After Wang Yanxi won the battle to defend Fuzhou, envoys from Silla Kingdom (today's South Korea) happened to visit and presented Wang Yanxi with a large and beautifully crafted sword. Just when the civil and military ministers were about to congratulate him, they found that Wang Yanxi's face changed drastically, jumping between fear and anger.
It turns out that as early as Wang Jipeng's period, Silla Kingdom had sent envoys to present swords. At that time, Wang Jipeng held the sword in his hand and played with it repeatedly, unable to put it down. After playing with it for a while, Wang Jipeng raised it to the Prime Minister Wang Tan and showed it to him, "Tell me, what should such a beautiful sword be used for?"
According to records, Wang Yanxi had already planned to seek power and usurp the throne at that time, but Wang Tan was an upright man and not afraid of power. He noticed Wang Yanxi's misdeeds and confronted him head-on. Wang Yanxi was also afraid of Wang Jipeng's suspicion and indiscriminate killing, so he compromised and accepted the throne. Be patient with Wang Tan everywhere.
When Wang Jipeng asked with a smile, "What will this general do?" Wang Tan looked serious, his attitude was firm, and he said sharply: "Behead those disloyal ministers!"
Wang Yanxi was on the side at the time. He was so frightened that his face turned pale and he could not recover for several days. (Those whose color becomes restless will tire of the day)
From this we can also see that when Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu launched a mutiny, they put a knife on Wang Yanxi's neck in the toilet and forced him to become emperor, which is similar to Guo Wei's "Chanzhou Mutiny" and Zhao Kuangyin's The same as the "Chenqiao Mutiny".
It was still the same place, the same Silla envoy, still presenting the great sword... Wang Yanxi's thoughts instantly returned to the memory of that year, and he could not calm down for a long time.
Anger gradually replaced fear, and by this time, Wang Tan had passed away. Wang Yanxi ordered to open the coffin and kill the corpse!
According to records, when the coffin was opened, Wang Tan's face looked like a living person. After his head was cut off, a stream of blood flowed all over his body in an instant. People all deplored it.
Chen Guangyi, the school secretary, said angrily to the people around him: "The emperor is so immoral, the country's destruction is imminent, and I will die to remonstrate." Relatives and friends all came to dissuade him, but Chen Guangyi was determined.
Chen Guangyi's Shangshu listed more than 50 "great evil" things committed by Wang Yanxi! He kowtowed in the court hall until his face was covered with blood, urging Wang Yanxi to repent in time.
Wang Yanxi was furious and ordered the guards to drag him out and beat him severely with a whip. He was beaten hundreds of times until Chen Guangyi's skin and flesh were torn to pieces. But before he died, Wang Yanxi ordered someone to tie a rope around his neck and hang him on a tree. , and hung for a long time before dying.
In the same month that Wang Tan, the prime minister in front of the whipping corpse, strangled Chen Guangyi to death, Wang Yanxi married his daughter.
When a princess gets married, all civil and military officials will naturally congratulate her. Wang Yanxi took the account book and carefully counted it, and found that 12 people did not come to follow him, so he summoned these 12 people to the Jinluan Hall and whipped them one by one.
He also called Liu Zan, the censor Zhongcheng, to blame him for not impeaching these people in time, and then also whipped him.
Liu Zan argued hard that what he was impeaching was violations of laws and disciplines. If others don't let you follow the rules, what kind of law is this breaking?
Wang Yanxi refused to reason with him and insisted on being whipped. Liu Zan fought to the death, preferring to die rather than suffer such humiliation.
Zheng Yuanbi, the admonishing official, reminded Wang Yanxi that scholars can be killed but not humiliated. Since ancient times, there has been a rule that "the punishment should not be used to punish scholar-officials." The censor Zhongcheng is an example for all officials and cannot be punished casually.
"Hey -" Wang Yanxi pointed the finger at Zheng Yuanbi and threatened: "What's wrong, do you really think you are Wei Zheng?"
Zheng Yuanbi replied: "It is precisely because I regard His Majesty as Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty that I dare to regard myself as Wei Zheng."
Respond with high emotional intelligence.
After hearing that he was Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Yanxi finally calmed down his anger and said, "Forget it, let me spare this time." He ordered Liu Zan to be released.
After Liu Zan returned home, he died of excessive grief and anger.
Wang Yanxi's suspicion and bloodthirsty finally bore a bitter fruit.
Once, Wang Yanxi was wandering around the back garden after drinking, and for some unknown reason, he killed Wei Conglang, the commander of Konghe. Wei Conglang is a confidant of Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu.
At the beginning, Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu launched a mutiny, forced Wang Jipeng to death, and ushered in Wang Yanxi. They were always afraid that Wang Yanxi would settle accounts in the future and pursue him for the crime of mutiny and regicide, or that he would be silenced as a scapegoat. So the two formed a private alliance, and their children mutually Marriage, forming a close alliance through political marriage.
Wei Conglang's death had a great impact on Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu, and they were restless.
One day, Wang Yanxi was drunk again, and drunkenly chanted Bai Juyi's "Heaven Can Save—Evil and Deceitful Man" to Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu:
"The sky can be measured, the earth can be measured, but the human heart cannot be guarded against. But seeing the sincerity is as red as blood, who knows that lies are so clever... Only when the human heart is in contact, you can't predict what is happening so close..."
Bai Juyi's poems generally do not require translation and are very popular.
According to the comprehensive analysis of historical materials from all parties, Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu were just actors in front of the stage during the mutiny, and the real boss behind the scenes was Wang Yanxi.
Now, Wang Yanxi first killed the two cronies and minions, cut off their accomplices, and then "spoke the truth while drunk", clearly indicating that people's hearts are separated from each other. You two say you are loyal to me, but who knows what your actual thoughts are? Hey, there are always unscrupulous people who want to harm me!
Although the two are rough people, Bai Juyi's poems are still understandable. They were so scared that they lowered their heads and dared not speak out, just like you when the teacher wants to ask questions.
When Wang Yanxi saw the two of them pretending to be stupid, he directly picked up his wine glass, toasted to the two of them, and said, "What do you think?"
Oh, I also asked you to write your thoughts after reading...
Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu hurriedly bowed again, knelt on the ground, with runny noses and tears, vying to express their loyalty, "Is it true that I serve the emperor and father, do you have other ambitions?"
Wang Yanxi snorted, ignored it, and turned away to chat and laugh with others.
Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu knelt and shivered in the cold wind.
The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention. The situation of Zhu and Lian was noticed by another person. This person was Queen Li, the queen of Wang Yanxi and the daughter of Prime Minister Li Zhen.
Although she is the eldest daughter of the prime minister's family and the empress of the world, like Wang Yanxi, she is addicted to alcohol and likes to play drunk. Even Wang Yanxi is afraid of her.
Not long ago, Wang Yanxi married Concubine Shangxian. Wang Yanxi liked the new and disliked the old. He loved this young and beautiful femme fatale very much, and his attitude towards Queen Li gradually became cold.
This made Empress Li feel uneasy, fearing that she would fall out of favor and even be replaced by Concubine Shang Xian. Then, a bold and evil idea came to her mind. She planned to get rid of Wang Yanxi and make her son Wang Yacheng emperor.
Empress Li secretly contacted Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu, inciting their panic, and told them as an insider that Wang Yanxi had always been suspicious of them and was about to take action soon. You two are screwed!
