Yu Liang: Only time can cure this "disease" of pride

Director Wang has lived all his life and is very calm most of the time. Wang Dun rebelled, even if he and the remaining Langya Wang family were almost killed by the imperial court to sacrifice the flag, and knelt at the door of Emperor Jin Yuan to plead for mercy, his demeanor remained unchanged. However, when Yu Liang was in power in his later years, he once covered his nose with a tail fan, and blocked the dust brought up by Yu Liang's car with disgust, and said to people: "Yuan Gui dust dirts people." "Yuan Gui is Yu Liang's word. These words have spread widely, making Director Wang, who has always been calm, a little resentful.

Such a festival happened to Yu Liang and Director Wang, which is actually very strange. It is a tradition for the Chinese to be light-hearted, but at most, they don't buy each other in their hearts, and they still have to be polite and passable on their faces. Like Sima Guang and Wang Anshi, they tore their faces, each for their own party, and only a few of the best were scolding each other. Besides, Yu Liang and Wang Dao are both children of the nobility, and when they were young, they also looked up and didn't look down in major salons. Director Wang once said that he and Yu Liang were young and small-clothed. When he crossed the river in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was actually still a front: before Sima Rui, the king of Langya, became the emperor of the Jin Yuan Dynasty, Wang Dao suggested that in the talent pool "Bailiu Peng" prepared for the organization of the imperial court, Yu Liang was the secretary general, and everyone worked together to establish a good relationship with the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.

Yu Liang has always been good to Wang Dao on the issue of right and wrong: Emperor Jin Yuan was bullied by Wang Dun very badly in his later years, and suddenly realized that the emperor should look like an emperor and not be overshadowed by the ministers. But half of his body has already been buried in the ground, so he has to teach his son not to be bullied by ministers when he grows up in the future, especially not to be led by the Wang family. So in response to Wang Dao's statecraft strategy of "forbearance and tranquility", Emperor Ming of Jin, who was still the crown prince at the time, sent a bunch of representative works of Legalist figures such as Shen Buharm and Han Feizi. These people are all comprehensive advocates of strict punishment and strict law, and teach the monarch to control his courtiers with an iron fist. Yu Liang's sister is the crown princess, and Yu Liang and the prince are small and have a good relationship. Seeing that the prince was reading these books, he immediately warned him that Shen Buharm and Han Fei were mean and immoral, and they couldn't learn this way. The implication is that it is Huang Lao's method of supporting Wang Dao's "rule by inaction".

Yu Liang is not a narrow-minded person who is not easy to get along with. On the contrary, Yu Liang belongs to the kind of philosopher who makes people feel comfortable and has a good demeanor. When he was a lieutenant in Wuchang, on a crisp autumn night with a bright moon, his subordinates used to compose poems and have fun in the South Building. After playing for a while, I heard the sound of clogs, which came from the trail, and everyone saw that it was Yu Liang who was slowly pacing over with a dozen or so entourage. Everyone hurried down, preparing to avoid it according to the etiquette of a subordinate meeting a superior. Yu Liang said slowly, "Everyone, please take a seat, I am really lucky to hear you compose poems today." As he spoke, he sat down on the recliner, waved his hand, and had fun with his subordinates.

Like a spring breeze, it is the feeling that Yu Liang gives people.

When Yu Liang was young, he was compared to a treasure jade in the temple, and he had the talent to govern the country. He is somewhere between the true truth of a philosopher and the philistine of the laity, he is not as nihilistic as a metaphysician, nor is he lost in the pursuit of merit like a Confucian believer. Such a trait is the prime minister's embryo and has popularity. Yu Liang's good friend Wen Qiao when he was young had to gamble every three or five times, and his luck was not good. When you lose the bet, you always shout, Yu Liang, come and pay back the money for me! Yu Liang obediently paid back the money for him every time. Later, Yu Liang was defeated by Su Jun, and it was Wen Qiao's reception that allowed him to make a comeback. During the "Su Jun Rebellion", Yu Liang went to Tao Kan. Tao Kan is a thrifty person who is a little stingy, so please Yu Liang eat leeks. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that leeks are fragrant in spring and smelly in summer, but they are not suitable for hospitality. But Yu Liang ate very naturally, and finally left the leek root - leek white. Tao Kan saw that someone was wasting, and his face immediately turned bad. Ask Yu Liang why. Yu Liang said calmly that if you leave it behind, you can sow it again in the next season. Tao Kan was very happy to hear this, and originally wanted to kill Yu Liang to please Su Jun, but later helped Yu Liang instead.

Yu Liang not only has a good demeanor, but also has the style of an ancient sage corporal. When Yu Liang was in power, he wanted to use Zhou Zinan. But Lao Zhou is a person who refuses to be an official, and every time Yu Liang comes, he runs away. As a result, he was blocked in the house by Yu Liang once, and he couldn't run away, so he took out particularly unpalatable vegetables to "entertain" him, and Yu Liang was also very happy to eat. Zhou Zinan was moved, and as a result, he came out to be an official. Such a genius engaged in politics, but he showed a kind of attitude towards politics. Yu Liang's brother-in-law, Emperor Jin Ming, once invited him to come out as an official. As for him, he put on a long letter and told his brother-in-law that his in-laws being high-ranking officials was an important reason for the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, and he would not do it if he repeated the mistakes of the past.

But in addition to his graceful demeanor, he is also unambiguous when he should be shrewd. This is a family society, Wang Dao will not fall for a day, the Wang family is like a mountain on the head of the Yu family, and the Yu family will never become the first family. The old man Wang Dao, who has occupied the chief auxiliary government for most of his life, Yu Liang will also be a man, thinking of rolling out a red carpet, so that Wang Dao can go down the steps and hand over the power to himself completely and beautifully.

To be a good person, Yu Liang's skills are not small - he also helped Wang Dao before Emperor Jin Ming died: When Emperor Jin Ming was dying, he recruited Sima Zong and Yu Yin to the bedroom, wanting to give the two of them the power to take over the government. As a result, Yu Liang broke into the palace as his brother-in-law, pushed open the bedroom door of Emperor Ming of Jin, knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, telling him that if Director Wang was abolished now, then the good days of the Eastern Jin Dynasty would come to an end. Although the Wang family does not have Wang Dun, they still have strength. The family in power in the court, no one will buy Yu Yin's account, you have to think about it carefully. In the end, Emperor Jin Ming was forced to have no choice, and the edict was changed to Wang Dao and Yu Liang to assist the young master.

If Director Wang knows each other, he should go home to retire and move the place to the Shaozhuang faction. But Director Wang is also the head of the family, and he can't retreat if he wants to. Shousuke's matter, for him, is to open the bow without turning back, and live to be old and old.

Coincidentally, something happened at this time, and the original undercurrent of contradictions between the two suddenly came to the fore.

The thing is Su Jun. The original military strength of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was very weak, and they relied on mercenaries to fight wars. These mercenaries are the displaced people who fled from Jiangbei, Wen Qiao, Liu Kun, and Xi Jian are all such people, and so is Su Jun. Although the government knows that these bandits are not useful, they still have to use them when they can't help it. The self-respecting warlords in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River (such as Wang Dun) fought from Wuchang, and the only way to stop them was to use the dead horses as a living horse to stop them. Because Su Jun contributed to the defeat of Wang Dun, he got the benefit and became the leader of Liyang in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which was a great threat to the downstream. Coincidentally, at this time, Yu Liang killed Sima Zong in order to clear the plot of replacing the scholar clan prepared by Emperor Jin Ming. A man named Bian Xian in Langya County was killed along with Sima Zong, and Bian Xian's brother fled to Su Jun's territory. Yu Liang asked Su Jun to make friends, but Su Jun played a trick and said that the person was not here.

This is clearly not controlled by the central government. Yu Liang's meaning is to transfer Su Jun to the imperial court, break away from the army, and kill those who are disobedient. Director Wang's meaning, this person can't move at this time, as long as you call him, he will definitely be reversed, no nerd will be able to catch you this trick. Yu Liang's accumulated dissatisfaction broke out like a tsunami and torrent at this time: Director Wang has been engaged in appeasement, so that the central government is soft, and the government decree does not go out of Nanjing City. Now Su Jun is clearly going to rebel, if you ask him to come, he will rebel, and if you don't ask him to come, he will rebel. Since it's a time bomb, it's better to detonate him. So he insisted on going his own way and issued an edict to Su Jun.

Su Jun was really the opposite, which was not surprising, but Yu Liang led the army to fight Su Jun but was defeated, and a young and promising eldest son who was only nineteen years old died, and he took more than a dozen people to defect to Wen Qiao in embarrassment. On the small boat that fled in embarrassment, his entourage shot Su Jun but did not shoot, and shot the captain to death. Yu Liang instead smiled calmly and praised that if this arrow hit Su Jun, he would definitely die. Mannerism in times of panic is very important for politicians, so Yu Liang's political life is much happier than Wang Yan's. The gambling debts he helped Wen Qiao pay off back then finally paid off, Wen Qiao saved his life, treated him as a guest, and introduced him to Tao Kan, who was stationed in Wuchang with heavy troops. And because of a plate of leek white, Tao Kan also sent troops to help Yu Liang quell Su Jun's rebellion.

After learning from the pain, Yu Liang began to settle accounts after the autumn. The first unlucky one was Director Wang. It's easy to get on the edge of a bull after a fright. Yu Liang believes that the reason for this failure is not that he insists on provoking Su Jun to anger, but that the problem of these exile legions has not been solved early, and it is Wang Dao's appeasement and trouble. Therefore, after quelling Su Jun's rebellion, Yu Liang took the blame and left the capital, handed over the little emperor Emperor Cheng to Wang Dao, and went to engage in military affairs himself. The military governors of Yuzhou and Yangzhou were stationed in Wuhu.

Yu Liang's move did not make Director Wang breathe a sigh of relief, but made him uneasy. Wuhu to Nanjing, now take the high-speed about two hours, even in the Jin Dynasty is also the morning and evening. Yu Liang is not self-deprecating at all, but supporting the army and self-respecting, monitoring him, and ready to give him a good look at any time. Yu Liang's luck is good, the same year he left Nanjing, Wen Qiao died, Jiangzhou was merged into Tao Kan's hands, five years later, Tao Kan also died, so Yu Liang not only got Wen Qiao's Jiangzhou, but also got Tao Kan's Jingzhou. In this way, the armed leader of the upper reaches became Yu Liang.

Director Wang's pressure increased dramatically. Of course, Director Wang knew that Yu Liang was holding a horsewhip in his hand and threatening him not far away, so there was the scene of resentful and helpless covering his nose with a tail fan. Director Wang behaved pitifully: he said to his friends that if he Yu Liang wants to exclude me, he will say it directly, and I will go back to Wuyi Lane to plant flowers and grass! But in fact, doesn't Director Wang have self-esteem? It's not a question of whether to let Xian or not let Xian, Yu Liang challenged Director Wang's pride and authority, and he naturally had to pay it back.

The opportunity was not long in coming. In the second year after Yu Liang got the command of the upstream, something big happened: the north is now the world of the Later Zhao Shi family. Shi Hu, who inherited the throne of Emperor Shile, came out to hunt and play, and fought until Liyang. Liyang is north of the Yangtze River and was originally Su Jun's territory. It is not true that all the troops are hoarded in the south, and a buffer zone must be maintained in the north. Once the buffer zone is gone, Nanjing, which is near the river, will directly face the enemy's troops, and is basically on the verge of finishing the game. Shi Hu ran to Liyang, just like a gangster kicking the door. Therefore, Wang Dao was very nervous, and asked the emperor to add the title of commander-in-chief of the army to Huang Yue, and sent a large number of descendants of generals to various places, especially in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, to bring people to fight with great fanfare. But soon, Shi Hu went home when he was tired of playing, and there was a false alarm here in Jiangnan.

Before everyone could catch their breath, they found that something was wrong, and Yuan Tan, the Taishou of Liyang, who shouted "The wolf is coming", was dismissed for falsely reporting the military situation, but soon after, he became Wang Dao's Zhonglang. And the descendants of Wang Dao, who should have withdrawn the army if they were fine, did not receive the order to withdraw the army, and they all stayed. Wang Yunzhi, the cousin of Wang Dao, who was sent to Jiangzhou, occupied Xunyang between Nanjing and Wuchang and did not leave. Later, he was stationed in Wuhu and got the four counties of Yangzhou, which was tantamount to grabbing Yu Liang's original territory, and also set up a shield between Yu Liang and Wang Dao.

Yu Liang was slapped in the face, can he be happy? He originally planned to create an opportunity for the Northern Expedition after rectifying the upstream, but he didn't expect Director Wang to play with him. The stubbornness of the two people came up, and neither of them would let anyone. Yu Liang came up with a ruthless move, he wanted to learn from Wang Dun's example, fight from the upstream regardless of it, and see who can save the old man below. But the very powerful Xi Jian refused to cooperate with him - just kidding, the Wang family and the Xi family are sons and daughters, and Wang Dao's nephew Wang Xizhi is married to Xi Jian's daughter. Yu Liang was afraid that Xi Jian would be attacked on both sides if he joined Wang Dao's battle, so his plan to come to the hard line went bankrupt. But soon, he made a fold: the Northern Expedition had to go from Weixing (Ankang, Shaanxi), but Yu Yi, who was originally guarding there, had to go south because the grain and grass could not be transported. The court allowed him to go south. But after Yu Yi came down, he came to this place in Banzhou and didn't leave. Banzhou and Jiangzhou are not far away - Yu Yi came down to squeeze Wang Yunzhi. Sure enough, the territory that Wang Yunzhi grabbed was snatched back by Yu Yi, and Wei Xing transferred another army from Yu Liang to this place. The lack of food and grass is obviously a nonsense made up to deceive Director Wang. Yu Liang is finally cool.

However, after this sneak attack, the Yu family actually did not take advantage. Although Yu Liang's Northern Expedition was successful, it was defeated, and Yu Liang himself became seriously ill because he was worried that he would be humiliated by Wang Dao after the failure. Unexpectedly, people are not as good as heaven, Wang Dao died, and the consequences of his worries did not appear. But soon after, he himself died. And Yu Yi, who seized the territory, was ruthless: he once wanted to solve Wang Yunzhi with a cup of poisonous wine, because Wang Yunzhi first fed the wine to the dog and escaped. Yu Yi was quickly scolded by Emperor Jin Cheng: The eldest uncle has caused Su Jun's disaster and messed up the world, are you, the little uncle, ready to repeat the mistakes of the past? In the end, Yu Yi was forced to drink poisoned wine and cut himself.

Wang Dao and Yu Liang lost their troops and relatives because of the whimsical competition, fought back and forth, and in the end, it was just death as the ending. It seems that only time can cure this disease. But alas, this medicine always comes too late. Yu Liang's name is a homonym for his previous "Yu Liang", he has the same disease as the ancients a hundred years ago, and after all, he also drank the bitterness of the same medicine.

But after Director Wang and Yu Liang, the same story is still happening, which is the fate of "pride".