Recommend reading | he chiseled the wall to steal the light, framed the national hero, and the end was miserable...

Wen | Shen Qiu Yaya

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The story of the chiseled wall stealing light, I believe we have all heard of it.

In ancient times, the cost of reading was high.

At that time in the Western Han Dynasty, the big guys still used bamboo to read books, there were few words on a roll, and the five cars of the rich and learned wealth might only have tens of thousands of words, and ordinary people obviously could not afford to buy five cars of books.

So our protagonist Kuang Heng went to the landlord's house to help people work, and did not charge commissions but only asked for free books to read.

However, the problem is: he has to work during the day, and he can only read at night, but the lamp oil is too expensive to order!

The oil lamp used by the ancients for lighting is generally animal oil, called "fat" or "paste", the most advanced is the "mermaid paste as a candle" in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, and the words of ordinary officials and nobles generally light a pig, cow and sheep.

But poor people can't even afford to eat meat, so why bother to take fat meat to boil lamp oil?

As for vegetable oil, it is even more expensive, the Western Han Dynasty has just begun to use sesame oil, called sesame oil, the thing is rare as expensive, this thing is also affordable in the temple.

The poor boy Kuang Heng couldn't light the lamp at night, and he couldn't work hard, but the neighbor's house was always brightly lit.

He simply cut a hole in the wall of his neighbor's house, studied hard through the light that came out of the hole, and later became a generation of great Confucians, officials and prime ministers.

[Liu Xin's "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing" says: "Kuang Heng studied diligently without candles, and his neighbors had candles but did not catch them, and Heng was guided through the wall to guide its light, and read it with a book reflecting the light." ”】

It's a tear-jerking story!

Hopefully his neighbors don't mind this happening.

Ancient neighbors may have shared a wall with each other.

02

Unfortunately, our requirements for Kuang are too high.

In the middle and late Period of the Dim Western Han Dynasty, Kuang classmates indulged somewhat in order to live.

With his profound understanding of the Book of Poetry, Kuang Heng soon became famous and became a recognized scholar, and even won the favor of the then prince and later Emperor Yuan of Han.

From Lang Zhong to Doctor, from Guanglu Doctor to Prince Shaofu, from Imperial Master to Xiang Xiang and Le An Hou, Kuang Heng rose all the way up, and Qingyun went straight up.

From having nothing to attaining the goal of a dynasty, the field of Denglilu, in the realm of planning, gradually changed from an authoritative scholar who interpreted the poetry to an official bastard of the Kiying camp.

In the many years that he was an extremely popular minister, his political achievements were like flashing lights, leaving almost no remarkable deeds in the history books, and all his experiences were taken to sue small complaints and party struggles.

In the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court respected Confucianism alone, emphasized the study of scriptures, and paid attention to small words and great righteousness, and when Kuang Heng first debated with people in the court, he always said, "The six classics, the saints so rule the heart of heaven and earth, the return of good and evil, and the distinction between good and evil."

These remarks were supported by Emperor Yuan of Han, but he began to float up slowly, and finally "stole the words of Yao Shun, betrayed the way of Kong Meng", saying and saying them all to cater to the emperor and lost his heart.

He became a great Confucian in the eyes of the world, reading the books of the sages every day, and habitually demanding others by the standards of the sages, with a certain moral purity, but he was lenient with himself, strictly disciplined others, and loved to find others' pigtails.

Kuang Heng and the then Grand Eunuch Shi Xian were good friends, and they were extremely flattering.

Shi Xian, as a power castration, must be a villain, what is corrupt, bending the law for personal gain, what is bad and what is done.

[The Book of Han and the Biography of Wang Zun:" "The Gurudwara of the Zhongshu made Shi Xiangui fortunate, and his monopoly on power was adulterous and evil." Xiang Kuangheng and Imperial Master Zhang Tan were all afraid of the matter. ”】

For example, on this day, Shi Xian and Kuang Heng were very upset when they saw that Chen Tang, the national hero who had won the new battle and defeated the Western Xiongnu, decided to join forces to shoot him.

Chen Tangzheng and another great hero, Gan Yanshou, triumphed triumphantly with great vigor and vigor, and also proudly uttered such timeless famous sayings as "Those who commit crimes against strong men in the future, although they are far away, they will be punished."

However, he did not expect that just after returning to Chang'an, the reward had not yet been awarded, and a piece of impeachment of him had fallen from the sky.

Kuang Heng impeached Chen Tang, who had lost his father and never returned, and insisted on fighting on the front line, for the sake of filial piety;

False preaching of holy wills, greedy and adventurous, although winning battles but not paying attention to the emperor too much, is for disloyalty;

When attacking the city of Zhizhi, the gold, silver and treasures in the city were distributed to the soldiers, and not a single copper plate was left for the treasury, which was unjust;

How can such an unfaithful, filial piety, and unrighteous person go to prison, and how can he still be rewarded?

As a result, before Chen Tang arrived in the capital, the official documents of the lieutenant colonel were sent all over the country, asking the local officials to arrest all these victorious soldiers.

Of course, Chen Tang would not tie his hands and grab it, and he also gave the emperor a Taoist fold, saying:

[Subjects and officials, together with Shan Yu, fortunately captured, Wanli Zhen Brigade, it is advisable to have emissaries to meet the road.] Imaji's anti-reverse harvest system is tested, and it is to avenge Zhi Zhi also! 】

As soon as Emperor Yuan of Han heard that it was also reasonable, he let people go, and then asked Chen Tang to hurry back to Beijing to accept the reward.

03

Kuang Heng stopped doing it again, went up to the Dao Fold, and said that Chen Tang falsely passed on the Holy Will, and that Emperor Han Yuan was an emperor with soft ears, and when he heard this, he was also very right, so he put Chen Tang and others under house arrest again.

It is reasonable to say that this false transmission of the Holy Will is not right, but it will be outside, the military orders are not subject to ah, Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou are no matter what, the merit is still there.

Suddenly, the question of whether these two were meritorious or punished caused a boiling discussion in the court, and for a while public opinion was fierce.

A martial artist like Chen Tang probably couldn't figure it out, he had overcome the battlefield where the knife edge licked blood, but he had lost to the official field of the yin knife array.

It was not until another great Confucian, Liu Xiang, wrote a letter to the emperor and wrote a brilliant song, and public opinion began to support Chen Tang one-sidedly, that Emperor Yuan of Han decided to follow the feelings, pardon the sins of the two, and discuss the merits and rewards.

As soon as the reward came, Kuang Heng and Shi Xian were stupid again: the courtiers demanded that Gan and Chen be rewarded with the merits of killing Shan Yu!

Among the famous generals of the Western Han Dynasty, the only famous generals who killed the leader of a country were Dou Bao and Li Guangli, who chased Xiang Yu and rewarded 5,000 households; Li Guangli killed the king of Dawan and rewarded 8,000 households.

Did Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou also have to seal so much?

Kuang Heng went back to a small calculation and found that he had sealed hou and official to minister, and there were only 647 households, wasn't it too cold!

He did not make any merit as a minister, and the emperor naturally could not seal him, and if he did not have it himself, he did not want others to have it, so he immediately told the emperor: Chen Tang's Zhi Zhidan yu was not a real single yu, it was a fake and shoddy product.

He said a word, and for half a day, the reputation of the two national heroes was ruined.

In the end, Emperor Yuan of Han compromised and made Gan Yanshou the Marquis of Yicheng, gave Chen Tang the Marquis of Guannei, three hundred households each, and gave him a hundred pounds of gold.

Kuang Heng felt beautiful in his heart: No one can eat more than me!

04

At that time, Kuang Heng's pride and scenery were all due to the attachment of Shi Xian, a great eunuch, but Shi Xian's good days were not long, and with the death of Emperor Yuan of Han, Shi Xian lost his patron and was disliked by the new Emperor Han Cheng.

This Hancheng Emperor was the famous two sisters of Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede in history, and finally died on the bed of the beauty.

The new emperor of The Hancheng Emperor appointed three fires, first burned the power castration Shi Xian, And Qiang Kuangheng had a strong political acumen, quickly saw the wind and steered the rudder, and together with the imperial master Zhang Tan, he participated in Shi Xian's book, and pushed all the bad things they had done together before on Shi Xian's head.

In the end, Shi Xian was reduced to a commoner and died of hunger strikes on the way back to his hometown, while Kuang Heng and Zhang Tan, two tainted witnesses, stepped on the corpses of their former companions and continued to enjoy the scenery.

Kuang Heng was very poor when he was young, and later when he had some money and power, he could not put it down more and more.

He will not only become rich, but he will also be rich.

As a chancellor, his fiefdom and fenglu were enough for his family to eat for several lifetimes, but he was still not satisfied, and even took advantage of his position to seize 40,000 acres of land in Linhuai County, and instructed his subordinates to embezzle public property.

As the saying goes, often walk by the river, where are the shoes that are not wet?

In October of the third year of the founding of the Hancheng Emperor, The Imperial Master Zhang Tan was dismissed from office for holding a private position, and only two months later, Kuang Heng's embezzlement of the land was also revealed.

He was stripped of his home, dismissed from his post, demoted to a commoner, and eventually lost everything he once had, returning to the hometown where he was poor when he was a child, and died alone a few years later.

A generation of ministers, a model of the world's readers, and eventually became a street rat.

I believe that when I was reading the sages, Kuang Heng also had in mind the idea of cultivating himself and governing the country and supporting the world in the right way, but what changed him and made him quickly become a corrupt criminal with a bad record after stepping on Vanity Fair?

Fan Zhongyun, who was also born bitterly, set up a model of a thousand autumns.

Poor and strong, do not fall into the ambition of the clouds!

Not many people can do it.

May all those who set out return as teenagers.

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