Yang Fugong
PoliticsHe had meritorious service in supporting Zhaozong and claimed to be the "Lao of the State of Dingce". He adopted sons to take charge of various towns. He lost power and ran away in 891, and was captured and killed in 894.
Dynasties of ChinaTang dynastyTang dynasty lineage
ZhaozongLi Ye
Longji and others · Reign 888—904
He was determined to recover but had no way to recover. He was kidnapped and deposed by eunuchs and feudal lords, and was finally killed by Zhu Wen.
IBiography
- Reign
- 16 years
- Reign era
- Longji and others
- Order of accession
- Ruler #21 · Tang dynasty lineage
- Life dates
- 867—904
- Titles
- Temple name: Zhaozong · Posthumous title: Emperor Shengmujingwenxiao · Buried at Heling Mausoleum
Li Ye, whose original name was Li Jie, was the seventh son of Yizong and the same mother-brother of Xizong. He was granted the title of Shou Wang. He once took refuge in Shu with Xizong. Xizong died of illness in 888, and the eunuch Yang Fugong supported him as the emperor's younger brother and ascended the throne. He was handsome in appearance, fond of literature, and had the ambition to restore the former martyrs. After he came to the throne, he respected ministers and tried to get rid of the control of eunuchs and restore the authority of the court.
But at this time, the imperial court had no strength, and his campaigns against Li Keyong in Hedong and Li Maozhen in Fengxiang failed miserably. Instead, he was repeatedly violated by the Guanzhong vassal town. He fled twice, was hijacked by Han Jian in Huazhou, and all the clan kings were massacred. In 900, the eunuch Liu Jishu deposed him from confinement. After his restoration the following year, he was kidnapped and taken to Fengxiang by the eunuch Han Quanjie. Chief minister Cui Yin summoned Zhu Quanzhong, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu, to besiege Fengxiang. In 903, he welcomed Zhaozong back. Zhu Quanzhong took the opportunity to kill all the eunuchs, and the government fell into his hands.
In the first month of 904, Zhu Quanzhong forced Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang and demolished the palaces and residences in Chang'an. Chang'an was no longer the capital. In August, Zhu Quanzhong sent people to kill Zhaozong in Luoyang Palace and made his young son Li Zhu emperor, which was just one step away from usurping the Tang Dynasty. Zhaozong was 38 years old and was buried in Heling (now Yanshi, Henan).
Zhaozong was smart and ambitious, and was determined to revitalize the royal family when he came to the throne. However, Tang Dynasty had lost military and financial power by this time. He was eager for success and used the weak imperial army to attack the powerful vassal. He suffered repeated defeats, which ruined the court's prestige. He first relied on eunuchs and then borrowed vassal towns to balance him, and finally lured the wolf into the house, and he himself died tragically at the hands of Zhu Quanzhong. His tragedy was the result of the interaction between the two chronic diseases of eunuchs and feudal lords in the late Tang Dynasty.
IITimeline
During the reign · 888—904
PoliticsThe eunuchs supported him
In March, Xizong was critically ill, and most of the ministers preferred the elder Ji Wang Li Bao, while the eunuch Yang Fugong supported the longevity king Li Jie as the crown prince. After Xizong's death, he ascended the throne and later changed his name to Li Ye.
MilitaryThe crusade against Li Keyong failed
Zhaozong followed the advice of chief minister Zhang Jun and others and attacked Li Keyong in Hedong to establish the prestige of the court. As a result, the army was defeated. The following year, he was forced to restore Li Keyong's official title and denounced Zhang Jun. The prestige of the court was ruined.
PoliticsExpulsion Yang Fugong
Zhaozong was dissatisfied with Yang Fugong's tyranny and forced him to become an official. Yang Fugong fled to Xingyuan and fought against his adopted son Yang Shouliang, the governor of Shannanxi Road. After his defeat, he was captured and executed by Han Jian of Huazhou on his way to Li Keyong in 894.
PoliticsYang Xingmi occupied Huainan
After five years of melee, Yang Xingmi defeated Sun Ru, reoccupied Yangzhou, and was appointed as the military governor of Huainan. He encouraged the exiles, engaged in light corvee and paid little tax, and the Jianghuai area gradually recovered, laying the foundation for the future state of Wu.
MilitaryThe fight against Fengxiang failed miserably
Zhaozong was unwilling to be threatened by Li Maozhen, the military envoy of Fengxiang, and led the imperial army to attack with Li Sizhou, the king of Qin. In September, the official army collapsed at the first touch in Yuxi. Li Maozhen came to the capital, and Zhaozong was forced to kill Du Rangneng, the chief minister in charge of the matter.
MilitaryThe three towns are in trouble
In the fifth month, Maozhen, Wang Xingyu of Xingning, and Han Jian of Zhenguo led their troops to Beijing. They killed the chief ministers Wei Zhaodu and Li Wei in an attempt to abolish the establishment. Li Keyong raised troops to serve the king, and Zhaozong fled to Nanshan for a time. At the end of the year, Wang Xingyu was defeated and killed.
PoliticsSubject to Huazhou
Li Maozhen invaded Chang'an again, Zhaozong fled to Huazhou to rely on Han Jian, and the palaces in Chang'an were burned and looted again. Han Jian disbanded the imperial army, falsely accused the kings of rebellion in 897, and killed eleven kings below Tong Wang. Zhaozong was unable to stop him, and returned to Chang'an in 898.
CultureLyrics written by Qi Yunlou
Zhaozong climbed the Qiyun Tower in Huazhou and looked west to Chang'an, and wrote the poem "Bodhisattva Man". There is a line of "And there are heroes, welcome back to the inner city". The emperor and his ministers wept relative to each other, which is a sad work among the emperor's poems.
PoliticsLiu Jishu abolished the establishment
In November, the eunuchs Liu Jishu and Wang Zhongxian launched a coup and imprisoned Zhaozong in Shaoyang Yuan. The gate of the courtyard was sealed with molten iron, and only holes were made in the wall to deliver food. Crown Prince Li Yu was made emperor instead.
PoliticsReset and hijacked
In the first month of the first month, Sun Dezhao, the general of the Shence Army, and others killed Liu Jishu and Wang Zhongxian, Zhaozong was restored to power, and Yuan Tianfu was restored. In November, the eunuch Han Quanzhong summoned Zhu Quanzhong to the capital because of chief minister Cui Yin. He kidnapped Zhu Quanzhong and defected to Fengxiang Li Maozhen.
PoliticsThe heroes split the earth and sealed the king
The imperial court was unable to restrain various places, so it could only win over them by granting kings: in 902, Yang Xingmi of Huainan was granted the title of King of Wu, Zhenhai Qian Liu was granted the title of King Yue, and in 903, Wang Jian of Xichuan was granted the title of King of Shu. These separatist forces later developed into Wu, Wu Yue and Qian Shu among the Ten Kingdoms.
MilitarySiege of Fengxiang
Zhu Quanzhong led his army to besiege Fengxiang for more than a year. The city ran out of food and people ate each other. Zhaozong could only set up a small mill in the palace to grind wheat for food. In the first month of 903, Maozhen was forced to kill Han Quanhui and other eunuchs and hand over Zhaozong.
PoliticsExecute all eunuchs
After Zhaozong returned to Chang'an, Zhu Quanzhong and Cui Yin killed more than 700 eunuchs in the palace, and ordered all eunuchs who served as supervisors of the army to be executed. The eunuch power that had been in power for more than a hundred years since the An Lushan Rebellion was completely eliminated.
PoliticsMoved the capital to Luoyang
In the first month of the first month, Zhu Quanzhong killed chief minister Cui Yin, forced Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang, and drove the residents of Chang'an to accompany him. The palaces, official offices and residences of Chang'an were demolished, and the timber drifted down the Weishui River and the Yellow River to Luoyang. The thousand-year-old capital was reduced to ruins.
Lasting legacyHan Jian, who stayed in Chang'an, then reduced and built Chang'an City based on the original imperial city. The present Ming City Wall of Xi'an was expanded on this basis.
PoliticsLuoyang encounters murder
In August, Zhu Quanzhong sent Jiang Xuanhui, Zhu Yougong, and Shi Shucong to lead troops into Luoyang Palace at night. Zhaozong escaped around the pillars and was killed in the Jiao Palace. Zhaoyi and Li Jianrong defended him and were also killed. Afterwards, Zhu Quanzhong pretended to cry bitterly and killed Zhu Yougong and Shi Shucong to block the population.
IIIPeople of this reign
Du Rangneng
PoliticsLoyal, sincere and talented, he once traveled with Xizong to protect him. In 893, Zhaozong insisted on attacking Li Maozhen, but he was ordered to preside over it even though he knew it was impossible. After the defeat, he was sentenced to death to thank the vassal town.
Cui Yin
PoliticsHe paid homage to the prime minister many times and advocated the execution of the eunuchs, even leading Zhu Quanzhong to enter the Pass. He was eventually killed by Zhu Quanzhong.
Li Maozhen
MilitaryHis real name was Song Wentong, and he was given the given name Li Maozhen. He controlled the western part of Guanzhong for a long time, repeatedly invaded and held the court hostage, and later became the king of Qi and separatized Fengxiang.
Han Jian
MilitaryAccording to Huazhou, he held Zhaozong hostage for nearly two years and killed eleven kings of the clan. He later surrendered to Zhu Quanzhong and stayed in Chang'an to build Chang'an City.
Zhu Quanzhong
MilitaryThat is, Zhu Wen used Bianzhou as his base to annex towns in the Central Plains. In 903, he killed the eunuchs and took control of the court. In 904, he killed Zhaozong.
Li Keyong
MilitaryAccording to Hedong's confrontation with Zhu Quanzhong, King Qin defeated Wang Xingyu in 895 and was awarded the title of King of Jin.
Hehuanghou
ConsortsFollowing Zhaozong through many ups and downs, Zhaozong was revered as the empress dowager after being murdered, and was killed by Zhu Quanzhong in 905.