Chapter 35 [Tempest 13]
Later, the state government played twice to reappoint the county order, and reported it again and again, but the emperor did not gnaw or suppress it. This must be because Li Junzheng has not yet had a proper place arrangement.
Later, it was reported from below that the history of the assassination in Huaizhou was vacant, and Xuanzong personally approved the document to appoint Li Junzheng and made up the history of the assassination. Therefore, the prime minister did not know what was going on, let alone the officials of the state capital.
At that time, the place where Li Junzao was the official of his parents was called Liquan, and the Zhaoling Tomb of Tang Taizong was there. The aforementioned Weizhou is now in Longxi, Gansu, and the territory under the jurisdiction of Tang is equivalent to Longxi, Dingxi, Zhangxian and other places in Gansu. "After the Anshi Rebellion" once returned to Tibet, Xuanzong still returned to Tang in the middle years. In 884, the place of governance was moved to Pingliang, which is now Pingliang, Gansu. The place where Li Junzheng later made the history of Huaizhou Thorn is in Jiaozuo, Henan Province. The Spring and Autumn Period here belonged to the Zheng State, and the Warring States belonged to the Wei Land. Liquan belonged to Xianyang City, and it belonged to Jingzhao at that time. Jingzhao's prefectural order, the level is the sixth grade. The history of thorns, is the fourth product.
A grassroots official, because of chance, was discovered and appreciated by the Supreme Son of Heaven, and he stood out and soared, which cannot be regarded as normal, but can only be called "luck". As the saying goes, whoever you use, you know who he is. He admires Taizong very much and remembers two sentences: to chaos is not to be unscrupulous, and to rule is not unscrupulous.
selfless
There is a story that says that Xuanzong's sexual self-discipline is a bit extreme. Someone dedicated a women's song and dance band, and each member of the team has a charming color. And among them, there is a stunning woman, it is not an exaggeration to use "falling geese and sinking fish", "captivating the city and the country". Maybe Xi Shi, Mink Chan, Wang Zhaojun, these national colors and natural fragrances are all compared. Xuanzong fell in love at first sight, was included in the harem, and no longer danced in groups. Give him a solo dance. The color of the country and the city, who doesn't care about pampering? Upside down. was always coquettish, and Xuanzong's whole person went crazy. I was almost confused. After a period of time, he felt that if he continued like this, he would repeat the mistakes of his ancestor Tang Xuanzong. So, I broke off this longing, and simply gave her a glass of poisoned wine to kill herself. This is too much, beauty is not a sin, how can human life be deprived?
Emperor Xuanzong was quite upright, which was very similar to his ancestor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Muzong was the brother of Xuanzong. But before Xuanzong, Jingzong, Wenzong, and Wuzong were all nephews of Xuanzong, and Prime Minister Li Jingrang said to Xuanzong, you are their uncle and elder. How can you worship your nephew and move their tablets out of the temple. In the same dynasty, the king's tablet was moved out of the Jongmyo Temple, which is not the case in history. Xuanzong did not express his position, he wanted to hear what the minister meant. The ministers sat in the court and talked about it, and in the end it was not resolved. Xuanzong knew that the position of the monarch and the minister was supreme. How can you judge the high and low by seniority? Li Jingrang the horse's fart to the horse's leg, "the people of the time thought it was thin Li Jingrang".
After Xuanzong took office, he was able to make a fair redress of unjust, false and wrongful cases, which is also very rare in history.
He does things one by one. The second is two, what is wrong is wrong, but what is right is wrong. It must be corrected. It is necessary to justly redress the unjust cases of the previous dynasty. He thinks of the "change of Ganlu Temple". Only Li Xun and Zheng Zhu deserved to die, and Wang Ya and Jia Kui were not guilty. Although they were put to death. But it is still necessary to rehabilitate them and give them justice. So, the edict was given to Zhaoxue, and their children and grandchildren could also raise their heads and do it again.
The next thing involves the royal relatives and relatives, see how he deals with it. In 852, an edict was issued to exempt the county and Zhuangyuan where the general Zheng Guang was located. Who is Zheng Guang who makes this emperor who is just to be so gracious?
Some people have written that the tax law is equal in the world, and Chinese and foreign paintings are one. After reading it, Xuanzong said, if it weren't for the courtier's love and protection, how could he say such a thing! If government officials can do this, why bother the world to ignore it! Everyone has a beginning and an end, and they all keep the state together, and according to the minister's words, they cannot be exempted from the taxes and labor of the mother-in-law. It turned out that Zheng Guang was Xuanzong's maternal uncle.
In 856, Wei Ao, the squire of the Hanlin Bachelor's Ministry of Engineering, served as Jing Zhaoyin. Historically, Wei Ao has been evaluated as an official of integrity and fairness. After he took office, many nobles were worried about being investigated and punished by Wei Ao. Zheng Guang's men were lawless and did not hand over a grain of grain to the state for many years. Wei Shilang spent a lot of time, and after verifying it, he arrested the Zhuang official. Emperor Xuanzong summoned him at Yeonying Hall, and he gave a detailed report on his crimes. Xuanzong thought that Wei Shilang would buy his face and asked him what to do. Of course he said, of course! Now the emperor has asked him to hold this position in the imperial court, and wants him to find out the shortcomings of Gyeonggi (reading skills), if the officials have harmed the country for many years, they will be lenient, and even hold important positions, that is, the emperor's law is only used by the people. He thought that such words would affect the prestige of the emperor, and he did not dare to obey the edict.
Xuanzong said, if you are really like this, but Zheng Guang doesn't deal with it, you just have to hurt the staff of the Zhuang officials, but don't beat them to death, is it okay? It is equivalent to the emperor begging Wei Ao for his uncle's mercy. Wei Ao said that he could, wait for him to find out the facts, and then release him. Xuanzong knew that Wei Shilang had already given him face, and said again and again, okay. When sending Wei Shilang out, Xuanzong said sincerely that because Zheng Guang was his uncle, he interfered with the handling of the case, and he was very guilty. Wei Ao returned home, beat the villager, and urged him to pay a few hundred Hu (reading pots) for rent before releasing people.
When Zheng Guang discussed current affairs with Xuanzong and answered the ancient and modern questions, he dealt with contempt, which made the emperor very unhappy. To put it bluntly, there is no talent and no culture. Xuanzong thought that he was not suitable to be a magistrate, so he demoted his uncle from the Jiedu envoy to the commander of the right Yulin army. The Queen Mother said to Xuanzong many times in person, your uncle is too poor. It means that the emperor wants his uncle to still go to the local government to take up his post, so that he can loot the people's fat and ointment and fill his own pockets. The emperor insisted on his own opinion, but still did not listen. He thinks that if such a person goes down to become a magistrate, the people will be in the dark, which will seriously affect the image of the government, so it is better to give him more money.
The emperor can do this, and no king before Tang Xuanzong can be so impartial and selfless. Wei Shilang can be so unbiased because he has a fair and selfless emperor.
Xuanzong's selflessness can also be known from the following things.
There was a medical officer who wanted to be the salt and iron field officer. Salt and iron are the monopoly of the state, and it is a fat and oily errand. Liu Zhongying, a squire of the military department, said that medical officers should strive for excellence in medical skills, and even if they want to be promoted, they should be replaced. Xuanzong thought it made sense, gave him a hundred silk horses, and sent him back.
There is also a doctor, once Xuanzong had a stomachache, called to see a doctor, and he was fine in a few days. The doctor asked Xuanzong for an official, but he didn't give it, but only asked the salt and iron envoy to give 3,000 yuan a month.
Jingyuan Jiedu made the embezzlement of 2 million public funds. It was found and investigated. The person requested the return of the stolen goods. Repay with family wealth. Xuanzong agreed, but after showing it to the matter. felt that the matter must be investigated and dealt with, and returned the edict in turn. Several officials also said that they should be punished, otherwise it would be too unfair. Later, according to everyone's opinions, Xuanzong demoted this person and made him the chief historian.
Xuanzong was a wise emperor.
Si Nongqing Wei Xuan (read carefully) wants to be the festival envoy of Xiazhou. When one of the warlocks found out, he started to think crookedly. He came to visit this official surnamed Wei and said that he was good at Jiao (reading) the stars, and he was unsatisfactory in seeking officials. Officer Wei believed. Jiao was set up that night. Jiao Xingchen was a superstition in ancient times, offering sacrifices to the gods for their blessings. The warlock said, you can write an official position you want, and you can write whatever official position you want, and you can also write about the emperor. When the official surnamed Wei wrote it, he held it in his hand, and suddenly looked up to the sky and shouted, Wei Xuan had different aspirations and ordered him to sacrifice to the sky!
The official surnamed Wei knew that this was a big disaster. I broke out in a cold sweat and was very scared. The whole family knelt down and begged the warlock for mercy, crying and begging, may the mountain people give a hundred mouths of life! The warlock saw that his purpose had been accomplished. Say you can do it yourself. The official surnamed Wei promised to take out all the treasures and belongings at home. The official surnamed Wei knew that he was being blackmailed, but he did not dare to squeak, for fear that the court would punish him.
Warlocks get so much money. Get rich overnight. Therefore, the warlock lived in abundance. Dressed brightly. Government patrols, equivalent to the current police station police officers found the thug for a few days. Oily noodles, human-like dogs. It is suspected that there must be something wrong with the way his money came from, and it was definitely stolen. Arrest him as a thief and try it at the first trial. The warlock was arrested and tortured to ask where he had made his fortune. The warlock was in a hurry, like a bamboo tube to a soybean, so he had to explain the blackmail one by one. The police officers at the police station had never seen anything like this before, so they reported it level by level, and when they went to Xuanzong, Xuanzong felt that this matter was really a strange news. The warlock is really hateful, and the official surnamed Wei is really ignorant and ridiculous. Both are going to be punished!
Xuanzong summoned an official surnamed Wei to ask, and only then did he know that he was wronged. told the prime minister that Wei Xuan was a member of the Chengnan Jia clan, and he was framed for a traitor, so don't make it difficult for the jailer to do anything for him. Immediately hand over this abominable warlock to Jing Zhaoyin and die with a rod. However, the official surnamed Wei was also dealt with, demoted to Yongzhou, and like Liu Zongyuan, he became a Yongzhou Sima. It's really a big injustice, a big loss. My intestines are all repentant!
Xuanzong is the Son of Heaven, but he is very economical. Someone knew that the emperor was very frugal and proposed to cancel the Yuan Hui. He agreed. Therefore, in 854 there was no Yuan meeting.
However, Xuanzong had a responsibility to deal with the issue of temple monks.
In 851, there was a jinshi named Sun Qiao, who said that the people lived a hard life to feed and wear, and now there are so many monks in the society who sit in the Chinese house, beautiful clothes and delicacies. Ten families worked hard for a year, and they couldn't raise a monk. In the past, Emperor Wuzong angrily drove 170,000 monks out of the temple, so that 1.7 million living beings in the world could live. Now that the clan doesn't repair the temple, so many monks are going back to the temple again, you can't get rid of the cheats like the martial arts, but how can you let them resurrect? Xuanzong did not adopt it. As mentioned earlier, Xuanzong was persecuted by Wuzong, went to Hangzhou, and was taken care of by monks.
Xuanzong was very old and had not yet established a prince, and when he was confused, those eunuchs established Tang Yizong. Yizong is a complete faint king, bastard, who uses up his father's savings. It's a pity for Xuanzong!
In June 859, Xuanzong died in August because he took Jindan, gangrene (reading the bureau) occurred on his back. "Zizhi Tongjian" gave a high evaluation: clear and decisive, selfless usage, follow advice, cherish official rewards, be respectful and thrifty, and love the people. Therefore, the politics of Dazhong ended in the death of the Tang Dynasty, and people thought about it, which was called the little Taizong. His three fires burned out a glimmer of hope in the Tang Dynasty: "The traces of the powerful and powerful", "The traitors are afraid of the law", and "The temple is angry".
At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he admired Taizong's words and deeds, and in the face of the Anshi Rebellion, the division of feudal towns, the Niu Li party dispute, and the situation of eunuch dictatorship, he governed the country diligently and thriftily, selected talents, made great efforts, and reduced taxes, so that the government and government were quite improved, and there was a situation of "Zhongxing".
In the Xuanzong era, there were many things that the Tang Dynasty could be proud of.
First of all, Qinzhou was recovered, namely Tianshui, Guyuan and Anle in Gansu. An Le is Ningxia Zhongwei. Later, it was collected from Anxi in Gansu and Yizhou in Xinjiang, that is, Hami. There is also Xizhou, that is, Turpan. There are ten states in total. In this way, control of the Hexi Corridor was taken back, and Tibet gradually declined and moved to Lingnan. The Hui also weakened, and the imperial court sent troops to recover the land of Hehuang. The Silk Road was nominally opened.
Second, after the "Anshi Rebellion", the lonely sandbar was the military and civilians of Dunhuang, under the leadership of Zhang Yichao, who expelled Tubo and reattached to the Tang Dynasty the following year.
Third, the dispute between the Niu Party and the Li Party during the Wuzong period became open and white-hot, seriously affecting social stability. He attached great importance to the imperial examination, which was also an important reason for demoting Li Deyu, the minister of power during the Wuzong period, to the envoy of the Jingnan Festival. degraded Li Deyu and appointed Bai Minzhong, a member of the Niu Party, as the prime minister. The Li Niu Party struggle, which lasted for decades, ended in the defeat of the Li Party. Moreover, the action was so fast that the Niu "secretary" Niu Seng Ru of the Niu Party felt that the lucky star came too quickly and was caught off guard for a while. The Li Party is mainly a "Red Root Party" and "princeling Party", and the Niu Party is from the imperial examination. However, both parties boiled down to the goal of the gate valve system, but the Li Party was originally the beneficiary of the gate valve system.
Also, for example, Zhaoxue's "Manna Change", except for the leaders Zheng Zhu and Li Xun, all officials were rehabilitated. I wanted to eradicate the eunuchs, but later in view of the blood lesson of the "Manna Change", I couldn't implement it.
The medical officer was killed
Xuanzong died without a crown prince, and the eunuch established Yizong. Xuanzong liked Kui (read Kui) Wang Li Zi and wanted to be the crown prince, but he was not the eldest son. The eldest son is Yun (read rhyme) Wang Li Wei (read Cui), which is the Yizong who was later established, so he was indecisive for a long time. He didn't have much affection for this eldest son. When Li Cheng was a prince, he was always trembling, and Xuanzong was also an emperor who had not been formally established for life.
Xuanzong became ill, and when he was dizzy, he called Wang Guichang, the envoy of the inner privy council, Ma Gongru, Wang Jufang, the envoy of the southern court of Xuanhui, and others to talk to them about Li Zi. And Wang Zongshi, the lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Protector Army, and the deputy envoy Pi Yuanshi made King Yun the crown prince. Soon, after Xuanzong died of illness, King Yun was welcomed as emperor by eunuchs for Tang Yizong. He reigned for fourteen years and died at the age of forty-one.
Yizong was the emperor, and at this time, a hundred years had passed since the Anshi Rebellion.
In fact, Yizong is a loser, and he squandered it and ruined the family business founded by Xuanzong's province with hard work. A ZTE situation is like a freshly lit oil lamp, which makes this loser black, and the Tang Dynasty is really starting to be hopeless. (To be continued......)