As soon as the palace gate burned, thick smoke billowed out, sparks splashed everywhere, and crackled. The palace is in chaos, and Chang'an is in chaos. In this chaos, there are those gangsters who take the opportunity to smash and rob. Zhaozong hurriedly came down from Chengtian Tower and hid in Li Yun's house, not daring to make a sound. Li Maozhen saw that the time had come, and personally came to rob the Son of Heaven. Seeing this, Zhaozong hurriedly went out of the south and fled all the way out of the city under the protection of the guards.

Zhaozong saw that there were people running away all the way, crying and crying, lost and separated, dead and dead, and wounded, and his heart was not a taste. Hundreds of thousands of people followed the emperor out of the city, all the way in misery, all the way embarrassed, all the way away. They came to a place called Taniguchi before they stopped. So many people stay in the mountains, some in the mountains, some in the ravines. There are too many people and I can't drink water. According to historical records, one-third of the population died of thirst, and countless others died of starvation.

At this time, Li Keyong sent someone to comfort the emperor, and the emperor could only use this robber to let him send troops to Huazhou. Because Li Keyong heard that Li Maozhen had led troops to rob the Son of Heaven, he had no choice but to abandon Huazhou and go to Weiqiao near Chang'an. Huazhou is in the area of Weizhou, Shaanxi, Zheng County in Qin, and more than 100 miles east of Chang'an.

When Li Maozhen heard that Li Keyong sent troops, she was scared again, and she was afraid of being defeated and arrested by Li Keyong. What to do? He's a terrible man, and of course there's a way. Tell someone to top the black cauldron. He called Li Jipeng, killed him in an instant, and passed on the head of the capital to plead guilty.

Who knows, Zhaozong ordered Li Keyong not to attack Li Maozhen, and also forgave his sins! He asked his two sons to worship Li Keyong as brothers. Li Keyong was promoted to the position of Suining to recruit envoys from all sides, which was a temporary official set up during the war to deal with Li Maozhen. Such. Zhaozong took a breath for a moment.

Li Keyong was summoned by Zhaozong and took his son with him. Zhaozong saw that Li Cunqiao was very smart. He is a very sunny child. Zhaozong was very happy, took his hand and said. Little Lizi, you must not forget the country when you grow up. This year, Li Cunqiao was eleven years old.

At this time, Li Keyong asked the imperial court to issue an edict to announce Li Maozhen's crime. Zhaozong waved his hand and disagreed. He wanted Er Li to reconcile. Zhaozong values Li Keyong, but is worried about Li Keyong. In order to win people's hearts, Zhaozong sent beautiful women to him. This beauty is Mrs. Wei Guo, surnamed Chen, and she is the best harem. The emperor gave his wives and concubines to his courtiers. Not in history.

Li Maozhen harassed the Tang Dynasty at most at this level, while Li Keyong and Zhu Wen were different. Such a pair of mortal enemies in front of Zhaozong now are the most nerve-wracking for the imperial court. In 896, Zhu Wen asked the imperial court to use Zhang Jun as the secretary of the military department, but Li Keyong strongly opposed it. He said that if Zhang Jun is used, he will send troops to the palace on the same day! The two were incompatible, laying the groundwork for Li Keyong's son Li Cunqiao to seize power from Zhu Wen's son Zhu Youzhen.

Tang Zhaozong was already anxious to deal with Li Maozhen, a bad person, and he had to deal with such a complicated relationship. If you think about it, you also know that Zhaozong's life is sad.

In April 896, when there was a flood, Zhu Wen dug up the Yellow River and flooded Li Keyong's Huazhou in Henan. "For the sake of harm". Huazhou is in Anyang City, and it is very close to Lankao, where Jiao Yulu is the secretary of the county party committee.

In the autumn, Li Maozhen sent troops to the Beijing Division. Zhaozong had no choice but to flee to Juzhou. Now Fu County, Shaanxi Province, is more than 100 miles away from Chang'an in the south. Fuxian is Xi Jinping's hometown. Li Maozhen led his troops into Chang'an. "Since the neutralization, the palace room. The market is burned to the brim". This is Li Maozhen's second bloodbath in Chang'an.

Seeing Zhaozong leave the capital, all the festivals in various places treated Zhaozong as Tang monk meat: Yang Xingmi asked the emperor to move the capital to Jianghuai, and Wang Jian asked the emperor to go to Chengdu. Li Keyong saw that Chang'an was seized by Li Maozhen, and Zhaozong was relocated, and said with emotion, if he listened to him last year, how could there be today's catastrophe!

Judging from the historical facts, Zhaozong did not understand what he was wrong with. I always think that having a good prime minister can solve the problem. "The people of Sedage do not use it", and it is impossible to let the prime minister play a role in that kind of powerful society. Can Du Jean not be a good prime minister? but he was killed. It's not that the prime minister is useless, it's that Zhaozong himself is useless.

An official, Zhang Daogu, who is the right to pick up the relics, said it well: The country is in five dangers and two chaos, and His Majesty has been at the pole for ten years, and now the first dynasty has been in a few fefdoms. These few words are already very faceless to the Son of Heaven. What made Zhaozong most angry was the following sentence: I don't know the way to be a monarch and a minister. Zhang Daogu was demoted to Shizhou as a household.

There is an expert who studies Mao's poetry, named Zhu Pu, who said very awesomely that if he is the prime minister, he can make the world peaceful in a few months. The emperor really used him, because he was indeed a person who was "mediocre and secluded, and had no other strengths", and when the news came out, China and foreign countries were surprised.

At this time, Zhu Wen saw that the time was ripe and asked the emperor to go to Luoyang. Zhu Wen's personal power was mainly centered in Bianzhou, Henan. In this history, it is called "Bianzhou soldiers", which are Zhu Wen's soldiers. He sent troops to blackmail Zhaozong into doing what he said.

It is not the Son of Heaven who commands the courtiers, but the courtiers who command the Son of Heaven. Zhu Wen is not a loyal minister, a rebel, a conspirator who defects to the imperial court for a while, waiting for an opportunity to steal power, and a traitor. This point was particularly serious in the Zhaozong Dynasty. With the residual power of his ancestors, the Emperor did not let those courtiers be so rampant. Zhu Wen relied on his merit in suppressing Huang Chao, acted recklessly, and had long had different ambitions. He wanted to use Cui Zhaowei's nemesis Cui Yin as the phase, but Zhaozong had no choice but to let this bad guy into the phase.

However, Cui Yin has been repeatedly dismissed, all because of Zhu Wen's support. He has worshiped the prime minister four times, and the time name is "Cui Siren". In 901, he sent a letter to Zhu Wen, asking him to send troops to meet him. The eunuch Han Quanzhi first abducted Zhaozong and went to Fengxiang to seek refuge with Li Maozhen. In 904, Zhaozong was controlled in Fengxiang for three years, and under the influence of Zhu Wen, he returned to Chang'an. Cui Yin persuaded Zhu Wen to kill the eunuchs, and he appointed himself to sentence the six armies and twelve guards, and planned to build another forbidden army. The following year, this man was finally killed by Zhu Wen.

Even a despicable villain like Qian Hao (who killed Dong Chang, who had cultivated him) also wrote a book, and seeing that the time had come, he forced Zhaozong to make him an observer in eastern Zhejiang. Zhaozong had no choice but to make him the envoy of Zhenhai Weisheng Festival.

There are judges, secretaries, and pushers. The secretary in charge of secrets, the position is a little lower, but the status is very high. The pro-soldiers of the festival envoy are called the hall capital, for example, Yang Shihou under Zhu Wen of the Later Liang Dynasty served as the Tianxiong festival envoy, and there were thousands of silver spears to serve the festival. "Du" is the army number.

The gas is exhausted

In 900, Zhu Wen arrived in Daliang, which was later Kaifeng. This trip to Kaifeng. Very rewarding. He got a call from a person, and this person was named Li Zhen. I'll talk about things related to him later.

At this time. The two strongest forces outside the imperial court are Zhu Wen and Li Keyong. Zhu Wen and Li Keyong competed for Hedong, which is now Shanxi. Wang Ke, the general of Hedong, is Li Keyong's son-in-law. Wang Ke is Wang Chongrong's son, strictly speaking, a nephew. Because Shanxi is adjacent to Shaanxi, and Tongguan is very close to Chang'an, Zhaozong heard the news and was very worried about Zhu Wen's entry into the customs. He hurriedly issued an edict asking Li Keyong to reconcile with Zhu, but Zhu Wen was unwilling. Zhu Wen was powerful and had ambitions to overthrow the government, but of course he was unwilling. The problem is that Li Keyong is too late and has no strength to save Hedong, and Hedong is in danger. Wang Ke had no choice. wrote to Li Maozhen, hoping that he would come forward, so that Tongguan would not be lost.

mentioned Li Maozhen earlier, this person has no ambition, no righteousness, and is very selfish, he doesn't help. If he helped Li Keyong, Zhu Wen's power would not develop so quickly. Li Keyong may be able to realize his wish to become emperor in his lifetime. Under such circumstances, Wang Ke had no choice but to surrender to Zhu Wen. In order to save Wang Ke, Li Keyong wrote a letter to Zhu Wen and asked for reconciliation. This is something that Lick has never used. Zhu Wen didn't agree, but still killed Wang Ke. Zhu Wen and Li Keyong could no longer sit together, and the hatred between the two deepened.

The emperor appointed Zhu Wen as the envoy of Xuanwu, Xuanyi, Tianping and the four towns of Huguo. Zhu Wen asked Zhaozong to go to Luoyang, the eastern capital. Li Maozhen wanted the emperor to go to Fengxiang. At this time, not to mention the emperor's order, he did not leave the capital. Even in the palace, no one listened to the emperor. None of the eunuchs moved away.

Han Quanzhu heard that Zhu Wen was going to kidnap the emperor to the eastern capital, and he ordered Li Jiyun to prepare to kidnap the Son of Heaven to Fengxiang. The emperor wrote to Cui Yin: He is for the sake of the sect's plan. You must go to Fengxiang, and you must go with it. Obviously, Zhaozong was very afraid of Zhu Wen. At the end of the letter, Zhaozong added the words "melancholy, melancholy". It seems that he has no choice but to choose Li Maozhen among the two wolves of Zhu Wen and Li Maozhen.

Li Jiyun robbed many things in the inner treasury, gold and silver treasures, fabrics, magic objects, and so on. Han Quanzhu sent people to send the kings and palace people to Fengxiang, in fact, he was ready to move the capital.

And Zhu Wen hurried to the river, that is, Tongzhou (Dali County) in Shaanxi, and asked the emperor to Luoyang. In contrast, everyone was even more afraid of Zhu Wen, after all, he had followed Huang Chao for a while and looked at him as a grass coward. Therefore, Sima Guang described the scene at that time as follows: "The capital was horrified, and the people fled to the valley."

On this day, the hundred officials did not enter the court, and there was no one in front of the palace. Li Jiyun blocked the gate of the palace and forbade people from entering and leaving. It was already November, and it was snowy and cold. The common people lacked food and clothing, and their clothes were very thin. There were no clothes to wear, and even books were torn off and sewn into clothes. The streets of Chang'an are full of people in paper clothes, wailing in one place, starving in one place, and mourning all over the wilderness. Chang'an is like a tired old man, several times hungry, several times frozen, several times frightened, fell to the ground, I am afraid that he will never be able to get up again.

In front of Han Quanzhi Chen Bing Palace, he said to Zhaozong that Zhu Wen wants to kidnap you to the Eastern Capital, and then ask you to pass on the throne. Everyone, please go to Fengxiang's side.

Zhaozong disagreed. He took the sword and climbed the Qiqiao Tower, and Han Quanzhi chased after him. The two stood upstairs for a moment, and Han Quanzhu forced him to go down. Zhaozong had no choice, to the Shouchun Palace. At this time, someone was already setting a fire in the yard.

This day is the winter solstice, and the emperor is written in the "Zizhi Tongjian": "Sitting alone in the ideological and political hall, one foot is crossed, one foot is dry, there are no ministers in the court, and there are no waiters beside him." "My life is so sad! A helpless, sad and lonely son of heaven, how desolate. If Li Shimin had a spirit in the sky and knew that his descendants were so hasty, he would definitely not fight the world.

After a while, the emperor came out of the ideological and political hall in a panic, and got on the horse with more than 100 people from the queen, concubines, and kings. When the people of Chang'an heard that the emperor had left the city, their cries and wails were terrible in the cold wind, tearing at this magnificent ancient city.

Zhaozong was forced to leave the capital in this way, and he was sad all the way. The emperor did this, and Emperor Han Xian was not so bleak back then. What's more, his ancestor Tang Xuanzong, and later Tang Xizong left Beijing in a hurry, and "Zizhi Tongjian" did not write like this. Judging from these changes in words, Sima Guang was very sympathetic to Zhaozong's suffering, and he looked at Xuanzong and Xuanzong coldly, which was a change in attitude and an increase in color at the emotional level.

Li Maozhen picked up the driver on the road and dismounted to comfort the Son of Heaven. Within a few days, I arrived in Zhouzhi County and left Chang'an Baijiaoli Road.

At this time in China, the situation of "there is no son of heaven in Beijing, and there is no prime minister in the car", the Tang Dynasty is exhausted, and the building is about to collapse.

Cui Yin persuaded Zhu Wen to welcome the Son of Heaven, and Zhu Wen agreed and sent troops west.

What will happen to the two competing for the Son of Heaven? Who wins and who loses, there will be an explanation below.

The front foot of the Son of Heaven has reached Fengxiang, and Zhu Wen's back foot has reached Chang'an. Li Jizhao, who stayed in Chang'an, handed over his 8,000 soldiers to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wenbing soon went to Fengxiang City and talked to Li Maozhen. Li Jizhao is the Sun Dezhao who killed Liu Jishu before the first day of the Lunar New Year and rescued Zhaozong, who was under house arrest. More on this in the next chapter.

Li Maozhen knew that she couldn't deal with Zhu Wen, so she asked Li Keyong to send troops to help. Li Keyong sent 5,000 troops, not to rescue Li Maozhen, but to deal with Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen asked the officials and people to move to Huayang and Huaxian counties. Li Maozhen asked Han Quanzhu to send more than 20 classes of envoys to Yang Xingmi to ask for troops and coerce Zhu Wen from behind. Yang Xingmi is in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, if he is willing to contribute, it will definitely cause trouble to Zhu Wen. But these envoys were all killed by Zhu Wen's men on the way.

At this time, Wang Jian stood on Zhu Wen's side and wanted to crusade against Li Maozhen; But on the surface, Li Maozhen insisted and promised to help him. Sending 50,000 troops, claiming to welcome the Son of Heaven, was actually attacking Li Maozhen's Shannan prefectures, that is, the area of Hanzhong in Shaanxi.

Why did Wang Jian support Zhu Wen? Li Maozhen and Wang Jian were originally sons and daughters, because Wang Jian's daughter couldn't bear her husband's hooligan habits and dissolved the marriage contract. The in-laws have become enemies, and this is the reason. This matter will be described in detail in the chapter on Wang Jian.

Children and grandchildren were killed

Confucius once pointed to the surging water on the river and said to his students, "The deceased is like a husband." Time always goes by like this, but the days of the Tang Dynasty are getting worse and worse. By 897, it was a very sad year for the Li Tang Dynasty. The conflict between the envoys of Guanzhong intensified, and Han Jian and Fengxiang Jiedu made Li Maozhen and Pizhou Jiedu made Wang Xingyu raise troops to attack Chang'an. Later, Han Jian turned his face with Li Maozhen again, welcomed Tang Zhaozong in Huazhou, and also wanted to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, if his father hadn't scolded him, he would really have a naïve emperor dream. Zhaozong named him the Zhongshu Order, the envoy of Gyeonggi to pacify the system, and the envoy of Jing Zhaoyin and the capital of Beijing. (To be continued......)