Yang Pu has been a very smart child since he was a child.
How about a clever method?
In his teens, he was proficient in poetry and often spoke witty.
He was born in the area of Shishou County, Huguang, his father ate a lawsuit because of a public case, tired and imprisoned, ten-year-old Yang Pu was not afraid, personally went to the county court to seek justice for his father, quite the courage of Sun Quan entered Jingzhou to meet Liu Biao and recover his father's body.
Liu Biao had a tolerant and generous heart, and he also had the remorse of his father, which made Sun Quan's children famous at a young age, but the county court of the Ming Dynasty was never a place to drum up his lips and tongue.
In ancient times, although most of the county officials who were only the size of sesame green beans were only from six pins and seven pins, in the land of one county, they were absolutely authoritative.
There is a lot of red tape above the county court, the public hall is noisy to be boarded, the law is to be beaten to the board, the officials do not worship, and the mouth is crazy to be detained in the county prison for a few days to eat.
However, Yang Pu was only ten years old, and when he met the county master, he looked calm and undaunted.
This county grandfather was also a very good lord, and when he saw that although this child was young, he was quite bold, and his mind was moving, so he wanted to come up with a question to test him.
Ming Dynasty County Order
How to take the test?
Organizing an exam? Too much trouble and a waste of time.
Brain teaser? Too vulgar, not a literati act.
Thinking about it, the county official decided to make a league of his own, if Yang Pu was right and right, he would let his father go, and if he did not pursue it in the past, if he did not do it, or if it was inappropriate, not only his father would be severely punished, but also Yang Pu's yellow-mouthed widow would be heavily marked with ten plates.
The upper league of county officials is:
The four mouths are the same picture, and the inner mouth belongs to the outer mouth tube.
The "figure" here actually refers to the "figure" in the ancient traditional chinese, the county official split this "figure" into four "mouth" characters, and then illuminated the internal and external relations of these "mouth" characters with poetry, "mouth" is "people", big "mouth" is for county officials, and the small "mouth" in the big "mouth" is for the people of this county, so the meaning of the poem is self-evident, the county official is telling Yang Pu, although I am only a small county grandfather, but my official has little power, this piece is covered by me, you all have to listen to me.
In this way, it will take half a day to divide the work and fight the whole thing, even if you ask someone to come to the right, I am afraid it will take half a day' work.
Unexpectedly, Yang Pu blurted out without thinking:
Five people share an umbrella, and the villain is covered by the adults.
The "umbrella" here is, of course, also the "umbrella" in traditional Chinese.
Yang Pu cleverly split the word "傘" into five "people" characters, of which the big "people" set small "people", this big "people", naturally refers to county officials, and small "people" refer to themselves.
The first half of the sentence is facing the battle, the second half of the sentence is a bit of a glare, Yang Pu is borrowing this sentence, alluding to the fact that we are the people with flat heads, it is a small umbrella, and the county officials are the big umbrella that protects us, you are an adult, we are a villain, you don't remember the villain, let my father go.
It is very common to greet the concubine, but there is a cultured and stylish flattery, but it is not perennial, this praise is very useful, the county official is very happy, and immediately dismissed Yang Pu's father.
This is one of the few records in the history books about Yang Pu's youth, from which we can't help but grasp a truth, that is:
As long as there is culture, you can walk sideways everywhere.
Reading the history books again, the time came to the second year of Jianwen, 1400 AD.
The boy with sharp teeth has disappeared, replaced by a spirited but very stable and mature young man.
In this year, Yang Pu was admitted to the academy, taught Hanlin to edit, and officially became a civil servant in the cultural department of the Ming Dynasty.
Coincidentally, in this year's imperial examination, there was also a scholar surnamed Yang who was in the second class of the high school, and belonged to the Hanlin Academy.
This person's name is Yang Rong.
Yang Rong
A year ago, there was another reader from the folk, surnamed Yang Mingshiqi, who had not been examined, but was specially recruited by the emperor to compile history books, and also worked in the Hanlin Academy.
Yang Pu, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi.
At that time, although they performed their duties in the same unit and worked under the same roof, they did not know each other at that time.
But in the near future, they will know each other under the guidance of fate, make friends with each other, and form the strongest cabinet group in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Sanyang.
But now Yang Pu has no intention of making friends, and he still has his own way to go.
Within two days of the path of career in the Jianwen court, Zhu Di, the King of Yan in Beiping City, with thousands of troops and horses, drove the Hui Emperor Zhu Yunjiao out of power in the midst of artillery fire, changed the dynasty, and became emperor himself.
The old dynasty was subverted, and the literati also had to face a choice.
Is it like Fang Xiaoru and Qi Tai who are loyal to the festival of death and coexist with the Jianwen court, or like Xie Jin and Hu Guang's generation, conforming to the changes of the times and defecting to the new dynasty?
Yang Pu did not hesitate to choose the latter.
The reason was simple, because he and Emperor Jianwen did not have any emotional basis to speak of.
Xie Jin was the first talented son of Daming, and Hu Guang was the first rank of the Gengchen Branch Jinshi first rank hand-picked by The Jianwen Emperor.
Hu Guang
Such a courtier, who was deeply favored by Jun, went to Zhu Di with his luggage overnight, and what reason did a person like Yang Pu, who had been idle in the Hanlin Academy for many years and could not be reused, not to run to the new era?
Yes, Yang Pu is still young, and he still has ideals and ambitions that belong to young people, so he absolutely cannot be buried with an emotionless dynasty.
In the early years of Yongle, Yang Pu defected to Chengzu Zhu Di and was awarded the post of crown prince by the imperial court.
Many readers and friends may misunderstand that the position of "prince washing horses" is not a fat difference, and they are mixed up to wash the horses of the prince, what future can there be?
In fact, the term "washing horses", also known as "first horses", means the subordinates of the prince, or to teach, or to advise, rather than to wash the physical work of the horses.
Therefore, Yang Pu's initial official position in the Yongle Dynasty was to serve as an aide in the palace of the crown prince Zhu Gaozi.
The relationship between Yang Pu and Zhu Gaozi cannot be considered intimate, because he himself is a more serious person.
Zhu Gaozi loved to read the Book of Han and was very fond of a minister in the Western Han Dynasty, known as Zhang Shizhi.
Zhang Shizhi, Zi Ji, date of birth and death unknown, was a famous courtier of the Western Han Dynasty, strict law enforcement, fairness and justice, deeply loved by the people, and praised by the people at the time: Zhang Shizhi was a court lieutenant, and there was no wrongdoing in the world.
On weekdays, Zhu Gaozi praised this minister a lot, but Yang Pu saw the situation and poured a basin of cold water on Zhu Gaozi.
He told the crown prince that the reason why Zhang Shizhi was able to enforce the law strictly was because the emperor at that time, Emperor Wen of Han, was benevolent and generous, and if the emperor was not virtuous, then even the best courtiers could not play to their strengths.
The tone of this is very impulsive, the attitude is very bad, but it is undoubtedly a good word.
It also happened that Comrade Zhu Gaozi was a very good-tempered and very kind person, and after listening to Yang Pu's instructions, he was greatly shaken and deeply impressed.
Zhu Gaozi understood that although the staff in front of him was humble at this time, he must not be a simple person.
Zhu Gaozi
Since then, he has consulted Yang Puduo, and the two often talk about each other and talk all night long, and since then they have formed a deep friendship and thought they are confidants.
It is said that he is a confidant, but in a sense, Yang Pu is undoubtedly the emperor and young master of the future successor of the Ming Dynasty.
We know that before Zhu Gaozi ascended the throne, there were two people in his life who were very important to him.
The first person is the xie jin we mentioned earlier.
As the most prestigious talent of the Ming Dynasty and the editor-in-chief of the Yongle Canon, Zhu Gaozi admired his talents and had a close personal relationship with him.
But unfortunately, Comrade Xie Jin was arrogant and arrogant, arrogant and unaware, and soon annoyed the emperor, and was soon imprisoned in prison and killed at the behest of the emperor.
And the second is Yang Pu, who often speaks by his side.
Xie Jin suffered, and Yang Pu's fate was also not very good.
The twelfth year of Yongle, 1414 AD.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's northern expedition was still in place, and the crown prince Zhu Gaozi was a little late, and Tianzi was furious, thinking that when the son had no filial piety, the old father came back from a hard war, and the work was not in place, so all the subordinate officials of the prince's palace were imprisoned.
Among them, naturally including Yang Pu.
This can not blame Zhu Gaozi, the history books record that Zhu Gaozi is obese, has a leg disease, and is very inconvenient to move on weekdays, and it is forgivable to pick up the driver for a moment and a half.
Of course, yang Pu is not to blame for this, your son neglected you, you punished your son to go, what do you do to clean up those of us who are the next people?
But there is no way, in the era of feudal imperialism, the order of the Son of Heaven is absolute authority, once issued, unless the emperor himself repents, there is no possibility of turning back.
There was no way, Yang Pu could only pack his bags and go to the prison to beg for a living.
The Ming Dynasty's edict can be said to be a veritable purgatory on earth.
Severe torture, inhuman abuse, torture to extract confessions, and the hasty killing of people.
Walk in more, walk out less.
But yang Pu stayed in the prison for a full decade.
Ten years, three thousand six hundred and fifty days and nights.
Sometimes they can't eat, sometimes they can't drink clean water, and sometimes the guards are in a bad mood and have to be dragged out and beaten.
But Yang Pu stood up.
Ming Dynasty prison
The cell in which he lived was empty, just a thick pile of history books.
I didn't quit reading, I spent ten years, and I read the history of the Bible for several weeks. - "History of the Ming Dynasty"
Countless lonely and unbearable nights, countless eerie and terrifying nights, Yang Pu did not release the scroll, studied diligently, and waited for the next dawn.
I think Yang Pu was confused during the days of prison.
He was born into the army, but he never officially appeared on the political stage of Daming.
He was a man of integrity, but he was tired of going to prison because of a small matter, and he suffered all the misery of the world.
Although he was full of talent and knowledge, full of strategies for governing the country and the country, it seemed that he was going to die alone in this deep and dark prison.
At that time, his father was imprisoned in the county prison, and as a son, he could stand up to save his father, but now that he is alone, who can save himself?
It turns out that history really has no god reversal.
If Zhu Di's life expectancy is long enough, Yang Pu is likely to be locked up in prison for the rest of his life.
Then in the subsequent history books, "Three Yangs" will become "Two Yangs", and the record of Yang Pu may be at most an ordinary prince's staff.
Although history has not been reversed by God, human life expectancy is limited.
After a lifetime of conquest, Zhu Di, the ancestor of Chengzu, died of illness in 1424 AD, and his son Zhu Gaozi became the new master of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Di
Zhu Di died, and the emperor who had been obsessed with the battlefield all his life returned to the battlefield, which was undoubtedly the best ending for the emperor himself.
This is the end of the old emperor, and it is also a new beginning in Yang Pu's life.
His turnaround finally came.
Emperor Renzong Zhu Gaozi did not forget Yang Pu, who had spoken his advice to him when he was fluttering.
Only three days after ascending the throne, the emperor released Yang Pu.
Once, you warned me to be a kind and benevolent emperor, but now that time has passed, I have to tell you that I have done it.
Ten years of life ups and downs, ten years of imprisonment, and now, Yang Pu has finally ushered in his own era.
We know that Emperor Renzong Zhu Gaozi's health was not very good, so after only ten months on the throne, he rode the dragon to the guests and went on a big trip, but before leaving, he promoted Yang Pu to the head of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty.
The emperor's intentions were very obvious, and he wanted to leave his son Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji a very reliable person.
Yang Pu did not have the best choice, but Huang Huai and Xie Jin, who had made Emperor Renzong's heart and mind, had already returned to Jiuxiao, and the only one who could be trusted was Yang Pu.
Yang Pu was not in danger, but he carried Emperor Renzong with an incomparably beautiful sustenance.
Lord Yang, go down with the belief that our monarchs and subjects know each other!
Go witness the Ming Dynasty and a better future!
The new emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji may not have any feelings for Yang Pu himself, but he introduced Yang Pu to two equally excellent colleagues.
These two people are Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi that we mentioned earlier.
Yang Shiqi
The special journey of that year, the same return at this time.
At this point, the Three Yangs met, and daming's strongest cabinet was officially established.
Emperor Xuanzong's reign was not long or short, exactly ten years.
In this decade, the author would like to call it the most beautiful era of the Ming Dynasty.
External stability, internal prosperity, prosperity of the four seas, the balance of the world.
In addition to the emperor himself's wisdom and diligence, it is more the hard work of the "Three Yangs" in the cabinet day and night.
Now, Emperor Xuanzong's life has also come to an end, and he has given the steering wheel of the empire to his son, Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen.
When Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he was only 9 years old.
If the Ming Dynasty was a fast-moving express train, then Zhu Qizhen obviously could not drive it independently.
The mission of assisting the emperor once again fell to the "Three Yangs".
But at this time, the stage of history has already had a new character appearing.
There are talented people in the jiangshan generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years.
The emperor grew up day by day with their assistance, but they had burned out the last energy of their lives.
In 1440, Yang Rong died of illness.
In 1444, Yang Shiqi died of illness.
Let's go! Let's go!
Dust to dust, earth to earth, Daming, the next road, you can only go by yourself.
Now, only Yang Pu is still alive.
It was also at this time that Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen appeared next to a eunuch named Wang Zhen.
Wang Zhen
Compared with Yang Pu, who was more than a year old, the emperor seemed to prefer this eccentric little eunuch.
Yang Pu is old.
He is no longer young.
He used to be a heroic teenager who fought with county officials in the county court.
He used to be an imperial young master, guiding the Son of Heaven and not being cowardly.
He was once in prison, ten years in prison, ten years in polishing.
He was entrusted by the emperors of the two dynasties, entered the cabinet, and became a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.
He was once the guide of the young Emperor Daming, guiding the emperor in the right direction.
And now, he's just an old man hunched over and gasping for breath for a word.
In the eleventh year of orthodoxy, in 1446 AD, Yang Pu died of illness at the age of seventy-five.
Yang Pu, the character Hongji, a heavy minister of Daming, he once crossed the tide of mountains and seas and went to the political stage of Daming, and now, his life has ended and he has become the most brilliant existence of the Ming Dynasty.