Chapter 270 Chapter 269 Empress Ma Xichong

Xi Chong is the same mother and brother as Xi E, cunning and insidious.When Xi Fan was the king of Chu, he served as Tiance Zuo Sima.When Xi'e and Xi Guang were fighting for the throne, he repeatedly provoked and expanded the conflict between the two sides.Xie is the queen, she indulges in sex all day long, ignores the government affairs, military and political affairs are all handled by Xichong, the power in Xichong's hands is getting bigger and bigger, and his ambition is also growing. He is looking for an opportunity to overthrow Xie and make himself king.On October 9th in the ninth year of Baoda (951 A.D.), Xi'e held a banquet at the Dragon Boat Festival Gate. Xi Chong and Ma Budu commander Xu Wei conspired to launch a coup, captured Xi'e, and then sent generals to Hengshan (now He was imprisoned in South Hengyang City, Hunan Province, and Xi Chong proclaimed himself King of Chu.

Xi Chong succeeded to the throne, but the generals in the court were dissatisfied and refused to attach them. The local generals headed by Wang Kui of Langzhou declared that they were guilty of usurpation, and allied forces attacked Changsha; The King of Hengshan, they set up a mansion in Hengshan, recruited troops and bought horses, and there were more than 10,000 people in a few days, and they kept saying that they wanted to punish the rebels in the north.Under such circumstances, Xi Chong had no choice but to ask for help from the Southern Tang Dynasty. The commander of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Bian Hao, led ten thousand troops to Changsha.Bian Hao ordered Xichong to lead his people into the court, and the Ma people bribed Bian Hao heavily, hoping to beg him to stay in Changsha, but Bian Hao sneered at this, saying: "You and my two families have been enemies for 60 years, and our country has no intention of spying on Chu. , but now you brothers are fighting, you have no choice but to return to our country, if this happens twice more, I am afraid no one will be able to say what will happen in the end." Ma Xichong had no choice but to lead his tribe and more than a thousand generals to cry on board, Came to Jinling.Xi Chong, the chief envoy of the Tang Dynasty, was the envoy of the Yongtai Army and lived in Yangzhou.Later, Xichong led 17 of his brothers to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Zhou named him the Commander of You Yulin, and finally died of illness in Zhou Dynasty.