Emperor Xu Zhiyu of the Southern Tang Dynasty (889-943 CE), courtesy name Zhenglun and small character Pengnu. He was the grand chancellor of the State of Wu, the son of Xu Wenyi, the king of Donghai County, and the brother of Xu Zhizheng, the king of Xuancheng Xu I.
Peng Nu is less lonely and born a lowly person. Father Li Daorong, the end of the Tang Dynasty encountered the calamity of the world, do not know the end, not long mother Liu Shi also died. His uncle Li Qiu took him on a refugee journey between Hao (present-day Fengyang, Anhui) and Si (present-day Si County, Anhui), and Peng Nu became the Shami of The Kaiyuan Temple in Haozhou. In the second year of Qianning (895 AD), Wu Taizu Yang Xingmi attacked Pengnu in Haozhou, and adopted him as an adopted son in a strange appearance, but the sons of yang were incompatible. The Xingmi Beggars will take Xu Wen's place as Fuzhi, whose surname is Xu and whose name is Zhiyi. From the "New Five Dynasties History of the Southern Tang Dynasty".
However, the "History of Wu Yue Bei" says: "Zhi Yu Ben came from the Pan clan, an anji person from Huzhou, Zhejiang". His father was General Anji (an official in charge of money and taxes). Yang Wu's general Li Shenfu attacked the Yijin army, crossed Huzhou, and Yu Pengnu was classified as a servant. Xu Wen befriended the gods, loved him for his modesty, and wondered about his appearance, and asked Peng Nu to be a false son. And Emperor Deng, during the Tianfu Dynasty, tried to write to the Wuyue king Qian Wei to sacrifice the Pan clan ancestral hall and Tian Zhi in Anji, hoping to exchange Biling (present-day Changzhou, Jiangsu) for Huzhou, and the Yue king Qian Wei failed to succeed in his deception. This knowledge is another chapter in the world.
Xu Zhihuan, the founding emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty
Xu Zhiyan was gifted and intelligent, serving Xu Wen like a father, and Wen's wife Li Shi also took good care of him because of the same surname. Xu Zhihuan traveled with Wen, and Xu Wen, because of his bad mood, drove Zhihuan away with his staff, and he went home to greet him in the courtyard. Xu Wen was shocked: "Why are you still here?" Zhi Zhen replied: "As a son of man, do not abandon your parents, and the father is angry and returns to his mother, which is the most reasonable for the son." The Quan Tang Poems taste the nine-year-old poem "Yong Lantern" of Zhi Chen, "A little is clearly worth ten thousand gold, but when it is opened, it is afraid of cold wind." If the master is also diligent in provoking, he dares to be unsatisfactory to the front of the emperor." You can see the filial piety of the curse.
And slightly older, like to read and shoot archery, both literary and martial arts, far-sighted. The elders all greatly appreciated Xu Zhihuan. Yang Xing, the king of Wu, said of Wen Yue: "Knowing the material of Junjie, I see that all the generals are not as good as they are."
In 909 (the third year of Later Liang Kaiping), Xu Wenyao led Shengzhou (升州, in present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu) to assassinate Shi, and appointed Xu Zhiyan as the envoy of Shengzhou Defense and the deputy envoy of Lou Ship. In the following year, he was appointed deputy envoy of Shengzhou and knew the affairs of the state. The general Chai then attacked Xuanzhou (宣州, in modern Xuancheng, Anhui) and killed Li Yu. The merits of Zhi Yu Sasuke were promoted to the history of the state assassin. At that time, the state assassins were all from the military background, and they only cared about marching and fighting, and no one cared about government affairs. Only Xu Zhihuan made good use of honest officials and actively governed the localities. Pour out their money and attract talents. Virtuous people from all over the world turned to him, and he also used talents heavily. The people's hearts and minds are full of praise.
Ancient Xuanzhou City
In 927 (the seventh year of Shunyi), his father Xu Wen died of illness at the age of sixty-six. In November, Yang Pu, the king of Wu, proclaimed himself emperor, changed his name to Yuan Qianzhen, and was given the title of Duke of Yuzhang(豫章公).
In the third year of Tianzuo (937 AD), Xu Zhi deposed Yang Pu, the king of Wu, Dengdi, and The Capital Jinling, with the state name "Qi". He was posthumously honored as King Wenqi of Xuwenqi and zhongwu. Fengyi's brother Xu Zhizhi (徐知證江王), the King of Wei (魏王), was in Zhenxuan Prefecture (镇宣州). Fengyi's brother Xu Zhichen (徐知谔) the King of Rao. He was also enfeoffed as the King of Liang, and was also a Zhongshu Ling , Zhenrun Prefecture.
Sometimes there is a folk proverb: "A few lines of passengers are fixed in the eyes, and the carp of the East China Sea flies into the sky." "The East Sea, both "Xu's Hope". "Carp" means "Lee". Flying into the sky means "soaring into the sky". "Xu Zhiyu started with Li Shenfu, and later returned to Wen, wanting to assume the surname of Li to respond to Li Er." In the third year of the Sheng Dynasty (939 AD), Xu Zhi established the Twelve Tang Emperors Temple Sheji, "with the number of the world, the orthodoxy of the Tang Room", renamed Li Fu [biàn], and the national name "Tang". Strange things throughout the ages: For the sake of a few proverbs for children, Xu Zhiyan actually changed his name, changed his surname, and changed his country name.
After Xu Zhiyan opened the imperial state, he was frugal and self-motivated. A truce was fought against foreign soldiers, and the neighboring countries of Wuyue were reconciled. Vigorously promote internal efforts to lighten the small endowments and nourish the people's livelihood.
Once, when he was out in the middle of summer heat, he did not use an umbrella or a fan, and his entourage saw that he was sweating hot and sweaty, and held an umbrella for him, and he said, "The soldiers are exposed to the sun, how can I use this thing?" He often wore shoes woven of grass on his feet, washed his hands and washed his face with iron basins, and slept in a mosquito net made of green kudzu in the summer, using only old and ugly palace people around him, and the clothes were rough and simple. The palace was even reluctant to light candles, but was illuminated with black seed oil. He also arranged for emissaries to inspect the people's fields and approve the peasants' taxes according to the fatness and thinness of the fields, and the people praised them as fair and reasonable. Those who die fighting for the country are issued to the state for three years. Xu Zhihuan was meticulous about political affairs, and read the chapter day and night, setting an example for the ministers. The people in the Southern Tang Dynasty lived in peace, and the national economy developed greatly. "Fifty years in Jiangbiao, the father does not cry, the brother does not lose his brother, and the four seals are peaceful and comfortable." Based on this alone, Xu Zhihuan was a good emperor worthy of praise. The Southern Tang Dynasty became the strongest of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
In his later years, Xu Zhihuan advocated Taoism, took Dan poisoning, and had a violent and irritable personality. In February 943 (the seventh year of Shengyuan), he suffered back sores and died at the Shengyuan Hall on the twenty-second day of the 22nd month, at the age of fifty-six. He left Xu Jingtong the Prince of Qi to oversee the state (later renamed Li Jingtong due to his father). In March of the same year, Emperor Jing succeeded to the throne as Emperor Yuanzong of southern Tang. In November, Xu Zhihuan was buried in Qinling, with the courtesy name of Emperor Xiaogao of Guangwen Su and the temple name of Liezu.
Qinling Tomb of Zutang Mountain, Zutang Mountain, Jiangning District, Nanjing
Words Nan Tang old dreams. The liezu Xu Zhi (徐知诰讬[ tuō] was named Xu Shi (徐氏), who ruled Jiangnan. To raise the people by the soldiers, to be virtuous to clear the soil, to have the grace of a gentleman... Although the children's proverb "East Sea carp, zhao although there is self", but "a soaring sky" only the Southern Tang Liezu has virtue, elegance, and pinzhi can also do.