of rivers and lakes dropped sharply, dried up to the bottom, revealing cracked riverbeds...
(Plunge drought)
Ma Xisheng was very anxious, and he also wanted to come up with a solution, but the problem was that the rebellion could be quelled by force, and the lack of money could be regulated by the economy, and the wisdom of the ancients could solve many problems, but when they faced such a particularly serious natural disaster, they were often powerless and could only pray for God's protection, that is, for rain.
After this Ma Xisheng came to power, he didn't do anything else, begging for rain today, begging for rain tomorrow, a good toss, but it still didn't come down a drop of rain.
He succeeded in 930, and after years of severe drought, he attempted to beg for rain, and in 932 he died.
The cause of death is unknown, probably because it has a lot to do with the fact that you can't get the rain and are in a hurry.
Despite his mediocre performance, average ability, and moral flaws, Ma Xisheng complied with his father's wishes, and passed the throne to his son Ma Xifan.
In a short life, like a meteor, some meteors will be seen, will be used by people to make wishes, then it is a meteor that has existed, but some meteors, it quietly crosses the night sky, no one watches, no one cares, no one discovers, then it is as if it never existed.
Ma Xisheng is the latter.
Ma Xifan, the third generation of kings of Southern Chu, has always been very angry about Ma Xisheng's assumption of the throne at the beginning, he thinks that his father is unfair, and thinks that Ma Xisheng's mother Concubine De is the obstruction from it, which made him the king of Chu for so many years, so after he ascended the throne, he was very unfriendly to the descendants of Ma Xisheng's lineage.
Ma Xisheng's mother, Concubine De, Ma Xifan was very rude to her, her food and clothing were reduced in various ways, and she was not usually thoughtful in taking care of her, Ma Xisheng's half-brother Ma Xiwang, Ma Xifan did not treat him and blamed him a lot.
The two of them were excluded and suppressed by Ma Xifan all day long, became angry and became ill, and died soon after.
(Nanchu Ma Xifan image)
People in high positions often have an unusually sensitive sensitivity to power, afraid of ministers making trouble, afraid of relatives rebelling, especially those like Ma Xifan who have many brothers and sisters, he must strictly guard against it.
Ma Xifan also has a younger brother, whose name is Ma Xigao, who is honest and honest, capable of doing things, and has a good reputation, and a colleague named Pei Renxu has a holiday with Ma Xigao, so he ran to Ma Xifan to slander Ma Xigao, Ma Xifan listened to and believed it, and became suspicious of Ma Xigao's capable subordinates.
When Ma Xifan ascended the throne, the five dynasties were still the Later Tang Dynasty, and after he ascended the throne for a period of time, the Later Tang Dynasty perished, and the five dynasties carried out the third regime of the Later Jin.
The Later Jin regime, threatened by the Khitans, could only be said to be powerless for these fragmented secession regimes in the Central Plains, so it had to generally adopt a policy of friendship and special sealing for the secession warlords, and Ma Xifan of Southern Chu also received a lot of rewards.
Southern Chu was already wealthy, and Ma Xifan could get a lot of economic help from the Later Jin Dynasty, but he was still not satisfied, and often increased various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the local government.
Peng Shichou and Ma Xifan originally had contradictions, but Peng Shichou's cousin Peng was Ma Xifan's wife, and there was this relationship before, and the contradiction between the two was eased, and later Peng died, and the contradiction between Peng and Ma broke out completely, and it turned into a war.
Speaking of this Mrs. Peng, there is an interesting story.
Although she is the woman of the King of Chu, Peng's appearance is not outstanding, and it can be said that she is not very good-looking, Ma Xifan actually doesn't like her.
Although Peng's appearance is average, he is virtuous and virtuous, and he governs the harem well, and everyone praises her, even if Ma Xifan doesn't like her, he respects her very much, and even reveals a fear of his wife in his bones.
When Peng died, Ma Xifan began to liberate his nature, indulged in sex all day long, stayed up all night to have fun, and even wanted to pick another little wife.
There was a merchant's wife in Changsha City, with a well-proportioned figure and outstanding appearance, which soon made Ma Xifan eye.
The businessman is rich, but he has no power and no power, and his daughter-in-law has let the king of Nanchu target him, so can there still be a good one?
Sure enough, soon after, the merchant was killed by Mahifan, who succeeded in his plot and took the merchant's wife captive to the palace in order to take it for himself.
(Ruthless Troubled Times)
Ma Xifan grew up with his father Ma Yin in the war, and in the troubled times, he didn't learn anything good.
He knows that in this world, everyone is ruthless, everyone is unreasonable, those with knives can bully those with bare hands, those with soldiers and horses can bully those without knives and guns, grab whatever they want, kill whoever they don't like, set a fire if they can't get used to it, if they want to live, they must be selfish, if they want to get a good life and live a good life, they must master more cities and lands, as long as they are strong and strong, and they can do whatever they want.
For a city, tens of thousands of soldiers can be slaughtered, for a piece of arable land, hundreds of people can be killed, for a mouthful of steamed buns, people can be killed, everything is to live one more day in this cruel world, killing, robbing, no need to teach, it will be natural.
Because, as long as they survive, as long as they survive.
He is the king of Southern Chu, he can do whatever he wants, and everyone must surrender unconditionally, this is the privilege of his Ma clan to establish the foundation!
What happened to the wife of a mere merchant? Since I, Ma Xifan, have taken a fancy to him, killed his husband, and snatched her over.
Perhaps Ma Xifan thought that violence could conquer everything, but he did not expect that the merchant's wife would secretly commit suicide while he was not paying attention. (The wife swore not to be dishonored, and she died by herself.) ）
In those days, the people were really like ants, and the warlords killed and persecuted them, and they often had to go along with it, but the unnamed merchant's wife made her silent protest - she committed suicide.
What about princes? What about the sovereign? I'd rather be a broken jade than a tile, and I won't let you succeed, this is my last struggle.