Of course, there are good people like Zhang Chengye among the eunuchs, and there are also a few loyal and upright people among the servants, and Jing Xinmo is a typical example. He was not only upright, but also witty. Li Cunmiao likes to act with the servants, and even gave himself a stage name "Li Tianxia". Once, he was playing energetically, and shouted continuously: "Li Tianxia!

Where is Li Tianxia? Jing Xinmo walked up without saying a word, and gave him a resounding slap in the face, Li Cunmiao was beaten, and others were also blinded, but Jing Xinmo reprimanded: "There is only one Li in the world, who do you call?" ”

Saying that, everyone burst into laughter, and Li Cunmiao also turned his anger into joy, not only did not punish him, but rewarded him heavily. In addition to singing, Li Cunmiao also likes to hunt, often running around and trampling on crops.

Once, while hunting in the periphery, the local county magistrate advised: "Your Majesty, all those who own the country should love the people like sons and take the people as the foundation of the country."

We should not trample on farmland and hurt people's hearts for the sake of a momentary speed. Your Majesty is like a parent to all nations, how can you do this! ”

When Li Cunmiao heard this, he was furious and ordered someone to tie him up, wanting to cut off his head and ask for the crime. Seeing this, Jing Xinmo hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the county order, pretending to reprimand: "As a county commander, you can drive the people to your subordinates." Since you know that Your Majesty likes to hunt, you should leave more open space, why let the people hoe and work here to prevent Your Majesty's eagles and dogs from flying away?

Now that I have made a mistake, I can't blame myself, but I dare to say nonsense to Your Majesty, it is really an unforgivable sin, and the sin deserves death! ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, Li Cunqiao knew that it was his fault, and after listening to these counterwords, most of his anger disappeared. So the order was given to release the prefectural order.

However, when dealing with the military generals of Wenchen, Li Cunmiao's attitude immediately changed one hundred and eighty degrees. After extinguishing the beam. Li Cunmiao once said triumphantly to the generals: "I have won the world on ten fingers." ”

Completely erased the exploits of other generals. Li Cunqiao was rigid and competitive, and he did not want the power to be returned to his subordinates. After arriving in Luoyang, he listened to the slanderous rumors of the eunuchs, and he was even more alienated and jealous of those veterans in the past. When Guo Chongtao, a loyal general, was killed by Empress Liu, he let it go.

He was also suspicious of Li Siyuan, who had made great achievements. Li Siyuan's family lives in Taiyuan, and the above table asks for the transfer of Li Congke, the assassin of Weizhou, as the commander of the Mabu capital of Beijing, so as to better take care of the family. After seeing it, Li Cunmiao said angrily: "Li Siyuan holds the military power, lives in a big town, and the military and political power is in my hands, how can he make a request for his son?" ”

So he demoted Li Congke to the commander of the cavalry. Let him lead a few hundred men to defend Shimen Town. Li Siyuan was both worried and afraid of this matter, and wrote a defense to defend it, and it took a long time to ease the relationship with Li Cunqing.

Li Jilin (Zhu Youqian), the envoy of the Hezhong Festival and Shangshuling, was an old friend of Li Cunmiao, and had military exploits, but he was suffering from the eunuchs who asked him for bribes and often refused to give them, and the eunuchs hated him very much.

When the Tang army conquered Qianshu, Li Jilin inspected the troops and sent his son Li Lingde to lead the troops to follow him. Jingjin and the eunuchs framed him and said, "Li Jilin heard that the army was about to set off. Thinking that he was coming to crusade against himself, he was frightened and reviewed the troops to prepare for self-defense.

The reason why Guo Chongtao dared to be arrogant and unyielding in Shu was because he had a conspiracy with He. Internal and external corresponding sake. Li Jilin was very frightened when he heard these words, and planned to go to the court in person to explain it, but his cronies stopped him. Li Jilin said: "Guo Chongtao's credit is higher than mine.

The situation is critical. I have to go to the emperor and tell him my loyalty to him face to face. In this way, those who speak ill of others will be punished. ”

Soon. Li Jilin rushed to the imperial court. Jing Jin said: "Someone in the river came to tell him that Li Jilin and Guo Chongtao conspired to rebel.

After Guo Chongtao died, he conspired with Li Cun again. ”

Therefore, the eunuchs persuaded Li Cunmiao to get rid of them as soon as possible, and what the eunuchs said must be right, so Li Cunmiao transferred Li Jilin to serve as the envoy of Yicheng Festival, and that night, he sent Zhu Shouyin, a horse envoy from the Han Dynasty, to lead troops to surround his residence, force Li Jilin out of Hui'anmen, kill him, and restore his original name Zhu Youqian.

Zhu Youqian has two sons, Zhu Lingde is the envoy of the Wuxin Festival, and Zhu Lingxi is the envoy of the Zhongwu Festival.

Li Cunqiao issued an edict for Li Jiqi to kill Zhu Lingde in Suizhou, for Wang Sitong, the assassin of Zhengzhou, to kill Zhu Lingxi in Xuzhou, and for Heyang Jiedu to send Li Shaoqi to Hezhong to kill his family.

Li Shaoqi came to Zhu Youqian's house, and Zhu Youqian's wife, Zhang, led more than 200 family members to see Li Shaoqi and said: "The Zhu clan deserves to die, but I hope that the civilians will not be killed by mistake." ”

So she separated more than 100 slaves from her family and took more than 100 other members of the clan to the execution ground.

Zhang took out the death-free iron deed given to Zhu Youqian by Li Cunqiao and said to Li Shaoqi: "This is a reward from the emperor last year, I am a woman, I don't know how to read, I don't know what is written on it." ”

Li Shaoqi was very ashamed when he heard this, but he still carried out the order and killed them. Zhu Youqian's old general, Shi Wu and other seven people, all of whom were assassins at that time, were also killed as members of the same clan.

At the same time as killing heroes, Li Cunmiao paid special attention to the corrupt scholars in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, and the reuse of Su Xun is a typical example.

Su Xun was originally a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, before and after Zhu Wen became emperor, he wanted to be opportunistic, and served more than once before and after the saddle, and was despised by Jing Xiang and others, and scolded him as "the owl of the Tang Dynasty, the fox charm of today", and the owl (pronounced chīxiāo) is the literary name of the owl of the ancients.

The fox charm is the fox spirit. Soon, Su Xun was reprimanded and returned to his hometown.

When Li Cunmiao built the Tang Dynasty, because of the revival of the Tang Dynasty as the banner, he issued an edict to visit the Tang Dynasty's clothes, so Su Xun went out of the mountain again, and when he saw Li Cunmiao, he used the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty to meet the emperor.

At that time, all the civil and military ministers did not use the courtesy, but Su Xun knelt down and shouted long live, crying and calling the ministers, just like seeing his own Lao Tzu, which made Li Cunqiao happy and very happy.

The next day, Su Xun presented another 30 large pens, which is estimated to be the stall goods bought in the corner, but he insisted that this is a "painting day brush", the painting day pen was originally for the emperor's use, it is not important whether it is true or false, the important thing is that Li Cunqiao is more happy this time. He was immediately appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the deputy envoy of the Hedong Festival.

Also heavily used is Douluge. Douluge originally worked under the direct hand of the king. Write poems at the Peony Meeting. Advise the king to think of his hometown as his hometown, because his words are elegant. Gradually, he was valued by the king and transferred to the judge of the festival.

He once asked to see Wang Chuzhi alone, Wang Chuzhi thought that he was lacking in political affairs, and Douluge had something to say to him, so he respectfully came out to greet him, and after waiting for a long time, Douluge finally spoke, it turned out that he was just here to ask for a military position for the favored person.

When Li Cunqiao was about to ascend the throne, he sought to complement him. Lu Zhen recommended him because Dou Luge was born in a prestigious family, and he was worshiped as the prime minister of Xingtaizuo.

In the early years of Tongguang, worship Ping Zhangshi. After Douluge entered the court, he often made mistakes, messed things up, and was corrected many times, but he was able to keep his face red, his ears not red, and his heart not beating every time. I don't pant for breath, I look like I'm thick-skinned and I'm afraid of whom.

Later, Douluge introduced Wei and said, like gathers like things, and Wei said that he is as fucked up as Douluge. Pay attention to the flow of goods, behave lightly, and be despised by others.

Douluge requested that Wei Shuo's son, Wei Tao, be appointed as a scholar of Hongwenguan. Wei said that he requested that Douluge's son Doulu be promoted to Jixian Bachelor, and the two sides exchanged courtesies. It's a lot of fun.

Since Douluge became the prime minister, he has not recommended talents to exhort capable people. Practicing every day in order to seek the art of immortality, he once took dansha, vomited blood for a few days, and almost vomited to death.

However, Li Cunqiao likes him very much as always.

At this time, Li Cunmiao was still deeply involved in the feudal superstition of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and could not extricate himself, and there was a monk from Wutai Mountain, Chenghui, who said that he could subdue the dragon in the sky, and he could also call for wind and rain.

Li Cunmiao naively believed him, and personally led the queen, the imperial concubine, the imperial brother, and the prince to visit Chenghui, Chenghui sat there with a big card and ignored them, and the ministers who followed Li Cunmiao also bowed down one after another.

Soon after, when there was a great drought, Li Cunmiao took Chenghui from Yedu to Luoyang and asked him to pray for rain.

The senior monk Chenghui couldn't pretend anymore, and the smoke flashed, leaving Li Cunmiao alone in the wind.

Li Cunmiao couldn't stand the humid and hot climate in midsummer, so he chose a high and cool place in the palace to escape the heat, but it was still unbearably hot and he was not very satisfied.

Therefore, the eunuchs said to him: "I remember that in the heyday of Chang'an, there were hundreds of tall buildings such as Daming and Xingqing. Now there is no place to escape the summer in the saint, and the magnificence of the palace is not as good as the residences of the ministers at that time. ”

Li Cunmiao's self-esteem was frustrated, so he ordered Yingyuan to make Wang Yunping build another building to give him a summer retreat.

The eunuchs said: "Guo Chongtao is often worried, because Kong Qian always said that the cost is insufficient, I am afraid that His Majesty's palace will not be built in the end." Li Cunqiao said: "I used the money of the inner government to build it myself, and it has nothing to do with the funds managed by the tenants. ”

However, Li Cunmiao was still worried that Guo Chongtao would go against him, so he sent a messenger to convey his will to Guo Chongtao, saying: "This year's summer is abnormal, I used to confront the Liang army on the edge of the Yellow River, the military camp was low and damp, I often wore armor and rode horses, personally resisted the arrows, and I did not feel so hot.

What should I do now that I am living in the palace and it is difficult to survive this summer day? Guo Chongtao replied: "When Your Majesty was by the Yellow River in the past, the strong enemy had not yet been eliminated, and every day he thought about washing away the shame and killing the enemy to take revenge.

Now that the troubles outside have been removed, and the princes of the country have surrendered, it is still very hot and humid to feel that although there are precious high platforms and idle pavilions. If Your Majesty had not forgotten the difficult days, then the heat would have disappeared naturally. ”

At this time, the eunuchs said: "Guo Chongtao's mansion is no different from the imperial palace, so he does not understand the summer heat of the saint." Under the repeated bewitchment of the eunuchs, Li Cunqiao finally ordered Wang Yunping to build a pavilion.

As many as 10,000 workers participate in the construction every day, and the money consumed is very huge. Guo Chongtao advised Li Cunmiao: "This year, the two rivers are dry, and the army is short of supplies, so I hope that we can stop the construction and start construction again when the harvest is in the coming year." ”

Li Cunmiao did not listen to his advice. Or do your own thing, Guo Chongtao knew, and played: "The palace is building a lot of buildings, wasting property, but there are disasters in some places, the people can't eat enough, and the ministers beg to stop building." Li Cunmiao still didn't listen.

When pacifying Wei Bo, Li Cunqiao obtained 8,000 Wei Bo Ya troops and regarded them as his cronies, these people fought very bravely and were invincible in the world. When fighting on both sides of the Yellow River, they had made great achievements many times, and Li Cunqiao had promised them a great reward after the destruction of the Liang State.

After pacifying Henan, Li Cunmiao did reward them, but the tooth army relied on merit, pride and indulgence, insatiable greed, and dissatisfaction with the imperial court.

In 925, the harvest was not good, the common people left their hometowns, the grain rent and taxes collected were seriously insufficient, the land and water routes were not smooth, and the granaries of the eastern capital were empty, and there was nothing to supply to the soldiers.

Rent Yong made Kong Qian look at the grain transported by the water from Zhuzhou outside the Upper East Gate every day, and as soon as it arrived, he would immediately distribute it to the soldiers.

The soldiers, due to lack of food, sold their sons and daughters; The old and infirm people often dig and pick wild vegetables in the field to satisfy their hunger, some in groups of more than a dozen people, some in groups of more than 100 people, often go away and starve to death and cannot come back. What is Li Cunmiao doing at this time?

Oh, by the way, our Emperor Li is out and about hunting every day. On the 20th, Li Cunqiao hunted in Baisha, accompanied by the queen, the prince and the concubines of the harem.

On the twenty-first day, he lived in Eque. On the 22nd, he stayed in Tanbo. On the twenty-third day, he lived in a niche stream. On the 24th, I returned to the palace and rushed to the scene everywhere, and I was very busy. It was snowing heavily, and some of the officers and soldiers froze and fell on the road.

The famine between Yi and Ru was particularly severe, and wherever the guards passed, they had to be fed by the local people, and when they could not get it, they destroyed their property and burned their houses, which was worse than the robbers, and the villagers could not bear to be disturbed, and they hid one after another, and even the county officials fled to the valleys to hide.

At that time, the people in the market did not know about Guo Chongtao's tragic experience, and folk rumors said that Guo Chongtao killed Li Jiqi and claimed the king in Shu, so the emperor ordered his entire family to be killed. Zhu Youqian's son Zhu Jianhui was the assassin of Lanzhou, and Li Cunqiao secretly ordered Shi Yanqiong, the superintendent of Yedu, to kill him.

The people guarding the city gate said to Wang Zhengyan, who stayed behind: "Shi Yanqiong rode out of the city in the middle of the night, and he didn't say where he was going. ”

There is also a rumor: "The queen blamed the emperor for Li Jiqi's death, and she had murdered her husband and killed the emperor, so she hurriedly summoned Shi Yanqiong to discuss countermeasures." ”

In short, various versions of gossip that are more unreliable than the Global Daily are circulating within the empire, and there is a hint of nervousness, uneasiness, and panic in the air. (To be continued......)