Chapter 63 Chapter 63: Zhu Wen, the Most Abuse in the World

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were a troubled time, and this troubled time starts with an abusive person, and this abusive person is Zhu Wen. There is a couplet for Zhu's surname, and the way is: two emperors, upper and lower, and one sage through the ages.The former refers to Zhu Wenwen and Zhu Yuanzhang, and the latter refers to Zhu Xi.Zhu Xi and Zhu Yuanzhang are worth boasting about. Although there is a small fault, and the other is more ruthless, Zhu Wen is indeed not a good bird. He has no small details, and he is shameless. More than that, it is extremely cruel. Zhu Wen was originally a son of a poor family in the countryside of Dangshan, and his situation was similar to that of Gao Lian in the village.His father is a hard-working teacher. When his son was young, he drove a crane to the west. Zhu Wen, who was not disciplined, was greedy, lazy, idle, and grew into a crooked neck tree. But he also has an advantage , That is extremely powerful, and I am thinking about using this strength to make a good appearance, eat delicious food, drink spicy food, and have some mistresses, third mistresses, and four, five, and six mistresses.

Who would have thought that the blind God would give him a chance, and he would still grab it. At that time, it was the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, the people were in dire straits, and many peasant armed forces rose up in various places. The ambitious Zhu Wen joined the Huangchao uprising army not far from his home.The God of Destiny probably took the wrong medicine in those days, and even gave him the green light all the way, making him quickly change from a pawn to a general under Huang Chao's subordinates.Zhu Wen's status is getting higher and higher, his face is getting thicker, his heart is getting darker, and his attainments in thick black studies are getting more and more advanced.

Li Zongwu, founder of Thick Black School, commented on "Three Kingdoms": Cao Cao succeeded because his heart was dark enough; Liu Bei succeeded because his skin was thick enough; It has both, so it can also achieve a great success, and Sima Yi's great success is unmatched by anyone, so the important task of returning three points to Jin and unifying Huayi must be completed by his descendants. Zhu Wen is definitely not inferior to Sima Yi in terms of thick black, but he was born in the grassroots class, and his ability, courage and influence are not comparable to Sima's children of generations of high-ranking officials. Take over the territory of the whole country.

Let's see what kind of thing Zhu Wen has been catalyzed by his black heart and thick skin. Zhu Wen joined the rebel army in the third year of the Huangchao Uprising, that is, in 877 AD, and has been promoted step by step by virtue of his military exploits.Huang Chao had eyes on this powerful and lively guy, and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. After entering Chang'an and establishing the Daqi regime in 880, he appointed him as the defense envoy of Tongzhou (now Dali, Shaanxi), responsible for the most important east defense. In 882, Zhu Wen saw that the peasant army was in a difficult situation, so he rebelled and surrendered to the Tang army. behind the ass.

Once Zhu Wen changed his face, he became the mortal enemy of the rebel army. Huang Chao was defeated by the enemy, and he was devastated after withdrawing from Chang'an.Tang Xizong was overjoyed. In addition to being a high-ranking official and rich salary, he also gave Zhu Wen a great honor: the name "Zhu Quanzhong". Later history proved that this great honor was actually a great irony, because Zhu Wen was neither loyal to Huang Chao, the emperor of the Great Qi Jintong, He has never been loyal to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, which can be said to be "totally disloyal".

In the next two decades, Zhu and Wen used Xuanwu (now the central and eastern part of Henan) as their base, and occupied a large area of ​​land east of the Taihang Mountains and north of the Huaihe River with bad intentions and iron guns.His insidiousness was fully demonstrated in the case of burning Shangyuanyi.At that time, what he had to deal with was the strongest competitor-Li Keyong, the Jiedu envoy of Hedong. In 884 A.D., after defeating Huang Chao, Li Keyong passed by Zhu Wen's hometown Bianzhou. Zhu Wen invited him to the city and held a feast.But the weasel gave the chicken New Year's greetings—it had no good intentions. That night, Zhu Wen blocked the street with vehicles and besieged the Shangyuan Yida Hotel where Li Keyong was staying, in an attempt to put him to death and hurry up.Li Ke's hundreds of followers all died unexpectedly, and he managed to escape under the escort of several generals who sacrificed their lives.

Since then, Xuanwu and Hedong have been in conflict, attacking each other, and Zhu Wen's Houliang Dynasty was finally taken away by Li Keyong's son in the hands of his son. In April 896, Zhu Wen committed a heinous crime against the people on the issue of the Yellow River. At that time, the Yellow River surged, and the city wall of Huazhou was in danger of being washed away.Zhu Wen wanted to keep the city wall, so he ordered the embankment to be dug, so that the river was divided into two, and the river flowed eastward, causing great losses downstream.Zhu Wen's move seemed to open Pandora's box, and the flood in the lower reaches of the Yellow River became more and more serious.

Zhu Wen's power rose step by step, and he fought a battle for the emperor with Li Maozhen, a powerful Western warlord Fengxiang Jiedu. In the end, this indiscriminate man won the victory, grabbed Tang Zhaozong, and became "Cao Cao" at the end of Tang Dynasty.In 904 AD, Zhu Wen learned from another treacherous minister, Dong Zhuo, and burned down the city of Chang'an, forcing Emperor Zhaozong to move his capital to Luoyang.Then he imitated Wang Mang, killed Tang Zhaozong, and made the young Li Zuo emperor. Zhu Wen's ambition to become emperor is already a fly on the monk's head—it's obvious, he is determined to attack the old noble family and wipe out all the social forces that hinder his grassroots claim to emperor.Therefore, Zhu Wen adopted the idea of ​​Li Zhen, a dog-headed military strategist, and expelled many influential figures in the ruling group on the charge of "frivolity (that is, self-proclaimed nobility)".In 905 A.D., Zhu Wen even more frenziedly killed more than 30 senior officials including the former prime minister Pei Shu and threw them into the Yellow River.

Zhu Wen also treated the soldiers extremely cruelly. He tattooed on the faces of the sergeants to prevent them from fleeing;The deserters did not dare to return to their hometowns, so they gathered in the mountains and lakes to form many small rebel armies.Before Zhu Wen proclaimed himself emperor in 907 A.D., this problem was already quite serious. He had to take the opportunity of proclaiming himself emperor to announce an amnesty and allow deserters with "textured faces" to return home and become ordinary people. . After the founding of the Later Liang Dynasty, Zhu Wen was in his twilight years, and he lost a lot of military use, and the tyranny and debauchery were even worse than in the early years. Therefore, the ruling group became more and more dark and chaotic.

Zhu Wen has always been licentious and lustful, and in his later years, he can do anything, even his daughter-in-law, and often invites them to sleep with him in the palace. Really: I have seen shameless, I have never seen such shameless, I have seen old shameless people, but I have never seen such old shameless people. In 912 A.D., the sixth year when Zhu Wen proclaimed himself emperor, his son Zhu Yougui got news from his wife who was sleeping with his father in the palace. Without Zhu Wen, the first abuser in Chinese history kicked his legs, died, and had his braids up! Then again, Zhu Wen's life has been a word of "abuse"!

The Orphan of Kong: A Human Tragedy More Real Than "Orphan of Zhao" The story of "Zhao's Orphan" is very familiar to Chinese people. It is recorded in "Historical Records", the first history book in China. It has been performed on the stage and made into a movie, but its authenticity is questionable. It is very likely that Sima Qian wrote folklore as history with righteous indignation.In Sima Qian's "Historical Records", the story of Zhao's Orphan is indeed a tragedy, but according to "Zuo Zhuan", Zhao's Orphan is the lustful revenge and power strife caused by unlucky love. Tragedy, it is better to say it is a farce tainted with blood. But the story of Kong's orphans to be written in this article is a real and real human tragedy. One hundred meters northeast of the tomb of Confucius in Qufu, Shandong Province, there is a tall and distinctive tombstone, on which is engraved in seal script "Tomb of Shenggong Fengyan, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Song Dynasty".The owner of this tombstone is Kong Renyu, the 43rd grandson of Confucius, the protagonist of the story of the Kong orphans. Let's start with Kong Renyu's father, Kong Guangsi. Kong Guangsi was born in 871 A.D. at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and became Duke Wenxuan after the death of his father.By the way, Wenxuangong is the title given by Tang Xuanzong to the descendants of Confucius in the 27th year of Kaiyuan (AD 737). The first generation of Wenxuangong is the 35th generation grandson of Confucius, Kong Jingzhi. If Cao Cao is said to be "a capable minister in governing the world and a treacherous minister in troubled times", then the character Confucius is "the idol in governing the world and the grassroots in troubled times". As Confucius' descendants, it is naturally difficult to escape such a fate. Unfortunately, Kong Guangsi lived in the end of Tang Dynasty when the government forced the people to rebel, the world was in chaos, and the warlords separatist. curtain of history. In troubled times, power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and whoever can fight is the boss. Rule by etiquette has long been thrown to Java, and the descendants of Confucius, who are representatives of etiquette, naturally no one takes it seriously, and their status is naturally low. With the decline of the festival, one generation is not as good as the next generation. By the time of Kong Guangsi's generation, he could only serve as a small official like the head of Sishui County.This position is roughly equivalent to the current secretary-general of the county government. It seems to be pretty good now, because there are many officials below him who are not as good as him, but at that time it was already the bottom of the officials, and the next one was Song Jiang. A lowly official. As the saying goes, "The house leaks when it rains all night, and the boat breaks when the wind blows." Just when Kong Guangsi was worried about his official career and was about to suffer from depression like Leslie Cheung and Cui Yongyuan, something more terrible happened, and it was a disaster. , The backyard caught fire. The guy who lit the fire in the backyard of the Confucian mansion was named Kong Mo. Not only was he called "Mo", but he was indeed a scumbag. It is undoubtedly an exaggeration to say that Kong Guangsi, the 42nd generation grandson of Confucius, is a grassroots, and Kong Mo is a genuine grassroots. Kong Mo's ancestors were originally cleaners in the Confucian mansion, responsible for manual tasks such as pruning branches, watering flowers, dusting, and sweeping the floor. little power. Kong Mo, who was promoted from a low-level servant to a first-class servant, was not satisfied with his current status and vested interests. This guy had even greater ambitions, and his greed and sinful desire burned him away. Reason, lost humanity, became an out-and-out devil. In the spring of 913 AD, Kong Mo, who made careful arrangements, sneaked into Sishui County where Kong Guangsi worked like a poisonous snake, found a place to hide, and secretly looked for an opportunity to strike. On a dark and windy night with crows screaming, Kong Mo suddenly sprang out from the darkness where he could not see his fingers, and stabbed the defenseless and ignorant Kong Guangsi several times to confirm that Kong Guangsi had died. After death, the masked man walked away with a knife in his hand. Since Kong Mo had already spent money to buy off the relevant local officials in advance, the murder case of Kong Guangsi had been dragged on and could not be settled, and finally had to be settled. The local official presides over his money and eliminates disasters for him" and became Wenxuan Gong, occupying the family property of the Confucian Mansion, and later mastered the power of Qufu County. When Kong Guangsi was killed, his wife Zhang Shi and nine-month-old son Kong Renyu were living in Zhang Yang Village, northwest of Konglin, in Zhang's natal family. When the bad news came, Mrs. Zhang looked at the child in her arms with heartbroken grief, and was devastated. Just as she was about to go back to the house to deal with the funeral, news came that the slave Kong Mojiu had taken over the magpie's nest and the Confucius mansion.At this time, Zhang's father, Zhang Wen, had roughly guessed the cause and effect of his son-in-law's murder, and knew that Kong Mo had colluded with local corrupt officials, and his daughter and grandson were still in danger, so He resolutely hid them, waiting for him to avenge his father and revive the Confucius family in the future. As for how Kong Renyu survived, there is such a record in the folk tales: Kong Mo learned that Kong Guangsi’s wife and children were in Zhangyang Village, so he colluded with the government and sent troops to surround Zhangyang Village to force the Zhang family to hand over their youngest son, intending to kill the grass. .Grandma Zhang (Mother of the Zhang family), in order not to let the "sage" family lose their descendants, endured grief and resolutely sent the Zhang family's children to replace Kong Renyu, and watched Kong Mo kill her own children. Finally, the 43rd generation grandson of Kong Shengren was saved. But such a plot obviously comes from Sima Qian's "Zhao's Orphan" story, and it is illogical and cannot withstand scrutiny.Because Kong Guangsi was not killed as a sinner, but was killed for no reason, Kong Mo and the government he colluded with could not blatantly go to Zhang's house to search for Kong Guangsi's family members, even if they wanted to find out Zhang's family. The whereabouts of the mother and child can only be followed secretly and investigated secretly. Under the careful protection and nurturing of his grandfather Zhang Wen's family, Kong Renyu, who changed his name and surname as a descendant of the Zhang family, luckily escaped this extremely heavy disaster in his life, and grew up healthy and happy. And at a young age, he passed the examination as a scholar and became a well-known young talent that everyone envied. Old man Zhang Wen saw that his grandson had grown up and was "precise and decisive", and felt that it was time to tell the truth, let Kong Renyu avenge his father, and revive the Confucian mansion, so he chose a suitable time to give Kong Renyu It talked about the Confucian mansion with a glorious history, the sinister and cunning villain Kong Mo, the innocent and murdered Kong Guangsi, the ill-fated Kong orphan, and finally told his grandson that he was the poor orphan in the story.Only then did Kong Renyu realize that he was carrying such a deep hatred, that he was actually a descendant of Confucius, the teacher of all ages, and he vowed to let the murderer Kong Mo get the punishment he deserved, so as to comfort the spirit of his deceased father. In 930 A.D., the third year of Changxing Emperor Mingzong of the later Tang Dynasty, Kong Renyu went to Beijing to take the exam and was awarded an ether student by the court. He seized this opportunity to bravely write to the emperor, denouncing Kong Mo, revealing the truth, and showing that he was the direct descendant of Confucius.Tang Mingzong Li Siyuan was one of the few good emperors in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, and he attached great importance to Confucianism and respected Confucius. After investigation and verification, he confirmed that what Kong Renyu said was true, so he put the wicked Kong Mo outside the south gate of Qufu. He lit the sky lantern, and at the same time issued an order to officially restore Kong Renyu's identity as a direct descendant of Confucius, and let him preside over the affairs of the Confucian Mansion and serve as the chief book of Qufu County. Kong Renyu, the orphan of the Kong family, continued the family of Confucius with his courage and wisdom.