65 cool officials Zhidu
However, it is said that there is a Jia Ji in Emperor Jing's harem, who is excellent in color and art, and also invites the lord's family. One day, Emperor Jing took her to the garden together, and after a long time of playing, Jia Ji quit Emperor Jing and went to the toilet.
This Jia Ji is the biological mother of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, who is the seventeenth ancestor of Liu Bei; Liu Bei is cheeky, he said it himself, and the author has not found any clues. But if it's true, Jia Ji is Liu Bei's seventeenth grandmother.
Once, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, who advocated the rule of inaction, took his concubines to Shanglin Yuan to play, Jia Ji was naturally beautiful and understanding, and was naturally taken by Emperor Jing, and Zhidu, who was a general of Zhonglang at that time, also followed Emperor Jing as a guard.
Zhidu is brave, upright, honest, not subject to gifts from others, and said to himself: "I have betrayed my relatives, as an official, I should serve the dead, and I can't take care of my wife." So most of the courtiers looked sideways. Emperor Dujing said that he did not shy away from the powerful and relied on it.
Just when Emperor Han Jing was having a good time, Jia Ji went straight to the toilet. Unfortunately, a wild boar broke in!
The guards were anxious, but no one dared to come to the toilet to relieve the siege. Because everyone knows it: whoever dares to rush into the toilet and see the scenery that should not be seen will surely die; Even if he saves the beauty, he will be beheaded. Emperor Jing was very worried about Xiao Mi's safety, and he couldn't order the guards to come to the side to save him, so he motioned to Zhidu to save people with his eyes. And Zhi Du was indifferent and turned a deaf ear.
Emperor Han Jing was immediately furious, immediately pulled out the guard's saber, and wanted to rush into the toilet to save the beauty in person! At this time, Zhi Du stepped out with an arrow to stop Emperor Jing. Then he knelt down and said loudly: "The emperor doesn't have to care about the gains and losses of a concubine, he lost Jia Ji and Zhen Ji, Zhang Ji, Li Ji, there are many beauties in the world, and there is only one emperor, if the emperor takes risks for this, in case there are three long and two short, I am afraid that he will be ashamed of the queen mother and the ancestors." Please don't be careless for a woman!".
Zhidu's words were tantamount to a slap in the face, and Emperor Jing gradually calmed down; At this time, the wild boar in the toilet also came out, and Jia Ji was unharmed and still radiant. After Emperor Jing returned to the palace, he reported this matter to the Queen Mother in 1510, and complained that Zhi did not do anything!
As a result, the Empress Dowager Dou did not reprimand Zhidu, but also praised his understanding of affairs and loyalty, and gave him 100 gold as a commendation.
However, it is said that there is a clan surnamed "Jian" in Jinan, and they have more than 300 people, treacherous and cunning, and they are rampant and domineering in the local area. The so-called "strong dragon does not suppress the head snake", even the county guards sent by the imperial court have nothing to do with them, so Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty sent Zhidu, who is known for his strictness, to Jinan County as the guard.
Zhidu really did not live up to his "notoriety", he "went to the first evil of the clan to destroy the clan, and the rest were all trembling, and they didn't dare to do wrong". For the local clans, officials generally adopt mild methods to suppress and restrict, but Zhidu has no scruples, and directly leads the troops to behead the most criminal family of the Jian clan to show the public, and the other clans are frightened and dare not do evil from then on.
Zhidu was too punctual for Jinan, and Ning became the governor of Jinan. Ning Cheng's life was blindly willful, and his temperament was harsh, when he was a petty official, he was good at bullying his superiors, refusing to obey his orders, and after he became a man, he was strict and intolerant. Handle the job on weekdays to be majestic, biased his official fortune and prosperity all the way to the promotion, actually did Jinan Governor, if the size of the official position, too Shou Zhimin Captain in charge of the army, the status is equal, but Zhidu has been famous for a long time, the former Captain to the official, are all walking to build a house, the government officials into the report, and then into the meeting, as if the subordinate officials come to see the chief. But Ning Cheng didn't take Zhi Du in his eyes, not only did he refuse to grovel to the tune, but he made a proud appearance to control it. Zhi Du heard Ning Cheng's name for a long time, thinking that he was his comrade, and he didn't care about it, and the two had a good relationship.
About a year later, Jinan Dazhi, neighboring counties were afraid of his prestige, so Emperor Jing summoned Zhidu as a lieutenant, in charge of the security guards of the Beijing Division, and personally led the northern army. Zhi Du does not enforce the law, never tends to be inflammatory, and does not act according to the face of the ministers. Even when he saw Prime Minister Zhou Yafu, he just made a gesture and did not bow down.
At that time, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty was bent on restoring the country's economic strength and implementing the policy of "reducing forced labor and reducing taxes", so the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and there were very few people who violated the law. Zhidu implements a harsh criminal law, not afraid of the powerful and the royal family, and all those who violate the law and prohibitions, no matter who the official is, will be punished by law. When the princes and the royal family saw him, they all looked sideways and called him "Goshawk".
However, he said that the crown prince Liu Rong had lost both his position and his mother, so he had no choice but to resign and go to Jiangling. Jiangling is the capital of Linjiang, which was originally the fief of Liu Yan, the young son of Li Ji, Liu Rong died young, Liu Rong was deposed, and Liu Rong was named the king of Linjiang. Liu Rong arrived in the country for more than a year, because the palace was not very spacious, he specially planned to estimate the construction of additional work. Outside the palace, only the temple wall of Emperor Wen is close to the palace, and there is still room for empty houses to build. Suddenly, someone wrote a denunciation, saying that the king of Linjiang had invaded the temple land of Taizong. Emperor Jing was ordered to enter the capital. Liu Rong had no choice but to set up a tent outside the north gate to worship the ancestors and set off on the same day. What is an ancestral sacrifice? Only because of ancient legends, there is a son of the co-worker named good cultivation and good travel, and later generations think that they are gods, and they must sacrifice them first every time they travel, so it is called the ancestral sacrifice. After Liu Rongzu's sacrifice was finished, he got into the car, and he heard a loud sound, and the axle broke off for no reason, so he couldn't help but be taken aback, so he had to change to another car.
Jiangling's fathers and elders came to send each other more than a year because of Liu Rong's care, but they were still kind and loving to the people. Seeing this, he thought it was a bad omen, and said with tears in his eyes: "My king is gone, I'm afraid I won't return!" ”
When Liu Rong arrived in Chang'an, Emperor Jing sent him to the lieutenant's mansion to inquire about the encroachment on the temple land. It was not a big crime to occupy the space outside the temple, the previous time Chao mistakenly chiseled the short wall outside the temple as the door, and Emperor Jing still covered it for him, not to mention that Liu Rong was the prince, although he has lost his power now, he is the son of Emperor Jing after all, how can he not understand something?
and Lieutenant Liu Rong, Zhidu arrested all the relatives of the Li family, and Liu Rong's uncle Li Qing and others were implicated and killed. Then interrogated the Linjiang King Liu Rong about the occupation of the temple land, Zhi Du sternly asked, Liu Rong was timid and timid, seeing that he was like the king of Yama, he was so frightened that his soul was flying, and he thought about his mother's death and his brother's death, his father had lost love, and he felt bored for the rest of his life. The decision has been made, but he is looking at the government officials, wanting to borrow a pen and paper for use, but he was stopped by Zhidu, and he ordered the soap servants to take him back to prison.
Liu Rong saw that he refused to even borrow a pen, and became even more ashamed. But fortunately, when Wei Qihou Dou Ying saw it, he was unhappy, so he sent someone to hold a knife and pen and handed it over to Liu Rong when there was no one. Liu Rong got a knife and pen, made a book, and asked the prison officials to convey it to Emperor Jing, and hanged himself while untying the hanging beam. But pitiful!
When Emperor Jing of Han heard that Liu Rong had committed suicide, he didn't hold anyone accountable as if he had nothing to do.
Emperor Jing ordered Liu Rong to be buried with a ceremony, and he was called the king of Min, because he had no children, he divided Linjiang into a county. Liu Rong was buried in Lantian after his death. Suddenly, many swallows put mud on the mound for him. Passers-by were all amazed when they saw it, and they all cried out for the king of Linjiang. Later generations have a poem that sighs:
into the capital to donate a whole body,
What is the heart of the broken jade?
Just because the goshawk's heart is too ruthless,
How can a swallow still know mercy!
When Dou Ying heard that the report was unfair, he joined the queen mother and reported the unjust death of King Linjiang. Empress Dowager Dou remembered that the eldest grandson was not guilty on weekdays, but now he died in the lieutenant's mansion in vain, and couldn't help crying, and summoned Emperor Jing and ordered him to behead Zhidu to get revenge. Emperor Jing vaguely agreed, and withdrew from the outer hall, and couldn't bear to punish Zhidu, but ordered the dismissed officials to return home. After a few years, he came up with a method, and the subtext Zhi was too guarded by Yanmen. Yanmen is a northern fortress, and Emperor Jing sent him out, firstly, to make him leave the capital, so that the queen mother would not hear about it, and secondly, to make him guard the frontier, so that the Xiongnu could seize the anger. Zhi was ordered to go.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhidu arrived at Yanmen, the Huns retreated and did not dare to force each other. The king of the Huns carved a puppet like Zhidu, sent cavalry to shoot arrows on it, who knew that the Hu people had been intimidated by the prestige of Zhidu for a long time, and now they were like seeing a living person in front of the idol, and they did not dare to face it, so they had to shoot indiscriminately, and shot many people in turn, and none of the arrows hit him, the Huns saw this situation more and more frightened, not to say that they were cowardly, but to say that Zhi was a god in the world, and even his idol had a god, so he didn't shoot him, so he made an appointment not to provoke him.
The Xiongnu were originally friendly with the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Jing was five years old, and he also imitated the ancestral legacy and sent the clan girl out as a princess, but the fans always refused to keep quiet, and often haunted the Han border and plundered. Since Zhidu went out to guard, the whole country has been warned, although he is timid, he is always unwilling in his heart.
Faced with the big trouble of Zhidu, the traitor Bank of China said that he came up with a poisonous plan - to kill people with a knife.
The Bank of China said that it found out that the Empress Dowager Dou hated Zhi Du because of the matter of King Liang and Liu Rong, so he sent a generous gift to the Empress Dowager Dou in the name of Princess Nangong, and then forged a letter from Princess Nangong.
The gist of the letter was: Da Shan Yu treats her very well on weekdays, but as long as she loses the battle with the Han army, Da Shan Yu will whip and humiliate her, especially recently, and she is often beaten.
Empress Dowager Dou was distressed and asked if the Han army had any action against the Huns, and Queen Wang said no, only Yanmen Taishouzhi had taken the initiative to send troops to pull out the Huns' forts.
When Empress Dowager Dou heard the name of Zhidu, she trembled with anger, and angrily accused Emperor Jing of disobeying his mother's order and still using Zhidu, not enough internal disturbance, and abusing outsiders, how can this really be true! Today, only a quick punishment is enough to avoid trouble. Emperor Jing saw that his mother was angry, so he hurriedly knelt down and thanked him, and begged the queen mother: "Zhi Du is really a loyal minister, and his foreign words are not enough to be credulous. The Queen Mother said sharply: "Isn't the King of Linjiang a loyal minister?" Why die in his hands, if you don't kill Zhidu again, I would rather die for you! Emperor Jing couldn't afford to say this, so he had to send a decree to remove Zhidu from his post and let him return to Beijing to face trial. Replacing Zhidu was Feng Jing, who knew the reason for Zhidu's guilt, and comforted:
"You are a hero, you are not a sinner."
Zhi Du smiled bitterly and said, "What can you do if you are a hero?" What if it's a loyal minister? In the end, it is not at the hands of his own people. Instead of returning to Beijing to be humiliated, it is better to stay in this hot land, even if you become a wronged soul, you must guard the territory of the Han Dynasty. ”
After speaking, he pulled out the formidable sword of law enforcement, stabbed it at himself, and when he was dying, he said to Feng Jing:
"I have been strict in law enforcement in my life, killing people like hemp, personal life and death have long been put aside, the brocade on the wall, originally given to me by the emperor, please bring it to the saint, tell the saint, I will be a loyal minister until I die!"
Without the goshawk, the blue sky is lonely, and even the grassland is soulless. Looking at the goshawk picture that Feng Jing brought back, Emperor Han Jing's heart was full of pain, and the sentence "The goshawk that broke me" was full of how much helplessness as an emperor was.
After the death of Zhidu, the Huns no longer had any scruples and attacked Yanmen on a large scale, Feng Jing resisted desperately, and in the end he still ended up in a different place. Before he died, Feng Jing said:
"If the Goshawk Zhi is here, it won't be like this, the imperial court doesn't care too much about the generals."
In thousands of years of Chinese history, there have been more than 10 million loyal ministers and famous generals, who are either able to secure the country or stabilize the country with their martial arts, and protect the people with their own lives. However, at least half of the loyal ministers and famous generals died at the hands of their own people! The bitterness of relatives and the pleasure of enemies has never been broken.
Because Zhidu was too ruthless and too spicy, he was harsh and unkind, and later Sima Qian revised the history and included him in the biography of the cool officials.
When the Western Han Dynasty became the emperor, the minister Gu Yong talked about Zhidu in a commotion to Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, saying: "Zhao has Lian Po and Ma Fu, and Qiang Qin does not dare to peep into the soldiers; The Han had Zhidu and Wei Shang, and the Xiongnu did not dare to go south to the desert. He was ranked alongside famous generals such as Lian Po and Zhao Hao of Zhao during the Warring States Period, and was praised as "the general of the war and the minions of the country". These praises from later generations are also pertinent evaluations of Zhidu.