In ancient Chinese history, there were not a few god-of-war-level warriors, but there were only a few god-level emperors, and after the Western Chu Dynasty, there were Liu Xiu, emperor of Han Guangwu, Ran Min, the king of Wei Wu, The Former Qin Xuanzhao Emperor Jian, The Song Gaozu wu emperor Liu Yu, Chen Gaozu wu emperor Chen Baxian, Tang Taizong Wen emperor Li Shimin, Later Tang Zhuangzong emperor Li Cunxun, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di and so on.
The above are all well-known imperial heroes, but in the thousand-year history of China, there is probably a little-known Yongwu Emperor, although it is only like a meteor through the moon, short-lived, fleeting, fleeting, but also left a thick and extremely tragic stroke in history. What is even more regrettable is that this emperor also left a mystery that has been difficult to solve for generations, that is, the Qin Emperor's jade seal, which has always made the people of the world still worry about his stomach, finally appeared in his hands, and there was no news after that.
Today we will take a look at the legendary life of this god of war-level emperor who is the same as Xiang Yu, Liu Yu, and Li Shimin, and perhaps we can also get a glimpse of the various possible whereabouts of the Chuanguo Jade Seal.
The god of war was Li Congke, the adopted son of Emperor Mingzong of Tang after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, li Congke, also known as the late Emperor of Tang. It is said that Li Siyuan was originally an orphan of the Shatuo tribe of the Western Turks, named Miao Jilie, and had no surname, but was later adopted as an adopted son by the shatuo chief Zhu Evil Wing Sheng, who and his father Zhu Evil Chixin were given the surname of the Tang Emperor, changed his name to Li Keyong, and was crowned king of Jin, and from then on he called himself Li Tang Zong. After Li Keyong's death, his second son Li Cunxun inherited the throne, and this Li Cunxun, nicknamed Li Yazi, was also a natural god of war-like figure like Xiang Yu.
According to his age, Li Siyuan should be regarded as Li Cunxun's righteous brother. At that time, the authentic Li Tang Dynasty was replaced by Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang, Zhu Quanzhong, whose original name was Zhu Wen, and Quanzhong was given by the Tang Dynasty, which shows that the name Quanzhong is not loyal. In order to revive the Tang Dynasty, Li Cunxun desperately pulled the Yigan brothers and Zhu Quanzhong to the death, and as a result, under the almost crazy fierce attack of this group of "fake" Tang Dynasty masters, Zhu Quanzhong was defeated one after another, and in the midst of panic and extreme depression, he fell ill and died in the arms of his daughter-in-law.
Then Li Cunxun easily destroyed the Zhuliang Dynasty and re-established the Li Tang Dynasty, known in history as "Later Tang", also known as "Sha Tang", he was the famous "avenger" Tang Zhuangzong in Ouyang Xiu's pen. But this Li Cunxun, in addition to fighting, likes to appear with the actors, acting on stage, and has the famous masterpiece "Li Tianxia". This made the generals and righteous brothers in his family uneasy, and as a result, in the sudden military mutiny, Li Cunxun, a generation of war gods, lost his life.
Li Siyuan, the righteous brother of the Li family, who was known for his prestige, shouldered the burden of the Tang Dynasty after quelling the chaos. However, after a few years of being emperor, this Tang Mingzong began to worry about how he arranged his successor, his eldest son Li Congrong, the King of Qin, was extraordinary, but his temper was not matched, and he had never been made crown prince, and the fifth son, Li Conghou, the King of Song, was very similar in personality and appearance to him, and was the object of his long-cherished desire to establish a crown prince. How much Did Tang Mingzong love this son, and even gave him the nickname "Bodhisattva Nu", which means bodhisattva blessing.
In addition, Tang Mingzong also had a very dependent adopted son, that is, the protagonist we are talking about today, Li Congke, whose original name was Wang Ke'er, was a Han from Pingshan County, Hebei Province, whose biological father died early, and his mother Wei Shiniang was later adopted as a concubine by Tang Mingzong in the midst of the war, and Wang Ke'er was also adopted as a righteous son, when he was ten years old, his nickname was "Third Son", that is, he combined his name into a "Ke" character, and was called Li Congke from then on.
This Li Congke was extremely majestic, and when he grew up, his martial arts skills were also extremely high, and he often killed tigers and wolves with his bare hands, like slaughtering pigs and dogs. Not only did Tang Mingzong like him, but when Li Cunxun, who was also a martial artist, was alive, he always admired and valued this third nephew very much, and even treated him like a confidant brother, Tang Zhuangzong often called him "Third Son", and Li Congke called him "Uncle Yazi", even after Li Cunxun became emperor, the two of them still got along privately like uncles and nephews.
Every time he went out to fight, Li Cunxun had to borrow Li Congke from Li Siyuan as a general or vanguard, and when he fought a decisive battle with Zhu Wen of the Liang Dynasty, the uncles and nephews fought side by side, and Zhu Wen almost fell into the Yellow River. Li Cunxun laughed and called him in small characters: "It is a pity that the third son is not the same age as me, otherwise you would really be my good brother!" It's fun to fight with you! But his adoptive father, Li Siyuan, was very unhappy when he heard this.
Later in Taiyuan, Li Siyuan's son-in-law Shi Jingyao and Li Congke played polo together, and actually hit the ball into the Zhao Xiangzi Temple, only to see Shi Jingyao's ball kicked out by the statue of Zhao Xiangzi, and his own ball startled Zhao Xiangzi to stand up, this scene made him feel inexplicably conceited in his heart, but never mentioned to anyone.
Not long after, he followed Tang Zhuangzong into battle, and one person escorted Zhuangzong straight into the Liang army's cavalry formation, beating the Liang army to a pulp. After the war, Tang Zhuangzong pointed at Li Siyuan's nose and scolded, "Except for the third son, where have you all gone?" You obviously know that the widows are fast, and after rushing into the enemy position, not a single soldier has followed up, and you usually say that you are willing to die for the widows, where did you die at that time? These words frightened Li Siyuan into and kept kneeling on the ground waiting for sin, or Li Congke interceded for him, and ZhuangZong saw that Congke had made meritorious contributions to the battle, which spared him.
Later, Li Congke and Tang Zhuangzong with more than a dozen cavalrymen, taking advantage of the retreat of the Liang army, mixed in with the enemy position, mixed into the Liang army camp, suddenly shouted straight to the big tent of the Chinese army, frightened Zhu Wen to flee into the wilderness, Li Congke and Tang Zhuangzong beheaded several liang army generals, he also held a large axe to cut down the Liang army banner, and split a sentry tower, stopped the pursuing soldiers, escorted Zhuangzong to return to the camp, Tang Zhuangzong happily danced on the horse, shouted Li Congke: "Magnificent! My third son! After returning to the camp, the uncles and nephews drank bitterly for three days and three nights, and then gave him several altars of fine wine to enjoy at home, and said to Li Siyuan: "Fu Tang Sheji, qing father and son's merits are also!" ”
Later, Li Siyuan became emperor, and every time he sent troops, he would definitely take Li Congke with him, even in the case of the enemy being outnumbered, as long as Li Congke was present, he would certainly be able to turn defeat into victory and greatly revitalize the army. Although Li Congke was made the King of Lu for his military exploits, and the official worshiped the emissary of the river, in his heart he always missed his uncle Ya.
At that time, Tang Mingzong's chancellor An Zhongzhi was a resourceful figure, seeing that Tang Mingzong was old and lacking in energy, he wanted to get rid of Li Congke for Mingzong's parents, so he carried Emperor Mingzong's false holy will and ordered Li Congke to assassinate Yang Yanwen, and Li Congke was going to Huanglongzhuang to select warhorses. Since then, Li Congke has been bitter about his adoptive father.
Seeing that the plan could not be accomplished, An Zhongzong also asked Tang Mingzong to directly issue an edict to kill Li Congke for violating military law, but Emperor Mingzong refused in every way, saying: "When Emperor Mingzong was only a small general's school under the King of Jin, the family was surrounded by walls, and there was not enough food and clothing, thanks to this son to carry lime, collect horse dung and sell money to support his family, now that you are a son of heaven, can I still protect a small child?" Don't say it again, retreat! He also made Congke a general of the Left Guard, and the Western Capital Chang'an remained behind, and fengxiang jiedushi envoy.
However, not long after, Li Congrong, the king of Qin, rebelled and frightened the elderly and sick Tang Mingzong to death, An Chongzhi and Li Congrong were also killed one after another, and Li Conghou, the king of Song, took the throne as emperor, and first issued an edict to transfer Li Congke to beijing as a retainer, but did not stamp the seal on the holy will, and later Li Congke received news that Li Congzhang had stayed in Beijing, so he became more and more afraid and uneasy.
Emperor Li Conghou of Tang ordered Li Congke's son Li Chongji to go to Bozhou to do the assassination history, and then gave his daughter Li Youcheng the title of nun, with the legal title of Huiming, and summoned her to serve in the palace. Not long after, both Shigeyoshi and Yusumi were killed. Li Conghou could not bear it any longer, and sent Wang Sitong as a marshal to gather the soldiers and horses of the major envoys in the towns to jointly attack Li Congke, and as a result, Li Congke defeated Wang Sitong, and the soldiers and horses of the towns collapsed in all directions.
Later, under the strong orders of Li Conghou, the soldiers and horses of Zhuzhen surrounded him in Fengxiang City, and Li Congke ascended to the city tower and cried at the army outside the city: "I was not twenty years old from Emperor Zhuangzong and Emperor Mingzong to go around, born into death, full of gold sores, don't I have any credit for the Tang Dynasty?" Haven't all your generals outside the city ever joined me in killing the enemy? Now the emperor is full of suspicions about me, and has mutilated his flesh and bones to this point! I dare ask, what sin have I! After saying that, he cried bitterly and drooled, and the sound reverberated for miles.
The towns and soldiers under the city, the listeners are all moved, and the hearers are all in tears. At this time, Li Conghou's Yulin Army commanded Yang Siquan to shout, "King Lu, my lord also!" As a result, almost all the soldiers and horses in the towns turned against each other and embraced Li Congke as the mainstay, and this scene was so exciting that Li Congke's legs above the city tower were shaking and he did not move a step.
Li Congke went to Fengxiang Cui Hao Temple (a famous minister of Northern Wei) to find a magical blind operator Zhang Meng to predict the future. Unexpectedly, Zhang Meng heard the sound of his approaching steps, so he stood up in shock and said, "This is not a human subject!" Li Congke was secretly happy in his heart, so he asked him directly if he could achieve great things! Zhang Meng replied, "The title of the Great King is Lu, and the Lu character has entered Luoyi!" Li Congke laughed loudly, no longer hesitated, and after rewarding Zhang Meng, he immediately raised his army and marched east.
Li Congke has always been light and charitable, and he distributed all his family wealth to the people and horses who supported him, and declared: "After entering Luoyang, share the world!" For a moment, the three armies cheered, and even the Defenders of Luoyang heard the news and prepared to receive Li Congke.
In the first year of the reign of Emperor Min of Tang, King Lu's army arrived in Chang'an from Fengxiang, and The Chang'an defender Liu Suiyong surrendered the city. Not long after, the army arrived in Huazhou, and the Huazhou army surrendered. Later, when they traveled to Lingbao, Hezhong, Shaanzhou and other places, there was no one in various places who did not look forward to the wind. Emperor Li of Tang Min was so frightened that he fled from Luoyang to Weizhou to take shelter from the limelight.
In just one month, Li Congke entered Luoyang with great fanfare, and the famous tumbler Prime Minister Feng Dao led hundreds of officials to greet him, li Congke avoided seeing him, but went directly to the Taimiao Temple, cried at the spiritual seats of Zhuangzong and Mingzong, but met with the hundred officials again. With the support of hundreds of officials, the empress dowager was forced to depose Emperor Min as the King of E, and ordered Li Congke to oversee the country, and soon afterwards performed the enthronement ceremony, that is, he became the emperor, for the late Tang Emperor. After Li Conghou was deposed, he did not live for a few days and was killed.
After the late Tang Emperor became emperor, he often took Tang Taizong Li Shimin as an example, and asked his courtiers to speak boldly, although he had a bad temper, but no courtiers were convicted of words, and after two years of recuperation, the kingdom gradually settled down, and after the fall of the Tang Dynasty for a while, the foreign states of Uighurs, Bohai, and Baekje, which had not been in contact for a long time, sent envoys to pay tribute.
Even Yelü Bei, the eldest son of Emperor Taizu of the Khitan Liao Dynasty, fled to Luoyang and defected to Li Congke, willing to be a vassal, and Li Congke gave him the name li Zanhua. However, the official Attendant Lang Long Min persuaded Li Zanhua, the king of Eastern Dan, to be the lord of the Khitan state, and sent troops to escort him back to the Khitan to seize the throne, and in the future, the Khitan would no longer be a scourge in the Central Plains, but a permanent vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and although Ke Ke thought it was very reasonable, he did not implement this plan.
Not long after, Bianguan reported that the Liao army had invaded Yunzhou from the south. Li Congke ordered his false brother-in-law Shi Jingyao, who was stationed in Xinzhou near Yunzhou, to prepare for the enemy and sent special envoys to deliver the supplies of the Yao army, but Shi Jingyao's generals thought that Jingyao was distributing clothes, and actually shouted in front of the envoy, "Long live the Stone King!" Frightened, Shi Jingyao ordered his close subordinate Liu Zhiyuan (the mantis cicada catcher Huang Que was behind, and later became emperor) to behead thirty-six officers and soldiers who were making a loud noise.
But after Li Congke learned of the situation, he also became suspicious of Shi Jingyao, after all, the wind came out of nowhere, not necessarily without a reason. He then sent the general Zhang Jingda to supervise the army, thereby weakening Shi Jingyao's military power. When Shi Jingyao received the news, he immediately raised an army to defect and declared himself a vassal to the Liao state, leading hundreds of thousands of Khitan iron horses south, defeating Zhang Jingda's army at Jin'an, and the Liao army marched south all the way, like a bamboo. Li Congke hurriedly called on all the people to resist the Liao army.
However, he could not take out the invincible courage of Uncle Ya and returned to the battlefield, just drinking the fine wine left to him by Tang Zhuangzong in the palace every day, and he was depressed and sad all day long. The courtiers persuaded him to take out the divine power of the past and personally march on the throne, but he said, "Don't talk about Shi Lang, it makes my heart fall to the ground!" "That is to say, you are afraid of Shi Jingyao, as soon as I hear his name, I have no courage, and somehow I am so decadent and timid!"
Not long after, Zhang Jingda was killed in battle, and the Khitan lishi Jingyao became the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, and under the mourning of Uncle Shi Jingyao, the Liao lord Yelü Deguang accepted his righteous son, who was more than ten years old, and from then on he was about father and son, and incidentally collected a large piece of fertile land from Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.
The Liao-Jin coalition marched south, and after the fall of Jin'an, Li Congke quickly fled from Luoyang to Heyang, and prepared to take refuge further away in Shandong. However, the Qunchen persuaded him to hold on to Heyang, and after a few days, he summoned the generals to discuss how to resist the Liao army, and the generals all said that Heyang City could not be defended, and Li Congke personally inspected the terrain with the generals, so he said: "Where is the place that is not worth fighting, who is willing to stand here?" "This means that if a war is inevitable, there is no need to stand here!"
Finally, at the request of the generals, Li Congke decided to return to Luoyang. Luoyang's father and elder greeted him outside the East Gate, Li Congke actually wept bitterly, and his father and elder asked him to be like Tang Xuanzong, and Xixing Bashu tried to make progress again. Li Congke cried and laughed, and replied, "Now that the Meng clan has called Wang Xishu, why should I return!" "It is said that Later Shu had meng as king.
Not long after, Jin Gaozu Shi Jingyao arrived in Heyang under the escort of strong reinforcements from the Liao army. After Li Congke learned about it, he expected that the general trend had gone, took out the jade seal inherited from the qin shi huang, and took Empress Cao, Empress Liu and the children of the whole clan to the Xuanwu Tower and set themselves on fire and died. Shi Jingyao eventually entered Luoyang, only to obtain the ashes-like skeleton of the late Tang Emperor, and the Chuanguo Jade Seal disappeared, and there was no day since. Li Congke reigned for less than three years and died at the age of fifty-two.
The historian's evaluation of him said that he had the talent of divine martial arts and the amount of a human king, and that he had not made any major mistakes in the past few years as an emperor, but his destiny was not blessed, and he sat down to be burned in the end, which was really very sad! From a modern point of view, it is possible that after the death of his uncle, he suffered from severe depression.
Thinking of when he and Tang Zhuangzong broke into the enemy camp alone, axe split the Liang Army fortress, out of nowhere, how mighty! In the end, she ended up weeping like a woman, and how timid! This is similar to xiang Yu's siege, the hero's end, and the sad song under the tent, and how similar!
Trample on two "righteous fathers" and pretend to be royal relatives! A more tortuous generation of hegemons than Liu Bei's founding of the country