Yang Xingmi died, and a generation of tyrants fell without warning, falling at the glorious moment of his career, I think he must be very sorry before he died.
He died before he could get out of the division, and the hero was in tears. This is Du Fu's famous sentence in memory of Zhuge Liang, and there is no sense of violation when placed on Yang Xingmi. The newborn State of Wu had not yet unified half of Jiangnan, and it painfully lost Yang Xingmi, the helmsman. Where will wu guo's big ship sail? No one knows the answer, but one thing is certain, that is, the drama of unifying the world no longer has the role of Wu Guo.
The young Wu emperor Yang Wo hurried back to Yangzhou from Xuanzhou and inherited the title of King of Wu in front of his father's coffin. The whole process was orderly, stable and peaceful, and a major power transfer was completed without alarm.
Looking at almost every transfer of power in history, it has been accompanied by bloody rain, conspiracies and killings, and corpses all over the field, and the reason why Wu Guo has been so smooth this time is inseparable from the help of an important person.
Who will this person be?
Winter of the second year of Tianyou (905). Yangzhou Wu King's Palace.
"Xuan Right Ya du commanded Xu Wen to see——"
A middle-aged man who had been waiting outside the door for a long time strode into the palace, his name was Xu Wen, an important figure who was about to change the fate of the Wu kingdom.
Xu Wen (徐文), courtesy name Dunmei, was a native of Haizhou (present-day Lianyungang, Jiangsu). The founding father of the State of Wu, one of the thirty-six people who followed Yang Xing's secret army.
Because his hometown was on the seashore, Xu Wen, who grew up on the seashore, made a living selling salt in his early years, and later joined Yang Xing's secret door to follow him to the army. Xu Wen was one of Yang Xingmi's earliest entrepreneurial team members, and later Yang Xingmi was also included in the Thirty-Six Heroes when he discussed the merits and deeds.
Among the thirty-six people, all of them had outstanding military achievements, but this Xu Wen had no merit, and among the thirty-six people, he was very low-key, belonging to the kind of soy sauce, more than one of him, not more than him, less than him. It was not until later that Zhu Yanshou, one of the thirty-six people, began to be reused by Yang Xingmi and gradually became his confidant.
After Yang Xingmi fell ill and was bedridden, he very unusually sent his eldest son Yang Wo to serve as an observation envoy in Xuanzhou, and Xu Wen, who was then the commander of the Right Guard, said to Yang Wo privately: The great king is sick but has sent shizi to other places, there must be traitors in this, if one day the king orders to summon Shizi back, if it is not an emissary sent by me, Shizi must not come back, remember!
"If the present king has a sickness and a concubine, he will have a conspiracy of adulterers, and if he summons a son every day, the messenger of non-gentleness will not answer the order." —— "The History of the New Five Dynasties: Wu Shijia"
The young Yang Wo agreed with a full mouth, and the history books record that Yang Wo "wept and thanked Wen and went away" with a handful of snot and a handful of tears.
When Yang Xingmi was critically ill, he ordered the judge Zhou Yin to draft an edict to summon his eldest son Yang Wo back to Beijing. Zhou Yin, this boy is also bold, and actually said to Yang Xingmi that Yang Wo's little fresh meat is too young to be responsible, and Wu Guo handed him do you feel at ease? I think it is better to choose a senior elderly minister to perform his duties on his behalf, and enthusiastically recommend Liu Wei, one of the thirty-six people who followed Yang Xingmi's army, and Yang Xingmi on the sickbed shook his head and did not agree.
Of course, the Jiangshan I have worked so hard to build must be passed on to my son, even if he is an idiot like Emperor Hui of Jin, he can't be a cheap outsider.
Soon Xu Wen and the counselor Yan Ke asked to visit the illness, and Yang Xingmi told the two of Zhou Yin's suggestions. Xu Wen was horrified and strongly opposed, so he went straight to the Zhou Yin Mansion that night to discuss the matter. At that time, Zhou Yin did not come out to meet the guests, the edict was still on the table, Xu Wen grabbed the edict and rushed out of the door, sending people to Xuanzhou overnight to invite Yang Wo into Beijing.
When Yang Wo saw that Xu Wen had sent someone to invite him back to Beijing, he gladly went there and entrusted the military affairs of Xuanzhou to Wang Maozhang. Before leaving, the big cars and small cars were loaded with a lot of xuanzhou's public property, Wang Maozhang held on to it, Yang Wo was anxious, and even sent troops to grab it, and Wang Maozhang went to Zhejiang Qianfang in a fit of anger.
From this small matter, it is not difficult to see that Yang Wo is definitely not Yang Xingmi's qualified successor, purely a clumsy disciple, who has not been around for a few years before he forgot his father's poor origins. Didn't Yang Xingmi know the virtues of his son? Handing over Jiangshan to such a person is like a flash in the pan.
The first thing Yang Wo did after arriving in Yangzhou was not to go to the Lingtang to mourn, but immediately sent someone to arrest Zhou Yin, who suggested replacing him with Liu Wei, and angrily scolded: "What do you see as a traitor to the State of Wu?" ”
"Ru, who wants to betray our country, how can you see Yang Shihu?" - "History of the New Five Dynasties - Wu Shijia"
Furious, Yang Wo scolded Zhou Yin with a dog blood sprinkler, scolded Shuang, and then pushed out and slashed. Since ancient times, when the death of the emperor is encountered, the state funeral will try to avoid killing people, and the execution of death row prisoners will be postponed, or simply amnesty for the world and forgive their capital crimes. Yang Woke was good, the first thing to enter Beijing was to kill people, and Zhou Yin, who was killed, was still one of the thirty-six heroes who followed Yang Xing's secret army, ranking twenty-seventh.
In fact, Zhou Yin may not just want to mess up Wu Guo, he is also out of loyalty, he said that Yang Wo is unreliable, is there something wrong? Judging from what Yang Wo did later, there was really nothing wrong with him. Liu Wei, whom he recommended, was also one of the thirty-six heroes of the founding of the country, ranking ninth, and Lao Cheng was heavy-handed, courageous and strategic, and an important general under Yang Xingmi. With his ability and qualifications, he was fully qualified to be the successor of Wu Guo, but Yang Xingmi did not agree, Yang Wo was not happy, and this proposal was destined to be a moon in the water and a flower in the mirror.