Anhui is the royal hometown in ancient times, and four founding emperors have emerged. Zhu Yuanzhang, the premier Ming Taizu, a native of Fengyang, Anhui Province, led the Ming Dynasty to prosperity with his bravery and wisdom; Cao Cao, the founder of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, a native of Bozhou, known as Emperor Wu of Wei, his life was full of legend and heroism; Yang Xingmi, the lord of Wu in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, although his fame is relatively small, his outstanding talent and leadership are admired; Finally, Zhu Wen, the Later Liang Emperor of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, was a native of Dangshan, Anhui Province, and his bravery and resourcefulness made Later Liang an important force at that time.
The portrait of Zhu Wen is now in Anhui, and few people in the village surnamed Zhu recognize their ancestors. The Zhu family in Hunan returned in vain to find their roots, and the villagers were not proud of Zhu Wen. In history, Zhu Wen is notorious and is the villain of "obscene abuse and no one cares".
He was fond of women, ** to his daughter-in-law, and finally died. Zhu Wen also loved to kill like a child's play, and mistakenly told Liu Mu that it could be used as a car hub, so he put to death those who echoed it.
He stipulated that the fallen officers and soldiers should be beheaded, and the soldiers could only die for him. Zhu Wen once took 3,000 prisoners, and when a strong wind blew, he ordered them all to be killed.
Despite Zhu Wen's crazy behavior, he is a *** careerist and cannot be taken lightly.
Five dynasties and ten kingdoms, surrounded by troubled times. Zhu Wen reigned and wanted to become the master. Destroy Tang Jianliang and seek treatment wholeheartedly. Laws and decrees were deleted and new laws were promulgated in order to unify the world. The laws formulated by it have many merits, such as strengthening the power of prefectures and counties, suppressing the power of feudal towns, and laying the foundation for the centralization of power in the Song Dynasty.
Zhu Wen is meticulous and meticulous, and the history books say that he "strictly examines the usage, and there is no fake". But under its laws, it is inevitable that some people will be punished for trivial matters, such as Kou Yanqing, who was warned by Zhu Wen not to commit it again because he pushed down the old man.
Under the governance of Zhu Wen, although there were floods, there were still ** people in Henan, such as Zhang Quanyi and Cheng Wei, who were diligent and loved the people, resumed production, and allowed the people to breathe in the troubled times. Therefore, although Zhu Wen is in troubled times, he does have the ability to rule the world.
Zhu Wen: From Rebel to Imperial Suppressor Zhu Wen was a shrewd and capable leader, but he did not have a good reputation. Not only because of his fornication and cruelty, but also because he was accused of being a capricious and usurper.
Especially after the Song Dynasty, people condemned those who did not have good morals, and Zhu Wen happened to be criticized for his status as a rebel and thief in the feudal dynasty.
Zhu Wen's early life can be traced back to his father, Zhu Cheng, a rural teacher who taught the Five Classics as a profession and died at an early age. Zhu Wen lived with his mother, Wang, and worked in Liu Chong's house, but was often scolded by Liu Chong for his troublemaking behavior.
However, Liu Chong's mother admired Zhu Wen and protected him from punishment. This experience gave Zhu Wen the opportunity to make a name for himself in troubled times. Zhu Wen emerged in the turbulent times of the late Tang Dynasty, when low-level figures such as warriors, robbers, peddlers, and pawns rose one after another, following the trend to harvest the wool of the Tang Empire.
This statement is: "The Son of Heaven would rather have a kind? The strong and the strong are for it! "During the famine in Kwantung, Zhu Wen joined the Huangchao Rebel Army, attacked Guanzhong with the army, and became the defense envoy of the Great Qi regime built by Huangchao from a nobody, and realized the counterattack of the little people at the bottom.
In the confrontation between the Huangchao Rebel Army and the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Wen, as an important general of the Great Qi Army, did something that lacked morality. He asked for help from Huang Chao in Chang'an, but he couldn't, thinking that he had suffered from PUA in the workplace, so he simply resigned, and led his troops to rebel against Tang when the two armies were stalemate.
Tang Xizong, who fled to Chengdu, was overjoyed when he learned of this and shouted: "It's a gift from heaven!" He worshiped Zhu Wen as the envoy of the Xuanwu Army, gave him the three states of Bian, Song and Bo, and gave him a new name - "Zhu Quanzhong", which is quite ironic.
Zhu Wen's revolutionary stance was not firm, but from then on he became a general of the Tang Dynasty to exterminate the rebel army, and led the Shatuo army of Hedong Jiedu envoy Li Keyong and others to jointly pursue his former peasant army comrades, forcing Huang Chao to be defeated and killed in the Wolf and Tiger Valley of Mount Tai.
It was during this period that Zhu Wen and Li Keyong became rivals for the rest of their lives. During Zhu Wen's life, he was a highly controversial figure. He was once a member of the rebel army and later became a repressor of the Tang Dynasty.
His life is full of drama and twists that reflect his unique personality and life experiences.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, in the map of the Liang and Jin dynasties, we can see the traces of Zhu Wen and his virtuous helper Zhang. Zhu Wen fell in love with Zhang when he was young and regarded her as the goddess of his dreams.
Zhang was once a refugee after the Huangchao Uprising, but was rescued by Zhu Wen's subordinates and married as his wife. Zhang's feminine demeanor restrained Zhu Wen's ferocious character, which had an important influence on Zhu Wen's military decision-making.
Once, Zhu Wen's son Zhu Youyu was blamed by Zhu Wen for not taking advantage of the victory to pursue, and the Zhang family secretly took Zhu Youyu back and pleaded with Zhu Wen, and finally Zhu Wen pardoned Zhu Youyu.
However, Zhang died three years before Zhu Wen became emperor, and some believe that this deprived Zhu Wen of the assistance of his virtuous wife, leading to his immorality in his later years.
He was in the land of four wars, and he was more cunning than Cao Cao; At the Hongmen banquet, he showed his inflated ambitions. Subsequently, he continued to deal with the surrounding feudal towns, developed the rear, and became more and more powerful.
After Tang Zhaozong Li Ye ascended the throne, he had become the strongest warlord in the Central Plains. At this time in the Tang Dynasty, eunuchs and courtiers were constantly fighting, and the eunuch Han Quanzhi invited Li Maozhen from the west to help Li Maozhen, and held the emperor hostage to Fengxiang.
Prime Minister Cui Yin brought Zhu Wen from the east, introduced Zhu Wen's army into Chang'an, praised his high achievements, and asked him to take the emperor back"Greet"The Holy Driver returned to the palace. However, after Zhu Wen's army entered the pass, it was in a stalemate with Li Maozhen's army for nine months, and Li Maozhen decided to let the emperor return to Beijing and killed Han Quanzhu and other eunuchs.
After welcoming Tang Zhaozong back to Beijing, Zhu Wen and Cui Yin jointly killed the eunuch forces, dismissed the left and right Shence army that had been in power to the government and the opposition, and killed more than 300 eunuchs in one day, leaving only 30 of the old, weak and young, who stayed in the palace and swept the floor.
The farce lasted for more than a month, and Chang'an, which had been tragically torn apart by years of war, was violently demolished and reduced to ruins. After Tang Zhaozong arrived in Luoyang, he was completely reduced to a puppet, like being in a cage, sullen all day long, and could only use alcohol to kill his sorrows.
Zhu Wen saw that the emperor was very unhappy and worried that he would run away one day. Zhu Wen's subordinates also saw the master's worries, and his adopted son, Zhu Yougong, and others planned an assassination operation after receiving tacit approval.
On the night of August 11, 904 AD, the frustrated Tang Zhaozong drank with his concubine as usual. Zhu Wen's subordinates led the army into the palace and asked sharply, "Where is the emperor?" ”
Zhaoyi Li Jianrong in the palace stopped in front of him and said, "Don't hurt the official family, kill us if you want!" "Of course, she is a weak woman, and she can't resist the sword of the monarch killer.
Tang Zhaozong was already a little drunk, and when he saw someone carrying weapons into the palace, he hurriedly got up and hid around the pillar in thin clothes. Li Jianrong used his slender body to protect the emperor, and was killed on the spot by the assassins.
The lonely Tang Zhaozong was soon caught up and died under the sword of the assassin. Zhu Yougong and others thought they had made a great achievement, but they didn't expect Zhu Wen to play a game of pretending to be loyal ministers.
Zhu Wen temporarily supported the young emperor Li Ji (Emperor Ai of the Tang Dynasty), and executed Zhu Yougong and others for the crime of Chengji. Cheng Ji was a figure in the Three Kingdoms, originally the crown prince of Cao Wei, who obeyed Sima's orders when Emperor Cao Chao rebelled against the powerful minister Sima Zhao and stabbed the emperor to death with Ge.
Later, Sima Zhao not only did not appreciate it, but also ordered Chengji to be executed in order to calm the anger of the public, exterminating his three clans. Zhu Yougong and others also put their lives on the line in order to clear the obstacles for their masters.
History is like a circle, what remains unchanged is that above the court, blood will always flow. Cui Yin, who led the wolf into the house, had already been killed, and the ministers who rebelled against Zhu Wen in the court were also killed by Zhu Wen soon after, and more than 30 courtiers were killed in the White Horse Post disaster alone.
Zhu Wen's adviser Li Zhen was an angry young man, and he hated these scholars who regarded themselves as clear streams, and he said to Zhu Wen: "This clear stream should be thrown into the Yellow River, and it will always be turbid." Zhu Wen smiled and followed Li Zhen's advice.
As a result, the bodies of the scholars were thrown into the Yellow River, and they were once the most powerful men in the empire, and in the end they could only be buried with the declining Tang Dynasty. In 907 AD, Zhu Wen had become the overlord with 72 prefectures and 21 towns, and no one in the court could stop him from usurping power.
Zhu Wen finally tore off the hypocritical cloak of "Zhu Quanzhong", completely ended the 289-year rule of the Tang Dynasty, and opened a new troubled era.
Zhu Wen was originally Liang Taizu, and in the last five years of his life, he lost his restraints and became even more crazy. Although he once wanted to be a good emperor and did a lot of practical things, his tyranny was equally outrageous.
During a northern tour, because several ministers were late, he killed the erudite Sun Qiu and other ministers. He not only played with his daughter-in-law, but also insulted the minister's wife and daughter.
Zhang Quanyi was an important follower of him, who made great contributions to the Later Liang's governance of Luoyang, and was very respectful to Zhu Wen, but one of his visits made Zhang Quanyi's wife and daughter humiliated.
Zhu Wen's adopted son Zhu Youwen became a contender for the imperial heir because of his beautiful wife Wang, and Zhu Wen's second son Zhu Youqi decided to strike first. One night in June of the second year of Qianhua (912), Zhu Youqi led 500 tooth soldiers to break into the palace, executed Zhu Youwen under false proclamation, and stretched out the butcher's knife to his father Zhu Wen.
Zhu Wen woke up from the bed, only to find that it was the second son who made trouble, and he said angrily: "I have long suspected you, but I hate that I didn't kill you." You kid is so rebellious, killing your father and usurping the throne, will God let you go? ”
Zhu Wen got up angrily, but he was no longer as brave as he used to be. Zhu Youqi's groom, Feng Tingge, swung his knife and slashed three times, but he first dodged it and slashed it on the pillar.
By the time of the fourth knife, Zhu Wen was exhausted, fell on the bed, and was stabbed by Feng Tingge. A generation of heroes was killed on the spot. Zhu Wen did not entrust Zhu Youwen with a heavy responsibility because of his greed for Wang's beauty, he was already dissatisfied with his biological sons Zhu Youqi and Zhu Youzhen.
Especially after Li Keyong's death, his son Li Cunqiao inherited his father's will and led the Jin army to defeat the Later Liang army many times, which made Zhu Wen very jealous. He vigorously promoted his adopted son Zhu Youwen, who had outstanding ability, and appointed him as the envoy of the Jianchang Palace.
After Zhu Youqi seized the throne, he was quickly pulled down by his younger brother Zhu Youzhen, but this civil strife dealt a heavy blow to the Later Liang regime. When the Later Liang was in decline, the Jin king Li Cunqiao rose strongly, and he destroyed the Later Liang soon after, establishing the Later Tang Dynasty.
As Zhu Wen expected, his sons were not Li Cunmiao's opponents at all, but in a sense, Li Cunmiao also became the second Zhu Wen after reaching the peak of his career.
Later Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunqiao was a famous general who was known as a hero when he was young, but after becoming emperor, he indulged in comfort and pleasure, reused servants and eunuchs, and finally died in mutiny, which is embarrassing.