preface
Throughout the history of the mainland, among the more than 400 emperors, there are many Ming monarchs and faint monarchs, and there are many who can fight, but if you want to say the emperor with the highest level of art, then people basically only think of two, one is Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the other is Zhao Ji of Song Huizong.
These two emperors still have something in common, not only are they both the kings of the dead country but also have ambiguous love histories, but Li Yu's love history is much more exciting than Zhao Ji, and the story of him and the two sisters after the big and small weeks is "eternal".
It is said that after the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu and Xiao Zhouhou were imprisoned by the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, inherited the throne and fell in love with Xiao Zhouhou's beauty, so Li Yu, who was sad and helpless, wrote a very famous poem, that is, "Poppy Beauty", what happened?
1. The struggle for the throne
During the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, various separatist regimes emerged one after another, and Li Yu's grandfather Li Yu was still called Xu Zhihe at the time, but he also seized the opportunity to establish his own country, that is, the Southern Tang Dynasty.
But the fate of the Southern Tang Dynasty was destined not to last long, Li Yu became virtuous after becoming virtuous not long after he became mediocre because of poisoning with pills, after his death, his son Li Jing succeeded to the throne, and during his reign, the Southern Tang Dynasty was even more bad, and even succumbed to the Later Zhou, and took the initiative to reduce his emperor title to "the lord of the country".
This is why later generations always call Li Yu "the first lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty", Li Jing called the "Southern Tang Dynasty lord", and Li Yu called "the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty", in fact, Li Yu was no longer the emperor when he succeeded to the throne, but because of habit, people still like to regard Li Yu as the emperor.
Li Yu is Li Jing's sixth son, and he was originally unsuccessful on the throne, but he was lucky to have a vision - his eyes were heavy pupils.
According to legend, Emperor Shun and Duke Wen of Jin in history were both heavy pupils, and Xiang Yu, who was later called "unique through the ages", was also a double pupil, so people with heavy pupils were considered to be natural emperors, so Li Yu was very valued by his father.
So the contradiction arose, his eldest brother Li Hongji was the crown prince, but the attention of his father and courtiers was inclined to Li Yu, which caused Li Hongji to be very hostile to Li Yu, and even wanted to get rid of him quickly.
Li Yu is not a fool, of course he is aware of his dire situation, although people hope for him, but he himself knows that he is not the material to inherit the unification, he just wants to be an idle prince and enjoy happiness.
So Li Yu began to make every effort to reduce his presence in the court, anyway, he was originally a talented man who liked elegance, so he took this good opportunity to immerse himself in the wind and snow, and sang and wrote poems and paintings with his wife Empress E, and the couple were so unhappy.
Second, young admiration
Li Yu's wife, Emperor E, is the famous Empress of the Great Zhou, her original surname was Zhou, Empress E is just a small character not her real name, and she is the eldest daughter of the family, so people are used to calling her the Empress of the Great Zhou.
After the Great Zhou Dynasty, she was also born in a famous family, and her father Zhou Zong followed Li Yu to fight back then, so he naturally became the founding hero of the country after the founding of the Southern Tang Dynasty and was in a high position.
In this way, in order to bind the interests of meritorious deeds, the marriage between the royal family and the important ministers was logical, so Zhou Zong's eldest daughter, Empress E, was sent to the palace to cultivate feelings with the prince since she was a child.
When he entered the palace at that time, he was only a teenager after the Great Zhou, but because he played the pipa very well, he became a court musician and played for the royal family at banquets.
At this time, Li Yu was just a teenager, and it was when the love was first opened, and after seeing the beautiful and talented Da Zhouhou, he was instantly fascinated by her, and fell in love with this girl of the same age as himself.
What he didn't know was that Da Zhou Hou also admired him very much, it was because of Li Yu's good words that the words had to be sung with the music at that time, and after Da Zhou Hou saw Li Yu's words, he couldn't put them down, and changed them to pipa music, and Li Jing sang it when he wanted to listen to the pipa music.
In this way, Li Jing gradually noticed the longing between the young man and the girl, so he waved his hand and directly made the decision to marry the two of them, and the lovers became husband and wife in this way, quite loving and harmonious.
However, it seems to be the fate of Chongtong, this throne still belongs to Li Yu after all, with the death of the crown prince and the death of Li Jing, Li Yu inherited the throne of the Southern Tang Dynasty so smoothly, and his wife Empress E also became the queen.
3. The family is ruined and the country is ruined
No emperor doesn't want to be a Ming monarch from the beginning, Li Yu is no exception, he just succeeded to the throne and did work hard for a period of time, but he is really not this material, how can there be poems, calligraphy and paintings? So it didn't take long for him to become more and more slack, and he began to continue to immerse himself in the wind and snow.
Accidents always come suddenly, after the big week, the body has been relatively weak, after becoming the queen, she became ill within a few years, it is difficult to get up in bed, and the mood is also very low.
In order to make his beloved wife happy, Li Yu took his sister into the palace and asked her to often accompany her sister to talk and relieve boredom, which is conducive to the recovery of Da Zhouhou's condition, and Da Zhouhou is quite happy about it.
However, Li Yu has been mixed in the wind and moon all the year round, where is an honest person? Although he loved Da Zhouhou before, but after Da Zhouhou fell ill, his appearance was not as good as before, so Li Yu gradually changed his mind and began to hit his mind on Da Zhouhou's sister.
Xiao Zhouhou and Da Zhouhou are the same mother, they naturally look very similar, and they also have a younger appearance than Da Zhouhou, and their personalities are more lively, which makes Li Yu like him quite much, so he got together with his sister-in-law behind Da Zhouhou's back.
Da Zhouhou didn't know about this at first, but after Xiao Zhouhou and Li Yu were together, they were very eager for their sister's queenship, so they pretended to leak this matter to Da Zhouhou unintentionally.
This is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, after the seriously ill Da Zhou Hou knew about it, his condition suddenly worsened, and he died not long after, but Li Yu was not very sad, and after the filial piety period after the Great Zhou, Xiao Zhou Hou was established as the queen, and since then, the mediocre monarch and the delicate queen have brought the national fortune to an end.
With the continuous expansion of the Song Dynasty, the poor and weak Southern Tang Dynasty did not resist in the end, and was broken by the Song Dynasty, and Li Yu and Xiao Zhouhou were both placed under house arrest by Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, in Bianjing to prevent the Southern Tang Dynasty from recovering the country.
Later, after Zhao Kuangyin died, his younger brother Zhao Guangyi inherited the throne, unlike Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi is not a decent gentleman, he is suspicious of Li Yu, and on the other hand, he is greedy for the beauty of Xiao Zhouhou.
So Li Yu, who was sure that the weak, would not have any resistance, Zhao Guangyi relied on his imperial majesty to forcibly summon Xiao Zhouhou, and forcibly occupied her that night, not only that, but he also asked the court painter to draw the upside-down phoenix of this night!
epilogue
No one can bear to be cuckolded, of course Li Yu is also extremely angry, but his weak character and the situation that people have to bow their heads under the eaves really made him endure it, in order to vent the grief and bitterness in his heart, Li Yu still wrote a poem, that is, the famous "Poppy Beauty".
Among them, "When is the spring flower and autumn moon, how much do you know about the past" conveys Li Yu's despair and remorse, but time is gone, and there will be no reversal of the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty after all.