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Liang jing dong1/15/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() Before they finished, Zhu's guards grabbed them and threw them into the Yangtze River to drown.College of Food Science & Engineering, OceanUniversity of China, Qingdao 266003, ChinaĮ-Mail: mainly includes: nutrition and food bioactivities design and applications of functional biomaterials. I am still fearful." Soon thereafter, they encounter Zhu, who invited them to drink on his ship. Xiao Qiao and Xiao Jiu happily stated, "Finally today we have avoided an unnatural death." Xiao Dong responded, "It is difficult to know whether we are facing good fortune or ill fortune. They encountered the general Du Shi (杜崱), and Du removed their chains. Meanwhile, when Hou fled, Xiao Dong and his brothers broke out of their prison, but they were still in chains. Xiao Yi therefore gave the order instead to another general, Zhu Maichen. Xiao Yi had initially ordered Wang to have Xiao Dong killed, but Wang declined-stating that while he was willing to fight Hou, the responsibility of killing an emperor should be entrusted to someone else. In spring 552, Wang Sengbian captured Jiankang, forcing Hou Jing to flee. Hou, who became the emperor of a newly declared Han state, created Xiao Dong the Prince of Huaiyin, but imprisoned him and his brothers Xiao Qiao and Xiao Jiu in a secret prison. Two and a half months after Xiao Dong became emperor, Hou forced Xiao Dong to yield the throne to him. He created his wife Princess Zhang empress. Xiao Dong posthumously honored his grandfather Xiao Tong and father Xiao Huan as emperors, and honored his mother Princess Dowager Wang as empress dowager. Xiao Dong had no actual power, as power was in the hands of Hou Jing. He was shocked when the imperial processing arrived, and, not sure how to respond, got onto the imperial carriage while crying. ![]() When the imperial processing went to Xiao Dong's residence to escort him to the palace, Xiao Dong and his wife Princess Zhang were tending their garden, growing vegetables to supplement their diet in light of the war-induced famine in the capital region. ![]() In order to show off his power, he deposed Emperor Jianwen and replaced him with Xiao Dong. In 551, Hou, after attempting to defeat Emperor Jianwen's brother Xiao Yi the Prince of Xiangdong but being defeated by Xiao Yi's general Wang Sengbian, retreated to Jiankang, and he, believing that his days may be numbered, wanted to take the throne. Emperor Wu died later that year, and Xiao Gang succeeded him as Emperor Jianwen, albeit under Hou's control. Hou put the surviving princes of the Xiao imperial clan, including Xiao Dong, under effective house arrest. In 548, the general Hou Jing rebelled and, in 549, captured the capital Jiankang. After Xiao Huan's death-and that date is not known-Xiao Dong inherited the title of Prince of Yuzhang. He had two younger brothers known to history-Xiao Qiao (蕭橋) and Xiao Jiu (蕭樛). Xiao Dong's mother was Xiao Huan's wife Princess Wang. Emperor Wu created Xiao Tong's younger brother Xiao Gang crown prince instead. When Xiao Tong died in 531, Emperor Wu had considered, pursuant to Confucian principles of succession, creating Xiao Huan crown prince, but ultimately decided against it and created him only the Prince of Yuzhang. What is known is that he was the oldest son of Xiao Huan (蕭歡) the Prince of Yuzhang, the oldest son of Emperor Wu's oldest son and first crown prince Xiao Tong. Not much is known about Xiao Dong's early life, including when he was born. In 552, troops under Wang Sengbian, a general loyal to Xiao Dong's granduncle Xiao Yi retook Jiankang, and the general Zhu Maichen (朱買臣), under Xiao Yi's instructions, threw Xiao Dong and his two brothers into the Yangtze River to drown. Just two and a half months after Xiao Dong became emperor, Hou forced him to yield the throne to himself, who took the throne as the Emperor of Han. In 551, with the general Hou Jing in control of the imperial government at the capital Jiankang, Hou, wanting to show off his strength, deposed Xiao Dong's granduncle Emperor Jianwen and replaced him with Xiao Dong, the grandson of Emperor Jianwen's older brother Xiao Tong, who was originally the founder Emperor Wu's crown prince.ĭuring his brief reign, Xiao Dong was entirely under Hou's control. Xiao Dong ( Chinese: 蕭棟 died 552), courtesy name Yuanji (元吉), sometimes known by his pre-ascension title of Prince of Yuzhang (豫章王), was briefly an emperor of the Chinese Liang Dynasty. ![]()
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