In the recently very popular costume drama "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", Yuan Zai is a villain who is bent on climbing up, despicable and shameless. In order to achieve the goal, do everything to the extreme. So, what kind of person is the real Yuan Zai in history, and what is his final ending? Today, we will go through history together and understand the truth of history.
Yuan Zai was a native of Qishan, Shaanxi Province, born into poverty, who liked to read, read a lot of books, and was especially good at Taoism. In the first year of Tianbao, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji specially held an examination in order to seek Daoist talents. Yuan Zai, a Daoist genius, took this exam, passed the jinshi, and was awarded the title of county lieutenant of Xinping (新平, in present-day Bin County, Shaanxi). Since then, Yuan Zai has embarked on a career path. For various reasons, Yuan Zai has been groping on the road of grass-roots officials, and it is difficult to enter the center of the Tang Dynasty. Later, it was the Anshi Rebellion that gave Yuan Zai a chance. After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was forced to become emperor of Taishang, and the officials of the central Tang Dynasty reshuffled their cards, giving Yuan Zai, an obscure official, a chance to soar. After the Outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Yuan Zai fled to Jiangnan and was interviewed by the Tang Dynasty Emperor Jiangdong to make Li Xiyan appear as a thorn history. Later, after Tang Suzong returned to Chang'an, Yuan Zai, because of his innate sensitivity and good at playing correctly, was deeply respected by Tang Suzong, and was appointed as a hubu attendant, entered the center of the Tang Dynasty, and began his legend.
Subsequently, Tang Suzong was a short-lived ghost, the eunuch Li Fuguo was monopolistic, and Yuan Zai, who was good at seeing the wind and making the rudder, directly defected to Li Fuguo. Li Fuguo was not short of him, and repeatedly praised Yuan Zai in front of Emperor Tang, and Yuan Zai was promoted to Zhongshu Shilang and Tongping Zhangshi, became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and managed the financial power of the Tang Dynasty. After Yuan Zai paid homage to him, he was ungrateful, betrayed Li Fuguo, defected to Emperor Tang of Tang, and conspired with Emperor Tang to get rid of the eunuch Li Fuguo.
After this, Yuan Zai became a confidant of Emperor Tang dynasty and served as the marshal of the world. But soon after, the eunuch Yu Chao'en took control of the forbidden army, engaged in dictatorship, and bullied prime minister Yuan Zai in various ways. Yuan Zai, who is good at concealing forbearance, does not fight back and scolds and does not return the mouth, allowing Yu Chao'en to die in various ways. Subsequently, Yuan Zai took the opportunity to secretly play tang dynasty emperors, counting the various crimes of Yu Chao'en, and suggested that Yu Chao'en be eradicated. Emperor Tang Dynasty was jealous of Yu Chao'en and did not dare to act rashly, instructing Yuan Zai to plan the action.
After receiving instructions, Yuan Zai bribed Yu Chao'en's close associate Emperor Fuwen and Zhou Hao with heavy money to comprehensively monitor Yu Chao'en's every move. Subsequently, Yuan Zai secretly conspired with Emperor Fuwen and Zhou Hao to make a grand plan to kill Yu Chao'en. Immediately afterward, they asked Tang Taizong to kill Yu Chao'en. Therefore, Emperor Tang Of the Tang Dynasty feasted on the ministers in the Cold Food Festival Palace and took the opportunity to accuse Yu Chao'en of having ill intentions. Zhou Hao, a close confidant of Yu Chao'en, directly commanded the samurai to take Yu Chao'en and put him to death.
After Yuan Zai got rid of Yu Chao'en, Yuan Zai reached the peak of his life and monopolized power, and thus began his life of death. Yuan Zai monopolized power, cultivated cronies, excluded dissidents, was greedy for money and bribes, and gave him gifts to everyone who wanted to be an official. Emperor Tang Daizong had long known about Yuan Zai's corruption and perverting the law, but for the sake of Yuan Zai's past merits, he did not clean him up and admonished him, hoping that he would restrain him. However, this Yuan Zai did not repent, and Tang Daizong was not accustomed to him, and gradually became disgusted with him, so he set out to clean him up.
Emperor Zong of the Tang Dynasty sent people to arrest Yuan Zai's sons, cronies, and henchmen and blame them for their secret activities. Yuan Zai confessed his sins and was given to commit suicide on the same day. Emperor Tang also put to death Yuan Zai's wife Wang Yunxiu and his sons. Emperor Tang Dynasty raided Yuan Zai's home and copied out 800 stones of pepper, which was extremely valuable at the time. At the same time, Emperor Tang also ordered the excavation of the grave of Yuan Zai's father and ancestors, splitting the coffin and discarding the corpse of Yuan Zai from a grassroots to a grass root and painstakingly attacking the peak of his life. But in the end, he still died by himself, and he ended up with a broken family. All power, money, beauty, status are over-the-top clouds, and in the end it is just a yellow sorghum empty dream!