Zhu Wen: Emperor Tang gave him the name Zhu Quanzhong, but he became a servant who completely destroyed the Tang Dynasty

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There are often paradoxes in history that the emperor wants a certain person to be completely loyal to the emperor, and the result is that the person overthrows the emperor; the emperor wants a certain person to become the pillar of the royal family, and the result is that this person becomes the executioner who slaughters the royal family.

Zhu Quanzhong, in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, was the embodiment of this paradox, and the emperor originally wanted him to protect the Tang Empire, but he became an executioner who completely destroyed the Tang Empire.

In 883, the Tang Empire was already dying, and although Huang Chao had withdrawn from Chang'an and died in defeat a year later, the heavy damage he inflicted on the Tang Empire was irreparable. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was no longer the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but an era of scales and wounds all over the body, an era of terminal illness, that is, Hua Tuo was still alive, and it could not cure the chronic disease of a dynasty, only to watch it fall in the west wind.

When Emperor Tang returned to the capital chang'an from exile in Sichuan, the tang dynasty's world was already very small. Only the dozens of prefectures of Henan, Shannan, Jiannan, and Lingnan were still under the control of the imperial court, and most of the territories had their own overlords, and they would not obey The Holy Will of Emperor Xizong at all.

In such a turbulent era, a figure who completely overthrew the Tang Empire appeared, and he was Zhu Wen. Juvin is a rogue proletarian, a complete poor man. The day the team of the Huangchao uprising arrived in Zhu Wen's hometown, he joined the Team of Huangchao without hesitation. Although he was only 20 years old, in the era of cold weapons, Zhu Wen had the bravery and goodness of war as a general, and the important traits that everyone born at the bottom of society had without fear of losing their lives. In a very short period of time, Zhu Wen became a powerful cadre under Huang Chao.

In 882, Huang Chao's qi had been exhausted, and although he was still surviving in Chang'an, he had predicted the inevitableness of his defeat. At the moment of crisis, Huang Chao put up the posture of an emperor and appointed Zhu Wen as the Assassin of Tongzhou. However, Tongzhou was not in the hands of Huang Chao, Zhu Wen wanted to be an assassin, and he also had to seize Tongzhou from the hands of the Tang army, and Huang Chao's appointment was equivalent to a blank piece of paper. But when a dynasty is about to perish, its own generals are people who push the boat along the water. The defenders of the Tang Dynasty left without a fight, allowing Zhu Wen to pick up a tongzhou and really become a thorn in the history.

Zhu Wen is a person from the bottom of society, with both a strong desire for power and a strong material desire. And these desires will only be satisfied at the moment when the knighthood is constantly rising. When the yellow nest can't satisfy him, he has to roost another high branch and find a place suitable for him. Apostasy is a pass for apostates, and every apostate holds this pass, often leading to the pinnacle of power. The apostates condemned by history are all losers who have lost and died on the way to the top, and history often does not condemn the victors.

Zhu Wen chose to submit when he saw that there was not much hope in following the Yellow Nest. He surrendered to Wang Chongrong, the envoy of Hezhong Jiedu, and let Tongzhou once again return to the embrace of the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Tang was very pleased and appointed Zhu Wen as the Great General of Jinwu and gave him the name Quanzhong. Zhu Wen was no longer called Zhu Wen, but Zhu Quanzhong. Emperor Tang wanted Zhu Wen to be wholeheartedly loyal to the Tang Dynasty and loyal to the emperor, but Emperor Tang had a wrong dream. How can a man who can surrender frequently keep his promise and be wholeheartedly loyal to the emperor and the empire?

When the Tang Dynasty was crumbling, the world was divided under the guise of the Tang Dynasty, and it seemed that many people could easily seize the world and become emperors themselves. At that time, the two most powerful forces were Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong, and whoever wanted to finally seize the world would put the other to death.

At that moment in history, Li Ke used his strength above Zhu Quanzhong, and if he wanted to seize the world of the Tang Dynasty, the first was Li Keyong, and the second was Zhu Quanzhong. However, Zhu Quanzhong first saw that Li Keyong was his most powerful opponent, and if he wanted to overthrow the Tang Dynasty and become the emperor of the new empire, he would first poison his hands and cut off Li Keyong.

The opportunity finally came. Li Keyong led his men and horses to Zhu Quanzhong's territory of Bian Prefecture, and all the horses camped outside the city of Bian Prefecture. Zhu Quanzhong set up a banquet at the station where Li Keyun was staying and entertained Li Keyong. During the banquet, Zhu Quanzhong was extremely attentive, extremely polite, extremely respectful, and extremely smiling. Let the distraught Li Ke dispel his worries and drink freely. Li Keyong was only 28 years old, and after drinking heavily, he did not take Zhu Quanzhong in his eyes at all, and incoherently ridiculed and insulted Zhu Quanzhong. Zhu Quanzhong wanted to do great things, his heart was full of anger, but he had a smile on his face and served Li Keyong with drinking.

From noon to dusk, Li Keyong was no longer able to distinguish between the southeast and northwest, and Zhu Quanzhong began his own killing operation. Zhu Quanzhong sent his men to block the way of the bundled chariots, and sent troops to surround Li Keyong's station. When Zhu Quanzhong's men and horses killed Li Keyong at the door of Li Keyong's room, Li Keyong was still asleep in drunkenness, and he did not know that he was dying. The guards poured water on Li Ke's face before he opened his eyes. Standing up and shooting with his bow, he dispersed the men who had come to assassinate him. It was dark, the assassins were holding torches, just at this moment, thunder and lightning, heavy rain poured down, poured out the torches, no one could see anyone, Li Keyong was spared death.

In 885, Li Ke used the name of the Tang Dynasty to kill Zhu Quanzhong, giving Zhu Quanzhong a taste of failure. At the same time, Li Keyong approached Chang'an again, and Emperor Tang once again fled into the wilderness. In 887, Emperor Tang returned to Chang'an for the third time, and it was really a kingdom that would cease to exist. A few people with military power, just near Chang'an, could seize the throne overnight. Only Zhu Quanzhong, who had failed, occupied Bian Prefecture, recruited troops, expanded his strength, and waited for the opportunity to destroy the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Tang died and Tang Zhaozong ascended the throne, and the Tang Empire faced a situation of disintegration. After the characters who appeared one after another went down, Zhu Quanzhong led the people and horses, and with a single blow, took most of the territory in Henan, Shandong, and Jiangsu, giving himself the ability and strength to blackmail the princes of Tianzi.

In 900, Tang Zhaozong was forced to go to the palace. The young Tang Zhaozong went under the bed and made a fart-rolling urine stream. In the end, he was imprisoned in the Shaoyang Temple, melted the molten iron, and watered the door lock, and Zhaozong had to wait for death. No one would have thought that an empire that was once powerful would fall to such a point in the last years of the emperor.

The decline of the emperor is a perfect opportunity for those who want to become emperors, and Zhu Quanzhong's opportunity has arrived. Zhu Quanzhong's confidant Li Zhen said to Zhu Quanzhong: "There are great difficulties in the royal family, it is not a bad thing, the time has come for you to claim the king's hegemony, and the time has come for you to destroy the Tang Dynasty." Zhu Quanzhong came to Chang'an with heavy troops, rescued Tang Zhaozong, and restored him to the throne. Tang Zhaozong could not forget that the eunuchs forced the palace, so he brutally killed the eunuchs. At the same time, Zhu Quanzhong came to Chang'an in a mighty way in the name of welcoming the driver. The nearly 100 old eunuchs who remained in Chang'an were secretly executed, and then all 300 young eunuchs were killed, ending the eunuch era of the Tang Dynasty.

In February 903, Zhu Quanzhong was knighted as the "King of Liang" and given the title of "Hero of Returning to Heaven and Rebuilding Loyalty and Integrity". At this time, the defenders of Chang'an were Zhu Quanzhong's, and all the important posts were held by Zhu Quanzhong's subordinates, and the Tang Dynasty was basically Zhu Quanzhong's Tang Dynasty. Zhu Quanzhong returned to Bian Prefecture and destroyed all the forces that could compete with him. In 904, Zhu Quanzhong ordered Tang Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang, and in August, Zhu Quanzhong killed Tang Zhaozong and made Tang Zhaozong's 13-year-old crown prince emperor. In 905, Zhu Quanzhong killed 9 of Tang Zhaozong's sons in Luoyang and threw them in a pool of water.

In June 905, the 37 remaining officials of the imperial court after the exile were recruited by Zhu Quanzhong to the White Horse Station in Huaxian County, where they were all killed overnight. Zhu Quanzhong's subordinate Li Zhen was a man who had repeatedly risen to the rank of a scholar, and for these readers, his heart was full of bitter hatred, and after 37 readers were killed, he laughed and said: "These readers, who usually call themselves Qingliu and do not join us in the same stream, will throw them into the rolling Yellow River today and make them into a complete turbid current." ”

Zhu Quanzhong also laughed and said, "This is the best, this is the best." "The representatives of the readers of the Tang Empire drifted away with the Yellow River and were finally buried in the mud and sand.

In March 907, Zhu Quanzhong made the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Chan Rang, Zhu Quanzhong himself ascended to the throne and established "Liang", historically known as Hou Liang. Beginning with The Later Liang, China entered a period of divided history.

It seems that the emperor's emphasis on a person's complete loyalty to himself, his wholehearted loyalty to himself, is a very stupid thing, a self-deceptive thing. In the course of history, those who voluntarily call Quan Zhong, and those who are called Quan Zhong by imperial title, are some very terrible people.