《Shu Liang》
《 Twenty-Four Histories 》The eighth book is "Shu Liang", and the author is Yao Silian .
Yao family can be said to be a big player with a strong root.
Yao Silian's grandfather Yao Sengyuan is a famous doctor in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (high medical skills and are recommended by the world). The emperor of Southern Dynasties got sick and did not look for the imperial doctor in the palace. The first one would have to invite his grandfather to the palace first.
treated the emperor, and it also treated him very well, which made Yao Sengyuan famous. Even some small countries and people from the surrounding foreign countries and Western Regions came thousands of miles to seek medical treatment.
Treat more, treat more, and of course make a lot of money. After Yao Sengyuan got the money, he did not spend money or buy real estate, but gave it to his son Yao Cha . (Every time you receive gifts, you will return them to the Cha brothers)
Yao Cha is Yao Silian's father.
His father had no other hobbies in his life, he did not smoke, drink, or perm his head. His only interest was that he liked to collect books, and read them carefully while collecting them, so that the Yao family's collection of thousands of books can be regarded as a small library.
If a person studies all year round, or maintains the habit of studying throughout his life, then the temperament he displays will be very different from others.
Yao Cha's every move was full of elegance and national style, which made many scholars at that time admire him. (Yu Xuanyoutang listened to the lecture and was called by Confucians)
Yao Cha, this is indeed a cruel person.
(Yao Cha image)
The Southern and Northern Dynasties were divided into the north and south. At the beginning of the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yao Cha took studying as his career and studied knowledge carefully. Later, Qi destroyed the Song Dynasty, Liang destroyed Qi again. By when Liang of the Southern Dynasties, Yao Cha had outstanding talents, had already become an official, and worked as a doctor in the imperial court.
This doctor in the department has a fifth rank and is mainly responsible for the emperor's travel etiquette.
If the emperor likes to walk around, then the position of the doctor in the Department of the Department will be quite busy all day long. However, most of the emperors of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty were otaku and could not leave the door a few times a year, so Yao Cha was happy to be idle, no matter when going to work or getting off work, it was still two words: study.
Later, Chen destroyed Liang, and Yao Cha became the Minister of Personnel in Chen of the Southern Dynasties.
The official Minister of Personnel was of great rank during the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, but during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, his power was not that great, and he was a peripheral public official and could only be responsible for the recruitment of some low-level officials. He had little work pressure and could do a lot of free time. Yao Cha was happy to be idle, and there were still two things every day, one was reading, and the other was collecting books.
Historical records show that Mr. Yao has collected more than ten thousand books in his life, and he has read many books. Because he has collected too many books and read too many books, his reputation in the literary circle is amazing. Anyone who takes out a person from any dynasty of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen to ask, he will say that Yao Cha is the most famous literary scholar in the world.
Later, Sui destroyed Chen, and Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian also valued Yao Cha very much. He once said in public that
himself had so much effort to destroy Nan Chen, and the purpose was nothing else, just to get Yao Cha. (I heard that Yao Cha's academic career is extremely good now, and I have this person in Chen Wei)
(image of Emperor Wen of Sui)
doctor grandfathers and famous scholar fathers, with such a family learning tradition, you can imagine what kind of child Yao Silian is.
The era in which our protagonist Yao Silian was located was at the critical moment when it moved from the division of the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the unification of the Sui Dynasty.
He first entered the officialdom in Nanchen, and later destroyed Nanchen in Sui Dynasty, and he became an official in Sui Dynasty.
When the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, Yao Silian's position was a attendant of the Sui Dynasty, and was mainly responsible for teaching Emperor Yang of Sui 's grandson Dai Wang Yang You .
Taiyuan Li Yuan's army (that is, later Tang Gaozu ) raised an army to attack Chang'an , the officials of the Sui Dynasty had basically packed their luggage and ran away. Only Yao Silian was still serving Dai Wang's mansion. When the Tang soldiers attacked Dai Wang's mansion, Yao Silian was even more afraid, but instead scolded loudly:
Taiyuan Li Yuan's rebellion was originally intended to support the royal family, so you cannot be so rude. (The Tang Gong promoted the righteousness of the royal family, and you must not be rude to the king) The incident of
made Li Yuan think that Yao Silian was a very courageous and honest person. So after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan valued Yao Silian very much and sent him to the mansion of his son Qin King Li Shimin .
This young comrade Li Shimin has always been very ambitious.
His father Li Yuan originally wanted to be loyal to Taiyuan. After two years of restless life, Li Shimin encouraged Li Yuan day and night. Only then did Li Yuan make up his mind to subvert the Sui Dynasty.
(image of Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty)
Now the Sui Dynasty has been destroyed, Tang Dynasty was established, and his father has become emperor, and Li Shimin began to think about how to inherit the throne.
Because he is not the eldest son, but the second son, if he wants to be emperor, he has to clean up his eldest brother, that is, the prince , Li Jiancheng .
It is difficult for one person to accomplish great things and become an emperor's career. Therefore, in order to attract talents from all over the world for his own use, Li Shimin specially established a department called the "Literature Museum" and arranged all the talents he liked to work in the museum, called the "Eighteen Bachelors".
Friends, this eighteen bachelor’s degree is not a good deal. Later names Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui are both listed here. It can be said that members of this group are all top literary talents in the world. It is difficult to get in without a handy diamond. Our Comrade Yao Silian is listed as one of the eighteen bachelor’s degree.
Whether it was Li Yuan back then or Li Shimin, who later became emperor after the change of the Xuanwu Gate of , he attached great importance to Yao Silian.
Taizong Li Shimin often said that Yao Silian does not avoid xx in the face of family and country justice. Such people are rare.
The more the emperor said, the more he moved him, the more he said he loved Yao Silian, so he simply sent someone to send 300 pieces of brocade to Yao Silian as a reward. (I want to be honest and righteous, so I give it to you)
Yao Silian is a very straightforward person. He did not become a favorite minister who only seeks to be arrogant and blindly obscene because Emperor Taizong loves him. On the contrary, he often faces the emperor.
(Conceptual Picture of Daming Palace)
We know that the capital of the Tang Dynasty was in Chang'an, which is today's Xi'an, Shaanxi.
There is a continuous and majestic royal building complex called Daming Palace, which is the residence of Emperor Taizong.
In summer, Chang'an City is very hot. The emperor doesn't like to be bored in the Daming Palace, so he wants to go to Jiucheng Palace in Baoji, Shaanxi to escape the summer.
This nine-year palace belongs to the emperor's palace, and of course you can also understand it as the emperor's palace.
Originally, there were many ministers during the Taizong period. The emperor wanted to go out and escape the summer heat. He did it secretly and didn't make much statement, but he didn't know what was going on. After a while, Yao Silian found out about this.
Comrade Yao Silian, that's really rude. He heard that the emperor was going to leave the palace, so he rushed directly to the Daming Palace and educated the emperor: Only emperors who are very happy with merits like Qin Shihuang , Emperor Wu of Han like to wander around and not stay at home. People like to work from home and not travel.(You are lucky enough to leave the palace. Qin Emperor, Han Wu is not what Yao, Shun, Yu, and Tang do)
said one sentence, which made Tang Taizong very shameless. The emperor was pitiful and had to explain:
My dear, I am not going to go for a walk or travel, but because I have some physical problems. I can't stand the weather that is too hot. When the weather is hot, I will get sick easily, so I have to go to Jiucheng Palace to recuperate. (I am angry and I feel hot and startled, which is not because I like to visit and enjoy it.)
The emperor was busy and explained, and Yao Silian was satisfied with the explanation. Only the explanation was explained. This kind of brother left. Before leaving, he was holding the fifty pieces of silk given to him by the emperor.
(image of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty Li Shimin)
Of course, in addition to making a difference on the political stage, Yao Silian's most important achievement was to write "Book of Liang".
"Shu Liang" was not written by Yao Silian from existence to none. If we are to be honest, the author of "Shu Liang" should be his father Yao Cha and Yao Silian.
Because his father worked in the Southern Liang Dynasty, the Southern Chen Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty, and they all held positions such as Taishi Ling , Yao Cha began to compile the "Book of Liang" from the middle of the Southern Liang Dynasty.
The old man worked diligently, from the Liang Dynasty to the Liang Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, he finally died of illness in the second year of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. His son Yao Silian took over his father's work and finally finished writing "Book of Liang" in the early Tang Dynasty.
Yao Silian's history writing has made great progress compared to previous generations.
This kind of guy doesn’t like to be extravagant or pile up words, but he writes concisely and talks about things if he has something to do.
He never believed in any strange and anecdotes. He never adopted the unspoken history of blowing someone and something, but instead focused on the truthful record of history.
And, in Yao Silian's behavior, we can see that he is a very thoughtful person.
"Book of Liang" says, "The way is not always free, and fortune is unpredictable and prosperous, and then there will be poverty and fortune, and prosperity and decline will follow each other." This means that Yao Silian believes that the beginning of chaos and rise and fall of the dynasty has nothing to do with destiny, but the law of historical development and an inevitable phenomenon.
He also said, "The demise of Liang's country is poor, but it is also a matter of people." This means that the demise of a country is related to the length of time it has been experienced, but it is still caused by people and individual success or failure.
(Yao Silian image)
Yes, the Yao family went from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, and then from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. Their generations have seen too many wars and the regimes have changed. Starting from a high building today, we have had a banquet for guests today, and tomorrow the building collapses are common in their eyes. As historians, they have different understandings of the dynasty they have experienced or lived in.
Understand life, understand everything, understand the passage of time, understand the changes in history, and finally reach a reconciliation with yourself.
The author read a few pages of "Book of Liang" a few days ago. There is a sentence in the book that is left at the end of the article and shared with all readers:
Love it like parents, look up to it like the sun and the moon, respect it like ghosts and gods, and fear it like thunder.
We must respect our parents, look at the sun and the moon, be like ghosts and gods, be tenacious in the heart, and have thunder power.
In the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Yao Silian passed away from illness. Emperor Taizong was very sad and stopped working for a day, crying endlessly.
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