Introduction: In 884 AD, this was an unusual year for the Tang Dynasty, the empire's rivers and mountains were in turmoil, and the survival was all pinned on two generals, and these two people were One of them was Zhu Wen, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedushi, and the other was Li Keyong of Hedong Jiedushi. They pinned their hopes on the empire and carried out a victory banquet, but they never expected that the victory banquet would suddenly become a Hongmen banquet, and a terrible killing machine broke out in the Beizhou Yiguan Shangyuanyi, and a tragedy was brewed.
The Tang Dynasty was a landmark in ancient history
The strength of the country and the depth of cultural influence can be called a historical miracle
, and during this period, the famous generals and kings are the choice of the moment,
Together, they forged a great miracle, but this miracle still could not escape the cycle of history.
The ostensibly prosperous Tang Dynasty
The last year of the Tang Dynasty
, The Tang Empire
It also went into decline, and the Yellow Nest Uprising suddenly plunged the entire empire into a state of turmoil.
The history of five generations and ten kingdoms
It's about to start here. But before these chaos erupted, the Empire seemed to have something else
Turn
And this turning point to Hedong
The knot makes Li Ke use
and
Xuanwu Jiedu made Zhu Wen
Body.
Wang Fuzhi's "Treatise on Reading Through the Scriptures" records: "If the Yellow Nest is trapped in Guangzhou, it is abandoned by the Lake and Xiang, and the Dujianghuai is abandoned, and Jia, Cai, and Bian are their soil, no people are their people, no grain of millet is their feeding, and Zhu Wen and Shang Rang, who rely on their minions, are not ruled by Su, and they are also thieves, and they are occasionally pushed to Bong'er." ”
Even though the tang dynasty's national strength was very weak, these two knots still stood out and turned the tide.
Zhu Wen
The first to express their talents,
With the knowledge of Huangchao's military intelligence, the Huangchao army repeatedly ambushed, and in several important meetings, five generals of the Huangchao army were captured in succession
This terrible general used fierce means to beat the Yellow Nest Rebellion to a shaky end, allowing the imperial court to gain a foothold for a short time.
It seems that with the appearance of Zhu Wen, the return to the light of the Tang Empire has become more obvious.
Li Ke used
At the same time, one is called
People also jumped out,
This young general was particularly brave in battle, organized death squads many times, confronted Huang Chao head-on, beat the other side upside down, and suddenly became one of the imperial doubles standing side by side with Zhu Wen.
Therefore, the Tang Empire, which was in turmoil at that time, was close to death, but at this time there was a turnaround, one
If they were to quell the rebellion, then the Tang Empire would still have a chance, and if they failed to quell the rebellion, then the Empire would die and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms would come directly.
Hongmen feast, Datang Shuangxiong has since turned against each other
884 BC
In this year, Zhu Wen once again defeated Huang Chao's army and recruited a number of generals, while at the same time Li Ke defeated Huang Chao's main force and captured Huang Chao's 6-year-old child. With the full cooperation of these two people,
The yellow nest has become a grasshopper after autumn
And the chaos of the Tang Empire is about to usher in order.
Under such a victory, the two decided to come once
Victory meets
moreover
The victorious were received with great solemnity
The location of this meeting is there
Shangyuan Yi of Fenzhou Inn
。 In the eyes of the court officials,
After this meeting, the Tang Empire will usher in new vitality, but I never expected that this was not a victory banquet, but a Feast of Hongmen.
Li Keyong and numerous officials
And I don't realize it.
He just took more than 500 elite men and came to Zhu Wen's territory alone
。 On top of the banquet, the two can be said to be very happy to talk, Li Keyong, although young, but
Zhu Wen was highly regarded by him, and repeatedly implied that Li Keyong and Zhu Wen would become the emperor's double bibi
。 But unfortunately, Li Ke, with his youthful vigor, simply did not look up to this older Zhu Wen, and he had served many times at the banquet
Showed disrespect to Zhu Wen
At this time, Zhu Wen was murderous, but Li Keyong did not notice at all.
Li Ke used to get drunk that day and went home ready to go to bed, when suddenly there was a fire everywhere in the place where he lived, and there were bows and arrows everywhere, and countless soldiers were surrounding his place. Li Ke woke up with a fright at once, and desperately fought outside, but unfortunately, the fire outside was too big.
Watching the hundreds of guards around him die, and he himself was about to be buried in the fire, but at this moment, a miracle occurred, a heavy rain poured down, and the terrible fire was extinguished in a short time
Li Keyong was also like crawling out of the ghost gate, desperately relying on his own guards to kill the siege.
Li Keyong finally escaped back to his territory, but the more than 500 guards he had brought with him were basically all dead.
He didn't
Liu Bang and Xiang Yu
The excitement of fighting wits and courage, but the simple and brutal killing and the overwhelming flames are really worse than the Hongmen Feast of that year.
It is true that he relied on his fate, received the protection of heaven, and barely broke through the siege, but
The last chance for the rise of the Tang Empire was destroyed in this Feast of the Great Gate.
From this point on,
Zhu Wen was no longer loyal to the Tang Empire, he ended the chaos, but to establish his own order, and Li Keyong became an endless enemy of Zhu Wen, the two major military groups were completely opposed, whether it was the Tang Empire or the Later Liang, it was impossible to usher in unity and order.
This time
Hongmen Feast,
Actually
The beginning and introduction of the outbreak of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
The light of the Tang Empire is gone, and the last return to the light is also illuminated
Zhu Wen ruthlessly snuffed out
。 But although this banquet was extremely fierce,
But there are also many people who do not understand why Zhu Wen did this in those years.
No clear answer is given in the historical record.
At that time, Zhu Wen and Li Keyong were about to become military opponents, and the merits made by both of them were similar.
Therefore, in order to ensure his own authority, Zhu Wen was ready to kill the other side and annex the other side's army in advance.
So it was a one-time event.
Merger and reorganization of the power of the clan town
。
Zhu Wen was originally ill-intentioned and ambitious, but Li Ke used it to escape death, so that Zhu Wen was a bad chess player.
After the destruction of the Tang Empire, it still failed to usher in a new order, even if Zhu Wen was able to establish a new regime
。 However, failing to annex the Hedong clique well was doomed to plunge the regime he had established into greater chaos, and this was also the case
Later, the Liang Tang Dynasty, Jin, Han Zhou began, so from here, the era of the great division of the land of China came again.
Resources:
"Reading through the Theory"