Tell me about Cai Jing. His calligraphy is unique. Cai Jing, with a long word, was the first of the "Six Thieves" of Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty. Evonne, the emperor of Hui Zong, liked him very much. Every time there was an anti-Cai agitation in the imperial court, the emperor was forced to demote or be released to appease public opinion, but he was always reinstated quickly. From the first year of Chongning, that is, AD112, Cai Jing was appointed as the right servant of Shangshu and assistant minister of Chinese books, and was dismissed four times in the first year of Jingkang, that is, AD 1 126, that is, the rank of the first prime minister of the dynasty. Finally, Cai Jingnian was eighty years old, and he was hard of hearing and faltering. Hui Zong still relied on him very much until he abdicated.
Cai Jing's greatest talent comes from his calligraphy. His calligraphy is so unique that even the arrogant Miffy once said that he is not as good as Cai Jing. Once, Cai Jing asked Mi Fei: Who is the best calligrapher now? Mi Fei: After Don Liu Gongquan, you and your brother Cai Bian will also be included. Cai Jing asked again: What is the second one? Miffy said, of course it's me. At that time, Cai, originally referred to as Cai Jing, was hated by later generations and easily adopted Cai Xiang. According to relevant historical records, one summer, two officials of the dynasty were very flattering to Cai Jing and kept fanning him with fans. Cai Jing was so happy that he asked for a fan and wrote two lines of Du Fu's poems on it. Unexpectedly, a few days later, these two officials suddenly became rich. When asked, they realized that their fans were bought by Duan Wang for 20,000 yuan. 20,000 yuan, about equivalent to the annual expenses of an ordinary family at that time. And this Duan Wang was before Song Huizong ascended the throne. This shows that Song Huizong, who is a calligrapher himself, loves Cai Jing's works.
The subjugation of the Northern Song Dynasty was largely due to Song Huizong's spoil of treacherous court officials such as Cai Jing and Gao Qiu. Song Huizong was incompetent, dissolute and shameless. In the end, he and his son Qin Zong became the prisoners of the nomads from the army. Cai, who was 80 years old at that time, was not spared and was demoted for three thousand miles. Cai Jing wrote a sad poem "Xijiang Moon", which said: "Eighty-one years ago, three thousand miles away, I was homeless, and my own flesh and blood were boundless, and I looked at China with tears. I visited Jintang five times, and Yutang declared hemp ten times, recalling the prosperity of the past and turning it into a dream talk here. " This sentence is a true portrayal of Cai Jing's stormy life. On his way to the army, he starved to death without being sold a bowl of soup and a meal. After death, there was no coffin and it was buried in a leaking garden for the homeless.
Yan Song: Jiajing's irreplaceable darling in the world.
Tell me about Yan Hao, a favorite of Jiajing, who is irreplaceable in the world. Yan Song, whose word is only in the middle, is called Jiexi, Mianan, and Yuanzhou, Jiangxi is pleasant. Song was smart and studious since childhood. He was enlightened in Yan Temple at the age of five, entered the county school at the age of nine, was outstanding at the age of ten, was promoted at the age of nineteen, and entered imperial academy in the imperial examination at the age of twenty-five. As can be seen from this resume, Yan Song has always been high flyers and a child prodigy. At that time, Jiajing was obsessed with the art of immortality and liked to pray for heaven with green words. On the other hand, Yan Hao is good at drafting green words, that is, tools for offering sacrifices to gods, and has won the favor of Jiajing. So he got the position of cabinet records and was ridiculed as "the green prime minister". At that time, the ruling and opposition parties were in power and no one could beat them. Some people in favor of the situation took refuge in his door, so that more than 30 officials became his adopted sons at that time.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a Hiram's Hospital in Beijing after the provincial examination in Shuntianfu. The provincial examination in Shuntianfu was called "Northern Wei Dynasty", ranking first in the world after the provincial examination. The emperor attached great importance to it, and the examiners were all ministers. However, the inscription "Supreme Court" in the main hall of this Hiram's Hospital was written by Yan Hao. No one will feel uncomfortable hanging a plaque inscribed by a big traitor in such a magnificent court to select talents. Later, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty wanted to change it, so he ordered a person who could write these three words. As the son of heaven who likes dancing and writing ink, he wrote it several times. But I found that my own imperial pen and other people's books were not as good as Yan Hao's, so I had to give up and still let the treacherous court official's words hang high.
When Yan Song was in office, he cherished ancient Mo Bao very much. In order to get Zhang Zeduan's immortal work The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, Yan Hao did not hesitate to kill two people. During the Jiajing period, he learned that the painting was in the hands of the foreign minister Wang and sent the prefect of Jimen to buy it. Wang was afraid of power and didn't want to hand over the painting, so he asked a famous painter to copy a painting and gave it to him. Yan Hao doesn't know whether this is true or not. When he showed off publicly, he was seen through by the framer who installed the painting. Angry, he immediately arrested Wang for "bullying." Wang confessed that the original was in his uncle's hand. Yan Hao also used his power to get the original from Lu Zhi. Wang finally died in prison. Yan Hao, an insider who used power to steal the original, knows best. Fearing the leak, Yan Hao killed him on the charge of "losing the opportunity to run the army." According to this historical fact, Li Yu, a dramatist in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote The Legend of a handful of snow and put it on the stage. After the fall of Artemisia scoparia, the son was beheaded, the mansion was raided, and the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival was once again incorporated into the palace.
For personal gain, Yan Hao colluded with the Party and harmed Zhong Liang, and finally ended up cutting books for the people and copying all his possessions. Its property * * * imitates more than 30,000 taels of gold and more than 2,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to the total national fiscal revenue at that time. In addition, there are millions of acres of land, 6,000 houses, and countless rare antiques and celebrity calligraphy and painting.
There is a famous saying that "words are like people", but this is not the case with oil-painted traitors in history. Then, why is the statement that "words are like people" exaggerated? Yan Song's last words of injustice explained this mistake. He said: "I have been loyal to my country all my life, and I will distinguish right from wrong when I die." It seems that Yan Song has always considered himself a loyal minister and an upright gentleman. The treacherous court official's mentality that justice is in his chest makes their words appear unconstrained or elegant. In fact, "words are like people" can only reveal the author's psychological state through words, but as for personality, it can't be revealed from words.
Li in Tang Dynasty
From the Xia Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty for five thousand years, there were thousands of eunuchs in imperial palaces, not to mention good or bad, but few loyal and treacherous officials could leave a mark on the history of China. The eunuch prime minister like Li, only Zhao Gao and him, never appeared again.
"Every country is fierce and has an extraordinary black mind, and Li is one of the masters. Flattery, flattery, he will if he doesn't learn. Sex, he can do anything. He never relents in killing his own kind and others. From princes and prime ministers to queens and emperors, they can become wands in their hands when they are useful, and start chopping when they are useless. Li Yisheng was busy all his life, seeking power, seizing political power and possessing the wealth of the city and the country. Finally beheaded and dumped in the wilderness.