During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, because he was dimwitted, appointed adulterers and evils, and indulged in wine and could not extricate himself, resulting in the powerful Tang Dynasty's state affairs day by day, the rivers and rivers declined day by day, and finally inspired the earth-shattering changes of the Anshi Chaos. The Anshi Rebellion was like an overwhelming storm, which made the tang dynasty figures from all walks of life, from the emperor down to the grass people, and the fate of many people was unbelievably reversed. There was a small soldier in the Anshi Rebellion, but twenty-seven years later he became the prime minister, but he did not become an inspirational model.
Many high-ranking officials and nobles in the past were destroyed in the Anshi Rebellion, and their families were destroyed, and their wealth was empty. However, many of the original low-level characters were able to soar because of this cruel opportunity. The Old Book of Tang records the legendary life of such a person. In the fifteenth year of Tianbao, the rebels of An Lushan stormed the Tang Dynasty town of Tongguan. The Tang Dynasty general Ge Shuhan led troops to resist. The Rebels of An Lushan were all war-hardened border troops with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and the Tang army in the interior of Geshuhan was simply unable to resist, and eventually suffered a major defeat.
In the process of the retreat of the Tang army, it was attacked by the tailgating and fierce attack of the rebels of An Lushan. A Tang dynasty general named Wang Sili was hunted down by the rebels and his war horse was killed by an arrow. Wang Sili lost his war horse, he was also wounded, and seeing that the rebels behind him were fleeting, he couldn't help but panic. At the moment of crisis, a Tang Dynasty soldier rode across the battle road and found Wang Sili. They had never met or had any friendship. But this small soldier saw that Wang Sili was a military general on the Tang side, and without saying a word, he gave up his war horse to him and left on foot.
Wang Sili escaped with his life by relying on the warhorses of the small soldiers and escaped the disaster. A few years later, the Anshi Rebellion was settled, and Wang Sili became an official of Hedong Jiedushi and became a feudal official. He repeatedly remembered the savior of that year, but in his haste at that time, he did not ask about his name and the unit to which he belonged, and he did not go whereabouts after all kinds of visits, and Wang Sili always regretted it. Until one day, the benefactor came to the door himself. Shi Xin Yunjing of Dai Prefecture was a subordinate of Wang Sili. Because he was falsely accused, he angered Wang Sili and prepared to punish Xin Yunjing.
Xin Yunjing knew that he was about to be in a catastrophe, and he was very panicked, not knowing that the plan would be settled. In his troops, a small soldier named Zhang Guangsheng stood up and claimed that he had a little friendship with Wang Jiedushi, could not bear to see the lord general so worried, and was willing to see Wang Sili's side, perhaps to settle the matter. Xin Yunjing half-believed and let him go. Zhang Guangsheng really went to see Wang Sili, and as soon as the two met, Wang Sili recognized at a glance that Zhang Guangsheng was the savior of that year.
Wang Sili wept bitterly on the spot, grabbed Zhang Guangsheng's hand and said, "I have today, and the power of the son is also." I have been begging for a son for a long time, but I have met this way, and what a consolation! He immediately entertained Zhang Guangsheng with great hospitality and worshipped him as a brother, claiming to share his wealth with him. Zhang Guangsheng said what he meant, but Wang Sili did not say a word, and immediately agreed to pardon Xin Yunjing. In this way, the small soldier Zhang Guangsheng, at the same time, became the savior of the two high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Sili and Xin Yunjingren gave him a field of real estate, recommended him to serve as a soldier and horse envoy, and the secretary of the Taichang Temple, and from then on he made a smooth progress.
The small soldier Zhang Guangsheng, who did not look amazing and was not outstanding, relied on two unexpected opportunities to change his fate. If it develops so far, it is still a comedic ending. In the fourth year of Jianzhong, when Zhang Guangsheng was serving as the Shaoqing of Taichang at the imperial court, Jiedu made Zhu Zhu launch a mutiny, kill the capital Chang'an, and establish himself as emperor, scaring the emperor into fleeing with hundreds of officials. Zhang Guangsheng did not run away from Liso and was captured by Zhu Zhu's rebels. Zhu Zhu did not kill Zhang Guangsheng, but was soft and hard and coerced him to serve as a "pseudo-festival envoy and prime minister". Twenty-seven years ago, Zhang Guangsheng was an obscure little soldier, and now he is the prime minister.
However, the unknowable fate brought Zhang Guangsheng a disaster this time. Zhu Zhu did not measure up to his own strength to establish his own imperial court, which was unanimously opposed by the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Tang of Tang mobilized the qinwang troops from all over the world to arrive one after another, and Zhu Zhu soon fell into a desperate situation. Zhang Guangsheng was originally forced to be a thief, wanted to make meritorious atonement for his sins, and left a way back. So he secretly contacted Li Sheng, the commander of the Tang Army, and evaded the passage in his own defense zone, allowing Li Sheng to enter Chang'an. At the same time, Zhang Guangsheng repeated his old tricks and secretly escorted the rebel leader Zhu Zhu out of the city, hoping to leave himself one more back road.
But Zhang Guangsheng's good luck has come to an end. After the Zhu Zhu rebellion was put down, Zhang Guangsheng was praised and treated favorably by Li Sheng, the grand marshal of the Tang Dynasty, because of his merits, and he saw that he could turn the danger into a disaster and pass this pass. Who knew that because he had served as the prime minister of the rebel army, his influence was too bad, and the matter of letting go of the rebel leader Zhu Zhu was also missed, and he was criticized by the ministers, believing that his crime was beyond reproach. Grand Marshal Li Sheng did not dare to offend the public anger, so he had to kill Zhang Guangsheng. In this life, Zhang Guangsheng soared because he was good at leaving a back road, and eventually he was killed because he stayed in the back road. The Fengtian Record records that Zhang Guangsheng left a sentence before his death: "The first Mo do, the second Mo Xiu!" "Let future generations take him as a precept." The well-known idiom "one does not do, two do not stop", which is derived from Zhang Guangsheng's initiative.