How to evaluate the Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan famous Xiang Zhang said

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Is a famous politician and writer of the Tang Dynasty, through the four dynasties of Wu Zetian, Tang Zhongzong Li Xian, Tang Ruizong Li Dan, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, in the Policy Examination presided over by Wu Zetian himself to use the first list, Tang Ruizong and Tang Xuanzong three times before and after the prime minister, in charge of the literary circle for thirty years, for the early Kaiyuan generation of Wenzong, known as "Yan Xu big hand", especially good at biographies, epitaphs, "Quan Tang Wen" contains 211 of his texts, "Quan Tang Poems" contains 293 of his poems, in the heyday of Quan Tang culture can occupy such an important position, in the heyday of Quan Tang culture can occupy such an important position, It is enough to explain the greatness of his literary achievements. After his death at the age of sixty-four, he was given the nickname "Wenzhen".

In addition to his literary attainments, he believes that he was "both literate and military-minded," and that he was well-versed in the form of government, and that he had many reform measures against the political and military systems that were out of date; therefore, historians praised him for "inventing the canon, being polite in the Kaiyuan cultural relics, and saying that he was an important politician who promoted the "rule of Kaiyuan"; on the other hand, he also said that he was short-tempered, had relations with his colleagues, and was greedy for money.

There are two allusions that have been handed down to this day from Zhang Shu, one is "dead Yao Chong's calculation of living Zhang Said", because Zhang Said always had a gap with Yao Chong' in the official arena, Yao Chong, fearing that after his death, Zhang Shu would retaliate, so he took advantage of his greed for money to design Zhang Shu to write an epitaph for himself, taking advantage of Zhang Said to get the Yao family's belongings, let him complete the epitaph, immediately filed with the imperial court and immediately engraved it on the stone stele, and when Zhang said that he repented, the wood had become a boat, and it was too late, thus leaving a very interesting historical allusion; the second was the allusion to calling his father-in-law "Taishan". During Tang Xuanzong's sealing of Taishan, Zhang said that he was a Zen envoy, and he used his power to quickly promote his son-in-law from the Nine Pin Sesame Officer to the Five Pins, Tang Xuanzong asked his son-in-law why he was promoted so quickly, the son-in-law was embarrassed to answer, and the people next to him said, "All are the merits of Taishan", and since then people have called their father-in-law Taishan, and from such records, Zhang said that he should be regarded as a normal person, neither elevated nor completely degraded, a flesh and blood person.

However, Zhang said that the real strength lies in his consistently sober political mind in the brutal political struggle, whether it is Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, the favorite ministers of the Wu Zetian period, who used him to overthrow Wei Yuanzhong, the prime minister, or in the face of the lure of the Princess Taiping, he never speculated, even in the face of life and death tests, he did not give up his position, and he also contributed to the issue of promoting Li Longji's supervision of the country, indicating that Zhang Said had extremely accurate political judgment, and such a political vision is not something that anyone can have.

After that, Li Linfu and others impeached Zhang for accepting bribes and using their power to violate law and discipline. After the results were verified, Zhang said that there were indeed illegal acts. However, Li Long gene said that Zhang had made great contributions to the imperial court before, so he spared him the chancellor, but did not execute Zhang Said. After that, Li Linfu was worried that Zhang Shuo would still be reused, so he continued to say bad things about Zhang in front of Tang Xuanzong, and finally Zhang Said was forced to retire!

Later, when Zhang said that he was sixty-four years old, he died of illness and was given the nickname Wenzhen.

Therefore, Zhang said that this person, although there are minor flaws, is not a generation of bright faces, and at the same time he is a brilliant writer. During his tenure, political clarity did indeed make great contributions to Li Longji's Kaiyuan prosperity.