Li Chong is a han chinese, who served as an official in the Northern Wei Dynasty, vigorously promoted Sinicization, and led the construction of the Luoyang Imperial Palace, the new capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which can be said to be a generation of famous courtiers. But his life was taught with a strong legend, and he was appreciated by the empress dowager, and he died alive.
Li Chong became an orphan at a very young age, and his brother was xingyang taishou at the time, but fortunately his sister-in-law was kind and raised and educated him. After growing up, he took the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Capital City of Northern Wei as a middle school student. He is very disciplined, does not like to play games, just likes to travel and make friends. After graduation, he was admitted to the civil service and became a secretary.
At that time, Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei was young and was regent by Empress Feng. The Zizhi Tongjian records:
The secretary ordered Li Chong, although he entered with talent, he was also privately caged, and the rewards were invincible.
Empress Feng lived in the harem at a young age, often alone, lonely and sleepless, very empty in her heart, and her private life was unrestrained, which was also a well-known thing inside and outside the imperial court.
It just so happened that Li Chong was young and handsome, and Empress Feng liked it very much, so she gave him a blessing. Compared with other ordinary men who were fortunate because of their handsomeness and ability, Li Chong was a handsome man whose body and soul were integrated, and his beauty and wisdom coexisted, and he was increasingly favored and soon became a duke.
Moreover, as the richest woman in the land of China at that time, Empress Feng saw that Li Chong's family was poor, and her heart was very unbearable, how could her own man be poor? Therefore, every time Empress Feng was satisfied, she would inevitably give him the most generous reward, and once made him the richest man in the world. According to the Book of Wei:
Rewards of hundreds of thousands of yuan, into the Duke of Longxi, dense treasures to fill the first, outsiders can not get and know. The Chong family was poor, so they began to be rich.
However, Li Chong did not become complacent because he received the special favor of Empress Feng, but always maintained his enterprising original intention, worked diligently, got up early and greedily handled official affairs, never slackened off, and turned white at the age of 40. Of course, whether he was whiteheaded in advance of his work or for other reasons, we don't know, but there is such a thing, and the Zizhi Tongjian records: "Only forty and white." ”
Li Chong is also a family man, he has six brothers, when he was a child, because his family was poor, brothers often fought. However, after Li Chong became rich, he was willing to take out the reward he had received and share it with his brothers. Not only that, he also promoted a large number of relatives, and many people looked down on him because of this.
From this point of view, Li Chong is a person with an elegant personality and gentleness. At the beginning, Li Biao heard that Li Chong cherished Cai cai, so he went to him wholeheartedly. Li Chong, on the other hand, saw that Li Biao's family was poor and helpless in the imperial court, as if he saw the shadow of his youth, so he took good care of him, whether in front of Emperor Xiaowen or in front of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military officials, he strongly praised and recommended Li Biao. Li Biao was therefore promoted to lieutenant.
Li Biao was also really capable, judicially impartial, not afraid of the powerful, and deeply trusted by Emperor Xiaowen, and even compared him to the emperor of Emperor Wu of Han.
However, Li Biao thought that he had the emperor as a reliance, so he forgot the original guide, and gradually became estranged from Li Chong, but simply sorted out his sleeves when he met Li Chong in public to show the most basic etiquette. Li Chong also gradually recognized Li Biao as a person and began to feel resentful.
In 498, Emperor Xiaowen personally conquered Southern Qi, and Tuoba Cheng and Li Chong and others stayed in Luoyang. When several old men held meetings to discuss matters, Li Biao, because of his upright temperament and believing that he was in charge of the judiciary, only he was in charge of others, and others could not impeach himself, so his style was more domineering, and he no longer respected Li Chong, so he often argued with Li Chong, and even made trouble to the point of slapping the table on the spot and turning his face.
Li Chong was unable to get out of the fire, and he was very angry, but after all, he was still a senior official, so he fabricated Li Biao's guilt, made him shuanggui, and went to Emperor Xiaowen to impeach Li Biao, requesting that he be removed from his post and handed over to the court for punishment.
After Emperor Xiaowen saw the song on the front line of the Southern Expedition, he sighed and said that he did not expect that several comrades who remained in Luoyang had actually made trouble to this point, and Li Biao was indeed proud, but Li Chong was not complacent.
The secretary next to him had always been dissatisfied with Li Chong, but he and Li Biao were fellow countrymen, so they privately intervened and asked Emperor Xiaowen to forgive Li Biao, but only removed him.
However, during the period of Shuanggui Li Biao, Li Chong was unusual, angry, angry, slapping the table, smashing cups, breaking his mouth and scolding Li Biao's villain, which had reached the point of insanity and speech confusion, and finally "medicine could not be cured, or thought that the liver was split, and he died in the past."
Therefore, Li Chong's personality is multi-faceted. You say that he is narrow-minded, that he is neither ashamed of being openly raised by a rich woman, nor is he willing to share the riches with his brothers. But you say that he was broad-minded, but he was insane and even died of exhaustion because the person he pulled was so disrespectful to him.