Zhao Changyan Zhongmo was a native of Xiaoyi, Fenzhou (present-day Xiaoyi, Shanxi). His father Zhao Ying was a subordinate of Emperor Taizong of Song when Zhao Guangyi served as Yin of Kaifeng Prefecture. He successively served as the commander of Yongqiu and Taikang counties, and later served as an observer of An and Shen. Zhao Ying was rigorous in his work, and remembered Zhao Guangyi's birthday very well, every year the owner made a birthday, Zhao Ying presented poetry to the birthday union was never absent, and Emperor Taizong remembered him.
Zhao Changyan has been ambitious since childhood, and famous men Zhao Feng, Gao Xi, and Kou Zhun all recognize and praise him. In the third year of the Taiping Xingguo (978 AD), Zhao Changyan was admitted as a junior scholar, and because of his quick writing, he became the first recommendation of the tribute. In the court test, Emperor Taizong saw that he was eloquent and eloquent, and when he saw his father's name, he was very happy: "It is always for Donggi Zai, and on the birthday of Donggi, he will give poetry and rhymes for his life, and he will train his son well, and he can also be jiaya." So Zhao Changyan was recorded in the Jin Shijia Section, appointed as a supervisor, and sentenced to Ezhou. Enter the right collection and direct history museum, and give the scarlet fish bag. He was elected as the deputy envoy of Jinghu Transfer, and moved to the right to fill the gap, just as the imperial court reduced his deputy post and changed to Zhiqing Prefecture. Later, Zhao Changyan entered the dynasty as a foreign minister, presided over the formulation of the edict, and participated in the pre-revision of "Wenyuan Yinghua". In the early years of the Yongxi Dynasty (984 AD), he was appointed as Tuntian Langzhong.
In the second year of the Yongxi Dynasty (985), Zhao Changyan and other ministers co-chaired the tribute, and soon left Beijing to serve as Zhitianxiong Army (present-day Daming County, Hebei).
Cao Bin, Cui Yanjin, and Mi Xin fought north against the Liao state, and were defeated at Qigou, and the elite forbidden army created by Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was completely lost. Zhao Changyan sent an observer envoy Zheng Meng to Shangshu and requested that Cao Bin and others be killed to warn the world. Emperor Taizong of Song replied with an edict and summoned him to Beijing to serve as an imperial shicheng. Emperor Taizong of Song held a banquet in Jinmingchi and specially summoned him to participate. The official attends the emperor to the banquet, starting with Zhao Changyan.
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Three more midnight gatherings
Chen Xiangyu, deputy envoy of salt and iron, and Zhao Changyan usually had a good relationship, knowing that Hu Dan and Duzhi deputy envoy Dong Jian and Zhao Changyan were Jin Shi in the same year, and Right Zhengyan Liang Hao was Zhao Changyan's old colleague, and the five of them were all young talents for a while, and the five of them were very close and smelled the same. They often meet at Zhao Changyan's house at night, talk about drinking, play chess and pitch pots, and have almost no day. Once when he returned late, he encountered a pawn who was on night patrol to stop the horse and ask, and Liang Hao actually whipped and scolded him on the horse: "Jinwu does not spare the night, and the jade leak is not urged." "In Kaifeng City, a folk song of "Chen Sangeng, Dong Midnight" came out for a while. Zhao Changyan also left the idiom of "three more midnight" for posterity. It is rumored that the five people gathered, and in addition to talking and laughing, they mainly studied the imperial mind art and acted according to Emperor Taizong's wishes. Word spread about it.
In the first year of Duangong (988 AD), a cloth man named Zhai Ma Zhou came to Dengwen Drum Courtyard to beat the drum, and submitted an article to criticize Prime Minister Li Fang for dereliction of duty, and as a result, Li Fang was deposed. It turned out that the mastermind of this matter was Hu Dan, and there was a banknote writer (mercenary book), named Zhai Ying, talented but grotesque in personality, very close to Hu Dan, Hu Dan wrote an article in a flamboyant tone, asking Zhai Ying to dedicate to the imperial court, and renamed Zhai Ying Ma Zhou, claiming to be the comeback of Ma Zhou of the Tang Dynasty (Ma Zhou of the Tang Dynasty once advised Emperor Taizong of Tang to learn from Sui, save conscription, and serve the people, such as the thrift of Zhenguan Chu ..., mostly adopted by Emperor Taizong of Tang). The article also lists dozens of people and praises them as pillars of the country. Chen Wang Zhao Yuanxi served as Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, investigated the matter, arrested Zhai Ying for interrogation, and learned about the incident. Zhao Changyan was implicated and demoted to Sima of the Chongxin Army, and Zhai Ying was sentenced to stab the face and cane ridge, and was exiled to the island to be imprisoned and imprisoned for life.
At first, Emperor Taizong of Song treated Zhao Changyan favorably and wanted to appoint him as prime minister. Zhao Pu returned to the imperial court with his old honor, and was very disgusted with Zhao Changyan's rigidity, and Emperor Taizong of Song decreed Lü Mengzheng. A few months later, in the case of Zhai Ying, Zhao Pu believed that Zhao Changyan had established a friend party and repeatedly persuaded Emperor Taizong of Song to kill him, and Emperor Taizong of Song forgave Zhao Changyan.
Insistence on going your own way
In the second year of Chunhua (991 AD), Zhao Changyan was appointed to Renzhi Caizhou, and after a year, he was summoned to the imperial court to be appointed as the right counselor. Some people suggested relaxing the ban on tea and salt to reduce water transportation. Changyan was appointed as the envoy of Jianghuai and Zhejiang to dispose of tea and salt, Zhao Changyan tried to express that it was inconvenient, but Emperor Taizong did not listen, urging Zhao Changyan to take office. Zhao Changyan was still stubborn, and the imperial court replaced him with Lei Youwei, the deputy envoy of Hubu, and the reform was unsatisfactory, and as Zhao Changyan believed, it was finally overcome.
When Zhao Changyan learned about the Tianxiong army for the second time, the imperial court gave him two million. The Yellow River runs through the territory of the Tianxiong military palace, and there are local tycoons who store forage to induce traitors to destroy the dikes in order to make profits. The imperial court spent a huge amount of money on flood control every year, but the dikes still overflowed. Zhao Changyan noticed this. One day, the officials who managed the dike were in a hurry, and Zhao Changyan ordered people to directly take materials from the treasury of local tycoons and use them. Since then, no one has dared to profit in flood control.
The section of the Zhaozhou River burst and flowed into the Yu River, and the water rose rapidly, reaching a very dangerous level, and Zhao Changyan ordered the soldiers of the prefecture to carry the soil and raise the embankment, and the number of soldiers was less than 1,000. Therefore, he ordered the pawns in the city to help. In the face of the monstrous flood, everyone stood on a high place and cowered.
Zhao Changyan was furious: "The state city will be flooded, the people will be washed away, can you sit idly by and wait for the country to eat?" Those who dare not obey the order, immediately beheaded. When everyone saw this, they came to death and stepped forward to raise the embankment. Soon, the dikes were reinforced, and the safety of the people in the city was guaranteed. After Emperor Taizong of Song found out, he personally wrote an edict to praise him, and summoned Zhao Changyan to pay homage to the minister, participate in political affairs, and quickly return to Beijing to take up his post. After arriving in Beijing, he was summoned, and Emperor Taizong of Song smiled at him: "Don't have a midnight meeting." Zhao Changyan immediately bowed his head and apologized.
After days of rain in Kaifeng, Zhao Changyan requested that the stable horses be distributed to the outer counties for grazing, and some people believed that in the height of autumn, horses were indispensable to guard against enemy invasions. Zhao Changyan said: "If there is a lot of water under the plug, the enemy will definitely not come." Emperor Taizong listened to him.
The face of good fortune and evil interdependence
In the fourth year of Chunhua (993 AD), Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun rebelled in Shudi. After the Great Song Dynasty pacified Shu, he regarded himself as a conqueror, with heavy taxes and homesickness, and the Shu land was always in turmoil, rebellions rose one after another, the imperial court was broken, the imperial court discussed sending ministers to pacify and surrender, and only Zhao Changyan alone suggested sending troops to control the situation. The discussion was undecided, and Wang Xiaobo and others had successively attacked the two provinces of Jia and Mei. The imperial court urgently ordered Wang Ji'en to diverge the road to negotiate, Wang Ji'en was widows, and the thieves were rampant, so he retreated to Chengdu, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, resulting in the loss of many counties.
Emperor Taizong was very tired of the years of war in Bashu, and summoned Zhao Changyan and said: "Xichuan was originally a country, and it has been thirty years since Taizu pacified it. Zhao Changyan knew Emperor Taizong's intentions, so he stepped forward and drew a strategy for attack with his fingers. Emperor Taizong was very happy and ordered him to deploy the horse infantry army for the 52 prefectures of Sichuan and Shaanxi. This is the highest military chief appointed since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is estimated that Zhao Changyan's command is equivalent to the territory of the heyday of Shu that year, with a population of about three or four million, and no less than 100,000 elite soldiers (excluding box troops and township soldiers). The supreme opportunity is also an incomparable risk, Zhao Changyan tried his best to resign, Emperor Taizong of Song did not allow it, and gave him fine armor, BMW and platinum 5,000 taels, and gave him several codexes, all of which were strategies to please thieves. From Wang Jien downwards, they were all subject to Zhao Changyan.
After Zhao Changyan set off, some people said that Zhao Changyan's nose collapsed, which was quite inverse, and the Sichuan-Shu closed terrain was precipitous, and it was a scenic spot for separation, and it was not suitable for him to enter Shu with heavy troops. Soon after, Kou Zhun of Fengzhou (present-day Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province) also wrote to Emperor Taizong: "Zhao Chang has a duplicate name, but has no sons, and cannot be conscripted into Shu, and is granted a sharp handle." ”
Emperor Taizong was uneasy, and after a few days, Emperor Taizong said at the Beiyuan Gate: "Yesterday Zhao Changyan entered Shu, I thought about it, but it was still inconvenient. Moreover, the Shu thief is a clown, and Zhao Changyan is a minister, so there is no need to ask Zhao Changyan to go. For the time being, let him garrison Fengxiang (present-day Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province), and only send his internal guard Shao Qin to take my handwritten letter to command the military. When the edict arrived, Zhao Changyan had already arrived in Fengzhou, so he stayed in the waiting hall for more than 100 days.
After the rebellion, Zhao Changyan was reappointed as Hubu Shilang, dismissed from participating in political affairs, knew Fengxiang Mansion, and transferred to Zhizhengzhou, Jingzhou, and Yanzhou.
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The style of frustration is getting stronger and stronger
In the third year of the Dao Dynasty (997 AD), Emperor Zhenzong of Song ascended the throne, and Zhao Changyan moved to the army to serve as an attendant of the army, knowing Shaanxi Prefecture, and the above request to return to Beijing was not approved. A few days later, he moved to the Yongxing Army. Zhao Changyan has courage in doing things, and he has nothing to shy away from officials, and everywhere he goes, he makes a name for himself with authority, and although he has been repeatedly reprimanded, his temperament has never changed.
In the third year of Xianping (1000 AD), Zhao Changyan, together with Lü Mengzheng and Kou Zhun, was summoned to serve as his own official and the imperial court of the imperial history and the court of inquisitors, responsible for the assessment and transfer of officials. It has been suggested that it is not appropriate for senior officials to be appointed to the outside world. Zhao Chang pointed out that appointing officials should pay attention to talent, and should not be based on whether they are born into poverty. The imperial court thought it was right. Zhao Changyan was promoted to Shangshu of the Ministry of Work, still serving as Zhongcheng.
Zhao Changyan suggested: "The appointment of detailed judges (judges) should be carefully selected, and from now on, if there is any person who is said to be improperly sentenced, it must be strictly exposed to show punishment, and he should be sent to serve in remote places." If a crime is questioned and the guilt cannot be immediately punished, the official in charge of the matter is allowed to investigate further. In addition, heavy sentences such as the Great Punishment must be truthfully recorded and submitted to the Criminal Punishment Department for review, and those who use the punishment improperly must be impeached and investigated for responsibility according to law.
At present, only Kaifeng Prefecture has not been raised to the Criminal Department according to the regulations, and sometimes there is a mistake in breaking the prison, and only the officials who directly handle the case are pursued, and the prefectural government, judge, push official, and prosecutor judge are not responsible, so what shows the merits? It is hoped that from today onwards, Kaifeng Prefecture can also act according to law. ”
Chang Defang, a common man of Mengzhou, sued the Lian Yi of Linjin for bribing Ren Yi, and the matter was reported to Yushi, because the person concerned was Zhao Changyan, which implicated him, and was inexplicably demoted to Sima of the marching army of Anyuan Army (present-day Longxi County, Gansu Province), and moved to Wu Shengjun (present-day Guang'an, Sichuan).
Zhao Changyan acted majestically, and his subordinates were afraid of him, but Zhao Changyan had a pair of eyes. When Li Yu was an official in Tanzhou, Zhao Changyan felt that he had the talent of prime minister, so he recommended it to the dynasty. At that time, when Wang Dan was serving in the area of Yuezhou and Pingjiang, Zhao Changyan entered Wang Dan's jurisdiction, praised his good government, saw that he was ambitious, and married his daughter to him. The two became virtuous ministers later. Wang Yuwei was promoted from the last stream to the rank of lyricist, which was also recommended by Zhao Changyan. However, his rigidity, rashness, and arrogant style towards his subordinates are also unacceptable to the times.
When Zhao Changyan knew about the Tianxiong army, there were thieves in the territory. He gave an edict: "Those who can tell thieves, give rewards, and the toothman will be promoted." Wang Jiying, the privy councillor, believed that the arrest of the thief should not be offered a reward without authorization, and ordered Zhao Changyan to change the notice. Soon, Zhao Changyan moved to Zhenzhou and moved to the household department. In the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1009 AD), Zhao Changyan died at home at the age of 65. The imperial court posthumously presented the official Shangshu with the nickname Jingsu.