History of southern Tang dynasty

After the Anshi Rebellion, many uncontrolled buffer regions appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Although the buffer region was generally obedient in Tang Xianzong's period, until the middle and late Tang Dynasty, due to eunuch dictatorship and party struggle, Tang Ting still could not eradicate the problem of buffer region. Because Hebei was controlled by the buffer region and the Central Plains suffered from war, Tang Ting relied heavily on the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River. However, the Jiangnan area was destroyed in Pang Xun's Rebellion and Huang Chao's Rebellion, which seriously affected the economic income of the imperial court, and the Tang Dynasty gradually came to an end. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were three important buffer regions: Li Shatuo (formerly known as Zhu Xiechi Xin), who was appointed as our envoy to Hedong because of his meritorious service in quelling the rebellion, and his resident was Taiyuan; Zhu Quanzhong (formerly known as Zhu Wen), the former Ministry of Huang Chao, was named Xuanwu Army to govern Bianzhou (now Kaifeng, Henan) for his meritorious service in quelling chaos. Li, our envoy from Fengxiang, our envoy from the National Defence Army and our envoy from Zhenguo Army are powerful and often threaten us. After the Huang Chao rebellion was pacified, Huang Chao surrendered to Qin Zongquan, led the troops to attack, plundered the Central Plains, and once captured the East Capital (now Luoyang, Henan), resulting in a situation of "thousands of miles away, no fireworks". Chaos spread to the south of Huaihe River, and local heroes turned against the enemy and established Wu and Chu in ten countries. It was not until Tang Zhaozong's efforts in Zhu Quanzhong that the rebellion in Qin Zongquan was put down.

Liang (Zhu Quanzhong), Jin (Li Keyong) and Qi (Li) influenced the politics in the late Tang Dynasty and the early Five Dynasties, while Li Keyong's descendants and subordinates became the monarchs in the later Tang Dynasty, the later Jin Dynasty, the later Han Dynasty and the later Zhou Dynasty. Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong had a dispute for some reason, and the two sides fought from the imperial court to the buffer region. Use the power of North Korea to suppress Li Keyong, use the competition between Li Keyong and Li, subdue all the buffer regions in Hebei, and annex the territory of the national defense army, the military and other our troops. Territorial expansion makes Zhu Quanzhong far more powerful than Li Keyong. Although Li threatened Guanzhong, he failed because of Li Keyong's interference. After he ascended the throne in 888 AD, Prime Minister Cui Yin and eunuch Han fought for power and profit. Imprisoned by eunuch Han, Cui Yin urgently called for assistance. While Han forced Li to take refuge, he led an army to besiege Fengxiang. In the second year, Fengxiang army ran out of food and grass, so Li had to kill eunuch Han and others to make peace. Zhu Quanzhong took the opportunity to control the power of North Korea, slaughtered hundreds of eunuchs and sent troops to control Chang 'an. Cui Yin regretted it, deliberately got rid of the threat of Zhu Quanzhong, secretly recruited 12 guards from the Sixth Army, and was caught by Zhu Quanzhong's eyeliner in Chang 'an. In 904, Zhu Quanzhong killed Cui Yin and forced Tang Zhaozong to move to Luoyang. In August of the same year, he killed the emperor and made Li Zhu, the son of Zhao Zong, emperor, namely Tang Aidi. Zhu Quanzhong wants to wait until reunification before taking the throne. However, due to the defeat of Huainan, Tang Aidi was forced to meditate in 907. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Du Liang was opened (Bianzhou was promoted to Kaifeng). After the demise of the Tang Dynasty, China entered the great division period of15th generation 10 country. At the end of the Tang dynasty, there was chaos in the world, and the princes fought in a scuffle. Among them, Huainan Town controlled by Yang Xingmi is the most powerful buffer zone in the south of the Yangtze River. However, after his son, Young Voss, came to power, politics was chaotic and people's hearts were unstable. General Xu Wen gradually came to power for 20 years through power struggle. In the meantime, although Yang was the king of a country, he was called Yang Wu in history. It's just a puppet under Xu's control In 927 AD, Xu Wen died, and his adopted son Xu Zhimo succeeded to the throne, holding the real power of Yang Wu, who was the great prime minister and king of Qi. In the same year, Wu Zhu Yang Pu proclaimed himself emperor, but the real power was still in Xu's hands. On the one hand, Xu Zhimo tried his best to be gentle with Yang Laochen, saying "to be in a high position and respect the elderly"; On the other hand, actively support their own forces. Vigorously attract and reward northern scholars.

In the future, famous northerners in the Southern Tang regime, such as Han Xizai, Chang, Ma, Wang Yanzhu,,, and Jiang, all gathered around Xu at this time. Secondly, Song, Cha, Feng, Bian Gao, You Jianyan, He Jingtu and other Jiangnan celebrities were also promoted by Xu Zhimo at this time. After 10 years of painstaking efforts, Xu Zhimo not only won the support of Yang Jiuchen, but also contacted the two major forces of northerners and Jiangnan people. The so-called "wings are big and support is great." Finally, in the third year of Wu Tianzuo (AD 937), Xu Zhi deposed Wu Pu and ascended the throne, with the title of Daqi and Yuan. "Obedience from top to bottom, everyone means the same thing", "No change of surname". The following year, Xu Zhimo changed his name to Li Bian and changed Jinling House to jiangning house, with the house as the palace and the city as the capital. Jinling, its capital, and Yangzhou, its eastern capital, were renamed Tang, which is called Nantang in history. From then on, in troubled times, Nan Tang, who inherited Tang Zuo and sought to unify the whole country, stepped onto the historical stage of China.

After the founding of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Bian, a valiant soldier, took the protection of territory and people's safety as the basic national policy, called a truce and made peace, established a good-neighborly country, and maintained relatively peaceful relations with neighboring countries. At the same time, the Khitan was settled to contain the Central Plains regime. So the Jiangnan region maintained peace for a long time, and social production gradually recovered and developed rapidly. At the same time, the government is frivolous, persuading farmers and encouraging business. Merchants exchanged tea and silk with the Central Plains for sheep and horses, and then traded with Qidan by sea. In handicraft industry, Nantang has made outstanding achievements in textile industry, printing and dyeing industry, mining and metallurgy industry, tea making, paper making, salt drying, shipbuilding, gold and silver ceramics and stationery manufacturing. Not only the output is high, but also the technology is fine, and many famous products and top grades have emerged.

The ancestors' national policy of "stopping the soldiers and protecting the people" created a peaceful and stable social environment in the Jianghuai area and promoted the economic and cultural prosperity of the Southern Tang Dynasty. At the same time, Southern Tang Dynasty is also an art dynasty, which has made outstanding achievements in literature, art, calligraphy and music. Li Bian set up imperial academy, promoted imperial examinations, and widely built academies and painting academies. The stable and prosperous Southern Tang Dynasty has become an ideal place for literati and officialdom who have suffered from the vicissitudes of war. Scholars in the north of the Yangtze River live here, where "Confucian clothes and book clothes flourish in the southern Tang Dynasty" and "cultural relics have the wind of harmony". "The natives in the north are moved by the wind, and there is no day." The prosperity of social culture in Southern Tang Dynasty is unique among all separatist regimes in the history of Five Dynasties, Ten Countries and even China. Militarily, Li bian insisted on self-defense, because when the time was ripe, the Central Plains would not be restrained by neighboring countries and would not quarrel with them easily. In the seventh year of Shengyuan (AD 943), Li Bian, the fierce ancestor, died, and his son Li Jing (first named Jing Tong) succeeded to the throne and was renamed Li Jing (AD 9 16 ~ 96 1), that is, Yuan Zong in the southern Tang Dynasty, with three titles: Baoda, Zhongxing and Jiaotai. During this period, there were frequent wars between the Southern Tang Dynasty and wuyue, and Wu Yueguo's military actions often echoed the Central Plains regime. In order to deal with wuyue, in the third year of Baoda (AD 945), Nantang took advantage of the civil strife in Fujian to send troops to occupy Jian 'an (now Jian 'ou, Fujian), Ting (now Changting, Fujian) and Zhang (now Fujian), destroy Fujian and capture the king of Fujian alive. The five mountains are surrounded on three sides. Wu Yueguo also took advantage of the situation and sent his troops to compete with the Southern Tang Dynasty for the land of Fujian and win Fuzhou (now Fujian). In the seventh year of Baoda University, Huaibei was in a chaotic season of alternating Jin and Han dynasties. Excavate saw that the situation was not good, and sent Huangfuhui to the sea and Sizhou to recruit refugees from various powerful armed forces and wars. In the ninth year of Baoda, Ma Xiyue met Ma Xi, and Nan Tang took the opportunity to make a fortune, killing the horse in one fell swoop, and Ma Xichong surrendered. Later, Chu and Ada defeated Tang Jun together, and Ada was killed by his men. Zhou Xingfeng and his son Zhou Baoquan ruled Hunan successively, and Chu lost ground.

From the 13th year of Baoda (AD 955) to the first year of Jiaotai (AD 958), the Northern Zhou regime invaded Nantang three times, and Nantang was always in a disadvantageous situation of passive defense. Shouzhou World War I, Chai Rong uses personal expedition, Zhou Jun sweeping, then captured Si, Hao, Chu and other States, Tang Jun collapsed thousands of miles, the Huaihe River water army was wiped out. Excavate's biography of Chai Rong by invitation is located in Hongji, Prince. Please take the river as the boundary. The Southern Tang Dynasty dedicated all the land in Jiangbei, including fourteen states in Huainan and two counties in Ezhou in Jiangbei. At the same time, in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhou Zhengshuo was respected and his calendar was used. In order to avoid the sharp edge of the later Zhou Dynasty, Li Jing moved the capital to Hongzhou, calling it Nanchang (now Jiangxi) House. Since then, the national strength of Datang has been greatly damaged, and it is no longer strong in the past. After the song dynasty destroyed the southern Han dynasty, the southern Tang dynasty was placed among the three bread countries. Li Yu surrendered openly and prepared for war in secret in order to protect himself. At the same time, he sent messengers to the Song Dynasty to be sealed by the policy, and stationed troops at various points in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to prevent attacks. In September of the 7th year of Song Kaibao (AD 974), Zhao Kuangyin resigned after Li Yu refused to go to the DPRK, and sent more than 65,438+ten thousand troops to attack Nantang in three ways. On the east road, Wu was appointed as the battalion commander of the southeast camp in Zhangzhou, led tens of thousands of Hangzhou soldiers to the north to coordinate, and sent Ding Deyu to supervise the army. Cao Bin in the middle road and Pan Mei, the governor, led a water army of 654.38+ 10,000, advancing eastward along the river from Jiangling (now Jiangling, Hubei); Wang Mingwei Pool, Yuejiang Road Inspection and Station Dam on West Road are all deployed to contain Tang Jun at Hukou and ensure the main force to advance eastward. Li Yu, the late ruler, relied too much on the natural barrier of the Yangtze River and missed the opportunity to use Song Jun to counterattack crossing the river. /kloc-in October, Song Jun successfully crossed the Yangtze River. Quarrying, Qinhuai River, Wankou three wars, Nantang repeatedly defeated, the elite troops in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River lost.

In March of the eighth year of Kaibao, Song Jun arrived at the gates of Jinling. In June, Wu Yuejun captured Runzhou, the gateway east of Jinling. Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, fell into a tight encirclement, and the late Lord urgently called foreign troops to rescue Jinling. However, all this is too late. 10, 15 Wan Shuijun, led by Zhu Lingyun, who arrived in Jinling from Jiangxi, was almost wiped out in Hukou World War I, and Jinling's foreign aid was completely cut off, making it an isolated city. Then the Lord insisted on defending the city to the end. Jinling, besieged on all sides, is short of food and grass and has low morale. 1 1 month 12, Cao Bin's army in the northern song dynasty began to attack the city from three sides, and 5000 soldiers in the southern Tang dynasty raided the northern village of Song Jun at night, but failed. 27, Li Yufeng Song Jun city table to surrender. Southern Tang Dynasty died.

More than two years later, Qian Chu, King of Wu Yue, went to Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, at the invitation of Zhao Guangyi, Song Taizong, and was forced to take over the Song Dynasty. wuyue died. The history of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms has finally come to an end.