It seems that God played a joke and let him reincarnate into the royal family, and mistakenly became the Southern Tang King whose luck had run out. When the country was destroyed, he said piteously that he "knew how many wars to fight"? As a poet, this is true, but as a king, it is really funny.
He is Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, an artist who became an emperor.
After the demise of the Tang Dynasty, China entered a period of great division in the Five Dynasties and Ten Countries. Among them, the Southern Tang Dynasty was a separatist regime established by Li Bian in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. At its largest, it included parts of Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian and Hunan, with a population of about 5 million. Li Jing, the second-generation monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was fond of reading and was rich in talents, but his life was extravagant and his political corruption led to the decline of his national strength. In the first year of Jiaotai (958), after the invasion of Nan Zhou by the Huai River Water Army in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the whole army was wiped out, so it had to yield to the later Zhou Dynasty and pay a high tribute every year.
Li Yu (937-978), formerly known as Li, the sixth son of Li Jing, has a big forehead, a pair of eyes and a pair of pupils, and is said to be an emperor. In order to avoid the suspicion of Prince Li Hongji, Li Yu named himself "Zhong Yin" and "Lian Feng Ju Shi" to show that he was interested in mountains and rivers and had no intention of fighting for power. He was gifted with wisdom, forbidding killing good people, and formed an indissoluble bond with Buddhism during his long retreat.
Li Yu had no intention of fighting for money, so he naturally pushed him to the position of heir in the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the sixth year of Xiande (959), Prince Li Hongji died of illness and Li Yu's brother died young. He replaced him in the East Palace of the Prince. Zhong Mo, assistant minister of rites, said that Li Yu believed in Buddhism and was weak and virtuous. Please make Li Congshan, the seventh son of Li Jing, a prince. But Jing Li obviously prefers Li Yu, because Li Yu is so much like him, and he is good at writing and drawing, which completely inherits his artistic atmosphere. Not only did he not listen to Zhong You's advice, but he repeatedly demoted Zhong You to show his support for Li Yu.
In the first year of Stegosaurus (960), Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny in Chen Qiao, usurped the regime of the Later Zhou Dynasty, established the Song Dynasty, and then launched a large-scale unified war. Nantang is like a stormy boat, which is in danger of capsizing at any time. At this historical juncture, Li Jing died, and Li Yu hastily took over as the Queen of Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Yu lived in seclusion for a long time, was addicted to Buddhism and lacked political literacy. At the beginning of his reign, he misjudged the basic situation. He believed that the Song Dynasty was "not greedy for land, but angry at people." In other words, as long as he respects DaSong, everything will be fine. He sent messengers to Zhao Kuangyin, saying that he would inherit his father's diplomatic mantle, not only continue to submit to Dasong, but also pay tribute. Zhao Kuangyin found that Li Yu was a "good boy" and there was no threat for the time being, so he promised that Li Yu would not attack Nantang.
In view of the weakness of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the people were in poverty and the army was in poverty, Li Yu ordered tax reduction and exemption to benefit the people's livelihood. It is indeed a good policy to rest for health and rest for rest, but it also varies from time to time and from place to situation. Li Yu trusted Zhao Kuangyin's promise too much and felt that she could rest easy from now on. I don't know. Politicians turn against each other faster than turning pages.
In the second year of Song Gande (964), Zhou Qiang fell ill, and Zhou sent his sister to visit her. Before meeting my sister, my sister took a nap on the couch in the palace. Li Yu accidentally saw Zhou Wei, and the lying beauty made him heartache. He accidentally touched the bead curtain and woke Zhou Wei. Sister and brother-in-law looked at each other. "I smile slowly, and I am infinitely affectionate." Love comes at an inappropriate time.
Zhou Wei is 15 years old, and this teenage girl can't refuse Li Yu's date request. "Flower bright moon dark cage light fog, good to lang side tonight. Well, socks smell good and gold shoes are portable. See you at the south bank of the gallery, always shivering. It is difficult for a slave to come out, and teach Lang compassion. " She said, I went to see my lover on a beautiful night with blooming flowers, hazy moonlight and misty light. I tiptoed on the fragrant steps of walk on by, with my socks touching the ground and golden embroidered shoes in my hand, for fear of making noise. Finally, on the south bank of the painting gallery, I saw my long-awaited brother. They hugged each other tightly and still trembled for a long time. Hey, it's really hard to get out at once. Cherish the present. Let's love each other heartily. I'm happy to be as gentle as you like.
Once, they dated in the bedroom. Zhou Wei played the piano and fiddled with her slender fingers, but her eyes glanced at Li Yu from time to time, full of affection. Li Yu couldn't hold on any longer and had a relationship with Zhou Wei. After the party, Li Yu didn't want to be apart, but she couldn't help being apart, so she came up with the idea of treating Zhou Wei as a princess. However, Zhou Qiang is ill in bed. How could he suddenly accept the princess, and the person he accepted was her sister?
But there is no airtight wall in the world. The sick sister noticed and asked her, "When did you come?" Zhou Wei said, "I have been here for many days." Zhou Qiang didn't ask any more questions. Her heart was bleeding and her condition took a turn for the worse. 1 1 month, Zhou Qiang died at the age of 29. Li Yu: "People who suffocate because of sadness will go to the well and be saved." It means to jump into a well and commit suicide. I don't know if it's because of sadness or remorse.
It is said that after Zhou Qiang's death, Zhao Kuangyin proposed to Li Yu. For the weak southern Tang Dynasty, this is a gratifying good thing. But Li Yu is a lover. She refuses to give up Zhou Wei for her motherland and marry a strange woman. In the first year of Kaibao (968), he married Zhou Wei with the highest royal standard.
As a country, Zhou Wei decorated the harem with its own ideas. She likes green, so she changed the quilt, nepotism, hairpin jewelry and all the toys into green! All the concubines and maids in the harem should wear green clothes and use green utensils. In order to please Zhou Wei, Li Yu decorated the wall with gold thread, made nails with hawksbill, and inlaid the panes with emeralds. He also planted a large number of plum blossoms outside the palace, and built a small wooden pavilion with colorful paintings among the plum blossoms, with only two seats for him and Zhou Wei to enjoy flowers and drink.
Of course, Li Yu has not forgotten Buddhism. After contacting Zhou Wei, he went to talk with the "Little Elders" about the Six Roots, Four Truths and Karma. "Little Elder" Li Yu encouraged him to build Jingde Temple in Lin Yuan and set up a charity Dojo in Zhongshan. He supplies nearly a thousand monks every day, and his food and clothing are extremely luxurious, and all expenses are paid by the court.
Pan You, the scribe in the book, can't stand it. At this point, the national strength is weak, while you, Li Yu, are extravagant. Isn't this the rhythm of death? So seven times, the words were fierce, asking Li Yu to appoint Li Ping, the assistant minister of the Ministry, as an official order to fully grasp the state power in order to turn the tide. Xu Xuan, the official ministers, and Li Ping are sworn enemies. They immediately said that Li Ping's bad words misled the people and incited Pan You to commit crimes. Li Yu couldn't tell right from wrong, so he sent someone to catch Li Ping and Pan You. Unexpectedly, this Pan You was strong-willed and committed suicide before his captors came.
In October of the fourth year of Kaibao (97 1), the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty was attacked on three sides. Li Yu felt an unprecedented fear and didn't even dare to call him "master". He sent his younger brother Li to the Song Dynasty to confess that you are welcome to call me by my first name and call me "Jia Cong". Zhao Kuangyin tried several tricks and found that Li Yu's brothers were several catties and two taels. He knew it was only a matter of time before he defeated Nantang. At this time, he was most worried about this southern Tang warrior, so he told Li mischievously that he was going to take refuge in Dasong. Look, I hung all his portraits in the palace! Sadly, the Li Yu brothers easily fell into the trap and killed Lin.
A businessman tipped off Li Yu that Song Jun was building warships in Jingnan, and suggested sending someone to secretly burn them. But Li Yu was afraid of getting into trouble and didn't dare to answer. Seeing that the warships of the Song Dynasty were launched one after another, Li Yu was worried, but he had no countermeasures. He only knows how to feast and mourn with his lieutenants.
In the seventh year of Kaibao (974), Zhao Kuangyin invited Li Yu to worship in the capital of song dynasty. Knowing that there was no return, Li Yu made an excuse to get sick and secretly began to prepare for the war. This just gave Zhao Kuangyin an excuse to attack Nantang. He immediately sent more than 100,000 troops to join forces with Wu Yueguo's army to attack from the east, west and north. Li Yu sent Xu Xuan to the capital of song dynasty for peace. Xu Xuan said to Zhao Kuangyin, "It is understandable that Li Yu serves your majesty as a son serves Lao Zi. Why did you hit him? " Zhao Kuangyin asked, "Do you think father and son can be divided into two families?" In ancient times, father and son were inseparable, and Xu Xuan was speechless. Li Yu wrote to King Yue of Wu again, telling the truth, my lips are dead and my teeth are cold, saying that I died in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the gap between you and Dasong disappeared. What's good about having you in Wuyue? King wuyue may not have read Zuo Zhuan, or deliberately pretended not to understand it, and directly forwarded Li Yu's letter to Zhao Kuangyin.
Seeing that Li could not retreat, he had to reinforce the wall of Jinling and pile firewood in the palace. Once the capital falls, he will burn with the palace. The people in the Southern Tang Dynasty saw Li Yu's determination to fight to the death, and also saw their inferiority complex that they were afraid of before the war.
In August of the eighth year of Kaibao (975), Song Jun approached Jinling. Li Yu summoned the "Little Elders" to retreat from the enemy. When the "little elder" waved the flag in his hand, Song Bing actually fell back. Li Yu was overjoyed and ordered the soldiers to recite the Sutra of Saving Avalokitesvara, but Song Jun did not retreat. Li Yu tried to summon the "little elder" again, but the "little elder" said that he could not get sick. Li Yu had to appoint general Huang Jixun to take command of the military forces and go to defend the enemy. Huang Jixun is a "straw bag" who collapses at the press of a button. In order to cover up his failure, he detained urgent documents all over the country and did not report them. Song Jun has hit ten miles south of Jinling, and Li Yu doesn't know it yet. Until Enemy at the Gates, Song Jun and Li Yu went to the city in person, but when he saw the flags of Song Jun flying everywhere and the barricades criss-crossing, he woke up from a rude awakening and ordered Huang Jixun to be executed.
Li Yu ordered Xu Xuan to plead with Zhao Kuangyin again: "Li Yu didn't go to Bianjing to sacrifice to heaven because of illness, not because he dared to disobey your orders, but because he begged to slow down to keep one side safe." Xu Xuan was eloquent, but Zhao Kuangyin couldn't argue with him, so he drew his sword and roared, "Needless to say! I tell you, this is Zhao's world, and I can't allow others to sleep soundly on my couch! " The words were clear, but Xu Xuan dared not argue any more.
1 1 27, Jinling city was broken, and Li Yu wanted to commit suicide and be a martyr. He shouted and howled around, but the boss couldn't die! What shall we do if you die? What will he do if he doesn't die? Ministers took off their coats, walked out of the palace door and surrendered to Song Jun. Zhao Kuangyin ordered Song Jun to take Li Yu and his children to the capital of song dynasty. Li Yu wrote a poem "Broken Array" when he left: "For forty years, a thousand miles from her home. How many times did you know each other because of a fight? Once classified as ministers, Shen Yao and Pan were killed. The most important thing is to bid farewell to the temple, and there is still a farewell song in the teaching workshop, crying to Gong E! " As the king of a country, at the moment of bidding farewell to the ancestral temple, he even "shed tears for Gong E". Think about what a weak chicken this is! Why can't you keep the inheritance established in three generations and forty years, and the land with three thousand miles of wealth? Li Yu said pathetically that she had "known each other several times"? Is that you don't know the military and can't fight. But as an emperor, how can you "know nothing about war"?
If you don't know how to fight, you must bear the responsibility and shame of the country's demise. Li Yu was named "disobedient Hou", and he accepted the name and the shame. Zhou Wei was dubbed "Mrs. Zheng Guo", Confucius said "Zheng Sheng was immoral", and Zhao Kuangyin alluded to Zhou Wei's "fornication" harem, which goes without saying.
10, Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Guangyi acceded to the throne for Song Taizong. When he first boarded Dabao, Zhao Guangyi wrote to abolish Li Yu's title of "disobedient Hou" and changed it to the title of Longxi County. Li Yu saw a glimmer of light in the darkness and wrote to Zhao Guangyi that he was living in poverty. Zhao Guangyi was very frank. "I wrote a letter to Yue Feng, but I still gave him three million yuan." Li Yu was stupid and naive, thinking that the emperor was so grateful that he could spend the rest of his life safely.
As a matter of fact, Zhao Guangyi is a lecherous, and he has a purpose to re-endow Li Yu. According to the practice of the Song Dynasty, after an official was chased, his family would go to the palace to see the queen. Zhao Guangyi has always had a crush on the charming and elegant Zhou Wei. When Zhou Wei entered the palace during the Lantern Festival, he wrongly conveyed the message of the Queen and forced her to stay in the palace. "Walking is side by side and sleeping is overlapping." She was not put back until the end of the month. Zhou Wei went back to his apartment, crying and scolding Li Yu for not protecting his wife. Li Yu didn't dare to confront Zhao Guangyi or look at Zhou Wei's sad eyes, so she had to avoid Zhou Wei. Her poems were full of pain, indignation, fear and sadness.
In 978, in the third year of Taiping, Xu Xuan was ordered by Zhao Guangyi to visit Li Yu. Once the monarch and the minister met and talked about the past of the old country, they were all crying. The pain of national subjugation has not disappeared, and the hatred of taking a wife has risen again. Who can tell the unforgettable pain in my heart? Li Yu wrote a poem "Yu Meiren": "When are the spring flowers and the autumn moon? What do you know about the past! The small building was easterly again last night, and the old country could not bear to look back on the bright moon. Carved fences and jade bricks should still exist, but Zhu Yan changed them. How much sadness can you have? Just like a river flowing eastward. " This is the third year of Li Yu's exile in the capital of song dynasty. There are three spring flowers and three autumn moons. The years are constantly changing. What a wonderful life, but he lives a prisoner's life! Looking back at the old country, Jinling's resplendent palaces should still be there, but those ladies-in-waiting are old and things have changed. Li Yu poured out the sadness and regret contained in his chest and condensed it into the final eternal swan song: "How much sadness can you have?" Like a river flowing eastward. "
Li can't live a muddled life like that, but should be "happy". He won't hide his humiliation and sadness, he won't cheat Emperor Zhao's sympathy, and he doesn't know how to save himself and his wife from the thorns. He is just naive and pedantic. He can only compose music and write lyrics.
This year's Tanabata is his birthday. In his apartment, Li Yu asked a geisha to perform the song "Young Beauty" he had just written. Zhao Guangyi was very angry when he heard this. The prisoner dared to say that "the old country is unbearable to look back at the moonlight." Do you still want to restore the country? He gave Li Yu a glass of royal wine, which was mixed with deadly morning medicine.
Under the supervision of eunuchs, Li Yu drank the poisoned wine. Wine helps medicine, and medicine relies on the power of wine, and medicine attacks quickly. Li Yu's limbs twitched, his mouth and eyes were skewed, and his head and feet were rigidly hooked together, looking like a tractor. At the last moment of his death, what he couldn't let go of most was the woman who made eyes at him. Li Yu curled up in the frightened Zhou Wei's arms, bid farewell to the mixed feelings of sadness and hate, and bid farewell to Zhou Wei's guilt.
Zhou Qian, regardless of clouds, regardless of tea and rice, stayed for a day. Zhao Guangyi still urged Zhou Wei to wait on her, but Zhou Wei refused to enter the palace and died. After mourning, she gave herself to three feet of white silk, without a trace of concern, leaving her beautiful youth and all her humiliation behind.
Later generations once said that Li Yu "a talented person is really peerless and extremely vicious." Indeed, Li Yu is a peerless genius, and his talent is different from ordinary people. But then again, Li Yu would not have become an eternal poet without the huge life gap from the king of a country to the prisoner. Any achievement comes at a price. But if history can be repeated, I believe that Li Yu will not be willing to exchange national subjugation for the achievements of his poets through the ages.
Mao Zedong has read "Learning from Mutual Adversity" 17 times, and he is very familiar with the law of the rise and fall of dynasties, and also has a profound understanding. 1on March 24th, 964, he said in a conversation that many emperors in history were intellectuals and had no future, but Emperor Yang Di was a man who could make a fuss about poetry. Chen Houzhu and Li Houzhu are both poets. Song Huizong can not only draw pictures, but also write poems. Mao Zedong's Li Houzhu is Li Yu.