There are some people around us who are always so enthusiastic when facing you, and their mouths are like eating honey, praising you in all kinds of ways, which makes you dizzy! Minutes make you feel the warmth like spring. But in fact, when these people turn their backs on you, they start to speak ill of you. Deterioration and slander have come, even at the most critical moment of your life, you take out the sword behind you and hit it on your chest, so that you will fall into an endless abyss and can't get up!
For this kind of people, we use the idiom "honey in mouth and sword in belly" most appropriately. But do you know where this idiom comes from? Who did this idiom originally refer to?
Photo: "Sweet Sword in Mouth" cartoon
In this issue, let's talk about the short story behind "Sweet Mouth Sword"!
In fact, the "lip-covering sword" is an evaluation of the famous traitor Li in the Tang Dynasty. It shows that he is full of honeyed words and speaks well to his face, but there is a murder knife hidden in his stomach. At that time, many literati generals were framed by him.
Friends who are familiar with history are no strangers to Li. Let's introduce Li first and see how bad he is!
Li (65438+1October 3rd, 683-753), an old slave in fine print, was born in Longxi, the prime minister of the imperial clan in the Tang Dynasty, Li's great-grandson, Li Yuan's cousin, and the painter's nephew! Look at this extraordinary background, with a thick foundation and deep background! Harmful people should have two brushes!
Photography: Li stills
Li became the prime minister of 19 years, and he was the longest-serving prime minister of Xuanzong in Tang Dynasty. Li has no virtue and no talent, but he is a good flatterer! He used money to buy the concubines and eunuchs around the emperor, let them always pay attention to the emperor's actions, and then tried every means to please the emperor! Li has been in power for more than ten years. He monopolized power, blocked roads and excluded talents, which led to the disorder of discipline and discipline. He also suggested that Hu Jiang should be reused to make the Anshi Rebellion bigger, which was considered as one of the key figures to make the Tang Dynasty turn from prosperity to decline.
Flattery is not terrible. The terrible thing is that Li tried every means to crowd out and stifle talents! When he is in contact with people, he always looks approachable on the surface and gives sweet praise to talented people! Secretly, he calculated people in various ways, and even harmed them! Even the poet Li Bai was framed by him.
Photo: Stills of "Sweet Sword in the Mouth"
For example, Li, a loyal assistant minister, has long seen the ugly face, and he is never polite to it. After Li knew it, he spoke ill of Yan Tingzhi in front of the emperor. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was coaxed into expressing his thoughts, so he ordered Yan Tingzhi to be demoted to Luoyang.
That's not all. Yan Tingzhi is an ordinary person and he wants to promote him. When Li found out, he got in the way. He asked someone to tell Yan Tingzhi that the emperor asked about his illness, and Yan Tingzhi wrote to the emperor asking him to go to Beijing for treatment. Tang Xuanzong learned that Yan Tingzhi was ill and dismissed the idea of reusing him from now on!
Li killed Yan Tingzhi as follows:
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty once asked Li, "Where is Yan Tingzhi now? This person can still be used. " Before Yan Tingzhi was exiled by the imperial court, he was now a secretariat in Jiangzhou. Lee was worried that he would be reused, so he called his brother and gave him a good beating. He said, "Your Majesty respects your brother very much. Why don't you ask your brother to write a letter saying that he has a wind disease and requests to go back to Beijing for medical treatment? So that he can return to North Korea. " Yan Ting didn't know what to do, so he wrote to Xuanzong according to his suggestion. Li won the memorial and said to Xuanzong, "Yanting is old and has recently suffered from wind disease. He should be given an idle official position and let him rest in peace. " Xuanzong with a sigh, no longer reuse Yan Ting!
Photo: "Sweet Sword in Mouth" cartoon
Slowly, people saw through Li's character and secretly called him "a sword with honey in his mouth", so the idiom "a sword with honey in his mouth" came into being. As for Li's practice of killing wise men and loyal ministers, the world has a poor evaluation of him, and everyone says that he is a great traitor. It is no exaggeration to describe him with this idiom.
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