At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was a famous "traitor" who dedicated all the women of his family to the tyrant, but the people praised him as a good official. Who is he? Is it a good official or a traitor?
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, first there was the bane of the princes left by the Anshi Rebellion, and then the peasant uprising set off by Huangchao to attack the city and seize the land.
In 852 AD, Zhang Quanyi was born in Juancheng, Shandong, and his family was born in agriculture. Zhang Quanyi is a little familiar with pen and ink, relying on this specialty, he first mixed a small clerical job to live.
However, the corruption of the imperial court and the attack of the Huangchao Army made him unable to live a normal life, so as soon as he gritted his teeth, Zhang Quanyi simply joined the Huangchao Army.
Because most of the team members were big and coarse, the literate Zhang Quanyi was reused, and even when Huangchao established the Great Qi regime, he also served as the official secretary of the state.
I thought that I could be the founder of the country and enjoy wealth from then on, but I didn't expect Huangchao to lose so quickly, Zhang Quanyi had to change the court and return to the Heyang Festival to make Zhuge Shuang.
Although it was a local force, in fact, the Jiedu envoy at that time was also regarded as a local emperor, and more importantly, such a separatist force was different from the peasant uprising, it was legitimate.
Zhang Quanyi can be said to have an establishment since then, and Zhang Quanyi, who is very satisfied with this job, is eager to express himself and has made a lot of contributions, and his position and attention have also risen. After Zhuge Shuang's death, he can already serve as the successor's minister to protect Zhuge Shuang's youngest son from the throne.
However, Zhang Quanyi felt that he could go further, so he united with the rival general Li Hanzhi, defeated Liu Jing, who supported his young son, and occupied a place in Henan.
So this place became the bag of the two, Li Hanzhi was in charge of the army as the envoy of the festival, and Zhang Quanyi was the governor of Henan.
Before Zhang Quanyi woke up from the excitement of dominating a place, the scene of Luoyang in front of him gave him a resounding slap in the face. It turned out that Luoyang at that time was already dilapidated because of years of war.
Not only has the once prosperous capital become full of ruins, but the streets are littered with dead bodies and bones. How to make this place rich again is a very real problem.
Zhang Quanyi showed his ability at this time, he first divided the people into more than a dozen roads, and went to various places in the vicinity with official documents in hand to collect refugees and gather them to settle down. First, they were asked to bury the bodies, repair the houses, and give them a certain amount of food and money.
The land was then re-registered, distributed to the new refugees, and cultivated land was encouraged, on top of which most taxes were waived.
In terms of the criminal law system, Zhang Quanyi has used an unprecedentedly lenient policy, that is, most of the others are lenient except for the need to punish the crime. This not only ensures the enthusiasm of farmers for farming, but also eliminates their worries.
Due to the fact that at that time, there were small groups of remnants or bandits from time to time, Zhang Quanyi sent people to organize local prime-aged people to form garrisons and militias to protect the people's property and life safety.
Such a stable and affluent environment naturally attracted more refugees, and soon the local population of Luoyang returned from more than 100 households to a near-normal number.
Zhang Quanyi attaches great importance to agriculture, according to historical records, he usually does not like to enjoy singing and dancing, even if he sees it will not be happy, only when he sees the prosperity of agriculture, silkworms, and wheat fields, he will show a gratifying smile. I don't know if this statement is exaggerated, but it confirms Zhang Quanyi's determination to vigorously develop agriculture.
With Zhang Quanyi's efforts, Luoyang soon developed into a stable and prosperous area, which is very rare in such a troubled era. Because of Zhang Quanyi's actions, the people worshipped him as a god, and in the hearts of the local people, he was the first good official in the first place.
Of course, Luoyang's wealth did not appear out of thin air, although there was Zhang Quanyi's governance inside, but the protection of the external army was also very important, and Li Hanzhi also thought so. So he used Luoyang as a granary, and every time he sent troops, Zhang Quanyi had to pay for the grain.
After a long time, Zhang Quanyi gradually became dissatisfied, he was unwilling to accept his efforts, but became Li Hanzhi's ATM.
So he decided to turn his face with Li Hanzhi, but in terms of the ability to fight, Zhang Quanyi was indeed not an opponent, after the defeat, Zhang Quanyi was besieged by the enemy in the city for several months, and he could only rely on sawdust to satisfy his hunger when the food ran out.
If he continues like this, he will die, Zhang Quanyi asked for help everywhere in desperation, and finally got Zhu Wen's reinforcements. Since Zhu Wen sent troops to save him, Zhang Quanyi also returned to Zhu Wen.
This failure woke up Zhang Quanyi, and he realized that he might not be able to become the overlord of a land, let alone have the ability to compete in the world, and he was just a material to assist the king. Since then, Zhang Quanyi's goal has become clearer, that is, to serve a good master and exchange it for his own comfortable life.
Although Zhu Wen is very good at leading troops to fight, he is cruel and violent, and his personal style is very disorderly - even his daughter-in-law does not let go.
It is not an easy task to assist such a monarch. However, Zhang Quanyi was very open-minded, and once Zhu Wen returned from a campaign, recuperated in Zhang's mansion, and proposed to sleep with the daughters of the Zhang family.
So in a few days, none of Zhang Quanyi's wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law escaped, and they were all possessed by Zhu Wen.
Zhang Quanyi's son was angry and wanted to fight hard with a knife, but Zhang Quanyi persuaded in turn: "When your father and I were trapped, we could only eat sawdust to survive, and after the sawdust was eaten, even the war horse was ready to kill and eat meat." If it weren't for Zhu Wen, how could we be where we are today? ”
After persuading his son to give up, but in the hearts of the women in the family and in the eyes of people with a strong sense of morality, this is a shameless traitor.
Good and bad, loyal and treacherous, under the standards of different people, different times, and different tendencies, the conclusions are also different. Not only does the person concerned have his own duplicity, but the commentator is no exception.