After the traitorous minister of the Tang Dynasty committed suicide, the officers and soldiers only got a few catties of rice for raiding their homes.
In history, traitors frequently conspired, and the collapse of the country was often associated with it, and they all suffered a tragic end in the end, just like the famous saying through the ages: "Look up at the sky, who the sky spares!" ”
However, the evaluation of historical figures varies from person to person, as the famous proverb says: "There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people". In the case of Cao Cao, some people consider him to be a famous traitor in history, while others regard him as the greatest hero of the Three Kingdoms period, even greater than Liu Bei.
People's evaluation of historical figures is often influenced by their own knowledge and opinions. For example, in a chaotic period such as the Tang Dynasty, the boundaries between good and evil in a person did not seem so clear.
Later generations also had mixed evaluations of him.
Dou Huaizhen, a traitor in the Tang Dynasty, only a few catties of rice left in the family after his death, what is surprising is that he was born in a family of eunuchs, and his father Dou Dexuan was the left minister of Tang Gaozong during his accession to the throne, and he was a highly respected Qing official.
Dou Huaizhen has been nurtured and educated by her father since she was a child, and has always remained humble and low-key, striving for simplicity in clothing, food, housing and transportation, showing excellent potential as a clean official. He once served as the commander of Qinghe County, and won the love of the people with his fair and honest style.
With his illustrious family background and outstanding talents, his career has been smooth and smooth, and he is known as a smooth progress.
In the second year of Wu Zetian's reign, he was entrusted with the important task of becoming the imperial historian. However, with the death of Wu Zetian and the accession to the throne of Li Xian, Dou Huaizhen's personality began to change.
At that time, Empress Wei was the de facto ruler of the imperial court and was bent on replicating the legend of Wu Zetian, so she began to frantically suppress the ministers of the imperial court. And Dou Huaizhen also seems to have been affected, and began to become perfunctory and clever in his words.
However, all this changed after the collapse of Empress Wei's power. In order to clear up the relationship with Empress Wei, Dou Huaizhen even sacrificed his wife, hoping to gain Li Longji's trust.
However, this act eventually led to his demotion and exile to Haozhou.
Although Dou Huaizhen took unscrupulous measures to achieve a higher position, his home was raided because he gave all the money to poor relatives.
It can be seen that his real concern is the safety of the poor people, rather than the pursuit of power. When Princess Taiping rebelled, Li Longji destroyed Dou Huaizhen's conspiracy, so that he had to choose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river.