On the first day of February in the fourth year of Emperor Gaozong of Tang 's reign (653), the city of Chang'an was still chilling. This day is the birthday of the true king of the sun, and the people of all families burn incense to the sun and prostrate themselves, offering sugar cakes for the true king to eat, known as "sun cakes". The sun cake is round like a chinese sun, and the cake noodles are carved with bamboo sticks on it. After the offering, a passage of the Sun Sutra is recited.
Outside the Sun Palace, pilgrims gathered, merchants spoke, in addition to a variety of goods, there are "balls, pan dances, suspension, rope walking, flying pills, pulling distance, carrying ding, over the blade" and other juggling performances, of course, song and dance orchestra is also indispensable, "rapid management jagged, long sleeves Yuanna; Yangchun white snow, flowing clear horn", can be described as very lively.
On this day's holiday, the civil and military officials put on spring clothes, took their families, rode horses, and went out to play in the wilderness. The disciples gave each other knives and rulers, implying that from today onwards, they would cut with Xiao Qiao in the harsh winter, embrace the warm spring sun, and rush to the bright future. Farmers gave each other turquoise cloth sacs containing seeds of crops such as five grains and fruits, praying for a smooth wind and rain in the new year and a good harvest of grains. Relatives and friends gathered together to drink spring wine, and the family was intoxicated. Song People Yang Wanli Poetry Cloud: Early February Spring In the middle, the flowers are thin and the willows are windy. The folding flower guest is a rogue, and the mess must be taught to be full of red roads.
On this day, slaughter is prohibited and killing is stopped.
Inside the mansion of Fang Yi'ai, Fang'ai's thirty-six-year-old wife, Princess Gaoyang, was quietly reading the Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. This book is an oral note compiled by Xuanzang's proud disciple, the monk, who went west to seek the Fa, which described in detail what the master saw and heard on his way to the west, full of exotic style.
Princess Gaoyang read that the young daughter of the King of Jieri was accused of marrying the Big Tree Immortal by her father, and the Big Tree Immortal hated that this woman was not beautiful, so she issued a vicious curse, causing her ninety-nine sisters to bend their waists in an instant, cover up their sighs, and tell the eunuch standing behind them that they were born in the world, and there were many troubles. What joy is there in life, and what fear is in death. My name is Gao Yang, and I died on the birthday of the True Emperor of the Sun, which can be said to be a timely death. How does the Emperor want me to die?
The eunuch Bi Gongbi replied respectfully, Princess Qi, the emperor is merciful, and the princess is blessed with drinking. Princess Gaoyang said, bring it. The eunuch brought a glass of wine with a strong turquoise smell, and Princess Gaoyang drank it all.
Princess Gaoyang's mother was named Gao Huitong, who was the "knife man" around Li Shimin. The knife man is not a female bodyguard with a knife, but the title of a harem concubine. In the emperor's harem, in addition to high-ranking concubines such as empresses, concubines, concubines, and concubines, there were also intermediate concubines such as Cairen and Zhaorong, as well as lower-level concubines such as imperial concubines and concubines. In addition, there are also people who are clothed and knife people, and there is no number of employees, all of which are below six products.
Gao Huitong was born into a famous family, his father Gao Shida was once the Sui Dynasty Gaomi County Ling, and her husband was also a local young talent. Gaomi was occupied by Dou Jiande, and Gao Shida and her husband became Dou Jiande's subordinates. In May of the fourth year of Wu De (621), Tang Xia fought a decisive battle at Tiger Prison Pass, Gao Huitong's husband was killed in battle, and he and his father followed Dou Jiande and were sacrificed by Li Shimin to Chang'an. On June 5, 622, gao Huitong, because of his "gentle nature and gentle temperament", was beautiful and gorgeous, and was favored by Li Shimin and accepted as a concubine, at the age of 26, one year older than Li Shimin. Of course, this is also in line with Li Shimin's consistent preference for the tone of people's wives.
On April 10, 626, in the ninth year of Wude (626), Gao Huitong died in childbirth while giving birth to Princess Gaoyang, at the age of thirty. This incident had a great impact on Li Shimin, resulting in Gao Yang, although he was only out of the house, he enjoyed the favor of far more than other brothers and sisters.
Li Shimin did not have a birthday in his life. He said that the birthday is the day of the mother's crucifixion, and the birth of the child is the mother's walking away at the ghost gate, and the pain and hardship are absolutely incomprehensible. "Poetry" Cloud: Mourn my mother, give birth to me. To repay the virtue, Hao Tian is reckless. Therefore, as soon as he arrived at his birthday, he would weep with sorrow. And warn the people around me not to wish me a happy birthday, the consequences are very serious.
Princess Gaoyang lost her mother at an early age, and the eldest grandson empress put her into the palace, treated her as her own, and carefully raised her. In the second year of Zhenguan, Li Zhi, the king of Jin, was born, zhenguan was ten years old, the eldest grandson empress died of illness, and the fourteen-year-old Wu Meiniang entered the palace and became a talented person of Li Shimin, and met the ten-year-old Princess Gaoyang and the eight-year-old Li Zhi, and the three of them established a deep friendship.
In the first month of the nineteenth year of Zhenguan (645), Master Xuanzang, who had been seeking the Fa in the west for sixteen years, arrived in Chang'an, and Li Shimin received him in Luoyang and asked him, Why didn't you report to me when you went west to seek the Fa. Xuanzang said, I once went on the three tables, but you did not agree, had to sneak away, hoping that you can forgive me for the "crime of specialization.". Li Shimin said, It's all right, since you are a monk, you are different from the worldly people. Moreover, it is also a good thing for you to sacrifice your life to seek the Law, which is also a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, "entrusting orders to seek the Law to benefit the people", I don't blame you.
Xuanzang originally wanted to be the host of the Shaolin Temple in Songshan Nearby, but Li Shimin said that the Shaolin Temple was desolate and remote, and it was not suitable for you, so you should go to the Hongfu Temple in Chang'an City. "(Hongfuku-ji Temple) Although its location is small, the Zen temple is quiet and can be translated." In fact, Hongfu Temple is not small, this is Li Shimin in the eighth year of Zhenguan (634) specially expanded to the mother Empress Dou to pray for blessings, the temple raised a lot of great monks, Li Shimin every year to the birthday of the day will come to the temple to personally recite the sutra, to commemorate the mother.
Li Shimin also said, what you lack is with Fang Xuanling (Li Shimin went to Goguryeo, Fang Xuanling stayed in Beijing and took full authority to handle all affairs), and I asked him to satisfy you as much as possible. "The official force, and consult with Xuan Ling, the order is excellent." After Xuanzang presided over the Hongfu Temple, Fang Xuanling received Li Shimin's holy will and strongly supported his work, "so he summoned Shamen Huiming and Lingrun to prove righteousness; Shamen Xingyou, Xuanzhao, etc., thought that they were embellished; Shamen Zhizhi, debated, etc., thought that it was recorded."
The debater monk entered Hongfuku-ji Temple and began the highlight of his life, and of course, the moment of sorrow.
He was born in the second year of Wude (619). He became a monk at the age of 15 and became a disciple of Daoyue, the master of the Yongyang Fang Grand Master's Temple in Chang'an City. After Master Daoyue was appointed as the head of Puguang Temple, he residided in Huichang Temple, Jinchengfang, Chang'an City. For more than ten years, he devoted himself to the study of Buddhist theory, and was promoted by his generations to understand the theory of the great and small multiplication sutras. At the age of 26, he entered the Eyes of Master Xuanzang and became a proud disciple of Master Xuanzang. Master Xuanzang dictated the Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, which he had seen and heard in the west, and was edited by the debate monk.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month in the twenty-second year of Zhenguan (648), Princess Gaoyang was 22 years old and married fang xuanling' second son fang of Liangguo. Li Zhi, who was twenty years old at the time, had already been made crown prince, and wu Mei, who was twenty-six years old, had been alienated by Li Shimin and was hiding in the library to study. In the Tang Dynasty, women married at the age of fifteen, and Princess Gaoyang married at the age of twenty-two, for only one reason, that is, there was no suitable.
Fang Yi'ai was "born without learning and had force", did not like to read, walked all day and hunted, and once followed Li Shimin in his conquest of Goguryeo. Fang Yi'ai performed well in the war and was appreciated by Li Shimin, and after his return, Li Shimin married Princess Gaoyang to him, which was also a reward for Fang Xuanling's lifelong loyalty. Princess Gaoyang married into the Fang mansion and still often entered and exited the forbidden place. On his deathbed, Fang Xuanling wrote to Li Shimin, advising Li Shimin to recuperate and not to conquest Goguryeo, because the time was not yet ripe. Li Shimin said to Gao Yang next to him, look at your father-in-law, he is sick like that, and he is still worried about the country and the people.
On July 24, 648, the 22nd year of Zhenguan(648), Fang Xuanling died of illness, and the eldest son, Fang Yizhi, inherited his title of Duke of Liang. Princess Gaoyang was pampered and arrogant, and was very dissatisfied with this, so she played tricks with Li Shimin and demanded that the title be given to Fang Yi'ai. Fang Wei was frightened, and gave Li Shimin a table and asked to give up the title to the second brother. Li Shimin thought of the pain of his and Jiancheng Yuanji's brothers, the sadness of Li Chengqian and Li Tai in the same room, thunder and anger, breaking the sky and thundering at Princess Gaoyang, severely reprimanding her, princess Gaoyang covered her face.
In August, when autumn was high and refreshing, Princess Gaoyang and Fang Yi'ai rode out on horseback to hunt and relax, and when they got tired halfway, they came to Hongfu Temple to rest and met a monk who was reading the scriptures. The 30-year-old debater is handsome, extraordinary, elegant and personable, and the 22-year-old Gao Yang fell in love with him at first sight. Years of boring cultivation life also made the debater and monk Fan's heart flutter, and the two of them dried firewood and burned, and they did it at one point.
Here's a digression. If you look at "Journey to the West", you will find that there are many female monsters in it, all of them are beautiful and charming, seducing Tang Xuanzang to break his ring. In addition to the female demons, there are also female immortals, disguised in disguise, to test whether the Tang monks have moved their hearts. It can be seen that the monks are practicing, and the female color is the most difficult to break. The "Water Margin" says that the monk is a "hungry ghost in color", although it is biased, but it also says this meaning. Jin Yong wrote "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", and the virtual bamboo kept the precepts from childhood, and it was also planted on the word "color". There is a knife on the head of the color character, and I am not deceived.
The evil fate of the monk and Princess Goyang was roughly like this. The two secretly chen cang for half a year later, the incident occurred.
In March of the twenty-third year of Zhenguan (649), Li Shimin took the elixir of tianzhu monk, which led to aggravation of his illness and an unusually irritable temperament. In April, the bad people in Wannian County caught two thieves and found a jade pillow, and the bad people recognized that this jade pillow had an extraordinary origin and reported it to the imperial history. Goshi was shocked at first sight and recognized that it was something in the palace, and after a retrial, the thief confessed that it had been stolen from the monk's hut. Yushi retried the debater, and the debater confessed that it was given to him by Princess Gaoyang. Yushi hurriedly reported to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin was furious and ordered that the monk beheaded in Xishi and killed more than ten slaves around Princess Gaoyang. Princess Gaoyang pleaded bitterly and unsuccessfully, and resented Li Shimin. In May, Li Shimin died, and although Princess Gaoyang cried but did not mourn, her face was unsympathetic.
In May of the first year (650) of Emperor Gaozong of Tang's reign, Li Zhi entered the Ganye Temple and rekindled his old love with Wu Mei, who was a nun, and in May of the following year (651), Wu Mei re-entered the palace. Princess Gaoyang often went in and out of the palace, and her friendship with Li Zhiwu became more and more fierce.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Yonghui (653), Princess Gaoyang once again challenged Fang Zhizhi, falsely accusing Fang Zhizhi of vainly trying to encroach on himself and wanted to seize the title of Duke of Liangguo. Originally, this was a small case limited to Fang Jia's concubine's seizure of the throne, but when it came to Princess Gaoyang and Fang Xuanling's descendants, Li Zhi asked his uncle and chancellor Sun Wuji to personally try it to show his attention. Unexpectedly, after poking a hole in Tianda, Fang Yizhi falsely accused Princess Gaoyang and Fang Yi'ai of plotting against Li Yuanjing, the King of Jing, in order to protect himself, and came up with evidence that Princess Gaoyang often mixed with Zhixun monks and others to engage in witchcraft. He said that Fang Yi'ai and Princess Gaoyang were "guilty of evil and evil, and feared that the courtiers would be private", so they were killed by righteousness.
The act of witchcraft was a sin of extermination at that time, and it was not trivial. The eldest grandson was not afraid of retrial, and Xue Wanche, the lieutenant of the horse capital, Chai Lingwu, and others were all involved. Fang Wei'ai defended that there was no such thing, and the eldest son Wuji said, as long as you recruit Li Ke, the king of Wu, I will spare your life. Fang Yi loved the letter and framed Li Ke, the King of Wu, for participating in it.
On the first day of February in the fourth year of Yonghui (653), Li Zhi issued an edict, and Fang Yi'ai, Xue Wanche, and Chai Lingwu were beheaded in Xishi; Li Yuanjing, Li Ke, Princess Gaoyang, and Princess Baling (Chai Lingwu's wife) committed suicide. Li Zhi interceded with the eldest grandson, Li Yuanjing is my uncle, Li Ke is my brother, I don't want to kill them, can I give them a way to live? The eldest grandson instructed the soldier Shangshu Cui Dunli to say that the law does not tolerate mercy, but to kill it.
Wanche said in a big way: "Xue Wanche is a great athlete, staying for the country's death force, is it not good, but sitting in the room and loving to kill!" King Wu died and scolded: "The eldest grandson is unscrupulous in stealing authority, harming goodness, and the clan has a spirit, and when the clan is destroyed soon!" "
At the last moment of her life, Princess Gaoyang remembered her mother, who had a troubled fate. The wealth and glory of her life were actually bought by her mother with her life.
After she drank the poisoned wine, her stomach pain was unbearable, and she shouted A-Niang.
Sima Guang, author of "Zizhi Tongjian", commented on the conspiracy case of Princess Gaoyang Fang's widow: Confucius said that if the name is not correct, it is not smooth, and if the words are not smooth, things will not be accomplished. In all things, you must first correct your name. Fang Yi'ai, as Fang Xuanling's son, was deeply favored by Li Shimin, and was given the title of Princess Ma Duwei, Princess Gaoyang Gui as a princess, and was deeply favored by Emperor Taizong, and the two were extremely rich. However, Ji Ji Gu Ying was still insufficient, and even coveted the dukedom of Liang Guo, who was left behind by Fang, and was aggressive, and eventually his name was destroyed, and the Fang family declined.
Contentment stops humiliation, and the ancients sincerely do not deceive me.
The Zizhi Tongjian is a textbook written by Sima Guang for nineteen years to the rule of the Song Shenzong, and has been praised by countless high-ranking people for more than a thousand years.
Wang Yinglin, a historian of the Southern Song Dynasty, said: "Since the existence of the book deed, there has never been a person like the "General Commentary". ”
At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Hu San Province: "If you do not know the Tongjian as a king, you want to rule but do not know the source of autonomy, and if you do not know the art of preventing chaos, if you are a subject and do not know the Tongjian, you will not be able to do anything to the king, and you will not be able to rule the people below; if you do not know the Tongjian as a son of man, you will be humiliated first, and it is not enough to do things later." ”
Zeng Guofan of the Qing Dynasty: "Stealing the book of the ancestors and astonishing the world, Mo is good at Sima Wenzheng's "Zizhi Tongjian", and its ancient treatises are eclectic and open-minded." ”
The old man has commented on the Zizhi Tongjian seventeen times, almost read through, many pages are glued with transparent tape, he commented: "Every reading benefits a lot." A rare good book... There are two great books in China, one is the "Records of History" and the other is the "Zizhi Tongjian", both of which are written by talented people in the context of political disillusionment... The "Tongjian" writes about war, which is really written with vigor and vigor, very expressive, and full of dialectics. ”
Doctor Feng Tang read the "Zizhi Tongjian" five times, and then went to a multinational consulting company to become a partner, with a net worth of hundreds of millions. He said that I had been watching it since I was in middle school, and after reading it several times and meditating on it, I could give advice to the emperor in the book, and if I didn't do what I said, I would "weep to the palace" if I didn't do it.
All in all, the Zizhi Tongjian is a guide to how we live and work. Now people like to read in pieces, fast food reading, in fact, these readings are not very helpful to people. Fast food has no nutrition, it is high in oil and salt, and it will only make you eat greasy and fat. Fragment reading is like a dry food snack, no matter how full you eat, you can't compare with a meal. "Zizhi Tongjian" is a big meal, we have to read it repeatedly, read it several times, we can cultivate human feelings and be insightful in the world. What workplace sense soul chicken soup, it's all packed.
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