In 912, Emperor Zhu Wen of Later Liang was sleeping with his daughter-in-law Wang Shi in his arms, when his son Zhu Youjue arrived with troops. Zhu Wen roared: "Rebel son, can you bear to kill your father!" Zhu Youjue pierced the opponent's chest with a sword: "Beast, today I will take the place of Tianxing Dao!" ”
Zhu Wen was originally just a small citizen in the city, following the Huangchao rebel army to fight the world. Huang Chao's soldiers were defeated and killed, and Zhu Wen saw that the general trend had passed, so he defected to the Tang Dynasty. Later, Zhu Wen made great contributions to the Tang army, and was made the King of Liang, and was appointed as the assassin of Bianzhou.
Huang Chao has courage and no strategy, he will only fight and will not defend the city, and the city he has laid will soon be recovered by the Tang army.
Seeing this, Zhu Wen turned against him, and became the main force attacking Huang Chao with his backhand, and then fought hard in this chaotic world and became a warlord.
In 907, he forced Emperor Chan, Emperor Chan, to relinquish the throne, establish Later Liang, proclaim himself emperor, and change his name to Zhu Huang.
As a result, this time, the emperor's position was only shaken for six years.
After Zhu Huang came to the throne, he lived a life of luxury and debauchery, and he had eight sons and an adopted son, Zhu Youwen. In order to consolidate the frontier, Zhu Huang often sent his sons to lead armies to conquer the four directions, and in order to better control these sons, the princes' wives and concubines stayed in the capital.
Zhu Huang saw that his daughters-in-law were gorgeous, so he included them in the harem, named to serve the sick emperor, but in fact fornicated with them. The princes knew this very well, but Zhu Huang was his biological father and the emperor who held great power, so he could only acquiesce in such incestuous behavior, and even competed to let his wife serve the emperor, in order to seek the glory of the high-ranking official Houlu I.
Zhu Huang's favorite two are Wang Shi, the wife of his adopted son Zhu Youwen, and the wife Zhang Shi of his second son Zhu Youjue. The Wang family was beautiful and loved by Zhu Huang, and it was rumored that the emperor intended to pass on the position to Zhu Youwen. And the Zhang family was once favored, and then the Wang family came, and she fell out of favor and was left out.
When Zhu Youjue learned of this, he was extremely angry in his heart, he thought that the throne should belong to him, but now he had to pass it to an adopted son, which was really ridiculous. Coupled with the fact that his father snatched his wife, Zhu Youjie hated it to the bone.
One day, Zhang overheard that Zhu Huang was rumored to be located in Zhu Youwen, so he handed the news out, and Zhu Youjue decided to launch a coup d'état with Han Xing, the commander of the Zuo Longhu Army, and seize the throne.
Late at night, Zhu Youjue led 600 forbidden troops to quietly come to the palace and went straight to Zhu Huang's dormitory, and in the dormitory, Zhu Huang was turning clouds and rain with the Wang clan. The two suddenly saw Zhu Youjue, who was holding a sharp blade, burst in murderously, and was so frightened that he didn't have time to get dressed and escape.
Zhu Huang was terrified and begged, "I am your father, how dare you risk such a big deal." What's more, you are my son, I am sick, you are my heir, you are the peace. ”
Zhu Youjue sneered and drank, "I'm afraid my father is not confused!" You are domineering and debauched, and you want to pass on the throne to outsiders, and I will destroy this scourge of yours today for the Tianxing Dao!" Saying that, a sword pierced into Zhu Huang's heart.
Zhu Huang fell to the ground and swallowed, Wang Shi exclaimed to flee, and Zhu Youjue triumphantly stepped on Zhu Huang's body, shouting that he was the emperor.
On the second day, Zhu Youjue ascended the throne as emperor. However, the courtiers did not recognize this tyrant who had usurped the throne, and soon various warlords rebelled. A civil unrest broke out, and soon Zhu Youjue died in the war, and Houliang also perished.
Zhu Wen won the throne by intrigue, but instead of ruling the country with benevolence, he coveted women and lustfully committed the harem. His son Zhu Youjue did not want to reflect on himself, and only used his father's usurpation to vent his personal anger, and eventually caused the country to die. It can be seen that the power obtained by improper means will sooner or later be lost in the chaotic army, and the tragedy of Zhu Wen and Zhu Youjue is the ridicule of history.
