Chapter 243 Chapter 242 Empress Wang Yan

Wang Yan, Zi Huayuan, formerly known as Zong Yan, is the eleventh son of Wang Jian.Mother Xu Xianfei. Wang Yan has been studying prose since he was a child. He is talented and good at composing erotic poems.But he is cowardly by nature, likes to have fun, and is afraid of political affairs.He was named King Zheng for the first time, and later became the crown prince because of his mother's favor.When Wang Jian died, he was the heir.I was 18 years old.Renamed Wang Yan. After ascending the throne, Wang Yan indulged in entertainment and ignored state affairs. The Zhongshu ordered Wang Zongbi and the privy envoy Song Guangsi to exercise power at home and abroad. Han Zhao, the minister of Wensidian University, and others also exercise authority.For a time, there were many political parties and chaos.But Wang Yan didn't care about these at all. He either went out for fun, or feasted in the palace, and his enjoyment was endless.

In the spring of the second year of his accession to the throne, Wang Yan and the queen mother and concubine traveled all over the famous mountains in nearby counties, spending extravagantly.In the autumn of the third year, he claimed to conquer Fengxiang personally, and led his concubines and concubines to Hanzhong from Chengdu. Wang Yan was dressed in gold armor and a beaded hat.Wang Yan wrote "Water Tune Silver Han Song", asked the musicians to play and sing on the boat, and ordered people to search for beautiful women along the way. He Kang, a commoner in Langzhou, had a beautiful daughter who was hired to marry. Wang Yan ordered people to snatch it forcibly. The woman's husband died of grief.

Wang Yan also often went to restaurants and shops in the city, Qinlou and Chuguan to have fun.Everywhere he went, he wrote "Wang Yilai" on the wall.Shu people like to wear small hats, but Wang Yan likes to wear big hats. In order to prevent the citizens from recognizing him, Wang Yan ordered the people of Shuzhong to wear big hats. In the summer of the fourth year of Qiande (922 A.D.), Wang Yan heard that the military envoy Wang Chenggang had a beautiful daughter, so he was robbed into the palace.Wang Chenggang went to the court to ask for his daughter to be released. Wang Yan was furious and exiled him to Maozhou, and Chenggang's daughter committed suicide.This incident chilled the hearts of all the old military officials.On October 4th of the first year of Xiankang (925 A.D.), Wang Yan led his courtier Han Zhao and others to set off from Chengdu for pleasure.Arriving in Hanzhou the next day, Wang Chengjie, the envoy of Wuxing Festival who was guarding the frontier Fengzhou (now Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province), sent someone to send a letter, saying that the army of the later Tang Dynasty had entered Guanzhong.But Wang Yan believed that this was a deliberate conspiracy by the ministers to prevent him from going north.

The monarch and his ministers traveled and had fun, and when they arrived in Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan), they encountered defeated soldiers who had fled.It turned out that Tang soldiers had entered the country in large numbers, and the Wuxing Jiedu envoy Wang Chengjie surrendered to Guo Chongtao.So far, Wang Yan believed that Tang Bing had arrived.He left Wang Zongbi to lead the army to guard Lizhou, and he returned to Chengdu from Mianzhou. At this time, the former Shu was in disintegration. Wherever the Tang army went, the defenders of the former Shu surrendered or fled, and there was almost no resistance.On November 6, Wang Yan returned to Chengdu.The next day, a group of ministers were summoned in the Hall of Civilization, and the monarchs and ministers wept with each other, and none of them could have an emergency plan.On the 15th, Wang Zongbi also fled back to Chengdu.Wang Yan and the Queen Mother went to ask questions, but Zong Bi was arrogant and rude, and supported both sides of the army.That night, troops were sent to confine Wang Yan, the queen mother, and the kings, and they collected the seals, claiming to be the empress of Xichuan soldiers and horses.On the 17th, when the Tang army arrived in Hanzhou, Zongbi sent people to send cattle and wine to comfort him. He also asked Wang Yan to call Zhongshu's servant Tong Pingzhangshi to draft a letter of surrender, and Ouyang Bin, the servant of the military department, asked to surrender.On the twenty-sixth day, in the later Tang Dynasty, the capital of the camp in Xichuan, the king of Wei Jiji, arrived in Hanzhou, and Zongbi went to meet him.Arrived in Chengdu the next day, and on the 28th, a surrender ceremony was held beside the Shengxian Bridge.Former Shu perished.

In the first month of the fourth year of Tongguang in the Later Tang Dynasty (926 A.D.), thousands of people from Wang Yan's clan and Baiguan were escorted to Luoyang.In March, when he traveled to Chang'an, Tang Zhuangzong ordered him to stay here temporarily and not to come east. On April 3, Xiang Yansi went to Chang'an and killed Wang Yan and his family.Wang Yan was 28 years old.In the third year of Tiancheng (928 A.D.), Tang Mingzong named Wang Yan "Shunzheng Gong" and was buried in Sanzhao Village in the south of Chang'an City.