An inglorious life

Mondo Sports Updated on 2024-01-30

An inglorious life

In 923 A.D., Li Cunmiao returned to his teacher victoriously and went to Jinyang to visit his mother Cao. After three rounds of drinking, Cao signaled a singer to appear, and Li Cunmiao's eyes suddenly lit up, staring directly at the singer, and clapping his hands from time to time. The Cao family saw all this in their eyes and knew their son's careful thoughts. After the feast, he gave the singer to his son.

This singer is Liu Jingui, the queen of Li Cunqiao of the Later Tang Dynasty. Before meeting Li Cunqing, Liu Jingui had a magical experience. Back then, Li Cunmiao's father, Li Keyong, was still the king of Jin, and once sent troops to attack Weizhou, he carried out a period of burning, killing and looting.

In the process of plundering, Li Keyong's deputy Yuan Jianfeng grabbed the Liu family in a farmhouse, and the Liu family was only 5 years old at this time, and he was beautiful and lovely. But after the class teacher returned to the court, Yuan Jianfeng actually gave Liu to Li Keyong, and Li Keyong handed Liu over to his wife Cao to raise.

However, the Cao family was very fond of the Liu family and gave him a name"Expensive", not only taught her to read and write, but also taught her to play sheng singing and dancing. When Liu grew up, he was like a hibiscus out of the water, and his level of singing and dancing was a must, so he was favored by Li Cunqiao.

At the beginning of inheriting the throne, he wiped out his uncle Li Kening, who was strongly opposed to him and intended to usurp the throne, and his father Li Keyong's adopted son who had ill intentions all his life, established his authority and consolidated his position. Immediately afterwards, Li Cunmiao drove straight into the army and defeated Zhu Wen's army.

As a hero, Li Cunqiao is naturally surrounded by beautiful women. Before Liu Jingui, Li Cunqing's favorite woman was Hou, who was originally the wife of Fu Daozhao, a general under Zhu Wen, who was born delicately, so she was snatched by Li Cunqing, and she would take her with her every time she went on an expedition.

In addition to the Hou family, Li Cunqing's official Weiguo wife Han and the second Yanguo wife Yi are all famous ladies, but they can't get into Li Cunqing's eyes. Since he had a young and beautiful Liu Jingui, Li Cunmiao favored Liu Jingui and named him the Lady of Wei and accompanied the army.

It didn't take long for Liu Jingui to give birth to a prince for Li Cunqiao, named Li Jiqi. Since then, Li Cunmiao has become more and more fond of him, reaching the point of a special room and a special concubine.

Later, Li Cunmiao was proclaimed emperor in Weizhou, and the country name was Tang, and the history was called the Later Tang Dynasty. Li Cunmiao, who became the emperor, wanted to make Liu Jingui the empress, but Mrs. Han and Mrs. Yi of the second family refused to give in, and even united with the family forces to persuade Li Cunqing, and Li Cunmiao was very embarrassed for a while.

And Li Cunqing's right-hand man, Prime Minister Dou Luge, and privy envoy Guo Chongtao, naturally understood Li Cunqing's intentions, so they wrote to Liu Jingui as the queen, and supported Liu Jingui as the queen on the grounds that Liu Jingui gave birth to a prince.

In this way, Li Cunqiao took the opportunity to crown Liu Jingui as the queen, the Han family as the concubine, and the Yi family as the concubine.

Li Cunmiao, who became the emperor, changed his temperament greatly, and his lofty ambition was gone, and he indulged in eating, drinking, and having fun all day long. He already likes to watch plays, sing operas, and even call himself"Li Tianxia", often with a group of Haiyou opera singing, the major affairs of the government have long been forgotten.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Jingui leans towards the government and the opposition, wantonly amasses wealth, and is extremely greedy. Even if the Chinese military officials wanted to be promoted, they had to please Liu Jingui to achieve it, so that the palace was full of all kinds of gold and silver treasures. As long as Liu Jingui takes a fancy to it, whether it is fruits or vegetables, they will all be robbed.

Not only that, Liu Jingui knew that Li Cunmiao was good at acting, so he simply went around to recruit Haiyu actors for him, and colluded with these people to do evil. Even the family of the hero Guo Chongtao died at the hands of Liu Jingui, and for a time people were panicked and complained, and mutinies often occurred.

At the same time, Liu Jingui knew that his power was not as strong as that of other concubines, so he simply looked for allies everywhere. Even when her biological father came to confess his relatives, she was beaten to death with bruises. In the end, she took a fancy to Henan Yin Zhang Quanyi, and asked to recognize Zhang Quanyi as her godfather, Zhang Quanyi was really helpless, but she had no choice but to agree.

Liu Jingui was greedy for money, even if the army's funds were urgent, he was unwilling to take out the gold and silver in the palace to reward the soldiers, but just pretended to take out a few worthless jewelry. The morale of the army has long been weakened, so that later Li Cunmiao's general Zhao Zaili rebelled, and Li Cunmiao could not find soldiers to rescue.

Seeing that the situation was not good at this time, Li Cunmiao was still complacent, and personally led the troops to block Li Siyuan's strong attack. There were about 25,000 people when they set out, but when they arrived at the place, only a third of them escaped.

In order to unite the morale of the army, Li Cunmiao simply promised again and again that once the battle was won, he would pay bonuses. But the soldiers had long been disheartened by him, and no one bought his account at all.

Even so, Liu Jingui still stuck to his gold and silver treasures. And Li Cunqiao's subordinates rebelled one after another, and even his confidant and commander of the Ma Army, Guo Men, also rebelled and attacked the palace for a while.

In the face of such a crisis, Li Cunmiao could only hurriedly respond to the battle, but it was a pity that his former force declined, and his whole body was shot by random arrows, he was seriously injured, and fell in a pool of blood in an instant. Just when Li Cunmiao's life was dying, his mouth was dry, and he was still calling Liu Jingui's name.

It's a pity that Liu Jingui was busy packing up his valuables at this time, and he didn't care about the love between husband and wife, so he didn't have time to take care of Li Cunmiao, but just arranged for the eunuch to give Li Cunmiao a mouthful of cheese at will. It didn't take long for Liu Jingui to flee in a hurry, and Li Cunqing, who was left unattended, died of excessive bleeding.

And Liu Jingui and Li Cunqing's younger brother fled with gold and silver treasures all the way, and the two of them colluded in the early years, and even escaped for their lives. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, Liu Jingui simply cut his hair and became a nun.

Later, Li Cunxuan's godbrother Li Siyuan seized the throne in the war, that is, the Later Tang Mingzong, when Li Siyuan, who became the emperor, learned that Liu Jingui, who was red-faced and troubled, was still alive, he was furious and immediately forced Liu Jingui to commit suicide.

Liu Jingui exhausted all his organs, denied his six relatives, and finally ended up with a three-foot white silk and his soul returning to the west, ending his disgraceful life.

Author: Wang Gongjian.

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