Chapter 296: The traitorous and loyal minister Han Yanxuan

Song Guangzong was suspicious by nature and distrusted his father Xiaozong's surrounding ministers, so he became increasingly insane two years after he ascended the throne. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info After Xiaozong died of illness, Guangzong refused to accept mourning, and the city of Lin'an was chaotic and the situation was unstable. Zhao Ruyu and Zhao Yanyu of the clan began to secretly plan to set up a new monarch.

In the end, the Empress Dowager Li issued an edict, Guangzong was enshrined as the emperor, and his son Zhao Kuo ascended the throne, which was for Ningzong, changed to Yuan Qingyuan, and six years later, Guangzong died. Shi Zai Ningzong was not wise and had a low IQ, and Ningzong was once manipulated by two powerful ministers, Han Yanxuan and Shi Miyuan.

During the reign of Song Ningzong, Han Yanxuan posthumously crowned Yue Fei as the king of Hubei, and then cut off the prince of Qin Hui and changed his nickname to Miao Chou. What does it mean to be ugly? Absurd, ugly. For a time, it was recited in temples and folklore, and it was very happy.

However, this person who rehabilitated Yue Fei Zhaoxue ended up with Qin Hui more than Qin Hui, he was assassinated, and after the burial, he pried open the coffin, cut off the head and sent it to the Jin people, and was listed in the "Biography of the Traitorous Minister" in the History of the Song Dynasty.

It's really a drama within a play, it's more dramatic than a drama, if the three of them meet in the underworld, I don't know what Qin Hui and Yue Fei will say to Han Yanxuan? Is Han Yanxuan really a traitor?

Han Yanxuan's origin is not small, his ancestral home is Anyang, Henan, he is the great-grandson of Han Qi, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, and his mother is the sister of Empress Wu of Song Gaozong. Married to Empress Wu's niece, childless, and her grandniece is Empress Gongshu of Song Ningzong, not only the third generation of officials, but also the background of the royal family.

With these two identities, Han Yanxuan entered the officialdom. A few years later, the official went to Ruzhou to defend the envoy, and he knew the affairs of the cabinet, and he was five products. He is the head of the Cabinet Division, who is responsible for ceremonial affairs such as court meetings, tours, banquets, civil and military officials, and court meetings with foreign vassal states, which is equivalent to the director of the Emperor's Office, and also has some duties similar to those of the Central Guard Bureau.

If you look at it now, it is too late for officials from all over the country to stammer, but in the Song Dynasty, the scribes didn't buy it very much, to put it bluntly, he was a pug by the emperor's side, and there was no important government affairs handed over to him to deal with, so most of the courtiers didn't take him seriously.

Han Yanxuan is strong-blooded, and often visits various yamen, but he is all given a face, and some officials even count him harshly: "There is nothing to do here with you, the director of the reception office, you should eat, drink, and play." It made Han Yan disgraced and very depressed.

The opportunity finally came, Song Guangzong was ill, it was a psychological problem, and soon his condition deteriorated, most of them were intermittent mental illness, and he was unable to go to the court to deal with government affairs for a long time. After the death of Kwangjong's father, Hyojong, on the day he presided over the funeral, he had a psychotic attack and was unable to perform his duties. At that time, Zhao Ruyu, the prime minister and the emperor's clan, wanted to abolish Guangzong, and Han Yanxuan, the director of the emperor's office, suddenly became important. He hit it off with Zhao Ruyu, and forced Guangzong to give up the imperial throne to his son Zhao Kuo, who was Ningzong.

Han Yanxuan, who is only a fifth-grade official, thinks that he has made a great contribution in this operation, and he also has the identity of a relative. How do you know that Zhao Ruyu looked down on him at all, and said: "I am a clan, you are a relative, doing this is originally our business, what credit do you have to talk about?"

When Han Yanxuan heard this, he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood: "Animal, don't take credit, how did your turtle son get promoted to become the prime minister? Lao Tzu is still a little five-grade official, and grandma is a bear!"

Han Yanxuan was finally promoted, and the Yizhou Observer and the Privy Council all accepted the decree. Although the Observer was a fictitious position, equivalent to an alternate member, the Privy Council undertook to give him access to the center of imperial power, to take charge of the internal affairs of the Privy Council, to inspect the merits and demerits of officials below the head of the Privy Council, and to make up for them.

The opportunity came again, and this time it was Zhu Xi who gave him an opportunity. Zhu Xi is a popular person in the Prime Minister Zhao Ruyu group, and was elected as Ning Zong's attendant, that is, the teacher who gave lectures to the emperor. According to the regulations, lectures are given in the morning and evening on a single day, and there is a rest on both days, and Zhu Xi requests that he give lectures every morning and evening regardless of single and double days and holidays. The emperor had just ascended the throne and was fledgling, so he had to agree.

The emperor was in his twenties, and he had to attend classes with such a high intensity and deal with government affairs, so how could he have time to play? After a while of "The Analects" and a "Moment" of "University", it was not long before the emperor got tired of studying. Han Yanxuan saw the emperor's mind and said bad things about Zhu Xi in front of the emperor.

This Zhu Xi is an old master who may have a bit of a problem with emotional intelligence, but he actually took the opportunity to give a lecture to the emperor to meet many times and discuss the affairs of the imperial court.

It's okay to have opinions on government affairs, but his old gentleman didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he pointed the finger at Han Yanxuan. Han Yanxuan was fighting with the emperor hotly, and before Zhu Xi finished the "University", he was dismissed by Ning Zong's edict and said to the courtiers: "What Zhu Xi said is not available. Since then, the contradiction between Zhao Ruyu and Han Yanxuan has become public.

Han Yanxuan received the full support of the main battle faction, especially the emperor's most admired governor Jing Bo, Zhao Ruyu was deposed from the court, and was impeached for plotting to usurp power, and died in Yongzhou.

Han Yanxuan took power and began to liquidate Zhao Ruyu's school of science, instructing his subordinates to search for the crimes of the school of science represented by Zhu Xi. Turning science into pseudo-science, Zhu Xi was demoted and forced to confess his guilt, saying that he was a grass and grass, and his chapters and sentences were rotten. Generally admit that they have fornicated with the enemy's wealth, keep nuns, etc., and say that they should deeply reflect on the past and find out what is today, and express that they have seriously thought about it, repented, and changed it. Zhu Xi's disciples were scattered as birds and beasts.

Han Yanxuan did not give up, and all those who opposed him were all thrown into the pseudo-school, and a total of more than 50 officials at or above the department level were dealt with. These ministers who are dealt with are not necessarily the main and factional.

After eliminating the opponent, Han Yanxuan began to plan the Northern Expedition, and the Northern Expedition had to create public opinion, so he carried Yue Fei and Qin Hui out, completely rehabilitated Yue Fei, and sent Qin Hui into the eighteenth layer of hell. The evaluation of Yue Fei and Qin Hui has always been the focus of the Southern Song Dynasty War and the controversy between the two factions, and Han Yanxuan's depreciation of Qin Hui was actually a heavy blow to the forces of the main peace faction. Under the auspices of Han Yanxuan, the Southern Song Dynasty officially went to war against the Jin.

Zhu Xi and Xin Qiji, the two of them are buddies, as we all know, Xin Qiji has always been a firm position of the main battle faction, when he moved to Leadshan County from Shangrao, Zhu Xi wrote an inscription for Xin Qiji's fasting room: "Self-denial and revenge, dreaming of sleeping at night." A few months before his death, Zhu Xi also wrote to Xin Qiji, urging him to deny himself and return to his courtesy.

What does Zhu Xi mean? This sentence is a famous saying of Confucius, which means that individual cultivation should be centered on the collective. In other words, when there is a conflict between personal selfish desires and social fair behavioral norms, individual selfish desires should be restrained and social norms should be chosen.

But don't forget, Xin Qiji dreamed of wanting to fight back, and the words he made:

Drunk to pick up the lamp to look at the sword, dreaming back to blow the horn company camp. Eight hundred miles of fire, fifty strings turned over the outside sound, and the battlefield was an autumn soldier. The horse-made Lu was fast, and the bow was like a thunderbolt. But the king of the world, won the name before and after his death, and the pity happened in vain.

This is a dream written about him, how hearty, Jin Ge Iron Horse, smiling proudly on the battlefield. Zhu Xi asked him to restrain his selfish desires, and regarded his idea of fighting back as his own selfish desires, to put it bluntly, he persuaded him to give up the idea of fighting back. Of course, Zhu Xi's words do not mean that he does not want to recover the country, but he just thinks that the current national strength is still weak and he needs to strengthen the country. Therefore, if Han Yanxuan wants to go on the Northern Expedition, he must defeat Zhu Xi, the leader of the ideology.

However, as early as a month before Ning Zong's edict against Jin, Wu Xi, the deputy envoy of Sichuan Xuanfu, had already fornicated with the Jin people in Sichuan, plotting to rebel and secede Sichuan, become the king of Shu, and fantasize about performing another song of the Three Kingdoms. This Wu sent a guest to the Jin Dynasty and secretly offered the four states of Guanwaijie, Cheng, He, and Feng, on the condition that the Jin Dynasty would crown him as the king of Shu.

The main force of the gold attack was distributed in Jianghuai and Sichuan, in the shape of two wings, and there was a problem on the Sichuan side, and the Northern Expedition failed. Officials of the DPRK and China have seized the opportunity to carry out large-scale activities to attack and slander the main battle faction headed by Prime Minister Han Yanxuan.

Shi Miyuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was the main representative of the main peace faction in the court, and after the death of Empress Han, Ning Zong established Yang as empress, and Han Yanxuan once objected. Empress Yang had a lot of resentment towards Han Yanxuan, and politically she advocated peace talks with her brother Yang Cishan. Shi Miyuan secretly sent a letter, asking to kill Han Yanzhou, and Yang Hou instructed the prince to inquire about the book, saying that Han Yanxuan would be in danger of losing the country if he continued to fight like this.

Ning Zong did not express his position, and Empress Yang, Yang Cishan and Shi Miyuan secretly colluded and conspired to secretly poison Han Yanxuan. They instructed Xia Zhen, the former official of the Chinese army and the former secretary of the palace, to carry out an assassination operation when Han Yanxuan was in power, and only reported it to Ning Zong afterwards.

In full compliance with the requirements of the Jin people, the Lords and factions cut off the heads of Han Yanxuan and another official of the main battle faction, Su Shidan, and sent envoys to the Jin Dynasty, all of whom accepted the conditions put forward by the Jin Dynasty, with an increase of 300,000 coins and an indemnity of 3 million taels, and the Jin army withdrew from the occupied area.

The Southern Song Dynasty once again bent its knees, which was considered to have completed the peace talks, when the Tai students wrote poems and sarcastically said: "Since ancient times, Herong has great power, and I have not heard of the head of the letter can be safe." The liver and brain of the living soul are empty, and the grandfather is wronged and hateful. ”

In the 14 years before and after Han Yanxuan's reign, he was powerful and powerful, and he once fought against Zhao Ruyu and his party, launched the Northern Expedition, insisted on resisting the enemy, and was assassinated by the main peace faction. His integrity and achievements are remarkable. But because Han Yanxuan attacked Taoism strongly, he was cursed by Cheng and Zhu's disciples for a long time. "The Biography of the Traitorous Minister" juxtaposes Han Yanxuan with Qin Hui, Jia Yidao and others, which is inevitably unfair.

Ironically, the Jin people have great respect and admiration for Han Yanxuan, admiring his integrity, and the history contains: "Han Yanxuan was the first to reach the captive realm, and the captive Taiwan exhortation article said that he was loyal to his country, Miao was in his body, and was named the Marquis of Loyal Miao." ”

Chung Miu means to be loyal to one's own country, but to think too little about oneself. The enemy country commented like this, and I don't know what the Southern Song Dynasty's ambitions were like. The evaluation of the Jin people is pertinent, Han Yanxuan is not a traitor, but a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty.