In fact, the fundamental reason why Li Linfu was able to serve as prime minister for 19 years and dictatorship for 16 years was that he was "good at nurturing the king's desires". "Old Tang Book" contains: He has been in office for many years, tired of all opportunities, and constantly accepts the detention and inspection of ministers, it is difficult to favor favoritism, and he is self-satisfied with Lin Fu, and he is committed to it. Therefore, put an end to the words against the ear, indulge in feasting, no differentiation, not ashamed, by Lin Fu's approval.

This passage says the relationship between Xuanzong and Li Linfu very thoroughly, "wanton feasting, banquet without distinction, not ashamed" This is no longer the behavior of the Holy Son, but the same absurdity and shamelessness as Emperor Yang of Sui, but it is also a true portrayal of Xuanzong since the twenty-ninth year of Kaiyuan after getting Yang Guifei, in the palace with the concubine and her three sisters Mrs. Han, Mrs. Qin, and Mrs. Qiuguo. Even Du Fu, who was at that time, dared to ridicule Mrs. Yu Guo for "lightly sweeping the moth eyebrows towards the supreme". "Zizhi Tongjian" said that the three people's families "competed for the first house, which was extremely magnificent, and the cost of one class was more than 10 million; Established, seeing that others have overcome themselves, they will destroy it and change it. The country of Qiu is particularly arrogant. "All this money was rewarded by Xuanzong. Xuanzong wants to live such a life, if Zhang Shuo and Zhang Jiuling are in the phase, it will not work, not only will he have to fight to the death, but he will not give him so much money to squander. At that time, the emperor did not have a small treasury, and if he wanted to use the money, he had to take it from the treasury, and he had to go through the prime minister. And Li Linfu not only caters to the "gentleman's desire", but also greatly approves of it, and provides a qiē condition, that is, the so-called "good maintenance". And when Xuanzong found a better person who was "good at cultivating the king's desire" - Yang Guozhong, he also put Li Linfu aside.

Start the trouble

The worst thing Li Linfu did to the imperial court was actually to reform the military system, which did not arouse anyone's objections at that time.

From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the Kaiyuan period, the policy of using civil servants to control military generals has been implemented, and the envoys of various festivals and degrees are served by important ministers of the imperial court, and even prime ministers serve as generals who lead troops. If these ministers who served as envoys of the festival had outstanding achievements, they would be directly transferred back to the court as prime ministers. The so-called "out of the general into the phase".

In order to put an end to the greatest possibility of the Jiedu envoy entering the phase and threatening his own status, Li Linfu proposed to Xuanzong that the Jiedu envoy should be served by the Han clan and the Fan general, on the grounds that "Wenchen is a general, and he is a cowardly arrow." It is better to use the Hanhu people; The Hu people are brave enough to fight in battle, and the Han people are isolated and have no party. This reason is also high-sounding. At that time, although Xuanzong was indulged in lewd pleasures, he had the lofty ideal of "annexing the four yi", and he also thought it was a very good rationalization, so he accepted it. The festival envoys in various places used generals, and enriched the elite soldiers to the frontier. Form a situation where the inside is light and the outside is heavy. In the past, the festival envoys were changed every few years, in case the festival envoys formed their own forces. Since then, An Lushan and other generals have served as Jiedu envoys for more than ten years, and they have been able to exercise autocratic power, and the loyalty of their subordinates to Jiedu envoys has gradually become stronger than the loyalty to the imperial court, which directly led to the "Anshi Rebellion" and the successive rebellions of military generals and the division of feudal towns until the fall of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Linfu didn't expect the consequences of doing this, he just wanted to block the way to the festival, but he inadvertently destroyed most of the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. This is his greatest sin.

8. Death in fear

Li Linfu has been imprisoned repeatedly, and he knows that he has offended many people. Fearing that someone would assassinate him, he set up multiple doors in his home, built a mezzanine (double wall) in the wall, and set up many mechanisms, so that he had to change many places to sleep in one night, like Saddam. Even his family didn't know where he was.

After Yang Guozhong gained power, he became even more worried. Because of the anxiety and fear, he had a heart attack, and in October of the eleventh year of Tianbao (752 AD), Li Linfu accompanied Xuanzong to the Huaqing Palace with illness. The pain in his heart intensified, and the witch doctor said that it would be better to see the saint (the title of the emperor in the Tang Dynasty), Li Linfu begged Xuanzong to see him, and Xuanzong was already tired and disgusted with him at this time. Just let him stand in the courtyard, stand in the pavilion himself, and wave to him with a red scarf. The close relationship between the monarch and the minister reached the freezing point. Li Linfu was stimulated by this and died soon after.

After his death, Xuanzong still held a state funeral for him according to the highest etiquette, but Yang Guozhong refused to let him go. Together with An Lushan, he falsely accused him of rebellion against Fan Absi, and asked his relatives to testify against him who had a bad relationship with him. Xuanzong was furious, dug up his grave, stripped off his official clothes, dug out the gold and jade in his mouth, abolished him as a Shuren, and buried him in the way of a Shuren. His family members were also exiled from office.

In October of the 14th year of Tianbao (755 AD), An Lushan launched the "Anshi Rebellion", and the most glorious Tang Dynasty in Chinese history ended.

Comments: For Li Linfu, Tang Xuanzong, who suffered the most, knows best: "This son is jealous and jealous, and the world is incomparable." Li Linfu's whole life has been all about "jealousy of the virtuous and the sick, and punishing dissidents". He first swept away all the people who stood in front of him, such as Zhang Shuo, Zhang Jiuling, Pei Yaoqing, and Yan Tingzhi, and cleared the way to the prime minister and even the prime minister through these dissidents; When he stood at the top end, he began to look backwards again, eradicating those who had the ability to challenge him, such as Lu Xuan, Wei Jian, Yang Shenjin, etc. His methods can be described as superb, such as the clever plan to exile Lu Xuan and Yan Tingzhi, Rao is harmful, and the victim has to say "thank you" to him, which also won him the reputation of "honey-bellied sword"; For those who could not be cut off by clever tricks, he did not hesitate to raise a large prison and implicate countless people just to remove a thorn in the eye, which made him known as the iron-blooded prime minister by Western historians, and compared with Bismarck. Judging from the means alone, it also matches.

Li Linfu's officialdom battle. Here is a brief list.

The first thing, with Zhang Jiuling, many people know about this person, "The bright moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time" is what he wrote. The de facto prime minister at the time. The process of struggle.

The crown prince, the king of E, and the king of light were condemned, and the emperor wanted to abolish them. Zhang Jiuling admonished, and the emperor was displeased. Lin Fu was stunned, and said in a private voice: "The family affairs of the Son of Heaven, what is the evil of outsiders?" ”

To put it simply, the crown prince was slandered, and Tang Xuanzong was ready to abolish it, but Zhang Jiuling felt that it was impossible. Li Linfu said that the emperor's own family affairs, outsiders are in charge.

Zhang Jiuling was obviously right about this. The crown prince is not a family affair, it is a state affair. Li Linfu's way is also very clever, "whispering people", these four words are exquisite, the core, he doesn't tell the emperor directly, that is not the same as doing it against Zhang Jiuling, he should chat with the people in the palace casually, knowing that this will definitely reach the emperor's ears, and even he arranged it.

The second piece. and loyal servants.

Pei Yaoqing and others suggested: "The farmer's farm is not finished, and it must be returned in winter." "Lin Fuyang is alone. The emperor asked why he said, "The minister is not sick." May it be done. The two capitals of the emperor's east and west palaces, the car is lucky, why wait? If the order interferes with the peasants, it is possible to pardon the rent that has been exceeded. "Emperor Dayue, that is, drive west.

This time he was mainly aimed at: Those who dare to speak up. The way to take is "Lin Fu is young, alone behind", and find a reason to whisper. And what he said cannot be said to be unreasonable. But his purpose is not to be justified.

The third piece is still with Zhang Jiuling.

The emperor wants to enter the Shuo Fang Festival to make the cow cyclamen sealed, and Jiuling said Lin Fu: "Reward the famous ministers, and the side generals will be the most, can it be discussed?" It is necessary to fight with the public. Lin Furan promised. and entered, Jiuling was extremely talkative, and Lin Fu suppressed hey, retreated and leaked his words. The cyclamen will see the emperor tomorrow. Weeping and quitting. Emperor Zi wants to reward cyclamen, and Jiuling can't hold it. Lin Fu said: "The Son of Heaven employs people, why not?" "Emperor Wen, good Lin Fu is not specialized.

To put it simply, the emperor is ready to reward a person, Zhang Jiuling thinks that it is inappropriate to give him credit. Let's discuss. I greeted Li Linfu in advance, discussed it, and when the time came, we would fight with the emperor together, and Li Linfu agreed. Who knows, in front of the emperor, Li Linfu just played haha and didn't argue. and also used a very powerful way to "retreat and leak his words". deliberately leaked Zhang Jiuling's opinion, so that the person who was rewarded knew. must be disgusted with Zhang Jiuling. Then he said that the Son of Heaven uses people, and he uses whoever he wants. Again, the way to do this is to "speak for people". Tell someone else, and let someone else pass it to the emperor.

These three things are basically similar, the factions are the same, especially what Li Linfu said, and the way he adopted is very similar. The third of them is even more similar to the incident of his early list, so I won't explain too much about the wisdom or cunning in it. I want to remind that Li Linfu and Zhang Jiuling and other people have no personal grudges, he does this, not for personal vendettas, but for his overall situation, to put it simply, it is dictatorship, he is not a villain like Li Yifu, the whole person has to be killed, he just wants these people to leave the core of power, so I said at the beginning that Li Linfu is not a villain, he has a big view of the overall situation, he understands what he is doing, and he is not a literati temperament, so casual, but very planned and step-by-step. And he is very able to hide himself, these three things, it is obvious that he wants to frame the other party, but the other party does not feel that he is framed, hazy look, he seems to be just expressing his opinion, because it is not directly said to the emperor, not against someone's argument, but for outsiders to convey, indirectly, and what is said, is not aimed at anyone. Very clever. And as a result, "from the benefit of the thin nine years, Russia and Yaoqing both resigned from political affairs, and appointed Lin Fu full-time, and he was a cyclamen." ”

Li Linfu's goal was achieved, killing people invisibly. sold someone and asked people to count the money for him. It's okay to say clever, it's okay to say insidious. The reason why I didn't directly define him as insidious is because as I said earlier, he is not targeting anyone to really harm anyone, simply put, he does not have a personal vendetta with Zhang Jiuling and others, but who is in this position, who threatens his power, and who he has an enmity with. He's not against people. He has his big picture. But his way is really yin. Unnoticed.

In these things, the emperor became his lackey, became his tool, and did everything he wanted for him. Some people may say that you are exaggerating by saying this, that traitors have always had to pass through the emperor in order to exercise their treacherous schemes, and why did he do this because the emperor was his lackey. You look at what Li Linfu said, to put it simply, the emperor can not listen to these words at all, he did not exert any pressure on the emperor, and he did not even explain what is at stake to the emperor, and many traitors wrote to say, if you don't do this, how is it bad, it's different, and he didn't weave any other problems of Zhang Jiuling and others, life problems, political problems, he didn't weave, just said a few words. Not even slander entered. As a result, it caused such a result, simply put, the emperor exerted his subjective initiative too much. This is different from other traitorous incidents of the emperor, in most cases, it is the traitor who wants to frame him, his own subjective initiative plays a lot, fabricates charges, and in the end the emperor is just a small initiative to play, and Li Linfu In these incidents, the emperor is the protagonist, becomes a dog, and he becomes the person who gives orders.

After many fights. Two endings were produced.

First, the edict came out, Yaoqing and Jiuling left and right as prime ministers, Lin Fu smiled and said: "Are you still evil about the prime ministers? "Seeing it is stopped, and the minister is trembling.

"The minister is trembling", everyone is afraid of Li Linfu, and he doesn't use a knife to kill people. They are afraid of him, not because the emperor likes him, but because the emperor is always used by him and always bites for him.

Second, so Lin Fujin also wrote the order.

He started with a real power department, a non-cultural department, and a developed practical operation department, he was good at this, but now he let him also be in the middle of the order, and he can also intervene in the planning of the emperor of the edict. There is no blank space for power control. In addition, he can't write in the middle of the order, he can only do both, because he is not good at writing and can't write articles. The department of Chinese books should be cultured. He also holds this position, and the element of honor is large. But even if he is an honorary part-timer, the Chinese book department, the emperor's neighbors, he cannot be quietly impeached.

In this way, the ministers of the imperial court were afraid of him and did not dare to impeach him, and the emperor's staff organs, the people around the emperor, did not dare to speak indiscriminately.

He succeeded in controlling zhì. Of course, the main emperor was cooperative.

The battle mentioned above was between the courtiers. Let's talk about the more exciting battle with the prince. There is a premise here, which is what I mentioned earlier, the prince can't even provoke the prince. Don't watch too many so-called historical TV series, think how good the prince is, the core of a dynasty, the core of power, will always be the minister's class. A high-ranking official with real power among the officials.

The reason for the battle is "King Shou must not stand", in the front, Li Linfu promised Concubine Wu Hui, or he himself promised to protect King Shou. He really started to protect it at this time. If you want to protect it, you must first get rid of the prince who has been established. He began to figure it out. It's not easy to deal with this, this is the prince, the emperor's son, the son of trust, he doesn't say it at this time, "The family affairs of the Son of Heaven, what is the evil of outsiders."

He wants to get rid of the crown prince, among which I think there is a part of his promise, and most of it is for his own power, the reason why there is a part of the promise is because his position at this time is basically no one can shake it, and he also has superb wisdom, and the reason why he did it is that he promised Concubine Wu Hui to do it. (To be continued.) )