If Feng Dao is a living fossil of the Five Dynasties, then there is also a living fossil in the Southern Tang Dynasty. He is Han Xizai, one of the backbones of the "Qingliu Party" who has appeared many times in the previous article.
Han Xizai and Han Yu, the well-known great writer of the Tang Dynasty and one of the "Eight Great Writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties", are fellow villagers. Many people believe that the two should have a certain blood relationship.
Even without taking advantage of Han Yu's popularity, Han Xizai still belongs to a veritable family of officials: his great-grandfather Han Jun, Taichang Qing; his grandfather Han Yin, served as the imperial censor; his father Han Guangsi was a secretary and a young prisoner, and a military governor of Qingzhou Pinglu Army. Deputy envoy. In short, they are all high-ranking officials.
Han Xizai had good educational resources and was very diligent and hardworking. He became a Jinshi during the Zhuangzong period of the later Tang Dynasty. At this time, Han Xizai was supposed to have a bright future. He was a Jinshi in his 20s, and his father was a provincial cadre. He was a winner in life. However, the accident happened so unexpectedly that Han Xizai fell from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley in an instant.
At that time, "Mingzong entered the Wei Dynasty", people were confused and had their own evil intentions. Among them, Fu Xi, the governor of Qingzhou, was ordered by Li Cunxu to crusade against Li Siyuan's rebellion, but Fu Xi had private contact with Li Siyuan. Yang Hope, the supervisor of Qingzhou, was sure that Fu Xi Jinping had rebelled, so he surrounded Fu Xi's home. Qingzhou commander Wang Gongyan tricked Yang Hope into killing him. Wang Gongyan then claimed that the Qingzhou soldiers and people recommended him as the military envoy and refused to allow Fu Xi to return to the town.
After Li Siyuan ascended the throne, he immediately appointed Wang Gongyan as the governor of Dengzhou, and asked his close confidant Huo Yanwei to go out of Qingzhou to take over by force. Wang Gongyan knew that he was no match for Huo Yanwei, so he gave in and chose to go to Dengzhou to take up his post. How could Huo Yanwei let him reach Dengzhou alive? Chasing all the way, he killed Wang Gongyan in the middle of the road, and eradicated the roots, captured and beheaded Wang Gongyan's generals and staff, and wiped out the "Wang Gongyan Group".
At that time, the deputy envoy of Qingzhou Jiedu was Comrade Han Guangsi, Han Xizai's father. There was no doubt that he was also killed. After hearing the news, Han Xizai decisively fled abroad and fled into Huainan, a hotbed of international anti-Chinese forces.
Han Xizai crossed the Huaihe River from Yingzhou, where he quietly visited a close friend, Li Hub. Two old friends drank and sang to each other, how many years have passed in their lives.
Drinking heavily, Han Xizai's face turned red and his neck was thick, with tears in his eyes, he said seriously: "If Huainan is willing to use me as prime minister, I will march into the north to conquer the Central Plains!"
Li Hu was also in high spirits and said with a smile: "If the Central Plains uses me as prime minister, I will conquer Huainan like a bag."
The two old friends looked at each other affectionately, toasted and laughed, laughed and burst into tears, hugged each other and cried. In the end, they were reluctant to part and shed tears to say goodbye. Han Xizai successfully smuggled to Huainan.
In the future, the life trajectories of the two friends are lamentable:
Li Hu became prime minister in the Later Zhou Dynasty and was an important minister of Guo Wei and Chai Rong. He was as famous as Wang Pu. He was known as "Pu can recommend scholars, Hub can know people", and he really participated in the planning and implementation of the "Three Expeditions to Huainan". He himself was the vanguard commander-in-chief during the initial expedition to Huainan.
Where is Han Xizai? Some people say that his life was a life of ruin and self-degradation. In fact, it revealed the sadness of that era. Han Xizai's life was a history of the rise and fall of the Southern Tang Empire and an elegy for individualism.
It is said that Han Xizai fled to Huainan and came to Yangzhou, the political and economic center of Huainan. Here, Han Xizai submitted his resume to the Huainan authorities, which was included at the same time. The excerpt is as follows:
"I heard that those who fish for giant turtles don't use bait to catch fish, and those who cut off long whales don't use the knife to kill chickens. Therefore, if you have the talent to manage the chaos of a country, you can fulfill the position of auxiliary bute."
——Don’t take the porcelain job without diamonds. For someone as awesome as me, if he doesn't become a prime minister or something like that, it would be considered a dereliction of his talent.
"...Someone's delusional thinking is childish and different from other children..."
——Brother has been a child prodigy since he was a child.
Next is the full-scale Wangpo selling melon mode, with Han Xizai transforming into a sales anchor, bringing Niux to a realm of freshness and refinement without losing elegance. Then, the conversation changed and he began to slap the Huainan authorities’ colorful lotus farts:
"We heard about the great prosperity and long foundation, the culture and education of the Qi Dynasty, the joint show is different from the Chinese, and the Ming thoughts are in the foreign countries..."
Han Xizai gave us an interview template. He first praised himself as the hope of the whole village and the most handsome boy in the alley. I am so good and handsome, why should I come to your company for an interview? Because I can tell at a glance that your company is the foundation of a Fortune 500 company and a business miracle that is about to take off.
At the end of the article, Han Xizai said:
"In the past, Lou respected the common people and spoke to the ancestors of Han; Cao plowed the grassland and Chen consulted Lu Gong; the loss of discipline increased and the Xiang family was not prosperous; Lu Wang was favored and the Zhou Dynasty became hegemonic."
——Think about Lou Jing, Cao GUI, and Jiang Ziya, especially Xiang Yu who didn’t listen to Fan Zeng’s plan. Do you want to lose me?
This self-recommendation letter was domineering and domineering. It was very eye-catching and could easily attract criticism. It paved the way for his later bumpy career.
At that time, the actual controller of the Huainan forces was the powerful minister Xu Zhigao. As mentioned above, Xu Zhigao recruited talents from all over the world, paying special attention to attracting frustrated scholars from the Central Plains. To this end, he specially set up a special immigration agency on the south bank of the Huaihe River to open a green channel for quick connection. In terms of academic diploma, Han Xizai was a Jinshi, a perfect academic hegemon; in terms of political appearance, he was a Class A wanted criminal in the Central Plains Dynasty, and had a grudge against the Central Plains for killing his father. Therefore, Xu Zhigao, who was eager for talents, and Han Xizai, who was eager to enter the system, hit it off.
When Han Xizai entered the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was jointly excluded by his colleagues. This is reasonable.
First of all, both Yang's puppet faction and Xu Zhigao's real power faction are vested interest groups of the Huainan forces. After years of running-in, they have reached a tacit understanding and balance in the distribution of interests, and Han Xizai and other "northern factions" parachuted into the group After the reform, the original rights system was broken, requiring vested interest groups to transfer some of their interests. Therefore, there are sharp conflicts between the two parties on the issue of benefit distribution.
Secondly, Han Xizai did not understand the ways of the world, or he was stubborn, upright, aloof and arrogant. This has been revealed in one article.
Han Xizai came from a well-known family, the son of a high-ranking official, and was a top student himself. How could he think so highly of the "Conglong heroes" around Xu Zhigao who had low-level backgrounds?
Song Qiqiu's father is also the deputy envoy of Jiedu, but strictly speaking, Jiedu envoys are also divided into three, six or nine levels and cannot be generalized. For example, the mayor of a third- and fourth-tier city and the mayor of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and Song Qiqiu His father died early, and he was half an orphan, dependent on others. More importantly, Han Xizai despised Song Qiqiu's character.
Okay, we don't need to discuss other reasons. Just because he doesn't like Song Qiqiu, we know Han Xizai's situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the history books say that he was "young and dissolute, and did not abide by his reputation." He had a heroic spirit that would not compromise for five buckets of rice. The price of this youthful frivolity was that almost everyone in the "Northern Department" except him was reused.
Han Xizai was released and sent to the localities to work in various states, that is, as secretary of the municipal party committee. It was not until Xu Zhigao officially proclaimed himself emperor and founded the country and established the Southern Tang Dynasty that Han Xizai was recalled to the central government, but he was still an unimportant sinecure - secretary Lang, similar to the National Library, is responsible for the management and editing of documents and archives.
Strictly speaking, secretary man is not a sinecure, but Han Xizai Xian has an extra suffix after "secretary man" - Prince Donggong Wenhan. The Prince's East Palace sounds like a low-value place, but in fact it means being a good guy in politics and taking a back seat.
Xu Zhigao once hinted to Han Xizai in private: "Although you passed the imperial examination very early, you have never experienced anything in the world. Your uncle Xu advises you: the water here is too deep and you can't grasp it at all. I am not rejecting you. , but to let you gain experience at the grassroots level and gain experience so that you can better assist my son in the future!"
Obviously, this is what Xu Zhigao said from the bottom of his heart. On the surface, Han Xizai was ostracized and not reused, but in reality, it was Xu Zhigao who protected Han Xizai as a newbie. As the saying goes, one emperor and one courtier, one generation of patchworks and one generation of gods. Han Xizai was the trump card left by Xu Zhigao to his successor, and the secret weapon to bring down Song Qiqiu.
Han Xizai stayed in the East Palace of the Crown Prince for 7 years. He talked with the Crown Prince all day long and developed a deep relationship. The Crown Prince admired Han Xizai's knowledge and soon became his little crush. The two became a couple. good pal. This laid a good foundation for Han Xizai in the next version update, because this prince is none other than Li Jing.
After Li Jing came to the throne, as expected, he promoted Han Xizai, a "direct descendant of the East Palace", and appointed him as a member of the Yu Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the editor of the History Museum. Although he is only a sixth-rank minor official, he is affiliated with Shangshu Province and has a bright future. Li Jing put Han Xizai on the fast track for promotion and received special care step by step.
At the same time, Li Jing also gave Han Xizai Fei. The scarlet official uniform is an exclusive skin for officials above the fifth rank. Han Xizai was only a sixth rank, but he was granted the scarlet color. This shows that Li Jing's care for Han Xizai was undisguised; Li Jing also gave Han Xizai the title of Dr. Taichang. Being responsible for the funeral of the late emperor and drafting a posthumous title for the late emperor, it can be said that Li Jing recognized Han Xizai as an academic authority on the ritual system of the Southern Tang Empire.
Han Xizai finally had a favorable wind in Li Jingchao, but his good cards were beaten to pieces by him.
