Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's sister Tong'an eldest princess, married Wang Fangyi's grandfather Wang Yu, the daughter of Tang Taizong, and also married to the Wang family of Qixian County, Tang Wenzong couldn't help but complain, "It has been two hundred years since the founding of the Tang Li family, but there are many fewer people who are willing to marry the royal family than those who are willing to marry the Wang family and other big families", which shows the prominent prestige of the Wang family at that time.

But Wang Fangyi is obviously not the eldest princess of Tong'an, so his father Wang Renbiao just died, and he was driven to Fengquan by the princess with his mother to the Wang family's Fengquan farewell. (Fortunately, it is a rich and noble family, otherwise wouldn't it be rushed to the street to be a beggar?) ）

The young Wang Fangyi became a little man in charge, and he worked with his servants, cultivating fields, planting trees, and becoming a wealthy family.

Later, when he served as the governor of Xiazhou, he invented manpower ploughing machinery, instead of ox ploughing, known as the ploughing frame instead of cattle, the force saved and saw a lot of merit, and soon popularized, the people did not plough the cattle in the case, so as not to abandon the land, leading to hunger and cold, which is really a good deed to add bricks and tiles, and played a good role in the people's livelihood.

Of course, Wang Fangyi would not stay outside the strong martial atmosphere of the children of the nobility in the Sui and Tang dynasties, he practiced riding and archery diligently, and soon stood out. After the death of the eldest princess of Tong'an, he and his mother returned to Chang'an. On a night trip, he saw a monster with a height of more than one foot, he was not in a hurry, pulled out his bow and arrow, shot the monster, and took a closer look, it turned out to be just a pair of wood.

When Tang Taizong heard about this, he promoted him to the right Qianniu of the imperial court, and Wang Fangyi began a long process of making contributions.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Fangyi's mother died.

The son wanted to raise but his relatives were not there, so that Wang Fangyi was very sad, and he fell ill, after Gaozong knew, he specially sent the imperial doctor to treat him, although Gaozong's queen Wang was Wang Fangyi's distant cousin,

But Tang Gaozong may not have been particularly friendly to Wang Fangyi for this reason, and later Wu Zetian took away the throne of the Wang family at the cost of strangling his daughter, and then killed the Wang family and the Xiao family.

Wang Fangyi, as a relative of the abolished post, spent Gaozong's life, and his official position continued to be promoted, it should be said that it was the consequence of Gaozong's great efforts to maintain, Gaozong could kill his own uncle and eldest grandson Wuji at the instigation of Wu Zetian,

In addition to the utilitarian purpose of winning over the wealthy scholars, Gaozong should have a very fond and trust of Wang Fangyi himself, and facts have proved that Wang Fangyi is fully worthy of this trust.

In the fourth year of Xianqing, Zhao Zhiman, the governor of Liangzhou, was framed and imprisoned because he was related to the eldest grandson Wuji, and died in prison after being tortured, and the body was thrown to the west of the city, and none of his relatives and six dependents went to collect his body.

Wang Fangyi collected his body and buried him according to etiquette. At that time, someone naturally made a small report, and Tang Gaozong was deeply moved and did not let others pursue Wang Fangyi on this basis.

"Luan Bu's cry Peng Yue, righteousness; Zhou Wenzhi covers the decay of the bones, and the benevolence is also. The righteousness of friends, the benevolence of the lord, how can you be a king? "Wang Fangyi, a famous son of a famous family who adheres to his beliefs, can show his talents in that era, and he is really grateful that the energetic Tang society has not lost the glory of human nature, whether it is the monarch or the people, in a corner of the heart, can still retain kindness and chivalrous feelings.

"Loyalty and patriotism" is not an abstract word, it is embodied in concrete actions. When Wang Fangyi was the assassin of Suzhou (now Jiuquan, Gansu), he wrote a perfect footnote to this word.

At that time, Suzhou, "the state city was deserted, and there were no trenches", and it was often harassed by Turkic cavalry. In accordance with the requirements of the military book, Wang Fangyi led the soldiers to build the city wall, set up beacon fires, dig deep ditches, and divert water to ring the city to form a moat.

Of course, these constructive works are not as exciting as the fighting on the battlefield, but it is these strong fortifications that have reduced the casualties of the soldiers in the border towns and avoided the fate of the "poor and uncertain riverside bones".

In the first year of Yifeng, there was a very strict locust plague in the Hexi Corridor, and the hungry people were everywhere, and many people threw themselves into Suzhou under the rule of Wang Fangyi.

At that time, there were not a few hungry people in other prefectures and counties who starved to death, but most of the hungry people who stayed in Suzhou survived the famine. The clarity of the political zhì has benefited many people, and the ** of the political zhì has made many people suffer. If other disaster-stricken states and counties could do something like Wang Fangyi, why would so many people starve to death?

The right is given from above, and the officials turn a blind eye to the suffering of the people, which is really one of the biggest drawbacks of the feudal system.

In the first year of Yongchun (682), ten Western Turkic tribes followed Ashina Chebo to raise troops against the Tang Dynasty and besieged Gongyue City in the northwest border. Wang Fangyi led the army to the expedition, and encountered the Western Turkic army at the Yili River, and the Tang army was unstoppable, beheading more than 1,000 people at a time.

The Western Turks joined forces with the three surnames of Yuqu and swooped down with 100,000 troops, and Wang Fangyi led his army to retreat to Atami near Shattered Leaf Castle, where he launched a bloody battle with the enemy.

The enemy's stray arrows entered his arm, and he immediately cut them off with his saber so that his injuries would not affect the morale of the army.

In the middle of the fierce battle, he learned an important piece of information that his 7,000 Hu soldiers planned to kidnap him and go to Ashina Chebo.

Wang Fangyi was in danger, pretending to distribute military funds, summoned these men to the army, tied them up and beheaded them in turn, when the wind was howling, the army rode the wind and drums, and quickly executed these traitors, avoiding the terrible situation of defection (as was the case in the later Battle of Talas).

Subsequently, Wang Fangyi appointed an adjutant general to attack in separate ways, and under several heavy blows, the enemy army "was all defeated, and the black eagles led the troops to flee", and the Tang army captured 300 chieftains such as the Turks, and defeated the Western Turkic army to pieces, and never recovered its vitality.

"Ten miles of a horse, five miles of a whip. All the guards are booked to, and the Huns surround Jiuquan. Guanshan is snowing, and there is no smoke in the beacon army", how heroic and sassy the athletes of the Tang Empire were back then, they were the bravest and most resolute men in the world, and it seems to have become a swan song today.

In the second year after the pacification of the Western Regions (683 AD), Tang Gaozong summoned Wang Fangyi back to Beijing to discuss matters. In the Fengtian Palace, the emperor entertained his favorite courtiers to eat together. Gaozong saw that there were blood stains oozing out of Wang Fangyi's clothes, and hurriedly asked why, Wang Fangyi told the situation of the bitter battle in Atami, Gaozong rolled up his sleeves, carefully examined his wounds, and was moved, he said emotionally, "Fang Yi is my relative" (just in terms of blood, they are eight poles apart).

The days of peace are always very short, and the external troubles are eliminated, and the internal troubles come. Suizhou's Baitie Yutong guò cult started, proclaimed himself the Holy Emperor of Light, organized believers, attacked the county seat, killed officials, and vibrated the government and the opposition. Wang Fangyi and Cheng Wuting led their troops to suppress it, "fire its gate", leveled the rabble in one fell swoop, and captured Bai Tieyu (ethnic minority) who pretended to be a ghost. Wang Fangyi entered the title of Taiyuan County Duke, and at this time, he had achieved the ideal that men of that era dreamed of.

He is both civil and military, is a famous calligrapher, and Wei Shuwan is equally famous, even in the era of peace, as a civil minister, he should also be very good, in and out of the phase, although it was quite common in the Han and Tang dynasties, the men of that era were also quite interested in the heroism of the flying, but outstanding as Wang Fangyi, how many people?

In the Song Dynasty, the literati sat in a sedan chair to command the soldiers to fight, repeatedly defeated, sent silver and silk, and it was not easy for the Song people to endure so long in the face of the nomadic offensive.

Ironically, the ultimate consequence of the repetition of the text did not make the Han people more civilized, but made the Han people more barbaric, and it was the kind of shameful barbarism, hunting Tang Feng, which has become a distant dream for future generations.

Wang Fangyi's last expedition was to attack Ashina Yuanzhen, at that time, due to frequent wars, there was no complete armor in the treasury, Wang Fangyi "broke the six plates, painted tiger texts, hooks and dissolved",

When the enemy's horses suddenly saw it, they were frightened and galloped, and the formation was suddenly in chaos, and the Tang army captured two of the enemy's generals in one go, and the two tribes of Sangqian and Sheli were forced to surrender. The sunset outside the plug shone on the banner of the victory of the Tang Army, witnessing the glorious achievements of a Tang general who must win every battle, this moment

, he is immortal, his personality shines with his achievements, he is a general who charges into battle in wartime, he is a doer for the benefit of the people in peacetime, he can be a hundred steel, he can be a finger twister, he will not be like some generals who do whatever they want, rescue the crisis in wartime,

After the war, he became a scourge, because his will was enough to control his delusions, which can be said to be the power of culture, which can be said to be the edification of civilization, which made him out of the ordinary, outstanding, and became our eternal memory and dream.

In 683 AD, Tang Gaozong died.

In September 684, the British Duke Li Jingye raised an army in Yangzhou to attack Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian killed his relatives and comrades. Cheng Wuting was implicated and was killed at the border station, and Wu Zetian "lost his home".

Wang Fangyi and Cheng Wuting have always had a friendship, Wu Zetian found an excuse, arrested Wang Fangyi and imprisoned, and then exiled him to Yazhou (now Qiongshan, Hainan), Wang Fangyi died of illness halfway through, a generation of famous generals, died in a foreign land.

With Wu Zetian's viciousness in killing parents and children, and the usual means of cutting grass and eradicating roots, it is very rare to be able to let go of Wang Fangyi's family and children, which shows Wang Fangyi's personality charm, even if the empress stands in a hostile position, it is impossible to turn a deaf ear. Later, Wang Fangyi's son Tongguò was admitted to the court, and Wu Zetian did not deliberately cause harm. In the early years of Shenlong, Tang Zhongzong restored the title of Duke of Taiyuan County, and sent a belated consolation to the famous general who had died for ten years.

The amazing and brilliant characters are like meteors flying by, never see his brilliant brilliance again, the military aristocracy quietly disappeared with the fall of the Tang Empire, the prosperity of the imperial examination system, so that from then on China only cultural concept of the aristocracy, scholars from children to Xiucai, from Xiucai to lift, from the lifter to Jinshi, from Jinshi to the champion, in the same ancient texts spent a boring life, the Jin Ge Iron Horse seems to be something that happened in other people's countries, and this life has no relevance.

When I read the President of the United States, John Brown. Kennedy and George. In Bush's biography, he was surprised to find the shadow of the military aristocracy of the Tang Dynasty. John. Kennedy was born into a wealthy family in Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard University, and was a devout Catholic. During World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he fought in the U.S. Navy because of a back injury he had suffered and was rejected by the army.

In August 1943, the PT-109 torpedo boat commanded by Captain Kennedy was broken into two sections by a Japanese destroyer. He became a World War II hero, receiving the Purple Heart of the United States, while his older brother lost his young life while on a bombing mission.

George. Bush is a distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and a devout Anglican Communist. Born into a wealthy and senatorial family, George . Bush, who was still a young man in love during World War II, could have found a peaceful job in the United States, but he resolutely joined the US Navy and became a qualified fighter pilot.

In 1944, the plane he piloted was shot down by the Japanese army, and he parachuted into an American submarine after parachuting.

George. Bush has become a young hero of World War II, a youthful and rejuvenated son of a rich American family, full of ideals and sacrificing his life for the country, they are the glory and dream of the United States, they are the model and example of several generations of young people, who can be president if they are not president?

Their youth, their ideals, their pursuits, their struggles, hold up a vigorous and great country, if we can get rid of the "meat eaters" mindset, get rid of the "Yellow Nest" poured into us the best soup, we will definitely be able to see their great dedication and sacrifice to the world, "who knows not to the side court, even if you die still smell the fragrance of chivalrous bones" This is the bold words of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, but also the actual expression of the American elite.

Black teeth are common

He was heroic, he was the enemy of the Tang Dynasty, and then the general of the Tang Dynasty, and his ending was so miserable, due to Wu Zetian's suspicion and the forced confession of the cool officials, he ended his life in the way of "self-hanging". Hei Tooth Changzhi, a famous Tang general born in Baekje, his life is a magnificent iron-blooded legend.

In the first year of Yongchang (689 AD), Yan Guogong Heiya Changzhi was arrested and imprisoned for the crime of treason, and was knocked out of his teeth one by one by Lai Junchen in prison, Lai Junchen said, "I heard that your teeth are black", Heiya Changzhi is a tiger general in the battle array, and he is resolute by nature.

He refused to be further insulted by the cool officials, and resolutely strangled himself with a rope, and the stars withered in the prison for a generation, and everyone sighed for it, and since then the northern border has been plagued by disasters, and the Turkic invasions have continued, until the famous general Zhang Renyuan built three surrendered cities on the north bank of the Yellow River, which reversed the passive situation. (To be continued.) )