He was the emperor, but he was bullied by the eunuchs and the feudal towns in turn, playing with the palms of his hands, and twice locked up the small black house, and finally he himself was hacked to death by a knife, and all his sons were killed.
This unfortunate emperor was Tang Zhaozong.
In fact, Tang Zhaozong was not only the most miserable emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but also several unlucky emperors in the entire history of China.
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01, sorrow urge the king
Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, Li Ye, was the seventh son of Emperor Yizong of Tang, and was born in the eighth year of Xiantong (867).
At the age of 5, he was crowned king of Shou (this in itself was a bad luck king, and there was also a shou king in the Tang Dynasty, who was Yang Guifei's first husband, Li Mao).
Li Ye was talented and intelligent, and he was a good student since he was a child, and he was a highly prestigious sage king at that time.
Unfortunately, he was born in the late Tang Dynasty.
At this time, in the Tang Dynasty, the party strife was fierce, the feudal towns were divided, and the eunuchs had exclusive powers, and the signs of national subjugation were very obvious.
In the fourteenth year of Xiantong (873), Li Ye was 6 years old, and his father Tang Yizong died of illness.
The Grand Eunuch Tian Lingzi was succeeded by the 11-year-old Li Yan as Emperor Tang.
Emperor Tang was a famous Emperor Of Tang, who acted recklessly during his reign and possessed all the characteristics of Emperor Xia
In the second year of Emperor Tang's succession, the Wang Xianzhi Rebellion broke out.
In June of the second year of Qianfu (875), Huang Chao raised an army in response to Wang Xianzhi's rebellion.
The famous Yellow Nest Uprising began.
The Huangchao Rebellion raged for ten years, until June of the fourth year of Zhonghe (884), when it was extinguished by the Tang Dynasty.
The Huangchao Rebellion dealt a fatal blow to the Tang Dynasty's political, military, and economic trinity, and stirred up the Tang Dynasty into a mess, and the only places under the central control of the Tang Dynasty were Hexi, Shannan, Jiannan, and Lingnan West Provinces, and the Tang Dynasty entered the era of the Great Chaos of Fanzhen.
In the first year of the Guangqi Dynasty (885), the eunuch Tian Lingzi, together with Zhu Mei and Li Changfu, waged war against Wang Chongrong.
Wang Chongrong called for help from Li Keyong in Taiyuan, and Wang and Li joined forces to defeat Zhu Mei and Li Changfu and force Chang'an.
The Tang Dynasty's central army was defeated, and Emperor Tang fled to Fengxiang under the siege of Tian Lingzi.
It was not until February of the first year of Wende (888) that Emperor Tang returned to Chang'an, and Tang rule survived in name only.
On the sixth day of March, Emperor Tang died.
On the eighth day of March, Li Ye was officially enthroned as Emperor Zhaozong of Tang under the support of the eunuch Yang Fugong.
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02, sadly urge the emperor
After Tang Zhaozong succeeded to the throne, he was not willing to be a puppet emperor, and he wanted to turn the tide and save Tang.
If Tang Zhaozong wants to save Tang, he must have the power, and he must have the right to first overthrow Yang Fugong.
After Tang Zhaozong succeeded to the throne, he was outwardly polite to Yang Fu, but secretly, he tried to implement the plan.
No way, Yang Fugong held the military power in his hands and was arrogant.
Tang Zhaozong's uncle Wang Jiu wanted to serve as an envoy to Jiedushi, and Yang Fugong directly sent his own cronies to drown all of Wang Biao's family and servants, leaving no face at all.
Tang Zhaozong couldn't bear it any longer and killed Yang Fugong.
Tang Zhaozong was not stupid, knowing that if he wanted to kill Yang Fugong, he could only outwit him, not fight hard.
Tang Zhaozong used a divisive trick.
Yang Fugong had a son named Yang Shouli, who was his right and left arm in the army.
Tang Zhaozong designed to make them turn against each other.
Finally, through operation, Tang Zhaozong successfully eliminated Yang Fugong (after Yang Fugong's death, Yang Shouli had no use value and was killed by Tang Zhaozong), temporarily solving the problem of eunuch monopoly.
Next, Tang Zhaozong began to target the fan town and solve the problem of the division of the fan town.
Fan zhen was not easy to provoke, and to deal with them, Tang Zhaozong first had to have soldiers.
The problem was that the Central Forbidden Army of the Tang Dynasty had been completely destroyed by Wang Chongrong and Li Keyong.
Tang Zhaozong gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, recruited troops, expanded the forbidden army, and formed a central army of 100,000 troops.
At this time, Tang Zhaozong made a defeated move, sending troops from both the east and the west at the same time to deal with the most dishonest Chen Jingxuan (dividing Xichuan) and Li Keyong (dividing Hedong).
Map of the situation of the division of the town at the end of the Tang Dynasty
03, a defeat
On December 24, 888, in the first year of Wende (888), Emperor Zhaozong of Tang appointed Wei Zhaodu as an envoy to the camp and led his troops on a campaign to start the Battle of Vaxichuan.
At the same time, Tang Zhaozong sent the general Zhu Wen and Li Converse and Helian Duo to form a coalition to attack Li Keyong.
In the beginning, the fighting on the Western Front was relatively smooth.
However, the commander Wei Zhaodu was incompetent in commanding the army, and was stolen by Wang Jian of the Yongping Army to change the day and monopolize the military power.
The Eastern Front was even more miserable, with the Tang army winning first and then losing, and the battle was very difficult and stalemate.
In the second year of Da Shun (891), Tang Zhaozong ordered the suspension of the Western Front campaign and dispatched the Western Expeditionary Army to rescue the Eastern Front.
However, Wang Jian, who was already well-fledged, disobeyed his orders and forced Wei Zhaodu, the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, to return to the central government on his own.
Wang Jian then cut off Sichuan from the Tang Dynasty, and since then, Sichuan has become Wang Jian's territory.
Wang Jian started another stove and established a political power, and the first state of the Ten Kingdoms, Former Shu, was born, and the Ten Kingdoms officially began.
Tang Zhaozong had no choice but to admit the reality of Wang Jian's division of Sichuan, and at the same time to fight the Eastern Front campaign hard.
Heaven did not go against people's wishes, and finally the Eastern Front collapsed completely, and tang Zhaozong's hard-won Central Army was defeated by Li Keyong, and he lost even his underwear.
What was even more frightening was that Zhu Wenyu gained profits and weakened the strength of Tang Zhaozong and Li Keyong at the same time.
After this incident, Tang Zhaozong's prestige was swept away, and all the clan towns did not take him seriously.
Li Keyong, one of the bad guys who painted the jianghu
04, sad urge to go to prison
Tang Zhaozong, who had no soldiers and no guns, couldn't help but sing about the coolness, and at any time he had to worry about Fan Zhen coming to bully him.
At that time, the closest town to Chang'an was Fengxiang, Longyou Jiedushi, and Li Maozhen, the king of Longxi County.
Li Maozhen was ambitious and had long wanted to be emperor.
It was a lord who wanted to be emperor.
In July of the second year of Jingfu (893), Li Maozhen directly wrote a letter to intimidate Tang Zhaozong.
Li Maozhen bluntly threatened:
"Your Majesty is a million multipliers, and you cannot hide the body of one of your uncles; you cannot honor the nine states of Kyushu and you cannot kill one of them." "The military situation is volatile, it is difficult to restrain the horses, only to serve the living, and to suffer from misfortune." Untried public opinion broadcasting, since then! ”
Tang Zhaozong was young and could not stand this stimulation, so he immediately raised an army to prepare to fight Li Maozhen.
Prime Minister Du Rangneng quickly advised:
"When Your Majesty first ascended to the throne, the country's difficulties were not peaceful, and Li Maozhen was close to the gate of the country, so it was not appropriate to complain with him, and in case he did not win, regret would be difficult to pursue."
Tang Zhaozong was angry, and he was bullied like this, and he had to endure a yarn.
Tang Zhaozong also formed a ragtag force of more than 30,000 people and Li Maozhen's 60,000 elite divisions to fight.
Li Maozhen among the bad people who painted the rivers and lakes
In this battle, Tang Zhaozong lost another defeat.
Li Maozhen took advantage of the victory to march into sanqiao in western Jingxi (present-day western suburbs of Xi'an, Shaanxi), and then joined forces with Wang Xingyu and Han Jian, and the three towns to enter Beijing to purge the imperial court.
Soon, Du Rangneng, Wei Zhaodu, and Li Huo, as well as some ministers loyal to Tang Zhaozong, were all killed.
Li Maozhen took the opportunity to make his dog-legged son Cui Zhaowei the prime minister.
As for Tang Zhaozong, Li Maozhen wanted to directly depose him as emperor and support King Liji to ascend the throne.
Tang Zhaozong was already a man-made knife trick, and I was powerless to struggle for fish meat.
At this moment, Hedong Jiedu made Li Ke anxious.
Why didn't the deposed emperor inform me?
He immediately raised an army to the south, and Li Maozhen had to temporarily terminate the abolition plan.
In June of the third year of Qianning (896), Li Keyong and Zhu Wen had a fierce battle in the Weibo area, and there was no time to look west, so Li Maozhen took the opportunity to enter Beijing again.
Tang Zhaozong quickly ran away, thinking of Taiyuan and seeking Li Keyong's protection.
The situation changed too quickly, before Tang Zhaozong still wanted to kill Li Keyong, and now he asked Li Keyong to save his life.
Unfortunately, Tang Zhaozong was arrested by Han Jian as soon as he reached the halfway point.
On July 17, Tang Zhaozong was escorted to Huazhou by Han Jian, the assassin of Huazhou, and directly locked up the small black house, which was nearly three years.
During this period, the eleven princes of the Tang Dynasty were killed by Li Maozhen and Han Jian.
In the fifth year of Qianning (898), the war between Li Keyong and Zhu Wen came to fruition, and Zhu Wen defeated Li Keyong and occupied Luoyang.
Li Ke used it to resist Zhu Wen and established a temporary alliance with Li Maozhen and Han Jian.
Together, the three of them would rather let Tang Zhaozong return to Chang'an than let him fall into Zhu Wen's hands.
In August of that year, Tang Zhaozong returned to Chang'an.
At that time, the eunuchs led by Liu Jishu were not willing to be at the mercy of the fan town, and they were dying and struggling to launch a counterattack.
In November of the third year of Gwanghwa (900), Tang Zhaozong was deposed and imprisoned by eunuchs in a small black house, where he could not even eat enough every day.
Shutting down Tang Zhaozong did not work, and Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, and Han Jian and others were not easy to mess with. Liu Jishu had no choice but to give Tang Zhaozong to Zhu Wen.
Zhu Wen happily accepted Tang Zhaozong, then turned his face and did not recognize anyone, and killed these eunuchs with his backhand.
In the fourth year of Gwanghwa (901), Zhu Wen supported the restoration of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang.
Emperor Zhaozong of Tang repaid Li with a peach and crowned Zhu Wen as the King of Liang.
At this time, Li Maozhen heard that Tang Zhaozong had been restored to the throne, and deliberately rushed from Fengxiang to Chang'an to request that the King of Qi be crowned.
Tang Zhaozong was eager to strangle this bastard, but what could he do?
Zhu Wen among the bad people who painted the rivers and lakes
04. Tragically urged to be killed
This was the situation that Tang Zhaozong was about to face, with no soldiers in his hands, no confidence, and being toyed with by the clan towns.
Tang Zhaozong was first shot by Zhu Wen and went to beat Li Keyong, but was beaten by Li Keyong and could not take care of himself; Li Maozhen took the opportunity to bully Tang Zhaozong, and Tang Zhaozong again wanted to beg Li Ke to beat Li Maozhen; after The rise of Zhu Wen, Li Keyong and Li Maozhen joined forces against Zhu Wen.
Zhu Wen was fierce and cruel, and Tang Zhaozong had to rely on Li Maozhen to deal with Zhu Wen.
The problem was that Li Maozhen was invincible in Tang Zhaozong, but he was completely insufficient to fight in front of Zhu Wen.
Soon, Chang'an fell, and Tang Zhaozong had to flee to Fengxiang, Li Maozhen's base camp.
Zhu Wen pursued fengxiang for more than a year.
Li Maozhen ran out of food, and there were a thousand people in Fengxiang City who starved to death and froze to death every day, and even the palace eunuchs around Tang Zhaozong starved to death three or four people every day.
Tang Zhaozong couldn't even eat at all, so in order to fill his hunger, he had to make a small mill in the palace, grinding beans and wheat every day to drink porridge.
But that's not going to work.
In the first month of the third year of Tianfu (903 AD), Li Maozhen could not resist and had to give Tang Zhaozong to Zhu Wen.
From then on, Tang Zhaozong completely fell into the hands of Zhu Wen, and whenever Zhu Wen wanted to kill him, he would have to die.
In the first month of the first year of Tianyou (904), Zhu Wen moved the capital to Luoyang, bringing Tang Zhaozong to Luoyang.
At this time, Tang Zhaozong had no use value for Zhu Wen.
Late at night on August 11, Zhu Wen sent his henchmen into the palace to kill the emperor in a dignified manner.
At that time, Tang Zhaozong was still asleep, and when he heard the movement, he hurriedly got up, wearing only a single robe, and fled around the pillar.
There was no way to heaven and no door to the earth, and Tang Zhaozong was in a hurry, but there was not a single soldier to save the car, only his concubine Li Wanrong sacrificed himself as a savior and was killed on the spot.
That night, Tang Zhaozong was hacked to death by Zhu Wen's soldiers, only 37 years old.
After Tang Zhaozong's death, Zhu Wen made Tang Zhaozong's ninth son, Li Li, emperor, emperor of Tang.
On the ninth day of February in the second year of Tianyou (905), Zhu Wen killed Nine sons of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, Li Yu the Prince of De, Li Yu the Prince of De, Li Yu the Prince of Qian, Li Yu the Prince of Yi, Li Yi the Prince of Sui, Li Bi the King of Jing, Li Qi the Prince of Qi, Li Chan the Prince of Ya, and Li Xiang the Prince of Qiong, and others at Jiuquchi.
In March of the fourth year of Tianyou (907), Zhu Wen usurped Tang Jianliang and ascended the throne as emperor, which was for Later Liang Taizu, and the five dynasties officially began.
On February 21, 908, the fifth year of Tianyou (908), Emperor Ai of Tang was poisoned by Zhu Wen zhu wen.
Tang Zhaozong's entire family was killed by Zhu Wen.
epilogue
An emperor, born at the end of the dynasty, hopes to turn the tide, needs great courage and boldness, but also needs tenacious will, outstanding talent, and even more needs a little luck.
However, Tang Zhaozong had the ambition to save the country, but he had no talent to save the country, nor did he have the luck of success, and he could not play the ambitious conspirators around him.
As a result, he became the saddest emperor in history.