As we all know, although the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms lasted only half a century, it was indeed the era when emperors changed most frequently, and Xiao Fo was thinking that people in that era, who had military power in their hands, probably had the dream of being an emperor. The person that Little Buddha wants to tell you today was originally a wandering child, who became an emperor by chance and his own efforts.
The founding emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Fu (yes, he was the grandfather of the great poet Li Yu) was born in the last years of the chaotic Tang Dynasty, born into a poor family (after becoming emperor, in order to show that he was justified as emperor, he had to associate himself with the Li Tang Dynasty), when he was young, his father disappeared, in order to live, he wandered outside, "Shi Ben was a lowly person, his father was honorable, he encountered the chaos at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he did not know the end, He was young and lonely, he lived in Hao, Sijian", but he was lucky, he met Yang Xingmi, the grandfather of Southern Wu, and Yang Xingmi felt that he looked different. He will be different from ordinary people, so he adopted Li Fu as a righteous son, but unfortunately, Yang Xingmi's sons did not accept this younger brother, Yang Xingmi had no choice but to send Li Fu to the palace of his general Xu Wen, Xu Wen dared not follow, when He said that Li Fu was his son, and named it Xu Zhiyan.
Yang Xing secretly attacked Haozhou, obtained it, surprised its appearance, and raised him as a son. And the sons of the Yang clan could not tolerate it, and they begged Xu Wen to beg for secrets, but they took the surname Xu and knew the name.
Yang Xingmi did not look at the wrong person, and after Li Fu became an adult, in addition to being "seven feet long, broad and long," and gentle and resourceful, he was a good hand at being an official, he was very tolerant and benevolent to his subordinates and the people, and the place of governance was full of treasury and the people lived in peace, which was relatively rare in that chaotic world. Being generous to outsiders and being filial to his adoptive parents is naturally filial piety, Xu Wen looks at this adopted son differently, and intends to entrust him with heavy responsibilities, and this naturally attracts the dissatisfaction of Xu Wen's other sons, especially Xu Wen's eldest son Xu Zhixun, who has repeatedly found trouble with Li Fu, and even more wants to put him to death, afraid that his brother Feng Mang will cover himself, "Wen tastes that his sons are not as good as Fu, the sons are quite intolerable, and Zhi Xun is especially bad, trying to summon Fu to drink, and the swordsmen want to harm them."
With the support of his righteous father, Li Fu climbed up step by step by relying on his own efforts, and later even in people's minds, his status has surpassed Xu Wen, "although Wen is far away from the government, and the Wu people have returned to the top." After Xu Wen's death, Li Fu slowly began to control the internal affairs of the State of Wu by helping the new emperor Yang Pu ascend the throne, and was given the title of Zhongshu Ling. At this time, the emperor of the State of Wu was a puppet, and Li Fu, who held great power, remembered the bullying he had been bullied in Xu Wen's house, so he looked around for an opportunity to show his evil spirit, and the person who was unlucky enough to be targeted by him was Xu Wen's second son, Zhenhai Jiedushi made Xu Zhiqian, this person counted as his younger brother, but the two people had quarreled for power, "(Xu Zhiqian) thought that he was holding the army in the upper echelons, and he meant to lightly xu Zhixuan, and the number and Zhihuan competed for power."
The reason why he was chosen was because when Xu Wen died that year, Li Fu did not appear at the funeral, and Xu Zhiqian once blamed Li Fuyi fiercely: "The first king violated the world, the brother is the son of man, and he is not mourning at the beginning, but can he?" ”
Li Fu did not want to make too much movement, so he thought of poisoning his own righteous brother, so he invited Xu Zhiqian to his home as a guest, entertained his brother with poisonous wine, and toasted: "May the brother live a thousand years", Xu Zhiyuan seemed to anticipate his brother's ill intentions, and felt that the wine was poisonous, so he deliberately divided half of it and said to his brother: "I would like to share five hundred years with my brother." Li Fu knew that the wine was poisonous, even if he dared to pick it up, or a handsome man next to him had good eyesight, after some gags, he drank the wine from the two people's glasses, and ran away with the wine glass.
Xu Zhiqian escaped a disaster because of his own words, and the man died after he walked out of the room, "Zhi Yu secretly sent someone to solve it with a good medicine, and he had already collapsed his brain." "And Li Fu?" Soon after, he directly "invited" Emperor Wu to step down and ascended the throne himself as emperor.
However, according to another theory, Li Fu was already the emperor when he gave Xu Zhizhi the poisoned wine.
References: History of the New Five Dynasties, Vol. 62, Zizhi Tongjian, Book of Southern Tang