Chapter 26 How can thieves be virtuous?

Who exactly destroyed the back beam?It turns out that although Zhu Wenjian is known as Zun, his actual ruling area is less than one-third of the Central Plains. He is surrounded by enemies, and the civil and foreign wars have never stopped.Among them, there is an old Tang dynasty town, which was built by Li Keyong from Shatuo. He is the strongest and has a deep hatred with Zhu Huang.After Li Keyong died, he passed the throne to his son Li Cunxu. This Li Cunxu was a famous general of his generation.So Zhu Huang was busy fighting, his energy was limited, and he was not of Jinde, so he mentioned it by the way when he ascended the throne, and didn't make any more troubles.

In 923 A.D., Hou Liang was finally wiped out by Li Cunxu.Li's father and son were originally Shatuo people. This short-lived ethnic minority originally belonged to the Turks. The Turks were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty. Shatuo took advantage of the trend and descended to the Tang Dynasty. The leader Zhu Xie was given the surname Li.When it came to Li Keyong and Li Cunxu, they simply raised the banner of revitalizing the Tang Dynasty to call on all the princes to stand up and fight against Zhu Huang.At that time, the Li family held two banners, one was "Tang", although the Tang Dynasty fell, they still considered themselves the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty;However, when Li Cunxu's power swelled, when the northerners repelled the Khitans, and the southerners beat the Houliang army like dogs, he simply abolished the "Jin" banner and called it "Tang".why?It turned out that this old man was honest and polite. He ascended the throne of the emperor himself and called himself the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Cunxu's behavior looks familiar.That’s right, back then Liu Yuan was also given the surname Liu by a foreigner, and claimed to revive the Han Dynasty. As a result, a Xiongnu regime was first established. Now Li Cunxu claims to revive the Tang Dynasty, and the result is also the beginning of a Shatuo tribe. Regime—Historically known as the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Cunxu was the famous Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang Dynasty. However, Li Cunxu is much more pleasing and luckier than Liu Yuan, because when Wei and Jin rose successively, the Han Dynasty was almost forgotten by the big guys. Even Zhuge Liang could not hold the banner of revitalizing the Han Dynasty. Of course, Yuan was even more unstable, so he had no choice but to tear off his disguise angrily, and changed the country name to "Zhao".When Li Cunxu played the banner of revitalizing the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had just died not long ago, and Zhu Huang was doing mischief in the Central Plains, so people thought about Tang.Although he is not Li Tangzheng's son, Li Cunxu's banner is still playing steadily.Well, since it is the revival of the Tang Dynasty, he naturally cannot inherit the Jinde of the Later Liang Dynasty. He claims to be the Water Virtue, and must "declare" to declare that he is also the same as the previous Tang Dynasty, and he is also the Tu Virtue.Wind dust finishing and production.

The Jinde of the Houliang was buried like this, and he was picked out of the cycle of five virtues—no way, the winner is a prince, the loser is a thief, can a thief dare to be virtuous? Li Cunxu is good at fighting, but unfortunately he can't govern the country.As soon as the back beam was destroyed, he felt arrogantly that reunification was a matter of course. From then on, he ignored state affairs, became obsessed with performing arts, and became the highest-ranking theater fanatic in history.He also gave himself a stage name called "Li Tianxia".One time he called out "Li Tianxia" three times as soon as he came on stage, but an actor rushed up and gave him a big mouth, shouting: "There can only be one person who manages the world, how can there be three?" He also praised the actor for his loyalty.

Li Cunxu just sang operas like this, and sang his life away-in the fourth year of Tongguang (AD 926), a mutiny broke out in the capital Luoyang, and the rebellious army killed the old "Li Tianxia" with one arrow.But although Li Cunxu died, the Later Tang Dynasty did not die. Li Keyong's adopted son Li Siyuan grabbed the throne, allowing the Tude Dynasty to last for another ten years, and finally died in the Later Jin Dynasty. The founding emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty was named Shi Jingtang, who was originally a general of the Later Tang Dynasty, but later had conflicts with Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, and flagrantly set off a rebellion.But Li Congke has a strong army and horses, and Shi Jingtang can't beat him, so what should we do?Throughout the ages, everything has a lower limit, only human integrity has no lower limit. Shi Jingtang had nowhere to go, so he simply opened the door and robbed, and begged the Khitan soldiers to rush into Zhongyuan for help. Yelu Deguang, the leader of Khitan who is not as old as himself, is his father!Sheng seized power by relying on shamelessness.

Later generations called Shi Jingtang a "traitor". This is not true, because Lao Shi was not a Han in the first place. He was from Shatuo just like the royal family of the Later Tang Dynasty. The later Jin followed the later Tang and prospered, and gold was born locally, so the second Jinde Dynasty in the Five Dynasties was born in this way.This Jinde Dynasty was also short-lived. After Shi Jingtang died, his son Shi Chonggui succeeded to the throne, and he had a bit of backbone. Back then, Shi Jingtang professed himself a vassal to Khitan and even recognized a godfather. The grandson is willing to be a minister, but the minister is not willing to be, and intends to sever even the nominal vassal relationship with Khitan.It's a pity that Shi Chonggui and his group of important ministers were so weak that they were completely useless. In the end, Yelu Deguang led the troops into the Central Plains and destroyed the country directly.

The late Jin court was finished. The emperor and ministers were either killed or captured, but the common people were still there. For a while, righteous soldiers rose up everywhere, and the Khitan soldiers were beaten to the point of neglecting their heads, and they were completely plunged into the vast ocean of people's war.Yelu Deguang had no choice but to say: "I didn't expect the Chinese to be so difficult to deal with." He withdrew his troops and returned to the country, and he was so angry that he died halfway. The Jiedu of the Later Jin Dynasty made Liu Zhiyuan take the opportunity to rise up and establish a political power, known as the Later Han Dynasty in history.Why is the country name "Han" used again?It turned out that Liu Zhiyuan was also from Shatuo, God knows where the surname Liu came from, since he couldn't find the reason for giving the surname, he simply made up a lie, saying that he was the eighth son of Emperor Xianzong Xiaoming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huaiyang King Liu Zhe After that, so now come to revive the Han Dynasty.Of course, this set of nonsense can't deceive people at all, and after nearly a thousand years, no one misses the Han Dynasty anymore, so he no longer inherits the fire virtue of the Han Dynasty, but continues to replace the Jin De - Later Jin is Jinde Shengshui, and Later Han is Water Virtue.But this guy's "virtue" is no longer important, because the post-Han Dynasty was only three years old, and he was taken over by the general Guo Wei and changed the name of the country to "Zhou".

We have said that the titles of the empires of the past dynasties basically followed the names or titles of the founding emperors before he ascended the throne, such as Liu Bang, King of Han, Cao Pi, King of Wei, Sima Yan, King of Jin, and Song King Liu Yu and King Qi during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Xiao Daocheng, Liang Wang Xiaoyan, Chen Wang Chen Baxian, Qi Wang Gaoyang, Zhou Wang Yuwenjue, and later Sui Wang Yang Jian, Tang Wang Li Yuan, until Liang Wang Zhu Quanzhong. There is also such a thing about Zhu Quanzhong. Back then, he planned to force Tang Zhaoxuan Emperor Li Wei to abdicate. The ministers Jiang Xuanhui and Liu Can discussed it. According to the practice since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the important ministers should first seal a big country and then accept the abdication. Liang It is a small country, so what should I do if I am not qualified?So they urged Emperor Zhaoxuan to issue an edict to change Zhu Quanzhong to be the king of Wei, adding Jiuxi (nine utensils bestowed by the emperor to meritorious officials, expressing the highest courtesy).But who would have thought that this "All Loyal" King of Liang was a hooligan who hated to play cards according to the rules? Only then was the back beam built.

If this guy talks about some rules, maybe there will be a later Wei in history. To draw back, Guo Wei, the founding emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, was in the Later Han Dynasty, and his highest title was Jian Guo. There was no title of Duke of Zhou or King of Zhou, so why did he use "Zhou" as the title of the empire?It is said that this is also related to his ancestors and the cycle of five virtues. The ancestor of Guo Wei (needless to say, is also self-proclaimed, but Guo Wei is still Han in theory) was Uncle Guo of the Zhou Dynasty. In ancient times, the words Guo and Guo were the same, so the descendants of Uncle Guo called themselves Guo. The ancestors of the Guo family were the Zhou royal family.Coincidentally, according to Liu Xin's new system of five virtues, the Zhou Dynasty was not a fire virtue but a wood virtue, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty established by the Yuwen family during the Northern and Southern Dynasties was also a wood virtue, and what Guo Wei usurped was the water virtue of the Later Han, and water was born of wood, which happened to be wood Germany.It is God's will that there will be no trees for three weeks, so the country title of "Zhou" is really appropriate.