History of the Tang Dynasty: The emperor who was "played" dead by himself - Tang Jingzong
preface
History has its own life, and in the five thousand years of time, watching the development of mankind and the change of dynasties. History is either lamenting, sighing, or rejoicing.
cause
Zhang Shao Incident: In 824 AD, the Zhang Shao Incident occurred, resulting in internal order chaos.
▲Zhang Shao incident
outcome
Emperor Wenzong of Tang ascended the throne: In 826, after Emperor Jingzong of Tang was killed, eunuchs and others supported Emperor Wenzong of Tang's ascension to the throne.
▲ Tang Wenzong
disposal
1. Tang Jingzong's hobbies
There are not a few faint emperors, such as the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who has ignored the government for many years, and there are also emperors who are only intoxicated in the sound and color of dogs and horses, and when the rebels rush into the capital, they only know how to resist.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was also a father and son, although they were emperors, but they knew how to eat, drink and have fun, they were Tang Muzong and Tang Jingzong. As a father, Tang Muzong left his children with the education method of playing polo and playing.
As a result, after the stroke, coupled with taking Dan medicine, he played himself to death early. Tang Jingzong ascended the throne, but Tang Jingzong did not learn from experience, but could play better than his father.
▲Empress Guo
Because Tang Jingzong ascended the throne at the age of 16, he was originally a child, and he loved to play by nature, and now he is becoming an emperor and no one is hindered. However, he had a very knowledgeable mother, Empress Guo. Empress Guo was born as a descendant of Guo Ziyi, full of loyal martyrs, and resigned for the sake of Emperor Guo's family.
With such a good education, Tang Jingzong did not cherish it, but indulged himself to play, playing polo during the day and hunting at night, never resting, and the government was almost not managed, even if the ministers persuaded him, he refused to give up playing.
▲ Polo
2. Assassination in the dark
Tang Jingzong's favorite polo and hunting are all needed by many people, although Tang Jingzong loves to play, but he is not stupid, he knows that some people may take advantage of the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the position because of good play and excellent play, and then they will listen to rumors and become puppets at the mercy of others.
Therefore, Tang Jingzong is playing, and if he finds someone who wants to take advantage of the opportunity to ascend to the throne, Tang Jingzong will punish him for various reasons. This is also the reason why even if Tang Jingzong faints and is incompetent, he will not be swayed by people.
But this makes many people unhappy, because hunting and polo are multi-person, and both are life-threatening, and everyone risks death to play with you, but they don't think that there is no benefit at all.
Moreover, in order to please the emperor, various local officials recruited soldiers like conscripts to accompany Tang Jingzong to play, and they followed the emperor day and night.
I've seen people die because of games, people have been injured for fun, and I've seen people who want to take advantage of the opportunity to get into power and end up being exiled. This made many people a little afraid, and even did not want to play with the emperor, and Tang Jingzong was slightly unsatisfactory, so he scolded and insulted the people around him.
Many Lux felt that they were not human in Tang Jingzong's eyes, even if they played with him for such a long time, if Tang Jingzong was unhappy, scolding was a common thing.
▲Liu Keming stills (eunuch during the reign of Emperor Jingzong of Tang)
At one time, these people's resentment towards the emperor increased, and Lux and eunuchs began to discuss how to get rid of the emperor. If you think about it, there is only one way to kill the king, although it is dangerous, but it is deflated.
So after the eunuch Liu Keming and the batting general Su Zuoming discussed together, it was decided to take advantage of the emperor's hunting at night, after all, this time was already at night, which was convenient to start.
So after Tang Jingzong hunted at night, he drank with Liu Keming, Su Zuoming and others, but after three rounds of drinking, Tang Jingzong felt that he was hot and dry, and wanted to get up and change clothes.
As a result, at this time, all the lights inside the main hall were extinguished, and in the darkness, Liu Keming and Su Zuoming together killed Tang Jingzong.
▲ Su Zuoming
3. Great chaos in the palace
After Tang Jingzong's death, the eunuch Liu Keming falsely passed on the emperor's edict, saying that he was ill and died violently, and asked King Dai to take the place of managing the country's major affairs. As a result, as soon as this incident came out, the incident occurred suddenly, causing the ministers and officials to disbelieve, and the Divine Strategy Army accompanied the emperor for many years, so the emperor's physical condition was also clear to them.
As a result, Liu Keming thus announced the death of the emperor and the new emperor, and the Shen Ce Army was the first to suspect Liu Keming. And Liu Keming also knows that what he said is not convincing, but since ancient times, people who want to usurp power and seize the throne will find some unconvincing words, but there will be a certain strength.
Therefore, Liu Keming knew that if he wanted to consolidate the power of the King of Dai and stabilize his own power, he would have to attack the Divine Strategist Army.
▲Wang Shoucheng
At this time, Wang Shoucheng, the Right God Strategist Army, also reacted, knowing that it was all done by Liu Keming, so the Right God CeJun rushed into the palace with his own subordinates and fought with Liu Keming.
However, Liu Keming's men were all rabble-rousers and invincible to the Divine Strategist Army, so Liu Keming was soon defeated, and at this time Liu Keming saw that the signs were not right, so he hurried to escape.
However, the palace was besieged, so Liu Keming knew very well that he could not go out, so he decided to commit suicide by throwing himself into the well.
Soon the Shen Ce army found Liu Keming's body, and Wang Shoucheng beheaded Liu Keming's body for public display, and Liu Keming's support for The King of Dai was also killed, and wang Shoucheng supported Tang Wenzong's ascension to the throne.
Li Zhan, Emperor Jingzong of Tang (July 22, 809 – January 9, 827)
brief summary
Tang Jingzong knew all day that eating, drinking and having fun led to the collapse of the country's good political situation, and the strengthening of eunuch power and the division of power in the feudal towns put the Tang Dynasty in danger.
【References】
1. Old Book of Tang, Volume XVII
2. New Book of Tang, Volume VIII