Li Maozhen's capital was almost exhausted, and in desperation, he had no choice but to ask Zhu Wen for peace with a shy old face, and planted all the responsibility on the heads of Han Quanyu and others. After asking for Li Ye's will, Li Maozhen killed more than 70 eunuchs led by Han Quanzhi and dedicated their heads to the camp.

In the first month of the third year of Tang Tianfu (903 AD), Li Ye was fortunate to camp in Bian, and Zhu Wen fell to the ground in his suit, crying and pleading. Li Ye knew that Zhu San was acting, so he had no choice but to pretend to convince him: "If it is not for Qing to save him, the society has become dust." ”

A few days later, Zhu Wen escorted Li Ye back to Chang'an, and when he arrived in Chang'an, Zhu Wen began to be a "loyal minister" again, leading Li Ye's horse forward, and walked out of more than ten miles. Prime Minister Cui Yin greeted him outside the city and danced three times.

After Zhu Wen succeeded, he began to deal with the issue of eunuchs, because Li Ye Xingqi was tossed out by the eunuchs, and Zhu Wen decided to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. In the same month, Zhu Wen and Cui Yin played under their names: "Since Tianbao, the eunuchs have gained power, held military power, committed great rebellions, killed kings, and caused chaos in the world. Please Your Majesty punish the car in front of you, prevent future troubles, and dismiss the ministers and supervising the army. "Li Ye has long hated eunuchs, and he wishes to be like this, of course, he will play.

Zhu Wen sent troops to arrest hundreds of eunuchs, except for dozens of old and weak eunuchs to serve the emperor, the rest were punished regardless of good or evil. The power of eunuchs began to grow since the time of Li Fuguo, and when they arrived in the Yuan and Dynasty, they set a precedent for killing monarchs and controlled the government, which was very harmful and was criticized by the world for a long time, and since then, the eunuch disaster of the Tang Dynasty has been completely extinguished.

After Zhu Wen settled Li Ye, he returned to Bianzhou, although he did not take Li Ye with him, but Chang'an was controlled by Zhu Wen, and the actual effect was the same. Although the emperor is extremely noble. But it also depends on what kind of emperor it is, and the power in his hands is the real emperor. Otherwise, empty emperors like Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty Yuan Shanjian, and Li Ye of Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty. can't even control his own life and death, and when he is a nest, he is not as comfortable as a grass king. Power is the most noble, and it doesn't matter if it's nominally or not.

After the western plague was lifted, Zhu Wen began to sweep away some annoying guys in the east, first of all, Wang Shifan, the envoy of the Pinglu army who had extremely unclean hands and feet during Zhu Wen's western expedition. In April of the third year of Tang Tianfu (903 AD), Zhu Wen sent his nephew Zhu Youning to lead an army to attack Qingzhou. was beaten by Zhu Youning, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and his younger brother Wang Shike also lost it.

In April, Wang Shifan sent people to Huainan to ask Yang Xingmi to send troops to rescue, Yang Xingmi was Zhu Wen's No. 2 enemy, and he was also the master of Zhu Wen's rebellion. Send the general Wang Maozhang north to save Qingzhou. At this time, the Bianjun army had already broken through Bochang (now Boxing, Shandong) and attacked Dengzhou (now Penglai, Shandong). The Qingzhou Army and the Huainan Army fought together, and it was very rare to break the Bianjun Army for a while, and Zhu Youning was killed by the Qing Army in the chaos.

Zhu Wen heard the bad news. Furious, he personally led the tiger and wolf division of 200,000 to Qingzhou, and in July, the Bianjun army began to besiege Qingzhou. Breaking through the Green Army, Wang Maozhang couldn't help Zhu Wen, and he didn't want to sacrifice himself for Wang Shifan in vain. Led the army to retreat to Huainan. Bianjun Yang Shi Houbu attacked Qingzhou, and Wang Shifan became more and more temperless. In November, Wang Shifan surrendered to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen left Li Zhenquan to govern Qingzhou. Wang Shifan rode a donkey in plain clothes and moved to Bianzhou with hundreds of his family, and the Jiaodong Peninsula area belonged to Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen also gained another gain from this expedition, that is, he got Liu Yan, a general under Wang Shifan. Liu Jun was the most chivalrous general in the Five Dynasties. Liu Congzhou once fought with Zhu Wen's general Ge Congzhou in Yanzhou, and Ge Congzhou's mother was in the city. Liu Yan has a clear distinction between public and private, and when he sees Ge's mother, he is respectful and respectful, and he does not dare to slack off. Moreover, Liu Jun released all the old, weak, sick and disabled in the city from the city, leaving only the headquarters to defend the city. This kind of chivalrous demeanor is still admired after thousands of years. What Sun Tzu said is that in order to be benevolent and brave and strict, Liu Jun is at least worthy of the word "benevolence". Later, Wang Shifan surrendered to Zhu Wen, Ge Congzhou persuaded him to surrender, and Liu Jun surrendered to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen also likes Liu Jun very much, and often says that he is the reincarnation of Li Tao (the prototype of the half-immortal Xu Maogong).

Liu Cheng also has a **, which is particularly famous, that is, Liu Cheng once bought a Wang family girl who sold cakes as a maid, this Wang family girl is unparalleled in the country, and is known as "Flower Shame". After Liu Jun's death, the Wang family took Liu Jun's large amount of gold to take refuge in Li Siyuan, who later became Tang Mingzong, and was deeply favored, and played a certain influence in the politics of the Later Tang Dynasty and the Jin and Han dynasties, which is not mentioned later.

In order to control Li Ye nearby, Zhu Wen forcibly "invited" Li Ye to Luoyang, Li Ye didn't want to go, but he couldn't stand Zhu Wen's threats and intimidation, so he had to move. Before leaving, Li Ye cried to the people who saw him off: "'The mountain of Sugan freezes and kills the birds, why don't you fly to live and be happy.'" 'I am wandering everywhere now, not knowing where I will die. "Crying left and right. The dignified Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has been reduced to this point, I don't know how Tang Taizong Li Shimin will feel if he knows underground?

Before Li Ye left, he secretly drafted a will, which was sent to Li Keyong in Hedong, Wang Jian in Xichuan, and Yang Xingmi in Huainan, so that they could one day defeat Zhu Wen and restore the Tang Dynasty. At this time, some other larger feudal towns, such as Qian Biao in Wuyue, Wang Shenzhi in Fujian, Ma Yin in Hunan, Liu Yin in Guangdong, and others sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, but most of them were inclined to Zhu Wen.

Soon, Wang Jian, Li Maozhen, Li Keyong, Yang Xingmi and others publicly denounced Zhu Wen, saying that Zhu Wen wanted to usurp and rebel, and the towns would join forces to eliminate Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen's scolded seven orifices smoked. Zhu Wen originally wanted to send troops to train these "loyal ministers" of the Tang Dynasty, but he was worried that Li Ye would cause trouble on his own territory, so he decided to get rid of Zhaozong and never suffer in the future.

In August of the first year of Tang Tianyou (904 AD), Zhu Wen sent Zhu Yougong, Shi Shucong, and the privy envoy Jiang Xuanhui and others to kill Li Ye. It was the second drum of the night, Jiang Xuanhui and others led the troops to open the door to invite the emperor, saying that it was an urgent matter to meet the official's house, and the inner servants did not know that there was a fraud, so they opened the door and included everyone. When Mrs. Pei Zhen saw that the comer was not good, she asked loudly: "If there is an emergency, what are you doing with the troops?" After finishing his words, Bian stabbed Mrs. Pei to death.

Zhaoyi Li Jianrong knew that it was not good, and shouted: "Don't hurt the official's family!" Kill us if you want to! At this time, Li Ye woke up, was startled when he heard the change, and walked around the hall. Shi Tai caught up with him, and when he was about to stab, Li Jianrong pounced on Li Ye. Shi Tai drank, kicked Li Jianrong away, and stabbed Li Ye to death with a sword, when he Chinese New Year's Eve was eight years old, Shi Tai then killed Li Jianrong. The rebels caught Queen He again, and Queen He cried and fell in front of Jiang Xuanhui, begging for her life. Jiang Xuanhui relented for a while. So as not to kill.

Historians expressed deep sympathy for Li Ye's murder: "Since ancient times, the country has perished, and not necessarily all of them are stupid and tyrannical kings. The troubles of this have been accumulating. And the general trend is gone, when it is time. Therefore, although there are wise and brave, there are those who can't do it, it can be said that it is really unfortunate, and Zhaozong is already. "Li Ye is really pitiful and sad.

Subsequently, Jiang Xuanhui and others, at the behest of Zhu Wen, supported the thirteen-year-old crown prince Li Zuo to succeed to the throne in front of Zhaozong Ling and changed his name to Li Ji. Zhu Wen saw that he had succeeded, and quickly came to Luoyang to deal with the aftermath. Zhu Wen is indeed a good actor, and he cried bitterly in front of Li Yezi's palace. It's not touching (don't you think it's boring?) ）。 Zhu Wen went to see Emperor Mourning Li Ji again, and said that he must avenge the first emperor.

Li Zhenmi persuaded Zhu Wen: "Sima Zhao made Cheng Ji kill the noble townsman, and now it is appropriate to sin and Zhu Yougong and others, so as not to make the king self-famous!" Zhu Wen is really ruthless, just after crying Li Ye, he killed the "first rebel" Zhu Yougong. Zhu Yougong was wronged, and shouted before the sentence: "Sell me, you will die a good death sooner or later!" "Uncle Cong was trafficked into Baizhou Sihu, and then committed suicide.

Zhu Yougong's "unfortunate encounter" can't help but remind people of another person. It was Cheng Ji who killed Cao Chao for Sima Zhao during the Three Kingdoms. Cheng Ji and Zhu Yougong really deserve to die, but even more damn than them are Sima Zhao and Zhu Wen, at least their acting skills are too clumsy, without the instructions of Sima Zhao and Zhu Wen. Cheng Ji and Zhu Yougong dare to kill the king?

When the new emperor ascended the throne, it was inevitable that there would be some personnel transfers, of course, they were just going through the motions. Zhu Wen had already decided. In March of the second year of Tianqi (905 AD), Li Ji issued an edict. Zhang Wenwei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Can, the waiter of the Chinese book, and Yang She, the acting Shangshu, are the prime ministers. Liu Can was a famous traitor in the late Tang Dynasty, for the sake of wealth. did not hesitate to sell his personality and slander Zhu Wen. Liu Can saw that many people in the DPRK and China had a heart for thinking about Tang, and persuaded Zhu Wen to get rid of them. Li Zhen also advised Zhu Wen to make a decision as soon as possible: "This generation often claims to be a clear stream, and they should be thrown into the Yellow River, and the clear stream will become turbid!" ”

In June of the second year of Tianyou (905 AD), Li Zhen was ordered by Zhu Wen to escort more than 30 court officials such as Pei Shu to the White Horse Station, ordered the warriors to be beheaded, and then threw their bodies into the Yellow River, which was the famous White Horse disaster in the history of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Li Zhen often ran back and forth between Luoyang and Bianliang to do things for Zhu Wen, and many people in the DPRK and China privately scolded Li Zhen as a "owl", and everyone hated him for being vicious.

Although the Central Plains region has become Zhu Wen's private property, Zhu Wen is still not satisfied, the bigger the territory, the better, and no one thinks that there is more money. In July of the second year of Tianyou (905 AD), the general Yang Shihou was ordered to attack Zhao Kuangning, the envoy of Shannan Dongdao. Zhao Kuangning couldn't beat Yang Shihou, and was taken to the lair by Yang Shihou, and Zhao Kuangning fled to Huainan in embarrassment.

Seeing that the southern roads were so unbeaten, Zhu Wen regained his ambition and was ready to serve Yang Xingmi in one pot. In October, Zhu Wen personally conquered Huainan. Although Zhu Wen was very brutal, his military command art was indeed superb, "Zhu Wen was in the land of four battles, slightly the same as Cao Cao, but cunning. ”。

Huainan has not fought a big battle with Zhu Wen for seven or eight years, and Yang Xingmi saw Zhu Wen's vigorous momentum, and knew that this old guy was still remembering the account of flooding Pang Shigu. Zhu Wen's Bianzhou army has seen the world, and at that time, it was only Li Keyong's Jin army that could be compared with the Bianzhou army.

Zhu Wen succeeded again and again, the Bianjun army rampaged in the Jianghuai area, Yang Xingmi had no way to take him, Zhu Wen encountered a hard bone in Shouzhou (now Huainan, Anhui), the Huainan army could not hold out, Zhu Wen felt bored and planned to withdraw the army. Before leaving, the Huainan general Chai Ke sent his brother to the side of the road, killed more than 3,000 Bianjun, and Zhu Wen fled to Bianliang in embarrassment. Yang Xingmi died of illness soon after, and his eldest son, Yang Wu, took the throne.

Zhu Wen suffered defeat on the front line, and the prime ministers in Luoyang City, such as Jiang Xuanhui and Liu Can, had already begun to change the dynasty for Zhu Wen and Zhang Luo. Jiang Xuanhui is a little pedantic, he thinks that the change of dynasty must abide by the previous unspoken rules, that is, to seal the big country first, always add nine tin ceremonies, and then do the things of the Zen Dynasty. Jiang Xuanhui is not wrong, many dynasties in history have been played like this, such as Sima Yan, Liu Yu, Xiao Yan, Chen Baxian, Yang Jian, etc.

However, the luck of the two masters was not very good, the horse's fart slapped on the horse's hooves, Zhu Wen didn't like to be so verbose, and scolded Jiang Xuanhui: "Straight mother thief!" Can't I be the emperor without Jiuxi? "It's still true what Zhu Wen said, not like Sima Yan and other hypocrisy, full of ugliness, leaving history as a laughing stock.

Zhu Wen saw that the people in the court were not enthusiastic about his claim to be the emperor, and it was not easy to start for the time being, so he pretended to push away Jiuxi. Jiang Xuanhui, Liu Can, and Su Xun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, wanted to be the founding upstarts, and in December, Jiang Xuanhui asked Liu Can to come to Bianliang to persuade King Liang to be emperor. Jiang Xuanhui and Liu Can's actions made many people despise them and had a bad reputation. Zhu Wen knew that they wanted glory and wealth, but he asked him to carry this black cauldron, and he was very annoyed.

Xuanhui of the Northern Courtyard made Wang Yin, Zhao Yin and others jealous of Jiang Xuanhui's favor, so they took advantage of Xuanhui's loss of power to tell Zhu Wen about Jiang Xuanhui's evil situation: "Jiang and Liu often swore incense with Empress Dowager He to restore the Tang Dynasty. Zhu Wen was furious when he heard this, and sent someone to arrest and behead Jiang Xuanhui, and Er Yin replied to accuse Queen He of adultery with Jiang Xuanhui, and sent palace people A Qiu and A Qian to correspond.

Zhu Wen didn't say a word, and ordered someone to kill the Empress Dowager He, and Ah Qiu and Ah Qian were beaten to death by sticks in front of the palace. Jiang Xuanhui died, Liu Can didn't live a few more days, Zhu Wen ordered Liu Can to be beheaded, and Liu Can looked up to the sky and shouted bitterly before he was sentenced: "The traitor Liu Can has today, and God will retribution!" It's better for me to die! "Zhang Tingfan was torn apart by the car.

Just as Zhu Wen was preparing for the next step, Wei Bojun suddenly mutinied, and Luo Shaowei couldn't control it and asked Zhu Wen for help. Zhu Wen could not tolerate Wei Bo's loss, and in the spring of the third year of Tianyou (906 AD), Zhu Wen led a large army to Wei Bo to suppress it. To say that Zhu Wen is indeed not blowing, two moves will wipe out the chaos. Luo Shaowei was grateful and invited Zhu Wen to spend some days, but in fact, Luo Shaowei wanted to use Zhu Wen's name to shock Liu Rengong and Wang Rong.

I didn't expect that the soldiers of the Bianjun Army could fight, eat and drink, stay in Weibo for half a year, eat more than 700,000 pigs and sheep, spend more money like the Yellow River bursting the embankment, and almost didn't make Luo Shaowei a single commander. Luo Shaowei cried in distress: "Forty-three counties in six states, you can't be wrong for this!" "Zhu Wen doesn't care about you, after eating and drinking, he finished playing, patted his ass and left.

In September of the third year of Tianyou (906 AD), Zhu Wen raised an army to attack Cangzhou, Liu Shouguang defended without fighting, and the city was full of hunger. Zhu Wen persuaded Liu Rengong's eldest son Liu Shouguang under the city: "Your father has been scared by me, he won't come to save you, it's better to surrender early." Liu Shouguang disobeyed: "I am Liu Rengong's son, of course I have to defend the city for my father." (To be continued......)