Meng Zhixiang was born in xing zhou (now Xingtai, Hebei). At the beginning, he entered Jin with his father, and gradually gained the appreciation of the king of Jin, and married Dick's daughter to Zhixiang. He kept the throne, became an envoy of the central government, and even served in the parliament. The middle gate makes a light position and has frequent contacts with the king of Jin. Zhixiang's predecessors were punished for some reason, and none of them were spared. Therefore, Zhixiang asked him for a new job many times and recommended Guo Chongtao to take over. To save Ren Xu's horse stance just look. After saving Xu Wei as emperor, Taiyuan was changed to Beijing, Zhixiang was appointed as Taiyuan Yin, and Beijing stayed. Guo Chongtao was ordered to assist Wang Wei in cutting Shu and recommended Zhixiang Town to give up. After the death of Shu, Zhixiang was appointed as the deputy envoy of Chengdu Yin and Jian Nan Opera. At this time, I have already had doubts about worshipping Tao. He said to Zhixiang, "I heard that Guo Chongtao has different ambitions. I came to punish him for me. " Zhixiang advised Zhuang Zongdao: "Chongtao is a state minister and should not be like this. I'm going to find out the truth in Shu, and if it's the same, I'll send it back. " Zhuang Zong replied.
In December of the third year of Tongguang (925), Zhixiang traveled westward from Luoyang, and that night he arrived at Shihao Village in Xin 'anxi. Ma Yanxuan was caught up and announced to him the imperial edict of Zhuang Zong and the empress dowager. The queen ordered the killing of Guo Chongtao. Zhuang Zongze ordered Ma Yanxuan to go to Chengdu to monitor Guo Chongtao as soon as possible. If he is ordered to return to the division, he will stop. If he delays the introduction of Guo Chongtao, he will kill Chongtao with the following. Ma Yanxuan urged Zhixiang to enter Sichuan as soon as possible. Ma Yanxuan declared the imperial edict, and he went on his way overnight. Zhixiang sighed: "Chaos will do." And hard to give up.
Seventeen days later, Zhixiang entered Chengdu, but Guo Chongtao was killed four days ago. People in Shu are angry and the situation is unstable. Zhixiang chose honest officials to comfort the people and reduce the exorbitant taxes and levies in the former Shu. Soon, after Wang Wei returned to the north, Zhuang Zong was killed again, and after Li Siyuan acceded to the throne, someone committed suicide. Knowing the chaos in the Central Plains, Zhixiang secretly prepared to proclaim himself emperor according to Shu.
After Li Siyuan, Ming Taizu, became king in the late Tang Dynasty, he was short of financial resources, so he added an official-Qiu in Zhixiang, and sent Zhao Wei, a salt and iron judge and officer, to transport money collected from the people before the demise of Shu, and to distribute taxes in Sichuan. Zhixiang and Zhao are old friends, so they only asked him to give some money to the army, claiming that "state and county taxes can support 100 thousand soldiers in the town, and it is absolutely impossible to get it." In addition, Ji Liang stayed in Shu, which shows that he is a Sect. Please appoint him as the deputy envoy of Jiannan Festival. Ann Hui Chong is a lucky minister around him. He thinks Zhixiang can stand on his own feet easily. Therefore, although Ming Zong announced that he would destroy prison troops all over the country after he acceded to the throne, An Hui Chong proposed to General Zhao to send prison troops to give up.
Li Yan, a history of defense in Sizhou, who had been to the former Shu, recommended himself and was appointed governor of Xichuan. After the last trip to Shu, Li Yan suggested that Zhuang Zong cut Shu. Therefore, before he left, his mother said to him, "You made a plan to destroy Shu before, and now you are in Shu. I am afraid that you will repay Shu with your death. " When Zhixiang heard that another prison army was coming, he was furious and said, "The prison army has been abolished in all roads. Why abandon it alone? " But I was relieved to hear that Li Yan was coming. In the era of Zhuang Zong, Li Yan was beheaded for provoking Zhuang Zong. Zhixiang was the coach at that time, and he shilled the executioner not to do it. Then, he hurried into the temple and suggested that Zhuang Zong should be given a lighter punishment. Zhuang Zong avoided Li Yan's death sentence and just got rid of it. Therefore, Li Yan was once grateful to Meng Zhixiang. So Meng Zhixiang thinks that this time, as long as he gives Li Yan a little signal, he will return to Luoyang. In the first month of the second year of Tiancheng (927), Meng Zhixiang first sent subordinate officials to Jianzhou to meet him and conveyed his meaning. He also sent troops armed to meet Li Yan, trying to create an excuse for Li Yan to turn around. Who knows Li Yan doesn't care about this at all? Still came to Chengdu, bossing Zhixiang around, full of pride, acting like a soldier. At a banquet, Li Yan ordered Meng Zhixiang to kill the former Xichuan army supervisor Jiao. Knowing that he wouldn't listen, Xiang asked sternly, "I don't know what your intention is to send troops to attack Shu after your last visit." After that, he waved his hand to Fujian and motioned for Wang Yanzhu to kill him. Li Yan lost his prestige and kowtowed again and again, pleading with Zhixiang: "Strictness is a great sin. Although death is inevitable, please allow me to go west to Guo Chongtao for a short time, and I will not contact you until I die." Zhixiang said, "The public is angry." Or kill Li Yan. Not long ago, Zhixiang sent a department to Jinyang to relocate. When his family went to Fengxiang, Li Congjiu, the envoy of Fengxiang, heard that Li Yan had been killed and thought Zhixiang had betrayed him, so he detained his family. Don't want to anger Zhixiang, he ordered Fengxiang to release Zhixiang's family, and don't blame Zhixiang for killing Li Yan. Meng Zhixiang has actually formed an independent force in surprisingly.
At this time, in the middle of Sichuan, in addition to our surprisingly ambassador Meng Zhixiang, there are also our Jian Nan and Dongchuan ambassador Dong Zhang. Dong Zhang took Zizhou (now Santai, Sichuan) as his ruling place, and he was also a soldier, and he thought highly of himself. Friction is often given up because of salt. Meng Zhixiang hated this, but in order to jointly resist the crusade of the late Tang army that might come at any time, he established a cooperative relationship with Zhao under his persuasion. First, he married his daughter to his son, and then sent Zhao to Dongchuan to solve this matter.
Since the fourth year of Tiancheng (929), the late Tang Dynasty continuously sent more troops to Hanzhong and other places, and set up some new embassies in the northern border of Sichuan. In July of the second year of Chang (930), he openly rebelled and led troops to attack Langzhou. Unexpectedly, Meng Zhixiang responded by sending troops to join forces with Dongchuan Army in Langzhou, and sent general Li to capture Suizhou (now Suining, Sichuan). At this time, the court in the later Tang Dynasty did not know about Meng Zhixiang's rebellion. It appointed our Tian Xiong Shi Jingtang as the recruitment ambassador of Dongchuan Hangying, appointed Meng Zhixiang as the southwest supplier, and changed the title of Princess Qionghua, Zhixiang's wife, to Fuqing princess royal. Tai Shi Gong ordered an conferring envoy to Fengxiang. When he heard of Meng Zhixiang's rebellion, he had to return halfway.
In November, Shi Jingtang army conquered Jianmen. Due to the long-distance expedition, the transportation did not continue, and there were contradictions within Tang Ting. Shi Jingtang has never made any new achievements, so he repeatedly went to the table and thought that the two rivers were inseparable. After An Zhonghui was demoted, Shi Jingtang led the troops back, and then Mingzong killed An Zhonghui, saying that he had alienated Meng Zhixiang and Dong Zhang. Forgive these two rivers In fact, the court in the late Tang Dynasty was unable to deal with Sichuan and had to do it.
As soon as the foreign enemy invaded, the contradiction between Meng Zhixiang and Dong Zhang became sharp. After Ming Chengzu issued the pardon, Meng Zhixiang sent Dong Zhang three times to thank him. Dong Zhang doesn't allow it, and thinks that Meng Zhixiang colludes with the imperial court. In April of the third year of Changxing (932), Meng Zhixiang sent troops to attack Hanzhou, to which surprisingly belongs, and sent general Zhao to lead an army of 30,000. Zhixiang led 8,000 people and then rushed to Hanzhou. Nishikawa Army and Dongchuan Army are playing Jinyan Bridge in the north of Hanzhou. When the weather was hot, Zhixiang toured the armies and asked about the foot soldiers. Anyone who surrenders to Dong Zhang's soldiers will be rewarded. On May 2, the two sides launched a fierce battle, and Zhixiang personally climbed the mountain to supervise the war. As soon as the fighting broke out, Dongchuan rushed Zhang Shoujin to Xichuan and said to Zhixiang, "Dongchuan soldiers are all here, and there is no backup." Zhixiang waved his whip and commanded from left to right. In the evening, Dongchuan soldiers were defeated, and Dong Zhang escaped with only a few horses. When Xiang returned to Chengdu, Zhao led troops to take Zizhou.
Dong Zhanggang arrived in Zizhou, and Ye Zhao arrived with a great army. After Dong Zhang entered the building, he was eating. Then, with 300 soldiers, they rushed into the mansion. The Zhang couple boarded the North Gate Tower and called Pan Zailai to save them. Xu led his foot soldiers into the city, attacked his father and son Dong Guangsi first, and opened the door to surrender.
Zhixiang heard that Zizhou was captured and immediately came from Chengdu. Since the first year of Tiancheng (926), Meng Zhixiang finally breathed a sigh of relief after six years' efforts, and finally occupied eastern Sichuan and western Sichuan. But after years of overwork, his health is obviously not as good as in previous years. After the war with Dongchuan, he was often bedridden. In order to calm people's hearts, Zhixiang doesn't eat much every time he eats, but they always leave the utensils empty. Say wise Xiang is as strong as ever.
Xiang knows that he has two rivers, but he is even more arrogant, and he doesn't mention his gratitude at all. However, Mingzong in the later Tang Dynasty tried to win him over and prevent him from becoming emperor on his own. Zhixiang's sister is the wife of Zhuang Zong's uncle Ning Ke. After Zhuang Zong killed Ning Ke, her sister fled to Chengdu, while Ning Ke's son Cunhuan stayed in Tang Ting as a sacrificial officer. Tang sent him to his mother in Chengdu and brought some letters to Zhixiang. The imperial edict said, "Dong Zhang, the fox and the wolf killed themselves, and Qing took it as his family name and kept the big festival of the monarch and the minister." In fact, it is tantamount to begging Zhixiang to admit that he is nominally his servant. Of course, this relationship between monarch and minister can't last long.
In February of the 4th year of Changxing (933), Zhixiang was once again named King of Shu. Former Shu held a grand banquet in Xuanhuayuan, boasting and commenting on ancient and modern times. He told his deputies: "If Wang Yan didn't waste politically, with the help of some wise ministers, how can some young people easily calm down the middle of Shu?" Zhao said to him, "This is also fate. If you don't waste it, why coke? " There was a loud laugh, one after another, saying that Zhixiang should be the sky, and the next one should be the levy, which should be the emperor of Shu. At the end of this year, Mingzong died and Wang Song succeeded to the throne. In the first month of the second year, Zhao and others immediately asked Zhixiang to be the emperor. Meng Zhixiang pretended to be modest and said to his subordinates, "It is enough to grow old with King Shu." His subordinates wrote three times to persuade him to move forward, and Ji Liang even revealed their truth. "If you serve the scholar-officials in your royal highness, you will be promoted to the rank of phoenix and dragon. If you don't succeed in reunification, you will become an emperor and you can't support the army and love the people. " In fact, knowing that Xiang is an emperor, subordinates naturally want to be promoted and knighted, and foot soldiers can also get a reward. This is the fundamental motivation for them to establish an emperor.
On the 28th day of the first month, Zhixiang ascended the throne, with the title of Shu. Zhao was appointed Prime Minister, and Wang Chuhui was appointed Tang Ambassador. But his condition is getting worse and worse, and he has not improved because he proclaimed himself emperor. I couldn't lift it at a party in June. But he still holds military and political affairs. On July 7th, another grand banquet was held in Danxia Building. At night, I watched the ladies-in-waiting playing tricks upstairs, and my condition worsened. The 26th. Li Lun praised the Prince as the Prince, and called Zhao, Li, Zhao and Wang Chuhui into the palace to assist him. He died that night. He is 6 1 year old.
Posthumous title's "Wu Wen Shengde Yinglie Xiao Ming" temple was named Gaozu and was buried in He Ling.