In the middle and early Tang Dynasty, ming jun was abundant, but from the middle and late tang xuanzong, there was a lot of adultery, such as Li Linfu, who was famous for his "mouth honey belly sword", who was a great traitor.
In addition to Li Linfu, Lu Qi, the chancellor during the Tang Dynasty, was also a very bad person, and was called a traitor.
During the tang dynasty, due to the reuse of Lu Qi, which caused the crowd to boil, Li Mian, the prime minister at the time, said in righteous words: "Lu Qi's adultery and evil are known to everyone in the world; but His Majesty does not know, so this is also adultery!" ”
Lu Qi is a descendant of Lu Huaishen, the prime minister during the Tang Xuanzong period, because of the team with the famous prime minister Yao Chong, played a lot of role in promoting the formation of the Kaiyuan prosperous world, his father was also killed in the Anshi Rebellion, because of this background, Lu Qi is naturally like the wolfberry, the root is Miao Hong, after the Middle Tang, due to the lack of talent, Lu Qi was reused,
Lang Zhong, who first served as an official, and then transferred to the local post at this time, was transferred to Gyeonggi in 781 AD, served as the imperial master, and was quickly promoted to the position of prime minister after only ten days, which had Lu Qi's talent to play a certain role, and more importantly, Tang Dezong still had great hopes for him as a famous courtier.
However, Lu Qi's various deeds after serving as prime minister were really worthy of Emperor Dezong's trust and the reputation of the Lu family.
During his reign, he wantonly suppressed dissidents and persecuted Zhongliang, as long as he did not deal with him, he had to frame, including Yang Yan, Yan Zhenqing, Yan Yin, Zhang Yi and others were affected, of which Yang Yan presided over the "Two Tax Laws", which played a huge role in the economic recovery of the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion, and as a result, under the framework of Lu Qi, he was given death.
Although Lu Qi only ruled for three years, he framed many Zhongliang, so why did Guo Ziyi, who was a zhongliang contemporary with him, who created the situation of Tang Zhongxing, escape the disaster?
I think that Lu Qi did not act on Guo Ziyi for three main reasons, the first of which was that Lu Qi became prime minister in February 781, and Guo Ziyi was seriously ill in the summer of that year, and did not give Lu Ziyi a chance at all.
Secondly, although Guo Ziyi did not have military power in his later years, his influence in the Tang Dynasty was enormous, and there was no need for Lu Qi to move such a person who had made outstanding contributions to the Tang Dynasty and was about to die, and if he did not get along, he would not be able to put himself in the position, the so-called traitorous courtiers, but to fight for power and profit, obviously, there is no "effect" in this regard to attack Guo Ziyi.
Finally, Guo Ziyi also had a precaution against such a villain as Lu Qi, when Guo Ziyi was seriously ill, Lu Ziyi, who was the prime minister, also came to visit, and when Guo Ziyi learned that Lu Qi had arrived, he removed all his wives and children, old and young, and gave the highest courtesy, and always respected and did not rely on the old and sell the old.
Later, when his family asked Guo Ziyi why he was so afraid of Lu Qi, Guo Ziyi said: "He is ugly and dangerous outside, and he will laugh when he sees him left and right, so that he will gain power later, and my clan has no class!"
It turned out that Guo Ziyi was worried that his family would laugh when he saw Lu Qi's ugly appearance, which would definitely make Lu Qi resentful and finally retaliate against the Guo family.
It can be said that Guo Ziyi's life is a watertight, and he has become a rare number of people in Chinese history who have achieved great success and shocked the lord and died well.
Of course, Lu Qi was in power for three years, but he left a reputation for hundreds of years, which is also infamous for thousands of years, and Guo Ziyi is unwilling to compete with him, but is famous in history.