Chapter 80
Yang Guang did not lewd his biological mother and mother, let alone kill his father and sister! It's all about pouring sewage on him! It has been added by later generations of historians, so that it has been passed down to this day, and we must look at history at the node of the times, not just like the clouds, let alone hearsay, we can guess, but not blindly! Conjecture is grounded, reasoning in the context of the development of human nature in history, and blind speculation is entirely based on personal likes and dislikes. If there are really doubts, and there are fights in historical materials, then rely on Meng. Of course, Mongolia also has to pay attention to methods and skills. I think of the college English test level 4 and 6. At that time, cloze and reading comprehension had to rely on masking and guessing, except for explicit hints. But as long as we can make sense before and after logical rigor, it is necessary to be right. Let's take an example. For example, the "death of the little princess" incident, which has caused a sensation in the historiography circles, has been disturbed and foggy so far. Everyone on earth knows it. It is said that in order to successfully pull the rival queen Wang off the altar at that time, he strangled his eldest daughter with Gaozong Li Zhi to death, and then blamed Queen Wang, and finally became the direct driver of Queen Wang's abolition. What is the real scene of the murder? We don't want to frame any good guys, but we don't miss any bad guys. Sensei nonsense, let's get the evidence. The official history book "Tang Hui Yao" recorded: "The daughter born to Zhaoyi died violently, and the queen played to kill her, so there was a meaning of abolishing it." That is to say, Wu Zhaoyi gave birth to a daughter and died suddenly, as if she had been born for less than a month, as for how she died, historians did not talk about it when they recorded it, but only talked about the objective fact of death. We all know that the child born in the royal family either died young, or smallpox, Wu Zetian cleverly took advantage of the death of the little princess, Emperor Shangjuan said that Empress Wang killed the child, and then led to the change of Tang Gaozong's attitude. According to this account, Wu Zetian took advantage of this opportunity. So we know that the so-called statement that Wu Zetian killed his daughter is very inaccurate, this is a false rumor, please don't believe it. There is no positive mention in the "Old Tang Book", but in the "Shi Chen Said" of the Empress Zetian's Benji, the following words were written: "The plot of the Empress Wu to seize the heir, the throat of the swaddling child, the bones of the crushed pepper coat, its injustice is also very bad, and it is also the constant state of adulterous and jealous women." Among them, the latter thing refers to Wu Zetian's cruel treatment of the failed Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, and the previous thing "shaking the throat and cutting off the infant child" refers to the strangulation of his own princess. If the above two historical materials are relatively obscure, then the following two official historical narratives are very shocking. Ouyang Xiu and Sima Guang are the same as they have experienced this matter personally, and they depict a lifelike picture. New Tang Dynasty Book. The Biography of the Queen's Concubine records like this: "Zhaoyi gave birth to a daughter, and then she took care of it, went, Zhaoyi sneaked to kill her son, served the emperor, Yang was happy, and she looked at her and died." Then they asked left and right, and they all said, 'The future is right.' Zhaoyi was sad, the emperor couldn't detect it, and said angrily: "After killing my daughter, I went to slander with my concubine, and now I am evil!" 'Since Zhaoyi got into his own way, he couldn't explain himself, and the more the emperor believed in love, he had the intention of abolishing it. "The process is described in detail and vividly. The "Zizhi Tongjian" directly inherited the "New Tang Dynasty Book", and the text is as follows: Although the favor is declining, it has no intention of abolishing it. will Zhaoyi give birth to a daughter, and then pity it, and then come out, Zhaoyi will strangle it and cover it. Up to the top, Zhao Yiyang laughed, and the hair was watched, and the woman was dead, that is, she was shocked. asked left and right, and both left and right said: "The queen is suitable to come here." Shang was furious and said: "Kill my daughter later!" Zhaoyi cried and complained about his crimes. After that, it is self-evident that there is a will to abolish it. The analysis is as follows: 1. The credibility of historical materials: "Tang Hui Yao" was written in the Later Zhou Dynasty, which is the earliest historical book of the Tang Dynasty, which is based on the actual records of the Tang Dynasty, and specifically records the various classics and their evolution of the Tang Dynasty in different categories, preserves the historical facts that are not contained in the "New Tang Book" and "Old Tang Book", and provides first-hand information for the study of the political, economic, military, cultural and other aspects of the Tang Dynasty, and has always been valued by researchers of Tang Dynasty literature and history. The credibility is quite high. The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty is the earliest surviving historical book that systematically records the history of the Tang Dynasty, and was written in the second year of the Emperor's reign in the Later Tang Dynasty (945). The credibility is still very high. Neither of these two historical materials directly mentions Wu Zetian's infanticide, and the "Old Tang Book" is only expressed in the way of "Shi Chen said", and there is no conclusive evidence. Speculation: At this time, there was already a statement that the Empress Wu killed her own princess, but she couldn't sit on the truth, so she had to express it in this more personal way, so the "New Tang Book" and "Tongjian" were so detailed and vivid, it should be more credible, right? The more detailed and vivid it is, the more doubtful it is. If it is so vivid and detailed, why is there no time, place and witness? The Tongjian and the New Tang Dynasty were both later than the Old Tang Dynasty and the Tang Hui Yao, and the historical sources of the Tang Hui Yao came directly from the Actual Records and the Living Notes, which are more credible. The infanticide case was not the direct trigger for the deposition of the queen. Reason: Queen Wang was deposed at the end of the sixth year of Yonghui, and the death of the little princess was from the end of the fourth year of Yonghui to the beginning of the fifth year. Queen Wang's fall from grace was saved before Wu Zetian entered the palace. Reason: Otherwise, Wu Zetian would not be led into the palace to destroy Concubine Xiao Shu together. The weary incident was the fuse after the abolition. Regardless of whether the queen personally participated in the victory with her mother, Li Zhi finally found a reason to clean up the queen, and in June of the sixth year of Yonghui, the queen Wang's mother Liu was not allowed to enter the palace, cutting off the queen's contact with the outside world. In July, Liu Zheng, the head of the Personnel Department of the Organization of his uncle, was the assassin of Suizhou. Later, the eldest grandson of the Guanlong nobles, Wuji, Chu Suiliang, etc., objected, and the matter entered a stalemate. The birth of the little man Li Yifu broke the deadlock and finally ended after the abolition in October. There is no such statement in the recent era of the case. Reason: The history books and cases we talked about just now have a history of nearly 400 years, and I will prove it again. Thirty years after the case occurred (684), Xu Jingye raised troops in Yangzhou to crusade against Wu Zetian, and the famous "Seeking Wu Cao" by Luo Binwang, the fourth master of the early Tang Dynasty, denounced Wu Zetian as a moral demon who had no body and no skin, but did not mention the infanticide case. If Wu Zenaive really did this, or if he was the slightest suspect, would Luo Bingwang take the initiative to give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to criticize and write? Truth: Wu Zetian is not a murderer, and the sudden death rate of newborns in 3 per 1,000 killed the little princess. It just so happened that this incident could be used as one of the thousands of straws in Wu Zetian's camel that crushed Queen Wang, and of course the smart and martial Wu Zetian would not give up and use it casually. The abolition of Wang Liwu incident is a dispute on the surface, but it is not. According to Mr. Chen Yinke's analysis, the abolition of Wang Liwu is the external manifestation of the fierce struggle between the Guanlong aristocracy and the nouveau riche of Shandong, between the scholar clan and the Shu clan, and between the monarch and the prime minister. I'll analyze it in detail in this work.
As I said earlier, the more credible official history "Book of Sui" has no such thing at all. The Sui book said that Yang Jian's death was a very warm scene, holding Yang Guang's head, holding the neck of the second boy and entrusting him to the ministers. "Lie down and say goodbye to hundreds of officials, and shake hands" Farewell to the ministers, the boss Yang Jian said to everyone that I am going to another world, you can do it yourself. I'll go first, wait over there, and I'll buy you a house first. These words may not have been said, but the aftermath must be explained clearly. The scene is very warm and sensational. After that, I was busy going to see Hades. Even if you want to pour sewage on Yang Guang's body in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty people who hated Yang Guang deeply, and their representative Mr. Sima Guang did not dare to blatantly say in "Tongjian" that the second boy killed his father. Just say "Russia collapsed." Therefore, there are quite different opinions between China and foreign countries. But this sentence gave us endless reverie for later generations. There's a lot of room for imagination. I've already talked about the doubts above. Now analyze the reasons. Why did Mr. Sima Guang depict the "adulterous mother" in a magnificent, generous and vivid manner in "Tongjian"? There is only one reason: that is, to pour sewage on Yang Guang! Because Yang Guang is a loser. There was no better weapon of attack than morality, especially during the Song Dynasty, where Confucianism flourished and was known for its literary rule. So naturally became a character who has been infamous for thousands of years. The Northern Song Dynasty was a dynasty established by the Han people that paid great attention to etiquette and religion. Li Shimin, the second son of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, who grabbed power like him, and later Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, grabbed power in the same class, and killed his brother and imprisoned his father in the same way (Yang Guang is far worse than him). Yang Guang didn't kill his father, and his brothers didn't kill him. This is much better than Comrade Li, and the abolished prince Yang Yong was given death by Yang Yuejiao. Yang Jun died of illness. Yang Xiu and Yang Liang were arrested and imprisoned in Jiangdu Palace for rebellion, and were killed by Yu Wenhua and after the change. Yang Guang didn't kill one directly. On the other hand, our wise and martial Li family's second son, Tang Taizong Li Shimin. This fierce brother killed his own brothers (Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji) and ten nephews in one day. It's all done in one day. This Li Lao Er later killed his younger brother Han Wang Yuanchang. In terms of killing relatives, Li Lao Er is more ruthless than Yang Lao Er, right? Then why did Yang Guang leave a stench of absurdity and cruelty in history for thousands of years? And Li Shimin, who is more ruthless than him, got another evaluation? It was the wisdom and martial arts of the first emperor through the ages, and no matter how high the evaluation was, it was not enough. What do you do? The most important thing is that Yang Guang is a failure. He failed. In just 14 years, such a great empire that has been fought over by the Han nation for many generations and hundreds of years of hard work, bloodshed, and sacrifice has been tossed. There must be something wrong with him. First of all, it's preconceived. Morality and character are certainly poor. The most important thing for the defenders who pay attention to the Confucian tradition is order and etiquette. Look, this loser. Because he usurped power, because he was not the eldest son, because he had problems with his moral character, because he killed his father, killed his brother and forced his sister to adulterous mother, so his final outcome was to finish the empire. Therefore, what Mr. Sima wants to tell everyone is: don't learn from this negative example. His real purpose is to tell future readers of history: to maintain etiquette, to maintain the primogeniture system, and to maintain the feudal hierarchical order. The ultimate goal is to maintain the order of imperial power! Be a inheritor and defender of Confucianism! Be a peaceful and obedient to the imperial power! In order to educate latecomers, Yang Guang, you should be a negative example. If you are wronged, you will bear all the moral judgments, and endure the sewage that has been poured on your body by generations of historians and moral guardians. The essence of the sewage is constantly precipitating, and it cannot be washed and is layered. Slowly the stain became a part of Yang Guang's body, and it became a stain armor that he could never take off. Yang Guang is more wronged than Dou E! It's just that I didn't expect that Yang Guang had endured this grievance for a thousand years. It is true that Yang Guang did make a big mistake in the process of governing the empire. But unintentionally, he became a moral demon who killed the king, killed his brother, adulterous mother and usurped the throne. How sad! The truth is there! It doesn't matter if you see it or not, admit it or not. It's there! Yang Guang became the emperor and was the real emperor. The dream came true. That is imperial power, an absolute power given by God. Now it's in hand. I sometimes wonder, why is there such a big difference between Yang Guang before and after he took the position? Could it be that this buddy is psychologically twisted and schizophrenic? What is the force behind the manipulation of this dramatic table? Power, this absolute power. It can turn people into ghosts, and it can turn ghosts into people. In order to compete for the throne, he played with his life and endured for twenty years to live an ascetic-like life. Don't eat good food, don't wear good clothes, don't play with women, don't travel with public funds, drink and tell jokes, and pretend to be a moral model of gentleness and frugality every day. More than 20 years of pretending to be a grandson, how painful and helpless it should be. There was despair, anger, helplessness, compromise, despair, cruelty, struggle and bloodshed. A qiē has passed. Look at this blue sky, this white clouds, it will all belong to me. Finally able to breathe freely, finally free to lose your temper and scold others, make your favorite decisions as you like, and dispose of anyone at will. Including their lives. No more accusations, lectures and threats from anyone. My time has finally come. The first thing to do is to choose a resounding era name for yourself. Yang Guang chose the "great cause" for his time. Listen, good boy. It is necessary to build great achievements, surpass the previous emperors, and do great things that they could not do or even imagined. Begin. Dry! First of all, there must be theoretical innovation and ideological transcendence of negation of negation. Not only dare to do, but also dare to think! First of all, it is necessary to vigorously carry out infrastructure construction. Daxing City was repaired by my father, which is not good. So what to do? Overhaul? No, if it is repaired, it is still the foundation and shadow of my father, and if it is not repaired, the responsibility is mine. Yang Guangji looked far away. His gaze was fixed on Luoyang, which was located in the east of Chang'an. I'm going to rebuild a new capital. Brand new. Yes! On March 17, the first year of the Great Cause (605 AD), the emperor issued an edict to begin the construction of the eastern capital Luoyang. Who repairs it? Of course, choose the most capable one.