This unambitious, but very rude, and stupid guy thought to himself, you Zhu Wen escaped, then clean up your guards first. He gathered the whole army and poured out of the hole. The momentum, thousands of troops and horses, flags all over the field, people and horses neighing, spectacular very. It seems that just like Shang Rang, the prime minister of Zheng Jin's fight against Huangchao, there were some big movements in the west of Shaanxi, at the foot of Qishan Mountain, and the birthplace of Zhou Tianzi.

When Zhu Wen heard the news, he was secretly happy and laughed at Li Maozhen. He ordered the soldiers to wait, and waited for Li Maozhen to throw himself into the net! Li Maozhen is like a fattened pig, waiting for Zhu Wen to slaughter. He also sent hundreds of people to guard the gate of Fengxiang, and when Li Maozhen's soldiers arrived, hundreds of battalions came out, and drove the troops to chase after them, such as driving pigs and sheep, killing and chopping indiscriminately. Li Maozhen was dumbfounded, knowing that he had been deceived, but he lost his ground, "killing and wounding himself". Sima Guang made a mockery of Li Maozhen in just seven words.

Li Maozhen was unwilling to fail and sent troops again, but of course he fled and returned to the city in defeat. Zhu Wen recruited Feng Xiangjun, and Feng Xiangjun knew that there was no way out with Li Maozhen, so he planned to climb down from the city wall. Some use ropes to climb down, some let people out of the city take ladders down, and they use any method, and so on. The number of soldiers who escaped was innumerable. Li Maozhen knew that his soldiers had a secret agreement with Zhu Wen, and if he didn't make any more moves, he would escape. Therefore, the defensive area was changed and the number of troops was increased to strengthen the defense. Zhu Wen's soldiers braved the snow to attack Li Maozhen's Duncheng, and the city and the city scolded each other, you scolded the "thief who robbed the son of heaven", and he scolded the "thief who robbed the son of heaven". Two crooked people, a war of words, like a three-year-old child, but they both scolded correctly.

In winter, after Zhu Wen's toss, Fengxiang City was in a depression. "Heavy snow, the city is exhausted. The number of people who die of cold and hunger is incalculable; or lying down before death has been chopped by others. Selling human flesh in the city is a hundred dollars. Dog meat straight five hundred. Maozhen served the imperial meal with dog meat. Sell clothes for use. "Zizhi Tongjian" uses these words, like an old man who witnessed the scene of the year, to make an objective and cold description to the reader.

Fengxiang City has reached the point of exhaustion. Tang Zhaozong was killed and did not deserve sympathy; The common people are miserable, and they are very compassionate.

In December, Li Maozhen could not support it and sent someone to negotiate peace with Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen agreed to his surrender and changed his name to Zhou Yi. His original name was Song Wentong, and the name Maozhen was given to him by Xizong.

At this time, Li Maozhen's territory was divided between Zhu Wen and Wang Jian. Shannan Prefecture belonged to Wang Jian, and the towns of Guanzhong belonged to Zhu Wen. He had to sit in the lonely city. Sitting on the oil lamp, I thought back to the members of my life's evil deeds.

Li Maozhen lost power, and it was difficult to coerce the Son of Heaven to expand the power between them. He was worried that the imperial court would settle the crime with him, so he put the blame on Han Quanxue, saying that he was the mastermind. Judging from what he did, he lacked nothing, but he lacked virtue. This person has no responsibility, no shame, and is as cunning and ferocious as a wolf. Political life is thus exhausted by the oil lamp.

Zhaozong listened to Li Maozhen's words, killed Han Quanzhu, and beheaded sixteen people, including Li Jizhu and Li Yanbi. Li Maozhen did not hesitate to betray his hard-working old friends and subordinates. Wash away the dirt from your body. He sent someone to follow his Mrs. Zhao Guo to the Zhuwen barracks, and took the heads of Han Quanyu and others, his face was not red and his heart was not beating. said that the responsibility is all these sixteen people: "I have always threatened to keep the car and drive, and I am afraid of sin." I don't want to be harmonious, it's all like this. He also asked the Son of Heaven to come forward and say: "Now I and Maozhen are determined to punish him." Qing Ke told the monarchs to dispel the anger of the people. At the moment when his political life was in danger, he swam through the blood of his subordinates. Officials, there are some brazen people in history, but Li Maozhen is the most shameless.

However, Zhu Wen felt that Li Maozhen still didn't understand his hatred for killing his subordinates. Of course, Li Maozhen saw it, so he told Zhaozong that it was Cui Yin who provoked Zhu Wen to attack Feng Xiang. If Zhu Wen didn't attack Fengxiang, the emperor wouldn't be so embarrassed. He asked Zhaozong to summon this person, intending to shift the blame to others in order to ease Zhu Wen's attack on him. So, he repeatedly urged Cui Yin to go to Fengxiang. Where will Cui Yin go? He is not stupid, how can he give Li Maozhen, an old thief, a backdrop?

Li Maozhen has no strength, who will pay attention? Li Maozhen had no choice, so she wrote a letter herself, the wording was very humble and low. Cui Yin didn't go.

Zhu Wen also summoned Cui Yin to his garrison in Tongzhou, that is, Dali County. Dali County is in the north of Weinan City, about 300 miles away from Chang'an in the south. He asked Cui Yin to prove that he attacked Fengxiang out of helplessness, because Zhaozong was in Fengxiang and attacked Fengxiang, and he had a reputation for bullying the king. Cui Yin didn't go, Zhu Wen said that he didn't know the Son of Heaven, and he had to be a prince to distinguish right from wrong. There are needles hidden in the cotton, and there are words in the words, playing the hooligan spirit of the streets and alleys of Xiao County back then. Cui Yin knew that Zhu Wen was a hooligan villain, and if he didn't die, it would be even more ugly if he didn't die, so he went to Tongzhou.

Zhu Wen was not polite to Li Maozhen, and attacked Feng Xiangbing when he had time. Zhaozong saw that he tore up the peace talks and took military action without authorization, and there was no Son of Heaven in his eyes, so he was very angry and blamed him. In fact, Zhaozong is just hanging the banner of Tiger Pila, and now Zhu Wen still can't listen to your teaching? He is no longer a little gangster on the streets of Xiao County, and now he has a straight waist! In order to show the prestige of the world, the imperial court ordered the killing of seventy-two Fengxiang officials. Zhu Wen killed 90 Fengxiang officials on his own without the permission of the imperial court. After the liquidation, the Son of Heaven arrived at the Zhuwen military camp. More than 160 officials who were guilty and innocent lost their heads under the influence of Zhu Wen and Li Maozhen. At this time, Zhaozong had no tricks to protect his courtiers.

Seeing Zhaozong, Zhu Wen pretended to knock his head and cry, looking old. Zhaozong knew that Zhu Wen was a first-class actor, and he also cried pretendedly. He flattered Zhu Wen and said, Zongmiao Sheji, it's all up to you. The rebirth of him and the Tang Dynasty clan depends on your full loyalty. After speaking, he personally untied the jade belt and gave it to Zhu Wen. After a few days, we arrived in Xingping, less than 100 miles east of Chang'an. It seems that Zhaozong did not go to the garrison camp of Zhu Wen in Dali County.

When he was about to arrive in Chang'an, Zhu Wen pulled the reins of the emperor and cried as he walked. After walking more than ten miles in this way, he let go of the horse's reins. People who saw this scene thought that Zhu Wen was a great loyal minister.

When he arrived in Chang'an, Zhu Wen took the opportunity to kill more than 700 people, including the fifth eunuch Kefan. The fifth is one of the common people's family names, which existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and the tenth surname. Not all eunuchs are bad, it is obvious that Zhu Wen is a villain. In those two days, "the voice of injustice" in Chang'an City was inside and outside.

This time, Zhu Wen got a lot of capital: the Son of Heaven awarded the "Meritorious Hero of Returning to Heaven and Rebuilding Loyalty". Got the post of deputy marshal. Soon. Before returning to Bianzhou, he left his nephew Zhu Youlun as the escort commander. In order to monitor the movements of the Son of Heaven. Zhu Youlun is the son of his second brother Zhu Cun. Later, during a stroke of play. He accidentally fell off his horse and died. Zhu Wen thought that Cui Yin had harmed him, so he killed Cui Yin. This is a later matter, so let's not press it for the time being.

There is a similar story in history: in 307 BC, King Wu of Qin rose very quickly because he liked to compare strength, Hercules Mengshu, Wu Xu and Ren Contempt. One day, in a competition with Hercules Wu and Ren Contempt, he was "desperate and coaxed", that is, overexerting force, and King Wu of Qin suddenly died. Outcome. "Clan Meng said, "Family."

On the day he left, the emperor gave a banquet in Yanxi Building, and wrote a poem "Willow Branches" to Zhu Wen. Zhaozong's literary brilliance is the same as that of his grandfather Xuanzong, which is very outstanding.

Regarding the eunuchs, Sima Guang used more than 500 words to accuse those eunuchs of their hateful and hateful faces, as well as their crimes of persecuting the prime minister and ministers and endangering the country.

Emperor Tang Ming violated Taizong's regulations and reused eunuchs, and Li Fuguo when he arrived at Suzong. Think of the Son of Heaven as a ragged shirt discarded aside. and Cheng Yuanzhen and Yu Chaoen at the time of Daizong persecuted the veterans Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, and Fugu Huaien. Later, Qiu Shiliang, Tian Lingzi, Yang Fugong, and Han Quanzhi were even more arrogant and regarded the Son of Heaven as their protégé. Even Xiaotaizong Xuanzong, who was very admired by Sima Guang, could only open one eye and close one eye to the eunuchs. The dangers of eunuchs. caused Xizong to flee to Sichuan twice, which made Li Maozhen feel disobedient. Later, Wei Zhongxian of the Ming Dynasty was regarded as a great eunuch, and he was nine thousand years old. But when Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he destroyed him. In the Tang Dynasty. Wei Zhongxian can be said to be just a janitor.

To put it simply, eunuchs began with the Ming Emperor. Prosperous in Su, generation, into Dezong, extremely in Zhaozong. Sima Guang used the words of the Book of Changes, "Walking on frost and ice" to summarize the reasons for the decline of the Tang Dynasty. This means that the control of the central power by the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty was not formed in a day or two. He reminded the rulers: "Those who defend the country should be careless about the beginning"!

As mentioned earlier, the emperor went to Huazhou, and Zhu Wen asked the emperor to move to Luoyang. The emperor didn't agree, but Zhu Wen had already asked Zhang Quanyi, who was the cuckold, whose original name was Zhang Zongxiu, to wait in Luoyang Palace. It was only a matter of time before the capital was moved to Luoyang. Huazhou is in the east of Weinan City, close to Shanxi.

By this time, that is, in 902, the Zhuwen climate had been established, and Zhaozong's edicts often became a dead letter. Zhaozong was forced, and sent someone to reward Zhu Wen, give Zhu Wen the surname Li, and ask him to recognize his brother with Li Maozhen. Zhu Wen thinks it's funny, and now I want you to give me a surname? Again refused.

Forced to leave Beijing

In 903, Li Maozhen killed the eunuch Han Quanzhi and twenty others, talked to Zhu Wen, and asked Zhu Wen to take Zhaozong away. Zhu Wen brought Zhaozong back to Chang'an, and the emperor became a puppet from then on. This is the most critical step for Zhu Wen to usurp the Tang Dynasty, and this Dangshan gangster finally saw the corner of the world's number one throne. Zhaozong knew that his situation was very bad, and he obeyed Zhu Wen's orders.

Returning to the capital Chang'an from Li Maozhen, Zhaozong held a celebration party to commend those who "rescued" him. Zhu Wen swaggered in Chang'an, like the famous gangsters in Xiao County, and became more and more crazy. He was greatly commended and given the title of "Returning to Heaven to Rebuild Loyal and Righteous Heroes". Zhaozong was coerced by Zhu Wen and Cui Yin, and made his eleven-year-old son the marshal of the soldiers and horses of Zhudao, Zhu Wen as the deputy marshal, and then entered the king of Liang, laying the last cornerstone for him to usurp the Tang Dynasty. Cui Yin is Situ and serves as a servant.

Cui Yin borrowed Zhu Wen's power, the fox was pretending to be a tiger, domineering, and told Zhu Wen all the movements of the Son of Heaven. Inside and outside the court, everyone was afraid of him.

Zhaozong used Han Hao (reading and grasping) as the prime minister, but Zhu Wen disagreed, but demoted Han Hao to Puzhou as Sima. Puzhou is in the city of Juan, Shandong. Before leaving, Zhaozong was worried about him and said goodbye to him in secret. He told Zhaozong that this person is different from other people, and now he can be demoted, and he is lucky to die in a foreign place. It's just that I can't bear to see the emperor being killed! From Han Hao's words, it can be known that Zhaozong's situation is extremely dangerous.

Han Wei was a talented poet in the late Tang Dynasty and was respected as a "generation of poets". "Thousands of villages are like cold food, and there are no people and only flowers." When he was ten years old, he improvised a poem to send his uncle-in-law Li Shangyin, which shocked the audience.

In the 900th year when Li Maozhen held the Son of Heaven hostage to Fengxiang, the eunuch leader Liu Jishu, the lieutenant of the Shence Army, launched a palace coup, abolished Zhaozong, and established the crown prince Li Yu as the emperor. Han Wei assisted Prime Minister Cui Yin to quell the rebellion, welcomed Zhaozong to the throne, and became one of the heroes. Therefore, many times he wanted to make him a prime minister, but he refused to accept it.

After Zhu Wen coerced the Son of Heaven back to Chang'an, Han Wei saw that Zhu Wen was more arrogant than Li Maozhen, and he was very dissatisfied. Once, Zhu Wen and Cui Yin announced the matter in the hall, and all the officials avoided the table and stood up, only Han Hao sat still, saying that "the banquet is unstoppable", which angered Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen was annoyed that Han Hao was rude, and then tabooed that he was favored by Zhaozong and participated in the privy council, worried that it would be unfavorable to him, so he used the excuse to reprimand Han Hao in front of Zhaozong. Cui Yin has always obeyed Zhu Wen's will, and of course he will not preside over justice. Zhu Wen originally wanted to put Han Hao to death, but fortunately, after being dissuaded by Jingzhao Yin Zheng Yuangui, he was dealt with lightly and was demoted to Puzhou. Soon, he was demoted to the rank of county lieutenant of Rongyi. This place is in Tongzi, Guizhou. Then he was demoted to Dengzhou Sima. Dengzhou is in Deng County, Henan. Later, he brought his family to Fujian to seek refuge in Wang Shenzhi, and ended up in southern Fujian. He has "Hanlin Collection" and other surviving works. Han Wei left Beijing, resulting in Zhaozong not having a single cronie left and right.

Zhu Wen intervened his cronies all over the place, "the party was all over the Janissaries and Jingfu", among which the eldest son Zhu Youyu was the envoy of the Zhenguo Festival, and Zhu Wen asked to return to Bianzhou. On the day Zhu Wen left, Cui Yin sent him to Bashang. Li Keyong knew that the general trend of the imperial court was gone, but he couldn't resist it.

Zhu Wen killed more than 500 eunuchs, set up Zhaozong, made Zhaozong blind, and paved the way for him to smoothly replace him.

In the first month of 904, Zhaozong was like a bird with its wings cut off, and there was no way to deal with Zhu Wen. Zhaozong left Chang'an for the last time, and forever, and was forced to go to Luoyang. When Zhaozong arrived in Huazhou, after the people knew about it, they greeted them on the road, cheered long live, and moved the mountains and rivers. Zhaozong burst into tears and said, don't shout long live, I am no longer your lord. And he said to his courtiers, Now that he is adrift, he does not know where he will end up. Those ministers just cried in a low voice, shedding tears of sorrow for Li Tangtianxia. When passers-by saw this scene, they all cried bitterly.

Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, Wang Jian, Zhao Kuangning, King of Chu, and Yang Xingmi, King of Wu, heard that the Son of Heaven was taken hostage to Luoyang, and they all thought of fighting against him. But these people are difficult to unify, and the joint crusade has become an empty word. It seems to deduce the history of the early years of the Warring States Period, when the six states of Shandong attacked the unified command of the Qin State and did not fail in the end.

In April, Zhaozong arrived in Luoyang. (To be continued......)