"A Record of the Officialdom": "Don't see the wind and make the rudder, and then do the truth." Although loyalty is an important part of traditional Chinese virtues, there are countless people who are unfaithful. In order to maintain their own interests, they do not hesitate to betray their personalities and become objects of spurn by the world.
In the process of social development in ancient China, there have been many outstanding officials. Based on their efforts, the level of national development has been steadily improved, and the heavy burden on the emperor has been effectively reduced. For these outstanding courtiers, with their outstanding talents, they were able to occupy a high position and hold power that ordinary people could not reach.
Not all people in high positions have outstanding talents. In order to get promotion opportunities, some ministers did not hesitate to greet the emperor and other ministers in a flattering manner. For this group of people, they will surely become the object of rejection by the world.
Once, a flattering prime minister was humiliated by the emperor. At that time, the emperor gave him the 50-year-old nanny in the palace as his wife, and on the wedding night, the minister shouted long live with excitement. Who is this prime minister who was humiliated by the emperor? Why is he so excited after marrying a 50-year-old nanny?
The prime minister who was humiliated by the emperor was Dou Huaizhen . As a person from a prominent family, Dou Huaizhen has been intrigued since childhood and learned a lot about being an official. With the help of his family, Dou Huaizhen became an adult of Qinghe county magistrate. During his tenure, Dou Huaizhen performed well and achieved remarkable political achievements. After that, he was promoted one after another and had a reputation for being honest and capable.
In 706 AD, Dou Huaizhen was promoted to the post of Yushi doctor . In the context of the era, Queen Wei and Princess Anle controlled the government, while Dou Huaizhen chose to greet Queen Wei in order to improve his status. In the eyes of the world, Dou Huaizhen’s behavior in favor of Queen Wei,There is a huge difference from the capable image when he was young. Although Dou Huaizhen received negative comments from the world for this incident, he didn't care about it.
In 706 AD, Tang Zhongzong ordered officials at all levels to come to the imperial palace to watch the year . At this time, Dou Huaizhen became the object of Tang Zhongzong’s pleasure. At that time, Tang Zhongzong told Dou Huaizhen that he would marry a beautiful woman to him . Dou Huaizhen, who thought he was favored by the emperor, did not expect that the emperor's betrothed to him was the nanny of the Queen Wei over 50.
When the ministers learned of this, they burst into laughter, but Dou Huaizhen was not embarrassed, but was so excited that he fell to his knees and shouted long live. After this incident, Dou Huaizhen even referred to herself as "Guo Pao" , not in the least unexpected world's negative comments on her. Later, by virtue of his marriage to Queen Wei's nanny, Dou Huaizhen's connection with Queen Wei became even closer.
With the change of the background of the times, the marriage between Dou Huaizhen and this nurse naturally came to an end. In 710 AD, after Empress Wei killed Tang Zhongzong, Li Longji launched a coup d'etat, killing both Empress Wei and Princess Anle, and began to clear the remaining members of Empress Wei.
When Dou Huaizhen heard the news, he killed the wife of the nurse and expressed his feelings to Li Longji. Although this behavior prevented Dou Huaizhen from being killed by Li Longji, when Tang Ruizong Li Dan was restored, Dou Huaizhen was demoted and punished.
But Dou Huaizhen did not accept his fate, In the days that followed, Dou Huaizhen was attached to the power of Princess Taiping ,He was able to return to the central area to take up his post. In a short time, Dou Huaizhen was promoted to Prime Minister and became an important minister under one person and over ten thousand people.
What Dou Huaizhen did not expect was that the Princess Taiping he was attached to could not bring him a glorious life. When Tang Ruizong was unable to balance the relationship between Princess Taiping and Li Longji, he surrendered the throne to Li Longji. After Li Longji came to power, he eliminated Princess Taiping’s gang in the DPRK, and Princess Taiping herself was also eliminated. Forced to commit suicide.
When Dou Huaizhen found that the situation was gone, he hanged himself. For Li Longji, Dou Huaizhen’s self-hanging result was obviously not satisfactory. In later days, he retrieved Dou Huaizhen’s body and then took him Cut the head to show the public, and changed Dou Huaizhen's surname to "poison" to express his mockery of Dou Huaizhen.
From the ending of Dou Huaizhen, it can be felt that for those who are unfaithful and unfaithful, although they can rely on temporary cleverness to achieve staged success, in the long run, they must Will pay due price for what I did.
No matter in which era, the loyal and righteous will become the objects of respect by the world, and those "wall grass" will be unanimously cast aside by the world.
Although in the development process of modern society, our country has already got rid of the previous feudal backwardness, but the stories of the ancients also have certain enlightenment and reference significance for modern society. I believe that in the days to come, more people will realize the importance of loyalty and strive to become a person of both loyalty and justice.
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