One

Li Yu is now creating history, and it will be recorded in history, think about how difficult it is to go all the way! He sat in the palace and drank wine happily, while watching the maids dance lightly, enjoying the dignity and power that an emperor should have. Drinking and drinking, he was a little confused, looking at the maids who were all young and beautiful, with excellent demeanor, especially the maid who led the dance, with a graceful figure and a face like a peach blossom, Li Yu couldn't help but be full of blood. He waved her hand and asked her, looked at her drunkenly, and asked:

"Who are you?"

"Avoid, slave bell time." The palace maid's voice was clear and comfortable to listen to. Li Yu stepped back from left and right, looked at Zhong Shishi drunkly, feeling that he was back to his youth, he dragged Zhong Shishi's face with his hand and asked:

"Do you want to serve me?" Zhong Shishi didn't answer, just nodded shyly, Li Yu suddenly felt bloodshot and hugged her onto the dragon bed. Zhong Shishi was really lucky, he was pregnant after a pamper, and he gave birth to a son to Li Yu the next year, named Li Jingyi, Zhong Shishi's mother was named Mrs.

Two

After Li Yu became emperor, he did not use military force and continue to expand his territory, but adopted a policy of recuperation and goodwill with his neighbors. Because Li Yu was born poor, he knows too well the difficulties of the people, if the war continues, even if the world is unified one day, it is the people who suffer after all. Although Song Qiqiu once told Li Yu not to be a farmer, but to continue to expand the territory and achieve hegemony, Li Yu only wanted to keep the old land of Wu, and had no ambition and plan to run the world. Li Yu believes that if he has governed his existing places well, the people will live and work in peace and contentment, and live happily, which is of more practical significance than simply pursuing hegemony.

Li Yu practiced benevolent government internally, eliminated torture, lenient the law, encouraged agriculture, worked hard to restore social production, vigorously promoted the style of learning, opened schools, respected scholars, and set off a new trend of reading in the land of China that had not been seen for a long time. Not only that, Li Yu himself is also diligent and thrifty, dressed plainly, and used ordinary iron basins for washing, unlike other emperors who used gold basins. The palace decoration is also very ordinary, the palace maids are dressed simply and plainly, and the number of palace maids is also cut to enough, never extravagant. In terms of foreign policy, Li Yu adopted the strategy of truce and good-neighborliness, and he sent envoys to Nanyue, Southern Han, Fujian, and Later Jin to express his desire for peaceful coexistence, thus laying a stable environment for the development of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the future.

Three

In the governance of the country, Li Yu adopted the advice given to Chang Mengxi in the matter, revised the law, improved the strategy of employing people, and restored the old classics to show the people. Li Yu started from the grassroots, likes to tell the truth and do practical things, and does not like to be able to speak well. Chang Mengxi told Li Yu that Feng Yansi was a villain with bad conduct and could not be by the prince's side for a long time, Li Yu accepted his suggestion and never reused him, so that he could be a villain who was a good minister and a villain.

Although Feng Yansi is a talented person, especially in terms of lyrics, he has a great influence on later generations, such as Liu Yong and Yan Shu in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, all of whom were influenced by his style of words, but this person likes to show off his literary talents and flattery. Once he wrote a document and felt very satisfied, so he deliberately showed it to his secretary Lang Han Xizai, who was highly talented and erudite, and fine at music and rhythm, good at calligraphy and painting, and quite famous. After Han Xizai took the paperwork, he plugged his nostrils with paper, and Feng Yansi asked puzzledly, "Why are you doing this?" Han Xizai said: "The rhetoric is a little stinky, I'm afraid of fainting if I don't plug my nose." Feng Yansi was embarrassed and walked away. Another time, Feng Yansi deliberately ridiculed Sun Ji, a scholar from Hanlin, "What skills do you have to be a Chinese scholar?" Sun Ji couldn't get used to his conduct, and said in an atmosphere: "I'm just a Shandong scholar, with gorgeous rhetoric, I can't compare to you in ten lifetimes, drink and sing, I can't compare to you in a hundred lifetimes, and I can't compare to you in a sycophant, insidious and cunning life." But Your Majesty asked you to be an official in the main hall, so that you respected the way and obeyed the rules, not to let you be a dog or a horse. I don't have any special skills, but yours are enough to destroy the country! Feng Yansi was speechless by Sun Ji. It wasn't until Li Jing became the emperor that Feng Yansi was reused, and it later proved that Feng Yansi was indeed a person who brought disaster to the country.

Four

In the fourth year of Yuansheng (940 AD), the Later Jin general Jin Anzhou Jiedu made Li Jinquan rebel and sent a letter to Li Yu to return to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Jinquan is a good fighter, but this person has a huge problem - greed for money. In his early years, he was a slave of Li Siyuan of the Later Tang Dynasty, brave and good at riding and shooting, often following Li Siyuan to fight, and being a festival envoy, because of greed, which led to the resentment of the people and was deposed. After Shi Jingjiao established the Later Jin Dynasty, Li Jinquan surrendered to him, and because he helped Shi Jingjiao to quell the rebellion, he became a festival envoy. But this person's greed for money is still not the best disease, and he is mediocre in government, basically doesn't care about things, and his affairs are managed by a subordinate named Ming Hanrong, which leads to unrest and resentment among the people over time, and finally Shi Jingjiao has to send someone to replace him. But Ming Hanrong didn't want Li Jinquan to be replaced, otherwise he would lose the power in his hands, so he secretly poisoned the people sent by Shi Jingjiao. Li Jinquan was confused and took on the responsibility of killing an official, and Ming Hanrong scared him with the emperor's words that he wanted to punish him at every turn, so Li Jinquan rebelled.

After receiving Li Jinquan's letter, Li Yu hesitated because the DPRK and China were divided into two factions. Zhou Zong opposed the surrender of Li Jinquan, and Zhou Zong said:

"Your Majesty, this person is greedy for money and cruel, and he has no integrity, and he has changed hands several times, how can such a repeated person serve His Majesty wholeheartedly?" However, the crown prince Li Jing supported the surrender of Li Jinquan, Li Jing said:

"Li Jinquan has gone through two dynasties, has been on the battlefield for a long time, is brave and good at fighting, and is familiar with the military affairs of the north, if there is such a general for me to guard the frontier for the Tang Dynasty to prevent provocations from the north, wouldn't it be a good thing. As for his greed for money, how many people dare to say that they are not greedy for money? Li Yu felt that both sides had a point, but in the end he agreed to surrender Li Jinquan, because Li Jing was the prince after all, and he had to give the prince confidence in governing the country and improve his prestige.

So Li Yu sent the general Li Chengyu to lead his troops into Anzhou to meet Li Jinquan's southward retreat, just happened to meet the Later Jin general Ma Quanjie's army to quell the rebellion, the two sides fought a big battle, the result was a big defeat, Tang general Li Chengyu was killed, hundreds of people were taken prisoner, Li Jinquan committed suicide in despair. In order to avoid the escalation of the conflict with Li Yu, Shi Jingjiao sent hundreds of surrendered troops back to the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Li Yu felt that these defeated troops had made him lose face, so he sent Shi Jingjiao back, and also wrote a letter to Shi Jingjiao to deal with it according to the law of the defeated army. Shi Jingjiao thought twice and decided to send these surrendered troops back, and Li Yu sent a large army to block them on the border between the two countries. Li Yu didn't want to have diplomatic friction with Shi Jingjiao because of a dead Later Jin rebel general, let alone make the people suffer because of a war over this matter, and in the end, both sides intended to calm down the contradictions and restore the original.

In the sixth year of Yuansheng (942 AD), a fire broke out in the palace of Wu Yueguo, and the palace, treasury, and weapons were all lost. Feng Yansi and others instigated the crown prince Li Jing and said: "The fire of Wu Yue Kingdom has caused huge losses and weakened national strength, if you send troops at this time, you will definitely be able to take its entire territory in one fell swoop, this is a golden opportunity!" Li Jing was young and vigorous, and he wanted to make meritorious service in the name of the prince, so he suggested that Li Yu send troops. Li Yu said: "The way to govern the country is to support the people, to make a truce with the army, and to promote the good and eliminate the bad. At the beginning of the founding of the country, I made peace with the Qian family, and the two sides made a truce and stopped fighting, and released each other's generals, so that the current friendship between the two countries was established. Now that the Qian family is in great trouble, if he takes advantage of the danger of others, he not only violates his promise, but also makes the people of the world laugh at him for having no credit, and backtracking, it will inevitably lead to the resumption of the war, and the people will be trapped in the water and fire, so I will not do it if I only care about the immediate interests. Li Yu not only denied sending troops to Wu Yue, but also specially sent envoys with a large amount of money to mourn, which deeply moved the Qian family and the people of Wu Yue, and further consolidated the peace and friendship between the two countries.

Under the enlightened governance of Li Yu, the Southern Tang Dynasty became the largest, most politically stable, and richest country among the ten southern states, laying a solid foundation for the prosperity of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Later, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was determined to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, because he took a fancy to its wealth and could provide him with a steady stream of financial support for unifying the world, but unfortunately Chai Rong's life was short.