In the autumn of the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao killed Yang Xiu for the crime of "leaking words and teachings before and after, and handing over to the princes".
Yang Xiu was born in the Hongnong Yang clan, and after four generations, we can also call it the "four generations and three dukes" family. Yang Xiu was studious and talented, and when he was cao cao's master, he was responsible for assisting Cao Cao in managing some military affairs, and his work ability was appreciated by Cao Cao. After Yang Xiu became a party of "Cao Zhi", Cao Cao killed Yang Xiu for various reasons.
Yang Xiu
First, let's talk about the situation of Yang Xiu's children and grandchildren, Yang Xiu's son is called Yang Hu. He was well-known during the Western Jin Dynasty and was a close and powerful subordinate of Sima Yan. In the early years of the Tai Dynasty, Yang Hu was made a general of the Dian Army. Yang Hu's main job consisted of commanding the forbidden army, and sometimes made cameo appearances in the task of reading edicts.
Unfortunately, Yang Hu died earlier. In 278 AD, Sima Yan died by means of a left servant Lu Qin, and the edict stated: "Therefore, Sikong Wang Ji, the Wei general Lu Qin, and Yang Hu were all poor people, and they did not have extra property in their families. In recent years, the country has been in famine, and I have heard that life in their families is not good, and now I take this opportunity to give them three hundred grains each of the three families. ”
Yang Huan has a son named Yang Zhun, Yang Zhun's circle of friends is better, he and the seven sages of the bamboo forest Ji Kang's son Ji Shao, ShanTao's son Shanjian as friends. Yang Zhun was an official in the last year of Emperor Hui of Jin's reign and went to Jizhou to assassinate Shi.
Yang Zhun had three sons: Yang Zhao, Yang Xian, and Yang Jun. Among them, Yang Zheng and Yang Xi eventually became officials of two thousand stones and were called "late-born Jun". Yang Jun is a member of the genus Taifu Tuan.
Overall, Yang Xiu's descendants had a good life in the following days. When Yang Xiu was killed, his wind evaluation was not very good, but why did Yang Xiu's descendants return to the scenery when Sima Yan was in? From the scattered historical data, the author takes the liberty of speculating that there should be three factors.
Family inherent status
Yang Biao Yang Xiu is from the Yang clan of Hongnong, who started in the Western Han Dynasty and also shone brightly during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Yang Zhen was an official during the reign of Emperor An, and was known as "Confucius of Kansai". Yang Zhen's son Yang Bing, grandson Yang Ci and great-grandson Yang Biao, all became taiwei and became another "fourth prince and three dukes" of the Eastern Han Dynasty. ”
Yang Biao
In the environment that attached great importance to clans at that time, although it was possible that the cohesion of clans was only a means for the emperor to achieve some purpose, whether it was because of the "united front" or because of fame, the support of the big family was very much needed.
In addition, Sima Yi also attached great importance to the relationship with the big family, many of whom used to recruit protégés and former officials, arrange political marriages and other ways to make friends with other big families. After Sima Yan was zen, in order to consolidate the political power, it has always been the direction of their efforts to get the support of the big family.
Literary achievements
Although Yang Xiu was discredited because of his cleverness and taking sides, this was only political. Yang Xiu is still very accomplished in literature, and according to records and scholars' research, Yang Xiu's works in his lifetime are very numerous. He has a total of fifteen articles, performances, poems, etc., and there are about five articles in existence. Among them, the poems that have not been compiled in a book cannot be verified.
In addition to Yang Xiu's learning, Yang Xiu's grandson Yang Zhun's literary literacy should not be too low. It is said that observing a person and looking at his friends will tell what kind of person he is. Yang Zhun's best friends were Ji Shao, the son of Ji Kang among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, and Shan jian ( Shanjian ), the son of Shantao.
Ji Shao was a famous courtier of the Western Jin Dynasty and a famous literary scholar. Ji Shao was not afraid of the magnates, and desperately protected Emperor Hui during the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and was eventually killed. After Ji Shao's death, his ministers, led by Sima Yue the Prince of Hejian and Sima Yue the Prince of Donghai, and Sima Rui the Prince of Langyue, played his loyalty. Ji Shao was nicknamed "Zhongmu".
Shan Jian is the fifth son of Shan Tao, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, and Shan Jian is a famous scholar of the Western Jin Dynasty with an elegant personality. He spent his whole life on horseback, and eventually became a generation of capable officials and loyal men. After Shanjian's death, he was posthumously awarded the title of Grand General of Zhengnan and Yi Tongsan division.
Yang Zhun has these two good friends, and his knowledge and speech and demeanor should be complementary to the two. Shuttling through the literati family pile is very helpful for the addition of one's own reputation.
Empress Yang's "Pro"
We all know that Sima Yan had two empresses in his lifetime, the first was Yang Yan and the second was Yang Zhi, both of whom were Hongnong Huayin people. To put it simply, they and Yang Xiu are both descendants of Yang Zhen. In addition to Sima Yan's two empresses being from the Yang family, the "Three Yangs of the Western Jin Dynasty" also served Sima Yan with the work of the Khan Horse.
The three Yangs of the Western Jin Dynasty were Yang Jun and his brothers Yang Jue and Yang Ji. The three of them respectively controlled the national encyclopedia and were full of power, and their rise to power had a lot to do with the two Yang Empresses.
A family is in charge of the world's major affairs, no matter how big or small, who should it use? Of course, it is a person from his own family, and if he thinks about the growth of the Yuan Shao family in that year, we can see that this is an inevitable means for the family to control the world. Don't worry about anyone, of course, to your relatives. In the former Dynasty Yang Biao, Yang Xiu was a famous minister and scholar, and he also had the same origin as himself, of course, he had to take more care. At least, two Yang characters could not be written in one stroke, and at that time, when the family concept was strong, Yang Xiu's descendants were likely to be favored.
Even if the "Three Yangs" did not explicitly treat Yang Xiu's descendants kindly, who wouldn't want to take this opportunity to perform as an official?
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