Chapter 235 Chapter 234 Yuanzong Li Jing

Li Jing, also known as Li Jing, was originally named Jingtong, but later changed his name to Yao, and after he succeeded, he was renamed Jing again, with the word Boyu.He is the eldest son of Li Sheng, and his mother is Yuanjing Empress Song. In the twelfth year of Tianyou (AD 915), Xu Zhigao, an important minister of the southern state of Wu, gave birth to a son named Xu Jingtong, who later became Li Jing.Jing Tong loved literature since he was a child, and he had an elegant demeanor. When he was 10 years old, he was appointed as a doctor in the driving department, and later he was appointed as a general of Wei.After his father took charge of the great affairs of the Wu state, he also worshiped officials such as Situ, Pingzhangshi, and knowledge of Chinese and foreign military forces.

In the third year of Tianzuo (937 AD), Xu Jingtong was already 22 years old.His father Xu Zhigao finally usurped Wu and became emperor in this year.So Jingtong was named King of Wu, and in the fourth year of Shengyuan (940 A.D.), he was renamed King of Qi.One of the most important things Xu Jingtong did in these three years was to persuade his father to restore the surname Li. His father changed his name to Li Min, and he also changed his name to Li Jing, claiming to be a descendant of Tang Taizong.Li Jing's position in the imperial court at that time was the Marshal of the soldiers and horses of all the Taoists, and he was named the king of Qi, but he was not the crown prince.

Li Min was deeply worried about the political ability of his eldest son Li Jing.So he ordered the third son, Jing, to move Jing on behalf of Jing to stay behind in Dongdu and Yin in Jiangdu.The position of Crown Prince belongs to the fourth son, Jing Da.Jingda Xiaoyou is pure and talented, not only his father likes him, but also his three older brothers, but he is too young to surpass him.Li Min considered again and again, and in August of this year, he finally made his eldest son Li Jing the crown prince.In the seventh year of Shengyuan, Li Min died, and Li Jing cried very sadly. He did not take the throne immediately, but proposed to give up the throne to his younger brother Jing Sui.It was stopped after several ministers tried their best to dissuade them.So the Yuan was changed to "Bao Da", that is, the throne of the emperor, and the territory was amnesty.Li Jing was 28 years old this year.

Li Jing made his wife Zhong the queen, but not the crown prince. He made his younger brother Jing Sui the king of Yan, Jing Da the king of E, and his eldest son Hongji the king of Nanchang.A few months later, Jing was changed to be the king of Qi, Jing Da was the king of Yan, Jing was ordered to be Marshal, Taiwei, and Zhongshuling of all the soldiers, and he lived in the East Palace, and Jingda was the deputy marshal.Li Jing swore an oath in front of his father's coffin again, asking his brothers to succeed him from generation to generation. Li Jing later appointed his younger brother Jing Sui as the emperor's younger brother. Jing Sui lived in the East Palace for 13 years. .After a period of time like this, Li Jing finally made his eldest son Hongji the crown prince.But Hongji was afraid that his uncle Jing Sui would seize his right to inherit the throne, so he sent someone to poison Jing Sui to death, but Li Jing didn't know about it.Hongji was talented in civil and military affairs, very decisive, and able to decide major events, but he died violently one month after poisoning his uncle.

Li Jing has no political talent, but he does not obey his father's will.After he practiced Zuo, he did not use the senior ministers left by his father, but trusted Feng Yansi, Feng Yanlu, Wei Cen, Chen Jue, and Zha Wenhui, who had served him in the East Palace, and sent troops to Fujian and Chu. At the same time, Kuzang lost the opportunity to take control of the Central Plains, and later had to become a vassal state of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Li Jing changed his father's policy of administration, which caused the spread of corruption both inside and outside the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Feng Yanlu and the other five were greedy for profit, trouble-making, petty and frivolous, flamboyant and frivolous. They formed cliques for personal gain and repelled dissidents. When the "five ghosts" are in power, politics is of course corrupt. Li Jing didn't want to be the emperor, but he had to continue to be the emperor.He changed Yuan to Zhongxing and called 958 AD the first year of Zhongxing. However, the country was dilapidated and nearly half of the land was lost.Li Jing was disheartened, and changed his year name within a few months, calling it the first year of Jiaotai.He also ordered to remove the title of emperor and call him king, and even simply use the title of post-anniversary and call him Xiande five years.He also changed his name Jing to Jing to avoid Zhou taboos, and all rituals and systems in the world will be reduced, and his status is almost the same as that of the son emperor.

In the third year of Jiaotai (961 A.D.), the power of the Later Zhou Dynasty had been usurped by Zhao Kuangyin, and Li Jing continued to profess his minister to the Northern Song Dynasty.So the prince stayed to supervise the country from Jiayu Jinling, and he led a group of concubines to move to the southern capital.The dragon boat was almost blown to the north bank of the Yangtze River due to a storm while going up the river, and almost fell into the hands of the Song army on the north bank.In March, Li Jing was devastated and finally arrived in Nandu (Nanchang). Nanchang is just a small city with narrow streets, the palace cannot accommodate many concubines, and the official residence cannot accommodate many bureaucrats.Soon Li Jing fell ill.In June, his illness became serious, and he knew that he was going to die, so he issued a will to request that he be buried in Xishan, Nanchang.It is enough for Li Jing to be the emperor, he just hopes to lie safely on the ground.Soon he died in the Changchun Palace in the southern capital at the age of 46.Posthumously "Emperor Mingdao Chongde Wenxuanxiao", temple name "Yuanzong", buried in Shunling.