Chapter 86 7. Reform is to beat drums and spread flowers

It is said that Fan Xichao, the commander of the Right Shence, took office, and Han Tai, the marching commander, was beating the drums.The two led their men into the Yasi and ordered people to beat the drums. Drumming and passing flowers, this game was created in this way.The thing is like this, according to the military law, the three-way drum rang, and the army leaders beheaded those who arrived late, so Fan Xichao sharpened his knife quickly, and planned to kill one or two eunuch groups first after the Shence Army arrived. His confidant, with the head to establish the prestige.Once this process is successfully completed, military power will be completely in his hands, and the reform of the military system will be successfully completed.

But to Fan Xichao's and Han Tai's surprise, after the sound of the three-way drum, they saw that the gate of the Yasi was deserted and deserted, and there was no one to be found—not a single military leader came. check in. No one came, so what to do? Fan Xichao and Han Tai stared wide-eyed. If no one came, reforms had to be made.Come to think of it, the military appointments of the two of them were decided by the reformers at their secret meeting. The eunuch group must have blocked the news from the army, and none of the generals in the army knew about it, so no one came to report.It doesn't matter if you don't know, immediately send someone to send a plan to the generals in the army to let them know about it, come quickly.

So Fan Xichao sent his family members to rush to the barracks with a plan in hand, and handed it to the commander at the door.Commander asked: What is this stuff?The messenger replied: This is the plan issued by the Lord You Shence Commanding Army. Those who receive this plan should rush to Xingsi Dianmao to report. The three-way drum has sounded, and those who do not arrive will be killed.You listen—just listen to Yasi's direction, Fan Xichao is ordering people to beat the drum again to intensify the tense atmosphere. I don't want the leader to ask: "You people are doing this, does the father-in-law in the palace know?"

The messenger was furious: What does this have to do with the eunuchs?The army is the army of the country, not the watchdog of eggless eunuchs, how can they obey their orders? The commander laughed and said, "I can't tell you nerds, so I'll leave the plan to you."He conveniently threw the strategy in his hand to the next commander. The next leader received the plan and threw it to the next leader: If I don’t go, whoever wants to go will go... The next leader will pass on the plan: I won’t go either, just wait until the drum sounds, Whoever makes the planning will go... At this point, drumming and passing flowers officially began.The three-way drum in the Yasi over there was in a hurry like a shower, and the generals in the army here quickly passed the plan, and there was a sound of a gong, and the three-way drum passed, and the plan was just thrown into a In the paws of monkeys juggling by the roadside.

No one was called, and the messenger returned dejected, announcing the complete failure of the reformation. The failure of the teacher completely exposed the weakness of the reformers, so the eunuch group ordered the army to write letters in turn, strongly demanding the destruction of the Erwangbasima reactionary group.At this time, Shunzong was seriously ill and could not speak, but the two leaders of the reformist faction, Wang Shuwen asked to resign because of his mother's funeral, and Wang Ni was inexplicably suffering from the same strange disease as Dezong Shunzong, and suddenly his mouth was crooked. Xie twitched all over, which was equivalent to being useless.

It is obvious that behind the eunuch group there are still people from the magic world lurking, specifically to make things difficult for reformers. In this regard, Ba Sima lost his supporters and was packaged and exiled at one time. The 146-day reform was a big failure, and two writers were accomplished, and three masterpieces that were passed down through the ages were harvested. The first writer who achieved success was Liu Zongyuan.As early as the beginning of the reform, he wrote an essay: "The article is very penetrating and has obvious inspirational colors.The article begins with a snake catcher who went into the mountain to catch the black and white snake.The snake catcher's grandfather and father were both bitten to death by the strange snake, but he still went into the mountain to catch the snake without hesitation.Why?Because of the difficulty of survival - the tyranny is fiercer than the black matter and the white chapter is also the strange snake.

In short, the meaning of this article is to cry out to the whole society: tyranny is fiercer than snakes, and the country's political system has come to a time when it must be changed. But just as we have seen, the political reform finally failed under the strong resistance of the eunuchs. Liu Zongyuan, who was inexplicably sad and indignant, wrote another essay titled "Injury Zhongyong". "Injury Zhongyong" tells about a child named Zhongyong, who is super smart, able to write poems and draw at a young age, and can speak well. The child's father tied a rope around his son's neck and led the child through the streets. ——Dare to play with this child as a monkey.When meeting people, the child's father will let the child perform and compose poems, and then take a plate to collect money on the spot.But the money was collected, and the child's genius suddenly shrank, his IQ shrank sharply, and he couldn't write poetry anymore.

Obviously, this unlucky boy who was teased like a monkey was a metaphor for Shunzong Li Song's life.His whole life was like this, he was an intelligent young man, he fought decisively in front of the two armies when he was young, and when it was time for him to fight on the dragon chair, he himself was suddenly finished. All in all, writers don't swear by a single dirty word. If you don't know the history of Liu Zongyuan's reform, then you won't know the purpose of his writing this essay. After the success of the first litterateur who benefited from the reformation, the second came out.

Poet, Liu Yuxi. Liu Yuxi was demoted to the riverside, and the magistrate bullied him, pasted up the windows with yellow paper, and refused to let him see the scenery outside.So Liu Yuxi excitedly inscribed a pen and wrote an ultra-short but eloquent "Humble Room Inscription". The article said: If the mountain is not high, it will be famous if there are immortals; if the water is not deep, it will be spirited if there are dragons.The moss marks are green on the upper level, and the grass color is green on the curtain.Talk and laugh with ru, no contacts STOMATOLOGY.You can tune the plain piano and read the golden scriptures.There is no chaotic ears of silk and bamboo, and no labor of case.Zhuge Lu in Nanyang, Ziyun Pavilion in Xishu.Confucius said: "Why is there such a thing as shabby?"

This small short article is filled with a spirit of optimism, so it has become a good inspirational article for the unlucky scholars in the future.But in fact, Liu Yuxi was just having fun in bitterness. Before he was kicked out of the capital, the woman he loved was taken away by the prime minister as a sex slave, and he was exiled to a small dark room. Unscrupulous abuse and ridicule.As for the final result, we know that Liu Yuxi, a great talent, has never made a name for himself since then.So this article is nothing more than trying to put out the last tears and humiliation in a desperate situation, to add some embarrassment to his enemies.

Liu Yuxi never became famous again, because Shunzong Li Song's condition became more and more serious.At this time, he was surrounded by eunuchs and was forced to give up his seat to his son Li Chun for his life, and he died soon.As of the time of his death, he had only stayed in the position of emperor for seven months. But what is certain is that Li Song should have died naturally, not by the eunuch's murder.But his son, the next Tang Emperor Xianzong Li Chun, succeeded in making himself the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty to die at the hands of eunuchs.