Since ancient times, whether in the changes of successive dynasties or in the turf grabs of the princes and kings, they have all confirmed the old saying that "the winner is the king and the loser is the coward". In addition, women who are attached to power, fate with the collapse of power and the loss of jade abound.
After the death of Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bang, Lady Qi, who was favored by him in his lifetime, was severed by Lü Yan and became an adult and died tragically; "a red dust concubine laughed, no one knew that it was a lychee", and Yang Yuhuan, who was greatly favored by Emperor Tang Ming, was also given death under the chaos of An Shi.
There is also Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, when the country was broken, in order to avoid the humiliation of his ancestors and the shame of the family, he killed his wife and daughter with a sword. It can be seen that the phrase "you win and I accompany you to the world, and you lose I accompany you to make a comeback" is not correct.
Interestingly, in ancient times, there was such a woman, after she was strongly fortunate by Song Taizong, she was copied by the painter on the spot to leave a painting, and at the same time handed down a well-known word endowment. So, what's going on? Let's talk about it today.
The world is already in turmoil, and the monarch only loves poetry
The general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, and the tang dynasty will be divided for a long time, and the prosperous Tang Dynasty will be destroyed in 907 AD after experiencing 290 years of national zuo. Since then, in the land of the Central Plains, the masses have risen up and divided into chaos, which is the era of the great division of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
At that time, the lives of ordinary people could be described as miserable. Fortunately, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, as a general of the Later Zhou Dynasty at that time, launched the Chen Qiao Mutiny with his wisdom and courage, and was later supplemented by his brother Zhao Guangyi and his close associate Zhao Pu Huangpao, replacing the Later Zhou regime and founding the Northern Song Dynasty, ending the era of war.
Perhaps it was also because of this that a concept of "emperors taking turns to do it, this year to my house" was formed, and the Jiangshan that Zhao Kuangyin snatched from Later Zhou was eventually replaced by his brother Zhao Guangyi, that is, Song Taizong. According to the Yeshi "Records of the Continuation of the Xiang Mountains", "The key to the palace was passed on to the beginning of the gate, and the king was consecrated, that is, Emperor Taizong.
Extend the people to sleep, drink wine and drink. Eunuchs and palace concubines are screened, but in the shadow of the candle, Emperor Taizong may avoid the table, and there is an invincible situation... On the eve of the night, Emperor Taizong stayed in the forbidden place, and the five drums were beaten, and the servants were silent, and the emperor had collapsed. Emperor Taizong was given the throne before the coffin..."
This is the famous "axe candle shadow" in history, and because of this matter, later generations believe that Taizu Zhao Kuangyin may have been murdered by his brother Song Taizong, but there is no specific evidence to prove that the true and false are unknown.
It is worth mentioning that compared with the orderly dynastic changes of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms only existed for a few decades, and the short historical fragments may not be well known to many people, but there is one person who must be very well known, he is Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
He is a king who loves poetry more than he loves the country, and at the same time he is also a temperamental person who dares to love and dare to hate, and his achievements in poetry are breathtaking, such as once Li Yu's child died, he made a "eulogy": "Eternal thoughts are difficult to dispel, and loneliness is painful."
Rain late autumn loneliness, sorrow leads to increased illness..." Although these 20 words are not much, they express the scene of his painful loss of his beloved son, although he is a king, but also the true disposition of a father.
In addition, Li Yu also has "Sauvignon Blanc Yun Yi cha": "Autumn winds, rain and harmony, curtain outside the plantain three or two..." There is also "Meet and Rejoice , Wordless Alone on the West Building": "Cut continuously, rational and chaotic, it is sad, don't be a general taste in the heart ..."
In short, Li Yu's poetry reflects his high literary attainments, but this cannot hide his absurdity as a monarch, which eventually leads to the collapse of the Southern Tang Dynasty and subservience to the Song Dynasty.
How incompetent was Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, as a king? Perhaps this can be seen in one thing. As the last monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu originally had a general under him, named Lin Renzhao.
Although Lin Renzhao was not very famous, his talent was very high, although he could not attack the city and conquer the four sides for Li Yu, but it was very likely to preserve the Foundation of the Southern Tang Dynasty, at least not to make Li Yu a prisoner of the ranks and a king of the lost country.
According to historical records, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Later Zhou invaded the land of Huainan in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Li Yu sent Lin Renzhao to resist, and Lin Renzhao, with his excellent military command skills, successively captured Dazhai in the south of the city, and then broke the water fence of Haozhou all the way.
Later, the Southern Tang and the Later Zhou engaged in a great scuffle, the Later Zhou army erected a pontoon bridge in Zhengyang to hinder the Southern Tang reinforcements to save each other, the enemy and our forces disparity and no logistical support, Lin Renzhao took the lead as a soldier, personally led the death squad, and went to burn the pontoon bridge.
At the critical moment, the Later Zhou general Zhang Yongde took advantage of the situation to pour out of the nest, Lin Renzhao alone broke off and resisted, Zhang Yongde's random arrow salvo was blocked by Lin Renzhao one by one, and his heroic battlefield performance made Zhang Yongde obey, saying to the left and right: "This strong man, can not be forced, so he gave up and returned." ”
At the moment when the two armies were fighting fiercely, Li Yu was anxious to make peace with Hou Zhou, which greatly annoyed Lin Renzhao, but he also dared to be angry, after all, Li Yu was the king of a country. All in all, with his many military achievements, he was promoted by Li Yu to the assistant envoy of the Huainan Tun Battalion, and he was a well-known general.
After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was also unstable at that time, lin Renzhao once asked Li Yu to fight in the hope of catching the Song army by surprise at this time, recovering the lost land in Huainan, and shame on the snow, and with "the day of the rise of the army, please raise an army with your subjects to rebel."
When things come to pass, the country enjoys its benefits; if it does not, the family of the clan courtiers, His Majesty Ming does not premeditate", he informed Li Yu. Judging from Lin Renzhao's words, this battle was more beneficial to Li Yu than harmful—it was good for the country, and if it did not succeed, His Majesty said that I had rebelled against and killed my entire family, so as to block Yu You's mouth and have nothing to do with His Majesty.
However, such a good opportunity was ruthlessly rejected by Li Yu, and later Li Yu sent envoys to visit Song many times. As a result, at this time, The Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin led the emissaries to the room where Lin Renzhao's portrait was hung, making the emissaries suspect that there was an ulterior conspiracy between Lin Renzhao and Zhao Kuangyin.
Under Zhao Kuangyin's counter-plan, Li Yu killed Lin Renzhao, causing the only jealous warrior of the Song Dynasty to die in huangquan's hatred. In 975, the Song army captured Jinling, and Li Yu surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
He was given the title of Marquis of Disobedience, and his empress Xiao Zhouhou was given the title of Lady Zheng guo. The following year, The Song Emperor Zhao Kuangyin died, and Zhao Guangyi took the throne as Emperor Taizong of Song, while the tragic fate of Li Yu and his empress Xiao Zhou had just begun.
The carved fence jade should still be there, and the concubine is humiliated and imprisoned
After Li Yu and Empress Xiao Zhouhou were surrendered by the Song Dynasty, their ending was not as beautiful as imagined, as Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, told in "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon of Yu Meiren": "The carved fence jade should still be there, but Zhu Yan changed."
How much sorrow can you have? It is like a river of spring water flowing eastward." The carved jade palace seemed to be familiar, but it had changed its master, and Li Yu's heart at that time was full of regret and helplessness of the king of the subjugated country, and he also regretted that he had mistakenly killed Lin Renzhao, a general.
He was summoned every day to come and go, and he had long since lost the demeanor of a king of a country, and looked like a dog that had lost his family, but this was not his own doing, and he could not complain about others.
However, Song Taizong's humiliation of him did not stop there. Li Yu's wife, Xiao Zhouhousheng, was white and beautiful, and her figure was even more concave and convex, and she was charming and moving between her hands and feet, and Song Taizong coveted it, but Zhao Kuangyin never had a chance when he was there.
After Zhao Kuangyin's death, he began to be unscrupulous, and whenever he missed it, he would bring Xiao Zhou hou into the palace and go to Wushan to do the clouds and rain together, and the sound of joy spread inside and outside the room, and everyone heard it and blushed and left. In the "Memoirs" written by Wang Cheng of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is recorded: "After Li Guo's lord Xiao Zhou, the lord returned to the dynasty, he was crowned Lady Zheng Guo, and the wife was ordered to enter the palace.
Every day that comes out of the house, he will weep and curse the Lord, and the sound will be heard outside, and he will turn away from it. Xiao Zhou, who was once the empress of a country, was naturally ashamed and embarrassed to be so insulted, and after she returned, she cried and accused Li Yu even more tearfully. A man and a king, unable to protect their own people and become prisoners of the order, are already loveless.
Now, his favorite concubine has become a plaything of others and has been known to everyone, for a while Li Yu felt that he could not survive and die, and only then did he have the poignant poem "Yu Meiren".
If Song Taizong's bullying of QiangXing Xiao zhouhou was "cheeky", then his other approach was shameless. It is reported that at the time of strong luck, Song Taizong also let the painter depict it on the spot next to him, and created the "Xiling Xing Xiao Zhou Hou Map".
Song Taizong did such a heart-wrenching beastly act, and did not let Li Yu have the slightest complaint, and after knowing that Li Yu had made the term "Yu Meiren", he even framed his rebellious heart for not dying, and gave poisoned wine to cause Li Yu to die.
Later, after xiao Zhou, who had been humiliated for a long time, when he learned the news of her husband's death, she also hanged herself after the funeral of her husband, which was called a sad ending, and had to make people sigh "red face and thin life".
Although Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was quite talented, he did not know how to govern the country, and in the end he not only fell into the country and became a prisoner of the order, but also let his beloved concubine Xiao Zhouhou be humiliated, whether for the king or for the husband, he did not do the duty that a man should do.
However, from the current point of view, Song Taizong's approach is even more excessive, after all, "soldiers can be killed and cannot be disgraced."
What do you think about that?