The fallen monarchs are one of the more tragic people in history, and all they see at the end of the dynasty is humiliation, blood, and tears. From the moment the king of the fallen kingdom was destroyed, they lost their supreme power and lost control over their own destiny. Since they have lost control over their own destiny, they are faced with different fateful endings, and when they meet a good new emperor, they will give high-ranking officials Houlu, and when they encounter a bad new emperor, they will be directly killed by the door. Of course, even if the new dynasty gave the high-ranking official Houlu, "people under the eaves, had to bow their heads", the future days can only be careful and cautious, if you accidentally chant "when is the spring flower and autumn moon", the next second may be directly killed. In short, the life of the king of the fallen country is not good.
However, in history, there is such a king of the fallen country, before the fall of the country is a puppet, there is not much power, but after the fall of the country, but really has power. Which king of the fallen kingdoms is this? He was Duan Xingzhi, the last emperor of the Dali State.
Speaking of DaliGuo, many people now know it from watching the novel "Tianlong Babu" and TV. In the novel, the highest martial art of The Duan clan of Dali is the Six-Pulse Excalibur, and the Six-Pulse Excalibur was created by Duan Siping, the founding emperor of Dali. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, a state appeared in the southwest of China at that time, called Nanzhao. After Nanzhao was destroyed by the powerful ministers in 902, the area around Yunnan fell into turmoil. In the short 35 years from the fall of nanzhao in 902 to the establishment of Dali in 937, there were three regimes in the middle.
When Dali reached the fourteenth emperor Duan Zhengming (this was the Baoding Emperor in the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon), there were fathers and sons of the courtiers in the court, and the powerful minister Gao Zhisheng became "Cao Cao" and his son Gao Shengtai became "Cao Pi". In 1094, Gao Shengtai forced Duan Zhengming, the puppet emperor, to take the throne and establish a state on his own, called "Great China", and he became the emperor of Great China.
After two years as emperor, Gao Shengtai was about to die, and he felt that there were still many supporters of the Duan family, so he returned the government to Duan Zhengchun, and the throne passed back to the Duan family, but from then on, the emperors of the Duan family were puppets, and the Gao family had been doing Dali for generations. Of course, the historical duanyu prototype and the southern emperor's prototype were all puppets later, and it was the Gao family who really held the power of Dali.
Several more generations of emperors passed on, and in 1251 Duan Xingzhi, the last emperor of Dali, came to the scene. At this time, the situation in the countries around Dali had changed greatly, and the Mongol Empire that had risen in the north was constantly attacking countries that did not want to submit to it. The Mongols wanted to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, and in order to find different attack points, the Mongols wanted to destroy Dali first.
Before the destruction of Dali, the Mongol ruler Möngke had already conquered Tibet west of Dali. In October 1253, the Mongols sent troops in three routes and began their journey to destroy Dali. At that time, the Mongols first came to persuade them to surrender, but the result was that Gao Taixiang was in charge of the Dali State, who resolutely disagreed and killed the emissaries and started a war. It is conceivable that Dali could not withstand the Mongol attack, and finally Duan Xingzhi, who was fleeing in the autumn of 1254, was captured and Dali was destroyed.
After Duan Xingzhi was captured, the Mongols took him to the north to meet Möngke, and finally Möngke gave him a golden charm and asked him to return to Dali and continue to manage the various departments of Dali.
Duan Xingzhi did not come back this time as a puppet, but had the ability to truly exercise power. In the end, the Mongols made Duan Xingzhi the governor of Dali, and it was a hereditary replacement, and the Dali Duan family worked here for several more generations, until zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty finally drove them away in 1382, and the Duan family's title of dali governor finally ended.
Compared with Duan Xingzhi, who is a puppet in the front and has real power in the back, I don't know if it is more comfortable to destroy the country or more comfortable when there is no country to be destroyed?