【Still Singing the Flowers in the Back Garden】
On March 3rd, the Shangsi Festival in the third year of Longde (923), Wang Zongyan held a party in Yishen Pavilion. When he was in high spirits, Wang Zongyan played the song himself, showed off his singing voice, and sang the song "Neon Clothes and Feather Clothes". Eunuch Yan Ningyue and others presented "Flowers in the Back Garden" and "Siyue People".
There is not much explanation for "Houting Hua"; "Siyue People" is the name of the Ci brand. When "Jianjie Lu" recorded this incident, it was noted: ""Siyue People" is the song of the fall of Wu."
Hearing these two songs of national subjugation, Wang Zongyan couldn't help but rejoice. He sat with the palace maids and sang obscene lyrics to each other, which was extremely obscene. Wang Zongyan enjoyed it and couldn't extricate himself.
When Wang Zongyan got tired of playing in the palace, he would go on a private visit incognito, go deep into the grassroots, and go to various popular places and prostitutes and brothels to experience the sentiments of the people.
The custom in Shu is to wear a small hat with no brim, but Wang Zongyan likes to wear a big hat with wide brim and large brim, which is very recognizable. Therefore, Wang Zongyan was easily recognized by the people.
In order to avoid the embarrassment of being recognized when entering and exiting those occasions, Wang Zongyan issued an imperial edict ordering people across the country to wear large hats with wide brim and large brim.
But even so, people could easily recognize him. This is embarrassing. We can't just order people all over the country to poke their eyes out.
Wang Zongyan still had a way. He ordered a folk village to be built in the palace. "Reinstated Ouchi to build villages and shops", and then asked the palace maids to wear tattered, simple, and half-covering clothes to play role-playing inside. What is even more outrageous is that Wang Zongyan made these men and women collectively irresponsible. Description, while he watched with gusto, "The emperor and his concubines were in a happy mood." Is this what the emperor did?
Wang Zongyan has really strong tastes and is very perverted. He not only likes multi-player sports, but also likes to steal wives and dominate women.
When he was touring Langzhou in the north, the daughter of He Kang, a state citizen, got married. The bride was beautifully dressed. Wang Zongyan intercepted her husband and snatched her bride, and then took out a hundred pieces of cloth to comfort the groom-to-be. The groom-to-be died of grief and anger.
The daughter of Zhou Yanzhang, the general of the Forbidden Army, was also beautiful and was also selected by Wang Zongyan. Zhou Yanzhang is by no means a weak loser, he is a military commander who has achieved fame with real swords and guns on the battlefield. When the bride-grabbing team came to his house, Zhou Yanzhang held a sword in his hand, raised his eyebrows and said to the bride-grabbing team: "My original surname is Wang, but the late emperor cherished me and asked Queen Zhou to adopt me as his adopted son, so I pretended to be surnamed Zhou. You guys pretended to be Zhou. Don’t you know that people with the same surname don’t get married?”
For the sake of the sword, everyone did not dare to mess around.
Zhou Yanzhang immediately picked a single soldier in the Forbidden Army and married his daughter to him, "I'm already married, don't worry about it!"
In fact, Wang Zongyan had already set a precedent for consanguineous marriage, Concubine Wei Yuan. However, Zhou Yanzhang had a fiery nature and held military power in his hands. Wang Zongyan was not able to force himself, so he finally hit a snag.
However, Zhou Yanzhang always held a grudge against him. Later, when Wang Zongbi rebelled and kidnapped Wang Zongyan, Zhou Yanzhang contributed a lot.
The daughter of military envoy Wang Chenggang was also snatched into the palace by Wang Zongyan when she got married. Wang Chenggang was not as domineering as Zhou Yanzhang, so he chose a gentler approach. Shangshu asked the emperor to be merciful and release his daughter.
Wang Zongyan was a man who bullied the weak and feared the strong. With an edict, Wang Chenggang was exiled to Maozhou (today's Maoxian County, Sichuan Province). Wang Chenggang's daughter was a fierce woman. When she heard that her father was exiled, she immediately cut off her hair and begged Wang Zongyan to pardon her father in order to disfigure herself. After being rejected, she angrily committed suicide.
The eunuchs also actively catered to Wang Zongyan's taste. The eunuch Yan Xu, the leader of the royal art troupe, openly raped the women and sent them to the palace for Wang Zongyan to enjoy. Yan Xu was therefore appointed as the governor of Pengzhou by Wang Zongyan as a reward.
It is not unusual for eunuchs to serve as governors, and there is also a eunuch who directly became a military governor.
The Tang Dynasty, which was deeply abused by eunuchs, did not set a precedent for eunuchs to serve as military envoys. They only allowed eunuchs to control the imperial army and serve as supervisors of the army. In former Shu, there was a precedent for eunuchs to directly serve as military envoys.
This eunuch, named Wang Chengxiu, was quite scheming. Although he is a big eunuch, he is very good at guessing Wang Zongyan's thoughts. As the saying goes, a wife is worse than a concubine, and a concubine is worse than a thief. Wang Zongyan is the emperor, and Shu is rich in beauties. What kind of beauties have you not seen? Therefore, we must find some new tricks, such as catering to his hobby of robbing wives.
Wang Chengxiu found a beautiful woman, married her, and then took the initiative to cuckold Wang Zongyan as the king next door. Wang Zongyan was so happy that he often had an affair with Wang Chengxiu's wife, and Wang Chengxiu gradually became favored.
Wang Chengxiu reported that Qinzhou was rich in beauties, and the old slave was willing to go deep into Qinzhou and help His Majesty select them.
Wang Zongyan was overjoyed, "You are really an important minister of the country!" So he appointed Wang Chengxiu as the envoy of Qinzhou Tianxiong Army, granted him the title of Duke of Lu, and instigated the Longwu Army (belonging to the Forbidden Army) to serve as Wang Chengxiu's personal bodyguard group.
As a reminder, the reason why the Later Tang Dynasty was able to quickly eliminate the former Shu was thanks to this eunuch Jiedushi. More on this later.
Abducting and selling women, getting promoted to noble positions.
Wang Zongyan's practice of robbing wives can be considered "deeply paternal", as his father Wang Jian did it before. Moreover, what Wang Jian robbed was not just the wives and daughters of ordinary people, but the concubines of his most important staff members - Prime Minister Wei Zhuang, and Privy Councilor Pan Kang's concubines.
This concubine from Wei Zhuang was both talented and beautiful (Zhuang Youmei, Shan Wenhan), Wang Jian asked her to be the tutor of the concubines in the harem, and taught the concubines to recite poems and compose poems. She was tricked into entering the palace and was forced to stay.
After Meiji was occupied, Wei Zhuang wrote a poem "Visiting Kinmen" to commemorate her. This is the famous poem "Visiting Kinmen: Memory of Space":
"Remembering each other in vain, there is no way to send news. Chang'e in the sky is unknown, so where can I find the letter she sent?
I feel so weak after sleeping that I can't bear to write Yi's handwriting. The courtyard is filled with fallen flowers, the spring is silent, and the heart-broken grass is green. "
The word caused a sensation as soon as it came out and became the most popular song. The longing and sorrow in it moved countless people, and people rushed to sing it.
The beautiful girl in the poem went on a hunger strike to die in love after reading it.
Pan Kang also has a concubine who is both talented and beautiful. One time, Wang Jian came to Pan Kang's house for a visit, and he fell in love with her at first sight, so he said in a roundabout way: "Oh, I don't have many people like this in my harem!" He said that he was good at this, and everyone was smart.
Unexpectedly, Pan Kang retorted Wang Jian with just one sentence, "This minister is a bitch, and I dare not act like a supreme being." This was a self-harming retort that was only valid for kings.
Wang Jian was so angry that he gritted his teeth and shouted back bitterly, "You are so cruel!"
Pan Kang's younger brother Pan Qiao (former privy envoy and prime minister) warned: "Brother, haven't you heard of the 'Green Pearl Disaster'?"
The Green Pearl refers to Shi Chong's favorite concubine in the Western Jin Dynasty. After Shi Chong lost power, the powerful Sun Xiu coveted the beauty of the Green Pearl and sent an envoy to ask for it. Shi Chong dressed up his dozens of concubines and invited the envoy to choose as he pleased. The messenger was straightforward and said that I was ordered to take only the Green Pearl. Shi Chong said that Lüzhu was my favorite concubine. Apart from her, I could choose the others at will. The messenger said he wanted no one but her.
Shi Chong refused to give it, and the envoy returned without success. Before leaving, he warned Shi Chong fiercely, "You have to think twice! Don't say I didn't give you a chance!"
The envoy reported back to Sun Xiu, and Sun Xiu was furious, so he planned to frame and kill Shi Chong.
Sitting at home behind closed doors, disaster will come from heaven. Things are different now. Looking at the rioters who broke into his home, Shi Chong had mixed feelings and said to Lu Zhu: "It's all because of you that I've fallen here."
After hearing what he said, Luzhu jumped out of the window without hesitation and fell to her death. She was determined to commit suicide and her body was so strong that even Shi Chong couldn't stop her in time.
Shi Chong was taken to Dongshi and beheaded. Before leaving, Shi Chong seemed to have understood the world of mortals and sighed: "You people are not killing me for my money! (Slaves benefit my family wealth)" The jailer who escorted him sneered: "Since we know that people die for money, Why not leave early?"
Shi Chong is the richest man in the Western Jin Dynasty and one of the most famous tycoons in Chinese history. The most well-known story is "Wang Shi's Fight for Riches", a fight for wealth with Wang Kai, uncle of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, and finally ended with Wang Kai's surrender, a landmark event Just hit the coral tree with Tie Ruyi.
Shi Chong died because of the green bead, and Pan Qiao used the "disaster of the green bead" to warn Pan Kang not to lose his fortune and life because of a concubine.
Pan Kang was unmoved and said: "To love is to love vigorously and unswervingly until death. (Life is precious and comfortable, how can you love to death without being satisfied with your heart)"
Pan Kang is a pure man.
The king is dim and the ministers are dark, but the master is bright and the ministers are straight. Under the leadership of Wang Jian, some veterans Xun Jiu also abandoned their disguises and exposed the ugliness of human nature.
For example, Zhang Qing, the once selfless "high-ranking official". This man made an appearance when Wang Jian took over Chengdu. Let me help you recall that he had a nickname, "Zhang Ta Che".
Zhang Qing successfully completed the tasks assigned by the organization and killed more than a hundred soldiers who violated military discipline. From then on, military discipline was strict and no one dared to ignore military regulations and orders. Later, he was promoted to the governor of Meizhou. It was during his tenure as the governor of Meizhou that Zhang Qing left a stain on his life.
There was a nun in Meizhou who was very beautiful, proficient in Buddhism, and good at preaching the Infinite Life Sutra. Zhang Qing fell in love with her and "wanted to force her to humiliate her." The nun refused to obey and scolded Zhang Qing.
Zhang Qing was so angry that he broke her teeth into pieces, and then sank her and her father and brother into Tooyijin in Meizhou and drowned them.
Filial piety comes first among all good deeds, and all kinds of evil and sexual immorality take precedence. The word "obscene" brought Qianshu into the abyss of eternal destruction, and it is enough to summarize Wang Zongyan's life.
