Among the many courtiers of Emperor Taizong of Tang, in addition to Wei Zheng, the most famous were Fang Xuanling and Du Ruyi. There is a famous Chinese idiom - "Fang Mou Du Duan, it is said that these two prime ministers of both virtue and wealth during the Taizong period".
Fang Xuanling's name is Qiao, the word Xuanling. Naiqi Prefecture Linzi people. He has been reading the history of the Bible since childhood, and is especially good at calligraphy and articles.
As early as when Tang Taizong was still the King of Qin, he helped Li Shimin to give advice and handle government affairs. Drafting documents, loyal to Li Shimin. Fang Xuanling was very resourceful, and began to recruit talents for the King of Qin very early, accumulating strength and making sufficient preparations. In the early years, Li Shimin often went out on expeditions and did not have the energy to go to various places to collect talents, so Fang Xuanling recruited these people for him to the Qin King's Palace.
Just when everyone else was busy scavenging for money. Fang Xuanling, however, spent all his heart and soul to get along well with these able people and tried to make these people willing to be loyal to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin has a poetry cloud: "Tailiu Xian Zhou, the West Garden leads to talent." Before the arrival of the car, the chicken chirped off and opened early. "I would like to express my gratitude to Fang Xuanling for his merits in recruiting talents, and I am the best buddy."
Under the unremitting efforts of Fang Xuanling, Li Shimin gathered a large number of talented and loyal talents around him. The reason why Li Shimin was able to compete with the crown prince Li Jiancheng was that Fang Xuanling's pre-planning was outstanding.
Because Fang Xuanling's ability was outstanding, he became a thorn in the side of Li Jiancheng's group, and Li Jiancheng once personally said that Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhan were the two most feared people in the Qin Royal Palace, and in order to cut off Li Shimin's left and right arms, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji tried all kinds of ways to slander Fang Xuanling in front of Tang Gaozu. The final result was that Li Jiancheng finally got his wish, and Fang Xuanling and Du Ruyi were both expelled from the Qin Palace.
Unexpectedly, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhan's loyalty to Li Shimin had reached the point where they could do it for him, and they even took the risk of sneaking into the Qin Palace on the eve of the "Xuanwumen Revolution" and plotting a grand plan with Li Shimin the next day. The plan of the "Change of Xuanwu Gate" is very thorough, how to advance and how to retreat, how to attack and how to defend, are all well designed. Among them, Fang Xuanling's credit is the greatest.
Fang Xuanling recommended Du Ruyi, who was highly valued by Li Shimin, and followed him around, serving as counselor Ji Rong. Du Ruyi did not live up to Fang Xuanling's intention to introduce him, and with his talent, Li Shimin was impressed.
In the first year of Wu De, Du Ru and Sui Li Shimin went out on a campaign against Xue Ju of Longyou, and won a great victory. After returning to Chang'an, Tang Gaozu was rewarded for his meritorious deeds, and Du Ruyi was given the title of DaxingTaishilangzhong and was made a baron. Three hundred households were rewarded with food. Subsequently, Du Ruyi followed Li Shimin to participate in many unification wars in the early Tang Dynasty, such as Ping Liu Wuzhou and Wang Shichong.
Du Ruyi was quick in his thinking and good at making decisions, Li Shimin had him by his side, which could be described as adding wings to the tiger, and Du Ruhan also became the most proud and capable person in the Qin King's staff, and became famous all over the world.
Fang And Du have their own strengths, Fang Xuanling is good at giving advice, but Du Ruqian judged the general trend and made a decision, and the so-called "Fang Mou Du Judgment" was obtained in this way. In the process of handling state affairs, Du Ruyi and Fang Xuanling learned from each other's strong points and complemented each other's weaknesses, so they were called "Fang Du" and were praised by the government and the public as good looks.
Du Ruyi is not only praised for his literary ability and ability to deal with things, but also admirable is his close and seamless cooperation with Fang Xuanling. There is a way that "one mountain does not tolerate two tigers", Fang and Du are both prime ministers, but they can get along harmoniously, without jealousy and without fighting, which is rare in ancient history. This may also be related to Fang Xuanling's kindness to Du Ruyi in the early years, in short, the relationship between Fang and Du can be said to be a good story between Zaifu in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
It was precisely with the careful assistance of The Two Du that the "rule of Zhenguan" could be quickly realized, and having courtiers like this was also a blessing for Tang Taizong.
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