Is Meng Changjun, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, a bad king?

Meng Chang didn't personally deal with politics when he was young, but the ministers were old friends of Meng Zhixiang. Meng Zhixiang is generous and indulgent. They treat Meng Changjun more arrogantly and lazily, disobeying the law and discipline system, building houses, robbing people of fertile land and digging graves. Li and Zhang Ye are particularly arrogant. A few months after Meng Changjun ascended the throne, he arrested Li and killed his family. At that time, Li Zhao, the envoy of Zhao (now Guangyuan, Sichuan), came to North Korea on crutches, saying that he was ill and could not worship. When he heard the news of Li's death, he immediately put down his cane and fell to the ground. Meng Changjun ordered him to retire from office and demote Qiongzhou (now Qionglai, Sichuan), which was no longer used.

In nine years (946), Zhao died, and Zhang Ye became more authoritarian. Zhang Ye is Li's nephew. When Li was killed and Zhang was in charge of the imperial army, Meng Changjun became prime minister for fear of his rebellion. Zhang also served as a judge, set up prisons in China, and extorted money from the people of Houshu with cruel criminal law. The people hated him deeply. In the 11th year of Zheng Guang (948), Meng Chang and Kuang Sheng ordered an arrest of Ye Zhang. Autocratic and greedy Hui and extravagant Zhao have never mentioned anything, and since then, the old ministers have disappeared. Meng Changjun began to lead the government, set up letters in the imperial court, and received letters from his subjects to understand the situation. [10] In the 25th year of Zheng Guang (962), Meng Changjun made Meng Xuanzhe, the son of the King of Qin, the prince. Meng Chang was lucky to be born in the Jin and Han Dynasties. There were many things in the Central Plains, so he was able to take advantage of the crisis. Both the monarch and the minister enjoy luxury, and even the drowning device is decorated with seven treasures. With the rise of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jing and Tan were successively captured, and Meng Changjun was even more afraid. He sent Sun Yu, a high-ranking official, to the Northern Han Dynasty with a wax pill book, and met with * * * to send troops to obstruct the reunification activities of the Northern Song Dynasty. Sun Yu was caught by the border officials of the Northern Song Dynasty. So, sent, cui out of phoenix, sent, Cao Bin out of phoenix. Eight imperial edicts were issued, and more than 500 houses were built for Meng Chang in the south of Youmen and near the Bianshui River, providing complete accounts and sundries for Meng Chang's surrender.

Meng Changjun sent Wang Zhaoyuan and Zhao to resist. The army had just set off from Chengdu when Meng Changjun sent Li Hao and others to give a banquet to see him off. Wang Zhaoyuan commanded the military with an iron bar in his hand, and compared himself with Zhuge Liang. He was drunk. He said to Li Hao, "Where did I resist the enemy just now? I can easily win the Central Plains with these 20,000 or 30,000 carvings! " Meng Chang also sent his son Meng Xuanzhe to lead tens of thousands of soldiers to guard the sword gate. Meng Xuanzhe took Ai Ji by car and set off with musical instruments and dozens of performers. Shu people secretly laughed when they saw it. Wang Quanbin met Wang Zhaoyuan in Sanquan and defeated him. Wang Zhaoyuan burned the Bai Ji pontoon bridge and retreated to Jianmen. The leader told Tao to listen to the prisoners of Shu army and said, "Come to Su Alley, and meet the way from Qingqiang Store in the south of Jianmen." Shi Yande was sent to March all the way to Su Hutong and Beijianmen to attack. Wang Zhaoyuan and Zhao failed and were captured. Meng Xuanzhe heard the news of Wang Zhaoyuan's defeat and fled back to Chengdu. When attacking Kuizhou, Commander Gao was defeated and refused to defend. Judge Luo Ji advised him to quit. Gao said, "I couldn't defend Qinchuan before, but now I'm retreating. Although the monarch won't kill me, how can I face Shu people! " He also suggested that he surrender, but Gao Yanzhen refused, so he set himself on fire and died. The Shu soldiers fled and most of the generals were captured. Meng Changjun asked about this matter, and veteran Shi Qi thought that Song Jun was far away and would not last long, so he should gather troops and wait for Dong Bing to get tired. Meng Changjun sighed, saying, "For forty years, my first emperor and I used clothes to keep out the cold, and we used food to nurture our scholars. Once we face the enemy, we can't shoot an arrow to the east for me. Although we want to insist, who can keep it for me? " Li Hao was ordered to write a watch and surrender to the Northern Song Dynasty. After Shu died, it was in the first month of the third year of Gande (965). Sixty-six days from Song Jun's attack on Shu to Meng Changjun's surrender. At the beginning, Li Hao was an academician of former Shu Emperor Wang Yan. When Wang Yan died, Li Hao wrote a drop list for him, and now he writes a drop list for Meng Chang. At night, Shu people wrote on his door, "The world will repair the Li family", which was circulated as a joke at that time. After Meng Changjun surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty, he was escorted from Chengdu to the capital of the Song Dynasty (now Kaifeng, Henan). Thousands of Chengdu people risked their lives to see him off. People cried and escorted him along the river. Hundreds of them wept bitterly, and Meng Chang also hid his face and wept. These people were sent from Chengdu to key counties hundreds of kilometers away. The scene is very touching.