In March, Zhu Youning and Shi Shucong defeated Li Keyong's army who came to the rescue, and captured Li Keyong's son Li Yanluan alive, and Li Maozhen's reinforcements were cut off. In April, Kang Huaiying defeated Fu Daozhao again. Defeated again in June, and defeated again in July.

I can't beat it, I can't run it, Li Maozhen just cowered in the city, let you all kinds of humiliation and shouting to break your throat, anyway, I am as steady as Mount Tai, immovable, and ignore everything.

I'm not afraid that you will play a horizontal role, but I am afraid that you will play a scoundrel, Zhu Wen has no choice now, seeing that the siege is protracted, Zhu Wen can't stand it, and wants to withdraw the army, and the soldiers also persuade him to withdraw the army.

At this time, a person stood up, this person was Zhu Wen's "righteous grandson" Gao Jichang, he raised a different opinion, saying: "The heroes of the world, we have been observing us for a whole year, and now the enemy has been trapped, I hope we can wait for a while,

Annihilate them. Zhu Wen was aroused by him, so his confidence was greatly increased, and he asked him if he would come out. Gao Jichang offered a plan: "Li Maozhen wants to clear the wilderness and consume our food.

Let's just plan and send people into the city to spread rumors, saying that we have run out of ammunition and food, everyone is homesick, Li Maozhen will definitely sneak attack, and we can break it in one battle. ”

Zhu Wen agreed. So Gao Jichang found the dead soldier Ma Jing, and Ma Jing said: "There is death and no life in this battle,

I hope you can take care of my wife and children. Zhu Wen pretended to stop him, Ma Jing was determined to die, and he couldn't pull it, so the wind was sluggish and the water was cold.

Ma Jing entered the city and never returned. After entering the city, Ma Jing lied to Li Maozhen and said: "There is no food in Zhu Wen's army to satisfy hunger, so we have come to surrender to you, the king."

Now Zhu Wen has returned east with the main force of the Bian's army, leaving only 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled to stick to the camp, and these people will flee tonight. The opportunity is rare, I hope the king will not miss it. ”

Li Maozhen was overjoyed when she heard this. Looking forward to the stars and the moon, I finally hope that the plan of clearing the wilderness will succeed. So that night, he gave his best and flew out of the banner and rushed straight to the Bianjun camp.

Zhu Wen saw that Li Maozhen got on the fish hook, beat the drum as a trumpet, and the tens of thousands of Bianzhou troops who had been ambushed killed like a frenzy, and the Fengxiang army was in chaos, trampling on each other, and countless people were killed by the Bianzhou army.

Li Maozhen had no choice but to return to the city again. Li Maozhen was defeated. But the ending of the little man Ma Jing is not recorded, in the troubled times,

Life is not worth a penny at all, countless little people exist to realize the ideals and ambitions of big people, as for their life and death, no one cares, and no one cares.

In November, another support force, Li Zhoujun, was stationed in northern Qizhou, intending to support Li Maozhen. Li Maozhen was not happy for long, and Li Zhoujun was taken by Zhu Wen because of the emptiness of Dunzhou and withdrew his army. At this time,

Qizhou City has been trapped for more than a year, and Li Maozhen's grain and grass have long been exhausted. From winter to spring, there was a lot of rain and snow, and more than 1,000 people starved and froze to death in the city every day. Although Tang Zhaozong is the Son of Heaven,

But he didn't enjoy the treatment that an emperor deserves. I got a small mill in the palace, and grinded some beans and wheat like a little donkey every day. Then he boiled it into porridge and drank it, so that he had no strength at all. Three or four people also died every day.

The people are even more miserable, and the phenomenon of cannibalism is not uncommon. Li Maozhen couldn't hold it any longer, and after discussing with Tang Zhaozong, he beheaded more than 20 eunuchs including Han Quanyu.

gave their heads to Zhu Wen outside the city, and at the same time Tang Zhaozong also gave them to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen withdrew his troops to the east with the emperor in hand.

This unexpected confrontation with Zhu Wen greatly damaged Li Maozhen's vitality, and his territory was not only taken away by Zhu Wen, but Wang Jian of Shu also took advantage of the fire to rob him.

Strip him of a lot of territory. Since then, Li Maozhen's troops have almost been exhausted, and his arrogant wings can no longer vibrate. He was afraid that Zhu Wen would use this excuse to crusade against him again, so he also asked to remove his title of Shang Shuling.

20. Forced the young Tang Zhaozong

In ancient China, there was a profession that was extremely dangerous and had a very high mortality rate, but many people wanted to do it, and this profession was the emperor. People often see the emperor's very dragged side, high up, want the wind to be windy, want to rain and rain, play whoever they want, rectify whoever they want, and kill whoever they want, but ignore the fact that when the emperor often dies, he often hangs up accidentally. There are also many ways to die, and there are many tricks, specifically: son killing, father killing, uncle killing, mother killing, wife killing, brother killing, grandmother killing, grandfather killing, father-in-law killing, soldier killing, close minister killing, eunuch killing, captive killing, suicide and so on. How many emperors did China have? According to the official history, it does not count Nanyue, Dali, Nanzhao, Gaochang, Bohai, Northern Liao, Tuyuhun, Qarakhanid Dynasty, Uighur Khanate,

The kings and khans of remote ethnic minorities such as the Chagatai Khanate, starting from Qin Shi Huang, are counted as all the regimes that have been in contact with the Central Plains and are therefore called Emperor Jian.

There were a total of 427 emperors, including 3 in the Qin Dynasty, 31 in the Han Dynasty (including Liu Xuan, the "First Emperor", and Liu Penzi, the "Emperor of the Founding World"), 1 Xinmang, 13 in the Three Kingdoms, and 18 in the Jin Dynasty.

65 in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, 5 in the Sui Dynasty, 22 in the Tang Dynasty (including 1 in the "Wu Zhou"), 13 in the Five Dynasties, 18 in the Song Dynasty, 10 in the Liao Dynasty, 10 in the Jin Dynasty, 10 in the Western Xia,

18 in the Yuan Dynasty, 16 in the Ming Dynasty, and 12 in the Qing Dynasty, a total of 265. In addition, smaller dynasties, such as the 5 Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms 82, and the (5 Dynasties) 10 Kingdoms 41, the 388 ranks.

There are also 4 in Western Liao, 19 in the Northern Yuan, 3 in the Southern Ming, and then counting the "Emperor Xu Tianshou" Yu Wenhua, "Emperor Shengwu of Great Yan" An Lushan father and son, "Emperor Shuntian of Great Yan"

Shi Siming father and son, Emperor Huang Chao of the Great Qi, Li Zicheng of the Great Shun Emperor, Zhang Xianzhong of the Great Western Emperor, Wu Sanguizu and Sun of the Zhaowu Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty,

and the father and son of Hong Xiuquan, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Yuan Shikai, the Hongxian Emperor who was only the emperor for 83 days, etc., adding up to a total of 427. Although these emperors all asked others to call them long live, and not even a year old, the reality is that

There is no one who can live past 100 years old. According to records, among the emperors, the longest-lived Emperor Qianlong was 89 years old, 5 lived over 80 years old (including 80), and 10 lived over 70 years old.

There are 38 who have lived to be 60 years old, 62 people who have lived to be 50 years old, 55 people who have lived to be 40 to 49 years old, and 62 people who have lived to be 30 years old to 39 years old. The rest are all under the age of 30, and there are 29 doll emperors under the age of ten. So addition, subtraction, multiplication and division do the math.

Less than 13% of Chinese emperors lived longer than 60 years, and as many as 60% lived less than 40 years. The average life expectancy is far lower than the national average for the same period, not to mention, the mortality rate is also higher than the national average, it seems that His Majesty the Emperor, in this regard,

You are dragging the feet of the people of the whole country. Therefore, when a person is ambitious and goes through a lot of hardships to win the title of emperor, it means that his life begins to enter the countdown.

Perhaps the happiest thing to do every day as an emperor is to wake up early in the morning and slap himself a few times. It's a joy to find out that you're still alive.

Despite this, the emperor is still the most desirable profession for many people, and there is no one. In order to "get over the emperor's addiction", some people are willing to die even if they succeed to the throne.

There are also people who want to realize the emperor's dream, and they have to work hard if they have the conditions, and they have to go if they don't have the conditions to create conditions. Since ancient times, more than 60 emperors have been killed in China, accounting for 15% of the total number of emperors.

And since one person attains the Tao and the whole family ascends to heaven, then correspondingly, one person is unlucky. The whole family will also follow to heaven, and once the emperor is pulled down from the altar,

Most of the direct royal families will suffer with it. For example, "Emperor Shengwu" An Lushan was called emperor for one year and four days, and was assassinated in bed by his son An Qingxu. Blood and intestines flowed out of the abdomen several times, and An Qingxu worked on the spot. Dig a pit under its bed,

Planted the old man overnight. "Emperor Shuntian" Shi Siming was also killed by his eldest son Shi Chaoyi and his generals, and before he died, he shouted Shi Chaoyi's name three times.

He said, "Just imprison me, don't kill my father!" Shi Chaoyi didn't bother to take care of him, you are not a monarch or a minister, what does it matter if my father is not a father and son,

What's more, since we have all come to this point, that is, either you die or I die, since I don't want to die,

Then I'm sorry, I can only let you die, so I tied up his old man and strangled him without blinking, his face was not white, and his heart was not beating cleanly.

Later, Shi Chaoyi was pursued by the Tang army and was forced to commit suicide. And other people who have been beheaded in order to become emperors, those who have cut off their children and grandchildren, those who have been incognito, and those who have become slaves are not a few.

Unfortunately, today's protagonist Tang Zhaozong is very pitiful to become one of these hard-working people, before starting, let us bow to the north three times, and mourn our hard-pressed young Tang Zhaozong with an extremely sad heart.

Emperor Xizong had a total of eight brothers, he was the fifth son of the emperor, when he was critically ill, his son was still young, and the sixth and seventh sons of the emperor were qualified to compete for the throne.

The sixth son of the emperor, King Ji Li Bao, was an old man, virtuous, and a potential stock, and was very marketable among the ministers, so when the heir to the throne was agreed, the ministers of the court and the central government mostly advocated supporting Li Bao.

The seventh son of the emperor, Shouwang Li Jie, was born to the same mother as Xizong, and Xuzong repeatedly fled, and Shouwang repeatedly fled, and the two brothers never gave up, life and death followed, and Xizong relied on him very much.

Of course, none of this actually makes much sense. At the critical moment, the privy envoy eunuch Yang Fugong stood up and strongly supported Li Jie, the king of life. The eunuch went out of the horse, one on top two.

So Yang Fugong proposed to invite Xizong, at this time Xuzong was already dying and couldn't speak, and when he saw that the eunuchs supported Li Jie, he nodded slightly and agreed. So in March of the first year of Wende (888), Li Jie, the king of Shou, was appointed as the emperor's younger brother.

Supervise military and state affairs. On the same day, Liu Jishu, a lieutenant of the Shence Army, led the forbidden troops to welcome King Shou and placed them in the Shaoyang Courtyard.

The physique is pure, heroic, and they all celebrate people privately". The next day, the happy young man Tang Xizong closed his eyes, kicked his legs, and drove the crane to the Western Elysium.

So the emperor's younger brother Li Jie took the throne, changed his name to Min, and when he ascended the throne, he changed his name to Ye, which is the Tang Zhaozong we will introduce in this chapter.

Tang Xizong is gone, he has played everything he should have played in this life, and he has eaten everything he should eat.

Everything that should be done has been done, and even what should not be done has been done, and when the family business is almost ruined, he patted his ass and left.

When I was leaving, I guess I was still thinking in my heart: Lao Tzu is worth it in this life. He has no regrets, but he left all his regrets to future generations. When Shojong receives the job,

The machine of the empire is in a state of devastation, a mess, and a pile of broken copper and iron, and it is Zhaozong's responsibility to clean up this pile of rags so that this broken machine can run again.

Can Zhaozong really do it? Whether he could or not, he did his best. After Zhaozong listened to the government,

Studying conscientiously, paying attention to Confucianism, respecting ministers, and having the ambition of reorganizing the rivers and mountains, commanding the world, and restoring the foundation of the ancestors. At this moment, Zhaozong was full of spirit and majestic spirit, which left a good impression on people, and people praised him as "having the legacy of Huichang".

Huichang is the name of Tang Wuzong Li Yan, during the reign of Wuzong, appointed Li Deyu as the prime minister, pacified the town, demolished the Buddhist temple, confiscated the temple land, and resumed production.

Expanded the source of taxation, consolidated the centralization of power, and was known as the king of Zhongxing. can get such an evaluation of Huichang's legacy, it can be seen that many people still had high hopes for Zhaozong at that time.

However, the reality is that in the imperial court, the eunuch dictatorship is corrupted, and the local feudal towns are bigger, but the tail is bigger. Faced with this situation,

Zhaozong realized that the main reason for all this was that the imperial court did not have an armed force sufficient to deter the princes, so the feudal towns had their own troops. Due to the time of the Emperor,

The Central Forbidden Army has been completely destroyed. Therefore, soon after Zhaozong ascended the throne, he saved money and used the money saved from his teeth to recruit troops and horses, expand the forbidden army, and finally won 100,000 people.

I want to win the world with martial arts. Now that the knife has been sharpened, Zhaozong looks around, intending to find a target to try his hand at the knife.

At that time, Wang Jian attacked Pengzhou, and Chen Jingxuan led troops to rescue, but the two sides were at loggerheads, thus interrupting the tribute to the imperial court.

Wang Jiansui used this as an excuse to ask the imperial court to send troops to attack Chen Jingxuan.

Here is a brief introduction to the two protagonists:

Wang Jian, the word light map, now Henan Shenqiu people, when he was a teenager, he was a scoundrel, often doing some slaughtering cattle and donkeys and selling smuggled salt, and the villagers called him "the eighth king of thieves".

During the Huangchao Uprising, the king of thieves eight surrendered to the army and belonged to the loyal army. When Chang'an fell, he loyally escorted him, known as the "Five Capitals with the Driver", and was one of the eight loyal military generals.

The eight generals are Lu Yanhong, Han Jian, Wang Jian, Li Shitai, Zhai Cong, Zhang Zao, Li Jian, and Jin Hui. Later, Wang Jian was named the envoy of the Xichuan Festival and the assassin of Bizhou by Tang Xizong, and Tian Lingzi also accepted him as his adopted son. After Emperor Xizong returned to Chang'an, he was promoted to the general of the Imperial Forest Army. In the second year of Guangqi (886), Xizong fled to Xingyuan and appointed him as a "Qing Dao envoy".

Since then, the cleaner Wang Jian has swept away the fallen leaves with the courage of the autumn wind, expanded everywhere, and swept away all obstacles that did not obey him.

Chen Jingxuan was originally just a big cake maker.

He has two younger brothers, one is named Chen Jingxun, this person can be ignored directly.

The other has been a eunuch since he was a child, and was adopted by a eunuch surnamed Tian, and eventually grew into a more famous eunuch surnamed Tian, I believe everyone guessed that this person is Tian Lingzi.

Although Tian Lingzi is a member of the Tian family, his heart has always been the heart of the Chen family, and he has developed.

never forgot to give his brother Chen Jingxuan an errand, so he asked Chen Jingxuan to serve under Cui Anqian, the envoy of the Loyal Army, but Cui Anqian refused. (To be continued......)