Chapter 232: Meng Chang

Meng Chang is generally known as the queen master, because Meng Chang likes opera, some opera troupes will worship him as a guardian saint, calling him Meng Lang and Meng Langjun. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sending the son Zhang Xian is a god, which is a false name for Mrs. Hua Rui after entering the Song Dynasty, in order to commemorate Meng Chang. After the fall of Houshu, Mrs. Hua Rui and the people who missed Meng Chang were worshiped in the name of Erlang God and the Prince of Western Qin.

Meng Chang was originally a wise monarch who was young and old, but in the end, he became a depressed and sittingly monarch of the dead country. He couldn't write poems about Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but his comprehensive cultural quality was far above Li Yu, and he made great contributions to China's cultural cause.

In the fifth dynasty, Meng Zhixiang was the envoy of the Xichuan Festival, and after the death of Mingzong of the Tang Dynasty, Meng Zhixiang claimed the title of emperor and established Houshu. Meng Zhixiang died after only a few months as emperor, and his son Meng Chang ascended the throne as the queen.

Meng Chang's qualifications are condensed, young and old, bold and resolute. In Meng Zhixiang's later years, he was very generous to the old generals, and the ministers were overwhelmed and violent, harming the township. Meng Chang succeeded to the throne, and everyone bullied him for being young, did not take him seriously, and became even more arrogant and wanton, often taking away people's good land, destroying people's graves, and oppressing the good, without any scruples. Among them, Li Renhan and Zhang Ye had the worst reputation, Meng Chang was on the throne for a few months, and he sent people to arrest Li Renhan and behead him with lightning speed, and punished his family, which was very happy for a while.

Zhang Ye was Li Renhan's nephew, who was in charge of the Imperial Forest Army at that time, and Meng Chang was afraid of causing civil strife, so after killing Li Renhan, he not only did not touch him, but promoted him to prime minister, so as to paralyze him. Zhang Ye had the authority in his hands, and he didn't remember the experience of his uncle's killing, and he was even more reckless and willful, and even opened a prison in his own home, knocking out the bones and stripping the marrow, tyrannizing the local people, and causing public indignation. Seeing that the fire was almost the same, Meng Chang conspired with Kuang Sheng's commander An Siqian to kill this powerful minister who did not know the height of the sky and the height of the earth in one fell swoop.

Li Zhao, the general of the feudal town, came to the court, relied on the old and sold the old, and entered the court on crutches, saying that he was sick and could not bow down. Hearing that Li Renhan and others were killed, when he saw Meng Chang again, he threw away his crutches and knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe.

After packing up and sticking to a group of old ministers and old generals left by his father Meng Zhixiang, Meng Chang took charge of the government, selected newcomers to serve as officials at all levels, and followed Wu Zetian's example to set up a bronze court to encourage officials and people to secretly report to officials and recommend good talents. He promulgated the edict of persuading the peasants and mulberries, requiring the local assassins and county decrees to take the peasant and mulberry persuasion classes as the main government affairs, and dismissed the military generals from the posts of festival envoys and changed them to civil ministers, so as to improve the governance of local officials.

But Houshu is a small country in a corner after all, and Meng Chang's ambitions were quickly shattered by reality. After the Later Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Khitan, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of Liu Zhiyuan in the Later Han Dynasty, Meng Chang also wanted to take the opportunity to get involved in the Central Plains, but he was not human, and he returned defeated, and he could not succeed. During the reign of Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong, due to Meng Chang's inferior book, the Zhou army attacked Shu, and the Shu army was defeated, losing the four lands of Qin, Cheng, Jie, and Feng. In a hurry, Meng Chang was busy uniting with the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty and other small surrounding countries to fight against the Zhou Dynasty.

In the later period of Meng Chang's reign, coinciding with the alternation of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, and the Later Zhou Dynasty, each family competed in the Central Plains, and had no time to take care of Sichuan and Shu.

Wang Zhaoyuan, the son of a gentleman, is good at talking big and being good at greeting, Meng Chang likes him very much, and reuses him, and all government affairs are handled by Wang Zhaoyuan. He sang and danced heartily, entertained day and night, he went to play ball, forcibly took the people's fields, as a horse racecourse, and ordered the palace maid to wear colorful brocade clothes, shuttling back and forth in the racecourse, like a butterfly flying.

Meng Chang suspected that the harem concubines did not have stunning beauties, so he recruited Shu beauties to fill the harem. There is a woman surnamed Fei in Qingcheng, who was born with a graceful demeanor, and is good at chanting and fine music. The latter lord was elected to the palace and was very favored, because the concubine of the former Shu King Jian, Xiao Xu, was called Mrs. Hua Rui, so she attacked her name and named Fei Shi as Mrs. Hua Rui.

Every time Mrs. Hua Rui feasts, the red teeth are tapped, the sandalwood board is tapped, and the aftermath is lingering, and it surrounds the beam for three days. She is also very good at cooking, with the white sheep's head washed, boiled with red yeast rice, tightly rolled up, the stone is suppressed, pickled with wine, so that the wine tastes into the bones, and then cut as paper-thin, the taste is endless, known as the scarlet sheep's head, also known as the wine bone lees.

Slice the potato medicine again, mix the lotus powder well, add the five flavors to reconcile to advance, the fragrance is fragrant, the taste is crisp and crispy, and white as silver, look at it like the moon, the palace calls it a plate of the month. There are countless other dishes specially prepared, and the queen lord ordered the imperial food department to publish a food list, up to 100 volumes, and every time the imperial banquet is worth it, it is repeated, and there is no repeat of the taste every day, so that Meng Chang's love for Mrs. Hua Rui is better than one day.

"If you want to control a man's heart, you must first control a man's stomach. This sentence may have been the first to be uttered by Madame Blossom.

Mrs. Hua Rui loved peony flowers and red gardenias, so the queen opened up Xuanhua Garden, spared no money, collected peony flower seeds everywhere, and planted them in the inner palace flower garden. The queen lord and Mrs. Hua Rui, chanting poems under the flowers day and night, drinking and playing the piano. He also ordered the streets of the capital to be planted with hibiscus, and the hibiscus bloomed in autumn, and the hibiscus was in full bloom in autumn, and the city was forty miles away, stacking the brocade and piling up the glow, and at a glance, it was like a red cloud. The women of Allure City all came to play, jewels, Qiluo into a formation, Xiao and drum painting boats, and marched in teams.

The queen is most afraid of heat, every time he encounters hot weather, he gasps, and even at night it is difficult to sleep, so he builds a crystal palace on the Maha Pond as a place to escape the heat. Another nine-curved dragon pond was chiseled, which was graceful and twisting, several miles long, and led into the Maha Pond. The most wonderful thing is that there are four water spraying machines installed in the pool, and the mechanism is opened, and the water of the pool on all sides is sprayed into the air together, up to several zhang, gathered at the top of the temple, and then poured down from all sides and returned to the pool. Meng Chang took Mrs. Hua Rui, together with the palace family, and moved into the Crystal Palace to escape the heat of the summer.

"Ice muscles and jade bones, since cool and sweatless, the water hall wind is full of dark fragrance. The embroidered curtain is opened, a little bright moon peeps at people, people are not sleeping, and the pillow hairpin is chaotic. Get up and carry your hands, the courtyard is silent, and you see the sparse stars crossing the river from time to time. How is the night? The night has been three watches, the golden wave is light, and the jade rope is turning low. But when the west wind comes, I am only afraid that the passing years will be secretly changed. ”

Mrs. Hua Rui is cold and does not sweat in summer, and has become a small Xiaoice box for the human body, which man does not want to hug such a beauty?

Meng Chang and Li Yu really have too many similarities, they are both kings of the dead country, but they are not stupid, let alone a little cruel, and they are both cultural celebrities, but Meng Chang is more comprehensive, but there are not too many influential personal works handed down, while Li Yu's poems of the dead country are very touching.

This is related to the fact that Meng Chang was poisoned soon after arriving in Kaifeng, and history did not give him time to compose poems about the death of the country, while Li Yu lived in Kaifeng for several years and had plenty of time to create.

Chai Rong's next big goal is the Southern Tang Dynasty, Chai Rong spent nearly three years, three royal expeditions, and finally made the Southern Tang Dynasty Li Jing a vassal and collected all the land north of the Yangtze River.

Speaking of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was the great poet Li Jing who was in power at that time, and when they saw the name Li Jing, everyone must have laughed, and they must have known that this writer couldn't beat Chai Rong.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Xingmi, the assassin of Luzhou, occupied the Jianghuai area centered on Yangzhou and established the state of Wu. After the death of Yang Xingmi, the power fell into the hands of the general Xu Wen, after the death of Xu Wen, his adopted son Xu Zhihe was in charge of national affairs, he abolished Yang Pu, the last emperor of Wu State, proclaimed himself emperor, and established the Southern Tang Dynasty. He said that he was a descendant of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, changed his name to Li Sheng, and Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was his son.

Southern Tang Dynasty Yuanzong Li Jing, the word Boyu, formerly known as Xu Jingtong, changed his name to Li Jing after the establishment of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and was the eldest son of Li Yu. He was the second emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, so he was also known as the Middle Lord.

After Li Jing ascended the throne, he changed the conservative policy of his father Li Yu and began to use troops on a large scale to eliminate Ma Chu and Min States, which were all in civil strife due to the struggle for the throne of the heir. However, Li Jing was extravagant, and often drank and wrote poems with his favorite ministers Han Xizai and Feng Yansi, so the words suitable for singing and dancing pavilions got the opportunity to develop in the Southern Tang Dynasty. His words, sincere feelings, fresh style, and unpolished language have had a certain impact on the Southern Tang Dynasty poetry, but this has led to political corruption, and the people are not living well, and there are many complaints.

Later Zhou sent troops to invade the Southern Tang Dynasty, occupied a large area of land in the southern and northern parts of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and drove straight into the Yangtze River area, Li Jing had no choice but to call Chai Rong a vassal, remove the emperor name, and proclaim himself the lord of the Tang Dynasty, using the name of the Later Zhou Dynasty. His words are very famous, and his calligraphy is also very good, among which his small building blows through the jade sheng cold is a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages.

The incense disappears the green leaves, and the west wind worries about the green waves. is also haggard with Shaoguang, unbearable. The drizzle dreams back to the chicken, and the small building blows through the Yusheng cold. How many teardrops infinitely hate, leaning on the railing. The jade hook on the hand-rolled pearl is locked according to the previous spring. Who is the master of the flowers falling in the wind? The blue bird does not pass on the message outside the clouds, and the lilacs are empty and sad in the rain. Looking back at the green waves, the sky flows.

A new song and a glass of wine, last year's weather was old, and when did the sun set. Helplessly, the flowers fell, the familiar swallow returned, and the small garden incense path wandered alone. The wind pressure is light and the clouds are flying, the swallows in the Zhaqing Pond Pavilion are fighting for mud, and Shen Lang is sick and unclothed. The sand has not heard the letter of the wild goose, and there are partridge hooves between the bamboos, which can only be known by the falling flowers.