The court in Luoyang has been in turmoil since last year, when Fu Xi defected to the Northern Army during the Qingzhou Festival, and the Northern Army took Cangzhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou. After the general trend has passed, no one still thinks that Luoyang can still have the capital to compete with the northern army. Fortunately, Shi Jingjiao led the Khitan to enter Kouyouzhou in a big way, so that the court in Luoyang escaped premature destruction.

However, after the beginning of spring, after the Northern Army defeated the Khitan and recovered Youzhou in one fell swoop, it was only a matter of time before the Son of Heaven of Jinyang marched into Luoyang.

Now the court in Luoyang is fluctuating, and most of the courtiers are speaking to Jinyang, persuading the prison state Li Siyuan to return power and welcome the Son of Heaven back to the court.

In the mid-autumn season of August, about whether to hand over power to welcome back the Son of Heaven, the court in Luoyang quarreled again.

As a prisoner, Li Siyuan's ears are soft-rooted, and he has always been undecided, and his attitude is wavering. Li Conghou, who was staying in Biandu on the front line in Puzhou, also knew that the general trend had gone, and the troops in his hands were simply unable to compete with the Northern Army.

Only Li Congrong, who was also the commander of the Henan Prefecture Yin and the Luoyang Forbidden Army, was trying his best to oppose it.

Li Congrong was arrogant and arrogant, and once openly said: "There are many traitors in the court, and if he is in power one day, he will punish these guys at both ends of the rat head to eliminate the government." ”

Seeing him speak like this, it frightened the ministers of the court, and some guys who were originally riding on the wall to watch also joined the ranks of opposing Li Congrong. The privy envoys Fan Yanguang and Zhao Yanshou, who had a broken relationship with Li Congrong, kept going to the table, asking for an external transfer and leaving Luoyang, which is a place of right and wrong. Spending money and going through the back door, Fan Yanguang and Zhao Yanshou finally got their wish, released Chenzhou and Dengzhou, and finally left Luoyang.

In October of the eighth year of the Republic, Li Siyuan suffered from a cold and his condition worsened the next day.

When Li Congrong visited the palace, Li Siyuan was already in a coma and unconscious. Concubine Wang sat beside the couch and sent greetings on her behalf, but there was no response, so she had to withdraw stupidly.

When Li Congrong walked out of the palace gate, he heard someone crying in the palace again, and thought that Li Siyuan was dying.

After returning to the mansion, Li Congrong did not sleep all night and waited for news from the palace. Who knew that at dawn, there was still no movement. Then he fell asleep, and by noon, there was still no news from the palace. Li Congrong was suspicious at this time, thinking that the puppet emperor Li Jiliang in the palace conspired with the palace people to block the news.

Thinking of this, Li Congrong suddenly fidgeted and played a clever trick. Immediately gathered his cronies and discussed his intention to lead the army into Ouchi and control the situation first. In addition, he sent his cronies to inform Prime Minister Feng Yun, Prime Minister Zhu Hongzhao and others, saying: "I am going to bring my soldiers into the palace today to take care of the prison country nearby, so as to prevent any accidents. ”

Prime Minister Feng Yun was taken aback when he heard this, and he didn't dare to provoke him, so he had to say, "You can do it yourself!" ”

As soon as Li Congrong's people left, Feng Yun immediately entered the palace to report the situation to Concubine Wang Shufei and Xuanhui envoy Meng Hanqiong.

In fact, last night, Li Siyuan's condition had improved and he came to his senses. In the morning, I had eaten most of the porridge and rice, and I was already able to defecate normally.

After receiving the news, Concubine Wang and Meng Hanqiong immediately summoned Zhu Hongzhao, Kang Yicheng and other ministers to the palace to discuss. As soon as Zhu Hongzhao, Kang Yicheng and others entered the palace, there were guards guarding the imperial city outside, saying that there were rebels outside the palace gate.

This makes the situation very urgent.

At this time, Li Congrong had already gathered more than 1,000 tooth soldiers and lined up at Tianjin Bridge outside the south gate of the imperial city.

Feng Yun and Kang Yicheng had their own selfish intentions, and stood outside the gate of Zhongxing Hall with Zhu Hongzhao and Meng Hanqiong, discussing how to deal with it.

This Feng Yun had already secretly colluded with the Northern Army, so he said to Kang Yicheng: "Li Congrong once said that if he is in power, he will definitely punish us and others, and now if he is allowed to enter the palace, if he is really on the throne, you will wait to be punished by him!" ”

Kang Yicheng hadn't made up his mind yet, but he saw the guards guarding the palace city come in in a hurry and reported: "The prince of the prison country has already led the troops to the outside of the end gate!" ”

After Xuanhui envoy Meng Hanqiong heard the news, he immediately said angrily: "Today's chaos has suddenly arisen, Li Congrong led the army to make a rebellion, endangering the imperial city, do you still want to stand by and watch?" Anyway, Lao Tzu will be cheap, and there is nothing to pity, he should lead the army to resist! ”

As he spoke, he immediately entered the palace gate, wanting to report to Li Siyuan first.

Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun also went in together, and Kang Yicheng had no choice but to follow behind.

The inner supervisor Meng Hanqiong came to see him and told Li Siyuan: "Now that Congrong is rebelling outside, he has already led soldiers to attack Duanmen, if he is let into the palace, it will definitely cause a big chaos." ”

When the concubines in the palace heard that this kind of thing had happened, they all panicked and cried at each other, but Li Siyuan was still very calm, and asked Zhu Hongzhao: "Is it really the other way around?" ”

Zhu Zhaohong replied: "It's really a rebellion, and the order has been issued just now to close the palace gate." ”

Li Siyuan sighed when he heard this: "Why bother like this! "It's sad to say.

At this time, it was Li Congke's son's turn, and the control crane commanded Li Chongji to be on duty in the palace, and he also entered the palace to report the news.

Li Siyuan said to Li Chongji: "Your father and I braved the enemy's flying stones and arrows to fight to the death to defeat this country, how could Congrong have ever contributed?" I didn't expect him to be instigated today, and he dared to commit rebellion. This kind of erection is not enough to entrust the important affairs behind you, you first guard the palace gate for me, and then I will hand over the military power to your father. ”

After Li Chongji received the order, he led the crane soldiers to guard the palace gate and prevent Li Congrong from entering the imperial city.

Meng Hanqiong put on his armor and got on his horse, and left the palace from the left gate of the palace, and then summoned Zhu Hongshi, the commander of the horse army, and ordered 500 horsemen to go to the palace to ask for Li Congrong.

Li Congrong was sitting on the Tianjin Bridge at the time, he originally thought that his father must be dead, he just wanted to lead the troops to control the situation first, and then when the news of Li Siyuan's death came out, he immediately led the troops into the palace to inherit the throne, and he was not ready for battle at all. Seeing that Meng Hanqiong and Zhu Hongshi led the cavalry to charge, they hurriedly met the battle.

Zhu Hongshi took the lead and shouted loudly; "Why don't you care about making trouble, hurry back to the camp and save the Zhulian people!"

Li Congrong's subordinate soldiers immediately dispersed after hearing this. Seeing this situation, Li Congrong hurriedly fled home, but when he heard the chasing soldiers outside the door, he was so frightened that he hid under the bed with his wife Liu.

The imperial city envoy An Congyi led the troops to break into the mansion, and he had already been explained by Zhu Hongshi, and Li Congrong should not be left alive, so as to save him from retaliation in the future. When his subordinates dragged Li Congrong and his wife out from under the bed, they were stabbed one by one, and they died. Later, Li Congrong's youngest son was found in the mansion, and he was also killed together.

Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, the means of action are as ruthless as ever......

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