For Li Shimin, the level of wude's old ministers' governance is indeed very general, he is an emperor with great ideals, and he also wants to do a career, his cattle are not real cattle, he needs a group of capable ministers and generals who can advise him at key moments. Therefore, the power of the Zhenguan dynasty still needs to continue to shuffle.
On August 19, 627, in the first year of Zhenguan (627), Gao Shilian was reported as a servant who withheld information, and Li Shimin deposed him. On September 12, Zhongshu Ordered Yuwen Shi and was demoted to the post of Inspector of the Palace, and Du Yan, the Imperial Master, participated in the imperial government.
In the first month of the second year of Zhenguan (628), a certain minister handed Li Shimin a secret recital, accusing the eldest son of too much power and the emperor's relatives, which could easily form a situation of dictatorship of foreign relatives.
Objectively speaking, the courtiers did not deliberately provoke trouble. At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the system was not perfect, and the major affairs of the imperial court were decided by the emperor and several founding heroes. Take the establishment of the central government, in addition to the left and right Shangshu servants and the six Shangshu, the following are all subordinates who run errands. As for the six shilangs and waiters, as of now, the imperial court has not set up such posts, so the phenomenon of the centralization of power by the prime minister is very serious!
However, Li Shimin was very open-minded, and he took the fold of the complaint to the eldest grandson Wujie, and comforted: "Little brother-in-law, I don't have the slightest doubt about you, and I am worried about the gap between you, so I show you the fold!" ”
Not only that, Li Shimin thought that the courtiers were engaged in political struggle, so he openly stated his position at the opening of the imperial meeting: "If you trust the eldest grandson the most, you courtiers should not quarrel blindly!" ”
Eldest Sun Wuji was a wise man, and the more Li Shimin did this, the more uneasy he felt. Afterwards, Changsun Wuji submitted a letter of resignation and asked Empress Eldest Sun to persuade Li Shimin, which retired from the position of Shangshu's right servant.
In February of the third year of Zhenguan (629), after Li Yuan handed over control of the Taiji Palace and Pei Ning was suppressed by Li Shimin, the power of the Qin Dynasty began to come to the foreground. Li Shimin issued an edict: Fang Xuanling was appointed as the left servant of Shangshu, Du Ruyi was the right servant of Shangshu, and Wei Zheng was appointed as the secretary and supervisor of Shangshu and participated in the government.
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruyi need not say more, Wei Zheng's role must be enough.
Wei Zheng (580–643), a native of Julu (钜鹿; present-day Julu County, Xingtai, Hebei).
Wei Zheng's father had been a petty official, but later the family fell in the middle of the road and was poor and confused. Born in such a family, Wei Zheng had no choice but to farm or do a small business to make a living. Interestingly, although Wei Zheng was a poor second generation, he had no interest in cultivating the land, and he always felt that he should have a big ambition, dreaming of one day being able to soar to the top and honor his ancestors.
Dreams can be had, but the days still have to go on, and the reality still has to be faced! Before Zhuangzhi was paid, Wei Zheng could only eat and drink at home, and be an old man who did not divide the grain and was not diligent, and later felt that he was not very embarrassed, so he found a Taoist temple, became a Taoist monk, first, to read conveniently, and second, to eat public grain.
At first, Wei Zheng, like most ordinary young people, had some ambitions, thinking that I was born to be useful, but he didn't know what he should do and what he could do. Wei Zheng could not find the direction of life, had to read a lot of books, slowly enriched himself, and later found that the world began to chaos, so he learned Su Qin and Zhang Yi, and made the study of vertical and horizontal science pure, which was a small reputation in the local area.
Ability is very important, but if you want to develop, you must also have opportunities in life.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the Wuyang Commandery 's treasure was also rebellious, and he heard that Wei Zheng was full of poetry and books and was talented, so he sent an invitation to Wei Zheng, hoping that he would serve as the secretary of the canon. To put it bluntly, it is the full-time secretary of the Yuan treasure army, who is specifically responsible for drafting documents in the army and sending and receiving confidential documents.
Although Yuan Baozang was an unknown figure, for Wei Zheng, the secretary was a rare opportunity to exercise, and every time the boss gave him a task, Wei Zheng would take out a twelve-point attitude to complete.
Not long after, an opportunity to change Wei Zheng's fate quietly came.
At that time, Li Mi of the Wagang Army was mixed up and became the number one person in the Central Plains, so Yuan Baozang asked Wei Zheng to write a letter, saying that he would be Li Mi's subordinate. According to historical records, many rebels at that time wrote letters to Li Mi, but only the letters of the Yuan Treasure impressed him, the words were gorgeous, and the horse ass was just right.
One day, Li Mi and Yuan Baozang were chatting and inadvertently talking about this letter, and Li Mi first highly praised the standard of this letter, and then asked: "Elder Brother Yuan, is this letter your handwriting?" ”
After getting the exaggeration of the big boss, Yuan Baozang was naturally very proud, but he did not lie with a thick skin, and he confronted Wei Zheng once at a critical moment: "This is what Wei Zheng in my army wrote!" ”
Sometimes, a single word from a leader can determine your destiny.
Li Mi admired Wei Zheng's talent, so he forcibly dug Wei Zheng up. At that time, the Wagang Army was the most luxurious rebel group, and for Wei Zheng, who had ideals and ambitions, it was undoubtedly the best employment opportunity, and on the road to the future, it should be non-stop! According to historical records, not long after Wei Zheng entered the army, he gave Li Mi a strategic "ten strategies" in view of the situation of the crowd of deer at that time.
Unfortunately, Li Mi is a person with great ambition and talent, he always thinks that he is the most cattle, as for Wei Zheng's suggestion, hehe! What's more, Li Mi recruited Wei Zheng not because of his outstanding strategy, but his literary style was extraordinary, in Li Mi's eyes, Wei Zheng was just a secretary, and the secretary had to do the secretary's work. As for strategy, that was something that Li Mi and the senior strategists in the army should worry about.
Wei Zheng was thankless, but it made Li Mi dissatisfied with his noisy behavior.
Wei Zheng has his own ambitions, he defected to Li Mi, not to mix up his life, in order to get ahead, Wei Zheng likes to pull Li Mi's team to analyze the situation and talk about the prospects of the Wagang Army.
However, the Wagang brothers were all peasants and bandits, and Wei Zheng was not at all a level, and Wei Zheng's dialogue with them was completely to the cow playing the piano, the chicken and the duck. During this period, Wei Zheng was very depressed, but he did not jump ship, after all, the Wagang Army was the largest rebel organization, leaving Li Mi, where else could Wei Zheng go?
Later, Li Mi and Wang Shichong engaged in a final duel under the city of Luoyang, Li Mi occupied Luokou Warehouse, with sufficient money and grain, and a huge army, and Wang Shichong occupied Luoyang, with more money and less grain.
Wei Zheng said with great interest, "Boss! We should hold firm and clear the wilderness, and sit and wait for Wang Shichong's military food to run out, when he will inevitably take the initiative to attack, our army will wait for work, and the world can be fixed in a war. ”
Shi Zhenghao, commander of the Wagang Army, poured a basin of cold water: "You are a cliché. ”
Wei Zheng's lungs were about to explode, and as far as the matter was concerned, why did he have to carry out a verbal attack, Wei Zheng roared angrily, "This is obviously a clever plan, why is it a cliché?" ”
Unfortunately, no one took his words.
Wei Zheng did not have a deep foundation in the army, was not welcomed by Li Mi, and was complained about by his colleagues, and his life was very difficult. But even so, Wei Zheng was still conscientious and held the post of administrative secretary, until Li Mi's army defeated Luoyang, and Wei Zheng surrendered to Li Yuan with Li Mi.
In Li Yuan's eyes, Li Mi still has a very good status in the jianghu, and he recruited Li Mi, first, to make a sufficient political gesture of Hai Na Baichuan, and second, to control Li Mi's freedom of action and make him lose the opportunity to turn over.
During these days in Chang'an, Li Mi was very unpopular with Li Yuan, and Wei Zheng was also implicated, and for a long time there was nothing to do. Wei Zheng thought about it, he couldn't watch his youth run out, so he privately played a song for Li Yuan, hoping to go to Shandong and bring down the rebel forces.
In Li Yuan's eyes, Wei Zheng was an unremarkable civil servant, and in order not to suppress Wei Zheng's enthusiasm for work, Li Yuan rewarded him with the title of secretary and asked him to go to Liyang to recruit Li Mi's old subordinate Xu Shixun. In fact, Wei Zheng's surrender work was very smooth, but just when Xu Shixun promised to surrender, Dou Jiande led his army to the south, captured Liyang Cang, and captured Xu Shixun and Wei Zheng.
Dou Jiande cherished talents more than Li Mi, and he won Wei Zheng and immediately gave him a high-ranking official position: Living in The House.
The living quarters are civilian officials who record the emperor's every word and deed, not high-ranking, but can access a lot of secrets, and have been mixed with the emperor for a long time, and it is only a matter of time before they become prime ministers. At that time, Dou Jiande was mixed up, and Wei Zheng also rose with the water, but just when Wei Zheng was moving towards the peak of his life, a person appeared.
Yes, this person was Wei Zheng's ultimate boss, Li Shimin, the King of Qin.
After Dou Jiande was destroyed, Wei Zheng's position was very embarrassing. Think about it, ming is a minister of the imperial court, but he has become the enemy's living quartersman, and now that the new owner is out of business, he has to find the old owner to mix rice and eat, how embarrassing.
Wei Zheng said that he was very confused, and his future was bleak!
According to historical records, Li Yuan had forgotten about Wei Zheng's existence, and Li Shimin did not seem to be very interested in him. However, the crown prince Li Jiancheng was very interested in Wei Zheng's talent, and just when Wei Zheng fell down, Li Jiancheng threw out an olive branch: he was hired to wash the prince's horses, come to the prince's mansion, and later manage to eat and live.
The prince washing horses is not an official who washes the prince's horses, and the "washing" in the text means the prince's horse guide, that is, the prince's main staff. However, in the Tang Dynasty, the prince washed horses mainly managed the books of the taisin, and the official residence was from Wupin, although the things he did were not bad, but after all, he was the prince's person, and the development potential was immeasurable! With this layer of expectations, Wei Zheng naturally worked harder.
Who is Li Jiancheng, the dragon and phoenix among the people, the temperament is extraordinary, Wei Zheng naturally does not need to teach him how to be a man, Wei Zheng's job is one: staring at the Qin King's Mansion, staring at the ambitious Li Shimin. In Wei Zheng's eyes, Li Jiancheng was better than Li Shimin in all aspects, but his military merits were not as good as Li Shimin's, so when he pacified Liu Heimin, Wei Zheng persuaded Li Jiancheng to find an opportunity for his father to lead the troops, and finally established meritorious deeds and suppressed the momentum of the Qin Royal Palace.
Unfortunately, in order to compete for the supreme power, the Prince's Palace and the Qin Dynasty Palace finally became in the same situation, and the conspiracy and trickery could not satisfy everyone's appetite, and the two sides were sword-fighting, planning to do a big job. Wei Zheng already had a premonition that the situation might be completely out of control, so he advised Li Jiancheng to get rid of this ambitious second brother as soon as possible, but Li Jiancheng was kind and soft-hearted, and did not move until the final Xuanwumen change.
Li Jiancheng was killed, and Wei Zheng's whereabouts naturally attracted the attention of many people.
Li Shimin approached Wei Zheng and asked, "Why do you want to break up the relationship between the prince and me?" ”
This question really hurts Wei Zheng's intelligence, the Qin Palace and the Prince Mansion are inherently hostile, do you still need him to go to the apart? Wei Zheng didn't want to dwell on this question, so he replied unashamedly, "If the prince had followed my advice, there would be no disaster today!" ”
Objectively speaking, after Li Shimin defeated Dou Jiande, he really did not notice the existence of Wei Zheng, but in the years of fighting with the Crown Prince's Mansion, Wei Zheng's ability and talent were slowly known, and Li Shimin had heard about it. Now, in front of his mortal enemy, Wei Zheng dared to make bold remarks and be fearless, such a hard-boned courtier, Li Shimin said, as much as he wanted.
Li Shimin was arrogant and dry: "Wei Zheng, Prince Ben will not kill you, but will reuse you!" You should be aggrieved, and first be a prince Zhan Shi master book. ”
Zhan Shi's main book is subordinate to the Prince Zhan Shi Mansion, the report object is Prince Zhan Shi, and The Prince Zhan Shi is the Grand Steward of the Prince Mansion, in charge of all people and things, Wei Zheng, as the secretary of the Grand Steward, belongs to the second-line reserve team.
Text/Jiugao Han shuo