During liu zhiyuan's reign as emperor, Shi Hongzhao was able to win every battle because he ruled the army strictly and rewarded and punished clearly. One of his subordinates, Shi Hongzhao, because of the slightest disobedience in the process of receiving orders, immediately beat him until the person was killed. When the generals next to them saw this situation, no one dared to stop them, and they were all frightened and trembling, so Shi Hongzhao said one thing in the army. No one dared to disagree with what was said.
When the two capitals were at peace, everywhere Shi Hongzhao passed, there was silence, and there was no one who dared to commit a crime.
However, everything is the opposite of the extreme, and Shi Hongzhao ruled the army with strictness, and in the end, he also left a curse for himself because of his harsh means.
During Liu Zhiyuan's reign, the only major war was to recover Du Chongwei, Shi Hongzhao naturally also drove the capital with Liu Zhiyuan, Du Chongwei finally ended in surrender, Shi Hongzhao accompanied Liu Zhiyuan back to Beijing, added Ping Zhangshi, served as the commander of the guards and the army, and also served as the commander of the town of Songzhou.
Liu Zhiyuan's most beloved son died early, and Liu Zhiyuan missed him day and night, and he actually had a dark disease, and it did not take long for him to die.
Before Liu Zhiyuan died, Shi Hongzhao had the honor of being made a minister of Gu Order, along with Yang Wei, Guo Wei, and Su Fengji.
With the addition of the chancellor, Shi Hongzhao had become one of several important ministers in the power center of the Later Han regime.
After the Yin Emperor Liu Chengyou succeeded to the throne, Li Shouzhen in the river, Fengxiang Wang Jingchong, and Yongxing Zhao Sixuan rebelled one after another, and the imperial court naturally wanted to send troops to conquest, so the Kansai war continued, causing panic.
At this time, the busiest person was Shi Hongzhao, who was in charge of the forbidden army and the guards of the Beijing Division.
Affected by the conquest, rumors were rife, and many people caught the wind and spread rumors, causing everyone to endanger themselves, and this situation was naturally not wanted by the imperial court to see.
So Shi Hongzhao threw off his iron fist and led the forbidden army to arrest people who spread rumors and cause trouble, in Shi Hongzhao's eyes, as long as people died, there would be no recurrence of incidents, so no matter how big or small the guilt, as long as they reported to Shi Hongzhao, there was only one word to kill.
At that time, there was a white star that appeared in the daytime, and the white star was a symbol of killing in the eyes of the ancients, and it was an ominous omen. Some of the people were curious, so they looked up, and coincidentally they were seen by a small official who managed the street, also known as "Fang Zheng".
In order to be promoted, this little official did not care that people looked up at the stars just out of curiosity, and directly arrested people as troublemakers, and this matter was reported to Shi Hongzhao, and directly cut off the waist of the person who looked up at the stars.
Another resident, because he had drunk too much alcohol, had an argument with the soldiers on the street, and was reported by the soldiers for blackmail, and Shi Hongzhao stretched out three fingers, and the soldiers actually pulled the resident to the street and beheaded him for public display.
Shi Hongzhao's soldiers took advantage of Shi Hongzhao's prestige to seize power and kill innocents indiscriminately, and for a time countless people were cut off, broken, cut off, and broken feet.
Li Song, the deposed prime minister, did not have such good luck, he was falsely accused by his former subordinates and reported to Shi Hongzhao, who used Li Song to kill chickens and monkeys, and did not carefully investigate right and wrong, and showed no mercy, and actually killed Li Song's entire clan in the street, leaving only Li Song's young daughter as a maid for his own envoy.
Shi Hongzhao's practice made all the old officials who had already stepped down endanger themselves, for fear that one of them would accidentally offend his subordinates and end up with Li Song, so these officials were tolerant and indulgent to their subordinates and did not dare to ask questions.
There are Yan people who call He Fujin, and the family is engaged in business, and once used 140,000 yuan to buy a jade pillow.
After several years of appreciation, He Fujin decided to let his servants take this jade pillow to Jianghuai to sell, and then use the money sold to buy tea.
Who knew that this servant boy was greedy for money, and even concealed hundreds of thousands of dollars of the money he had exchanged, and was discovered by He Fujin and asked the servant boy to take out the money.
The servant boy refused to admit it, and In a fit of rage, He Fujin ordered someone to rebuke the servant boy and beat the servant boy to the skin and flesh, and he did not want to die.
The servant boy did not want to repent, but instead harbored a grudge, and actually reported He Fujin to Shi Hongzhao, falsely accusing He Fujin of having a private contact with The Khitan Zhao Yanshou, who handed over to He Fujin a jade pillow and asked He Fujin to bring this jade pillow to Jianghuai, which had already shown that the Khitan had the intention of making good friends with Jianghuai.
When Shi Hongzhao heard this, he immediately ordered He Fujin to be arrested, and the people who fell into Shi Hongzhao's hands were all worse off alive than dead, and He Fujin naturally could not bear it.
Shi Hongzhao then ordered people to behead He Fujin's entire clan in the street for public display, but he distributed He Fujin's wife and daughter to his right-hand man, and at the same time, He Fujin's hard-earned savings in the family were all swallowed up by himself.
During this time, Shi Hongzhao's methods were cruel and fierce, and in his heart, he would rather kill a hundred or even a thousand by mistake than miss one, which caused the entire imperial court to worry.
For human life, in Shi Hongzhao's eyes, he was not much stronger than an ant at this time, and he transformed from a peasant son into a lonely and heavy subject, and he had long forgotten his poor life as a commoner.
At this time, all he had in mind was his own majesty and the majesty of the imperial court, which must not be thrown away, he seemed to have regarded himself as the court, he was the spokesman of the imperial court, and unconsciously he had changed from a general who ruled the army strictly and had strict military discipline to a tough and self-serving, brutal and harsh executioner.