Loyal ministers and courtiers are relative, some people we can not simply evaluate them as loyal ministers or courtiers, because they are good and bad, they have done both bad things and good things, but some people, because a certain side is too prominent, can easily characterize them, such as Qin Juniper, Cai Jing, etc., have done too many bad things, this does not need to hesitate, you can classify them among the traitors, and Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang are undisputed loyalists.
In ancient times, these three people were all famous traitors, notorious, and one of them left a famous idiom.
The first person was Wang Mang.
Wang Mang was the nephew of Empress Wang Zhengjun of the Han Dynasty. Wang Mang's Wang family is a foreign relative, a family family, there are 9 people in the family who are marquises, 5 people have been the great Sima ( ) , because the family is too powerful , the children in the family are mostly clumsy children , life is extravagant , sound and color dogs and horses , and Wang Mang is one of them, he is simple, humble, diligent and studious, which makes him stand out among the children of the family and get the appreciation of the Han Yuan Emperor.
Wang Mang was very talented, and during his time as an official, he sympathized with the people and comforted the heroes, which made him have an excellent reputation in the hearts of officials and the people.
Because of his outstanding political achievements, Wang Mang also rose step by step in his official position, and became the Grand Sima (大司馬). By the time of Emperor Han, he began to reuse Empress Fu and Empress Ding's family, and the Wang family lost power, and Wang Mang was also demoted by Emperor Han, but due to the opposition of officials and the people, Wang Mang was soon reactivated.
After the death of the Han Emperor, because there were no heirs, the empress dowager Wang Zhengjun rushed to Weiyang Palace and snatched the Chuanguo Jade Seal into his hands. At the same time, with her support, Wang Mang became the Grand Sima and took charge of the army, and the newly succeeded Emperor Ping of Han became their "puppet". After the death of Emperor Ping of Han, Wang Mang's fangs were revealed, and he forced Wang Zhengjun to hand over the jade seal, and he ascended the throne himself as emperor, while changing Han to a new one.
Wang Mang claimed to be empress, carried out a drastic reform of the old system of the Han Dynasty, and at the same time stripped many people of their titles, and made the kings of xiongnu, Goguryeo and other ethnic minorities as marquises, which made many people dissatisfied with him, the kings rebelled against him, Wang Mang wanted to send troops to recruit them, but the war was laborious and the people were hurting money, and the capital Feng Ying stood up against Wang Mang, which made Wang Mang furious and deprived Feng Ying of his official position.
After Wang Mang's anger subsided, he said: "Ying is not unworthy", and Feng Ying said that there was nothing wrong with it, so he resumed his official position, and from then on, he had the idiom "no blame".
The second person was Li Linfu.
In the early period, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was also a good emperor who was diligent in government, and most of the prime ministers he appointed were honest and capable ministers such as Yao Chong, Song Jing, and Zhang Jiuling, but after achieving certain achievements, he was satisfied with his ambitions and began to covet pleasures, and the reused prime ministers became traitors such as Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong.
Li Linfu was not a real talented person, but he was good at flattery, which was very much in line with Tang Xuanzong's appetite, so he mixed well under Tang Xuanzong's hands and went from a thousand cattle to the position of prime minister. During Li Linfu's tenure as chancellor, while doing everything in his power to curry favor with Tang Xuanzong, he did evil deeds and wantonly excluded dissidents, and at the same time allowed An Lushan to grow, laying the foundation for the outbreak of the An Shi Rebellion.
Li Linfu was not shallow because of the scourge of the Tang Dynasty, so the evaluation of him by posterity was mainly derogatory. The Zizhi Tongjian says that Li Linfu is outwardly kind and kind, but in fact he is a fierce and fierce person, so people call him "'mouth with honey, belly with sword'", hence the idiom of "mouth honey belly sword"" was born.
The third person is the East Window Incident.
Qin Ju was a great traitor who made people hate his teeth, and during his tenure as prime minister, he insisted on negotiating peace, cutting up land and paying compensation, which damaged the interests of the Great Song. On the other hand, he and his henchmen conspired with each other, framed and killed many upright ministers, and Yue Fei, a national hero respected by the people, was framed to death by Qin Ju on trumped-up charges. Qin Juniper has been the prime minister for more than ten years, and he has no meritorious deeds, but he has not done less bad things, which makes the people hate him incomparably.
According to Tian Rucheng's "West Lake Tour Zhiyu", Qin Ju once discussed with his wife Wang Shi under the window on the east side to frame Yue Fei. Many years later, when Qin Juniper was boating in the West Lake, he dreamed that someone said to him: "Ru misled the country and harmed the people, I have sued the heavens, I have to ask for it!" This means that Qin Ju has done a lot of things that have brought calamity to the country and the people, and heaven will send someone to arrest him and take him back. This is what people often say about self-inflicted sins and that heaven will come to him when all the bad deeds are done.
Since then, Qin Ju has a heart disease, and soon after he died of illness, and his wife Wang Shi was also panicked and looked for Taoist priests to do things. After the Daoist priest cast the spell, he learned that Qin Juniper was being punished for doing too many bad things, and at the same time he also asked the Daoist priest to bring a message to his wife Wang Shi: ''Annoying Lady Chuanyu, the East Window Incident is happening!'" It means that the matter of their discussion under the east window to frame Yue Fei has been known, and now there is the idiom of "east window incident".