[The end of the back beam]
Before Hou Liang was about to perish, Xuzhou presented a rare animal, a green-haired turtle. Zhu Youzhen liked it very much and ordered people to build a special room for it in the palace for raising it, and named this room "Turtle Hall". People have been talking privately, thinking that the homophony of "Guitang" is "Gui Tang", which is very unlucky.
Zhu Youzhen once bought pearls in the market. After buying enough pearls, he casually said to the left and right: "The number of pearls is enough." The left and right thought that the homonym of "The number of pearls is enough" is "The number of Zhu is enough", which is Zhu's Qi number. In the end, it was very unlucky.
After Zhu Youzhen came to the throne, he changed his name to "Zhu Qi". When the Later Liang Dynasty was destroyed, some good people came to the conclusion and said that the word "Qi" could be interpreted as "11 (King), 18 (True) in October". On October 11th, that is, he suffered disaster in the eleventh year of his reign. Eighteenth year was the ninth day, and October 18th was the ninth day of October. On this day, the Kingdom of Heaven was broken and died.
Even in official history, there are countless such statements. Rulers will always use people's superstitious psychology of heaven and man to find a basis for public opinion for future legal rule, warning people that the destruction of the previous dynasty and the elimination of the old and the ushering in of the new are God's will.
After the country changed hands, Li Cunxu planned to dig Zhu Wen's grave, open the coffin and burn the body to vent his anger.
"Healing Master" Zhang Quanyi went to Shu to dissuade him, saying that although Zhu Wen was an enemy of the empire, he was already dead, the deceased was the most important, and his family had been slaughtered and he had received the punishment he deserved. Please don't open the coffin again. The body was burned to show to the world His Majesty's generosity, mercy and holy kindness.
Li Cunxu thought it was reasonable, so he only ordered the ground of Zhu Wen's mausoleum to be leveled, and the nearby trees to be cut down, destroying the feng shui of the Zhu family.
In the official history, there is an outrageous record. In July of the first year of Qianhua (911), Zhu Wen went to Zhang Quanyi's home in Luoyang to escape the summer heat. During this period, Zhu Wen visited all the female members of Zhang Quanyi's family. Zhang Quanyi's son Zhang Jizuo couldn't bear this shame and humiliation, and planned to kill Zhu Wen, but Zhang Quanyi stopped him, saying that when we were surrounded by Li Hanzhi in Heyang, if Zhu Wen hadn't saved him with all his strength, our family would have died long ago. Zhu Wen This kindness has been given to our family for rebirth, and we should never forget this kindness. Zhang Jizuo then gave up.
"New History of the Five Dynasties" and "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" are conclusive, and they have both nose and eyes. Many history books have also adopted this statement and used it as evidence of Zhu Wen's debauchery and immorality.
In addition, it is also said that Zhu Wen occupied his daughter-in-law, and his sons and adopted sons, in order to compete for favor, even gave his wife to Zhu Wen to sleep with... In short, the Houliang Palace was described as obscene and filthy. Unsightly!
Demonizing Zhu Wen and the Later Liang regime was the political need of the Later Tang regime.
Publicly speaking, Li Cunxu regarded himself as the successor of the Li Tang Dynasty, so he was naturally at odds with the Zhu thieves who usurped the Tang Dynasty; privately speaking, the Li family and the Zhu family had a feud for generations and were sworn in.
Is Zhu Wen really that lewd and nasty? Not sure.
Zhu Wen had only five concubines. In the circle of ancient Chinese emperors, he was already considered an anti-customary person. Moreover, he had a very deep relationship with Zhang Hui (Zhu Youzhen's biological mother). Zhang Hui unfortunately passed away before Zhu Wen became emperor. After Zhu Wen became emperor, he posthumously named her a "virtuous concubine". She reigned for five years and no longer established the throne. Queen, so there was no queen when Zhu Wen was alive. After Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, she posthumously named her mother Zhang Hui "Empress Dowager Yuanzhen".
Furthermore, Zhu Wen in 911 was already terminally ill. At that time, the "Battle of Baixiang" had just ended. As mentioned above, Zhu Wen had already been "unhesitant", "ashamed" and "severely ill". After experiencing the battles of Luzhou and Baixiang in succession, After the fiasco, Zhu Wen's anger and depression worsened sharply, so much so that he could not even sit in a small sedan carried by four people, and had to stop on the way to recuperate. I have also mentioned before what it means when the words "buyu" appear in history books.
To be honest, in this physical condition, even if Zhu Wen had the intention, he didn't have the strength. And he did that to all the women in the family... It's simply unbelievable.
Don’t forget, Zhu Wen died in July 912. Although he was killed, he was on the verge of death at that time and wanted to invite Zhu Youwen back to ascend the throne, so Zhu Yougui couldn't wait to seize power in advance.
If Zhu Wen really did that kind of thing, now that the Later Tang Dynasty had destroyed Liang Dynasty, and Li Cunxu was eager to take revenge on the Zhu family, wouldn't it be the best time for Zhang Quanyi to take revenge?
Li Cunxu was an enemy of his country and wanted to vent his anger. No one in the civil or military court dared to stop him. Zhang Quanyi, as a high-ranking official in the Later Liang Dynasty, actually dared to stop him. What courage and broad-mindedness this showed!
I personally insist that Zhu Wen did not do that kind of thing to Zhang Quanyi. It is most likely that later generations deliberately fabricated it to throw dirty water on Zhu Wen.
The Hedong Group's comprehensive denial of Hou Liang's political work has been carried out systematically a long time ago. I will not go into details during the Li Keyong period, but only select some of the most representative practices of Li Cunxu:
1. During the Battle of Baixiang, Li Cunxu published a proclamation in which he described Zhu and Wen’s group as “the inverse temperature of Dangshan has led to mediocrity and evil, and evil in the nest has left more evil…”
2. When Li Cunxu entered Bianzhou, Li Siyuan led the civil and military officials of the Later Liang Dynasty out of the city to greet him. They met in front of the horse. The civil and military officials of the Later Liang Dynasty each stated that they had been subjects of the Tang Dynasty for generations. Unfortunately, they were trapped in the puppet court. Today they finally saw Zhongxing again. Although they died, they did not die. mark.
The Later Liang Dynasty was a "pseudo court" and a pseudo-regime; Li Cunxu's Later Tang Dynasty was not a newly established dynasty, but a resurgence of the Tang Dynasty.
3. In the edict that demoted Zheng Jue and other 11 senior officials of the Later Liang Dynasty and released them to other places, the original text is "The pseudo-prime minister Zheng Jue and other 11 people are all members of the hairpin group of the dynasty..."
The Hou Liang regime was a pseudo-regime, and the prime minister was of course a pseudo-prime minister; and "this dynasty" was very expressive. As explained in the previous article, they were actually officials in the Tang Dynasty, so they were regarded as political vases by the Hou Liang Dynasty. However, Li Cunxu cleverly put them in The experience of being an official in the Tang Dynasty is described as "the current dynasty" rather than the "previous dynasty", trying to convey to people the signal of the revival of the Tang Dynasty. Yes, that's right, this dynasty is the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin's Tang Dynasty is the original Tang Dynasty. .
4. Duan Ning and others reported that the "foreign relatives gang" such as Zhao Yan and Zhang brothers were causing harm to the country and the people and should be killed. Li Cunxu then issued an edict to kill Jingxiang, Li Zhen, the backbone of the "foreign relatives gang" and so on. The edict began: "I Not only has the puppet court been destroyed, but the country's troubles have been pacified..."
5. After the above-mentioned high-ranking officials of the Later Liang Dynasty were executed, Li Cunxu surrendered and granted amnesty to the world, saying: "To fight against submissiveness, Shaokang punished Youqing; to inherit the foundation, Guangwu destroyed Xinmang... I inherit the great treasure... I will return soon." In this dynasty...Zhu Wen rebelled, his friends were loyal and his heirs were fierce, he killed two monarchs, and destroyed nine temples..."
The article begins with two famous allusions: Hou Yi (the Youqiong family) usurped power, known in history as "Hou Yi replaced Xia"; Shaokang (great-grandson of Yu the Great and great-grandson of Xia Qi) restored the Xia Dynasty and greatly enhanced the national power, known in history as " Shaokang Zhongxing"; Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty Liu Xiu overthrew Wang Mang who usurped the Han Dynasty, which was called "Guangwu Zhongxing" in history.
Li Cunxu compared himself to Shaokang and Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and compared the elimination of Houliang to "Shaokang Zhongxing" and "Guangwu Zhongxing". This was the political tone of the Later Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the complete negation of the Later Liang Dynasty was a systematic, top-down political work of the Later Tang Dynasty regime from beginning to end.
Ouyang Xiu's "New History of the Five Dynasties" contributed to the negation of the Later Liang Dynasty. "New History of the Five Dynasties" concluded that the Later Liang Dynasty was "extremely evil" (Liang was extremely evil).
Ouyang Xiu gave this evaluation for a very good reason, "He started as a thief, but as for the fall of the Tang Dynasty, his legacy spread throughout the world." It means that Zhu Wen, the founding monarch of the Later Liang Dynasty, was born as a thieves. What he did was to overthrow the Tang Dynasty, and his influence on future generations was to spread his legacy throughout the world.
It is an indisputable fact that he was born a thieves. But among the heroes at that time, how many were not from banditry? How many have clean butts?
As for the Zhu family, Ouyang Xiu summed it up bluntly: "It's so dirty that it can't be described!" (Liang's family affairs, the so-called "unruly" ones in "Poetry").
With the systematic demonizing political propaganda of the Later Tang Dynasty and the endorsement of the Song Dynasty's "New History of the Five Dynasties", the Later Liang Dynasty has become the most criticized dynasty among the "Five Dynasties", and its founding monarch Zhu Wen has also become an unethical and cowardly king. Synonymous with usurpers, for a long time, "Zhu Wen" was on par with Shang Zhou and Xia Jie.
