Chapter 214 Chapter 213 Zhaozong Li Ye

Tang Zhaozong Li Ye, the seventh son of Yizong, is famous.Tang Yizong was born in Dongnei on February 27th in the eighth year of Xiantong (867 AD).In April of the thirteenth year of Xiantong, he was granted the title of King of Shou.The following year, eunuchs killed Tang Yizong's older sons and made 12-year-old Li Xuan (Xizong) emperor.Soon, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao revolted and invaded Chang'an. Tang Xizong fled to Chengdu under the protection of eunuch Tian Lingzi.King Shou and Emperor Xizong were brothers from the same mother, so they had to serve the left and right sides and control the military power, so they were highly valued.In the first year of Wende (888 A.D.), Tang Xizong returned to Chang'an, and soon died of illness.The ministers discussed the establishment and believed that King Ji was the most virtuous and should be established as the new king. However, Yang Fu respectfully invited King Shou to supervise the country; Gong and others embraced him as Emperor Zhaozong at the age of 22 at the time.

After Emperor Zhaozong ascended the throne, he pursued good books and prose, emphasized Confucianism, courteous ministers, and worked hard to govern, which was quite new.In the first year of the Dragon Age (889 A.D.), in the first month of spring, the world was pardoned, and Chinese and foreign civil and military officials were promoted to ranks and conferred titles.In February of that year, Qin Zongquan, who ruled Caizhou separately, was sent to Chang'an by Zhu Quanzhong for execution.Zhu Quanzhong, formerly known as Zhu Wen, participated in the Huangchao Uprising, and later rebelled and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. He was given the name Quanzhong and served as Xuanwu Jiedushi.In the fourth year of Zhonghe (884 A.D.), after suppressing the Huangchao uprising army with Li Keyong and other allied forces, it became the largest separatist force in the late Tang Dynasty.In November of the first year of the Dragon Age, Emperor Zhaozong changed his name to Ye.

At that time, the eunuch Yang Fugong was a lieutenant of the two armies because of his meritorious service. He imitated Tian Lingzi's method, raising many warriors as sons, and entrusting them to share the military power. , the evil government of eunuch dictatorship is still there, but Tian Lingzi has been replaced by Yang Fugong.Dr. Taichang Qian Jue, Li Chuo and others petitioned to restrict eunuchs, and prime ministers Kong Wei and Zhang Jun also advised Zhaozong to weaken the power of eunuchs.Emperor Zhaozong also hated Yang Fugong's monopoly.This created a situation in which the emperor and court officials clashed with the eunuchs.

Tang Zhaozong didn't want to be the eunuch's puppet, so he directly clashed with the eunuch leader Yang Fugong.In September of the second year of Dashun (891 A.D.), Tang Zhaozong asked Yang Fugong to retire as a general.Fu Gong was angry, saying that the disease was not subject to the imperial edict.In October, Li Shunjie, the envoy of the Tianwei Army, led the banned troops to attack Yang Fugong.Yang Shouxin supported Yang Fugong to leave the capital with his troops and guarded him. He went out of Tonghuamen and fled to Hanzhong, where he rebelled against Emperor Zhaozong and failed in the end.In the battle against Yang Fugong, Li Shunjie had meritorious service and was favored, so he relied on kindness and arrogance, and often followed him with his staff when he went in and out. The eunuchs Ximen Junsui and Liu Jingyi were afraid that his monopoly would endanger their own interests, so they instigated Zhaozong to get rid of Shunjie. Zhaozong was also afraid that Shunjie would be brave enough to make trouble, so he agreed to the opinions of Ximen Junsui and Liu Jingyi, and planned to assassinate Li Shunjie.All the officials congratulated him, Zhaozong was also very happy, and changed his name to Jingfu.However, Lord Ximen then became the leader of the eunuchs again, and the situation of eunuchs' monopoly has not been broken.

The problem of eunuchs was not resolved, and the problem of foreign ministers reappeared.First, in the first year of Jingfuning (892 A.D.), Li Maozhen, the king of Longxi County, gathered a group of Jiedu envoys from one side of the separatist regime, and asked for a crusade against Yang Shouliang, the Xingyuan Jiedu envoy who had taken in Yang Fugong, and asked for an official title of "Shannan Recruitment". Make".At first, Zhaozong was afraid that Li Maozhen would threaten the court after he won the land in the south of Shannan, so he refused to accept it, but later he accepted it under threat, and repeatedly promoted Li et al.As a result, Li Maozhen, Wang Xingyu and other Jiedu envoys relied on their soldiers to do everything they could, bullied the royal family, reprimanded Emperor Zhaozong frequently, and had ambitions to aspire to the top. They actually became the masters of the Tang Dynasty.In July of the first year of Qianning (894 A.D.), Li Maozhen wanted to rob Tang Zhaozong to Fengxiang, and Wang Xingyu wanted to rob Tang Zhaozong to Binzhou. The two had a dispute and used each other's troops. In Plagiarism City, the capital was in great chaos. Emperor Zhaozong took advantage of the chaos to leave the capital and fled to Zhongnan Mountain. He appointed Li Zhirou, the king, as the prime minister and Jing Zhaoyin.

In August, Li Keyong went to Weibei and soon attacked Binning.In November, more than 500 people from Wang Xingyu and his wife's tribe fled to Qingzhou, where Wang Xingyu was killed by his subordinates.Li Maozhen was afraid when he heard about it, and pleaded guilty in the last chapter.Tang Zhaozong was afraid that Li Ke would bully the Lord by relying on his power, so he was not allowed to enter the army. Next to lead the side, Zhu Quanzhong, Li Keyong, Li Maozhen and others who held heavy troops attacked each other continuously for years.They all regarded Zhaozong as the object of contention, in order to coerce the emperor to make the princes.Therefore, Emperor Zhaozong became a pawn on the chessboard of the ministers, which is really a puppet.Sometimes he was even imprisoned and replaced by Crown Prince Li Yu, who couldn't even be a puppet.

In the fierce competition, Zhu Quanzhong gradually defeated several other forces and became the main figure who influenced Zhaozong.In the third year of Tianfu (903 A.D.), Zhu Quanzhong robbed Zhaozong and returned to Chang'an, killing seven or eight hundred eunuchs.In order to further grasp and control the Tang regime, Zhu Quanzhong ordered all Taoists to kill the supervisors. Except for a few people including Zhang Chengye, the Hedong supervisor, who were protected by Jiedushi, the rest of the supervisors were all killed.Everything in the palace was under his control, the Left and Right Shence Army and the eight towns they belonged to were under the command of his cronies Cui Yin, and all the court officials attached to Li Maozhen and the eunuchs were also killed. Officials at all levels in the court were all Zhu Quanzhong's followers .Zhu Quanzhong's power in the court has reached its peak.

Zhu Quanzhong was domineering at the court, and everyone was in danger. Prime Minister Cui Yinben relied on Zhu Quanzhong to keep his position. When Zhu Quanzhong controlled Tang Zhaozong, he tried to build his own strength to prevent accidents.In the third year of Tianfu, Cui Yin obtained the consent of Tang Zhaozong and recruited 6,600 elite soldiers as the guards of the imperial court.After Zhu Quanzhong heard about it, he secretly sent strong men to apply for the recruitment. Therefore, Cui Yin stepped up his training of soldiers and prepared weapons to plot against Zhu Quanzhong, which was all known to Zhu Quanzhong.

At the beginning of the first year of Tianyou (904 A.D.), Zhu Quanzhong secretly ordered his party members to kill Cui Yin, and appointed Pei Shu, Liu Can and others as prime ministers.Zhu Quanzhong led his troops to Tunhezhong, and sent his tooth general Kou Yanqing to ask Emperor Zhaozong to move his capital to Luoyang.He ordered the people and residents of Chang'an to move with Emperor Zhaozong, which caused turmoil among the people, which lasted for more than a month.Zhu Quanzhong was afraid that the kings and Zhaozong's entourage would change, so he replaced Zhaozong's front and back guards with his own cronies.When Tang Zhaozong traveled to Shanzhou, he secretly sent people to ask Wang Jian of Xichuan, Yang Xingmi of Huainan, and Li Keyong of Hedong to rescue them.Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, Wang Jian, etc. saw that Zhaozong was moved to Luoyang, and knew that Zhu Quanzhong had the intention of usurping them, so they formed an alliance to raise troops and wanted to attack Zhu Quanzhong in the name of revitalizing the Tang Dynasty.Zhu Quanzhong decided to get rid of Emperor Zhaozong because of his unpopularity.In August, Tang Zhaozong was killed by Zhu Yougong and Jiang Lihui, Zhu Quanzhong's cronies, at the age of 38.The posthumous posthumous title of the group of officials was "Emperor Shengmu Jingwen Xiao".On February 22 of the following year, he was buried in Heling.