Chapter 176 Wangdu's Intentions Are Bad
This Concubine De Wang was originally the daughter of a cake seller in Binzhou. She was born with beauty since childhood. When she grew up, she was even more beautiful and looked so beautiful that she was ashamed of flowers, so she got a resounding nickname: "Flowers are ashamed of flowers".
When Hua Jianxiu was in her teens, she married Liu Xiu, a famous general in Houliang in her fifties in Luoyang. Unfortunately, Liu Xiu died shortly after the marriage. Although Liu Xiu was ordered to be murdered by Zhu Youzhen, the house was searched for conviction. A large part of the rich inheritance left by him after his death was inherited by Hua Jianxiu. As a result, the former little family Jasper turned into a peerless and rich widow.
After the Later Liang Dynasty was destroyed, Li Siyuan came to Luoyang with Li Cunxu. At this time, Li Siyuan's wife, Mrs. Xia, died. Although he helped Mrs. Cao, who had been a maid of Mrs. Xia, was not very satisfied and wanted to renew her room. For this kind of personal needs, An Chonghui, who had the most strong relationship with Li Siyuan, was of course responsible for this kind of personal need. He helped to inquire about a suitable partner and learned that there was a wealthy and beautiful Hua Jianxie in the city, so he personally acted as a matchmaker and matched the marriage between the two.
Therefore, the widow of Liu Xiu, who was still young and beautiful, married Li Siyuan, who was also in his fifties, and inadvertently reached the peak of his life. Although he was also a small vendor family from the lower class, Hua Jianxie was completely different from Liu Yuniang, a famous beauty in the Later Tang Dynasty court, in terms of personality and personality.
Hua Jianxie is not greedy for money. Since marrying Li Siyuan, Li Siyuan's subordinates and children will take out her own private money to help her. Soon everyone around Li Siyuan had a good impression of the new wife.
Hua Jianxie was not jealous, and had a gentle and humble personality. Li Siyuan turned his family into a country and became a new emperor, and he wanted to establish a queen. Mrs. Cao, who ranked first, knew that Li Siyuan favored the young and beautiful Hua Jianxie more, so she took the initiative to give in and said, "I am in poor health, often sick, and I like to be quiet and don't want to be in charge of things. It's better for my sister to be the queen for me."
But Hua Jianxie also gave in moderation: "The queen is matched with the emperor. Only the sister should be established in order, how can others be overthrown?" So, Mrs. Cao became the queen, and Hua Jianxie became Concubine De. She was always respectful to Empress Cao, and the relationship between the two was very harmonious.
Due to these reasons, Li Siyuan was extremely fond of Hua Jianxie. Although she did not have the name of the queen, she became the de facto lord of the harem. After being entrusted by Kong Xun, Hua Jianxie thought it was a good thing. Although An Chonghui was kind to her, refusing to marry was An Chonghui's own choice, and it was not against others. Kong Xun's daughter was indeed famous, so she persuaded Li Siyuan to fulfill the marriage.
When An Chonghui got the news, he suddenly realized that this guy named Kong sold him! An Chonghui was furious and immediately fought back. He used his power to relieve Kong Xun of his Privy Councilor and his position as the Tongzhangshi. He drove him out of the court and released him as the governor of Zhongwu in Xuzhou. Although Kong Xun's official position was originally comparable to An Chonghui, An Chonghui could still easily drive him away if he wanted to drive him away. Li Siyuan had just settled a marriage with his minister, but found that his in-laws had been driven away and began to feel dissatisfied with An Chonghui's domineering arrogance.
Just so happened that before, a Xiongwu Jiedu governor Hua Wenqi came to Beijing to court and took the initiative to request the transfer of the imperial court and asked the imperial court to send someone to take over Xiongwu Town. Li Siyuan was very happy and wanted to set Hua Wenqi as an obedient example of the vassal state, so he said to An Chonghui: "Hua Wenqi is
Our old friend, you should try to arrange a good position for him." An Chonghui didn't like Hua Wenqi and vetoed: "There is no vacancy recently!" Li Siyuan didn't give up and reminded An Chonghui every few days: Where are you planning to arrange Hua Wenqi?
At this time, An Chonghui was holding back his anger about Kong Xun's affairs. Li Siyuan mentioned Hua Wenqi to him again. An Chonghui couldn't help but angry at the emperor and said, "I have said it many times, there is no vacancy! If I really want to place Hua Wenqi, I will give him my Privy Councilor!"
Li Siyuan was also angry at An Chonghui for the first time and said, "That's not impossible!" An Chonghui was stunned. Li Siyuan would get angry with him! The two of them did not continue to argue and they parted in disagreement. Shortly after the quarrel, Hua Wenqi received news that he had offended An Chonghui at some point! He dared not expect Li Siyuan to break up for himself and An Chonghui, and An Chonghui's petty innocence is famous, so in order to avoid revenge, Hua Wenqi did not dare to leave the house for several months.
At this time, Wang Jian came to Luoyang to argue. When he met Li Siyuan in Jin, he accused An Chonghui of being autocratic and domineering, citing cliques, rejecting dissidents, spreading rumors and slandering all kinds of crimes. Li Siyuan, who was addicted to the fire, was furious and summoned An Chonghui immediately and said to him: "I will give you a vassal state and go and have a good rest. Your position as a Privy Councilor will be replaced by Wang Jian!"
An Chonghui always regarded Li Siyuan as a man who had carried the gun with him, rather than the emperor who was arrogant and ruled the world. Therefore, when he heard this, he was not afraid of being guilty, but was particularly dissatisfied and asked: "I have served Your Majesty for decades, overcome all obstacles and went through so many difficulties! Your Majesty Long Fei Jiuwu, and I was ordered to take charge of the key points. The world finally achieved a few years of general stability. But now, Your Majesty drove me away! I just wanted to know, what crime did I commit?" Li Siyuan, who was angry, didn't want to answer, stood up and turned into the harem.
As soon as he returned to the back hall, Li Siyuan felt a little regretful. Xuanhui envoy Zhu Hongzhao saw that Li Siyuan could not bear to leave his friendship with An Chonghui, so he tentatively said: "Your Majesty regards An Chonghui as his right hand on weekdays, why should he drive him away for a little bit of a small matter? Should he think about it carefully?"
So Li Siyuan recalled An Chonghui again. The two old friends talked about their friendship, and couldn't help but cry. What Li Siyuan said before didn't count, and An Chonghui no longer looked for Wang Jian. Hua Wenqi's troubles seemed to have returned to a harmonious state of harmony between the top and the bottom.
Afterwards, Li Siyuan asked Zhao Feng: "What's the point of giving the ministers an iron voucher to avoid death?" Zhao Feng replied: "That was the emperor's oath to the meritorious ministers to ensure that their descendants enjoy wealth and honor." Li Siyuan couldn't help but sigh: "When the late emperor was in power, there were only three people who received this reward. Guo Chongtao and Zhu Youqian were killed soon! Although I escaped by chance, I was only a little bit away from being killed! Why was the will and reality so far away!" Zhao Feng thought for a while and replied: "As long as the emperor has great faith in his heart, there is actually no need to carve it on the metal and stone."
Besides, the envoy of the capital found Wang Jian and expressed his intention to form a secret alliance to resist Li Siyuan. Wang Jian agreed and then waited for the envoy to leave, and immediately reported the matter to Li Siyuan: Wang Jian may be rebelling, and Your Majesty must be prepared to quell the rebellion!
The kings believed that the third potential ally could be won was one of the two great heroes who helped Li Siyuan seize the throne, Huo Yanwei, the governor of Pinglu. The kings believed that shortly after Li Siyuan ascended the throne, Huo Yanwei, who had the same contribution as An Chonghui, was squeezed out of the court and went to Qingzhou to deal with Wang Gongyan. He would definitely be very dissatisfied.
During the chaos in the world in the late Li Cunxu, the general of Pinglu, Wang Gongyan, killed the eunuch of the army supervisor, and at the same time refused to return as the former governor Fu Xi, and mobilized his subordinates to support him as the governor, and wanted to seize Pinglu. Li Siyuan believed that Wang Gongyan's foundation was still weak and did not want him to make such a bad start, so he did not agree. After the normal personnel transfer was fruitless, Li Siyuan appointed Huo Yanwei as the governor of Pinglu and prepared to send troops to attack Wang Gongyan.
When Wang Gongyan heard the news, he was very scared and then he quit his post and fled. However, Huo Yanwei was squeezed out of the court and was in a bad mood. He wanted to find someone to vent his anger and sent someone to chase and kill Wang Gongyan. After entering Qingzhou, he also carried out a major purge on Wang Gongyan's accomplices and killed many people.
At that time, among the subordinates of Prince Gongyan's implicated, there was a civilian official Han Shusi. His son was Han Xizai. He was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Tongguang. He was a young talent with ambition. In order to avoid this disaster, Han Xizai fled from the Later Tang Dynasty with the help of his friend Li Gu and rushed to Wu. When he walked to Zhengyang Pass at the junction of the two countries, the two friends drank and prepared to break up and say goodbye.
With a little drunkenness, Han Xizai said to Li Gu: "If the Wu Kingdom appoints me as prime minister in the future, I will lead a large army and head north to stabilize the Central Plains!" Li Gu was not outdone and smiled and said: "If the Central Plains appoints me as prime minister, then pacifying the Wu Kingdom will be like taking things out of my pocket!" Since then, the two young people, one in the south and one in the north, began their respective life journeys.
Although Huo Yanwei hated An Chonghui, he thought that Huo Yanwei would join his camp for this and make Li Siyuan's rebellion. Wang Du obviously thought too much. In addition to Zhao Dejun, Wang Jian, and Huo Yanwei, the targets that Wang Du had won were Fang Zhiwen, the governor of Zhongwu, Mao Zhang, the governor of Anyi, Meng Zhixiang, the governor of Xichuan, and Dongchuan, etc. Among them, Meng Zhixiang and Dong Zhang were people who were willing to rule, but they were far away in Shu, so it was difficult to give the governor substantial help.
The last target that Wang Du tried to win over was Wang Yanqiu, the governor of Guide. Although the surname of Wang, Wang Yanqiu was very dissatisfied with Wang Du's face and drove back the secret envoy from Dingzhou. Wang Du was annoyed and sent someone to bribe Wang Yanqiu's subordinates, trying to let his subordinates launch a mutiny and kill Wang Yanqiu, but it was not successful. Instead, he touched Wang Yanqiu's bottom line.
In April of the third year of Tiancheng, Wang Yanqiu officially reported the rebellion of the capital to the court and requested troops to attack. Although the war against Gao Jixing in the Later Tang Dynasty was not over, Li Siyuan decided to take action and issued an edict to remove all the official positions of the capital, appoint Wang Yanqiu as the northern recruitment envoy, and dispatched troops from various vassal states in Hebei and Henan to attack the capital. At the end of April, the siege army surrounded Dingzhou.
When the war really started, none of the people who had been attracted by the capital, including Meng Zhixiang, sent troops to respond to the capital. The capital found that the big thing was not good, so he had to make up his mind and sent people to sneak out of the border and urgently asked the Khitan for help. The reason why the capital was able to rebel and gained power was the excuse of collusion with the Khitan directly on the Khitan. Unexpectedly, in just the past seven years, he also embarked on the same path.
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