After offending Song Qiqiu and his "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group, with the way Han Xizai behaved, he would never have survived three episodes, but he happened to live for three full seasons and accompany three generations of the Li family. Man, the reason for this is the trust and protection given to him by the ruler of the Li family.
However, the "Zhu Yuan Rebellion" and the Bianzhou detention incident shook the foundation of Han Xizai's survival in the Southern Tang Dynasty. What's more, after the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group was destroyed, Han Xizai lost value to the rulers and could no longer be reused. Even though Han Xizai had great talent, it was difficult to put it to use.
Dreams are always out of reach, should we give up? The frustrated Han Xizai said in despair, "Destroy it, I'm tired."
Historical records record Han Xizai's many debauched things, such as his "keeping prostitutes on orders".
Han Xizai has cultivated more than 40 high-end employees, and "allowed them to come and go and live with guests." The residence of a dignified senior state cadre was no different from a club. The courtiers commented and pointed, so Li Yu issued a life style guide Opinions pointed out that some leading cadres lived disorderly lives and had a bad influence, and called on everyone to clean themselves up and send away domestic prostitutes.
Unexpectedly, Han Xizai was very smart and took the lead in "layoffs" and dismissed all the domestic prostitutes that day. On the contrary, Li Yu and the officials were unexpected.
Li Yu was very pleased, but...these dismissed domestic prostitutes soon gathered in front of Han Xizai's house, saying that they were lonely and had no means of livelihood. After being kicked out, they could only wait to starve to death. We would rather starve to death at your door. ! He cannot be coaxed away, scolded, or beaten away.
Han Xizai was helpless and could only report the situation to the organization.
Li Yu understood, okay, Old Han, are you going to play this trick with me? alright, you win. Li Yu gave a reply and allowed Comrade Han Xizai to be taken into custody.
Li Yu's instructions became Han Xizai's "business license", and from then on there was the story of "Han Linggong kept prostitutes on purpose".
Han Xizai never seemed to care about other people's accusations or criticisms. Instead of shying away from issues related to his life style, he was very high-profile and wanted to have the word "lustful" written on his face. His reputation for being lustful and romantic was well-known not only in official circles. , has also become a topic of conversation for the common people after dinner.
According to records, Han Xizai often played role-playing. He dressed in monk robes and carried a bamboo basket, and asked his disciple Shu Ya to hold a bamboo board and pretend to be a pair of destitute beggars. They went to various brothels to beg for food. For fun, they became A scene in Shengzhou.
Li Yu had heard about Han Xizai's absurdity and unruliness for a long time, and wanted to reuse it but was afraid of incurring criticism, so he sent painter Gu Hongzhong to act as a paparazzi and sneak into Han Xizai's house to take secret photos to see what kind of virtue this Master Han was.
Gu Hongzhong was a famous painter in the Southern Tang Dynasty. He was best at painting figures and once painted a portrait for Li Yu. Gu Hongzhong completed this task brilliantly. This candid photo of his is still collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. It is listed as one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China, together with "" and "". It is a treasure in the history of Chinese art. It is famous.
This scroll is divided into five scenes with the screen as the boundary. Han Xizai appears in each scene. What is interesting is that Qin Ruolan mentioned above is also in this painting.
The painting vividly shows Han Xizai's indulgent, extravagant and depraved side. Today, it is a textbook negative example of violating the spirit of the Eight Provisions.
After Li Yu saw this picture, he shook his head and sighed, "This man has moral problems." So he was not in a hurry to appoint him as prime minister. This is also the story of Han Xizai finally passing the chancellor's dream with his own strength without the suppression and interference of Song Qiqiu and the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group.
Is Han Xizai really a vulgar talent who is obsessed with beauty, whose promising future has been delayed by young models in the club, and who has a high ambition but a low end? His protégé and friends also had the same question and asked him face to face. Han Xizai’s answer is both gratifying and saddening:
"I use this to defile myself to avoid being heard by others. I am too old to be a laughing stock for the ages."
What is gratifying is that Han Xizai deliberately ruined his reputation and kept himself away from the political arena, and it was not his nature; what is sad is how much of a blow he had to endure to become so discouraged.
In fact, Gu Hongzhong has already given a hint, that is, the numb and lonely eyes of Han Xizai in the picture are incompatible with the surrounding atmosphere of feasting and feasting.
After enduring torture for most of his life, Han Xizai's spiritual world completely collapsed. He knew that the Southern Tang Dynasty could not escape the fate of exile. Although Song Qiqiu and the "Four Fierce and Five Ghosts" group no longer existed, the root cause of the Southern Tang Dynasty had never been " Four evil spirits and five ghosts." Han Xizai began to learn to face reality. His little energy could not change anything at all. In the face of the torrent of history, all struggles seemed so small and ridiculous.
He didn't want to be a prime minister anymore, because he had long left a heroic saying, saying that if he became prime minister, he would march to the Central Plains. If he became prime minister, and the Southern Tang Dynasty perished, wouldn't he become the laughing stock of the prime minister of the subjugated country forever?
Six years after Han Xizai died of illness, the Southern Tang Dynasty collapsed and entered the Song Dynasty. This prosperous age is as he wished.
Many people, without any in-depth research, just briefly browsed the unofficial history and made arbitrary conclusions. For example, Han Xizai had talent but no virtue and was willing to fall. For example, Han Xizai deduced that the Southern Tang Dynasty was about to fall. In order to Don't be reduced to the prime minister of a subjugated country and lie flat and die...
Some people say that it is the picture of the subjugation of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but many people do not understand the true meaning of this sentence and mistakenly believe that Han Xizai represents the Southern Tang monarchs who were obsessed with pleasure and did not want to make progress. It was the corruption of the Southern Tang Dynasty that led to the subjugation of the country.
In fact, the meaning of this sentence is for us to carefully study the background of the times, the development of the Southern Tang Dynasty and Han Xizai's personal life, and then take a closer look at Han Xizai's eyes in the picture... That is what Nan Wu Stinky Egg did above. After understanding all this, you will suddenly realize the true meaning of the "map of national subjugation".
Han Xizai's life condensed the rise and fall of the Southern Tang Empire and refined it through a scroll. One pair, an idealist’s elegy.
