Chapter 209 Chapter 208 Wen Zong Li Ang

Tang Wenzong, originally named Han, later changed his name to Ang.Mu Zong's second son, Jing Zong's younger brother, and his mother is Xiao Shi, Empress Dowager Zhenxian.Born in the fourth year of Yuanhe (809 A.D.), he was later named King of Jiang.In December of the second year of Baoli (826 A.D.), Jingzong was killed by eunuch Liu Keming and others, and eunuch Wang Shoucheng and others killed Liu Keming and others. They sent out soldiers to welcome 17-year-old Jiang Wanghan, who was located in Xuanzheng Hall and renamed Ang , is Wenzong.He reigned for 15 years and died in the fifth year of Kaicheng (840 AD).

After Wen Zong came to the throne, he went out of the palace, let go of falcons and dogs, laid off redundant officials, saved the musicians in the teaching workshop, stopped paying tribute to rare treasures, went away from extravagance and frugality, and worked hard to govern. Look at the court every odd day, and it will last for a long time.Although it was set up before the system of officials, it was not called right. Wen Zong Du repeatedly asked questions.However, Wen Zong was unable to make a decisive decision on major military and state affairs. At the same time, he often changed the things that had been agreed with the prime minister.People say that he has more than enough gentleness, but not enough bright and strong.

In the second year of Wenzong's accession to the throne (827 A.D.), the Yuan was changed to Taihe.Wei Chuhou asked to resign from the position because Wen Zong was too gentle.Huainan Jiedu envoy and salt and iron transport envoy Wang Bo was appointed as Tongping Zhangshi.Wang Bo once served as an envoy for transporting salt and iron. In the second year of Changqing (822 AD), he served as the envoy of Huainan Jiedu. He searched endlessly regardless of the severe drought in the south.Later, he became a transfer envoy of salt and iron, increased copper and salt taxes, and paid money and goods to the emperor every month, which was called "Xianyu".In the first year of Taihe, he returned to Beijing at the end of his term of office, offering thousands of silver bowls and tens of thousands of silks. Wenzong was very happy to see that his eyes were wide open.Since then, there have been more and more treacherous people around Wenzong, but honest people are often not reused.

Since the eunuch killed Tang Xianzong and established Tang Muzong, he had the power to abolish and kill the emperor.Under the control of the eunuchs, some emperors became tools in the hands of the eunuchs, and some were unwilling to be humiliated and waited for the opportunity to regain the lost power.The same is true of the court officials, some are attached to the eunuchs, some are against the eunuchs, their gain and loss are related to the emperor's attitude towards the eunuchs.The struggle between court officials and eunuchs became superficial during Wenzong's time. In March of the second year of Taihe, Emperor Wenzong issued an imperial edict to select virtuous, upright and outspoken people who are extremely admonishing, and Wenzong Linxuan personally planned to ask questions.Changping Jinshi Liu Caoben hated the harm caused by the eunuch's monopoly very much. In his countermeasures, he made a lot of remarks and openly opposed the eunuch.Liu Xuben's countermeasures hit the current situation, and the examiner appreciated it very much.Just because the eunuch Wang Shoucheng and others are entrenched in the official ban, and they are very powerful. Once admitted, they will be framed and have to cut him off.At that time, there were 22 people in the ranking, all of whom were appointed to official positions.Daozhou native Li Yu was among them.He said indignantly: "Liu Yuben is the next one. Isn't it shameless for me to enter the university?" So he invited Peixiu, Du Mu, Cui Shenyou, etc. from the same department to join the school, willing to give up his department name to Liu Lv Ben, to show its integrity.Wen Zong was alone at this time, and even if he wanted to get rid of the eunuch, he could do nothing. He was afraid that the eunuch would coerce him in this matter, so he had to put Yuan Shu aside.Liu Caoben finally failed to be an official, and then died of depression.

In the winter of this year, Li Tongjie launched a rebellion after Henghai stayed.After Li Tongjie's rebellion was quelled, Wen Zong appointed Yin You as the envoy of the Henghai Navy, and transferred Qizhou to the Henghai Navy. He had enough soldiers for one year, enough food for two years, a large increase in household registration in three years, and full of granaries. The old threats are removed, and new ones are born. In the fifth year of Taihe, Yang Zhicheng, the deputy military envoy, incited the soldiers, expelled Li Zaiyi, the envoy of Lulong Jiedu, and killed Zhang Qingchu, the governor of Mozhou.Wen Zong asked the prime minister Niu Sengru what to do, Niu Sengru replied that there is no need to care about the adversity, so he ordered Yang Zhicheng to be the envoy of Lulong Jiedu.In this position, Yang Zhicheng was arrogant and lawless, and repeatedly sent envoys to beg and serve as servants, and Wen Zong immediately ordered him to be the right servant.Since Yang Zhicheng has the right servant and the title, he is full of ambitions, and he actually has the meaning of an imperial system.Because of his arrogance, extravagance and violence, he aroused public outrage. As a result, he was driven away by his subordinates, and Zhu Yuanzhong was promoted to take charge of military affairs.Wenzong went to Zhu Yuanzhong as Lulong Jiedu envoy.After Chengde Jiedu envoy Wang Tingcou died, the sergeant supported his son Wang Yuankui as the queen.Wenzong also recognized it, and sent Princess Jiang's daughter Changshou An to marry Wang Yuankui.Wenzong's appeasement to Jiezhen can be described as "big belly can tolerate".

Faced with the monopoly of eunuchs and the incompetence of officials, Wenzong wanted to cultivate cronies and appoint officials.In the third year of Taihe (829 A.D.), Li Deyu, the observer of Western Zhejiang, was called into the court and served as the Minister of the Ministry of War. Wenzong wanted to appoint him as the prime minister.However, Li Zongmin, the servant of the Ministry of officials, had a gap with Li Deyu, so he secretly asked the eunuch for help.Wang Shoucheng and others seized power from within and strongly recommended Li Zongmin as prime minister. Wenzong feared that he would force him internally, so he had no choice but to promote Li Zongmin as prime minister.Li Zongmin was overjoyed, so he tried to squeeze out Li Deyu.First sent Li Deyu out of the Yicheng Army, and then introduced Niu Sengru as Minister of the Ministry of War, and later promoted to Prime Minister to be his assistant.Soon, Li Deyu was transferred to Xichuan to defend Nanzhao.After Li Deyu arrived in the town, he built a side building. He went up to the building every day to observe the situation of the mountains and rivers. He also summoned old officials and soldiers to ask about the distance of the road and the dangers of the place.From then on, from Nanzhao in the south to Tubo in the west, all the castles and fortresses are well known.He also trained soldiers, built more forts, and stockpiled food and grass, and the whole of Shu was settled.

Because Niu Dang was attached to eunuchs, Emperor Wenzong promoted Song Shenxi, a scholar in the imperial court, to be the prime minister, as his confidant in the struggle against eunuchs.Song Shenxi was often called into the palace by Emperor Wenzong to plan to remove the eunuch.He cited Wang Fan, the servant of the Ministry of official affairs, as Jing Zhaoyin, and ordered a secret decree to organize people and horses, ready to wait for the opportunity to strike. Wang Fan did not keep things secret, and his plot was discovered by Wang Shoucheng.So Wang Shoucheng came up with a way to frame Song Shenxi.He first sent people to falsely accuse Song Shenxi of plotting to set up the emperor's younger brother Li Cou, the king of Zhang.Li Cou was famous, and Wen Zong was always on guard against him, fearing that someone would support him as emperor.When I saw the memorial, I couldn't help being suspicious and afraid of the merger, so I ordered Wang Shoucheng to investigate.Wang Shoucheng summoned his party members and prepared to send 200 cavalry to raid Song Shenxi's family. Fortunately, Feilong envoy Ma Cunliang resolutely stopped him on the grounds that unauthorized raids were not allowed in the capital, so he did not start.Wang Shoucheng arrested Li Pu and some people around Song Shenxi. After torture and torture, he falsely testified that Song Shenxi had conspired to make Li Cou emperor.Wen Zong thought that the evidence was convincing, so he summoned the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and announced Song Shenxi's guilt.The court officials all knew that this was an unjust prison, so some ministers tried their best to remonstrate and try to move the prison affairs to the outer court for re-examination. Prime Minister Niu Sengru also defended Song Shenxi.Wang Shoucheng's confidant, Zheng Zhu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, was afraid that the reexamination of the case would reveal the truth, and advised Wang Shoucheng to ask Wenzong to deal with it leniently.Song Shenxi was saved from being killed, and was demoted to Sima of Kaizhou (now Kaixian County, Sichuan Province), where he died in depression.

In the eighth year of Taihe, Wenzong suffered from apoplexy. Wang Shoucheng recommended Zheng Zhu for diagnosis and treatment, and also recommended a man named Li Xun, saying that he was a great talent.Wenzong experienced a failure and found it difficult to find strength from the courtiers Niu and Li to eliminate the eunuchs, so he decided to let this stubborn fortress be breached from the inside, and entrusted Li Xun and Zheng Zhu with the task of eliminating the eunuchs. The two are used as close servants. Although Li Xun and Zheng Zhu had little influence, they cleverly took advantage of the internal contradictions in the eunuch group, and succeeded every step of the way, and the progress was very smooth.The most powerful among the eunuchs belonged to Wang Shoucheng. Li Xun and Zheng Zhu knew that he was powerful, and they couldn't shake him for a while, so they set up a method of fighting poison with poison, and eliminated other eunuchs first.With the help of Wang Shoucheng, they expelled Wei Yuanyuan, Yang Cheng, and Wang Jianyan, three eunuchs who opposed him, to other places to serve as supervisors, and they were all executed soon.Afterwards, Wenzong persuaded Wenzong to transfer Wang Shoucheng's former title of Lieutenant of the Shence Army to the eunuch Qiu Shiliang, and promoted Wang Shoucheng to be the military observer of the Left and Right Shence Army. , in the name of Wenzong, sent envoys to use poisoned wine to force Wang Shoucheng to commit suicide, only said to the outside world that he died of a sudden illness, and presented him as a gift to the governor of Yangzhou.He also took advantage of the investigation of the murder of Emperor Xianzong to kill Chen Hongzhi, the eunuch who was supervising the army in other places.

Wen Zong took Li Xun's meritorious service and was promoted to Tongping Zhangshi, and Zheng Zhu became Fengxiang Jiedu envoy.They conspired again, planning to take advantage of the opportunity of Wang Shoucheng's funeral and order all the eunuchs to go to the funeral. At that time, Fengxiang soldiers will be dispatched to wipe out the eunuch group headed by Qiu Shiliang in one fell swoop.However, in order to monopolize the great achievements, and also wanted to kill Zheng Zhu who was blocking his future, Li Xun wanted to strike first. On November 21, the ninth year of Taihe, Wenzong came to Zichen Hall, and all the officials entered in a file, standing in order of class.At this time, Han Yue, the general of the Forbidden Palace, came to play according to the prior arrangement and said: "Last night, the nectar fell from the sky after the Zuo Jinwu Hall." Wen Zong then moved to Hanyuan Hall by public opinion and ordered Li Xun to check it.Li Xun went away for a while, and said back that the nectar may not be true, so it should not be announced immediately.So Wenzong sent the eunuch leader Qiu Shiliang to lead the eunuchs to re-inspect.When Qiu Shiliang arrived at Zuo Jinwu Hall, he saw that Han Yue was nervous and sweating slightly on his forehead.Can't help feeling suspicious in his heart, at this moment when the wind blows the curtain, Qiu Shiliang is shocked when he sees soldiers ambushing behind the curtain, he hurried back and returned to Hanyuan Hall.Seeing that the eunuchs had returned, Li Xun hurriedly called the guards of His Royal Highness to come up to protect him, but the eunuchs grabbed Wen Zongruanyu.Qiu Shiliang and others embraced Wenzong and fled into the Xuanzheng Palace in the melee, closing the palace gate tightly.Li Xun saw that the situation was over, so he disguised himself and ran away.All the officials were horrified and scattered in a hurry.

Then, Qiu Shiliang ordered people to be arrested and killed in the name of the emperor.Li Xun, Han Yue, Shu Yuanyu and others involved in the incident were all caught and killed.Prime Minister Wang Ya, who did not participate in the incident, was also tortured, falsely convinced according to his words, and later also killed.More than 600 officials and soldiers were killed, and the court was almost empty.Zheng Zhu was killed by the eunuch of the supervising army in Fengxiang.The history of this event is called "the change of nectar". After the Manna Change, eunuchs presided over life, death, and worship, and Wen Zong was at his mercy like a puppet.Qiu Shiliang and others were arrogant, threatening the emperor and the prime minister, and the court officials were all hated.An eunuch threatened to kill all the people in the capital wearing Confucian clothes.

In the following year (836 AD), the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Kaicheng.Zhaoyi Jiedu envoy Liu Congjian listed the crimes of Qiu Shiliang and others, and asked for a canonical punishment.Qiu Shiliang was afraid in his heart, so he restrained himself a little.In this way, court officials can exercise some powers to some extent. Wen Zong had two sons, the eldest son Li Yong, and the second son Li Zongjian died when he was underage.In the sixth year of Taihe (832 A.D.), Li Yong was made the prince.Li Yongsheng's mother is Wang Defei, who has never been favored.Wen Zong dotes on the virtuous concubine Yang, but only speaks for her.Li Yongnian and Chengtong are quite good at banquets, but Concubine Yang Xian is getting more and more slanderous.Therefore, in September of the third year of Kaicheng, Wenzong wanted to abolish Li Yong.It was inconvenient for Wen Zong to make a decision after all the ministers strongly advised and tried their best.After more than a month, the prince died suddenly, his facial features were bleeding, his limbs were blue, and his death was very tragic.Wen Zong was also sad, thinking about the cause of the violent death, as if he was poisoned, but there was no way to find evidence, so he had to bury it.In the fourth year of its founding, Wenzong made Li Chengmei, the youngest son of Jingzong, Chen Wang, the crown prince.At that time, there was a drama in the palace for fun, a child went up to the pole, and a middle-aged man walked under the pole, looking very panicked.Wen Zong asked Zuo Zuo strangely, and Zuo Zuo told Wen Zong that he was the father of the child.Wen Zong sighed and said: "I am the son of heaven, so I can't save a son, can't I sigh?" He angered those close to the prince and ordered the killing of Liu Chucai, the workshop worker, and Zhang Shishi, the court lady, saying that they were responsible for the murder. Prince.After this incident, Wenzong became ill with grief and restless. One day, Wen Zong reluctantly came to the Cizheng Hall, and asked the scholar Zhou Chi, "Who can I compare to the previous generation?" Zhou Chi replied, "Your Majesty is a worthy king of the present, comparable to Yao and Shun in ancient times." How do you compare King Nan of Zhou and Emperor Xian of Han? King Nan of Zhou and Emperor Xian of Han are only controlled by powerful vassals, but now I am ruled by domestic slaves, I am afraid it is not as good as them?" In the fifth year of its founding, Wen Zong was unable to get sick, so he ordered the prince to supervise the country.After the eunuch Qiu Shiliang heard the news, he was worried that he could not control the prince Li Chengmei, so he broke into the palace and claimed that the prince was young and had to discuss another establishment.At night, Qiu Shiliang and others issued a false edict, making King Ying, the fifth son of Mu Zong, the emperor's younger brother.Prince Li Chengmei was named Chen Wang, and was bestowed to death together with Concubine Yang Xian and An Wangrong.Two days later, Wenzong died at the age of 32.After his death, he was buried in Zhangling, and his posthumous title was "Emperor Yuansheng Zhaoxian", and the temple name was "Wenzong".