【Ten ministers are here】
An Chongba was cunning and cunning, and was good at guessing other people's thoughts. He took the initiative to curry favor with the eunuch Wang Chengxiu, actively made suggestions for Wang Chengxiu, and taught him to bewitch Shengting. It was under his guidance that Wang Chengxiu was appointed as the military envoy of Qinzhou Tianxiong Army, and then appointed An Chongba as his deputy military envoy, taking him with him to continue his conspiracy.
After the two went to Qinzhou, they carried out a lot of construction work and built a palace to prepare for the holy visit. In Qinzhou, the two of them collected exotic flowers and plants and presented them to Chengdu as a painting called "Flowers and Trees". They tried their best to boast of Qinzhou's beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery. They also plundered folk women, taught them to sing and dance, and dressed them up carefully. Let a painter draw their faces and send them to Chengdu.
The scenery is picturesque and the beauties are like clouds... Your Majesty, come to Qinzhou to have some fun?
In the court, the eunuch Wang Chengxiu colluded with Han Zhao, the governor of Chengdu (Wang Zongyan's favored minister), internally and externally. Han Zhao helped Wang Chengxiu in the court and strongly persuaded Wang Zongyan to inspect Qinzhou.
Wang Zongyan then ordered to drive to Qinzhou. Be the old man next door again.
The straight-line distance between Qinzhou and Chengdu is one thousand miles, separated by thousands of mountains. The mountain roads are dangerous and rugged.
This time, the silent civil and military ministers finally couldn't sit still. The national crisis was at hand, so why were they still stubborn? "There are many ministers who give advice." Among them, Wang Zongbi also went to the bookstore to give advice.
Wang Zongyan was very angry and threw Wang Zongyan's memorial table directly to the ground.
Even Concubine Xu and Concubine Xu were opposed to Wang Zongyan's trip. Seeing that Wang Zongyan insisted on going his own way, she was sad, angry, and helpless. Concubine Xu wept and went on a hunger strike to protest.
The Queen Mother is on a hunger strike. No matter how bastard the Emperor is, he should obey his mother's wishes. After all, he must rule the world with filial piety and set an example. But Wang Zongyan has become so bad that he is invulnerable to all kinds of poisons.
The ministers advised him and the Queen Mother went on a hunger strike, but they still could not stop Wang Zongyan from going to Qinzhou. Nothing can stop his yearning for beautiful women.
Pu Yuqing, who once denounced the imperial court during the interview at the Wenming Hall, was now serving as a judge in Qinzhou. Of course, he also went to Shuji to remonstrate with him. The memorial was 2,000 words long. This time, the language was even more intense. Here is an excerpt:
"The late emperor worked hard to start a business, and he wanted to pass it down to the next generation. His Majesty's youth grew rich and noble, and his desolate color led to wine... Emperor Qin hunted eastward, and Luan Jia refused to return; Emperor Yang died south, and the dragon boat never returned... In the past, Li Shi succumbed to Huan Wen, and Liu Chan surrendered to Deng Ai. …”
Han Zhao was furious and sent someone to tell Pu Yuqing, "I will accept your watch and seal first. When the emperor comes back, I will ask you to explain it word by word to the jailer in prison!"
In April of the third year of Tongguang's reign (925), Wang Zongyan held a banquet with his ministers. During the dinner, Wang Zongyan suddenly regained some of his sanity. He was melancholy and confused, "raised his glass in displeasure," and said: "Nowadays, there are post-Tang Dynasty miscellaneous Hus in the north, and there are Southern Hus in the south." I'm trying to summon the barbarians, but I'm powerless and can't attack them. Alas - the motherland has not yet been unified, and I feel depressed!"
Gu Zaixun (son of Gu Yanlang) flattered the horse and said, "There are ten ministers here in the imperial court. Why worry, Your Majesty?"
In order to keep flattering him, after he retired, Gu Zaixun found Prince Xima (official title) Lin Han and asked him to help him be a gunman and write a Shu version of "Ten Ministers Are Here".
There is "Ten Ministers Are Here" in the Tang Dynasty, which collects beautiful stories from ancient and modern times, showing the strength of the monarch and his ministers and the prosperity of the country. Therefore, Gu Zaixun wanted to present the Shu version of "Ten Ministers in" to Wang Zongyan to make him happy.
He really found the right person.
Lin Han, Botong classics and history. But he is a typical angry young man, "literary and sarcastic", and best at criticizing current affairs, so he completed this essay with a stroke of his pen. We excerpt part of the content:
"Building buildings within the confines of the city...going out of the town and the fence...I ordered Luan Yu to be far away. Fortunately, he was the source of provocations and the source of disaster. Wang Chengxiu was there;
Cutting off one's life while playing, killing one's enemies under the cardinal's hands, discarding all meritorious deeds, not doing anything without bribery, Song Guangsi is here;
He was paid by the late emperor and entrusted to be the pillar of a great country, but he was actually a greedy person and not a tool of the country. Wang Zongbi was there;
The cause of chaos is based on the cleverness of the regulations, the treacherous plot is based on the ability of the cheek and tongue, the heart and mouth are in danger, and Han Zhao is still on the left and right;
Burning the military camp, renovating the private residence, Ouyang Huang is there;
He poisoned the people cruelly, gathered goods in the market, and claimed to be the governor of the county. He truly owes God's grace, and there are Tianlu and his wife here;
He is the emperor's uncle, but he lives in luxury and does not care about assisting the emperor. His house is completely different from Shangyuan. He is satisfied with gold and pearls but is greedy. Xu Yanqiong is here;
He was left as a stay-at-home officer and became a cardinal. He did not offer any help to the emperor, but he only followed the emperor's will.
Searching for female sex, pleasing Chen Jin, always asking for unfavorable favors, and risking unsatisfactory favors every time, he is not loyal and diligent, but is actually theft, Yan Ningyue is there;
Singing the sound of the country's subjugation caused the emperor to be in a state of coma as Jie and Zhou, and the emperor lacked the transformation of Tang and Yu. There are ministers (I, Gu Zaixun) here.
Your Majesty has appointed ministers like this, so why worry about the unrest of the country? "
Gu Zaixun didn't know anything about it, but he didn't know that it was no longer a subtle insinuation, or a sarcastic sarcasm by naming names. He thought it was a hymn of praise for virtue, so Pitian'er Pidian'er took it and presented it to Wang Zongyan.
What is surprising is that after Wang Zongyan saw it, he laughed "haha", ordered to reward Gu Zaixun with 500 pieces of silk, named General Youjin Wuwei, Kaifu Yitong Third Division, inspected the Taiwei, and ordered the historian This matter will be included in the history of the country.
Surprise or not, surprise or not.
Maybe it was because Wang Zongyan was surrounded by treacherous and sycophantic villains, and he sang praises every day, and when he suddenly heard good advice, he was relieved by being scolded. Furthermore, maybe he wanted to create a character who was open-minded and accepting of advice, so he ordered the historian to write it down. It was included in the history of the country and recorded in the annals of history forever, and the Shu version of "Ten Ministers in" was handed down from generation to generation.
Wang Zongyan's "humbly accepting advice" performance is also a tribute to his father Wang Jian.
During the Wang Jian era, there was a Suzhou native named Jiang Zhaogong who lived in Shu. This man was upright and very talented. He often wrote poems with guns and sticks, satirizing the authorities and ridiculing current affairs. One day, Wang Jian had the opportunity to read the poem and was "overjoyed to see the poem". He liked and commented and reposted: "He is a man who dares to speak out!" He ordered Jiang Zhaogong to be promoted to the magistrate of Mingshan County, and was later awarded Yinfei for his outstanding political achievements.
Another commoner named Li Jing boldly wrote to Wang Jian, which was thousands of words in length, all of which directly hit the key points of the court. He was also promoted to be the chief registrar of Meishan. With my heart, I am entrusted with the duty of having a beard."
Therefore, Wang Zongyan was imitating the late emperor by giving Gu Zaixun, who contributed the "Ten Ministers", an official title and generous rewards.
Wang Zongyan is humorous, and Gu Zaixun's approach is even more hilarious. Gu Zaixun gave half of the 500 pieces of silk to Lin Han (because it was half a rarity) as a remuneration, which was exactly 250 pieces for both of them.
Lin Han was especially good at studying the Six Books. He once annotated twenty chapters of "Shuowen" and "Lin Shi" was passed down to later generations. However, "Ten Ministers Are Here" only bought him 250 pieces of silk and satin, and the admiration of the people. Lin Han was not promoted because of this, and finally ended his ordinary but extraordinary life in obscurity.
Lin Han's Shu version of "Ten Ministers Are Here" is a realistic picture scroll, such as "The Last Supper", which is a sketch of Wang Zongyan's court. It is a documentary version of the text, and can also be used as a guideline for us to start studying Wang Zongyan's court. .
