After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were the most chaotic period in Chinese history, and today we are going to talk about Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Yu was a very talented emperor, and the lyrics he composed are still widely sung by people, such as "Yu Meiren", "When is the spring flower and autumn moon, how much do you know about the past, Xiao lou was the east wind last night, the homeland can't look back, in the middle of the moon, the carved fence jade should still be there, just Zhu Yanjie, ask Jun can have a few sorrows, just like a river of spring water flowing eastward." ”
Li Yu, whose original name was Li Congjia, was the sixth son of Li Jing, the second monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Four of his older brothers have all died prematurely, only the eldest brother Li Hongji is still alive, Li Hongji is silent and taciturn, resolute and decisive in the face of things, fierce in heart, dare to do daring, and very suspicious. In 956, Wu Yue led an army to attack Changzhou in southern Tang, and Li Hongji led an army to defeat Wu Yue's army, while beheading dozens of captured generals, so that for the next twenty years, Wu Yue's army did not dare to invade Tang. His father, Li Jing, was very angry at his behavior, but Li Hongji's military exploits, and the eldest son of the emperor, had no choice but to make him crown prince.
Li Hongji, who became the crown prince, was very suspicious of his brother Li Congjia, not because he was better looking than himself, nor because Li Congjia was better than himself in poetry. Why is that? Because Li Congjia's eyes are really strange, "one eye and heavy pupils" means that he has two pupils in one eye, which is an eye disease in our present, but the ancients did not know that feudal superstitious people thought that it was some kind of "divine power" given to him by heavenly arrangements. For example, Shun and Xiang Yu of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors are all heavy pupils, Shunde morality is very noble, treat people with humility, people are willing to associate with him, at that time Emperor Yao admired him very much, not only married his daughter Empress Dowager Ying to him at the same time, but also passed the throne to him, Xiang Yu is not to mention, the Western Chu Overlord "Li Bashan Is angry, breaking the cauldron and defeating the Qin army" is a hero in the hearts of many future generations.
Although Li Congjia had neither the noble morality of Shun nor the extraordinary martial arts of Xiang Yu, he was a literary and artistic youth. But Li Hongji was still uneasy about him. Li Congjia knew his brother's suspicion of him, so he plunged into the world of literature and lived the life of a hermit in the palace, drinking and singing every day, so that his body and mind felt extremely free and relaxed. He also gave himself many nicknames such as "Zhongshan Hermit" and "Lotus Peak Resident".
Li Congjia never thought of himself as emperor, but his brother Li Hongji's path to emperor was blocked by himself, because his temper was too tough, and he had many differences with his father in political opinions, and he made up his own mind, once Li Jing was so angry that he beat him up and threatened to pass the throne to his uncle Jing Sui, Li Hongji was very frightened, so he bought Jing Sui's close associates and poisoned his uncle, and it is said that Li Hongji's throne has been secured by ten.
Fate is so strange, as if to make Li Yu's "imperial appearance" come true, after the fact, Li Hongji often had nightmares, and he died in less than a month. The rise and fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty eventually fell on Li Yu's shoulders.