Chapter 11 Chapter Nine Silent Like a Wild Owl——The Sixth Interpretation of Yuanhe Gongbian
When I opened the "Tang Kingdom History Supplement", I saw that it described the ministers of Yuanhe and Zhongxing in this way: "In this era, "there are Du Binggong (Du Huangshang)'s ability, Zheng Shaobao's (Zheng Yuqing)'s frugality, Zheng Wuyang's (Zheng Yuqing)'s ), the wisdom of Li Anyi (Li Jifu), the upholding of Pei Zhongshu (Pei Yi), the strength of Li Pushe (Li Jiang), the firmness of Wei Henan (Wei Guanzhi), and the grandeur of Pei Jingong (Pei Du) ..." With just a few strokes, a lively portrait of scholar-bureaucrats was drawn.
So, in the Yuanhe Palace Change, in the entanglement between Guo's mother and son and Li Chun (Tang Xianzong), what role did the dignified minister play?
In the fourth year of Yuanhe, Li Jiang, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, asked for a memorial to the crown prince, which led to the clues of the Yuanhe palace change.Li Chun chose Li Ning, the eldest son, and chose a reason that it is difficult for ministers to argue: establish a son to grow up.However, Li Ning died two years later, and the candidate for the crown prince once again became the focus of attention of the ruling and opposition parties.This time, the ministers brought up the rule of "a son is more valuable than a mother".There are various indications that Li You's entry into the East Palace was just a transitional measure taken by his father under the pressure of the courtiers:
The first sign is that Li Chun ordered Cui Qun, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, to draft a compromise table on behalf of King Li.It's implied that the older Li Kuan has some kind of priority.Ministers are naturally sensitive to words, not to mention that this is by no means a simple question of words.At that time, Princess Taiping tried to use the priority of Tang Ruizong (Li Dan)'s eldest son Li Chengqi to shake Tang Xuanzong's (Li Longji) position.Not too long ago, Cui Qun said bluntly: It is only natural for the son Li You to enter the East Palace, and there is no question of whether Li Kuan will let him go or not.His words can represent the minister's point of view, but the reason is a bit far-fetched: Strictly speaking, Li You is not a legitimate son.because--
The second sign is that Mrs. Guo failed to be in the middle palace.After Li You became the crown prince, it was only natural for Guo's mother to value her son as the empress.But Li Chun has been intentionally forgetting about this.He knew in his heart that after the Guo family mastered the palace, he would never have another chance to choose the prince again.The minister is also very clear.In October of the eighth year of Yuanhe, a group of officials jointly signed three petitions, and after requesting a book, they persevered in putting pressure on the emperor.The situation has almost turned into a political tide.Finally, Li Chun could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.But he used the excuse of "year-old criminal Jiawu" to postpone the time of conferring the queen almost in a fit of anger.The violin hidden behind the curtain of the palace is out of tune, and it is fully exposed in the sun-this has greatly offset the political significance of the appointment of the prince.
The third sign is that Tutu Chengcui returned to Chang'an and served as a lieutenant of the Zuo Army.Because of the "Sun Chou's bribery case", he was banished to Huainan in the winter of the sixth year of Yuanhe.Li You has no credit for being in charge of the East Palace.Li Jiang, Cui Qun, etc., who contributed the most to support the crown prince, are his sworn enemies.Tutu Chengcui, who was born in the Xiaohuangmen of the East Palace, was a witness of Yongzhen's inner Zen, and thus became Li Chun's favorite minister.He knew what he was missing.In order to reverse this unfavorable situation, Tutu Chengcui decided to support Li Kuan, the king of Li who had no background, to make a big comeback to the current situation.If he single-handedly overthrows the prince and wins the throne for Li Kuan, Tu Tu Cheng Cui will win the entire future.The return of this power eunuch has made the battle for the East Palace calm.
Worrying signs may also include that Li Chun suddenly drove the prince's attendant Wei Shou out of Chang'an to serve as governor in the distant Qianzhou.It is said that he was too close to Li You and often entertained the prince with delicious food and wine.People who are familiar with court politics are no strangers to this kind of tactics—it is a common pattern for the emperor to warn the prince and suppress the Eastern Palace to punish the officials of the Eastern Palace and the prince's cronies on the pretext of trivial matters.Sometimes, it is the mountain wind before the rain to replace the prince.
All the signs conveyed a very clear message: Prince Li You's position is not stable.
After hearing such news, many suppressed forces woke up, moved, stretched out their tentacles, and tasted the ambiguous smell in the air.
No one knows, under Tu Tu Cheng Cui's unremitting persuasion, whether Li Chun will change his plan and abolish the crown prince; no one knows whether Tu Tu Cheng Cui, who controls half of the Shence Army, has arranged foreshadowing to set off The turbulent waves of the palace.Li Chun fell ill after taking medicine, which made the situation suddenly tense. Almost at the moment when Tu Qiong appeared, the once very active ministers found that the situation was no longer under their control.They haven't seen the emperor for a long time.In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty had only been ill for a few days, and the general Fan Kuai dared to "pull the door straight in", for fear that the eunuchs would take advantage of the emperor's serious illness to manipulate the political situation.But the minister is not Fan Kuai who was born as a butcher.They lack the frankness of the reckless hero.
The palace ban is like a fence, stretching in front of the minister.Behind this fence are many, many beautiful and intelligent girls.They are beautiful flowers and plants, planted in every corner of the deep palace, hoping that countless lonely and difficult days and nights will eventually be exchanged for rain and dew overnight, but they always spend their bright and fresh beauty of only one season in loneliness.The emperor does not allow others to enter the back garden of his desire without authorization.The ministers also consciously stopped outside this barrier.Because, they also grow one or two girls' flowers in their own deep gardens, and they also have similar taboos.
The palace ban system reasonably and legally keeps ministers with normal physiology out of the palace, but gives other men with physical defects the freedom to set foot in important areas.The eunuchs lost their physical integrity, but in exchange for the freedom that was crucial to court politics.The freedom of entering and leaving the palace gave them the upper hand at critical moments——
Look at the "forbidden door smoke from purple and sinking", how many palace stories have changed.
On the night when the storm was about to rise, the incompetence of the ministers was fully exposed.They either shrugged off their clothes and avoided doing nothing; or begged for the spirit of other eunuchs, such as Liang Shouqian and his ilk, because they held the right shence army in their hands-the former became indifferent spectators in the Yuanhe Palace Change, while the latter acted as a non-wielder. accomplice.In essence, they have all departed from the "sacred principles" they uphold.The difference is that while the latter abandoned their principles, they also abandoned their means of implementing them and chose tools they were not good at using: iron and blood.
When the night faded on the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month in the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, the emperor Li Chun died, the Li king Li Kuan died, and Tutu Chengcui also died.A game of chess ended in a thrilling way.There are no similes to announce anything, and no memorials to refer to anything.
During the Yuanhe Palace Change, Mr. Chen Yinke noticed the eunuch's silence, but why didn't the minister keep silent?And who is clearly overwhelmed by Li Chun's death?
Yes, it was Chen Hongzhi who held the sword, and Li You who was accused of being "cool as a merchant".Ministers seem to have done nothing.The little blood stains that needed to be hidden on Zhu Zi's robes were also gently smeared away by their skillful brushes.The history books do not record the specific whereabouts of the ministers during the Yuanhe Palace Change.Later generations can barely smell a faint smell of blood from the end of the wolf hair.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Dun, the Zhengqing of the Jin State, was hated by Jin Linggong because of his persuasion, so he had to leave his hometown.Just before he fled the country, news came from the capital: Zhao Chuan, a member of Zhao Dun's tribe, raised his troops and killed Duke Ling of Jin.After returning to the court, Zhao Dun was surprised to find that Tai Shi Dong Hu actually wrote in the history books: "Zhao Dun killed his lord".Zhao Dun protested in puzzlement that he was not the murderer of Duke Ling of Jin.However, Dong Hu said: Chunqiu blames the sages.As a minister, sit back and watch the king be murdered without saying a word, what is the difference between this and conspiracy?
I miss the pen written by Dong Hu, and the sonorous voice: the son is a minister, he will not cross the border if he perishes, and he will not seek thieves if he returns. Also bald.
The ministers have forgotten that there are still people in the world who write the Spring and Autumn Period on paper.
The tacit understanding between the minister and the eunuch made everything that happened like the winter fog in the first month of that year, chaotic and vague, faintly visible, gradually dissipating under the not very bright sunlight.Of course, unlike the eunuchs and their shenanigans, ministers cannot calmly participate in the distribution of spoils.Li You intends to worship Xue Fang, a doctor in the Ministry of War, and Ding Gong, a member of the Ministry of Driving, as prime ministers, as rewards.But both resolutely declined.
Minister conduct, that's all.
Among the multiple contradictions surrounding the Yuanhe Palace Change, the contradiction between the monarch and his ministers is the least important.But it's still on my radar.Li Chu is just the last crack between Li Chun and the minister.The multiple conflicts between them can be traced back to February of the third year of Yuanhe—the time when Princess Xian'an, who was close to the Uighur, died suddenly.
Princess Xian'an is the daughter of Tang Dezong (Li Shi) and Li Chun's aunt.Many years ago, she married Uyghur Longevity Tianqin Khan.After the longevity Khan died, the princess remarried his son Zhongzhen Khan according to the custom of remarrying in the desert.Zhongzhen Khan was poisoned to death, and the princess remarried her youngest son, Fengcheng Khan.Soon, Fengcheng Khan also let go and left.His prime minister Gu Dulu became Huaixin Khan.The Yaoluoge clan of the Uighur royal family was thus replaced by the Adan clan.In these ever-changing years, the respect Princess Xian'an won in the Uighur Khanate has always been consistent.She maintains her reputation as a Tun, and also ensures that the relationship between the two countries has not deteriorated due to the frequent power struggles of the Uighurs.After spending a full twenty-one years in the desert, this weak woman who is related to the relationship between the two empires returned home.A few days later, Huaixin Khan also died—the relationship between Datang and Uyghur through marriage lost its foundation.
Soon, the camel team came east with the intention of the new Khan's marriage proposal.But the envoy Yizhu was very disappointed.Li Chun rejected the marriage proposal.
In the eyes of the ministers, this is a very unwise approach.After the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo took the opportunity to cut off the Hexi Corridor, and expanded wildly in all directions, posing a huge threat to the surrounding countries including Datang, and even once captured Chang'an.In order to counter the aggressive offensive posture of Tubo, Datang chose to join hands with Uighurs and Dashi to resist Tubo as his basic strategy in the West.The marriage of Princess Xian'an is to realize this strategy.Today, when the dynasty has not fully recovered its decline, marriages should continue.
Back then, the headstrong Tang Dezong also rejected the marriage proposal of the Uighurs. When he was a teenager, he suffered humiliation in the Uighur camp in Shanzhou.In order to meet the Khan's etiquette, his subordinates were whipped by Uighurs like tigers and wolves, and died on the spot.He himself was driven out of the camp by the Uighurs.Tang Dezong hated the ferocious Uighurs from the bottom of his heart.However, the grim reality finally forced him to accept Prime Minister Li Mi's advice, put aside old hatred, and marry Princess Xian'an into the desert.
In the blink of an eye in 21 years, when Li Chun and his grandfather faced the same problem, the ministers believed that they would be able to persuade Li Chun as they had persuaded his grandfather.
Li Jiang, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, said the same words as Li Mi back then.But Li Chun couldn't listen at all.He had no feud with the Uyghurs, nor did he have any particular ill feelings.What is the reason for such stubbornness?
According to official history, Li Chun believed that the cost of marriage was huge.Princess Shang, a secretary estimated that the fee was nearly five million.But everyone knows that the reason for refusing to propose marriage is not that simple.Li Chun's attitude must be based on a more macro strategic assumption.This idea has not been put into words.Before putting it into practice, the emperor will not clearly reveal his intentions.They always hide their true selves in the lingering clouds and mist, showing the appearance of a dragon from beyond the sky.But we still caught glimpses of it through the gaps in the clouds and mist.
"Yinhualu" reveals a little clue: "The Tibetans don't know that Emperor Xianzong (Li Chun) abandoned the world, and they are afraid of the king's return to Hehuang day and night, and they are restless." It can be seen that the Tibetans understand Li Chun's ambition.Du Mu's poem "Hehuang" can be circumstantial evidence:
We can imagine that after the Hebei feudal towns are wiped out, Li Chun will surely return to Maxi, and point his sword at dividing the Uighurs and Tubo in the Western Regions equally. It is also recorded in the "Old Book of Tang Biography of Li Yan" that Li Yan was transferred to the west of Chang'an after he pacified Huaixi in Fengxue Caizhou City, and served as the envoy of Fengxiang Longyou.The reason for the transfer of the famous general to the west is to recover the old land of Longyou.It's a pity that before Li Yan left, news came from the east that Pinglu Jiedu envoy Li Shidao had disobeyed his orders.Li Yan was appointed Jiedu envoy of the Wuning Army, led the Xuzhou elite, and went north to Zi and Qing to counter the rebellion.The plan to regain Longyou was shelved, and it lasted for decades.
In the eyes of the domineering Li Chun, the powerful feudal towns in the lower reaches of the Yellow River have long been in his pocket, and the decisive victory over the Uighurs and Tubo in the upper reaches of the Yellow River is also a matter of Gu Jian.Decades later, when the Tang Dynasty took advantage of the decline of the Uighurs and Tubo to send troops to the Northwest, Li Chun's son did not forget his father.He issued an imperial edict stating that it was Li Chun's last wish to restore He and Huang, and honored his father (and grandfather) with posthumous titles to comfort their spirits in heaven.
It is precisely because Li Chun’s overall strategic conception in Hehuang, and even the entire Northwest region, is positive that he takes a negative attitude towards Uyghur’s proposal for marriage—in his view, marriage with Uyghur is not good for Datang’s management of the Northwest, on the contrary, He also bound his hands and feet.Perhaps, when Yi Nanzhu came to Chang'an, he reminded Li Chun, who has a broad chest, to look away from Huaixi and Heshuo, and slowly turn to the vast and boundless northwest.There are fat horses and long grass, there are moraine sun and vast sea, there are legacy of Zhenguan, Kaiyuan hegemony waiting for him to pursue...
After hearing that Li Chun rejected his marriage proposal, the new Khan sent cavalry to the border to show off his force.But how can a mere three thousand troops change the ambition of a generation of heroes?
While the ministers were talking about "the ancient peace, there are five benefits, but the day is not a thousand dollars", Li Chun suddenly asked a question that seemed irrelevant: Recently, I heard that there was a minister who was good at poetry, but his surname Very rare, I don't know who it is?
Some people answered that it was Bao Zixu, while others said it was Leng Chaoyang.But Li Chun kept shaking his head.Seeing that the prime ministers had no clue, he recited the poem "A thousand pieces of gold may not be able to change their surname, a promise never promises to kill themselves".The prime ministers suddenly realized.
This is a well-known story.According to legend, on a moonlit night, Guan Gui observed Li Kui wandering in the courtyard.When the evening breeze brought the sound of poetry reciting from the partition wall, he stopped and listened.After savoring it carefully, Li Kui couldn't help but secretly marvel.After searching for someone, I found out that the name of the person who recited the poem was Rong Yu.Li Kui immediately wrote a letter to hire this down-and-out scholar as his staff.A few years later, Rong Yu was proud of himself and turned into a handsome young Jinshi.Li Kui (one said it was Cui Guan, an envoy of Hunan Observation) intended to betroth him with a beautiful girl like a flower under his knees.However, the only thing he was dissatisfied with was Rong Yu's surname—the "Rong" surname reminded people of Xi Rong and Quan Rong.Therefore, Li Kui asked someone to tell Rong Yu euphemistically that if he changed his surname, he was willing to marry his beloved daughter.After hearing this, Rong Yu wrote down this poem with a brush of ink.
At the Yanying meeting where the marriage was discussed, why did Li Chun suddenly ask a poet who had passed away for many years?The ministers were a little confused.At this time, Li Chun recited another poem:
After hearing Li Chun recite Rong Yu's "He Fan" poem, I seemed to see the faces of the ministers who were green and red.Li Chun said mockingly: In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei Jiang, a doctor of Jin State, used the method of making peace, and you all followed suit. It is too cowardly.
Until Li Chun's death, there was no more follow-up with his relative Uighur.
In the winter of the fourth year of Yuanhe, the war against King Chengzong of Chengde kicked off.Tutu Chengcui took command and led the army to Hebei.After the decree was promulgated, there was an uproar between the ruling and opposition parties.The problem wasn't that Li Chun ignored the minister's outcry, or even that he reused eunuchs.What matters is the hidden motivation behind his insistence.Knowing that Tutu Chengcui was in command, Tan Zhong, the wisest man in Youzhou, explained the mystery: a few years ago, Du Huangshang relied on Du Huangshang to conquer Liu Pi in Western Shu; Li Jifu relied on Li Jifu to pacify Li Qi in Eastern Wu Strategize.Today, the Son of Heaven conquers Hebei, and instead of sending senior ministers and veteran generals, he hands over the military power to the eunuchs; he can't afford the elites of the world, but instead sends out the Shence Army under the control of the eunuchs... This is the Son of Heaven who wants to put aside the ministers and show himself to reorganize the rivers and mountains to show off to those high-spirited ministers.
In just a few words, Li Chun was outlined as a lively, competitive and mischievous image.
Horseshoes clanging, sweeping through the majestic early Tang Dynasty, the figure of Li Chun's ancestors on the undulating horsebacks of the six steeds in Zhaoling Mausoleum, left the posterity with the god of "the king of Qin rode a tiger to travel to the eight poles, and his sword shines on the sky and the sky". Phantom image.When the horseshoe traveled all over the world again, Li Chun couldn't gallop in the grass and wild.The gate of the palace that has been imprisoned for generations has not been opened to him.Li Chunshou stayed in the deep palace, watching Pei Du, Li Yan, and Tian Hongzheng with a lonely expression, conquering all directions in his name.In Li Chun's hands, the broken thousands of miles of rivers and mountains were rearranged.But he couldn't get out of this little Chang'an City.Perhaps, only in his dream, can Li Chun ride the white horse of Yule with a golden whip across the Qianliguan River to experience the heroic feelings of swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger.
The heroic Li Chun was not reconciled.
He reminds me of Emperor Zhengde in "You Long Xi Feng".The emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who played the game life, also longed for life on the battlefield.With just one edict, the romantic Emperor Zhengde transformed into two people: one is Zhu Houzhao, son of the great emperor, and the other is Zhu Shou, his newly appointed general officer.The former stayed in the capital to deal with ministers' nagging, and affixed jade seals to endlessly approved documents; the latter traversed Xuanfu and Datong's Xiongguan to realize the dream of personal heroism.
Li Chun, who was born hundreds of years earlier, was not as skilled at dividing himself as Emperor Zhengde.He chose a method that might not be as imaginative, but more secure—letting Tutu Chengcui, who had been with him since he was a child, act as his substitute, and lead the Emperor's Divine Strategy Army to Hebei, where there was a lot of competition.
Looking at the back of Tutu Chengcui going away, Li Chun, who was seeing him off at the Tonghua Gate Tower, suddenly felt: Jin Luo is on the verge, and the expeditioner is himself; , it was Li Chun's eyes who were inspecting the tens of thousands of brave men; when Lu Congshi bowed his head in the big tent, Tu Tucheng smiled arrogantly, and Li Chun's voice was hidden in the smile... If the substitute Tu Tucheng Cui swept Hebei in one fell swoop, and Li Chun would be intoxicated by the great pleasure of being on the scene-only when the emperor's career in Hebei was pacified, could the ministers' pacification of Western Shu and Soochow be overshadowed.
Whether it's Zhu Houzhao's avatar or Li Chun's double, they are all tricks used by these vigorous emperors to break free from the constraints of the system and complete self-realization.They are not reconciled to being imprisoned by ministers and the so-called institutional rationality for their mischievous minds that have not yet disappeared.The weird tricks of the elves posed a great irony and threat to the system that the ministers tried their best to maintain, and aroused their extreme disgust.They want to turn the naughty emperor back into a dull idol at all costs.
In the radiant Yuanhe era, the Battle of Hebei, where Tu Tu Cheng Cui became a rare gray experience.Almost from the start, failure was doomed.The history books tell us that this eunuch was "destroyed" in the camp.How many people perfunctory him with the mentality of watching a joke.In October of the fourth year of Yuanhe, when Tutu Chengcui led an army of more than 100,000 to Hebei, don't expect the ministers to give him any support. "Soldiers are also murder weapons".In a state of isolation, he was going to face the tiger and wolf division in Hebei, and the end could be imagined.
In the spring of the second year, General Li Dingjin of Zuo Shence died in battle.In my opinion, it is inevitability for him to become the first general to die in battle.All the armies wait and see, only Li Dingjin, a direct descendant of the Shence Army, is willing to fight for Tutu Chengcui.The general Xiao died, and the morale of the armed forces was in a slump.The ministers in Chang'an have begun to talk loudly about Tu Tucheng Cui's crimes of long and futile battles.At this time, it was only more than two months before Beijing left for the expedition.
After Tu Tuchengcui returned to Chang'an from the camp in Hebei in disgrace, Li Chun still appointed Tu Tuchengcui as the lieutenant of the Zuo Army.Ministers don't want to let him go.They didn't dare to point the finger at Li Chun himself, and instead attacked Tutu Chengcui one after another.Prime Minister Pei Ji and Hanlin scholar Li Jiang demanded that Tutu Chengcui be demoted to thank the world.A minister named Duan Pingzhong simply said: To kill Tutu Chengcui!
But Li Chun just dismissed Tutu Chengcui's lieutenant lightly and demoted him to a military envoy.The emperor and his favorite eunuch did not get the victory they wanted, so they didn't want to lose anything.Li Chun knew the real reason for the defeat, and he didn't want to blame Tutu Chengcui at all.Tutu Chengcui is just a marionette in Li Chun's hands, a tool for gambling with bureaucrats.It didn't take long for Li Chun to be re-promoted as the general of the left guard, who knows how to serve and save trouble.
As long as the emperor is still there, the "shadow" of the emperor will definitely be projected on the ground of Daming Palace.
The debate surrounding the Uyghur marriage proposal shows that Li Chun and his ministers have diametrically opposite judgments on the overall situation; the appointment of Tutu Chengcui shows the source of the tension between the monarch and his ministers—contradictions on many specific issues are just reflections of these two major antagonisms .Historians who observe Li Chun from a distance can be generous with their compliments; but for the ministers who worked with him, Li Chun, with his great personality, may be far from ideal.These two examples provide a good introduction to the performance of the ministers in the Yuanhe Palace Change.
Li Chun used to be like a skilled rider, rhythmically relaxing the reins in his hand, making the minister restrain his temper, raise his hoof in the direction he imagined, and move forward.In more than ten years, from Shu to Wu, from the snowy Caizhou City to the unruly Ziqing Liting, a series of brilliant victories in the war against the vassals and towns in turn covered up, rather than eliminated, the relationship between the monarch and his ministers. differences.
Wu Yuanheng, the prime minister who was assassinated and died, had a cousin named Wu Ruheng. At this time, he sent a memorial, asserting: "After great achievements, desires are easy to live."
The complacent Li Chun ordered the Sixth Army to overhaul the Linde Palace.Both Zhang Fengguo and Li Wenyue, the commander of Youlongwu Army, believed that the foreign invaders were at the beginning of peace, so they built large-scale construction projects, and the soldiers were too hard, so they begged the prime minister to come forward to advise.When Li Chun knew about it, he was furious, and transferred Zhang Fengguo to Honglu Qing, and sent Li Wenyue out of Chang'an to serve as an envoy of the Weiyuan Camp.Immediately, the dredging of Longshou Pool and the construction of Chenghui Hall began one after another.The emperor didn't take into account the opinions of the ministers at all.In Li Chun's very self-expression, there are already various factors of self-disintegration.
"The monarch and his ministers are all laughing, and the family and country are sad for thousands of years."In the last days of the Yuanhe Dynasty, tragedies were unfolding.
The leader of the ministers is the prime minister.The prime minister of the Tang Dynasty was very dignified.When all officials visit, they must kneel down and salute.The prime minister receiving the ceremony only needs to stretch out his hand to help him, and he is known as "excellent etiquette".Therefore, the rank of the prime minister is extremely particular: generally speaking, the best is to enter the prime minister as the leader of Baitai, followed by the officials of the two provinces;
Li Chun likes to choose his prime minister from Hanlin scholars.Most of the Hanlin scholars in Yutang Golden Horse are from noble backgrounds and have outstanding literary talents.In the Hanlin Academy, they drafted edicts, familiarized themselves with the personnel and government affairs of the imperial court, and accumulated experience for future governance.The appointment of Hanlin scholars to ensure that the prime minister is always served by a well-educated person with a high status and a well-known literary name.Li Chun made this practice highly respected by scholar-bureaucrats an unwritten practice.In the Yuanhe Dynasty, most of the prime ministers had the experience of Hanlin scholars.Among the six people who were in the Imperial Academy with Bai Juyi, Pei Ji, Wang Ya, Du Yuanying, Cui Qun and Li Jiang paid homage to the chancellor successively.Only Bai Juyi Xiangyu.Later, when the retired poet went boating on the misty waves, he chanted melancholy:
For more than ten years, even if Li Chun's prime ministers were not from the Hanlin Academy, most of them came from high-ranking families. They were deeply respected and rarely questioned.Now, amidst the voices of opposition, Li Chun issued an edict to promote Huangfu Bo and Cheng Yi to prime ministers.
Like Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi, Cheng Yi is one of the "Eight Sima" of Yongzhen's innovation.When Liu Zongyuan was heading south in the direction of Yongzhou, he also embarked on the long road of moving left to Yuezhou.On the way, he was changed to Chenzhou Sima, and he was demoted by another level.However, while Liu Zongyuan was suffering for years in the miasma, Cheng Yi quickly left the cold Xiaoxiang.Under the sponsorship of Li Xun, the envoy of Salt and Iron, Cheng Yi returned to Yangzhou, and once again took up the post of Yangziliu, who he had served many years ago.His financial skills left a deep impression on people.Even the history books that have always belittled the "two kings and eight Sima" also admit that in the hands of Cheng Yi, "the malpractice of Jianghuai Qiangu has been eradicated in many ways."Without him going deep into Jiangbiao and discovering the source of wealth, there would be no magnificent scene of galloping horses on the Huaixi battlefield.
But Cheng Yi is still just a poor money official, still a remnant of Yongzhen.Due to the pressure of public opinion, Cheng Yi never set foot in the political affairs hall, let alone using the prime minister's seal and pen.After more than a month of paying homage to the prime minister, he asked himself to be a patrol envoy and traveled far to the northwest to avoid the discriminatory eyes of the ministers.Then, in the eyes of the Yongzhen Party members who were also suppressed and humiliated, what kind of image is Cheng Yi like?
One year after Cheng Yixuanma paid homage to the prime minister, Liu Zongyuan, who was old and sick, returned to the west with hatred in the smog.When writing the epitaph for him, Han Yu portrayed such an image with his pen.When a friend is in a good mood, he "shakes hands and expresses his lungs and liver, points to the sky and weeps, swears that he will not bear each other's responsibility, it is really credible"; when the friend is in trouble, it is he who turns against each other and falls into the trap.
It is generally believed that the words in "Liu Zihou's Epitaph" are general.However, some people say that Han Yu did not spare any pen and ink in Liu Zongyuan's epitaph, which is an allusion.
During the days of living in the south of the world, Liu Zongyuan sent one letter after another.The recipients include his friends, people he is not familiar with, and even his political enemies.Liu Zongyuan fancied that among these proud people, a pair of helping hands would be extended, so that he would not let himself die in a foreign country in desolation.It was his last chance for the late Cheng Yixuan to pay homage to the prime minister.However, today we did not see any clues that Liu Zongyuan turned to Cheng Yi for help.He would rather appeal to his political enemies who had attacked his father-in-law than to his former allies.In Liu Zongyuan's thick anthology, there is not a single poem about making friends with Cheng Yi.
How many unknown grievances and entanglements are there between the two old friends?
No wonder some people suspect that Cheng Yi is the person who "falls into the trap" described by Han Yu.Hu Yin thought that through the text phantom in "Hejian Biography", he saw the rampant and dirty world of eunuchs.But another point of view: the lecherous Hejian is actually Cheng Yi's incarnation:
In his early years, Cheng Yi served his father with utmost filial piety, and had a good reputation in Chang'an, just like that Hejian who kept quiet in his boudoir.Under the temptation and coercion of others, the pure He Jian fell.Yesterday's loving and lingering husband was regarded by her as an enemy who hindered her timely enjoyment, and she tried her best to get rid of him as soon as possible.When Cheng Yi threw himself into the embrace of political enemies and Qingyun found his way, Liu Zongyuan imagined himself as the husband who was ruthlessly abandoned by Hejian.Liu Zongyuan's indignation and contempt for Cheng Yi were permeated in the unsightly plot.He used the erotic text of "Hejian Biography" to warn the lustful Li Chun: How can a villain like Cheng Yi be a prime minister?
But Li Chun couldn't see through the serious theme under the hue.
Huangfu Po, who worshiped the Prime Minister at the same time as Cheng Yi, was even more of a villain who was denounced by thousands of people.When Ding's mother was worried, he dared to linger in Huajie and Liuxiang, without paying attention to public opinion at all.Over the past few years, Huangfu Ping recommended alchemists, colluded with eunuchs, eliminated dissidents, and even openly asked to reduce the salaries of internal and external ministers to support the country... All the property carved from the people was dedicated to the emperor as envy .When Li Chun was worried about the obsolete fabrics in Da Nei's warehouse, Huangfu Ping obediently mobilized the user's department bank, bought them at a high price, and supplied them to the border soldiers... After seeing how Li Chun treated the ministers as nothing, he didn't see them everywhere in the court hall. His icy eyes were on his heart.As long as the emperor likes it, there is nothing he dare not do.
An angry Pei Du stood up and wrote letters three times, each time more fiercely, pointing out that Huangfu Po and Cheng Yi were "market merchants" and "nice villains". phase.The conflict ended with Pei Du being driven out of Chang'an.
After the heroes who conquered Huaixi left sadly, Cui Qun became the final mediator between the emperor and his ministers.In the Hall of Yanying, Li Chun accidentally asked why Tang Xuanzong created the prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty in his early years, but caused the Anshi Rebellion in his later years.Cui Qun immediately said: People say that the Anlushan rebellion in the 14th year of Tianbao was the beginning of the turmoil; I think that in the 24th year of Kaiyuan, Tang Xuanzong dismissed Zhang Jiuling and appointed Li Linfu as a full-time minister, which was the watershed of the dynasty's prosperity and decline. .
Li Chun, who is so smart, of course understands that the watershed that Cui Qun talked about is Pei Du on one side and Huangfu Ping on the other.He smiled and said nothing.Where he couldn't see, there flashed Huangfu Bo's ferocious expression of gnashing his teeth.
After Huangfu Ping collected the Luopan color from the Da Nei warehouse and delivered it to the soldiers, it was broken by the wind and scattered easily.The army is raging.The worried Jiedushi couldn't suppress the angry soldiers, and almost died to thank the world.After the news reached Chang'an, panic enveloped the capital.Cui Qun immediately played the emperor.Huangfu Po, who was on the cusp of the storm, replied to Li Chun without changing his face: the court's food and clothing rewards for the frontier troops are the same as the old system.Today's situation is entirely due to Cui Qun's instigation.He gained fame himself, but let people focus their resentment on the emperor.
Huangfu Po also knew that Cui Qun couldn't be shot down by a cold arrow.In the darkness, he was still patiently looking for the chance of a fatal blow.
The wind and rain in Huaixi have stopped, and the haze in Ziqing is dissipating. After fourteen years of bloody and rainy washing, the broken mountains and rivers are almost completely new.Ministers obsessed with words began to plan to put an emblem on Li Chun to celebrate this unforgettable ZTE years.When drafting the emblem, Huangfu Pong proposed to add the word "filial piety".I don't know if it's because he is too bookish, or if he deliberately wants Huangfu to sing a different tune. Cui Qun said: The word "sage" in the honorary name already contains the meaning of "filial piety", and adding the word "filial piety" is suspected of being similar.The next day, Huangfu Piao said quietly to Li Chun: Cui Qun is the emperor's honorary title, and he is reluctant to use the word "filial piety".
One word brought back Li Chun's painful memories: the pale light, the corpse on the imperial couch, and the night bell of the sacred drum in Xingqing Palace... The unbearable past fourteen years ago left a deep impression on him. Knot.Li Chun, who is ashamed of the gods, is too sensitive to the word "filial piety".Huangfu Bo's words hit the weakest point in his heart.This time, Cui Qun could no longer stay in Chang'an.
Amidst the voices of regret from the ruling and opposition parties, Cui Qunwai was sent to Hunan as an observation envoy.Huangfu Po stood on the opposite side of the entire scholar-bureaucrat class, pushing the conflict between Li Chun and the minister to a new climax.
The ministers still vaguely remember that Li Chun carefully extracted the beautiful stories that happened between the Ming emperor and his ministers from nine classics including "Shangshu", "Historical Records", "Hanshu" and "Three Kingdoms", and compiled them into fourteen books. The chapter was written in ink drippingly on the screen.Ministers can always see six screens on the right side of the throne.This made them very happy.Bai Juyi, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, said happily that this is "the common people will be the teachers of future affairs, not only observing the images of the ancients." They imagined that one day, they would be like the virtuous ministers in the screen, and be written on their screens by later generations. .Today, ministers may still miss the six screens in the second year of Yuanhe and the figure in front of the screen.At some point, the screen has been removed.
In the 14th year of Yuanhe, when there was nothing to hide, there was a bit of a bleak atmosphere of "the city is full of wind and rain, and it is close to Chongyang".
At this time, Liu Mi collected herbs and worshiped Buddha bones.In order to find the legendary fairy grass, Li Chun asked Liu Mi to be the governor of Taizhou, and also gave him the golden fish and purple clothes that symbolized honor.When the admonishers expressed their opposition one after another, Li Chun said impatiently: "If you bother with the power of a county, the gods will live for a long time. How can a subject love your father!"
The ministers were suddenly speechless.Really can't find a suitable reason to refute the emperor.
Unexpectedly, Li Chun turned around and showed the same enthusiasm for offering Buddha bones.
According to legend, when the Buddha died under the Bodhi tree, he left behind his Buddha bone relic.One hundred and fifty years later, King Ashoka of the Mauryan Dynasty took the four liters of relics hidden by King Akko, together with the relics of Buddha bones buried elsewhere, and made 84,000 treasure boxes and 84,000 relics. The treasure cover is wrapped with 84,000 bolts of colorful satin.The magical Ashoka "served ghosts and gods and built 84,000 pagodas in one day."In China, there are five. "Hou Wei Zhi" records, "Qin State Qishan got one of them"; this is the Buddha bone of Famen Temple.In the fifth year of Zhenguan, the governor of Qizhou wrote to Emperor Taizong, saying that the underground palace "is opened in thirty years, and the army will stop when it is old."Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty (Li Shimin) enshrined Buddha bones in his bedroom on February 15th, which started the tradition of welcoming Buddha bones in Tang Dynasty.Since then, every thirty years, the palace welcomes the Buddha bone.Tang Taizong Zhenguan five years, Tang Gaozong (Li Zhi) Xianqing five years, Wu Zetian (Wu Zhao) Chang'an four years, Tang Suzong (Li Heng) Shangyuan first year, Tang Dezong Zhenyuan six years, plus Yuan Wei before Tang Dynasty In the second year, the second year of Renshou, and the 14th year of Yuanhe, it is the eighth time that Buddha bones have been honored.
Surrounded by the Shence Army and palace officials, Li Chun drove to Famen Temple to welcome the Buddha bone.
When the Buddha bones passed through the Guangshun Gate and were welcomed into the city, Chang'an fell into an unprecedented madness.On both sides of the long street, as far as the eye can see, there are golden flower tents and warm beds.The gold and silver treasure temples decorated with peacock feathers are one foot long for the small ones and two feet long for the large ones.Flying curtain flower sills and tile-wood steps carved out of incense sandalwood, covered with gold and silver.Hundreds of civilian husbands walked slowly along the long street, pulling precious tents and incense sticks.The strange aroma emitted by burning chalcedony permeated the air, and it did not dissipate for a long time.On both sides of the avenue in Chang'an, there are surging crowds.Countless people squeezed on both sides of the road, offering alms, even burning their heads and amputating their limbs in order to make offerings. At the feet of the solemn and silent Buddha, Li Chun directed an end-time scene of demons dancing wildly.
在群魔乱舞的佞佛图景中，紧锁起一双浓黑的眉。
几天后，墨迹未干的奏章送到了李纯案头。时任刑部侍郎的韩愈谈到了上古黄帝到禹，汤、文、武，没有佛的年月有多么美好。他告诉李纯，当东来的白马驮来一卷卷佛经后，美好时光一去不回。这位文豪嘲笑了三次舍身为佛寺的梁武帝，在位四十八年，却被叛将侯景围困在台城，饥肠漉漉地死去。最后，韩愈骄傲地宣称，如果因为他的狂妄言语，佛陀要降给人间灾难，就让所有灾难都加在他一人身上……
冷峻的古文中，其实也掩藏着一种匪夷所思的狂热，反对狂热的狂热。它深深地刺激了李纯的神经。李纯仿佛看到白发苍苍的梁武帝奄奄一息，僵卧在台城冰冷的地上。不，这不是真的！难道十四年春意昂然的长安，也要换作“六朝如梦鸟空啼”的凄美风景？——这是最恶毒的诅咒！
走火入魔的李纯在深宫里咬牙切齿。这么多年以来，无论他与大臣们有怎样的分歧，也从来不随便诛杀大臣。今天，这种克制似乎再也坚持不下去了。在电光火石的一瞬间，当时还是宰相的裴度和崔群拽住了李纯紧握屠刀的手，生生把韩愈从死亡的阴影中拉了出来。
几天后，韩愈步履蹒跚地踏上夕贬潮阳的八千里路。
恍惚间，仿佛背后有人在呼唤。蓦然回首，原来是侄孙韩湘长亭相送。
韩愈还记得自己升任刑部侍郎的那天，贺客盈门。寒暄之际，他突然看见混迹贺客中的侄孙，不禁一怔，随即笑开了。多年来，韩湘云游山水间，寻仙访道，象一抹天边的白云，下一刻就不知飘向何方。两人已经暌违多年了。韩湘翩然上前，给叔祖见礼。见到玉树临风的侄孙，韩愈真是说不出的欢喜，拉住他的手，问长问短。等叔祖说完后，韩湘突然问了韩愈一个问题：是否愿意抛弃着红尘的名与利，和自己一道，去过野鹤闲云的神仙生活？
韩愈瞪大了眼睛，望着侄孙，仿佛不认识他一样。自己如坐春风的得意时刻，怎么问起如此扫兴的事来？
韩湘也知道，此时此地，韩愈哪里听得进去他的话。笑了笑，不说什么了。樽俎灯烛间，筵席已开。旧族新贵，纷纷落座。酒过三巡后，韩湘突然站起身来，说自己要表演一个戏法，助一助酒兴。在座诸位轰然叫好。韩湘矜持地笑了笑，随手从席上取过一个盆，走到庭前，矮身从地上抓起三五捧泥土，放进盆中。众人顿时屏住呼吸，等待着奇迹的发生。
须臾，目光敏锐的人早看见一点如豆绿芽破土而出。不过一盏茶时间，小芽迎风茁长，抽青枝，舒绿叶，骤然开出两朵牡丹来。
在一片啧啧称奇的声音中，韩愈走到牡丹前，细细地端详。花瓣上，隐约写有一行小诗：
今天，杳杳无踪的韩湘又悄然出现在古道旁，为叔祖送上一程。以美玉闻名的蓝田古称“秦楚之要冲，三辅之屏障”，境内的蓝关古道勾连着长安与云水苍苍的南方。象韩愈这样被谪贬的重臣，出了繁华长安，取道蓝田城南的山路，过蓝桥关，就是武关了。出了武关，极目可见便是暮霭沉沉、楚天寥落。面对这莽莽秦岭，巍巍蓝关，韩愈终于读懂了那片牡丹花瓣。夕阳残照里，白发萧萧的失意人挥一挥手，作别自己的侄孙……
韩愈领会到自己的伤心结局，谴谪他的天子却怎么也看不透自己坏到不能再坏的结局。仙家丹药伤害了李纯的身体。元和十五年春，他已卧床多日了。
我们忽然又想起那位荒唐的大明天子了。他也是孤零零地在病榻上度过生命里的最后春天。正德十六年春，大臣们为选择新的皇帝忙忙碌碌，独独把垂死的他遗忘在清冷的豹房里。他们想抛开大臣，去恣意而为，终归被大臣们无情地遗弃。反噬的危险已然不远，李纯却不得不孤独地面对它。
夤夜里，那些曾经被李纯驯服的，露出了白森森的牙齿。
野枭不知何时落满长安城内的松桂，仿佛从空气中嗅出什么似的，沉默地等待着夜幕降临……史书的册页上溅满了干燥的灰白鸟粪。
