External factors are terrible, but internal causes can accelerate the fermentation of events, so that they cause irreparable losses.
Guo Chongtao was a great hero of the Later Tang Dynasty, and the destruction of Hou Liang and Former Shu (compared to Meng Zhixiang's Later Shu) were all his handwriting, but in the end, due to his own lack of restraint and rumors from outsiders, he was secretly punished by Empress Liu, who he supported.
Guo Chongtao, as the main strategist of the Tang lord Li Cunxun, came up with ideas in the early days of the founding of the Later Tang Dynasty, which enabled the Tang lord Li Cunxun to unify the land north of the Yangtze River and dominate the world. However, in the struggle for the establishment of who is the empress, which is a great right and wrong, selfishness is done, and after li Cunxun's third wife Liu Shi is the head of li Cunxun, at the juncture of her own life and death, Empress Liu did not open herself because Guo Chongtao supported herself, and let Guo Chongtao have a way of life, pitiful to the hearts of women in the world.
Three years after Tang Tongguang, Guo Chongtao and Li Jiquan, the king of Wei, destroyed former Shu Wang Yan, and former Shu Han traitor Wang Zongbi wanted to do internal merit, bribing King Jiquan of Wei and Guo Chongtao to become xichuan jiedushi envoys, and Wei wang jiquan took the jewels that Wang Zongbi had bribed and said: These treasures are all from our Li family, do you still need to thank you for this traitor?
Wang Zongbi's dream was difficult to realize, and Li Shaochen, the vanguard officer who destroyed former Shu, also had ideas, saying to Guo Chongtao: Dongchuan's terrain is dangerous, and it is necessary to have a man of all-round talent in literature and martial arts to live up to expectations.
The implication is that he is the all-rounder.
Guo Chongtao said: I was ordered to Pingshu has its own opinions, and it is up to you to rap?
Subsequently, he appointed Dong Zhang, who was very good with him, as the envoy of Dongchuan Jiedushi, which made Li Shaochen, who had made the first merit of Pingshu, indignant.
Wang Zongbi was still not satisfied, and after being rejected by the King of Wei, he gave Guo Chongtao goods and wanted to be the envoy of Xichuan Jiedushi, guo Chongtao pretended to agree, and did not follow up for a long time.
Therefore, the scheming Wang Zongbi retreated to the second place, and contacted the Sichuan widow to write to the imperial court to leave Guo Chongtao town to guard Shu land, which seemed to be a good thing, but this external factor did not bring guo Chongtao the gospel.
The eunuch Li Congtao, who came to Sichuan with the Pingshu army, wanted to make some small fortune, but Guo Chongtao held it tightly, so that Li Congtao could not start from the attack, and Li Congtao was annoyed and angry, so he made a fuss about the Sichuan people jointly asking Guo Chongtao to guard the shu land, and said to The King of Wei Jiquan: Guo Chongtao is arbitrary, and now he has asked him to guard the shu land, and his heart is suspicious, you must not be defensive!
Out of nothing, the villain can't afford to offend.
After King Wei ji stayed in the Chengdu capital and observed, Guo Chongtao's men were in the city, and the former Shu courtiers and celebrities gathered under the guo mansion to come and give Guo Chongtao the goods they wanted to give to Guo Chongtao, on the contrary, the goods that were officially reported were all road goods, and originally he had a little suspicion that Guo Chongtao had selfish intentions, and li Congtao instigated from the side, and the more suspicious he became, and after the city government was not deep, The Wei king Ji, who was not deep in the city government, saw Guo Chongtao's face and satirized a few words.
Guo Chongtao, who did not realize that the danger was coming, instead thought that Wang Zongbi had ruined his own affairs, and asked Wang Zongbi to take tens of thousands of taels of money from the army, but Wang Zongbi refused to give this money.
At this time, if Guo Chongtao can see the micro-knowledge and do a good job in the relationship between the superior and the subordinate, he will not let the villain succeed.
Guo Chongtao went all the way to Hei to instigate the soldiers to set fire, and then blamed Wang Zongbi for disloyalty, reporting to King Ji of Wei on the one hand, and executing Wang Zongbi in public on the other.
Wang Zongbi was dead, and no one had earned the post of Xichuan Jiedushi, and Guo Chongtao appointed his late friend Meng Zhixiang as the envoy of Xichuan Jiedushi, and nepotism also left a pretext for others to attack him.
At this time, Meng Zhixiang was still serving in the northern capital, and it was too late to take office for a while, so thieves were everywhere, and Guo Chongtao had to send troops to kill him, and the later Tang officers and soldiers could not take over for a while.
The Tang lord Li Cunxun sent eunuchs to Chengdu to urge the class as soon as possible, and Xiang Yansi arrived in Chengdu guo Chongtao did not go to the suburbs to greet him, so that outsiders saw Guo Chongtao's personality, saying that the number of etiquette was not enough at best, and in the bad case, he thought that he despised the imperial court.
The greater the merit, the more careful it is, because it is a person who has become a person in full view, and it is especially necessary to be cautious, which may be the reason why it is cold from above.
Entering the city to meet Guo Chongtao, talking about the reasons for not being able to take the class in time, Guo Chongtao also shirked his responsibility, which made Xiang Yansi very unhappy.
The eunuch Xiang Yansi naturally wanted to find the eunuch Li Congxuan, who was still in the army, to understand the situation, and Li Congxuan was originally annoyed with Guo Chongtao, and knew that he could say good things about Guo Chongtao? Li Congxuan said: Guo Chongtao in the army has the final say, and his son Guo Tingjie often drinks and feasts with the generals in the army and Haojie in Shuzhong, swears to heaven, I don't know what kind of heart I have, if there is a change, I will die without a place to bury, and even King Ji of Wei will suffer!
After saying that the tears came out, Xiang Yansi listened to Mao Bone solemnly and said: When I return to the imperial court, there will definitely be a way!
The next day, Xiang Yansi bid farewell to King Jiquan of Wei and Guo Chongtao returned to Luojing to resume his life, first reporting Guo Chongtao's suspicious deeds to Empress Liu, and Empress Liu then told the Tang lord Li Cunxun: Quickly save her son Jiquan back!
The more he spoke, the more Guo Chongtao slowly changed from a generation of heroes to an abominable traitor in the eyes of everyone.
The Tang lord Li Cunxun became suspicious from the fact that the Sichuan people had written to the imperial court to ask Guo Chongtao to guard Shudi, and he could not see the valuable items in the spoils reported from Former Shu, and he muttered in his heart, summoning Xiang Yansi, who had been to Former Shu, to ask Yan Si, saying to Yan Si that all the valuables belonged to Guo Chongtao's father and son, and the Tang lord Li Cunxun was even more annoyed, and ordered the eunuch Ma Yanjue to go to Sichuan, urging Guo Chongtao to quickly return to Beijing to explain the situation, and said: Guo Chongtao quickly returned to Beijing, and if he delayed for this reason, he could conspire with King Ji of Wei to eliminate this scourge.
Fearful words! The bright arrow is easy to dodge the dark arrow, and Guo Chongtao has unconsciously been sentenced to death.
Before this Ma Yanjue left, he went to Empress Liu for advice, and the eunuchs felt the pulse of the Tang lord Li Cunxun -- afraid of his wife, saying: Shuzhong is thousands of miles away, if there is any change, how can we report to the imperial court in time?
Empress Liu also stressed to Lord Tang the state of emergency in Sichuan, and Tang Lord Li Cunxun said: It is all hearsay, how can we make a decision in a vain way!
According to the meaning of the Tang lord Li Cunxun, although there were many doubts, it was still necessary to ask the reason and then deal with it, and there was no intention of immediately asking for the life of guo Chongtao.
Empress Liu retreated in sorrow, but she was eager to save her son, and she secretly issued a hand edict asking Ma Yanjue and King Ji of Wei to secretly kill Guo Chongtao.
The imperial court twice asked The Banshi, Guo Chongtao and the King of Wei to arrange a military and make an appointment on the date of return to Beijing, Ma Yanjue came again to urge the return to the Dynasty, and privately showed Empress Liu's handwriting to the King of Wei, and the King of Wei Jiquan said: Wang Shi is about to be a teacher, there is no suspicious situation, how can he make a negative intention of killing Guo Gong?
Ma Yanjue said: The empress dowager has a will, you do not act, if Guo Chongtao learns the news, we will die!
King Jiquan of Wei said: The emperor did not have a holy will, so how could he kill the court officials and solicit envoys by relying solely on the empress dowager's edicts?
Li Congxian and others were also present, saying some things about catching wind and shadows, saying some alarmist words, and burst into tears, and Wang Jichao, who was not deeply involved in the world, actually listened to the evil words of these eunuchs.
The plot to hunt down and kill a generation of heroes Guo Chongtao was out, and Li Congtao came forward to inform Guo Chongtao to hold a military conference, and the King of Wei ji went upstairs and disappeared, and Li Cong's confidant Li Huan, hiding the iron vertebrae, stood under the steps.
Pingshu beckoned Guo Chongtao to attend the meeting on time, and Guo Chongtao dismounted and marched into the capital, taking advantage of his lack of preparation for Li Huan to rush forward and take out the iron vertebrae, and slammed the back of Guo Chongtao's head, and in a flash, Guo Chongtao's brain plasma collapsed and died in front of the steps.
Be cautious, pay attention everywhere, although external factors are unpreparable, but internal factors can be avoided, to be bright and frank, although rumors stop at the wise, but the wise people also have confused times, try not to give people with bad intentions to handle, then their own road may be better, isn't it?