Fortunately, Xu Wen was also born in a poor middle peasant, so after taking power, he knew very well that he was a supporter of the people, paid attention to the development of agricultural production internally, and was unwilling to start a war easily externally. And during his reign, it happened to roughly overlap with the process of Li Cunmiao's destruction of Liang in a hundred battles, when the Liang and Jin sides were fighting in the Central Plains, and naturally they did not have the energy to start a war with Wu, so the people of Huainan lived quite a nourishing life when Xu Wen was in charge.

Xu Wen has been in power in Huainan for 20 years, and has been willing to be the fifth generation of Cao Cao, and has never usurped the throne, and the real usurper is his adopted son Li Yu (sound change).

Li Yu, whose name is Zhenglun, is a native of Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu). His father, Li Rong, was an out-and-out farmer, and later because he believed in Buddhism or maybe didn't want to serve in the military, he resolutely ran away from his wife and children and entered a monastery to become a monk. However, the Buddha did not bless him, and when Li Yu was six years old, Li Rong died. Soon after, Li's mother, Liu, also died. In this way, Li Yu became an orphan and had no one to support him, so he had to inherit his father's business and enter Kaiyuan Temple in Haozhou as a little monk.

This renunciation became a turning point in Li Yu's fate. In the second year of Qianning (895), Huainan Jiedu made Yang Xingmi capture Haozhou and found the little monk Li Yu who had been shaved down. At that time, Li Yu was only seven years old, he looked like a tiger, very cute, Yang Xingmi liked him very much after seeing it, so he accepted him as a righteous son, and Li Yu was also a blessing in disguise and stepped into high society.

However, Yang Xingmi has many biological sons, and Li Yu is too handsome, so they will compare Yang Xingmi's other sons to nothing, so that they can't tolerate the existence of Li Yu, a handsome guy, and collectively reflect with Yang Xingmi that they want to drive Li Yu away. Yang Xingmi had no choice, so he transferred it to his general Xu Wen, and said to Xu Wen: "This kid is not an ordinary person. But my sons can't tolerate him, so they have to give him to you, so you can raise him as a son! So Li Yu was adopted by Xu Wen as an adopted son and renamed Xu Zhihe.

It is said that on the night that Xu Wen adopted Li Yu as his adopted son, he dreamed that the true dragon son beckoned to him. After waking up, he was overjoyed, thinking that this was an auspicious omen brought to him by Li Yu, so from then on, Xu Wen raised Li Yu as his own son.

After Li Yu became an adult, he was born seven feet long, with a big square face, and he spoke like a bell, which was intimidating from a distance, but it made people feel very cordial when talking at a close distance. His legs are very slender. Walking as fast as flying, even if he deliberately slowed down, the people next to him had to trot all the way to keep up, and after seeing it, a Xiangshi said: "This is called a dragon walking tiger step." ”

When Li Yu was 20 years old, Xu Wen hired Wang as his wife, and the relationship between the two was very good and very filial. If Xu Wen was sick, Li Yu and his wife would stay by Xu Wen's side from morning to night. I don't untie my clothes, and take care of them. Xu Wen woke up in the middle of the night. When he saw someone beside him, he asked, "Who is next to you?" Li Yu replied: "It's Zhihe." Xu Wen asked again: "Who else?" Li Yu replied, "Knowing the woman." So Xu Wen was very moved, and he regarded Li Yu as his own son.

That is, in the year when Li Yu got married, a major event happened in Huainan, that is, Li Yu's adoptive father Xu Wen teamed up with Zhang Hao to kill Yang Wu, the ambassador of Huainan Jiedu. and soon after killed Zhang Hao and took sole control of Huainan. In the second year (909), Xu Wen was appointed as the defense envoy of Shengzhou (now Nanjing) and the military envoy of the building. He asked him to train a naval army in Shengzhou, and soon after he was promoted to the deputy envoy of Shengzhou (equivalent to the current executive deputy assassin Shi).

Li Yu did a very good job in Shengzhou, pacifying the displaced people, organizing agricultural production, and reducing taxes on the peasants. He also clarified the rule of officials, dismissed a number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and carried out all the work of Shengzhou in full swing. Xu Wen saw it in his eyes, was happy in his heart, and paid more attention to Li Yu. Therefore, in the eleventh year of Tianyou (914), Li Yu was crowned as the inspector of the school, making him an important minister of the country. This year, Li Yu just turned twenty-six years old.

However, the more Li Yu did, the more dissatisfied Xu Wen's biological sons were with him, especially Xu Wen's biological son Xu Zhixun, who simply hated him to the core. Xu Zhixun is slightly younger than Li Yu, but he is Xu Wen's biological son, so he has always been cultivated by Xu Wen as a successor. However, Xu Zhixun is absurd, cruel, and arrogant. Xu Wen initially appointed him as the assassin of Xuanzhou (now Xuancheng, Anhui), and as soon as he took office, he began to scrape the land and expropriate the land in the jurisdiction, making the people in the territory miserable. Later, Xu Wen led troops to Jinling (Shengzhou Zhisuo, now Nanjing, Jiangsu), and transferred Xu Zhixun back to Guangling (now Yangzhou) to supervise Yang Longyan, so that he was in charge of military affairs.

This time, Xu Zhixun was even more lawless, bullying the generals with his power, and often insulting Yang Longyan, the king of Wu, so his popularity was very low, and his reputation was far inferior to Li Yu. Xu Wen was also very disappointed in what he had done, so he inevitably sent someone to warn him, and by the way, he introduced Li Yu's advanced deeds to him, so that he could keep up with Li Yu as soon as possible. But the final result was that Xu Zhixun not only did not learn from Li Yu, but became more and more intolerant of him, and began to deliberately dispose of Li Yu.

Once, Xu Zhixun summoned Li Yu to a banquet and drank alcohol, and secretly prepared to assassinate him on both sides. Li Yu was unprepared for this, thanks to Diao Yan, a close confidant under Xu Zhixun, he could see that Li Yu was definitely not an ordinary person in the future, so he secretly pinched him while pouring wine for him. Li Yu suddenly understood, got up and left, and escaped. Another time, Li Yu came to Guangling to meet Yang Longyan, Xu Zhixun took the opportunity to invite him to a banquet in Shanguang Temple, and wanted to take the opportunity to harm him, thanks to Xu Zhixun's younger brother Xu Zhizhi got along with Li Yu quite well, and told him to flee quickly. Xu Zhixun knew that Li Yu had escaped and hurriedly sent Diao Yanneng to chase after him, but after Diao Yanneng caught up with Li Yu, he just shook his weapon at him, and then returned automatically, allowing Li Yu to escape.

Although Li Yu turned the danger into a disaster several times in a row, he was still very passive by Xu Zhixun. Because Xu Zhixun is Xu Wen's biological son after all, and Li Yu is just Xu Wen's adopted son. If Xu Zhixun kills Li Yu, he will at most attract a scolding from Xu Wen. On the other hand, if Li Yu killed Xu Zhixun, how could Xu Wen tolerate him? Therefore, if Li Yu wants to kill Xu Zhixun, he must kill Xu Wen together. But the elite soldiers and fierce generals of Wu State are all in the hands of Xu Wen, and with Li Yu's strength alone, he can't kill Xu Wen no matter what. So you don't have to think about it, you can see that he and Xu Zhixun are fighting. It is simply impossible to win.

However, as the so-called auspicious people have their own natural appearance, since Li Yu has a square face, he is definitely not a short-lived person. Just when he was worried that he didn't know how to deal with Xu Zhixun, things suddenly changed unexpectedly, and Xu Zhixun was unexpectedly killed by someone else.

Xu Zhixun's death was purely his own fault. As mentioned earlier, Xu Zhixun has been transferred back to Guangling (now Yangzhou) since he was transferred. Growing arrogance. Every festival day, the palace feasts, Xu Zhixun has to set up the stage to sing and perform in person, and he also has to pull Yang Long, the king of Wu, to play the master, and let Yang Longyan wear tattered clothes to play his slave. Sometimes when I go out to play, I have to take King Wu as a companion, and I have to insult him at every turn. Just think about it. Xu Zhixun has this attitude towards Yang Longyan, how much better can he be to the ministers in the country? Therefore, the monarchs and ministers of Wu State all hated him.

Yang Long acted as a cowardly person, and after being angry with Xu Zhixun, he went home and cried even if it was over, and he didn't dare to resist at all, but not everyone was willing to swallow his anger like him. There was a general in the state of Wu named Zhu Jin, who was also one of the famous warlords of the late Tang Dynasty. He once served as the envoy of the Taining Festival of the Tang Dynasty and dominated the party. It was only later defeated by Zhu Wen that he fled to Huainan and took refuge with Yang Xingmi.

Zhu Jin is good at making a long lance and is famous for his bravery, so after he went to Huainan, Yang Xingmi was very important to him, and he personally went out of the city to greet him. And give a jade belt and a famous horse. And Zhu Jin also made great contributions to Huainan, when Zhu Wen sent Pang Shigu to lead an army to attack Huainan, and stationed troops at the mouth of the Qinghe River, it was Zhu Jin who led the troops to attack in the snow and night, and stabbed Pang Shigu to death. Later, he defeated the Bianjun army and made great contributions to Huainan (see Tu Tang Xiaoxiong Volume for details).

The relationship between Zhu Jin and Xu Wen is also good, when Xu Zhixun was young, he also learned martial arts with Zhu Jin, which can be regarded as a friendship between teachers and students. But after Xu Zhixun took power, he became unpopular, and he didn't pay attention to Yang Longyan, so he was no longer so respectful to Zhu Jin. In addition, Zhu Jin was the Pinglu Jiedu envoy (empty title) of Wu State at that time, Tongping Zhangshi, and the deputy capital of all provinces, and he was higher than Xu Zhixun in terms of name, so Xu Zhixun hated him very much. And Zhu Jin was a big man all over the world many years ago, so he couldn't stand Xu Zhixun's anger, and the contradiction between the two became deeper and deeper.

Zhu Jin has a very valuable horse, which is said to be able to travel thousands of miles a day without a trace in the snow. Zhu Jin regards it as a treasure. In winter, I was afraid that it would be cold, so I built a greenhouse for it, and in summer, I was afraid that it would be bitten by mosquitoes, so I covered it with precious thin sand. After Xu Zhixun heard about it, he asked Zhu Jin for it, but of course Zhu Jin refused to give it. At this moment, Xu Zhixun was furious, so he secretly sent assassins to assassinate Zhu Jin. It's just that the martial arts of the assassins he sent were still too far behind Zhu Jin, and as soon as they touched Zhu Jin's house, they were all killed by Zhu Jin. Zhu Jin knew that Xu Zhixun sent someone to do this, but he didn't make a noise, and of course Xu Zhixun couldn't take the initiative to admit it, so he passed it for the time being.

Not long after, Zhu Jin sent his maidservant to ask Xu Zhixun for peace, but as soon as he arrived at Xu Zhixun's house, he was raped. This incident made Zhu Jin resentful, thinking that this was Xu Zhixun's insult to himself, but he didn't attack it immediately. But a few days after this incident, Xu Zhixun made another small move, set up a Jinghuai army in Sizhou (now the north bank of the Huai River in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province), and appointed Zhu Jin as the envoy of the festival. The intention is self-evident, that is, to drive Zhu Jin out of the court. This time suddenly made Zhu Jin feel unbearable.

After Zhu Jin went out of the town of Sizhou, Xu Zhixun set up a banquet for Zhu Jin at home, Zhu Jin was very respectful on the surface, Xu Zhixun didn't feel that he had any deep hatred with Zhu Jin, and he was very proud of being able to drive such a big man out of the court, and the two of them drank and talked happily, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. Early the next morning, Zhu Jin came to Xu Zhixun's house to say goodbye, but Xu Zhixun was not at home at the time, and his family said to Zhu Jin: "The political minister (referring to Xu Zhixun) is in the white peony brothel, and I hope the prince can wait for a while." ”

Zhu Jin said: "I can't help but go hungry, and I will return." So he went back. After Xu Zhixun went home, he heard that Zhu Jin had come, and he felt sorry in his heart, and said: "I have been (worshiping) Jin at night." ”

In the evening, Xu Zhixun came to Zhu Jin's house, Zhu Jin greeted him, and said: "The public has won a big town for me, and there is nothing to repay, I am willing to thank him with horses." That is to say, he wants to give his famous horse to Xu Zhixun.

Xu Zhixun was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Xianggong went out of town, said goodbye to me for a while, and I can know that I am happy here." "That is, I want to drink something at Zhu Jin's house.

Zhu Jin also had this intention, so he invited Xu Zhixun into the inner room, Xu Zhixun didn't expect Zhu Jin to dare to poison him, so he left his entourage outside and went in with Zhu Jin alone.

Zhu Jin has two treasures, one is the BMW, and the other is his Aiji Tao, who is beautiful and can sing and dance. As soon as Xu Zhixun entered the inner room, Zhu Jin called Tao out to meet him. Xu Zhixun has also coveted this peach for a long time, and he was ecstatic after meeting, and hurriedly kowtowed back. At this moment, Zhu Jin was behind him, picked up the wat board, slammed it on his head, smashed it to the ground on the spot, and then cut off his head and rode to see King Wu.

At that time, there were still hundreds of Xu Zhixun's guards outside Zhu Jin's house, but no one would have imagined that such a thing would happen, and they were unprepared for it. When Zhu Jin came out, he rode a famous horse and carried a human head, looking majestic, and he actually frightened this group of guards into scattering. Zhu Jin didn't pay attention to them, Pegasus ran to the palace, presented Xu Zhixun's head to Yang Longyan, and said, "I have become the king, and I will eliminate a great evil." ”

When Yang Longyan saw that it was Xu Zhixun's head, he was immediately frightened, hiding his face and fleeing inward, shouting as he ran: "Uncle (Yang Xingmi's wife has the same surname as Zhu Jin) is responsible for himself, I don't know anything." Zhu Jin was furious and scolded: "The son of a slave is not enough to make a big deal." As he spoke, he threw Xu Zhixun's head on the pillar, drew his sword and broke out of the palace.

At this time, Xu Zhixun's subordinates had already reacted, closed the city gate, and began to search for Zhu Jin throughout the city. As soon as Zhu Jin went out, he saw a large number of soldiers who came to arrest him, so he had to turn back and climb over the wall from the backyard of the palace, but accidentally sprained his ankle when he landed. At this time, the pursuers were approaching, and Zhu Jin knew that there was nowhere to escape, so he turned back to those pursuers and shouted: "I will eliminate the harm for 10,000 people, and I will bear the consequences." After that, he swung his sword and killed himself, and died a heroic death.

This incident happened very unexpectedly, because although Xu Zhixun was arrogant, he did not force Zhu Jin to a dead end, if he went to Sizhou honestly to take office, nothing would happen. And the coup d'état he launched this time, without any preparation in advance, could not succeed at all, and it was probably impossible for anyone to do so. However, Zhu Jin is a face-saving person, and he has the spirit of a chivalrous warrior in ancient times, so he really killed Xu Zhixun recklessly, so that Li Yu was completely fulfilled. (To be continued.) )