Although it is said to be a dynasty and a courtier, the lineup of the previous dynasty, many emperors, even if they will not continue to reuse, usually will not be exterminated.
But when it comes to the fierce and brutal people, there are not a few in the history of human warfare, and the seemingly arbitrary means of "pointing out deer as horses" and "releasing military power with a glass of wine" are simply much softer than their brutality.
Some people may fight for their own position or for their own ambitions. Unlike these people, others have stimulated their ferocious nature on the battlefield, and they are not good at communicating and reconciling in political means, but instead take simple and brutal measures that are one-size-fits-all.
In the 7-year-long turmoil of the peasant revolt at the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was an opportunist who stood out, and he was Zhu Wen, the Taizu of Later Liang.
Absurdity
And Zhu Wen this person does not have a good reputation in history, although he ended the 300 years of rule of the Tang Dynasty and opened the prelude to the 5 generations period, but as the first emperor of the 5th generation, "Later Liang Taizu", his personality is not very good.
Zhu Wen's original wife was called Zhang Hui, a wise and courteous person, but since his wife died of illness, Zhu Wen was like a beast that broke through the cage and began to act recklessly, and he was eager to take all the women in the world for himself.
Once, Zhu Wen came to the home of the chancellor Zhang Quanyi as a guest, and at the table, Zhu Wen suddenly felt that it was not interesting to drink and eat, so he asked the beautiful women in the palace to come out and dance for themselves.
After the banquet, Zhu Wen did not leave, but directly lived in the palace, and let all the women in Zhang Quanyi's family come to serve him, Zhang Quanyi's wife and daughter-in-law did not spare anyone, Zhu Wen stayed in Zhang Quanyi's mansion for more than ten days before leaving.
Zhu Wen did not even let go of his daughter-in-law, and what was even more shocking was that Zhu Wen's sons not only did not feel ashamed, but instead competed to sacrifice their wives, hoping to win Zhu Wen's favor and let their father pass the throne to himself.
The second is killing, which is recorded in the "History of the Old Five Dynasties": in a war, Zhu Wen killed more than 10,000 enemy troops and captured 3,000 people, and that night the wind was fierce, the sand and dust were all over the sky, and he could not open his eyes when he walked out of the camp tent.
Zhu Wen saw this phenomenon and thought that the heavens were blaming himself for killing too few people, so he quickly ordered someone to kill all 3,000 prisoners, and Zhu Wen also stipulated that they would die on the battlefield, and all his subordinates would be beheaded.
In the end, Zhu Wen died at the hands of his own son, ending his brutal and absurd life. And how did such a person who was as absurd and unscrupulous as Dong Zhuo get his origins?
The wicked have their way
In the turbulent years of the Tang Dynasty, he successively changed camps, and finally became the most powerful figure in the Tang Dynasty, after the elimination of Li Keyong, it was even more difficult for anyone to compete with him in the dprk, and even had the posture of "holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes".
After experiencing the devastation of the "Anshi Rebellion", the Tang Dynasty has been plunged into turbulent turmoil and finally completely perished, and the "division of the town" is the eternal nightmare of the Tang Dynasty.
Although the Tang Dynasty had two brief revivals during this period, for this century-old empire that had gone, it was as fleeting as a return to the light.
After Zhu Wen firmly took Luoyang into his hands, Li Ke formed an alliance against Zhu Wen with a cadre of other people, and they sent Tang Zhaozong back to Chang'an, hoping to make Zhu Wen fall into the whirlpool of public opinion.
But Tang Zhaozong's life when he returned to Chang'an was not good, and the eunuchs made him suffer so much that they even wanted Tang Zhaozong to step down, make others emperors, and imprisoned him in the Shaoyang Courtyard, putting him in chains, and only sending him some food every day through a small hole in the wall.
Later, Zhu Wen eliminated the eunuchs around Tang Zhaozong one by one, so that Tang Zhaozong's life in Chang'an was much better, and Tang Zhaozong was also deeply grateful for Zhu Wen's rescue, and he was also greatly rewarded, but where would he think that Zhu Wen was a wolf ambitious person, and he had long been worried about the Jiangshan in his hands.
Curse of Whitehorse
Zhu Wen feared that he would one day lose control of Tang Zhaozong and eventually killed the 38-year-old Tang Zhaozong in the palace. In order to cut the grass and remove the roots, Zhu Wen also ordered Jiang Xuanhui to set up a banquet at Jiuqu Pond, with the purpose of eradicating tang Zhaozong's 9 sons, and if there were 9 princes in the dynasty, it would inevitably become a stumbling block for Zhu Wen to achieve his ambition to become emperor.
Forced by the jealousy of Zhu Wen, the nine princes did not dare not go, they were all hanged by Jiang Xuanhui, the body was thrown into the pool, and what was even more frustrating was that 4 months later, Zhu Wen gathered more than thirty important ministers in Baima County, Huazhou under the guise of Tianzi, and killed them all, and all the bodies were thrown into the Yellow River, known in history as the "Disaster of White Horse County".
And Jiang Xuanhui did not end up with a good ending, and was given death by Zhu Wen, so that Zhu Wen firmly controlled the power of the DPRK, and the "Disaster of White Horse County" completely eliminated the last remnants of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Emperor was completely emptied and became a puppet emperor.
At this time, no one could stop Zhu Wen from usurping the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan, and Zhu Wen ended the Tang Empire for hundreds of years in the form of this massacre, and it was also a disaster for the Chinese scholar class at that time.
Although it has played some role in promoting the course of history, allowing the aristocracy to decline and the rise of readers, it has also brought China into the great turmoil of the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms".
brief summary:
As a ruler, it is absolutely impossible to adopt the policy of "having milk is a mother", and although Tang Zhaozong is facing a situation in which the water is in full swing, he should not reuse Zhu Wenwan, who is "absurd and boundless in nature", let alone let such a person hold great power.
Everyone's way of doing things is different, and the moral principles and bottom lines are also different. All kinds of indications show that Zhu Wen's level is not high, and there is no bottom line in being a person. In this way, the consequences of pinning hopes on such people are very bad and difficult to control.
The most inclined to safe handling ideas is to let the direction of things develop in the direction that they can relatively control, even if the situation is passive, but if they temporarily save themselves, there is still a certain possibility of overturning.
But some people are destined to never be able to control it, so don't let him have a chance to grasp the situation, otherwise it is not as simple as letting the situation lose stability, it is doomed to be a defeat.