"I and The Biting Jin have received the grace of the Great King, and should have done our best to repay the service, but you are so suspicious that you listen to rumors, which is not the place for the two of us brothers, and from now on we cannot serve you, so please allow us to leave."
Wang Shichong witnessed everything that suddenly occurred in front of him, and his teeth itched with hatred. Qin Qiong's words sounded grandiose, but the two armies faced Jiuqu, and the general Qin Qiong, who was wrapped in Cheng Yaojin, surrendered to the Tang army in front of tens of thousands of troops, looking at the back of Qin Qiong's departure, Wang Shichong's face was gloomy, and he turned his head slightly, and looked at Li Junxian, who was also the surrender of the Wagang army.
Soon after, the hussar general Li Junxian, the Zhengnan general Tian Liu'an, and the Yin prefecture general Li Houde all left Wang Shichong and gave the city to Li Yuan, who was far away in Chang'an.
At this moment, Wang Shichong felt Li Mi's feelings when he was defeated at Mount Yao, but he had not yet fought with Li Tang.
This is a small episode recorded in the Tang history reading "Bloody Sheng Tang", where the general Qin Qiong and King Zheng Wang Shichong parted ways in jiuqu. So what kind of person was Wang Shichong, who made Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin so disheartened that they would not hesitate to abandon their families and stay away from him?
Wang Shichong
Wang Shichong is a member of the Yu clan. His father achieved the history of the Bian Prefecture In his early years, but Wang Shichong was promoted to the rank of soldier wailang by virtue of his merits in the army. After the Sui Emperor succeeded to the throne, relying on the merits of building the capital of Jiangsu, Wang Shichong became a favorite vassal of the Sui Emperor and was responsible for quelling the peasant revolt in the Jianghuai region.
To this end, Wang Shichong personally recruited tens of thousands of Jianghuai soldiers, had his own core military strength, and also emerged in the suppression of rebellions in various places. When the Sui Emperor was trapped at Yanmen, Wang Shichong, who was in Jianghuai, defied all difficulties and went to Shanxi day and night to ask for help, although after his arrival, the Turks had already withdrawn their troops, but in the eyes of the Sui Emperor, Wang Shichong was more loyal than those who really rescued him.
"King Of Thousand Miles" is just a play directed and performed by Wang Shichong himself, and his clothes are not untied, and jia does not leave his body to show the Sui Emperor. The clever Sui Emperor had also seen Wang Shichong's hypocrisy, but after this, the Sui Emperor trusted Wang Shichong a lot, but because at the end of the Sui Dynasty, when the world was in chaos, countless generals did not even bother to act in front of the Sui Emperor.
Wang Shichong was trusted by the Sui Emperor
In the thirteenth year of Daye, Wang Shichong, who held 100,000 elite Jianghuai troops, was sent to Luoyang by the Sui Emperor to resist Wagangzhai, the most powerful rebel army in the Central Plains. As soon as Wang Shichong set foot in the Central Plains, he understood how deep the waters of Wagang were, and when tens of thousands of Jianghuai elites arrived at Luoyang City, there were only a few thousand people and horses left.
However, Wang Shichong is an indomitable tyrant, and in the face of the powerful Li Mi, he knows how to shrink the defense, and has been using the contradiction between Zhai Rang and Li Mi to create the Wagang Fire. However, after Wagang really caught fire, Zhai Rang, who Wang Shichong was optimistic about, actually lost.
Just as Wang Shichong was pondering countermeasures, news came from Jiangdu that the Sui Emperor had been hanged, and the culprit, Yu Wenhua, and the only remaining forbidden generals of the Sui Dynasty went north. This scene was seen by Wang Shichong and Yang Tong, the king of Yue, and a plan to use Li Mi to eradicate Yu Culture and was born.
However, what Yang Tong and Wang Shichong did not expect was that Li Mi actually fought with Yu Wenhua and suffered a two-way defeat, and after this battle, the Wagang army rapidly declined, the people's hearts were scattered, and finally defeated by Wang Shichong at Mount Yao. The Battle of Yaoshan was the only major victory since Wang Shichong and Li Mi fought, but it completely destroyed the Wagang army that shook Huaxia, Li Mi fled west, Shan Xiongxin surrendered, and Qin Qiong also became a general under Wang Shichong under the leadership of Pei Renji.
Li Mi fled in defeat
After Li Mi's defeat and escape, Wang Shichong put the puppet Yang Tong the Prince of Yue on the throne and monopolized the power of the imperial government. However, Wang Shichong's character defects are very obvious, and he does not have the strength of personality that makes people convincing, as a general who is controlled by the emperor, he can be at ease, as a prince of one side, he is too far behind.
After Wang Shichong, who was over fifty years old, came to power, one of his favorite things to do was to hold meetings and hold various meetings over and over again. However, his meeting had no clear theme, no charter, from the beginning of the simple two sentences, to the aimless pulling, to say that it was some old sesame rotten grain things, just like the repetition machine, the sentence back and forth more than a dozen times, so that the generals participating in the meeting were overwhelmed with annoyance, and sometimes most of the time was spent on this boring thing.
After Wenshan huihai, Wang Shichong also liked to draw a big cake, paint a beautiful splendid future for his subordinates, let them charge for themselves, and when the soldiers really made meritorious contributions, Wang Shichong did not recognize the previous promise. Wang Shichong's act of not rewarding merit broke the hearts of many generals.
Wang Shichong was not rewarded for his merits
However, as for Wang Shichong's relatives, he was very generous, and there was a lot of money and grain in the government treasury and Houlu, a high-ranking official. In the chaotic world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Shichong's way of rewarding and punishing was more like a means of self-preservation, but unfortunately, the relatives he reused were all wine bags and rice bags, and those generals who were feared and abandoned by him were the real lords who could fight for him.
Cheng Yaojin and Wang Shichong spent several months together, and saw Wang Shichong very thoroughly, and he said to Qin Qiong: "Wang Shichong is a person with a narrow popularity and short-sighted knowledge, but he likes to draw big cakes, open his mouth, hold various meetings at every turn, and swear in front of his subordinates, just like an old witch, such a person cannot correct the chaos and uphold justice." ”
It was Wang Shichong's various personality flaws that made these world-famous generals turn away from him one by one and defect to Li Shimin. In Li Shimin's campaign to pacify the Central Plains, Wang Shichong's trusted nephews were all useless, and it did not take long to destroy Wang Shichong's family property, and after the defeat of his ally Dou Jiande Hu Guan, Wang Shichong had to go out of the city and surrender.
Cheng Yaojin and the others stayed away from Wang Shichong
After being escorted to Chang'an, the benevolent Dou Jiande was killed, and Wang Shichong, who was full of evil, was pardoned for various sins. Li Yuan even placed him in the rich Shu land, but unfortunately, before Wang Shichong could leave Chang'an, he was hacked to death in the Yongzhou Inn by Dugu Xiude.
Wang Shichong's death is a mystery, as a surveillanced fallen tyrant, Dugu Xiude did not have the ability to rush into the inn and hack him to death, nor did he have the ability to kill all of Wang Shichong's descendants on the way to Shudi. After Wang Shichong was killed, Li Yuan only symbolically punished Dugu Xiude.
Wang Shichong died mysteriously
In "The Bloody Tang Dynasty", Wang Jueren devotes a short paragraph to the strange behavior of Wang Shichong as an empress, scorning his ability to govern:
Wang Shichong, who was called empress dowager, deliberately put the diligent government and love for the people in the most conspicuous position, so he did not hesitate to work in front of the people of Luoyang, but a stack of documents made him dumbfounded. In the daily court meetings presided over, Wang Shichong would make a long speech in a high posture, but he repeated it again and again, without focus, instigating and instigating, confusing the hundred officials who played the work, and even the guards of Luoyang City could not stand his fatigue bombardment. ”
Writer Wang Jueren
"Bloody Tang Dynasty" is Wang Jueren's masterpiece, and he depicts the magnificent 300 years of the Tang Dynasty in a humorous writing mode. As a modern book, it integrates cumbersome and complex historical records, not only on top, not idealistically, and expounds many historical figures from an objective point of view.
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