Although it is said that it is not poisonous and not a husband, Zhu Wenzhi will not repay his kindness, or even revenge, which is really despised by future generations. In 884, the Huangchao army entered the Zhuwen jurisdiction on its way eastward. In May, the Chao army had captured Weishi County, which was less than 50 kilometers away from Bianzhou, and the cavalry vanguard had also arrived at Fantai on the southeastern outskirts of Bianzhou. Zhu Wen saw that the attack was hopeless, so he asked Li Keyong, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, for help. Li Keyong had a Shatuo regiment in his hand, which was known as the Raven Army because of its black clothes, and it was a quite capable force at that time.

After receiving the letter asking for help, Li Ke didn't say a word, and immediately set off from Xuzhou with the Shatuo Corps. From Xuzhou to Bianzhou, more than 100 kilometers, Li Ke used a fast horse to arrive, and defeated the Chao army. Zhu Wen was saved because of this, so he set up a banquet for the labor army in the place of Shangyuanyi. At the banquet, just because of "restraint and drunkenness", Zhu Wen "ordered the armor to besiege and attack it".

Chinese pay attention to the grace of dripping water, let alone the grace of saving lives. Even if Li Ke said a few drunken words after drinking, he would not be ready to kill someone. Li Keyong, who rushed to save people, would never have thought that he would still be fighting the battlefield during the day, but at night he would be killed by the person he saved. But fortunately, the sky has eyes, Zhu Wen used fire to attack, and it happened to be raining heavily, so Li Keyong was able to "escape from the wall", but it is a pity that all hundreds of soldiers died in vain.

After Huang Chao's death, the remnants of the Qin Zongquan continued to wreak havoc in Caizhou. The Caizhou Corps was known as the Mule Corps, and it was also a relatively capable unit at that time. It is said that this regiment never brought grain and grass in battle, and plundered all the military needs on the spot, and brought salt and dead corpses with the army, and cut meat and cooked meat when there was nothing to eat. Bianzhou and Caizhou are adjacent to each other, and they can't hide and hide, such Caizhou soldiers can't beat and beat, and Zhu Wen only has the root of hatred.

In 887, Zhu Wen could no longer stand the attack of Qin Zongquan, and united with the two brothers Zhu Xuan of Yunzhou and Zhu Jin of Yanzhou, with the help of his 30,000 elite soldiers, and finally defeated the main force of Caizhou together. After solving Qin Zongquan's heart disease, Zhu Wen immediately aimed at the territory of the Zhu brothers. So, Zhu Wen sent many people to the Zhu brothers to rebel first, and then invaded the territory of the Zhu brothers in the name of chasing traitors. Later, Zhu Xuan died in battle, Zhu Jin was defeated, and Zhu Wen took the opportunity to occupy the wife of Zhu Jin, the brother of the worshipper. It's just that Xue Juzheng's "History of the Old Five Dynasties" recorded this history as the Zhu brothers envied Zhu Wen's troops for being able to fight, so they "hung gold silk to lure them" on the border, and "the words were not inferior", and Zhu Wen had no choice but to "invade Cao and Pu to punish his traitor". Fortunately, Ouyang Xiu used the pen of the Spring and Autumn Period to change it to "(Wen) falsely accused him of luring the dead to the east, but sent troops to attack it", and returned to its original with a "false" word.

With the expansion of territory and the increase in strength, Zhu Wen accelerated the process of usurping the Tang Dynasty. In 904, Zhu Wen placed Tang Zhaozong under house arrest under the pretext of welcoming the emperor to the new palace in Luoyang. Tang Zhaozong issued an urgent edict to the world for self-protection, and Zhu Wen immediately ordered his adopted son Zhu Yougong and his subordinate general Shu Cong to kill Tang Zhaozong. According to Zhu Wen's instructions, Zhu and the two broke into the forbidden palace at night and killed the emperor. Zhu Wen's trick succeeded, but in order to block the mouths of the people of the world, he used "not his own will" as an excuse to ask the new little emperor Tang Aizong to demote Zhu and the two to death. Zhu Yougong scolded before he died: "Sell me to slander the world!" ”

In 906, Zhu Wen was already anxious to ascend the throne and change the Yuan, so he instructed the prime minister Liu Can, the privy envoy Jiang Xuanhui and others to urge the little emperor to hurry up and take the throne. Liu and Jiang planned to follow the ancient system and follow the procedures to go through the process, first seal a big vassal state, and then come to a nine-tin gift, Zhu Wen was slow that is, "The king is angry, don't accept it." Liu and Jiang rushed to Luoyang non-stop, and after intensive operation, the matter of the Zen position was finally completed, but at this time, Zhu Wen "sent someone to tell the privy envoy Jiang Xuanhui to have an affair with the Empress Dowager He", and killed Liu Can, Jiang Xuanhui and others. Liu Can was originally the Tang Minister, and he flattered Zhu Wen for self-preservation, but in the end he was killed because of this, and he only scolded himself when he was dying: "The thief who loses the country deserves to die!" ”

Zhu Wen is known for his indiscriminate killing, if Li Keyong and the Zhu brothers, although they will inevitably repay virtue with grievances, there is still a conflict of interests after all. And people like Zhu Yougong, Liu Can and others are indeed subordinates who sincerely do things for themselves, so they are not afraid of people's minds changing when they cross the river and demolish the bridge? Ingrateful to this point, Zhu Wen deserves to be the first villain of the five generations. As the saying goes, the wicked have evil retribution, and when they are disemboweled, I don't know if they will understand the way of heaven.