Great Shu Tongbao - Houshu withered bamboo half life, Meng Chang is short-lived

The Great Shu Tongbao was cast by the last emperor Meng Chang during the Shu Mingde period (934-937 AD) after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, when Meng Chang's father Meng Zhixiang had just died, and the old ministers in the dprk were arrogant and arrogant, and for a time there was a lot of danger.

Eradicate the old courtiers

In the first month of the first year of the Later Shu Ming Dynasty (934 AD), Meng Zhixiang was proclaimed emperor, and his son Meng Chang was appointed as the envoy of Dongchuan Jiedushi and Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi. In July of the same year, Meng Zhixiang became seriously ill, and on July 26, Meng Chang was made crown prince and acted as the government. That night, Meng Zhixiang died, and the secret was not mourned, and Sikong and Tong zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi Zhao Jiliang said: "Now that Fanzhen has a heavy army and is waiting for the situation to change, it should be quickly established to be a monarch to break its delusions. After that, He made Meng Chang emperor and then mourned. Meng Chang ascended the throne, did not change the Yuan, still called the Mingde era name, and did not change the era name to Guangzheng until the fifth year of the Later Shu Mingde (938 AD). During this period, the Great Shu Tongbao was minted.

Meng Chang did not personally handle political affairs when he was young, and the ministers were all old ministers during his father's reign. His father Meng Zhixiang had a kind personality and treated them quite connivingly, so after Meng Chang took the throne, these generals were even more arrogant and did not abide by the legal and disciplinary system, among them, Li Renhan and Zhang Ye were particularly arrogant. Therefore, soon after Meng Chang took the throne, he arrested Li Renhan and killed him, destroying his clan. At that time, ZhaowuJun (present-day Guangyuan, Sichuan) made Li Zhaolai come to the court, entered the court with a staff, said that he was ill and could not worship, and when he heard the news of Li Renhan's death, he immediately put down his crutches and fell to the ground. Meng Chang ordered him to retire and degraded Qiongzhou (邛州, in modern Qionglai, Sichuan) and never used it. After Meng Chang's rectification, the old ministers were all cleaned up, and Meng Chang began to pro-government, which was quite enlightened for a while.

Lady Flower Bud

However, in the later period of Meng Chang's reign, he began to covet pleasure. He recruited beautiful women from Shudi to fill the harem, the most favored of which was "Lady Huarui" Fei Guifei. Meng Chang was upside down in the palace women's pile every day, and after every feast, with a little leisure, he summoned the harem attendants to the front of the palace with Lady Huarui, personally selected those with graceful figures and beautiful postures, added titles, and took turns to enter the palace.

In the twenty-seventh year of the Later Shu Guangzheng (964 AD), the Northern Song Dynasty cut down Shu, and it took only 66 days for Later Shu to surrender. In the third year of Qiande (965 AD), Meng Chang was escorted to the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Beijing, and was made the Duke of Qin. He died seven days later, at the age of forty-seven.

After Meng Chang's death, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, saw that Lady Huarui was very beautiful and accepted her as a concubine. Lady Huarui was sent to the Song Palace but did not forget the old lord, and painted a portrait of Meng Chang to secretly worship. Whenever the night is quiet, Madame Huarui shed tears at the portrait and told her longing feelings. Unexpectedly, this matter was happened to be met by Song Taizu, so Lady Huarui was in a hurry and said: "The hanging Zhang Xian, the god of sending children, the Shu people are like the same." ”。 Therefore, the god of sending children was passed from the palace to the people, and in the late Qing Dynasty, the figure of Zhang Xiannan was changed to the figure of HuaRui, and Lady Huarui was also revered as the lady of the child.

However, later Zhao Kuangyin still knew about this matter and forced Lady Huarui to hand over the portrait, and Lady Huarui did not comply until her death, and Zhao Kuangyin killed her in a rage. People revere Madame Huarui's loyalty to love and honor her as the goddess of hibiscus flowers.

Great Shu Tongbao

In the "Ancient Money Illustrations of Past Dynasties", it is indicated that during the Republic of China, there were 3 "Great Shu Tongbao" in the present world, which were collected by 3 ancient coin experts, and the last 3 people passed away, and the whereabouts of the ancient coins are unknown. Therefore, the Great Shu Tong Treasure World is rare, and almost all that can be seen is fake.

The Great Collection of Ancient Chinese Money records the Great Shu Tongbao

The above three are from the "Collection of Ancient Chinese Coins", the first one is about 22.9 mm in diameter, the second is about 22.6 mm in diameter, and the third is about 21.3 mm in diameter.

I don't know if you have the honor to see or collect this precious Great Shu Tongbao?