Chapter 81: Flying into the sky and not looking back eight
Outside the window, the jubilant Chang'an, the celebratory gongs and drums broke the sky; Inside the window, Han Yu, who was worried, twisted his frowning brows into locks. At this moment, Han Yu, the servant of the Criminal Department, suddenly felt a kind of sorrow, a kind of rich sorrow, a kind of rich sorrow that Qu Yuan once had, a kind of sorrow called "The whole world is turbid and I am alone, and the whole world is drunk and I am awake"!
As a staunch supporter of the use of force to cut down the feudal domain, Han Yu once had great expectations for this young son of heaven, great expectations for the revival of the Tang Empire, and beautiful visions for the future of the empire; At one time, Li Chun did perform very well, very well, Liu Pi of Xishu, Li Qi of Eastern Wu, Wu Yuanji of Huaixi, Li Shidao of Ziqing, and the unruly heads rolled down in the red dust; Wang Chengzong, Wang Chengzong, Liu Zong, Han Hong, and Cheng Zhiquan, Henghai Jiedu, all the heroes who dominate the world, have lowered their heads in front of the majestic Chang'an. After the fission of Tianbao, the feudal towns that were once out of the control of Chang'an were reincorporated into the territory of the Tang Empire one by one under the care of Li Chun, and the remnants of the mountains and rivers of the late Tang Dynasty also vaguely had some magnificent Tang Dynasty atmosphere.
However, good flowers do not bloom often, good times do not always exist, sweet dreams are always easy to wake up, and the first person to wake up from a dream should be Han Yu. For more than ten years, no matter how turbulent the political situation is, no matter how delicate the situation is, Han Yu has firmly stood on the side of cutting the feudal domain by force, and has become one of Li Chun's most loyal followers and supporters. However, Han Yu, who was able to see the moon, sadly found that although the moonlight was bright, it couldn't shine on him.
Originally, Huaixi pacification was a good thing, a great good thing, and everyone was very happy: Han Yu was very happy, Li Yu was very happy, Pei Du was very happy, Li Chun was also very happy, in short, everyone was very happy. However, soon, someone couldn't be happy, and this person who couldn't be happy was Han Yu.
Speaking of which, it's all the fault of the article: Huaixi Pingding, that's a great credit, according to the convention, it is to carve the stone Jigong, and the task of writing the inscription, Pei Du handed it over to Han Yu without thinking about it, who made Han Yu's article so good and famous. If you want to talk about Han Yu's literary brilliance, it doesn't have to be said, a "Huaixi Merit Inscription" was completed in one go and in one wave. Soon, Han Yu's masterpiece was engraved into an inscription. Soon, Han Yu got into trouble, big trouble.
The person who took the lead in making trouble is called Shi Martyr, and of course the real name of Shi Martyr is not called a martyr, as for what it is called, I'm sorry, I don't know, because it is not written in the history books. I only know that he is a fierce general under Li Yu, and sometimes, the fierce general seems to be able to be understood as a stunned youth, and it just so happens that the stone martyr is a stunned youth, a complete stunned youth. As soon as Han Yu's masterpiece was on the stele, the stone martyr did one thing, a dumbfounded thing, he knocked down the stele!
Everything has cause and effect, although the stone martyr is a stunned young man, he is not a complete fool, and he will never make trouble for himself for no reason, after all, it is not a trivial matter to overturn such a stone tablet engraved with Shi Jigong, and if you don't do it, you will lose your head. In fact, the impulse of the stone martyr is understandable, because this is a stone tablet that praises merits and virtues, and everyone wants to leave a name on it, so that it can be remembered for centuries, and it is cool to think about it. But the inscription will definitely not be too long, it is inevitable to hang a leak, unfortunately, Han Yu missed a person, no, to be exact, it is a type of person, a famous general, a famous general who destroyed the city on the battlefield of Huaixi, such as Li Guangyan, and then Li Yu. It's okay to miss Li Guangyan, after all, he has no background, no backstage, at most, he will go home and sulk, drop a plate and make a bowl or something, and it will be over. Li Yu is different, his family has power, background, and many brothers, and all of them are in important positions, this is not the most fatal, the most important thing is that he also married a wife with a more background, because his wife is a princess, a princess of the Tang Empire.
There was no name of his own on the stele, and of course Li Yu was very unhappy. However, Li Yu is known as a Confucian general, quite elegant, so he didn't say anything, his subordinates did not have such a temperament as him, angry, excited, under the advocacy of the stone martyr, knocked down the stone monument that had just been erected. It is said that this matter should not be difficult to deal with, and it will be over if the troublemaker is arrested, but this person can't be arrested yet, because behind the stone martyr is Li Yu, behind Li Yu is the princess, and behind the princess is the emperor, how to catch it? The magistrate couldn't solve it, so he had to report it level by level, and it was reported back and forth, and it was reported to Li Chun. At this time, Li Yu's wife jumped out and ran to the emperor, using the killer trick that women are used to: crying, making trouble, and hanging themselves.
If you want to say that the emperor is the emperor, the level is high, and doing things is called a crunchy and crisp, not dragging mud and water at all: what? Without Li Yu's name, it was returned, smashed, smashed! Rewrite, rewrite, find someone to rewrite! Who to look for? Then Duan Wenchang, his article level is okay, not much worse than Han Yu.
In this way, Li Chun's board hit Han Yu's body firmly, and he didn't even give a sweet date. In this regard, Han Yu felt very aggrieved, the content of the inscription is the meaning of the above, Li Chun knows this, but the black pot has to carry it himself, and he doesn't even have a word of comfort, which is not fair!
Grievances are grievances, Han Yu did not resent because of this, as a generation of Confucianism, Han Yu still has this measure. What really made Han Yu sad was Li Chun's change, a bad change. Once. He thought that Li Chun was the sun, constantly emitting light and heat in every sunny day, bringing infinite light and warmth to people. Now, he found that he was wrong, Li Chun was not the sun, but the moon. Although the moon is as bright as day when the moon is full, there is always a hint of coolness and solemnity in the bright moonlight. What's more, the moon always has a full moon, from the lack of a moon to a full moon, Li Chun took nearly fifteen years, but from the full moon to the lack of the moon, Li Chun seems to have only taken fifteen days.
After the great achievement, the desire to be easy to be born, Huaixi has already rained and the sky is clear, the haze of Ziqing has gradually dissipated, the complacent Li Chun is inevitably a little carried away, and the latent shortcomings and contradictions gradually surface, gradually expanding and intensifying: he insisted on not establishing the queen, he deliberately wanted to abolish the prince, he suppressed the minister with suspicion, his almost doting favor eunuch, and his extravagant and desperate construction projects, all of which made Han Yu unhappy, very unhappy, but this was not the most unpleasant. For this former idol Tianzi, Han Yu was most dissatisfied with Li Chun's fanaticism and obsession with immortality, although he himself took medicine.
In order to find the legendary immortal grass, Li Chun appointed the Jianghu warlock Liu Yu as the assassin of Taizhou, and at the same time, solemnly gave him a goldfish purple coat that symbolized the supreme honor. In this regard, the ministers naturally had opinions, and the officials immediately took action and expressed their opposition one after another, Li Chun threw these letters into the garbage can, and then said to the ministers impatiently: "Annoyed by the power of a county and the gods for many years, the courtiers are in the monarch's father, how to love him!" "I am the king and the father; You are ministers and sons. The monarch's father wants to live forever, but you courtiers are not even willing to give up the power of the people of a county, where is your love for the monarch's father! Li Chun's words were very powerful and very lethal, and the ministers were immediately speechless, and they could no longer find any reason to object, so they could only bury their dissatisfaction and sighs in their hearts.
Han Yu was not an official and had no right to make irresponsible remarks in front of the emperor, so this time, he chose to remain silent. However, he never dreamed that Li Chun, their sovereign father, would show the same enthusiasm for welcoming the Buddha's bones as soon as he turned around. Looking at the post-apocalyptic appearance of the demons dancing outside the window, Han Yu took the case, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he didn't need to endure it anymore, it was a big deal, he risked his old life to stop this absurd farce.
A few days later, Li Chun's desk had an extra piece of music, a piece of music that had not yet dried in ink. In this chapter called "Greeting the Buddha's Bone Table", Han Yu said with yearning that life is so beautiful without the light of the Buddha, from the Yellow Emperor in ancient times, to Yao Shunyu Tang, and then to King Wen and King Wu, these ancient emperors who don't know what Buddha is, but they have a long life.
However, since the white horse from the east brought the Buddhist scriptures, we can no longer find the good old days. Emperor Wu of Liang, who sacrificed his life in the Buddhist temple three times, reigned for forty-eight years, but did not receive any protection from the Buddha, but was besieged in Taicheng by the rebel Hou Jing, a generation of emperors, died of hunger in this way, I don't know where the Buddha was at that time? Finally, our great writer proudly declared: If the Buddha wants to bring disaster to the world because of my wild words, then let all the disasters befall me.
In the cold ancient text, there is actually a fiery heart, and Han Yu hopes to use the drum and hammer to wake up the emperor who has lost himself. It's a pity that what Li Chun read was not Han Yu's good intentions, but a curse, the most vicious curse! The story of Emperor Wu of Liang, Li Chun is naturally very familiar with it, and he couldn't be more familiar. Through the words of the chapter, Li Chun seemed to see the white-haired Emperor Wu of Liang lying on the cold ground of Taicheng, swallowing his last breath with difficulty. Li Chun shuddered, could it be that he was going to die a tragic death like the poor and pathetic Emperor Wu of Liang? Could it be that Chang'an, which is full of spring in the fourteenth year, can only usher in the poignant ending of "six dynasties are like birds crying in the air"?
No, it's not true, how can it be true! Han Yu, the bold Han Yu, dared to curse your sovereign father in such a vicious way, aren't you afraid of death?
Over the years, Li Chun and his ministers have not been without contradictions, on the contrary, the differences have always been there, sometimes sharp. However, no matter how deep the contradictions, how big the differences, and how fierce the conflicts, Li Chun always adhered to a bottom line and never killed the minister in vain. However, today, Li Chun, who went mad, really didn't want to stick to the bottom line anymore, his hands tightly held the butcher's knife, Han Yu, a generation of literary heroes Han Yu, was already hanging by a thread. At the last moment, Prime Minister Pei Du and Cui Qun stepped forward, tightly pressed Li Chun's hands, and the butcher knife in his hand, and forcibly pulled Han Yu out of the threat of death.
A few days later, the white-haired Han Yu faltered on the road of debasement. Walking through the Baqiao that many people have walked, and looking back at Chang'an, where countless people have looked back, the sad and frustrated people seem to see their own ending, a sad ending.
It is the emperor who can't see his ending clearly, the emperor who belittled Han Yu, that is a bad ending that can't be worse, that is a worse ending than Emperor Wu of Liang, how can the emperor who is high up see his ending like this?