Southern Tang Dynasty Fenghua (later lord Li Yu's wife): After the Great and Small Zhou

First, the rise of the Southern Tang

　　As the saying goes, a hero is born in a chaotic world, and it is said that a hero does not ask about his origin. That's not wrong at all. Li Fu, the ancestor of the Later Tang Kaiji, is one of the typical figures. His history is the adventures of a young monk. In terms of discussion, the temple in Fengyang, Anhui Province, is really good feng shui, and Li Fu, like The Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, was once a monk who was ordained here.

　　In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the warlords were king. It was in such chaos that Yang Xingmi, a native of Luzhou (Hefei, Anhui), relied on his innate strength and courage and indispensable good luck to step by step from an orphan from a peasant family, and in the second year of Tianfu (902 AD), he was crowned king of Wu by Tang Zhaozong. Around the second year of his reign, Yang Xingmi attacked Haozhou (Fengyang) and obtained a variety of "spoils of war", including of course men and women who were sacrificed as servants.

　　When inspecting the booty, Yang Xingmi saw at a glance that in the trembling crowd, there was a small Shami who was particularly conspicuous, not only his dress was different from everyone else's, but his appearance was also very different.

　　Xiao Shami, commonly known as Li ,昪,Zheng lun,was originally from Xuzhou (Xuzhou, Jiangsu), born in the third year of Emperor Guangqi of the Tang Dynasty (887 AD). His father, Li Rong, was an honest and honest Buddhist, pinning all his hopes on the Buddha, and regarded living in the temple with monks as a pleasure in life, and was called "Li Dao". After the war in Xuzhou, Li Daoren did not know the end, nor did he know whether he was dead or whether he had gone deep into the mountains to cultivate. In desperation, Li Daozhi's wife Liu Shi had to let her two daughters become nuns, and she took her son to Huainan to make a living. However, not long after arriving in Huainan, Liu Shi, who had suffered hardships, could no longer support the illness and finally gave up.

　　When his parents died, Li Fu was only six or seven years old, so he had to join the Buddhist temple like two older sisters, and became a small child in the Kaiyuan Temple in Haozhou. The monk's career was hard, and he often had to go out to make friends, wandering in the area of Sizhou in Haozhou, but he finally had a place to return, and he could learn some literature and ink, but the war had re-emerged, and now he had become a prisoner of king Wu, and if he was either incorporated into the army, he became a servant of the royal palace. But life encounters are always unexpected. Li Fu could not have imagined that although the military academy that arrested him did not have any good intentions, in fact, it sent himself to Qingyun Road from then on.

　　As soon as Yang Xingmi saw Li Fu, he somehow felt particularly kind, thinking that he looked different and was also extremely intelligent. Just keep him by his side. Before long, Yang Xingmi became more and more fond of this child, feeling that he was much stronger than his own sons, and simply adopted him as an adopted son.

　　For Yang Xingmi's undisguised preference, the sons of the Yang family were very dissatisfied, and they could not tolerate this wild boy who appeared out of thin air and changed the fa'er to embarrass him. After a long time, Yang Xingmi also knew that if Li Fu stayed in this family any longer, sooner or later something would happen, so he had to make another plan for his adopted son and entrust him to his close associate Xu Wen.

　　Since then, Xu Wen has had an adopted son named "Xu Zhiyan".

　　In the second year of Tianyou (905 AD), Yang Xingmi, the fifty-four-year-old king of Wu, died of illness. His eldest son Yang Wo and second son Yang Longyan were successively proclaimed King of Wu, while Xu Wen won a series of power struggles and became de facto rulers. In the sixteenth year of Tianyou (917 AD), Xu Wenqiang supported Yang Long as a puppet, although nominally still called "King Wu", but in fact it was already like a country, Xu Wen did not hesitate to become a grand chancellor, the governor of chinese and foreign militaries, and the king of Donghai County. Due to the death of the eldest son Xu Zhixun the year before, Xu Zhixun, the second adopted son who had made great contributions to the Xu family, was given the title of second-best servant and counselor to the government affairs after his adoptive father.

　　A year later, twenty-four-year-old Yang Long died of depression. Xu Wen also pushed Yang Pu, the fourth son of Yang Xingmi, into a new puppet. The power of Xu's father and son was even greater. Xu Zhihuan was a good sage and a good person in the territory of the State of Wu. His adoptive father's power game, in which he is almost always involved, is familiar with all the tricks. Therefore, when Xu Wen died, Xu Zhihuan immediately took measures and successfully took the title authority of his adoptive father into his own hands, and Xu Wen's own sons could not even touch the edge.

　　After becoming a powerful vassal of the State of Wu, Xu Zhiyan first forced Yang Pu to take the throne as emperor and made himself the "King of Qi". Then he built a wide range of people and married his daughter to Yang Lian, the prince of wu. In the end, Xu Zhihuan fulfilled his adoptive father's unfulfilled wish in October of the third year of Tianzuo (937 AD), and replaced it with his relative Yang Pu, established the State of Qi, and changed the Yuan to "Shengyuan". (Poor Princess Wu became "Princess Yongxing")

　　Xu Zhihuan became empress dowager, and Xu Wen's sons pondered his thoughts and wrote to him, asking him to restore his original surname. After some courtesy, Xu Zhihuan restored the original name of "Li Fu", and also claimed to be the fourth grandson of Li Ke, the son of Tang Xianzong, and built the temple of Tang Taizong, the ancestor of Tang Gaozu, and changed the name of the country to Tang, which was called "Southern Tang".

　　In order to keep his throne, Li Fu treated the descendants of his two adoptive fathers and benefactors Yang Xingmi and Xu Wen extremely cruelly, but as an emperor, the Southern Tang was able to recuperate under his rule, and was not only one of the most extensive countries in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (including all of present-day Jiangxi, most of Anhui in Jiangsu, and a small part of Fujian), but also the richest.

Second, the dispute over succession

　　Li Hongji's life is the best footnote to "too much to live".

　　On the eve of Li Fu's ascension to the throne as emperor, that is, in 937 AD, "Qixi" (the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh lunar month), on this day of the Queqiao Meeting of the Weaver Girl of the Cowherd, Li Fu (Xu Zhihuan) eldest son and the wife of the deputy governor Li Jingtong gave birth to a boy in the Jinling Mansion, which was already Li Jing's sixth son, named Congjia, the character Chongguang.

　　When Li Congjia was six years old (943 AD), his legendary grandfather Li Fu died, and his father Li Jingtong became emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty and changed his name to Li Jing.

　　It is said that in his later years, Li Fu felt that the eldest son could not satisfy him, and once wanted to establish a second son, Li Jingsui, as the crown prince. However, Li Jingsui said that he did not dare to cross the line, and Li Fu had no choice but to dispel his idea. Perhaps for this reason, as soon as Li Jing ascended the throne, he found his brothers and made a covenant in front of his father's coffin, vowing to pass the throne to his brother.

　　Li Jing also did what he said, and in the year he ascended the throne (943 AD in the first year of the Southern Tang Dynasty), he ordered that the administrative affairs be entrusted to his younger brother Jingsui, the Prince of Qi. Four years later (948 AD in the fifth year of the Southern Tang Dynasty), he officially declared Jing Sui the title of Emperor's brother-in-law, and another younger brother, Jing Da, was promoted to the rank of King of Qi and made a marshal. Li Jing's own eldest son, Li Hongyi, was promoted to the rank of King of Yan and made deputy marshal.

　　Some theories suggest that Li Fu was reluctant to pass the throne to Li Jing because he had no ambition, cowardly temperament, and love of poetry. However, judging from Li Jing's performance after he took the throne, perhaps the reason is just the opposite: he is too ambitious and too smart, which is the reason why Li Fu does not dare to rest assured. A person who is not clever enough but has a stable character may not be able to create a career, but he can accumulate strength for the country from top to bottom in harmony, compared to the wisdom of smart people, if it is not used in a place, it is easier to do things than ordinary people.

　　Not long after Li Jing became emperor, he began to devote himself to expanding the territory, and it did not take long to increase the territory of the Southern Tang from twenty-eight states to thirty-five states. However, the achievements overwhelmed his mind, and he began to be greedy and aggressive, and internally reveled in the sound of singing praises and praises, so much so that he spoiled the flattering villain. The favored ministers Chen Jue, Feng Yanji, and others were called "five ghosts" by the people of the time, but these five ghosts were all outstanding literati rioters, who were extremely sympathetic to Li Jing's spleen and stomach, and he regarded these five ghosts as the flesh of his heart, but rewarded and punished the soldiers who went out to sell their lives, causing anger and resentment. At the same time, the performance of this new king also made other countries more and more worried about the direction of the Southern Tang, and some countries that were good friends with the Southern Tang during the Li Jing period also began to change their attitudes, and the Southern Tang became the target of everyone. Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was even more pro-enlisted three times on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was committed to breaking up the former friendly neighbors of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

　　In the fifth year of Later Zhou Xiande (958 AD), under the personal conquest of Emperor Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong, the Southern Tang dynasty was defeated and lost. Li Jing not only surrendered a large amount of land in the fourteen prefectures of Southern TangJiang, Northern Huainan, but also had to submit to Hou Zhou and change his title to lord of the country since he went to the emperor's title, and at such a heavy price, he was able to exchange the remaining half of the country for Gou and steal peace.

　　Even more unbearable for Li Jing than the defeat in state affairs was the struggle for power and profit within the imperial family. Although the country's power is declining, the position of the lord of the country still shines seductively. As he grew older, Li Jing's biological son, Li Hongji, became increasingly impatient with the fact that he had to "succumb" to his uncle.

　　Of course, Li Hongji also had the capital to compete with the uncle of the "Imperial Brother". Although he was young, he had a harsh temperament, and of course he was stronger than his uncle in ruling the army, and he made many military achievements and his reputation in the army was growing.

　　In March of the same year that the battle was greatly defeated, Under the wise leadership of the elder brother, Li Jingsui, the "imperial brother-in-law" who had lost the battle, on the one hand, could not withstand the situation, and on the other hand, he also hoped that his nephew could save the fortunes of the country, and handed over ten resignation letters to Li Jing in a row: "Now that the country is in danger, please come out of the town." King Hongji of Yan has military merits and should be his heir, and hereby presents him with the treasure book of his brother-in-law. "We must resolutely cede the position of crown prince to Li Hongji." Li Jingda also advanced and retreated with Li Jingsui, and also self-destructed as a general of the defeated army, demanding his resignation as a marshal.

　　Li Jing accepted the request of his two younger brothers. Li Hongji became crown prince and participated in the decision-making of government affairs. Li Jing then changed his title to King of Jin, and added General Tiance, Marshal of Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Jiangnan West Province, Governor of Hongzhou, Taiwei, and Shang Shuling. Li Jingda was made the governor of Fu Prefecture and the governor of Runzhou.

　　However, Li Jing's wish to "make a home and everything prosperous" was not realized, and the development of things was much beyond his expectations. The new crown prince, Li Hongji, was full of suspicion of his uncle, who had been the crown prince for ten years, and as soon as he became crown prince, he revealed his harsh and unkind nature and carried out a large-scale reshuffle, and even the attendants that his uncle had served in the Eastern Palace before must be expelled quickly.

　　Probably because his father Li Jing had done the "brother and brother" thing, Li Hongji was also suspicious of his brothers, worried that they would one day be unfavorable to his children and grandchildren. As a result, he also sent many of his cronies to monitor his brothers' movements. Among all the imperial brothers, Li Congjia was the eldest brother and the most jealous.

　　According to the natural ranking, Li Congjia is only the sixth son. However, The Li Tang Royal Family responded to the old saying that "Wang Cai is not Wang Ding", and the mortality rate of his children was extremely high, and by the time Li Congjia grew up, he had become the de facto second son.

　　It is better to say that Li Congjiachang's appearance is also different from ordinary people - he has one eye that is "heavy pupil", that is, there are two pupils in one eye socket - this look is incomprehensible, if it is not the embryonic development of Empress Zhong when she was pregnant, it is about the prince who has dark spots in his eyes. However, this kind of appearance has always been talked about in the history books, so it is said that Emperor Shun's Yao Chonghua was a "heavy pupil", and Xiang Yu and Wang Mang heard that there was also this difference. Although the luck of the last two emperors was not as good as that of Emperor Shun, after all, they had once occupied the position above the ten thousand people like a fake bag. Li Congjia's marriage made Li Hongji even more angry, and the Officials and people of the Southern Tang Dynasty were talking about it: this prince, who had half the level eyes of Emperor Shun, actually married the wife of Emperor E, and became the son-in-law of The Old Southern Tang minister Situ Zhouzong.

　　Of course, Li Congjia knows the world's discussion, and he knows the means of the eldest brother. He respected and feared the eldest brother of the prince, desperately suppressed himself, but asked about any political affairs, indulged in poetry and painting, and finally simply learned the style of his grandfather, mixed with the floating tu jingshe, recited the sutra and zen every day, and also received three returns and five precepts, calling himself a "layman". Put on a posture of "rich and noble like a floating cloud". (There are many names for its laymen, including White Lotus Residents, Lotus Peak Residents, Zhong Shan Hermits, Zhong Feng Hermits, Zhong Yin, and so on...) ）

　　Since his younger brother was so knowledgeable, Li Hongji couldn't find anything wrong for a while. This prince is a good hand in fighting, and he can't be satisfied with stability when he is idle, and he can do everything to get into trouble, and the prince has been a prince for less than half a year, and he has annoyed Lao Tzu. Li Jing reprimanded Li Hongji more than once, but he never saw this son with the slightest remorse. Li Jing had already been cured by Hou Zhou and was sullen, and when he saw his son so foolishly, he didn't want to fight a little, and finally couldn't help but take matters into his own hands, holding a club and practicing the family law against Li Hongji. He scolded while hitting him. Li Hongji did not listen to a single word of Lao Tzu's bitter words, but Lao Tzu's scolding of him was loud in his ears, and what especially made him intolerable was one of Li Jing's sentences: "I should summon Jing Sui again!" ”

　　Li Jing's words may be subconscious, or they may just be angry words. But listening to Li Hongji's ears, the consequences were terrible.

　　Li Hongji immediately regarded his uncle, who had voluntarily abdicated the throne, as his greatest enemy (how many times did the Later Zhou Emperor rank up?). The suspicion of the full belly also immediately evolved into a full belly of killing. As soon as Li Jing's figure left the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace, Li Hongji began to plan a murder.

　　Li Hongji soon found out that Yuan Congfan's son had offended Li Jingsui and was almost killed by Li Jingsui. Therefore, Yuan Congfan not only had a vendetta against Li Jingsui, but also had no possibility of letting go of this vendetta. At this time, Yuan Congfan was following Li Jingsui's side, and under the hongzhou governor, he held the post of "Hongzhou Du Ya". Li Hongji immediately took action after inquiring about the facts, and handed over the task of eradicating political enemies to Yuan Congfan.

　　Like his brother Li Jing, Li Jingsui is passionate about ball play, and he enjoys it no matter how cold or hot the weather is. This was still the case after arriving in Hongzhou (present-day Nanchang). Finally, one day, after playing the ball, he was extremely thirsty, and he casually took a drink handed by Zhang from Fan and drank it all - this drink soon came into play, and that night, Li Jingsui died violently. Although the others were dead, the terrible effects of the poison continued: before the funeral could be lifted, the body had begun to decompose. Of course, this strange situation caused panic among everyone, but Li Jing, who was in Jinling, was kept in the dark. Without hesitation, he held a solemn funeral for his brother and posthumously honored him as "Emperor Wencheng's brother-in-law".

　　The funeral is held in August, when the osmanthus blossoms are fragrant. At this time, only one month had passed since Li Hongji was scolded. Li Jingsui went from an energetic star to a terrifying rotting corpse in the coffin.

　　The moment he knew the news of his uncle's death, even if Li Hongji was a little afraid, he was more afraid that he was still in a good mood. But after only a month, his own life came to an abrupt end.

　　How Li Hongji died, the history books only have the word "violent pawn", and the actual situation is unknown. Leave countless room for speculation. Those who believe in the "Heavenly Son Shengming" can be considered to be Li Jing's great enlightenment to cure his son, those who like to see martial arts can be considered to be loyal servants who have righteous soldiers to avenge Li Jingsui, and those who are keen on fantasy can also be considered to be unjust souls and snow hate...

　　However, from the later situation, Li Hongji is more likely to have cleaned up the portal by Li Jing, who was angry and hateful.

　　After Li Hongji's death, Li Jing made his sixth son, the de facto second son Li Congjia, the King of Wu, and moved to live in the Eastern Palace of the Crown Prince. Li Congjia actually got the status of an acting prince, and was only about to formally issue a letter of appointment. This is, of course, an open secret. However, Zhong Mo, a scholar of Hanlin, felt that the plan of the lord of the country was too unreliable, so he took an opportunity to speak to Li Jing, saying that Li Congjia was young and light, and that he was not a material for doing big things at all, and that he could not entrust the country to him to take charge, and that if he wanted to establish a crown prince, he would have to establish Li Congshan, the Duke of Jiguo. Unexpectedly, it immediately aroused Li Jing's outrage -- the reason why Li Jing was like this was perhaps precisely because he had learned the lesson of Li Hongji, and he did not dare to easily change the fixed system of establishing a concubine, and he hoped that With Li Congjia's gentle and gentle temperament, he could not only avoid provoking greater cannibalism, but also ensure that he would have a good death.

　　As a result, Zhong Mo was not only demoted to the title of Guozi Siye from the mouth, but also caused the opposite effect: Li Congjia was officially made crown prince!

　　When he was made crown prince of Southern Tang, Li Congjia was twenty-three years old. He didn't stay long in the princely position. Fearing a resurgence of war in the Later Zhou Dynasty, Li Jing planned to move the capital from Jinling to Nandu (Nanchang), so he left his son in Jinling to oversee the country, and he took the civil and military officials with him. However, Li Jing, who came to Nandu, was seriously dissatisfied with the new environment, and was ashamed to admit that he had made a big mistake, so he could only grit his teeth and stand firm in Nandu, and as a result, he did not have much effort to be depressed and died.

　　After Li Jing died in Nandu, the twenty-five-year-old Li Congjia succeeded to the throne in Jinling on July 29 (the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty' Jianlong) and changed his name to Li Yu, known as the Later Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

　　Li Hongji, who was in the netherworld, probably would never have imagined that he would only clear the way to the throne for this brother who was least welcome to him. Of course, no one will know what it means to be the lord of the country at such a time.

Third, happy years

　　(Li Yu and Emperor Zhou'e were teenagers married.) They were originally only suitable for living a life of "rich and idle people", but they unexpectedly became the lord and queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty. So the grade of playing Fun Qing tour is getting higher and higher. It's just that they didn't expect how short the time of this marriage would be. ）

　　The new lord of the country, Li Yu, was a talented man who was recognized as "talented and clear-sighted, calligraphy and painting, far beyond the constant stream, higher than the accident." However, Li Yu was not just a talented man, fate made him the monarch of a kingdom. That's his job. Li Yu in the history books always seems to be indifferent to political affairs and faint, but some scattered fragments make people vaguely feel the other side of this talent.

　　Li Yu knew very well what he was facing. As soon as he ascended the throne, he immediately sent an envoy, Feng Yanlu, to the Song kingdom to present a large tribute to the Song emperor Zhao Kuangyin in exchange for the Song state's recognition of his succession to his father's throne.

　　Tribute was paid to the tribute, and in fact Li Yu was not willing to admit his status as a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. In his own palace, he still wore a yellow robe, and all regulations still followed the rank of emperor. He even wrote to Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, requesting that he restore his father's title as emperor to build a mausoleum. All this shows his true psychology. Of course, he was also well aware that the strength of his country and even his own family was far from enough to compete with the Song Dynasty, so whenever the Song envoy came, he had to take off his dragon robe and wear a purple robe. What Li Yu did was not only to change clothes and try to be happy, but more things also made the Song Dynasty uneasy about Li Yu, believing that he "although he showed fear and obedience on the outside, he repaired the courtesy of the vassals, and the internal real armor recruited troops, and sneaked into combat readiness." ”

　　Many years later, Song Zhenzong once asked Pan Shenxiu, an old minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, whether Li Yu was really a cowardly and incompetent person. Pan Shenxiu replied, "If he is really such an incompetent and ignorant person, how can he possibly defend the country for more than ten years?" ”

　　However, the reality at that time was that having the intention to return to heaven did not mean that he could return to heaven with strength. Li Yu was a talented man with a delicate and sharp mind, but like his brother Li Hongji, he was somewhat suspicious and suspicious, and always used it in a different place. With the passage of time, the youthful vigor of his first reign was gradually consumed by the facts, and Li Yu also realized more and more that he and his country would one day be swallowed up by strong neighbors, and it was better to take advantage of the opportunity to be happy. So the ministers urged him to cheer up, but he turned a deaf ear and even sent his counselors to jail. This lord of the country, who was already proficient in this way, was increasingly lost in political affairs, and more and more energy was spent on pleasure.

　　The main person who accompanied Li Yu to have fun in Jinling City and did not ask about the world was Li Yu's wife, Emperor Zhou'e.

　　Emperor Zhou was born in 936, one year older than Li Yu. Her real name is no longer available, and "Emperor E" is actually just her word. She was born into the Southern Tang dynasty, and her father, Zhou Zong, had already followed this future Southern Tang Liezu as early as the years and months of "Xu Zhihuan" as an assassin, and was an out-and-out meritorious hero. Emperor Zhou was nineteen years old when she married Li Yu, and this marriage was personally decided by Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty. According to records, Li Jing greatly appreciated the pipa she played and specially gave her the "burning groove pipa" he used. It can be seen from this that Li Jing is very satisfied with this personally selected daughter-in-law.

　　Emperor Zhou E's talent is outstanding, "general history, good music rhythm, especially gong pipa" and "picking opera and chess is not wonderful", all the leisurely and elegant play art doorways are exquisite, and Li Yu can be described as husband singing and singing with women, and the two people stay together every day to feast and sing and dance. It is said that after a snow-watching night feast, Li Yu was invited to dance after a half-drunk drink, and Li Yu laughed and said, "If you want me to dance, unless you can compose a new song for me." Immediately after the week, he raised his pen on the table, and it was composed in a split second, and it was indeed beautiful and moving, and Li Yu kept his promise to accompany his wife's new song and dance. This song is thus named "Invited to Drunken Dance Break". In addition to this song, Zhou Hou also made a "Hate To Be Late Song" for Li Yu. Li Yu also repaid Li with peach and wrote many moving poems such as "Yi Hu Zhu", "Huan Xi Sha", "Yulou Spring", "Midnight Song" and so on. Whether it is zhou hou's song or Li Yu's words, they are full of beautiful scenery, showing the love of the two people. What state affairs and what difficulties are, they are all forgotten in the murmur.

　　If measured by the requirements of the position of "empress", Emperor Zhou'e was not only not a virtuous queen, but also classified as a seduction king. There is no trace of her ever advising her husband to work hard, but there are countless positive historical stories that tell the world that her life is extremely luxurious. Legend has it that she was happy to be immersed in incense and mist, so Li Yu set up a special class of Sixiang Palace girls for her, and the incense burners she used were all made of gold, silver and jade, of which there were dozens of famous utensils alone. How the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty lived outside the palace was not within her scope of concern. However, strictly speaking, Li Yu, the husband of Emperor Zhou'e, was also an elephant talent more than the temperament of an elephant king. They are a pair of near-perfect talents. When Li Jing, who was a literati, tied the red line for this pair of children, all he could think of was probably only this, and absolutely did not expect that fate would push this little couple who were only suitable for being "rich and idle people" to the position of God.

　　Almost all the talents in the world have a common problem, and the talented women in their minds must be "talented and beautiful" characters. Of course, Li Yu was also inevitable. And Emperor Zhou'e is not only a talented woman, but also a top beauty, and the history books solemnly call her "national color" and are the level of the best beauty. More importantly, this unique beauty is also well versed in the way of raising a beautiful face, creating makeup such as "high-bun slim clothes" and "head-up sideburns", showing her unique beauty and graceful posture, and people who see her think that she is a fairy, and women inside and outside the palace are competing to follow suit. Of course, Li Yu was even more fascinated, and Emperor Zhou'e had the favor of a special room.

　　The direct effect of the "favor of the special room" is that Emperor Zhou'e has been giving birth to children for Li Yu without interruption, and has given birth to three sons in a row. Seeing that his heirs were prosperous and his children were born handsome and elegant, Li Yu's love for his wife was growing.

　　Among the three sons, Emperor Zhou'e's favorite was his younger son, Zhongxuan. Originally, as an empress, the work of raising children was undertaken by servants and maids, but Emperor Zhou'e really loved Zhongxuan too much, and she had to personally worry about the child's clothing, food, shelter and transportation, and personally raised him.

　　Like all the people in the world who are intoxicated in love, Li Yu and Emperor Zhou E never thought that their marriage in the human world was actually very short.

4. Death of Emperor Eun

　　(According to folklore, Emperor Zhou was killed by the betrayal of her husband and sister.) It is also said that she was originally a lover of Zhao Kuangyin of song taizu, and song taizu tolerated the Southern Tang Dynasty because of this. After Emperor E's death for many years, Song Taizu learned the truth of the matter, so he raised troops to attack southern Tang and avenge Emperor E. Yet history tells the world that none of this is true. ）

　　According to legend, the end of the marriage between Li Yu and Emperor Zhou'e was foreshadowed.

　　During the Tang Dynasty, there was a famous song "Neon Dress Feather", and since the tang dynasty was chaotic, no one in the world could regain its melodious sound. Li Yu knew that his wife loved music and worked hard to finally get the score of this big song. However, this big song has a lot of variations in the process of circulation, and the score itself is not complete enough, and professional musicians can't figure it out. After Emperor Zhou E knew about it, he studied it and made a series of additions and deletions, which finally made this big song reappear and won a voice of envy. However, xu Xuan, a member of the Zhongshu She, was surprised after listening to it, and privately discussed with the musician Cao Sheng: "The aftersound of the Fa qu should have ended slowly, but now why is it ending so quickly?" It is not auspicious to change the old score to this way. ”

　　Sure enough, it wasn't long before news came out of the palace that Empress Zhou had fallen ill.

　　The ill Emperor Zhou moved the four-year-old Zhongxuan from his palace to another palace. This was originally a kind intention of the mother to prevent the child from being affected by her own illness, but she did not expect that Zhongxuan had just moved out of the Empress Palace and suddenly fell ill, and died within a few days.

　　Hearing that Aiko died prematurely, Emperor Zhou'e, who was ill, almost fainted. The heart of a mother is the same whether it is an empress or a woman, but the same pain of losing a child, most of the poor women who have suffered hardships can still face it strongly, but Emperor Zhou'e, who has been happy all his life, cannot bear it anyway. Her condition quickly deteriorated.

　　According to folklore, there was another blow to Emperor Zhou's deteriorating condition: she learned of the news that her sister Xiao Zhou had an affair with her husband. Xiao Zhou was fourteen years younger than his sister, and he was only fifteen years old at this time. Li Yu had always been a special favorite of Emperor Zhou'e, and the harem concubines were blind to him, but somehow he was moved by this little sister-in-law, and took advantage of Emperor Zhou'e's illness to put her into the palace. Who knew that although Xiao Zhou's talent was outstanding, he was young and ignorant, and not only was he discovered by Emperor Zhou E, but he also told Emperor Zhou E the truth that he had been in the palace for several days. Emperor Zhou'e was greatly stimulated, and within a few days, his beloved son died again, and the two sides attacked each other, and finally abandoned the world.

　　Compared with such a romantic version of the plot, another statement is more practical: the reason why Xiao Zhou will enter the palace for a few days when his sister's illness is getting worse is not Li Yu alone, but a masterpiece that the Guozhang Mansion is committed to creating, which is intended to prevent other "fill-in-the-blanks" around the son-in-law during the eldest daughter's illness, and thus avoid the "dangerous situation" of the eldest daughter changing her surname without concealing it. And Li Yu's birth mother, Empress Zhong, did not want her son to lose her soul for her daughter-in-law, and of course she was willing to promote this matter. Li Yu was affectionate, and some traces of women other than Emperor Zhou'e could be seen from time to time in the early lexicon, and Emperor Zhou'e had a reason that she did not know that the reason why she would have the reaction of "evil" and "no longer caring" at this time was not really because of jealousy, but because she deeply felt that her parents and family had already regarded themselves as the people who would die.

　　Whatever the reason, in short, after learning of Zhongxuan's death, Emperor Zhou'e quickly fell critically ill.

　　Judging from other records, in the last days of Emperor Zhou'e, Li Yu accompanied him day and night, he had to take care of all the food and drink, and the soup medicine must also be tasted by himself before feeding it to his wife, and on the cold winter night he guarded Emperor Zhou'e's side night after night. There is really nothing to do with Xiao Zhou's obliviousness so he only wants to stimulate his wife's rapid death.

　　However, Li Yu's care could not take back the life of Emperor Zhou E. Emperor Zhou'e knew that his life would be over, but instead he looked away, and comforted her husband with kind words: The son of a, how fortunate, entrusts the king's door, pretends to be favored by Hua, and has been a man for ten years. There is no greater glory for women than this. Those who are inadequate, the son is martyred, and there is no way to repay the virtue. She personally handed over to Li Yu the burning trough pipa that Li Jing had given her and the jade ring that she had been wearing on her arm, and wrote a suicide note in her own handwriting asking for a thin burial.

　　Three days later, Emperor Zhou'e supported herself to bathe and change her clothes and makeup, and even put the jade into her mouth (it should be a jade cicada), and then died in the west room of the Yaoguang Hall. "Zhaohui", buried in Yiling.

　　Emperor Zhou'e, who had studied Buddhism, ended twenty-nine years of his life in an almost detached, precognitive way of life and death, and his death was unusually peaceful and calm. However, the deaths of her and Zhongxuan brought Li Yu extreme pain. The Buddhist scriptures he had read for many years could not resist the blow of losing his wife and son.

　　Emperor Zhou'e died in December of the second year of Qiande,200, and only a month later, Li Yu, who appeared at the funeral, had changed from a twenty-eight-year-old young man who was "Ming Junyun" into a skeleton that stood tall and could not stand without a staff. Of course, there is another explanation: he is afraid that others will ridicule him for being unfaithful to his wife, so he deliberately tosses into this way to come out to meet everyone. (This statement makes me wonder.) I had heard that the emperor was too kind to his wife, and was ridiculed by the ministers as a disgrace to the red face, but I had never heard that the emperor had begun to demand that the emperor must be loyal in those years. Even if the minister wanted to ridicule, it would be to ridicule Li Yu as an emperor and make himself into that pitiful person for a woman -- but he was a dead wife, and the mourner was more pitiful than the old woman was dead.

　　As the saying goes, when Emperor Zhou'e was about to marry, he fell in love with Zhao Kuangyin, who was wandering in the rivers and lakes, and decided that he would be a unique hero in the world, thus forming a love affair. Who knew that before Zhao Kuangyin became famous, he would come to marry, and the marriage of the Southern Tang Dynasty would come to the Zhou Mansion. Forced by helplessness, Emperor E had to reluctantly marry Li Yu, and eventually died of depression. The reason why Song Taizu was able to tolerate Li Yu's Southern Tang staying on his "bed" for more than ten years was for the sake of Emperor Zhou'e, and he knew that Emperor Zhou'e's death was because of Li Yu's disloyalty, and immediately raised troops to requisition.

　　This story is quite legendary. But it's a bit untenable.

　　The detailed route map of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's journey through the rivers and lakes is now difficult to test, and no one knows whether he really went to Jinling City and met Emperor Zhou' e. However, in the year when Old Zhao went out, the eldest lady Zhou E, who was raised in the Southern Tang Situ Mansion, had just turned twelve, and she really couldn't imagine how such two people with different identities met each other, how they talked about love, and how Miss Zhou, who had just learned about personnel affairs, had a deep affection for Old Zhao. Besides, Old Zhao was already a husband with a wife at that time, and he didn't know what identity he was taking to talk about marriage to Miss Zhou?

　　To tell the truth, in the two years that Zhao Kuangyin wandered the rivers and lakes, if there really had been a male and female affair, I am afraid that Zhao Jingniang would still be more reliable. In this legend, Zhao Kuangyin accidentally saved a woman who was plundered by thieves, Zhao Jingniang, married her as a brother and sister, and sent her back to her hometown thousands of miles away. Who knew that Jingniang's family suspected that the two had a private affair, and they wanted Zhao Kuangyin to marry Jingniang. Zhao Kuangyin walked away in anger, and Jingniang committed suicide by the tongue of the clan. Many years later, Zhao Kuangyin became the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and sent someone to find Yi Mei, only to learn that Jing Niang was dead, and after being sad, he could only build a shrine for her to posthumously seal Yi Ji.

　　Between Emperor Zhou E and Zhao Jingniang, I would rather believe Zhao Jingniang's words than accept Zhao Zhou's bitter love.　

Fifth, the comfortable years

　　(After Emperor Zhou'e's mourning period expired, Li Yu officially married Xiao Zhou as his wife.) Lang Cai's female appearance is also another good couple. It's just that for them and the entire Southern Tang Dynasty, the comfortable years have come to an end. ）

　　As the world predicted, after the death of Emperor Zhou'e, her sister Xiao Zhou became the successor approved by Empress Zhong. It was only because this little girl was still too young to hold up the dress, that Zhong Hou had to raise her in the palace and wait for the day when she would grow up. Unexpectedly, the next year, Empress Zhong also died, and Xiao Zhou had to continue to wait in the palace.

　　In the first year of Kaibao (967 AD), Li Yu finally served his mourning period, and the ministers began to discuss the establishment of a new posthumous record for Li Yu. It is said that there was also an episode at this time, and Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, also sent people to test whether Li Yu had the possibility of marrying the daughter of the Zhao song emperor, and learned that the successor candidate had already been raised in the palace for many years, which broke off the plan. (Empress Zhong and Zhou Guozhang would not have wisely anticipated this step as early as when Emperor Zhou'e was critically ill...) ）

　　In the second year of Kaibao, the ceremony after the marriage of a reigning monarch was held for the first and last time since the founding of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

　　After a full four years of waiting, the Xiao Zhou clan finally became the official queen of the country, known in history as Xiao Zhou Hou. She was nineteen years old, the same age when her sister married Li Yu.

　　On the second day of the wedding, Li Yu feasted on the courtiers. According to the custom, the courtiers who attended the banquet from Han Xizai onwards had to write poems and congratulations, but everyone knew that since the death of Emperor Zhou'e, the new queen had been living in the palace for a long time, and the propaganda slogan of Empress Zhong and the Guozhang Mansion was "Raising in the Palace for the New Year", in fact, everyone had heard that the amorous lord of the country had two well-known words such as "hand-held golden shoes", which were written for her. Yesterday's grand wedding, in fact, is just a formality, the bride and groom brother have long been secretly married, where to come from what cave flower candles can be said. The congratulatory poems written by the crowd are therefore strange and strange, not so much congratulations as irony. Regarding the attitude of the group of ministers, Li Yu was not moved, and smiled.

　　When Xiao Zhouhou married Li Yu, the southern Tang dynasty was already in decline, and Li Yu had no interest in state affairs. Concentrate on getting drunk. Although he still spoiled his little wife and called it a "special room", in terms of feelings and life interests, it has no longer the grand situation of Emperor Zhou E.

　　There are more and more delicate beauties in the Jinling Palace. However, Xiao Zhouhou's jealousy was much worse than that of her sister, and the beauties in the palace not only rarely had the opportunity to be close to Li Yu, but also could not get the corresponding title, and if there was a grudge and could not bear it, Xiao Zhouhou would even exert a hot hand, or blame or send him out of the palace.

　　Nevertheless, li Yu's famous concubines in the later period were also seen in several wild history legends. The most famous is the "Lady of sorrow". It is said that in order to make li yu's dancing style please, this beautiful child wrapped her feet smaller and created the bad habit of Han women wrapping their feet (he himself did not believe in this legend. Even if the mother's feet are wrapped, it is not the kind of entanglement, maybe some of them are like the actors who dance ballet. If it is really a small foot that is entangled in the kind of peak of the future generations, I don't believe that she can still dance.) There is also a "little flower bud" who later became a concubine of Song Taizu. There was also a palace maid named Qingnu, who was probably one of the palace people who could not get the title due to Xiao Zhouhou's obstruction, because after the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, she became a concubine of a Song general, and still entrusted people to bring letters to greet Li Yu, and Li Yu's reply was by no means an ordinary master and servant. However, the most detailed woman in various records is the "Baoyi" Huang clan, who is a native of Jiangxia and whose father Huang Shouzhong was originally a general of Ma Xicao in Hunan. After his father died in the war, Xiao Huang, who was still a child, entered the court of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and was later awarded the title of "Baoyi" because of his beauty and wisdom. Huang Baoyi was extremely respectful in serving Xiao Zhouhou, which became one of the few official concubines recognized by Xiao Zhouhou.

　　Unlike her sister, Xiao Zhouhou is not good at dancing– which may be the reason why Miao Niang can be favored by her good dance. However, Xiao Zhouhou's talent is not inferior to her sister's, and it has its own characteristics.

　　It is said that Xiao Zhouhou was in love with the green and green dress, her face was like a delicate flower in the background of the deep and shallow green dress, and her posture was like a fairy (from this it can be determined that her skin is not only white and rosy, but also changes other skin tones to wear a turquoise color, the effect will be like a potato). When the palace people saw that the queen was so graceful, they all followed suit and wore turquoise clothes as fashionable. Due to the roughness of the products outside the palace, the palace people dye silk by themselves. Once, a palace man took out the dyed silk to dry, but forgot to collect it at night. The next day, the blue color that had been soaked by the dew at night was particularly tender. Since then, the southern Tang court has been dyed with dew and become popular. Li Yu and Xiao Zhouhou also gave a name to this kind of green silk, called "Tianshui Bi".

　　Li Yu, who accompanied Xiao Zhouhou, not only gave Bi Silk a name, but also devoted himself to studying the beauty of new makeup and delicacies, Xiao Zhouhou was good at chess and indulged in it, and Li Yu, who was a husband, was also happy to spend time with his wife and concubines. He built a small red pavilion in the imperial garden, decorated with tortoiseshell ivory, and the two of them often cared for me and me. The incense mist in the Rouyi Hall after Xiao Zhou was filled with incense, and the trance was a paradise. Li Yu, on the other hand, escaped from the embarrassment of the country in this fairyland and concentrated on being his family man.

　　However, escaping could not solve the problem, and the wind and snow moon in Jinling City had reached the time to return to the light.

6. Counter-strategy

　　(As the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu wanted to keep his ancestral inheritance, but at a critical time, he made two of the most fatal mistakes in a row.) One was to win Zhao Kuangyin's counter-plan and kill the most loyal and courageous general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the other was to indulge in religious anesthesia, and thus became a false monk and a real spy. ）

　　As a literati who always wanted to escape from reality, Li Yu, who was "drunk in this dynasty and drunk in this dynasty", had no heart for state affairs, only wanted to indulge in hedonism and religious anesthesia, and would rather wait for death than take a risk- "Lonely life likes To delay Zen learning, the taste of the world is like it." When the first emperor abandoned the dynasty, Tsukasa was not destroyed, and the more he ascended, the more he ascended, and the more he did not have the right intentions. Since the cutting of the river, he has bent down to the Middle Dynasty, often fearing that he will be convicted, and every time he wants to get rid of his body, he has no regard for it. However, he was slightly different from the king who completely indulged the affairs of state and sat and waited for death. His heart always longed to be able to save half of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and in the face of Song Taizu's seven emotions to beat the Southern Tang idea, although he evaded the problem and was unwilling to actively deal with it, he still refused to surrender like other countries, and always passively resisted Song Taizu's edicts of surrender again and again.

　　At this time, Li Yu made one of the biggest mistakes of his life, and fell into the song dynasty's counter-plan.

　　For the lonely Southern Tang Dynasty, the generals of the Gongzhongti State were the pillars of the country. Among the Southern Tang generals, the most courageous and talented was Lin Renzhao. This Nandu stayed behind to serve the country, bent on leading the army north to recover the lost land. He knew that Li Yu had a weak personality, and even took the initiative to suggest that Li Yu declare his rebellion after he led his troops to set off, so that if he won the victory, the country would benefit, and if he lost the battle, he would martyr his family, and regardless of the victory or defeat, Li Yu would not have to bear any responsibility in front of the Song Dynasty. However, it was such a foolproof plan that Li Yu did not dare to try. Another general, Lu Chen, was also under Lin Renzhao's boldness and wisdom, and he planned to ask the Song Dynasty's vassal states for help in the name of the rebellion of the Southern Tang Dynasty, lure them to go deep and detain reinforcements, and then take advantage of the emptiness in his country to directly attack the capital city and expand the strength of the Southern Tang Dynasty. And this was also rejected by Li Yu.

　　The plan was not adopted by Li Yu in time, but it reached the ears of Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin felt very troubled when he learned that the Southern Tang Dynasty had such a wise and loyal general. So he came up with an idea, when sending envoys to the Southern Tang, let the court painters mix in the retinue and carefully observe the appearance of the Southern Tang generals. After the painter returned to Beijing, according to his own memory, he painted the appearance of the general - the general he saw was Lin Renzhao. (Or let the emissary bribe the servants of the Lin Mansion and steal the portraits)

　　Next, how to use this portrait. In the fourth year of Kaibao, Li Yu sent his younger brother Li Congshan the Prince of Han to pay tribute to Beijing, but was detained by Song Taizu. Li Yu personally wrote a table seal to ask Song Taizu to release his brother back, but they were all rejected. Li Yu was depressed, with only long sighs and short sighs.

　　When Li Yu sighed in Jinling City, Song Taizu's counter-plan had entered the implementation stage. He hung up Lin Renzhao's portrait and found a very clever opportunity for Li Congshan to see "inadvertently".

　　Of course, Li Congshan knew who the person in the portrait was, so he was shocked and then followed by great joy, thinking that he had finally discovered the top secret of the Song Dynasty and quickly "risked" the news back to the Southern Tang.

　　Soon, Lin Renzhao was poisoned and killed after a banquet of the monarchs.

　　After Lin Renzhao's death, Li Yu thought of Lu Dai, who had always had a very good relationship with Lin Renzhao and had similar views, so he transferred Lu Zhen away from the defensive front line, and from then on the army was in turmoil. Except for a Yangtze River, the Southern Tang No longer had any defense to speak of.

　　Song Taizu, who learned of Lin Renzhao's death, was overjoyed, but due to the recurrence of war, he could not spare his hand to use force against the Southern Tang for a while.

　　The days continued unhurriedly, and the people who added the last straw to Song Taizu's destruction of the Southern Tang also appeared.

　　This person's name was Fan Ruobing (Shui), who was originally a Southern Tang jinshi, who was outstanding in learning, but he could not find the opportunity to get ahead, and after being disappointed, he hated his country to the bone, and decided to betray Zhao Song and find a way to cross the river for Song Taizu, who was suffering from crossing the river.

　　Fan Ruobing and the Zhao and Song dynasties soon found a loophole, and this loophole was exactly what Li Yu himself had: he was intoxicated with Buddhism and had reached the level of "infatuation".

　　According to the "History of Jiangnan Ye", when Zhao Kuangyin learned that Li Yu was a good Buddha, he selected a young man who knew the scriptures and was well-spoken to pretend to be a "little elder" and went to the Southern Tang To inquire about military information.

　　According to other sources, the initiator of this incident was Fan Ruobing, a traitor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who conspired with a teenager surnamed Jiang to let Jiang Shao throw himself into the Qingliang Temple as a disciple, took advantage of the opportunity to enter the palace with the attendant to teach the Fa to please Li Yu, and became the abbot of this ancient temple after his master's death, called "Little Elder", and listened to countless confidential matters of the Southern Tang. Fan Ruobing seemed to be old and poor-looking, and knowing that he could not learn Jiang Shao's strategy, he pretended to cut his hair and become a monk, claiming that he had made a great wish to dig a Buddhist cave on the stone mountain on the Yangtze River, and under this guise, he ran back and forth on the water on the bank of the Yangtze River every day, surveyed and measured the details of the river bank, and tried his best to think about how to quickly build a pontoon bridge on the bank of the Yangtze River for the Song army to drive straight in. In the end, Fan Ruobing secretly sent all the data and intelligence to the Song Dynasty Liang City, solving the biggest problem for Song Taizu to take Jiangnan.

　　When the Song army came to the bank of the Yangtze River to erect a pontoon bridge, Li Yu and Manchu Wenwu in Jinling City thought that it was a fantasy and did not pay attention to this matter at all. Who knew that the Song army had indeed built a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River, which had no bridge since ancient times, and it was forced to succeed in the army and surround Jinling into an isolated city. (Li Yu really should have let that Fan Ruobing be the minister of transportation)

　　When the Zhao and Song armies approached the city, li Yu, who was helpless, only knew how to hide in the Zen Temple to pray for blessings, and did not even forget to summon the "little elder" to ask him to resist the enemy with Buddha's power. In the end, in the chanting of the bodhisattva who saved the suffering in the city, jinling city was destroyed. Only then did Li Yu know that he had fallen for the "Little Elder"," but it was too late to regret it.

7. Prisoners of the Order

　　Later generations used such a sentence to sigh Li Yu's life: "It is a great thing to be a talented person, and it is a poor life to be a king." In fact, this sentence is not the same as that of Xiao Zhou' family?

　　Li Yu's ending and the ending of the Southern Tang Dynasty were tragic. However, it was precisely because Li Yu experienced the encounter of the subjugation of the country in the last years of his life that his words shifted from yinfeng Yongyue to a higher realm, and he became a generation of "word emperors" from a king of the subjugated country. It can be said that the country is unfortunate and fortunate. ）　　　

　　In November of the eighth year of Kaibao (975 AD), Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, surrendered to the Song army, and the Southern Tang fell.

　　In the first month of the following year, Li Yu was made the Marquis of Disobedience by Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, and Empress Xiao Zhou was made Lady Zheng Guo, and both were placed under house arrest in the city of Bieliang.

　　Nine months later, Song Taizu died and Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne. Li Yu was renamed "Duke of Longxi County".

　　Li Yu lived for more than thirty years, and although he had become a prisoner of the ranks, although he always had his heart in mind for his homeland, he was not a figure of the scribe type. What is even more sad is that although the country was destroyed by him, his heart still remembered that country, and he could not learn Liu Adou's skills. Whether it was Song Taizu or Song Taizong, whether it was soft or hard, or giving him a lot of silver money for him to use, he was unwilling and would not be able to perform in front of them with flattery and tact, self-loyalty. Song Taizu was just a laugh at this, but with the death of Song Taizu and the appearance of Song Taizong, Li Yu's nightmares in life began to worsen.

　　Zhao Guangyi already knew Xiao Zhou's good name, and whenever he ordered a woman to enter the palace to pay homage to the empress, he would leave her in the palace for several days. Whenever he was released from the Song Palace back to the mansion, Xiao Zhouhou always cried bitterly, and the sound of scolding Li Yu was far outside the wall. For all this, the indecisive Li Yu had no other way but to evade and endure. He hid from his wife, and would only fill in the songs of missing his homeland one after another, and these words full of the pain of subjugation spread all over Jiangnan and were widely sung by the people of the southern Tang Dynasty.

　　Li Yu's attitude of refusing to meet him and his attitude of missing his homeland in his words soon reached the ears of Song Taizong, and his perception of Li Yu gradually changed, feeling that although Li Yu was an incompetent emperor, his talent was really outstanding, and with those moving words circulating around, with Li Yu in one day, the hearts of the people in the Southern Tang Dynasty were unstable for a day. However, after all, Li Yu was a generation of talented people, quite influential among the literati, and he wanted to show the world with benevolence and love, and how to deal with the fall was also a problem.

　　At the beginning of the third year of the Taiping Revival (978 AD), the Song Tai Sect sent Xu Xuan, an old minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to visit Li Yu, and Li Yu was quite cold to Xu Xuan, sitting down and not speaking, and only after a long time did he sigh and say: "When I killed Pan You and Li Ping by mistake, I regretted it endlessly!" It is said that When Seo Hyun and Jang Hun rejected Pan You, it finally caused Li Yu to put the two in prison, and the two committed suicide in anger. Xu Xuan felt bored, immediately resigned and went back, and reported the situation truthfully to Song Taizong, who finally killed Li Yu.

　　　　Soon, Li Yu received a letter from Qingnu, a former palace man, in which he wrote: "In this middle and night, I wash my face with tears." Unfortunately, this letter also fell into the hands of Song Taizong. Emperor Taizong of Song was furious and further determined that Li Yu did not know how to lift.

　　In the blink of an eye, it was Tanabata night again. This day is Li Yu's forty-second birthday, and he wrote a famous "Yu Meiren" poem: "When is the spring flower and autumn moon, how much do you know about the past, Xiaolou last night and the east wind, the homeland can not look back at the moon and the middle of the moon." The carved fence jade should still be there, but Zhu Yan changed. How much sorrow do you have? It is like a river of spring water flowing eastward. There is also a "Wave Taosha": "The rain outside the curtain is babbling, the spring is beautiful, and Luo Yu is impatient with five more cold." In the dream, I did not know that I was a guest, and I was greedy. Alone without a column, unlimited rivers and mountains, it is easy to see when it is difficult. Flowing water and flowers go to spring also, heaven and earth. ”

　　These two pieces were immediately reported to Song Taizong by secret agents. The endless longing for the homeland in the words finally caused Song Taizong to be furious, believing that Li Yu could no longer stay in the world. He immediately sent his son Zhao Yuanzuo to send a bottle of wine in the name of He Shou.

　　On this night of The Tanabata, when the guests and hosts were about to disperse, Li Yu was poisoned and died. The poison came from the bottle of fine wine given by the emperor, and the poison was called "Pulling Machine Medicine", which was said to have been specially made for Li Yu by Emperor Taizong of Song. At the time of the poison hair, the limbs twitched, and the head of the body took dozens of traction loom movements, which was extremely painful.

　　A generation of lyricists, thus ending his life.

　　Emperor Taizong of Song posthumously honored Li Yu as the "King of Wu" and buried him in Luoyang.

　　Shortly after Li Yu was buried, Xiao Zhou, who refused to enter the palace, committed suicide. He was twenty-nine years old, just like his sister after the eldest week.

　　Shortly after Xiao Zhou committed suicide, Huang Baoyi also died, and the cause of death is unknown.

　　"Yu Meiren" spread all over the country.

　　With the passage of time, the image of the dead Li Yu in the hearts of the world has become clearer and clearer, and this "poor and thin king" is known as the "emperor of words". People also sympathize with the "anti-plot" and Li Yu's tragic death. So, a legend also began to circulate -

　　This story says that Song Shenzong occasionally looked at the portraits of the emperors of previous dynasties and found that Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was extremely elegant and handsome, and could not help but stop in front of the statue for a long time, deeply amazed. It was also on this night that Song Shenzong dreamed that Li Yu had suddenly entered his harem. Soon, Chen Meiren in the palace gave birth to a son, named Zhao Tuo, who was the future Emperor Huizong of Song.

　　Like Li Yu, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was a good poet, scholar, and a beautiful person, and the level of pleasure was also at its peak, but he did not know anything about his own work "emperor", and finally brought the Northern Song Dynasty to the fate of collapse.

　　Therefore, everyone in the world said that Emperor Huizong of Song was the reincarnation of Li Yu in order to recover the blood debt from the Zhao and Song royals.

　　However, the things of the underworld are boundless, but the blood and tears in the Five Kingdoms City are real. What would it be like to be like the protagonist of this legend, not to hesitate to taste the misery of being in the abyss for half a lifetime, and to let the people perish and take revenge on the old hatred of more than a hundred years ago. Although the nonsense legend can be laughed at, the taste inside is difficult to appreciate, so it can only be said: "Resentment is also deep for people..."