"When is the moon in spring flowers? How much do you know about the past? The small building was easterly again last night, and the old country was unbearable to look back on the moon! Carved fences and jade bricks should still exist, but Zhu Yan changed them. How much sadness can you have? Just like a river flowing eastward. " -"When is the spring flower and autumn moon?"
The above two famous poems were written by a monarch at the end of the Five Dynasties. This man has a natural vision and has been in charge of a big country for more than ten years. He was accompanied by two peerless beauties, absolutely beautiful. He is brilliant and has made great achievements in poetry and literature.
But he became the king of national subjugation, a prisoner and was called a coward.
This person is Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Li Yu was the last monarch in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he was the sixth son of Tang Zhongzong Excavate. It is said that Li Yu was born as a "heavy pupil" and was regarded as an important person.
Li Yu's literary talent is outstanding, and his poems, songs, calligraphy and painting have their own characteristics and are of high level.
Li Yu was accompanied by two peerless beauties, one after the big week and the other after the little week. These two are sisters and fall in love with the country.
It stands to reason that such a character should be happy, but Li Yu was eventually captured by the Song Dynasty, and the country perished. He himself was also called a coward by later generations.
What is the truth?
In the late Five Dynasties, Nantang was established in the southeast, and Li Bian, a martyr of Nantang, was established in 937. At that time, the Southern Tang Dynasty, including today's Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi and other regions, was the richest and most powerful regime after the Northern Zhou and Northern Song Dynasties.
In the post-Zhou Shizong-Chai Rong era, this regime suffered three heavy blows from Chai Rong, which was called "Three Signs of Southern Tang Dynasty" in history.
At that time, Li Jue's son, Li Jing, was the king, and the Southern Tang Dynasty lost its territory in Huainan and other battlefields, and was forced to make peace with the later Zhou Dynasty and pay tribute to it.
When Li Jing died, the national strength of Nantang had declined, and the whole country was shrouded in pessimism. Many people had planned to be unified by the Central Plains Dynasty.
Li Yu acceded to the throne in this case.
Li Yu took over a regime full of holes, but he did a lot of useful work after he acceded to the throne. He stabilized the morale of the army and tried to reform the economy. He selected a group of capable generals, which revived the confidence of Nantang. He also delayed the attack of the Northern Song Dynasty through diplomatic means, and won a breathing space for the Southern Tang Dynasty.
However, under the blow of Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin, Li Yu still failed. The disparity between national strength and military strength is irresistible to Li Yu.
In the end, the Southern Tang Dynasty was defeated, and Li Yu became a prisoner.
It should be said that Li Yu is not so outstanding as a monarch, but he is qualified. He is much better than a bad king like Liu Chan and a tyrant like Yang Guang. Li Yu was depressed after his capture and wrote many poems expressing his feelings. The first two famous poems were written by Li Yu after he was captured, which reflected his melancholy mood at that time.
After Zhao Kuangyin's death, his younger brother Zhao Guangyi acceded to the throne, and Li Yu died soon after.
History is always strikingly similar. One hundred years later, Song Huizong, the king of national subjugation in the Northern Song Dynasty, was also a monarch with outstanding literary talent and good at painting and calligraphy. He was also captured by the enemy and tortured.