#Jiangnan Relics # (34) At the same time, after Jingnan, Wu Yue, Min Guo and other neighbors also advised Xu Zhihuan to declare the emperor a state. Old Xu, what is your boy still inking? Hurry up and usurp it,

#Jiangnan Testament # (34) At the same time, following Jingnan, Wu Yue, Min Guo and other neighbors also advised Xu Zhihuan to declare the founding of the emperor.

Old Xu, what is your boy still inking? Hurry up and usurp it, we have all been waiting for a long time, three lacking one, fast and fast.

Under the clamor of strong public opinion, Xu Zhihuan could not wait, in the face of the temptation of the throne, who could keep his original intention? Anyway, it is almost the last process.

Xu Zhihuan was ready, but Emperor Wu still had illusions, more than thirty years after the founding of the State of Wu, Yang Xingmi left so many loyal and righteous soldiers, he did not believe that when the country was in trouble, no one would stand up to save the Wu State.

However, Xu Zhihuan could not wait and decided to speed up the usurpation.

An incident that occurred in August of the following year caused Emperor Wu's spiritual defenses to collapse completely, that is, his younger brother Yang Meng, the Duke of Liyang, was killed in Hezhou.

The cause of the incident was that Yang Meng witnessed Xu Zhichen's growing power, and the Yang family's Jiangshan, seeing that the situation was precarious, killed the general of the Hezhou garrison who was monitoring him, and fled to Luzhou to join Zhou Ben, a loyal minister left by Yang Xingmi.

Zhou Ben heard that the Yang family's son had come to vote, so he wanted to see him, who knew that his son Zhou Hongzuo closed the door tightly and did not allow his father to go out to see Yang Meng. He also sent people to arrest Yang Meng and take him to Yangzhou, and when he went to Quarry (in present-day southwest of Ma'anshan, Anhui), he met people sent by Xu Zhichen and killed Yang Meng on the spot.

After doing all this, Xu Zhihuan played painfully:

"Your Majesty please mourn, Li Yang Gong yi old and young unfortunately killed by thieves, and the state assassin Shi is doing his best to arrest the murderer, the officers and soldiers have found the first rank of Li Yang Gong and others, does Your Majesty identify it?"

Emperor Wu's mentality completely collapsed, be well, don't you just want a Zen edict? Well, if you are gone, this country will not be lost.

Subsequently, Emperor Wu issued an edict to the Throne, Li Decheng and others went to Jinling to persuade them to advance again, and hundreds of officials also went to the table to persuade them to advance, but Song Qiqiu did not go to the table.

In September, Emperor Wu assigned Yang Xuan, the king of Jiangxia, to send the jade seal to Jinling.

In October, Xu Zhixuan honored Emperor Wu with the title of Emperor Xuanhong Gurang, thanking Emperor Wu for giving up the throne, the palace and the imperial palace were as old as ever, and the temple, badges, and banners still respected the Wu system. Xu Zhihuan finally completed all the procedures to officially claim the title of emperor, changed the name of the country to Qi, and set the capital jinling.

Ancient dynasties had rules to follow in taking national names, and the country names before the Yuan Dynasty were basically the titles of the founding emperors. For example, the Han Dynasty originated from Liu Bang's title of King of Han, Cao Wei originated from Cao Pi's King of Wei, the Tang Dynasty originated from Li Yuan's Duke of Tang, and Later Liang originated from Zhu Wen's King of Liang.

Of course, Xu Zhihuan also followed the custom here, because he inherited Xu Wen's title of King of Qi, so he gave the state name Qi and posthumously honored Xu Wen as Emperor Taizu.

In the second year of the Sheng Yuan Dynasty (938), Emperor Yang Pu repeatedly requested to move out of the Yangzhou Imperial Palace. In May, Xu Zhihuan ordered the city of Yacheng to be changed to Danyang Palace, and sent Li Dewei's son Li Jianxun to Yangzhou to meet Yang Pu's family.

He also sent Ma Siqian to lead heavy troops to guard the Danyang Palace, nominally to protect Yang Pu's safety, in fact, even a fool can see clearly, this is a prison.

Fast forward to November, Yang Pu, who had lived in Danyang Palace for half a year, suddenly died.

Books about his death, such as the "History of the Old Five Dynasties" and the "Tang Yulu", say that it is a "ghost death", that is, death due to long-term imprisonment and depression. The New History of the Five Dynasties only says the pawn, not the reason. Books such as the Chronicle of the Ten Kingdoms, the Story of the Five Kingdoms, and the Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms clearly indicate that they were killed by Xu Zhihuan's men, especially the Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms, which is the most detailed.

That cold winter, the imperial court sent someone to Danyang Palace to meet Yang Pu, who was reading Buddhist scriptures upstairs. The emissary went upstairs, Yang Pu suddenly grabbed the incense burner and smashed him, and then Yang Pu was killed, Xu Zhichen heard the news that the dynasty was abolished for 27 days to show mourning, posthumously honored Emperor Rui, and buried Pingling.

Four years later, the Yang family in danyang palace was moved to Taizhou Yongning Palace, and the Taizhou assassin Shi shi was strictly guarded and not allowed to interact with outsiders. Over time, the men and women in the neighborhood had to marry and make ends meet, and poor Wang Sun, who had now ended up like this, the people of Jiangnan were very sympathetic to them.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten years had passed, and in the third year of Later Zhou Xiande (956), Zhou Shizong's southern expedition to the Yangtze River suddenly remembered the Yang family locked up in the Yongning Palace in Taizhou, and issued an edict to comfort them.

Li Jing, the eldest son of Xu Zhiyan of the Southern Tang Dynasty (that is, Xu Jingtong, the eldest son of Xu Zhihuan mentioned earlier), heard that his heart giggled a little, and I went, and actually forgot about the gang.

He immediately sent someone to escort the Yang family to Jingkou on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and when the emissaries arrived, they found that the Zhou army was approaching Taizhou, and there was already chaos in the north of Jiangsu. Yin Tingfan, who was in charge of escorting the garden, was afraid of a change, so he executed Yang Pu's two younger brothers and more than sixty men and escorted the remaining women across the river.

Li Jing was furious, beheaded Yin Tingfan, and scolded: You little man did such an unrighteous thing, and I was tired (rest assured on the road, Shuo will take good care of your family).

From then on, one of the Yang clan's heirs was severed, and soon the Zhou army invaded Taizhou and captured many of Yang's treasures, but did not save a single person. At this point, the history of the State of Wu pioneered by Yang Xingmi has come to an end completely.