Li Jiji could not find enough ferry for a while, so he ordered the soldiers to swim across the river. This inhumane order became the last grass that overwhelmed the camels, and the army of attacking Shu collapsed! In the chaos, the noise of the soldiers began to chase and kill the people they usually resent. Lu Zhirou and his eunuchs ran away in the future, and their lives were unknown! The panicked Li Jiji and Li Congzhi finally crossed the river to avoid the chaos and reached the south bank, but there were only a few people left on the left.

Seeing that the deceased and the end of the world was coming, Li Congxi bid farewell to Li Jiji and said to his little master: "The big thing has passed, and great blessings will not come again! Your Highness would better break it yourself." Li Jiji then realized that he had been brought to a dead end by his trusted slaves! He didn't want to die, but he had to die! The young man came from sorrow, walked around, sighed, and communicated with tears, but he couldn't do anything about it. In the end, there was no way, Li Jiji called Li Huan, the loyal servant who killed Guo Chongtao for him several months ago, and asked him to strangle himself with a rope.

Li Jiji's death marked the end of the Later Tang Dynasty of Li Keyong's lineage. Later, Ren Yuan reorganized the collapsed army, led the entire army to surrender to Li Siyuan, and cooperated with Li Chong to kill the eunuchs such as Li Congxi. A few days later, after confirming the news of Li Jiji's death, Li Siyuan was promoted from the regent to the emperor in Luoyang, and changed the lunar name to Tiancheng.

Although Li Siyuan rejected the suggestions of the surrendered ministers of the Later Liang Dynasty, Huo Yanwei, Kong Xun and others, and did not change the country's name, the world had actually changed its dynasty and entered Li Siyuan's second dynasty. If it was calculated from April of the first year of Tongguang and Li Cunxu became emperor in Weizhou, his first dynasty of the Later Tang Dynasty only existed for three years; if it was calculated from December of the second year of Qianning in the Tang Dynasty, Li Keyong was awarded the title of King of Jin, Li Keyong's systematic governance of the Later Tang Dynasty was thirty-one and four months; if it was calculated from July of the third year of Zhonghe in the Tang Dynasty, Li Keyong took office as the governor of Hedong, the Li Keyong family dominated the northern country for a total of 42 and nine months.

In July of the first year of Tiancheng, three months after Li Cunxu died, Li Siyuan posthumously named the former master "Emperor Minxiao, the temple name is "Zhuangzong", and his burnt remains were buried in Yongling.

After experiencing a turbulent change that made him dizzy, Li Siyuan ascended the highest position that he could not even imagine two months ago. Why did Li Cunxu, who was once invincible in the world, lose so cleanly and thoroughly in an instant? How could he avoid encountering the same ending? It was undoubtedly the most worrying and deepest question that Li Siyuan was at this time.

The first thing Li Siyuan thought of was to kill some of the confidants who made Li Cunxu lose their hearts. Who among those people was the most hated? Of course, it was Kong Qian, who was responsible for collecting heavy taxes and scattering land and seizing money to please Li Cunxu. So Li Siyuan issued an edict: Kong Qian, a traitor, flattering people, and plagiarizing people's wealth, deducting wages, and impoverishing soldiers and civilians. He should be executed on the basis of his crime!

Together with Kong Qian's head, there are various methods he formulated to increase income in the short term, as well as the position of Renmin and the organization he led. The power of Renmin and the power of Renmin was again divided back to the three departments of Salt and Iron, Ministry of Revenue and Ministry of Revenue, and the Prime Minister coordinated and handled.

Seeing Kong Qian being dealt with, Huo Yanwei, the surrendered minister of the Later Liang Dynasty, who was proud of his great contributions in Li Siyuan's seizure, wanted to take advantage of the situation to slap two of them, and he had long hated him. It was estimated that Li Siyuan also hated him. So, without asking for instructions, Huo Yanwei arrested the Weisheng Jiedushi Li Shaoqin and the Prince's Young Guard Li Shaochong, and prepared to rectify the Dharma on the spot.

An Chonghui, another great hero of Li Siyuan, learned that he came to stop Huo Yanwei. He said: "Duan Ning, no matter how serious Wen Tao's crime is, it happened in the Liang Dynasty in the past and has nothing to do with this dynasty. Now the Lord has just overcome the difficulties and quelled civil strife. His biggest hope is that the country can restore stability, rather than giving Huo Gong the opportunity to avenge his personal revenge."

When Li Siyuan learned about this, he admired An Chonghui's approach. Although he did not like Duan Ning and Wen Tao, the power of life and death was taken from the emperor, how could the ministers be allowed to be self-dedicated? This incident became a watershed between the two heroes of Li Siyuan. An Chonghui consolidated his position as Li Siyuan's first confidant and was powerful in the court in the next few years. Although Huo Yanwei was favored by Li Siyuan on the surface, Li Siyuan quickly released him and became the governor of Pinglu.

As for Li Shaoqin and Li Shaochong, of course, they would not be fine. Although Li Siyuan ordered them to be released from the prison, they deprived them of their names, restored their original names Duan Ning and Wen Tao, and removed all their official positions, confiscated their property, and exiled them to their hometowns. Another year later, when their influence almost disappeared, Li Siyuan issued another imperial edict to kill the two of them.

Another move that caused a rebound was to send a large number of eunuchs or actors to serve as military supervisors in various vassal states. In the final stage of Li Cunxu's defeat, many of these military supervisors were counter-killed by military soldiers in various places. Li Siyuan was the emperor who was pushed to the front office by military soldiers in various places. Regardless of the legitimacy of his position and his control over the military supervisors in various places, he was far lower than Li Cunxu at his peak. Under this premise, Li Siyuan naturally could not and could not adopt the policy of comprehensive suppression and strengthening control. He could only recognize the concession of imperial power and abolished the military supervisors of all vassal states in the Later Tang Dynasty.

When Li Cunxu felt deeply, the soldiers of various vassal states began to be proud and counterattacked. A large number of eunuchs fled in various places. Some hid in the mountains and forests to take refuge, some shaved their hair and hid in temples, and a considerable number of them were captured and killed. Li Cunxu imitated the eunuch forces rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty and suffered another catastrophe.

After attacking Li Cunxu's confidant group, the next thing was naturally to rehabilitate the people who were persecuted by this group. Li Siyuan ordered the bodies of Guo Chongtao and his son to be sent back to their hometown of Yanmen for burial, and Zhu Youqian's official title was restored. The two were confiscated and their confiscated property was all returned to their living relatives.

Li Congxi and others who framed Guo Chongtao have been killed. Xiang Yansi disappeared after passing the order to execute Kang Yanxiao. In addition to Xiang Yansi, there is also the spy chief Jing Jin who framed Zhu Youqian and Shi Yanqiong who triggered Huangfu Hui's mutiny, who also disappeared.

Two important eunuchs survived this. One was Zhang Juhan, the former Privy Councilor who saved thousands of people. This cautious and kind old man resigned from all his positions after Li Siyuan entered Luoyang and returned to his fellow villagers. He died of illness in Chang'an two years later at the age of 71. The other was Ma Shaohong, who had just recovered his original surname. He spoke many times because he was suspicious of Li Siyuan. Li Siyuan rewarded his kindness at this time and asked him to serve as Privy Councilor to replace Zhang Juhan who resigned. Jing Xinmo, the best-known confidant among Li Cunxu, was not implicated and still appeared in the palace in Luoyang.

Another very direct and important factor in Li Cunxu's failure is that the economic collapse around Luoyang made the imperial guards stationed in Beijing unable to pay military salaries. This includes the causes of the great natural disaster in the three years of Tongguang, and the fact that Li Cunxu's confidant usually occupied too many resources and squandered too much money.

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Compared with the last stage of his predecessor, Li Siyuan's financial situation improved when he ascended the throne. First, Ren Yuan returned to Luoyang with the army of attacking Shu, and brought a large amount of money, grain and materials from the former Shu; secondly, most of the former Li Cunxu's confiscated members were purged, and their property could be confiscated to fill the gap. However, relying solely on these unexpected wealth, Li Siyuan felt unstable. The veteran who lived frugal most of his life decided to cut those unnecessary expenses.

As early as April 8, when Li Siyuan took office as the governor and entered Xingsheng Palace and became the next emperor, Xuanhui envoy, who was in charge of palace affairs, immediately followed up for the service. He selected hundreds of young and beautiful women from Li Cunxu's palace maids and presented them to Li Siyuan. He did not expect Li Siyuan to ask a question: "What do you want them to come here for?"

Xuan Huizhi had to answer: "There are many things in the palace and someone needs to deal with it." Li Siyuan asked "reasonably": "If you want to deal with affairs in the palace, you should be familiar with the rules and allusions of the past before you know how to operate it in detail. How could they know these girls are so young?"

Then, Li Siyuan ordered that only a small number of old people were left among the palace maids, and all the young palace maids allowed their families to pick them up home. If they could not find their family members for a while, they would let them go or stay. The palace maids captured from the former Shu Palace will also handle the same procedure as this.

On April 20, Li Siyuan left Xingsheng Palace and entered the palace city. He ascended the throne in front of Li Cunxu's coffin in mourning clothes. He changed the year name from "Tongguang" to "Tiancheng", and immigrated the world, and then officially reorganized the palace: Li Siyuan's palace left behind 100 palace maids, 30 eunuchs, 100 eunuchs, 20 eunuchs, and 50 imperial chefs, a total of 300. The remaining extra institutions and thousands of people in the palace were disbanded and arranged to leave. After this treatment, Li Siyuan's palace reduced the scale of the palace to only one-tenth of the time of Li Cunxu, greatly reducing the cost in the palace.

During the process of Li Siyuan sending the palace maids home, a trivial thing that seemed insignificant at this time happened. A concubine named Chai was about to go back to her hometown Xingzhou with her parents who came to Beijing. She didn't expect that it would rain heavily on the way, so she had to stay in a small inn for a few days. On that day, the young girl Chai suddenly saw a young man wearing a rag but tall figure and extraordinary figure passing by the entrance.

She had seen too few decent men in the palace. She was suddenly moved by this man who had only met once and hurriedly asked the inn owner: "Who is the man who passed by the door just now?" The inn owner knew him and replied: "That person, a little officer from Mazhili, is his name 'Guo Que'."

The bold girl Chai immediately concluded that this was the person she had been waiting for. She immediately reported that her parents were going to stay and marry that person. Her parents were unwilling to do so at first, and said, "With your talent and appearance, you came out of the palace again. Even if you want to find a military governor as your husband, it is possible. How can you get that poor boy from the poor?"

But Miss Chai was very determined. She believed that she could not miss this person. What "parents' orders and matchmakers' words"? All of them stood aside! She distributed half of the money she had accumulated in the palace to her parents, and the other half was left to her dowry. Then she found the little officer who made her fall in love with her at first sight and married him in the small inn.
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