Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 96: The End of Debauchery
At that time, the leader of thousands of eunuchs was Liu Jishu. Seeing that Emperor Zhaozong and Li Jie were in trouble with the eunuchs everywhere, he conspired with Wang Zhongxian and the privy officials Wang Yanfan and Xue Qiyu to overthrow Emperor Zhaozong and Li Jie and make the prince the heir emperor.It happened that Emperor Zhaozong was hunting in the garden, drank a few more glasses of wine, and came back to the palace drunk. The little eunuch who was running around bumped into Zhaozong.Zhaozong shouted loudly, and the little eunuch was so frightened that he lay down on the ground and kept kowtowing.Emperor Zhaozong didn't care about injustice, pulled out his sword, and personally chopped off the heads of these eunuchs and palace maids. Immediately blood stained the sleeves of his robes, and his anger still lingered.

The majestic Zhaozong Li Jie was still asleep the next morning. Thousands of eunuchs in the palace were in blood and tears, and they agreed not to open the palace gate. Going up to the main hall, he said: "Your Majesty is so cruel, how can you return to the affairs of the world?! It is only natural to abolish the faint ruler and establish a new ruler for the sake of the community!" Store the watch, ask the prince to supervise the country, and force all the officials to sign on the watch.

At that time, Emperor Zhaozong Li Jie had woken up from his big dream, and was reading the memorials for approving ministers in the Sizheng Hall as usual.All of a sudden, all the soldiers came rushing in through the door. When they were shocked, Liu Jishu came in with a sword in his hand, holding a watch badge, and threw it at Zhaozong, claiming that the sentiment was unstoppable!At that time, when he said this, Rong Ling was very angry.Zhaozong, who was sitting on the dragon chair, heaved a long sigh and stood up, wandering around the room.

Liu Jishu's patience was very limited, he went up and dragged Zhaozong who was lingering in the main ring room, and then walked out.Emperor Zhaozong and Li Jie immediately filled his chest with anger and cursed loudly, but Liu Jishu didn't say a word at that time.As soon as he walked out of the study, Emperor Zhaozong caught a glimpse of Empress He, who was being supported by the eunuchs, coming out of the inner palace.

When an imperial chariot was pushed past by the steps, Liu Jishu held sabers and forced Emperor Zhaozong Li Jie and Empress He to board the imperial chariot immediately, followed by more than ten concubines weeping.After sending it to the Shaoyang courtyard, Liu Jishu became furious, drew the ground with the tip of a knife, and enumerated the crimes of Emperor Zhaozong, then locked the door of Shaoyang courtyard with his own hands, and poured molten iron into the keyhole so that it could never be opened , and then cut a hole in the wall to pass food and drink.

Liu Jishu then corrected the emperor's imperial edict, welcomed the prince into the palace, established him as the heir emperor, enshrined Zhaozong as the supreme emperor, and He as the empress dowager, increased the rank of hundreds of officials and honored soldiers.Liu Jishu established himself as a great general, and all the palace people around him, those who were favored by Emperor Zhaozong in the past, all died on the list.

Emperor Zhaozong and Empress He, who were imprisoned in the Shaoyang courtyard, wrote an imperial edict to Liu Jishu, asking for some money and silk to use and books to read, but they refused to give them any.The winter of that year was extremely cold, Princess Concubine didn't even have a thick winter coat, and the screams and wailing went straight to the outdoors, but there was no response.As a result, the people in the Shaoyang courtyard gradually became ashamed, but they didn't expect that someone would knock on the door outside the Shaoyang courtyard and shouted: "The traitor has been punished, please help your majesty!"

Empress He was sitting with Emperor Zhaozong and weeping in Shaoyang Courtyard, when she suddenly heard voices outside the door, she couldn't believe it, and it took a long time before the little eunuch asked tremblingly through the door: "If the traitor is really killed, where is the leader? "As soon as the voice settled, a bloody head was sent in from the hole in the wall.He Hou and Zhaozong saw that it was indeed Wang Zhongxian's head, and then the gate of Shaoyang Courtyard, which was closed by an iron lock that could never be opened, was forcibly broken open. .It turned out that Zhu Quanzhong from Bianzhong fought back and returned to the court to eliminate traitors and help the royal family.

At this time Liu Jishu, Wang Yanfan and other bandit leaders were escorted downstairs.When Emperor Zhaozong saw Li Jie, his eyes were filled with hatred. Before he had time to question him, the sergeants had already rushed forward, attacking with all kinds of stiles, and another group of powerful traitors were beaten into a pile of meat.Then more than [-] members of his relatives and accomplices were beheaded.

13. Frequent changes in the late Tang Dynasty
After Emperor Zhaozong was restored, he bestowed the surnames of Li on three meritorious ministers, Sun Dezhao, Chenghui, and Yanbi, who had instigated Zhu Quanzhong to rescue him at that time. Make phase.As for the prince, Emperor Zhaozong recited "My son is young and ignorant, and he was trapped by an adulterer, so it is not a crime to speak of."

Zhaozong Li Jie, who hated the eunuchs, wanted to punish the eunuchs, but the prime minister Cui Yin tried his best to encourage him.The eunuch Han Quanhui was afraid that he would suffer disaster, so he went to Zhaozong first and cried and complained that Cui Yin had secretly married Zhu Quanzhong and conspired against him.Emperor Zhaozong was frightened. He was afraid that Cui Yin, who was becoming more and more powerful by the day, would be pampered and become a second Liu Jishu, so he removed Cui Yin from his position as minister and demoted him to be a salt and iron envoy.

With resentment in his heart, Cui Yin sent his confidant to send a secret letter to Zhu Quanzhong, ordering him to join the Qing emperor.Sure enough, Zhu Quanzhong sent troops every day.Han Quanhui was terrified, and hurriedly conspired with the three envoys to hijack him, and rushed to Fengxiang Palace first.Although Sun Dezhao refused, Han Quanjiao had already said what he said, and it was imperative to do it, regardless of whether Sun Dezhao agreed or not.

On that day, Han Quanhui suddenly ordered his troops to go to the palace, met Emperor Zhaozong Li Jie, and said sharply, "Lucky Fengxiang quickly", and then turned around and went out to greet the forbidden soldiers to force the princes, princesses and palace officials regardless of whether Emperor Zhaozong answered or not. Concubines go to Fengxiang first.At that time, the three thousand soldiers left by Sun Dezhao had already entered the inner treasury to rob treasures.

Here Emperor Zhaozong and Li Jie sat alone in the hall, waiting for the officials to be summoned, but they couldn't wait for one of them for a long time, because Han Quanhui had already guarded inside and outside, and no one could come in.Han Quanhui led his troops to the palace again. At this moment, he no longer cried tenderly to the emperor when he attacked first to save his life, but sternly reprimanded him. Seeing that Han Quanhui's expression changed, Emperor Zhaozong was so frightened that he hurriedly drew his sword In hand, avoid boarding Qiqiaolou.Han Quanhui chased upstairs, piled up firewood, threatened to set fire to the building, and forced Zhaozong to come downstairs.Zhaozong just walked to the Shouchun Palace, and Han Quanhui made his move. In a short time, the palace was full of flames and flames.Emperor Zhaozong had no choice but to go out of the palace with more than a hundred concubines, concubines, kings and horses, weeping and walking, suffering from hunger and cold along the way, and went straight for several days and nights before arriving in Fengxiang City.

As soon as Emperor Zhaozong entered Fengxiang City, he was like a bird in a cage, being bullied and bullied by Han Quanhui every day.

14. Miserable Emperor's Escape Road

Zhu Quanzhong saw that the emperor was dusty outside, so he led his troops straight into Chang'an, pretending to be a general, and giving orders.The Chinese and military forces of the court surrendered in fear, and then he sent Kang Huaizhen to lead thousands of troops as the vanguard, and Zhu Quanzhong led the army to march towards Fengxiang.Two groups of soldiers and horses went straight to the city of Fengxiang and challenged them brazenly.At the beginning, Han Quanhui's false emperor's decree could hold back the army, but it soon became invalid under Zhu Quanzhong's side. Li Maozhen in the city sent troops to meet the enemy, and returned in great defeat every time.

Soon, the besieged Fengxiang City ran out of food, and at the same time, it was the middle of winter, and it was raining and snowing. I don’t know how many soldiers and people died of starvation and freezing. Therefore, human flesh was sold in the city. A catty is worth five hundred Wen.Emperor Zhaozong ate human flesh to satisfy his hunger every day. He even sold the royal clothes and the clothes of the concubines and kings to satisfy his hunger.

Look at how difficult it is to support one day, how many soldiers in the city secretly surrendered to Zhu Quanzhong.Li Maozhen wrote a secret letter, meeting inside and outside to kill the eunuch, and asking Zhu Quanzhong to escort him back to the capital.In the dead of night, he tied the letter to the head of the arrow and shot it out of the city.

This strategy really worked. In the first month of the third year of Tianfu, Li Maozhen launched an internal coup, surrounded the palace gate and arrested Han Quanhui and other eunuchs.Emperor Zhaozong sent Mrs. Zhao Guo in the harem and Han Xie, a Hanlin scholar, out of the city with bags containing the heads of Han Quanhui and others, and went to Zhu Quanzhong's camp to comfort and reward Zhu Quanzhong.

To Zhaozong's great relief, Zhu Quanzhong accepted the edict.However, Zhu Quanzhong's siege still did not withdraw. It turned out that the traitor Cui Yin was acting as a hindrance.Cui Yin, who was dismissed by Emperor Zhaozong, was inspired by Zhaozong's seven or eight appeasement and begging edicts, and was willing to return to the court with full face, so Zhu Quanzhong's siege was immediately relieved, and the imperial concubine was able to return to Beijing immediately.

Then Cui Yin and Zhu Quanzhong hunted down all the eunuchs who used to have a little bit of power, including the retired eunuch, one by one, and for a while, the sound of screaming and screaming reached Yunxiao.Only 30 young and weak people in yellow clothes were left, and they were responsible for sweeping the palace.From then on, the imperial edict came in and out, and all the maids sent them out.

After Emperor Zhaozong re-entered the main hall, Zhu Quanzhong went to the hall in plain clothes to apologize, and his head burst into tears.Emperor Zhaozong ordered Han Xie to help him up, and said while weeping: "The ancestral temple and society all depend on the reunification of Qing's family, and my clan and I all depend on Qing's rebirth. You are a true hero." The jade belt was given to Zhu Quanzhong.

And Cui Yin also gained the power to take charge of the Six Armies and Twelve Guards. From then on, he became more authoritarian and self-indulgent, and avoided harming his colleagues.Later, it was seen that Zhu Quanzhong, the military marshal Zhu Quanzhong who was once a good helper in his struggle for power, was pulled up by him with one hand. Although he was stationed in the river far away from the capital, Zhu Quanzhong's confidantes were full of palace restrictions. Everyone knows.Therefore, although Cui Yin was as close as ever to Zhu Quanzhong on the surface, Xu Tu resisted secretly.But it was too late. Zhu Quanzhong, who had grown wings, first forced Zhaozong to issue another edict to dismiss Cui Yin from his position, and then sent his subordinates who stayed in the capital to lead troops into Cui Yin's house and hacked Cui Yin randomly. shoot.

After Zhaozong learned that Cui Yin had been hacked to death by Zhu Quanzhong without permission, he went to Yanxi Tower angrily, and then summoned the offending generals to question him. Suddenly, he received a letter from Zhu Quanzhong, asking Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang quickly, so as not to be controlled by Bin Qi.When Emperor Zhaozong read the memorial, he was hesitating and could not make up his mind. Pei Shu, the same minister of Pingzhang, went straight in, followed by a group of forbidden soldiers. When he saw Zhaozong, he didn't salute or speak. He just waved his hand, and the forbidden soldiers rushed forward. Pushing and shoving, the poor emperor was forced to go downstairs, and then they forced all the officials to go east together, and ordered the soldiers to drive Chang'an Shimin to Luoyang City.

The poor people in the capital cried and cursed along the way.As soon as the car driver left Chang'an City, Zhang Tingfan had already been ordered by Zhu Quanzhong to serve as an envoy of the imperial camp, supervise the military service, demolish palaces and government houses and private houses, and throw all the wood for building houses into the Wei River and float down the water.A whole city of Chang'an suddenly became ruins.However, Luoyang was busy building palaces and working day and night.

When Zhaozong walked to Huazhou, the people along the road called him Long Live. Zhaozong mourned to the people beside the road, "Don't call him Long Live, I'm afraid I can no longer be your Lord..." The words were not finished yet. , Tears flowed all over his face unconsciously, so that weeping and choking could not speak.

Staying in Xingde Palace that night, there were only a few concubines and princes in front of him, and the scene was very desolate. Zhaozong said to the courtiers in front of him: "I have heard a common saying in the capital for a long time that the wind is strong, the sky is cold, what is the imminent disaster?" Flying around?' I am wandering now, I don’t know where I will end up..." As he spoke, his sleeves were wet with tears, and the courtiers on the left and right were also sobbing, unable to lift their heads from crying.

15. Zhu Quanzhong deceived the emperor to show off his prestige

It was not until the beginning of February that Emperor Zhaozong and his party arrived in central Shaanxi. Because the new palace in the eastern capital had not yet been completed, they stayed here temporarily.Zhu Quanzhong led soldiers and horses to meet him from the river.Emperor Zhaozong restrained himself and tried to perform again and again. Finally, he expressed his fear of Zhu Quanzhong into respect. Immediately according to Zhu Quanzhong's wishes, he was appointed to be in charge of the Shence Army and the Sixth Army's guards.

In a few days, to show respect, Emperor Zhaozong gave a banquet to all the ministers and gave Zhu Quanzhong a farewell party.After several rounds of drinking, all the ministers paid their respects to the palace, Zhaozong left Zhu Quanzhong alone, accompanied by Han Jian, Zhu Quanzhong's accomplice, Zhongwu Jiedu envoy.Empress He, who is like a flower and jade, came out of the inner room respectfully by the emperor's order, held the jade goblet in person, and persuaded Zhu Quanzhong to drink, which made Zhu Quanzhong deeply moved while being moved by the beauty.Unfortunately, at this time, Mrs. Jin Guo of the Harem came out from the back room, walked up to Zhaozong, and whispered something to Zhaozong in a low voice. Zhu Quanzhong looked at it and became suspicious.But Han Jian immediately decided that there was an ambush in the palace to kill the two of them, so he stretched out a foot under the table, and kicked Zhu Quanzhong's boot tip secretly. go.Zhaozong tried to persuade him to stay, but Zhu Quanzhong refused to turn his head back.When Zhaozong saw Zhu Quanzhong like this, he was worried but helpless.

Sure enough, Zhu Quanzhong rushed to Dongdu the next day, and left a memorial before leaving, please change Chang'an to Youguo Army, and please appoint Han Jian as Youguo Jiedu Envoy.Zhaozong dare not play it.

16. Dongdu changed to Yuan

In the dead of night, Emperor Zhaozong tore off the white silk from his sleeves, and quietly wrote an imperial edict full of blood and tears, saying that I was forced to be sent to Luoyang by Zhu Quanzhong. The towns can be united and quickly restored.

After writing, he wiped away his bitterness and sadness, and Emperor Zhaozong handed over the imperial edict to his confidantes, who went to Xichuan, Hedong, and Huainan to submit the edict for emergency.

Before the servant returned to the palace, Emperor Zhaozong received another letter from Zhu Quanzhong, saying that the Luoyang palace had been completed, and he asked the emperor to leave as soon as possible.Emperor Zhaozong hurriedly sent his palace servants to tell Zhu Quanzhong about the empress's new birth. It was inconvenient for the journey to be bumpy, and he hoped that the eastward trip could be postponed until October.The doctor Guan Youzhi's prescription for treating the queen was also sent to Dongdu as physical evidence.Zhu Quanzhong was afraid that there would be changes if it was too late, so he immediately sent the dental officer Kou Yanqing to lead the troops to Shaanxi.

Kou Yanqing pretended to be a tiger, and persecuted him even more fiercely. Emperor Zhaozong couldn't resist him, so he had to follow Kou Yanqing to seal him.

After Emperor Zhaozong arrived in the Eastern Capital, the Royal Palace was accepted by the imperial court, changed Yuan Tianyou, changed Shanzhou to Xingtang Mansion, appointed Jiang Xuanhui and Wang Yin as envoys of Xuanhui North and South Courts, and promoted Zhu Quanzhong to be envoys of the four towns of Huguo, Xuanwu, Xuanyi, and Zhongwu .

17. Two hundred innocent teenagers died

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