In 934, when the 16-year-old Meng Chang succeeded to the throne, a group of old courtiers were dissatisfied: Meng Zhixiang was dead, and the throne should be taken turns by brothers, so why privately pass it on to this stinking boy?
This gang of strongmen obeyed in front of Meng Zhixiang, but they looked down on Meng Chang, believing that the Shu kingdom was fought by the brothers and could not be done by Meng Chang.
Before his death, Meng Zhixiang appointed an auxiliary minister for his son, of which zhao Jiliang, the chancellor, was a civil minister, and Meng Zhixiang had liu bei and Zhuge Liang, and he was still very respectful to Meng Chang.
The Baoning Festival made Zhao Tingyin the head of the Shu zhongwu generals, a hardcore confidant of Meng Zhixiang, and loyal to the Meng family. The real thorn head is Li Renhan, the envoy of Wuxin Jiedushi.
Li Renhan considered himself a founding hero, but his political status was under Zhao Jiliang and Zhao Tingyin, and he was very dissatisfied. He asked Meng Chang to hand over the military power of the Sixth Army to him.
At this time, Meng Chang was not yet fledgling, and he was generally not familiar with the official bigwigs, so he did not dare to act rashly and let Li Renhan enjoy it first.
However, Meng Chang was very clever, promoted Li Renhan to zhongshu ling, and after sentencing the sixth military, he mixed li Renhan with sand to make him more senior, and Zhao Tingyin, who had a deep grudge with Li Renhan, was made the deputy envoy of the sixth army, and he was monitored and clamped down on Li Renhan.
Li Renhan flew high and offended Meng Chang's Fa Xiao Han Jixun, who fanned the flames in Meng Chang's ear, saying that Li Renhan had different ambitions, and Meng Chang hated Li Renhan even more.
Meng Chang deliberately revealed the news that Li Renhan "had different aspirations" to Zhao Jiliang, the chancellor, and Zhao Tingyin, the deputy envoy of the Sixth Army, and these two big men in Shuzhong were annoyed when they heard it: "If this Li Renhan's plan succeeds, when he becomes emperor, we will kowtow to him?" Why! Therefore, Meng Chang and the two men made a secret plan to kill.
In September 935, when Li Renhan ascended to the throne, Meng Chang, who was sitting on a high throne, rushed out dozens of warriors from both sides to "kill Li Renhan", and then killed several of Li Renhan's relatives.
Li Renhan was the founding minister of this dynasty, and Meng Chang actually had the ability to kill him once, and the people in the official field understood that Meng Chang was not a weak lord, and that he was also a fierce lord when he played a cruel game.
Meng Chang's killing of Li Renhan greatly shocked the Shuzhong officialdom, and after that, no old minister dared to act as a great uncle in front of Meng Chang. When Meng Chang pretended to be a grandson, the attendant Li Zhao felt that this son could be deceived, and when he went to the court, he did not perform the courtesy of a monarch to Meng Chang, on the grounds that the subject's legs were sore and he could not kneel with a staff, and Meng Chang was very annoyed, but he kept putting up with it.
After Li Renhan was killed, Li Zhao knew that it was time for him to pretend to be a grandson, and after going to the court, Li Zhao threw his crutches on the ground and honestly gave Meng Chang a big gift.
This incident fundamentally changed the political ecology of Shuzhong, and Meng Chang established absolute authority. Kangxi deposed Ao'ao and began his vigorous imperial career, and so did Meng Chang.
In the early days, Meng Chang wanted to be a Ming Jun, and he had a living negative example in front of him, that is, his "predecessor": Wang Yan, the lord of the Former Shu Dynasty. When Wang Yan died in Shu, Meng Chang was still a six-year-old doll, but Later Shu and Former Shu founded a country in the same region, and the lesson of Wang Yan's fall of the country would naturally become a lesson for Meng Chang.
Therefore, Meng Chang hated Wang Yan very much, after all, Wang Yan was the king of the fallen country. In 938 AD, on the Shangwei Festival, Meng Chang traveled to the Daci Temple in Chengdu, and then had a banquet with the ministers, at this time, a drama actually played Wang Yan in front of Meng Chang, Meng Chang was furious, and he was killed, so he told the ministers around him: "Wang Yan is superficial and good and light. "
Meng Chang said this and did the same in the early days of his administration. He established a strict system of protection of the people's property, which naturally stimulated the economic development of Shuzhong. Although the most famous dynasty in the Ten Kingdoms was the Southern Tang, the people of the Southern Tang Were miserable under the rule of Li Jing and Li Yu, and the other princely states were the hell of the people, except for the later Shu people, whose happiness index was the highest among the people of the Ten Kingdoms, which was an oasis in the desert.
When Meng Chang had Madame Huarui, his life began to reverse, slowly losing the efforts of his early years and beginning to indulge in a life of hedonism and luxury.
Just when Meng Chang was making a mess of things, the Central Plains had undergone earth-shaking changes, and a generation of Holy Lord Chai Rong was born out of nowhere, determined to pacify the Eight Wastes and conquer the four seas. Chai Rong decided to personally conquer Huainan and challenge Li Jing, who was also confused, but Chai Rong's first knife slashed at Meng Chang.
The reason why Chai Rong attacked Hou Shu was mainly because Hou Shu controlled strategic places such as Hanzhong and Qin Feng, and once Meng Chang suddenly crossed the Qin Mountains and entered Guanzhong during Chai Rong's southern expedition, the consequences were unimaginable. Therefore, Chai Rong needed to first defeat Hou Shu's offensive ability.
In 955, the Later Zhou generals Xiang Xun and Wang Jing, on chai rong's orders, launched a fierce attack on Later Shu. Because of the taiping in central Shu for many years, the combat effectiveness of the Shu army had long ceased to be the grandeur of the Meng Zhixiang era, and in the face of the incomparably powerful Zhou army, it was almost collapsed at a touch. In the Battle of Huanghua Valley, the Shu army was defeated, more than 3,000 Shu troops were captured, Meng Chang's hair was small, and Xiongwu Jiedu made Han Jixun flee back to Chengdu overnight. It took almost no time for the Zhou army to take the four states and complete the strategic "monitoring" of Hou shu.
It is known that Later Shu died in the Northern Song Dynasty. In fact, in the Battle of Huanghua Valley, the Zhou army had already destroyed the main force of the Shu army. What Zhao Kuangyin did was just to pluck the fruit planted by Chai Rong for Chai Rong.
When Chai Rong died young, Meng Chang was glad that he could avoid the fall of the country. However, when Zhao Kuangyin forcibly escorted Meng Chang to Bieliang City and accepted Zhao Kuangyin's humiliation as a prisoner, he saw Zhao Kuangyin staring at the woman who accompanied him, Lady Huarui, and realized that he would face a great disaster.
In 965, after Meng Chang came to Bieliang for the seventh day, he suddenly fell ill and died.
The Shu Han Lord Liu Chan died in the Western Jin Dynasty, the Former Shu Emperor Yan died in the Later Tang, and the Later Shu Lord Meng Chang died in the Northern Song Dynasty, which has been considered to be the three great dead Shu Emperors since ancient times, in fact, there is a big difference between the three people. Liu Chan was dazed, needless to say.
Meng Chang's political ability was far superior to Wang Yan's, and the dangerous situation that Meng Chang faced in the early days of his reign, if he was not careful, could land on the ground. Being able to be a Taiping Tianzi for thirty-two years is enough to show his ability. After the northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, Meng Chang went north, and after the people heard about it, "all the people embraced the road, from Erjiang to Meizhou, and the people along the road mourned hundreds of people, crying and moving." "It can be seen that Meng Chang has won the hearts of the people.
It is only a little faint in the later years of the reign, coupled with the encounter with the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty, and the demise is inevitable.
