In 8 B.C., Wang Mang's uncle, Wang Gen, then the general of the Great Sima, was seriously ill and repeatedly wrote to "beg for bones" and asked to leave his post to recuperate.

Who will take over this high-ranking post has become the focus of attention of the broad masses of cadres and the masses for a while.

However, this position is too important! Except for Emperor Cheng and his mother Wang Zhengjun, who play in the women's pile all day long, it is the people in this position who have the most power.

Therefore, for the vast majority of cadres, no matter what they think in their hearts, they can only look at and talk about this position.

Wang Mang, as a rising political star of the Wang family, has the highest call for this position.

In addition to being the most famous among the sons and daughters of the Wang family, Wang Mang was the most famous, and the Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun handed over the most powerful position

Mother's family is also a habit.

In other words, in the imperial political landscape dominated by Wang Zhengjun, the real candidates for this position are actually very narrow: the male of her mother's family.

But this time, Wang Mang met a strong opponent: Chun Yuchang.

Speaking of Chun Yuchang, he is not a white ding, his relationship is as hard as Wang Mang, his popularity is as prosperous as Wang Mang, and his career is as smooth as Wang Mang.

Because, he is the son of the sister of the Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun!

is also because he once helped Emperor Cheng do a good thing, so that Emperor Cheng is very grateful to him.

Cow, right?

In this year, if anyone can get the support of Wang Zhengjun's mother and son at the same time, even Jiangshan may change his surname, what else can't be done? !

What's more, for this person, Emperor Cheng always tries to repay him.

Chun Yuchang became Huangmenlang with the relationship of his aunt Wang Zhengjun, which is the same position as his cousin Wang Mang when he first debuted.

In 22 BC, when his uncle Wang Feng was sick, Wang Mang had a good performance, and he also waited by his side day and night, which was also favored by Wang Feng.

Before Wang Feng died, he recommended cadres to his sister Wang Zhengjun and nephew Emperor Cheng, and asked them to focus on Chun Yuchang and Wang Mang.

also had an iron relationship with the emperor's mother and son, but Chun Yu grew up with Emperor Cheng's gratitude to him, so he was very favored by Emperor Cheng, and his official position and power soon surpassed Wang Mang

, ranked Jiuqing.

Speaking of Chun Yuchang's help to Emperor Cheng, it was not very convenient for more people to know about it at that time, otherwise Emperor Cheng would feel very faceless.

That is, Chun Yuchang successfully persuaded the Empress Dowager to agree to Emperor Cheng to make her favorite woman Zhao Feiyan the empress.

Don't worry, it's a little bit of a bend in here.

Zhao Feiyan's real name is Yizhu, born in poverty, and was dedicated by his adoptive father to Zhang Fang, Marquis of Fuping, as a kabuki.

She is beautiful, light, able to speak, learn singing and dancing in Zhangfu, and soon become an expert. She dances skillfully, is as light as a swallow, and is known as "

Feiyan", it is said that "can dance in the palm of your hand".

The beauty "Yan Thin Huan Fat" in history is thin, she is thin, and the fat man refers to Yang Yuhuan, the favorite concubine of Tang Xuanzong, who is a guy who can play with dead men and bad country.

One day, the merry Emperor Cheng Weifu paid a private visit to Zhang's mansion and enjoyed Zhao Feiyan's singing and dancing, which he liked very much.

Thinking about Emperor Cheng, he is also a super enthusiast, he summoned the actor Zhao Feiyan into the palace and was very fond of him.

I heard that Xiao Zhao also has a sister named Zhao Hede, and Emperor Cheng also summoned him to the palace and named both sisters Jieyu.

Jieyu is a high-ranking of imperial concubines, enjoying the treatment of senior cadres, not only in terms of establishment, but also in official positions and in terms of wealth.

Later, Emperor Cheng abolished Empress Xu and wanted to make Zhao Feiyan the queen, but was resolutely opposed by his mother Wang Zhengjun.

The reason is very simple, Wang Zhengjun said that this "thin swallow" came from a humble background and its origin is not elegant.

Emperor Cheng was so anxious that he scratched his heart!

Chun Yuchang saw Emperor Cheng's thoughts, so he tried his best to mediate between them.

Although he didn't do a good job, he was still handy at doing something outside of work.

He is good at drilling, good at words, often helps Emperor Cheng pass on the word to Wang Zhengjun, and brings Wang Zhengjun's words to Emperor Cheng, trying to make good things for Zhao and Zhao.

After doing this for more than a year, Wang Zhengjun finally changed his mind. Zhao Feiyan was made empress.

Emperor Cheng got his wish and was very grateful to Chun Yuchang as a cousin.

So, he issued an edict saying that Chun Yuchang was already meritorious, and such a cadre was late, so he must use it as soon as possible, and first be named the Marquis of Guannei.

Soon, Emperor Cheng still felt that it was not enough to use such cadres, and added Chun Yuchang as the Marquis of Dingling.

Chun Yuchang became the first celebrity in front of Emperor Cheng.

Compared with Wang Mang, although Chun Yuchang has a higher status and greater power, there is one thing that he is not as good as Wang Mang, that is, his level of hypocrisy is not as high as Wang Mang.

In other words, he is not low-key enough, he is too hard in his family relationship, and he usually shows off his wealth and power.

A person with a limited degree of hypocrisy wants to play with power, and in many cases it is fatal!

Several basic skills of being a hypocrite, whether it is disguise, cover-up, or showmanship, Chun Yuchang is not Wang Mang's expert, which makes him have nothing in this regard

In terms of individual scores or comprehensive total scores, they are not as high as Wang Mang, and their hypocritical level is certainly not as good as Wang Mang.

As a celebrity in front of the emperor, he is also in a high position, coupled with personality factors, he is young and wanton to do whatever he wants. Central and local cadres compete

With him, Emperor Cheng often found reasons to reward him.

He was bent on taking over the authority of Wang Gen's Great General Sima, and he tried to do so, and he always said so.

His family has a huge fortune, a group of wives and concubines, and an extremely bad private life.

It is said that with such an iron relationship with Emperor Cheng's mother and son, as long as his head does not enter the water, he can completely achieve his goal, even if he fails to achieve his goal,

Emperor Cheng will also feel sorry for him and compensate him from other aspects.

However, there was a small crack in his head, and some water went in. He happened to meet Wang Mang to give him a stick on the head, and his head cracked a bigger slit.

More water went in.

It turned out that after Empress Xu was replaced by Zhao Feiyan, she was imprisoned in Changding Palace, very unwilling, always thinking about what to do to make Emperor Cheng forgive herself.

Queen Xu had an older sister named Xu Xiao, who was originally a widow. Chun Yu Chang saw that she was a little beautiful, first fornicated with her, played with her wantonly, and then did it

Simply marry as a concubine.

So, Empress Xu Qian seized this relationship and asked Chun Yuchang to speak in front of Emperor Cheng and let her be a Jieyu.

In order to do this, she gave Chun Yuchang more than 10 million dollars of money and property.

It is said that as a not small corrupt official, as long as Chun Yuchang takes people's money and helps people eliminate disasters, he can be greedy to the end by virtue of his relationship is too hard.

Even greedy and constantly promoted.

However, he is indeed too arrogant, obviously he didn't speak well in front of Emperor Cheng, but he always lied to Xu Xiao, saying that he had already told the emperor and would return it when the time came

can make her sister the queen of the left.

What's more, every time Xu Xiao went to the palace to see her sister, Chun Yuchang asked her to bring a message to Queen Xu, saying some ** words, and the language was light and filthy

, teasing and making fun of them in every way.

Obviously, Chun Yuchang thinks that the Xu sisters have fallen out of favor at this time, and they are just their own playthings.

However, this undoubtedly prepared a good cannonball or hidden arrow for Wang Mang.

Wang Mang decided to make a move!

Wang Mang is Wang Mang after all, he has the title of the highest level of hypocrite, and even the whole person has formed his own style.

After Wang Mang quietly collected Chun Yuchang's information, he did not use his work to report directly to Emperor Cheng. His routine is to hit the periphery first, and then run to the master

To be targeted.

One day, Wang Mang went to visit Wang Gen and said to his uncle, who was sick in bed, Chun Yuchang was very happy to see you sick, and felt that it was only a matter of time before he replaced you.

And he has promised everywhere that after taking over as General Sima in the future, he can let others become officials and help others do something.

Of course, Wang Mang also focused on reporting on Chun Yuchang's blackmailing and molesting of the former queen sisters.

Wang Gen was extremely angry and asked Wang Mang why he didn't report it earlier.

How unreasonable! Why didn't you say it earlier?!

Wang Mang said humbly, Chun Yuchang is the emperor's celebrity, and his nephew doesn't know what your attitude is, uncle, so he didn't dare to report it.

Under Wang Gen's planning and guidance, Wang Mang went to see his aunt Queen Mother and reported what Chun Yuchang had done.

In fact, without Wang Gen's guidance, Wang Mang also knows how to do it.

When Wang Zhengjun heard this, he felt that his nephew was too unpleasant, and ordered Wang Mang:

"My nephew actually did such a thing, you go and tell the emperor!"

After getting permission from the Queen Mother, Wang Mang happily went to report to Emperor Cheng.

However, Wang Mang kept a hand at this time, just saying that Chun Yuchang received a huge bribe from the former queen Xu, but did not say anything about the situation about him teasing and making fun of.

He didn't want to run out of shells and arrows all at once, he had to use them in a planned, step-by-step, and rhythmic way.

Hearing that Chun Yuchang was so unorthodox, Emperor Cheng's anger could be imagined.

In any case, it is taboo to do anything to the emperor's woman.

Even a woman who has fallen out of favor in front of the emperor cannot be moved.

In fact, the vast majority of men on the earth know this truth, but Chun Yu has grown up to be a very small number of people who don't understand this truth.

Emperor Cheng was furious, dismissed him from his official position, and let him leave the capital and return to his fiefdom.

At this time, Emperor Cheng's uncle, Marquis of Hongyang, came forward to help Chun Yuchang intercede and asked Emperor Cheng to let Chun Yuchang stay in the capital.

Emperor Cheng was taken aback at this time.

It turned out that Wang Li also wanted to be the general of Sima for a while, but he failed to do so, so he suspected that Chun Yuchang, the liaison between Emperor Cheng and the Queen Mother, was playing tricks.

So I have a lot of grudges.

Although Emperor Cheng is fun and does not feel at ease to do his own work, and he never evaluates the performance of governing the country, he is very helpful to his mother and uncles who are in power

The relationship between them is clear. Now Wang Li suddenly came forward to help Chun Yuchang intercede, there must be an article in it!

Emperor Cheng ordered a further in-depth investigation into Chun Yuchang's case.

According to Emperor Cheng's arrangement, the investigators found the problem as soon as they began their work.

It turned out that Chun Yuchang sent a generous gift to Wang Li and asked this uncle to help him intercede with Emperor Cheng.

Wang Li asked his son Wang Rong to accept the gift.

If the case is investigated, the consequences will definitely be serious.

Because this is not just a simple matter of taking people's money and helping others eliminate disasters, Wang's relatives are in charge of the country and do whatever they want, and it is the norm to be greedy for personal gains, this

The case has already been related to the abolition of the queen and the state system!

Wang Li was very scared, in order to protect himself, he didn't know if he was inspired by the gecko's broken tail to survive, and quickly resorted to a stop-loss move:

Kill your mouth and let your son Wang Rong commit suicide!

Wang Li thought that the matter would be settled here, everyone was related and the relationship was very close, and the matter would end here.

Don't pursue it, the emperor, I won't let anyone compensate for my son!

However, Emperor Cheng felt that the problem was more serious, and he did not give up, and ordered Chun Yuchang to be arrested and tortured.

Who knew that Chun Yu was very soft, and when he saw the torture, he immediately confessed.

He changed his previous style of being arrogant and domineering, and told the ugly things he had done.

No matter what you say, Chun Yuchang's attitude and practice of cooperating with judicial personnel in handling cases are worthy of affirmation, and he not only confessed the fact that he had accepted bribes and offered bribes.

Moreover, the facts that have not yet been grasped by the judicial officers are explained:

played hooligan with Queen Xu, and lied that he wanted to make her Queen Zuo.

This is also a capital offense anyway.

Chun Yuchang was sentenced to death. But before he could carry it out, he died in prison.

Emperor Cheng didn't delve into Wang Li, after all, he was his own maternal uncle.

Wang Mang didn't aim his gun at Wang Li, not because he was his own uncle. He believes that every time a conspirator can't sweep many people, he must be sudden

Out of the point, the main opponent this time is Chun Yuchang, let the uncle wait and die again.

The Chun Yuchang case has caused a great shock among the vast number of cadres, and has made everyone deeply educated, and it has also been written into the official history.

We would like to emphasize one point here, which is what a great man has taught us many times:

He is not wise that is not wise for himself.

Life is impermanent, as long as we live, we have to experience many people, many things, many ups and downs, and no one will inevitably make some small mistakes. But we thousands

It is important to avoid making big mistakes, especially big mistakes that are irreparable.

As for how to do this, our teachers, seniors and successful people have given us a lot of advice, the most important of which is:

We must know others and ourselves, and we must correctly grasp ourselves no matter what environment we are in.

This is also just like what a famous contemporary female artist said:

Even if I am on the top of a cliff, I don't think of myself as a snow lotus; Even though I'm at the bottom of a ditch, I don't think I'm sludge.

However, Chun Yuchang cadres do not understand this truth.

He didn't know people, and he didn't know that Emperor Cheng cared about women far more than his father, Emperor Yuan; I don't know it, I don't know that I'm in a high position and in power, it's not like it

The former Liu Bang and the later Liu Xiu completely relied on their own skills to win the world, but they all relied on their own nepotism to be longer than others: the second aunt Wang Zhengjun was married

Good - married to an emperor (Emperor Yuan), and born well - gave birth to an emperor (Emperor Cheng).

After the position is high to a certain extent and the power is great to a certain extent, he is dizzy, and he is so dizzy that he can't even grasp the minimum common sense of work and life, that is:

Working under the emperor, the emperor's woman can't move!

Especially the women who became emperors, they can't move!

Even if the emperor doesn't move, others can't move!

As soon as Chun Yuchang died, the whistleblower Wang Mang secretly laughed.

He used his strength to eliminate a powerful competitor who climbed up on his own; Since Chun Yuchang and him are cousins, he established his own righteousness

The image of a decent gentleman who is close and does not favor personal feelings; Emperor Cheng's mother and son also thought that he was loyal to the royal family and a person who could be trusted.

In 8 BC, under the strong recommendation of Wang Gen, Wang Mang took over as the general of the Great Sima and the secretary of the Lingshang as he wished, assisted the emperor and became the mother and son of the emperor

The most powerful person outside of it.

This year, Wang Mang was 38 years old.