wide sky
Xu Kun is from Wuxi, Jiangsu. He has a very standard image of Wu people: short, smart, famous and excellent in grades. At the age of 26, he was admitted to Jishi Shu, the cradle of cabinet records, and was awarded the title of editor of Hanlin. For him, the future is bright. What is rare is that Xu Kun did not forget to broaden his knowledge while reading sage books. He has read too many books, such as astronomy and geography, the art of war and water conservancy, and the five elements of Yin and Yang. Among them, books on Yin and Yang and astronomy are his favorites, and he has almost become a self-taught fortune teller.
Xu Youzhen's Calligraphy
Although the astrology has nothing to do with the current situation, it does not rule out some coincidences. In the autumn of Zheng De's fourteenth year, a comet appeared. Xu Kun felt a catastrophe and immediately asked his wife to return to her hometown in Jiangsu. Soon after, the civil revolution broke out, and everyone thought that this adult Xu was a true god.
Civil engineering change
Blow and blow, Xu Kun is on cloud nine. He felt that the astrology he observed was the gold standard to guide the country's major policies. During the deliberation, he proudly said: "I look at the stars. Beijing's luck is over. Only by going south can it escape." Unexpectedly, the voice just fell and was scolded by the eunuch. He just wanted to answer back when he was scolded by Hu Meng, a veteran of five generations. Yu Qian was even more angry: "If you talk nonsense again, you should cut off his head!" Xu Kun was scared by the bosses and dared not say a word, but from then on he held a grudge against Yu Qian, who had almost the same qualifications as himself but gradually suppressed his reputation.
Yu Qian
Xu Kun hates Yu Qian, but Yu Qian doesn't hate Xu Kun. He also recommended him as a conscription officer to recruit soldiers to defend Beijing, but Xu Kun mistakenly thought that this was Yu Qian's deliberate trick on him. Xu Kun, who wanted to be promoted by the nose, went to Yu Qian's teacher to intercede and asked Yu Qian to help him fall in love. Yu Qian tried his best to help Xu Kun, but the emperor had a bad impression on this guy who regarded astronomical phenomena as science. As soon as Yu Qian opened his mouth, he said, "Who is that Xu Kun who went south? This guy is so bad, promoting him to his post will lead to bad future generations! " Don't Xu Kun put all this on Yu Qian's head, renamed Xu Youzhen, and vowed to kill Yu Qian one day?
Ming Taizong Zhu Qiyu
After the name change, Xu Youzhen's fate finally changed. At this time, the Yellow River flooded, and no one really managed it for seven years. Xu Youzhen was recommended to preside over this water conservancy project because he read a lot of books about natural water conservancy. After a systematic investigation of water potential, he put forward three strategies of "building sluice, spending money and dredging the Grand Canal" and pushed all the arguments through. He led migrant workers to dig a famous canal: Guangji Canal, which took a year and a half. What is commendable is that when the minister of the Ministry of Industry planned to allocate 50,000 Beijing soldiers to help him, Xu Youzhen declined politely considering the cost and other reasons, saving a lot of money for the state treasury. After the completion of water conservancy construction, Xu Youzhen returned to Beijing to be warmly received by the emperor, and the officialdom movement seemed to be more prosperous.
Guangji canal head
But Xu Youzhen is a person who likes venture capital. He knows that as long as the emperor is still the emperor and Yu Qian is still supporting himself, evil will never end. However, Daizong was only emperor for eight years, and in Jingtai for eight years, his life was dying. Xu Youzhen seems to see his further hope.
Just after the New Year, Shi Heng and others, who also bear a grudge against modesty, found Xu Youzhen and invited him to join in a coup to restore the throne of the English sect under house arrest. Xu Youzhen gritted his teeth and stamped his foot and shouted, "Now, do it!" They sent eunuch Cao Jixiang to the Inner Palace to hold the Queen Mother steady, and then took thousands of troops to the Nangong to release Yingzong and quickly entered the palace. At this time, it was almost dawn, and Xu Youzhen "led" his ministers, dressed in royal robes, shouted "Long live the Mountain" and seated the emperor who "made a dash for the door". This incident is also known as "a sudden change."
Take the door of change
As a minister who made great contributions to the change of the gate valve, Xu Youzhen joined the cabinet on the same day, and was appointed Minister of Ministry of War the next day. Xu Youzhen was a little more sober and said to Shi Heng, "I have no credit, just behind my brother." Shi Heng told Yingzong about it, but Yingzong felt that Xu Youzhen was very modest, so he made him an earl, gave him the command position of hereditary security, and gave him an iron ticket to avoid death.
Yu zhengxie
Xu Youzhen climbed to the top of the civil service and began his revenge. Yu Qian, a national hero, was killed unjustly for personal grievances. The emperor didn't intend to kill Yu Qian. Xu Youzhen whispered: "If you don't kill Yu Qian, there is no reason to seize the door!" In short, let Yu Qian be killed by mistake for Xu Youzhen's own self-interest.
The biggest political enemy was killed. Xu Youzhen decided to do good deeds to repay the emperor, but in doing so, he found that Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang, two comrades-in-arms who had been engaged in a coup with him not long ago, only speculated and destroyed, and knew nothing about building the country. Ashamed of associating with these two people, he ordered people to impeach Shi and Cao for embezzling private fields. As a result, they handed over the case, but the problem was solved in this way.
Xu Youzhen is not a mean person after all. Although he can kill a gentleman like a liar, he can't do anything about real hooligans. Soon, Cao Jixiang let his little eunuch eavesdrop on the conversation when the emperor summoned Xu Youzhen alone, and deliberately revealed it to the emperor, falsely claiming that Xu Youzhen had leaked it himself. The furious Yingzong planned to arrest and punish Xu Youzhen on the advice of Shi Heng and others. There happened to be a thunderstorm, and hail came to join in the fun. The emperor thought it was a warning from heaven, so he only let Xu Youzhen go to Guangdong as the vice governor.
Cao Jixiang
Shi Heng, who wanted to kill Xu Youzhen, didn't make another plan. He sent someone to write an anonymous letter saying that Xu Youzhen wanted his civil servant Ma Shiquan to come to Beijing to report to the court. The emperor soon sent someone to hunt down Xu Youzhen, and he and Ma Shiquan went to prison together. Xu Youzhen, who was in prison, was very sympathetic to the janitor who was innocent. He said, "Son, you are really something. Go out and be my son-in-law. " Soon after, the two were released because there was no evidence. It was only because Shi Heng wanted to trap Xu Youzhen that he was sent to Jinya Border Guard.
After Shi Heng was executed for rebellion, Xu Youzhen was also sent back to his hometown. When he returned to his hometown, he still looked at the stars every day, hoping to get some useful knowledge. He also said every day that the general's military star was in Soochow, ready to go back and continue to be an official. In his sixties, he is still practicing martial arts with iron whip every day, waiting to come out of the mountain. Until one day, he realized that the battle was over and he could no longer be a general. He threw iron whip to the ground and sighed, "How can you still believe these things that deceive children at your age!" Ma Shiquan came to propose to him. He was evasive and firmly denied that he had promised. Pony shook his head and left, and Xu Youzhen disappeared completely from the eyes of his fellow villagers at home.
Generally speaking, Xu Youzhen can't be counted as a bad man and a traitor. He is relatively clean as an official, and his personal ability is relatively strong, and his personal moral conduct is not too bad. But the biggest stain in his life was that a misunderstanding killed Yu Qian, which was reviled by countless people. He used astronomical phenomena to guide his behavior all his life, and it was not until he was old that he found that astronomical phenomena were just joking with him. Time is also life? Only he knows.