Chapter 249 Chapter 248 Kangzong Wang Chang

Wang Chang, formerly known as Jipeng, was the eldest son of Wang Jinlin.Killed his father and stood up, renamed Chang.In the second year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty (937 A.D.), Shi Jingtang, Emperor Gaozu of the Jin Dynasty, canonized him as King of Fujian.He reigned from 935 to 939 AD. In October of the first year of Yonghe (AD 935), a palace incident occurred in the state of Fujian in Fujian.Min Huizong, who had been ill in bed for a long time, was killed in a mutiny launched by his son Ji Peng (ie Wang Chang) and Li Fang, the imperial envoy.Wang Chang succeeded to the throne and became the second emperor of Fujian.

After Wang Chang succeeded to the throne, he was still as cruel and licentious as his father, and in many ways even worse.He continued to favor Buddhism and Taoism. When he came to the throne, he bestowed the Taoist priest Chen Shouyuan as a celestial master, and accepted Chen Shouyuan's suggestion to build the Sanqing Palace in the palace, and cast three golden statues of Baohuang Taidi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Taishang Laojun. , spending thousands of catties of gold, burning borneol, xunlu and other exotic fragrances in the temple every day, hoping to obtain the elixir of immortality.The government of the military and the country, no matter how big or small, was decided by Chen Shouyuan and others who reported to Baohuang. In fact, these Taoists manipulated the state affairs.

It is rare for Wang Chang to discuss state affairs with the ministers. Most of the ministers are convened for banquets and entertainment. Every banquet lasts all night.He always likes to force his ministers to drink alcohol, and they will not stop getting drunk, but every time he makes people monitor the mistakes of the drunk ministers, and they will be killed without pardon if they show any disrespect due to drunkenness. In the second year of his accession to the throne, Wang Chang made his beloved concubine Li Chunyan the queen, and built the Zihui Palace specially for her, decorated with crystals, which cost twice as much as the Baohuang Palace.Expropriate 20,000 people, and do our best.

Wang Chang didn't care about state affairs, was arrogant, extravagant and licentious, and built large-scale construction projects, leaving the treasury empty, so he continued to increase the burden on the people. In this way, under Wang Chang's rule, the people of Fujian were full of resentment, and the government and the public were uneasy.He was worried that someone would embrace a new emperor and overthrow his rule, so he took two more drastic measures.In April of the fourth year of Tongwen (939 A.D.), Chen Shouyuan and Lin Xing, another god Wu, told him "Baohuang's decree", saying that the clan ministers wanted to cause chaos.After receiving Baohuang's order, he immediately sent someone to kill his two uncles Yanwu, Yanwang and their five sons. The other uncle Yanxi was Zuo Pushe and Pingzhang at the time. Call it crazy.Wang Chang also dismissed him, gave him a Taoist uniform, and exiled him to Wuyi Mountain.But soon, he was called back to Fuzhou and placed under house arrest.

Another measure is the disposition of the Custodians.He was afraid that he would repeat the mistakes of his father.Therefore, 3,000 warriors were specially recruited to establish the Chenwei Army, and the food and clothing rewards were far more than the original two forbidden armies, the Chen Army and the Crane Army.He also planned to send the Kongchen and Konghe armies to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou respectively, which aroused dissatisfaction with the two forbidden armies. In July of the same year, the palace city caught fire, and the North Palace was almost completely burned. Wang Chang ordered Lian Chongyu, the envoy of the Crane Army, to lead his troops to clean up the ashes and search for the arsonists.After several days, the arsonist has not been found.Wang Chang suspects that Lian Chongyu participated in the arson incident.He wanted to kill him with an excuse, but the matter was revealed to Reunion by the minister.On the third day of the seventh lunar month, it was Chongyu's turn to stay overnight in the palace, and he took the opportunity to cause chaos between the two armies of controlling the crane and controlling the Chen.Wang Chang and Queen Li Chunyan fled to the Chenwei Army to organize resistance.But Chen Wei's army was outnumbered. At dawn, they broke out with Wang Chang and fled to Wutong Ridge.At this time, Lian Chongyu and others had supported Wang Chang's uncle Yanxi, and Yanxi sent his son Jiye to lead the army to chase after Wang Chang. Wang Chang bent his bow with an arrow and shot several people. To escape, Wang Chang had no choice but to return with Jiye.Traveling to the Zhuang Village outside the city, he was hanged and killed. The ending was not much better than that of the father.Wang Chang reigned for 4 years.The temple name is "Kangzong", and the posthumous title is "Sacred God Yingrui Civilization Guangwu Yingdao Dahongxiao Emperor".