Emperor Youling
Introduction: In the late Tang Dynasty, when Tang Yizong was seriously ill, the eunuchs Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyu forged an edict to establish Li Yi, who was only 12 years old, as the crown prince in order to facilitate the control of the government.
Yizong died of illness, and Li Yi succeeded to the throne for Tang Xizong. After Emperor Xizong succeeded to the throne, he specialized in games, and the government affairs of the court were controlled by eunuchs.
At this time, land annexation was serious, more than half of the peasants in the country were exiled because they had no land, they were overburdened with taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the government was corrupt and unified...... The extravagance of the ruling class, coupled with frequent natural disasters, forced the common people to struggle on the death line, forcing the people to rise up one after another, leading to the Huangchao peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty.
Li Keyong was born in the Shatuo Department of the Western Turks, his surname is Zhu Xie, and he is the chief of Shatuo. His father, Zhu Xie Chixin, was given the surname Li by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty for his meritorious service in suppressing the Pang Xun mutiny, and was compiled into the clan genealogy.
Li Keyong led the Shatuo army south to suppress Huangchao, and made the greatest contribution in the Chang'an recovery battle, so he was appointed as the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu.
Li Keyong's son, Li Cunmiao, is good at riding and shooting, both civil and military. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, he fought with his father in all directions, and he was quite meritorious.
Li Keyong succeeded to the throne after his death, served as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and attacked the king of Jin. Brave and good at fighting, good at strategy, attacking Houliang in the south, Khitan in the north, Hebei in the east, and Hezhong in the west, making the Jin Kingdom stronger and stronger.
In 923, he was proclaimed emperor in Weizhou (now Handan, Hebei) and established the Later Tang Dynasty. During his reign, he destroyed Later Liang, annexed Qi State, and destroyed Former Shu.
In his life, he loved opera, because his beloved was assassinated, his temperament changed greatly, and he neglected the government in the later period, connived at the queen's interference in politics, reused servants and eunuchs, and was suspicious of killing heroes, so that the feudal town was resentful and the soldiers were separated, and he was in the change of Xingjiaomen.
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