Li Ye (31 March 867 – 22 September 904), courtesy name Li Jie and Li Min, was a native of Chang'an County, Jingzhao Province (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), the 19th emperor of the Tang Dynasty (22 April 888 – 22 September 904), the seventh son of Emperor Yizong of Tang and the half-brother of Emperor Li of Tang.
In the first year of Tianyou (904), he was killed by Zhu Wen, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu, and was buried in Heling Tombs Chinese New Year's Eve.
So today Xiaobian will talk about the tragic life of Tang Zhaozong Li Ye, let's take a look at it!
A brief biography of Tang Zhaozong Li Ye
Early life
Li Ye (yè) was the seventh son of Emperor Yizong of Tang, born in Dongnei on February 22, 867, in the eighth year of Xiantong (867). In April of the thirteenth year of Xiantong (872), he was crowned king of Shou and named Li Jie.
In the fourth year of Qianfu (877), he was appointed as the kaifu Yi Tongsan division, the governor of Youzhou, the governor of Youzhou Lulong and other military towns, such as jiedu envoys, escorts, Khitan domain envoys, and observation and disposal envoys in the jurisdiction. King Shou and Emperor Tang were brothers born of the same mother, and they were particularly close and harmonious to each other.
In the first year of Guangming (880), the Huangchao rebel army approached Chang'an, Tang Emperor Yuzong fled to Chengdu, Li Ye accompanied Emperor Xuanzong around, holding military power and central political leaders, and Emperor Xuanzong greatly valued and cherished him.
Inherited the unification
In February of the first year of Wende (888), Emperor Xianzong of Tang fell ill. At that time, the emperor had just returned to the imperial palace, and people were extremely concerned about the emperor, and suddenly heard that the emperor was suffering from an acute illness, and the military and the people were shocked and stunned. Until the evening of the day when the emperor was critically ill, it was not known who would succeed to the throne. The Qunchen believed that Li Bao, the King of Ji, was the most virtuous, and ranked ahead of King Shou, and should make King Ji the successor, and only Yang Fugong, the envoy of the Left and Right Divine Strategy, requested the appointment of King Shou to oversee the state.
On March 6, Emperor Wuzong of Tang died, and he made King Lishou the emperor's brother-in-law and changed his name to Li Min. On March 8, King Shou ascended the throne in front of the coffin of Emperor Tang at the age of twenty-two. Sikong Wei Zhaodu was appointed as the temporary acting prime minister. On March 12, he received a group of ministers and began to handle government affairs.
Li Min liked to read books on the system of canonical relics, and paid special attention to Confucian scholarship, with a strong spiritual temperament and heroic martial arts, and the legacy of Emperor Wuzong. Because of the prestige of the previous dynasty, the martial arts could not be revived, and the lifeblood of the country gradually declined, so Li Min respected and treated the ministers with courtesy and prudently promoted the method of governing the country, with the aim of restoring and expanding the old business of the previous dynasty and unifying the orders of the whole country. At the beginning of Tang Zhaozong's reign, he was praised both inside and outside the court. In November, he changed his imperial name to Li Ye.
On the first day of May, it was decided to appoint Zhu Quanzhong, the emissary of Xuanwu Army, the inspector of shizhong, and the king of Pei Commandery, as the commander of the soldiers and horses of Cai Prefecture. Since the defeat of Qin Xian and Shi Fan, the power of caizhou's thief army gradually weakened, and Shi Pu was being attacked by Zhu Quanzhong, so he transferred the title of commander of the soldiers and horses on all sides of Shi Pu to Zhu Quanzhong. On the sixth day of the first month of May, Cai Zhou, who had been falsely appointed as an envoy to Jingxiang Jiedushi, sent an emissary from Zhao Dezhen to express his submission to the imperial court and was willing to recruit the thief army to serve the order and make meritorious contributions, so the imperial court appointed Zhao Dezhen as the deputy governor of Caizhou's four-sided camp, and Zhao Dezhen led Jingxiang's soldiers and horses to Zhu Quanzhong.
On the first day of June, because the Sichuan thief Wang Jian instigated a major rebellion, King Chen Jing of Jiannan was anxious to complain to the imperial court, and decided to appoint Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division, Temporary Office Sikong, Menxia Shilang, Tongping Zhangshi, Taiqing Palace Envoy, Hongwenguan University Scholar, Yanziku Envoy, Shangzhu Guo, Fuyang County Founding Duke, And Yi 2,000 Household Wei Zhaodu as Inspector Situ, Menxia Shilang, Pingzhang Political Affairs, concurrently Chengdu Yin, as the deputy ambassador of Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu, in charge of the affairs of jiedu envoys, and concurrently as xichuan's envoys. Cai Zhou marched to the camp to report, broke the thief army at Longpi, and marched to the city occupied by the thief army.
On the first day of December, Cai Prefecture's general Shen Cong arrested Qin Zongquan, broke his leg, and appointed Shen Cong to temporarily act as Cai Zhou's retainer. When the envoys arrived at Cai Prefecture, another general, Guo Fan, killed Shen Cong, snatched Qin Zongquan into his hands, tied him up, and sent him to Bian Prefecture. Caizhou, Shenzhou, Gwangju and other places were pacified. The emperor issued an edict to the soldiers of Caizhou's camp with 250,000 yuan, and ordered the envoys to pay them gradually. In that month, Emperor Xianzong was buried in Jingling.
In the spring of the first year of the Dragon Age (889), on the first day of the first lunar month, the emperor came to the Wude Hall to receive pilgrimage. The edict was pronounced, the amnesty was granted, and the New Year's number was used instead. For the ministers of culture and military affairs inside and outside the dynasty, the titles awarded vary. Wei Zhaodu, the envoy of Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu and the envoy of the Liangchuan Recruitment System, was appointed as the inspector of the inspection school and served as the retainer of the Eastern Capital; liu Chongwang, a scholar of Hanlin, a soldier, and a zhizhi, was appointed to tongping Zhangshi in his own position; and Sun Zhaodu, a servant of the Punishment Department, was appointed as Jing Zhaoyin.
The first day of February is the day of decay. On February 27, Sima Lipan, the marching sima of Bian Prefecture, escorted the rebel thief Qin Zongquan and his wife Zhao Shi to Jingshi to offer prisoners, and the emperor drove to Yanxi Gate to accept the prisoners, and the hundred officials congratulated the emperor. After the rebellious thief couple paraded in the streets and made offerings to the Zongmiao Temple, Qin Zongquan was beheaded in Duliu, and Zhao was flogged to death.
Cut off the eunuch
In the first year of Tang Zhaozong's reign, the main political issue was still the problem of eunuchs controlling the government, and the eunuch leader at this time was Yang Fugong, who supported Emperor Zhaozong's ascension to the throne. Emperor Zhaozong had never relied on Yang Fugong in the way that his brother Emperor Zhaozong relied on Tian Lingzi.
Ostensibly, Emperor Zhaozong repeatedly showed respect for Yang Fugong. At the same time, he avoided contact with Yang Fugong and others as much as possible, and consulted with the prime ministers on political affairs. Secretly, Emperor Zhaozong often talked to his ministers about restricting eunuchs and raising the power of the monarchy. Emperor Zhaozong's uncle Wang Xuan (王瓌) asked to be appointed as an envoy to Jiedushi, but Because Yang Fugong obstructed him, Wang Biao failed to become an envoy to Jiedushi.
Later, Yang Fugong was worried that Wang Huan would compete with him for power, so he first offered to make Wang Biao an envoy to Qiannan Jiedushi, and then on his way to his post, he sent his own cronies to sink the boat that Wang Biao was riding on, and Wang Wan's family and servants all drowned. Soon, Emperor Zhaozong learned the true cause of Wang's death and hated Yang Fugong very much. Whether it was a personal grudge or a struggle for power, Yang Fugong became Zhaozong's greatest enemy, so Zhaozong was determined to eradicate it.
In order to get rid of Yang Fugong, Emperor Zhaozong co-opted Yang Fugong's sons and provoked contradictions between the two sides. Yang Fugong had a son named Yang Shouli, whose real name was Hu Hongli, and his official was an envoy of Tianwei, who was brave and brave, and the officers and soldiers were very afraid of him. Emperor Zhaozong adopted a divisive approach to make them turn against each other, first sealing Yang Shouli as the commander of the Sixth Army, and giving him the surname Li and the name Shunjie. In less than a year, he was continuously promoted to the head of Tianwu Capital, the head of the LingzhenHai Festival, and the search for Tongping Zhangshi. After Tang Zhaozong encircled Li Shunjie, he no longer pretended to be a color to Yang Fugong.
Since then, the contradictions between Yang Fugong and Zhaozong have become public. Yang Fugong wrote to his sons in various places, asking them to support themselves. His sons Longjian Jiedu made Yang Shouzhen and Yangzhou Jiedu made Yang Shouzhong, and began not paying tribute to the Tang court, and also wrote a letter to attack the imperial court.
In this regard, Tang Zhaozong did not show weakness, and in the second year of Da shun (891), he seized Yang Fugong's military power and instead sent him to Fengxiang to supervise the army. Yang Fugong tit-for-tat, staying in Chang'an refused to take office, and at the same time, Shangqu demanded to go home for the elderly, in order to blackmail Zhaozong. Emperor Zhaozong took the opportunity to agree to his request and dismissed him from his official position, leaving him only an idle position as a general. Yang Fugong saw that the threat could not be achieved, but instead lost his military power, became angry, and sent people to kill the envoy who announced the emperor's will on the way back, and then fled to Shangshan to live in seclusion.
Soon, he returned to the official residence of Chang'an Zhaohuafang. His official residence was very close to the Yushan military camp, and his son Yang Shouxin was an envoy of the Yushan Army and often visited his home. Yang Fugong also sent a letter to his nephew Xingyuan Jiedu to make Yang Shouliang write a letter, saying that Zhaozong was sorry for himself, had forgotten his merits of support, and not only did not know en Tu to repay, but also did everything to make things difficult for him. He also instructed Yang Shouliang to "accumulate millet to train troops, not to enter the army", and openly confronted Emperor Zhaozong.
At this time, Emperor Zhaozong learned that Yang Fugong had conspired with Yang Shouxin to rebel. Emperor Zhaozong was waiting for the most favorable time, and he published the evidence of Yang Fugong's crimes collected in the past, along with the news of the rebellion, and sent Li Shunjie and others to lead troops to arrest Yang Fugong. Yang Fugong ordered his family to resist the officers and soldiers, and Yang Shouxin also brought troops to help in the battle, and a major battle broke out between the two sides, from day to night. At this time, the forbidden army guarding the city gate wanted to take advantage of the chaos and robbery, and Emperor Zhaozong had already prepared for this, and ordered the chancellor Liu Chongwang to lead his men and horses to guard the property and prevent robbery. Liu Chongwang saw that the forbidden army was about to rob and reprimanded: "The emperor is personally supervising the battle, you are all the emperor's guards, you should go to kill the thieves to make meritorious deeds, rather than taking advantage of the fire to rob." ”
All the soldiers expressed their willingness to obey orders and followed Liu Chongwang to help in the battle. Yang Fugong saw that Liu Chongwang was leading reinforcements, and he expected that it would be difficult to continue the confrontation, so he led his whole family to flee and went straight to Xingyuan. After Yang Fugong arrived in Xingyuan, he gathered his forces and waged war against the imperial court, and Zhaozong also used the strength of various local emissaries to confront him. After more than a year of fighting, Yang Fugong's army was defeated by Jiedushi Li Maozhen. In the end, Yang Fugong was caught on the way to escape and was immediately beheaded.
After Yang Fugong fled, Li Shunjie also lost his use value and was included in the list of eradications by Emperor Zhaozong. Emperor Zhaozong ordered the lieutenants of the two armies to eliminate Li Shunjie. The lieutenants of the two armies ordered Li Shunjie to enter the palace in the name of Emperor Zhaozong, and Li Shunjie brought three hundred soldiers to the palace gate, and the palace guards stopped the accompanying soldiers and only let Li Shunjie enter the palace alone. As soon as Li Shunjie entered the palace, he was killed by the ambushed soldiers.
After a series of struggles, Emperor Zhaozong initially seized power, and dealt a fierce blow to the arrogance of eunuchs for many years, causing the eunuchs' power to suffer a heavy blow for the first time in many years. However, in the process of cracking down on the eunuch forces, another problem that caused Zhaozong a headache appeared, that is, the increasingly large clan power.
Seishiro Nishikawa
By the time of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, the power of the clan town had become a great force. Faced with this situation, Emperor Zhaozong realized that the main reason for the weakness of the imperial family was that there was no armed force that was strong enough to deter the princes, so the clan towns had their own troops and had no children. By the time of Emperor Xuanzong, the Central Forbidden Army had been completely destroyed. Therefore, soon after Emperor Zhaozong ascended the throne, he recruited troops, expanded the forbidden army, and gained 100,000 people, "wanting to win the world with martial arts." After the initial establishment of the Forbidden Army, Emperor Zhaozong began the struggle against the town.
On December 24, 888, in the first year of Wende (888), Emperor Zhaozong appointed Wei Zhaodu as an envoy to the camp and led his troops to march out, ordering Yang Shouliang and Dongchuan Jiedu to assist Gu Yanlang in the Western Province of Shannan, and at the same time set up a new Yongping Army, with Wang Jian as the envoy of Jiedu, as the commander of all the armies of the camp. On the twenty-fifth day, the emperor stripped Chen Jingxuan of his official title, and the Battle of Vaxichuan began.
Yang Shouliang and Gu Yanlang each had a territory, so they could not draw a lot of troops, and Wei Zhaodu, who led the troops, was a man of letters and did not practice weapons, and although the forbidden army was quite numerous, it was newly built, lacked training, and was purely a rabble, and could not withstand a big war, so Wang built the main force of the crusade. However, since Wang Jian had received the fiefdom and recognition of the imperial court, he was not in a hurry to make a quick decision with Chen Jingxuan, and he expanded his troops while winning the hearts and minds of the people. At that time, the local tycoons in Mianzhu were each supporting their own troops, many tens of thousands of people, and as few as a thousand people, Wang Jian lobbied everywhere to gather these people under his command.
These local tycoons have some appeal in the local area, and with the help of Wang Jian, both the strength and the momentum have greatly increased. After several years of conquest, except for Chengdu, the entire Xichuan was basically in the hands of Wang Jian. At this time, Emperor Zhaozong was forced to recall the army that conquered Nishikawa because of the defeat in the battle with Li Keyong. However, Wang Jian did not follow Wei Zhaodu back to Chang'an, but stayed in Xichuan, and at the same time cut off ties with the Tang Dynasty and became an independent kingdom.
At the same time as the crusade against Xichuan, the strongest Hedong Jiedu at that time, Li Keyong was defeated by the combined forces of Zhu Wen, Li Converse, and Helian Duo, which was great news for Zhaozong. Emperor Zhaozong had never had a good feeling for Li Keyong. Li Keyong's origin in the Shatuo nobility alone made Emperor Zhaozong, who was deeply influenced by traditional ethnic concepts, suspicious of him, and the army led by Li Keyong was also a mixed contribution to the Tang Dynasty.
Li Keyong once helped the Tang Dynasty eliminate the Huangchao rebel army, made great contributions to the revival of the Tang Dynasty, and also once sent troops to Chang'an to force Emperor Zhaozong to go into exile again, and Emperor Zhaozong himself suffered from turmoil. But most importantly, among the forces that posed the greatest threat to the imperial court at that time, Li Ke's Shatuo army was the most powerful. Li Ke used a large number of generals and a huge influence, and was one of the few strong clans at that time. Emperor Zhaozong wanted to weaken the strong domain, and first of all, he included Li Keyong as the target of the attack. However, at that time, the Central Forbidden Army was not only small in number, but also lacked training, and it was impossible to compete with Li Keyong, and could only rely on the strength of other clan towns.
Crusade against the Jin Dynasty
At the same time, Zhu Wen, Li Converse, and Helian Duo wrote to the letter saying that Li Keyong could not be used and would eventually be a national disaster, so they would continue to attack Li Keyong. After Zhaozong received the recital, he was even more overjoyed, and if there was a situation of both sides losing, it would be perfect.
However, Zhaozong also had some uneasiness in his heart, after all, Li Keyong had made great achievements for the Tang royal family in the Huangchao Uprising, and it was unreasonable to take advantage of Li Ke's new defeat to go on a crusade. More importantly, whether the armies of Zhu Wen, Li Converse, and Helian Duo could defeat Li Keyong again was still a question. If Li Ke had lost, it would have been better to say that in case he had won, Zhaozong himself would be in a very disadvantageous situation. Emperor Zhaozong felt that the matter was difficult to decide, so he convened a meeting in front of the palace and asked the officials of the three provinces and the four pins or above of the Imperial Observatory to discuss the matter, but it was not expected that most of the ministers were opposed except for the consent of a few ministers. But in the end, Emperor Zhaozong decided to issue an edict against Li Keyong. Therefore, Emperor Zhaozong appointed the chancellor Zhang Jun as the capital of the camp, and appointed several envoys as envoys, forming a loose crusading alliance and setting out for Li Keyong's territory at a later date.
Li Keyong believed that the central forbidden army led by Zhang Jun was a ragtag crowd, and there was no need to worry; although Zhu Wen was strong, due to the large number of enemies around the territory, he could not attack with all his strength, and could not pose a major threat to himself; only the army led by Li Converse and Helian Duo was his real opponent. Therefore, he sent a small number of men and horses to deal with Zhang Jun and Zhu Wen, while he himself led the main force to resist Li Converse and Helian Duo.
Zhang Jun led the central forbidden army, bent on occupying more land for the imperial court, for fear of being robbed by several of his fellow jiedushi, so he ignored the weakness of his strength and blindly moved forward, just in time to meet Li Cunxiao, who was known as the first fierce general in Hedong. Although Li Cunxiao did not bring many troops, he did not panic in the face of officers and men ten times that of himself, and he designed to lure Zhang Jun's forwards into his own ambush, and easily captured Zhang Jun's forward officers alive.
The defeat of Zhang Jun's army greatly dampened the morale of the coalition forces, and Zhu Wen's army made little progress, but instead suffered several defeats. Although Li Converse and Helian Duo were relatively smooth at the beginning, when Li Keyong led the main force to arrive, it was difficult to resist, and they suffered defeats one after another, Li Converse and Helian Duo fled in a daze, losing more than 10,000 men and horses, and even Li Converse's son and Helian Duo's son-in-law became Li Keyong's prisoners. After defeating Li Converse and Helian Duo, Li Ke led a large army to turn around and kill Zhang Jun, easily defeating Zhang Jun's army, and the Battle of Hedong came to an end.
Faced with this outcome, Tang Zhaozong was upset at his own mistakes in judgment; frustrated that his efforts to cut the domain after he took the throne had been in vain; sad that the forbidden army he had formed had been lost in this battle; and afraid that Li Ke would threaten with force. In order to calm Li Keyong's anger, Zhaozong dismissed the officials who had originally approved of sending troops.
See Bully Maozhen
These two failures caused Tang Zhaozong's prestige to be lost, and he gradually became the object of arbitrary insults by the princes. The failure of the crusade against Li Keyong made Fanzhen even more contemptuous of the imperial court, and the most direct and terrible opponent was Li Maozhen.
At this time, Li Maozhen had been crowned the king of Longxi County, and his power had developed greatly, and he began to care about the government and politics, and he had the meaning of becoming an emperor. Some ministers, believing that he was pointing fingers and seeing no monarch in their eyes, rebuked him. Li Maozhen refused to be soft and immediately repaired a letter to fight back. In order to consolidate their power, some ministers also joined forces with Li Maozhen to oppose other ministers, which made Li Maozhen even more arrogant, and there were often disrespectful words in his speech.
In July of the second year of Jingfu (893), Li Maozhen ridiculed the weak attitude of the imperial court in a letter to Emperor Zhaozong, and the letter ended with the famous sentence, "I have not taken advantage of the public opinion to spread yue, so what!" Tang Zhaozong was furious and consulted with the chancellor Du Rangneng to punish Li Maozhen, but Du Rangneng advised: "Your Majesty has just ascended to the throne, the country is in difficulty, Li Maozhen is close to the gate of the country, it is not appropriate to complain with him, in case he does not win, regret is difficult to pursue." Emperor Zhaozong scolded Jean Neng: "The royal family is becoming inferior, and ordering not to go abroad, when this Righteous Zhishi is angry, He cannot sit idly by and watch Lingyi, but Qing loses the salary for the transfer of troops, and entrusts himself to the kings to use troops, and success or failure has nothing to do with Qing." The war began, but the imperial army still failed, and Li Maozhen led his troops into Chang'an to ask for guilt. The loyal chancellor Du Rangneng stood up and used his life to resolve a difficult situation for Zhaozong. After that, the ministers also went far away from Zhaozong.
In the second year of Qianning (895), Li Maozhen instructed the eunuchs to kill the chancellor Cui Shaowei and move to Chang'an again, and Tang Zhaozong was forced to flee to Hedong to seek Li Keyong's protection. Halfway through, he was caught up by Li Maozhen's ally, Huazhou Assassin Shi Hanjian. Han Jian intimidated Zhaozong and said, "The car crosses the river, and there is no recovery period." "Holding Zhaozong hostage."
In the third year of Qianning (896), on July 17, he arrived in Huazhou. In this way, the king of a country was imprisoned by the minister for nearly three years. During this period, Li Sizhou the Prince of Qin, Li Jingpi the Prince of Yan, Li Zi the Prince of Tong, Li Yu the Prince of Yi, Li Ti the Prince of Peng, Li Yun the Prince of Dan, and eleven others were killed, including King Shao, King Chen, King Han, King Ji, and King Mu, and in the fifth year of Qianning (898), Zhu Wen occupied the eastern capital Luoyang, and the situation changed significantly, causing Li Maozhen, Han Jian, and Li Keyong to establish a temporary alliance, and they decided that they would rather let Zhaozong return to Chang'an than let him fall into Zhu Wen's hands. In August of the fifth year of Qianning, Tang Zhaozong returned to Chang'an and changed the yuan to "Guanghua" to celebrate.
When Tang Zhaozong returned to Chang'an, the old conflict between eunuchs and bureaucrats caused another crisis. The eunuchs, led by Lieutenant Liu Jishu, struggled to the death and fought for the final battle, plotting to depose Emperor Zhaozong of Tang and install the crown prince.
In November of the third year of Gwanghwa (900), the eunuchs realized their plan, imprisoning Zhaozong in the Most Familiar Shaoyang Temple, and in order to prevent Zhaozong from escaping, he poured iron on the lock, and daily meals were sent through the small holes dug in the walls and walls. However, the eunuchs, fearing that Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, and Han Jian, would ask for their guilt and threw their baggage to Zhu Wen. However, Zhu Wen did not want to trap himself too deeply in the cruel court politics, but instead he sent people to assassinate all the eunuchs who had changed the administrative system one by one, and in the fourth year of Gwanghwa, emperor Zhaozong restored emperor Zhaozong, who changed yuan to Tianfu and crowned Zhu Wen as the king of Liang.
When Li Maozhen heard that Emperor Zhaozong had been restored to the throne, he deliberately rushed from Fengxiang to Chang'an, and brazenly requested to be crowned the King of Qi, but he was useless and appeared to be unusually stubborn. After that, the chancellor Cui Yin wanted to use Zhu Wen's strength to kill the eunuchs, and the eunuch Han Quanjie joined forces with Li Maozhen to invite Li Maozhen's thousands of soldiers and horses to garrison the capital and protect Chang'an.
Half a year later, Zhu Wen led an army against Han Quanzhi, and Han Quanjie forced Emperor Zhaozong to flee to Fengxiang together. Zhu Wen gave chase and surrounded Fengxiang City. It has been besieged for more than a year, Li Maozhen has exhausted the grain and grass, from winter to spring, there is a lot of rain and snow, there are a thousand people in the city who starve to death and freeze to death every day, Tang Zhaozong made a small mill in the palace, grinding beans and wheat every day to drink porridge, drinking so that he did not have any strength. Three or four people died every day in the palace, the people were even more miserable, and the phenomenon of eating people was very common, "human flesh is worth a hundred dollars per kilogram, dog meat is worth five hundred dollars, and every day when they enter the imperial meal, they will use this meat." ”
It was not until the third year of Tianfu (903 AD) that Li Maozhen could no longer hold on, and after consulting with Emperor Zhaozong, he beheaded Han Quanjie and more than twenty other eunuchs, sent their heads to Zhu Wen outside the city, and handed over Zhaozong to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen withdrew his troops with the emperor in hand.
Subject to Zhu Wen
Back in Chang'an, Zhu Wen ordered his soldiers to drive the remaining eunuchs to Neishi Province, where they were brutally killed, and the problem of eunuchs in the confused late Tang Dynasty was finally solved by Zhu Wen. However, Zhaozong also completely fell under Zhu Wen's surveillance, and spent the last days of his life breathlessly.
Presumably in order to repay Zhu Wen, Emperor Zhaozong appointed Zhu Wen as the deputy marshal of the Various Provinces, equivalent to the deputy commander-in-chief of the army. He also crowned Zhu Wen as the King of Liang, and gave him the honorary title of "Returning to Heaven to Rebuild and Do His Best to Be Faithful and Righteous", as well as five pieces of the imperial pen "Yang Liu Ci". But Zhu Wen had long been lustful, and it was impossible to value these things.
In the first month of the first year of Tianyou (904), Zhu Wen again asked to move the capital to Luoyang (in present-day Henan), when Emperor Zhaozong "drove to Huazhou, and the people called long live." The Weeping Cry said, 'Long live the cry, for you will no longer be the Lord of Ru!' Then he said to his attendant, "I am wandering now, and I don't know where I have fallen!" "Zhu Wen hanged all the more than 200 people around Emperor Zhaozong, including xiaohuangmen, taku offerings, and children in the inner garden, and replaced them with cronies of similar shape and size that he had chosen." Emperor Zhaozong could not distinguish at first, but after a long time, he looked at it. Since Emperor Zhaozong left and right, liang people have been in the past! ”
Killed
Zhu Wen was also worried that Zhaozong would once again become the signature of his opponent, so he killed him. On the night of August 11, 904, Emperor Zhaozong was resting in the imperial palace, and Zhu Wen's subordinates Jiang Xuanhui and Shi Tai led more than a hundred people to the palace late at night. Emperor Zhaozong's concubines were hesitating when they saw many people coming, and Shi Tai swung his sword to kill her and break into the palace.
After Jiang Xuanhui entered the palace, he saw Zhaoyi Li Wanrong and asked her, "Where is the emperor?" Li Wanrong said loudly, "I'd rather kill us than hurt the emperor!" "Zhaozong, because of his inner bitterness, drank some wine, was sleeping, heard someone entering the palace looking for him, secretly felt bad, hurriedly got up, only wearing a single robe around the pillar to hide, Shi Tai approached, killed Zhaozong, when Chinese New Year's Eve eight years old. In order to protect Zhaozong, Zhaoyi Li Wanrong fell on Zhaozong and was also killed. Emperor Mu Jingwenxiao of the Qunchen Dynasty, the temple name Zhaozong. On February 20 of the following year, he was buried in Heling.
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Emperor Zhaozong of Tang was the seventh brother of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, and like the last emperors of many dynasties, Emperor Zhaozong was not really a king of the fallen kingdom. He wanted to do something to rectify the internal affairs and take a tough attitude towards the clan town. He killed the eunuch Yang Fugong, although he did not completely change the eunuch's status as a supporter. But it also dealt a blow to the eunuchs. Although Emperor Zhaozong had a heart, the Tang Dynasty was already weak and difficult to return to at this time, and it was powerless to return to heaven.
Emperor Zhaozong's dynasty was mainly a war between Zhu Wen and Li Keyong for territory, while Li Maozhen in Fengxiang also despised the imperial court, and finally because Zhaozong wanted to depose him, he entered Chang'an. Emperor Zhaozong was even threatened by him to kill the prime minister. Fortunately, Li Ke defeated Li Maozhen with his troops and rescued him. However, in response to Li Ke's request to further attack Li Maozhen, Zhaozong refused for fear that the Shatuo people would sit on the throne. After Li Ke withdrew his troops back to Hedong, Li Maozhen made a comeback, and Zhaozong was also abducted to Fengxiang by the eunuch Han Quanzhi. In order to compete with Li Maozhen for the emperor, Zhu Wen sent troops to Fengxiang, Fengxiang was besieged for more than 1 year, and finally Li Maozhen was soft and handed over Zhaozong, Zhu Wen took the opportunity to kill all the eunuchs, and the problem of eunuchs in the confused late Tang was finally solved by Zhu Wen.
During the sixteen years of Emperor Zhaozong's reign, he had been working hard to solve the two major problems that plagued the imperial court, namely the eunuch dictatorship and the division of the feudal towns, when a chancellor once said that Zhaozong was "subject to domestic slaves internally and subordinate to the feudal towns externally." Emperor Zhaozong tried his best to restore the prosperous situation of the Tang Dynasty, but his subjective will was limited by the ruthless objective facts, and the situation he faced had made his enthusiasm useless. Since Chang'an was still in the hands of Emperor Zhaozong, it was relatively easy to remove eunuchs. However, the only effective way to divide the feudal towns was to use strong military strength to change the situation, but this was exactly what Zhaozong lacked, so Zhaozong could only implement a balanced policy, that is, not to allow any force to become stronger. He drove Yang Fugong to Shannan's Western Province, but did not allow Li Maozhen to attack Shannan; he was repeatedly bullied by several forces in Guanzhong, but when Li Keyong led a large army to arrive, he was not allowed to attack. Despite this, Zhu Wen gradually eradicated the Henan Qunxiong, defeated Li Keyong, and became the hegemon of the Central Plains. At this point, the Life of The Tang Dynasty and Zhaozong's wealth was not guaranteed.
Throughout Tang Zhaozong's life, he wanted to do something to rectify internal affairs, but contrary to his wishes, Datang had already been fragmented in fact, and any fan town with some military strength in his hands could almost kill Tang at will, and what Zhaozong did was only to barely make Tang exist for a few more years.
Secret: What kind of emperor was Li Ye of Tang Zhaozong?
When it comes to Tang Zhaozong Li Ye, people who love to study history often praise him as a good emperor, but unfortunately he was not born at the right time. Indeed, Tang Zhaozong was not an emperor who was good and bad, he really had ambitions and thoughts, but unfortunately he was born at the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty was already in a state of turmoil, and relying on a weak Li Ye alone really could not be saved. So, what kind of emperor was Li Ye of Tang Zhaozong? Let's follow the footsteps of history together.
1. Tang Zhaozong Li Ye was an emperor who worked hard to rule It is not at all a violation to say that Tang Zhaozong Li Ye was an emperor who worked hard to rule, because as soon as he ascended the throne of God, he began to rectify the rule of officials. Although Emperor Zhaozong of Tang only ascended the throne as emperor with the support of eunuchs, he knew that eunuchs controlling the government would lead to the loss of the state, so he made up his mind to expel the eunuchs from the imperial court. During this period, he also received fierce counterattacks from the eunuchs, but Tang Zhaozong was not afraid, and eventually relied on his own resourcefulness to eliminate the eunuchs' power, giving the court a hint of clarity.
2, Tang Zhaozong Li Ye is an emperor with hills and ravines in his chest Tang Zhaozong Li Ye is also an emperor with hills and ravines in his chest, after eliminating the eunuch forces, Li Ye set out to clean up the feudal forces. He actively formed the Janissaries and tried to resist the growing power of the clan. He hoped to maintain the stability of the imperial court, suppress the power of the clan town to make the world peaceful, and let the people enjoy a peaceful and happy life.
3, Tang Zhaozong Li Ye is also an emperor who was not born at the right time Tang Zhaozong Li Ye is actually an emperor who was not born at the right time, if he was born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he will definitely be a good emperor praised by everyone. However, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the official was corrupt and worried about internal and external troubles, and even if he had great ambitions, he could not fight the power of the feudal town, and was eventually controlled and killed.
Who was Tang Zhaozong Li Ye's father?
Emperor Yizong of Tang (28 December 833 – 15 August 873), real name Li Wen ,; was a native of Chang'an County, Jingzhao Province (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi), the seventeenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty (13 September 859 – 15 August 873), the eldest son of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and his mother was Empress Yuanzhao of the Chao clan.
Yamato was born in the seventh year of Yamato (833) in the Guangwang Mansion and was first enthroned as the King of Yun. In August of the thirteenth year of Dazhong (859), after the death of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, he was placed under the eunuch Wang Zongshi and took the throne in August (September 10, 859). In November of the following year (December 17, 860), he changed his name to Yuan Xiantong , exerted great efforts to govern , and extended his rumors. The sound of the cave is like a heavenly vertical. In the later period of the reign, excessive feasting, extravagance and lasciviousness, and inability to appoint people led to turmoil in eastern Zhejiang, Annan, Xuzhou, and Sichuan, internal political corruption, and the people's livelihood, and the loss of the achievements of the Xuanzong Dynasty.
In the fourteenth year of Xiantong (August 15, 873), Li Yi died at the age of 41, with the title of Emperor Ruiwen Zhaosheng GonghuiXiao, temple number Yizong, and was buried in Jianling.
Who is Tang Zhaozong Li Ye's mother?
Empress Gongxian of the Wang clan (?) –867), concubine of Emperor Yizong of Tang. The family lineage is very cold. During the Xiantong period, he was ranked in the rear court and was favored. In the eighth year (867), Li Ye, the King of Shengshou, died after xue. In 888, Li Ye ascended the throne for Emperor Zhaozong of Tang. Posthumously honored Wang as empress dowager, with the title of Empress Gongxian, and the main Yizong Temple, that is, its cemetery is Anling.
Who is Tang Zhaozong Li Ye's brother?
Li Yan (李儇; 8 June 862 – 20 April 888), real name Li Yu (李俨), was a native of Chang'an County, Jingzhao Province (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi), the eighteenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty (16 August 873 – 20 April 888), the fifth son of Emperor Yizong of Tang, and his mother was Empress Wang of Hui'an.
He is a king of pu, keen on fun, good at polo. When Emperor Yizong of Tang died, with the support of the eunuch Tian Lingzi and others, he became the crown prince and changed his name to Li Yan. In the fourteenth year of Xiantong (873), he ascended the throne at the age of 12. During his reign, the eunuch Tian Lingzi controlled the government, and the political situation became increasingly chaotic, triggering the wang xianzhi and Huangchao uprisings. After Chang'an was lost, he fled to Shudi. During this period, he mobilized the towns to quell the Huangchao Uprising and returned to Chang'an.
During the Guangqi period, after experiencing the Battle of Yanchi and the Rebellion of the King of Xiang, his health deteriorated, and in the last year, he triggered the division of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was divided, and the dying legacy was located in his younger brother Li Ye, that is, Tang Zhaozong. Wen De died in the first year (April 20, 888) at the age of 27, posthumously honored as "Emperor Huisheng Gongding Xiaoxiao", temple name Emperor Xianzong, and buried in Jingling.
Who was Empress Li Ye of Tang Zhaozong?
When Li Ye was the King of Shou, the He clan was in service, graceful and beautiful and wise, Li Ye liked her very much, Li Yu, the king of He's Shengde (later crown prince), and Li Zuo, the king of Hui. After Emperor Zhaozong of Tang ascended the throne, he was made a concubine. During the Qianning period, Li Maozhen rebelled, and Tang Zhaozong fled to Huazhou, with He Shi as empress, which was the first time in 100 years after Tang Dezong to make an empress.
Since the Tang Dynasty, the world has been in chaos, the eunuchs of the feudal towns have rebelled, and the emperor often fled Chang'an. During the Jingfu period, Tang Zhaozong fled again due to the leadership of traitors, thanks to Empress He's inseparable care. In the third year of Gwanghwa (900), Emperor Zhaozong of Tang returned from hunting at night, and Empress He sent the crown prince Li Yu back to his residence, and Li Yu met the eunuch Liu Jishu on the way, and Li Yu was left in the Ziting Courtyard. The next day Liu Jishu led troops to force Tang Zhaozong chan to give the throne to Li Yu, and Empress He was afraid of hurting the emperor, so she took the jade seal and awarded it to Liu Jishu, and both the empress and the emperor were placed under house arrest in the Eastern Palace. Liu Jishu made Li Yu emperor, Emperor Zhaozong emperor Taishang, and empress dowager empress. The following year, several officers of the Divine Strategy Army launched a counter-coup d'état, and Emperor Zhaozong and the Empress were restored.
In the first year of Tianyou (904), Tang Zhaozong and Empress He were abducted by Zhu Wen to Luoyang, and the empress said, "After that, every couple committed themselves to thieves!" The two cried opposite each other, and the empress did not leave Zhaozong for a while. In August, Zhu Wen's confidant Jiang Xuanhui killed Emperor Zhaozong. Crown Prince Li Zhao (李柷) ascended the throne, honoring his mother Empress He as empress dowager. Migrated to Jishan Palace, called Jishan Empress.
In December of the second year of Tianyou (905), Zhu Wen wanted to usurp the throne, and Jiang Xuanhui believed that the world was not at peace and should not be rushed. Zhu Wen was not happy, Xuanhui deputy envoy Zhao Yinheng framed Jiang Xuanhui and Empress He plotting to restore the Tang Room, Zhu Wen was furious, and on the same day sent envoys to Luoyi to kill Jiang Xuanhui, Zhang Tingfan, Liu Xuan and others, And Empress He was also killed at Jishan Palace, and killed the palace people Ah Qiu and Ah Qian, still deposing Empress He as a Shuren.
Who are the sons of Tang Zhaozong Li Ye?
1. Li You (9th century–905) was the eldest son of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang and empress dowager He.
Biography: Li You's birth year is unknown, but extrapolating from his father's birth year (867-904), he may have been born in the 880s or before 892.
Ben was made the Prince of De, and in February of the fourth year of Qianning (897), he was made crown prince and changed his name to Li You. In November of the third year of Gwanghwa (900), he was made emperor by Liu Jishu, changed his name to Li Jian, and Emperor Zhaozong abdicated.
In the first month of the first year of Tianfu (901), he was deposed by Cui Yin and demoted to the title of King of De, and Emperor Zhaozong was restored. In February of the third year of Tianfu (903), Emperor Zhaozong, in order to reward The Xuanwu Army, wanted to appoint a prince as the Marshal of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Dao Dynasty, and Zhu Quanzhong as his deputy. Because Of Li You's elderly age, Emperor Zhaozong intended to appoint him as the Marshal of the Various Dao Soldiers and Horses, but Cui Yin, according to Zhu Quanzhong's wishes, because Li You's brother Li Zuo the Prince of Hui was young and easy to use, insisted that Li Zuo be appointed as the Marshal of the Dao Soldiers and Horses, and finally Li Zuo was appointed as the Marshal of the Dao Soldiers and Horses. Zhu Quanzhong hated Li Junxiu because of his old age and often wanted to get rid of him, but Emperor Zhaozong kept him safe, and Zhu Quanzhong held a grudge.
In the first year of Tianyou (904), Zhu Quanzhong killed Emperor Zhaozong, and established Li Zuo as crown prince, changed his name to Li Zhao, and succeeded him as emperor. In February of the following year (905), Li You and eight of his brothers were killed by order of Zhu Quanzhong.
2. Li Yu (?) –905), a Tang dynasty prince, was the fourth son of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, and his birth mother is unknown.
On the eighth day of the first month of October in the first year of Qianning (894), Li Yu was crowned the Prince of Yi by his father Emperor Zhaozong of Tang. On the ninth day of February in the second year of Tianyou (905), Zhu Wen sent Jiang Xuanhui to invite Li Yu the Prince of De, Li Yu the Prince of De, Li Yu the King of Qian, Li Yu the Prince of Yi, Li Yi the Prince of Sui, Li Bi the King of Jing, Li Qi the King of Qi, Li Chan the Prince of Ya, and Li Xiang the King of Qiong to drink at Jiuqu Pond. After the Nine Kings got drunk, Jiang Xuanhui strangled them all to death and threw them into the Nine-Curve Pool.
3. Li Zhao (李柷; 27 October 892 – 26 March 908), courtesy name Li Zuo, was a native of Chang'an County, Jingzhao Province (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province). The last emperor of the Tang Dynasty (27 September 904 – 12 May 907), the ninth son of Li Ye of Tang Zhaozong. In the fourth year of Qianning (897), he was enfeoffed as the King of Hui. In the third year of Tianfu (903), he was awarded the title of Kaifu Yi tongsan division and marshal of the various provinces. In the first year of Tianyou (904), after Tang Zhaozong was killed, he officially ascended the throne and became a puppet of the powerful minister Zhu Wen, and all political affairs were uncertain.
In the fourth year of Tianyou (907), he was deposed as the King of Jiyin and placed in Cao Prefecture. Five years later, he was brutally killed and buried in Wenling, at the age of sixteen, with the nickname of mourning. In the Later Tang Dynasty, he was posthumously awarded the title of "Emperor Zhaoxuan Guangliexiao".