Pei Tan, from the Pei clan of Hedong, whose family arose from the Eastern Han Dynasty and was an important member of the Guanlong clique until the Tang Dynasty, has always played an important role in China's political culture. This person stood politically tightly in the ranks of Wei Hou, because he stood in the right position, and Pei Tan also served as the last official and prime minister of Dali Qing, Shangshu of the Punishment Department, and Dongdu during the Tang Zhongzong period.
In addition to following the right master, Pei Tan is not a useless straw bag. He helped Wu Zetian consolidate power when he seized the world, and played an important role in the successive killing of Lai Junchen and Suo Yuanli. "Junchen is dead, the pusher is rewarded, Hu Yuanli is super moved, Pei Tan is prominently conferred, Chinese and foreign are celebrated, and the imperial court is safe." It can be seen that Pei Tan played an indispensable role in eradicating the "cool official politics" and was widely praised by people at that time.
But it is such a politically prosperous figure, but there is a problem that men are embarrassed to face - afraid of their wives. "Emperor Zhongzong of Tang Dynasty, The Imperial Master Pei talked about the Chongshi clan, his wife was jealous, and he talked about fear like Yan Jun." Pei Tan's wife is an out-and-out woman, scolding pei tan all day long, beating her with her hands, so that when Pei Tan sees his wife every day, it is like seeing a stern king, and he is afraid of being careful to serve, afraid that if he does not go well, he will provoke the tigress in the family, and he will be scolded for being a dog with bloody heads and a blue nose and swollen face.
However, Pei Tan could also see that this person could not see it, once the imperial court held a banquet, I don't know whether Pei Tan drank too much and was depressed, or in order to please Wei Hou, who was also a tigress, in front of the public, in front of Emperor Zhongzong, sang with the people: "When I return to Pol, it is also very good to be afraid of women." There was only Pei Tan on the outside, and there was no Elder Li on the inside. It is undisguised that the person who is most afraid of his wife outside the palace walls is himself, and the one who is most afraid of his wife in the imperial city is "Li Lao" Li Zhi. In Pei Tan's view, it is not an ugly thing to be afraid of his wife, so "being afraid of women is also very good." ”
Pei talked about this singing, which can be said to have sung into Wei Hou's heart, and his face smiled like a flower, and he shouted rewards one after another. At this time, Zhongzong Li Zhi, who was sitting next to Wei Hou who was also afraid of his wife, could only smile with his face, who called himself a kind of person who was afraid of Pei, and although there was some unspeakable pain in his heart, he did not regard his wife as a shame of manhood.
Pei Tan also has his own set of statements about being afraid of his wife. "Wife has a fearsome person three: when there is a little magic, it is regarded as a bodhisattva, and there is someone who is not afraid of a bodhisattva? Before men and women are full, they regard it as the Nine Sons Demon Mother, and someone is not afraid of the Nine Sons Demon Mother? And fifty, sixty, thin makeup powder, or green or black, as a dove pan, ann someone is not afraid of the dove pan? ”
Pei Tan often mentioned to people that there is a reason why he is afraid of his wife, when he is young and beautiful, his wife is the reincarnation of a bodhisattva, where can anyone not fear a bodhisattva? After the two of them have both children together, the wife will be like the nine sons of the Devil Mother who blessed the birth of the child, where does anyone dare not fear the Devil Mother? When you are fifty or sixty years old, with a little makeup, you will be like a demon, and who is not afraid of demons?
Pei Tan relied on this set of theories to support his position of being afraid of his wife, and gave full play to his true colors of fear of the inside, that is, he relied on this set of methods and means to be deeply happy with Wei Hou and went all the way to the clouds. After Wei Hou killed Emperor Zhongzong Li Zhi, who was afraid of himself, Pei Tan was promoted from Shangshu of the Punishment Department and Shangshu of the Ministry of Works to Pingzhangshi under the Tongzhongshu Gate, and remained in Dongdu.
Pei Tan succeeded in ascending to power by fearing his wife, but after Wei Hou was reprimanded, his theory was useless. After Emperor Ruizong Li Dan ascended the throne, Pei Tan was demoted to puzhou assassin history, because he was too close to the team during the Wei dynasty.