【Afraid】
Li Siyuan is too difficult. With only a few thousand direct troops, they overthrew the son of the founder of the Hedong Group and changed his life as an adopted son. They needed soldiers but no soldiers, no money and no money. They also had to clean up the mess left by Li Cunxu. In just one or two years, he put the group on the right track, completed the transfer of supreme power relatively smoothly, and created a short-lived era of peace and prosperity.
When he was promoting various reform measures, the domestic and international environment was not stable. The problems left over from the past gradually surfaced, rebellions broke out, and the gourd lifted up.
Li Siyuan could only use soldiers to cover up the water and earth, but he was tired of dealing with it. This is a severe test for a sixty-year-old man, both physically and mentally. Because of this, Li Siyuan died in Luoyang, the capital, after seven and a half years of proclaiming himself emperor.
The domestic and international situation in the early days of his accession to the throne really made Li Siyuan very anxious:
1. Shannan East Road, Xiangzhou
Liu Xun, the military governor of Shannan East Road in Xiangzhou, was the earliest cavalry captain of Li Keyong. During the Li Cunxu period, there was a governor who was promoted to the military governor of Xiangzhou. When news of the "Xingjiaomen Mutiny" came, Liu Xun took advantage of the fact that the capital had no master and the world was under control. Taking advantage of the chaos, he massacred the deputy envoy Hu Guangmen and falsely accused Hu of pretending to be treason in order to avenge personal grievances, and those who heard about it were wronged.
After Li Siyuan proclaimed himself emperor, he first suspended Liu Xun's work and asked his close confidant An Chongjiao to lead the Xiangzhou Jiedu Envoy. An Chongjie believed that Shannan East Road was an important imperial town, and someone must be in charge of it personally. It was not appropriate to lead it from a distance and refuse to accept it with firm words.
Therefore, Li Siyuan restored Liu Xun's position, let him return to Xiangzhou, and restored his real name "Liu Xun" (previously given the name Li Shaogong by Li Cunxu).
Liu Xun took advantage of the chaos to exterminate the clan and pretended to be a traitor, which was one of the incidents during the period when Li Siyuan ascended the throne. This Hu Zhuang who was executed by everyone in his family is also worth mentioning:
Hu Zhuang is the grandson of Hu Zeng, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty. Hu Zeng failed in many tests in the Yizong Dynasty. In anger, he wrote the famous poem "Xia Di": "Shanglin is getting new laurels every year, and ordinary people are not allowed to break a branch." Later he became a "Beipiao" and lived in Chang'an. He repeated his studies for many years. Finally won the first place.
There was internal strife in the "Baoyan Party". Wei Baoheng squeezed Lu Yan out of the imperial court and made him the governor of Xichuan. Lu Yan called Hu Zeng as secretary-general. Later, when Gao Pian came to town in Xichuan, Hu Zeng became Gao Pian's secretary-general; "Huang Chao's During the "Rebellion", Hu Zeng followed Gao Pian and took charge of Jingnan. It is said that after he realized that Gao Pian was disloyal, he left without saying goodbye and stayed in his hometown.
Hu Zeng composed 150 Qi Jue poems, which were compiled into the famous "Epic Ode". "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" contains one volume of his poems, and Hu Zeng was also selected into "The Biography of Talented Scholars of the Tang Dynasty".
In the previous article, Wang Zongyan was immoral and immoral, and the eunuch Song Guangpu admonished him with a poem "Gusu Terrace", "Unconsciously, the moon rises over the Qiantang River, sending Vietnamese soldiers to the west overnight." The author of this poem is Hu Zeng.
However, his grandson, who pretends to be a comrade, is really better at pretending. Not to mention compared to his grandfather Hu Zeng, his knowledge was quite average compared to ordinary people. However, in the era of the late Tang Dynasty, where family background and family status were important, the rhetoric of "the queen of Zhongshan Jing Wang Liu Sheng" became popular, so Hu Zhuang always pretended to be a grandson as "the grandson of Hu Zeng".
When Yang Shihou was in charge of Weibo, the deputy envoy of Jiedu was named Li Siye, who was an old friend of Hu Zhuang. So Hu Zhuang went to pay a visit, and through the back door, he got a small job as the magistrate of Guixiang County. Zhu Youzhen split Wei Bo and induced a mutiny among Wei Bo's Silver Spear Army. The young general Zhang Yan surrendered to Li Cunxu at Wei Bo's territory. During the mutiny, Li Siye was killed, the trees felled and the hozens scattered. Hu Zhuang, who had relied on Li Siye's career, was laid off honorably.
After Li Cunxu took over Wei Bo, "Hu Zeng's grandson" disguised himself and went to pay homage to the official. Sikong Ting, who was helping Li Cunxu manage Weibo at that time, delayed granting him an official position because Hu Zhuang had a bad reputation in Guixiang County, was corrupt and had bad conduct. Hu pretended to be anxious, "Are you still being unreasonable? There are so many corrupt officials in the world, why do you have to go against me?"
When Li Cunxu was about to return to Taiyuan, he pretended to run and "stopped the driver and confessed his injustice." The old guard prohibited him from entering. He pretended to break through the card and went straight to Li Cunxu's office, shouting loudly: "I am the grandson of Hu Zeng, the famous poet of the Tang Dynasty! The king followed Tang Zuo's footsteps and searched for the descendants of the Tang Dynasty's public ministers, and that's me. Although I don't have much He is a man of great talent, but compared to those ordinary people, he still has two skills. But why has he not been reused for so long and been suppressed and ostracized? I might as well die here today!"
They made a lot of noise, cried, made trouble, and hung themselves.
Li Cunxu was startled, wondering what the heck is this? So he comforted him and said: "I really didn't know before. I had something to talk about, so why do you do this? You are seeking death and living... Come, come, have a drink, eat something, and talk to me if you have anything to say."
Li Cunxu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After sending him away, he said to Guo Chongtao: "Please arrange something for him to do."
Guo Chongtao assigned Hu Zhuang a position as a Guanyi Inspector, which is equivalent to today's policeman; soon after, he was awarded the position of Supervisory Censor Li Xing, with the same job responsibilities as the Supervisory Censor, but with a reduced salary; and later he was promoted to Supervisory Censor Li Xing. Jiedu inspector and Jiedushi official.
Hu Zhuang also wanted to imitate his grandfather and become a great poet praised by the world, so he wrote poems wherever he went. However, the level of his poetry was only "hehe". Historical records record that he "learned books without a teacher" "Fine, Gong poetry is not the author", and he still insisted on signing his official title at the end of the poem, and emphasized that he was the grandson of Hu Zeng. Hu Zeng's face was so humiliating to this grandson.
Everyone took his poems as a joke and even laughed at him to his face. And he didn't feel ashamed at all, he was really thick-skinned.
The only thing that made him feel ashamed was that his official title was too low. When he was drinking with his colleagues, everyone had gold seals and purple ribbons, but he had silver seals and green ribbons. Everyone else is wearing epic purple equipment, but he is wearing green equipment, which is embarrassing.
When Li Cunxu went to Desheng Jiacheng via Weibo, he drank with his staff on the tower. After the dinner was over, everyone else left, but he was just sitting there pretending to be naked.
Li Cunxu glanced at him sideways, "Why don't you leave?"
Hu pretended to present three poems in praise of Li Cunxu, trying to flatter him in order to get promoted.
Li Cunxu picked up an oversized wine glass and said, "Are you ready to do it?"
Hu pretended to be a very small drinker and rarely drank at all, but at this time he took the wine and drank it all in one gulp. Li Cunxu immediately took off his purple robe and gave it to him. A glass of wine in exchange for a purple quality cloak.
After Li Cunxu proclaimed himself emperor, he promoted Hu Zhuang to the position of giving service and summoned him to Luoyang. Not long after, Li Cunxu's court suffered from drought and floods. The court was short of money and food, and the civil servants could not be paid. So Hu pretended to ask for a post as deputy envoy of Xiangzhou Jiedu, and went to Xiangzhou to make a living on the ground.
It can be seen from this that Hu Zhuang is not only uneducated, uneducated, and shameless, he is also unwilling to endure hardship, covets comfort and enjoyment, and has extremely bad conduct. He always shows off his status as "the grandson of Hu Zeng, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty" Third, show a sense of superiority. And his superior, Jiedushi Liu Xun, was a martial artist from a commoner background, so conflicts between the two were inevitable.
Therefore, when Li Cunxu encountered the "Xingjiaomen Mutiny", Liu Xun directly killed Hu Zhuang and massacred his entire family.
