Before we delve into the changes of Li Xun and Zheng Zhu's nectar, let's first understand Song Shenxi's unjust case.
Song Shenxi, whose name is Qingchen, has been poor since he was a child, but he is talented. After he was admitted to the Jinshi, he was hired as a staff member of the Jiedu Embassy many times. After Mujong ascended the throne, he was appointed to oversee the imperial history.
In the second year of Changqing (822), he was promoted to the rank of living housekeeper. After Jingzong ascended the throne, he was reappointed as a member of the Ministry of Rites, and soon after served as a scholar of the Hanlin Chamberlain.
Original text: Tang Wenzong sought to get rid of the eunuch for the first time Tang Wenzong was worried that the power of the eunuch was too strong, and the palace ban had repeatedly occurred since Xianzong Yuan and Zhijing Zongbao in the past years. At this time, the ** who killed Tang Xianzong and Tang Jingzong still had attendants around Wenzong.
Wang Shoucheng, the lieutenant of the Shence Army, was particularly domineering and domineering, recruiting power and accepting bribes, which Wenzong could not control. However, Tang Wenzong was unwilling to be subject to domestic slaves, and always wanted to find a suitable minister and discuss with him the plan to eliminate the eunuchs.
Song Shenxi was in the inner court at the time, and Wenzong observed that he was a loyal person who could be entrusted with great responsibilities. Once, Wenzong secretly summoned Song Shenxi to talk to him about the eunuchs' dictatorship, and Song Shenxi believed that the eunuchs' power should be gradually eliminated.
Wenzong thought that Song Shenxi had a deep and generous temperament, was loyal and prudent, and could be trusted and relied on, so he conspired with the ministers of the outer court to kill the eunuchs, and promised to appoint him as the prime minister.
In the fourth year of Yamato (830), Tang Wenzong promoted Song Shenxi to Shangshu Youcheng. In July, on the 11th, Song Shenxi was appointed as the Pingzhang of the Tongzhong Shumen.
Tang Wenzong and Prime Minister Song Shenxi conspired to kill the eunuchs, and Song Shenxi recommended Wang Fan, the servant of the ministry, as Jing Zhaoyin, and revealed Wenzong's intention to kill the eunuchs to him. Wang Fan actually leaked Wenzong's intentions to Zheng Zhu, and Zheng Zhu told Wang Shoucheng.
Wang Shoucheng got this secret report and hurriedly discussed countermeasures with Zheng Zhu. Zheng Zhu came up with a plan to preemptively make the Shence army Du Yu Hou Doulu falsely accuse Song Shenxi of conspiring to support Li Cao, the king of Zhang.
Li Miao, the king of Zhang, is the younger brother of Wenzong, who has both ability and political integrity and is very prestigious.
This matter is not trivial, and I implore His Majesty to verify the situation before convicting Song Shenxi. "Wenzong ordered Wang Shoucheng to send people to arrest Yan Jingze, Zhu Xun, and Wang Shiwen, Song Shenxi's confidant, who were falsely accused of managing the sixteen mansions of Dou Lu, and escorted them to the palace for interrogation by eunuchs.
Wang Shiwen fled after learning the news.
In March Gengzi (the second day of the first month), Song Shenxi was removed from the post of prime minister and served as the right concubine of the crown prince, but from the prime minister to the civil and military officials, almost no one dared to speak for Song Shenxi, only Jingzhao Yin Cui Xuan and Dali Qing Wang Zhengya wrote continuously, requesting that the results of the interrogation in the palace be handed over to the Yushitai for review.
As a result, the eunuch's trial of the case slowed down slightly. Yan Jingze and others admitted that Dou Lu's accusations were true, and claimed that Song Shenxi had sent Wang Shiwen to convey his intention to Li Miao, the king of Zhang, to support Li Miao, as emperor.
This was an admission they had no choice but to confess after being tortured many times in Shence Military Prison. After the aftermath of the unjust case was tried, Ren Yin (the fourth day of the first month), Tang Wenzong summoned the prince and the prince, the prince and the prince, as well as the three provinces of Yushitai, Zhongshu Menxia, Shangshu, and Dali Temple to inquire about the trial in person.
At noon, Cui Xuanliang, the chief attendant of Zuo, Li Guyan, Wang Zhen, Lu Jun, Shu Yuanbao, Jiang Xi, Pei Xiu, Wei Wen and others again requested to meet Wenzong in Yanying Palace, and requested that the case be handed over to the Imperial Historical Observatory for review.
Tang Wenzong said: "I have already discussed this matter with the ministers of the imperial court, don't say more!" So, these counselors were asked to withdraw many times, but Cui Xuanliang and others resolutely refused to retreat.
Cui Xuanliang kowtowed to the emperor while crying and said: "Mencius said that everyone said that they could be killed, but they could not be killed; Doctor Qing said that he could be killed, but he could not be killed; All the people in the world say that they can be killed, and then they have to investigate again before they can be punished according to law.
Now is the most holy dynasty, killing an ordinary person must also comply with the laws of the country, let alone killing a prime minister innocently! The minister cherishes the law of the world for His Majesty, and it is indeed not to defend Song Shenxi. ”
Wenzong's anger gradually eased, and he said, "I'll discuss it with the prime ministers again." Tang Wenzong summoned the prime minister again to Yanying Palace. Prime Minister Niu Shengyu said: "No matter how noble your subordinates are, they are just prime ministers.
Song Shenxi has become the prime minister. If he really wanted to support Li Cao, the king of Zhang, and rebelled, then what could he get? I don't think Song Shin-seok would be stupid enough to do this! ”
Instead of talking about the specific facts of Song Shenxi's case, Niu Shengyu tactfully persuaded Wenzong with human feelings and behavioral motives, so that Wenzong woke up and made Wang Shoucheng, Zheng Zhu and other false accusers frightened.
Zheng Zhu was worried that the case would be handed over to the foreign court for review and would expose their conspiracy, so he persuaded Wang Shoucheng to accept it as soon as he saw it, and asked Wenzong to close the case as soon as possible and only depose the main culprit, so as not to cause a big mess.
On the fifth day of the first month, Tang Wenzong degraded Li Miao, the king of Zhang, as the prince of Chaoxian County, and degraded Song Shenxi as the Sima of Kaizhou.
1.The fate of Yan Jingze and others was changed by the case of Song Shenxi, who were sentenced to death or exiled. Feilong made Ma Cunliang deeply feel the innocence of Song Shenxi and the arbitrariness of Wang Shoucheng and others, and resolutely proposed to resign as a sign of **.
2.Tang Wenzong's first attempt to eradicate the eunuchs ended in failure. The reason is that since Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the power of eunuchs has gradually expanded, and they have mastered the military and political power of the imperial court, and they can even kill and abolish the emperor.
Tang Wenzong promoted Song Shenxi to be the prime minister, hoping that he could complete this arduous task, but Song Shenxi's analytical judgment ability and improper employment led to failure. In the end, Tang Wenzong was deceived by the false accusations of the eunuchs, and Song Shenxi and others were severely punished for this.
Song Shenxi's wife came out and said: "As the prime minister, your status has reached the extreme, why do you want to live up to the Son of Heaven and rebel?" Song Shenxi replied bitterly: "I am a scholar, I was given the gift of the emperor and promoted to prime minister, but I was not able to eradicate the treacherous people, but I was framed, madam, you see, am I really a rebel?" ”
Hearing this, the couple wept bitterly. Since Song Shenxi took office in the inner court, he has always been strict with himself, kept himself clean, especially insisted on fairness and integrity, and never accepted bribes from the Quartet.
However, after he was framed, the relevant authorities found out that he had accepted bribes, and people inside and outside the court felt sorry for him. In the seventh year of Yamato, Song Shenxi died of illness in Kaizhou. Wenzong ordered that he be allowed to return to his hometown as a sign of the emperor's favor.
In the eighth year of Yamato, because of the long drought and no rain, Wenzong issued an edict to solicit ways to pray for rain. The doorman Wailang Li Zhongmin suggested that Zheng Zhu be executed for Song Shen Seok Zhaoxue's grievances. However, his suggestion was not answered, and Li Zhongmin had no choice but to return to Luoyang on the grounds of illness.
In the ninth year of Yamato, Li Cao, the prince of Chaoxian County, died, and the imperial court posthumously awarded him the king of Qi. In the first year of Kaicheng, Prime Minister Li Shi made a statement to Wenzong, believing that the former Prime Minister Song Shenxi was loyal and upright, but he was framed and degraded to the remote borderland, and he has not been able to get Zhaoxue so far.
After hearing this, Wenzong was silent for a long time, his heart was very sad, and he burst into tears, he said: "I knew that Song Shenxi was wronged, but at that time, the traitor forced me, and I could only save his life, and I couldn't even protect my own brother, let alone him."
This unjust case is all because I can't distinguish between right and wrong, if Song Shenxi met Emperor Zhao of Han, he would definitely not be so wronged. Zheng Qin and Li Guyan also supported Song Shenxi for being wronged, and Wenzong felt very sad and showed shame on his face.
In the first month of the third year of Kaicheng (838), Ding Mao (the eighth day of the first month), Tang Wenzong took pity on Li Miao, the king of Qi, who was framed, and was not able to rehabilitate Zhaoxue until his death, and posthumously presented Li Miao as the prince of Huaiyi.
Tang Wenzong issued an edict to restore all official positions and titles of Song Shenxi, and appointed his son as the county lieutenant of Chenggu. Although he was silent on the surface, Wenzong, who was already angry in his heart and couldn't tolerate it, decided to eradicate the eunuchs at the suggestion of Li Xun and Zheng Zhu.
Wenzong secretly told the two of them his intentions, and asked Li Xun to annotate the five scriptures for the "Zhou Yi" to hide people's eyes. Zheng Zhu often stayed in the palace, sometimes at home on vacation, and was also full of guests, and he accepted bribes from others and piled up with money.
Outsiders only knew that Li Xun and Zheng Zhu relied on the power of the eunuchs to act as a prestige, but they never expected that they would conspire with the emperor to kill the eunuchs. Li Xun and Zheng Zhu drew up a plan for Wenzong to govern the country and level the world, the first step was to eradicate the eunuchs, then send troops to recover the western river and the lost land, and finally sweep the secession towns in Hebei.
Tang Wenzong, Li Xun, and Zheng Zhu just grasped this weakness of the eunuchs, took advantage of the contradictions between the eunuchs, divided and disintegrated, and fought poison with poison to achieve the goal of defeating each one.
At the beginning, Wenzong was put on the throne of the emperor, and Qiu Shiliang, a general of the right leading army and a eunuch from Xingning County, Xunzhou, had made meritorious contributions, but he was suppressed by Wang Shoucheng, and the two have been grudges since then.
At this time, Li Xun and Zheng Zhu designed for Wenzong to promote Qiu Shiliang in order to divide Wang Shoucheng's power. In May of the ninth year of Yamato (835), Yichou (21st), Tang Wenzong appointed Qiu Shiliang as the lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Army, and Wang Shoucheng was very unhappy.
Wei Yuan, Yang Chenghe, Wang Jianyan and others intensified the conflict due to the power struggle, Li Xun and Zheng Zhu took the opportunity to persuade Wenzong to demote Yang Chenghe as the supervisor of Jiannan Xichuan, Wei Element as the supervisor of Huainan, and Wang Jianyan as the supervisor of Hedong.
However, Wenzong issued an edict to reprimand Wei Yuan and others for their crimes, and ordered Xichuan, Huainan, and Hedong to send people to escort them to the supervised area. Soon after, Wenzong ordered the eunuchs to chase them down and ask them to commit suicide.
The former privy envoy Cui Tanjun has died, and Wenzong ordered someone to dissect the coffin and whip the corpse. Back then, some people said that it was the eunuch Chen Hongzhi who ** Tang Xianzong, and now, Chen Hongzhi serves as the supervisor of Shannan Dongdao, and Li Xun suggested that Wenzong call him back to Beijing.
However, when Chen Hongzhi walked to Nanqing Niyi in Lantian County, Shaanxi, Wen Zong sent people to carry a torture rod and beat him to death. In order to achieve their goal, Li Xun and Zheng Zhu suggested to Wenzong that Wang Shoucheng be promoted to the highest honorary military position on the surface to show respect for him, but in fact they were elevating him and depriving him of real power.
In the end, Wenzong sent the eunuch Li Haogu to send a bottle of poisoned wine to Wang Shoucheng's house and ordered him to take it and commit suicide. Wang Shoucheng's younger brother Wang Shoujuan was the supervisor of Xuzhou at the time, and he was also recalled to the capital, and was killed by the imperial court on the way.
Li Xun and Zheng Zhu both relied on Wang Shoucheng's cultivation and promotion to have today's high position, but Wang Shoucheng died at their hands, which made all the officials of the court applaud Wang Shoucheng's death, and at the same time hated Li Xun and Zheng Zhu's insidious cunning, ingratitude, and hatred.
The rebellious eunuchs who murdered Tang Xianzong in the last years of Yuan He were almost wiped out. Tang Wenzong conspired with Li Xun and Zheng Zhu to eliminate the rebellious party members in the last years of Yuan He, and the struggle against the eunuchs achieved a preliminary victory.
In order to completely eradicate the eunuch group, Tang Wenzong, Li Xun and Zheng Zhu conspired to launch a larger-scale struggle to eliminate the eunuchs, which is the famous Manna Change in history.