Yang Shan, the word Sijing, was born in Daxing, Ming Dynasty. The seventeen-year-old scholar happened to be the year Judy launched the "Jingnan War". Because Yang Shan participated in the ceremony of guarding the city and gave it to others, in the first year of Yongle, it was changed to the preface class of crack temple. Crack hon temple in charge of the ceremony, make from do. Although the official position is small, you can often see the emperor. Yang Shan's "great wind instrument, loud voice, continuous work" has always attracted the attention of founder Judy. Later, the tired official entered the right temple. After Injong ascended the throne, he was appointed as the minister of this temple. After Emperor Yingzong ascended the throne, Yang Rong, the son of Yang Shan, forged official documents and forged gold in Wuzhong, a senior minister. After the incident, Yang Rong defended Wei Yuanwei, and Yang Shan was not implicated. Soon, he was promoted to the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites and was in charge of the crack hon temple.
Yang Shan is smooth and eloquent. After the change of the civil fort, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was captured by Vala. After Ming Daizong acceded to the throne, Yang Shan, right suggestion, and Zhao Rong, assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, led his entourage to Walla. Yang Shan bought many rare treasures by selling his family property, and with his clever words, he welcomed Yingzong back without imperial edict, which led Xu Youzhen and others to launch the famous "change of seizing the door" and successfully restored Zhu Qizhen's throne.
Yang Shan's official career: from Jinshi to second-class official
The following are the records of those events in the Ming Dynasty:
Yang Shan, a native of Daxing County (now Beijing), was born in a very special place. He lives in the second place, but I checked his resume and was surprised to find that this second-class official is not Jishi Shu (the elite selected by the top scholar), or even a scholar! This is extremely rare in the 300-year history of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming dynasty was an era that paid attention to academic qualifications. If you want to get a part-time job in the imperial court, you must at least be admitted to the imperial court, but if you want to be a big official, you must be a scholar. As the saying goes, "You can't enter the cabinet unless you are a scholar." Under the three-level examination system at that time, if the scholar graduated from college and the juren graduated from high school, then Mr. Yang Shan's education could only be written as junior high school graduation, because he was just a scholar.
The so-called scholars, even rural intellectuals, are not qualified to be officials at all. How did Yang Shan get into the second-class officer when fake diplomas were not popular?
After reading his promotion experience, you will find that he is not so lucky.
In October of the first year of Wen Jian (1399), Li Jinglong led an army to attack Peiping. At this time, Yang Shan, a young scholar, joined the army of the prince, but he did not make meritorious military service, but was only responsible for etiquette. Yang Shan is a qualified etiquette officer, and he has done a good job. However, due to his low academic qualifications, while all the officials of his period were promoted, he was still struggling for qualification and promotion.
After more than 30 years' hard work, he ascended the crack hon temple (grade three), which was really not easy. The ups and downs in his official career made him smooth sailing and learned a set of skills of talking with people and talking nonsense. He is a genius, no matter how complicated the political situation is, he can make ends meet. Whether Sanyang is in power or Wang Zhen is in power, this man has always been as steady as Mount Tai, and no one can move him.
Many people look down on his lifestyle and are ashamed to associate with him, but he goes his own way. During the orthodox years, he was promoted to assistant minister of rites.
Soon after, the orthodox 14 year expedition began. At this time, Yang Shan, who is over 60 years old, also went out with the army. To say that he is really unusual, during the war, countless strong ministers were killed, and he, an old man in his sixties, actually escaped back. I wonder if he insists on running every morning. It's really amazing.
Later, he was transferred to Douchayuan, was appointed as the right imperial adviser, and served as the envoy in Walla.
Yang Shan: The Best Debater in Ming Dynasty
Yang Shan led the delegation to Wala's camp and first met the messenger sent to meet him, but at the welcome banquet held in his honor, Yang Shan experienced the first severe test.
I don't know if it's because the messenger sent before has been despised too much, and I don't have much affection for this Yang Shanxian, so at his behest, at the banquet, the receptionist suddenly asked Yang an extremely embarrassing question in an arrogant tone:
"Why didn't your army fight a civil war?"
Yang Shan, who was busy eating, heard the problem of deliberately causing trouble. He raised his head, looked directly at each other's provocative eyes and began to think nervously.
In order to cope with this complicated situation, that is, not to lose face, to safeguard national dignity, and not to fall out with each other, Yang Shan decided to brag. Although he may have praised many cows before, I think this boast is the most perfect.
Shan Yang suddenly pull a long face. He sighed and said, there are some things I didn't want to say at first, but I'll tell you now.
This sentence stunned the other party and quickly asked why.
Only then did Yang Shan seem unwilling to go on: "During the civil war, our main force was not in Beijing, but all of them went out (the strong ones went south). Wang Zhen led the army to enter lightly and failed. Now all the troops that have gone south have come back, with 200 thousand people. Coupled with the newly trained 300,000 troops, all of them have undergone rigorous training and can fight at any time! "
Hearing these words, the first messenger gasped, but they never expected that what they heard below would be even more sensational, because the climax of Mr. Yang Shan's bragging was coming soon.
At this time, Yang Shan, who was in her sixties, pretended to be an old woman and told a ghost story to her grandson, vividly describing a terrible scene for the Walla people.
"We have prepared a large number of muskets and poison crossbows to ambush at the border. If you are hit, you will die (a hundred paces away). We put a lot of iron cones (three feet hidden) on the main road. Your horseshoe will be pierced and you will not be able to move. "
It is estimated that Yang Shan is still a person who is good at making up horror stories. Finally, he even said to the Wara people who turned pale with fear: "To tell you the truth, every night when you sleep, we send many assassins to spy on your camp, and they come and go without a trace. You don't know! "
In this way, Yang Shan finally ended her cowhide, raised her head with a smile and looked at the dumbfounded people across the street.
But there is no point in scaring people, so Yang Shan continued his performance.
His face suddenly changed, he put on a look of compassion and sighed: "Alas, it's a pity that these are useless."
Walla people have just been frightened by this man's strange and terrible tone, and suddenly they see his attitude getting warmer. They didn't understand what game he was playing, so they asked him why.
Only then did Yang Shan express his ultimate intention: "We have made peace, and we are like brothers. How can we still use these! "
Walla people laughed, finally don't have to worry about muskets, iron cones and assassins, although these things don't exist.
Yang Shan smiled, too, because he successfully told another touching story.