Luoyang, a historical and cultural city with a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of city history and more than 1,500 years of capital construction history, has created countless legends of Chinese civilization. "Shannanshui north is yang", Luoyang is named because it is located in the sun of Luoshui, and the Heluo area centered on Luoyang is the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization. The ruins of the five major capitals of Xia Du, Shang Du Xi Bo, Eastern Zhou Wangcheng, Han Wei Luoyang City, and Sui and Tang Luoyang City are lined up along the Luo River, which is rare in the world. More than a hundred emperors ruled here. Today, I will talk about Tang Aizong Li Li
Emperor Li of the Tang Dynasty (27 September 892 – 26 March 908), real name Li Zuo, was a native of Jingzhao Chang'an (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi). The last emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the ninth son of Li Ye of Tang Zhaozong, and the biological mother of Empress He. In the first year of Tianyou (904), after Tang Zhaozong was killed, he officially ascended the throne and became a puppet of the powerful minister Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong). In the fourth year of Tianyou (907), he reigned for 3 years, was deposed as the King of Jiyin, and was placed in Cao Prefecture. Five years later, he was brutally killed and buried in Wenling, at the age of sixteen, with the nickname of mourning.
In August of the first year of Tianyou (904), Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) killed Emperor Zhaozong of Tang. The next day, Jiang Xuanhui falsely transmitted the holy will, and Li Zuo, the prince of Lihui, was made crown prince, changed his name to Li Zhao, and Li Zhu, who was only thirteen years old, ascended the throne, and the Tang Emperor Li Zhao was frightened by Zhu Wen's (Zhu Quanzhong)'s murderous nature. The Tang Emperor Li Yu had no real power, and the Tang Emperor Li Li had no ability to resist at all, and could only pretend to be dumb, and all political affairs were decided by Zhu Quanzhong.
After the Tang Emperor Li Li ascended the throne, he gave Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) a series of seals according to Zhu Wen's (Zhu Quanzhong) intentions. Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) was treated as "entering the dynasty without tendency, walking on the sword to the temple, praising and worshiping without a name, and having the fate of the Nine Tins." The Tang Emperor Li Li had no real power, and everything was managed by Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong). According to the Tang Dynasty custom, Li Tao was to personally worship the circular hill (that is, sacrifice to the heavens) on the nineteenth day. The relevant matters have long been arranged by various departments. Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) suddenly thought that this sacrifice was praying for the Tang Dynasty to be long, and it was not a long way off to become emperor himself, so Zhu Wen casually found an excuse, and the matter was shelved indefinitely. Li Li didn't even dare to let go of a fart. What Emperor Wu was able to do was to follow Zhu Wen's (Zhu Quanzhong's) will and gradually enhance and strengthen Zhu Wen's political status and prestige.
In June of the second year of Tianyou (905), Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong), at the instigation of his close associates Li Zhen and Liu Xuan, killed more than thirty court officials loyal to Li Tang's court, such as Pei Shu, Du Guzuan, and Cui Yuan, who were loyal to Li Tang's court, and killed all the white horses on the yellow river and threw their bodies into the rolling Yellow River, creating a shocking "white horse change". In December of the second year of Tianyou (905), Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) secretly ordered Jiang Yin and Zhao Yinheng to hang Empress He at Jishan Palace, and the Tang Emperor Li Tao had to issue an edict to his own mother that Empress He had committed suicide to apologize for the chaos of the palace, and posthumously deposed her as a shuren, and abolished the New Year's suburban ceremony with the empress dowager's funeral and palace scandal. Soon, all his brothers were executed. Zhang Tingfan, the prince of Taichang, was dismembered by five horses, and his accomplices were removed from their names and given to the deceased, and Li Tao, the Emperor of Tang Dynasty, also did not dare to say a word, and swallowed his anger. Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) cleared all the obstacles to becoming emperor, and he was already alive and dead, and he was in power.
In March of the fourth year of Tianyou (907), the Tang Emperor Li Yu was forced by Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) and his cronies to "cede" the throne to Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong), and the Tang Dynasty collapsed. Emperor Ai of Tang was demoted to the position of King of Jiyin and moved to Cao Prefecture (曹州, in modern Heze, Shandong), north of Kaifeng, and because Li Keyong of Taiyuan, Li Maozhen of Fengxiang, and Wang Jian of Xichuan still revered Emperor Ai as the co-lord of the world, the existence of Emperor Wai made it difficult for Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) to sleep and eat. On February 21, 908, the fifth year of Tianyou (Later Liang Kaiping II, 908), Zhu Wen (Zhu Quanzhong) poisoned Li Zhao. After his death, he was given the title of Emperor Of Sorrow and was buried as a prince in Dingtao Township, Jiyin County (present-day Dingtao County, Heze, Shandong).