Xiao Cong

Xiao Cong

Liang Jingdi Xiao Cong

(558-607), Wenwen, nanlanling (now Wujin County, Jiangsu Province). The last emperor of the Western Liang Dynasty (585-587), the grandson of Xiao Chen, Emperor Xuandi of Liang Dynasty, the son of Xiao Kui, Emperor Mingdi of Liang Dynasty, and the brother of empress Xiao, Emperor Yangdi of Sui Dynasty.

Generous, erudite, good at riding and shooting. At the beginning, he was granted the title of Dongyang king, and soon became the crown prince. Kaihuang five years (585 years), officially ascended the throne, year Guangyun. In the seventh year of kaihuang (587), he accepted the call of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty. His uncle Xiao Yan and younger brother Xiao Yu took the opportunity to rebel and surrender to Nan Chen. Therefore, Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty dethroned Xiliang, took Xiao Cong as the state of Shangzhu, and granted the Duke of Ju.

After Sui Yang emperor ascended the throne, he was regarded as the Duke of Liang by his relatives. In the third year of Daye, the folk nursery rhyme said that "Xiliang is going to prosper", which was taboo by Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. He was demoted to a common people, and soon died. He gave it to doctor Zuo Guanglu. After his son Xiao Mi became emperor, he became emperor Xiaojing.

Life of the characters

Inherit the throne

Xiao Cong was generous, generous, romantic, uninhibited and knowledgeable. He is also good at riding and archery, which makes people fall on the ground and hold up the post. Xiao Cong shoots from a flying horse. He can hit ten times, and the person holding the post is not afraid. At the beginning of his reign, Xiao Cong became the king of Dongyang, and soon became the crown prince.

On the 8th of may in the third year of kaihuang (583), Xiao Kui, the Xiaoming emperor of Xiliang, sent his prince Xiao Cong to the Sui Dynasty to congratulate the Sui Dynasty on moving its capital to Chang'an (now Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province).

In June of 585, Xiao Kui died, and the crown prince Xiao Cong succeeded him to the throne. Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, gave Xiao Cong a seal to encourage him to restrict himself, give more favor to the common people and govern the country with courtesy.

Subjugation into Sui Dynasty

In the fifth year of kaihuang (585), Xiao Cong sent General Qi Xin to lead the navy to attack Gong'an County of Chen Dynasty, but they didn't attack it. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty recruited Xiao Cong's uncle Xiao Cen into the court as a great general and granted him the title of Duke of Huaiyi county. He detained Xiao Cen in Chang'an and set up a general of Jiangling to monitor Xiao Cong. General Xu Shiwu secretly collaborated with Chen Dynasty general Jingzhou assassin and Yihuang Marquis Chen Huiji (SUI Shu mistakenly named Chen Ji). After the leak, the leak was killed.

In August of 587, Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty recruited Xiao Cong into the dynasty. Xiao Cong led more than 200 officials to set out from Jiangling. All the people said that Xiao Cong would never come back like King Huai of Chu. On August 18, Xiao Cong arrived in Chang'an. Taking advantage of Xiao Cong's departure from Xiliang, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty dispatched general Cui Hongdu of Wuxiang County to guard Jiangling. After Cui Hongdu's army arrived in Juzhou, uncle Taifu of Xiao Cong, King Xiao Yan of Anping, younger brother Shishi of Jingzhou, King Huan of Yixing, and others were afraid that Cui Hongdu would take the opportunity to attack Jiangling. On August 23, Shen Jungong, the Minister of capital, was sent to ask Chen Huiji for surrender. On September 18, Chen Huiji led his troops to Jiangling city. On September 19, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yu and others led the officials and people of Xiliang to surrender to Chen Dynasty. When Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty learned about this, he ordered to depose the Western Liang regime, sent the minister Zuo pushe Gao to gather and settle the people who did not surrender to the Chen Dynasty, and ordered ten families each to guard the mausoleum for Emperor Xuan of the Western Liang Dynasty and Xiaokui of the Western Liang Dynasty. He also appointed Xiao Cong as Shangzhu state and became a Duke of Ju state.

Highly valued

On October 23, the 14th year of emperor kaihuang (594), Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty issued an imperial edict. Because of the abolition of sacrificial rites in the ancestral temples of the Three Kingdoms, Xiao Cong, Gao Renying, the former king of Gaoping in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Chen Shubao, the former Emperor of Chen Dynasty, were ordered to perform sacrificial rites on time. The utensils needed for sacrificial rites were provided by the relevant officials of the imperial court.

In 604, Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty died, and his son Yang Guang of Sui Dynasty ascended the throne. Because Xiao Cong was the brother of Xiao (empress Xiao), the empress of the Sui Yang emperor, he was especially valued by the emperor. He was appointed as the internal historian and was renamed the Duke of Liang. Xiao Cong's people below his grandfather were promoted and appointed according to their abilities. All his brothers were officials in the imperial court. Xiao Cong was indifferent and elegant, and did not deal with government affairs seriously. After retiring, he just indulged in drinking. The internal history ordered Yang Yue to live with Xiao Cong in the imperial class. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ordered Yang Yue to convey his warning and encouragement to Xiao Cong. Yang Yue told Xiao Cong because he had a friendship with him. Xiao Cong said, "if I am in charge as before, what is the difference between me and you?" Yang Yue exits with a smile. Yang Su, the elder brother of Yang Yue, was the minister at that time. When he saw that Xiao Cong married his cousin to the Jia'er family, he said to Xiao Cong, "you are a family of emperors. The family is famous. Why did you marry your cousin to the Jia'er family?" Xiao Cong replied, "I have married my sister to Hou Mo Chen. What's the question?" Yang Su said: "tonger is a Qiang people, houmo Chen is a Hu Lu, how can we compare!" Yang Su thinks that the Hulu people are better than the Qiang people. Xiao Cong said, "I don't think Qiang people are different from Hu Lu. I haven't heard of this before." Yang Su was too ashamed to say anything.

He died in his old age

Although Xiao Cong was a guest in Chang'an, there was nothing inferior to the rich family in the north. Xiao Cong had a deep friendship with he ruobi of Shangzhu state. In the third year of Daye (607), Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty killed he ruobi by slandering the government. After he ruobi's death, there was a folk nursery rhyme that said, "the Xiaoliang family will be prosperous again." Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty hated him, so he deposed Xiao Cong as a common people, and soon Xiao Cong died. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty gave him the title of doctor Zuo Guanglu.

In 618, Xiao Cong's nephew Xiao MI was called emperor and his uncle Xiao Cong was named emperor Xiaojing.

personal works

Xiao Cong wrote seven volumes of anthology, which has been lost. The present poem "Fenghe Royal night star watching poem" can be found in "chuxue Ji · Volume I", which was included in "Poems of pre Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Nan and Northern Dynasties" by scholar Fu Qinli; another article was included in "the whole ancient three dynasties, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties" by Qing Dynasty scholar Yan Kejun.

Historical evaluation

Wei Zheng et al. Wrote in the book of the Sui Dynasty: "the nature is broad and benevolent, generous, unconventional, erudite and meaningful. Good at bowing horses

Historical records

ZhouShu, Volume 4, 18, the 40th biography

Northern History Volume 93 biography 81

Sui Shu, volume 79, biography 44

Family members

Father and ancestor

Grandfather: Xiao Chen, Xuandi of Xiliang

Father: Xiao Kui, Xiaoming emperor of Xiliang

brothers and sisters

brother

Xiao Yu, king of Yixing

Xiao Xun, king of Jinling

Linhai Wang Xiaojing

Wang Xiaozhen of Nanhai

Wang Xiaofan of Yi'an

Xiao Yu, king of Xin'an

The Xiao family was granted Princess Jianchang at the beginning, Princess Chang of Jin'an in the later Jin Dynasty, wife of Chengjun in the Sui Dynasty, and married Duwei, the son-in-law of Wang Daoshi, Prime Minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Wang gun, magistrate of Taolin county.

The Xiao family married Dou Wei, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao (empress Xiao), Empress of emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.

Xiao's family is the grandson of Hou Mo Chen Chong, one of the eight pillar states in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Son

Xiao Xuan, official to Xiangcheng tongshou.