Empress Jia wanted to abolish the crown prince Sima Shu (yù).

Soon after, Empress Jia asked her to write an article praying to the gods, which contained the meaning of rebellion, and asked the prince to copy it when he was drunk, and present it to Emperor Hui. Emperor Hui met with the ministers in the Shiqian Palace, and showed the prince's manuscript to the ministers, and everyone did not dare to speak.

Only Zhang Huajin said, "This is a great disaster for the country." Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, every time he deposes the emperor, it will always cause turmoil, and the Great Jin Dynasty has not owned the world for a long time, so I hope that Your Majesty will consider this matter carefully. ”

Empress Jia understood that Zhang Hua and others had a firm will to protect the crown prince, so they asked for the prince to be removed from the concubine, and Emperor Hui agreed with Empress Jia's opinion.

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When Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, was the general of Zhenxi, he disturbed the Guanzhong region and made the Qiang rebel, and Emperor Hui made Sima Wei, the king of Liang (

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g) Replace him. Someone persuaded Zhang Hua to say, "King Zhao is greedy and mediocre, trusts Sun Xiu, and messes up wherever he goes, while Sun Xiu is cunning and cunning, and he is the hero of traitors." Now you can let King Liang kill Sun Xiu, so that half of King Zhao's strength will be cut, so as to give Guan You's people an explanation, isn't it great? ”

Zhang Hua agreed with him, and Sima Wei also agreed.

But Sun Xiu's friend Xin Ran said to Sima Wei again, "Di Qiang's own rebellion was not caused by Sun Xiu." ”

Sun Xiu was thus spared death. After Sima Lun returned to Beijing, he flattered Jia, hoping to record Shang Shushi, and later asked Ren Shang Shu Ling. Both Zhang Hua and Pei (wěi) insisted that it was not possible, so Sima Lun and Sun Xiu regarded Zhang Hua as their enemy.

At the beginning, there was a mulberry tree in Zhuangwu County that Zhang Hua had turned into a cypress tree, and those who were proficient in divination thought it was a bad omen. There have been many yokai in his residence and official office.

Zhang Hua's youngest son, Zhang Wei, persuaded Zhang Hua to abdicate and retire because of the fragmentation of the Zhongtai star.

Zhang Hua didn't listen and said, "The way of heaven is unpredictable, and you can only cultivate virtue to respond to the changes of the sky." It's better to wait and see and leave it to fate. ”

In April of the first year of Yongkang (300), after Sima Lun and Sun Xiu were about to depose Jia, Sun Xiu asked Sima Ya to go to see Zhang Hua overnight and told him, "King Zhao wants to work with you to support the imperial court and eliminate harm for the world, so he sent me to inform you." ”

Zhang Hua refused.

Sima Ya said angrily, "The knife is going to be on the neck, do you still say such things!"

After saying that, he left without looking back.

Soon, when Zhang Hua was resting in bed during the day, he dreamed that the house suddenly collapsed, and he woke up with disgust, and a coup d'état occurred that night, Sima Lun falsely claimed that Emperor Hui had an edict to summon Zhang Hua into the palace, and Zhang Hua was arrested together with Pei Yi.

When Zhang Hua was about to die, he said to Zhang Lin, "Are you going to murder loyal ministers?"

Zhang Lin claimed that he had an edict and accused Zhang Hua of saying, "As the prime minister, you have the responsibility of the world, and the prince was deposed, but you can't die for integrity, why is this?" ”

Zhang Hua said, "When Shi Qiandian discussed this matter, I tried my best to dissuade it, this is well known, it's not that I don't admonish!"

Zhang Lin said, "If the advice is not obeyed, why not be inferior?" ”

Zhang Hua had nothing to answer.

In a moment, the messenger came and said, "There is an edict to kill you." ”

Zhang Hua said, "I am an old minister of the first emperor, and my heart is like a pill." I'm not afraid of death, I'm only afraid that the royal family will have a great disaster, and the disaster is unpredictable!"

He was slain in the south of the horse road in the front temple, and destroyed his three tribes, and died at the age of sixty-nine.

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There is no one in the government and the opposition who does not grieve and grieve.

After hearing the news of Zhang Hua's murder, Sima Yanzhang, the captain of Xirong, went alone to touch Zhang Hua's body and cried bitterly, saying, "I persuaded you to abdicate and you refused, but now you really can't be spared, this is fate!" ”

Liu Song, the secretary of the ministry, also cried very sadly after learning that Zhang Hua had been killed.

When Zhang Hua was fifty-three years old, his wife Liu died of illness, and he never remarried, and then, he and Qiao'er, the advocate daughter of Chang Advocate Pavilion, got along, this Qiao'er can write poetry, and the two get along very well, even if they are literary friends. Later, Qiao'er gave birth to a son for him. Zhang Hua kept this matter secret, and only his friend Liu Song knew about it.

Zhang Hua was convicted of "destroying the three tribes", and his two sons, Zhang Yi and Zhang Yun, were killed together with him. Thanks to Qiao'er having a son for him, he was able to pass it on, otherwise, the Tang Dynasty would not have that famous minister Zhang Jiuling.

When Liu Song sacrificed to him, he said happily to his Lingyou, "Maoxian, you still have descendants!"

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In the first year of Yongning (301), Sima Lun and Sun Xiu were killed, and Sima Jian, the king of Qi, was assisted by him, and Zhiyu, the secretary and supervisor, wrote to Sima Jian, saying:

"Soon after Zhang Hua's death, I entered the Zhongshu Province and got a draft of Zhang Hua's reply to the edict when he was the first emperor. The first emperor asked Zhang Hua if he could shoulder the heavy responsibility of assisting the country in future affairs, and Zhang Hua replied, "If you have both talent and virtue and are close to Your Majesty, it is better to be the king of Qi Sima You (Sima Jian's father), and you should let him stay in Beijing to pacify the country." His faithful scheming, his frank words, which were discovered only after his death, were convincing, and were not comparable to those who went with the flow and stole peace.

Those who talked about him accused Zhang Hua of being in the 愍 (mǐ).

When Prince Huai was deposed, he couldn't speak out about court disputes. At that time, the person who gave the direct advice would die for the sin of disobedience. The Prophets taught us that those who die without profit cannot be blamed for not dying. So Yan (ya

As the Zhengqing of the Qi State, Ying did not die for the monarch in the disaster of Cui Zhu; Ji Za is a vassal of the state of Wu, and he does not argue about the principle of disobedience and obedience. He who tries his best to follow reason and still succeeds is not reproached by the teachings of the saints. ”

Therefore, Sima Jian asked Emperor Hui to rehabilitate Zhang Hua and others and posthumously present the official title. The ministers had different opinions when they discussed, and most people believed that Zhang Hua's murder was an unjust case.

Zhu Dao, the minister of the Zhuangwu State, asked Sima Yi (yì), the king of Changsha, to restore Zhang Hua's title, but everyone had different opinions and was inconclusive for a long time.

**In the second year (303), Emperor Hui issued an edict to rehabilitate Zhang Hua, restore the officials of Zhang Hua's servants, Zhongshujian, Sikong, Zhuangwu County, and Guangwu Hou County, and return the confiscated property, seals, and Fu Ce, and send envoys to pay tribute.

Knowing that he still had a concubine, he sent someone to find Qiao'er, and his title was inherited by this concubine, so Zhang Hua's bloodline was passed on in a positive way.

At the beginning, the Jiangnan celebrity Lu Ji brothers had high ambitions, thinking that they were famous people in Eastern Wu, and when they first arrived in Luoyang, they despised the people of the Central Plains. Until they met Zhang Hua, the Lu brothers felt like they were familiar at first sight, admired his virtue and demeanor, and treated each other with the etiquette of a teacher.

After Zhang Hua was killed, Lu Ji wrote a 诔 (lěi) text for him, and wrote "Yongde Fu" to mourn him.

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Now I have found seven anecdotal allusions about Zhang Hua, two of which are very tasteful, recorded here for play:

"Twin Swords and Dragons":

At the beginning, when the state of Wu was not destroyed, there was often purple gas between the fighting star and the bull star, and people who believed in Taoism thought that this was a symbol that the state of Wu was strong and could not be conquered, only Zhang Hua disagreed. After the pacification of the state of Wu, the purple qi became more obvious.

Zhang Hua heard that Lei Huan, a native of Yuzhang, was proficient in celestial phenomena, so he invited Lei Huan to live with him, avoiding others and telling him, "Let's go to investigate the celestial phenomena together, and we can know the good luck and evil in the future." ”

The two climbed the stairs to look up at the celestial phenomenon, Lei Huan said, "I have been observing for a long time, and there is a very unusual atmosphere between the fighting stars and the bull stars. ”

Zhang Hua said, "What kind of auspicious sign is this? ”

Lei Huan said, "It is the essence of the sword, which runs through the sky." ”

Zhang Hua said, "You're right. When I was a teenager, there was a man who said that when I was over sixty, I would be the third prince and should be given a sword. This will probably be fulfilled. ”

So he asked, "In which county is the sword?" ”

Lei Huan said, "In Fengcheng in Yuzhang. ”

Zhang Hua said, "I want to wronged you to be an official in Fengcheng and secretly look for this sword together, is it okay?" ”

Lei Huan agreed.

Zhang Hua was overjoyed and immediately appointed Lei Huan as the commander of Fengcheng County.

After Lei Huan arrived in Fengcheng, he excavated the foundation of the prison roof, and when he dug more than four zhang, he found a stone box, which emitted an unusual brilliance, and there were two swords in the box, and the words were engraved on the swords, one Longquan, one Tai'a.

That night, the purple gas between the bullfights disappeared.

Lei Huan wiped the two swords with the soil under the north rock of Nanchang West Mountain, and the light emitted was gorgeous.

Fill a large basin with water and place a sword on it, and it looks dazzling.

Lei Huan sent someone to send one of the swords and the northern rock soil to Zhang Hua, leaving a sword to use for himself.

Someone said to Lei Huan, "If you get two handfuls but only give one handful, can you hide it from Zhang Gong?"

Lei Huan said, "This dynasty is going to be in chaos, and Zhang Gong is going to be killed in the chaos." This sword should be hung over the tomb tree of Xu Jun (Xu Zhi). This is a supernatural thing, which will eventually turn into something else, and will not be worn by people forever. ”

Zhang Hua thought that the soil of Nanchang was not as good as Huayin terracotta, so he wrote to Lei Huan and said, "Looking at the sword text carefully, this sword is a cadre, and the Mo Ye that matches it, why didn't it be sent?" Although the two swords are separated, they are born gods, but they will meet after all. ”

Therefore, he gave Lei Huan a pound of Huayin terracotta. Lei Huan wiped the sword with Huayin soil, and the sword was even brighter.

After Zhang Hua was killed, the sword disappeared.

After the death of Lei Huan, his son Lei Hua was engaged in the state, once with a sword through Yanpingjin, the sword suddenly jumped out of the waist and fell into the water, Lei Hua let people into the water to find the sword, has not been able to find it, only to see two dragons each several feet long, coiled in the water, there are patterns on the body, the sword seeker left in fear.

After a while, the water shone brightly, the waves were roaring, and the sword was gone.

Lei Hua sighed, "The statement that the ancestor turned into something else, and the discussion that Zhang Gong will eventually meet, can be regarded as a verification today." ”

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"Capture the Fox Charm":

According to the record of "Sou Shen Ji": When Zhang Hua was the Sikong, there was a fox with mottled fur in front of the tomb of King Yanzhao at that time, which lived for a long time and could change, so it became a scholar and wanted to visit Zhang Hua.

It asked Huabiao in front of the tomb and said, "With my talent, can I go to meet Zhang Sikong?"

Huabiao said, "You can be good at speaking, there is nothing you can't do, but Zhang Gong is wise and erudite, I'm afraid you will be difficult to master, and you will definitely be insulted if you go, and you probably won't be able to come back." Not only will you lose the essence of your thousand-year-old cultivation, but it will also cause me a lot of calamity. ”

The fox didn't listen to it, so he took the name card to meet Zhang Hua.

Zhang Hua looked at him as young and talented, his complexion was as white as jade, and his demeanor was elegant and moving, and he valued him very much.

So I talked to him about the text and the relationship between name and reality, and Zhang Hua had never heard such remarks.

Then commented on the history of the previous dynasties, explored the essence of the hundred schools of thought, talked about the profound places of Lao Zhuang's doctrine, revealed the elegant and wonderful meaning, summarized the ways of the ancient sages, penetrated astronomy and geography, admonished various schools of Confucianism, and criticized various rituals.

Zhang Hua sighed, "How can there be such a teenager in the world!" If it's not a ghost, it must be a vixen. ”

So he cleaned the couch and asked him to stay, and arranged for someone to defend it.

The fox said, "You should respect the Magi, be tolerant of all, reward the talented and sympathize with the weak, how can you be jealous of others being learned?" Is this the kind of love that Mozi advocates? ”

After speaking, he asked to leave, Zhang Hua had already sent someone to guard the door and couldn't go out.

After a while, the fox said to Zhang Hua, "You must be suspicious of me by setting up soldiers at the door." I fear that the people of the world will curl up their tongues and not speak, and the resourceful will not dare to enter when they look at your door. I deeply regret it. ”

Zhang Hua didn't answer, but he made people defend more tightly.

At this time, Zhang Hua's friend Fengcheng County ordered Lei Huan to visit Zhang Hua, and Zhang Hua told him about it. "If you doubt him, why don't you let the hounds try him?" ”

Zhang Hua then asked someone to call the hunting dog to try, and the fox didn't look a little scared when he saw the hunting dog.

The fox said, "I'm naturally intelligent, and you think I'm a monster anyway, and try me with a dog." If you try a thousand times, can you hurt me? ”

Zhang Hua became even more angry after hearing this, and said, "This must be a real monster, I heard that ghosts are afraid of dogs, but dogs can only recognize monsters that are hundreds of years old, and old spirits that are thousands of years old, and dogs can't recognize them." Only by shining on it with the dead wood of a thousand years will it immediately appear. ”

Lei Huan said, "Where can I get the thousand-year-old Divine Tree?" ”

Zhang Hua said, "It is rumored that the Huabiao wood in front of the tomb of King Yanzhao has been around for thousands of years. ”

So he sent someone to cut down the watch.

When the people who had been sent to the tomb of Huabiao came down from the sky, a child in green clothes descended from the sky and asked the messenger, "What are you doing here?" ”

The messenger said, "Zhang Sikong has a young man who has come to visit, and he is very eloquent, and Zhang Sikong suspects that he is a monster, so he sent me to cut down Huabiao Mu to take pictures of him. ”

The child in Tsing Yi said, "The old fox is not wise, he doesn't listen to me, and now it affects me, how can he escape?" ”

So he cried aloud and disappeared all at once.

So the messenger cut down the tree, and there was blood in it. So the messenger took the wood back and lit it to shine on the fox, and it turned out to be a spotted fox.

Zhang Hua said, "If these two monsters don't meet me, they won't be captured for a thousand years." ”

So he cooked and killed the enlightened fox.