When drafting the temple name for Xu Zhigao, most people thought that since we insist that it is a remnant of the Tang Dynasty, it should be ranked in order after Zhaozong and Ai Emperor, also called "Zong". However, Han Xizai, Xiao Yan, Jiang Wenwei and others believed that Xu Zhigao was The master of the Zhongxing Dynasty, with his great achievements in the rise and fall, can be called "ancestor". In the end, at the insistence of Han Xizai and others, Xu Zhigao's temple name was designated as "Liezu".
Li Jing is very satisfied with this.
Han Xizai truly believed that Xu Zhigao was more virtuous than the Three Emperors and more accomplished than the Five Emperors, and was not deliberately trying to flatter Li Jing, so not surprisingly, Han Xizai immediately did something that adhered to principles and was in line with etiquette but offended Li Jing.
After Li Jing ascended the throne, he immediately wanted to change the Yuan Dynasty to amnesty. However, what he did not expect was that the first person to jump out to oppose was Han Xizai, his "one of his own" whom he had painstakingly cultivated.
Han Xizai said that under normal circumstances, the new emperor should use the reign name of the previous emperor when he ascends the throne, and then change it in the first month of the following year.
As if he had swallowed a fly, Li Jing looked around at the ministers who were looking down and snickering, and then at Han Xizai, who was silly and innocent with a serious face. He was silent for a moment and said: "But the edict has been issued and cannot be modified. How about this."
Li Jing is a little disappointed. It seems that all these years of experience have been in vain and the experience has been wasted. Political struggle is not a black-and-white academic debate, but an organic integration and cruel game of a series of abstract concepts such as sociology, organizational behavior, and psychology. Sometimes, the question itself is not important, and the answer to the question is not important, but the stance on the problem is the most important. "Calling a deer a horse" has never been a biological argument.
It doesn’t matter whether we change the Yuan this year or next. I just want you to express your stance and stand in line to see who supports me and who... Damn it, Old Han, why is it you? !
After seven years of dating, Li Jing fully understood Han Xizai and knew that he was a arrogant fool in terms of human sophistication. Especially when it came to academic issues, this old scholar would only stand for the so-called truth. Li Jing did not blame him, but still chose to trust him and reuse him.
Soon, Li Jing gave Han Xizai a "zhizhigao" and helped the emperor draft the edict. The typical "inferior position and weight" marked Han Xizai's entry into the core power circle. Of course, there was no doubt that he was also favored by Song Qiqiu. special care".
The "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group with Song Qiqiu as its soul launched a frantic attack on Han Xizai and others, and Han Xizai was therefore classified as the "Qingliu Party". In fact, Han Xizai was an upright and upright person who hated forming cliques and disdained factionalism in the court. Born in the dark night, we yearn for light, look up at the bright moon and starry sky, and are willing to burn ourselves in exchange for the lights of thousands of families, but the lamps run out of oil and dry up before dawn.
There is a question that has to make us think deeply: it is absolutely impossible for a silly boy like Han Xizai to survive three episodes under the attack of the scheming, insidious and cunning "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group, but why can he and After fighting with fists and kicks for several years, can they even fight back? After we turned on God's perspective, this problem is not difficult to understand, because Gm is biased and the system helps you get stuck, making it difficult to win or not.
If the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group are the vicious dogs raised by Li Jing, then Han Xizai is Li Jing's collar and rope whip to restrain the vicious dogs. Li Jing is the top designer of the chess game. Through the routine of left and right fighting, he can not only do what he wants to do, but also take the blame at any time.
The contest between the two sides ushered in a small climax in 946: Chen Jue, the core figure of the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group, mobilized troops without authorization to attack Fuzhou, dragging the Southern Tang Dynasty into a wrong war that they were unwilling and unable to fight. In the end, It caused heavy losses to the Southern Tang Dynasty and greatly damaged the country's strength. Afterwards, Li Jing issued an edict to kill Chen Jue and Feng Yanlu, but with the intercession of Song Qiqiu and Feng Yansi, the death penalty was finally changed to exile.
The "Qingliu Party" took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and Jiang Wenwei impeached Feng Yansi and Wei Cen. Li Jing demoted Jiang Wenwei and released him. Regardless of the specific process, smart people should be able to detect Li Jing's attitude, but Han Xizai is such a fool that Li Jing is confused.
Han Xizai and Xu Xuan bucked the trend and jointly impeached Song Qiqiu. They bluntly stated that Song Qiqiu was the godfather behind the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group. They asked Li Jing to completely eradicate this counterrevolutionary group that had harmed the country and the emperor, and insisted on bringing Chen Qiqiu to justice. Jue, Feng Yanlu and others executed him.
In order to calm the public anger, Li Jing demoted Wei Cen and others, but these people were basically restored to their posts quickly. If you kill a vicious dog, who will bite someone for me?
After this incident, the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group formed a deep hatred with Han Xizai. Just a few days later, Song Qiqiu, who was determined to retaliate, launched a retaliation and falsely accused Han Xizai of being an alcoholic. Li Jing was forced to release Han Xizai under pressure. In fact, Han Xizai didn't like to drink at all, and his drinking capacity was very small. Historical records say that "Xizai's drinking capacity was just a trickle." What kind of alcohol did a person who got drunk when he touched alcohol drink?
At first glance, it seems to be the victory of Song Qiqiu's party, but in fact, it is still the same sentence. This is the ultimate boss Li Jing's retreat to advance, which is the system's mandatory protection mechanism for novices.
Exactly what Xu Zhigao had in mind, by protecting Han Xizai, Li Jing was also preserving his own revolutionary fire and making strategic reserves for overthrowing the "four evil spirits and five ghosts" in the future. A few years later, Han Xizai was transferred back to the central government and was still a member of the Yu Department, returning to the starting point of his life. Immediately afterwards, just like the script a few years ago, Li Jing made an unusual promotion to Han Xizai and showed great favor to him. He was soon promoted to the title of Doctor of the Yu Department and given the title of Purple.
Purple court clothes are exclusive skins for officials of the third rank and above. Only Han Xizai, who was the fifth rank, was given purple. It was the same formula as the one given to Fei before, and it still has a familiar taste.
Soon after, Han Xizai was promoted to the position of Zhongshu Sheren, Minister of Household Affairs, and served as a money envoy. Zhongshu Sheren, a close minister of the emperor, also had a low and powerful position.
At that time, the Central Plains was already the Later Zhou Dynasty. Li Jing launched several exploratory attacks on the Central Plains, all of which ended in failure. He began to fear the strength of the Central Plains. Then Zhou Guowei's main energy was also to stabilize the interior and appease the north and west. As a result, peace became the consensus of both parties, and relations between the two countries began to show signs of easing.
The "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group is still the main militant faction, clamoring to take advantage of Guo Wei's unstable foothold to launch a northern expedition to the Central Plains. Under normal circumstances, the militant faction will wear the glorious cloak of patriotism and nationalism to kidnap the people morally. The scary thing is that they are usually very popular, and any opponents will be labeled as "traitors" and "traitors" Wait for the big hat.
This time, it was Li Jing who was kidnapped by morality. Your Majesty is willing to fight to the death, so do you want to surrender first?
At this critical moment, Han Xizai firmly carried the banner of the "Peace Party" and said that although Guo Wei was newly established, he was deeply loved by the soldiers and people of the Central Plains. If we adopt a hostile attitude at this time, it will be like hitting a stone with an egg.
Just like the dispute over the temple title, Han Xizai was pragmatic and did not deliberately rebel because of his disgust with the "four evil spirits and five ghosts", nor did he stand out because he blocked the gun for his master. Reconciliation with the Central Plains is indeed in line with Southern Tang's interests at this stage.
Just like commenting on the name of Xu Zhigao's temple and discussing the change of Yuan Dynasty, after helping Li Jing block the gun, Han Xizai offended Li Jing because of his honesty and integrity.
This was the "Three Expeditions to Huainan" a few years later. Li Jing sent his younger brother Li Jingda to lead an army to resist the enemy, and made Chen Jue the supervisor. As mentioned earlier, Li Jing was very afraid of Li Jingda, Li Jingsui and other imperial brothers, so he deliberately let his vicious dog - Chen Jue, the core figure of the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts", act as Li Jingda's supervisor.
All the civil and military officials in the dynasty were well aware of the unspoken rules and tacitly understood them, so they all remained silent. Only one person jumped out and objected loudly, "What else does the emperor want to oversee the army!"
That's right, this person is Han Xizai, the outspoken and honest man.
Li Jing was disgusted again and gave him a deep eye roll, saying in her heart that the boy is really unteachable!
During the war, the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group of the main war faction dominated, while the peace advocates such as Han Xizai became non-mainstream, and because they were unwilling to cater to Li Jing, they were once again excluded from the core power circle.
After the war, Li Jing died in depression, and then entered the period of his successor Li Yu.
Li Yu respected Han Xizai, a veteran of the Three Dynasties, so he promoted him to the position of minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and supervised the compilation of national history. This appointment also contains political considerations, because the Ministry of Personnel is equivalent to today's Organization Department, responsible for the assessment and promotion of officials, and leading the operation of the bureaucracy. Li Yu wants to liquidate the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group and put Han Xizai in this In the key position that determines the promotion and promotion of officials, the political implications are self-evident.
Raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while, Xu Zhigao and Li Jing tried their best to protect Han Xizai. For what purpose? Li Yu: Close the door and let Han Xizai go!
Han Xizai asked Xu Zhigao to be the leader and Li Jing to be the leader. How could he spare Li Yu? Between the three of us, grandfather and grandson, no one can escape.
As mentioned above, after Li Yu came to power, he promoted economic reforms, such as casting big money, casting iron money and other monetary measures. Han Xizai and Prime Minister Yan Xu had a fierce quarrel on this issue. Han Xizai was so emotional that he shouted loudly in front of Li Yu, Quite rude.
Li Yu is very angry, but he is justified and does not speak loudly. You two are both senior national officials and cultural figures, not rogues! Han Xizai was demoted to secretary prison as punishment for being discourteous.
Li Yu also inherited the political wisdom of his father and ancestors for two generations, and soon promoted Han Xizai to the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and a bachelor of Qinzheng Palace. He was still a close minister of the emperor, but... Han Xizai was still the same Han Xizai.
When Li Yu married his rumored girlfriend Xiao Zhou, Han Xizai took the lead in "composing poems to satirize her", which offended Li Yu;
After returning from a safari, Li Yu suddenly became interested and inspected the national prison and personally reviewed the prisoners in custody to see if there were any unjust, false or wrongful convictions. The ministers praised Li Yu one after another and said that Li Yu had promoted the legal process. Only Han Xizai wrote several memorials in succession, citing scriptures and saying that the emperor could not set foot in a place like prison. He severely criticized Li Yu and insisted on imposing a fine on Li Yu. Li Yu took out three million of his private money and confiscated it.
In the early Song Dynasty, Han Xizai wrote five volumes and dedicated them to Li Yu. Li Yu "handled the edict to comfort him", and then worshiped him as the minister of Zhongshu and the bachelor of Chongguang Zhengdian to carry out the edict.
This was the highest official position held by Han Xizai during his lifetime, but many people focused on the title of "Secretary Minister of Zhongshu" because it had a popular name - prime minister. Youdao is for laymen to see the excitement and for experts to see the door. We should focus our attention on the seemingly inconspicuous "Guangzhengdian Bachelor's Purpose", which is the finishing touch.
"Bachelor of such-and-such palace" is a typical example of low status and power, that is, a small official is in charge of a big official, and he is a close official of the emperor. Li Yu especially regarded the bachelors of Guangzheng Palace as his confidants. Li Yu stipulated that the bachelors of Guangzheng Palace should work night shifts in the palace. Then he often "checked the posts" in the middle of the night and talked secretly with the bachelors on duty all night long.
A big meeting is held for small matters, and a small meeting is held for big matters. Many national affairs in the Southern Tang Dynasty were actually secretly agreed upon during Li Yu's night shift inspection. "Prime ministers" are often empty-handed, and only "bachelors of such and such palace" are real powerful figures and the ones who can influence the country's major policies. Now, Han Xizai is the one.
So can Han Xizai realize his ambition? Haha, I think too much.
In the second year of Kaibao's reign, Han Xizai fell ill and wrote to Li Yu, saying that he had "no merits in Hengcao, but made terrible mistakes", and he was about to be relieved. Goodbye.
The following year, Han Xizai died of illness at the age of 69.
