Today, we will talk about an emperor who is Li Cunxun, the founding emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty
Five generations later, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty
Later Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxun (xù) (2 December 885 – 15 May 926), whose original surname was Zhu Xie (朱邪), was a native of Jincheng County, Ying prefecture (present-day Ying County, Shanxi), and a member of the Shatuo ethnic group. After the Five Dynasties period, he was the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the son of Li Keyong, the taizu of the Later Tang Dynasty.
Li Cunxun is good at riding and shooting, and he is both literate and martial. In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, he accompanied his father to conquer the four directions, and was quite meritorious, and gradually moved to inspect the school Sikong and the History of Jinzhou. In the fifth year of Tianyou (908), he served as an envoy to Hedong Jiedushi and attacked the King of Jin. Xiao Yong was good at war, good at strategy, attacking Hou liang in the south, Khitan in the north, Hebei in the east, and hezhong in the west, making the Jin state increasingly powerful. In the first year of Tongguang (923), he declared himself emperor at Wei Prefecture (魏州, in present-day Daming County, Handan, Hebei Province) and established the Later Tang Dynasty. After the fall of Liang, the capital was set at Luoyang (洛阳, in modern Luoyang, Henan). During his reign, he annexed the State of Qi, destroyed Former Shu, and took Fengxiang, Hanzhong, and Liangchuan, shaking the southern division of the kingdoms, "five generations of territory, no one flourishing here". In the later period, he indulged in loud and honesty, employed people without a way, connived at the empress to interfere in politics, reused servants and eunuchs, suspected of killing heroes, levied tyranny, and spared money, so that the people were in distress, the clan town was resentful, and the soldiers were centrifuged.
In the fourth year of Tongguang (926), he was killed in the Xingjiaomen Rebellion, at the age of forty-two, reigned for three years, and was buried in Yongling.
Later Tang was a regime established by ethnic minorities, most of the emperors of the minority regime were able to fight good wars, his father Li Ke died of illness in 908 AD, Li Cunxun took over his father's position in twenty-four years for young people to be young and promising, just after succeeding to the throne, he personally came to the battlefield to personally ask for help from Luzhou and won a great victory, and after the fall, Liang thought that the world was determined so he indulged in eroticism. Because her empress was too greedy for money and her vain and unrighteous collusion with eunuchs led to rebellion among her subordinates and died in the change of the Xingjiaomen, why would it be defeated, they connived at the soldiers to expropriate and tyrannically expropriate the common people, because it was a minority regime that when the emperor did not have military salaries and grain, he connived at the soldiers to rob the people of their belongings and grain, and in the year of the catastrophe, many ordinary people starved to death, and most ethnic minorities would only fight the world and would not sit in the world. He only knows that there are soldiers who can sit in the world and do not know the dead words of the people, we must take history as a mirror, and below there is a picture of Li Cunxun's wife: