【Friend Gui usurping power】
After Zhu Yougui killed his father, he strictly blocked the news and did not announce the funeral secretly. He still had a lot of work to do.
First of all, he immediately sent his personal eunuch Ding Zhaopuchi to the Eastern Capital and ordered Zhu Youzhen to kill Zhu Youwen.
After dawn, Zhu Yougui falsely conveyed Zhu Wen's imperial edict, to the effect that Zhu Youwen was trying to rebel and sent assassins to the palace to assassinate him. Fortunately, Zhu Yougui rescued him in time, but I was seriously ill and frightened. I was about to die and could not preside over national affairs, so I asked him to let me go. Zhu Yougui will temporarily supervise the regency of the country.
Secondly, they misappropriated the state treasury on a large scale and used heavy sums of money to bribe civil and military officials and soldiers of the imperial army to win people's hearts and win support.
Two days later, Ding Zhaopu returned to Luoyang and reported that Zhu Youzhen had executed Zhu Youwen according to the "edict". With his biggest rival dead, Zhu Yougui dared to announce the news of Zhu Wen's death and forged a posthumous edict, saying that Zhu Yougui would inherit the throne.
Therefore, Zhu Yougui ascended the throne as emperor in front of Zhu Wen's coffin.
After he ascended the throne, Zhu Yougui knew that his access to the throne was erroneous and lacked sufficient confidence, so he continued to pay bribes to important political forces and factions. For example, he worshiped Han Qing as the Military Envoy of the Zhongwu Army and also served as the Military Envoy of the Kuangguo Army; promoted Zhu Youqian of Hezhong to the position of Zhongshuling; and conferred the title of "Shangfu" to King Qian Liu of Wuyue...
After the coup, the situation in Houliang was turbulent, and Zhu Yougui, who was weak in power, could only compromise everywhere.
A mutiny broke out in Xuzhou, and Han Jian, the Jiedushi envoy, was killed.
Han Jian, jointly known as the "Second Jian" with Wang Jian, was originally affiliated with the Zhongwu Army and was selected by Yang Fuguang as one of the commanders of the "Eight Zhongwu Capitals". He had both confrontation and comradeship with Zhu Wen. Later, he took charge of the Huazhou National Army and became an important part of the Kansai Group. He once detained Zhaozong in Huazhou and caused the "Sixteen Houses Massacre", and later surrendered to Zhu Wen. When Zhaozong planned to assassinate Zhu Wen, he crept to save him. Zhu Wen regarded Han Jian as his savior and treated him with courtesy.
After the establishment of the Later Liang Dynasty, Han Jian enjoyed a very high social status. He was a political senior, half a political vase, and the mascot of the Later Liang Dynasty.
Such a heavyweight politician was killed, but Zhu Yougui refused to pursue the case and allowed Han Qing to also lead the Xuzhou Kuangguo Army.
Yang Shihou, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army, directly killed the commander-in-chief of Wei Bojun, and then forcibly took over Wei Bojun. Zhu Yougui did not dare to pursue the case, so he followed the trend and appointed Yang Shihou as the military envoy of Wei Bojun, and transferred Luo Zhouhan to be the military envoy of Xuanyi Army. At this point, Wei Bojun finally changed hands after three generations (Luo Hongxin, Luo Shaowei, Luo Zhouhan);
The Longxiang army stationed in Huaizhou mutinied and burned, killed and looted along the way. Zhu Yougui sent people to suppress it;
Zhu Youqian of Hezhong, whose real name is Zhu Jian, joined Zhu Wen when he was conquering Hezhong. He took the initiative to use his surname to climb high, and begged for nothing to recognize Zhu Wen as his godfather. He was adopted as his adopted son and given the name Zhu Youqian. Faced with Zhu Yougui's bribery, Zhu Youqian remained unmoved and refused the title of "Zhongshu Ling". He pointed out that Zhu Wen's death was unclear and Zhu Yougui's throne was incorrect. The implication is that he also intends to aspire to dominate Luoyang as the late emperor's adopted son.
At this time, Zhu Yougui sent an envoy to invite Zhu Youqian to Beijing for an interview.
Zhu Youqian said rudely to the envoy: "The late emperor died unexpectedly, and I was about to lead troops to Luoyang to question him!"
When bribery failed, the only option was to conquer. Zhu Yougui ordered Kang Huaizhen and Han Qing to lead their troops to conquer Hezhong.
Zhu Youqian instead surrendered to Xiancheng in Hedong. Li Cunxu sent Li Cunshen, Li Sihu, and Li Si'en as reinforcements to repel the Hou Liang army. From then on, the extremely important strategic location - Hezhong, became the sphere of influence of the Hedong Group, forming a siege of Houliang that was enough to destroy them.
The great counselor Jingxiang is Zhu Wen's most trusted counselor, no one. The relationship between the monarch and his subjects is very strong, to an unimaginable degree - they share the same wife.
This woman's surname is Liu, and she is the daughter of the magistrate of Lantian County. During the Huangchao Rebellion, she was plundered by the Cao army and became the wife of the second-ranking figure Shang Rang. When Shang Rang surrendered to Pu, he was killed by Shi Pu soon after, and Liu became Shi Pu's concubine again; Shi Pu was killed After Zhu Wen's annexation, the Liu family returned to Zhu Wen.
But Zhu Wen was afraid of his wife and did not dare to blatantly take Liu as his concubine. By chance, Jingxiang's wife passed away, so Zhu Wen gave Liu as his wife to Jingxiang. Although she is Jingxiang's wife in name, she is actually Zhu Wen's lover. It is a beautiful love story between the three people.
Jingxiang's hat is too green, and sometimes he can't help but show his disdain for Mr. Liu.
Mr. Liu has a strong personality, and even pointed at Jingxiang's nose to humiliate him, "Young man, do you still dislike me? My ex-husband, Shang Rang, was the prime minister of Da Qi. He was inferior to one person and superior to tens of thousands of people! My ex-husband Shi Pu is also a vassal and a loyal minister of the empire! In terms of family status, you are not worthy of me. It is a good thing that I don't dislike you, but you dare to dislike me? If you have the ability, divorce me!"
Jingxiang was afraid that she would make irresponsible remarks on Zhu Wen's pillow, so he was so frightened that he quickly apologized, "How can I blame you for making a mistake? I should give you freedom to go too far."
Sharing wives, the Liu family, is there any more iron-clad relationship between monarch and minister than this?
What's more, Jingxiang was resourceful and far-reaching. He assisted Zhu and Wen from being demoted from the grass army with only a few hundred people and living in Bianzhou to gradually becoming the world's leader. He was indispensable.
One emperor and one courtier. Jingxiang became Zhu Yougui's primary target.
Zhu Yougui gradually deprived Jingxiang of his power and replaced him with Li Zhen. Jingxiang was so smart that he immediately claimed to be ill, took the initiative to retire, and stopped interfering in political affairs.
Outside the court, Zhu Yougui also had another concern, and that was Yang Shihou, who had a heavy army.
Yang Shihou swallowed up the entire Wei Bo army, and also held the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Expedition (the envoy of the capital), holding a large number of troops. How heavy is this "heavy soldier"? The answer is that the soldiers and horses of the whole country are all in power.
Master Yang was highly virtuous and arbitrary, and turned a deaf ear to Zhu Yougui's orders.
Zhu Yougui was very worried about this and issued an order for Yang Shihou to return to Beijing. He only said that he had important military information to discuss with him.
Yang Shihou's confidants all advised him not to throw himself into a trap. However, Yang Shihou was so confident that he told me to go and see what he dared to do to me. So he led 10,000 elite troops and headed straight to Luoyang.
Zhu Yougui was restless in Luoyang, wondering what Yang Shihou was planning.
Yang Shihou left his army outside the city and took only a dozen guards with him to the palace to see him. Zhu Yougui was overjoyed and complimented him to the best of his ability. He rewarded him with huge sums of money and comforted him with kind words, and then asked Yang Shihou to return to town.
The monarch and his ministers treated each other with sincerity, which enhanced their mutual trust.
Later, Zhu Yougui became unscrupulous. Suppress old officials from the previous dynasty and promote cronies. Especially when investigating the mutiny of the Longxiang Army, all those implicated would have their entire families killed. From August to New Year, the liquidation had not yet been completed, and the butcher's knife was still bleeding.
He couldn't handle Zhu Youqian in the river; he didn't dare to handle the old commander Yang Shihou; he couldn't handle the old counselor Jingxiang... Only these ordinary Longxiang soldiers were soft persimmons, who could be used for him to slaughter and vent his emotions. It was his bloody liquidation of Long Xiang's army that planted the seeds for his rapid destruction.
