Zhu Wen led his troops to pass the pass in 902 AD, defeated Li Maozhen, captured Zhaozong, moved the capital to Luoyang, and then killed Zhaozong in 904 AD, established Emperor Zhaoxuan, and controlled the Tang Dynasty regime.
The old ministers and officials of the Tang Dynasty saw that the master they relied on was **, so they were very sad and angry in private, and looked down on those newly developed bureaucrats.
In order to crack down on the old ministers and nobles and clear the social forces that prevented him from usurping the Tang Dynasty as emperor, Zhu Wen cultivated his own henchmen on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wanted to eliminate the old ministers in the court.
In June 905, Zhu Wen listened to the words of his henchmen Liu Can and Li Zhen, and pretended to give Pei Shu, Dugu Zheng, Cui Yuan, Wang Pu, Zhao Chong, Wang Zan and others to commit suicide, and gathered more than 30 people in the court in Huazhou Baima Station, killed them all at night, and threw their bodies into the Yellow River.
The White Horse Post Disaster was a relatively complete purge of the old ministers of the Tang Dynasty, and thus ended the party struggle of the Tang Dynasty bureaucracy that had lasted for many years.
Liang Taizu Zhu Wen was absurd and irritable in his later years, and he had a ** relationship with all his daughters-in-law. The eldest son Youyu died early, and the adopted son Youwen was indispensable in the palace, while the second son Youqi and the third son Youzhen were highly suspicious of Emperor Liang.
Zhu Wen was critically ill and wanted to make Youwen the crown prince, but after Youwen learned about it, he plotted to launch a coup d'état, and in 912 AD, he led troops into the palace to kill Zhu Wen and planned to be called emperor.
Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen took advantage of the situation and attacked Luoyang, and Youqi saw that the general trend had gone, and he committed suicide with his wife Zhang.
Zhu Youzhen returned to Kaifeng, that is, the emperor's throne, and the number of the second year was three years of Qianhua, and Zhu Youzhen was posthumously abolished as a concubine, and the precedent of the five generations of mutiny to support the emperor was opened.
When Zhu Wen established the Liang Dynasty, there were still two large separatist forces in the north: one was Liu Rengong, and the other was Li Keyong, the king of Jin.
In 907 AD, Li Keyong united with the Khitan and wanted to compete with Zhu Wen. But Abaoji saw that Zhu Wen was very powerful, and secretly formed an alliance with Zhu Wen. Li Keyong learned the news, so angry that he couldn't afford to get sick, and told his son Li Cunqiao before he died that he must avenge him.
Ten years later, Kaifeng was broken by the Later Tang army, and Zhu Youzhen, the late emperor of the Later Liang Dynasty, committed suicide and Liang died.