Zhang Xun was not afraid when he saw it, but just fell to the ground and asked for death: "This is just a few of them, there are still many of the rest, the dog barks as its master, and the minister is irrefutable, only death." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Zhang Xun's expression was as usual when he said this, and he was not afraid, but this was just a superficial phenomenon, in fact, Chen Qiao was fighting psychological warfare with Zhao Kuangyin. He knew that Zhao Kuangyin despised those who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and if he begged for mercy, he would definitely be unable to escape death, so it was better to speak hard, but there would be hope for survival.

Sure enough, Zhao Kuangyin was very surprised after hearing this, and immediately changed his mind and said: "Qing is bold, I don't offend Qing."

In the future, I should not change my former loyalty. After speaking, Zhang Xun was named the crown prince Yunzhong. Zhang Xun later had an excellent career in the Song Dynasty, he was different from Xu Xuan, although Xu Xuan's free rider was noble, but he was idle, and Zhang Xun was clever and good at figuring out people's will, and he was promoted all the way, and later became the governor of the Northern Song Dynasty as a subordinate, that is, the deputy prime minister, and Kou Zhun was in the same column, which can not but be said to be a miracle.

However, Zhang Yu is too powerful and is very despised, and in order not to affect his career, he is eager to draw a clear line with Li Yu. Soon after Li Yu returned to the court, his only son Zhongyu died, and Zhang Xun refused to go to mourn.

Later, Li Yu borrowed money from Zhang Yu because of living in poverty, and afterwards Zhang Yu went to Li Yu to collect debts, Li Yu had no money to repay, so he had to use his own platinum basin to offset the debt, but Zhang Yu was still not satisfied, and what he did was quite chilling.

It can be seen that although the Southern Tang Dynasty has perished, the ministers of the court still have a good home. But it is in response to the old saying that Lu Su persuaded Sun Quan back then: "Anyone can surrender, but the number one leader of the country must not surrender." "Compared with these ministers, what happened to Li Yu is very sad. Nominally, he was named Marquis of the Great Song Dynasty and had a noble status, but in fact, he was just a prisoner with a special status.

After Li Yu returned to the court, he was placed in a small courtyard in the capital by Zhao Kuangyin, and his personal freedom was restricted, and he could not go out and meet guests casually. Even his former subordinates had to ask for advice if they wanted to see him. Zheng Wenbao, who served in the Southern Tang Dynasty, missed his old master, but he did not dare to ask the emperor to visit Li Yu, so he had no choice but to wear a lotus hat and pretend to be a fish seller to meet Li Yu. After a long time of relief, he retired, and Li Yu sighed for this.

Not only did Li Yu lose his personal freedom, but even the hundred boxes of gold he brought from Jinling did not know where to go, and it was difficult to maintain the life of a family of hundreds of people with the money issued by the imperial court alone. In the end, he had to go to the table to tell him to be poor, but this time the court did not embarrass him, and gave him a one-time payment of 3 million as a subsidy, but Li Yu's family has a large population, and the money is still not enough.

Compared with these hardships in life, what made Li Yu even more painful was the spiritual self-destruction. Li Yu is a natural poet, he pursues perfection, but he is sentimental, he yearns for a free life, but he is powerless to fight against the arrangement of fate. Every time I dream. His thoughts will involuntarily fly back to his homeland, soaring freely between the green mountains and green waters of the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, he was still a high-ranking emperor, enjoying endless wealth and glory in the world.

But every morning comes, he wakes up from his dream, but has to face the four cold high walls, the prosperity of the past has become a more distant memory, the mountains and rivers of the old country are the places he can never return, the huge difference between dreams and reality, the regret and guilt of losing the temple. Like two sharp knives, stabbing his fragile heart every moment, he didn't dare to face it, but he couldn't escape it. Life has become an endless torment for him.

However, Li Yu's suffering was just beginning, and at the end of the year he returned to the dynasty, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin died, and his brother Zhao Guangyi inherited the throne. Then he granted amnesty to the world and added a hundred officials, and Li Yu was also promoted to the title of Duke of Longxi County, but this was not good news for Li Yu, because immediately after, a greater disaster befell him.

After Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, because he coveted the beauty of Xiao Zhouhou, he was often summoned to the palace to perform songs and dances, and he did not return for several days after he left. Among them, Xiao Zhouhou was insulted, but he didn't dare to resist, and he had to force a smile and flattery, so every time he was sent home from the palace, he inevitably had to hug Li Yu and cry.

Who can imagine what it would be like when Zhao Guangyi sent someone to pick up Xiao Zhou and enter the palace, when Li Yu and his wife separated? Whenever Xiao Zhou is sent home, crying or even scolding Li Yu, what kind of mood will Li Yu have?

Anger, remorse, guilt, shame, despair, helplessness, and the like are intertwined into a huge web that cannot be torn apart, entwining and tormenting him every minute and every second. Of course, there is one thing that is even more tragic than these, that is, Li Yuming knows that life is only pain for him, but he has never been able to muster the courage to die.

Li Yu has lived in Daliang for more than two years, just as someone said: "The country is unfortunate and the poet is lucky, and the words are the beginning of the vicissitudes of life." Most of the pinnacle works in his life were completed during this period, such as "Poppy Beauty - How Much Do You Know About Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon", "Crying in the Dark Night-Lin Hua Thanked Chunhong", "Breaking the Array-Forty Years of Home and Country", "Waves and Sands-Murmuring Rain Outside the Curtain",

"Forget Jiangnan - How Much Hate" and "Crying in the Dark Night - Alone in the West Building Without a Word", these poems have gone through thousands of generations and are still sung by the world after thousands of generations, and Li Yu has also established his position as the hegemon of the word world. However, when thousands of years later, when we are still amazed by these wonderful poems, should we also use our hearts to experience Li Yu's life experience of great joy and sorrow and irreproducible.

In the third year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Northern Song Dynasty (978), Li Yu was finally freed from this miserable life. Around July of that year, Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, suddenly asked Xu Xuan, who was then the regular attendant of the Zuo Scattered Cavalry, "Have you seen Li Yu recently?" ”

Seo Hyun replied, "Without His Majesty's will, how dare I go to see him?" ”

Zhao Guangyi said: "You go! Even if it's for me to see him. ”

Xu Xuan also missed Li Yu very much, and when he heard the words, he came to Li Yu's residence, when there was an old guard guarding the door, Xu Xuan said: "I want to see Taiwei (here it should be Taifu)." The old man replied, "There is a will, and it is forbidden to meet guests privately." Seo Hyun replied, "I came here by holy order." When the old man heard this, he went in to make a confession.

After a long time, Li Yu walked out of it, only to see him wearing a gauze hat and a Taoist robe, and his expression was very miserable. Xu Xuan saw the severe pain in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to make a great gift to the monarch and ministers. Li Yu hurriedly walked down the steps, grabbed him, and said, "To this day, how can you still practice this kind of etiquette?" "Wait until you enter the house. Li Yu suddenly took his hand and cried loudly, Xu Xuan was also full of emotion, and he didn't know how to be relieved.

Gradually, Li Yu stopped crying, and the room was silent for a while. After a long time, Li Yu suddenly sighed and said, "I regret that I shouldn't have killed Pan You by mistake back then!" Seo Hyun still didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to say some meaningless words to comfort him, and then got up to say goodbye.

When Xu Xuan entered the palace again, Zhao Guangyi asked him what Li Yu said that day, and Xu Xuan didn't dare to hide it, so he repeated what Li Yu said. Zhao Guangyi was furious after hearing this, and it happened that at this time, Li Yu's words contained sentences such as "I am a human and hate the water and grow in the east", "The old country is unbearable to look back at the moonlight", which angered Zhao Guangyi even more.

July 7 of that year was Li Yu's 41st birthday. Zhao Guangyi took this opportunity to send someone to send a pot of poisonous wine containing the "machine medicine", which is the Chinese medicine strychnine, which is an extremely violent poison, which will cause severe pain in the stomach and intestines after taking it, and then cause convulsions all over the body, and the head and feet are connected when he dies, which is very tragic. Li Yuming knew that the wine was poisonous, but he could only take it, and died of poison that night. After Li Yu's death. Xiao Zhou was unable to overcome his grief, and died of grief and anger a few months later.

As a poet, Li Yu has an unshakable position in the history of Chinese literature, but as an emperor. He was a very failure, so people often compare him to Song Huizong, thinking that they are the kind of people who should not be emperors. But in fact, this comparison is not very fair to Li Yu.

Unlike Li Yu, Huizong of the Song Dynasty was largely complete when he became emperor. The national strength is also acceptable, and it does not have the necessary conditions for the destruction of the country. However, Song Huizong was politically mediocre and incompetent, and completely handed over the power of the country to the six thieves led by Cai Jing and Tong Guan, resulting in the corruption of the national program, the traitors in power, and the debasement of loyal ministers; In life, Song Huizong was corrupt and degenerate, pursued enjoyment, cast Jiuding, built ancestral temples, cultivated Taoist temples, built palaces, and constantly built a large number of buildings, and sent people to collect strange flowers and stones, calligraphy and painting treasures, compiled as "Flower Stone Gang", which caused the people to complain.

In terms of style, Song Huizong is also a mess, during his reign, there are more than 10,000 beauties in the harem, and he will have a woman every five to seven days, even if this is still not satisfied, he often sneaks out of the palace to prostitute himself, which can be described as extremely absurd; militarily and diplomatically,

Song Huizong did not have any achievements, but he was very happy, he had repeatedly launched wars against the Western Xia, Hehuang Tubo and Sichuan Yiren, although he also had some small victories, but caused a large number of soldiers and property losses, greatly weakened the country's comprehensive national strength, and later in order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, he whimsically joined forces with the Jin people to destroy Liao, and finally directly led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In these respects, Li Yu is not comparable to Song Huizong. Li Yu is generous and benevolent, when he was the emperor, he never harassed the people, and there was no immorality, the ministers who trusted him were very loyal to him, and he could also contribute to the country.

But since Li Yu succeeded to the throne, the external situation he faced has been very bad, there is Song in the north, Chu (Hunan regime) in the south, and Wu Yue in the east, and he is attacked on three sides, with the strength of the Southern Tang, he can't compete with it at all, and Li Yu himself does not have the ability to turn things around, from this point alone, the Southern Tang Dynasty has been unable to escape the fate of the country, not to mention that they have to face an opponent like Zhao Kuangyin.

Speaking of which, we can't help but talk about Zhao Kuangyin's excellence. In Chinese history, every change of regime is often accompanied by fierce bloodshed, and every road to reunification is made of white bones, which has almost become an unchangeable scientific law, but only Zhao Kuangyin has become an exception.

The Chenqiao Mutiny launched by Zhao Kuangyin should be said to be a very civilized coup d'état, and the imperial family of the Later Zhou Dynasty was preserved, and no one was harmed except for Han Tong, the deputy commander of the guards and the deputy commander of the army on the day of the coup, which is extremely rare in Chinese history. Of course, this alone does not prove that he has superhuman means, and what really makes people respect him is what he did in the war of unification.

We know that whenever history returns to reunification from an era of great division, the process is extremely tragic, and it will inevitably be accompanied by thrilling battles, the death of millions of people, the desperate struggle between countries, the loser will eventually be burned, and the victor will inevitably die for life, and after that, he will have to face a series of problems such as a sharp decline in population, thousands of miles of red land, and devastation.

After Zhao Kuangyin founded the country, because he completely received the good foundation laid by Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong, it should be said that it was foreseeable that he would unify the country, but this by no means means means that those southern secession regimes would fall to the wind, and it was by no means easy for Zhao Kuangyin to completely conquer them, and he also had to fight a lot of battles and kill a lot of people. However, what is strange is that Zhao Kuangyin did not suffer any losses in the unification war launched.

According to the "History of the Song Dynasty", in the year of the Northern Song Dynasty and Zhou, the total number of household registrations in the country was 967,353. By the year of his death (976), the total population of the country had reached 3,990,500 households, and after deducting the 1,580,000 households received from the southern countries, there was still a certain increase.

On the surface, the increase in this number is not large, but at this time, among Zhao Kuangyin's opponents, there is only one Northern Han who has not been eliminated, it can be said that the great unification war is about to end, he did this without suffering any losses, which makes it difficult for any emperor to unify the country by force.

The reason why Zhao Kuangyin was able to create such a miracle was not by chance, it should be said that this was inseparable from his very proper strategic deployment. As early as the Chai Rong era, the Southern Tang Dynasty was listed as the first target, but Zhao Kuangyin listed him behind, this is because the Southern Tang Dynasty is the strongest country in the south, and it is difficult to be easily conquered, Zhao Kuangyin finally chose to attack the neighboring small country Jingnan first, and then from weak to strong, step by step, and when he is really ready to eliminate the Southern Tang Dynasty, the fate of the Southern Tang Dynasty can no longer be changed. (To be continued.) )