After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong fled to Sichuan, and his son Li Heng was enthroned as emperor in Lingwu, that is, Tang Suzong. Although Suzong was called the emperor, he did not dare to be self-dictatorial in government affairs, and every time he appointed a prime minister, he always sent someone to Sichuan to report to his father. Once, Su Zong reported to him that he had appointed Fang Xuan as the prime minister, and Tang Xuanzong and his favored Pei Shiyan commented: "This person is not a talent who can eliminate the thief. If Yao Chong is still alive, these thieves will not be difficult to destroy. Fang Xuan's later cousin Xiàn also proved that Xuanzong's words were indeed good. Pei Shiyan has always had a reputation for being good at identifying talents, and the two began to evaluate the successive prime ministers after Xuanzong ascended the throne. Pei Shiyan mentioned the famous minister Song Jing, and Xuanzong said disdainfully: "He just pretended to be honest to win his reputation (he sold straight to get famous)." Pei Shiyan mentioned more than a dozen people, and Tang Xuanzong's comments were very precise. It seems that Tang Xuanzong still knows the prime minister he appointed very well. When Pei Shiyan mentioned Li Linfu, Tang Xuanzong said: "This kid is jealous of his ability, and there is nothing in the world that can compare with him." (This son is jealous of the virtuous and the sick, and the world is incomparable.) Pei Shiyan deliberately pretended not to understand and asked, "Since Your Majesty knows him so well, why did you appoint him as prime minister for so long?" This forty-year-old son of peace and the former generation of Ming Jun was silent, and for a long time, he had to lower his noble and gray head, and his face was full of remorse.

Rely on women to ascend to the phase

Who is Li Linfu? I believe that as long as anyone who knows a little about history will know it, even those who have no interest in history should know it, because in the idiom dictionary, the mouth honey belly sword has been firmly tied to Li Linfu. In Chinese history, if traitors are made into a ranking, Li Linfu can definitely be among the top three. Later generations hate Wu Zetian's Lai Junchen very much, in fact, Li Linfu is far worse than Lai Junchen, although Lai Junchen killed many people, but what was destroyed was only the doors and windows on the ground of the Tang Dynasty, which could be repaired in the future. Li Linfu destroyed half of the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Linfu's background is not low, on the contrary, he is a red sprout, and he is the queen of the Tang Dynasty. His great-grandfather Li Shuliang was a cousin of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan. He was named the King of Changping. His uncle Li Sixun was not only a famous general in the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, but also the most talented landscape painter in the Tang Dynasty, and had a great influence on later generations. However, in Li Linfu's generation, because it is not from Li Yuan's lineage. The inheritance of the title has stopped, and when he first stepped into the official career, he could only be wronged and grieved. Qianniu belongs to the left and right Qianniuwei and is the emperor's Praetorian Guard. The meaning of a thousand cows originated from the "Zhuangzi" of the "Ding Jie Niu" chapter, Liu Song Shi Xie Xuan said in the book "Gleaning": A thousand cow knife, the blade of the human self-defense. Both the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty named their personal guards as the Left and Right Qianniu Guard. Equivalent to the current garrison of the capital. Many of the Tang Dynasty's systems were actually based on the Sui Dynasty, and this is no exception. For this official position, the New Tang Dynasty Book. The official chronicle annotated: "The high-grade descendants above the guard official and below the prince started to do it." In other words, this is the first step for the children and grandchildren of high-ranking military attachés and princes and nobles to step into the official career. This is also in line with Li Linfu's background. At this point, Li Linfu is the same as He Shen of the Qing Dynasty, both of whom started as palace guards.

Li Linfu doesn't know how to learn, but he knows the rhythm of music. If he could have been a musician now, but at that time there was no music industry, and he had only two ways for him to choose, but he had no talent in either of these aspects. However, after all, he is a clan, and he still has a network in the court. His uncle Jiang Jiao, the Duke of Chu, liked him very much. Activities for him everywhere, but Li Linfu has nothing to brag about in terms of conduct and academics, Jiang Jiao fooled a lot of people for him, but few people bought it, and later in the early years of Kaiyuan, Li Linfu was promoted to the crown prince Zhongyun, which is just an inconspicuous subordinate official in the prince's east palace. During the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court election system was still relatively sound.

Jiang Jiao was still unwilling, the ruling prime minister at that time was Yuan Qianyao, Jiang Jiao had recommended him to Xuanzong many years ago, and he was able to be reused. Prime Minister Yuan's nephew Yuan Guangcheng happened to be Jiang Jiao's sister-in-law, so Jiang Jiao asked him to plead with Prime Minister Yuan, because Yuan Qianyao liked this nephew the most. Yuan Guangcheng was afraid that his words would not carry weight, so he specially asked his father to intercede with his grandfather. Yuan Qianyao's son Yuan Jie said to his father: "Li Linfu begs you to promote him to Simen Langzhong." "Simon Langzhong is just a department of the Criminal Department. The records of the entry and exit personnel in charge of the 24 checkpoints in the world, as well as the goods carried, are quite similar to the current customs and entry and exit management departments, and it is a middle-level official position from the five grades, but at that time, the squires and langzhong of the various ministries were all important and beautiful officials who were competing for each other. Yuan Qianyao probably also knew Li Linfu's character and talent. He didn't buy this account, and said to his son: "Lang officials must have good conduct, outstanding talents, and high prestige to be a person (Lang officials must have good conduct to be high)." Is Ge Nu (Li Linfu's nickname) the material for being an official? Although he said so, Jiang Jiao's feelings for himself in the past still can't be forgotten, let alone not giving face at all, and after a few days, Li Linfu was promoted to one level and promoted to the crown prince. So far, Li Linfu has relied on interpersonal networks or flickering, and the results achieved are not ideal, and what he has in front of him is still a long and difficult career.

Li Linfu has been up and down for many years, slowly accumulating qualifications, and only then did he survive to Guozi Siye (vice president of the National Cadre Training College). In the fourteenth year of Kaiyuan (726 AD), he finally waited for an opportunity, Yuwenrong was appointed as the middle of the imperial history, and at that time he was attacked by the ministers because of the matter, so he introduced Li Linfu to be in the same column as him, that is, he wanted to find a helper.

Yuwenrong is also a famous family, his grandfather Yuwenjie was a scholar in the Zhenguan period, familiar with the legal provisions, known for his shrewdness and ability, and won the favor of Tang Taizong. Because Taizong is also a Shangshu order, and he does not set up Shangshu to shoot left and right, Yuwenjie is equivalent to the actual Shangshu order, that is, the prime minister. In the early years of Gaozong Yonghui, he was promoted to the Yellow Gate Squire and the Tongzhong Shumen Sanpin, and became the justifiable prime minister. Yu Wenrong is not like Li Linfu, he is both smart and capable, and he has outstanding political achievements. During his tenure as a superintendent of the imperial history, he checked the reality of the world's household registration and land, so as to prevent some people from evading taxes in the name of "running away", which had great results, but because his actions were too big, he was suspected of disturbing the people, so many people inside and outside the court wrote to attack him. But Tang Xuanzong trusted Yu Wenrong very much, and the ruling Prime Minister Yuan Qianyao also supported him, and the officials were helpless. Yu Wenrong relied on Xuanzong's favor and became more and more arrogant. Zhongshu Ling Zhang said that he had always hated Yu Wenrong's personality, and he was worried that his growing power would threaten his position, so he turned against Yu Wenrong. Whatever Yuwen Rongjian is, Zhang said that he must always pick out if it is not. Tried to obstruct it. Yu Wenrong came to strike first, and jointly impeached Zhang with Cui Yinfu, the imperial historian, and Li Linfu, who was also the imperial historian, and said that the charges were: inducing warlocks in astrology, favoritism, and bribery.

Zhang said that he is not only a famous writer and celebrity in the Tang Dynasty, but also has a high level of intelligence. But his character is not very good, he likes to accept bribes, and when the officials say that something is not in line with him in the court, he accuses him on the spot and shows no mercy. even scolded on the spot, that is, he likes to play big names, full of Hollywood director's style. You can imagine how the interpersonal relationship is. Coincidentally, Cui Yinfu is also his sworn enemy. Cui Yinfu was originally Henan Yin, because of his outstanding political achievements, Tang Xuanzong summoned him to the capital and wanted to appoint him as the imperial historian. Zhang said that he despised him for being uneducated, and Shangjuan said that he should be made the general of Jinwu, that is, the commander of the capital military region. Although the official position is not small, he is a military attaché, which is also a metaphor for Cui Yinfu is just a martial artist. However, Cui Rizhi, the former supervisor of the palace, has always had a good relationship with Zhang Shuo. It is estimated that it was also cultivated with silver, and Zhang Shuo recommended Cui Rizhi to serve as the imperial doctor. Tang Xuanzong also knew what Zhang was talking about, and he must have thought in his heart: Although I value you, I can't let you collect cash, I will do things for you! So he didn't buy his account, and still appointed Cui Yinfu as the imperial doctor. As a result, Zhang Shuo set up two rivals for himself in the Yushi Terrace. Although Li Linfu didn't have a holiday with Zhang, he knew what Yu Wenrong was doing when he was promoted to this position. As the saying goes, he will shoot when he should shoot, he will open his mouth when he should open his mouth, and he also followed Yu Wenrong and Cui Yinfu to bite Zhang Shuo to death. Tang Xuanzong also did not believe the evidence of the impeachment of the three of them, and Zhang said that he lived a luxurious and corrupt life and accepted bribes. He also knew this, and as for the suspected rebellion of "inducing warlocks to astrology and favoritism", he thought it was unlikely. The introductory astrology naturally wants to know if he has the destiny to be the emperor, and the "arrogance" is the status of the subordinate beyond himself. Imitating the monarch's behavior, such as wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a dragon chair at home, these are naturally things that the emperor will never tolerate. He sent Prime Minister Yuan Qianyao, Criminal Department Shangshu Wei Kang, Dali Shaoqing, Cui Yinfu and others to form a special case group to investigate Zhang Shuo's crimes in the Yushitai. Yuan Qianyao, the head of the special case group, was not satisfied with Zhang Shuo's commanding appearance on weekdays, so he took the opportunity to fall into the well, and after a few days, he reported to Xuanzong: Many of the charges against the impeachment of Yu Wenrong, Cui Yinfu, and Li Linfu are true (the matter is quite promising).

Xuanzong couldn't help believing it so far. But I still remembered that Zhang said that after all, he had made a lot of contributions to the country, but he was only removed from the position of Zhongshu Ling, that is, he was not the prime minister, but his other official positions and titles remained unchanged, which can be said to be an extrajudicial favor. Although Yu Wenrong successfully squeezed Zhang Shuo out of the phase, he also saw that the emperor did not mean to punish Zhang Shuo, and he couldn't help but panic in his heart, and he fabricated charges with Cui Yinfu many times to falsely accuse Zhang Shuo. Xuanzong was annoyed, thinking that they were fighting against each other in the party and wanted to establish their own small hills, so he demoted Yuwenrong to the local area as the assassin of Weizhou, Cui Yinfu dismissed the official and went home to serve the old mother, and at the same time issued an edict to let Zhang Shuo retire. Blame both sides.

Li Linfu did not participate in this action to beat the water dogs, so he was not implicated, not because he had foresight, but he had been transferred to the Criminal Department to serve as a waiter (deputy minister) at this time.

In this matter, Zhang Shuo and Yu Wenrong can be said to be both defeated, and the real beneficiary is Li Linfu, who jumped from such an idle position as Guozi Siye to the position of the waiter of the criminal department by taking advantage of the steps of Zhongcheng in the imperial history. Interestingly, the prime minister at this time was the source Qianyao who originally thought that Li Linfu was not the material for being a Lang official, Li Linfu asked for a criminal department and couldn't get it, but now he actually jumped to the high position of the criminal department waiter under his nose, I really don't know how to get through him. Maybe he felt Li Linfu's edge at this time and didn't dare to provoke him, lest he repeat the mistake of Zhang Shuo. Li Linfu also entered the power center of the imperial court, of course, it was not the core, that was his next idea. And the Tang Dynasty is about to start trembling!

In the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan (730 AD), the prime minister Pei Guangting concurrently served as the secretary of the ministry, and at this time Li Linfu had also transferred to the ministry as a waiter, thus ushering in another turning point for him: he met a woman, Pei Guangting's wife, and had an affair with her. From then on, Li Linfu and the previous Li Linfu's behavior were judged to be like two people.

Who is this Mrs. Pei? Speaking of which is very famous, she is the nephew of Wu Zetian and the daughter of Wu Sansi, the first favorite minister of the Tang Zhongzong era. If Wu Zetian's Great Zhou Dynasty does not fall, this Wu family will be a princess. In the first year of Jinglong of Tang Zhongzong (707 AD), in the seventh lunar month, Wu Sansi was killed by the prince Xingbing because of his fornication with Empress Wei and the female official and concubine Shangguan Wan'er in the palace, the filthy palace and the power of the world, and in the fourth year of Jinglong (710 AD), Princess Taiping and Li Longji jointly launched a palace coup d'état, killed Wei and Princess Anle who conspired to poison Zhongzong, and supported Ruizong Li Dan (Li Longji's father) as emperor. The Wu family was abolished.

Now, of course, there is no way to know whether Li Linfu intentionally hooked up with the Wu family, or whether the Wu family used means to pull Li Linfu to the bed. I think it's the latter. The surname Wu is already a waste surname at this time, and the family power has also fallen into the abyss from the sky, Li Linfu risked offending his boss to hook up with her, it is unlikely, not to mention that the Wu family will not be young at that time, at least it is a, and it is difficult to say how much the charm can be saved. As for Wu's initiative, it is not without purpose. Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the atmosphere has been particularly open, especially those princesses and noblewomen, who are often strong in gender relations, and men are often the targets of persecution. In the era of Wu Zetian and Zhongzong, it was not only a common phenomenon for princesses and noble ladies to raise handsome offspring at home, but also to be called fashionable. It can also be described as a special era of "male consumption" in Chinese history. The Wu family grew up in the arrogant and lascivious Wu family, and became accustomed to it. Although Li Linfu has no other expertise, he is good at music, and music happens to be a good means to move women's hearts.

The "Old Tang Book" called the Wu family "treacherous and strategic", that is, he is both cunning and resourceful, and he is talented and strategic, which is cool Xiao Nai's father. Wu Sansi relied on his "treacherous and strategic" means to play Zhongzong and Empress Wei and even the extremely smart Shangguan Wan'er in the palm of his hand. (To be continued.) )