The late Tang Dynasty poet Jia Dao has a five-character poem "Title Li Ning's Seclusion". Li Ning was the grandson of Prime Minister Li Rangyi. Although the surname is Li, according to scholars' research on his family epitaph (mainly Li Rangyi's sister Li Shengcai), Li Rangyi is neither the Li clan of Zhao County, nor the Li clan of the imperial Family, but the ordinary Hanmen Li family.
Li Rangyi initially served in the princely government, and was appointed as a shogunate judge by Li Dai, the assassin of Huazhou. Emperor Xianzong of Tang and the fourteenth year (819) of the Zhongjinshi, later served the Nishikawa Jiedu envoy Du Yuanying shogunate.
In the early years of Emperor Taihe of Tang (827 -835), due to the recommendation of his friend Song Shenxi, a scholar of Hanlin, Li Rangyi was recalled to Chang'an to serve as a right retainer, and became a Hanlin scholar, and changed to left to fill the gap. In the third year of Taihe (829), he was reappointed as a Hanlin scholar, a Chaoyilang, a Xingzuo Supplementary Que, and a Qiyu Bag, and was reappointed as Zuo Shilangzhong , still serving as a Hanlin scholar. He recommended his friend Xue Tinglao as a Hanlin bachelor. In the fifth year of Taihe (831), Xue Tinglao was deposed for his incompetence, and Li Rangyi was implicated and was also deposed from his post. In the ninth year of Taihe (835), he was a physician of the Progressive Council.
In the first year of Kaicheng (836), the chancellor Li Shishang played the resignation of the resident Li Zhen due to illness and needed a replacement. Tang Wenzong said that in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the chancellor Chu Suiliang had served concurrently as a counselor and a living quartersman, and now he could also select one of the counselors to concurrently serve as a counselor, and asked Li Shi to submit the list of counselors, so Li Shi listed Li Rangyi, Feng Ding, Sun Jian, and Xiao Li.
The protagonist of this article is Li Rangyi, so the result is of course that Li Rangyi was selected, in fact, Wenzong's choice was also him, but the process was quite tortuous, because the prime ministers had some different opinions: prime minister Li Guyan recommended Cui Qiu and Zhang Cizong, and prime minister Zheng Qin said that Cui Qiu and former prime minister Li Zongmin formed a party, saying that if it was Li Rangyi or Pei Zhongru who was chosen, he would have no opinion.
Although Li Rangyi was elected at that time to be the head of the Zhiqi Residence, and the following year he was also appointed as a Zhongshu Sheren, but later Li Zongmin's allies Yang Sifu and Li Jue worshiped each other. According to the Niu-Li Party dispute, the Niu Party is Li Zongmin below the Niu monks and children, Yang Sifu and Li Jue are counted as the Niu Party, and Zheng Qin, who once supported Li Rangyi, is counted as the Li Party, so after Yang Sifu and Li Jue worship each other, Li Rangyi did not have to be promoted.
In the fifth year of Kaicheng (840), Emperor Wenzong of Tang died, his younger brother Emperor Wuzong of Tang succeeded to the throne, and Li Deyu became prime minister, and Li Rangyi was promoted to the position of Gongbu Shilang, Hubu Shilang, and Shangshu Right Attendant. In the second year of Huichang (842), Li Rangyi was worshipped as the Zhongshu Shilang (中書侍郎) as shangshu right minister and concurrently yushi zhongcheng (御史中丞), and was appointed Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (中書門下平章事) as the actual chancellor, and introduced Choi Hyun as the chancellor to lead the salt and iron transport of various provinces. In the fourth year of Huichang (844), he was the right servant of Shangshu. In the fifth year of Huichang (845), the chancellors Li Deyu, Du Shu, Li Rangyi, Choi Hyun, and Tai ChangQing Sun Jian led the Wen and Wu hundred officials to the rank of Emperor Wuzong with the title of Rensheng Wen Wu Zhang Tian.
In the sixth year of Huichang (846), Emperor Wuzong of Tang collapsed, and his uncle succeeded him as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and Li Rangyi entered Sikong and Menxia Shilang, serving as an envoy to daxing mountain mausoleum, responsible for supervising the construction of Emperor Wuzong's mausoleum. Tang Xuanzong hated Li Deyu and quickly deposed Li Deyu and Li Rangyi.
Emperor Xuanzong had been denying Emperor Wuzong, like Zuo Shi's widow Ding Rouli, who was obviously suppressed by Li Deyu and only ascended to the throne after Li Deyu's fall, but only because he felt that li Deyu was too serious about exile, he was degraded on the charge of attaching himself to Li Deyu. Therefore, it is not surprising that Li Rangyi, who was promoted and reused by Li Deyu, had such a fate, even before the tomb of Emperor Wuzong was completed, that is, when Li Rangyi's work at hand was not completed, Li Rangyi was released as the emissary of Huainan Jiedushi. However, in fact, at that time, people praised Li Rangyi for being "frugal and simple, and not forming a party." Therefore, Li Rangyi was suppressed by Xuanzong, and it cannot be ruled out that the blow against Li Party was expanded.
Li Shangyin's collection of essays, "Supplement to fannan's collected works", has "Li Xianggong of Huainan for the Duke of Xingyang". This Xingyang Duke was Li Shangyin's immediate superior Gui Guan (桂管, in modern Guilin, Guangxi) to observe Zheng Ya. At the beginning, Zheng Ya and Chen Shang had written the ten volumes of the Records of Emperor Jingzong, but it was Li Rangyi who served as a supervisor, so Zheng Ya and Li Rangyi had a friendship with each other.
After Li Rangyi went to office, he soon fell ill and asked to return to Chang'an, and died on the way, at that time, the identity was "Prince Guest, Branch Division Dongdu", that is, in the absence of a prince, hanging the honorary title of Prince Guest and retiring in Luoyang. Posthumously presented to Situ.
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Zheng Su is mentioned here, and The editor will introduce Zheng Su again. As mentioned earlier, he was the uncle of the later grand officer Wang Ning, and he was also the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Curiously, the New Book of Tang Dynasty Genealogy Table does not include Zheng Su, only that he was indeed from the Xingyang Zheng clan.
Zheng Su has been a Confucian for generations, and has worked mechanics. In the third year of Yuan He, he was promoted to the rank of JinShidi, and because of his outstanding achievements in book judgment, he successively served as a government envoy.
In the early years of Emperor Taihe of Tang (827-835), Zheng Su entered the dynasty as Shang Shulang. In the sixth year (832), he was transferred to Chang Shaoqing. He could read ancient Chinese and was good at scripture, and when the doctors had doubts about the Zuo Zhuan, the Three Rites (Zhou Li, the Rites, and the Book of Rites), and the Notes on Rituals, they were all decided by Zheng Su.
At that time, Emperor Wenzong favored his eldest son Li Yong (李永) the Prince of Lu, and chose the name of Ru as his subordinate official, with hubu shilang Yu Jingxiu and Lu Wangfu, Hubu Langzhong Li Jianfang and Lu Wang Sima and Zheng Su Shou Tai Changqing as the official and Lu Wang Changshi. Zheng Su has been famous ever since. The following year, Li Yong was made crown prince, and Zheng Sujia gave him the title.
In the eighth year of Taihe (834), because Emperor Wenzong's close minister Li Zhongyan had a previous conviction, Zheng Su and his colleagues Gao Ba, Han You, Guo Chenggao, and Zhongshu SherenRenxuan opposed his promotion to The Bachelor of Hanlin, but to no avail. In the ninth year of Taihe (835), he changed his name to Shilang (侍郎) of the Punishment Department, and soon changed his name to Shangshu Right Attendant (尚書右丞), and the right judge of the official Department XiQuan (西铨事).
At the end of this year, the famous Ganlu Revolution broke out, and Li Zhongyan tried to kill the eunuch without success and was killed in return. At that time, his name was Li Xun.
In the first year of Kaicheng (836), Zheng Su was appointed as the defensive observer of the shaanxi capital and also served as the imperial master. In September of the second year (837), he summoned the servants of the official department. Because Emperor Wenzong had served the crown prince and spoke and did things decently, he was also a guest of the prince and taught the scriptures to the prince.
Later, because Emperor Wenzong's favored concubine Yang Xianfei blew the pillow side wind, the prince began to fall out of favor, and Emperor Wenzong considered deposing the prince. Zheng Su took advantage of the summons to defend the crown prince, and deeply expressed the righteousness of the state and the father and son of the monarch, and Emperor Wenzong thanked him. However, the following year (838), under the unremitting efforts of Yang Xianfei, the crown prince's biological mother, Wang Defei, was still killed, and although the crown prince was not deposed, he was imprisoned and died soon after.
In the fourth year of Kaicheng (839), Zheng Su was released to inspect the Rebbe Shangshu and he was also an envoy of Hezhong Yin, Hezhong Jiedu, and Jin Dai Observation. In the same year, Li Deyu, a Zhongshu Waiter and Scholar of Jixian University, claimed that Zheng Su's sons were talented but did not dare to participate in the imperial examination because they avoided suspicion. Zheng Su was usually good friends with Li Deyu and discussed and handled issues such as the Uighurs and uighurs.
In the fifth year of Kaicheng (840), Emperor Wenzong collapsed, and his brother Emperor Wuzong of Tang succeeded to the throne, and the late crown prince Li Yong was not guilty, and he killed all the people who had framed Li Yong. The court said that Zheng Suzhongzheng had the festival of ministers, and Emperor Wuzong recalled Zheng Su, worshiped Tai Changqing, and moved to hubu and bingbu shangshu, and then moved to Shannan's eastern province. In the fifth year of Huichang (845), hui dynasty was the right servant of Shangshu and Tongping Zhangshi, jiaZhongshu and Menxia Ershi, supervising the revision of national history, that is, worship as the prime minister.
After Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ascended the throne in the sixth year of Huichang (846), it is conceivable that Zheng Su was also deposed, and the title of prime minister of Tongping Zhangshi was only used for honorary purposes, and he was used as an envoy of Jingnan Jiedushi. Li Shangyin's collection of essays, "Supplement to fannan's collected works", also has three articles, "Zheng Xianggong of Jingnan for the Duke of Xingyang", which were written to Zheng Su. After Zheng Su's death, he gave Sikong and Yuwen Jian.
Zheng Su's year of death is not recorded. Yu Xianhao's "Complete Compilation of Tang Thorn History" believes that Zheng Su served as the envoy of Jingnan Jiedushi until the third year of Da Zhong (849), probably the year in which he died in office.