When the time entered October, Wang Yanjun was already seriously ill. One day, Wang Yanjun supported his sick body and participated in the military parade. Then he rewarded the three armies and held a banquet in honor of the civil and military officials. In the middle of the banquet, Wang Yanjun suddenly became confused and started talking nonsense, to the effect that he saw Wang Yanjun. The report is here...
Wang Yanzhen forced Wang Yanhan to death and handed over the throne to him, and he captured Wang Yanzhen and stabilized the country.
The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were astonished. Only Li Fang was elated, thinking that Wang Yanjun was about to die.
Also delighted was Wang Jipeng.
Li Fang and Wang Jipeng secretly colluded together, believing that they should make a prompt decision and take preemptive measures. Once Wang Yanjun died, Chen Jinfeng, Chen Kuangsheng and others might forge the edict and abolish the elder and establish the younger.
So, while everyone inside and outside the palace was busy rescuing Wang Yanjun, Li Fang, with his henchmen and minions, armed with big wooden sticks, broke into Li Keyin's home and killed him.
However, the next day, Wang Yanjun miraculously improved. Chen Jinfeng told him about Li Keyin's murder.
Wang Yanjun was greatly shocked. He immediately came to the Jinluan Palace, held an emergency meeting, and ordered a thorough investigation into the murder of Li Keyin to find out the mastermind behind it!
Wang Jipeng was so frightened that he lost his mind and said, "It's a waste of time. I want to pay tribute to Li Congrong!"
Li Fang's pupils were filled with blood and his will was firm, "There is no turning back when you open your bow. Now that the matter has come to this, stretching your neck is just as much a knife as it is shrinking your neck. If you don't do one, you won't stop, let's fight!"
Li Fang led his men to make a noise and rushed into the palace. Instead, he rebelled and killed the emperor!
Li Fang is the imperial envoy and is responsible for the security of the palace. The imperial envoy assassinates the king and kills the king, which is a kind of self-inflicted crime.
Wang Yanjun was shocked to hear about the mutiny and was so frightened that he hid under the bed in the "Nine Dragon Tent". The rebels stabbed Wang Yanjun with spears and halberds, and Wang Yanjun was seriously injured. When Wang Yanjun was dragged out, he was still alive and his body was covered with blood holes. Wang Yanjun was rolling in pain and wailing in the blood on the ground. However, the soldiers stopped striking and seemed to want to watch Wang Yanjun suffer pain.
In the end, the palace ladies couldn't stand it anymore, so they carried out humanitarian destruction to him. (The palace people couldn't bear the pain and refused to do it)
There is a poem that sighs:
"The king is seriously ill and has left the court, but the music and dancing in the palace have not yet begun.
Who knows that in the Nine Dragons Fairy Tent, late at night, only Xu Guilang is allowed? "
Li Fang also killed Chen Jinfeng, Chen Kuangsheng, Chen Shouen, Gui Shouming, and Wang Jitao.
The next day, Wang Jipeng declared that he would supervise the country under the orders of the Empress Dowager, and proclaimed himself emperor on the same day.
After Wang Yanjun married Princess Qingyuan of the Southern Han Dynasty, he sent the eunuch Lin Yanyu to set up an office in Guangzhou, specifically responsible for receiving envoys from Fujian and promoting friendly exchanges between the two sides. In fact, it was the Embassy of Fujian in the Southern Han Dynasty.
Liu Yan of the Southern Han Dynasty (son of Liu Yin and brother of Princess Qingyuan) gave Lin Yanyu very high treatment and often asked him about internal matters in Fujian.
Lin Yanyu never answered, and said to Liu Yan: "Leaving Fujian will reveal the truth and falsehood of Fujian; then after I leave Southern Han, can I also reveal the truth and falsehood of Southern Han? Are diplomats like this? "
Liu Yan was very ashamed. At the same time, he respected Lin Yanyu even more and treated him more favorably. He made him the chief eunuch of the Southern Han Dynasty and was responsible for the assessment of eunuch affairs in the palace.
When news came that Wang Yanjun had been murdered, Lin Yanyu requested to return to China, but Liu Yan refused. Lin Yanyu put on plain clothes and cried in the direction of Fuzhou for three days.
Although Wang Jipeng is Wang Yanjun's eldest son, his throne still came from a shady path.
During the same period, there were many precedents of mutinies and seizures of power, such as Li Siyuan seizing Li Cunxu's position, Li Congke seizing Li Conghou, Shi Jingtang seizing Li Congke... But they had sufficient reasons to seize power, such as the emperor's stupidity, their "Qingjun side", or the emperor's suspicion. , was forced to rebel in order to survive. Wang Jipeng doesn't occupy any of them.
Wang Yanjun was a womanizer, but there is no record in the history books about him harming the wives and daughters of civil and military ministers and ordinary people. Unlike Wang Zongyan and Li Cunxu, he doted on heretics, which is linked to "the ignorant king", but judging from its results alone, It cannot be said that it is hopeless.
In other words, although the common people had complaints against him, they did not rise to the point of overthrowing him; the army did not have sworn hatred for him.
To put it ten thousand steps back, even if Wang Yanjun deserves to be killed because he is unjust and has no help, then what are the reasons for Wang Jipeng and Li Fang to commit regicide? Is it "Qingjun side"? No, it's silence. Because they killed Li Keyin and the emperor wanted to investigate.
There was no fermentation of public opinion, no mobilization, and no foreshadowing. He suddenly entered the palace and completed the regicide.
In other words, even if Wang Yanjun lost his way, Wang Jipeng did not gain it.
The first thorny problem for Wang Jipeng after he ascended the throne was how to deal with the "Kowloon Incident", how to explain to the world the truth about the murder of the late emperor, how to gain recognition and support, and how to deal with Li Fang.
Under this situation, Wang Jipeng immediately sent an envoy to the Central Dynasty (Later Tang Dynasty), took away the imperial title, and was only called the "Fuzhou Mighty Army Jiedu Envoy", proclaimed himself a minister of the Later Tang Dynasty, resumed tribute, and strived for the recognition of the central court; He granted amnesty to the whole country and won the support of the people; he appointed Li Fang to judge the guards of the six armies and take charge of the imperial army to reassure him.
Li Fang was originally an envoy to the imperial city, but now he also commanded the imperial army and had the merit of supporting the emperor. In fact, when Wang Jipeng came to the throne, Li Fang controlled the real power of the court. Li Fang knew that he was guilty of treason and could not clear his name. He was also worried that Wang Jipeng would kill someone and silence him, so he assembled a group of dead soldiers who would support him whenever he traveled to prevent being plotted against.
As a result, Wang Jipeng became even more frightened and uneasy. Wang Jipeng was not idle. He attracted Lin Yanhao, a commander of the Forbidden Army.
Of course Lin Yanhao chose to side with Wang Jipeng, so the monarch and his ministers decided to have an infernal relationship. Lin Yanhao pretended to join Li Fang on the surface, gained Li Fang's trust, and successfully became an undercover agent.
One month after the "Kowloon Tent Incident", Wang Jipeng announced a large reward to the Forbidden Army generals. The Forbidden Army generals went to the palace to receive the rewards. Lin Yanhao ambushed hundreds of warriors in advance. When Li Fang entered the palace, Lin Yanhao captured him alive on the spot, cut off his head, and hung it on the palace gate for public display.
Subsequently, Wang Jipeng announced the truth about the "Kowloon Tent Incident", shifted all the blame for the regicide to Li Fang, and wiped out Li Fang's remnants of his party.
More than a thousand of Li Fang's private troops launched a rebellion and attacked the palace. Wang Jipeng and Lin Yanhao had already been prepared, but Li Fang's remnants failed to win, so they set fire to the palace gate, took Li Fang's head, and fled to the Wuyue Kingdom in Hangzhou.
After Li Fang was eradicated, Wang Jipeng appointed his two brothers, Wang Jiyan and Wang Jigong, to serve as governors of the Sixth Army.
