Chapter Seventy-Five: Refining
It's fun, too. Where is the truth of history? Actually, it's hard to say. What is meaningful in story, romance and truth? I think it all makes sense.
I think of a passage: those loves become stories. Those stories turned into love. Who made up love? Who edited the story? Everyone came out of the bathhouse and wore clothes, some dressed brightly and some in rags. But the key is to get dressed, no one shows their true nature, right?
The same is true of history, everything that talks about history is second-hand or even n-hand goods with clothes on, it is all false, who is right and who is wrong? Zhang San said that what he wrote was true, and what he attacked Li Si was nonsense, jokes and nonsense. Then I'm going to ask, Zhang San, are you the party?
How can you be sure that what you say must be what is really happening? Therefore, truth is relative.
Then someone is going to ask, aren't you talking nonsense? Since it's history, the person concerned must be gone. Then according to what you say, where can the truth be found? Without right and wrong and truth, is there still point in discussing? What is the value of even the discipline of history?
Not necessarily, if there is no clue at all, then the judge will have a problem in deciding the case, even if the person is alive, there is still a lie. This requires research and access to archives and historical materials, which requires a certain degree of professionalism and professionalism. Just like the criminal police solving the case, restore the scene to find the answer.
That's the problem. Now that the professional police have figured out the case, it is time for everyone else to shut up, there is no need and no opportunity to speak? That's not it, otherwise tabloid reporters and gossip readers will be unemployed, uncles and aunts and full-time young women will feel that life lacks condiments and is tasteless, life has no color and taste, and it is not good to make trouble with you every day, and you are not good in this class, let alone make progress in making money. And so the world became a wonderful.
The Simpsons wife murder case that caused a sensation in the United States is a typical example, which not only entertained the public, but also increased GDP. Everyone is happy, why not?
You can go to Zhengyangmen Quanjude to eat roast duck, or you can go to the roadside alley at the door to eat the Texas duck roasted by the Anhui master, there is no need to sit in the box and tear the roast duck in the mouth, and don't forget to take the alley to stand on the side of the road and taste the dusty duck flavor has already passed through the brother Kaishabu. I'm not joking, but I understand.
What is the use of studying history? I'm especially afraid to ask myself. It's like asking yourself why you're alive.
My head is often dizzy! I think this society needs people who are buried in pulling carts, but there are also people who look up at the sky. Grandpa Mao received Nixon, and the specific issues were all handled by Comrade Lao Zhou, and he talked to Nixon about two topics: history and philosophy.
If you don't know and care about the history of your own nation and the behavior of your ancestors, the future of this nation will definitely be worrying! At least what we write persuades people to do good or be good, not to fool or talk nonsense, after our own brain analysis plus historical research on human nature, it is really not good and it is also a psychological comfort regulator, isn't this enough?
History is what happened in the past, science and technology are advancing, but human hearts, thoughts and even thinking may not be able to keep up with the pace of scientific and technological progress, and even regress in a certain period of time, which is really a fatal thing
In the face of declining happiness and escalating conflicts, the power of technology is limited or even counterproductive. But history, philosophy, and religion can play a role in this area, and they can treat both the symptoms and the root causes.
Cicero, the great ruler of ancient Rome, famously posted a saying to encourage the big guys: history is the witness of the times, the torch of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life and the messenger of the ancients. I also plugged in, in the name of nobility.
Yang Yong's cousin Xiàn sent himself directly to hell. Under the internal and external difficulties, he was completely dizzy. First of all, he no longer has people and political forces to rely on (he thinks himself), and everyone is afraid of him, so he thinks of the most stupid trick. Sorcery! It's really a rush to the doctor. He had a witchcraft curse prop made and a civilian village in the back garden of his mansion, with low-slung and simple houses.
Yang Yong often slept and rested in it, wearing cloth clothes and straw mattresses, hoping to avoid disasters. I really don't know how Yang Yong came up with this idea, let's just think he really can't help it. Daddy Yang Jian also knew that Yang Yong was very uneasy now, and sent Yang Su to observe Yang Yong's behavior during his vacation at Renshou Palace (this is engaging in spy politics).
Yang Suke seized the opportunity to play Yang Yong. Yang Su arrived at the East Palace, stopped and did not enter, Yang Yong changed his clothes and waited for Yang Su to come in, but Yang Su deliberately did not enter the door for a long time, so as to anger Yang Yong. Yang Yong was originally dissatisfied with Yang Su, and today he asked me, the crown prince of the dynasty, to wear court clothes and wait for you for a long time in the East Palace when I met you, and treat me as a monkey?
Yang Yong is very angry. When Yang Su felt that the anger in Yang Yong's heart was almost up, he slowly came to the East Palace to see Yang Yong and convey Emperor Yang Jian's will.
Do you think this Yang Yong can give Yang Su a good face? However, this just shows that Yang Yong is really not a sinister person with a city government. mixed in this way, I really wronged Mr. Yang.
But Yang Suke seized the opportunity. I, Yang, have never been for my personal private affairs, but I came to convey the holy decree to you on the orders of the emperor, and your anger in front of me is not directed at me, it is disrespectful to the emperor.
That's a big problem. Handles are everywhere, depending on how the conspirators use them. In the officialdom, this kind of villain is listed as an official, you must beware, dig a pit behind your back and then push you in, bury some soil and step on 10,000 feet, these tricks are equivalent to blowing a breath for these villains. Yang Su went back and reported to the emperor: "Brave and resentful, I am afraid that he will change, and I am willing to take deep precautions!" It means that Yang Yong is resentful, and I am afraid that something will happen.
I hope that His Majesty will be more vigilant and observant. Can the emperor not be nervous? can only be more suspicious of Yang Yong. At the same time, the mother also joined the camp to defeat her son, and she was the vanguard of urgency, and she did not hesitate to charge into battle in order to defeat her son.
Sent people to secretly inspect the East Palace, and reported all the trivial matters to Emperor Wen, which constituted Yang Yong's crime based on the false accusations.
In the end, Yang Jian couldn't sit still. He personally sent people to join the surveillance camp and transferred all the officials of the Prince's Mansion Guards.
The shape is already in great danger, just waiting for the emperor's order. Many officials with a keen sense of smell immediately saw the signs, and they came over when they smelled the blood. Taishi ordered Yuan Chongyan to say: "The ministers watch astronomy, and the crown prince should be abolished." ”
Shang said: "I have seen the mysterious elephant for a long time, and the ministers dare not speak." "Yuan Chong, the official in charge of celestial phenomena, said that this celestial phenomenon had been revealed, and said that the crown prince would be abolished. The emperor gave him a blank look and said Do you want you to say this?
The celestial phenomenon has already appeared, but no one among the ministers has taken the lead, and they don't dare to say it. At the same time, the opponent Yang Guang was not idle, and bought off Ji Wei, the fortunate minister of the East Palace, with a lot of money, and reported the movements of the East Palace to Yang Su in a timely manner.
Yang Yong's surroundings seem to be equipped with pinhole cameras everywhere and put them under the sun. It is recorded in the history books: "So there was slander inside and outside, and mistakes were heard every day." ”
Yang Guang finally made a move, and this gun was Ji Wei, a fortunate minister of the East Palace who was bought by him with a lot of money, and under Yang Guang's threat and temptation, Ji Wei wrote to tell him.
On September 26, the twentieth year of the emperor's reign, the emperor returned from a vacation in Renshou Palace. After going to the court, he asked Baiguan: "I just came back from vacation, I should have a good drink, why am I depressed?" Niu Hong, the nerd of the Ministry of Rites on the side, spoke, and said: "It is the incompetence of the ministers that makes His Majesty sad and tired. ”
Where's this? However, this also shows that the abolition of the crown prince does not have much mass base among the hundred officials of the imperial court. Yang Guang and Yang Su fabricated most of the evidence of the so-called prince's crimes, in fact, are not visible. Emperor Wen did not see a one-sided call for the deposed prince in the imperial court. This came as a big surprise to him.
What to do? But Emperor Wen of Sui has gone mad, and the things he decided can't be changed by anyone. As an emperor, even if you are wrong, you must be wrong to the end, which is a major matter related to your authority. If you're not convinced, then try it. The state machine is for the imperial power, and then I understand that it is for me Yang Jian, the switch is in my own hands, and my own words will be started immediately.
He didn't pay any attention to Niu Hong at all. But what he didn't know was that killing was like chemotherapy in the treatment of a disease, and once it started to sink the mud and sand, it was easy to get out of control and kill by mistake. The emperor turned his face and pointed his gun at the officials of the East Palace.
He asked, "Renshou Palace is not far from here, but every time I return to Jingshi, I have to strictly prepare a guard of honor to defend it, just like entering an enemy country." I didn't dare to take off my clothes to sleep because of diarrhea, and I had to go to the toilet last night, because I was afraid that there was an emergency in the back room, so I went back to the front hall to live.
Aren't you people going to endanger my home and country? Without waiting for these officials to report any defense, the emperor immediately ordered the arrest of Tang Lingze, the prince's left concubine, and others, and ordered Yang Su to make the true situation of the East Palace public. So good, Yang Su is on standby there, does Yang Yong's crime still need to be drafted? It's been rehearsed countless times.
So on top of this court, Prime Minister Yang Su told Yang Yong's incriminating evidence to be true, and gave full play to the maximum potential of his own brain association, fully blending and fermenting many unrelated and even unfounded events, and finally presented to Emperor Wen and the ministers Yang Yong was talentless, virtuous, shameless, and disloyal, unrighteous and unfilial. In the end, the conviction of this prince is: rebellion.
But the eyes of the masses are bright, and there are still upright people in the court. The general of the left guard, Wuyuan Gongmin, persuaded Emperor Wen: "The abolition of the crown prince is a major event, and if the edict is promulgated and implemented, it will be too late to regret it."
Slander is uncertain, and I hope that His Majesty will investigate these things more carefully. But Emperor Wen couldn't listen to it at all, he had already been coerced by this public opinion and walked towards the unknown cliff step by step.
Emperor Wen immediately ordered Ji Wei, an official subordinate of the East Palace over there who had been bribed by threats and lures, to state the prince's crimes. In fact, Ji Wei really can't tell the prince about any of his crimes, no way, let's dig it out fully, and press all the sins he can think of on this unlucky egg.
With the perfect cooperation and full operation of these people, a small team led by Yang Jian, led by Yang Su, and commanded by Yang Guang to create the crime of the crown prince Yang Yong was immediately formed, and the crime of the prince's rebellion was quickly confirmed. It's really strange, this prince of the dynasty, why did he rebel?
Could there be anyone else who has a better chance of ascending to the throne than he does? Since he didn't, why did he rush to seize power? The answer is clear.
Because someone needs him to rebel! But Emperor Wen Yang Jian already doesn't believe in these bullshit logic. On the ninth day of the tenth lunar month in the twentieth year of Kaihuang (600 AD), the morning in Chang'an was already very cold, but what was colder than this weather was Yang Yong's colder heart.
A group of palace guards came to the East Palace under the leadership of several envoys, passed on the emperor's edict, and recruited the crown prince Yang Yong into the court.
Sensing that a catastrophe was coming, Yang Yong asked the guard officer with frightened eyes and a slightly mutated tone: "Didn't my father recruit me to kill me?" His reaction was slightly intense, which was the reaction of a normal person. But this also shows from the other side that Yang Yong is indeed an ordinary person without a city government, not a piece of material for playing politics, and he was really wronged when he became the prince. It seems that this primogeniture system will also hurt people by mistake. When he arrived at the Wude Palace, Yang Jian was playing for real, showing the public in military uniform, and the royal family of the ministers of civil and military affairs next to him stood solemnly and solemnly.
The Praetorian Guards are bright swords and spears, although Yang Yong has often seen this kind of scene before, but this time and that time. plopped and knelt in front of his father.
Xue Daoheng, the servant of the internal history, read out the edict: depose Yang Yong and the children of the king and princess as concubines, and depose the prince's left concubine Tang Lingze, Wuyuan Gongmin, the prince's family order Zou Wenteng and other officials and those who are close to Yang Yong in the court, and the children and property of these people are all lost.
Over there, Yang Suyi and other members of the special case team responsible for investigating the prince's rebellion case collectively rewarded Yang Su with 3,000 pieces of property, and gave Yuan Gao and Yang Yue a total of 1,000 pieces of property. It's really a few joys and a few worries. The biggest winner is Yang Guang.
On the third day of November, Yang Guang, the king of Jin, was canonized as the crown prince. Yuwen Shu was the left guard rate, and Guo Yanrong, the governor of Hongzhou who participated in Yang Guang's succession, was promoted to the left prison gate.
The power of the imperial court was reshuffled. Yang Guang got the crown prince he coveted, and Yang Yong paid the due price for his stubbornness.
At the scene of his dethronement, Yang Yong wept at his father and hundreds of officials, saying that he deserved it, and he thought that he would be executed, and he was lucky to be able to save his life. Didn't defend himself. didn't say a bad word about his younger brother Yang Guang. Shed tears and thanked him.