Chapter 219: The Emperor
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Li Congke, the envoy of Fengxiang Festival and King Lu of the Later Tang Dynasty, launched a palace coup d'Γ©tat and became the late emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty. After Li Congke became emperor www.biquge.info he was afraid that Shi Jingjiao would usurp the throne from Hedong Jiedu, who supported his own army, so he recalled him to Luoyang, the capital of Beijing, and put him under house arrest. Li Congke also planted eyes and ears beside Shi Jingjiao, spying on his words and deeds, trying to seize his handle and put him to death.
Who are Li Congke's eyes and ears planted next to Shi Jingjiao? This person is Li Congke's sister and Shi Jingjiao's wife, Princess Wei Guo. How to make the pillow people and himself of one heart and one mind? Shi Jingjiao set up a plan.
One afternoon, a slender and good-looking young man came to Shifu to ask for an audience. The surname of the person who came was Lin Haoqing, and he was the son of Shi Jingjiao's old friend Lin Ruoxuan. When the princess of Wei saw that Lin Haoqing had the appearance of Pan An, she couldn't help but be impressed, and then talked to him, and appreciated his talent, and was very happy, and immediately made a decision to leave him in the mansion.
Since then, the princess of Wei has relaxed her monitoring of her husband, and talked with Lin Haoqing about poetry and essays every day, drinking and enjoying the scenery. Shi Jingjiao not only turned a blind eye to the sister-brother love that happened in front of him, but also cleverly provided convenience for them.
On this day, the moon is bright and the stars are scarce, the breeze is gentle, Shi Jingjiao set up a family banquet, and drank and enjoyed the flowers under the moon. He personally poured wine for Lin Haoqing and the princess of Wei, this special wine pot secretly set up a mechanism, Shi Jingjiao poured himself to drink ordinary wine, and the princess of Wei drank the wine mixed with the medicine, and the wine that Lin Haoqing drank not only contained the medicine, but also the poison Liuchen, and the person who mistakenly took this medicine would die of poison within six hours.
At that time, the medicine worked in the bodies of Princess Wei and Lin Haoqing, and Shi Jingjiao saw this and pretended to be drunk. Princess Wei and Lin Haoqing hurriedly helped him back to the bedroom, and then came to Lin Haoqing's bedroom hand in hand, untied their clothes, and enjoyed the joy of fish and water.
When the rooster announced, the princess of Wei woke up from her dream and wanted to go to Wushan with Lin Haoqing to have fun, but found that the lover in her arms was different, and hurriedly got up and took a closer look at the lamp, only to find that Lin Haoqing had died. She thought that Lin Haoqing was a merry ghost who died under the flowers due to extreme excitement, and said lamentingly: "Lin Lang, why are you so thin?"
People can't be resurrected after death, the princess of Wei dressed her lover and hurriedly reported to Shi Jingjiao, falsely claiming that Lin Haoqing suddenly fell ill due to drunkenness and died, and Shi Jingjiao buried Lin Haoqing.
Afterwards, Shi Jingjiao was as affectionate as ever for his wife, and his generosity deeply moved the princess of Wei, and she forgot her brother Li Congke's advice and began to love her husband wholeheartedly.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Shi Jingjiao has been driving in Luoyang for several months, and when Li Congke was listening to politics in the last dynasty, he saw that he was getting thinner and thinner, and he seemed to be suffering from a vicious disease, and his heart was happy. On this day, when Shi Jingjiao was out of the class in the upper court, his eyes suddenly turned black and he fell under the golden steps, and Li Congke hurriedly ordered the warriors in front of the palace to help him up.
Unexpectedly, Shi Jingjiao woke up and released several stinky farts one after another, and then pulled a pair of pants of, and the court was suddenly filled with filth. Li Congke saw that Shi Jingjiao was skinny and the deadline was approaching, so he couldn't help but feel compassion and ordered the warriors to carry him out of the palace.
After Shi Jingjiao was sent back to the mansion, he said to his wife weakly: "I can't share the emperor's worries because of my frailty and illness, and it seems that only in the next life can I be loyal to the emperor." Princess Wei was very moved and decided to send her husband back to Jinyang to recuperate.
The next day, the princess of Wei cried to her mother, the Empress Dowager Cao, and the Empress Dowager Qi came forward to mediate and persuade Li Congke to return to Jinyang with Keen Zhun Shi Jingjiao. The Queen Mother felt sorry for her daughter and went to Li Congke to plead, Li Congke said to the Queen Mother: "What the Queen Mother taught is that it is better to be respectful than to obey her fate." β
Li Congke thought to himself that instead of letting Shi Jingjiao die of illness in Luoyang, it was better to let him die in Jinyang, so as not to cause criticism from the government and the opposition. After Shi Jingjiao returned to Jinyang, he recuperated for more than a month, and became a powerful and powerful man, it turned out that he was scheming to escape from the tiger's den, and secretly took laxatives every day without telling his wife, so he had diarrhea all day long.
Shi Jingjiao, who was stationed in Jinyang, finally got into trouble with his brother-in-law, Emperor Li Congke, to the point of completely turning his face. Turning against the emperor means rebellion, and the consequences are of course very serious, his own brother, cousin, and two sons were killed in the capital Luoyang, and tens of thousands of conquest troops sent by the emperor are rushing to Jinyang from all directions.
With Shi Jingjiao's troops, it is impossible to confront the Later Tang army, and the situation looks very critical. But Shi Jingjiao didn't panic, he thought of a countermeasure in advance before tearing his face, and his plan was not just to resist the attack of the Later Tang, he wanted to destroy the Tang Dynasty and stand on his own, of course, not by his own strength, but by the help of the Khitan.
The plan was successfully realized, and the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang drove the expedition in person, not only relieved the siege of Taiyuan for Shi Jingjiao, but also helped him eliminate the Later Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop, establish the Later Jin Dynasty, and become the emperor himself. In return, the Later Jin Dynasty declared itself a vassal to the Khitan, and the two countries became a father and son state, performing the gift of father and son, and at the same time ceding the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan.
Shi Jingjiao thus became one of the most notorious figures in the entire history of China, and for thousands of years he was the best image spokesman for the emperor and traitor. In fact, objectively speaking, in the troubled times of the five dynasties, all arrogance has become commonplace, Shi Jingjiao, as a Shatuo person, served among the four emperors of the Later Tang Dynasty, there were two cases of brothers turning against each other and raising troops to seize the throne, so for him, the emperor's dream is unscrupulous to obtain, nothing unacceptable.
In fact, even in the era when the Central Plains Dynasty was as strong as the Han and Tang dynasties, there were also cases of foreign tribes claiming vassals, making peace or paying tribute. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was militarily unable to confront the Xiongnu, and since Gaozu Liu Bang relied on peace with the Xiongnu to avoid war, and the policy of peace and proximity went through the second emperor Wenjing, until Liu Che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, reigned for more than ten years before it was abolished.
Tang Gaozu Li Yuan and Tang Taizong Li Shimin also relied on being vassals to the Turks to create the imperial industry, and Tang Suzong in order to borrow troops from the Hui to recover Kyoto from the rebels of An Lushan, and signed a shameful treaty with the Hui Hui on the day of Kecheng, the land and the land were returned to the Tang Dynasty, and the golden silk women were all returned to the Hui.
The important reason why Shi Jingjiao left a stink for 10,000 years is that his Later Jin Empire was too short-lived to have no chance to cover up the stain, and his cession of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun had too great an impact on future generations, and it directly changed the fate of the Central Plains Dynasty for at least four hundred years after that, so it is naturally not easy to be forgotten by future generations.
The sixteen states of Yanyun include You, Ji, Ying, Zhuo, Mo, Tan, Shun, Xin, Fu, Confucian, Wu, Yun, Ying, Huan, Shuo, and Wei. The entire region is about 600 kilometers long from east to west and about 200 kilometers wide from north to south, with an area of 120,000 square kilometers, which is exactly equivalent to one North Korea.
The sixteen states of Yanyun from east to west include today's Tianjin, Beijing, northern Hebei, and northern Shanxi, which are basically distributed on the inner side of the Great Wall, and are the strategic support points behind the important military defense line of the Great Wall. Losing this mountainous area, the entire north of the Central Plains Dynasty lost a natural military barrier to block the Hu people's iron cavalry, and there was no natural danger to defend thousands of miles to the south, until the banks of the Yellow River were all flat rivers, and the Central Plains opened the door from then on.
In the following four hundred years, for every Central Plains dynasty, the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun has always been the most important dream. Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong led the powerful Later Zhou army to the north to attack the land of Yanyun, and in more than a month, he successively recovered the three prefectures of Ying, Mo, Yi and the three passes of Yijin, Waqiao and Sikou, a total of 17 counties, and achieved the greatest victory in the Central Plains against Liao in the five dynasties.
During the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, he set up an inner treasury, called the Pile Sealing Warehouse, whose function was to set aside a certain proportion of surplus from the annual financial revenue and store it. His idea was to ransom the sixteen states of Yanyun from the Khitan when the reserves were full of five million, and if the Khitan refused, he would use the money as war funds.
He once said: "I bought a Khitan head for twenty-four silks, and his elite soldiers were only 100,000, and as long as I spent two million silks, I could kill all the enemies." β
It's a pity that Song Taizu died suddenly when he was only fifty years old, and his grand plan could not be realized. Later, Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, carried the remnants of the Northern Han Dynasty to extinguish the Northern Han Dynasty, and the two northern expeditions to the Khitan ended in disastrous defeats, and the Song Empire's attempt to recover the Yanyun region by force also failed. From then on, the monarchs and soldiers of the Song Empire generally bred a kind of fear of Liao, and this psychological shadow lasted until the fall of the Great Song Dynasty.
After the northern regime obtained the land of Yanyun, on the one hand, it mastered the military convenience of the direct entry into the Central Plains, and on the other hand, because the agricultural economy of the Yanyun area and the nomadic economy of the northern country formed a benign complementarity, it also greatly promoted the social development of the entire northern country, and became a fierce rival of the Central Plains Dynasty.
It was not until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty that the sixteen states of Yanyun returned to the territory of the Central Plains, and Shi Jingjiao's infamy may never be taken off. If you restore some more history, you should also remember a person named Sang Weihan, who was a counselor under Shi Jingjiao, and it was he who put forward such a completely excessive proposal as ceding the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in order to please his master. In fact, at that time, if you want to achieve the goal of letting the Khitan send troops to help, as long as you send more money, it can also be achieved.
The Five Dynasties entered the Later Jin Dynasty, and the national strength was not as good as before, and they were often threatened by the Khitan. Wu in the Jianghuai region and the successor Southern Tang were powerful, and they adopted the strategy of uniting the northern Khitan state to restrain the Central Plains, and repeatedly conquest neighboring countries to increase their power, becoming a major threat to the Central Plains Dynasty.
As early as the rebellion of Qin Zongquan, Qin Zongquan's subordinate Bi Shiduo led the army to attack Yangzhou, and Yang Xingmi developed separatist forces in the process of resisting the enemy, and finally established the state of Wu. Yang Xingmi was named King of Wu by the imperial court, built the capital of Guangling, and called Jiangdu Mansion. During the period of his administration, he encouraged agriculture and stabilized the economy, which made the Jianghuai region gradually recover, and externally supported the Tang dynasty and was hostile to Zhu Quanzhong of the Xuanwu army.
After Yang Xingmi's death, his son Yang Wu succeeded to the throne, and the following year Jiangxi Zhong Chuan died, and the sons were in civil strife, Yang Wu took the opportunity to send Qin Pei to capture Jiangxi and unify Jianghuai. However, Yang Wu likes to have fun and is suspicious of heroes, so the ministers Zhang Hao and Xu Wen mutiny and kill Yang Wu. Xu Wen supported Yang Wu's younger brother Yang Long as the emperor, got rid of Zhang Hao, who wanted to establish himself as the emperor, and completely controlled the power of Wu.
After Xu Wen seized power, he repeatedly attacked Wu Yue Kingdom without success, and did not negotiate peace until the end of the Later Liang period. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the state of Wu did not recognize the orthodox status of the Later Liang, and still used the name of the Tianyou era of Emperor Ai of the Tang Dynasty, until the state of Wu changed to the Yuan, and officially severed relations with the Tang Dynasty. Internally, the old Yang clan was gradually cut off to stabilize its power, but the eldest son of the dictatorship, Xu Zhixun, was arrogant and unbridled, and once caused a mutiny because of bullying Yang Longyan, the king of Wu, and was finally killed by his subordinate Zhu Jin. Xu Wen's adopted son Xu Zhihe pacified the chaos, and Xu Zhihe Xu Wen was very filial, and finally became the successor of Xu Wen's regime.
Yang Long died depressed, and his son Yang Pu succeeded to the throne, that is, Emperor Wu Rui. Xu Wen died, posthumously crowned the king of Qi, and his adopted son Xu Zhihe succeeded to the throne and became the de facto ruler of Wu. Xu Zhi seized the throne of Emperor Wu Rui, Wu died, founded Qi, the capital was Jinling, called Jiangning Mansion, and the Tang Dynasty perished after the same year.
Two years later, Xu Zhihe claimed to be a descendant of the Tang Dynasty, changed his name to Li Yu, changed his country name to Tang, and was known as the Southern Tang Dynasty in history, and he was the ancestor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Yu adopted a policy of resting with the people and being friendly with neighboring countries, so that the national strength continued to grow. After Li Yu's death, his son Li Jing succeeded to the throne, that is, Yuanzong of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in the early days of Li Jing's reign, the Southern Tang Dynasty was still strong, and the foreign alliance and the Liao Dynasty suppressed the Later Zhou, and also adopted the method of opportunistic invasion of the surrounding countries, and successively eliminated the Fujian State and the Chu State.
The Southern Tang Dynasty used troops for many years to greatly consume the national strength, and most of the land was lost. Later Zhou took the opportunity to send troops to the south to conquer the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the Southern Tang Dynasty Yuanzong was defeated, ceded the fourteen states of Jiangbei to the Later Zhou, and removed his own imperial title, only called the lord of Jiangnan, and the vitality of the Southern Tang Dynasty was greatly damaged.
The more military-talented prince Li Hongji, who also died after poisoning his uncle Li Jingsui who intended to seize the throne, Yuanzong of the Southern Tang Dynasty had to change the sixth son Li Yu as the crown prince, but Li Yu's scholarly temperament was heavier. In order to avoid the joint invasion of Jinling by the Zhou army and the Wu Yue army, Yuanzong of the Southern Tang Dynasty moved the capital to Hongzhou, that is, Nanchang Mansion. After the death of Tang Yuanzong, Li Yu ascended the throne, that is, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and returned the capital to Jinling Mansion.