The sixteenth of the twenty-four heroes of Ling Yan Pavilion, Zhang Liang, the Duke of YunGuo. Among the twenty-four heroes of Ling Yan Pavilion, it was really not possible to fight. He is good at government affairs. But to say how much he can play, that's really funny. He was selected for the Ling Yan Pavilion because of his ability to do government affairs and his integrity and loyalty when Li Shimin and the crown prince Li Jiancheng competed for power. But in the end, he ended up being beheaded, in my opinion, partly because of his own death, and partly because of the stimulation of Tang Taizong Li Shimin by Hou Junji's affair.
Zhang Liang, Xingyang people. In the early years, he was engaged in farming, and at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and he joined the rebel army of Li Miwagang. It is under the command of Xu Shijie. Li Mi was defeated by Wang Shichong, and accompanied Xu Shiji to defend Liyang, and in the first year of Wu De, he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Xu Shijie. Ren Zhengzhou stabbed history, when Zhengzhou was Wang Shichong's territory. Unable to take office, Zhang Liang was renamed as inspector of Dingzhou.
Somehow, he met Fang Xuanling and was recommended to Li Shimin by Fang Xuanling. Li Shimin trusted him and made him a cheri general. He was regarded as a confidant by Li Shimin.
Fang Xuanling was known as Liang ShenGuo as the King of Baiqin, and was appointed as a che riding general. - "The Biography of Zhang Liang in the New Book of Tang"
In the ninth year of Wu De's participation in the Xuanwumen Rebellion, Li Shimin succeeded to the throne and made Zhang Liang a general of the Right Guard, the governor of Huaizhou, and the Duke of Changping County. Zhenguan for five years, served as the Imperial Grand Master, and was enfeoffed as the Duke of Fuguo. For the seventh year of Zhenguan, he served as the governor of Xiangzhou, and for eleven years, he served as the Duke of Yun. Zhenguan for fourteen years, served as shangshu of the Ministry of Works. In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, he entered the Ling Yan Pavilion. In the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, Zhenguan participated in the Battle of Liaodong twice in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan. Zhenguan was decapitated for twenty years because of the defendant's conspiracy to rebel.
Zhang Liang's exploits on the battlefield are really too good compared to other fierce generals. He fled at every turn, and his military talent could even be negligible.
In the fourth year of Wu De, Liu Heimin attacked the Tang Dynasty, and Xu Shiji led a conquest, as Xu Shiji's old subordinate, he went out with the army and guarded Xiangzhou. When the enemy army attacked, Zhang Liang saw that the enemy army was strong, and he did not fight, so he immediately abandoned the city and fled. I have never fought a decent battle in my life.
He belittled Liu Hei, causing Liang to guard Xiangzhou, the thief Fang Sheng, and abandon the city. - The New Book of Tang and the Biography of Zhang Liang
In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, he accompanied Emperor Taizong of Tang to li shimin in his conquest of Liaodong, served as the commander-in-chief of the Pyongyang Province, and led an army to cross the sea from Donglai to conquer the city of Shabei in Liaodong. The troops had just been unsteady, the enemy army was attacking, Zhang Liang was shocked, and he did not know what to do. Sitting on the bed without saying a word. Nor did it order resistance. It made his subordinates think that Zhang Liang was confident and didn't care at all. The Lord will not be afraid, and the big head soldiers under him will be afraid of something. One word dry. The deputy general Zhang Jinshu ordered a drumming march, and the underlings fought bravely to kill the enemy, resulting in a major defeat of the enemy. Crooked and straight, I don't know whether to exaggerate or scold Zhang Liang.
When he led his troops from the East Lai Floating Sea to attack the Shabei City in Eastern Liaoning, and when he entered Jian'an, the camp was not established, the thieves had arrived, Zhang Liang did not know what to do, only stood on the bed of Hu, looked directly at it without saying anything, and the people thought that they were brave and were able to be safe. His adjutant general Zhang Jinshu ordered the drum to be beaten by the army, and the soldiers fought hard, thus breaking the thief - "The Old Book of Tang, Zhang Liang's Biography"
Tang Taizong did not blame him after he knew it, and Li Shimin also knew that Zhang Liang was not a man who could fight, and the troops were not defeated.
Zhang Liang couldn't fight, Li Shimin knew. He was able to gain trust in Li Shimin's heart, not because of his military achievements, but because he was unyielding and unyielding when he competed with the crown prince Li Jiancheng for power, and li Shimin was very grateful to Zhang Liang.
In the ninth year of Wu De, Li Shimin prepared to take action against Li Jiancheng, and secretly sent Zhang Liang to Luoyang to contact people and horses. The news leaked, and Li Yuanji, the King of Qi, knew about it, and he immediately reported it to Li Yuan. Zhang Liang is nothing, and Li Shimin behind him is a big fish. If you pry open Li Shimin's mouth from Zhang Liang's mouth to recruit troops and buy horses, it is a plot against you. That Li Shimin was absolutely going to be abolished, and there was no later change in Xuanwumen.
Prince Yin will be in trouble, and he will command Luoyang, which is left and right, and Haojie of Shandong province to prepare for change. The king of Qi rebelled, and Gao Zu interrogated him as a subordinate official, but in the end he did not say anything, but was released.
Li Yuan ordered severe torture, beaten to no end, but he still refused to let go and bit Li Shimin. In the end, without asking anything, he was released. Soon after, the Xuanwumen Rebellion broke out, and Li Shimin won. Zhang Liang, because of his previous merits, the water rose high. He became a hero trusted by Li Shimin.
During the Zhenguan Dynasty, he was praised for his outstanding ability in government affairs, sympathy for the people, and attacking the strong and powerful. There is a saying that Zhang Liang's military ability is pulling his crotch, and his government affairs ability is still good. If his ambitions had not swelled, the end would have been good. Unfortunately, as the official positions became higher and higher, the ambitions became more and more ambitious.
In his later years, Zhang Liang was superstitious about Fang Shu and adopted five hundred righteous sons. His wife had an affair with someone, and as a result, Zhang Liang directly adopted the adulterer as a righteous son, and he did not know whether Zhang Liang was addicted to adopting a dry son. At the time of Xiangzhou, Gongsun Jie, the righteous son, and his warlock Cheng Gongying fooled Zhang Liang, saying that he had the appearance of an emperor and would become the son of heaven in the future. A flicker made Zhang Liang lame. He also believed it and ran to Gongsun Jie's brother Gongsun often said, "I have a concubine, and the fortune teller said that she would be a princess." Gongsun often is also a horse ass, which makes Zhang Liang very happy.
Liang is Xiangzhou, the false son Gongsun Festival has the "Lord of the Bow Chief", Liang thinks that the old capital, "Bow Chief" has his surname, and yin has strange plots. The magician Cheng Gongying, LiangSu and Hou, Yin said: "Your Majesty the True Lord of the Heavens, what a god and evil!" "Gong Ying Nei Xiao, that is, liang lying like a dragon, when the noble." Liang Yue: "The country will be in chaos, my arms and dragon scales are vigorous, cautious and noble." Gongsun Chang, Jie Brother Ye, Liang said: "I have concubines, and the xiangyun will be the kings and concubines." Chang Yue: "My brother has a great word, and there is a god's name in the book." "Bright Yue.
Zhang Liang is really a little stinky and doesn't want to face it, saying that his concubine is a princess, don't he just turn around and say that he is a king?
Such a brazen adopted son, superstitious alchemy. Sooner or later something will happen. Twenty years after Zhenguan, someone denounced Zhang Liang for adopting five hundred righteous sons and plotting rebellion. Emperor Taizong of Tang ordered Ma Zhou to review, and both Cheng Gongying and Gongsun Chang confirmed Zhang Liang's intention to rebel, but Zhang Liang did not admit it. He defended: "These two people were afraid of death, so they framed me."
He had thought that when he first changed Xuanwumen, he had made a great contribution to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin would definitely listen to him. Who knew that Li Shimin replied directly. You Zhang Liang adopted five hundred dry sons, is it not a rebellion? Zhang Liang was ordered to be beheaded.
It is reasonable to say that Zhang Liang did not let go of his mouth when he died, and refused to frame Li Shimin. Zhang Liang did not specifically do anything about plotting rebellion. How could Li Shimin not listen to Zhang Liang's explanation?
This is to say that hou jun plotted rebellion in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan. Hou Junji colluded with the crown prince Li Chengqian to plot rebellion, and this incident deeply stimulated Li Shimin. He never imagined that the prince would conspire with Hou Jun to rebel and kill himself. He was not in the right place, and what he was most afraid of was the descendants' own footsteps.
In addition, Zhang Liang once intersected with Hou Junji. Before Hou Junji plotted against him, he found Zhang Liang and wanted to pull Zhang Liang to do it together, but Zhang Liang disagreed, turned around and reported Hou Junji to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin said to Zhang Liang: "You and Hou Junji are both heroes, but only the two of you, no one else hears, so why not?" But later Hou Junji did indeed rebel.
By this time, Zhang Liang's defendant had rebelled, and Li Shimin was no longer willing to listen to Zhang Liang's explanation, and he was no longer willing to trust Zhang Liang. Whether Zhang Liang wants to rebel or not, in the end it is a dead end.
Liu Xun's evaluation of Zhang Liang in the Old Book of Tang is still quite in place. "There are great festivals, and the outside is thick and the inside is deceitful, and no one knows."
Zhang Liang's integrity is true, and his inner deceit is also true. Because people are inherently complex, the greater the power, the greater the ambition.