The twenty-third of the Twenty-four Meritorious Servants of Ling Yan Pavilion is xu Shixun of the British. There's so much more to this guy to talk about. On Wu, in the Zhenguan Dynasty he was a famous general who was called li jing. He and Li Jing were the only two outstanding generals among the martial generals of the Zhenguan Dynasty, and entered the Wu Temple. In the thesis, he worshipped Tong zhongshu menxia Sanpin, Sikong, and Prince Taishi. There is a certain achievement even in medicine. He has also written medical books. I really do it in and out of the picture, and I am a very good person.
Especially during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, he was favored by Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, and spent his life as a high-ranking official Houlu, and after his death, he fulfilled his grace.
Generally, the commanders who are invincible on the battlefield are mostly not well mixed in the official arena, and they are either jealous of the emperor or are at odds with other ministers. Far from it, Li Jing in the same period is a good example, feeling that he has done a great job in the lordship, and his relations with his colleagues are not harmonious, he was framed for rebellion, and in his later years he closed the door to guests. Xu Shixun, on the other hand, broke this law, and the battlefield and the official arena were quite slippery. Proper old fritters one.
When Tang Taizong was dying, among the auxiliary ministers arranged for Li Zhi, only Xu Shixun died in the end. The bleak end of the eldest son Wuji and Chu Suiliang can be said to be the result of the joint efforts of Xu Shijian and Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian was later able to ascend to the throne thanks to Xu Shixun's merits, which was also an important reason why Xu Shixun in his later years was able to receive favors from Li Zhi and Wu Zetian.
An invincible commander on the battlefield
In his early years, Xu Shijian had joined Zhai Rang's rebel army in Wagang, but Zhai Rang's military ability and ability to control his subordinates were too poor. When Zhang Sutuo attacked Zhai Rang, Zhai Rang was so frightened that he wanted to escape. Xu Shijian persuaded Zhai Rang to persist in resisting. Leading his troops to lure the enemy deeper, he engaged Zhang Sutuo many times, and finally beheaded Zhang Sutuo.
Sui Qijun tongshou Zhang Sutuo led a division of 20,000 to negotiate, and fought with frequent battles, and even beheaded Sutuo in the battle. - The Old Book of Tang and the Biography of Li Ji
At that time, Li Mi, who followed Yang Xuangan's failed rebellion, went into exile. It may be that Li Shixun felt that Zhai Rang was too bad, and the fleeing Li Mi was a talented person and a famous family, if li Mi was made the leader of Wagang, it would be better than following Zhai Rang. So Xu Shixun and Wang Bodang persuaded Zhai to abdicate and give way to Xian, and Zhai Rang felt that he really did not have much talent to compare with Li Mi on the one hand, and on the other hand, he had the advice of Xu Shixun and others, so he gave way to Li Mi.
Li Mi is indeed a talent, leading Wagang to fight many victorious battles. Following Xu Shixun's advice, Li Mi attacked the sui dynasty defenders of Liyangcang, took a large granary, the troops had grain, and constantly recruited troops, recruiting more than 200,000 people within ten days. "The world is in chaos, originally for hunger, but now if you have a warehouse in Liyang, great things will be done." "Minai sent five thousand men under his command to cover the original Wuji River, that is, to take advantage of the situation, to open a warehouse and eat arbitrarily, and within ten years, more than 200,000 victorious soldiers.
But after all, a mountain does not tolerate two tigers, although Li Mi has made great contributions to Wagang, but there is also an old lord of Wagang, Zhai Rang, who is a thorn in his heart. You have to pull out this thorn. At the banquet, Li Mi invited Zhai Rang to admire the bow, and when he was not prepared, he slashed Zhai Rang to death with a knife. Xu Shiji, who was present at the time, was also slashed, but thanks to the intercession of Wang Bodang and Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shixun was able to save his life.
In the second year of Wu De, Li Mi was defeated by Wang Shichong and surrendered to Li Yuan. Xu Shixun was stationed at Liyang at this time. Xu Shixun consulted with his general Guo Xiaoke to send emissaries to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but not in his own name, but also as Li Mi's subordinate. He also said that the army he commanded was li mi's, and he was only a subordinate of li mi. When Li Yuan heard this, he was very happy, admired Xu Shixun as a loyal vassal, and made him the governor of Liyang, the grand general of the Marquis of Right Wu, and gave Xu Shixun the surname of Li. The town guarded Liyang and guarded against Wang Shichong. He was the Duke of Xu Gaishu, the father of Xu Shixun.
The elder Shi Guo Xiaoke said: "Since the Duke of Wei belongs to the Tang Dynasty, now this person's land is also owned by the Duke of Wei." If I offer it above, it is the defeat of the lord, and I am ashamed to do my own work, so as to invite riches. Now it is advisable to record the number of counties and the household registration of the soldiers, and to enlighten the Duke of Wei and listen to the gong's self-sacrifice, and this is also the merit of the Duke of Wei. "It is the messenger who enlightens the secret. When people first arrived, the high ancestors heard that they had no appearance, but they were enlightened and secret, which was very strange. The messenger heard the music with a dagger, and Gao Zu was overjoyed: "Xu Shixun felt the virtue of pushing the gong, and the real pure subject was also." "Commandment of Liyang, Shangzhu Guo, Lai Guo Gong." He was renamed the Duke of Cao guo, given the surname Of Li (李氏), and was given the title of Fifty Hectares of Liangtian (李田) and the first district of Jia. He made his father Gai the King of Jiyin, and Gai Guci was the Prince of Shuguo, and was given the title of Duke of Shu and the Assassin of Lingzhou. - The Old Book of Tang and the Biography of Li Ji
In September of the second year of Wu De, Dou Jiande attacked Xiangzhou, and Tang fled Li Shentong to Liyang. In November, Dou Jiande pursued Li Yang again, capturing Li Shentong and others, and Xu Shiji's father Xu Gai was also captured. Originally, Xu Shixun had already run away, and his father had been captured by others, so let's follow it, so Xu Shixun was forced to surrender to Dou Jiande. Shortly after returning to Dou Jiande, he secretly escaped with Guo Xiaoke, at which point Xu Shixun officially submitted to the Tang Dynasty.
Wu De was three years old, and accompanied Li Shimin to defeat Song Jingang. In the fourth year of Wu De, he accompanied the army to defeat Dou Jiande Wang Shichong. Wu De for five years, Bai was the chief of the Henan Province March, and pacified Xu Yuanlang. Wu De followed Li Xiaogong, Li Jing, and others in the sixth year to quell the rebellion of Gongyou of Jiangnan. The world is basically peaceful.
In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin succeeded to the throne and began to plan military operations against the Eastern Turks. In August of the third year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin appointed Li Jing as the commander-in-chief of the Dingxiang Road March, unifying the tang army and attacking Jieli. Xu Shixun was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Tongmo Road March this time, and cooperated with Li Jing in battle. In the first month of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Jingxue attacked Dingxiang at night, and Jieli was defeated and fled to the north of the desert. At the same time, Xu Shiji led an army from the clouds and encountered Jieli at Baidao. Xu Shixun ordered his men to fight bravely, and Jieli was defeated and retreated to The Iron Mountain. At the same time, shoot and lose your mind, please descend, in order to figure out the backward trend. Li Shimin sent Tang Jian as an envoy to the Turks, and Xu Shiji came to Li Jing's army and advised him to seize the opportunity to completely eliminate Jieli's idea, which coincided with Li Jing's idea. Li Jing's troops reached Moraine Pass, the Turks were defeated, the remnants of Jieli fled to the north of the desert, and were again blocked by Xu Shixun, capturing more than 50,000 people, Jieli fled alone, was captured by the Tang general Zhang Baoxiang, and the Eastern Turks perished.
After seven years of Zhenguan, he was named Grand Master of the Purple Golden Light. He served as the governor of the prefecture. After eleven years of Zhenguan, he was again enfeoffed as a British duke, and after that, the town was guarded and stated for more than ten years, and the Turks did not dare to invade. It is praised by Li Shimin as the "Great Wall of the Country".
In the sixteenth year of the state of Tongzhou, the order was forbidden, and the title was competent. Emperor Taizong said of his courtiers: "The Sui Emperor could not select the virtuous and pacify the border, but build the Great Wall to prepare for the Turks, and the confusion of love and knowledge is over!" He appointed Li Shixun to Yu Prefecture( Đồng), so that the Turks fled in fear of power, and the Saiyuan was quiet, so why not build the Great Wall far away? "
Zhenguan for fifteen years, served as the Shangshu of the Bingbu Department. Xueyantuo attacked the Turkic khan Ashinasimo. Ashinasmo asked the Tang Dynasty for help. Li Shimin appointed Li Shixun as the commander-in-chief of the Shuozhou Dao March, and together with Li Daliang and Li Xianyu resisted Xue Yantuo's invasion. Xue Yantuo's army pursued Ashina Sima all the way, not wanting to meet the Tang army led by Xu Shiji. Frightened, Xue Yantuo turned around and ran. Xu Shijian personally led 6,000 cavalrymen to pursue Xue Yantuo and destroy Xue Yantuo at Nuozhen Water. In the twentieth year of Zhenguan, a rebellion broke out within Xue Yantuo. Xu Shixun was ordered to surrender Xue Yantuo, and Xue Yantuo submitted to the Tang Dynasty. In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, he accompanied Li Shimin to conquer Goguryeo, but due to weather reasons, he could not completely destroy Goguryeo.
It was not until the reign of Emperor Gaozong that Xu Shixun fulfilled his wish to destroy Goguryeo for Li Shimin.
In the first year of the Qianfeng Dynasty, the Goguryeo courtier Yuangai Suwen died of illness. The sons of Yuangai Suwen were busy vying for power, and the Quan boy who was originally in power was driven away by the two brothers, so he asked the Tang Dynasty to send troops to help. Li Zhixian sent the Right Xiao Wei general QiFu He Li to lead the army to follow the Quan boys on the expedition to Goguryeo. At the end of the same year, Li Ji was also appointed as the commander-in-chief of the liaodong province march, overseeing the overall situation, commanding all the Tang troops, and attacking Goguryeo. This was the first time that Xu Shixun had served as the supreme commander of the Tang army, responsible for a campaign to completely eliminate Goguryeo.
In the second year of Qianfeng, the Tang army marched all the way to great heights. In the sixteen cities of Goguryeo, the Tang army, under the leadership of the general Xue Rengui, successively conquered the three cities of Southern Su, Mudi, and Cangyan. In February of the first year of the general chapter, Xue Rengui broke through buyeo city again, and more than forty cities fell successively. The goguryeo is gone. Xu Shixun took advantage of the victory to lay siege to Daxingcheng and various Tang armies, the Tang army triumphed all the way, and finally the Tang army besieged Pyongyang, and after more than a month of resistance from Goguryeo, he went out of the city and surrendered, so far, Xu Shixun completed Li Shimin's unfinished business and destroyed Goguryeo.
In the second year after the fall of Goguryeo, the second year of the general chapter, Xu Shixun died of illness. It was also this year that the Tang Dynasty reached its maximum territory. (12.39 million square kilometers) Xu Shiji's contribution is indispensable.
The "old fritters" in the official arena
Twenty-three years after Zhenguan, Li Shimin arranged for the eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Xu Shixun, Yu Zhining and others to be the ministers of Gu Ming and assist Li Zhi. And before he died, he told Li Zhi: You have no kindness to Xu Shiji, so I demean Xu Shixun for no reason because I want you to ascend the throne and promote him to be a servant, so that if you are kind to him, he will certainly do his best to be loyal to you.
Twenty-three years later, Emperor Taizong fell ill and said to Emperor Gaozong: "Ru yu Li Ji is not gracious, and I will now take it out." After my death, Rudang gave him the handmaiden, or Heruen, and he will cause him to die. "He was made the governor of Diezhou. Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne, and in the month of his reign, he summoned the Assassin of Bailuo Prefecture to search for the Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division, and ordered Tong Zhongshu to take charge of the secrets. Yes, the book worships The Left Servant Shoots.
After Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, he indeed made Xu Shixun a left servant and always favored Xu Shijian.
In the sixth year of Yonghui, Li Zhi wanted to depose Empress Wang and make Wu Zetian empress, but was fiercely opposed by the eldest son Wuji and Chu Suiliang, and Yu Zhining did not say a word. Among the several ministers who took care of the order, only Xu Shixun played a slippery head and said that he could not get sick. So Li Zhi and Wu Zetian felt that they could open a breakthrough from Xu Shixun, so Li Zhi secretly asked Xu Shixun's tone, and Xu Shixun said a meaningful sentence: "Why ask outsiders more than His Majesty's family affairs?" It was Xu Shixun's words that strengthened Li Zhi's determination to make Wu Zetian empress. Xu Shixun has also been trusted by Li Zhi and his wife since then, while the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang and others are miserable.
Hated by Wu Zetianji, can there be any good things? In October of the sixth year of Yonghui, Wu Zetian became empress as he wished. Chu Suiliang was driven to Tanzhou as the governor of Tanzhou that year. In the second year of Xianqing, he was again transferred to Guizhou as the governor, and even so, Wu Zetian did not spare him, and then framed Chu Suiliang with Xu Jingzong, Li Yifu and others for participating in the rebellion, this time directly to Thanh Hoa in Vietnam (which belonged to China at that time). Wu Zetian's ladies were really fierce. The following year, Chu Suiliang fell ill and died.
Next, it was the turn of the eldest grandson Wuji and Yu Zhining. In the fourth year of Xianqing, Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu once again attacked Changsun Wujie and plotted rebellion. Li Zhi could not bear to cure his uncle's eldest grandson without scruples, and Xu Jingzong advised Li Zhi to make up his mind that benevolence would raise tigers for trouble. Li Zhi did not even ask his uncle in person, so he ordered that all the official titles of the eldest son be stripped of his official titles and exiled to Qianzhou. The eldest grandson Wuji's son was exiled to Lingnan.
In July of the same year, someone was sent to verify the facts of the case again, and it was Xu Shixun and Xu Jingzong who were in charge of the trial. If Xu Shixun had nothing to do with the case of the eldest grandson Wuji being framed, he would not believe it. At least Xu Shixun had fallen to Wu Zetian's side. The eldest grandson who was exiled to Qianzhou was eventually unable to escape death and was forced to commit suicide. The first hero of Ling Yange fell on the hands of Wu Zetian, Xu Shixun and his gang.
Even Yu Zhining, who did not say a word at the beginning, was also framed as the eldest son wujie of the same party. He was demoted from the imperial court. Of the several ministers, only Xu Shixun laughed to the end.
Posterity receives Hugh rejoicing, and there are also reapers behind.
Only Xu Shixuan was left with several ministers, and Xu Shixuan was the only one left, and in his later years, Xu Shijian was very beautiful and favored by Li Zhi and Wu Zetian. And Wu Zetian also used the secret support of Xu Shixun to grasp the power step by step and reach the peak of power.
In the first year of Tianzhi, Wu Zetian was proclaimed emperor. Ironically, in the first year of the Guangzhai Dynasty, Xu Shiji's grandson Xu Jingye rebelled against Wu Zetian's claim to the throne, and in failure, the rest of his sons were killed or sent to a foreign country. Xu Shixun was also excavated and destroyed, and the encounters of The eldest Son Wuji, Chu Suiliang and others fell on him after his death, I am afraid that Xu Shixun would not have thought of it. The days are shining, and the cycle repeats.
Itater is a gift, so that the priest will be quickly raised, and all officials will be restored. "The descendants of the Dagger sit on their own devotion and kill, and those who have a will and a curse, all of them have gone to The Crossing." - The New Book of Tang and the Biography of Li Ji
Looking at Kyushu with a hundred feet of poles, the former people collected the land and the latter. Posterity receives Hugh rejoicing, and there are also reapers behind.
Author: Datang Shou Catch Lang
References: New Book of Tang, Old Book of Tang