Lü Yuanyi (749-820), courtesy name Jingfu, was an official and an official, a squire, with talent and insight. At first, when I was outing in the capital, I met qi Ying, the former prime minister, and looked at his temperament and talked, Qi Ying sighed: "I didn't catch up with Lou Shide and Hao Chujun, Guan Yuan's words and deeds, Lou and Hao are just like this!" ”
Although Lü Yuanbing has the talent of heaven and indulgence, he is also because he is just and upright, and his career path was once bumpy. In the early years of Emperor Dezong's reign, he was selected as a virtuous and excellent minister, transferred to the rank of An Yi (安邑尉), and was later requisitioned to changchun palace as a judge. Because Li Huaiguang rebelled in the river, he resolutely resigned his post and left. When Ming Ming was appointed as an envoy to Weibei Jiedushi, the above table appointed him as a subordinate of the shogunate.
After Wei Ming died, Wang Qiyao replaced Wei Ming as the envoy of Weibei Jiedushi, and Emperor Dezong of Tang ordered Wang Qiyao to leave Lü Yuanyi as an assistant. Subsequently, he was summoned to the imperial court to serve the imperial history in the palace, and successively served as the right secretary of the outer lang, and later served as the assassin of Puzhou.
Lü Yuanyi was an official who did not seek personal gain, and his heart was good. When Ren Puzhou stabbed shi, he interrogated prisoners, and one of the prisoners told him: "My parents are in the church, and tomorrow is the first day of the Chinese New Year, but I can't visit, so I regret it." After saying that he was sad and weeping, Yuan Ji was also very sad, and ordered the release of the prisoners' torture equipment, released them to visit their parents, and warned them of the date of their return. The jailer said, "This is not possible," and Yuan Ji replied, "I treat people with integrity, how can they deceive me?" The prisoners were indeed kept to their word and returned as scheduled. Since then, the robbers have been touched and deeply guilty, and they have all taken the initiative to leave Puzhou, and no one has committed crimes in Puzhou since then.
Although he traveled to many places in the course of his career, Yuan Bing always adhered to his original heart, and he was well known for his reputation. During the years of The Self-Helper Heavenly Helper, Tang Xianzong Yuan and Lü Yuan, who had been promoted many times, did the work. Soon after, he was renamed tongzhou assassin. When he entered the imperial court, Xianzong talked to him about political affairs, and his answers were fluent, detailed and specific.
The next day, Emperor Xianzong said to the prime minister, "Yuan Ji is upright and dares to tell the truth, so he should stay with me, so why let him go to other places?" Li Fan and Pei Po apologized and said, "Your Majesty asked about this matter, which is a festive sign that has been passed down through the ages of the Zongmiao Temple. The courtiers risked their lives to request that Yuan Bing be left at his side to serve the emperor. Therefore, Lu Yuan was left to give things. Soon Lü Yuanyi also served as the crown prince's attendant and entered the imperial history of Zhongcheng.
During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of Tang, from 810 to 813, Lü Yuanyi was appointed as an envoy to Eyue and served as the military and political governor of Ezhou (鄂州, in modern Hubei). The Dutuan Envoy was an official position set up in the area without a temperance envoy after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and he was in charge of the military affairs of the prefectures under his jurisdiction, and he was also considered to be the boss of the party.
At that time, there were many local rebellions, and the task of military combat readiness was very heavy. One day, Lü Yuanbing took people to inspect at night and wanted to climb the city wall to see, but the gate leading to the city wall was locked. His men shouted to open the door, but the soldiers guarding the city refused, saying: "There are regulations in military law, and it is not allowed to open the door at night." His men were discouraged and said, "Open your eyes and see, the person who wants to climb the city wall is the observer Ofe Lu." Unmoved, the soldiers who guarded the city replied, "It is difficult to distinguish between true and false at night, and even Lord Lü cannot open the city gate." His men were just about to lose their temper, but Lu Yuanyi waved his hand at him and said, "Let's go back." Before leaving, his men hummed angrily and said to the defenders, "Wait, you are dead!" ”
The next day, Lü Yuanyi sent his men to find the guard on duty the night before and promoted him to an officer.
The men who followed him were greatly puzzled and asked him, "If he does not listen to your greetings and offends your authority, how can he be promoted?" ”
Lü Yuanyi replied, "He is loyal to his duties, but he is just performing his duties, how can he offend me?" ”
Speaking of Which, Lü Yuanbin is not a person without temper, he is upright and dares to speak and dare to act. He was in charge of reviewing government decrees, and even the emperor's edicts were not less rebuttal, causing Emperor Xianzong to say to people with some trepidation: "Yuan Ji is full of righteousness, dares to tell the truth, and is also jealous." But in the face of the offense of his subordinates, he lost his temper and was soft like a ball of noodles to be kneaded.
In fact, a person's true greatness does not lie in the level of his position and the size of his authority, but in his cultivation and the realm of dealing with the world. A person's charm is often between the humility and humility of bowing down.
Sure enough, not long after, he was appointed as an envoy to Eyue and entered the dynasty as Shangshu Zuocheng.