Speaking of Wang Jun, friends may not be familiar with him, he lived in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Wang Jun (王君), courtesy name Xiufeng, was a native of Xiang prefecture (in present-day Anyang, northern Henan, and Linzhang County, Hebei Province), born in the second year of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang (902 AD) and died in the third year of Later Zhou Guangshun (953 AD), at the age of 51.
Wang Jun
After briefly introducing Wang Jun, let's get back to the point. When friends see the title, there may be several questions that come to mind: Since Wang Jun is a singer, how did he step by step to the position of an extremely popular subject? Why didn't the empress dowager take the emperor seriously? Was the desolation of the final ending caused by the emperor? Today, we will talk about this Lord Wang Jun, through him, we can see the typical image of the rulers of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
As we said earlier, Wang Jun was originally a singer, and if he puts it in modern times, he is an excellent male singer. Wang Jun was originally wandering outside or in the Later Liang era, he defected to a Jiedu envoy named Zhang Jun, what could he do? It is to sing and sing, accompany the wine, and help Zhang Jun, just like this, Wang Jun lives a dull life. Until one day, another high-ranking official named Zhao Yan came to Zhang Jun's house as a guest, and was touched by Wang Jun's singing voice, saying: "Well, this brother's singing makes me fascinated!" Therefore, Zhang Yun gave Wang Jun as a gift to Zhao Yan. Wang Jun followed Zhao Yan and almost lost his head. What's going on? When Later Tang destroyed Later Liang, Later Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxun (xù) killed the entire Zhao Yan clan, but fortunately Wang Jun escaped from the Zhao mansion in advance and hid in the people, which saved him.
After hiding for a long time, Wang Jun defected to Zhang Yanlang, the envoy of Tang Sansi, but Zhang Yanlang was not cold to Wang Jun, and Wang Jun, who had gone through the catastrophe of life and death, was no longer the simple male singer he had been, and he looked at everything that happened around Zhang Yanlang coldly, and played his own small calculation in his heart. Later, Zhang Yanlang was killed by Shi Jingyao, the founding emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty, so Wang Jun was rewarded by Shi Jingyao as a gift to his general Liu Zhiyuan. It is not known what means Wang Jun used, and there is no record in the historical records, anyway, Wang Jun jumped from the male singer who initially accompanied the wine to the general who led the army under Liu Zhiyuan, and the official Yun Hengtong, after Liu Zhiyuan opened the country, he worshiped Wang Jun as a guest general and became Guo Wei's cronies, and then in the process of Guo Wei's seizure of the world, he made great achievements, so after the establishment of later Zhou, Wang Jun became a powerful minister above ten thousand people under one person.
Looking at Wang Jun's origins, it is typical to start at the end of the micro. So, what will Wang Jun, a very popular subject, do next? Is it to continue to forge ahead? However, if you continue to forge ahead, then you can only replace Guo Wei as emperor, which is a dream that is strong enough not to be realistic, and a friend said: "Then let Wang Jun's high-ranking official Houlu live a lifetime." "That's not okay, why not?" If you let Wang Jun, who is accustomed to being enterprising and only enterprising, stop and not think of making progress, it is also unrealistic.
Speaking of this, some friends wondered: "Wang Jun can't be enterprising, and it can't be done without being enterprising, so what to do?" To this end, Wang Jun thought of a new trick - to fight dissidents, to consolidate his power, and he could not always live more and more. The first target of the blow was Guo Wei's adopted son Chai Rong. Because he understood that the only person who could threaten his power now and in the future was Chai Rong, for this reason, he used his authority to fix Chai Rong in his fiefdom of Lanzhou, not to let Chai Rong and Guo Wei meet, in the three years of Guo Wei's reign, in addition to the special festival Chaohe, Chai Rong only sneaked into Kaifeng City once, that was to take advantage of wang Jun's opportunity to go out to run errands, but what Chai Rong did not expect was that Wang Jun's eyes and ears were all over the country, and he had just entered the city, Wang Jun got the news, and immediately put down all the work at hand and rushed back. As a result, Chai Rong had to leave Kaifeng City in ashes and return to Liaozhou. Wang Jun's toughness can be seen.
Wang Jun not only embarrassed Chai Rong, but also did not take Guo Wei in his eyes. Wang Jun was just like Li Hongzhang in the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang in order to make his life happy, let others not help themselves, so he grabbed power in a big way, Wang Jun took this road, but Wang Jun forgot how he came all the way, simply put, is to forget ben, thus, Wang Jun embarked on a road of no return.
Guo Wei
It is said that Wang Jun, as Guo Wei's close comrade-in-arms and the second in command of the Later Zhou power group, therefore, he had to meet with Guo Wei every day, and the procedure for the two of them to meet was as follows: First Wang Jun paid tribute to the old leader Guo Wei, and then Guo Wei went forward to support Wang Jun with a smile on his face, and said: "Well, Brother Wang, don't do this, you are too polite!" "Why did Guo Wei call Wang Jun Brother?" Because Wang Jun is 2 years older than Guo Wei. After saying these polite words, they begin to talk about the right thing, and there are a cookie-cutter law of their conversation, what law? For example, on a certain day in a certain month, Wang Jun told Guo Wei that a certain minister could not be reused, and Guo Wei said: "Shuo did not reuse him!" Wang Jun said, "No, what I mean is that it must never be reused, which means that it can never be reused!" Guo Wei smiled and said, "Brother Wang means this, so well, just do what Brother Wang wants!" A few days later, Wang Jun told Guo Wei that a certain minister could not be reused, and Guo Wei agreed.
A conversation like this would take place once in a few days, and Guo Wei, without exception, agreed. Here we should pay attention to the fact that the non-reusable ministers that Wang Jun told Guo Wei were all Guo Wei's confidants, and these people were older than Wang Jun. Speaking of this, I believe that everyone can see that Wang Jun wants to cut Guo Wei's wings and tilt his power to the opposition, which is not counting Wang Jun's various restrictions on Chai Rong at the same time. One day, Wang Jun said to Guo Wei, "Your Majesty, you have removed my position as Privy Counsellor!" Guo Wei of course did not agree when he heard it, and tried his best to keep it, but Wang Jun, no matter how Guo Wei was retained and how to persuade him, Wang Jun still gave himself a big holiday, Wang Jun this holiday, the various festivals of the making of the folds like snowflakes floated into the palace, the general meaning of the fold is not to remove Wang Jun's position as a privy councillor, for a time, the military heart is floating, the military heart is unstable, then the country is shaken. When Guo Wei saw this situation, he immediately panicked and quickly sent someone to Wang Jun's house to deliver a message: "Brother Wang, if you don't come again, I will personally go to your house to invite you!" Upon hearing this, Wang Jun expressed sincere trepidation: "Your Majesty, you must not go out of the palace for me, Wei Chen can't afford it!" Guo Wei had no choice but to invite a personal friend of Wang Jun's to persuade Wang Jun to come out of the mountain. After Guo Wei's efforts, Wang Jun finally "came out with a thousand calls" and resumed the work of the Privy Councillor.
After this storm, Guo Weicai learned from the side that the reason why so many emissaries wrote letters was that Wang Jun wrote letters to various emissaries and asked them to do so. Let's talk about Wang Jun again. Wang Jun played everyone around, which made him feel more confident and looked down on Guo Wei even more, believing that Guo Wei was very cowardly.
Since Wang Jun's comeback, what he has done has become more and more excessive. He first helped himself to ask for a Qingzhou festival envoy, and after a few days, he told Guo Wei that his money was not enough to spend, and asked Guo Wei to give him money, everyone thinks, Wang Jun wants both power and money, what he wants to do, his wolf ambitions, obvious. But even so, the good-natured Guo Wei still agreed to Wang Jun's request. Guo Wei was obedient to Wang Jun, and in this way, time passed day by day.
Until one day, Wang Jun invited Guo Wei to the Privy Council as a guest, Guo Wei did not know the reason, but also gladly went, and when he saw it, it turned out that Wang Jun had built a new house, which was called "and its luxury" in history. Invite Guo Wei to come and let Guo Wei linxing drink, Guo Wei was very happy, all the way to visit, after the visit to drink, gave Wang Jun enough face. After a few days, Guo Wei seemed to be tempted by Wang Jun's new house, so he planned to build a palace in the inner courtyard of his own palace, but just after the construction began, Wang Jun came to guo Wei and said: "Your Majesty, your palace has been a lot, what is the use of building this?" After Wang Jun said these words, he saw that Guo Wei's face turned sharply red, and his chest suddenly bulged, as if the breath that had been held for a long time rose from nowhere, but Guo Wei finally maintained the same calm as always, only to see Guo Wei slowly turn to Wang Jun and say such a more abnormal sentence: "Brother Wang, there are many houses in the Privy Council, why do you want to build that house?" Wang Jun was stunned at once, he seemed to be unprepared for such a Guo Wei, he really did not expect Guo Wei to be able to talk to himself like this, Shi said:
His shame could not be right, and he hurried away.
However, that was it, at this point, Wang Jun was still not alert, did not have the slightest restraint, and within a few days, Wang Jun found Guo Wei again and said to him: "Your Majesty, Li Gu and Fan Qian are too annoying to be reused!" Guo Wei was silent and did not speak, speaking of this, everyone must be wondering why he didn't squeak this time, was he abused and stupid by Wang Jun? Of course not, in fact, the reason is very simple, because Li Gu and Fan Zheng's official positions are the same as Wang Jun's, and they are all the prime ministers of the Later Zhou Dynasty! Obedient, boycott, this is not a trivial matter, which makes Guo Wei how to answer? Therefore, Guo Wei had to be silent and not answer. However, silence has no warning meaning for Wang Jun, and silence can only explain one problem for Wang Jun, that is, Guo Wei's weakness, Wang Jun is aggressive, and finally, Guo Wei opened his mouth: "Ai Qing, have you forgotten what day it is today?" Today is the Cold Food Festival, so when the festival is over, I will promise you! Wang Jun retreated.
Speaking of this, some friends wondered: "Why did Guo Wei put up with Wang Jun?" "In fact, everything is because of an idiom - rat thrower. Although Wang Jun's "rat" is hateful, Wang Jun is now squatting on a precious vase, and he can't break the vase in order to deal with Wang Jun, that will cause turmoil in the political situation, and it will not be worth the loss, so Guo Wei has repeatedly endured Wang Jun, and moreover, Guo Wei has illusions about Wang Jun, hoping that Wang Jun can find out in conscience and be able to close it in time, but fantasy is ultimately an illusion and cannot replace reality. That day, when Guo Wei watched Wang Jun's back disappear, his heart was endlessly sad: "Wang Jun, Wang Jun, how did you become what you are now?!" I don't want to move the knife, I don't want you to go my way back, but... Now it has to be done! ”
Therefore, only one night later, Guo Wei took off all of Wang Jun's chinese clothes, and his days of wealth came to an end. Wang Jun was demoted to Sima of Shangzhou and died of a abdominal illness in Shangzhou. After Wang Jun was degraded, everyone Guo Wei was refreshed, but unexpectedly, Guo Wei cried: "Wang Jun's bullying of Yuan is also too much, and it is too rude, he wants to get rid of the left and right ministers of Yuan, and remove the wings of Yuan." When yuan's son was outside, he always obstructed the entry into the capital, and he was also resentful for coming for a while, even if he was both a cardinal and a prime minister. He wants to be a thrifty envoy, and this decay has also been given to him, as he wishes, but he is not satisfied, such a monarchless person, you say who can endure! ”
Well, this is Wang Jun's life, what do you think of Wang Jun as a person? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.