In October of the ninth year of Yuanhe, Li Jifu, who was drawing a map of Huaixi, died suddenly, and this news once made Wu Yuanji happy. But as it turned out later, he rejoiced too soon. Li Jifu's death benefited from someone else, not him. Specifically, there are two people who benefit, one is of course Wu Yuanheng, and Li Jifu's death pushed him to the position of the leader of the foreign dynasty. But blessings and misfortunes lurked, and Wu Yuanheng was assassinated less than a year after presiding over military affairs, so Wu Yuanheng was not the biggest beneficiary, and he could not even be called a beneficiary. And the biggest beneficiary is another important minister in the court, Wei Guanzhi. Because of Li Jifu's sudden death, there was a vacancy in the position of prime minister, and after careful consideration, Li Chun left this position to Wei Guanzhi to comfort the grievances he suffered in the Yuanhe three-year policy case.

Like Wu Yuanheng, Wei Guanzhi is an upright person; Unlike Wu Yuanheng, Wei Guanzhi is a sympathizer of the Yongzhen Group, and has always had a good impression of Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan and others. Wei Guanzhi himself has been repeatedly belittled, and he empathizes with the pain of Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan and others. Therefore, he wanted to do something for them, to recall them back to Chang'an, and entrust them with important tasks.

Wei Guanzhi's ideas are good, but the difficulties he faces are great. Under normal circumstances, the political debasement of the feudal dynasty is not very long, and it is often after one or two years or three or five years that they will be promoted, but the "Eight Sima" incident in the first year of Yongzhen does not belong to the general situation, but is a very unusual special case. Because, they once tried to abolish Li Chun's status as the crown prince, Li Chun always kept this matter in mind, refused to let go, and even issued a holy decree of "not allowed to move". In the ten years when Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan were demoted, there were also people in Chang'an who reached out to them and prepared to use them, but once their performance was played to Li Chun, the Son of Heaven, there was no follow-up.

Although the difficulties were greater, bigger than the sky, the kind-hearted Wei Guanzhi decided to give it a try. After all, those young people, those young people in their prime, those talented young people, except for Cheng Yi, who saw the wind and steered the rudder, except for Ling Zhun and Wei Zhiyi, who had passed away, had been in those wild places for a full eleven years. A man's life is so short, how many eleven years can he squander? So, no matter what, I'm going to help these young people.

Soon, Wei Guanzhi was pleasantly surprised to find that he was not fighting alone, he still had allies, and not one, at least three. The first ally is his friend, Cui Qun, the head of the household, and it just so happens that Cui Qun had a good friend back then, and his name is Liu Zongyuan. The second ally is another important minister in the court, a generation of literary heroes Han Yu. Although Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan have different political views, they are out-and-out literary friends. Moreover, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan are still world friends, and Liu Zongyuan's father Liu Zhen has a close relationship with Han Yu's eldest brother Han Hui. In this sense, although Han Yu is only five years older than Liu Zongyuan, he is Liu Zongyuan's father. Of course, the most important is the third ally, Cheng Pei Du in the Imperial History. Although Pei Du was an old subordinate of Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng and a good friend of Wu Yuanheng, he not only deeply sympathized with the experience of Liu Zongyuan and others, but also Liu Zongyuan's fellow countryman. What's more, Pei Du also has three close friends, Wei Guanzhi, Cui Qun and Han Yu. At this time, the political situation in Chang'an also changed in favor of Liu Zongyuan and others, the contradiction between Chang'an and the separatist forces of the feudal towns became increasingly prominent, the war in Huaixi fell into a stalemate, and the court urgently needed to ease the contradictions and take some measures in order to strengthen unity. Therefore, under Wei Guanzhi's unremitting persuasion, things actually took a turn for the better, and Li Chun actually lifted the ban on the "Eight Simas" not allowed to be moved, and issued an edict to recall Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan and other five people (Ling Zhun and Wei Zhiyi have died, and Cheng Yi has been called).