Chapter 2 The fate of technical cadres

After Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong came to power, it was at a time when the Northern Wei Dynasty in the north was at war with Helian Bo Daxia and Rouran for many years. Liu Yilong thought that there was an opportunity, so he sent an envoy to Emperor Taiwu of Wei Tuoba Tao and made a request.

Return the occupied Henan and Shandong places.

Is there still an opening in the territory? Of course, Tuoba Tao didn't even pay attention.

The negotiations could not be negotiated, so they had to rob it.

In 430, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong ordered the general to Yanzhi as the commander and led the army to the Northern Expedition. Because Liu Yilong's year name is Yuanjia, the Northern Expedition is called the Yuanjia Northern Expedition.

To Yanzhi led an army of 50,000 to march into Shandong by water. At that time, the main force of the Northern Wei army was fighting in the north, and there were few soldiers in Henan, in order to avoid fighting on two fronts, the Northern Wei took the initiative to give up some land in the south, and the Song army advanced to the south bank of the Yellow River, and the soldiers had reached Tongguan.

Zhiyanzhi thought that the Northern Wei Dynasty was unable to fight on two fronts, so he put the whole army in a long snake formation on the south bank of the Yellow River for more than 2,000 miles to guard the recovered land.

When marching and fighting, I am most afraid to take it for granted. In the middle of winter, the Yellow River froze, and the Northern Wei cavalry suddenly took the opportunity to cross the Yellow River. Because the defense line was too long and the troops were too scattered, the Song army was stabbed by the Northern Wei Dynasty like window paper, and Luoyang and Tiger Prison fell to several cities. To the ashes of Hikono led the army to flee south.

Loyalty does not mean strong ability, otherwise Liu Zhi, Hu Zongnan, and Tang Enbo would have been on the list of world famous generals. Emperor Wen of Song Liu Yilong heard that his henchman and famous general Daoyan was defeated, angry, anxious, and helpless, and at this time, he thought of his famous technical cadres again.

The famous general Tan Daoji was once again pulled out like a donkey, and was awarded the title of the governor to recruit the military, and led the army to the north.

Tan Daoji led the army all the way north, and fought more than 30 consecutive battles with the Northern Wei army, winning more and losing less, until Licheng (Jinan). These more than 30 battles made the Northern Wei Dynasty frightened, Tan Dao Jiwei was violent in the north and south of the river, and the Northern Wei army talked about Tan color change.

However, when the army attacked Jinan, it also became the end of a strong crossbow, the battle line had gradually lengthened, and logistics supply had become a problem. The Northern Wei general Shusun Jian took the opportunity to lead the cavalry to cut off the grain route of the Song army and burn the grain and grass of the Song army.

The Tan Daoji army ran out of food and grass, and at this time it heard that the slip had been lost, so he decisively decided to retreat. The Northern Wei army took advantage of the situation to pursue, captured several Song soldiers on the way, and learned of the plight of the Tan Daoji army, so they accelerated the pursuit.

The fastest pursuers are not far from the army of Tan Daoji.

In the evening, the Northern Wei forward reconnaissance force secretly approached the Song army camp to spy on the reality. But seeing that the Song army camp was brightly lit, the voices of people were boiling, and there was a lot of noise.

When I looked closely, I saw that Tan Daoji, the commander of the Song Army, personally led a large group of soldiers to weigh the grain, put it into the sack with measuring tools such as liters and buckets, and then weighed and counted it with chips, and shouted loudly the number of each bag, which did not stop all night.

At dawn, the grain bags in the Song camp were already piled up, and the scouts hurriedly went back to report it. The pursuers of the Northern Wei Dynasty thought that the soldiers who surrendered to the Song army were undercover agents and all of them were beheaded, but they could not figure out the reality of the Song camp at this time, and they did not dare to attack rashly.

As the pursuers gathered more and more, the pursuers began to plan a group attack. But suddenly, seeing that Tan Daoji's army began to pull out the camp and go south, a carriage drove out of the Chinese military tent, and a middle-aged man in white was calm and relaxed, sitting on it, it was Tan Daoji himself.

Looking closely, the whole Song army was neatly draped and slowly walked south.

Once he is scared, he will be afraid of action, just like the flower iron dry in the face of the Blood Knife Ancestor on the snow mountain. The Northern Wei army had always been afraid of Tan Daoji, but now they didn't know what tricks he was doing, and they were worried about fraud, so they gave up the pursuit.

What kind of reputation is Tan Daoji doing? Without him, fool.

There is grain in the grain bag at night, but most of it is sand. The plan of the white-clothed carriage was just to take advantage of the Wei army's jealousy of it, so it was just a trick to retreat.

In this battle, although Tan Daoji did not capture Henan, but fought more than 30 consecutive battles with the Wei army, won more and lost less, and in the case of a shortage of grain and grass, the whole army broke through the Wei army and returned, just like Ran Min in the Changli War, Zhao Zilong in the Battle of Xiegu, and retreated in defeat, which is equivalent to touching the "revolution" card but playing a three-branch, and its prestige is prosperous.

"Yuanjia is grassy, sealing the wolf Juxu, and winning the canghuang Beigu". Yuanjia's Northern Expedition still ended in the complete defeat of Liu Song. At that time, the Northern Wei Dynasty was fighting on two fronts between the north and the south, and it was still able to defeat the Song army, which shows the difference in strength between the north and the south. Since then, the north-south border has remained calm for almost 20 years.

In the past 20 years of peace, Li Min has benefited, but in exchange for a generation of famous generals Tan Daoji's rabbit dead dog cooking.

Tan Daoji made meritorious contributions to several dynasties, carried the position of Sikong, and the rest of the official positions such as the festival, the governor, the permanent servant, and the assassin history were all retained, and the town guarded Xunyang. His left and right henchmen Xue Tong and Gao Jin are both famous generals in a hundred battles, and the world is called Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Tan Daoji's sons are also very competitive, both civil and military, and there are countless officials who want to marry their daughters to the Tan family as daughters-in-law for a while.

But there was one man who kept a clear head.

Jiang Zhan was originally a chief bookkeeper under Liu Yikang, the younger brother of Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, and Liu Yikang, the king of Pengcheng, that is, a senior staff member. Liu Yikang almost took over all the power of the court after Liu Yilong succeeded to the throne, and was the second-in-command of the Liu Song Dynasty at that time.

As Liu Yikang's senior staff, Jiang Zhan is Liu Yikang's confidant, and when others are leaning towards Liu Yikang, Jiang Zhan made a move that surprised everyone--- taking the initiative to ask to go to Wuling to be a petty official.

Liu Yikang did not agree at first, but under Jiang Zhan's repeated requests, he had to agree, but since then he has also been excluded from the confidant group.

Wuling is in Jiangzhou, and the Jiangzhou Assassin is none other than Tan Daoji, the first general of the Liu Song Empire.

Jiang Zhan has a daughter, who looks like a fairy and has outstanding talents, Tan Daoji wants to be in-laws with Jiang Zhan, so he sends someone to propose marriage.

Being in-laws with Tan Daoji was something that many powerful people in the dynasty could not ask for, but Jiang Zhan, who was a subordinate of Tan Daoji, refused.

Tan Daoji felt a little surprised, and he couldn't get off the stage, so he moved out of Liu Yikang and asked Liu Yikang to help talk about it.

When Liu Yikang heard this, this was not trivial, so he personally wrote a letter and sent someone to Jiang Zhan to be a matchmaker for the Tan family.

Tan Daoji breathed a sigh of relief and felt that this face could be regarded as regained.

However, unexpectedly, Jiang Zhan saw that Liu Yikang was the matchmaker, so he refused even more, and there was no room for maneuver at all.

At the same time, he offended Liu Yikang and Tan Daoji, the two most powerful people in power in the current dynasty, and many people sweated for Jiang Zhan. But Jiang Zhan acted like nothing all day long, and went his own way.

In 435, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong fell seriously ill, and the internal undercurrents of the Liu Song Dynasty surged.

In fact, at that time, Liu Yilong was only 28 years old. Frightened to be ascended to the throne, lying on the salary to get rid of the abolished imperial group, the high-spirited Yuanjia Northern Expedition tried to restore the glory of his father, but he was beaten back in disgrace. The soul has never been at peace for a moment, and with such emotional ups and downs, constantly fluctuating, how can it not be sick?

Liu Yikang is playing his own little abacus, after his brother dies, he has a great hope of taking over, when the time comes, what should Tan Daoji do? With such a prestige, who will control it? Liu Yikang worked with the leading general Liu Zhan to persuade Liu Yilong to get rid of Tan Daoji as soon as possible.

Tan Daoji was originally one of the members of the abolished imperial group that year, and Liu Yilong also had the intention of doing it, but he needed excellent technical cadres to engage in production, and Tan Daoji was still needed to resist the Northern Wei Dynasty, so he was left until now. Liu Yilong turned out the knife that killed Xie Hui, Xu Xianzhi, and Fu Liang back then, and took out the whetstone......

Tan Daoji was proclaimed into the court. The wife sees the situation very clearly: from ancient times to the present, the generals have made great achievements and will be suspicious of the emperor. Now that the court has nothing to summon you, I am afraid that a catastrophe is coming.

Tan Daoji is very calm: I am a loyal minister of the court, and I lead the army to guard the border, how can the country bear me? Then he calmly entered Beijing.

After Tan Daoji arrived in Jiankang, Liu Yilong's condition improved, and there were signs of recovery a few months later.

Liu Yilong thought that he was just a minor illness, so he summoned Tan Daoji and talked to Tan Daoji on the hospital bed, and asked him to return to Yang and guard the border with his heart.

Tan Daoji, who had turned around in front of the Ghost Gate, set off to return, and just got on the boat on the Qinhuai River, and there was another accident in the capital.

Liu Yilong's illness has flare-up again.

Liu Yikang was so anxious that he didn't even bother to ask Liu Yilong for instructions this time, and hurriedly chased Tan Daoji back in the name of Liu Yilong, arrested him in the name of buying people's hearts and plotting to succeed, and announced that he would be sentenced to death.

When he was about to be executed, Tan Daoji slammed his turban on the ground (threw it on the ground), his eyes were blazing, and he shouted: You are destroying the Great Wall by yourself! (It is to restore the Great Wall of your thousands of miles!) ）。

Also killed at the same time were Tan Daoji's eleven sons, as well as Xue Tong, Gao Jinzhi and other confidants.

When Tan Daoji died, there was an earthquake in the capital, and many white hairs grew on the ground inexplicably.

Hero, hero, when the feudal emperor uses you, you are a hero, and when you don't use it, you are a urinal. Many heroes died because they threatened the imperial power, but the death of some heroes in history was only because they damaged the emperor's face, such as Yu Qianzhi who turned the tide in the Ming Yingzong, and Zhang Juzheng who flourished in the Ming Dynasty was in Wanli Emperor. The two events seem to be independent, but in fact they reflect the same problem - the emperor will not only kill the heroes because the imperial power is threatened, but also kill the heroes because of his face. However, these two incidents also made the scholars of Daming pay more attention to protecting themselves, after all, Daming belongs to your Zhu family, why bother to fight hard? We have done our best to die for your Zhu family, but in exchange for the conviction of the family, why bother?

The Ming Dynasty started with a bowl and ended with a tree, and it was not only the rogues who destroyed the Ming Dynasty, but also the entire civilian group that opportunistically watched during the national crisis. Chongzhen was still shouting at Wenchen to bear him until he hung the crooked neck tree, in fact, it was their Zhu family who had already borne the entire hero group.

Tan Daoji was killed in vain, and the people of the country were saddened. The news reached Pingcheng (now Datong, Shanxi), the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty celebrated with their crowns: Daoji is dead, and the descendants of Wu are not enough to recover.

Tan Daoji died, but Liu Yilong's illness was cured, and the disease was born to harm Tan Daoji.

What his younger brother did when he was seriously ill, Liu Yilong is clear. Now that he has recovered from his illness, he feels that it is time to put order in order.

In 440, Liu Yilong killed and exiled Liu Yikang's cronies Liu Zhan (one of the first evils who framed Tan Daoji), Liu Bin and more than ten other people on the charge of "joining the party and conspiring with the masses", and demoted him to Yuzhang (now Nanchang, Jiangxi) as the assassin of Jiangzhou.

Liu Yikang couldn't hold it back, he didn't wait for his brother to die, and now he was demoted again, and his emotions were out of control, so he set up a usurpation committee, with himself as the director, and there are two main vice chairmen:

1. Kong Xixian. This person is well-versed in literature and history, star arithmetic, fine medical skills, especially good at pulse learning, and his talent is famous all over the world. Why did Liu Yikang choose him? Because of his position. Why did Kong Xixian rebel because of his position.

His position is that of a freeman.

The name Wai Lang sounds quite romantic, but he is actually a sesame official, one of the emperor's close attendants, and usually a member of the honor guard or something. Kong Xixian is so talented, but he doesn't mix well, which shows that he has a good character. However, it is inevitable that such a talented person will not rebel when he does this work.

Although Kong Xixian is small, his place of work is important, he is in the palace all the year round, and he is a person around the emperor, so it is easier to use the convenience of his position to do a job such as killing the king, so he became the target of Liu Yikang.

2. Fan Ye, that's right, is the author of the famous "Book of the Later Han".

Fan Ye was born into a well-known family of scholars. His father, Fan Tai, was Liu Song's Jin Ziguanglu Doctor Loose Cavalry, and he was added to the position of Special Advance when Emperor Shaodi of the Song Dynasty. The name of the free rider is similar to that of the free rider Wailang, but the rank is different, one is the secretary general, and the other is the secretary.

Although he was born in a famous family, Fan Ye rarely benefited from it. Because, he himself is a concubine.

Since the Jin Dynasty, the difference between the descendants and the concubines has been an insurmountable gap in the bureaucratic family, and it has also determined the social status of the children. Fan Ye's mother gave birth to him in the toilet, and his forehead was bruised when he was born. His father, Fan Tai, didn't like him and passed him on to his uncle Fan Hongzhi early.

In 420, after Liu Yu became Emperor of Song, the 23-year-old Fan Ye was called to join the army as a champion under Liu Yu's son, Liu Yigong, the king of Pengcheng, and later engaged in a variety of official positions, mostly as high-ranking officials and secretaries.

In the winter of 432, Liu Yikang's mother, Concubine Wang, died, and Liu Yikang summoned his former officials to the palace to help with the funeral, and Fan Ye was also present. The night before the funeral, it was his younger brother Fan Guangyuan's turn to be on duty.

It is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol during duty, which may have been the rule of all dynasties since ancient times. The Fan Ye brothers invited a friend to hide in the house and drink.

Drinking and drinking, Fan Ye forgot that he was on duty on the night of the funeral, and actually pushed open the window and listened to the elegy outside the window.

Dare to use an elegy as a karaoke and a duty room as a KTV! Liu Yikang was extremely angry, drove Fan Ye out of the capital, and sent him to Xuancheng (now Xuancheng, Anhui) as a taishou.

It was in Xuancheng that Fan Ye wrote the famous "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", and this year, Fan Ye was only 35 years old.

It stands to reason that Liu Yikang and Fan Ye have enmity, but why did Liu Yikang choose Fan Ye?

Because Fan Ye was talented and appreciated by Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong, after being demoted to Xuancheng as a taishou, his official fortunes suddenly prospered, and he was promoted to the general of the left guard who commanded a part of the forbidden army, and the crown prince Zhan Shi, whose position was equivalent to Shang Shuling.

Mastering the forbidden army is necessary for Liu Yikang to usurp the throne. How to win over Fan Ye? Liu Yikang had already made a calculation.

He first ordered Kong Xixian to deliberately approach Fan Ye, ask him to drink and play cards, and deliberately lose to him every time. Kong Xixian conveyed his apologies to Fan Ye many times.

The reason why Xiaoxiong can achieve great things is that he has the characteristics of being able to bend and stretch. This is easier said than done. Because, deep in the hearts of people, there is one of the biggest prisons - face.

Liu Yikang leaned down, but Fan Ye was unmoved, because this is a matter of losing his head at any time. However, the talented Kong Xixian succeeded in breaking down his mental defense in two ways.

One is mental stimulation. said that Liu Yilong looked down on Fan Ye because of his background, which caused him to be unable to marry the royal family. The second is to use the professional knowledge of his warlocks to guide Fan Ye in astrology, saying that I watch the stars at night, Liu Yilong is scheduled to die this year, and it is a matter of time before Liu Yikang succeeds to the throne.

Poor Liu Yilong was "imagined to die" by himself (leading to the killing of the famous general Tan Daoji), and second, he was "waiting for death" by his younger brother Liu Yikang; The third was the warlock Kong Xixian's "stargazing death". But his life is really hard, and he has never died, so the people of the usurper committee will only die.

One day, Liu Yilong went out for a banquet, and Xu Yao, who served as his personal guard, was one of the members of the usurper group, and Fan Ye decided to take advantage of this opportunity to have Xu Yao kill Liu Yilong.

The easiest thing in the world is to think beautifully, and the most difficult thing is to match. The ruthless work of usurping the throne, with the whole family's head hanging on the waistband of the trousers, can only be done with a big heart. At the banquet, Fan Ye's body had been trembling slightly. Xu Yao kept glaring at him, and when he gave the order, he kept his head down.

Xu Yao thought that Fan Ye didn't see it, so he pulled out his saber slightly and signaled to him, but Fan Ye's head didn't raise after all.

Then, Xu Zhanzhi, another member of the usurper group, did something even more joyful--- he saw that the assassination of the emperor had not been completed, so he preemptively made a report to Liu Yilong.

Fan Ye, Kong Xixian and others were then wiped out and all of them were beheaded. Liu Yikang and his children were deposed as concubines.

Fan Ye was only 48 years old when he died, although his death was not glorious, but the fragrance of Fan's family books has always been very strong. Fan Ye has a nephew named Fan Zhen, and Fan Zhen has a famous materialist work, which is "The Theory of Divine Annihilation".

In February 450, the Northern Wei army marched south again with 100,000 men. Liu Yilong was worried that someone would be in trouble in the name of Liu Yikang, so he ordered the younger brother to be given a cup of poisoned wine.

Yan Long, a member of the Zhongshu House, was responsible for delivering wine, and Liu Yikang was willing to die, but he did not agree to die of drinking, because those who believe in Buddhism cannot commit suicide. Yan Long fulfilled the prince's wish and went up to cover Liu Yikang, who was 42 years old at the time, with a quilt.

Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Sima Yao died in the quilt of Zhang Guiren, Emperor Gong of the Jin Dynasty Sima Dewen died in the quilt of Liu Yu, and the Southern Song Dynasty established by Liu Yu also had a prince and a minister (Shen Qingzhi) who died under the quilt. It seems that the quilt is really full of scenes in the Southern Dynasty.

Thinking about it carefully, it is very scary that Liu Yu used poisoned wine to kill Emperor Gong of Jin and used a quilt to kill him, and his son did the same, and he used poisoned wine to kill his younger brother instead of using a quilt to kill him, resulting in the tragedy of fratricide, and there seems to be an inexplicable cause and effect in the dark.

Tan Daoji and Liu Yikang were killed, and many of their cronies also suffered. There is one person who is safe and sound, he is Jiang Zhan, who retreated bravely from the rapids, a real wise man.

Wise, deep and long-term. Although later generations called wisdom and wisdom together, the connotation of the two is independent, and the wise man is not necessarily the wise man. Wisdom is more rare than wisdom.