Chapter 67: The Secret History of the Later Tang Dynasty

Prime Minister Lu Wenji is very angry! Consequences wood has consequences.

The reason is very simple, you have clocked in on time every day, a newspaper and a cup of tea, and a nominal prime minister who has been dozing for an afternoon, and the most spoken words are:

"There must be something strange about this, let me think about it again."

"This matter is not trivial, please ask the emperor to decide."

"Both sides make sense, and we might as well dig a little deeper."

"How can you be so hasty? Your mother gave you a head, not just for food! Hit back, rewrite! ”

In this way, Tai Chi pushes his hands to play slippery, and everything does not touch his body, and he runs immediately. When he really has a big deal and wants to come back and seize power, where can he catch it!

Of course, politics is not so simple, and we are a bit hasty here.

There is no way, there are always people who look at Lu Wenji unpleasantly, and step on two feet at a critical time, that is also human nature.

Actually, the real reason is:

Prime Minister Lu Wenji was very angry, and Emperor Li Congke was very happy!

Who is Li Congke? The fourth emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty.

The Later Tang Dynasty was also a very strange dynasty during the Five Dynasties period, known for its four emperors and three surnames, and the degree of strangeness was comparable to that of the Khitan State at that time. Of course, it is not like the Khitans to carry out inbreeding, but to say that the succession to the throne is very childish and arbitrary, and under the traditional Han cultural system, it is really incomprehensible.

The Li family of the Later Tang Dynasty originated from the Shatuo people Zhu Xie Zhiyi, the Shatuo people are a branch of the Western Turks, brave and good at fighting, and left a quite wonderful scene in history.

The Shatuo people have always been too few in number, only tens of thousands of people, and they have long been friendly with the Tang Dynasty and admired Han culture.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the Tufan and Uighurs fought a war, which affected the Shatuo people. At that time, Zhu Xie's father Zhu Xie was loyal, and led 30,000 Shatuo people to move eastward collectively, starting a 10,000-mile escape, and was chased and killed by the Tufan people all the way, and when he fled to Lingzhou (now Ningxia region), there were only 2,000 people left, and he was almost about to be wiped out, and even Zhu Xie was loyal to himself and died on the road.

This history is all a handful of tears, and the Shatuo people hate Tufan people so much when they mention them.

Fortunately, after Zhu Xie Zhiyi took over his father's position as patriarch, the Shatuo people began to operate.

In Lingzhou, the Shatuo people were incorporated by the Lingyan Festival of the Tang Dynasty at that time, Fan Xichao, joined the Tang Army, fought back to the Tang Dynasty, fought against Huaixi, fought into virtue, and constantly accumulated military merits, becoming a well-known meritorious unit in the Tang Army.

After the death of Zhu Xie Zhiyi, his son Zhu Xie Chixin, but also with all the Shatuo people, wholeheartedly for the Tang Dynasty, after paying the blood of countless clansmen, moved the Tang Emperor, was given the surname by Tang Yizong, renamed Li Guochang, the official title Zhenwu Festival Envoy, Dai Beijie Envoy.

The Zhu Xie family has finally become a big family at the core of the power of the Tang Dynasty, and a member of the feudal territory of the powerful side!

Since then, God has favored Zhu Xie, and the sons of Zhu Xie's family are more powerful than the other.

Li Guochang's son Li Keyong has the courage of ten thousand people, and the official worships the envoy of the Hedong Festival! This is the largest, most populous, and most economically developed land north of the Yellow River, and it also laid the foundation for the Zhu Xie family to participate in the princes' struggle for hegemony in the last years of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Keyong's son Li Cunqiao is even more amazing! Together with his younger brother Li Cunxiao, he is known as the "Hedong Double Tyrant"! This is not the key, the key is that Li Cunqiao has never been convinced by Zhu Wen's Later Liang Dynasty, and finally raised troops to overthrow Zhu Wen's Later Liang Dynasty, and established the Later Tang Dynasty in the name of restoring the Tang Dynasty!

Li Cunmiao also became the first emperor of the post-Tang Dynasty!

Awesome!

Everyone who saw this place would have their blood boiling and tears in their eyes, envious of the good luck of the Shatuo people and the Zhu Xie family.

And then what? And then?

There was no later

Providence is unpredictable, the boat of friendship will capsize, and God suddenly abandoned the Zhu evil family.

It's like a child who eats a popsicle and throws it away!

Zhu Xie's family has ended here, Li Cunqiao died after three years as emperor, and the rest of the matter has nothing to do with Zhu Xie's family!

What's going on?

Aren't there still a few emperors behind the Later Tang Dynasty?

Well, that's right, the Shatuo people worship force and like to accept righteous sons.

Li Cunmiao gave birth to a bunch of his own sons, but he didn't look down on any of them, but instead accepted a person named Li Siyuan as a righteous son.

Li Siyuan is also a native of Shatuo, from a humble background, and he doesn't even have a surname. But Li Siyuan is loyal and has a very high military force, which is very popular with Li Cunqiao.

Li Siyuan's son-in-law is Shi Jingjiao, Shi Jingjiao, a big traitor of the birdman, is really anti-bones, and he rebelled against his father-in-law very early, but Li Siyuan really rebelled, and after killing his father-in-law Li Cunqing, he took over as the second emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty.

Since then, the good luck of the Zhu evil family has come to an abrupt end and disappeared in the rolling torrent of history, leaving only a beautiful legend!

However, the stupidity of the Shatuo people may be hereditary. This Li Siyuan himself gave birth to a bunch of sons, and he didn't look down on any of them, and he also accepted a righteous son named Li Congke.

Li Congke is a Han Chinese, originally surnamed Wang, and is the child of the old Wang family next door.

Li Congke has a very beautiful mother, and after Li Siyuan became prosperous, he took Li Congke's mother away and adopted it as his concubine, and Li Congke became Li Siyuan's righteous son.

This Li Congke also came out of the fight since he was a child, not only strong in force, but also very good in appearance, IQ and EQ, he is one of the more famous three high-ranking people in the Central Plains, and he is even loved by Li Siyuan.

After Li Siyuan died of illness, his son Li Conghou succeeded as the third emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty.

At this time, Li Congke, the child of the old Wang family, was not convinced, why can your own son be the emperor, but my righteous son can't be the emperor? Isn't your father also the righteous son of Emperor Mingzong?

So, Li Congke raised the banner and rebelled, and finally killed Li Conghou, successfully ascended the throne, and became the fourth emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the Later Tang Dynasty has a total of four emperors so far, but there are three families.

Now on the surface, Tang Jiangshan is still surnamed Li, but in fact, the children of the old Wang family next door are in charge, and they have nothing to do with the Zhu Xie family and the surnameless person Li Siyuan, they are all desperate to fight the world for the old Wang family, and the children of the old Wang family are the last people to sit in the world.

The sky is mighty, the mood is unpredictable, and the wind and clouds are changing! The boat of friendship alas, it is all tears when it is too much.

It is said that Li Congke, a child of the old Wang family, grew up in the army since he was a child. After many wars, outstanding achievements, countless times of arrows, rushing to the front line, the battlefield experience is really extremely rich, and several books can not be written.

Therefore, when he heard that this Zhao Ping actually resisted the attack of the Khitan cavalry three times in a row with a thousand foot soldiers, killed and wounded more than 5,000 Khitan cavalry in three times, beheaded Yelu Ruan and Xiao Luying, single-handedly killed Yelu Saqi, and lit Yelu Lihu with a sky lantern?

The top ten Khitan heroes, he won three in a few days?

Awesome.

I am worried about the lack of famous generals in my hands at the moment, that Zhang Jingda has surrounded Taiyuan for so long, and he hasn't beaten down a single hair, and let the Khitans enter the pass! The generals who have a little ability are all looking left and right there, swaying, and there is no way to reuse them.

This person may be a variable.

But Nima, you Lu Wenji was there chirping crookedly and talking nonsense for a long time, do you know how to fight? Do you know what is easy to obtain by a thousand troops, and it is difficult to find one?

Li Congke sat on the dragon chair and gritted his teeth and watched the saliva spray, jumping up and down like a skateboard in the smooth lobby, pointing at Lu Wenji, who was eager to throw a teapot over and smash a big hole in his head to see if there was grass growing inside.

However, in this era, the emperor wants to be a "virtuous king", a hundred schools of thought want to contend, and let the courtiers express their opinions to their heart's content.

In a depressed state, Li Congke glanced at Li Zhuanmei, a privy counselor standing there shaking his head and dozing off.

In every dynasty, there are some courtiers who specialize in sycophancy. It's not that other courtiers don't shoot the emperor's fart, the problem is that the timing and angle of the shoot are just right, and the emperor is full of joy, and at the same time makes other courtiers feel like a spring breeze, and everyone wins together instead of causing all kinds of envy and jealousy, then there are really few people.

Li Zhuanmei, a fat and smiling privy counselor, is Li Congke's special sycophant.

Last night, I just received two women of the Murwei tribe, the women of the Murwei tribe are cold-resistant and thick-skinned, strong and strong, after all, Scholar Li is old, a little uncontrollable, plus Prime Minister Lu does not know much about the art of language, walking around the lobby, buzzing, buzzing, talking like a fly for a long time, there is no rhythm at all, and it is dangling so dizzy that Li Zhuanmei almost fell asleep.

It's just that Emperor Li Congke suddenly raised his head and glared at him.

That's the emperor on horseback who was killed by thousands of troops! How terrifying is the murderous aura at this glance.

"Ah", Li Zhuanmei exclaimed, suddenly woke up from his dream, fell backwards with a pop, sat on the ground with a butt, and overturned the two ministers behind him who tried to help him.