The sixteenth book of the Twenty-Four History of the Old Tang Dynasty is the "Old Tang Book".
The author of "Old Tang Book" is Liu Yun.
Liu Yun is a handsome guy, quite handsome, and can be called the kind of peerless beautiful man.
But it's a pity that in ancient society, no matter where you are, it was difficult to eat with your face.
Good-looking women are mostly famous, while men with vulgar looks can often achieve great things.
If you happen to have seen Yan Liben's portraits of the emperors of the past dynasties, you will find that most of the emperors in ancient China were not very good-looking, and most of them were crooked melons and cracked dates.
The era in which Liu Yun lived was the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, that is, the back of the Tang Dynasty and the front of the Northern Song Dynasty.
There was a saying in the Five Dynasties period, called "The Son of Heaven, the strong soldiers and horses should do it, and there would be a kind of yes!" It means that in this chaotic world, who was born as the Son of Heaven? What is the Son of Heaven? As long as the soldiers are strong and strong, and someone has power and power, anyone can be the son of heaven.
It can be seen that it was a turbulent era of frequent political changes and social turmoil.
Five dynasties and ten kingdoms in turmoil).
If you want, you can understand the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms as fifteen companies fighting each other.
Of these fifteen companies, five are state-owned, which we collectively refer to as the Five Dynasties, namely the Later Liang, the Later Tang, the Later Jin, the Later Han, and the Later Zhou.
The five companies alternated in order, and it was always the latter that developed, replacing the former, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Because they were state-owned companies, they tended to be well-funded and larger, and they were the best mixed at the time.
The remaining ten companies are private companies of individual nature, which we call the Ten Kingdoms, which are Southern Wu, Southern Tang, Wu Yue, Southern Chu, Qianshu, Houshu, Southern Han, Nanping, and Fujian.
These small companies do not have a precedence, because they are not very large, and it is difficult to protect themselves, and it is generally difficult to expand outward and try to find other companies, so many of them exist at the same time.
The era in which Liu Yun lived was the second regime of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the Later Tang Dynasty.
Later Tang Dynasty Zhuangzong Li Cunqiao image).
At that time, the emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty was Li Cunxuan, the founding emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, known as the invincible opponent of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and his hobby was to listen to a play.
Li Cunmiao likes to fight, is a war maniac, so he is not very concerned about cultural undertakings, after he enabled Liu Yun, he only let him be a bachelor of Hanlin, usually do some copying and writing work in the palace, and nothing else.
Such days are bleak for Liu Yun.
The handsome guy Liu Yun was also a famous genius in ten miles and eight towns back then, Liu Yun was also young and frivolous, and had some earth-shattering ambitions and ideals, but now in front of him, there is only a constant, boring and lengthy life.
You Liu Yun are indeed talented, capable, idealistic, and ambitious, but when you were born in this troubled world, don't talk about anything else, you have to be able to settle down and eat first.
If you can't live, what can you talk about your dreams in life?
Scholars are all lonely and frivolous, they all have great ambitions, they want to help the world and save the people, they want to become Wang Zuozhicai, and it is best to be a prime minister, but before you realize your ideals, you always have to think about how you want to survive.
Everyone is a mortal in the flesh, and they all have to eat and drink Lazar, what do you eat every day? What to drink? Are you going to sleep in**?
You are a weak literati, powerless to tie chickens, and your mind is full of sage books, but if you are given an acre of land, you will not be able to grow a grain of grain.
Be a green forest, become a robber, you can't do the things of a thief, you can perform on the street or go to a teahouse to be a storyteller, you feel too ashamed.
You don't want to do it, you don't want to do it, you just want to seek fame and develop in your career, but is it really that easy to get into the office?
Not to mention, in the end of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination system developed to such a point, from the ninth year of Tang Gaozu Wude to the fourth year of Tang Zhaozong Tianyou, but only 8455 people were admitted, in other words, the Tang Dynasty only took about 20 scholars every year, you Liu Yun can ensure that you are one of them?
We have read too much wild history, listened to too many commentaries, and read too many books, and always think that success is just a snap of a finger, in fact, fame is difficult to find, and if you want to improve your status, it is as difficult as it took ten years for the basic salary of 3,000 yuan to rise to 5,000 yuan.
Life in the world is actually very difficult.
When the author used to watch Stephen Chow's movie "Shaolin Football", he remembered that there was a line in it that went like this:
I advise you to be a down-to-earth person, you have a job to wash the toilet here, you do it first, and you don't dream.
At the time, I only thought it was funny, but now that I look at it, I don't feel full of sighs.
But fortunately, Liu Yun's life is not so difficult.
If a leader does not reuse you, it is not necessary that any leader will not reuse you.
When Li Siyuan, Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne, Liu Yun finally reopened his career in the second spring, and was promoted from a bachelor of Hanlin to a member of the imperial court, serving as the secretary of the Criminal Department, that is, the head of the Ministry of Justice in the Later Tang Dynasty.
Later Tang Mingzong Li Siyuan image).
Liu Yun's criminal department Shangshu started from Li Siyuan of Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty and worked until the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, the abolished emperor Li Congke.
During the reign of Li Congke, the national strength of the Later Tang Dynasty was not as good as before, the people's livelihood was tired, the social contradictions were acute, and the internal and external troubles were continuous, which made the young king very angry.
There is a problem with the state, in fact, in the final analysis, it is the treasury that has no money to make trouble.
The position in charge of finance in the Later Tang Dynasty was called the Three Envoys.
The three divisions, that is, taxes, salt and transportation.
The third envoy of the Later Tang Dynasty was a person named Wang Mei.
Wang Mei served as the finance minister in the Later Tang Dynasty for many years, but the work was a mess and there was no improvement, and the treasury ran a deficit every year, which made the country's development difficult.
It stands to reason that you are not good at work and your ability is not good, you just tell the truth, and the emperor will think that you are honest and honest, and he can still use you in the future, but Wang Mei is a dead duck with a hard mouth, and he doesn't.
When Li Congke first ascended the throne, he once specifically asked Wang Mei how much money was in the treasury, Wang Mei opened her eyes and said nonsense, in order to show her work ability, she said that there were millions of silver money in the treasury, and it was completely enough to spend nonsense to coax Li Congke, but after a while, Li Congke wanted to withdraw money from the treasury, only to find that there was no hair in the treasury, and it was considered to burn high incense if he could take out a few hundred taels, where is the millions that Wang Mei said?
Li Congke, who felt that he had been fooled by Wang Mei, was furious, and removed Wang Mei from his position without saying a word.
Someone **, someone comes to power, everyone knows that the third envoy is a fat shortage, and everyone wants to do it, but this position has fallen to Liu Yun.
Liu Yunqi is a strict law enforcer in the Criminal Department and an upright person, Li Congke believes that such an old minister is trustworthy.
Later Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Congke image).
For Liu Yun, this is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he has long seen that the finances of the Third Division are not pleasing to the eye in the Criminal Department, this time he became the chief official, in charge of finance, and he had to investigate the ** filthy officials to the end, and turn them upside down.
Sure enough, as soon as Liu Yun took office, he found that there was a reason for the country's lack of money, all because there was a group of people in the court who formed a party to engage in corruption and a lot of money, which turned the Houtang into a poor household.
It seems that the difficulties and confusion of the year did not make Liu Yun lose his way, and when the opportunity came, he still strengthened his belief as always and chose to be brave.
Yes, if you are young, if you still have a long way to go, then you have to know that you will meet a lot of people in the future and will go through a lot of things.
But in any case, please don't throw away two things on the road of being a human being, the first is the ideal, and the second is the conscience.
Liu Yun has a very good conscience, at least in the part of being an official, there is nothing to say, but his colleagues don't see him that way.
In the eyes of these bureaucrats who have neither ideals nor conscience, Liu Yun's high-spirited behavior is to sell fame and reputation, his work attitude of doing things for the people is to be eager for quick success, and the behavior of investigating and dealing with ** corrupt officials is to fight against differences and squeeze out colleagues, anyway, these people are not pleasing to the eye no matter how they look at Liu Yun.
Their hearts are black, so they look at everything black.
Liu Yun image).
Liu Yun knew that his colleagues in the court didn't like him, but he didn't think it mattered, because he didn't like these colleagues either, so he adhered to the policy of ignoring things outside the window and only going to normal classes.
Since you can't get along with these people, you can only play with your life.
The dynasty is Tian Shelang, and the twilight of the Tianzi Hall, the soul of the year is depressed, and the career is not smooth, and it has become today's peak, the top of the people.
But it's a pity that not long after becoming the prime minister, Liu Yun was really unbearable by a group of courtiers, so he had to resign and return to his hometown.
Hou Tang ** knew the news of Liu Yun**, he was quite happy, and shouted one after another: From now on, I will be happy!
Liu Yunyi**, our happy days are finally coming!
The ministers were happy, for them it was a cheer for the liberation of nature, and for the post-Tang it was a death knell, a final cry of sorrow.
Reading history so far, I can't help but sigh.
Although it is said that a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, but before becoming a dead pig, we still have to understand that people are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong.
Later Jin Dynasty Gaozu Shi Jingjiao image).
Later, Shi Jingjiao, that is, the one who ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun, destroyed the Tang Dynasty and established the Later Jin Dynasty, and felt that Liu Yun was very prestigious, so he removed him from the township and raised him to the position of prime minister.
For a politician, the most cruel thing is not to dismiss an official, nor to pull out and cut off his head, nor to be liquidated or pushed down after death, but the most cruel thing is that when a time passes, a new day comes, and the smoke of history dissipates, he has been forgotten.
Years of hard work and achievements have not allowed Liu Yun to be forgotten, not only has he not been forgotten, but he has been smooth sailing in the new company.
Not only that, but in the last stage of Liu Yun's life, he also became the author of "Old Tang Book" by mistake.
After Shi Jingjiao established the Later Jin Dynasty, he attached great importance to the work of revising history, and before Liu Yun, the prime minister of the Later Jin Dynasty was Zhao Ying.
The emperor said that he wanted to repair history, so Zhao Ying could only start writing with a deflated stomach.
This old comrade had been writing for a while, and suddenly had to go to work in other places, and the work of revising history had to be handed over to Zhang Zhaoyuan, another minister of the Later Jin Dynasty.
Author of the book Image).
Zhang Zhaoyuan can also be regarded as talented, as diligent as Gao He continued to write "Red Mansion", not seeking fame, only seeking to be innocent, adding and deleting several times, seeing that the book was completed, Liu Yun came to work.
We must know that the regulations of all dynasties and dynasties are generally like this:
As the history of the previous dynasty, the history of the country, and the history of the royal family, such a history book is not qualified to be compiled by ordinary people, not that which ordinary people or a few ordinary ** have written a history book, which can be regarded as official historical materials.
Therefore, this history book must nominally be supervised by the prime minister of this dynasty to be considered reasonable and legitimate, so our new prime minister, Comrade Liu Yun, picked up the ready-made and became the signed author of this "Old Tang Book".
In other words, the book "Old Tang Book" was actually written by Zhao Ying and Zhang Zhaoyuan, and Liu Yun was just a name.
Four years after the opening of luck, Liu Yun died of illness at the age of 60.
There are coincidences in the world, and fate is endless. The list of high-quality authors came early rather than coincidentally, and being able to leave a place in the "Twenty-Four History" can be regarded as Liu Yun's creation.