Zi Zhi Tong Jian

Chapter 34 Qi Ji: Establishment of Southern Qi (1)
[Original text]

In the first year of Emperor Gao's reign of Emperor Taizu of Qi, Emperor Shun of Song ordered Zen to be located in Qi.

At Renchen, the emperor was in Linxuan, and he refused to go out, and fled under the cover of the Buddha. Wang Jing reined in the palace and entered the emperor with a plank.The Empress Dowager was afraid, and asked for it from the handsome eunuch, and respectfully issued an order to raise the chariot.The emperor closed his tears and said to Jing Ze: "Do you want to see him killed?" Jing Ze said: "I am out of another palace. The same is true for the officials to take the Sima's house first." The emperor wept and snapped his fingers and said: "May you not be reborn in the heavenly king's house in the next life! "Everyone in the palace cried.The emperor patted Jingze's hand and said: "There must be no worries. I will pay one hundred thousand yuan to help the country."

It's the day, all officials will accompany you.The waiter Xie Mu was in Zhizhi, and he should untie the seal, but Yang didn't know, and said, "What's the business?"The imperial edict was fearful, and the envoy said that he was sick, and wanted to take someone else, so he said, "I have no disease, what should I do?" Then he stepped out of the Dongye gate in court clothes, and returned to the house in the car.He took Wang Jian as his servant and released the seal ribbon.At the end of the ceremony, the emperor took a painted wheel car, went out of Dongyemen to Dongdi, and asked, "why don't you play advocacy today?"Wang Kun, the doctor of You Guanglu, Huazhi's father and brother, had been a doctor in the Jin Dynasty, so he climbed the chariot tail and cried and said: "People regard longevity as joy, and veterans regard longevity as mourning. You can't drive ants away. I see this again and again!" The sobbing was unbearable, and all the officials wept.

Sikong and Taibao Chu Yuan and others presented the seal and ribbon, and the handsome officials visited Qi Palace to persuade them to enter; the king's resignation was not accepted.Yuan Cong's younger brother Ancheng Taishou Yan called Yuanzi Ben and said, "Where is Sikong today?" What is it!"

In the Jiawu period, the king, the emperor, was located in the southern suburbs.Return the palace, amnesty, and change the Yuan.Emperor Shun of the Song Dynasty was enshrined as the King of Ruyin, and the ceremonies he respected were all imitated in the early Song Dynasty.

【Translation】

In the first year of Jianyuan (AD 479) Emperor Gao of Qi, Emperor Liu Song Shun issued an edict to abdicate the throne to King Qi.

On the 21st day of the first lunar month, Emperor Shun was supposed to meet all officials in front of the hall, but he refused to show up. Instead, he fled and hid under the cover of the Buddha statue.Wang Jing led the soldiers to the courtyard of the palace, and carried a wooden sedan chair into the palace to welcome Emperor Shun.The queen mother was very frightened, so she personally led the eunuchs to find Emperor Shun, but Wang Jing persuaded Emperor Shun in every possible way, let him come out from under the treasure cover, and helped him into the sedan chair.Emperor Shun held back his tears and said to Wang Jing: "Do you want to kill me?" Wang Jing said: "It's just that you are invited to live in another palace. When your ancestors replaced the Sima family This is also the case." Emperor Shun wept and snapped his fingers and said, "I hope that I will never be born in the emperor's house in the future!" Everyone in the palace who heard it couldn't help crying.Emperor Shun patted Wang Jingze's hand and said, "If nothing happens, you will get a reward of [-] yuan."

On that day, all civil and military officials accompanied the King of Qi. The attendant Xie Tiao was on duty at the time and should have delivered the seal, but he pretended not to know and asked, "Is there any business?" Then someone sent an edict: "Release the seal and give it to the King of Qi." Xie Tiao said, "The King of Qi should naturally have his own attendant." After finishing speaking, he immediately pulled the pillow and lay down.The official who conveyed the edict was very frightened, so Xie Tiao pretended to be ill, and planned to find another person to serve as a servant. Xie Tiao said, "I'm not sick, why do you say I'm sick!" , walked out of Dongyemen on foot, got in the car, and went back to his mansion.King Qi immediately asked Wang Jian to serve as his servant and sent him the seal.After the ceremony was over, Emperor Shun went out from Dongyemen in a chariot with painted wheels and headed for the prince's mansion.Emperor Shun asked, "Why didn't you play music today?" No one from the left and right entourage answered.Wang Kun, a doctor of You Guanglu, is Wang Hua's cousin. He used to be a doctor in the Jin Dynasty. He clung to the tail of the otter hanging on the car and cried: "Everyone is happy for longevity, but I am a veteran. And sad. It is precisely because this body cannot die early, that’s why we frequently witness such things happen today!” After he finished speaking, he sobbed and cried, unable to control himself, all the officials also cried immediately, and tears fell like rain for a while.

Sikong and Taibao Chu Yuan and others held the seal and led the civil and military officials to the Qi Palace to invite Xiao Daocheng to become the emperor. Qi Wang pretended to decline and refused to accept it.Chu Yuan's cousin and former Ancheng prefect Chu Yan asked Chu Yuan's son Chu Ben, "Where did Sikong go today?" I don't understand that your family, Sikong, transfers one family's belongings to another family, so why bother!"

On the 23rd of the first lunar month, King Qi ascended the throne in the southern suburbs of Jiankang.After Emperor Gao of the Southern Qi Dynasty returned to the palace, he pardoned the world and changed his year name to Jianyuan.Emperor Gao of the Southern Qi respected Emperor Shun as the king of Ruyin, and the etiquette of respecting and respecting the king of Ruyin was all compared with the practice of the early Liu Song Dynasty.

[Comment and Analysis]

Song Shun Emperor Liu Zhun was the last emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, and the power in the court was completely in the hands of Xiao Daocheng.The demise of the Liu Song Dynasty is close at hand. The 13-year-old Liu Zhun's sentence "May he not be reborn in the heavenly king's family!"He spoke out the aspirations of countless emperors' family members. Being in an emperor's family often means that he will not die well, and he is not as good as a street vendor.The young emperor didn't know what subjugation meant, but at least he knew that something had changed.

Fan Zhen on God
[Original text]

Qi Shizu Wu Emperor Yongming Second Year
Ziliang loved the Shi family, attracted famous monks, and talked about Buddhism. The prosperity of Taoism and customs has never been seen in Jiangzuo.Or personally providing food and running water for the monks, the world quite thinks that he is incapable of being a prime minister.

Fan Zhensheng said that there is no Buddha.Ziliang said: "If you don't believe in cause and effect, how can you be rich or poor?" Zhen said: "Life is like a tree and flowers blooming together, and they are scattered with the wind: or the curtains are drawn and the dung falls on the mats, or the fences are closed. Among them. Those who fall into the grass mat are the same as your Highness; those who fall into the dung are the same as the lower officials. Although there are different paths for high and low, where is the cause and effect!" Ziliang has no difficulty.Zhen also wrote "On the Extinction of God", thinking: "The shape is the quality of the god, and the god is the function of the form. The god is in the shape, and the benefit is in the knife. I have never heard that the knife is gone and the profit is there. Yea!" When this theory came out, the government and the public were clamoring, and the difficulty could not be surrendered.Wang Yan of Taiyuan ridiculed Zhen in his commentary and said: "Whoa Fanzi! I didn't know where the gods of his ancestors are!"Zhen said to him: "Prince Wuhu! You know where the gods of your ancestors are, but you can't kill yourself to follow them!" Ziliang sent Wang Rong to say: "You are so talented and beautiful, so why don't you come to Zhongshulang; so Guai is here for this." Discussion, what a pity! It should be destroyed and discarded urgently." Zhen laughed and said: "Fan Zhen sold his theory to win officials, and he has become an order and servant. Why is Zhongshu Lang evil!"

【Translation】

The second year of Yongming, Emperor Wu of Qi (484 A.D.)
Xiao Ziliang believed in Buddhism all his life, and he often invited many eminent monks to talk about Buddhism. At that time, the prevalence of Buddhism had never been seen in Jiangzuo area.Even sometimes, Xiao Ziliang personally served the monks with food and water, and the world felt that he was disrespectful as a prime minister.

Fan Zhen talked a lot about that there is no Buddha in the world.Xiao Ziliang said: "You don't believe in the retribution of poor fruits, but why are there distinctions between poor and poor and rich and noble?" Fan Zhen said: "Life is like flowers on a tree, and hair grows and blows away with the wind at the same time: but The bamboo curtains fluttered down on the mattresses, but some fell over the fence and into the cesspit. Those who fell on the mattresses were like Your Highness, and those who fell into the cesspit were the officials and me. Although we There is a huge difference between high and low, but where is the karma in it?" After hearing this, Xiao Ziliang found it difficult to deal with it.Fan Zhen later wrote the book "On the Destruction of Gods", in which he wrote: "The body is the foundation of the spirit; the spirit is the external manifestation and product of the body. The spirit is like a sharp knife to the body. And the knife, I have never heard of the principle that the sharp edge is still there when the knife is lost, so how can there be such a thing as the body disappears but the spirit remains? In the end, Fan Zhen failed to yield.Wang Yan, a native of Taiyuan, wrote an article mocking Fan Zhen: "Whoa Fanzi! You don't even know where the gods of his ancestors are!" Wang Yan tried to seal Fan Zhen's mouth with this.Fan Zhen retorted, "Prince Woohoo! He knows where the gods of his ancestors are, but he refuses to commit suicide and follow them!" Xiao Ziliang sent Wang Rong to persuade Fan Zhen, "With your talent, I'm afraid that you will be Isn’t it Zhongshulang? It’s really regrettable to deliberately publish such absurd and extreme conclusions. You should destroy those articles immediately.” After hearing this, Fan Zhen laughed and said, “If I, Fan Zhen, betray If I exchange my own words for an official position, then I am afraid that I have already achieved Shangshuling and Pushe, and I am not just a little Zhongshulang!"

[Comment and Analysis]

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism was introduced to my country and was loved by many dignitaries.At that time, from the emperor to the small landlords, all highly respected Buddhism. Some monks wrote books and preached, and everyone respected it.But at this time, Fan Zhen was talking about "no Buddha". Undoubtedly, this was of course excluded, threatened and lured by dignitaries.However, not only was Fan Zhen not refuted by Xiao Ziliang's argument, but he wrote the book "On the Extinction of Gods".This greatly offended the nobles, and the nobles tried to silence him with high-ranking officials and generous salaries. However, Fan Zhen was a true warrior, without any fear, let alone betraying himself.

Emperor Wei Xiaowen
[Original text]

Qi Shizu Wu Emperor Yongming 11th Year

The Lord of Wei thought that Pingcheng was cold, with rain and snow in June, and frequent wind and sand, so he would move the capital to Luoyang. Fearing that the officials would not follow, he suggested a large-scale attack on Qi, hoping to threaten the people.The one on the left side of the Mingtang made Taichangqing Wang Chenyuzhi meet "reform", the emperor said: "'Tang and Wu revolutions follow the heavens and respond to people.' Which one is better!" The ministers dare not say .Shangshu Rencheng Wang Cheng said: "Your Majesty is playing Ye Chongguang, the emperor has Zhongtu; if you go out to conquer and not conquer, and get the image of the Tang and Wu revolutions, it is not auspicious." The emperor said sharply: "Yaoyun:' Your Majesty's tiger change', what can you say is inauspicious!" Cheng said: "Your Majesty, the dragon has been flourishing for a long time, why is this tiger's change!" Emperor Zuo Se said: "Our country is our country, let the city want to suppress all evil!" Cheng said: "Although the country is owned by your majesty, the ministers are the ministers of the country, and they can know the danger without saying anything!" The emperor explained it for a long time, saying: "Everyone speaks of his ambition, and the husband is not hurt!"

(End of this chapter)