In 978, Zhao Guangyi, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, summoned Xu Xuan, an old minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and asked, "Have you been to see Li Yu recently?"
Xu Xuan hurriedly said: "The minister didn't dare to go privately. ”
After all, the Southern Tang Dynasty has been destroyed, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, is already the king of the fallen country and is imprisoned in Bianjing, and has lost his freedom, without the permission of the emperor, no one dares to see him, especially the old ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who dare not easily visit the old master.
Zhao Guangyi naturally knew this, and he just wanted to draw out the purpose of his summoning Xu Xuan: "Aiqing went to visit Li Yu, just say that I asked you to meet Li Yu." ”
Xu Xuan led the order to leave, and soon arrived at Li Yu's prison address, dismounted when he saw the gate, and said to an old guard guarding the door: "I would like to see the captain." ”
The old pawn naturally didn't dare to let people in easily, and directly stopped him: "If you have a will, you can't pick up with people, how can you meet?" Xu Xuan said that he was ordered to meet Li Yu, and the old pawn went in to report to Li Yu.
Xu Xuan waited outside for a long time, only to see Li Yu wearing a gauze hat and wearing a Taoist uniform and walking inside, Xu Xuan saw it from a distance and bowed, Li Yuan hurriedly went down the steps and led Xu Xuan inside.
Li Yu was obviously very excited to see Xu Xuan, after all, since he was imprisoned in Bianjing, Li Yu's hatred for the death of the country and his feelings for the country have no one to tell, and he can only be drunk on feasting and drinking every day, so as to pass the time, how can he not be excited when he suddenly sees his old minister?
The two of them first hugged their heads and cried, and then sat down and looked at each other without saying anything, and after a long time, when the mood of the two of them had almost calmed down, Li Yu suddenly let out a long sigh and said, "I regretted killing Pan You and Li Ping at that time." ”
The Pan You and Li Ping incident occurred in 973, when Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, had already destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty, aimed the next target at the Southern Tang Dynasty, and sent Lu Duoxun, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, to the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The Southern Tang Dynasty had already been targeted by Zhao Kuangyin, and Li Yu was powerless to change the national fortunes of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but some courtiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty could not see that the national fortunes of the Southern Tang Dynasty continued to weaken.
Li Ping was a Taoist priest, and later entered the officialdom, and once asked for the restoration of the Jingtian system according to the "Zhou Li", and the official was Wei Weiqing and the household servant, Pan You thought that Li Ping could change the national fortunes of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Xu Xuan and Zhang Xun thought that this was Li Ping's fallacy to confuse the public and incite Pan You to make trouble.
Li Yu also felt that this incident must be Li Ping's plan, so he directly sent someone to put Li Ping in prison without verifying anything, and then asked people to go to Pan You's home to detain Pan You, as a result, Pan You committed suicide at home, and Li Ping also hanged himself in prison.
Later, Li Yu regretted it every time he thought about it, he thought that if these two people hadn't died, maybe the fate of the Southern Tang Dynasty could really be changed, and this idea had not changed even if the Southern Tang Dynasty perished.
But in fact, the national fortunes of the Southern Tang Dynasty are not something that can be changed by one person or a few people, as far as the Southern Tang Dynasty is concerned, as early as when Li Yu's father Li Jing was alive, he was actually weakened, and Li Jing finally claimed to be the lord of the country.
No matter how hard Li Yu struggled after succeeding to the throne, he couldn't change it, not to mention that in terms of the general environment at that time, Zhao Kuangyin was no longer willing to divide the country, and it was only a matter of time before he attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty.
In 974, Zhao Kuangyin ordered Li Yu to enter Beijing, Li Yu did not dare to enter Beijing, so he said that he was ill, Zhao Kuangyin directly sent troops, Li Yu also began to prepare for war, and the war between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty was about to break out.
On the one hand, Li Yu stopped the War of Resistance against Japan, and on the other hand, he questioned the king of Wu Yue, who sent troops to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty: "Without me today, how can there be a king tomorrow? "It's a pity that King Wu Yue doesn't care about Li Yu at all.
Later, Li Yu sent Xu Xuan to the Northern Song Dynasty twice, trying to seek peace in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin was not used to the Southern Tang Dynasty, no matter how Xu Xuan could speak well, he could not change Zhao Kuangyin's determination to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, and even when Xu Xuan was gushing, Zhao Kuangyin directly drew his sword and angrily reprimanded Xu Xuan, saying the famous sentence:
"Needless to say, what is Jiangnan's crime, but the world is a family, on the side of the couch, how can others be allowed to snore. ”
In any case, Zhao Kuangyin must take the Southern Tang Dynasty, in December 975, Jinling was lost, Li Yu surrendered, and the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed.
In the second year, in the first month of 976, Li Yu was escorted to Bianjing, and was made a disobedient marquis by Zhao Kuangyin, and since then he has become a prisoner and placed in a house in Bianjing.
Every time he thinks of this history, Li Yu feels that all the changes seem to have happened after the Pan You and Li Ping incidents in 973, and he always feels that if they hadn't died, maybe the Southern Tang Dynasty wouldn't have been like this.
But he didn't think that before 973, the reason why there was no major problem in the Southern Tang Dynasty was just because Zhao Kuangyin was busy destroying other separatist regimes and had no time to deal with the Southern Tang Dynasty, and it was the turn of the Southern Tang Dynasty after the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed.
After the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, had a really hard time in Bianjing, at least he did not have the same casualness as Chen Shubao, the queen of the Southern Chen, he was tormented by the pain of losing the country, the hatred of the country, and the thoughts of the homeland.
So when he suddenly saw Xu Xuan, the former minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, his mood was really ups and downs, and he couldn't help crying, and he couldn't help mentioning that he regretted letting Pan You and Li Ping die, and he couldn't help but think of his homeland again, of course, this also brought disaster to him.
When Xu Xuan left, Zhao Guangyi summoned Xu Xuan again and asked what the two of them said, Xu Xuan didn't dare to hide it, he knew that if he didn't say it, Zhao Guangyi could also know the conversation between the two through other channels, so he informed Zhao Guangyi of the conversation between the two in 1510.
Zhao Guangyi didn't say anything after hearing this, and let Xu Xuan leave calmly on his face, but he was extremely dissatisfied with Li Yu in his heart, the Southern Tang Dynasty had already perished, and you were a prisoner but still missing your homeland, and you still regretted what happened back then, isn't this very dissatisfied with the Song Dynasty?
And after Xu Xuan left, Li Yu was also uneasy, so much so that during the Qixi Festival, he asked the old prostitutes of the Southern Tang Dynasty to sing the "Poppy Beauty" he wrote before:
When is the spring flower and autumn moon, and how much do you know about the past? Xiaolou had another east wind last night, so the country could not bear to look back at the moonlight.
The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there, but the face has changed. How sad can you be? Just like a river of spring water flowing eastward.
The voice spread far away, Zhao Guangyi was furious when he heard it, it was his homeland again, okay, you miss your homeland so much, your homeland is dead, and you are gone, so Zhao Guangyi gave him the medicine.
The so-called drug, "before taking it, it was dozens of times, and the cephalic and foot phase was like a machine." ”
The story of Xu Xuan's visit to Li Yu and Zhao Guangyi's gift to Li Yu is not from the official history, but from the notebook novel "Silent Notes" by Wang Gong of the Song Dynasty, although it is not a record of the official history, but this statement is widely circulated.
As for the facts, we don't know, but Li Yu did die on the seventh day of the seventh month of July in 978, which was the Qixi Festival and Li Yu's 41st birthday.