Zhu Wen, the founding emperor of the Later Liang Dynasty, was known as the Emperor of Beasts because of his indiscriminate killing of innocents and indulgence in immorality
Zhu Wen, the founding emperor of the late Liang Dynasty, was a man of the year in the last years of the Tang Dynasty. He participated in the Huangchao Rebellion in his early years, and later rebelled to the Tang Dynasty, and as his power grew, he killed Li Tang's clan and ministers, and finally usurped the throne as emperor. Even if it is just this, Zhu Wen can be regarded as a generation of heroes, but his moral integrity and personal conduct are extremely serious, not only wantonly killing innocents, fornicating excessively, but even the minister's wife and daughter-in-law are not spared, so Zhu Wen was crowned'Monster Emperor'。
He took part in the rebellion, but betrayed his former masters and ruled his army with strict laws.
Zhu Wen was born during the reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and his family was well-known in the local area. However, the early death of his father led to the fall of the family, and his mother Wang was forced to pull the Zhu Wen siblings **. During the reign of Tang Xianzong, Shandong salt merchant Huangchao rebelled, and the rebel army developed rapidly, and the world was shaken. Zhu Wen had long been dissatisfied with his current life, and after meeting his other younger brother Zhu Cun, both of them defected to the rebel army.
After participating in the uprising, Zhu Wen and his troops fought in various places. His elder brother died in the Battle of Lingnan, but Zhu Wen fought bravely and skillfully in the battle, and made many achievements. He was also good at planning and thinking, and was promoted to lieutenant and marquis. In the second year of Zhonghe (882), Huang Chao appointed Zhu Wen as the defense envoy of Tongzhou, but he hoped that Huang Chao would personally capture Tongzhou. In the second year of Zhonghe (882), Huang Chao appointed Zhu Wen as the defense envoy of Tongzhou, but hoped that Huang Chao would personally capture Tongzhou. Although Huang Chao conquered Tongzhou, he was attacked by Wang Chongrong, the envoy of the Hezhong Jiedu, and other clans.
After Wang Chongrong defeated Zhu Wen, he wrote to Huang Chao ten times to ask for support, but Huang Chao's left army made Meng Kai report them one by one. At that time, Zhu Wen also heard that the Huang Chaojun was in a difficult situation, and most of the generals were disheartened. Zhu Wen concluded that the uprising would fail, so under the persuasion of his friends Hu Zhen and Xie Hao, he killed Yan Shu, the supreme commander of the rebel army, and returned to the Tang Dynasty in September of that year.
Zhu Wen was also very famous in the Tang Dynasty, because the Tang army was repeatedly defeated, so Tang Xianzong was very happy to hand over Zhu Wen, and immediately ordered General Zuo Jingwuwei to give him the deputy river camp"Zhu Quanzhong"For the sake of solicitation.
After the handover of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Wen defeated the old lord Huang Chao for his own future, Huang Chao was ruthless, and his official position was promoted several levels, and in the second year, the Bianzhou Assassin History, Xuanwu Army Festival made Huang Chao on trial, Zhu Wen strategized for promotion, Huang Chao was repeatedly defeated, and finally died in the fourth year of Zhongmu (884), Tang Xizong led Zhu Wen to inspect Sikong Fuxue, and Pingzhang issued the same column, and was named Pei County Marquis. Later, due to the repeated defeats of Qin Zongquan, he was promoted to the Taibao school inspection, and then promoted to the government school inspection, and was renamed the king of Wuxing County.
At that time, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, Zhu Wen formulated extremely strict military laws and implemented them"Slash", when a general officer or lieutenant is killed in battle, all the soldiers under his command are beheaded. So, Zhu Wen ordered the soldiers to tattoo words on their faces to catch the deserters. This ensured the combat effectiveness of Zhu Wen's army, but at the same time made many soldiers die in vain.
Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty and killed the Li Tang clan and ministers.
During the Huangchao Rebellion and the pacification of Qin Zongquan, Zhu Wen also began to expand his power in this area, until the rebellion was basically quelled, and Zhu Wen became a force to be reckoned with in the Central Plains.
In the third year of Tianfu (903), Li Maozhen was forced to negotiate peace with Zhu Wen and handed over Tang Zhaozong to Zhu Wen. Tang Zhaozong knew that he could not escape the fate of the puppet, so he had to say to Zhu Wen:"You restored the temples, the land, and the food, and reinvigorated me and my relatives. From then on, he obeyed Zhu Wenyan. Soon, Zhu Wen killed more than 700 eunuchs, including the 5th Kefan, and the eunuch power was dealt a great blow. Zhu Wen was appointed as Tai Lieutenant, Zhongshu Ling, Xuanwu Shangshu Ling, and Generalissimo. He was named King of Liang and began to take charge of the government.
Later, Zhu Wen was worried about the opposition of the ministers and wanted to move Tang Zhaozong back to Luoyang so that it would be easier to control the emperor, so he ordered his adopted son Zhu Youliang to kill the prime minister Cui Yin, Jingzhao Yin Zheng Yuangu and others, causing Tang Zhaozong and the people of Chang'an to move to Luoyang, and destroyed the palaces and houses of Chang'an.
After arriving in Luoyang, the people around Tang Zhaozong were all sent away by Zhu Wen, and there were only more than 200 people left, accompanied by Xiaohuangmen and the boy in the inner garden, Zhu Wen was very worried about these people, so he directly ordered to kill the whole cave drunk.
Hedong Li Keyong, Fengxiang Li Maozhen, Xichuan Wang Jian, and Xiangyang Zhao Kuangning saw that Zhu Wen's threat was getting bigger and bigger, so they formed an alliance and joined forces to defeat Zhu Wen.
The next year, Zhu Wen killed the remaining nine sons of Tang Zhaozong, and persuaded Li Zhen, who had a ghost in his heart, to kill more than 30 people, including Pei Shu, the head of the ministers, in Baima Taozhou, and threw all the corpses into the Yellow River.
Now, no one can stop Zhu Wen from usurping the throne and becoming emperor. In April of the fourth year of Tianyou (907), Zhu Wen accepted the abdication of Tang Aizong, became emperor, changed the year name to Emperor Zhu, and gave the name Daoliang of Kaiping Mansion. Tang Gaozong Li Zhi was deposed as the king of Jiyin, moved to Jiyin, Caozhou, and was imprisoned and killed in February of the following year.
Big**: Brutal, cruel, and random killers.
In addition to the above two points, Zhu Wen also has very obvious character flaws, first of all, he wantonly kills innocents, there are very few murderers in history, but it is very rare to kill innocents like Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen's life, whether it is an enemy or a subordinate, killing people is completely arbitrary, and it is difficult for him to avoid the fate of being killed.
1. Kill prisoners of war. The killing of prisoners of war is not uncommon in history, but the reason why Zhu Wen killed prisoners of war is quite unusual. In November of the second year of Ganning (895), Zhu Wen defeated Zhu Xuan's detachment on Zhuwu South Road, killing nearly 10,000 enemies and capturing more than 3,000 people. In the evening, he was cleaning the battlefield when suddenly the wind howled and the dust was flying. Seeing this, Zhu Wen said"That's because not enough people were killed"("History of the Five Dynasties - The Biography of Zhu Wen"), so he ordered all the captives to be killed.
2. In May of the third year of Tianfu (903), Zhu Youning attacked Bochang County, Qingzhou, but did not attack for more than a month, Zhu Wen was furious and sent Liu Han to supervise the battle. After the city was broken, the corpses of the ** people were poured into the Qingjiang River.
3. Killing the champion once, Zhu Wen took the staff and tourists to sit under a big willow tree to rest, and Zhu Wen said to himself"The tree was supposed to be made from the belly of a car. "The staff and tourists talked about it, only to hear Zhu Wen say angrily"Smart people like to talk and play with others, but you all do! The belly of the car should be made of elm, not willow! "So, he ordered all those who spoke to be severely injured.
Greedy: Minister's wife, and openly having sex with the minister's daughter-in-law.
During the Huangchao period, Zhu Wen served as the assassin of Tongzhou and married Zhang, a wealthy daughter of Da Xian Mountain; The Zhang family is virtuous and kind, not only in charge of internal affairs, but also familiar with foreign wars, and Zhu Wen respects her. However, after Zhang's death in the first year of Tianyou (904), Zhu Wen began to be lustful.
In the second year of Ganhua (912), Zhu Wen was defeated and fell ill on the road. After returning to Luoyang, he took advantage of the summer vacation to hide in the house of the minister Zhang Quanyi, and raped Zhang Quanyi's wife and daughter after only a few days. This behavior of Zhu Wen annoyed Zhang Quanyi's son, and he wanted to kill Zhu Wen, but Zhang Quanyi had a hard time convincing him to stop this behavior.
Since Zhu Wen's sons always did not go on expeditions, Zhu Wen often called his daughters-in-law to the palace and took pity on them. His sons not only did not object to this ** relationship, but used their wives to please their father and win Zhu Wen's favor, so as to compete for the crown prince.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Wen was finally killed by his own **. At that time, because Zhu Youwen's adoptive wife Wang was beautiful and sympathetic to Zhu Wen, she wanted to canonize Zhu Youwen as the crown prince.
If Zhu Wen is not only a traitor who defects to the enemy and usurps power, but also is regarded as a generation of heroes, at best, he can only be regarded as a violation of morality, then he even has corrupted his personal morality, wantonly killed innocents, and was extravagant, how can we not say that he is one"Monster Emperor"This?