What was the situation like in the Southern Tang Dynasty when Li Yu first ascended the throne?

There are Southern Han and Northern Song Dynasties

The country is weak and political corruption~

Li Yu’s father left him a country where Li Yu did not know how to govern at all, he only knew how to recite poems and appreciate them.

After the Song army destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty in 971, Li Yu changed his title to the Lord of Jiangnan in order to show that he would not fight against the Song Dynasty and became a vassal to the Song Dynasty.

In 973, when Song Taizu ordered Li Yu to go to Kaifeng, he refused to go because of illness. Song Taizu sent Cao Bin to lead the army to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty.

In 975, Cao Bin captured Jinling and the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed. Li Yu reigned for fifteen years and was known as the Empress Li and the Empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

After Li Yu was captured in 975, he was granted the title of Disobedient Marquis in Kaifeng and worshiped General Zuo Qianniuwei.