Chapter 24 Datang Millennium Calendar

Li Tangying Tude, originally this matter was clear, clear, in line with the rules, and undisputed, but who would have thought that someone would find it unpleasant and would jump out and sing the opposite tune.Who is this man?That is the famous writer Wang Bo, one of the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty". Taizu Li Yuan was later Taizong Li Shimin, and Li Shimin was later Gaozong Li Zhi. When Li Zhi was emperor, Wang Bo wrote a "Thousand Year Calendar of the Tang Dynasty", saying that the Tude of the Tang Dynasty should directly follow the fire of the Han Dynasty. Virtue, not the fire virtue of the Sui Dynasty.why?Wang Bo explained that because the successive dynasties from Cao Wei to the Sui Dynasty failed to truly unify China, they were not qualified to participate in the cycle of the five virtues, and they were just the "qi" of the five elements. The word "沴" is pronounced "li", which refers to disasters, auspiciousness, and the so-called "沴气", that is, exhaust gas similar to car exhaust, disaster gas, and poisonous gas-literati swearing has never been the most insidious.

Wang Bo was a great talent at that time, and his handwriting was indeed extraordinary.Mr. Zhang Cang in the Han Dynasty kicked the Qin Dynasty away and allowed the Han Dynasty to inherit Zhou De, but he cut off more than forty years from the fall of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the early rise of the Han Dynasty. In order to let the Northern Wei Dynasty pursue Jinde, it only omitted more than 180 years in the middle.This talented Wang is much more ruthless than his predecessors, and the four words "Tang Ji Han De" are easy and relaxed. Therefore, the Wei, Jin, Sixteen Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties between the Han and Tang Dynasties were cut off by him for nearly four hundred years. Went down the sewer.

Because this algorithm is so absurd that even the imperial court thinks it is outrageous, so it is ignored at all.After all, Wang Bo is only a writer, and he cannot be the founder of a generation of Confucianism, or a generation of great fools. But (life is afraid of it, and history is also afraid of it), this matter is not over yet, and no one would have thought that after decades, someone would pick up Wang Bo's leftovers again. Let’s talk about Tang Gaozong’s death, his wife Wu Zetian listened to the government behind the curtain, and later kicked all his sons away, became emperor himself, changed the country’s name to "Zhou", and recognized King Wen of Zhou as the ancestor of the Wu family - said to have created the Eastern Zhou Dynasty King Ping of Zhou had a youngest son, who was named Wu because there was a pattern resembling the word "Wu" on the palm of his hand. It's Wu Zetian.

According to Professor Zou Lao's "Five Virtues Ending and Beginning Theory", the Zhou Dynasty a thousand years ago was Huo De, and the Zhou Dynasty a thousand years later, of course, must follow the ancestors. .This is another master who doesn’t play cards according to the rules—but then again, a woman becoming an emperor completely subverts the traditional rules of cards. Does she still care about this little trick? "Or "the five elements are born together", neither can explain why the Tang Dynasty was the virtue of Tu, and the Wu Zhouhui that followed it was the virtue of Huo.But no matter how weird it was, no one dared to correct it at the time. This is understandable. If I went back to that era, I would still pretend to be deaf and dumb.why?Think about it, Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen and the others are all ears. If you express doubts about Huode and make Wu Zetian unhappy, and you are invited into the big urn to take a sauna, then what should you do?

Anyway, no one dares to say doubtful words, but there are many people who say flattering words and flatter them.Wu Zetian once built a bright hall for the purpose of advocating politics and religion. Later, there was an unforeseen situation, and the fire from nowhere, burned the whole building to nothing.Wu Zetian was so depressed that she squatted in the palace and drew circles for several days.At this time, a Zuo Shi named Zhang Ding jumped out to relieve the empress, and said flatteringly: "The fire is burning on the royal house, which is just in line with the prosperity of fire virtue in my Great Zhou Dynasty. This is auspicious!" Zuo was so angry. Liu Chengqing wrote a letter to refute it, saying that this kid is not flattering, he is clearly talking sarcastic, Your Majesty, please don't be fooled by his evil words.

No, if you practice fire virtue, you will suffer from sky fire. Don’t ask, if you practice water virtue, you will suffer floods. Earthquakes...the five virtues rely on disasters to respond, so is that still virtue?What are you doing with it?Do you want to die? Pull back, and say that there was a great painter named Li Sizhen in the Wu Zhou Dynasty, whose name was Chengzhou, and who was worshiped as Yushi Zhongcheng.Literature and art have never been separated, so the great painter Li Sizhen reiterated the theory of the great writer Wang Bo, suggesting that Zhou and Han be respected as two kings, and other small dynasties, especially the Northern Zhou and Sui, should be downgraded.This time Empress Wu Zetian acted correctly and issued an order to restructure the whole country, so only the Zhou and Han dynasties were respected as orthodox, and the other dynasties, even the Tang Dynasty, all became kingdoms.

Wu Zhou believed that the ancestors of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty were fire virtues. According to Liu Xin, the Han Dynasty was also fire virtues. After more than 400 years of emptiness, everyone continued the fire virtues—what is the cycle of the five virtues? Well.So when the Wu Zhou Dynasty ended and Tang Zhongzong Li Xian returned to the throne, he felt that these policies were awkward to his grandma's house, so he abolished them all, and returned to the theory of the early Tang Dynasty. This is not the end of Wang Bo's "The Millennium Calendar of the Tang Dynasty".

The most prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty was the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. At that time, singing and dancing everywhere, full of warmth and lust... No, it should be a large group of idlers who got full warmth and wanted to pursue a higher level of material and spiritual civilization enjoyment. And if you want to get higher enjoyment, you have to be promoted. The most convenient way to get promoted is to write a letter to the court to deceive the emperor.At that time, in order to attract attention, the guys who wrote the letter did not hesitate to say some weird things in the memorial. The weirder the words, the more novel the views, the easier it is to get attention.Among them, there was a man named Cui Chang, who simply changed his name to Wang Bo's old essay, and handed it over directly.

Tang Xuanzong himself was an artist. As mentioned earlier, his thinking was probably similar to that of Li Sizhen. He thought this statement was really fresh and interesting, so he went to discuss it with Prime Minister Li Linfu.As for this Mr. Li Linfu, the idiom "mouth honey belly sword" refers to him, who is the best at flattering the emperor, and at the same time stabbing his colleagues behind the back.He looked at Xuanzong's tone, and seemed to appreciate this kind of statement. The emperor agreed, as long as it didn't violate his interests, why should he oppose it?So he nodded and said yes.Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was very pleased and called for a quasi-play.

Ever since, Zhou and Han were revered as two kings again, and other dynasties were once again downgraded to other states, just like Wu Zetian's era, except that this time it was the Tang Dynasty that succeeded Zhou and Han orthodoxy, and it was Tude.Even two years later, the Ministry of Rites issued an imperial examination composition question titled "Tu De Wei Xin Fu", asking candidates to share their thoughts on this matter. Later, Tang Xuanzong "picked up the ashes" and picked up Yang Yuhuan. The love between the two was so lingering that the Yang family was able to ascend to heaven. Even Yang Yuhuan's originally down-and-out cousin Yang Zhao also became a high-ranking official and changed his name to "Guozhong" , to show that he is really loyal to the emperor, which can show the sky.The Yang family has always been the royal family of the Sui Dynasty. Yang Guozhong saw that the Tang Dynasty had demoted the Sui Dynasty. He felt really uncomfortable, so he discussed with Xuanzong that we should start from the Northern Wei Dynasty and put the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty aside. How about going back to the cycle of five virtues?

At this time, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan were inseparable. More importantly, Li Linfu had already died. Yang Guozhong, who had been suppressed by him and had been difficult to get ahead, became the prime minister. not for sale.Xuanzong issued an edict: "Everything will be changed according to what Yang Xiang said." Yang Guozhong immediately demoted the unlucky Cui Chang to a wild land. In this way, after two or three back and forth, the Tude of the Tang Dynasty inherited the Huode of the Sui Dynasty, and it was truly stabilized.However, the irony is that at the same time when the virtues of the Tang Dynasty were finally stabilized, the community of the Tang Dynasty began to be violently turbulent—the Anshi Rebellion broke out in the 14th year of Tianbao (755 A.D.).Tang Xuanzong lost his throne because of this, and was also "supposed by the Supreme Emperor", while Yang Guozhong and Yang Yuhuan's brothers and sisters simply lost their lives. Since ancient times, there have been two theories about the five fortunes of emperors: Zou Yan regards the five elements as righteousness, and Liu Xiang regards the five elements as righteousness.According to Liu's theory of the Han and Wei Dynasties, the country inherited the Sui family's fire transportation, so it is Tude, the clothes are still yellow, the flags are still red, and the red ocher is often worn.Yellow ochre, yellow so red, or so-called Zhemu dye, is useless.