Since Tang Zhaozong took the throne, he has always been known for his toughness, although this toughness did not allow Datang to achieve ZTE, but on the contrary, it made Datang sink step by step, but Tang Zhaozong obviously always insisted on this.
On the way to the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Wen met Tang Zhaozong twice, and in the process, he always had an unspeakable fear.
From a rational point of view, Tang Zhaozong did not have the strength to fire and Zhu Wen, the problem is that in the context of Zhu Wen's many opponents outside and inside, with Tang Zhaozong's personality, it is not inconceivable that he suddenly wanted to fire Zhu Wen with luck.
Moreover, this has the precedent of Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei and Erzhu Rong. Erzhu Rong believed that Emperor Xiaozhuang would never dare to fire him, in fact, Emperor Xiaozhuang also lacked the strength to fire and Erzhu Rong, the problem was that Emperor Xiaozhuang had merged Erzhu Rong.
With Zhu Wen's strength, as long as Tang Zhaozong is rational, he will naturally not choose to merge with Zhu Wen, the problem is, if Tang Zhaozong is blinded by optimistic imagination and Zhu Wen enters Tang Zhaozong's sphere of influence, who dares to say that there is no danger at all?
More importantly, if the interest groups represented by Tang Zhaozong knew that the result of the step-by-step compromise with Zhu Wen would be to sink step by step and eventually fall into a state of perdition. Who would dare to say that they would not risk fire and Juvin?
To put it realistically, if the interest groups represented by Tang Zhaozong are very pessimistic about the outcome of blind compromise, who dares to say that they will not risk fire and Zhu Wen?
Once, when Zhu Wen and Tang Zhaozong were having a private banquet in the palace, they suddenly saw Tang Zhaozong's little wife and Tang Zhaozong whispering, and they were very frightened for a while. What are they talking about between them? Was there some conspiracy? Is there already a knife and axe ambush nearby? The more Zhu Wen thought about it, the more frightened he became, so he hurried away under the pretext of being drunk.
Another time, after the formal banquet, Tang Zhaozong invited Zhu Wen to his inner room to continue drinking, and Zhu Wen was also uncertain for a while, so he said that he had drunk too much, so he refused the emperor's invitation.
There is also a saying that once Tang Zhaozong's shoelaces were opened, he asked Zhu Wen to tie his shoelaces for himself. When Zhu Wen bent down to tie the shoelaces of Tang Zhaozong, he also had unspeakable fear. It is said that Zhu Wen gave Tang Zhaozong a shoelace and was covered in sweat. Frightened, he no longer dared to see Tang Zhaozong easily.
Although these contents are all historical statements. But the relevant content, true or false, we have difficulty judging, especially the third story, it is too dramatic.
But one thing is for sure, in the face of Tang Zhaozong, who is known for his fierceness, Zhu Wen obviously has a feeling that is difficult to control. Therefore, in the process of Tang Zhaozong's move to luoyang, Zhu Wen cleaned up Tang Zhaozong's concubine forces one by one.
When Zhu Wen was bent on killing Tang Zhaozong's elder son, Tang Zhaozong cried and made trouble, and even bit his middle finger with self-harm, causing blood to flow. In the face of such a fierce reaction from Tang Zhaozong, Zhu Wen finally did not dare to do so.
At this time, Zhu Wen was probably already difficult to ride a tiger.
As Zhu Wen's power grew larger, Liu Rengong of Hebei, Li Keyong of Shanxi, Li Maozhen of Shaanxi, Wang Jian of Sichuan, Zhao Kuangning of Jingxiang, and Yang Xingmi of Huainan all knew that if they sat idly by like this, they could only wait for Zhu Wen to break through one by one. Therefore, they began to borrow Zhu Wen's persecution of the emperor and carried out various tandems.
Moreover, according to reliable gossip, or the sworn words of the supporting soldiers in various places, Tang Zhaozong had issued a secret edict to the king of Qin before leaving Chang'an. All in all, I still have a little bit of freedom, so I have issued you the secret edict of King Qin, and after the capital is moved to Luoyang, the holy decrees issued by the central government are all false edicts issued by Zhu Wen and his gang.
Although because Zhu Wen's forces were too powerful, these opposition forces only shouted in vain, and no one dared to bravely stand up against Zhu Wen, but this situation has been maintained for a long time, and no one dares to say that these big men who support the army will not achieve unity.
In this context, Zhu Wen constantly attacked Tang Zhaozong's concubine forces and constantly persecuted Tang Zhaozong, which would only give these opponents more excuses. The problem was that Zhu Wen did not attack Tang Zhaozong's concubine team in this way, but Zhu Wen obviously did not have the confidence to control Tang Zhaozong. In the end, Zhu Wen decided to dispose of Tang Zhaozong as well, because it was obviously easier to control a young emperor.
Anyway, the consequences of the fire and the emperor were staggering.
If only Zhu Wen's enemies take this as a pretext, this is still relatively easy to say, and if the big guys inside the Zhu Wen system also intentionally or unintentionally take this as a pretext, this is more difficult to say.
At this time, Zhu Wen had reached the peak of his career, and Zhu Wen's external enemies and internal big men all felt more and more clearly that if there was no strong resistance to Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen would gradually break them one by one, or start to cut the domain round after round.
No matter whether people take the emperor seriously in their hearts, under the perennial propaganda of imperial politics, the emperor was always mysterious and sacred in the ideological field at that time.
Therefore, when everyone denounced Zhu Wenjun's crimes, the method was very simple. That is to say, after receiving the news of Tang Zhaozong's death, they can all be as sad as if their own fathers died; even more, they can call on the officials, generals, and ordinary people in their own territory to look like their own fathers have died. All in all, the emperor is dead, what can we do?
More importantly, in this context, everyone has repeatedly shouted that the emperor died inexplicably, so Zhu Wen must give everyone a reasonable explanation, what should Zhu Wen do?
If only the opposition everywhere did this, Zhu Wen's pressure would be relatively small. If zhu Wen's big men also looked like their dead father when they received the news of the emperor's death, and also called on the generals of the three armies to give the emperor a linen and filial piety, Zhu Wen's pressure would be relatively great.
In the face of this situation, Zhu Wen also had a hard time saying it, because everyone heard the news of the emperor's death, and they looked like they were dead fathers, what could Zhu Wen say? Can Zhu Wen say that everyone is doing something wrong? If Zhu Wen dared to reveal a similar meaning, it would be nothing more than to make a big news for himself.
In this context, when the news of the emperor's death officially reached Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen could only look like a dead father, in short, crying dead and alive. Because I did not fulfill my duty to protect the emperor, I let the emperor suddenly die inexplicably.
Therefore, Zhu Wen cried at home for half a day as the emperor, and then personally ran to Luoyang City, lying in front of the emperor's coffin, crying dead and alive again; and even ran to the little emperor, repeatedly saying that he had not fulfilled his obligation to protect the emperor, so he let the emperor die inexplicably.
Since Zhu Wen has begun to perform like this, when the people below perform like this again, there is nothing wrong with it.
Because the emperor is dead, Zhu Wen cries like his father died, can we not follow Zhu Wen's performance like this? The problem is that everyone is performing like this, and they all intentionally or unintentionally hope that Zhu Wen will ask the emperor for an explanation, and Zhu Wen does not know how to be good for a while.
At that time, Sima Zhao killed the Wei Emperor Cao Xian, and he also cried as if his father had died, so his big man said, "How can you give the emperor an explanation?"
Sima Zhao said, how to give an explanation? The big guy said, you kill Jia Chong.
Sima Zhao said, can it be lowered? The big guy said, the emperor was killed by you, the people of this country know, we let you kill Jia Chong, just hope to find someone to carry the pot for you, if you think it is inappropriate to kill Jia Chong, you yourself for the emperor to pay for it! The big guy said it more euphemistically, but that's what it meant.
Sima Zhao was caught in a dilemma at that time, because Jia Chong was his number one crony, and in order to shirk his responsibility, he took the head of his number one crony to carry the pot, and who would dare to fight for his own life in the future? Therefore, Sima Zhao thought about it and pulled Cheng Ji out to carry the pot. Therefore, Cheng Ji shouted before dying, it was the emperor that Jia Chong had killed! It was Jia Chong who made me kill the emperor! Before Cheng Ji died, he did not dare to shout, it was Sima Zhao who killed the emperor.
Now, Zhu Wen killed Tang Zhaozong, and he also cried as if he had died his father. Therefore, people inevitably implied that Zhu Wen should give the emperor an explanation. But to give the emperor an explanation, you have to take your own concubine brother to carry the pot. As a big brother doing this kind of thing, who will dare to fight for his own life in the future? Therefore, Zhu Wen found some fault and removed the senior generals in charge of this matter, Zhu Yougong and Shu Chun.
However, this punishment obviously did not satisfy the people of the whole country, and in the end Zhu Wen forced them to commit suicide. In fact, until this time, Zhu Wen's treatment had also repeatedly lowered the specifications, thinking about Chengji in the Wei and Jin dynasties, which was cut off by Sima Zhaoman.
Zhu Yougong shouted before dying, Zhu Wen, in order to cope with public opinion, you actually let me carry the black cauldron, you will not have a good end!
But no matter what, Zhu Wen even crawled with a rolling belt, and finally coped with the matter of killing the emperor.
What's next? If the people of the whole country were all the same, Zhu Wen's oppression of the emperor and the killing of the emperor were on his lips; and he said that the Luoyang government was Zhu Wen's puppet government, and Zhu Wen wanted to blackmail tianzi to order the princes, and it was estimated that there would be little value.
Cao Cao repeatedly hesitated when usurping the throne, because Emperor Xian of Han was on top of the throne, and many of the big men were Cao Cao's colleagues, and by no means Cao Cao's younger brothers.
In the simplest terms, a big man of the level of Xun's uncle and nephew could not kowtow to Cao Cao as soon as they met. In this sense, if Cao Cao wanted to usurp the throne, the most difficult thing to do was not how to clean up the concubines of Emperor Xian of Han, but how to force a big man like Xun's uncle and nephew to be willing to kowtow to him as soon as they met.
Many people always think that Xun's uncle and nephew are loyal to the Han room, in fact, in the eyes of Xun's uncle and nephew, Emperor Xiandi of Han is just a puppet. They did not want Cao Cao to usurp The Han Dynasty, simply because they were unwilling to kowtow to Cao Cao, and once they kowtowed to Cao Cao, it was not simply a prostration, which meant that the actual distribution of power and benefits would change accordingly. More importantly, there were more people with similar interests to Xun's uncles and nephews, and Cao Cao wanted to force them all to bow to themselves, which was a little too difficult.
When Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, this problem obviously did not exist. Because within the Zhu Wen Group, no one has dared to think of himself as a colleague with Zhu Wen. The central government forces represented by Tang Zhaozong have been weakened by the blows of the previous wave after a wave, and those big men of the central government naturally do not have to kowtow to Zhu Wen, the problem is that their strength is obviously too weak.
In this context, Zhu Wen inevitably thought that he would not stop doing one thing and two things, and directly usurp the throne!
After the Yellow Nest Rebellion, although the central government of the Tang Dynasty became weaker and weaker, no big man dared to play the trick of blackmailing the Son of Heaven to make the princes. This is by no means because the high counselors of the major warlords did not know that there was a story of Cao Cao blackmailing Tianzi to order the princes at the end of the Han Dynasty, but it was really because of the difference in time and the different situations, Cao Cao blackmailing the Tianzi to make the princes successful, if you dare to try to blackmail the Tang Emperor to make the princes, I am afraid it will only be self-defeating.
After Zhu Wen captured Guanzhong, he did not think of directly controlling the central government at first, the problem was that as he walked, he controlled the central government, then killed the emperor, and then could only continue to advance towards the road of usurpation.
Since Zhu Wen had moved this thought, the courtier clique of the central government had no good days to talk about, so the courtier clique was purged out by Zhu Wen one by one.
Our question now is, if Zhu Wen does not usurp the throne, will the outcome be better? In fact, it is also the difference between a grass donkey and a donkey. Because the reason why everyone opposed Zhu Wen was not because Zhu Wen was not good to the emperor, nor because Zhu Wen killed the emperor, nor because Zhu Wen usurped the throne, but because Zhu Wen's power was getting stronger and stronger, and the threat to them was also getting bigger and bigger.
We can imagine that if Zhu Wen usurped the throne, their vested interests would be guaranteed and they could continue to expand, and even if Zhu Wen did not want to usurp the throne, they would hope from the bottom of their hearts that Zhu Wen would usurp the throne.
In any case, at this time, Zhu Wen has entered the heyday of his career, if the script develops relatively smoothly, then it is not surprising that Zhu Wen has broken the remaining warlord forces one by one, and through round after round of cutting, let the world enter unification.
The problem is that the script always has accidents. Because this means that Zhu Wen wants to devour the size, and the interests of those whose interests are threatened will naturally achieve a wider range of alliances through various means.
In general, in the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, which was difficult for military forces to control, it was difficult for every ruler to cross this hurdle. Not to mention the emperors of the five generations who lacked control over Jiangnan, that is, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Emperor, who had a high degree of control over Jiangnan, as long as he wanted to tighten the control of the northern military clique, the consequences were usually very serious.