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The new year is approaching, the snow is flying, and the cold is compelling.
At this time, Jinling City had been besieged for eight months, and countless people froze to death and starved to death in the city.
Regardless of the danger, the lord of Jinling City took to the streets to see the soldiers, only to see his eyes resolute and vowed to coexist and die with Jinling.
The echo of "the city is in the people, the city is dead", the mountain shouts tsunami, shocks the heavens and the earth, and will surely win the defense war of Jinling!
That's right, this city lord is none other than the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty: Li Yu.
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No one wants to be the lord of the country, and Li Yu is not surprised.
When Li Yu took over the family business from his father, the Southern Tang was already the younger brother of Song, no longer calling himself the emperor, but calling himself the "lord of the country".
But fortunately, the ancestors were rich, and the land under the jurisdiction of the Southern Tang Dynasty was Jiangnan, which was a rich land, and there was nothing, that is, there was more money.
After taking office, he took the public relations route of "spending money to buy peace". Every New Year's Festival, there are many gifts that should be given to the eldest brother Zhao Kuangyin, whenever the eldest brother goes to fight neighbors, Li Yu kills chickens and slaughters sheep, and treats song jun...
This is not all, he sent the Southern Tang Defense Map, and even imitated Zhuge Liang's "Table of Renunciation", wrote "Song Taizu Table on the Throne", and vowed to die as a follower of the eldest brother: Big brother, do you see that my sincerity is enough?
Zhao Kuangyin
Zhao Kuangyin looked at this stupid son of the landlord's family so obedient and shot so widely, who would be stupid enough to hit his own money bag? Of course, it is to turn around and attack other countries.
And Li Yu's request was actually very simple, just to keep his own jiangnan land.
Just as the so-called weak countries have no diplomacy, Li Yu's "weak" diplomacy, in the final analysis, is a matter of national strength, although the ancestors are rich, but the overall difference between the Song And the Song Is very large, you see the later Song Dynasty has money, right? It's not the same as being pressed to the ground and rubbing repeatedly.
But as Zhao Kuangyin's power grew, the more he wanted to seize the little brother's family property.
On the side of the bed, do not allow others to snore! Send 100,000 troops to attack the Southern Tang.
Bai called "big brother" for so many years, and Li Yu, who was embarrassed and angry, vowed not to be the lord of the country.
Decided to fight with Zhao Kuangyin, give you a face, and really rub up? I have the Yangtze River natural danger will I be afraid of you?
So there was the scene of Jinling being besieged at the beginning and Li Yu's military parade, at this time his mood was high, the city was in the people, the city was dead!
Li Yu was so hard, it was not an impulse.
Zhao Kuangyin made it "capture the thief first to capture the king" and directly launched a general attack on Jinling.
And Li Yu relied on the natural danger of the Yangtze River that no one could break since ancient times, and decided that Jinling was impregnable, and of course dared to fight with the eldest brother.
No one expected that the Song army could actually build a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River, and overnight the Song army soldiers came to the city.
But being able to be the elder brother of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, and having been at peace for so many years, Li Yu still had two brushes.
While leading the whole city to defend Jinling, he let Zhu Lingyun, the first brave general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, lead 150,000 troops to come to the rescue, and then give the Song army a back and forth attack, and he will definitely be able to wrap the eldest brother's 100,000 troops in dumplings!
However, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very bone.
Initially, Zhu Lingyun's 150,000 troops, relying on the tailwind, rushed one fire ship after another to the Song army's pontoon bridge, only to see that the Song army was in a mess, and the fire was spreading little by little in the Song army camp, and victory was in sight.
But at the critical moment, the downwind on the Yangtze River suddenly turned into a headwind, and those fire boats were pushed back and burned to their own camp, and Zhu Lingyun, along with 150,000 troops, was buried in the sea of fire.
Heaven was about to die in southern Tang, Li Yu lost, he lost not to the Song soldiers who hit the doorstep, but to the headwinds blowing on the Yangtze River, which was the wind of history.
The world will be united for a long time, and in front of the wheel of history, individuals are prisoners of the mantis arm as a car.
Li Yu was humble and condescending, and he also vowed to die and resist, but the Southern Tang dynasty was finally destroyed.
If Li Yu is really so weak and incompetent, he will only kneel and lick,
Why was it that when he was surrendered, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, made him "Marquis of Disobedience"?
And why did the later Song Zhenzong say, "If he is really an incompetent person, how can he defend the country for more than ten years?" ”
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No one is born with a soft bone, and neither is Li Yu.
Playing Little Li Yu is a three-good student, in addition to filling in poems, he can also write songs and draw pictures, which is deeply liked by the elders.
Moreover, Li Yu is still a school grass, and his handsomeness is innate: Li Yu, who was born on Tanabata, was born with two pupils.
According to historical records, those born with two pupils are all imperial talents, Emperor Shun, Jin Wen Gongzhong' ear, one of the five masters of the Spring and Autumn Period, and Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, which is not an outstanding CEO who successfully started a business and led the company to go public?
But not everyone likes the three good students, such as his brother Li Hongyi.
Li Yu ranked sixth, his 4 brothers all died prematurely, only Li Hongyi survived.
The older brother and the younger brother are two extremes, Li Yu is a spontaneous and innocent, literary and artistic youth with outstanding literary talent, and a proper literary and artistic youth, while the older brother has a vicious heart and is brave and good at fighting.
Like Cao Pi, who was jealous of his younger brother Cao Zhi, Li Hongyi was also jealous of his younger brother Li Yu's imperial appearance.
Li Yu originally thought that after his brother was made crown prince, he would be less suspicious.
However, after Li Hongyi became the crown prince, he immediately revealed his vicious nature and poisoned the emperor who had wanted to take the throne.
Seeing the tragic death of his uncle, Li Yu was frightened and seriously ill, and embarked on another career path: to be a hermit, to show softness, only "living in the world of pen, ink, paper, and stone, he can live."
Far from the power, Li Yu opened the door to a new world, traveled freely in the book, talked with the monks about the past and the present, and he felt more and more that he was engaged in art material, and it was also good to be a "royal soft soldier"
But fate played a joke on him, bent on being the emperor's brother, suddenly died violently, but Li Yu, who had no heart for power, became the crown prince, and three years later, he ascended the throne.
Li Yu, who only wanted to be a "royal soft soldier", was thus pushed onto the stage of history.
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The young Li Yu immersed himself in the art world for a long time, cultivated a kind and sensitive poet personality, and influenced his policies after he ascended to the throne.
The poetic Li Yu is not a soft person, but a good person.
Once, a courtier asked to see Li Yu, but he was happily playing chess with his concubine and avoided seeing him.
This courtier, who was also not afraid of death, rushed in, completely disregarding Li Yu's imperial face, and lifted the chessboard in public.
Li Yu was frightened, and hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "You are tired of living, are you going to do Wei Zheng today?" ”
The courtier, who was bent on death, pointed at Li Yu's nose and said, "The old man does not dare to call himself Wei Zheng, but Your Majesty, you are not qualified enough to be compared with Tang Taizong."
Not only was Li Yu not angry, but he also admired this courtier in his heart, not punishing him or secretly squeezing.
Li Yu was such a person, who tolerated the death of his courtiers, did not remember revenge, did not pursue, and even praised him.
He is a benevolent lord, very kind, a good man, but a good man is a bad emperor.
Southern Tang originally had a great general Lin Renzhao who could be called "incorruptible", and with him, Southern Tang should not have perished so quickly.
This general watched as Song Jun ping jing chu, broke hou shu, and took the southern Han dynasty, and if he continued like this, even if the family had more money, it would not be able to feed Zhao Kuangyin, a fierce tiger, and sooner or later it would be defeated by Li Yu.
He also knew that Li Yu only wanted to keep Jiangnan and be a literary and artistic youth, and as for leading the troops to fight, it was not his direction.
He begged Li Yu and decided to "single out" Zhao Kuangyin and take advantage of the Song army's soldiers and horses to fight a blitzkrieg to turn the situation around in one fell swoop.
Li Yu's capitalization doubts? You're kidding me???
Lin Renzhao bent over, knelt heavily on the ground on both knees, and said:
"If you succeed, you can make a big fuss and point directly at Bieliang, and if you fail, Your Majesty says that if I cheat and hide, you can cut off my head, curse my nine tribes, and take the lives of my entire people to apologize to Zhao Kuangyin, and the Southern Tang dynasty will not offend the Song Dynasty because of this, and you can also save your honor."
Li Yu was suddenly confused, you are short-circuited in your brain, live a peaceful life, it is not fragrant, why do you have to fight, refused the request.
Li Yu did not want to go to war, because in his view, no matter whether he won or lost, fighting a war is a matter of labor and wealth, and it is the people who suffer.
However, after Zhao Kuangyin heard the news, he used a counter-plot to get rid of Lin Renzhao.
Since then, the Southern Tang, which has lost its arm, can no longer stop the Song army.
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Although Li Yu was "soft" politically and militarily, culturally, he was very hard.
Li Yu is quite business-minded in the field of culture.
He founded the Southern Tang Media, exported ink, paper, Yan and other cultural industries, launched a century-old brand "Li Mo", which affected the whole country of the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the fourth emperor Song Renzong, the price of a piece of "Li Mo" exceeded 10,000 yuan, and its slogan was "gold is available, Li Mo is not available".
The Song Dynasty great scholar Su Shi's masterpiece "Tangcheng Poetry Scroll" used the long-lost "Chengxintang Paper" made by Li Yu.
And he himself, in addition to being the chairman and CEO of Nantang Media, is also the brand image spokesperson.
He was the king of traffic of that era, and the lyrics he composed were almost the best pop songs in the capital, and there were people singing his words in the streets and alleys:
Some people like the bustling "car like flowing water horse like dragon, flower moon is spring breeze",
Some people like to be sad "Lin Hua thanked Chun Hong, too hurried!" ”
Some people like to pour out "cut continuously, rationalize and chaos, is away from sorrow, don't be a general taste in the heart"
Some people like to sigh "it is easy to see when it is difficult, the flowing water falls and the flowers go in the spring, the heavens and the earth"
These words, written because of his sensitive and fragile nature, even after more than a thousand years, still move us and make us intoxicated.
I just didn't expect that after a thousand years, his "heaven on earth" would become a synonym for a nightclub, and if Li Yuquan knew about it, he would definitely be able to come back to life.
Li Yu's poetry works handed down are less than forty, but they are enough to squeeze into the list of famous poets in the world of words, and they are called "the emperor of words through the ages".
His influence on his side business (calligraphy, poetry, words, etc.) far exceeded his main business (being emperor).
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Although the culture and economy of the Southern Tang Dynasty were prosperous, peace needed cannons to be guaranteed.
The southern Tang Dynasty, with its weak military fists, was only a matter of time before it perished.
After the defeat in the defense of Jinling, Li Yu and xiao Zhouhou, his wife who had fallen into the country, were escorted to Bieliang and knelt down to see Zhao Kuangyin.
Among the founding emperors of the past, the character of Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, can be called the best choice.
He destroyed the Southern Tang, but instead of killing Li Yu completely, he trapped Li Yu in Bieliang, and although Zhao Kuangyin was a military general, he had great respect for the literati, so that Li Yu could still live with dignity and still be able to live with his wife Xiao Zhouhou.
However, at this time, a major event occurred in the Song Dynasty, zhao Kuangyin, who was in his prime, suddenly died violently, and his brother Zhao Guangyi took the throne.
Compared with Zhao Kuangyin's benevolence, Zhao Guangyi can be said to be no different from "hooligans".
He first gave Li Yu an official PUA, deliberately took him to see the Great Song Library, and said: "I know that you like to collect books, many of the books here are from the Southern Tang Library, there are old books that you like, you can read more when you have time." ”
This was pouring salt on Li Yu's wound, this word was like a knife, a knife went down, the fragile and sensitive heart began to bleed again, and Zhao Guangyi accurately suppressed Li Yu's self-confidence. Sending people to the fence, Li Yu had to be soft.
Li Yu's inkblots have been rarely circulated, and a line title on the Southern Tang Dynasty painter Zhao Gan's "The First Snow Map of Jiang Xing" is considered to be his original handwriting
Immediately afterward, the despicable Zhao Guangyi repeatedly deceived Xiao Zhouhou into the official position in the name of being summoned by the empress dowager, and insulted Xiao Zhouhou.
Watching his wife being summoned to the palace, Li Yu collapsed.
As a monarch, he failed to guard the Southern Tang, as a husband, he could not protect his wife, it can be said that living is worse than death...
In 978, Tanabata arrived, at the birthday party, Li Yu, who was sad and indignant, let Ge Ji sing the new work "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon of Yu Meiren", and wanwan did not expect that it had become Li Yu's desperate words:
The partition wall has ears, and this word was immediately transmitted to Zhao Guangyi's ear, what "homeland"? What "Zhu Yan Reform"?
Zhao Guangyi did not expect that the "soft man" Li Yu was so hard and blatantly expressed the hatred of the subjugation of the country!
He gritted his teeth in hatred and, in the name of congratulating his birthday, gave him wine and poisoned Li Yu.
Fate is very wonderful, Li Yu was born in Qixi, and died in Qixi, forty-two years of bumpy life, it seems to be a dream.
After Li Yu's death, Xiao Zhouhou was demented and demented, holding Li Yu's body and not crying or making trouble.
She only begged Zhao Guangyi to let Li Yu's coffin be sent back to Jinling, but Zhao Guangyi did not allow it, and repeatedly ordered her to serve in the palace.
Xiao Zhou Hou loved Li Yu, and when Li Yu was at his worst, it was Xiao Zhou Hou who accompanied him.
She knew that Li Yu had already endured too much pain in this life, and she did not want Li Yu to suffer loneliness after death, and then martyrdom.
According to the Book of Southern Tang, the news of Li Yu's death spread back to Jiangnan, and people wept for him in the streets and alleys.
It is not easy for a subjugated lord who is despised and despised by the world to have the people of the former dynasty shed tears for him.
For the sake of the people of Jiangnan, in the face of the ambitious Zhao Kuangyin, he was humble and humble and soft.
For the sake of the foundation of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in the face of the invasion of 100,000 Song troops, he also vowed to resist to the death and hardened.
He tried to fight against fate, tried his best, and wanted to preserve the inheritance of his ancestors, but the trend of the times was ultimately defeated.
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Li Yu is such a combination full of contradictions.
He was very weak, and after Xiao Zhou was trampled by Zhao Guangyi, he was actually able to endure it.
But under captivity, he had an iron will to the "homeland", and until his death he did not say a word of "here happy, do not think of Shu" to flatter and live, compared with the last kings of the same period, I don't know how many times harder.
Wang Guowei commented on Li Yu's life in "Words and Sayings on Earth" that "heaven has achieved a word man with a hundred evils".
He should have become a gentle and jade prince, but after all the hardships and the world's troubles, he became a king with a thin life, and he could not even decide for himself.
Li Yu, with the sorrow of his own "homeland", wrote about the pain of impermanence of thousands of ancient people.
If there really is reincarnation, I hope that in the next life, he will not be born in the imperial family.