Chapter 234 Chapter 233 Lie Zu Li Min

Li Min, styled Zhenglun, small styled Pengnu, was born in Xuzhou (now Jiangban), also known as Haizhou (now Lianyungang West, Jiangsu).Father Li Rong disappeared in the war at the end of Tang Dynasty.Tang Guangqi was born in the fourth year (888 AD), and died of poisoning due to taking elixir in the seventh year of Shengyuan in the Southern Tang Dynasty.56 years old. When Peng Nu was 6 years old, his hometown was hit by war. His father, who worshiped Buddha and recited scriptures all day long, failed to get the blessing of Lafayette and lost his trace in the chaos.So his uncle Li Qiu took his family to Haozhou to escape the chaos, but soon his mother Liu died again.Peng Nu became an orphan at a young age.Uncle Li Qiu was also unable to bear the responsibility of raising his nephew, so he simply sent little Peng Nu to Kaiyuan Temple in Haozhou.

Although Peng Nu's surname was Li, he later changed his surname to Xu for a long time.In the second year of Qianning (895 A.D.), Tang Huainan Jiedu, the Jianghuai warlord who later established Wu State, made Yang Xingmi conquer Haozhou, kidnapped the young monk Peng Nu, and adopted him as his adopted son.But Yang Xingmi's son would not allow him.Yang Xingmi had no choice but to transfer it to his general Xu Wen. In this way, Peng Nu became Xu Wen's adopted son, and later changed his surname to Xu and Xu Zhigao.Xu Wen's wife is also surnamed Li, and she regards Zhigao as her own, and takes good care of her.

When he was old, Xu Zhigao was seven feet long, with a square face and a standard figure. He spoke with a voice like Hong Zhong, which looked a little scary from a distance, but he was very cute when he talked close up.His legs are slender, and he walks like flying. Even if he walks slowly, the person following him has to trot out of breath to catch up. A fortune teller said: "This is the step of a dragon walking a tiger." Zhigao 20 When he was young, Xu Wen hired Wang as his wife.Mrs. Wang is very virtuous, but her adoptive father is sick, and the young couple always waits by her side from morning to night, with clothes on her back.Yang Xingmi also said to Xu Wen: "Zhigao is really a hero, no other son can compare to him!"

Xu Zhigao gradually prospered due to the kindness of his adoptive father. When he was a little older, he served in the Yang family's shogunate and became a general in charge of the army.With the expansion of Xu Wen's power, Zhigao also rose step by step, and at the age of 22, he was already the commander of Yuan Cong.The ups and downs of his fate are closely linked with the advancement and retreat of his adoptive father Xu Wen.Because his adoptive father was in charge of the great government of Wu, Xu Zhigao was also a prosperous official, and he was promoted very quickly. In the sixth year of Tianyou (909 A.D.), Xu Wen moved him to the defense history of Shengzhou, and was also an envoy of the Louchuan Army. military.In the second year, Zhigao served as the deputy envoy of Shengzhou to know the affairs of the state. In the ninth year of God's blessing, Xu Zhigao participated in the battle to pacify Xuanzhou.During his five years in office, he carried out a series of reforms.

Xu Zhigao arrested refugees in Youzhou, organized agricultural production, and reduced the tax burden on farmers.It also clarified the administration of officials and dismissed local officials who were corrupt and accepted bribes, which greatly improved local politics.He also widely cited literary affairs, searched for suicide notes, recruited guests, devoted himself to corporals, and gathered a group of talents around him, such as Ma Renyu, Zhou Zong, Cao Yu, etc., who became loyal relatives and assisted him. Do a good job in various military and political affairs. Xu Wen was very happy to hear that his adopted son Zhigao had made great achievements in Shengzhou, so he spoke good words in front of Yang Longyan. In the eleventh year of Tianyou (914 A.D.), the official Zhigao became the school inspector and became an important minister of Wu State. .This year, Xu Zhigao was only 26 years old.

Xu Wen has been in power in Jianghuai for a long time. He supported Yang Longyan as the king of Wu, served as the prime minister himself, supervised all the internal and external military forces, was named the king of Donghai County, and lived in Jinling (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province) with heavy troops.He also ordered Xu Zhixun, the eldest son, to be stationed in Guangling (now Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province) to supervise Yang Longyan, and Xu Zhigao, the adopted son, to be the regiment training envoy of Runzhou (now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province), and to inspect the Taibao to control Jiangnan.

In the 16th year of Tianyou, Xu Zhigao was just 30 years old.Xu Zhixun, who was stationed in Guangling, was hated by others because of his arrogance and violence. He was killed by Zhu Jin, the governor of Pinglu, and Zhu Jin also committed suicide.Xu Zhinuo received a report from Ma Renyu from Yangzhou in Runzhou, and hurriedly led his troops to Guangling to quell the chaos and stabilize the order.Then Zhixun took charge of the great government of Wu.At this time, Xu Wen was still in Jinling. He deeply regretted the actions of his own son Xu Zhixun and praised the actions of his adopted son Xu Zhigao.So he recognized Zhigao's status and established Zhigao as the successor of his career.

Xu Zhigao did a much better job in Guangling than Zhixun.He often sent people down to inspect the hunger among the people, and those who were so poor that they couldn't get rid of the pot, often donated money to send rice.So from Yang Longyan, the Lord of Wu, down to the people in the alley, they were all very satisfied with Zhigao.Although Xu Wen controlled the power remotely in Jinling, the people of Wu had already returned to Xu Zhigao. In the seventeenth year of Tianyou, Xu Wen, Xu Zhigao and his son supported Yang Longyan as the king of Wu, changed Yuan Wuyi, and set up hundreds of officials, ancestral temples, shrines, palaces, civil and military, all with the emperor's ceremony.Yang Longyan worshiped Zhigao as Zuo Pushe and participated in political affairs. At that time, he was called Zhengshi Pushe, that is, the prime minister.Xu Zhigao was already 33 years old this year, but he looked only in his 20s, and seemed to be a little younger. In order to make himself more like a prime minister, it is said that he asked someone to prescribe a medicine. More like a prudent old man, it is awe-inspiring.

Xu Zhigao also paid more attention to the relationship with Xu Wen. He knew that although Xu Wen recognized his position as prime minister, he did not take it lightly, but showed filial piety to Xu Wen. At the same time, he also carefully planned and paid attention to sense of proportion.Under the circumstances at the time, Xu Wen could easily abolish Yang Longyan and become emperor himself, but Xu Zhigao deliberately put a high hat on his adoptive father as a loyal minister, delaying Xu Wen's time to seize the throne, while he himself It is possible to recruit talents, accumulate strength, and rise step by step on the stage of power.

In the third year of Wuyi (AD 921), Yang Longyan, the Lord of Wu, died, and Xu Wen and Xu Zhigao supported Yang Longyan's younger brother Yang Pu as King of Wu. Xu Wen died six years later. After Xu Wen died, Xu Zhixun took over his position, led the Jinling Jiedu envoy, and commanded a large army.Xu Zhixun disobeyed Zhigao's leadership and was more powerful than Zhigao, but Zhixun, like his elder brother Zhixun, was not intelligent, was rash, and was not supported by his father's subordinates.Zhigao seized his military power in Jinling.In the first year of Taihe (929 A.D.), Xu Zhigao was 41 years old. Following Xu Wen's example, he stationed his sons Jing Tong (that is, Li Jing) and Jing Qian in Guangling successively, and moved to Jinling himself.At that time, the strategic significance and importance of Jinling was higher than that of Guangling, but the Wu court never left Guangling.

In the first year of Tianzuo (935 A.D.), Xu Zhigao added his official title as Shangfu, Taishi, Prime Minister, Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, and became the king of Qi. However, adding an official title has no real meaning.In the second year, Xu Zhigao resigned from the above-mentioned meaningless official titles, opened the Grand Marshal's Mansion, installed staff members, established his own system of bureaucratic teams, and wanted to become emperor himself.Therefore, Jiuxi was added, and special gifts were prepared, and the 10 prefectures of Min, Run, Xuan, Chi, She, Chang, Jiang, Rao, Xin, and Hai were Qi, which accounted for nearly half of Wu's territory.The nearby small countries Min and Wuyue also saw it very clearly, and they all sent envoys to persuade them to enter.After more than 10 years of painstaking efforts, Xu Zhigao has firmly grasped all the power of the Wu State. To replace Yang Pu as emperor, he only needs to take another step. In October of the third year of Tianzuo (937 A.D.), Xu Zhigao was 49 years old. He felt that he was getting older and could not give up the throne that was at his fingertips, so he was eager to replace him.He forced Yang Puchan, the Lord of Wu, to take the place of himself, and changed the third year of Wu Tianzuo to the first year of Shengyuan, proclaimed himself emperor, and named the country as Daqi.Take your own birthday, December 2, as the Renshou Festival.His adoptive father Xu Wen was honored as "Emperor Taizu Wu", and his adoptive mother Li was "Empress Mingde".Yang Pu, the Lord of Wu who also respected the Zen position, was "Emperor Gao Shang Si Xuan Hong Gu Rang".The first volume is called "Shou Chan Veteran".Yang Lian, the prince of Wu, was made the Duke of Hongnong County, and his wife, Song, was made the queen.Thus, a new dynasty was established in the Jianghuai land.In September of the second year of Shengyuan, Zhao Kefeng, the Minister of Taifu, asked Xu Zhigao to restore the Li surname and establish the Tang Zongmiao.In order to achieve internal stability, Xu Zhigao did not agree, so the Daqi Dynasty surnamed Xu existed for 3 years. In the first month of the third year of Shengyuan, Xu Wen's sons Jiang Wang Zhizheng and Rao Wang Zhi'e took the lead in asking Zhigao to restore Li's surname. Prime Minister Song Qiqiu and Privy Envoy Zhou Zong also made a petition to restore Li's surname.In February, Xu Zhigao changed the name of the country to Datang, known as "Southern Tang" in history.He claimed to be a descendant of the Tang Dynasty, and ordered his officials to verify the origin of his ancestors in order to link with the Tang Dynasty clan.Finally "determined" as the tenth grandson of Tang Taizong's son Wu Wangke.So he continued to revise the genealogy, just like the successor of the Tang dynasty.He also changed the name of Xu Wenmiao to "Yizu" to show his distinction from his own imperial lineage.The Taimiao is arranged in order of Tang Gaozu, Tang Taizong, Wu Wangke, and Yizu, offering sacrifices to both the Li family and the Xu family.He asked the minister to change his name again, and finally, he finally found a character of "昪", so he changed his name to Li Min.He is 51 years old this year. Li Min, the Liezu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was the emperor of Qi for 3 years, and the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty for 4 years, and he was the emperor for a total of 7 years. In addition to the time when Wu was in power, he served as the supreme ruler of the Jianghuai small kingdom for more than ten years. During Li Min's reign, he has always adopted the policy of protecting the environment and the people.Because he did not provoke war lightly and the territory was stable, he devoted his energy to rectifying the interior and carried out some political and economic reforms. At that time, the Southern Tang Dynasty had a large territory and a strong military force.While reorganizing the army, he paid special attention to rewarding Nongsang.In order to increase the labor force and reduce redundant food, he forbade monks and nuns in the territory to be indiscriminate. Although he himself believed in Buddhism, he forbade the excessive development of monasteries.It also absorbed a large number of refugees from all over the world. Therefore, during his more than ten years in power, the domestic household registration increased and the financial resources were sufficient.When he died, there were seven million worth of military weapons, gold and silk in the Delu palace treasury.And the sum of all the databases in the country must be more. Because Li Min set an example, the politics of the Southern Tang Dynasty under his rule was very clear, the country became stronger and stronger, and cultural undertakings gradually developed.Under Li Min's governance, Southern Tang gradually developed into the most advanced economic and cultural region in China at that time. Li Min claimed to be a descendant of Tang Taizong, and probably imitated his "ancestor" in everything.Taizong dreamed of immortality in his later years, so that he could swallow Taoist elixir, and Li Min also liked the same way.One day, Li Min had an attack of erysipelas, and the imperial physician Wu Yanshao hurriedly sent a messenger to summon Qi Wang Li Jing (Xu Jingtong) to the palace to attend to the illness.That night, Li Min died in pain.The posthumous title is "Emperor Guangwen Suwu Xiao", and the temple name is "Liezu".