Biography of Yang Fei

Chapter 294
Soon after he took the throne, Xuanzong Li Chen ordered people to write "Zhengguan Political Important Points" on the screen, and often stood in front of the screen and read it word by word.In addition, he ordered Hanlin scholar Ling Huxuan to read to him the "Golden Mirror" written by Taizong every day. Whenever he heard important points, he would make Linghuxuan stop and say: "If you want peace in the world, you should use this Words are first."

Another thing is enough to prove that Xuanzong's diligence is indeed beyond the comparison of ordinary monarchs.One day, Xuanzong suddenly said to Linghuxuan: "I want to know the names and ranks of all civil and military officials." There are so many officials, how can the emperor recognize them? Below the rank, the official position is low, and there are many people, all of them are appointed by the Ministry of Officials; above the fifth rank, they are nominated by the Zai Zhi, and then the imperial edict is issued, each has a book and a book of orders, and is called a "member".

Xuanzong then ordered the prime minister to compile a five-volume version of "Gu Yuan Yu Lan", which was kept on the desk to read it from time to time.

Diligent monarchs always like to do everything by themselves, and they can always see the details. Xuanzong Li Chen is especially obvious in this regard.Once he went hunting in Beiyuan and met a woodcutter.Li Chen asked him his county origin, and the man replied that he was from Jingyang (now Jingyang, Shaanxi). Li Chen asked him who the county magistrate was, and the woodcutter replied, "Li Xingyan." Li Chen asked again, "How is the political affairs governed?" The husband said: "This man is not good at accommodating, and he is very stubborn. He once arrested several robbers. These robbers had some friendship with the Imperial Army of Beisi. Beisi called him by name and asked him to release them. killed."

After hearing this, Li Chen didn't say a word. After returning to the palace, he wrote down the matter and Li Xingyan's name and nailed it to the pillar.More than a month after the incident, Li Xingyan was promoted to governor of Haizhou (now Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province) and entered the court to thank him. Xuanzong gave him a goldfish bag and purple clothes.In the Tang Dynasty, this symbolized great honor and favor, especially in the Xuanzong Dynasty, such a reward was unique.Li Xingyan was flattered, but at the same time puzzled.Xuanzong said: "Do you know why you can wear purple clothes?" Li Xingyan sincerely said that he didn't know, so Xuanzong ordered someone to take down the post on the palace pillar to show him.

On another occasion, Xuanzong went hunting in the Weishui River, passing by a Buddhist shrine, and saw some elders in Liquan (now Liquan, Shaanxi) County were setting up prayers, praying that Li Junshuang, the magistrate of Liquan County, who had expired his term, would stay in office.Xuanzong remembered the name of the county magistrate in his heart.Later, when the governor of Huaizhou was vacant, Xuanzong wrote a note to the prime minister and awarded the post to Li Junshuang.The prime ministers were stunned for a long time, wondering how a district magistrate of Liquan could go up to heaven and win the emperor's favor.Afterwards, Li Junshuang entered the court to thank him, the emperor said about it, and the prime ministers suddenly realized.

Over time, the courtiers understood that on the surface, the emperor was out hunting, but the real purpose was to go deep into the people, understand the people's conditions, and inspect the performance of local officials on the spot.

But the world is so big that it is impossible for Xuanzong to visit all of them. For this reason, he specially thought of a way, and secretly ordered Wei Ao, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, to compile a volume of customs and people's livelihood pros and cons of each state in the world for him to read.The emperor named it "Punishment", and no one except Wei Ao knew about it.Soon, Xue Hongzong, the governor of Dengzhou, entered the court to play an official role. After he came down from his highness, he couldn't help but said to Wei Ao: "The degree to which the emperor understands and is familiar with the affairs of this state is really amazing!" "Punishment".

In front of this kind of emperor who sees everything like a torch, if anyone is lucky, then he will suffer.Once, the minister in charge of finance wrote "clean" in the "汁油" (cloth soaked and polluted by water) in the memorial, and Sun Yinzhong, the privy secretary, corrected the typo and strokes.Unexpectedly, when Xuanzong got the memorial, he saw the altered word at a glance, and immediately became furious, and ordered to track down the person who altered the memorial.Sun Yinzhong was subsequently punished for "altering memorials without authorization".

Xuanzong Li Chen's must-have work is not only reflected in the governance of the court, but also in some trivial matters in life.For those handymen in the palace responsible for sweeping, Xuanzong Li Chen can remember their names and their respective functions as long as they have met once, so no matter what the palace is going to do or what jobs are assigned, the emperor can often call them and let them go. Do it, and every time he was appointed without error, it made the eunuchs and servants in the palace speechless.

During the Xuanzong dynasty, the original "niu-li party struggle" finally ceased. The reason is that apart from the death of the leaders of the two parties, the most important point is that Xuanzong Li Chen's wisdom, scheming, and skills are not the first. Ren Tianzi is comparable.

As early as the early years of Dazhong, people had already understood one point from the ups and downs of Prime Minister Ma Zhi-it was almost impossible to form a party in the court of Emperor Xuanzong.Ma Zhi was appointed in May of the second year of Dazhong (848). He had done a good job, but in April of the fourth year of Dazhong, Ma Zhi was suddenly demoted from the imperial court by an edict and released as the Tianping Festival. degree to make.

The relegation had no sign beforehand, so people found it difficult to understand.Later they learned: It turned out to be the fault of a precious jade belt.

This precious jade belt is an imperial item, and the emperor rewarded it to Ma Yuanzhi, the lieutenant of the Zuo Army not long ago.As we all know, the eunuch Ma Yuanzhi was one of the main heroes who supported Xuanzong's ascension to the throne. Therefore, no matter how the emperor thought of this powerful eunuch in his heart, on the surface, he still treated him with the utmost grace and courtesy. , Since he ascended the throne, he has been rewarded continuously, and this belt is just one of the many gifts.

But one day, at the court meeting, Xuanzong Li Chen suddenly discovered that this belt was tied to the waist of Prime Minister Ma Zhi.

This discovery is not trivial.Tianzi immediately had great suspicion and alertness.He asked Ma Zhi on the spot whether this belt was given to him by Ma Yuanzhi.Ma Zhi had realized that he had caused a catastrophe and did not dare to hide it, so he had to tell the truth.The next day, Xuanzong Li Chen relentlessly dismissed his ministerial position and demoted him from the court.

Dismissing a prime minister because of a belt is ridiculous at first glance.But in the eyes of Xuanzong Li Chen, this incident is not ridiculous at all.

His reasoning was: Ma Zhi and Ma Yuanzhi were originally the same clan, and one of them was Zaifu, and the other was a powerful eunuch. The two people with this relationship and identity should have taken the initiative to avoid suspicion and could not get too close. Now that Ma Yuanzhi actually transferred the gift of the emperor to Ma Zhi, it proves that they have passed the Lei Chi, and the emperor has every reason to think that they are suspected of forming a party.

To take a step back, even if Ma Zhi and Ma Yuanzhi did not form a party, the fact that "secret communication between China and foreign courts is prohibited" alone is enough to pose a certain potential threat to the emperor who has not been ascended to the throne for a long time.Xuanzong Li Chen would never allow himself to be subject to the powerful eunuch Qiu Shiliang like Wenzong, nor would he be subject to the powerful prime minister Li Deyu in everything like Wuzong.

Because Li Chen is a powerful emperor!
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong and Li Chen, in addition to curbing the arrogance of the eunuchs to a large extent with a strong hand, there is another huge historical achievement that must be mentioned.

That is the recovery of Hehuang.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the He and Huang areas (now Gansu and eastern Qinghai) have been occupied by Tubo for nearly a hundred years.The successive emperors after Xuanzong, especially Xianzong Li Chun, although mostly cherished the ambition to regain Hehuang, they always had more than enough energy.Because of the endless chaos in the town, the imperial court had to repeatedly use troops, and the government was smashed by party disputes and eunuchs, which made the Li Tang dynasty too busy to take care of itself, not to mention freeing up its hands to deal with the Tubo people.In the Huichang period of Wuzong, the situation began to reverse-a large-scale civil war broke out in Tubo, and its internal political situation was chaotic and people were separated.

It seems that God is destined to give to Xuanzong Li Chen the historical feat of recovering Hehuang.

Because when Tubo began to decline, it was the eve of his ascent on the stage of history.

In February of the third year of Dazhong after Li Chen ascended the throne, Qinzhou, Yuanzhou, and Anlezhou originally under the control of Tubo, as well as Shimen, Yizang, Zhisheng, Shixia, Mujing, Muxia, Liupan, etc. "Zhou Qiguan" all returned to Datang overnight.

Originally, the recovery of the three prefectures and seven passes was enough to surprise the subjects of the Tang Dynasty. Unexpectedly, after just two years, all the lost land in Hehuang was recovered one by one by a man named Zhang Yichao, and all returned to the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

It is undeniable that the recovery of the century-old land was not Xuanzong's martial arts, but a moment of luck.If the containment of eunuchs and the rectification of official administration were indeed due to Xuanzong's personal efforts, then the recovery of Hehuang was obviously a gift from heaven.But in any case, since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Empire, which has been struggling for nearly a hundred years in the dark history of internal and external troubles, still shone with glory in the hands of Xuanzong Li Chen.

In the Xuanzong era, although the empire could not be called a peaceful and prosperous age, at least it was considered a peaceful situation. After the "Government of Dazhong" came to an end, history gave Li Chen a very high evaluation: "Xuanzong clearly observed and judged, used selflessly, followed advice like a stream, cherished official rewards, respected and thrifty, and loved people. Politics ended at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and people think about it, calling it the 'Little Taizong'!"

Thanks to Xuanzong Li Chen's hard work, he was still able to catch a glimpse of the afterglow of the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the chaotic historical puzzle of the late Tang Dynasty.

Yang Yu and Princess Tongchang, who were hiding in the closet, listened with great interest. Although they had heard some stories about the former emperor, they were not as detailed as the concubine. The emperor said impatiently about such a legend: " Concubine! I know all these things, I just want to know what you said about the origin of my concubine mother, you know, what is it like! I don’t have the patience to talk nonsense with you here anymore! If you kill the first emperor, you won’t be afraid that I will Killed the nine clans of the Liu family!"

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