When the Southern Tang Dynasty was about to be destroyed by Zhao Kuangyin in the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Yu was willing to bow down, but Zhao Kuangyin simply ignored him and directly replied: "How can others snore and sleep at the bedside?"
Li Yu, formerly known as Li, is the sixth son of Li Jing, the master of the Southern Tang Dynasty. According to the truth, it is not Li Yu's turn to inherit the throne. Li Hongji, Li Yu's eldest brother, is the Crown Prince and the future emperor.
Moreover, Li Yu himself is not interested in the throne. He is obsessed with poetry, poetry, calligraphy and a series of literary and artistic things, but his fate is always so magical that he has to give this important task to Li Yu.
Li Yu's eldest brother Li Hongji died before his father Li Jing. In this way, Li Yu was made a prince by his father and did not want to be enthroned.
Li Yu has no ability at all and doesn't want to be a good emperor. He just wants to be an excellent poet. At this time, the Southern Tang Dynasty has long lost its former glory.
Because Li Jing was afraid of the power of the later Zhou Dynasty, he asked for the title of the country and only called him the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Jing is also an emperor who is good at poetry. Under his rule, the Southern Tang Dynasty gradually declined.
By the time Li Yu ascended the throne, Zhao Kuangyin had established the Dasong Dynasty, replacing the later Zhou Dynasty. If Li Yu has extraordinary imperial talent, he may be able to save the Southern Tang Dynasty from the mire.
Obviously, Li Yu does not have the talent of an emperor. He has only the ability to write poems. Li Yu chose to continue to submit to Dasong, just to seek a stable life in Jiangnan.
As the DaSong was just established, Zhao Kuangyin was too busy dealing with domestic political affairs to pay attention to the poet emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Yu also lived a stable life for several years, but this kind of life is tantamount to boiling frogs in warm water.
According to the truth, Li Yu should have strengthened his national strength in recent years and made great efforts to exchange life for the people in the southern Tang Dynasty, but he did nothing serious and did a lot of things.
It is famous in history that Li Yu took a fancy to his sister-in-law a week ago when his wife was seriously ill. In fact, Li Yu likes not only her sister-in-law, but also all the beautiful women.
What Li Yu thinks about every day is playing with beautiful women, then writing poems, songs and practicing calligraphy. If Li Yu were not the Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he would be a very good poet.
But if he is the emperor, nothing will happen. Tens of thousands of people in the southern Tang Dynasty were on his shoulders. Don't know how to be prepared for danger in times of peace. Li Yu naively thought that paying tribute on time would make Zhao Kuangyin not embarrass him.
How does a man like him know what Zhao Kuangyin wants to do? Naturally, Zhao Kuangyin's goal is to unify the whole country in the Spring and Autumn Period and accomplish its great cause.
Li Yu has been immersed in the romantic world, completely forgetting the embarrassing position of Nantang at this time.
When Zhao Kuangyin stabilized the domestic situation and recovered countries such as Houshu and Nanhan, he began to look to the south of the Yangtze River.
Although Li Yu has always been a vassal of DaSong and paid tribute on time, Zhao Kuangyin wanted more than that. He wants to return all the land in Nantang to Dasong.
However, due to Li Yu's obedient attitude and great respect for him, Zhao Kuangyin has been unable to find a reason to send troops to Nantang.
There is no reason to find a reason. Zhao Kuangyin asked Li Yu to enter Beijing on the grounds of offering sacrifices to heaven. This is a good reason. This is hardly a multiple-choice question, but a death question.
Li Yu is not a qualified emperor, but he is not an idiot. He still understands such a simple truth. He knew that Zhao Kuangyin would challenge himself.
If Li Yu goes to Beijing, it will be hard to predict. He was born to die, too If he doesn't go to Peking, it will be a rebellion, which just gives Zhao Kuangyin a reason to send troops. With Li Yu's courage, he really didn't dare to take risks in Beijing alone.
At this moment, Li Yucai thought about the struggle. He wanted to unite with King Qian Chu of wuyue against the Song Dynasty. But Qian Chu is an old fox, and Li Yu is no match for him.
Qian Chu knows how tough the military forces of DaSong are, and he can't resist them at all. He obediently sent his troops to attack Nantang, and he could also give this to Zhao Kuangyin as a favor.
Li Yu himself did not think that Qian Chu, king of wuyue, would not help himself. He even helped Zhao Kuangyin attack himself. South Tang was weak, where can resist the attack of wuyue and DaSong?
Li Yu knew that the battle was doomed to failure. In order to survive, he made peace with DaSong again. He wrote to Zhao Kuangyin: "I just want to save my life in Nantang, and I will pay tribute as scheduled in the future. I am willing to kneel down and be your brother. "
Li Yu is a real poet. At this time, he still naively thought that Zhao Kuangyin could let him go.
Zhao Kuangyin replied to Li Yu mercilessly: "No one is allowed to snore beside the couch." Zhao Kuangyin has made it very clear that it has reached this point. He will never let Li Yu go, and he can't let Nantang continue to exist. Otherwise, everything he is doing now is meaningless, isn't it?
"On the edge of the sofa, no one is allowed to sleep." Now it is often described as defending one's rights from others.
Zhao Kuangyin is not as brilliant as Li Yu, but this sentence is very classic and has become a famous saying throughout the ages.
With the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu and other members of the royal family were forced to live in Kaifeng, saying that life was actually jail.
Zhao Kuangyin is still a kind person, but he just imprisoned Li Yu, but he didn't humiliate him excessively.
However, with the death of Zhao Kuangyin and the succession of Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, Li Yu's quiet life ended. Zhao Guangyi humiliated Li Yu many times, laughed at him and even possessed his wife.
Li Yu's wife, Zhou Xiao, Zhou Zhou's sister, once wrote a special word: "Foot on socks, hand holding gold embroidered shoes" to describe his tryst with Zhou Xiao.
When my sister was seriously ill, my good sister who had an affair with her brother-in-law Li Yu now got what she deserved.
Zhao Guangyi has long coveted Zhou Xiao's beauty. He called Zhou Xiao to the palace many times, and even their intimate photos circulated in the palace. Later generations even created "Xiling Xing Tu" based on this.
His wife was occupied by others, and Li Yu, as a husband, could only submit to humiliation.
He can only pin his sadness on poetry. Under the influence of alcohol, he wrote a famous sentence through the ages: "The east wind blew in the small building last night, and the country could not bear to look back on the moon, with a bright future."
It was he who wrote this poem about homesickness, so that he was given a glass of poisoned wine, and a generation of poets and emperors died.
Li Yu's life is extremely miserable. His misery lies in that he is an emperor, not just a poet.