Tang Shi: Song Shenxi who was betrayed by villains
preface
In the treacherous imperial court, trusting a person is to entrust all his life to the past. But this person is not worthy of trust, how is the character?! All need to be seriously examined, otherwise the light will lose the official position, and the heavy will lose the life.
cause
Emperor Wenzong of Tang ascended the throne: In 826, Emperor Wenzong of Tang succeeded to the throne with the support of eunuchs, and the rights of eunuchs rose to the occasion.
▲ Tang Wenzong stills
outcome
Song Shenxi's Unjust Case Zhaoxue: In 836 AD, Song Shenxi's case had to see the light of day and wash away the grievances, but unfortunately Song Shenxi had passed away.
▲Song Shin Seok
disposal
1. Promote officials
After Emperor Wenzong of Tang ascended the throne, the natural status of Wang Shoucheng, who supported him to ascend to the throne, also increased, and the power of eunuchs was strengthened. However, Tang Wenzong did not want the eunuchs to have too much power, so they always tried their best to weaken Wang Shoucheng's rights.
However, Wang Shoucheng had been in the imperial court for many years, entangled in the wrong season, there were forces in various places, and now that the military power was also in the hands of Wang Shoucheng, Tang Wenzong had a weak heart, so this time, Tang Wenzong chose Song Shenxi to help him overthrow Wang Shoucheng together.
The reason why Song Shenxi was selected by Tang Wenzong was because Song Shenxi never formed gangs in the imperial court, was upright and upright, and was very loyal, and was relatively opposed to the eunuch dictatorship.
Therefore, Tang Wenzong felt that Song Shenxi should be able to help him and realize his wish to overthrow the eunuchs.
So the two monarchs and courtiers got together to discuss the plan, and finally decided that Wang Shoucheng would not be able to overthrow him, but he could first eliminate his right and left arm, and then Wang Shoucheng would have no help from others, and his rights would be dispersed, and he would no longer cause trouble in the imperial court.
▲Wang Fan (stills)
2. Villain exposé
In the end, Tang Wenzong and Song Shenxi decided to target the red man Zheng Zhu, who was beside Wang Shoucheng, but they did not intend to attack the imperial court, but prepared to assassinate, and Song Shenxi decided to use Wang Fan, who he had pulled up with his own hand.
Song Shenxi thought that the people he had promoted could be trustworthy, but Song Shenxi did not think that Wang Fan was a villain who tended to be inflammatory and mercenary.
He did not remember Song Shenxi's kindness to promote him, but instead focused on his future. In the duel between Tang Wenzong and Wang Shoucheng, Wang Fan believed that Wang Shoucheng would definitely win, and if he followed Wang Shoucheng, he could still develop, so he leaked the plan out in advance and let Zheng Zhu escape this assassination.
After Wang Shoucheng learned of Tang Wenzong's plan, he did not confront the palace, but instead held back and waited for the opportunity to bring Down Song Shenxi.
Although Zheng Zhu did not die, but he fled Chang'an in order to avoid assassination, Wang Shoucheng had one less left arm in the imperial court, so Tang Wenzong thought that he saw hope, and this time Tang Wenzong listened to Song Shenxi's advice and prepared to assassinate Wang Shoucheng.
As a result, after this plan was known to Wang Fan, he once again informed Wang Shoucheng that Wang Shoucheng could not sit still, Wang Shoucheng held the forbidden army, but Tang Wenzong did not have military power in his hands, so Wang Shoucheng advised Tang Wenzong and forced Tang Wenzong to abandon his will to assassinate Wang Shoucheng.
However, at this time, Wang Shoucheng did not give up his vigilance against Tang Wenzong, the situation was reversed, this time he decided to eliminate the people around Tang Wenzong, including Song Shenxi, after all, the idea and candidate for assassination were chosen by Song Shenxi, so Wang Shoucheng decided to eliminate Song Shenxi first.
▲Wang Shoucheng
3. Exile as a last resort
Although Zheng Zhu fled Chang'an, he was still in contact with Wang Shoucheng, and when he learned that Wang Shoucheng wanted to eliminate Song Shenxi, Zheng Zhu came up with a solution.
▲ Zheng Note
The emperor was most afraid that people had two hearts, not to mention that Tang Wenzong's throne originally did not belong to him, so Zheng Zhu decided to seal the context of the imperial throne.
Tang Wenzong's younger brother had both moral integrity and ability, and was sincere. So Zheng made up his mind, saying that Song Shenxi had decided to support Tang Wenzong's younger brother to ascend to the throne so that he could control the imperial government.
One person said that he definitely did not believe it, so Wang Shoucheng made enough evidence, and through his own influence in the imperial court, let them say that Song Shenxi wanted to support Tang Wenzong's brother.
This is not true and has become true, we all know the truth of the gold, but the emperor is suspicious, he thinks that Song Shenxi may have thoughts in this regard, and the evidence is also there.
At that time, when he chose Song Shenxi, Tang Wenzong was interested in him not forming a party, because Tang Wenzong was afraid that the eunuchs had too much power, and he was also afraid that the rights of a person in the imperial court were also very large, so Tang Wenzong chose Song Shenxi, who did not pull gangs and factions, and was always a person, but now Song Shenxi had two hearts.
So an enraged Tang Wenzong wanted to put Song Shenxi and his brother to death, and the people in the imperial court obstructed Wang Shoucheng's rights, and no one dared to raise objections, but Dali Qing Wang wrote alone to request that Song Shenxi's case be re-examined.
At this time, the cattle monks and children also took the opportunity to write a petition, and the ministers saw that someone had come out, so they wrote one after another.
▲ Cow monks and children
Tang Wenzong looked at the minister's insistence and also wanted to re-examine it, and Zheng Zhu was also worried that some other change would occur when he dragged on, so he asked Wang Shoucheng to intercede, and let Tang Wenzong take Song Shenxi lightly.
Although Song Shenxi saved his life, he was demoted, and Wang Shoucheng retained his position.
brief summary
Although Tang Wenzong successfully ascended the throne by relying on eunuchs, Tang Wenzong did not want to see that the eunuchs' rights were too great, so he tried his best to weaken the eunuchs' rights.
【References】
1. New Book of Tang
2. "History of Tang"
3. Old Book of Tang