When the history books mention Zhu Wen's death, their content is usually more dog bloody. The gist is that when Zhu Wen was seriously ill, several daughters-in-law served him together.
When the husband is critically ill, several daughters-in-law serve, what is wrong with this?
The problem is, you can't think about it in the dark. Because they think darkly, these daughters-in-law are not simply sending soup and medicine to their husbands, asking for warmth, but sleeping with their husbands.
Writing like this is itself more bloody. Even more bloody is still behind, that is, when Zhu Wen chooses the heir, he actually looks at which daughter-in-law performs well in bed, in other words, whether the son can become the heir depends on how his daughter-in-law behaves in the bed of his husband.
If you write it like this, it will be bloody.
In the relevant historical records, the succession to the throne after Zhu Wen's death revolved between daughters-in-law. It is said that Zhu Youwen's wife was most favored by Zhu Wen, so Zhu Wen wanted Zhu Youwen to inherit the throne.
Zhu Youjue's wife, although she received less favor from Zhu Wen, but also through the relationship in bed, learned that Zhu Wen wanted to pass the throne to Zhu Youwen, so Zhu Youjue used the killing machine against Zhu Wen and usurped the throne by killing Zhu Wen.
Logically, zhu Wen slept with his daughter-in-law before his death, which is a very ridiculous statement.
People who think that Zhu Wen's status wants to sleep more beautiful women before he dies, and those who think that they have money and will put meat sandwich steamed buns at the head of the bed and sugar bowls at the end of the bed, there is no difference, that is, they have not slept with beautiful women in eight lifetimes, so they will have this idea. With Zhu Wen's status, how could he have such a thought?
Logically, this is a very detrimental thing, who would dare to do it? Of course, we can say that Zhu Wen is a beast. The problem is that when Zhu Wen returned from the front, he was already very ill (at one time he could not even sit in a palanquin), and now he was seriously ill and was lying in bed, sleeping with several daughters-in-law, even if he had this heart, he did not have this strength.
At the last moment of his life, the most important thing that people in Zhu Wen's position could think about was how to make their empire exist for one, two, and three lifetimes.
Everything is obvious, if Lao Zhu's family business is well passed on, then Zhu Wen's historical image will definitely become very tall, because his descendants control the right to speak, and will certainly not hesitate to beautify him with words.
If Zhu Wen's family property is destroyed after his death, Zhu Wen's historical image will naturally be difficult to preserve, that is, Zhu Wen's body, and it may also be quickly planed out. In fact, after Li Cunxun destroyed Liang, he once wanted to dig Zhu Wen's grave, but was persuaded by Zhang Quanyi.
If Zhu Wen has this kind of self-control (willpower), he can't even distinguish between big heads and small eyes when things happen, that is, a willful person with a mind, how can he survive the first episode? Even if you survive the first episode, how can you always be the protagonist of the next dozen episodes?
More importantly, an old man who is seriously ill and sleeps frequently with beautiful women doesn't he want to die faster? Who would joke about their lives except people who have never seen a beautiful woman in their lives?
Even if Zhu Wen didn't have the idea that Qin Emperor Han Wu wanted to live another five hundred years, he wouldn't think that he was going to die anyway because he had a serious illness, and it was the right thing to sleep a few more beautiful women!
The point is that a beautiful woman at such a time is still actively doing this kind of thing with him, and what is the difference between this and murdering people. A beautiful woman plays like this, even if the other party is cool, she will not think much about it, and after she is cool, she will definitely have the heart to kill her, because this is a naked attempt to murder him.
As long as we know this, we will know that this kind of thing is absurd. Because Zhu Wen's daughter-in-law would not use this method even if she pleased Zhu Wen; because using this method to please Zhu Wen may be equated with the murder of Zhu Wen at any time.
More importantly, if we focus our main attention on this kind of content when we write and analyze history, how different do you think there is between looking at history and reading novels?
When the History of the Five Dynasties records this content, it is nothing more than to prove that Zhu Wen and his gang are beasts; other than that, it has no other value.
Even so, the history is obscured because there is so much of this dramatic content in it.
Put aside the contents of all kinds of dog bloody heads. Around the succession to the throne of the Later Liang Empire, there are only the following indisputable facts:
First, Zhu Wen had three strong sons.
Second, these three princes, Zhu Youjue, were in charge of the military and political affairs of the central government in Luoyang, the capital of the empire; Zhu Youwen was in charge of the economic affairs of the empire; and Zhu Youzhen was in charge of the military and political affairs of Bieliang.
Third, these three powerful sons, initially the eldest son (Zhu Youjue) inherited the throne and eliminated a younger brother (Zhu Youwen) who threatened his throne. Next, another younger brother (Zhu Youzhen), with the support of three military and political leaders and representatives of the giants, destroyed his brother (Zhu Youjue) and became the legendary Emperor of Liang.
The rest of the content is actually a Rashomon.
Whoever controls the right to speak will get more explanations, even if these explanations are more loopholes.
Around the succession to the throne of the Later Liang Empire, on the one hand, there are various stories of dog blood, on the other hand, there are also political propaganda ambiguities, so it is becoming more and more bizarre.
In the relevant historical content, there is always an emphasis on one thing, that is, the late Emperor Liang was the son of Empress Zhang. His other two older brothers, one is the son of Zhu Wen and the prostitute, and the other is Zhu Wen's adopted son. All in all, Emperor Liang was the most righteous heir to the throne.
In fact, this kind of content is standard political propaganda and cannot withstand scrutiny at all.
According to this content, there should be no suspense in the succession of the late Liang Emperor to the throne. Because Emperor Liang did not have any obvious defects compared with his brother in intelligence, morality, and ability, and even had a little advantage, if he was the son of Empress Zhang, what would his brothers do to compete with him?
In this context, his brother is a son in the usual sense of the word, and there is no opportunity to compete with him.
If Zhu Youwen was really Zhu Wen's adopted son, and Zhu Youjue was born of a camp prostitute, these two people wanted to compete with Zhu Youzhen for the right to inherit the throne, unless they had superior qualifications, merits, and influence, they would not be qualified to compete with Zhu Youzhen.
In this sense, Zhu Youjue, Zhu Youwen, and Zhu Youzhen should have no obvious advantage in terms of bloodline.
Because the most basic historical fact is that Zhu Youzhen, who was born to Empress Zhang, has never occupied any obvious advantage in the entire struggle for the succession to the throne, and is even at a clear disadvantage, because the first round of competition for the throne is the matter of Zhu Youjue and Zhu Youwen.
We know that Li Keyong's adopted son (Li Siyuan) also has the qualifications to challenge his sister-in-law Li Cunxun.
The problem is that although Li Siyuan is Li Cunxun's older brother, Li Siyuan debuted much earlier than Li Cunxun, and in terms of age and seniority, he is Li Cunxun's father.
In this sense, Li Siyuan's advantages in age and seniority are too obvious. The two brothers of the Late Liang Emperor were similar in age to the Late Liang Emperor, and their seniority and merits were also similar.
We also know that Li Siyuan's adopted son (Li Congke) also had the power to challenge his concubine Li Conghou.
The problem is that Li Congke also has an absolute advantage in age and seniority. In fact, in the era when Tang Zhuangzong was fighting the world, Li Congke was already an important military tycoon, because his age was similar to Li Cunxun.
The point is that li siyuan's several powerful sons all died (Li Congzhen was killed by Yuan Xingqin, Li Congrong was killed in rebellion), and after the young son succeeded to the throne, it was naturally difficult to suppress Li Congke.
We know that Xu Wen's adopted son also has the qualifications to challenge Xu Wen's concubine.
The problem is that Xu Wen can't replace Yang Xingmi's son until he dies, so his ability to control the interior does not seem to be sufficient. The point is that Xu Wen did not mean to let his adopted son succeed to the throne in the end, but this adopted son was too cattle, so he defeated his own son.
More importantly, although the adopted sons of Li Keyong, Li Siyuan, and Xu Wen had such a big advantage, they all came to power by mutiny, in other words, Li Keyong, Li Siyuan, and Xu Wen could not be great enough to let the concubines not use, but let the adopted son inherit the realm of the throne.
Of course, in the history of the five generations, the person who let the adopted son succeed to the throne was Guo Wei. The problem was that Guo Wei had no choice at that time, because his two biological sons had died, and naturally he could only let his adopted son take the throne.
Zhu Wen let go of his own son, how could he have the idea of letting his adopted son succeed to the throne? If the emperors in Chinese history were selfish and selfish, Zhu Wen was so great that he was willing to let the fat water flow to the fields of outsiders, then Zhu Wen is not great and difficult to describe in words.
If zhu Wen only did this because he liked his adoptive son's wife, it would be too sensational.
In this sense, if Zhu Youwen is really an adopted son, then he is not qualified to compete for the right to inherit the throne at all. Because there is no obvious advantage in age, seniority, ability, and is only an outsider in blood, what does he take to compete with his brother?
Of course, if Zhu Youjue's mother was really a camp prostitute, she would certainly not be able to compete with Zhu Youzhen, whose mother was Empress Zhang.
Therefore, aside from the contents of the cloud mask, we can only know that Zhu Wen had three sons who fought fiercely for imperial power.
Zhu Youjue was close to the water tower and first won the moon and inherited the throne. Because at that time, only Zhu Youjue was in the imperial capital Luoyang, and Zhu Youwen and Zhu Youzhen were in Bieliang City.
In fact, similar personnel arrangements more or less prove that Zhu Wen cultivated Zhu Youjue as the heir to the throne, because the heir to the throne sits in the central government and the powerful prince sits in the locality, which is the usual practice. Placing the heirs to the throne at the local level and letting the powerful princes sit in the center violates the most basic principle of power layout.
Although Zhu Youjue was a normal ruler, because the local powerful prince was too powerful, and the central and local military and political leaders were willing to open and close between them, Zhu Youjue was also very unstable when he sat on the throne.
How did Zhu Wen die?
As far as my experience of reading various history books is concerned, it should be a normal death. The most important thing is that whether Zhu Wen died a normal or abnormal death does not affect our understanding of this history.
Some people may say that if Zhu Youjue is a normal successor, it will be difficult for opponents to replace him.
The problem is that even if Zhu Youjue is a normal successor, as long as he is not strong enough, opponents can put the charge of killing the king on his head, and he is powerless to resist the challenge of the other side.
More importantly, even if Zhu Youjue is the father of the emperor, as long as he controls the situation, people must recognize him as a normal ascension. Because the secret of the court is itself true or false, Zhu Youjue said that his father died a normal death, who can prove that it is very dead?
It was as if Emperor Wen of Sui had died, and when Emperor Sui controlled the situation, no one had to admit that Emperor Wen died a normal death. The problem is that when the opponents are everywhere, people say that Emperor Wen of Sui was killed by his son, who can prove whether it is true or false?
In this sense, how Zhu Wen, as an elderly person in critical condition, died does not actually affect our analysis of history. Dwelling too much on this kind of content will only make us look at history more and more confused.
Similar content, like Zhu Wen's daughter-in-law, has no other meaning than to make us think that Zhu Wen's family is a beast. For to leave this content aside does not affect our understanding of this history at all; on the contrary, it is only to make history more like a story.