One of the corruption of Yizong is that some emperors are guilty of the same kind of mistake and use people improperly. "Go to the feast, don't be close to the government, and appoint Lu Yan." Lu Yan is a very corrupt person, and his personal life is extravagant and erosive. Why could he be such an official? In addition to Yizong's reasons, he knows the rules of officialdom and will bribe, not only bribing the emperor's relatives and relatives, but also bribing the people around him. The people around him have benefited, they all speak for him, and they do things for him. This kind of bad behavior is known to everyone, but Yizong still protects him.

No matter how dark the court is, there are always a few people with different ideals who are worried about the country and the people. When Lu saw injustice, he howled, and when he should shoot, he made a move. Someone wrote the book, but the book did not name Lu Yan, the prime minister of the dynasty. The general content of the recital is: Please ask the emperor to investigate and punish the Bian Xian family and ensure that they can raise soldiers for two years. How much greedy!

Who is Bian Xian? Yizong didn't understand and asked the people around him. He was told that he was a government official promoted by Lu Yan. Yizong found that the spearhead of the book turned out to be pointed at his favorite retainer Lu Yan, so what did he do? He was very annoyed and said that this person was talking nonsense, dismissed him from his post, and let him go to Aizhou. Aizhou is in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, and the Han Dynasty belongs to Jiuzhen County. This man with lofty ideals fought for the truth, but was framed by Yizong for the crime of being framed. All the way to release the detention and travel thousands of miles south, doesn't this mean that he will die early?

Yizong not only did not investigate and deal with Lu Yan, but also persecuted Zhongliang, "a word to suffer the crime", many ministers are still silent? After that, no one dared to mention Lu Yan. This happened in 869, and Yizong had been in power for ten years.

In the second year, an incident happened in the imperial court, which really made people feel that Yizong was a very small and arrogant person, and he was not worthy of leading the imperial court to lead the people of the whole country.

Here's the situation. His daughter, Princess Tongchang, was married for a year but died of illness.

Princess Tongchang's husband is Wei Baoheng. The official right picks up. The princess's mother is Concubine Guo Shufei, who is very beautiful. will envelop the emperor again and get all kinds of favors. Because of this, the emperor really wants to give his daughter to marry him, and his luxury is rare in history. Compared with Xuanzong's strict requirements for his daughter, there is a world of difference. As will be said later, it will not be expanded here.

The death of her daughter at such a young age makes everyone feel distressed. However, he blamed the medical officer for not curing Princess Tongchang's disease, and even believed that some people took the opportunity to frame the medical officer for poisoning. I'm sorry, you didn't save the princess. Then it will be up to you to pay for your life. Hanlin medical officer Han Zongshao and more than 20 other people had their heads like cutting leeks, and they did not hesitate, and the capital was shocked.

This matter is not over, and he does not understand his hatred, and "collects more than 300 people from his relatives" and detains them in Jingzhao Prison and puts them on death row. This is the largest doctor-patient dispute in history.

In ancient times, the state where Gyeonggi was located was not called a state, but was called Jingzhao. The leader is not called Thorn Shi, but Yin. The Tang Dynasty regarded Yongzhou and Shaanxi as Jingzhao. For example, Jia Dao walked on the road to "scrutinize" his verses. It was Han Yu who was in charge of Jing Zhaoyin.

So many people were imprisoned because the emperor's daughter was ineffective, and the government and the opposition were boiling. It's just that many emperors who have no vision think that public opinion is just a ball. Yizong is also such a person. Is there a people in their eyes? How dare anyone in the court come out and speak for these unjust souls? Who would dare to rescue the more than 300 innocent people who suffer every day?

After all, someone has the courage to come out and speak. Zhongshu Shilang, Liu Zhan can't resist with Ping Zhangshi. I can't hold it back. Not because he is the prime minister, but an upright heart that is uneven! He summoned the counselors. Drafting the screening to the emperor and putting forward opinions. Giving advice was originally a matter for the officials and historians. That's what they pay for it, but that's half right. However, in history, how many imperial histories have dared to speak? Under this kind of high-pressure policy, who dares to moths to the fire! Liu Zhan saw that these people were silent, all of them were dumb, and knew what they were thinking at this time. Forgive them, because they are all officials to support their families, with eighty mothers and yellow-mouthed children. No way, he'll be a moth! Even if he dies, even if his family dies, it is worth it in exchange for the lives of more than 300 people! Book!

Fighting at night, boiling lamp oil, revising again and again, repeatedly scrutinizing, Dongfang Yubai, finally finished the draft, and sent the book the next day.

Emperor: The length of a person's life is promised by God. The princess is sick, and the emperor is already very kind. When Han Zongshao and other doctors were treating the princess, they also wanted the princess to recover as soon as possible. They have adopted a variety of methods, not without dedication. However, the princess's illness was difficult to recover, and it was a pity in the end. If you think about it, the doctor didn't cure the disease, and it's already worth forgiving. Now it is enough that it has been severely punished again. Now that so many people are involved, there are many discussions in the government and the opposition, and the social repercussions are great. You are a wise and reasonable person, how can you be slandered by society because of this! You are in peace without considering the unrest of society! I hope to think a little bit about it and treat those more than 300 people leniently.

These words are very logical and reasonable, worthy of a Hanlin bachelor, with a level. said that the destiny of heaven is difficult to violate, this is to comfort the emperor; second, said that the emperor did his best as a father, and he also comforted the emperor; The third spoke for Han Zongshao and others; Fourth, remind the emperor to be prepared for danger in times of peace and put the world first.

Liu Zhan has already seen that the contradictions between the government and the common people, between the peasants and the landlords, are very acute. Four years later, in 873, Wang Xianzhi began to revolt in Changyuan, Puzhou, which was in Xinxiang City, Henan. As early as when Yizong ascended the throne, Qiu Fushu, a native of eastern Zhejiang, rebelled, and the former Tang Dynasty vassal Nanzhao State Lord Chieftain tore up the alliance signed with the government and began to fight, and the war officially broke out. This is a fact that the upright court officials see, so Liu Zhan asked the emperor to be prepared for danger in times of peace. The whole territory of present-day Yunnan and parts of Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, Vietnam, and Burma.

After Yizong read it, he was so angry that he threw the book to the ground, and the emperor thought that every sentence was scolding him.

Liu Zhan thought that his hard work overnight would arouse the emperor's conscience, but a few days passed, and Liu Zhan saw that the emperor did not move at all. He wondered if one person didn't have enough weight to speak, so he called a few more. So, he went to Jingzhao Yin Wenzhang. When Wen Zhang served as Jing Zhaoyin, he made a lot of efforts to the security of Chang'an, because he was upright, and everyone was afraid of him.

He understands that Wen Zhang is a cheerful person, and he is also a person with a conscience, a sense of responsibility, absolute righteousness, and courage to take responsibility. Wen Zhang, even if he was a magistrate in Beijing, was under his jurisdiction because the relatives of Dr. Han and several other medical officials were under his jurisdiction. Being an official does not make decisions for the people. Instead of going home to sell sweet potatoes, he lived as a worm. The two of them picked up the pen again overnight. The heart lamp is like an oil lamp, boiling out a recital.

Next. The two took the opportunity of going to the court and handed the book to themselves.

After Yizong saw it, he immediately pulled down his face, this time he was extremely annoyed, and the two were scolded out of the court. From this attitude, I know that Yizong's amount is too small, and it is too inappropriate to be an emperor.

Get you back

After Liu Zhan and Wen Zhang were scolded out of the court, the two looked at each other at the door, and their hearts were extremely heavy. The rescue failed, and the more than 300 people were not saved. Go back from facing up. Doom came after him. Yizong felt that he couldn't cheapen them, so he went down with a red-headed document and demoted Liu Zhan to the envoy of Jingnan Festival. Wen Zhang went to Zhenzhou to be a Sima, farther away, in the northwest of Sanya City, Hainan. Wen Zhang will go to an extremely strange place, and there is no return at the end of the earth. The emperor ordered Wen Zhang to leave the capital within three days from now on, without delay. From ancient poems, it can be known that officials leaving the capital are faceless. Fan Zhongyan wrote in Yueyang Tower: "Go to the country and cherish your hometown. Sorrowful and fearful, extremely sad and sad. ”

Wen Zhang received the holy decree, and he was thinking that he would say a few words of justice for the people. It is only for the duty and conscience of the official, and there is no harm to the court. And he is cautious and exhaustive on weekdays. did a lot of work for the court, and now it has come to such an ending! Life. If you don't meet Mingjun, you will encounter it like this. A lifetime in vain. This time, the mountains are high and the water is dangerous, and the cool officials scold, this old bone doesn't know where to throw it! At that time, the wife and children will not be able to find the bones. That's it, I originally agreed to Liu Xiang with the heart of death. Yizong will misbehave, and traitors will frame him, which has also been considered. Naturally, what's the use of being alive? Give your life a Jedi cry for more than 300 people! Thinking of this, endless sorrow came from it, and sighed: "Life is not at the right time, what a pity to die!" "I committed suicide by drinking medicine on the same day.

What Wen Zhang didn't expect was that the emperor actually issued a holy decree to frame him: "Gou Wu (reading poison) is harmful, why is it so bad, the evil is real, and there is more responsibility for death." "It means that if you hadn't assassinated the princess with them, worrying about punishment, where would you have committed suicide? Such a big crime can't be offset even if you die!

Yizong ordered that he be temporarily buried in the wilderness within three days, and that he could not be buried until he was allowed to do so. Death does not allow him to rest in peace, and it is also a punishment.

This kind of style, where is the demeanor and heart of the emperor? What is the difference between it and the rotten third-rate in society? The decree concludes with a sentence that says why should he be dealt with in this way? Because in this way, "China and foreign countries can be happy, and treacherous and evil are afraid". It's really a reversal of black and white, which makes people indignant! Ye Shi said that he had received benefits from Han Zongshao's family, but there was no such record in the "Zizhi Tongjian".

Wen Zhang unfortunately passed away, and Yizong asked the imperial court to save face and began to investigate officials related to Liu Zhan and Wen Zhang.

Under the connivance of the mediocre Yizong, the counselor Gao Xiang, Langzhong Yang Zhizhi, Wei Zong, Sun Huang and others were driven out of the capital by the concubine Wei Baoheng and Lu Yan one by one and sent to Lingnan.

Here's this, the dead are dead, the depreciating are degraded, it's finally over, right? No.

Lu Yan and Wei Baoheng, two traitorous ministers, fanned the yin wind and lit the ghost fire, and played a copy to Yizong. They framed Liu Zhan as an accomplice with the doctor Han Zongshao and mistakenly injected poison. It is equivalent to saying that Liu Zhan's work is irresponsible and dereliction of duty, and the princess was poisoned by them. Yizong listened to their cheers and vinegar, and reported out of nothing that Liu Zhan was re-dismissed. Liu Zhan was reassigned to Connecticut as a assassin. Connecticut in Vietnam. At that time, Vietnam was still part of the Tang Empire.

Gao Xiang is an honest and honest official, and if he wants to "admit his guilt" and convince the court inside and outside, it will definitely be difficult to hold down the position without strong wording. They asked Zheng Zheng (Yomitian) to write this decree.

Zheng Zheng is a bachelor of Hanlin, and his pen is very powerful and his level is very high. Many difficult words in the imperial court were written by him, and they were as appropriate as ironing. He did not shirk, picked up the pen and wrote: An several acres of residence is still not his own; But the bribes of the Quartet are only known to others.

Lu Yan looked at it, not only did he not write according to their requirements, but also put gold on Gao Xiang's face, isn't this mocking the court, despising them, and speaking for Gao Xiang? In this case, you Zheng Zheng must be their accomplice. If you don't cooperate like this, you should go to Wuzhou, Guangxi, to be a thorn. For the sake of justice and truth, Zheng Zheng is not afraid of offending the powerful, which will be admired by future generations.

The words written by Zheng Zheng mean that the place where Gao Xiang lives now is still lent to him by others, and he doesn't even have a house; He refused bribes from many people when he was an official, and he was worried that others would know that he was doing so.

What kind of person is Zheng Jin? "Zizhi Tongjian" records his later activities in more detail, he opposed Zhao'an Huangchao and was dismissed. Why did he lose his position as prime minister because of this? In 879, Huang Chao opened a 700-mile mountain road, crossed the Xianxia Ridge at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian, and went to Fujian with difficulty and marched into Lingnan. Soon after Ke Guangzhou, he wrote to an important official position in Guangzhou, which was opposed by Zheng Jin. Prime Minister Lu Xian wanted to give him an official. He is Zheng Xi's opponent, and Lu Xian's backer is Tian Lingzi, who is in power, so Zheng Zheng naturally can't fight Lu Xian. In any case, Huang Chao did not ask for an official.

In this year, Huang Chao set out from Guangdong, with 500,000 soldiers and horses, entered Hunan from Guilin, Guangxi, took the Xiangjiang River, conquered Tanzhou, that is, Changsha, and then occupied Jiangling. In 880, he went east along the Yangtze River and captured Jiangxi, southern Anhui and western Zhejiang. In the winter of the same year, Huangchao attacked Tongguan, and the following year, in 881, he entered Tongguan and entered Chang'an, and Xizong fled to Sichuan. On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the next day of the Lantern Festival, Huang Chao ascended the throne. Huang Chao killed a large number of royals, relieved his hatred, and killed a lot of scholars, he was so cool. Then it was even more refreshing to confiscate the land of the local tyrants and gentry and unscrupulous bureaucrats and distribute it to the peasants, so as to realize his dream of equalizing the land.

Zheng Zheng organized an army to fight against the Huangchao army. In 880, he served as the envoy of Fengxiang Festival, which is in the west of Shaanxi, more than 400 miles away from Chang'an. At the foot of Qishan, Zhou Tianzi's hometown, the land of the Zhou Dynasty, now belongs to Baoji City.

In 881, he defeated the general Shang Rang of the Huangchao tribe in Qishan, Shaanxi, and made an alliance with the towns in the northwest, calling on the feudal towns to join forces to attack Chang'an. In this year, the imperial court summoned Zheng Zheng to Chengdu to resume the lawsuit, the servant of the door, and the Pingzhang of the Tongzhongshu Menxia, in charge of military affairs. 882 is really the saddest year for Huangchao. His general, Zhu Wen, who was also the prime minister of Great Qi with the nickname "Zhu San", betrayed him. Zhu San is in Tongzhou, today's Dali County, Shaanxi, which is now Dali County. In addition, in 883, Li Keyong's troops broke into Chang'an, and Huangchao couldn't bear it.

Three years later, in 884, the Huangchao army retreated from Chang'an and into Shandong. Xi Zong swaggered back to Chang'an and continued to live his days of spending all day and drinking. (To be continued......)