On April 22, 659, the fourth year of Xianqing (659), Li Zhi's judgment came down: remove all the official positions and titles of Changsun Wuji, change to the governor of Yangzhou, immediately go to Qianzhou to resettle, and issue Feng Lu according to the Yipin official!
As an official in Yangzhou, but to live in Qianzhou, everything is to cover people's eyes and ears.
The downfall of the eldest grandson indicates that these people are about to fall to the lowest point in their lives.
Xu Jingzong struck the iron while it was hot: "The eldest son Wuji is plotting rebellion, Han Yi, Liu Yi, Chu Suiliang and others are all out of touch, according to the investigation of the minister, Liu Yi is still colluding with the same party in the palace, plotting to poison His Majesty, Yu Zhining is also secretly in contact with the eldest Son Wuji, hoping that His Majesty can deal with it in time!" ”
A few days later, Li ruled:
Chu Suiliang was stripped of all official positions and titles, and Chu Suiliang's sons Chu Yanfu and Chu Yanzhong were exiled to Aizhou.
Han Yi, Liu Yi and others were cut to the people.
Sun Chong, the commander of the Tuoma Commandery, was stripped of his official positions and sent to Lingnan.
Deposing Prince Taishi and Tongzhongshu Menxia Sanpin Yu Zhining as the Assassin of Rongzhou.
On July 27, the fourth year of Xianqing (659), Li Zhi suddenly issued an edict: Xu Jingzong, Li Shi, Xin Maojiang, Ren Yaxiang, Lu Chengqing and others were ordered to investigate the rebellion of Changsun Wujie.
Could it be that Li Zhi's conscience found out and wanted to overturn the case for his uncle?
No, this holy decree is actually a pretense of investigation, completely confirming the crimes of the eldest grandson Wujie and others, blocking the mouth of the world's leisurely, so as to avoid future troubles.
In the investigation team, Xu Jingzong was in charge, and the others were all foils for concealing people's ears.
Yuan Gongyu, a member of the Zhongshu She, went to Qianzhou to force the eldest son Wuji to commit suicide. The emissaries of Xiangzhou were straightforward, and after announcing the holy will, they beheaded Liu Yi. Han Yu had already been murdered in advance, and the emissary had to open the museum for an autopsy and take the report back to the imperial court! In order to eradicate the troubles, Wu Zetian sent all their descendants to Lingnan as slaves.
Whether the eldest grandson really wanted to rebel or not was no longer important. It is a fact that the eldest son killed the meritorious servants of the imperial court and maliciously implicated Li Ke and others, and it is a fact that Li Zhi's imperial power was not returned. Such a power-hungry minister will never be tolerated.
The eldest grandson fell, in an era of alternating old and new aristocrats.
It was not so much that Wu Zetian killed him as that the new aristocratic forces plotted to kill him.
In this treatment of the eldest son, Wu Zetian is the biggest manipulator behind the scenes.
The question is, why did Li Zhi obey Wu Zetian's words?
In June of the fourth year of Xianqing (659), before the second treatment of Changsun Wuji and others, Xu Jingzong gave Li Zhi a piece of repertoire: requesting the revision of the Clan Chronicle.
Before the Tang Dynasty, the officials in the imperial court were almost door valve aristocrats, who had complex political networks, countless land products, and a large number of handmaidens and sharecroppers, which were the ultimate product of the interaction between officials and businessmen.
For example, the Qinghe Cui clan, the Longxi Li clan, the Pengcheng Liu clan, the Chen Junxi Xie clan, the Langya Wang clan, the Fanyang Lu clan, the Xingyang Zheng clan, the Taiyuan Wang clan, the Hongnong Yang clan, and the Lanling Xiao clan are super families.
As vested interests, they have formed an unspoken rule that has lasted for hundreds of years in order to avoid the sharing of family interests by outsiders: only the gentry and the gentry are allowed to intermarry, and as for other families, even if they are political upstarts or royalty, sorry, we look down on you!
After Li Shimin ascended the throne, Fang Xuanling told him that the interests of the scholar clan and the scholar clan intermarried with each other, and the interests had formed an iron plate, which was not conducive to ruling the world. Li Shimin knew it in his heart, but what he was most angry about was that Li Shi was a noble royal family, but he still couldn't get into their eyes.
Enraged, Li Shimin issued a will: Shangshu Gao Shilian of the Imperial Household Department, Wei Ting, Zhongshu Shilang Cen Text, and Libu Shilang Linghu Dedi to write the "Clan Chronicle"!
This thing is very much like the battle value ranking list in the martial arts jianghu, according to the unique divine skills of each hero, the comprehensive evaluation of the past achievements, and it is released regularly.
In the twelfth year of Zhenguan (638), the first edition of the Tang Dynasty's "Clan History" was announced.
Unfortunately, when Gao Shilian wrote it, the standard selected was still the door valve background, that is, the time of family inheritance, so the Shandong Qinghe Cui family, Xingyang Zheng family and other families were still far ahead, but under the hint of Li Shimin, the Li family became a newly promoted nobleman.
Li Shimin was furious again: "Gao Shilian! The Shandong Shi clan obviously couldn't do it, and completely relied on mutual marriage to maintain it, so I didn't understand why the people of the world respected them so much and gave them back to be revised! ”
Gao Shilian understood Li Shimin's intentions.
Soon, the second edition of the Clan Chronicle was released, including two hundred and ninety-three surnames and one thousand six hundred and fifty-one. The imperial Li clan occupied the highest rank, and when the foreign relatives occupied the second echelon, the traditional noble families such as the Qinghe Cui clan, the Pengcheng Liu clan, and the Chen Junxi clan could only be relegated to the third rank.
Li Shimin launched the "Clan Chronicle", in fact, he wanted to enhance the aristocratic brand image with the Li family as the core through the soft power of the ranking list, so as to suppress the traditional door valve clan.
To put it bluntly, Li Shimin has both the consideration of ruling and the selfishness of not accepting defeat. The problem is that although these families were not as prominent as before, they could not be suppressed by a single book, and for decades after that, The new nobles of Li Tang, and even the Li royal family and clan were still proud of intermarrying with the Door Valve Clan.
For example, Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling have taken the initiative to find a door valve in Shandong to marry, and they are not tired.
It is worth mentioning that although the Wu family has the merit of the dragon, and the samurai is again named the Duke of Yingguo, the Wu clan is still not eligible to enter the "Clan Chronicle". After Wu Zetian ascended to the throne, he wantonly promoted the sons of the Wu family as officials, and coupled with the surrender of people from the cold door such as Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong, the common need of everyone was to revise the "Clan History", once again enhance the status of the newly promoted nobles, and crack down on the Guanlong clique forces that occupied the top of the list!
So the question is, the "Clan Chronicle" was revised by Li Shimin, and Wu Zetian wanted to revise the "Clan Chronicle", will Li Zhi, as the spokesman of the Li family, agree? If he agrees, Li Zhi is true love for Wu Zetian?
In the imperial family, there is certainly love, but pure love is very rare.
Almost all love is mixed with considerations of interest.
The truth is that from the Sui Dynasty onwards, China's politics actually entered an era of transition of centralized power, and until the Qing Dynasty, centralized power reached its peak. Speaking of the Tang Dynasty, it is normal for the family to make some contradictions, but the emperors' ruling ideas are in the same line, and Li Shimin's ultimate goal is to strengthen the centralization of power, the so-called suppression of the Door Valve clan and the promotion of the Shu landlords are only one of the strategies. Li Zhi also understands this truth, Li Shimin calculates the eldest son wujie, and Li Zhi uses practical actions to deal with the eldest grandson wujie, which is the clear evidence of the tacit understanding between father and son.
Faced with Xu Jingzong's request, Li Zhi did not hesitate.
Li Zhi spoke: Twelve people, including Lang Zhongkong Zhiyue of the Mingli Department, Yang Renqing of the Book, Prince Washima Yuandao, and Taichangqing Lü Cai, revised the "Clan Chronicle", focusing on the top of the Wu family!
Interestingly, the third edition of The Chronicles of the Clans has a new name: The Last Name. It included 235 surnames and 2,287 families, all ranked by their current official positions and knighthoods. Guo Gong, Sangong, Prince Three Divisions, Kaifu Yi Tong Sansi, Shang Shu Servant Shooting, etc. are the first surnames, Wenwu Erpin and Zhizheng Shi Sanpin are the second surname, the imperial court's five pins or more of the service officers, and the military officials with more than five pins are listed!
This means that if no one in the traditional magnates is in the court, they will be marginalized.
This means that a large number of Hanmen Shu clans have entered the surname list, and the salted fish have turned over.
After the release of the new version of the "Surname Record", it caused an uproar inside and outside the government and the public, and the Door Valve Clan was ashamed to enter the "Family Name Record" and disdained to be with the new nobles. The voice of opposition left Wu Zetian, Xu Jingzong and others with no place to look at themselves. In order to make the "Surname Record" truly replace the "Clan Chronicle", Li Yifu came up with a bad idea: all the "Clan Records" stored in the local government offices were recovered and burned.
Wu Zetian revised the "Family Name Record", which to a certain extent suppressed the Door Valve Clan, and also gave the han disciples more promotion channels, contributing to the change of the social structure and political rules of the Tang Dynasty. After this incident, the traditional Door Valve Clan had great opinions on Wu Zetian, but most of the grassroots officials, even some officials who held the central power, began to wholeheartedly support Wu Zetian!
On October 19, 659, in the fourth year of Xianqing (659), Li Zhi issued an edict that private marriages could not be made between the Li clans of Longxi, the Wang clan of Taiyuan, the Zheng clan of Xingyang, the Cui clan of Qinghe, the Cui clan of Boling, the Lu clan of Fanyang, and the Li clan of Zhao County.
This means that if you have a daughter in your family, you will either marry an ordinary scholar or never marry for life, and you will never allow intermarriage within as before. In this way, the children of the cold door can marry Bai Fumei, and the daughter of the cold door can marry the golden turtle son-in-law and completely go to the peak of life.
If you don't completely offend the enemy, how can you get the bottomless support of your allies?
Text/Jiugao Han shuo