No matter how chaotic and unbearable the dynasties in history are, there will always be a lot of heroic figures, even if they are not qualified to become heroes, at least they can rank among the tyrants, and their names have moved ancient and modern times.
However, there are always exceptions to everything, and in the ups and downs of the five generations and ten kingdoms for decades, we can't even pick out decent haojie characters, flip through the history of those with the label of "five generations and ten countries", full of hooligans and fools, it is simply incomprehensible.
Who are the top rogues of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?
Perhaps those who are familiar with history will award this "honorary title" to Zhu Wen, because no one can look up to him in "indiscriminate killing of innocents". However, the villains of the Five Dynasties period were not "first without second, third by 18,000 miles", and these hooligans really had no worst but worse. Zhu Wen is a "benchmark" figure, but among the bastards of his contemporaries, we can still choose the existence that can stand side by side, such as Liu Shouguang, the founding emperor of Jie Yan, who is such a number one figure.
Liu Shouguang, his father Liu Rengong, served as an envoy to Lu Longjie in his early years. Liu Shouguang's identity can also be regarded as a down-to-earth "second generation official". At the end of the Tang Dynasty, he was a bit like a warlord of the Republic of China era, and was a leading figure in the local area. Since they are the earth emperors of local governments, then, naturally, they will have the capital and strength of the fish and meat people.
Liu Rengong's hobbies before his death were two:
The first is to enjoy it to the fullest, to compare wealth and nobility;
The second is to seek immortals and ask for medicines and make friends with immortals.
The New Five Dynasties History has clouds:
"Proud of the rich. Tsukumiya DaanShan, poor and extravagant, choose Swallow beauty to fill it. And with the Taoist alchemy, I hope not to die. Let the Yan people use the soil as money, collect copper coins, hide it in LuanShan, and kill their work to extinguish their mouths, and posterity will not know where it is. ”
It is estimated that because the social conditions in the Five Dynasties period were a bit bad, the folk girls were all yellow and thin, and it was difficult to pick out a decent color from inside. Therefore, Liu Rengong won by numbers, cast wide nets and fished more, and crowded the harem. Liu Rengong is not an orthodox Tianzi, his harem territory is relatively limited, thousands of beauties live in the harem, it is estimated that the living conditions are similar to the TV series "Snail Residence".
Countless histories have shown us that quantity can sometimes be difficult to defeat quality. Although Liu Rengong's wives and concubines were like clouds, he did not have many sons, and the quality of his sons was generally low, either stupid or stupid. Perhaps the "cultivation of offspring" is the same as the practice of art, and how much energy can be used to get as much results as possible. Liu Rengong's "wide casting" type of sowing has made his offspring extremely genetically unbearable.
Liu Shouguang, who inherited Liu Rengong's DNA, is almost like a copy of Liu Rengong.
Liu Shouguang had not yet inherited his father's inheritance, and had already recruited wives and concubines. The beauties in his backyard had had enough, and Liu Shouguang aimed at his father's harem. According to historical records, Liu Rengong's favorite concubine was named Luo Shi, and her appearance was large among the concubines, which was more attractive. One day, Liu Shouguang took advantage of his father's outing and actually had an affair with this concubine and gave his father a green hat.
After Liu Rengong heard about this incident, he almost had a heart attack. Although in their old Liu family, this kind of thing is purely "the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked", but once the green hat is buckled on his head, it is also worn by his son himself, which makes Liu Rengong a little unbearable. As a father, Liu Rengong immediately ordered liu Shouguang to be tied up and beaten up, "expelled." After all, Liu Shouguang was his own flesh and blood, and the tiger poison did not eat children, and Liu Rengong could not do such a thing as soon as he killed him.
Liu Rengong was so unbearable, but he still had some ability in fighting. Liu Rengong's most praised achievement in later generations is to attack the city by digging tunnels. This move was perfectly reproduced by the Eighth Route Army on the anti-Japanese battlefield, and this set of "tactics handed down from the ancestors" can be said to be quite effective. But compared to Zhu Wen, Liu Rengong's skills were slightly inferior. Not long after dealing with Liu Shouguang's matter, Zhu Wen, an old rival, sent the general Li Si'an to attack.
At the moment when Li Si'an called, Liu Rengong was enjoying himself outside, "Camp in the Shizi River, Rengong is in Da'an Mountain, and the city is unprepared." Li Si'an's unexpected raid caused Liu Rengong to almost die in Youzhou. Liu Rengong did not die, and the son Who wore a green hat for him at the critical moment, Liu Shouguang, played a huge role. While Liu Rengong was waiting for death, Liu Shouguang rushed to the aid of Youzhou with his own soldiers and rushed to save his father before the enemy arrived. After some counter-offensive calculations, Li Si'an temporarily withdrew.
After the enemy retreated, Liu Rengong was very relieved, after all, he was his own son, although the style was a little unruly, but his nature was not bad, at least he knew the affection of father and son. Originally, Liu Rengong was relieved for a long time, who knew that Liu Shouguang actually did not leave after entering Youzhou, and even announced that he would immediately succeed lu longjiedushi and forcibly inherit everything his father had. Liu Rengong saw the situation and almost twisted his mouth in anger.
Liu Rengong gathered the old deployment and prepared to ask his son for an explanation, who knew that Liu Shouguang was strong first, secretly calculated Liu Rengong's army, and put his father under house arrest in Youzhou.
After Liu Shouguang took over everything from his father, he naturally took over the entertainment facilities that served Liu Rengong in his early years, and the yellow-skinned beauties in the harem were also taken over by him. From the perspective of modern people, this move is undoubtedly rebellious and unethical, but in the five generations period, the common people have long been accustomed to this kind of dirty things. There are only two people who have prejudices against Liu Shouguang, one is Liu Rengong, the father who has been deprived of everything, and the second is Liu Shouguang's brother Liu Shouwen.
Liu Shouwen is not accustomed to Liu Shouguang, and it is estimated that it is not out of filial piety, but because this boy did not give himself enough benefits after taking over. Therefore, Liu Shouwen, under the banner of liquidating Liu Shouguang, gathered his father's old subordinates and prepared to capture Youzhou. The soldiers who were willing to fight for Liu Shouwen's life were probably not for the great righteousness of the family and the country. It was an armed force serving the warlords, and most of them had in mind the big girls in the city. After all, in this chaotic and dark year, profit is the main tone of everything.
This fratricidal war is not a child's play, morality and morality alone cannot determine the outcome, but whose brain is good and whose fist is strong. Liu Shouwen and Liu Shouguang are both Liu Rengong's species, which can be called carved out of a mold, and both of them are fools in terms of fighting. Liu Shouguang's hard power is relatively strong, after all, he has taken over most of his father's authority, so this war ended with Liu Shouguang winning. Liu Shouwen lost the battle and fled to the north in a daze, asking for help from the Khitan and Tuguhun.
The foreign national forces were quite pleased with this kind of fratricide, and immediately sent 40,000 troops to help Liu Shouwen make a comeback and defeat Liu Shouguang. After solving most of his brother's army, Liu Shouwen stood on the moral high ground in order to show himself, "Yang is intolerant, and out of the line, he calls out to his people: 'Don't kill my brother!'" A dramatic scene occurred, Liu Shouguang's subordinates saw a person shouting when they stepped out of the enemy formation, and immediately launched a beheading operation with the tactic of "capturing the thief first and capturing the king" to capture Liu Shouwen in one fell swoop.
After Liu Shouwen was captured alive, the situation once again developed in a one-sided direction.
The Cangzhou general Sun He supported Liu Shouwen's son as his leader and held on to the last territory. Liu Shouguang adopted the tactic of encircling and not attacking Cangzhou, so that Cangzhou "ate all the food in the city, the rice was straight to 30,000 yuan, and the people killed each other and ate, or ate the soil, and the horses ate their tails." In the siege wars in history, whenever there is a desperate situation of changing children and eating, the battle is always unwinnable. Desperate, Sun He had to surrender Kaesong and vowed to serve Liu Shouguang in the future. After taking Cangzhou, Liu Shouguang immediately killed his brother Liu Shouwen and cut the grass and roots.
Liu Shouguang, who imprisoned his father and killed his brother, ushered in the peak of his life, sitting on two treasures in Cangzhou and Youzhou, and became one of the powerful warlords in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Liu Shouguang lacks enterprising spirit and only wants to see the acre and three points of land under his eyes. Liu Shouguang, who did not want to make progress, did not intend to expand his territory, but was intoxicated with pleasure like his father. At this time, Liu Shouguang was going farther and farther on the road to find fun, and ordinary fun could no longer satisfy his desires, so he began to use his limited brain capacity to study torture.
"Every prisoner will be filled with an iron cage, and the fire will be forced everywhere, and the iron brush will be shaved off the face." In terms of how to make people worse off than dead, Liu Shouguang can be said to be quite experienced. It is said that he has invented many tortures that are more torturous than Ling Chi's, and this "scratching" punishment is only one of them. Although Liu Shouguang is a complete bastard, there is no precedent for the founding of the country without bastards in the past. However, Liu Shouguang did not have the brainpower to be the founding emperor.
To be fair, the environment in which Liu Shouguang and other warlords live is basically "the head of the gun", and whoever comes out first will become the target of public criticism. At this critical juncture, Liu Shouguang repeatedly asked the courtiers: "Today the sea is divided, and I want to face the world in the south, why do the kings think so?" So much so that his ambitions were clear. In the face of such a leader who did not know the current affairs, the group of courtiers under Liu Shouguang did not even know how to reply. Sun He, the only one who spoke the truth, warned Liu Shouguang that the most urgent task was not to claim the title of emperor, but to rectify the army and appease the people.
Sun He's words, Liu Shouguang listened to half of them. Although he did not claim the title of emperor, he wrote a letter to Li Cunxun, another overlord of Hedong, asking Li Cunxun to honor himself as an ally of the Northern Alliance.
Who is Li Cunxun?
He immediately joined forces with other separatist forces, calling Liu Shouguang the head bird "Shang Father" and pushing him to the cusp of the storm. "If you want to destroy it, you must first make it expand", Li Cunxun used this routine to the fullest. At his instigation, Liu Shouguang changed his era name to YingTian and established the Great Yan (historically known as Jie Yan) regime.
Liu Shouguang ushered in the peak of his life, but he did not know what it meant to be killed in that era of hooligans. From the moment Liu Shouguang sat on the dragon chair, the countdown to The demise of Jie Yan had already begun.
Resources:
["History of the Old Five Dynasties, Biography of Liu Shouguang", "Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 267"]