Just as the so-called "ancient emperors are lonely", it is not an easy task to be an emperor in ancient times, as a symbol of the highest power of the country, the emperor has both the power to act arbitrarily but also has the trouble of being constrained everywhere, and if it is not good, it will be portrayed by historians.
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The early emperors were slightly willful, not only would they encounter the ridicule and ridicule of the Manchu Dynasty's Wenwu citations, but also the historian would also record your daily life's words and deeds around the clock, if you were born with no political achievements, you would be given a derogatory title after death.
The early emperors could be said to have no privacy to speak of, and even had a bit of a depressed life. Therefore, the high school history books say that successive emperors have strengthened the centralization of power, on the one hand, out of the need to rule; on the other hand, it is also out of the need to be able to live a better life.
As we all know, ancient courtiers liked to use "Yao Shun Yu Tang" and former pilgrims, who had been described by historians as "impersonal and deified saints", to regulate the emperor's words and deeds. As a result, the emperor's own personality is easily perverted by long-term suppression. The emperor himself is also a common man, and reasoning also needs to make friends, but it is not so simple for emperors to make a friend, and it is not easy to be portrayed by historians as a mess.
Sima Qian sculpture
That's how I understand the Chronicle of History. The content of the biography of Yu Xing, the several "Yu Xing" mentioned in the text, are actually good friends of the emperor, but they are really ordinary ordinary people who can no longer be ordinary, have neither military merit nor political achievements, and have received eye-catching graces like winning the lottery, and the result is written by Sima Qian. "Yu" is a person who is flattered; "lucky" means to be favored, and the word is very low in meaning, one is to demean these people, and the other is to indirectly demean the emperor's low-level taste and LOW.
In this issue, the Great Instrument Observation Room will talk about the "History of History. The story of the emperor and their "good friends" in the biography of Yu Xinglie.
First, Liu Bang and Liu Ying, two fathers and sons and their male favorites
In the "Biography of Yu Xinglie", it is mentioned that Liu Bang had a male favorite named Qiru, and his son Liu Ying also had a male pet called Hongru, and the term male pet has a pejorative meaning that confuses the vision.
First of all, male pets always feel that the emperor is gay, but the emperor is not necessarily gay, especially Liu Bang, who is famous for being. But if you think about it carefully, I believe that all of you have inseparable friends or girlfriends in the process of growing up, and have all had the experience of eating at the same table and sleeping in the same bed, and the reasonable emperor is no exception, but in the description of the historian, it is a little bit of a change.
Stills of Liu Bang
Second, the emperor's growth process often has a small eunuch who grew up with the small palace girl, from childhood to understand the habits of the prince to facilitate the care of later, plus the prince's social circle is not, these small palace women small eunuchs are the only "friends" around the emperor, but the difference is that the eunuch is close to the shi guan is only to define the emperor as a spoiler at best. If you get close to the palace maid and stay together all day, it is estimated that it is directly depicted as fornication, after all, the feudal society of ancient men and women who did not receive kisses was the existence of the identity of no girlfriend.
Of course, these two male pets really have no outstanding skills, no achievements, that is, they are handsome and can dress up, and they are deeply trusted by the emperor, and the "History" says that they are "graceful and noble", I understand that they are the "good friends" of the emperor, but the emperor is not allowed to have friends, so it can only be called "Yu Xing"
Emperor Hui of Han
However, these two fathers and sons made a bad start, and the descendants of the future had the same kind of learning, laying the foundation for the chaotic government of eunuchs in the middle and late Han Dynasty.
Second, Deng Tong, who won the lottery
Fast forward to liu heng, the third han emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying's younger brother. He also had three "good friends", Zhao Tong, who was proficient in celestial phenomena, and Beigong Bozi, an old and good man, both of whom were official eunuchs, and the emperor took them with him wherever he went. There is also an ordinary person named Deng Tong.
Deng Tong was originally an ordinary citizen with no name, and his occupation was "yellow head lang", that is, a boatman. Emperor Han Wen's favor came from a dream, dreaming that a boatman with a knot behind his belt pushed him to ascend to heaven, and Emperor Han Wen found Deng Tong along the dream, gave him more rewards and returned them to his official, and inexplicably turned over.
Statue of Emperor Wen of Han
Deng Tong is also an honest man, knowing that he has no talent, so he is relatively low-key and does not cause trouble, he occasionally sucks the emperor's abscess, and his life is simple and unpretentious.
But fate likes to joke, and later a face-to-face told Emperor Wendi of Han that Deng Tong would starve and die of poverty, and Emperor Wen of Han rewarded him with a copper mine for him to print his own money and spend it himself, and "Deng's money" has since circulated throughout the country, and Deng Tong has been rich on the side.
But this honest man really did not understand the management of the officialdom, and he did bad things with good intentions to let the then crown prince, the later Han Jingdi, help Emperor Wen of Han suck abscesses, and the result was that the scene was very embarrassing, and he has since formed a liangzi.
Dunn's Money
After emperor Jingdi of Han ascended the throne, he dismissed Deng Tong's officials, confiscated all his property on various charges, and let him owe hundreds of millions of dollars, and finally fell into the home of others until he died, confirming that the faceless guy said that starving and dying was a dream of Huang Liang after all.
Third, a good friend of Emperor Wu of Han
A large part of Sima Qian's "Records of History" carries the subjective emotions of Emperor Wu of the Black Han Dynasty. The "Yu Xing" mentioned below is a good friend of Emperor Wu of Han, his name is Han Yan, and Han Xin's descendants can also be regarded as declining scholars and nobles.
He grew up with Emperor Wu of Han, and before Emperor Wu of Han was elected as the crown prince, he was already a good friend, reading and playing together, riding horses and shooting and hunting, the temper of the two was still right, and the two had a very happy childhood. I believe that Emperor Wudi of Han and Han Yan had a true friendship.
Stills of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
After Emperor Wu of Han ascended the throne, Han Yan naturally became a close retinue of the emperor, similar to the current life secretary of the chairman, who did not participate in political affairs, but Sima Qian gave him only four words to evaluate him: "good at flattery".
The "Chronicle of History" does not record that Han Yan had any corrupt and perverted the law or controlled the government of the dynasty, only because two "small" things finally forced Emperor Wudi of Han to commit suicide, and even Emperor Wudi of Han personally interceded.
One was to explore the way for Emperor Wu of Han and ignore the King of Jiangdu on the side of the road, and did not perform the ceremony; the other thing was that he had an "adulterous affair" with the palace maid and was exposed. I think both things are over-interpreted, and even the possibility of planting stolen goods and "false accusations", but in ancient times, this was indeed a violation of imperial power, but the true origin of the matter we can't know now.
To tell the truth, Han Yan was a pity, and could only sigh that it was not easy to be the emperor's friend.
Fourth, Li Yannian, who can sing and dance
This is not Li Yannian, an old hero of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but the "History of History. Li Yannian in the biography of Yu Xinglie is just the same name, don't make a mistake.
The Li Yannian family was able to sing and dance, and they were all outstanding artists at that time. However, Li Yannian was punished by the palace in his early years and was sent to the dog prison to help the royal family raise dogs. Originally, I thought that this life would be like that, but I didn't know that Emperor Wudi of Han spoiled Li Yannian's sister and helped the emperor give birth to a prince.
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He immediately flew up the branches to become a phoenix, and with his superb ability to sing and dance, he coaxed the emperor to be happy and entered the pair, and gradually became an official of two thousand stones, with a prominent and honorable status. However, it seems that he had suppressed himself at the low point for too long, and gradually drifted away after receiving the reward, and there were various peach-colored scandals with the palace women in misconduct, which caused Emperor Wu of Han to be dissatisfied, but he did not act in the face of Lady Li.
After the death of Li Yannian's sister, Emperor Wu of Han no longer gave him face, and immediately killed their entire family.
A person who receives the gift of the ascension of a chicken and a dog is easy to come and go, after all, it is not in the right place.
V. What exactly does the Biography of Yu Xinglie say?
The chapter of "The Biography of Yu Xinglie" is very short, and the several mentioned in it are small people, and the characters are similar to the "friends" of the emperor who appear in history, and have almost no impact on the country and the course of history.
Sima Qian used the phrase "When you love and hate!" Yako's trip is enough to see the future generations of Yu Lucky. Although it is known for hundreds of lifetimes, it is also known. ”
Summing up the end, the absolute power of the terrified monarch, the moody love and hate only in an instant, but also said that the historical "Yu Lucky" ending is not good. The emperor has no "friends"!
Yako flaws are from the "Han Feizi Say Difficult Chapter" allusion, Wei Linggong's number one male favorite, but eventually abandoned due to old age and fading favor.
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To sum up again, the above mentioned several "Yu Xing" have honest, loyal, and villains, but basically there is no good ending, and these "Yu Xing" have several common points:
1. The body has no size and no strength, but is in the center of power, and the moral integrity is not worthy;
To put it another way: low-energy relationship households
2. The source of power has no practical basis and is criticized by people;
To put it another way: Airborne Commander
3. There is no merit in the internal work, and the system is excluded and not recognized;
To put it another way: not to be welcomed by old employees
4. Unclear understanding of their own strength, and eventually liquidated by the next one;
To put it another way: mistake luck for strength
Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered a person some time ago, the chairman of a certain electrical in Zhuhai picked an assistant through the talent show, which seems to be a bit in line with the above characteristics? I'm not targeting this person, but I just remembered that there is no shortage of such people in the general workplace.
What will happen to this assistant will be, we will wait and see.
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