Emperor Wu sent troops to attack the Xiongnu, the Hun Hun surrendered, and the external war was going smoothly, but at this time there was a great drought in the country, the people wandered around, and the grain depots in various places had no surplus grain. The prime minister suggested that more ** and five baht coins should be made, the world's salt and iron management rights should be nationalized, and the levy of ** should be increased on wealthy businessmen. Zhang Tang was highly used at this time, and discussed with Emperor Wu until sunset every morning, the prime minister was in name only, and national affairs basically had to go through Zhang Tang. In the early days of the New Deal, the effect was not obvious enough, the people were in turmoil, the filthy officials were full of their own pockets, Zhang Tang made a heavy punch to rectify, and the results were immediately shown. Zhang Tang was sick and asked for leave, and Emperor Wu personally came to the door to condole.
In the face of the continuous blows of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu sent envoys to ask for peace. At this time, there were two voices in the country, one was the main peace faction dominated by Dr. Di Shan, the reason was that the emperors before Emperor Wu had always implemented a policy of peace and proximity, and the country was recuperating and recuperating, and the economy was sustaining development. At present, foreign wars are too frequent, and the people are suffering from war. One is the main battle faction dominated by Zhang Tang, who believes that it should be pursued by victory and made a big move, which also represents the thought of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The result speaks for itself, the Lord and the faction were suppressed, and Di Shan was driven to the border town, where he was soon killed by the Huns who invaded the border.
No morning sun lasts a whole day. Everyone can't stand at the top forever, and under the fame, they will begin to be "beaten" by all sides. Seven years after Zhang Tang became the imperial historian, various blows followed. There was no cause for the incident, but because Zhang Tang usually made too many enemies, and at the same time, the "enemies" formed a consensus of "attack" and worked together to defeat Zhang Tang.
Zhang Tang and Li Wen had a conflict, Li Wen tried every means to collect evidence of Zhang Tang's crime, and before he succeeded, he was discovered by Zhang Tangai's general Lu Yuju, so he first started to expose Li Wen's scandal, and Li Wen was killed. Although Zhang Tang knew the reason why Li Wen was killed, when Emperor Wu asked him how Li Wen's incriminating evidence was exposed, Zhang Tang chose to conceal it. Zhang Tang and King Zhao had contradictions, and King Zhao also had a personal grudge against Lu Yuju, so he told Emperor Wu that the two were "colluding" with each other to execute Li Wenshi. Lu Yuju was imprisoned and died of illness soon after. His younger brother was implicated, and Zhang Tang was inconvenient to rescue Lu Yuju's younger brother openly, and planned to operate it secretly, but he didn't expect Lu Yuju's younger brother to have no "brains", thinking that Zhang Tang had already forgotten him. Lu Yuju's younger brother handed over the charges to Zhang Tang's other political enemies. Soon, Zhang Tang offended Prime Minister Zhai Qing because of his inconsistencies in words and deeds.
Soon, the main attack force "Sanchangshi" began to attack Zhang Tang, and they now mobilized Prime Minister Zhai Qing and others, and Zhang Tang was imprisoned. Knowing that he would die soon, Zhang Tang wrote a confession to Emperor Wu. After Zhang Tang's death, the family had no money to spare, and Emperor Wu's misunderstanding of Zhang Tang had been eliminated, Sanchangshi was imprisoned, and Prime Minister Zhai Qing committed suicide.
As a representative of the cool officials of the same era, Zhao Yu may have been affected by the Zhang Tang incident, and his personality in his later years was somewhat restrained, and he had a good death.