Unofficial History of the Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 83

Lou Shide resigned himself to his work and was defeated that day. Wei Siwen and others were all dead in the army.Jingye led the disabled people and horses to Xugu. At that time, everyone was hungry and the horses were exhausted. Those who were hit by arrows and guns barely walked.Before traveling less than ten miles, the army and horses could not advance. Jingye asked why, and reported back: "The mountain road ahead is rugged, and it rained early in the morning. The water in the pits did not flow, and the horseshoes were stuck in mud, so they could not move forward. The situation turned ten miles away, and then It's the sea." Jingye said angrily: "The army opens a road when it encounters a mountain, and builds a bridge when it encounters a water. Is there any reason not to dare to walk in the mud?" An order was passed down, telling the old and weak to slow down behind, and the strong to grab the soil and bundle firewood. Moving thatched huts and filling roads must be done immediately. " Jingye feared that the rear army would come, and wanted to ride lightly into the sea, so he sent two generals, Wang Naxiang and Wei Chao, to cut off the rear.

When they reached Caoqiu, the army was hungry and could not mount their horses.Jingye lives in front of him temporarily, and cooks again.When the soldiers heard about it, they picked a clean place on the side of the mountain and buried pots for cooking.The food is only half-cooked, and the soldiers are vying for food, which varies.Dedicated to work and weak, he rode lightly away from the end, looking at the sea from a distance.Behind the face, Wei Chao said: "Brother Jingye uses the name of Kuangfu. From what he has done, he hopes that Jinling will be kingly. He is really rebellious and not an established person."Now that the army is defeated and weak, Qingqi will go first, and will flee to the sea, so that I will wait behind to die. " Chao said: "He only takes his own body as the most important thing, and treats us like nothing. The prime minister said: "The enemy is behind and the sea is in front. There is no place for us to die." Wei Chao said: "How about I give up my dedication and return?" The prime minister said, "It's not your husband."If you don't show yourself as a hero, if you don't dedicate yourself to your work, we will suffer far-reaching harm. Chao said: "This is very appropriate, but I'm afraid I can't reach it, so I can do it quickly." "The two reined in their horses to catch up. Jingye and King Luo Bin were only not far in front. When they saw the two horses coming, they wanted to ask. .

When Jingyou came to welcome him with a knife, he couldn't prevent Du Qiuren from behind cutting Jingyou into two pieces.The historian has a poem that says: Who in the Tang Dynasty said that they could be recruited, and they marched in vain without strategy and dedication.

At that time, Siwence was not used, resulting in a light death.

Wang Naxiang, Wei Chao, and Du Qiuren each hold their heads in the Tang camp to worship.Xiaoyi was overjoyed and allowed him to come and surrender.Immediately, Wei Yuanzhong was sent to lead the troops to capture the rest of the party, behead all of them, and ordered the squadron to teach.

When the soldiers entered Chang'an, Xiaoyi presented his dedication and other leaders.The Empress Dowager granted Xiaoyi the official position and rewarded the three armies, and all the officials came to congratulate her.

However, after the queen mother got rid of her professionalism, she suspected that people in the world were too self-seeking, and she had been in charge of state affairs for a long time. Food is the way to go, but all farmers, woodcutters and woodcutters have to be summoned, or the officials will not be dismissed, and those who have no real facts will not be asked, so informers from all over the world flocked.

From time to time, there are those who protect the family with fish, please cast bronze as a 匦, so as to receive the secret performance of the world.The utensil has a chamber and four partitions, each with an orifice, which can be entered but not exited.The queen mother followed her, so she wanted to kill the clan.At that time, Li Yuanjia, king of Han, Li Yuangui, king of Huo, and Li Lingkui, king of Lu, were all the sons of Gaozu.

Li Zhen, king of Yue, and Li Feng, king of Guo, were also the sons of Emperor Taizong.Li Shen, the son of Yuanjia, Li Xu, the son of Yuangui; Li Rong, the son of Feng, Li Ai, the son of Lingkui, and Li Chong, the son of Zhen. Uneasy internally, secretly has the ambition to recover.

One day, the Empress Dowager wanted to take over the clan and punish her. Li Zhuan, the son of Yuan Jia, was furious and said: "I miss my great-grandfather, who fought bloody battles, and it is not easy to rule the world. Now I am abolished by a bitch. If you want to destroy us, if you don't go first , and the time of death is approaching." So he falsely called the emperor's seal letter, and told the kings, ordering each to raise an army, and set an appointment to collect them all.On that day Li Chong recruited more than 5000 elite soldiers. They started from Bozhou, attacked Wushui first, and then descended.The next time he arrived in Xinyi, the magistrate ordered Ma Xuansu to close the door and refuse to guard. He set fire to the south gate because of the wind, and the wind returned to the army to retreat, and the crowd scattered in fear.Chong returned to Bozhou and was killed by the gatekeeper.At the same time, the Empress Dowager sent General Qiu Shenxun to attack him. When the soldiers arrived in Bozhou, Li Chong was dead, and the officials came out to meet Shenxun.Li Zhen also raised troops in Yuzhou, and the queen mother sent generals to pursue Chongyu to challenge him, and ordered Zhang Gongfu to be the governor of the army.There were [-] soldiers in Zhenfaxian County, and Pei Shoude, the Cheng of Ruyang, refused to fight and was defeated. He and Shoude both committed suicide.

At the beginning, the end of the meeting between the kings was still undecided, but Chongdu raised his troops first, but Weizhen responded in embarrassment.The kings were aware of it, but they didn't dare to attack, and there were no soldiers to respond, so they were defeated.It turned out that when Li Zhen was about to raise troops, he sent an envoy to inform Zhao Huan.Huan's wife, Princess Changle, said to the emissary: ​​"The Li family is as dangerous as the morning dew. The sons of the first emperors will not give up their lives for righteousness. Why do you want to? The big man should be a loyal ghost, and he will die if he does nothing." When Zhen and others were defeated, the queen mother Wanting to punish the kings, Su Xuan, the supervisory censor, was sent to testify that there was no proof.

The Empress Dowager said: "Qing is a man of great elegance. I should have another envoy. You don't need Qing for this matter."

Then Zhou Xing was sent to press it, so Yuanjia, Lingkui, Shen and Princess Changle were taken to Dongdu and forced to commit suicide.The crime is connected with the relatives, and there are six to seven hundred families who should be seated, and more than six thousand people who should be borrowed.

The Queen Mother still sent Zhang Guangfu to arrest Yuangui, Xu, Rong and others and kill them together.Since the Queen Mother is willing to kill, but the clan of the Tang Dynasty is feared by both Chinese and foreign countries more than wolves and tigers.

On that day, when the Empress Dowager was promoted to the palace and was discussing matters with all the ministers, it was reported that a minister had led the people to go to the palace. I don't know what it meant.The public sees it as Fu Yuyi, the servant of the imperial censor.You Yi said: "Since your Majesty came to the throne, you have done more than three kings and five emperors. Although the ancient virtuous concubines and empresses can't surpass this. Now it's Jingxing Qingyun. Every time there is a Qianxiang, please change the name of the country to Zhou. , give Zhongzong the surname of Wu, to be respected by others, and it is the great fortune of the community."

The Empress Dowager was overjoyed when she heard that it was Shuodan Jiazi in the ninth month of the year, so Yu Zetian went upstairs to amnesty the world, changed Tang to Zhou, and changed Yuan to Tianshou.Later, he was called the Emperor of the Holy God, and he took Yu Wangdan as the heir of the emperor, and gave him the surname Wu.The crown prince was established as the emperor's grandson, Wu Chengsi was named the king of Wei, Wu Sansi was named the king of Liang, and all Wu clans were named county kings.At this time, the clans of the Tang Dynasty were all slaughtered, so Fu Youyi was named General Youyulingwei, Wu Youning was named Nayan, and Lou Shide was named Tongping Zhangshi.The teacher's morality is generous and prudent, and he does not compare with crimes.When his younger brother was removed from the governor of Daizhou, when he was about to leave, Shi De said: "My brother is honored and favored too much, and people are sick. Why do you want to be a white rabbit?

"The younger brother said: "Although some people spit on the face of a certain person from now on, the certain one just wipes it off.The common people don't worry about their brothers.

" Shi De said in a daze, "this is exactly why I worry about it!"People spit on your face and make you angry, but if you wipe it, you go against their will and emphasize their anger.Husband spit on his own, just laugh at it.

Brother said: "I would like to be taught." "As the teacher's virtue, he recommended Di Renjie to the queen mother. He said: I heard that Yao ascended the country and celebrated Mingliang; Shun used Fu pottery, and the wind moved in all directions. Although there was a king named Gaozong Changfa in Yin and Zhou Dynasties, it still depends on legends Lu Wangzhi's resistance. I secretly saw Di Renjie from Taiyuan, who came from Bingzhou.

Elaborate on Hongdao and Ao, the same as Shisu and Jingfang Zhilun;

Sincerely, the pillar of the Tang Dynasty and the tortoise of the country, it is advisable to promote him so that he can be promoted to the stage, and he will go up for three days, and go down for five grades, so that he can stop the levy.

After reading the Shuwen, the queen mother said with great joy: "If you recommend a virtuous person for the country, you will definitely get what you deserve." Then, following the teacher's request, Renjie was also granted the same title, but Renjie suddenly became a prime minister, but he really didn't know it was the teacher's morality. Please, but the teacher's morality is not obvious.Whenever Renjie encounters something in the court, he makes decisions like a stream; if the matter is not merciful, he argues face to face.Therefore, everyone has a heart of fear and cowardice.As for meeting the teacher's morality, it is quite light.The Empress Dowager felt it, called Renjie and said: "Does a teacher also know people by virtue?
" Renjie said to him: "The minister is a colleague, and I have never heard that he knows anyone." "The queen mother said: "I know it, and you are recommended by your teacher's virtue. From this point of view, you can also be said to know people. Renjie sighed and said: "Mr. Lou Shengde, I have tolerated him for a long time, and I can't see it." "

But lightly dressed and hatted, went to Lou's house to thank him.Shi De said: "I see that the public is upright, and what he says is not biased. He can serve the country and the people. Therefore, I recommend the public, and he will be able to restore the Tang Dynasty. It is indeed a public forgetting personal interests.

Renjie said: "It's not what the queen mother said, how can I know it." "The teacher prepared wine and entertained him and said goodbye. Since then, the two have been as good as ever.

At that time, the Empress Dowager was in charge of the government in the imperial palace. Although she was nearly eighty years old, she was promiscuous and unrestrained, and the number of men in the harem changed every day.The ministers Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi used their affairs, and people at that time may praise Changzong's beauty and say: "Liulang's face is like a lotus flower." Yang Zaisi, an internal historian, said: "Otherwise, the lotus flower is like Liulang's ears." The sky is empty, a few trees are flying and the ground is red.

The contemporary Mei Niang lives in Beique, and once the emperor met the East Palace.

The Zhang family advocated chaos in the Jiaofang, and Lai Digong was promoted in Sheji.

The shape of personnel and affairs is numerous, and Li Chunfeng is still in memory.

At that time, Wu Sansi, the nephew of Wu Sansiying, was seeking to be the crown prince, and the queen mother was hesitant. When Di Renjie entered the court, the queen mother told the truth.Renjie said: "In the past, the Emperor Wen, in spite of the wind and rain, braved the wind and rain himself, to rule the world and pass it on to his descendants. The Taidi entrusted His Majesty with his three sons. Is it God's will that His Majesty wants to transfer to another clan? Who is the mother and son? If your majesty establishes a son, he will be served in the Taimiao after a long life. If you establish a nephew, you have never heard that your nephew is the son of heaven, but the aunt is in the temple. Only your majesty will explain it in detail." The queen mother said: "This is my family matter, you don't care Foreknowledge." Renjie said again: "The king regards the four seas as his home, and within the four seas, who is not your majesty's family business?
Kuang Yuan's head has the same body, and the righteousness is the same. How can I be unpredictable if I am now a prime minister?

"The queen mother said: "Qing's words are very in line with my wishes, and I have realized it now. "Therefore, people were sent to welcome back Zhongzong immediately, and he became the prince again, living in the East Palace. Therefore, there is a poem from the Yuan people: "One word calls back the parrot dream, and Jiuxiao wins the phoenix and returns it." "He used this ear. The queen mother should show the prime minister that the pear blossoms will come out in the autumn season. To praise her auspiciousness, Du Jinglun said alone: ​​"The grass and trees are yellow and falling in the autumn season, but this flower alone resists it. The yin and yang are not in harmony. Of. "The queen mother said: "The real prime minister is talented!" "

At that time, the empress dowager became more and more lustful, so she chose all the strong men in the world to enter the palace to serve her bed, and if she was not satisfied, she beat and killed them.Di Renjie was the one who recommended Xue Aocao, and the Empress Dowager was extremely lewd, even during the daytime.Ao Cao was granted the title of Ruyi Lord by imperial edict, and the gift was very generous.At that time, there was a poem ridiculing the cloud: the rain cloud at the Liuliu witch summit, and the ninefold filthy virtues are heard day by day.

The love between the Luan and the Phoenix is ​​good, and the Xijue is named Ruyijun.

It was the first month of spring in the first year of Chonglong, the Empress Dowager was dying of illness, and Zhang Changzong was in the midst of affairs. Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi wanted to kill her, but there was nothing he could do.One day, I saw Cui Xuanwei in the pavilion of the servant class, together with Youcheng Jinghui, Shaoqing Huan Yanfan, and Sima Yuanshu, who were several people. The Cambodian said: "In the future, the old man will come down, and I will talk less for a while. Let's go down and have a drink, luckily I won't see you in the way." All the officials said: "I will come to prolong my life." On the same day, a banquet was held in the back hall, and all the ministers and ministers came.

Cambodian regards them as old officials of the Tang Dynasty, and they are secretly happy.When the wine was half drunk, Cambodian raised his glass to persuade him, and handed it to Li Duozuo, the general of Yulin, who said: "Today is a day that is not a low-level surrender. I want to gather with all the officials. I am afraid that the opportunity will leak, so I push the low-level surrender. I mean that the general is rich and honored, who caused it?
" Duo Zuo wept and said, "They are all Taidi." "Cambodia said: "Since the old ministers of the Tang Dynasty have received great favor from the country, the son of the Taidi is in danger by Ershu. Does the general not want to repay the virtue of the Taidi? "Duo Zuo said: "If it is useful for the country to benefit the country, it must be dealt with by the public and dare not take care of itself. "Cambodia said: "The Empress Dowager is ill, we want to fight civil strife, are you willing to help? Duo Zuo said, "although I'm not talented, I'd like to help you." "Cambodia said: "If this is the case, it will be a great fortune for the country. "It turns out that the first Cambodian and the long history Yang Yuanyan went to the middle of the river together, and talked about the matter of the Queen Mother's abolition. Here you are. The Cambodian said: "Do you remember the words in the river in the past? "Yuan Yan said: "A certain memory is in my heart, can I forget it?"Every time you want to raise something, because it is ineffective, you will be reused today, and you will die. "Cambodia said: "You are willing to do your best, and today's plan is not to be given lightly. "Yuan Yan said: "Dare not to obey orders!Willing to lend a helping hand. "

Several people were discussing, and suddenly it was reported that Yao Yuanzhi, the appeasement ambassador, came to visit him from Lingwu to the capital.Huan Yan and Fan Zixiang said: "This matter is good." Cambodian said: "Don't wait, gentlemen, I will come when I see you for a while." .Cambodian then told him with his plan, and Yuan Zhi said: "That is to say, the public has the heart to help the country, and some people are not able to use the power of dogs and horses." Cambodian bowed his head and thanked him.

General comment: Wu's disaster is unprecedented.Zhang Jianzhi and the others knew that they would revert to the throne anyway, but they could not use righteousness to deal with extraordinary changes and beg for sinners for the Tang Dynasty.Husband Wu Le gathered all the evil in his body, and since the soldiers entered the palace, he should first restore the crown prince, that is, count his crimes from the Wu family to the Tang Zongmiao, and depose him as a commoner, give him death, and destroy his clan, and then it will be enough to comfort the spirit in heaven. The indignation of Xue's subjects, for the sake of the country, the justice of condemning crimes, do you know it?
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