World history is very interesting: Yuan Tengfei talks about Japanese history

Chapter 15
At that time, the little emperor Erjo didn't live up to it. He took a fancy to his newly widowed aunt (that is, the empress of Emperor Konoe), and insisted on getting her.Although this move is not new in the Japanese royal family where incest is frequent, it is not a glorious thing after all, so Hira Kiyomori seized the opportunity.He used the excuse of not being able to regulate the little emperor's behavior, arrested and punished all the people around the little emperor, and cut off the little emperor's wings.Seeing that the general situation was over, the little emperor felt shameless, so he passed the throne to his son Emperor Liujo, abdicated and became Emperor Nijo, and died not long after.

In addition to knowing how to be a human being, it is said that there is another important reason why Ping Qingsheng can be a minister of the Taizheng.In Japanese history, from the time when Emperor Tenchi's son, Prince Otomo, first served as Taizheng Minister to Taikiyomori, it took a total of 500 years.In the past 500 years, there were only about 16 people who served as ministers of the Taizheng, and only one was produced in an average of [-] years.And except for Emperor Xiaoqian's lover Dokyo Monk, the rest are from the royal family, or from the Fujiwara clan of the Shiguan family.Kiyomori Taira was the only one who was born as a military commander, which is a precedent in Japanese history.Monk Daojing is still the emperor's lover after all, so what does Hira Kiyomori have to do with the emperor?

Ping Qingsheng is the eldest son of Ping Zhongsheng, and Ping Zhongsheng was once reused by Emperor Shirakawa.Emperor Shirakawa was one of the most promiscuous monarchs in Japanese history.One night, as the emperor's bodyguard, Hira Tadamori came to a shrine in Kyoto because the emperor was going to meet his lover who lived in Gion.It rained heavily that night, and I couldn't see my fingers.Suddenly, a "monster" with long white hair and spitting fire ran towards the emperor, frightened the emperor out of his body, and hurriedly shouted to the guard Ping Zhongsheng: "Aiqing, hack this man to death quickly!" monster."

Ping Zhongsheng did not follow the order to draw the sword, but after observing the "monster" carefully, he said to the emperor: "Don't be alarmed, your majesty, please take a closer look." Emperor Shirakawa took a closer look, and the so-called monster was just a shrine. The priest, wearing a rainproof coir raincoat and holding a lantern in his hand, was afraid of being drenched by the rain, so he kept blowing, as if breathing fire from his mouth, making people look like a monster.

Ping Zhongsheng responded calmly and avoided unjust killing.Emperor Baihe felt that Ping Zhongsheng was good, he was resourceful and courageous.As soon as he was happy, he introduced his lover's younger sister to Ping Zhongsheng.Some people say that the emperor actually sees the bitch in heat, and the lover's sister has also been touched by the emperor, and she is already pregnant with the emperor's child.But the emperor couldn't afford it, there were too many children, and the heavenly royal family had no food left, so what if another child was born?By the way, even the lover and the child in the lover's belly were rewarded to Ping Zhongsheng.Ping Zhongsheng pretended to be confused, no matter what he said, this woman was rewarded to us by the "Lord of Heaven" Emperor, if he was carrying his seed in his stomach, he would consider this child as his own son.This child is Kiyomori Hirae.

From this point of view, Kiyomori Hira is actually the son of Emperor Shirakawa, the same generation as Chongde, the uncle of Emperor Toba, and the grandfather of Emperor Goshirakawa.He was originally a member of the Heavenly Royal Family, so he was able to serve as the Minister of the Taizheng.

Ping Qingsheng is a very powerful minister

No one among the nobles at that time raised any objections to the promotion of Hira Kiyomori. Maybe they all knew that Hira Kiyomori had the blood of Emperor Shirakawa on his body.

Ping Qingsheng was an extremely talented minister, with a family of chickens and dogs flying up, there were sixteen ministers in the court, and more than 30 palace officials.His eldest son, Ping Shigemori, was an internal minister and left general; his second son, Ping Zongsheng, was Zhongnyan and right general; his third son, Ping Zhisheng, was a lieutenant general of the three guards;In addition, there are more than 60 officials from various government departments of the State Council, and their power is overwhelming.Ping Qingsheng's eight daughters all married into wealthy families. The 17-year-old daughter Tokuko married the 11-year-old Emperor Takakura, and the prince who gave birth became Emperor Andoku.

At that time, Japan was divided into 66 countries, and 33 countries were under the jurisdiction of the Heike family, more than half of Japan's entire territory.The Heike family also traded with the Song Dynasty of China, and the wealth was endless, and the mountains of gold and silver could never run out.At that time, the Ping family said this sentence: Anyone who does not belong to our sect is not human.Inhumans are worthless people.The power of the Heike family at that time was enough to make the ruling and opposition parties look sideways.

Kiyomori Hira has already gained power in the government and the public and is an extremely powerful minister, but he feels that he is not as good as the Fujiwara family back then because he is not related to the emperor.It just so happened that the child born to his sister-in-law and the Emperor was five years old, and Kiyomori Taira carried the boy on the Dragon Throne, threatening Emperor Rokujo to abdicate.In this way, Kiyomori's nephew became Emperor Takakura.In order to get closer, Kiyomori married his daughter to Emperor Takakura. Later, Emperor Takakura abdicated and his grandson succeeded him. This is Emperor Andoku.

Ping Qingsheng acted arbitrarily all day long, and did whatever he wanted, regardless of whether the emperor agreed or not. He turned the emperor into a nephew if he wanted to, and a grandson if he wanted to, which made the emperor very embarrassed.Ping Qingsheng once fell ill, resigned to recuperate his illness and became a monk and became a monk.

Emperor Hou Shirakawa was very angry when he saw that the power of the Heike family was growing day by day, and he was becoming less and less serious about himself.After Ping Qingsheng became a monk, the emperor also became a monk and changed his name to the French emperor. Of course, he was also full of wine, sex and wealth, and there were no taboos in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.

The traditional relatives of the Japanese royal family, the Fujiwara family, were suppressed by the Heike family day by day. In order to protect themselves, the Fujiwara family united with Goshirakawa and wanted to get rid of the Heike family.After getting Goshirakawa's approval, the Fujiwara family found a military general in the Genji sect and asked him to go to the remaining party of the Minamoto family to fight against the Taira family.But this descendant of Genji did not hesitate to report the emperor's plot to Kiyomori Ping.

Hearing the words, Ping Qingsheng was furious, and immediately summoned the children of the clan, and went straight to the residence of the emperor.The emperor was shocked and didn't know what to do.Fortunately, Xi Guang, who participated in this project under the emperor, was still a man.After he was arrested by Ping Qingsheng, he took all the blame on himself, saying that it was the father who did it, and the father is going to kill you, what do you do?In a rage, Ping Qingsheng kicked his face fiercely, ordered his mouth to be torn apart, and dragged to the execution ground to be beheaded.

After that, the Heike family became even more arrogant and domineering. Only Kiyomori Hira's eldest son, Shigemori Hiragi, was able to maintain the general etiquette with the emperor. He felt that his father's arrogance would bring disaster to the Heike family sooner or later, but it was a pity that Kiyomori Taira would not listen.

Because of this, Ping Shigesheng was worried and got seriously ill.Ping Qingsheng valued the eldest son the most, and hurriedly asked a famous doctor to see him.But Ping Shigemori resolutely refused to let the doctor treat the disease. He really couldn't bear to see Ping's family perish. He was actually seeking a quick death.After a few months of illness, Taira Shigemori died at the age of 42.

Put the emperor in confinement

The ministers and ministers in the imperial court have long been displeased with the flying chickens and dogs of the Heing family.The samurai families entered the court and became officials, especially promoted to ministers, which had completely broken the official rules of the Heian era.Many ministers felt that it was too much for the descendants of the samurai to become the ministers of the Taizheng, and it was a shame to be an official in the same dynasty as the samurai, but they were frightened by the power of the Heike family and dared not speak out.

In the second year of Jisei (1178), Taira Kiyomori's daughter and Empress Hiratoko of Emperor Takakura became pregnant.Everyone in the Heike family was very happy. If they gave birth to a son, they would most likely succeed the emperor in the future, and the Heira family would become the emperor's grandfather.

Empress Hou Baihe also attached great importance to the pregnancy of his daughter-in-law, and went to the shrine to pray for his daughter-in-law in person.The baby was born, and it turned out to be a very healthy baby boy.Holding the newborn baby, Ping Qingsheng wept with joy, finally waiting for the day when he would become the emperor's grandfather.He also wanted to ease the conflict with the Emperor, so he contributed a lot of gold and silk to the Emperor.

Unexpectedly, the French emperor was narrow-minded, and was very angry: what's the matter?Give me a reward?I'm just praying for your family, right?Kiyomori Taira's contribution was flatly rejected.Ping Qingsheng's good intentions not only failed to alleviate the conflict, but also deepened the conflict between the two sides.After the death of Hira Kiyomori's eldest son Hira Shigemori, there was no mediator between Hira Kiyomori and the Emperor, and the conflict became deeper and deeper.

Ping Qingsheng was often not in the capital, and the people around the Pope always played tricks in front of the Pope, which made the Pope do things again and again to offend Ping Qingsheng.Hira Kiyomori couldn't bear it anymore, and led thousands of samurai, set up troops from his stronghold Fukuhara (which is today's Kobe, Japan), and marched to Kyoto in a mighty way.

The Emperor was very frightened, and quickly sent envoys to Ping Qingsheng to find out what happened.The envoy was left there by Ping Qingsheng for a long time, and when he was interviewed later, Ping Qingsheng criticized the envoy furiously, scolded the emperor, and listed four major crimes against the emperor.What Ping Qingsheng said was so emotional that he spattered his spittle and almost beat up the envoy.

At this time, the envoy also understood what Ping Qingsheng wanted to do, and put aside a sentence: It is not the etiquette of a monarch and minister for you to do this.But Ping Qingsheng didn't care about anything, the so-called ruler of the sky is just something in my hands.Kiyomori Taira made a long list. All 43 ministers and ministers will be dismissed, as will all the ministers of the neighboring countries around Kyoto, and many ministers will be exiled.Such a large-scale cleansing of the imperial court is unheard of in Japanese history.

After dealing with ministers and ministers and state affairs officials from all over the country, Ping Qingsheng still wanted to punish the emperor who was against the Ping family everywhere.He dispatched the army to surround the living hall of the Empress Hou Baihe, and let the Empress Hou Baihe move in. In fact, he imprisoned the Empress.No one is allowed to meet the Pope without Hira Kiyomori's consent, and the Pope's administration and politics are basically declared destroyed.

This happened in the third year of Zhicheng (1179). In this coup, Kiyomori Taira cleaned the court and imprisoned the Emperor. He did all the things that no Japanese dared to do before.This signifies that the group of nobles and ministers is completely finished, and it is impossible to fight against the warrior forces.

In the fourth year of Jisei (1180), that is, the second year after the end of Goshirakawa Emperor's Administration, Hira Kiyomori forced Emperor Takakura to abdicate and gave the throne to his grandson, Emperor Ando, ​​born to Hiratoko.Emperor Antoku was only two years old. With the support of the Heike family, Emperor Takakura formed another courtyard, but this courtyard did not have real power like the original courtyard administration, but was just a puppet in the hands of the Heike family.Japan has entered the era of the three emperors, the emperor, the emperor, and the emperor.

At this time, Ping Qingsheng has reached the pinnacle of his life, and he can't see that he is surrounded by enemies. The royal family, nobles, court ministers, and Buddhist temples in Nandu are all very dissatisfied with Ping Qingsheng.

(End of this chapter)