Li Yi

Li Yi

Li Yao (October 27, 892 - March 26, 908), originally named Li Zuo, was born in Chang'an County, Jingzhao prefecture (now Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province). The last emperor of Tang Dynasty (from September 27, 904 to May 12, 907), the ninth son of Li Ye, Emperor Zhaozong of Tang Dynasty.

In the fourth year of qianning (897), he became king Hui. In the third year of Tianfu (903), he was granted the title of Kaifu Yitong third division and marshal of Zhudao army. In the first year of Tianyou (904), Tang Zhaozong was killed and formally ascended the throne. He became the puppet of Zhu Wen, a powerful minister. All political affairs were uncertain.

In the fourth year of Tianyou (907), he was abolished as king Jiyin and placed in Caozhou. Five years later, he was killed by poison and buried in Wenling. He was 16 years old and his posthumous title was AI. In the later Tang Dynasty, Emperor zhaoxuanguang was granted the title of emperor liexiao.

Life of the characters

Early experience

Li, whose first name was Li Zuo, was born in Chang'an Palace on September 3, the first year of Jingfu (September 27, 892). He was the ninth son of emperor Zhaozong of Tang Dynasty. In the fourth year of qianning (897), he was granted the title of King Hui. In February of the third year of Tianfu (903), he paid homage to Kaifu Yitong, the third division, and served as marshal of Zhudao army.

Inherit the throne

In August of the first year of Tianyou (904), Zhu Quanzhong sent his confidant Jiang xuanhui and others to Luoyang to kill Tang Zhaozong, his wife Li Jianrong and his wife Pei Zhenyi. The next day, Jiang xuanhui passed the imperial edict falsely, and made Li Zuo, the king of Hui, the crown prince, and changed his name to Li Yao. At noon, Prime Minister Liu can and Empress Dowager Dugu Xuan ordered that the crown prince could become emperor in front of Zhaozong's coffin. One day, at the age of 13, Li Yao ascended the throne. He was scared to death by Zhu Wen. He did not dare to set up a year's name. He used the year's name of Tang Zhaozong, Tianyou.

Zhu's self styled

Then, Ai Di conferred Zhu Quanzhong, who had already been king of Liang, as prime minister, general Bai Kui, and then became king of Wei. He served as marshal, Taiwei, zhongshuling, Xuanwu, Xuanyi, Tianping, national defense and other military officials to observe and deal with military affairs. His treatment was basically better than that of Xiao He, Prime Minister of the early Han Dynasty, and that of the late Han Dynasty Prime Minister Cao Cao. Zhu Quanzhong's status is the reappearance of the usurpation of power since the Han Dynasty, and his status is only one step away from the ninth five year plan.

Political initiatives

Emperor AI of the Tang Dynasty had no real power, and all political affairs were decided by Zhu Quanzhong. During his reign, there was no actual decree. Those imperial edicts issued in his name were actually dealt with according to Zhu Quanzhong's idea. The so-called "when the current political situation comes out, the thief officials can't be ruled by the emperor.".

During the reign of emperor AI of Tang Dynasty, there were only two things he advocated, but none of them succeeded.

One thing was that in September of the second year of Tianyou (905), in the name of the imperial edict, his nursing mother was granted the title of Zhaoyi and his wife. Among them, the nursing mother Yang was given the name of Zhaoyi, and the nursing mother Wang was granted the title of county lady. Another nursing mother, also surnamed Wang, was granted the title of county lady at the time of Zhaozong. She also planned to allow yang to change the title of county lady to Zhaoyi, which was objected by the prime minister. They thought: "since ancient times, there has been no precedent for the nursing mother to be granted the title of county lady. Later, it was against the code system to follow this example. At that time, when Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty granted the song's lactating mother the title of shanyangjun and the Wang's lactating mother the title of yewangjun, there was a lot of discussion in the court. The minister and others discussed that under the current situation, it is appropriate to seek the old rites, and hope to give Yang's as an Shengjun, Wang's as Fu Shengjun, and the second Wang's as Kang Shengjun. " Ai Di also had to comply.

The other is that in November of the second year of Tianyou (905), Emperor AI prepared to worship the heaven in his ancestral temple on the 19th. At that time, all the Yamen had made preparations for the ceremony, and the prime minister had gone down to the southern suburb altar to get familiar with the ceremony. However, Zhu Quanzhong was very unhappy when he heard that the ceremony was intended to extend the reign of the Tang Dynasty. The officials in charge of the meeting were very afraid, so they made an excuse to postpone the meeting.

The change of white horse

In June of the second year of Tianyou (905), Zhu Quanzhong, instigated by his cronies Li Zhen and Liu can, gathered more than 30 people from Pei Shu, Dugu Shu, Cui yuan and other imperial court to the white horse post beside the Yellow River, killed them all and threw their bodies into the river, creating an amazing "white horse change".

In December of the second year of Tianyou (905), Zhu Quanzhong executed Jiang xuanhui for falsely accusing Jiang xuanhui of "serving in Jishan Palace (the residence of Empress Dowager he) and vowing to prosper the Tang Dynasty with Liu can and Zhang Tingfan. He secretly ordered Jiang Yin and Zhao yinheng to hang empress dowager he in Jishan palace, and forced the emperor to issue an imperial edict saying that empress dowager he had committed suicide and wanted to be a commoner, The funeral of the Empress Dowager abolished the court for three days, and the new year's ceremony was abolished because of the scandal of the Empress Dowager's funeral and the palace. Soon, Liu can was demoted to death, and all his brothers were executed. Zhang Tingfan, the Minister of Taichang, was dismembered, and his accomplices were removed and given a number of names to the dead. Zhu Quanzhong is in power.

Forced to abdicate

In March of the fourth year of Tianyou (907), Emperor AI was forced by Zhu Quanzhong and his cronies to abdicate the throne to Zhu Quanzhong, so the flourishing Tang Dynasty was doomed.

Be poisoned to death

After the "Zen position" of emperor AI of Tang Dynasty, he was first demoted to King Jiyin and moved to Caozhou (now Heze, Shandong Province) north of Kaifeng. He was placed in the house of Zhu Quanzhong's trusted uncle Cong. Because Li Keyong in Taiyuan, Li Maozhen in Fengxiang and Wang Jian in Xichuan still respected Ai Di as the leader of the whole world, Zhu Quanzhong was disturbed by the existence of Ai Di, so on February 21 in the fifth year of Tianyou (the second year of Kaiping in Houliang Dynasty, 908), Zhu Wen sent people to Caozhou to poison Li. After his death, his posthumous title was Emperor AI, and he was buried in Dingtao township of Jiyin county (today's Dingtao County of Heze, Shandong Province).

Li Siyuan, the emperor of Ming Dynasty in the later Tang Dynasty, had a posthumous title of emperor zhaoxuanguang liexiao and planned to establish a temple. However, the officials of the later Tang Dynasty believed that he was founded by Zhu Wen, the usurper of the state, and his parents were also killed by Zhu Wen. He was also the king of subjugation, so he didn't give the temple name. Therefore, later generations called him "emperor AI of the Tang Dynasty" or "emperor Zhaoxuan of the Tang Dynasty".

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Historical evaluation

The old book of Tang Dynasty: when the emperor was mourning, the government was ruled by the evil clan. Although the order of bowing and yielding is similar to that of Shanyang, the power of bullying is superior to that of Hou Jing. Humanity is thin, Yin is hard to collect, but how can it last forever! Xun Hua was ordered to bow and yield. The benevolence is poor. Violence is short, righteousness is long. The disaster of Yu Bin is not the only one.

Biography of the emperor of China: after three years in office, he became the terminator of the Tang Dynasty. His short life is really sad.

Historical records

The 20th chapter of the book of the old Tang Dynasty

Emperor AI of Zhaozong

Chinese PinYin : Li Zhu