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Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Yang Pu, the three outstanding prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty, with their outstanding political ability, jointly supported the golden age of "Renxuan's rule" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
They are also known as "Sanyang", which is recognized as the strongest cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, and after "Sanyang", there is another prime minister whose political achievements are comparable to "Sanyang".
After serving as the first assistant of the cabinet for 9 years, he not only governed well, but also helped rehabilitate the unjust case of the national hero Yu Qian, who was the most outstanding prime minister of the Ming Dynasty after the "Three Yangs".
Who is he? What are the untold stories on his body?
Xuande Xinjinshi, orthodox surviving
Li Xian was a Xuande Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty, orthodox, loyal to the country, repaying friendship, and having a bumpy life, he was finally able to show his ambitions.
In 1433, Li Xian, who was a high school jinshi, had a smooth sailing career, and successively served as the editor of the Hanlin Academy and the director of the sealing department of the Ministry of Officials.
Once Li Xian returned from an inspection of the Hejin locust plague, the report was clear, and the first assistant Yang Shiqi appreciated his talent and invited him to visit, but Li Xian did not go and did not want to attach himself to the powerful.
In the early years of orthodoxy, Li Xian had been relieved of the disadvantages of the excessive number of Mongol Tatar officials and the excessively high number of Tatar officials, and hoped that the emperor would adopt his own suggestion and reduce the number of Tatar officials and make them integrate into the Han people.
But Yingzong did not listen, and soon Yingzong personally conquered the Mongolian Warat, the army set out in a hurry, and the preparation time was only two days, Li Xian, as the accompanying minister, was also besieged by Warat, fortunately, he escaped and returned to Beijing, becoming one of the few survivors.
After the Tumubao Incident, Li Xian followed King Shangshu to support King Yu's accession to the throne, united the army and the people, and finally repelled the Wara army.
Li Xian was once again appreciated by the emperor, and the person he admired most in Li Xian's heart at that time was Yu Qian, who had made meritorious contributions to the fight against Wara, but after the restoration of Yingzong, the traitorous ministers were in charge, and Yu Qian was given death.
Li Xian pretended to be a pedantic villain on the surface, but secretly he had been plotting to avenge Yu Qian.
Later, Li Xian took advantage of the internal strife of the three traitors to make Xu Youzhen step down, and provoked the relationship between Yingzong and Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang, and finally got rid of these two people.
Li Xian's life was full of ups and downs, but he always insisted on his ideals and ambitions, in the face of the powerful, he refused to be attached, encountered chaos, he tried to protect himself, surrounded by traitors, he secretly planned, after gaining power, he rehabilitated Yu Qian for the first time.
Li Xian was loyal to the country, while not forgetting friendship, was a rare talent in the Ming Dynasty, and his character of adhering to ideals is worthy of learning from future generations.
So how did he get into the cabinet step by step? And how did you avenge your friend?
Jingtai offered ten strategies, and Tianshun entered the cabinet
In the last years of Jingtai, officials such as Kou Jingshi, Shangshu Wang Zhi and other officials suggested that Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of the Imperial Palace, return from Warat.
At that time, Li Xian also supported this idea, and after many months of preparation, Zhu Qizhen finally returned from Wara, but Zhu Qiyu put him under house arrest in Nangong for seven years.
After Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, Li Xian saw that the emperor was gradually gaining ambition and was worried about his arrogance, so he wrote a book to present the "Original Ten Strategies", which included "diligent government and love the people" and "listen to more advice".
Zhu Qiyu hung the ten strategies on both sides of the imperial case, in order to show the reference of daily study, with the efforts of Li Xian and other loyal people, although Zhu Qiyu of the Ming filial piety sect only reigned for eight years, but basically followed the "original ten policies" to govern the world, the government is harmonious, and he is a generation of Ming monarchs.
Li Xian was an upright person and spoke outright many times, which won the praise of the officials at the time, and he served as the right attendant of the military department and the right attendant of the household department respectively.
For example, when Wara came to pay tribute to horses, Li Xian wrote a letter stating the current situation of poor border defense, and strongly advocated the construction of chariots and firearms, which was approved by Yu Qian, and Zhu Qiyu also referred to the implementation, and the border defense became stronger and stronger.
However, in the eighth year of Jingtai, Zhu Qiyu unfortunately died, Shi Heng and other selfish and distracting people took the opportunity to launch a coup d'état, opened the door of Nangong, and welcomed Zhu Qizhen.
After the restoration of Zhu Qizhen, he killed Zhongliang Yuqian, and Xu Youzhen was in charge of the government.
For example, there was a great famine in Shandong, Xu Youzhen ignored it, and Li Xian wrote a letter to strive for disaster relief, and finally made Zhu Qizhen allocate grain to relieve the famine, which shows that the attitude of the two as officials is completely different.
In the first year of Tianshun, Wang Ao, the secretary of the ministry, resigned, and Xu Youzhen instigated Shi Heng to recommend Li Xian to succeed him, with the intention of entrapping him.
Xu Youzhen wooed Li Xian to join the cabinet, and Li Xian temporarily agreed, ostensibly helping Xu Youzhen to fight traitorous ministers, but in fact he intended to divide the court and wait for an opportunity to redress the unjust case.
After Li Xian took over, he continued to speak out in the court and was appreciated by Zhu Qizhen, and then Zhu Qizhen gradually suspected Xu Youzhen and others, and discussed with Li Xian many times to get rid of them.
Yingzong began to attain enlightenment, and the first assistant punished Shi Cao
Li Xian endured the humiliation, step by step, silently observed the court situation, and waited for the opportunity, he knew that directly complaining or pleading for Yu Qian was tantamount to wasting his efforts, so he could only endure it, temporarily tolerate the traitor, and wait for the opportunity to eradicate the disaster.
Li Xian won the trust of everyone in the imperial court, he was humble and courteous, handled things safely, and had a good reputation in the government and the opposition.
After Li Xian became the first assistant to the cabinet, he worked hard to reduce redundant officials and reduce taxes, so that the suffering of the people was slightly lighter.
Li Xian secretly persuaded Xu Youzhen to impeach Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang, so that the three strong would kill themselves.
Xu Youzhen really played impeachment, but was sued by Shi and Cao, and was deposed from Beijing, although Li Xian was once implicated, but with the emperor's trust, he was quickly reinstated.
Li Xian served as the first assistant of the Ming Xian Sect in the early years of Chenghua, diligent in the government, appointing talents, turning the tide, making the Ming Dynasty stronger and stronger, entering the Zhongxing period, a life of honesty and integrity, loyalty to the monarch and love the people, Li Xian can be described as a rare Ming official, very rare.
After seeing Xu Youzhen's fate, Li Xian turned to try to correct Yingzong's perception of the hero of "seizing the door".
He pointed out that the throne originally belonged to Yingzong, and there should be no such thing as "seizing the door", and that the pacification of the coup d'état was just an opportunistic trick by Shi Cao and others.
Li Xian then tried to weaken the influence of Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang, and whenever the military general Shi Heng crossed the rules to enter the palace to meet him, Li Xian reminded Yingzong that the ministers could be summoned if they had something, but the military ministers had no right to enter the palace at will.
Yingzong then issued an edict prohibiting the military ministers from entering the palace without being summoned, and Shi Heng's power was hollowed out, and he rebelled, and was finally verified to have rebelled and died.
Cao Jixiang's son Cao Qin also raised troops to rebel, Li Xianyi was strict and refused to draft an edict for him, and Cao Qin was beheaded after the rebellion, and Cao Jixiang also surrendered to the law.
Li Xian also took advantage of Yingzong's trust to try to save the innocent, he saved the life of Empress Xiaoyeol, who was supposed to be martyred, and also brought the grandson of Ming Xianzong, who had been imprisoned for 60 years, to see the light of day.
During his tenure as the first assistant to the cabinet, Li Xian worked hard to rectify the rule of officials, eliminate maladministration, and gradually put the government on the track.
During the years of his reign, the treasury was sufficient, the people were rich, the border was stable, and the country and the people were safe.
Li Xian eliminated the traitors under the trust of Yingzong, and made great contributions, he worked step by step, won with wisdom, and finally eradicated the disaster, so that Yingzong woke up, which can be described as the head of the virtuous minister.
Li Xian understood the righteousness and dealt with it safely, and finally made Zhu Qizhen recognize the truth, gradually eliminate the traitors, and be loyal to Yu Qian Zhaoxue's unjust case.
Humerus is the state, latent for justice
Li Xian, whose name is Tingxiang, was born in the thirtieth year of Hongwu (1397). In the second year of Tianshun (1458), Li Xian was appointed as a member of the cabinet and officially entered the imperial court as an official.
Li Xian has been an official for a long time, is well versed in human feelings, is diligent and loves the people, and has made many achievements.
At that time, during the Tianshun period, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River flooded and the floods were serious.
At the same time, he also sent people to build dams and other water conservancy projects along the river to control the floods of the rivers.
The situation in the northern frontier was also very severe, and Li Xian suggested reducing the old and weak army and retraining the elite soldiers to deal with border troubles, which not only strengthened the border defense strength, but also greatly reduced military expenditures, laying the foundation for the military reform in the later Chenghua period.
In addition to political affairs, Li Xian also paid great attention to the problem of unjust imprisonment, at that time, due to political struggles and eunuchs in power, unjust cases were everywhere in the prison, Li Xian repeatedly asked Yingzong to clean up the unjust prison, and finally cleared the snow for more than 100 people.
He has been mentioning Yu Qian's unjust case in front of Yingzong, hoping that he will rehabilitate Yu Qian.
Li Xian was not only diligent in government and loved the people, but also dared to speak out to persuade Yingzong, he repeatedly advised Yingzong to violate the ancestral system and use eunuchs to sacrifice, and opposed Yingzong's large-scale construction and other useless expenses.
Before Yingzong's death, Li Xian made great contributions by striving to make Yingzong the crown prince and abolishing the funeral custom.
During the Chenghua period, Li Xian, as Xianzong's minister, once again proposed to rehabilitate Yu Qian, and under his repeated persuasion, Xianzong finally restored his official position for Yu Qian's name, and also issued an edict to inform the world to return Yu Qian's reputation.
Li Xian was honest and honest all his life, worked hard, was loyal to the country, and made outstanding achievements. He also insisted on justice, several times persuaded Yingzong and Xianzong to rehabilitate Yu Qian, and finally got what he wanted, Li Xian can be described as a rare good minister in the Ming Dynasty, and his deeds are worth learning from future generations.
Whether Li Xian is really an upright and brave person remains to be verified, and there are many hidden sides of great men in history, and we need to be cautious in reserving judgment when evaluating a person.
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