Speaking of Tang Ming Emperor Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, everyone must remember Du Mu's "a red dust concubine laughing, no one knows that it is a lychee." It was written to satirize Emperor Tang Ming's excessive favor for Yang Guifei.
Everyone should also remember that Tang Xuanzong, he is the grandson of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, he and Wu Zetian, like Wu Zetian, like to use cool officials, strict rule of the dynasty, should be the gene inherited from generation to generation.
The reason is simple, Tang Xuanzong's process of ascending to the throne is the same as that of his grandmother Wu Zetian. Tang Xuanzong started by two coups and became the supreme ruler, whether it was a big rank or a small ranking, it was not Li Longji's turn, the big ranking was passed down from Tang Zhongzong, the small ranking was counted from Tang Ruizong, and the boss was not Li Longji.
Tang Xuanzong was very impressed, and the story of his grandmother was of course still fresh in his memory, and he must use cool officials.
Tang Xuanzong very much wanted to be better than blue out of blue, so he had to innovate in the use of cool officials' power techniques.
Tang Xuanzong felt that his grandmother Wu Zetian was too direct, too simple and rude, and Tang Xuanzong took the initiative to add a leadership layer in front of the cool officials, that is, the Power Firewall, which was controlled by Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, and he controlled it behind the scenes, and he was free to retreat.
If he does a good job, his reputation will naturally increase, and if there are unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, he can hold these officials accountable. In this way, his reputation will not be affected, and at most he will not be able to recognize people well and fall for the hoodwinks.
"Zizhi Tongjian Tang Xuanzong Tianbao Four Years": Li Linfu wanted to get rid of those who did not attach himself, and reused the cool officials Luo Xiyi and Ji Wen, both of whom followed Lin Fu's desires, exercised into prison, and those who were incompetent and self-extricated, which was called "Luo Ji Net" at the time.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, when Li Linfu, the right chancellor, wanted to get rid of dissidents, he reused the cool officials Ji Wen and Luo Xiyi and put them in charge of the prison, and both of them acted according to Li Linfu's will in handling cases, falling into their hands as if they were caught in a clamp or falling into a net.
Li Linfu listened to whom, of course, It was The Tang Ming Emperor, and sometimes, Li Linfu would also use the name of the emperor to eliminate dissidents.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's ascension to the throne, the courtier Wang Ju (656-746 AD) played a very important role. When Emperor Tang Ming was crown prince, Wang Ju entered Li Longji's think tank, similar to zhuge liang and Pang Tong. His meeting with Li Longji is very legendary in itself.
One day, Wang Ju went to see Li Longji, and when he was about to reach the Crown Prince's Palace, he still walked forward with a big grin, at this time, a eunuch security guard stopped him and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is inside." Wang Ju said, "Is there a title of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" The eunuch security guard was very angry and shouted, "Why is there no Prince Highness, the prince of the emperor, everyone in the world knows." Wang Ju replied, "I haven't heard of it, I've heard of Princess Taiping, I haven't heard of a prince." ”
This Li Longji sat inside, and immediately understood, and quickly asked the secretary and bodyguard beside him to invite Wang Ju in, and specially sat next to him and asked Wang Ju for advice. The two began to chat, both talking about the heart-wrenching words.
Li Longji said: You understand everything, let's go straight to the subject, I don't want to do it, the problem is that that person is my aunt, even the royal family also wants to talk about filial piety.
Wang Ju said: "It is too rigid, too rigid, because the filial piety of the Son of Heaven is different from the filial piety of the people, and the filial piety of the Son of Heaven is filial piety to the clan and the community, rather than simply filial piety to the parents. Therefore, if the Son of Heaven turns his face and does not recognize people, it is called great righteousness and annihilation of relatives, and the common people turn their faces and do not recognize people, that is called meanness and widowhood.
When Li Longji heard this, he felt that he was too learned, and Mr. Wang was too learned. Therefore, he decided to start with his aunt Princess Taiping, and Wang Ju's credit was here. Sure enough, Li Longji did great things, became emperor, crowned Wang Ju as the Duke of Zhao, and participated in major politics, Wang Ju won the trust of Xuanzong, and when he met Tang Xuanzong, the two laughed and talked, and when they met on a rest day, Tang Xuanzong often sent eunuchs to summon Wang Ju to accompany him to feast and drink. Wang Ju was also known as the Inner Chancellor by the imperial court ministers, and was prominent for a while. At this time, someone said to Tang Xuanzong: "Wang Ju is a family of zongheng and a scheming man. Such people can calm the scourge together, but they cannot stabilize the peace. Tang Xuanzong felt that these words had reached his heart. Soon, Wang Ju was sent to a local post.
Then, what is the relationship between Wang Ju and Luo Xiyi, a cool official, of course.
After Li Longji ascended to the throne, he summed up the lessons learned, the power of this prince can not be too big, when I was the prince, I gathered a group of people, I put princess Taiping and my aunt, and my father Tang Ruizong Li Dan down, and then I took over. Therefore, my prince absolutely cannot do me as I did back then. Therefore, Li Longji killed three sons in a row.
Now, Li Longji was still uneasy about his crown prince Li Heng. If it is a hero, it is necessary to cultivate wings, and this Li Heng has a group of cronies around him who are very capable, and they must be killed.
At this time, the cool official Luo Xiyi appeared, and he instantly understood the mind of Emperor Tang Ming, and only by making the prince the commander of the light pole could the emperor rest assured. Who was the person who was going to be killed at that time, that is, the old man of the crown prince Li Heng, named Du Youlin. Killing Du Youlin involved many people coming out, and this Luo Xiyi pursued and killed all the way from Chang'an to Jiangnan, grabbing and killing one place after another.
At this time, where li Longji's founding hero Wang Ju was, he was old, and had been demoted from the internal chancellor to Jianghua County (江華郡, in present-day Dao County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province) as a Sima (司馬), equivalent to Sima of Baiju Yijiang Prefecture, that is, from a central leader to a county-level cadre.
The most important feature of Wang Ju was that he was smart, he knew that Luo Xiyi had gone south with the task force, so Wang Ju quickly looked for something, something, and poison. The people next to him don't understand, this Luo Xiyi is coming, why should your old man find poison, he is a relative and friend who arrested Du Youlin. It has nothing to do with you.
Wang Ju said: "You don't know the emperor too well, the emperor still can't let go of me, you don't know Luo Xiyi too much, their important feature is that they will read the emperor's mind, beat the rabbit with grass, and come to a spoonful of stew, a net." To fall into the hands of Rohi Yi, it is better to find poison to solve it yourself. ”
Wang Ju committed suicide by taking poison, but the poison was not effective enough and did not die. Wang Ju was particularly distressed and asked his men to find him another rope, and finally succeeded.
Mr. Wang Ju, a great contributor to Li Longji, finally hanged himself. But everyone thought that it was framed by Li Linfu and forced by the cool official Luo Xiyi.
Wang Ju's death was not his crime, people used pity, and Emperor Tang Ming heard about it, without any expression. It was not until 16 years later, in the first year of Baoying in 762 AD, when Emperor Ming of Tang's grandson Li Yu of Tang Dynasty succeeded to the throne, that he was rehabilitated and given to Crown Prince Shaobao.
From Wang Ju's ending, we can see how cool Luo Xiyi is, and he can also know the means of Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji.
Tang Xuanzong was 77 years old (September 8, 685 – May 3, 762) and Wu Zetian was 81 years old (624 – December 16, 705), both of whom were long-lived.
It's just that Tang Xuanzong is a man, and he is bound to make the mistakes that men often make, and this is his biggest weakness. His favor for Yang Guifei was even worse than that of King Zhou You, but he knew that eating lychees could be done, and he could not play the game of the princes of beacon theatre, so the final outcome of King Zhou You was not staged in Tang Xuanzong.
Obviously, the power firewall designed by Tang Xuanzong played a role. When such a big chaos occurred in the Anshi Rebellion, people all thought that it was a traitor, and Tang Xuanzong just listened to rumors, did not distinguish between right and wrong, preferred to listen to partial beliefs, and was old and faint, nothing more, there was no responsibility, who did not make mistakes when he was old. Therefore, Tang Xuanzong handed over the throne, became the emperor of taishang, and sent him to the end of his life.
The Power Firewall retained the reputation of Tang Xuanzong at the expense of the national interest and the happiness of the people.