Why did Hou Jing, as a Northern Rebel who fled to Nanliang like a lost dog, have such a powerful destructive power? The team has grown from 800 to100000, which only his excellent military can do?
The so-called weather is not as good as geographical location, and geographical location is not as good as human harmony. Hou Jing can run amok in the south of the Yangtze River because he has taken the lead in these aspects. Gao Cheng's strategy of turning tigers into mountains and alienating him in the Eastern Wei Dynasty; In Nanliang, Jun Chen's pursuit of profit made him dull and ambitious, but his talent was sparse; The overall corruption of the ruling class in the Southern Dynasties and the widening gap between the rich and the poor, coupled with "helping" Hou Jing, presented the worst human catastrophe in history.
After the split of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties entered the coexistence pattern of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang Dynasty. Among them, Yu Wentai, the commander of the Western Wei Dynasty, and Gao Huan, the powerful minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, were both town soldiers in the uprising of six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and gradually emerged after following Er Zhurong; After Er Zhurong's death, these two talented people took the opportunity to support the puppet emperor, forming a confrontation between the East and the West.
Hou Jing, a native of Shuofang, once served as a soldier in Huai Shuo Town (like Gao Huan). He showed outstanding military talents in the Six Towns Rebellion, and was gradually entrusted with an important task by Er Zhurong, and was later driven by Gao Huan.
According to historical records, Hou Jing was "brave and strong, good at riding and shooting", with a cruel temperament and extremely harsh treatment of soldiers; But at the same time, it is also generous, and the property obtained in each battle is distributed to subordinates. Therefore, his team is both rigorous and cohesive; Coupled with Hou Jing's own ability, the fighting capacity is very strong.
During Gao Huan's lifetime, Hou Jing was appointed as Stuart and Nandao, commanding 100,000 troops to take care of the area south of the Yellow River for the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
However, Hou Jing is not a dutiful son who is content with the status quo: since Yu Wentai and Gao Huan, who are similar to himself, can rule the world, why can they only be generals? Gao Huan even made no secret of his words in his later years, and he will never let Gao Cheng command this "Xianbei boy" again. In this regard, Gao Huan is also ready. Before his death, he gave his son a high-level instruction and arranged countermeasures.
In 547 AD, Gao Huan had just died, and Hou Jing rose up to revolt as expected. In order to attract foreign aid, he first submitted a surrender letter to the Western Wei Dynasty, but Yu Wentai and others knew this old man's virtue. They first wrote a bad check, promising to be kind to Hou Jingtai's house, Henan Daoxingtai and Shanggu County, inviting them to the DPRK (in fact, cutting their military power) and sending people to accept the land.
Of course, Hou Jing didn't take this routine. Instead, he turned to Nanliang for help, claiming that he was willing to join the thirteen states under his jurisdiction, and even said that he would be a pawn in the Southern Dynasties' crusade against the Eastern Wei Dynasty, starting with Song and Qi, and then attacking Yanzhao.
In the past ten years, although he maintained friendly relations with the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Emperor Wu of A Liang, he always had great ambition to recover the Central Plains. However, the ideal is full and the reality is very skinny. Since Chen Qingzhi, the Southern Dynasties have never taken a famous soldier, and the imperial power is in the hands of imperial clan children. Therefore, Xiao Yan was overjoyed when he received Hou Jing's book: winning Henan was a drop in the sky, and it was as easy as blowing off dust.
However, ministers such as Xie Ju, the servant of Shangshu, clearly expressed their opposition. They think that since ancient times, there is nothing to eat by accepting the treachery of friends. However, the greedy Xiao Yan, encouraged by his cronies yi zhu and others, thought that "every man has a responsibility" and decided to accept Hou Jing, and couldn't wait to let his nephew Xiao Yuanming go to meet them with tens of thousands of troops.
For this day, Gao Cheng was prepared. According to his father's plan, he sent Murong Shaozong (the descendant of former Yan star Murong Ke). Hanshan World War I, East Wei Jun defeated South Liang Jun, Xiao Yuanming and other generals were captured, with tens of thousands of casualties. Later, Murong Shaozong attacked Houjing, and the two sides fought in the battle of Yang Guo for several months. Although Hou Jing didn't fall in the wind during the battle, there were no reinforcements and food outside, and eventually the team collapsed, leaving only 800 people to escape to Nanliang.
At this point, there is a passage in the history books that is worth pondering. Seeing that Murong Shaozong was about to catch up with himself, Hou Jing sent someone to remind him: "If the scene is captured, what is the use of the public?" In other words, if you get rid of me, you won't be afraid of being cooked by a dead dog? Murong Shaozong really didn't catch up with him again, so he let Hou Jing go.
In fact, this scene is worthy of scrutiny, either a fictional story or a fictional line. At that time, the world was divided into three points, and the number one enemy of Gao Cheng was Yu Wentai in the west; Hou Jing is really difficult, but after all, he is just a rebel. Military wizard Murong Shaozong can't have only one value to deal with Hou Jing. So there is no saying that a dead rabbit cooks a dog.
There is only one possibility. The Eastern Wei deliberately placed Hou Jing in the Southern Dynasties. When it was learned that Xiao Yan had accepted Hou Jing's surrender, Du Bi, the monarch of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, wrote an essay, denouncing Nanliang's treachery, and at the same time reminding Xiao Yan not to lead the wolf into the room, otherwise he would face the situation of "bringing trouble to my flesh and blood, bringing trouble to my heart, a spent force, rushing to the city and pointing the finger at the dragon" sooner or later.
The subsequent trend of facts fully confirmed Du Bi's prediction. This makes people suspect that Murong Shaozong's release of Hou Jing was actually intentional: it brought disaster to Xiao Yan.
Knowing the result of Yang Guo War, Xiao Yan thought it was easy to control Hou Jing, who was weak, and decided to accept him.
But there are many sober people in the court. When he first heard that he decided to accept Hou Jing's surrender, General Pingxi asked Zhou for advice and sighed: "The country will mutiny"; At this time, Prince Zhan and Jing Rong also thought: "King overthrew the traitors and eventually became a chaotic country"; Xiao Jie, a doctor of Guanglu, also wrote a letter of protest, claiming that Hou Jing was a "fierce and cunning talent" and was not satisfied with being appointed as a party official by Gao Huan. How could he want to be pawned by the ungrateful Southern Dynasties?
However, Xiao Yan, who is full of confidence in the mystery, thinks that he has finally found a star who can compete with the Northern Dynasties. He appointed Hou Jing as the shepherd of Nanyu Prefecture, guarding the important town of Shouyang.
At this point, Hou Jing, with only 800 cronies, really seems to be no threat. However, the Eastern Wei Dynasty quickly offered a trick to accelerate the ignition of Hou Jing, a time bomb.
After Hou Jing's defeat, the Eastern Wei quickly recovered the land that Hou Jing gave to the Liang Dynasty. After Xiao Yan's fiasco, he got nothing, and he was torn apart from his former friends.
But surprisingly, Gao Cheng sent a letter soon, saying that he wanted Liang Dynasty to let bygones be bygones and restore diplomatic relations. For captured Xiao Yuanming, Gao Cheng treated him as a VIP and kindly advised him to write to Xiao Yan to express his goodwill.
After receiving letters from Gao Cheng and Xiao Yuanming, Xiao Yan called ministers to discuss countermeasures. His cronies, yi zhu and Zhang Wan, thought it could "reassure people" and advocated acceptance. Other ministers are also happy and carefree, and they have echoed. Only Xingnong Fu Qi believes that there must be a demon when something goes wrong: "Why does Gao Cheng Lien Chan ask for peace when he has an advantage?" This must be an anti-conspiracy, which makes Hou Jing fidgety, thus causing trouble. ".
However, Xiao Yan has lost his fighting spirit and basic judgment. He quickly replied that he accepted the peace talks.
Hou Jing, which is the only road between the north and the south, immediately became afraid of being abandoned after intercepting Xiao Yan's reply. He secretly sent Zhu Yi a large sum of money, asking the other party to persuade Xiao Yan to change his mind. However, Yi Zhu took the money and did nothing. He even detained all the letters that Hou Jing wrote to Xiao Yan.
Later, the envoys of the Eastern Wei and Liang Dynasties came and went frequently, and Hou Jing became more and more agitated. In order to find out Xiao Yan's bottom line, he forged a high-profile letter, expressing his willingness to exchange Xiao Yuanming for Hou Jing.
Xiao Yan believes this. He always cares about his family. He decided to agree to the proposal. Fu Qi reminded us again: "Hou Jing came to us at the end of his tether. It is very unkind to betray him like this. Besides, he has fought many battles and will never give in easily. "
Xiao Yan's cronies Xie Ju and Zhu Yijun disagreed: "Hou Jing's defeated troops are now under the fence. As long as he gives the order, he can't come honestly?" ZSZSZSZ readily agreed, claiming: "If Xiao Yuanming is sent back in the morning, Hou Jing will be brought to Yecheng in the afternoon."
Hou Jing was completely desperate and began to have a rebellious heart. Later, he wrote to, claiming that his wife and concubine were killed by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, so he asked to marry a woman from the Wang family or Xie family. He said, "Wang and Xie are both noble families, and you are not worthy. You can consider people under Zhu and Zhang! " Hou Jing's resentment against him is growing. He swore bitterly: "Wu's daughter must be married to a slave in the future!"
This dialogue profoundly reflected the social status quo of the Liang Dynasty at that time.
Since Cao Pi established "Nine Grades Being Right", the class solidification in Wei and Jin Dynasties became more and more serious. "There is no poverty in the top grade and no gentry in the bottom grade", and the aristocratic family controls the talent recruitment right and social dominance. The gap between the rich and the poor is widening day by day, and class opposition is intensifying. This is also an important reason why the oppressed people of all ethnic groups responded positively after the Xiongnu Yuan Dynasty.
At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, after the outbreak of the Five Chaos, the aristocratic family of the Central Plains "Guannan" ran to the south of the Yangtze River. On the one hand, it does bring great opportunities for the development of Jiangnan region; During the reign of Xiao Yan, the Southern Dynasties, which developed for 200 years, was highly developed in economy and culture, and was regarded as "the place beyond the reach of scholars in the Central Plains";
On the other hand, the dross of the Central Plains gate family was completely brought to the south. At the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Wang and Ma ruled the world together", Wang, Xie and other aristocratic families almost completely controlled the power of the imperial court; At the same time, they struggle with each other, restrict each other, and even fight repeatedly for benefits; They were content with the status quo and had no interest in recovering the Central Plains. Several northern expeditions ended in vain.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, although the control of Wang, Xie and other aristocratic families on state affairs was weakened, their influence on the whole social level did not fade. Relying on hundreds of years of class solidification, the gentry seized most of the social benefits. They are intoxicated and depressed. From Xiao Yan in Liang Wudi to officials at all levels, there is a trend of talking about Buddha and asking for Buddha in Nanliang's ruling and opposition parties. In order to support their luxurious life, the royal clan, gentry and bureaucrats at all levels were corrupt and extorted, and land annexation became increasingly serious, and a large number of bankrupt farmers became slaves of aristocratic families.
At the same time, in order to do good on earth, Liang Wudi was addicted to Buddhism, and the whole society also set off the wind of seeking Buddha. In order to avoid taxes and work, a large number of people joined Buddhism. On the one hand, it weakens the social labor productivity and reduces the government tax revenue. On the other hand, the excessive construction of temples seriously increased the social burden, and the economic and military strength of the Southern Dynasties was gradually weakened. At this time of Nanliang, the upper class was flourishing, the art was unprecedentedly prosperous, and the economy was extremely prosperous, but in fact there were treasures outside and frustrations inside.
Only 800 people in Hou Jing dared to take up the army, which is precisely to seize this social contradiction.
When Xiao Yan learned that he was willing to give up himself, Hou Jing immediately set out to prepare for the rebellion. He ordered all the people in Shouyang to be exempted from taxes (asking ZSZSZSZ for daily expenses), attracted them to join the army with generous treatment, and betrothed all the folk women to soldiers. Soon, Hou Jing's direct team expanded to 8,000 people.
In August, 548, Hou Jing took his team and officially set off for Shouyang under the pretext of killing yi zhu and other treacherous officials. Liang Wudi Xiao Yan laughed when he heard this: "What can this man do? See if I don't whip his ass with a stick! "
However, the command levels of the two sides are indeed far apart. Hou Jing put all his eggs in one basket when he learned that there was a disparity between the enemy and us. He made a diversion, dressed up in disguise, and killed all the troops to build Kangcheng in Nanliangdu.
On the imperial court side, Yang Kan, a senior official of the official department, advocated sending 2,000 people to occupy the health portal first, and then sending people to attack Shouyang to destroy Hou Jing's lair, leaving Hou Jing in a dilemma. Xiao Yan, yi zhu and others think that Hou Jing dare not cross the river. This was just a small rebellion that overreached, so they confidently sent Xiao Zhengde to guard Danyang and rushed to fight.
But what they don't know is that our nephew Xiao has already become Hou Jing's inside man. With the help of this ally, Hou Jing used his superb command ability to cross the river unnoticed and arrived at Jiankang City.
Hearing the news, the court was deeply shocked, and people outside the city fled into the city; The dignitaries in this city have been singing and dancing for decades. Faced with this change, they were dumbfounded. Fortunately, Yang Kan calmly responded and temporarily stabilized the situation.
Hou Jing is on a roll. On June 24th 10, I entered Jiankang City with a little help. On the 25th, the siege of Miyagi began, and Yang Kan stood firm and the two sides were deadlocked.
After getting the news of Hou Jing rebellion, princes Wang Xiaoyi, Xiao Yu, Cha Xiao and Xiao Lun of Nanliang Imperial Clan, Wei Kui, Liu Zhongli, Pei of Sizhou Secretariat, Chen Wenche of Western Regions Secretariat and Chen Wenche of Nanling Prefecture came to the rescue one after another, and 65,438+10,000 troops confronted Hou Jing across Qinhuai River. Although there are many reinforcements, the teams are suspicious of each other and it is difficult to form combat effectiveness, and they have been defeated by the rebels many times; At the same time, the officers and men even robbed the people on the spot, which was even more cruel than Hou.
On the contrary, after entering Jiankang, Hou Jing pardoned a large number of slaves who were exploited and enslaved by aristocratic families and gave them preferential treatment. These poor people are grateful for this, and there has been a situation in which "everyone is grateful and dies for it"; Hou Jing also launched a public opinion war. He denounced the corruption of the Liang Dynasty to the people of the whole city: "What the rich and powerful are lucky to use, what the people absolutely want to use ... national pool garden, royal residence, Buddhist temple tower; When you are in the office, Yoshioka has a hundred rooms and thousands of servants. You don't plow or weave, and you don't put people. How can you get it? " Every word goes straight to the heart, pointing to the corruption, plunder and extravagance of the ruling class in the Southern Dynasties. It didn't take long for Hou Jing's army to grow to100000.
In March, 549, they entered Miyagi, and various reinforcements retreated. The rebels occupied the whole city of Jiankang. Two months later, Liang Wudi Xiao Yan starved to death, and Prince Xiao Gang acceded to the throne, becoming Hou Jing's puppet.
When the country is in trouble, the family is ruined and the people are killed. However, the local Xiao captaincy did not seek revenge from Hou Jing, but began to kill each other like Sima in the Western Jin Dynasty, and a lot of power was consumed in unnecessary infighting.
Seeing Xiao's child so abrasive, Hou Jing smiled brightly. He sent troops to attack the city everywhere. By the end of 549 AD, the richest Sanwu area had been occupied by the late Jin Dynasty.
Since the attack on Jiankang, the once prosperous Jiangnan area has become a hell on earth. Hou Jing's army was looted everywhere, and a large number of children of Hao's wives and concubines were brought into the barracks. Hou Jing himself married Xiao Gang's daughter, which was a fulfillment of the original pledge of "betrothing Wu's daughter to a slave".
During the siege, all the people in the city, regardless of rank, were driven to dig and build mountains, and the living were beaten and the dead were filled with roads. "The wailing shook the whole world." During the months-long siege of the palace, more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians trapped in the palace lacked food, and a large number of aristocratic families starved to death in batches with gold and silver treasures. The living even eat corpses.
Outside the city, "Julian Waghann" who came to the rescue was not much better. They mistreated the people. "Just after crossing the Huaihe River, they competed to plunder and collect gold and silver", just like the rebels. Later, when Wang Sengbian recovered Jiankang, he even indulged the soldiers in burning, killing and looting. Everyone cried loudly, even Hou Jing missed it. ......
Later, under the counterattack of generals such as Chen Baxian and Wang Sengbian, the rebellion in Hou Jing was finally put out, but at this time, the Southern Dynasties were in ruins: the gentry who had occupied the dominant position in Jiangnan for hundreds of years were slaughtered and starved to death; Famine and plague are rampant and the people are displaced. The land of Sanwu, once rich in the world, is "thousands of miles away, with few land and many people, and bones gather like mountains", which has caused a fatal blow to the economy and society.
At the same time, the Western Wei and the Eastern Wei in the north took the opportunity to go south and made a fortune from the catastrophe in the south. The Western Wei Dynasty (Northern Zhou Dynasty) successively captured Bashu and Jingxiang, and its territory almost doubled, and its national strength soared under the nourishment of the Liang Dynasty. Although the Eastern Wei Dynasty (Northern Qi Dynasty) also made a fortune by hitchhiking in Hou Jing, it also fell into the dilemma of internal friction and corruption. Later, the Southern Dynasty established the Chen Dynasty, but the pit dug by Xiao was too big to make up.
In the end, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which was politically clear and militarily enterprising, jumped from the poorest side to the top of the three countries and headed for the road of unifying the North and annexing the world.
It can be seen that foreign enemies are not the most terrible, but internal incompetence and corruption are the most terrible. If Nanliang looks like it, what's terrible about Hou Jing?