In 915, in the palace of Guangling (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu), the capital of the State of Wu, there was an incident of "bullying" by kings and subjects. Wu Wang Yang Long acted like a sieve chaff and leaned over the internal and external Horse Bu Du military envoys in front of him, and Xu Zhixun, who was changhua Jiedu, couldn't help but say: "Yes yes yes, I act, I act." "On the one hand, he ordered someone to make up and change his clothes.
Why does the king of a country make such a promise and bow down before his ministers? This starts from the grudge between Yang Long's eldest brother, Yang Wo, and Xu Zhixun's father, Xu Wen.
First, the monarch is opposed
Yang Wo and Xu Wen had a honeymoon period. 905 years ago, before the death of Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu, his eldest son Yang Wo was serving as an observer in Xuanzhou, and it was Xu Wen who stole the order to recall Yang Wo, which allowed him to succeed to the throne smoothly.
In the TV series "Phoenix in the Jianghu", Yang Xingmi was portrayed, played by Zhou Lijing
However, Yang Wo is a dou who cannot be supported, and he does not stop entertainment activities during the three years of national mourning, he likes to play polo the most, day and night, and at night, he also burns the anointing and lights up the candles that are ten thick to continue. The circumference is the unit of circumference, that is, the length of the thumbs and index fingers of both hands, and the diameter of the ten circumferences is about one meter. The material of the candle in the fifth generation is the secretion of ash worms, and the yield is low, so the price is high, and it costs tens of thousands of dollars in one night. He also liked to travel on horseback, and when he was happy, he ran wildly, and the entourage did not look closely and disappeared.
Xu Wen and another old minister, Zhang Hao, felt that it was not like words, so he advised him with tears: "We don't consider thrift and thrift, but it is too bad to do this nonsense during the three years of his father's funeral." ”。 As a result, Yang Wo threw down a sentence fiercely: "Ru said that I am not talented, why not kill me for my own sake?" Xu and Zhang were stupid when they heard it: the first time they heard such a request, they would satisfy you.
Yang Wo knew that Guangling City was full of old subordinates who fought with his father in the world, and these "uncles" raised relatives and soldiers at home, and hidden swords and guns in every household, so for safety, he brought three thousand relatives from Xuanzhou to defend himself, and handed them over to three generals- Zhu Sixun, Fan Sixong, and Chen Bian. If Xu and Zhang wanted to rebel, they had to get rid of the three generals and avoid the three thousand soldiers, so under the pretext that Jiangxi's defense was tight, they transferred three people to guard Hongzhou (present-day Nanchang, Jiangxi), and then falsely accused them of plotting rebellion and then brought justice on the spot. On the other hand, taking advantage of Yang Wo's ascension to the court, he led two hundred tooth soldiers to rush to the court and controlled Yang Wo. Some readers may wonder, Yang Wo's three thousand relatives, why didn't they come to the rescue? This was also Yang Wo's own death, and his soldiers were originally stationed in the palace's Yacheng, but Yang Wo wanted to develop Yacheng into an archery range, so he moved them outside the city, which allowed Xu and Zhang to succeed.
Yang Wo looked at the sword and light sword shadow in the hall and was shocked: "Uncle Xu, Uncle Zhang, Erguo wants to kill me evil?" I'll just say it casually, and you're still serious. Xu Wenhuan explained: "Don't kill, don't kill, don't kill for the time being, we want to clean up the side of the king and get rid of the left and right chaos for the king." Then, Xu and Zhang named and dragged a dozen or so "chaotic politicians" down the court hall one by one and smashed them to death with iron tassels (a kind of round-headed iron hammer). From then on, Wu Guo was no longer surnamed Yang. Even the king was imprisoned and killed, and the ministers, needless to say, were killed by the two men if they rebelled slightly.
In the TV series "Phoenix in the Jianghu", Yang Wo was portrayed by Sun Qiang
2. Monarchy falls by the wayside
Before Xu and Zhang plotted to kill Yang Wo, they had planned to divide the State of Wu equally after the fact, and then jointly declare themselves to Zhu Wen of the Liang State, but afterwards they regretted it, and they both planned to dominate the State of Wu, so they shelved the controversy, first made Yang Xingmi's second son Yang Long a puppet, and then looked for an opportunity to kill the other party. The following year, Xu Wen won, and from then on, he dominated the state of Wu and established the hegemonic government.
In 915, Xu Wen made an administrative adjustment by moving the capital to Runzhou (runzhou, in present-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), leaving his eldest son Xu Zhixun to "assist the government" in Guangling. Xu Wen's approach was much similar to that of the later Japanese Edo shogunate, where puppet monarchs and vassals were stationed in two places, rather than leaving the emperor by his side like Cao Cao. The reason is that at that time, Guangling and Yang Xingmi's old team, if they were difficult, they were enough to drink a pot themselves, so they moved out first to prevent accidents, and Guangling and Runzhou were only separated by the Yangtze River, in case Guangling changed, Runzhou could quickly "extinguish the fire".
This Grand Duke Xu is a performative personality, he wants to show that he is not only the boss of the Xu family, but also the boss of Guangling City, so he looked around and found that there was no more suitable "prop" than Yang Long. As a result, Yang Long's life of life worse than death began.
Once, junchen boated on the lake, after the boat docked, Yang Longyan got up first, Xu Zhixun felt that he was ignored, and picked up the slingshot and played it against Yang Longyan a few times.
Another time, the two people in the Zen Wisdom Temple to enjoy the flowers, Xu Zhixun this broken mouth can not hold, began not to dry up, all the ancestors and human organs, but also pointed out that Sang scolding Huai involved Yang Longyan, Yang Longyan did not dare to return the mouth, can only sit silently, quietly weeping, the two waiters a look, Xu Zhixun's mouth can not come out of the ivory, quickly support Yang Longyan to prepare to leave the table, Xu Zhixun took a look, no, I just entered the play, you want to run? So he grabbed the knife and stabbed a waiter to death. At this time, Yang Long did not dare to leave, and could only continue to "appreciate" Xu Zhixun's performance.
The worst one was at a wine banquet, where Xu Zhixun offered to watch a "military drama." The military drama is a bit like the current crosstalk, with two roles: joining the army and the canghu, which is equivalent to teasing and cheering. Yang Long listened to it and was busy passing on the role of Noble Qing. Xu Zhixun waved his hand: "Don't want these pickled people, I will come with the king for a while, I will join the army, and you will come to canghu." When this sentence was uttered, the audience was shocked. Because the Harrier is in charge of the "Three Customs" part on the stage, you let the king be the Gag, which audience dares to watch? However, Yang Long dared to refuse, so there was a plot at the beginning of this article, and Yang Long promised without hesitation: "I act, I act." So the attendants took off their crowns, spread out their buns, combed two buns (buns) on either side of their heads, and then took off the robes of the king in a large ball of purple Ayara fabric, and draped them with patched costumes (quail clothes). The performance effect... It is estimated that only Xu Zhixun can laugh.
In the TV series "Phoenix in the Jianghu", Yang Long played the image and Huang Leixin played
In history, there were many powerful monarchs, but even Cao Cao was able to get by with the etiquette of the puppet emperor, and the only one who humiliated the monarch in broad daylight like Xu Zhixun was Gao Cheng of Eastern Wei, of course, the two ended the same - Gao Cheng was hacked to death by the cook, and Xu Zhixun was chopped off by the general Zhu Jin. Zhu Jin carried Xu Zhixun's head and took it to the palace to show Yang Long a "visit", and Yang Longyan, who already had a stress psychological disorder, quickly denied Sanlian: "I am not! I didn't! Don't be fooled! Uncle himself, this matter is not what I dare to know. In the end, Zhu Jin, who had no hope of breaking through, killed himself.
Xu Wen, who was in Runzhou, heard that his son had been killed and immediately prepared to carry out a great purge of the court, and his adopted son Xu Zhixun quickly told his adoptive father what Xu Zhixun had done--how to bully the lord and oppress his colleagues, including Zhu Jin's motive for killing people was that Xu Zhixun raped the other party's concubine. After Xu Wen listened, he groaned and said in his heart, "Knowing that it is not unjust to die, he is not going to die, I want to kill him." Therefore, Xu Wen, who had calmed down, gave up the idea of massacre, only exterminated Zhu Jin's clan and killed several relevant personnel, without implicating Yang Longyan and other ministers.
The following year (919), under Xu Wen's arrangement, "King of Wu" Yang Long evolved to the throne as "King of Wu", adding an extra "country" What is the point? It turned out that at this time, the Jin-Liang struggle for hegemony had already passed the match point, the demise of the Liang State was only a matter of time, the State of Wu was still nominally a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and he still used the era name of "Tianyou", and in the future, no matter whether Li Cunxun, the King of Jin, was himself emperor or another Li Tang Sect, Wu and Jin could no longer sit on an equal footing, for this reason, they must first be independent from the Tang Dynasty, and not being called emperor is to avoid stimulating Li Cunxun. This set of roads is also played thoroughly.
However, Yang Longyan was repeatedly frightened, even if he used "king" to rush joy, it did not work, in 920, Yang Longyan, who had been a puppet for 13 years, died at the age of 23.
3. Annihilation of the nation
After Yang Longyan's death, Xu Wen made Yang Xingmi's fourth son Yang Pu king.
In 927, Xu Wen died, and his adopted son Xu Zhiyan took over, and soon arranged for Yang Pu to be called emperor, and only when Yang Pu was called emperor could he carry out the next step of Zen concessions and become emperor himself. The founding of the country is to destroy the country, which is also unique in Chinese history.
In the map of the early five dynasties, from the perspective of population, economy and other parameters, Southern Wu was the strongest among the southern states.
Ten years later (937), after a series of performances of "Zen Rang", Xu Zhihuan officially declared himself emperor and established the State of Qi, and two years later, he changed his name to Li Fu and changed the name of the country to Tang (Southern Tang). Yang Pu was moved to Danyang Palace in Runzhou and imprisoned until his death. There are many theories about the cause and time of Yang Pu's death, the Song Dynasty's "History of the Old Five Dynasties" records the practice of valley breaking, and when he died a few years later, the cause of death may be starvation, and the time of death is not known. The "New History of the Five Dynasties" records that he died in the year of abdication, and the cause of death is unknown. The Chronicle of Jiang Biao records that he was killed by Xu Zhihuan five years later. The "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" of the Qing Dynasty synthesizes the theories of various families and believes that he was killed by Xu Zhihuan when he abdicated the throne. This shows that Yang Pu is strictly imprisoned, people on the outside cannot enter, and the information inside cannot come out.
Other descendants of the Yang family were moved to The Yongning Palace in Taizhou (present-day Taizhou, Jiangsu) in 942 and imprisoned, and the children of the Yang family slowly turned into youth under strict control, and the hormonal agitation made them can only match men and women under the high walls, causing a scene of incest tragedy. Until 14 years later, there is "liberation".
In 956, the Later Zhou Emperor Guo Rong launched the Battle of Huainan, for the purpose of "united front", specially ordered to appease the Yang family, the Southern Tang Emperor Li Jing learned of it, fearing the restoration of the Yang clan, immediately sent someone to kill more than sixty members of the Yang clan. Their deaths are just a line in the history books, what did they say and think before they died? No one knows. If it were me, I would pray that if there is an afterlife, I will not be born again in the imperial family.
Author: Our special invited author Ningbo Captain
References: Zizhi Tongjian, History of the New Five Dynasties, History of the Old Five Dynasties, Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms