Biography of Yang Fei

Chapter 177 Wen Tingyun

So she laughed and said: "Your concubine's words are good, but the emperor..." Wang Guifei hurriedly said: "The concubine will go to find out first!"

The concubine nodded, very satisfied. Recently, she and the emperor are a little estranged. Although the emperor still respects her, the intimacy between mother and child is gone. The emperor used to come to the concubine every few days to use her. For dinner, I always want to eat the squab here under the pretext of being greedy, but in fact it is to accompany the concubine and connect with the mother and child.

Although the concubine is not the emperor's biological mother, and there are many secrets that are not known to the public, she is good to the emperor and has never treated him badly, but after all, she is separated by a layer of belly, and there are always things that cannot be said Diaphragm, if you are not careful, it will become a seed of doubt.

The concubine and the concubine Wang chatted for a while, and the concubine Wang took her leave.Concubine Wang Gui was about to go to Feishuang Palace, but she saw Concubine Guo Shu hurriedly approaching, looking rather dispirited. Concubine Wang Gui was surprised. Could it be that Concubine Guo Shu knew that Yang Yu was more beautiful than before, so she felt annoyed and thought Want to find out?
Just as she was about to ask, Concubine Guo Shu hurriedly walked towards Concubine Wang, neither saluting nor saying hello, as if she had never seen Concubine Wang!Concubine Wang Guifei couldn't help being a little stunned, although Concubine Guo Shu always had her eyes high above her head, she was fond of herself and never put other people in her eyes, but she would not ignore her like today!The imperial concubine hated her deeply, could it be that the emperor revealed something in front of her?What made her so insolent?

In fact, Concubine Wang was overwhelmed. Concubine Guo Shu really didn't see her, because something happened to her precious daughter, Princess Tongchang!Although Concubine Guo Shu felt that there was something wrong between Princess Tongchang and Wei Baoheng before, she wanted to ask about it on the day of the Cuju competition, but Yang Yu was injured, the emperor was very anxious, and hurried back to the palace, so she had to accompany her.Unexpectedly, only a few days later, the nurse who took care of Princess Tongchang hurried back to the palace to report that Princess Tongchang was ill with anger, and said that she was heartbroken and seriously ill.

What happened to Princess Tongchang?Everything starts with Yu Xuanji, you wonder why this Yu Xuanji hangs out with Wei Baoheng for no reason, it turns out it is to anger Wen Tingyun!Yu Xuanji has an indescribable affection for Wen Tingyun, and deeply blames this Wen Tingyun for pushing her to Li Yi and wasting her life.In this entanglement of love and hate, I miss Wen Tingyun.It's just that Wen Tingyun is not in the capital, and she just misses it.

But recently this Wen Tingyun returned to the capital again!

Wen Tingyun is also a person with a rough fate. Although he is talented, he is not ranked first in the list of scholars.Those who can take the exam today are the four years of Emperor Wenzong of Tang Dynasty (839). Wen Tingyun started to apply for the exam when he was nearly 40 years old.The reason is probably the victim of the political struggle in the palace.Because of Concubine Yang Xian's slander, dozens of people around Prince Zhuang Ke, Li Yong, were killed or expelled, and the sand was wiped out. Then Prince Zhuang Ke died suddenly for no apparent reason.

Others avoided it, and he wrote a few poems to mourn the prince. Wen Tingyun was involved in this political struggle, and it was good that he didn't suffer any disasters.Before he stepped into the examination room, he was doomed not to pass the exam.After being unsuccessful in the fourth year of Kaicheng, Wen Tingyun lived in Hujiao for two years. In his own words, it was "two years of illness, and he did not go to the township to recommend an examination for Yousi".It was not known whether it was a real illness or staying at home in fear of misfortune.

In the first year of Huichang (841), Emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty, Wen Tingyun went to Huainan to meet Li Shen when he was 41 years old.As early as when Wen Tingyun was 8 years old, he met Li Shen, and it can be said that they have been friends since childhood.In the ninth year of Tang Yizong's Dazhong (855), Wen Tingyun went to take the exam again.This time, Shen Xun was the master of Chunwei in the exam, but Wen Tingyun caused storms all over the city because he disturbed the house.The cause of the incident was that Wen Tingyun had the nickname of "rescue several people", that is, he helped the candidates on the left and right in the examination room. Therefore, this time Shen Xun treated Wen Tingyun specially and called Wen Tingyun to take the test in front of the curtain.

Wen Tingyun made a big fuss because of this, disrupting the examination room.It is said that although Shen Xun took strict precautions this time, Wen Tingyun still secretly helped eight people.Of course, I failed the test again.From then on, Wen Tingyun gave up this thought and never set foot in the world of fame.

It was at this time that he met Yu Xuanji in the name of a teacher. Although there was a huge age difference and Wen Tingyun was ugly, Yu Xuanji still worshiped him under his talent and learning. This kind of teacher and friend is ambiguous The relationship lasted for a long time, and it finally ended when Wen Tingyun couldn't break free from the shackles of ethics.

Wen Tingyun finds a handsome and talented son Li Yi for Yu Xuanji, thinking that this is the best home for Yu Xuanji, but he never expects that this is the beginning of her tragedy.This Li Yi has a wife, and his wife is a lady from the Pei family, so he can accommodate a woman like Yu Xuanji?Li Yi did not dare to offend the power of the Pei family, so he had to send Yu Xuanji to a Taoist temple. Yu Xuanji waited for many years but did not see Li Yi come to pick her up, so he became disheartened, indulged, and wrote poems The name of the members of the congregation leads a life of debauchery all day long.

This Wen Tingyun found out about Yu Xuanji, at first he thought it was just a conflict between their husband and wife, and it might not be good for him to intervene.Although he almost saw Yu Xuanji once, but because of Yu Xuanji's complaints, he avoided seeing him.During this time, Wen Tingyun still stayed in the capital.

Unexpectedly, he later offended Linghu Tao again!Wen Tingyun and Linghu Fu had a good friendship, and they were treated very generously when they went in and out of the Linghu Pavilion.At that time Tang Xuanzong liked the lyrics "Bodhisattva Man", Linghu secretly asked Wen Tingyun to fill in the lyrics of "Bodhisattva Man" on his behalf, and asked Wen Tingyun not to leak it out, but Wen Tingyun spread the matter, Linghu Huan was very dissatisfied.

Wen Tingyun looked down on Linghuxiao's talent.In Tang Xuanzong's poem, the last sentence contained "Jinbuyao", but he failed to correct it, so he asked the Weidi Jinshi to correct it. Wen Tingyun responded with "Jade Tiaotuo". Xuanzong was very happy and rewarded it.Linghuxiao didn't know the theory of "taking off the jade strip", so he asked Wen Tingyun.Wen Tingyun told him that it was from the "Nanhua Jing", and said that the "Nanhua Jing" is not a rare book, and he should read some books in his spare time when he is on official business.The implication is that Linghuyu doesn't study, and he also tells people that "the general of Zhongshu Province sits in the office", ridiculing Linghuyu for not learning.Because of this, Linghuxiao hated him even more, saying that he was talented but not capable, so he was not suitable for the first place.

It can be seen from this that Wen Tingyun has not been in the ranking all the time, not because of his lack of talent and learning, but because of the envy of those in power.Not only is his talent not high, but he also has a bad reputation for bad conduct.It is also said that Wen Tingyun met Tang Xuanzong who had traveled so far in Chuanshe. Because he didn't know him as the emperor, he asked him proudly.

After Wen Tingyun disturbed the court, he was demoted to Sui County Captain of Suizhou, and became an official who couldn't be younger.In the 11th year of Dazhong (857), Xushang Township Xiangyang was appointed as an inspector. At this time, Wen Tingyun was 56 years old.In Xiangyang, Wen Tingyun made friends with Duan Chengshi, Zhou Yao and others.After staying in Xiangyang for several years.

In the second year of Xiantong (861), Xu Shangzhao went to Que, and Wen Tingyun then left Xiangyang and went to Jiangdong. He was 61 years old at this time, and returned to Huainan the next winter.At this time, although Wen Tingyun was famous for his poems, he was down and out, indiscriminate in his whereabouts, and had a close relationship with the nobles Pei Cheng, Linghu Yu and others.At that time Linghu was out of town in Huainan, Wen Tingyun did not visit him even though he was an old acquaintance because he suppressed him when he was in office.

In the fourth year of Xiantong (863), Wen Tingyun was forced to beg in the Yangziyuan because of poverty, and fell asleep drunk. He was slapped by the patrolling soldiers and even broke his teeth.He sued Linghuyu about this, but Linghuyu did not deal with the rude soldiers.The soldiers spoke extremely about Wen Tingyun's narrow and evil deeds.Therefore, rumors about Wen Tingyun's extremely bad conduct spread to the capital. The 63-year-old man suffered broken teeth and a worse reputation. Wen Tingyun had no choice but to go to Chang'an in person and write a letter to the public to explain the whole story and avenge his grievances.

Afterwards he lived in the capital, although he returned to the capital, he never visited Yu Xuanji, and he didn't know if it was because he was ashamed of her or because he was ashamed of her profligate behavior.This hit Yu Xuanji deeply, so she hung out with this Wei Baoheng and got together again. She wanted to make everyone know that Wen Tingyun was here as the assistant teacher of Guozi, and Wei Baoheng was also a colleague. She wanted to see How does Wen Tingyun think about this matter!

Sure enough, this Wen Tingyun came to Xianyi Temple many times to ask to see Yu Xuanji, but she refused all of them. Wen Tingyun was still watching outside to show his righteousness, and advised her to respect herself and not to get burned.Yu Xuanji felt uncomfortable, how could he listen?Unexpectedly, this time it will be a farewell!
It turned out that Wen Tingyun was awarded by the emperor as the assistant teacher of the son of the state, the master of the state and the supervisor of the state.Wen Tingyun, who had been repeatedly suppressed in the examination room, was different from the main examiner. After strict literary judgment, "thirty articles were listed to promote justice", and the article on the list said: "Right, the poems accepted by the former Jinshi, etc. , a little improvement in knowledge, worthy of God's enlightenment, passionate tone, tunes and rumors, titles and fates, difficult times, under the candle, the heroic words are outstanding. It is sincere to show everyone, and dare not arbitrarily judge the flower. Come out to show selflessness." Publishing the tested poems and prose to the public meant asking the masses to supervise them, and put an end to the unhealthy trend of selecting scholars based on people, which was passed down as a good talk at that time.

And this move brought misfortune to Wen Tingyun.He judged others completely by writing, and he was dissatisfied with the rich and powerful when he made the list to the public. He also criticized current politics and exposed corrupt people in his poems and essays. .Therefore, Prime Minister Yang Shou and Yu Cong were very angry and demoted Wen Tingyun to Fang Chengwei.

Suffering this blow and being demoted again, the aged Wen Tingyun died of depression in the winter of the seventh year of Xiantong (866).He died on the day of the winter solstice!It was too late for Yu Xuanji to hear the news, and when he arrived there, Wen Tingyun had already gone.I heard from the old slave that in the early morning of the winter solstice in November, it was snowing heavily outside, and the street was completely white, only the snow reflected the faint moonlight, and there was no one there.Wen Tingyun just woke up and sat on the bed when he heard someone knocking on the door.He was surprised that there were still people visiting at this time, so he got up and walked to the door when he woke up, and the faint knock sounded again.

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