In the fourth year of Changxing (933), Li Congrong took the opportunity of Li Siyuan's critical illness to take the lead in attack, and was defeated and killed, and the 67-year-old Li Siyuan also died of excessive fright. Li Siyuan's fifth son, Li Conghou, the king of Song, succeeded to the throne as Emperor Min. After Li Conghou ascended the throne, he respected Empress Cao as the empress dowager, and Hua Jiansha as the imperial concubine.

Li Conghou was ashamed of his flowers, and he interfered too much in court politics and was deliberately cold to her. Four months later, Li Congke killed Emperor Min and replaced him as the last emperor.

Once, Li Congke put wine in the courtyard of the concubine's palace, and Hua Jian raised his glass and said: "I am willing to resign from the emperor and become a monk." ”

Li Congke asked what it was, and Hua Jian said ashamedly: "Little Li Congyi, if you don't allow it, then on the day he dies, what face will I have to see the first emperor!" Tears flowed from his eyes. Li Congke was also saddened, and since then she has been treated preferentially to her mother and son. Li Congke only served as the emperor for less than three years, and was ousted by Shi Jingjiao.

When the soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty came to attack, Li Congke gathered his people to self-immolate. Zhenhua said to the Empress Dowager Cao calmly: "The matter is urgent, but it is not hopeless, why not hide for the time being?" ”

Empress Dowager Cao, who already had the belief that she would die, decided to sacrifice her life for righteousness, and said calmly: "Our Li family has reached this point, I can't bear to be an only child, my sister take care of herself!" Empress Dowager Cao and Li Congke both died of self-immolation, and Hua Jiansha and Li Congyi's brothers and sisters were able to escape because of their strict hiding.

The catastrophe did not die, and the flower was ashamed of Shi Jingjiao's gain, and once again invited himself to be a nun. Shi Jingjiao respected Hua Jian's shameful character, and felt that leaving her life might be able to buy people's hearts, so he moved his mother and son to the Degong Palace and forgave her. When the later Jin moved the capital to Bianliang, he took her mother and son with him.

In the fourth year of Tianfu, Shi Jingjiao was the temple of the Later Tang Dynasty, and Li Congyi was named the Duke of Xun Guogong to preside over the Temple of the Later Tang Dynasty. After Yelu Deguang led a large army to break through Bianliang, in order to save the innocent people from being burned by the soldiers, he was ashamed to see Yelu Deguang.

Jerod admired the flower and was ashamed of his character. After seeing the portrait of Mingzong, he burned incense and knelt down, and said to Hua Jianshy: "Mingzong and I are about brothers, and you are my sister-in-law." He then ordered the three armies not to disturb the people, let alone kill innocents indiscriminately.

He also asked Zhao Yanshou to marry Li Congyi's sister as his wife, and named Li Congyi as the envoy of the Zhangxin Army. Cold-eyed and indifferent to the changes of the country, the flowers like a marquee were ashamed, and Li Congyi thanked him politely, and returned to Luoyang with his son.

After Yerod's return to the north. Leave Xiao Han to garrison the beam. At this time, the baton of the five generations has been passed to Liu Zhiyuan. Liu Zhiyuan set up troops in Taiyuan, and the momentum was quite large.

Xiao Han was weak-hearted and wanted to withdraw his troops to the north, taking a fancy to the appeal of Hua Jiansha and Li Congyi, and wanted Li Congyi to be the puppet emperor of the Central Plains, so as to contain Liu Zhiyuan.

Li Congyi and Hua were ashamed that the mother and son did not agree, and fled to the Huiling Domain to avoid the envoy. The envoys still found them, forcing Li Congyi to become acting emperor. Li Congyi sat on the Chongyuan Palace. Accept the Khitan generals led by Xiao Han and the later Jin ministers.

The ministers entered the palace and saw the concubine Hua was ashamed, and Hua was ashamed and said: "Our family is lonely and weak, and we are forced by Xiao Han, is this a blessing?"

I don't think the catastrophe is far off! So Wang Song and Zhao Shangjiao were the left and right prime ministers, Li Shi and Zhai Guangcheng were the privy envoys, and the Khitan general Liu Zuo was the commander of the guards and pro-army, Xiao Han left 2,000 Khitan soldiers for Liu Zuo to command, and the rest retreated.

When Liu Zhiyuan supported his troops to the south. Li Congyi sent people to summon Gao Xingzhou, Wu Xingde and other feudal towns to resist Liu Zhiyuan's army. They would not come. Li Congyi had no choice but to consult with Wang Song, command the Khitan soldiers, and close the city to defend himself.

Hua Jian was ashamed and said: "Our family is the descendants of the fallen country, how dare we fight for the world with others!" So he sent someone to meet Liu Zhiyuan.

Liu Zhiyuan heard that Li Congyi had wanted to resist before, so he sent the general Guo Congyi into Daliang to kill the mother and son. Hua saw that his face was shameful, and he angrily reprimanded Guo Congyi and said: "What is the crime of my mother and son? Why didn't you spare my son's life? So that he eats cold food every year and respects filial piety to Mingzong? ”

But Guo Congyi couldn't, so he could only be executed by order. In fact, Li Congyi was not a threat to Liu Zhiyuan at all, Liu Zhiyuan was not wise, he could have treated Hua Jiansha's mother and son like all the previous conquerors to win a good reputation. Li Congyi was only 17 years old when he died. Hanami is 42 years old.

Hanami was one of the most legendary beauties of the Five Dynasties period. She has experienced the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin and Later Han, and has witnessed the rise and fall of almost all dynasties in the five dynasties. Born in a commoner family, she yearns for a life as plain as water, and because of her natural popularity, she can't help but be involved in the vortex of power full of bloody killings.

In the years of fire, she tried to use her generosity to save her life, although she looked down on power, fame, and profit, and pious to the Buddha several times, but it was difficult to fulfill her wish, and finally it was inevitable to die.

This is not only her personal tragedy, but also a tragedy unique to troubled times. This only responds to an idiom: born at the wrong time. There is also a saying: heroes can be born in troubled times, but beautiful women are better born in prosperous times.

Pingding Hebei

At the beginning of the Later Han Dynasty, the regime was only maintained in the area of present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi, and the Hebei region was still under the control of the Khitan. Weizhou has Du Chongwei, Hengzhou has the Khitan general Ma Da, and Xiangzhou is the Khitan's Zhangde Festival envoy Gao Tangying.

The reason why Du Chongwei is in Weizhou can be traced back to the Shi Jingjiao period. At that time, Zhenzhou An Chongrong rebelled, Shi Jingjiao ordered Du Chongwei to go to crusade, Du Chongwei successfully quelled the rebellion, so he was named the envoy of the Chengde Army.

Later, the Later Jin Dynasty and the Khitan turned against each other, the Khitan attacked the Jin State for many years, and the cities of Chengde were captured one after another, Du Chongwei did not want to sit still, but he also did not want to die and break the net, so he asked the emperor to transfer back to the court one after another, and then hurried back to Beijing without waiting for the emperor's consent.

Later, Du Chongwei surrendered to the Khitan, but Yelu Deguang still let him serve as the guard of Yedu. After that, Du Chongwei led the surrendered Jin army to Daliang with Yelu Deguang.

Then the rebels rebelled and cut off the pontoon bridge in Shanzhou, and Yelu Deguang sent Du Chongwei back to Yedu (Weizhou).

After the death of Yelu Deguang, Yelu Wu, the king of Yongkang, wanted to gather the ministers of the Han Dynasty in Hengzhou (now Zhengding, Hebei) and announced that he had forged the legacy system and established himself as the emperor. With the Anguo Festival, Ma Da stayed in Zhongjing and guarded Hengzhou; ordered Du Chongwei to remain the envoy of the Tianxiong Festival and guard Weizhou; Ordered the former Wuzhou assassin Shi Gao Fengming to be the envoy of the Anguo Festival and guard Xingzhou.

Then he left all the civil and military officials and soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty in Hengzhou, and returned to the desert with the palace people, eunuchs, and music fangs. Mada was the younger brother of Yelu Deguang, who was greedy and cruel.

In Hengzhou, there are two things: where there are rare treasures in the people, we must try to get them, and where there are stunning beauties in the people. It must be forcibly occupied.

He also arrested villagers indiscriminately, framed them as robbers, and then skinned them, gouged out their eyes, cut off their hands, and burned them alive, hoping to use these tortures to deter the people.

He often carried those torture instruments with him, and the surroundings of the room were full of people's livers, gallbladders, hands and feet. And he eats and lives in it, talking and laughing freely. He was afraid that the Han people in the city would sneak away, so he often said to the guards of the city gates: "If any Han person spies on the city gate, cut off his head and come to me!" ”

Previously, Yelude Guang ordered Wang Jihong and Du Yu Hou Fan Hui to lead their men and horses to guard Xiangzhou, and Zhangde Jiedu made Gao Tangying treat them very well. Armor food will be given away.

When Gao Tangying heard that Liu Zhiyuan was going south, he sent an envoy to surrender, but the envoy had not returned. Wang Jihong and Fan Hui killed Gao Tangying. Wang Jihong, claiming to be the queen of his stay, sent an envoy to tell Liu Zhiyuan that Gao Tangying was capricious and could not be trusted. So Liu Zhiyuan ordered Wang Jihong to stay in Zhangde, and appointed Fan Hui as the assassin of Cizhou.

When Gao Fengming heard that Gao Tangying had been killed, he was uneasy, so he asked Ma Da to ask the acting Ma Budu to command Liu Duo to be the deputy envoy of the Jiedu to preside over the affairs of the military government, and he returned to Hengzhou.

Some people say that Zhao Yanshou is dead.

Guo Wei said to Liu Zhiyuan: "Zhao Yanshou's son Zhao Kuangzan was appointed by the Khitan. Now that we are still in the river, we should send messengers to pay our respects and sacrifices. And he used him again, and transferred him to the town. Now that he has no home and no country to return to, he will definitely be grateful to Dade and obey His Majesty's edict. ”

Liu Zhiyuan followed his advice. It was at the time that Du Chongwei and Tianping Festival made Li Shouzhen come to Shun with his watch.

Du Chongwei also tentatively requested to be transferred to other feudal towns. On July 13, Liu Zhiyuan took the opportunity to transfer Du Chongwei as the envoy of the Guide Festival, and ordered Gao Xingzhou, the original envoy of the Guide Festival, to replace him; Li Shouzhen was ordered to be the envoy of the National Protector Festival, and Zhao Kuangzan was appointed as the envoy of the Jinchang Festival.

Du Chongwei has defected to the Khitan and betrayed the Central Plains. He was often suspicious and uneasy in his heart, and when the order to transfer him to Guide and Jie Du was issued, he was afraid that at this time, the imperial court's plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, and refused to accept it. So he sent his son Du Hong to Mada as a hostage in exchange for Khitan reinforcements.

Then. Zhao Yanshou had 2,000 Youzhou soldiers stationed in Hengzhou, led by the commander Zhang Lian, and Du Chongwei asked the Khitan to send them to help hold Weizhou. Mada sent the general Yang Gon to lead 1,500 Khitan men and Youzhou soldiers and horses. intercalary

On July 18, Liu Zhiyuan ordered Du Chongwei's official title to be stripped of his official title, and sent Gao Xingzhou as the envoy and Murong Yanchao as the deputy envoy to Zhenning Jiedu, and sent troops to attack Du Chongwei.

Ma Da sent an envoy to Zhaozhou to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, and Xue Huairang, the defense envoy of Zhaozhou, heard that Liu Zhiyuan had entered the main beam, so he killed the envoy and led the whole state to surrender. Liu Zhiyuan sent Guo Congyi to lead 10,000 troops to attack Liu Duo's army in Xingzhou with Xue Huairang. Liu Duo asked Ma Da for help, and Ma Da sent the general Yang An and the former Yiwu Jiedu envoy Li Yin to lead a thousand cavalry to attack Zhaozhou.

Xue Huai let the city be encircled and defended, Yang An and others attacked the city, and the troops wantonly looted the Xing and Wei areas. At that time, the Khitan had less than 2,000 soldiers and horses left in Hengzhou, but Ma Da asked the relevant officials to pay 14,000 people and put the excess income into his own pocket.

Ma Da often doubted the Han soldiers, and thought that they were useless, so he gradually reduced the Han soldiers, and reduced their food supply while left, and distributed the saved grain to the Khitan soldiers.

He Fujin, the former defense envoy of Yingzhou, and Li Rong, the commander of the control crane, secretly contacted dozens of strong men in the army and planned to attack the Khitans, but they were afraid that the Khitan troops were still strong, so they hesitated and did not launch an operation.

Just in time for Yang Gon, Yang An and others to lead their troops out to fight, there were only more than 800 Khitan soldiers left in the city, so He Fujin and others made an appointment to ring the bell in the Buddhist temple as a signal for the incident.

On the 29th, the Khitan lord wanted to send cavalry to Hengzhou, and summoned Feng Dao, the former envoy of Weisheng Jiedu and Zhongshuling, Li Song, the privy envoy, and Zuo Servant and Ning to bury Yelu Deguang in Muye Mountain. Feng Dao and the others hadn't yet hit the road, and when they were eating, the bell suddenly rang. The Han soldiers seized the weapons of the Khitan guards and began to rise up, killing more than a dozen people, and then rushed into the palace.

Li Rong took the lead in occupying the arsenal, summoned Han soldiers and citizens, distributed weapons and armor to them, and led the crowd to fight against the Khitan soldiers.

After hiding in the curtains of other houses, the officers and soldiers of the uprising cut down the curtains with sabers and dragged his arm, Bai Zairong had no choice but to rebel with them.

Other Han generals arrived one after another, and the surrounding fireworks soared into the sky, and the sound of shouting and killing shook the ground. Ma Da and the others were greatly frightened, loaded with money and treasures, took their families, and fled to Beicheng to refuse.

However, the Han soldiers lacked unified command, greedy and cunning looting, and timid rats hiding, and never completely captured Beicheng.

On the first day of the eighth month, the Khitan army marched into the city of Hengzhou from the north gate, and the momentum was reinvigorated, and 2,000 Han people were killed.

Li Gu, the former Cizhou assassin, was afraid that the incident would not succeed, so he invited Feng Dao, Li Song, and He Ning to the front of the battle to comfort and encourage the soldiers.

At sunset, thousands of villagers shouted outside the city to rob the Khitans of their gold and silver treasures and women.

Ma Da, Liu Xi, and Cui Tingxun all fled to Dingzhou and made peace with the Yiwu Jiedu envoy Wuhui Lang.

Everyone unanimously elected Feng Dao as the envoy of the festival, Feng Dao said: "I am a scholar, I can only report things to the top, and I should choose to stay behind from all the generals." At that time, Li Rong had the greatest credit, and Bai Zairong's official position was above him, so he asked Bai Zairong to preside over the affairs of the posthumous affairs, write a chapter and report it, and ask for reinforcements. Liu Zhiyuan sent Zuo Feilong to make Li Yan lead the troops.

Bai Zairong is greedy and ignorant, and he is suspicious of other generals. Wang Rao, the lord of the Fengguo army, was afraid of being annexed by Bai Zairong, so he pretended to have a foot disease, occupied the east gate tower, and took strict precautions. Si Tianjian Zhao Yan and Wang and Bai were all friends, and they were persuaded back and forth to reconcile.

Bai Zairong thought that Li Song, He Ning and others had been prime ministers for a long time, and their families were rich, so they sent soldiers to surround the house of the two and ask for a reward, Li Song and He Ning couldn't, so they had to take out their own family wealth and distribute it to them, but Bai Zairong wanted to kill the two to kill them.

Li Gu reproached him and said: "The country is ruined, the monarch is humiliated, and you have the power of the army and do not save it."

Now that a Hulu general has just been driven away, and nearly 3,000 people have died in Zhenzhou, is it just your strength! As soon as you got out of the realm of death, you want to kill the prime minister, if the new emperor investigates you for the crime of killing the minister, what words will you use to answer? Bai Zairong stopped.

He also wanted to loot the people's money to supply the army, but because Li Gu fought hard, this was counted. Among the Han people, who had confessed to Ma Da, Bai Zairong arrested them and demanded property, and the people of Hengzhou called him "Bai Ma Da" because of his greed and tyranny.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Yang Gon and Yang An returned north on the same day, and Li Yin and Liu Duo led the army to surrender. On the ninth day of the first month, Liu Zhiyuan appointed Xue Huairang as the envoy of the Anguo Festival. Xue Huairang led the troops to Xingzhou, falsely claiming that he wanted to enter the city to inspect, Liu Duo opened the city gate to welcome him into the city, Xue Huairang killed Liu Duo, in order to recover Xingzhou to report. (To be continued.) )