"Spring grass grows on the road, and when the flowers in the forest are hairy."
According to the high limit, there is no re-service to know. ”
This short five-word poem was included in the 4th volume of quan tang poems, written by Li Ang. Careful readers may already see from the words "Yuanlu", "Shanglin", "Waiter" and other words in the poem: the author must have a great beginning! Sure enough, this Li Ang is the late Tang Emperor of the temple number "Wenzong", the original poem probably did not have a title, and the compiler added a "Palace Title" to his hand. Then, the Yangchun grass blooms long, the palace is picturesque, and the king of a country with high hopes is what "meaning" is there, even the courtiers are difficult to understand?
It's a long story.
Emperor Wenzong of Tang (20 November 809 – 10 February 840)
In the second year of the Tang Jingzong Bao calendar (826 AD), the seventeen-year-old Li Ang ascended to the emperor's throne. However, at this time, the Tang Dynasty had already flourished and declined: there were feudal towns outside, and there were clan disputes inside, especially the rapid expansion of eunuch power, far exceeding the previous Eastern Han Dynasty and the later Ming Dynasty. Li Ang's grandfather Li Chun of Tang Xianzong and his brother Li Zhanzong of Tang both died at the hands of eunuchs. Li Ang's father, Tang Muzong Li Heng, and Li Ang himself were both eunuchs. The eunuchs' abuse of power brought great disasters to the whole society, and also seriously threatened the stability of the country and the autocratic imperial power.
To be fair, Tang Wenzong Li Angchu was a great treasure, which was quite a bit of a spirit of hard work. He changed the lavish atmosphere of the previous dynasty, released 3,000 palace women in the inner court, and dismissed 1,270 redundant officials such as the Jiaofang Music Official and the Hanlin Waiting Commandment. He was also diligent in political affairs, frugal and elegant, and listened to the government for a while, so he read a lot of books, and once said to the left and right attendants: If you don't handle political affairs at night, and read and study at night, then "how can you be a king"! Sure enough, the new dynasty and the new atmosphere, so "the soldiers and the people celebrated each other" ("Old Book of Tang, Wenzong Jishang"), all hoping that under the leadership of this new emperor, everyone would enter a long-awaited peaceful and prosperous world.
However, Li Ang has two major flaws in his personality: First, he is indecisive, often one thing has been agreed upon with his subordinates, but he himself suddenly changes his mind and changes his orders, making the prime minister confused, so that the subordinates cannot correctly understand his intentions and cannot let go of their hands and feet. Second, in order to eliminate the eunuchs, Li Xun and Zheng Zhu, who had once defected to the eunuch clique, used the treacherous villains Li Xun and Zheng Zhu, who had once defected to the eunuch clique, and although they also executed the eunuchs Wang Shoucheng, Wei Yuanyuan, Chen Hongzhi, and so on, and dealt a heavy blow to the eunuch clique, they acted rashly when the conditions were not yet ripe, and tried to completely annihilate the eunuch clique headed by Qiu Shiliang, a lieutenant of the Shen Ce Army, in one fell swoop, and finally caused a tragic disaster. Because although Emperor Wenzong of Tang "had the way of an emperor, but did not have the talent of an emperor" (Old Book of Tang, The Chronicle of Emperor Wenzong), instead of becoming a virtuous emperor of the Zhongxing Tang Dynasty, he became a cowardly monarch who was bullied and manipulated by the eunuchs.
In the ninth year of Taihe (835 CE), the chancellor Li Xun and Fengxiang Jiedu conspired with Zheng Zhu and others to combine internal and external plots to eliminate the eunuch clique. In the name of the nectar descending from the pomegranate tree in the Zuo Jinwu Guard Courtyard, they lured Qiu Shiliang and others to watch, taking the opportunity to plot to kill, but failed because the ambushed armor was exposed. Qiu Shiliang and others abducted Tang Wenzong to return to the palace, and then jiaozhao hunted down and killed Li Xun, and Zheng Zhu was also killed by the eunuchs of the supervising army. Qiu Shiliang also wantonly killed the courtiers, and the city of Chang'an was full of bloody storms, and more than a thousand people, including the prime minister Shu Yuanyu and Wang Ya, died. This is the bloody "change of manna" in the history of the late Tang Dynasty.
Li Xun (?) -835)
After the "Ganlu Revolution", Tang Wenzong was placed under house arrest by Qiu Shiliang, and the state affairs were all controlled by the eunuch clique, and Wenzong had no choice but to drink and get drunk, and to give poetry to dispel sorrow, but he became a puppet, almost like a prisoner. According to the Tang Dynasty Su Yan's "Duyang Miscellaneous Compilation", Tang Wenzong hated Qiu Shiliang, but he had no choice. Sometimes yu Houyuan came to play, even if the palace plays were displayed in front, it could not make him stretch his eyebrows a little; but he often saw him staring at his eyes, talking to himself alone, and where did the attendants dare to come forward and inquire. The five-word poem at the beginning was written in this context.
In the first month of the fifth year of Kaicheng (840 AD), Li Ang, who was depressed and ill, died of an illness at the age of 31. Two months ago, in November of the fourth year of Kaicheng, he went to the court for the last time, and when he retired from the dynasty, he summoned Zhou Qi, a scholar at the Sizheng Palace, to accompany him, and gave him wine and asked him: "Which monarch can he compare with his predecessor?" Zhou Qi replied, "Everyone in the world says that Your Majesty is the Lord of Yao and Shun." Emperor Wenzong sighed, "How dare you compare yourself with Yao and Shun?" The reason why I asked you is to know how Shuo compares to King Zhao of Zhou and Emperor Xian of Han. Zhou Qi exclaimed, "Both King Zhou Zhao and Emperor Xian of Han are kings of the fallen country, how can they be compared with The Holy Virtue of His Majesty?" Emperor Wenzong said sadly, "King Zhao of Zhou was subject to the princes Qiang Qin, Emperor Xian of Han was subject to the powerful minister Cao Cao, and now Emperor Huan was subject to domestic slaves." From this point of view, It is still inferior to the King of Zhou and the Emperor xian of Han! As soon as he finished speaking, he was already wet with tears, and Zhou Qi was crying bitterly. Since then, Emperor Wenzong has been ill and can no longer sit in the court to receive his courtiers.
The change of manna
There were the Tang Dynasty, the governors of the three provinces of Zhongshu, Menxia, and Shangshu, as well as Tongping Zhangshi, all of whom were called prime ministers and jointly held the position of confidential. In the change of Ganlu, Tang Wenzong foresaw the matter, and Li Xun and Zheng Zhu were the masterminds. As for the other two prime ministers, Shu Yuanyu did participate in them, but Wang Ya, who was in his seventies, did not know it and was beaten into a confession by Qiu Shiliang—of course, Tang Wenzong, who was too busy to take care of himself, could not save them at all. However, the encounter between their two relatives is quite intriguing.
Wang Ya has a "re-congener brother"—that is, a distant brother named Wang Mu, who lives in Jiangnan and is both old and poor. Hearing that Wang Ya had become prime minister, he rode a donkey and traveled thousands of miles to the capital, hoping to obtain an official and a half-job, even if it was a small official like a book and a lieutenant. Where Wang Ya looked at him in the eyes, he did not receive him at all, and Wang Mu had no choice but to rent a house to live in. After staying in Chang'an for two years, he met Wang Ya, but he was very cold to him. Later, Wang Mu probably won the sympathy of a domestic slave whom Wang Ya loved, and pleaded with Wang Ya on his behalf, and Wang Ya agreed to give him a humble petty official. Since then, Wang Mu has been waiting under Wang Ya's door morning and evening, hoping to get a formal appointment. When the Ganlu Incident occurred, Qiu Shiliang sent soldiers to arrest Wang Ya's family, and Wang Mu was in Wang Ya's private residence, asking if he was his people, so together with the relatives of the Wang family, he was beheaded under a willow tree in the southwest corner of Chang'an City.