[Li Congrong’s rebellion case]
When Fan Yanguang was leaving, Li Siyuan held a farewell banquet for him. The monarch and his ministers drank the wine very dullly. They stopped talking many times, sighed and shed tears. Seeing off is like seeing off a funeral. There is a premonition in each other's hearts that today's farewell is farewell.
Finally, Li Siyuan said: "You are leaving me today. If you have any suggestions, you should tell me without reservation."
Fan Yanguang hesitated for a long time, and finally said cautiously: "On military and state matters, I hope that your Majesty can talk more openly with the ministers and not just listen to the words of a group of villains."
According to historical records, the "little people" mentioned by Fan Yanguang refer to the eunuch Meng Hanqiong and Wang Defei. This is a puzzling record, because Fan Yanguang was able to escape from the court because of the relationship between the two. Before leaving, he warned Li Siyuan to be more careful with the two.
Afterwards, the monarch and his ministers parted with tears.
As for Kang Yicheng, he is a talented man who is very aware of current affairs, has a keen sense of politics and has no bottom line.
He was from Shatuo. He first served Li Keyong and then served Li Cunxu. When Emperor Mingzong entered the Wei Dynasty, he happened to be in Li Siyuan's army, so he tried his best to accuse Li Cunxu of his faults in front of Li Siyuan, and encouraged Li Siyuan to rebel, and Li Siyuan proclaimed himself emperor. Later, he became Li Siyuan's confidant.
Now, seeing that there was no hope of escape, he took the initiative to move closer to Li Congrong and sent his son to Li Congrong to serve Li Congrong, so that after Li Congrong ascended the throne, he could once again avoid being killed as a "Conglong hero".
In the fourth year of Changxing (933), in May, "the Holy Body was not hesitant", but he got better the next day, and "he recovered with the sun"; in June, "he was no longer hesitant".
November 16th, "No Hesitation"; November 17th, "Gradual Gradation".
The three most important ministers of the empire came to Guangshou Hall to pay their respects and visit the sick. They are Li Congrong, the marshal of the world's military forces and the king of Qin; Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun, the privy envoys.
In front of them was Li Siyuan, who was almost unconscious. In front of his sickbed, where his favorite concubine Wang De was waiting, she leaned in his ear and said, "Here comes Congrong!"
Li Siyuan lowered his head and showed no reaction to external stimulation.
Concubine Wang De said again: "Hong Zhao and others are here."
Li Siyuan still had no reaction.
Li Congrong and others resigned. As soon as they walked out of Guangshou Hall, they heard crying coming from the hall. Li Congrong tried hard to suppress the ecstasy in his heart, "Dead, dead, must be dead!"
Returning to the Marshal's Mansion, Li Congrong hurriedly summoned his staff to discuss the next plan.
The current situation is that both civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty support Li Conghou's accession to the throne. However, Li Conghou is currently in Weizhou and not in the capital. Li Congrong and his dog-headed military advisors hit it off immediately and formulated a plan to seize power with arms, because in their view, these "treacherous ministers" in the court would definitely block the news of the emperor's death, keep the funeral secret, and then rush to Weizhou to welcome Li Conghou. They must race against time to control the court before Li Conghou arrives in the capital, coerce the ministers to support him and ascend the throne, and cook the raw rice first.
Of course, during this period, these "treacherous ministers" might also use various reasons to trick Li Congrong into entering the palace, and then control or kill him. Therefore, Li Congrong claimed that he was suddenly ill and refused to enter the palace again.
However, Li Congrong did not understand the evil taste of history, and a dramatic scene was staged in the palace:
After Li Congrong and others left Guangshou Hall, the palace officials transferred Li Siyuan to Yonghe Hall. That night, Li Siyuan, who was in a severe coma, suddenly woke up. The following record is very sad: When the 67-year-old man woke up, there was no attendant, no nurse on duty, and no family members accompanying him. Everyone seemed to unanimously believe that he was going to die tonight, and they didn't even bother to accompany him. Complete the last journey.
Li Siyuan felt desolate. He looked around and finally found a palace maid who was responsible for keeping watch. Li Siyuan asked weakly: "What time is it now?"
The palace maid replied: "It's the fourth watch."
Li Siyuan then coughed violently, "spitting as many pieces of meat as his lungs", and then became incontinent and even peed more than a bucketful.
The palace maid asked him with concern: "How are you feeling?"
Li Siyuan shook his head weakly, "I don't know either."
The maid hurriedly called for someone, and after a while, all the concubines and maids from the harem rushed to the scene. They were surprised and happy, and shouted: "The emperor is resurrected! (Everyone is alive again)"
So he hurriedly fed Li Siyuan a bowl of porridge.
By daybreak, Li Siyuan had regained consciousness and his condition had improved.
Li Siyuan's condition improved and he was in working condition, but Li Congrong knew nothing about it and thought Li Siyuan had died. When he was told to come to the palace to pay respects or to report on work, he firmly believed that it was a "treacherous official" who wanted to trick him into killing him and not go to court because of his illness.
At this moment, Li Congrong was intensively deploying force to seize power.
He sent his confidant Ma Chujun to inquire about Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun, and asked: "I want to enter the palace to serve the critically ill emperor, and I want to bring my personal guards with me in case of emergencies. Excuse me, should my army be stationed in the palace?" Where?"
The two responded like loaches, "Please make your own decision, Your Majesty."
This sentence can have two completely opposite interpretations. It can be understood as supporting Li Congrong, or as opposing Li Congrong. He is truly a political veteran.
When they were seeing Ma Chujun off, the two of them lowered their voices and told the truth, "The emperor's dragon body is safe. Li Congrong had better behave himself and don't believe the rumors to avoid causing trouble!"
Li Congrong was furious when he heard this, because he believed that Li Siyuan had died. Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun clearly wanted to stabilize themselves and then greet Li Conghou, so they sent Ma Chujun to threaten them, "Don't you cherish the lives of the whole family? , how dare you refuse my request?"
Zhu Hongzhao was originally a capricious villain. In order to fight for power and gain, he could kneel down and lick An Zhongjie, or kick An Zhongjie into the coffin when he was in trouble. He also wanted to escape from the court, a place of right and wrong. At the beginning, He cried loudly and resigned as Privy Councilor, but Li Siyuan was angrily scolded before he bravely came forward. From the bottom of his heart, he really didn't want to wade into this pool of muddy water, so he secretly leaked the secret of Li Siyuan's health, hoping that he could escape unscathed after Li Congrong ascended the throne.
For such political opportunists, we must win over, appease, and use them for our own purposes. But the arrogant Li Congrong kicked him to the opposite side.
Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun immediately realized that Li Congrong would definitely lose miserably in this political struggle. So he ran into the palace without hesitation and betrayed the news to Wang Defei and Meng Hanqiong that Li Congrong was about to seize power by force.
The four people consulted closely and believed that the key factor in the success or failure of the matter lay with Kang Yicheng, because Kang Yicheng was the commander-in-chief of the bodyguard and pro-army and held military power, so the four of them invited Kang Yicheng to have a meeting to discuss.
