Eight characters of historical celebrities
Clue:
The powerful minister is a special product of China feudal society and an important part of ancient political history. In history, the status of a powerful minister can be a government official, a court official, a meritorious general or even a eunuch.
During the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Gongdan was a businessman for a long time, and later generations commented on him? The duke of Zhou vomited, and the world returned to the heart. ? ; At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao became prime minister, and everyone said he was? Holding the emperor as a minister? ; At the end of Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian was good at government, and everyone scolded him in history? The powerful minister is in power and sucks people's ointment. ? It can be seen that they are all under one person and above ten thousand people, and they are all powerful ministers of the dynasty, but the world gives them completely different evaluations.
From another point of view, Duke Zhou helped King Wu to govern the world and was praised by the world. Cao Cao successfully ruled the world and made future generations romantic; Wei Zhongxian was finally forced to hang himself, which made the world revile and be remembered for a long time. Therefore, the endings of the powerful ministers are even more ambiguous.
The powerful minister, the emperor's confidant, is also the emperor's menace.
Some people live in peace and are willing to be uncrowned kings.
In the 7th century BC/KLOC-,the first powerful minister in the history of China was born on the banks of Yishui River. He was Yi Yin. Because he was born on the bank of Yishui and took Yi as his surname, he was later worshipped by the Tang Dynasty as the Prime Minister of Yin, so he was called Yi Yin.
Although Yi Yin grew up in fields and villages along the Yishui River, he was proficient in the art of governing the country, he thought? Governing a big country is like cooking small and fresh? Only by grasping the heat and grasping the opportunity like cooking can the country be strong. After Yi Yin was hired by Shang Tang for three transgressions of five times, he assisted Shang Tang and defeated Xia Jie who had no idea. Naturally, Yi Yin, who was made prime minister by Shang Tang, actively rectified the bureaucracy, promoted economic development and made Shang Tang prosperous. After the death of Shang Tang, Yi Yin experienced five monarchs, namely Wei, Ren Zhong, Tai Jia and Wo Ding, who assisted the imperial court for more than 50 years and made conscientious contributions to the Shang Dynasty.
In the eighth year of Woding, Yi Yin, who was 100 years old, died and was buried in Dubo (now Shangqiu City, Henan Province). As a gift from the son of heaven, he was revered by later generations? Sheng Yuan? .
I was dressed in cloth and devoted myself to Nanyang. I risked my life in troubled times and didn't ask Wen Da to be a vassal. The first emperor didn't treat his ministers with meanness, and his accusation was self-defeating. He took care of his ministers in the thatched cottage and was grateful for what had happened in this world, so he promised the first emperor to drive him away. ?
I don't know Shu Han, but I know Zhuge Liang. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei, a declining aristocrat, traveled to Nanyang with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as sworn brothers for the sentence of Mr. Shui Jing? Wolong chicken, can a person live in the world? . However, Zhuge Liang did not let Liu Bei down. During the Jian 'an period, Liu Bei was chased by Cao Cao and was defeated in Dangyang Changban. Zhuge Liang was ordered to send a special envoy to Battle of Red Cliffs, Soochow, to defeat Cao Jun .. After helping Liu Bei to establish the Shu Han Dynasty and form the three pillars of the world, Zhuge Liang was also appointed as the prime minister and became the second person in Shu Han Dynasty.
After Liu Bei abdicated in Bai Di, many people speculated that Zhuge Liang would follow Liu Bei's instructions and take his place. However, he didn't do it. As a powerful minister of the dynasty, he would certainly ask himself big and small things. When he was an old man, he captured Meng Huo seven times and put down the barbarian. A model also makes people cry.
In the northern expedition to the Central Plains, Zhuge Liang died in Wuzhangyuan, all his life? Do your best to die? Also known as the representative of loyal ministers and wise men.
It is difficult to be a courtier, and it is even more difficult to be a minister. Yi Yin and Zhuge Liang both tried their best to help the monarch expand his territory and establish his own dynasty. After the death of their ancestors, they were all in power, but they remained loyal, as if they were representatives of loyal ministers saving the country. In the long river of history, Yi Yin and Zhuge Liang became the mainstay, admired and praised by the world.
Some people spy on the monarchy and get their hands on the throne.
In feudal society, the main threats to imperial power are foreign invasion by enemy countries, commanding troops and generals, dignitaries and officials, among which the most threatening is the dignitaries.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when Emperor Ai of Han Dynasty died young and the imperial power was marginalized. Wang Mang, the powerful minister, stole the imperial power of the Han Dynasty under the guise of folklore. Change the yuan and build the number, which is called the new dynasty in history.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xian Di was weak and incompetent, and Cao Cao was the prime minister. Holding the emperor as a minister? After the death of Cao Cao, eight years after Jian 'an, Cao Pi, the son of Cao Cao, directly forced Emperor Xian of Han to give way and established the Wei Dynasty.
In the second year of Emperor Xianxi of Cao Wei, the retribution of the Cao family stealing Han came. This year, Sima Yan, the grandson of Sima Yi, was appointed Prime Minister and attacked the King of Jin. The amazing reappearance of history has become a powerful minister of the Cao family. He forced Wei Yuan Emperor Cao Huan to meditate and establish the Jin Dynasty.
Tang and Song Dynasties were the pinnacle of ministers' power. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Guifei's brother Yang was in power, and he rose from a poor man to a prime minister, occupying more than 40 posts. During his reign, he embezzled the political platform and monopolized the country, which directly led to the self-interest of An Lushan and Shi Siming? An Shi's change? The flourishing age of the Tang Dynasty reached the downhill end of parabola.
If Yang is the promoter of the demise of the Tang Dynasty, then Zhu Wen can be called the terminator of the demise of the Tang Dynasty. Zhu Wen was the leader of the peasant uprising, and he was born a mud-legged man. Later, he joined Tang Jun and settled down? Huang Chao Uprising? , officials worship bianzhou secretariat, was later named Liang Wang. He took Henan as the center and became an important separatist force in the late Tang Dynasty. God lived for four years, and Zhu Wen forced Tang Aidi to seize the throne by abdicating, and proclaimed himself emperor on behalf of the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang dynasty died because of the powerful minister, and the Song dynasty was chaotic because of the powerful minister. Gao Qiu, a famous football player in the Song Dynasty, was Su Shi's bookboy when he was young. He was originally a team player trained by Duan Wang. Later, Duan Wang succeeded Song Huizong and Gao Qiu because of his superb skills and flattering officials. He, an athlete without meritorious military service, actually became the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces. Gao Qiu, who became a powerful minister, was crony and occupied armaments. He got something flashy to fool Song Huizong.
In addition, Cai Jing, Emperor Wen of Sui, etc. Cai Jing went from one place to another and finally became a very important official. The higher his official position, the more greedy and extravagant he becomes. He once set up a flower stone gang, and the people in the river were very poor. Finally fell out of favor and died in Tanzhou; Yang Jian is not Erlang God, but a courtier eunuch in Song Huizong. He used to be our ambassador in Changhua and finally became a teacher. He forced the people to rent his river bank, and the local people suffered greatly. After his death, people set off firecrackers to celebrate.
Some people are praised by later generations, while others are immortal.
From the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Tang and Song Dynasties, most countries were established by powerful ministers. For example, Tang Gaozu, Tang Gaozu, this is the in-laws of the Queen Dugu in the Sui Dynasty, and you are a consort; Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, as Chai Rong's right-hand man for the next week, plus Chen Qiaoyi's morbid yellow robe, that's it? Helpless in all aspects? I became the emperor. They all started with powerful ministers, but? The winner is the king and the loser is the coach. The history books only evaluate them as the founding emperors.
However, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, most powerful ministers had no good end. In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty, he was a scholar in Yan Song High School. Since self-editing, I have been promoted to imperial academy's Wine Sacrifice, History of Rites, Book of Rites, Young Master and Prince's Surname, Shao Shi University, Huagai Hall, etc. He joined the cabinet at the age of 63 and has been good at national politics for 20 years. During his reign, he ruined the country and the people, and lost money in the state treasury, which made the Ming Dynasty a success? The supply is increasing, and the rest is used up? . Later, he was finally robbed in Jiajing forty-one years, and his son Yan Shifan was beheaded. He also died in his hometown two years later. It has been edited into a drama with a long history.
The TV series The Duke Of Mount Deer introduced us to Ao Bai, the representative figure of the powerful minister of the Qing Dynasty. Ao Bai was a veteran of the Qing Dynasty. He worked hard for himself. Before the emperor shunzhi died, Michelle Ye, who had suffered from smallpox, was appointed as the heir to the throne, and Sony, Suksaha, Zieba Bilong and Ao Bai were appointed as assistant ministers. But because Sony is sick, I don't want to care too much; Suksaha was a favorite of Dourgen, but he didn't gain much power in the current dynasty. I am brave, foolhardy and have no opinion. Coupled with Ao Bai's outstanding military achievements, it is called? The first Batulu in Manchuria? So he stepped onto the road of authoritarianism step by step.
Ao Bai, who became the first powerful minister in Qing Dynasty, began to flout the national laws, not only wantonly embezzled but also connived at his soldiers seizing private houses, and at the same time colluded with others to seize private plots everywhere. At that time, people everywhere were miserable, but no one dared to tell him about his position in the DPRK.
Emperor Kangxi, as a monarch after leading the government, certainly could not allow such a powerful minister to exist. He silently paralyzed Ao Bai and trained private soldiers to catch Ao Bai while he was not careful. Later, Ao Bai was convicted of 30 counts. Kangxi saw that he was loyal to Huang Taiji and the emperor shunzhi and had no intention of usurping the throne and rebellion, so he was exempted from the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Again, it is difficult to be a courtier, and it is even more difficult to be a powerful minister. People's hearts are long, and no matter who reaches a position below one person and above ten thousand people, it is inevitable that there will be waves. At this time, it depends on concentration and courage. Some people rose up and became a generation of kings; Some people are trapped in prisons and become prisoners and ghosts by the sword.
Conclusion:
Loyal ministers are in power, and the country is rich and the people are safe; Treacherous court officials are in power, and the people are weak and the country is chaotic. Since ancient times, the safety of the people and the rise and fall of the country are closely related to the talents and morality of those in power. Shang Prime Ministers Yi Yin, Zhou Fuzheng, Zhuge Liang, Tang Detective Di, Song General, Ming Salvation Prime Minister Zhang, Qing Ji Yun, Li Jue, Liu Tongxun, Zhang and others are all examples of loyal ministers in feudal society. Although they were in power for a period of time, they never forgot their identity and remained loyal to the court. Wang Mang at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, an internal thief at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, thieves and Yang in the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Wen, Gao Qiu, Tong Guan and Emperor Wen of Sui in the Song Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian, Dourgen and Ao Bai in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Although it was on fire for a while, it was ruined in the end.
In the face of power, the latter always ended up worse than the former, and the worst was Er Zhurong, a powerful minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty. He was originally a title, took part in the peasant uprising, and later married his daughter to Xu Yuan, the emperor of Xiaoming. After Xu Yuan's death, Er Zhurong led troops into Beijing under the guise of a diligent king, and threw the Emperor Xiao Zhuang and the Empress Dowager of Jing Zong into the Yellow River, which was a great power for a while. Military Erzhurong did have two brushes to wipe out Jung, pacify Hebei, smash Nanliang and wipe out Guanlong. After that, Er Zhurong set up another court in Jinyang to control Chaogang. One of Er Zhurong's daughters was the concubine of Emperor Xiao Zhuang, but Er Zhurong insisted that Xiao Zhuang let his daughter be the queen. Therefore, Er Zhurong rushed to Du Chao to threaten Emperor Xiao Zhuang. Unexpectedly, he was stabbed to death by his son-in-law Emperor Xiao Zhuang of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and his blood splashed on the court.
Cai Dongfan once commented on him: Er Zhurong resisted superficial crimes, and his righteousness was strict. If he goes to Los Angeles, Qing Palace and stays in Ji, will he make great achievements? Therefore, in terms of behavior, Zhu Xing is not a rebellious time when he is a teacher. Should be demoted, should be praised, people who discuss history are really painstaking!
The long river of history is endless. Monarchical power and relative power have always been complementary, loving each other and killing each other. It is the release of this wonderful play that makes history more colorful.