Fan Yanguang rebelled in Weizhou, and Yang Guangyuan took command and went to war. Fan Yanguang lost the first battle, and then retreated to Weizhou, closing the city and holding on for more than a year. Yang Guangyuan fought to no avail, and finally used political inducement to surrender, causing Fan Yanguang to disarm, making Yang Guangyuan, the commander-in-chief of the expedition, very embarrassed.
Weizhou has no merit, and the second reason is hatred.
With these two hatreds and the temptation of rich and beautiful women, how could Yang Guangyuan spare Fan Yanguang?
Yang Guangyuan reported: "Fan Yanguang is a capricious villain. How can we let the tiger go back to the mountain? If we let him go away now, he will either go north beyond the Great Wall or go south into Huaihe. We should eradicate him as soon as possible."
Shi Jingtang didn't allow it.
So Yang Guangyuan retreated and did the next best thing, saying that even if he didn't kill him, he should be controlled in Bianzhou or Luoyang instead of living in other places.
As long as he is not killed, Shi Jingtang agreed. So Fan Yanguang was asked to move to Luoyang.
At that time, Yang Guangyuan was also the governor of Heyang, and his son Yang Chenggui temporarily acted as the governor of the state. Yang Guangyuan instructed his son Yang Chenggui to think of a way to fuck him.
Yang Chenggui understood this and immediately led troops to surround Fan Yanguang's house and forced him to commit suicide.
Fan Yanguang held up the iron coupon of the alchemy book and the gold medal for immunity from death, and wailed: "When the emperor rewarded me with the iron coupon of immortality, I swore to the sun that he would never kill me. How could you, father and son, do this?"
Yang Chenggui lowered his head and pondered for a moment, "Okay, then the emperor wants you to move to Luoyang. If you want to be obedient, pack up and leave as soon as possible."
"Please give me a few days to sort things out."
"Stop talking nonsense and get on the road early tomorrow morning."
At dawn the next day, Yang Chenggui once again led his troops to surround Fan Yanguang's house, forcibly took him away, walked to the pontoon, and ordered several strong men to push Fan Yanguang into the river and drown him.
"You are not decent, I will help you be decent."
Afterwards, Yang Guangyuan and his son reported: "Fan Yanguang committed suicide by drowning on the way to move."
There was no need to investigate, Shi Jingtang also knew the truth of the matter, and he also chose to be tolerant. He did not blame Yang Guangyuan and his son, but he also sighed for Fan Yanguang, the political veteran, the powerful king, and the four powerful kings who once dominated the world with him. The three giants of the Last Emperor ended up like this in the end...
Shi Jingtang was inevitably saddened by the death of a rabbit and a fox, so he issued an edict to Comrade Fan Yanguang as a posthumous gift to the Grand Master and stayed out of court for two days to express his condolences.
Cao Qian, the water transport army envoy, salvaged Fan Yanguang's body near Miaojiatan. Shi Jingtang ordered that he be allowed to be buried in his hometown in Xiangzhou.
It is said that on the day of the burial, just after the coffin was put into the ground, the tomb suddenly collapsed for no reason, smashing Fan Yanguang's coffin and "breaking his head." In the end, the whole body could not be preserved.
When later generations evaluated him, they all felt sorry for him. It was said that he was once a polite corporal, a well-mannered and elegant scholar, with numerous fans for his strength, and "he was highly praised at that time." But he also has two stains. One is that during the crusade against the royal capital of Dingzhou, his general Liang Hantang seized the royal horse from the royal capital. Fan Yanguang framed Liang Hantang and took it; the other was that he murdered Mi Qiong and took his wealth. Good concubine.
Unable to secure his position in the late festival, he launched a Weizhou rebellion. Later generations did not criticize this more deeply. After all, Shi Jingtang also "conspired to rebel out of fear." It's just that Shi Jingtang succeeded and Fan Yanguang failed. There is nothing wrong with the success of the king and the defeat of the bandits.
Fan Yanguang was criticized because after the defeat of the rebellion, he endured humiliation and lived in humiliation, and finally died in humiliation. He was too unmanly. Look at Li Congke, who burned his entire family to death. Although they all died, Li Congke died vigorously and was respected by others. , earned sympathy from others, while Fan Yanguang was ridiculed.
"History of the Old Five Dynasties" mocked Fan Yanguang mercilessly:
"You are nothing like a husband!" - He is really not a man!
"Although he surrendered after surrendering his strength, he still had the audacity to cherish his death. Meng Jin's death has been made fun of for thousands of years." - Thousands of Years of Laughing Famous
After Fan Yanguang's death, the cursed money was transferred to the new owner, Yang Guangyuan, with interest.
Yang Guangyuan, the bald and broken-armed actor, had already shown his arrogance and disobedience when he suppressed Fan Yanguang in Weizhou. Sooner or later, he would also rebel.
The most indispensable thing during the Tianfu years was rebels, which was the same as the natural disasters in successive years. In the past seven years, Shi Jingtang had been a truly caring emperor. He served his Khitan father as a son to the outside world, tolerated and tolerated him at home and pretended to be a grandson.
After Weizhou was pacified, Yang Guangyuan requested to visit Beijing. Shi Jingtang approved.
The reason why Yang Guangyuan came to the capital was relatively simple, that is, to clear out the "treacherous traitors" in the court. In his opinion, the reason why he failed to perform meritorious service on the front line was entirely because of the obstruction of traitorous officials in the DPRK. The traitors in his mouth were Sang Weihan, Li Song and other civil servant groups.
Since the death of Guo Chongtao, prime ministers in the Later Tang Dynasty have rarely served as privy councilors to avoid excessive concentration of power. However, Shi Jingtang was forced by realistic pressure to let prime ministers Sang Weihan and Li Song serve as privy councilors. This made Liu Churang and the eunuchs very unhappy, and they always wanted to find opportunities to kill them.
When Yang Guangyuan besieged Weizhou, Liu Churang often traveled between the front line and the court for military affairs. As mentioned earlier, Yang Guangyuan threatened the self-respect of the bandits and often interfered in government affairs. Shi Jingtang adopted a conciliatory attitude towards this, while Sang Weihan, Li Song and other civil servant groups firmly opposed this and insisted on acting in accordance with the law and regulations. Many of Yang Guangyuan's unreasonable requests were also ignored. Yang Guangyuan was very angry when he was blocked.
Liu Churang took advantage of the opportunity and told Yang Guangyuan that this was all the bad ideas of the prime ministers and they were the ones who deceived Shengting. As a result, Yang Guangyuan hated Sang Weihan, Li Song and other civil servant groups.
After Weizhou was pacified, Yang Guangyuan immediately issued a secret seal, accusing Sang Weihan and Li Song of holding back, hindering his military operations, and taking the main responsibility for the stalemate for more than a year.
Yang Guangyuan controlled Weizhou, and also controlled the Luoyang and Heyang areas. He had a large number of troops. This was the confidence he dared to dictate to the imperial court.
Shi Jingtang did not dare to offend him, so he removed the two of them from the Privy Council and made Liu Churang the Privy Councilor.
Yang Guangyuan's domineering behavior has touched the bottom line of Shi Jingtang's court. You must know that Sang Weihan and other "pro-Liao faction" officials are loyal ministers of the country appointed by Khitan father by name. When beating a dog, it depends on the owner. The owner of Sang Weihan and others is not Shi Jingtang, but Yelu Deguang.
Shi Jingtang was very worried about this and was very worried that Yang Guangyuan would lose control.
Sang Weihan gave Shi Jingtang advice and suggested that he weaken Yang Guangyuan's power. The specific method was to "split Wei Bo." This method was used in the Later Liang Dynasty. Zhu Youzhen took advantage of Yang Shihou's death to divide Wei Bo's army into two. The consequence was "Zhuangzong entered Wei".
As time passed, Sang Weihan once again proposed the dangerous move of dividing Wei Bo. This time, it was not just as simple as dividing Wei Bo's army into two, but on the basis of dismembering Wei Bo, a major reshuffle and blood change was carried out in the entire Heshuo area, and Yang Guangyuan was moved to the town to greatly weaken the The influence of Heshuo area.
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