In June of the tenth year of Zhenguan, Empress Liangzuo, the best concubine of Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, died in the Lizheng Palace and was buried in Zhaoling five months later, and when the Wenwu Hundred Officials were mourning for Empress Changsun, a small thing happened, and Xu Jingzong, a member of the Zhongshu She, actually laughed a lot. The whole Tang Dynasty was immersed in an important moment of mourning, why would Xu Jingzong laugh? He was also an official and should have known what he was doing, but he laughed, it was too anachronistic.
I believe that many people know Xu Jingzong because he sided with Li Zhi and Wu Zetian in the deposed king Li Wu during the Tang Gaozong period, and became a great help for Li Zhi and Wu Zetian against the eldest son Wuji and other important ministers, and thus became the chancellor of the Tang Dynasty. But before that, he had already walked in the official arena.
His father Xu Shanxin was a secretary during the Sui Dynasty, and later Xiao Guojun killed the Sui Emperor, the Sui Dynasty fell, Xu Shanxin was on the death list, when Yu Wenhua and prepared to kill Xu Shanxin, Xu Jingzong directly gave Yu Wenhua and knelt down, of course, Xu Jingzong did not do this to intercede for his father, but to pray to Yu Wenhua and not to kill himself.
When Xu Shanxin was killed, Xu Jingzong defected to the Wagang Army, and later followed Li Mi to the Tang Dynasty, becoming one of Li Shimin's eighteen scholars. Although Xu Jingzong's character was not very good (the New Book of Tang listed him as a traitor), his literary style was really good, so he was appreciated by Li Shimin, and became a writer in the Zhenguan period, and also studied the history of the country, and then became a Zhongshu Sheren.
If there were no accidents, Xu Jingzong would have risen step by step during the Zhenguan period, but there was an accident in the Zhenguan Decade.
The Old Book of Tang records that "Empress Wende collapsed, and the hundred officials were stranded." The rate made Ouyang look ugly, and the crowd or pointed out, Jingzong saw it and laughed. ”
That is to say, Xu Jingzong saw Ouyang Qian's ugly appearance and couldn't help but laugh more than once, this was also the death of empress dowager, Tang Taizong was immersed in grief, during the mourning period, Xu Jingzong actually laughed so wantonly, what kind of system did it become? So Yushi impeached Xu Jingzong, and as soon as such a thing was impeached, Xu Jingzong was demoted to Hongzhou as the governor of The Capital, which was also a laugh out of the capital.
So, how ugly was Ouyang Qian, who actually caused Xu Jingzong to laugh at any time? Ouyang Qing is a famous calligrapher in history, and his orthography is known as the "Crown of Hanmo". He was born in 557, and his childhood experience was more tragic, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Ouyang Que became a servant during the Wude years, when Ouyang Que was over sixty years old. When Li Shimin ascended the throne, Ouyang Was already seventy years old.
According to common sense, the seventy or eighty-year-old man was already not good-looking. This should not be the reason for Xu Jingzong to laugh at Ouyang's inquiry, moreover, the two were also considered to be officials of the same dynasty, and it was impossible that they did not know each other before. However, Ouyang Inquiry has been working on the case for many years, and perhaps the body has unconsciously had a certain degree of deformation, or maybe. In addition, when empress dowager Changsun died, Ouyang Que was already eighty years old, and the appearance of his body must not be the ugly we usually think.
During the Zhenguan years, the eldest son Wuji and Ouyang Inquiry once joked, and the eldest grandson Wuji described Ouyang Inquiry in this way: "Shrugging into a mountain character, burying his shoulders and not being able to see his head." Whoever is on the Lin Pavilion, draw this monkey. "Ouyang Inquiry should be relatively thin, coupled with the blessing of age, naturally Ouyang Inquiry's appearance cannot be too good-looking." However, even if Ouyang Que was really ugly, after all, he was already an eighty-year-old man, Xu Jingzong laughed at a highly respected old minister like this, and it was really not strange not to be impeached.
According to the records in the historical records, Xu Jingzong did compare himself, and he did not care much about the place and time when he spoke and did things. However, Li Zhi was quite fond of Xu Jingzong, and after Li Chengqian was deposed, Li Zhi the Prince of Jin became the crown prince, and Xu Jingzong became the right son of the crown prince, and from then on he had more contact with Li Zhi, and when Li Shimin personally conquered Goguryeo, Xu Jingzong and Gao Shilian assisted Li Zhi in Dingzhou to oversee the country.
In the summer of 649, Li Shimin died in Cuiwei Palace, and his Zi Palace stayed in the front hall, and when Xu Jingzong passed by, he actually hung his arm, which was very unpretentious, so Xu Jingzong was impeached again. At that time, the attendant Shi Yan Xuanzheng said: "Emperor Jingzong has been buried in the past, and he has sat down and laughed, and now he is rude to the Daxing Zi Palace. ”
But what was very surprising was that for Xu Jingzong's rude behavior, the new emperor Li Zhi did not punish him for this crime, but suppressed the matter. Soon, Xu Jingzong became a Wei Weiqing in The Reign of Emperor Gaozong, and also became a scholar of the Hongwenguan, and later stood out in the process of deposing Wang Liwu and became the prime minister of the Gaozong Dynasty.
In 670, the 79-year-old Xu Jingzong begged for the skeleton, Li Zhi approved, but let Xu Jingzong pay tribute to xu Jingzong, two years later, Xu Jingzong died, Li Zhi was very sad, actually abolished the dynasty for three days, and also issued an edict to let the civil and military officials go to mourn for Xu Jingzong. Then let Xu Jingzong accompany him to bury Zhaoling, if Li Shimin knew that Xu Jingzong was buried with Zhaoling, he did not know what he would think.