Later, Empress Zhuangzong of Tang became a "woman", and there were no strange things that she could not do
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In the chaotic history of the five generations, Li Cunxun was a typical figure who immediately won the world but could not rule the world immediately, and perished in an instant. Bai Yang once commented: "There are many half-cut people in politics, and Li Cunxun is a condensed model." He fought bloody battles for twenty years, and no matter what kind of performance, he was an outstanding and wise leader, almost exactly like Li Shimin the Great, including having experienced hundreds of battles, not a single hair was injured. However, his career was too short, and he only lasted for two years and six months, and then he died in the country. The capture of Kaifeng should be a turning point, turning him into a 'half-cut hero'..."
As for why Li Cunxun turned into a "half-cut hero" and won the world immediately but could not rule the world immediately, there are many reasons for this. One of the most representative statements is a passage by Ouyang Xiu in the "Preface to the Biography of the New Five Generations of Lingguan": "The Book says: 'Full of losses, humble gains. 'Sorrow can rejuvenate the country, Yiyu can die, and so can nature. Therefore, Fang Qisheng is also able to fight with the world's haojie Mo; and its decline, dozens of people are trapped, and the country is destroyed, laughing for the world. ”
Ouyang Wenzhonggong's position as a leader in the literary world and a holy hand of ancient literature can be described as a complete conclusion of Li Cunxun's coffin, and Li Cunxun has since become a typical representative of complacency and Yiyu in history.
As for Li Cunxun's ruling mistakes after winning the world, there have been many comments in history: he was quiet and vocal, he had no way to employ people, he connived at the empress to interfere in politics, he reused servants and eunuchs, he was jealous of killing heroes, he was arrogant and violent, he was stingy with money, and so on, and so on.
In these ruling mistakes above Li Cunxun, there are many records in history that there are many records and stories circulating in the history of favoring people and people who are suspicious of the heroes and generals.
Among them, Empress Li Cunxun's empress Liu's exclusive harem liked to amass wealth, and a generation of empresses became "women" that made future generations of history readers marvel.
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Li Cunxun married Han as his wife in his early years, and later took many concubines, among which the more famous ones were Yi and Liu. In addition, there are Guo's, Hou's and so on.
In the group of Li Cunxun's wives and concubines, the Han clan was the leader, the Yi clan was second, and the Liu clan was again. However, although Liu's rank was low, she had the upper hand in the harem battle, and was the most favored, and finally the empress's position was added, completing her commoner woman's life counterattack road to a generation of empresses.
In the late Tang Dynasty, during Zhu Wen's battle to pacify Yun Prefecture and Yanzhou, in the third year of Qianning (896), Zhu Xuan asked Zhu Wen's old enemy Li Keyong for help, and Li Keyong sent Li Cunxin to save Zhu Xuan through Wei Prefecture (present-day Wei County, Hebei). Li Cunxin(李存信) was in Xinxian County, and the army was harassing the people and plundering in Wei Prefecture, and Wei Bojiedu had Luo Hongxin's ambush troops attack Li Cunxin, and Li Cunxin was defeated and retreated to Huan prefecture (洺州, in modern Yongnian County, Hebei). Li Keyong personally led an army to attack Wei Prefecture, engaging Luo Hongxin at Huanshui, and Li Keyong's son Li Luoluo was killed. In June, Li Ke used more than ten cities such as Weizhou, Cheng'an, Huanshui, and Linzhang. In October, after defeating Wei Bo's army at Bailongtan and attacking Guanyin Gate, Zhu Wen's rescuers arrived, and the danger of Wei Bo's army was lifted.
The Fourth Chronicle of the New Five Dynasties of Tang Dynasty records: "Zhu Quanzhongzhi attacked Yan, Yun Ye, and Ke used Li Cunxin to fake WeiZhou to save Zhu Xuan and so on. Cunxin tun in Xinxian County, the sergeant invaded Wei territory, Luo Hongxin ambushed the army to attack it, Cunxin defeated and left Puzhou. Ke used his own general to attack Wei, fought in Huanshui, and killed his son. In June, wei cheng'an, Huanshui, Linzhang, and other more than ten yi were broken. In October, he defeated the Wei people at Bailongtan and attacked the Guanyin Gate, but Quan Zhong rescued him. ”
Just this time, when Li Ke attacked Wei Prefecture to plunder Cheng'an, Liu Shi, the daughter of a five- or six-year-old Weizhou Cheng'an civilian, became a trophy for the Jin army. Liu's father, Old Man Liu, had a yellow beard and probably knew some medical techniques and fortune telling techniques, nicknamed "Liu Shanren".
Cheng An was captured, Liu Shi was plundered by Li Keyong's deputy general Yuan Jianfeng, and in the chaotic years, Old Man Liu could only watch his daughter being plundered, and there was nothing he could do. Yuan Jianfeng saw that the little Liu Clan was well-behaved and clever, and her appearance was also good, so he sent her to the Palace of the King of Jin to learn song and dance. From this historical record, Liu Shi was born around 890 AD. Li Cunxun was born in 885, about five years older than Liu.
Li Ke used his wife Cao Shi (Empress Zhenjian) to train Liu Shi to play sheng song and dance. Eighteen changes in the female eldest, Liu Shi is very beautiful when she grows up, and she can speak the Tao, sharp teeth, and good at observing colors. Because of the small entry into the palace, there are more people who see the intrigues and fights in the harem, and they have no teacher to understand themselves, and they are also handy in their later use.
In the second year of Kaiping (908), Li Keyong died, Li Cunxun succeeded to the throne of Jin, Li Cunxun's mother Cao Shi came to his palace and put wine as a life, Li Cunxun liked to sing opera from an early age, often playing with people, calling the empress dowager "Li Tianxia", seeing her mother come to congratulate herself, Li Cunxun then got up and sang a song and dance, Cao Clan was very happy, let Liu Clan blow sheng to help the wine, the wine banquet ended, Cao Clan gave Liu Clan to Li Cunxun.
After Liu Entered the Palace, he gave full play to his musical skills and was favored by Li Cunxun.
After Liu Entered Li Cunxun's harem, the first fire burned against her love enemy, Lady Jiazhai.
The year before Liu entered Li Cunxun's harem, in the first year of Liang Kaiping (907), Zhu Wen dynasty Tang Jianliang. In May of that year, Zhu Wen sent the general Kang Huaiying to lead 100,000 troops to besiege the Jin general Li Sizhao 's town of Lu Prefecture (潞州, in modern Changzhi, Shanxi) and build a fortress around the city. Li Ke, the King of Jin, sent Zhou Dewei to aid him, tun at Yuwu (present-day Liu County, Shanxi). Zhou Dewei led the vanguard to challenge, and sometimes captured, Tang Huaiying did not dare to attack. Later Zhu Wen replaced him with Li Si'an.
Li Si'an built an outer fort in the military camp, called Jiazhai (夹城), and built a sandwich road from the southeast mountain pass to transport materials and equipment, and from then on, the Liang army was firmly in the wall, and Zhou Dewei's troops were in Chaoliu (present-day Tunliu, Shanxi), and the battle entered a stalemate stage.
In the first month of the following year, Li Ke died, and Li Cunxun was promoted to the throne. In March, Zhu Wen took advantage of Li Cunxun's new establishment to pro-unify the army to Zezhou (zezhou, northeast of present-day Jincheng, Shanxi), replacing Li Si'an with Liu Zhijun as an envoy, Fan Junyu and Liu Chongba as the vanguard, and Niu Cunjie as the commander of liang's army to the eldest son (present-day shanxi eldest son) to assist the Liang army that besieged Luzhou.
In April of that year, Li Cunxun summoned Zhou Dewei back to Taiyuan. Liang's guard gradually relaxed, and Zhu Wen returned to Luoyang from Zezhou. Li Cunxun then sent an army from Taiyuan to Camp in Huangnian Village, Lucheng County. In May, Li Cunxun led his pro-army Fusan chuigang (伏三勖) (present-day Tunliu County, Shanxi). The next day, riding on the fog, the army reached the city. When Li Siyuan's general account attacked the northeast corner, Li Cunzhang and Wang Ba led Ding Fu to burn the village, cut off the city into two roads, Zhou Dewei and Li Cunzhen attacked separately, the sergeants clamored, and the three roads advanced in unison, Li Siyuan broke through the northeast corner of the city, took the lead in covering up, and the Liang army was defeated.
In this battle of Jiazhai, the Jin army beheaded more than 10,000 people, won 300 Liang generals, and a million millets. Kang Huaiying escaped on more than a hundred horses out of Tingting Pass (on the Taihang Mountains in present-day Jincheng, Shanxi), and Luzhou was besieged. This is the famous "Battle of Mitsuruoka" in history.
In this battle, in addition to the number of generals mentioned above, there was also a general named Fu Daozhao, who was then Liang's envoy. "After Taizu received Zen, he commissioned troops to attack Luzhou with Kang Huaiying in the first year of Kaiping, and built a city to encircle it, and after more than a year, the Jin army attacked the city and Daozhao was killed in battle."
Fu Daozhao was killed in battle, and his consort Hou Shi became a prisoner, and when Li Cunxun saw the charming Hou Shi, he immediately accepted her as a concubine, and soon favored the palaces, with the title of "Lady Jiazhai". Zhai Hao, a Qing Dynasty man, called the novel "Lady of the Village", who had no knowledge before, and seemed to be the blackmail of "pinching the village". (See Popular Edition Women)
Li Cunxun sent troops in all directions, often called Hou Shi to accompany him. However, the good times did not last long, and when Liu Shi was accepted, his stomach was angry, and he soon gave Li Cunxun a son, Li Jiquan. Li Jiquan looks very much like Li Cunxun and is deeply loved by Li Cunxun. Perhaps it is because of aiwu and Wu, but also because Liu Clan is successful in the palace fight in the harem, and since then Liu Clan has favored the harem.
The Second Biography of the Tang Family, New Five Dynasties History, Volume XIV: "Earlier, Emperor Zhuang attacked Liang's army at Jiacheng, and he was given the title of 'Lady of Jiazhai' in the palace. Emperor Zhuangzong sent troops in all directions, often serving as Hou Shi. Subsequently, Liu Shi gave birth to a son, and Emperor Zhuang thought that he was like himself and loved him, and it was Liu Shi's favorite Yizhuan, who had been in Wei Bo and Zhan He for more than ten years, and was the only one who followed Liu Shi. Liu Shi was wise, good at welcoming his will, and the other concubines had to enter the meeting. ”
After the victory at the Battle of Baixiang in the eighth year of Tianyou (911), Li Cunxun decided to suspend the offensive against Later Liang and seize the Hebei region first to eliminate his worries. Since the capture of Wei Bo, he fought with Hou Liang on both sides of the Yellow River for more than ten years, and only called Liu Shi to accompany the army, and the original favorite Hou Clan became a mosquito blood that passed through the smoke clouds.
Two
During li Cunxun's more than ten years of fighting against Houliang in Hebei and on both sides of the Yellow River, Liu shi accompanied the army. Liu's father, Old Man Liu, heard that his daughter was now rich and had become a princess of Jin, so he went to the Palace of the King of Jin to ask for a meeting. Li Cunxun summoned Yuan Jianfeng to inquire about the plundering of the Liu clan at that time, and Yuan Jianfeng recalled: "The subject first got the Liu clan in Cheng'an Beiwu, when there was an old man with a yellow beard with her and always took her with him. Li Cunxun asked Old Man Liu to meet with Yuan Jianfeng, and Yuan Jianfeng said, "It's him." ”
At this time, although Liu Shi was favored, but the seat was not safe, and was competing with the ladies for favors, to the door of the high and low, she did not want to recognize this father, angrily said: "When I left my hometown, I had a little memory, my father unfortunately died in the rebellion, I was crying around the corpse. How did this tian sheweng get here! "Ordered to whip Liu Shu at the palace gate."
In April of the twentieth year of Tianyou (923), Li Cunxun accepted the persuasion of zhuzhen and proclaimed himself emperor at Wei Prefecture (魏州, in present-day Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province), changing the twenty years of Tianyou to the first year of Tongguang, using "Tang" as the national name, and the history was called Later Tang.
After becoming emperor, Li Cunxun ordered Li Siyuan to lead an army to attack Yun Prefecture, and then fought with the Liang generals Wang Yanzhang and Duan Ning for several months at Deshengcheng and Yang Liucheng, dragging the main force of Liang's army around Shandong. In October of that year, Li Cunxun adopted the strategy of surrendering the general Kang Yanxiao and rode lightly to take Bian Prefecture.
After the Tang army crossed wenshui, Li Cunxun ordered Li Siyuan to advance as the vanguard of the attack. Li Siyuan encountered Wang Yanzhang's forces and won a complete victory, capturing Later Liang's Zhongdu (中都, in modern Wenshang, Shandong) and capturing Wang Yanzhang.
Li Cunxun immediately made a decision and ordered the generals to return to their families and return to Xingtang Province. He himself set an example by sending away Liu Shi and his eldest son Li Jiquan, who accompanied the army, and when he was leaving, Li Cunxun told Liu Shi: "The country succeeds or fails, in this move, if it fails, gather The Li family members in the palace, burn it out, and do not fall into the enemy country." ”
Liu Shi said: "Your Majesty will succeed in this, how can it be said that it will be long, and the concubines are still waiting to enjoy glory and wealth." Some commentators commented: "The lord of Nengbo Tang is happy here." ”
After arranging his family, Li Siyuan led 5,000 cavalry to abandon all their weights, each carrying only seven days of grain, and quickly broke into Bian Prefecture, and Li Cunxun led the 15,000 infantry of the Chinese army to lightly armed and closely followed. All the way to Zhongdu and Caozhou, it took only eight days to enter the city of Beizhou, forcing the Liang Emperor Zhu Youzhen to commit suicide in despair and destroy Hou Liang.
Li Cunxun destroyed Liang, and Hou Liang's gold and silver treasures and Jiangshan Sheji became Later Tang's. Also obtained for Li Cunxun were the women in the Houliang Palace, including Guo Shi.
Guo Shi was the daughter of Guo Guihou of Later Liang Dengzhou, the concubine of The Late Liang Emperor Zhu Youzhen, who was captured by the Later Tang army after the fall of Later Liang, and after Li Cunxun entered the Liang Palace, he saw Guo Shi and summoned Guo to bed that night, and after the bed, he was included in the harem by Li Cunxun.
Not long after, Liu Shi came to Kaifeng with his son Li Jiquan from Xingtang Province, and heard that Li Cunxun had accepted Guo As a concubine, so he made a quarrel with Li Cunxun, probably Li Cunxun was in a state of scenery at this time, and there was some self-control of himself, and he may have realized that the imperial concubine of the Former Na Dynasty had behaved inappropriately, so he listened to Liu's persuasion and let Guo become a nun. In order to break Li Cunxun's thoughts, Liu Shi sent Guo Shi to the distant Luoyang Nunnery to become a monk, and he was a nun for life, and his legal name was righteous.
"New Five Dynasties History of the Liang Family Biography": "The second concubine Guo, the father returned to Hou, and liang was the history of Dengzhou' assassination." Concubine less in color. After the death of Liang, Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang entered the throne, and The concubines of Liang's concubines all wept to greet and worship. Princess Youyong of He had a colored shi clan, Zhuang Zong summoned him, Shi clan insulted, and Zhuang Zong killed him. The second time to summon the concubine, the concubine was afraid and obeyed. He has been a nun, given the name of oath, and lives in Luoyang. ”
Li Cunxun, who was called empress dowager, had to be made empress, and if he was senior, it was not Liu's turn, because she still had the Han and Yi clans in front of her, but Li Cunxun liked the Liu clan, and Li Cunxun wanted to make Liu shi empress, and he found it difficult to do it from the etiquette. The chancellor Dou Luge and the Privy Counsellor Guo Chongtao knew Li Cunxun's intentions, and Shang song said that Liu Shi should be made empress, and Li Cunxun was overjoyed. In the second year of Tongguang (924), Li Cunxun held a suburban ceremony in Luoyang, and luoyang was the capital, no longer Kaifeng.
Li Cunxun made Liu empress at the Luoyang Civilization Hall. The Liu clan accepted the canonization, rode on a float decorated with pheasant feathers, halogen books, preached, and sacrificed to the Taimiao Temple. Luoyang soldiers and women, rushing to watch, the street is congested.
Lady Han and others were indignant, and Li Cunxun had no choice but to make Han a concubine and a concubine to the Yi clan.
Three
Because guo shi, under the advice of Liu shi, became a nun. Now that Liu Shi was crowned Empress Tang, both inside and outside the Later Tang Dynasty knew the weight of Empress Liu, so they competed to pay tribute. During Li Cunxun's reign, Liu shi was extremely powerful, and the edicts she issued had the same effect as the emperor's edicts, and they had to be implemented by local governments. Generals such as Yuan Xiangxian, Wen Tao, and Zhang Quanyi were all reused by generously rewarding liu shi. Xuzhou Jiedu made Guo Wentao, because Liu believed in Buddhism, asked to use his private body as a Buddhist temple to bless Empress Liu.
At that time, the treasures that the four parties paid tribute to the royal family had to be divided into two parts, one for the Son of Heaven and one for the Liu family. Not only that, in order to accumulate wealth, Empress Liu also sent people to the streets to do business, even the firewood and grass fruits were sold on the street, and the empress became a second-way dealer, and competed with the people for profits, which was enough to become a strange talk for thousands of years.
Although Liu Shi is very powerful, after all, there is still her unsatisfactory, that is, her common people are born, and she often laughs and talks privately for other concubines, which is a fly in the ointment. Although she did not recognize her biological father, Old Man Liu, the civilian origin could not block the mouth of the world's yo-yo people, and it reached Liu's ears, which inevitably embarrassed her.
On the sixth day of the first month of December in the second year of Tongguang (924), Empress Liu and Li Cunxun went to the home of the chancellor Zhang Quanyi, and Zhang Quanyi laid out all the items donated to the emperor. When she was drinking happily, Empress Liu asked Li Cunxun to say that she had lost her parents since she was a child, and when she saw the old man, she missed her parents and asked to recognize Zhang Quanyi as her father. Li Cunxun agreed to her request.
The empress recognized herself as Lao Tzu, and Zhang Quanyi could not think of it at all, let alone be mentally prepared. He panicked and repeatedly resigned. Empress Liu insisted repeatedly, and finally Zhang Quanyi accepted her prayer, and when she left, she took out a lot of tribute to Empress Liu to thank Her.
The next day, Empress Liu ordered Zhao Feng, a scholar of Hanlin, to write a letter thanking Zhang Quanyi, and Zhao Feng secretly played Li Cunxun, saying that since ancient times, no empress who was the mother of the world had worshiped the chancellor as a father. Li Cunxun praised him for his integrity, but in the end he did as Empress Liu wanted. Since then, Empress Liu and Zhang Quanyi have sent emissaries to greet and give gifts every day, without interruption.
Li Cunxun had a love ji, who was very beautiful and bore a son for Li Cunxun, and Liu was afraid of being taken away. Just when Li Cunxun's love caused Yuan Xingqin to lose his wife, Li Cunxun, in order to show concern, said to Yuan Xingqin: "Your wife is dead, I will help you find another one." When Liu Shi saw that the opportunity had come, he pointed to Li Cunxun's Ai Ji and pleaded, "Why don't you give this Ji to him?" Li Cunxun was a good-looking person, and he did not resist Liu's words much, pretending to agree. Unexpectedly, Liu Shi hit the iron while it was hot and directly sent Li Cunxun's Aiji out of the palace. Li Cunxun was very angry and pretended to be ill for several days without eating.
In the autumn of the third year of the Later Tang Dynasty (925), the Luo River of the Yellow River rose and flooded, the people went into exile everywhere, the capital could not collect taxes, and some of the generals of the Sixth Army were so hungry that they fainted and died, so they borrowed taxes from the people for the summer and autumn of next year, and the people cried on the road, and Li Cunxun and Empress Liu continued to hunt and parade.
On December 6 of that year, Li Cunxun went hunting in Baisha, and Empress Liu led the crown prince and the harem to follow, passing through Yique, staying in the niches, and playing until December 24 before returning to Beijing. At that time, the sky was snowing heavily, the soldiers were cold, the golden guns and guards were riding, and everywhere they went, they had to issue supplies, destroyed the equipment, demolished the houses and burned the houses, not to mention the ordinary people, even the county officials were afraid to flee to the mountains and hide.
Empress Liu appropriated all the money contributed by the Later Tang Sifang for herself, but she was stingy and did not reward it, and only used it to provide for Jia Lan. In March of the fourth year of Tongguang (926), the domestic famine was rife, the treasury of Luoyang Province was exhausted, and the non-commissioned officers of the forbidden army did not issue military food, and many non-commissioned officers were even forced to sell their wives and children. At this time, it coincided with the mutiny in Yidu, and rumors spread in the army. At that time, the guest star violated the Heavenly Treasury, and there were stars flowing in the Sky. The astrologer said, "There are chaotic soldiers in front of the imperial court, and they should scatter money and wealth to eliminate disasters." ”
The prime minister asked to take out the treasury to supply the army, Li Cunxun agreed, but Empress Liu refused, saying: "My husband and wife have won the world, although because of martial arts, it is also because of the mandate of heaven." Since fate is in heaven, what can others do to us? ”
The chancellor and other ministers discussed in the Yanying Palace, and Empress Liu heard it behind the screen, so she took out her makeup and took out her young son Manxi and put it in front of Li Cunxun, saying: "The things that the princes have paid tribute to have been rewarded, and there is only these in the palace, please take them to supply military supplies!" In this way, the prime minister was frightened and retreated, and he no longer dared to mention the matter of letting the emperor's family pay for it.
Guo Chongtao was a later Tang chancellor and famous general. In the third year of Tongguang (925), Li Cunxun made his eldest son Li Jiquan the capital and Guo Chongtao as an envoy, leading an army of 60,000 to attack Former Shu. On November 26 of the same year, he led an army to Chengdu, Wang Yan surrendered, and Former Shu perished.
However, Guo Chongtao, who had made great achievements in destroying Shu, went to a dead end, which had a lot to do with Empress Liu.
After the destruction of Former Shu, all political affairs were managed by Guo Chongtao, and the eunuchs around Li Jiquan were a bunch of greedy villains, and when they saw the traffic in front of Guo Chongtao's door, there was an endless stream of people who gave gifts, but they did not have the opportunity to catch a little oil and water, so they tried their best to provoke right and wrong in front of Li Jitao and frame Guo Chongtao. At the instigation of eunuchs, the contradiction between Li Jiquan and Guo Chongtao gradually deepened.
The eunuch arrived in Shudi with an edict to Yan Si and ordered Guo Chongtao to return to the dynasty, but Guo Chongtao did not go to the countryside to greet him according to etiquette when Xiang Yansi arrived, which just created an excuse for the eunuchs to frame him. After Xiang Yansi returned, he provoked a lot of trouble, saying that Guo Chongtao did not want the class to return to the dynasty and wanted to stand on his own.
Li Cunxun ordered the eunuch Ma Yangui to rush to Shudi to investigate whether Guo Chongtao was a class master, and if the class master had already, if he intended to postpone his stay, he and Li Jiquan would get rid of him. Ma Yangui went to Empress Liu and said, "If a calamity occurs, in an instant, how can there be time to request the Holy Spirit thousands of miles away?" As soon as Empress Liu heard this, she went to Li Cunxun and said, and Li Cunxun said, "I haven't understood the truth of the matter, so how can I give a clear order?" ”
When Empress Liu saw that Li Cunxun refused to order Guo Chongtao to be beheaded, she wrote a religious decree herself, asking Ma Yangui to hand it over to Li Jiquan and let him kill Guo Chongtao first.
After Ma Yangui arrived, Guo Chongtao had already set a date for the departure of the squad and arranged for the generals who stayed behind to wait for Meng Zhixiang to arrive. Ma Yangui gave Li Jiquan the order of Empress Liu, and the next morning, the eunuch Li Congxuan summoned Guo Chongtao to discuss in li jiquan's name, and Li Jiquan went upstairs to hide, and when Guo Chongtao came in, the ambush soldiers on the left and right came out and beat Guo Chongtao to death with iron rafters. Five of his sons were also killed, two of whom died in Shudi and three elsewhere, with all their family property confiscated.
Zhao Zaili was originally the commander of the Later Tang Dynasty Army, stationed at Waqiao Pass with the Wei army, and in February of the fourth year of Tongguang (926), the sergeant Huang Fuhui and other xing troops rebelled, and elected the commander Yang Renhui as the commander, Yang Renzhu did not comply, was killed by the rebels, and Emperor Fuhui carried Yang Rensheng's head to coerce Zhao Zaili as a commander. Zhao Zaili heard about the mutiny and wanted to climb the wall to escape, but was pulled down from the wall by Huang Fuhui's feet, and then put the knife holder on Zhao Zaili's neck, showed him Yang Rensheng's head, and said, "If you don't follow us, you will be such a first rank." Knowing that he was irresistible, Zhao zaili agreed to come down and led a rebel army into the capital of Yidu (邺都, in modern Linzhang County, Hebei Province) on February 6, 926, and Zhao Zaili claimed to be the queen.
Li Cunxun decided to send an army to attack Wei Prefecture, and only then did the palace take out its treasures to reward the army, and the sergeant scolded while taking it: "My wife has starved to death, what is the use of taking these?" ”
Li Cunxun personally led an army on the Eastern Expedition and wanted to sit in Bian Prefecture to command the counterinsurgency. Li Siyuan had already preemptively occupied Bian Prefecture and was supported by a large number of Tang generals. Li Cunxun knew that the situation was irreparable, and marched to the town of Wansheng (萬胜镇, in present-day northwestern Zhongmu, Henan) and ordered him to return to his division and return to Luoyang in a hurry.
At this time, Li Cunxun repeatedly comforted the soldiers and promised a generous reward, but it was too late. The soldiers escaped more than halfway along the way.
Li Cunxun decided to go to Shuishuiguan (汜水關, in present-day Xingyang, Henan) in order to join the army of his son Li Jiquan (李吉岌), who had returned from Conquest Shu, and then join forces to attack Li Siyuan. He ordered his soldiers to wait outside the palace gate and eat in the inner temple himself. Commanded by Ma Zhi, Guo Congqian suddenly launched a rebellion and led his troops to attack the Xingjiao Gate.
Guo Congqian and Guo Chongtao are of the same nationality, usually regard Guo Chongtao as an uncle, and are also the adopted sons of Li Cunqi, the King of Mu, Guo Chongtao and Li Cunyi were successively killed by Li Cunxun, and Guo Congqian hated him and prepared for revenge. Guo Congqian launched a mutiny, entered the palace, burned the Xingjiao Gate, most of Li Cunxun's close advisers fled, only Wang Quanbin and a dozen other people resisted, and in the melee, Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxun was shot by random arrows, and Wang Quanbin helped him to the Daixiao Hall.
Li Cunxun was lying badly injured under the corridor of the Diaoxiao Palace, so thirsty that he wanted to drink water, Empress Liu asked the eunuch to bring cheese, but she did not come to see it in person. After drinking the cheese, Li Cunxun died at the age of 43. The good friend covered Li Cunxun's body with an instrument and set fire to the body.
After Li Cunxun's death, Empress Liu, Li Cunxun's younger brother Li Cunwo the Prince of Shen, and others burned the Jialing Palace and fled from the Lion Gate with hundreds of horses. Empress Liu was carrying a gold treasure belt in a leather bag on her horse and wanted to build a temple in Taiyuan as a nun.
Li Cunwo and Empress Liu ran to Taiyuan together, and Empress Liu and Li Cunwo, who were not willing to be lonely, stayed and flew together along the way, becoming a couple of chaotic dew. On the way to the Valley of the Winds, Li Cunwo was killed by the rebels, and Empress Liu cut her hair as a nun after she arrived in Taiyuan. After Emperor Mingzong of Tang ascended the throne, he sent someone to Taiyuan to kill Empress Liu.
In the fifth year of the Later Jin Dynasty (940), Empress Liu was given the title of "Empress Shen Min Jing" by Shi Jingtang, the ancestor of jin.
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