After he surrendered, he did not frown and be depressed all day long like some kings who had lost the country, but made a happy appearance to alleviate the suspicion of the Song lord.

I live a chic life, and others can rest assured when they look at it. Liu Gang is also very able to please the emperor of the Song Dynasty, when he first entered the Great Liang, Zhao Kuangyin asked him to blame, blamed him for not being in power, tyrannical expropriation, and should not burn the treasury before the country was broken, Liu Gang knelt down unhurriedly and quibbled: "The minister is sixteen years old and usurped, he doesn't understand anything, everything is decided by Gong Chengshu and others." When the minister is in the country, the minister is the minister, and Cheng Shu is the lord of the country. ”

Zhao Kuangyin has always been courteous to these fallen kings, and he has no intention of seriously blaming them, and after listening to them, he laughed, but ordered Gong Chengshu and others to be beheaded, and Liu Gang was pardoned, and he was also named "Marquis of Grace".

On the eve of Zhao Guangyi's expedition to the Northern Han Dynasty, in order to make a strong appearance, he specially feasted these dead monarchs in the palace, Liu Gang stood up and raised a glass during the banquet and said: "Your Majesty Welling Hehe, the lord of the Quartet who steals the throne, has been seated in the table today, and tomorrow he will send troops to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty, and Liu Jiyuan will also return to the court in the near future." The ministers are the first to come and surrender, and please allow me to hold a wooden stick and send the king to the king for the kingdoms. ”

As soon as these words fell, the hall was full of uproar, and even Zhao Guangyi, who had always been known for his majesty, couldn't help but be provoked by him to look up and laugh.

Liu Gang died in Daliang in the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty (980), at the age of 39, which cannot be regarded as a long life, but because he was not suspicious, the quality of life was relatively high. Compared with him, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was also the king of the dead country, was far less lucky.

Although the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is short, it is an era of heroes. For decades, the emperor will be the prime minister. Talented and beautiful, shoulder to shoulder. Each for a while.

But if asked, among these top people. Who is the most sad and unforgettable in the following thousands of years, the answer is undoubtedly Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who is known as the "generation of heroes".

Li Yu, whose name is Chongguang, was born in the first year of the Southern Tang Dynasty (937), and was the sixth son of the lord Li Jing. As mentioned earlier, Li Yu's father, Li Jing, is a very alternative emperor.

On the one hand. He is a recognized benevolent monarch who treats his parents with filial piety, treats his brothers as relatives, treats his ministers with leniency, and shepherds the people with benevolence.

But on the other hand, he has no skills in governing the country, no way to resist the enemy, and he is not clear about people and things. Coupled with his cowardly thoughts, he is almost an out-and-out faint king.

An emperor like Li Jing is already very rare, but when it comes to Li Yu. has further upgraded, he not only fully inherited all the genetic information on Li Jing's body, but also gave a comprehensive transcendence.

Li Yu is the same as Li Jing. Since childhood, he has been obsessed with literature and art, and he is interested in the pursuit of power. He was the sixth son of Li Jing. But four of the first five brothers died, so in fact, Li Yu is the second son of the lord Li Jing. Naturally, he is the second heir to the throne.

However, when Li Yu was young, he was always indifferent to politics, and only entertained himself by reading, or made friends with some scribes, which was not at all like the style of a prince.

Li Yu's only surviving elder brother, named Li Hongji, is Li Jing's eldest son, who has some literary talent and martial arts, and is also very ambitious.

In March of the first year of Jiaotai in the Southern Tang Dynasty (958), Li Jing issued an order to change the name of the year, and Li Jingsui, the emperor's younger brother at that time, was ashamed because of repeated defeats against the Hou Zhou, so he took the opportunity to connect with ten seals, asking to return the canonization of the emperor's younger brother, and asked Li Hongji to be the crown prince.

Unexpectedly, Li Hongji is still very characteristic of the five generations, as soon as he was made the crown prince, he was afraid that the succession to the throne would be threatened by his uncle, so he immediately sent someone to poison Li Jingsui with wine. For Li Yu, Li Hongji is also very vigilant, on the one hand, because Li Yu also has the status of a prince, and he is the second heir to the throne after Li Hongji. On the other hand, Li Yu's appearance is extraordinary, with a wide forehead, plump cheeks, teeth, and heavy pupils in one eye.

Double pupil is a very rare physiological phenomenon, that is, there are two pupils in one eye, and their edges are connected, which looks like a horizontal "8".

Although the heavy pupil looks terrible, it was regarded as a symbol of great wealth and nobility at the time, it is said that the ancient Ming monarch Yu Shun is the heavy pupil, and the overlord of Western Chu Xiang Yu is also a heavy pupil, so those who have a double pupil are destined not to be ordinary people. In the entire Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, only two people had a heavy pupil, one was Liu Zhiyuan's younger brother Liu Chong, who had become the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty at that time.

The other is Li Yu, naturally he will not do nothing, so Li Hongji is very suspicious of him, and he is afraid that he will rob him of the throne.

However, things in the world seem to be really difficult to figure out, those who want to be emperors can't be right, and those who don't want to be emperors must be right.

A few months after Li Hongji was named the crown prince, he suddenly fell ill and died, and Li Yu suddenly became the first heir to the throne, and was therefore named the king of Wu.

After more than a year, Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny in the Central Plains, the Northern Song Dynasty opened the country, Li Jing because he did not want to live under the nose of the Song army, so he moved the capital to Nanchang the following year, called the southern capital, so he officially established Li Yu as the prince and ordered him to stay in Jinling to supervise the country. Less than half a year later, Li Jing died in Nanchang, and Li Yu naturally succeeded to the throne in Jinling. This year, he was only twenty-five years old.

Li Yu's succession to the throne was very smooth and not accompanied by thrilling political struggles, but the external situation he faced was really difficult to be optimistic. At this time, it had been nearly two years since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the internal situation had basically stabilized, and it was eyeing the Southern Tang Dynasty.

In the eastern and southern directions, the two regimes of Wu Yue and Hunan also bowed to the orders of the Northern Song Dynasty, which together constituted a threat to the Southern Tang Dynasty. In this grim situation,

If Li Yu wants to continue the national ancestry, he must do everything possible to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and strive to improve his national strength as soon as possible to resist foreign aggression.

However, Li Yu did nothing about it, but whimsically pinned his hopes on the mercy of the enemy, which was tantamount to conspiring with the tiger.

As soon as Li Yu succeeded to the throne, he immediately sent Feng Yanlu, a Chinese scholar, to Daliang to present 2,000 taels of gold, 20,000 taels of silver, and 30,000 horses of Shaluo painting to the Northern Song Dynasty. He was informed of the seizure of the throne and other matters, and indicated that the old system would be continued. He was a vassal to the Northern Song Dynasty. Soon, Zhao Kuangyin gave an edict to reply. He also sent the privy councillor Wang Wen to congratulate him on the throne.

This was the first diplomatic relationship between Li Yu and the Northern Song Dynasty, and the weak part of his character was immediately expressed.

Earlier, although Li Jing had been declared a minister to Hou Zhou, he only had the title of last year, and the rest still used the king's gift. However, in order to show his piety, Li Yu took the initiative to change into a purple robe to meet the Song envoy, and during the meeting, he was always low-minded and honestly afraid. tried his best to be wronged, and it was not until after the Song envoy left that Li Yu dared to change back to the yellow robe.

After that, every New Year's Day, or when the royal and princely ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty encountered red and white things, Li Yu had to send a large number of treasures as congratulatory gifts, and he did not dare to slack off.

In the years that followed when Li Yu became emperor, Zhao Kuangyin commanded the Song army to attack from all sides. He successively conquered Jingnan, Hunan, Houshu and other countries, and made great efforts to govern and reform internally, which not only made the national strength flourish, but also completely eliminated the turmoil caused by the division of feudal towns since the end of the Tang Dynasty. The momentum for domination is very clear.

Looking at Li Yu on the other hand, he did almost nothing except blindly curry favor with the Northern Song Dynasty. The country's strength is declining.

By the fourth year of Kaibao (971), the Northern Song Dynasty had conquered the Southern Han Dynasty. The Hanyang garrison, which began to garrison troops in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, directly threatened the independence of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Li Yu was terrified. Hurriedly sent his younger brother Zheng Wang Li Congshan to pay tribute to Daliang with a large number of treasures, and comprehensively derogated the ritual system, requesting that the Southern Tang Dynasty be renamed Jiangnan, calling himself "the lord of Jiangnan", and changing the seal of the Southern Tang Dynasty to the seal of Jiangnan.

However, these works are all superficial articles, after all, Li Yu is still the emperor of one side, and Zhao Kuangyin will naturally not stop because he is tame.

But fortunately, the Song army had just conquered the Southern Han Dynasty, and the soldiers were tired and needed a certain amount of time to rest, and Zhao Kuangyin himself looked down on Li Yu very much, only as if he was the meat on the board, he could cut it whenever he wanted, so he was not in a hurry for a while, so he agreed to this matter, but he refused to let Li Congshan return to China.

At this time, Li Yu was even more panicked, so he began to carry out image projects in Jinling, and ordered to change the "edict" to "teaching", change the Zhongshumen Province to the left and right internal servants, change the Yushitai to the Sixian Mansion, the Hanlin Academy to the Art and Culture Museum, change the Privy Council to the Guangzheng Yuan, etc., and change the names of all the main government departments to avoid the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Southern Tang Dynasty was founded for many years, and the imperial palace was built very magnificently, and the scale was not reduced because of the submission to the Central Plains, and there were many special things for the emperor.

In the past, in order to show his submission to the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Yu ordered people to remove these objects whenever the Song envoy came, and then put them out when the Song envoy left.

In addition, Li Yu also demoted his sons and made all those who were crowned kings dukes, but all this was to no avail, at most he changed his fate from death to death, but he couldn't change the final result.

In fact, there was no shortage of loyal people in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and many people had offered advice to Li Yu in an attempt to change the passive situation faced by the country, such as Lin Renzhao, the general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was a typical representative.

Lin Renzhao is more than six feet tall, with a majestic physique, and a tiger-shaped pattern tattooed on his body, so he is called "Lin Huer".

Lin Renzhao fought bravely, fought bravely, and after being promoted to general, he still did not forget to share weal and woe with the soldiers, so he was very prestigious in the army. After the Southern Tang Dynasty ceded the fourteen states of Jiangbei to the Northern Dynasty, Lin Renzhao was depressed and angry, and always planned to recover his homeland.

After the Northern Song Dynasty set out to conquer the Southern Han Dynasty, he saw that the defenders of the Huainan Prefectures were only about 1,000 soldiers, and felt that the opportunity had come, so he offered a plan to Li Yu: "The garrisons of the Huainan states are empty, and the Song army has been fighting with troops year after year, first destroying Jing and Hunan, and then cutting down Houshu, and now sending troops to the Southern Han, going back and forth for thousands of miles, and the soldiers are exhausted, it is a good time to defeat them."

I ask Your Majesty to give me tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, cross the river and recover the lost city, and I will be able to reverse the decline in one fell swoop. ”

And said: "If Your Majesty is worried that he will not succeed, on the day I send out the army, he will pretend that I have led an army to rebel, and if things are not good, he will kill my whole family to show that this matter has nothing to do with the imperial court." ”

This is a bold and realistic idea, if it succeeds, the passive situation of Nantang can be reversed immediately, not to mention that Lin Renzhao has already taken the risk factors into account when he offered the plan, and he did not hesitate to gamble with his whole family, his intentions are not sincere, and it stands to reason that Li Yu has no reason to refuse. However, Li Yu was timid and cowardly by nature to the extreme, and after hearing this, he was frightened and shocked, and hurriedly stopped him and said: "Don't you talk nonsense, do you want to harm me and destroy my country?" ”

Li Yu couldn't recognize Lin Renzhao's loyalty, but Zhao Kuangyin could see it clearly, so he wanted to get rid of this strong opponent in advance. In the fifth year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (972), Li Yu sent an envoy to the court, and Zhao Kuangyin took out the portrait of Lin Renzhao who had been secretly painted in Jiangnan in advance and hung it in another room, deliberately led the envoy to see it, and asked: "Do you know who this person is?" The envoy naturally recognized it and replied, "It is Lin Renzhao who stayed in the southern capital of the lower country and served in the middle." Zhao Kuangyin said: "Oh, sure enough, it's him, a few days ago he sent an envoy to say that he intended to surrender, afraid that I wouldn't be able to recognize his appearance, so he specially ordered someone to send a portrait." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a mansion outside and said, "Since he is willing to surrender to the imperial court, I am relieved, and the mansion over there will be given to him to live in!" After hearing this, the envoy was frightened, and after returning home, he hurriedly reported the matter to Li Yu.

In fact, Zhao Kuangyin's plan was not clever, but Li Yu was really confused, and in order to prevent Lin Renzhao from colluding with the Northern Song Dynasty, he actually gave dove wine to poison Lin Renzhao to death.

Lin Renzhao's death was entirely Li Yu's self-destruction of the Great Wall, and he had done this kind of thing more than once. Pan You, the inner history of the Southern Tang Dynasty, is also a person who dares to speak out, quite a minister in ancient times, Kaibao six years (973 years), Pan You saw that the Southern Tang Dynasty was declining, and the monarchs and ministers did nothing, so go on,

I was afraid that it was not far from the death of the country, so under the grief and indignation, he connected seven seals, and his words became more and more fierce each time, accusing Li Yu of not thinking about cheering up, and the ministers of the court and the central government were also vegetarian, scolded the monarch and ministers over and over again, and said that they would resign and not do it.

Li Yu was very generous, although he was angry, he did not blame him for this, but just dismissed him from his post and went to the National History Museum to study national history.

Unexpectedly, this time Pan You was completely enraged, and immediately presented the eighth seal, this time the intensity of the rhetoric has reached the extreme, scolding Li Yu for "trying to hide the treacherous and evil, and bending the appearance of hypocrisy, so that the family and the country are stunned, like the twilight." ”

He also said, "In ancient times, there were Ji, Xuan, and Sun Hao, who broke the country and ruined the family, and did their own crimes, which were still laughed at by the ages." Now Your Majesty will take it back and ruin the country, it is Your Majesty who is the king, not as far away as Ji, Xuan, and Sun Hao! Finally, he said: "The minister is a noble man, and he cannot mix with the traitorous minister, and the king of the country who has died is willing to be killed to thank China and foreign countries." Not only did he threaten him with death, but he also belittled Li Yu worse than Ji and Xu. (To be continued.) )