"Sir, it's not good, Mianzhou is in chaos."

"His grandma, I've only been a few days after my birthday, and I'm here again. Have you found out clearly? It's really messy?" A man who described his vulgarity and looks like an officer seemed to be a little unbelievable about this news.

"Sir, it's true. Judging from all the signs, this person is likely to be a descendant of Li Shun, the King of Great Shu."

"real?"

The whole thing goes back more than a hundred years ago. In the second year of Gande (964), on a night with snowflakes flying all over the sky, Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin suddenly came to the home of Prime Minister Zhao Pu. Zhao Pu's wife could cook good dishes, and Zhao Kuangyin often went to Zhao's house without saying hello at night, called him to eat the barbecue made by Zhao's wife, and affectionately called Zhao's wife "sister-in-law". Of course, eating barbecue is just an excuse, and the emperor actually wanted to be at the table. He discussed state affairs with Zhao Pu, so Zhao Pu did not dare to change his court robes easily after going to court, so as not to stop the emperor from coming suddenly and losing his manners before changing his clothes. But it was too late at night and it was snowing outside. Zhao Pu felt that the emperor would not go out, and was about to change his clothes and go to bed. Suddenly, he heard a knock on the door and ran out hurriedly. Zhao Kuangyin stood in the wind and snow with an excited look on his face. Zhao Pu hurriedly greeted him. Zhao Kuangyin smiled and said, "I have asked the King of Jin to come with him."

Soon after, the emperor's brother, Zhao Guangyi, King of Jin, rode a horse. The three of them set up mats on the ground, sat on the ground, roasted pork with charcoal, and Zhao's wife personally served and poured wine. When the wine was in full swing, Zhao Kuangyin proposed to pacify the Northern Han regime that dominated Taiyuan. Zhao Pu said: "Taiyuan should be from both north and south. If our army goes to Taiyuan, our border troubles will be the only one. According to my advice, it is better to conquer other countries first and wait for the countries to pacify, Taiyuan is a small land, and you can get it." I mean, if Taiyuan is captured, our dynasty will directly border the Liao Kingdom, and the border troubles will be a big problem, or should we pacify the Central Plains first. Zhao Kuangyin laughed and said, "The heroes have similar views! I just tried Zhao Qing just now." He asked, "Where did Zhao Qing think he wants to pacify other countries?" Zhao Pu said, "Shu." Zhao Kuangyin nodded and praised him for his goodness, and Zhao Guangyi also agreed. So, the strategy of pacifying Shu was settled in tobacco, wine and barbecue.

After Shu Emperor Meng Chang was the Emperor Taiping Emperor for nearly 30 years. After receiving the news that Zhao Kuangyin wanted to attack Hou Shu, Wang Zhaoyuan, the head of the Privy Council, who was in charge of military and political affairs, was arrogant and often said, "There is me in the Later Shu Kingdom, just like Zhuge Liang, the Marquis of Wu of Shu Kingdom." Since he compared himself to Zhuge Liang, he was of course unwilling to surrender and seek peace. He offered advice: "Instead of asking for peace and complying with the Northern Han Dynasty, it is better to join forces with the Northern Han Dynasty, attack Zhao Kuangyin and order him to return to the Central Plains." Meng Chang was also unwilling to bow to the Zhao family, so he agreed to Wang Zhaoyuan's proposal and sent Zhao Yantao, Sun Yu, Yang Qiang and others to carry letters of wax pills to the north, "Appoint a letter from the Northern Han River and raise troops to Bian", preparing to contact the Northern Han Dynasty and work together to jointly The envoy who did not want to send a message to the Wei Dynasty. Seeing that Zhao was powerful, he decided to surrender as soon as possible. He came directly to Bianjing and presented the wax book to Zhao Kuangyin, which just gave Zhao a pretext to send troops. Zhao Kuangyin clapped his hands and laughed, "I am famous for exploring the west." He also ordered Zhao Yantao and others to conquer the mountains and rivers in Shu, guard the places, and the roads were far and near, and to draw detailed drawings. So Zhao Kuangyin appointed Wang Quanbin, the governor of Zhongwu, to deploy the capital of Xichuan camp, Wang Renshan and Cao Bin, and led the infantry and cavalry of 60,000 people, to attack Later Shu in different ways. Wang Quanbin was the guard who accompanied Li Cunxu, the Emperor Zhuang of Later Tang, to walk through the last moment of his life. He was greedy and lustful, cruel and killing.

When the Shu lord Meng Chang heard that the Zhao army was approaching, he panicked and hurriedly summoned Wang Zhaoyuan to ask for advice. Before Wang Zhaoyuan arrived, Meng Chang's mother, Empress Dowager Li, advised: "Wang Zhaoyuan is not yet accustomed to military affairs, and is arrogant and ambitious. He is afraid that his words will be misleading. Now the Zhao family came from the east and north to make military affairs, and decides military affairs, and is related to life and death. Why should Wang Zhaoyuan ask about this? I heard that when my father said, there is Gao Yanqiu, a general in Shu who has talent and strategy, who is upright and has made him surrender. Now the national affairs are in critical condition, and it is enough to promote him to complete Shu. Otherwise, he should also summon a business to countermeasures."

Meng Chang was unwilling to obey his mother's advice. After Wang Zhaoyuan arrived, he appointed him as the commander on the spot and led his troops to resist the battle. When he left Chengdu, Wang Zhaoyuan held the iron Ruyi in his hand, learned from Zhuge Liang's demeanor, and laughed with his arms and said, "I'm not just about defeating the enemy in this trip. I should lead these 20,000 evil kids on the faces, and seize the Central Plains easily!"

In December of the second year of Gande (964), Wang Quanbin led the Northern Army from Fengzhou to attack Shu, and the Shu army retreated step by step. Wang Quanbin was as powerful as a rock and killed the soldiers and civilians of Shu along the way, intending to establish his authority with blood. Soon, the main force of the Later Shu army was annihilated at Jianmen. The commander Wang Zhaoyuan abandoned his armor and fled, hiding in the warehouse of the people, and kept reciting Luo Yin's poem "Heroes Going Away Away" in his mouth. As a result, this self-pretentious "Zhuge Reborn" was soon captured by the guards and became a prisoner.

Meng Chang in the deep palace of Chengdu was still immersed in the gentle village of his favorite concubine Huarui, Mrs. Fei. He believed that the road to Shu was dangerous and far away, easy to defend but difficult to attack. As Wang Zhaoyuan was in a row, the guards would definitely return without success. When he learned that the guards were about to come to the city, he woke up like a dream and gathered all the ministers, but none of them had the plan to retreat to the enemy. So he ordered Prime Minister Li Hao to draft a surrender. After Li Hao claimed to be the famous prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, when Wang Yan of the Former Shu was destroyed, the surrender letter was also planned by this Li Xianggong. When Shu was destroyed, Li Hao caught his sword again. That night, someone wrote a few big words on the gate of Li Hao's mansion: "The world's cultivation surrendered to the Li family." Everyone laughed at him.

Soon, the Zhao army arrived at Chengdu Shengxian Bridge. The commander Wang Quanbin heard that Mrs. Huarui was a beauty in the world, with ice and jade bones, beautiful and beautiful. She was proficient in poetry and talent and appearance, so she asked for the person. Meng Chang could surrender and sacrifice his country, but could not do the ugly thing of giving his wife to others. This was a great humiliation for a man, so he hesitated. Wang Quanbin was determined to win Mrs. Huarui, claiming that if he did not send her to the Fei family, he would raise troops to massacre the city. At the critical moment, Cao Bin, the deputy commander of the Zhao army, arrived, and Xuan After reading the imperial edict of Emperor Zhao Kuangyin of Taizu, he announced the preferential treatment of Meng Chang and his family. Wang Quanbin had to give up in disappointment. So Meng Chang officially prepared the ceremony of Qi's destruction, knelt at the military gate, and sent a surrender. From the official dispatch of troops to Meng Chang's surrender, it was a total of 66 days. Among the Shu ministers, only Gao Yanqi, who was strongly recommended by Empress Dowager Li, refused to surrender and burned himself to sacrifice his country. Soon, Meng Chang's family was taken to Bian Jing. When Meng's reign was in power, the whole Shu was prosperous and peaceful, "helping the old woman and loving him." He was deeply loved by the people. When he left Shu, all the people hugged the road, and the cries moved. Hundreds of people along the way were crying. Meng Chang also raised his sleeves and covered his face and cried. He knew that his power was inevitable, so he secretly sent a pregnant palace man to escape, praying that the palace man would give birth to a son in the future and save some blood for the Meng family. After the captives of Later Shu were taken to the capital Bianjing, the official family held a grand prisoner ceremony. Meng Chang and his party dressed in white and knelt outside Mingde Gate to wait for punishment. Wait until these people were watched by the soldiers and civilians of Bianjing. After insulting, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to release the crime, granted Meng Chang a crown, robbed her, and appointed him as Duke of Qin. Seven days later, Meng Chang died suddenly at home, and the cause of death was extremely suspicious. His mother, Li, did not cry, but also poured wine and dumped the land, and told her son in front of her spirit: "You cannot die in the country, and you are greedy for life and have to be ashamed today. The reason why I endured humiliation and lived secretly is because you are still here. Now you are dead, so why should I live now?" After a few days of hunger strike, the subjects of the deceased country in the Later Shu were like dogs with a family loss, and were frightened all day long.

Mrs. Huarui, who is so beautiful and beautiful, was taken into the palace by Zhao Kuangyin. It is widely rumored that Zhao Kuangyin intended to poison Meng Chang to the advantage of taking over Mrs. Huarui. Zhao Kuangyin ordered her to recite poems impromptu because she had heard about Mrs. Huarui's talent for a long time. Zhao Kuangyin ordered her to recite poems impromptu because she had heard about Mrs. Huarui's talent for a long time. Mrs. Huarui pondered for a moment and chanted:

There are trees and flags on the King's City. Where can I know that I am in the deep palace? Fourteen thousand people are disarming, and none of them are men.

After Empress Dowager Li died, Taizu ordered the gifts from others, and ordered the Honglu Fan Yu, the Minister of Rites, to take care of the funeral, and buried him in Luoyang with Meng Chang. After the funeral, Meng Chang's family still returned to Biandu and could not help but enter the palace to thank him. Taizu saw Mrs. Huarui, and her body was covered in white, and she looked more and more beautiful and beautiful. She was still standing in the palace at night and forced her to serve the banquet. Mrs. Huarui was unable to control her, so she had to follow her orders and drink several cups.

The face on the clouds, Taizu loved her more and more and more and more greedy her, so he simply carried her into the curtain and went to the balcony to have fun in the evening. He would not need to be detailed. The next day, he was enthroned as a concubine. This lady of Huali, the daughter of Xu Kuangzhang, nicknamed Huali, was nothing more than because of her delicate state, as if she was similar to the Hualili, and her tender stalks were fragrant, so she couldn't stop her butterfly. She was very dear to Meng Chang, but this time she was forced to dominate the power and insisted on the rain and dew. However, she always remembered Meng Chang in her heart, so she painted it with her hand.

Chang's statue was worshipped early and evening, and only entrusted that he was worshipping Zhang Xian, and praying to him, so he could be a man. A group of concubines in the palace wanted to give birth to a boy and hugged him, so they still asked for painting. The fragrant flowers were bowed to him. Commonly known as Zhang Xian's son, it was fabricated by this lady Huarui. As the saying goes, "A foolish woman is unfaithful to the man." How could the emperor of the world die to a woman? Song's eldest daughter, Song's daughter, Ko Fangnian, Furong

Her smile and look very beautiful, and her temperament is very gentle. After entering the palace, she is very good at pleasing Taizu. After that, Taizu's love gradually moved to the Song girl. Lady Huarui became resentful because of grief, and became sick because of resentment. She ended up with water and flowers falling, and the fragrance disappeared. Taizu was nostalgic for the old love, and couldn't help but cry and ordered to be buried with the imperial concubine's ceremony. Later, the situation changed and she gradually forgot about it. This was the tragic ending of Lady Huarui.

After Meng Chang lost his country, he died suddenly by poisoning. His beloved concubine was taken away by his enemies, but he did not end the disaster in Shu. The change of dynasty and the change of power brought great shock to this area. Wang Quanbin, the general who occupied Later Shu, regarded himself as conquerors and victories, and robbed children and robbed their children at will. Some people who resisted and refused to follow were cut off their breasts in the street. This series of misconduct caused great chaos, and the Shu area was in a state of chaos, and robbed the people. Only Cao Bin, a unit of military discipline, did not cause any major harm to the people. Wang Quanbin was corrupt and abused the law, extorted the people and enriched the people, and even deducted the Sichuan capital that surrendered to the Shu soldiers. The Shu soldiers were furious when they heard the news and elected the Later Shu general Quan Shixiong as the commander and rebelled. Because Emperor Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to order preferential treatment of Shu soldiers, Wang Quanbin was worried that it would be bad if it was a big deal.

He explained to the superiors that he sent Zhu Guangxu, the chief of the horse army, to seek revenge. Zhu Guangxu was very tough. Not only did he kill Quan Shixiong's family, but he also forcibly possessed the beloved daughter of Quan and took him as a concubine. Quan Shixiong, who was still hesitating, was furious and had no ambition to return. He called himself the "King of Xingshu" and led his army to rebel against David. The momentum was huge and intensified. At this time, 27,000 surrendered Shu soldiers were imprisoned in the city of Chengdu. Wang Quanbin was worried that Shu people would collude inside and outside, so he massacred all the surrendered soldiers and governed Shu with iron-blooded means. By the time the rebellion of Quan Shixiong was quelled the following year, the soldiers led by Wang Quanbin slaughtered more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Shu, most of whom were innocent victims, and the aggrievance and hatred were buried deep in the hearts of the people in Shu. This "anger, resentment, and thoughts" became the root of the turbulent and uneasy situation in Sichuan.

In order to appease the hearts of the people in Shu, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin recalled Wang Quanbin and other generals and ordered the Ministry of Justice to interrogate. The Censorate gathered hundreds of officials to jointly review and determined that Wang Quanbin had goods, killed surrendered soldiers, and deducted soldiers and pretended to be punished. He should be sentenced to death and thanked the people of Shu. However, Zhao Kuangyin believed that Wang Quanbin had made contributions to pacifying Shu, and pardoned his crimes, so he only demoted him to a foreign official. A few years later, Zhao Kuangyin recalled Wang Quanbin. If Wang had not died suddenly and accidentally, he would have been entrusted with important tasks again. Although Zhao Kuangyin forced Wang Quanbin and others to deal with Wang Quanbin and others due to the situation, he did not fundamentally change the plunder of Sichuan and Shu.

Policy. At that time, the golden cup was still in short supply and the world was not settled. There was the Li Yu regime of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the south, and the Liu family of the Northern Han Dynasty in the north, all of which were the confidants of the Zhao family. Zhao Kuangyin wanted to conquer the world with force, and urgently needed to raise a large amount of military expenditure. "Shu land was rich, silk and silk and silk and silk and silk and silk were flooded in the world. The Meng family was divided and the treasury was full of treasury", so the robbery of the Zhao family was the real purpose of the Zhao family to defeat the Later Shu. This is what Zhao Kuangyin said to his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, King Jin: "Since the Five Dynasties, China has suffered a lot of troops and was exhausted. We must first take Xichuan, then Jing, Guang, and Jiangnan, and then the country will be rich."

After the King's army pacified Shu, the Weiting began to openly implement a plunder plan and transported Shu property to Kaifeng, the capital, on a large scale. "Its heavy goods and copper cloth were carried from the Three Gorges, and light goods were twisted into the hub, and the soldiers were sent to the burden. Every forty soldiers was a stadium, and the daily advance was called "Daily Progress". The continuous transportation lasted for more than ten years, and finally robbed all the property stored in the Later Shu treasury, and the Weiting's reserves were envious. Zhao Kuangyin set up another treasury behind the Hall of the Hanwu, which specifically saved the gold and silk plundered in Shu, and was called "Fengchunku".

". Weiting's crazy plunder directly led to a sharp decrease in the total number of hard currency coins in Sichuan and Shu area, and the market and circulation areas fell into great difficulties. Shu originally used copper coins as the common currency. When he arrived in Houshu, in order to deal with foreign enemies, Meng Chang began to cast iron coins and walked in parallel with copper coins in the market. "Each iron coins is one thousand, and there are four hundred copper coins. One tael of silver, one thousand seven hundred straight coins, one piece of silk, and one thousand two hundred straight coins. The ironwork is exquisite, which is almost like copper coins." Because the iron coins in Houshu were extremely well-made,

The proportion of the total number of coins is also small. After being issued and entered the market, it did not cause any trouble or inconvenience to the public. After entering the Wei Dynasty, the Wei Dynasty forced all the gold, silver, and the main circulating currency copper coins to transport them to the central government by force, and strictly prohibited copper coins from entering the Sichuan boundary again, resulting in the lack of copper coins in Shu. In addition, a large number of iron coins were minted in Yazhou, and an artificial provision was made by iron coins. In order to reduce the production cost, the new cast iron coins were quite rough and completely

It cannot be compared with the Later Shu iron coins, which caused a sharp depreciation of the currency. The price comparison between the Later Shu iron coins and copper coins was ten to four, which was approximately two to one. Although the official price comparison of the Wei iron coins was ten to one, the actual value of Zhongwei iron coins was extremely low. Often, one hundred iron coins were worth one penny of copper coins, which was equal to one hundred to one. In the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo in Taizong (980), the price comparison of copper in Shu subway actually reached four hundred to one. As a result, market prices soared and finance fell into chaos.

What's more serious is that after Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, he resented the Shu people for some reason and began to attack the people of Shu. The land of the two Sichuans is rich, with Shu brocade being the most famous, with its magnificent and gorgeousness, as brilliant as clouds, and can weave a variety of styles such as horses, flying fishes, flowers and peacocks, and Ruyi peonies. Since ancient times, it has been regarded as treasures for tribute and sold well all over the world. Chengdu is therefore called "Jincheng". Zhao Guangyi specially established official offices such as "Bo Maiwu", "Shi Maiyuan", and "Weaving Courtyard" in various states in Shu.
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