Seeking Li Yu's humanity

The past is only sad-Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was married several weeks ago.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the warlord was the king. Yang Xingmi, a native of Luzhou (Hefei, Anhui Province), was in such chaos. By virtue of his natural strength and indispensable good luck, he rose from an orphan who was born in a peasant family to the top step by step, and was made a prince by Tang Zhaozong two years later (AD 92). About the second year of the king's reign, Yang Xingmi captured Haozhou (Fengyang) and got various "trophies", including men and women who were offered as servants.

When reviewing the spoils of war, Yang Xingmi saw at a glance that among the shivering crowd, a little novice monk stood out. His clothes were different from others, and his appearance and bearing were also different.

Xiao Shami, whose common surname is Li, is a native of Xuzhou (Jiangsu Xuzhou) and was born in the third year of Guangqi in Tang Xizong (AD 887). Father Li Rong, a devout Buddhist, pinned all his hopes on the Buddha and regarded living in a temple with monks as a pleasure in life. He was called "Li Daozhe". After the war in Xuzhou, Li Daozhe didn't know where he was going, whether he was dead or not, or he went to the mountains to practice. In desperation, Li Daozhe's wife, Liu, had to let her two daughters become nuns and took her son to Huainan to make a living. However, not long after arriving in Huainan, Liu, who had suffered a lot, could no longer support his illness and finally gave up.

when his parents died, Dr. Li was only six or seven years old, so he had to join the Buddhist temple like his two sisters, and he became a child walker in Kaiyuan Temple in Haozhou. The life of a monk temple is poor, and he often goes out for alms, wandering around Sizhou, Haozhou, but at last he has a place to return to, and he can learn some writing and ink. It's just that the war broke out again, but now he has become a prisoner of the prince of Wu, either in the army or as a servant of Wangfu. But life is always unexpected. Dr. would never have thought that the military school that caught him didn't have any kindness, but in fact he put himself on the road to Qingyun.

As soon as Yang Xingmi met Dr., he felt very cordial for some reason, thinking that he was unique in appearance and very clever. I left him by my side. Not long after, Yang Xingmi became more and more fond of this child, thinking that he was much better than his own sons, and simply adopted him.

The sons of Yang's family are very dissatisfied with Yang Xingmi's undisguised preference. They can't tolerate this wild boy who comes out of nowhere and make things difficult for him. Over time, Yang Xingmi also knew that Dr. If he stayed in this house again, something would happen sooner or later, so he had to make other plans for his adopted son and entrusted him to his cronies, Xu Wen.

From then on, Xu Wen had an adopted son named "Xu Zhipatent".

In the second year of God bless (AD 95), Yang Xingmi, the 54-year-old king of Wu, died of illness. His eldest son, Yang W, and his second son, Yang Longyan, were successively crowned King of Wu, while Xu Wen won a series of power struggles and became a powerful minister in charge of everything. In the 16th year of God Blessed (AD 917), Xu Wenqiang made Yang Long a puppet. Although he was also called the "King of Wu" in name, he actually became a country. Xu Wen took it upon himself to become a great prime minister, commander in chief of Chinese and foreign military affairs, and sealed the king of the East China Sea. Because the eldest son Xu Zhixun died the year before, the adopted son Xu Zhipatent, who ranked second and made great contributions to Xu Jiali, was named as the left servant who was second only to the adoptive father and participated in political affairs.

A year later, 24-year-old Yang Long died of depression. Xu Wen pushed Yang Xingmi's fourth son, Yang Pu, as a new puppet. Xu's father and son have more power. Xu Zhi-gao's kindness and courtesy are very popular in the territory of Wu. Adoptive father's power game, he also participated in almost all of them, and he was familiar with all the tricks. Therefore, after Xu Wen's death, Xu Zhipatent immediately took measures to successfully take the title authority of his adoptive father into his own hands, and Xu Wen's biological sons could not even touch the edge.

after becoming the minister of the kingdom of Wu, Xu Zhihui first forced Yang Pu to be the emperor and made himself the "King of Qi". Then he became popular and married his daughter to Yang Lian, the prince of Wu. In the end, in October of the 3rd year of Tianzuo (AD 937), Xu Zhipatent fulfilled his adoptive father's unfulfilled wish, and replaced it with his in-laws Yang Pu, establishing the State of Qi and changing the Yuan to "Ascending Yuan". (The poor Princess Wu became the "Princess Yongxing")

After Xu Zhigong proclaimed himself emperor, Xu Wen's sons read his mind and asked him to restore his real name. After some ceremony, Xu Zhipatent restored the real name of "Dr." and claimed to be the fourth grandson of Wang Li Ke, the son of Tang Xianzong, and built the temple of Emperor Taizong of Tang Gaozu, and changed the name to Tang Dynasty, which was called "Southern Tang Dynasty" in history.

In order to keep his throne, Dr. Li was unkind to the descendants of his two adoptive fathers, Yang Xingmi and Xu Wen, but as an emperor, Nan Tang was able to recuperate under his rule, which was not only one of the most extensive countries in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (including all of Jiangxi, most of Jiangsu and Anhui, and a small part of Fujian), but also the richest.

On the eve of Dr. Li's accession to the throne, that is, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh lunar month in 937, on the day of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl Queqiao Club, Zhong Shi, the eldest son of Dr. Xu Zhipatent and the first wife of Li Jingtong, the deputy commander, gave birth to a boy in Jinling Mansion. This is already the sixth son of Li Jingping, who is named Congjia.

When Li Congjia was six years old (AD 943), his legendary grandfather Dr. passed away, and his father Li Jingtong became Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty and changed his name to Li Jing.

It is said that Dr. Li was dissatisfied with his eldest son in his later years, and once wanted to establish his second son, Li Jingsui, as a prince. However, Li Jingsui said that he didn't dare to go beyond it, and Li Shengcai had to give up his mind. Perhaps for this reason, as soon as Li Jing acceded to the throne, she found her brothers and made a Covenant in front of her father's coffin, vowing to pass on the throne to her younger brother.

Li Jing kept his word. When he ascended the throne (AD 943, the first year of Baoda in Southern Tang Dynasty), he ordered his younger brother, Qi Wang Jing Sui, to take full charge of government affairs. Four years later (AD 948, the fifth year of Baoda University in the Southern Tang Dynasty), he officially announced that Jing Sui was the emperor's brother, and another brother, Jing Da, was promoted to the King of Qi and was named Marshal. Li Jing's own eldest son, Li Hongyi, was promoted to the prince and appointed deputy marshal.

Some people think that Dr. Li did not want to pass the throne to Li Jing at the beginning because he had no ambition, a weak disposition and a love of poetry. However, judging from Li Jing's performance after he ascended the throne, perhaps the reason is just the opposite: he is too ambitious and too smart, which is the reason why Dr. Li can't rest assured. A person who is not clever enough but has a steady character as a monarch may not be able to create a great achievement, but he can accumulate strength for the country in harmony. In contrast, if the smart energy of a smart person is not used in the right place, it is easier to get things done than ordinary people.

not long after Li Jing proclaimed himself emperor, he began to devote himself to expanding the territory, and it didn't take long for Li Jing to increase the territory of Southern Tang Dynasty from twenty-eight states to thirty-five states. However, his achievements made him dizzy, and he began to be greedy and aggressive. At home, he was intoxicated with the sound of praise and praise, so that he loved the little people. Chen Jue, Feng Yanji, and others, the minions, were called "Five Ghosts" by people at that time, but Li Jing just regarded these five ghosts as a pride, but rewarded and punished the soldiers who went out to fight for their lives, causing widespread indignation and resentment. At the same time, the performance of the new king also made other countries more and more worried about the direction of Nantang. Some countries that made friends with Nantang during Li Jing's period also began to change their attitudes, and Nantang became the target of public criticism. Zhou Shizong and Chai Rong, on the other hand, made three personal expeditions and devoted themselves to the disintegration of the former friends and neighbors of Southern Tang Dynasty.

In the fifth year of Xiande in the late Zhou Dynasty (AD 958), under the personal expedition of Zhou Shizong and Chai Rong, the Southern Tang Dynasty was defeated. Li Jing not only gave up a large area of land in the fourteen states of Huainan in the south of the Tang Dynasty, but also had to bow down to the later Zhou Dynasty, and changed her name from the Emperor to the Lord. At such a heavy price, she only got the rest half of the country to steal peace.

what makes Li Jing unbearable more than the defeat of state affairs is the struggle for power and profit within the royal family. Although the national situation is gradually declining, the position of the king of the country still shines with attractive light. With the growth of age, Li Hong-ji, Li Jing's biological eldest son, can't stand the fact that he has to be "relegated" to his uncle.

Of course, Li Hongji also has the capital to compete with uncle Huang Taidi. Although he is young, he has a harsh temperament. Of course, he is better than his uncle in running the army. He has made many military achievements and his reputation in the army is growing.

In March of that year, Li Jingsui, the "Emperor's Brother" who was defeated under the wise leadership of his brother, could not hold back the situation on the one hand, and hoped that my nephew could save the country's fortune on the other hand, and handed in ten resignation letters to Li Jingsui in succession: "If the country is in danger, please leave town. The Prince of Yan, Hong Ji, is worthy of being an heir because of his military merits. I hereby present my brother's treasure book. " Resolutely give the position of Chu Jun to Li Hongji. Li Jingda also advanced and retreated with Li Jingshui * * *, and also self-destructed with the defeat of the army, demanding to resign as a marshal.

Li Jing accepted the requests of her two younger brothers. Li Hongji became the Crown Prince and participated in the decision-making of government affairs. Li Jingshui changed the title of King Jin, and added General Tian Ce, Marshal of Military Forces in the West Road of the South of the Yangtze River, Governor of Hongzhou, Qiu and Shang Shuling. Li Jingda appointed Fuzhou as the viceroy of Runzhou.

However, Li Jing's wish of "family harmony and prosperity" has not been realized, and things have developed beyond his expectation. Li Hongji, the new prince, was full of suspicion about his uncle who had been in Chu Jun for ten years. As soon as he became a prince, he showed his unkind and ungrateful nature and carried out a large-scale reshuffle. Even the waiters who had been used by his uncle in the East Palace must be driven away.

Probably because his father, Li Jing, once worked as a "brother and brother", Li Hongji was also suspicious of his younger brothers, fearing that they would be detrimental to his children and grandchildren one day. So he also sent many cronies to monitor the actions of his younger brothers. Among all the emperors, Li Congjia is the oldest and most fearful.

According to the natural ranking, Li Congjia is only the sixth son. However, the royal family of Li Tang is responding to the old saying that "wealth is not prosperous", and the death rate of children is extremely high. By the time Li Congjia grew up, he had become the de facto second son.

It's good to say that Li Congjia's appearance is also different from ordinary people-he has a "heavy pupil" in one eye, that is, there are two pupils in one eye socket-which is puzzling. If the embryo development of Queen Zhong was not faulty when she was pregnant, it was probably the prince who had dark spots in his eyes. However, this appearance has always been talked about in history books, so according to old legend, Shun Di Yao Zhonghua is a "heavy pupil", and Xiang Yu and Wang Mang heard that there is also this difference. Although the luck of the last two emperors is not as good as that of Shun Di, they have, after all, occupied the position above ten thousand people. Li Congjia's marriage made Li Hongji full of anger, and officials and people in the Southern Tang Dynasty talked about it one after another: this prince with half the eyes of Shun Di actually married the wife of a maiden named E Huang and became the son-in-law of Situ Zhoujing, an old minister in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

of course, Li Congjia knows what the world is saying, and he knows more about Big Brother's tactics. He was afraid of the prince's eldest brother, and tried his best to restrain himself from losing himself. He didn't ask about any political affairs, but he was addicted to poetry, calligraphy and painting. Finally, he simply learned his grandfather's demeanor, wandered among the pagoda's fine houses, recited scriptures and participated in meditation every day, and was subjected to three returns and five precepts, calling himself a "layman". Put on a "letting wealth and fame drift by like clouds" posture. (There are many names of its lay people, including Bailian lay people, Lianfeng lay people, Zhongshan hermit, Zhong Feng recluse, Zhong Yin, etc ...)

Since his younger brother is so well-informed, Li Hongji can't find anything wrong at the moment. This prince is a good fighter when he fights, but he can't settle down when he is idle. He does everything to make trouble and put on airs. The prince hasn't been in office for half a year, and he has angered Lao Tzu. Li Jing reprimanded Li Hongji more than once, but never saw any repentance here. Li Jing was already sulking in the last Zhou Dynasty. Seeing her son so recklessly, she was so angry that she finally couldn't help but do it herself, holding a ball stick and starting with Li Hongji. Beating him and cursing at the same time. Li Hongji didn't listen to a word of Lao Tzu's earnest desire for success, but Lao Tzu scolded him with a loud voice, especially one of Li Jing's words: "I should call Jing Sui again!" "

Li Jing's remark may be subconscious, or it may just be said in anger. But in Li Hongji's ears, the consequences are terrible.

Li Hongji immediately regarded his uncle who voluntarily abdicated as his greatest enemy (where was the Emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty ranked? ), full of suspicion also immediately evolved into full of pitfalls. No sooner had Li Jing left the Prince's East Palace than Li Hongji began to plan a murder.

Li Hongji soon learned that the son of Yuan Congfan, the envoy of Zhaoqing Palace, had offended Li Jingsui and was almost killed by him. Therefore, Yuan Congfan not only has a feud with Li Jingsui, but also has no possibility of letting it go. And Yuan Congfan is following Li Jingsui's side at this time, and he holds the post of "Hongzhou Duya" under the governor of Hongzhou. Li Hongji acted immediately after inquiring about it, and handed the task of eradicating political enemies to Yuan Congfan.

Li Jingsui, like his brother Li Jing, is keen on ball games, and he enjoys it no matter whether the weather is cold or hot. This is still the case after arriving in Hongzhou (now Nanchang). Finally, one day, thirsty after playing the ball, he took a cup of drink handed by Zhang Congfan and gulped it down-this cup of drink soon worked. That night, Li Jingsui died suddenly. Although others died, the terrible effect of poison continued: before the funeral, the body began to rot. This strange situation, of course, caused panic, but Li Jing, who was in Jinling, was kept in the dark. He held a grand funeral for his brother without any doubt, and posthumously called him "Emperor Wencheng's brother".

The funeral was held in August when sweet-scented osmanthus scented. At this time, it was only one month since Li Hongji was beaten and scolded. Li Jingsui changed from an energetic star to a terrible rotting corpse in the coffin.

At the moment when he learned of his uncle's death, Li Hongji was in a good mood, even if he was a little scared. But after only one month, his own life came to an abrupt end.

How did Li Hongji die? History books only have the word "sudden death", but the truth is vague. Leave countless room for speculation. Those who believe in "the Emperor's Sage" can be regarded as Li Jing's thorough understanding of the treatment of his son, those who like watching martial arts can be regarded as having righteous men and loyal servants avenge Li Jingsui, and those who are keen on fantasy can also be regarded as revenging the ghosts ... < P > However, from the later situation, Li Hongji is more likely to be caught in the news and cleaned up by Li Jing, who is angry and angry.

after Li hongji's death, Li Jing made his sixth son, that is, the de facto second son, Li Congjia, the king of Wu, and moved to the East Palace of Prince Edward. In fact, what Li Congjia got was the status of an acting prince, and all he needed was a formal letter of appointment. This is of course an open secret. However, Zhong Mo, a bachelor of Hanlin, felt that the Lord's plan was too unreliable, so he found an opportunity to advise Li Jing that Li Congjia was young and young, and he was not the material for doing great things at all. He should never hand over the country to him. If he wanted to establish Chu Jun, he had to establish Ji Guogong and Li Congshan. Unexpectedly, Li Jing immediately flew into a rage-Li Jing was so, perhaps because he learned Li Hongji's lesson, and he dared not change the fixed system of standing in office easily again. He hoped that Li Congjia's gentle temperament would not only avoid causing more flesh and blood, but also protect himself from a good death.