In the early years of Kaiyuan, he was promoted to Prince Zhong Jiu. At that time, the source of being a waiter was in-laws Li. Li asked him for an official position and asked him to be a doctor's doctor. Yuan always disdains him in his spare time, saying: A doctor should be a promising job, but how can I be a doctor? Soon, he was promoted to Yude, an official of the Prince, and soon, he was promoted to Guo Zisi. In the 14th year of Kaiyuan, Li made a suggestion, and later he became an assistant minister and assistant minister of punishments. At that time, Wu Huifei was favored by Xuanzong, and his sons Li Mao, Li Jue and Wang Sheng were also favored, while Prince Li Ying gradually alienated. Li thinks this opportunity is profitable, so he flatters him and expresses his willingness to protect Shouwang and win his pity. I am very grateful, secretly helping Li everywhere. Li also privately interacted with Pei Guangting's waitress wife to please her.
When Pei Guangting died in the 21st year of Kaiyuan, Wu Sansi's daughter asked eunuch Gao Lishi to recommend Li as an assistant, but at that time Xuanzong had decided to use Han Xiu. Gao Lishi leaked the news to Wu Shi, and Li took the opportunity to court Han Xiu. Later, after Han Xiu became prime minister, he recommended Li in front of Xuanzong that he had the talent of prime minister. Soon, he became Li's yellow door assistant. In May of the 23rd year of Kaiyuan, Li Ren was the minister of rites, and told his classmates in Zhongshu that he would give Dr. Shao Lu a promotion. Accompanying him at the same time are Shi Zhong Pei Yaoqing and Zhongshu Zhang Ling at the age of nine.
At first, I wanted to take Li as my photograph, so I asked Zhang Jiuling. Zhang Jiuling replied: The position of Prime Minister is related to national security. Your Majesty used Li Weixiang for fear of endangering national security in the future. Xuanzong didn't listen to Zhang Jiuling. Although Li bears a grudge against him, Zhang Jiuling is a poet, and Xuanzong relies heavily on his literary talent.
Li had no choice but to pander to him and wait for an opportunity to punish him. In order to realize their political ambitions, they continued to associate with eunuchs and concubines. Every time he invited Xuanzong, he had to find out Xuanzong's will through concubines, so every time he played correctly, he could make Xuanzong move. In October of the twentieth year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong wanted to return to Chang 'an from Luoyang, the eastern capital, in advance, and called the Prime Minister to discuss. Pei Yaoqing and Zhang Jiuling suggested that the farmers' autumn harvest is not over yet. I hope your majesty will put farming first before returning to Chang 'an in winter.
Li had already felt Xuanzong's intention. After Pei and Zhang left, he stayed and said to Xuanzong: Chang 'an and Luoyang are your majesty's second palaces, so why wait for the season? Even if it interferes with the farmers' autumn harvest, your majesty can exempt the drivers from rent and taxes in the areas where they pass alone. I asked the emperor to show his officials that he would leave for the west today. Xuanzong was overjoyed after hearing this, and set sail to the west the next day. Zhang Jiuling's integrity, regardless of details, was gradually rejected by Xuanzong.
In October of the 24th year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong made Niu Xianke work diligently at the lakeside and made some achievements. Zhang Jiuling felt it necessary to treat him as an ancient book. He said: Honorable officials have to wait for the great achievements of famous officials. Niu Xianke is a small history of the border region and cannot bear this heavy responsibility. Li took the opportunity to say: Niu Xianke is a rare official talent, and Zhang Jiuling is a scholar who doesn't know the general idea. The son of heaven employs people. What can't he do? The next day, Niu Xianke was made the Duke of Longxi County, and 300 households gave food. And Zhang Jiuling is as stubborn as ever. Xuanzong was very unhappy and said: From now on, everything is up to the light. Li spoke ill of nine years old in front of Xuanzong day and night, and Xuanzong gradually alienated Zhang Jiuling.
In November of this year, Wu Huifei cried and said to Xuanzong: The prince secretly colluded with his henchmen to hurt my concubine and mother and your majesty's heart. Xuanzong was furious and wanted to encourage the prince. Zhang Jiuling remonstrated bitterly, saying, "Your Majesty will do so, and I dare not be summoned." . Xuanzong was very dissatisfied. Li didn't speak at first, so he stepped back and said to Xuanzong, This is the private affair of the son of heaven. Why should outsiders participate? Soon, Li was recommended as the family minister of Xiaoling. Small is not easy to learn, and once read "Hunting Fu". Yan Tingzhi, assistant minister of Zhongshu, said to Zhang Jiuling: Are there any assistant hunters in the province? Therefore, Xiao Ling was appointed as the secretariat of qi zhou. Li is extremely dissatisfied with this and bears a grudge against Zhang Jiuling and Yan Ting. Li finally found the opportunity to kill Zhang Heyan.
Yan Tingzhi's ex-wife remarried to Wang Yuan, the secretariat of Yuzhou, and Wang Yuan was imprisoned for committing corruption. Yan Tingzhi interceded for this and was also implicated and convicted. Zhang Jiuling defended Yan Tingzhi, which aroused Xuanzong's dissatisfaction. Li immediately wrote to impeach Pei Yaoqing and Zhang Jiuling as accomplices. Tang Xuanzong abolished Zhang and Pei's phase rights and gave them as phase rights. At the same time, Li is the secretariat, and Niu Xianke is the history of the Ministry of Industry, which is the same as the other three books. In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, Zhou Zi, the ancient censor, wrote a letter to impeach Niu Xianke and was demoted as a satrap. Li tried to frame Zhang and Yan as accomplices. On Zhang's recommendation, Zhang Jiuling was demoted to Jingzhou Secretariat. After Li Chengshu, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty took Li's advice and killed his three sons. The world is full of dissatisfaction with them.
Xu Mang, a girl from Dali, made wild remarks: Dali Temple prison is murderous and birds dare not live. Now the punishments deal with death row inmates, and only 58 people are killed every year, while Wu Que makes a nest in prison, and no one breaks the law, so the criminal law will be shelved. Ministers went to the table to congratulate each other. Therefore, Xuanzong attributed his achievements to Zaifu, named Li Jin Gong and Niu Xianke You Gong.
In the 26th year of Kaiyuan, he led his troops to attack Longyou and Hexi. Since then, Li has been in charge of pivot balance, dabbling in military equipment, and in charge of Manchu civil and military affairs, ranking below one person and above ten thousand people.
Li is insidious, cruel, moody, flattery, and will never be soft on those who don't agree with him. Therefore, people called him at that time; There is honey in the mouth and a knife in the stomach. In March of the first year of Tianbao, Xuan Lu, assistant minister of the Ministry of War, passed under the Qin Zhengtang. Xuan Lu is beautiful, full of energy and fearless. Xuanzong read it and was full of praise, showing the meaning of entrusting an important task. Li is well aware of the expression and thoughts of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, because he is afraid that the reuse of Xuan Lu will endanger his power. He immediately called Xuan Lu's son and said to him, "Your government is looking forward to it, and the emperor will send him to Jiaozhou. Guangzhou office, if you don't want to go, you can say you are old, I'm afraid your body can't stand it. Afraid of being sent to a remote area like Guangzhou, Xuan Lu quickly wrote to Xuanzong, telling her that she was too old to take on the heavy responsibility.
As a result, Xuan Lu was dismissed from the post of assistant minister of the Ministry of War and became the secretariat of Iowa. Later, he awarded the foreign minister to the prince. Therefore, Li was excluded from the court. Yan Tingzhi, a Victorian secretariat, was a former minister, Zuo Cheng, who was good at elections and was demoted to a foreign post for offending Li. In the first year of Tianbao, Xuanzong asked Li: Where is the Yanting Pavilion? This person can also use it. Li immediately called Yan Tingzhi's younger brother Yan Damai and said to him, "The emperor will attach great importance to your younger brother. You must try to get your brother to meet the emperor in Beijing. " . Grateful for Li's kindness, he immediately found a piece of paper and wrote a request to let his brother go to Beijing for medical treatment, which he gave to Li. Li took it to see Xuanzong, saying that he was old and had a cold, so he should give it to an idle official for medical treatment in Beijing. Xuanzong sighed again and again after hearing this, and felt very sorry. In April of the sixth year of Tianbao, Prince Zhanzi of Yanting was allowed to recuperate in Luoyang, the eastern capital. Li, the prime minister, was at odds with Li, and Li tried to frame him. Once, Li said to Li: There is a gold mine in Huashan, and the Lord doesn't know it. A few days later, Li put it on his body. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty asked for Li's advice. Li said, I have known it for a long time, but I dare not say it, because Huashan is the core monument of your majesty's life, and it is not suitable for mining there. Xuanzong believed in Taoism very much. After listening to Li's words, he likes and trusts Li Yue more and more, and hates him more and more.
Then Li falsely accused him of being crony, demoted others to dozens, and then forced himself to commit suicide. Li tried to flatter Tang Xuanzong, who valued him very much. No matter how big or small his political views are, we should discuss them with him. In the third year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty said to Gao Lishi: Now there is nothing in the world and people are at peace. I want to hand over all political affairs to Li. what do you think? Gao Lishi replied: The power of the son of heaven should not be held by others, while Li's power is aggressive. Once he is in power, who among the courtiers dares to discuss politics! Xuanzong was very unhappy after hearing this. Gao Lishi hurriedly kowtowed and apologized, saying that he was dizzy and feverish at the moment, full of nonsense, and deserved to say this plainly.
Gao Lishi is the emperor's favorite eunuch. He is still so scared that others dare not express their opinions any more. In order to hide Xuanzong's eyes and ears, Li tried his best to block the way of speaking. He summoned all the councilors and announced to them that the emperor's sages only had to obey his will as a courtier, and there was no need to talk about state affairs. You didn't see the horse standing there. Its food is equivalent to the salary of three officials, but it is not allowed to bark all day. Once it screams, it will be driven away and killed. At that time, it will be too late to regret. Li is unlearned, and he is particularly jealous of those talented literati.
In the sixth year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued a letter to solicit people of insight in the world. Anyone who has the ability will go to the capital Chang 'an to participate in the selection. Li was afraid that some literati would reprimand themselves when writing imperial edicts, so he immediately suggested to Xuanzong that literati are careless people and don't know the rules of taboo. They will only disturb Lu Shengde with wild words. Please give it to the governor of Shangshu Province for questioning, so Xuanzong was ordered to supervise the inquiry, but no one met the requirements.
Therefore, Li wrote a letter to congratulate Tang Xuanzong, thinking that there were no talents left in the ruling and opposition, and Li tried his best to cultivate his minions for those who please himself and are mediocre and incompetent. Chen Xilie, on the left, has a mediocre record and can only speak metaphysics of Zhuangzi and Zhuangzi. Seeing that Xuanzong liked this and that Chen Xilie was weak and easy to control, Li invited Chen Xilie to be Prime Minister of Shangshu. From then on, Li has the final say in politics, while Chen Xilie is only passive, and Li is an out-and-out yes-man.
As a rule, the Prime Minister retires from the yamen at six o'clock every afternoon. With the approval of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Li went home early every day to rest. Many state affairs were handled at home, and then Chen Xilie made arrangements. Xuanzong ignored state affairs, and officials went to the Li family for instructions. Chen Xilie, the right photograph, sat in the yamen, but no one visited him.
Second, Li, who has long lost his conscience, seems to be gentle with people on the surface, as if he can be close, but in fact he is like a cliff trap, and the hidden danger is hard to know. If court officials are not promoted by others, they will be convicted and transferred; Anyone who is attached to him, even the villain, will be introduced and reused by him. There is a middle hall in Li Jiazhong, which looks like a half-stringed moon and is called the Moon Hall. Whenever he crowded out the minister, he lived and planned; When he comes out triumphantly and the design is finished, I don't know which one will suffer again.
He set up a magistrate in Chang 'an, specializing in prison affairs, and hired a number of cool historians such as Xiao Ling, Moon Hee and Luo Xishuang. Moon Hee was cruel by nature, which was denied by his six relatives. He often said: when you meet a confidant, even the white-fronted tiger in Nanshan can be bound by him. Luo Xishuang, a native of Hangzhou, is famous for his cruelty. Appreciated by Li, he was promoted from suggestion to suggestion of palace examination. The two of them cooperated with each other and acted according to Li's will. No one can escape from any prison case. At that time, people called them trap nets. Li is good at taking advantage of each other's contradictions, eliminating dissidents, and pulling one faction to fight another. Pei Kuan, the minister of finance, and Pei Dunfu, the minister of punishment, have contradictions. When Pei Kuan may be the prime minister, Li befriended Pei Dunfu and asked him to expose Pei Kuan, so that Pei Kuan was demoted as the satrap of Weiyang. Li also tends to send someone to kill Pei Kuan, who kowtows and prays to avoid death. Later, Pei Dunfu was praised by the court for his meritorious military service, which caused Li to be jealous and falsely accused him. Pei Kuan was exiled to Zichuan. The wife of Shangshu, the minister of punishments, is the daughter of uncle Jiang Jiao, and her sister is the concubine of the prince. She became an official very early and won the appreciation of Xuanzong. Later, she was promoted to Shaanxi satrap and land and water transfer ambassador. When others had high hopes, they began to calculate him. In the spring of the fifth year of Tianbao, I made a meritorious service to Huangfu Weiming in Hexi and went to Beijing to win. When he saw Li's autocratic rule, he was filled with indignation. He suggested that Xuanzong get rid of Li. Li was surprised when he heard that, and secretly asked Yang Shen to monitor their actions. They found that on the evening of 1 month 15, the prince went to meet Wei Jian, and they found that Wei Jian and Huang Weiming met Yu Jinglong again. So Li participated in the collusion with Huangfu Weiming, conspired to establish the prince as the emperor, arrested and imprisoned him, and later demoted to Yun Taishou and Bozhou Taishou respectively.
Wei Lan, a young craftsman who works as a supervisor, and Wei Zhi, the minister of war, are Wei Jian's younger brothers. He wrote a letter to plead for Wei Jian and asked the prince to support him. Xuanzong was very angry, and the prince saw something bad. In order to get rid of his involvement, he asked for a divorce from Wei Fei, claiming that he would not be guilty for selfish purposes, because he was related to Wei Fei. Therefore, Xuanzong wrote a letter to demote Wei Jian as another family in Jiangxia. His brothers Wei Lan and Wei Zhi were relegated to Lingnan, and dozens of others were relegated and exiled because of their participation. The famous Yang Shen pity case is also an example of Li's rejection of dissidents.
Yang Shen was originally a member of the Li family, but because he was reused by Xuanzong, he was promoted to be a biography of the Ministry of Finance. Li was very jealous when he saw his promotion. Taking advantage of the contradiction between Yang Shen and Wang Hong, he asked Wang Hong to play Yang Shenxi, saying that Yang Shenxi was the great-grandson of Emperor Yang Di, and he had Russian books at home, trying to restore it. Xuanzong was very angry after hearing this and arrested Yang Shen. Zhang Shaoqing Tao, a teacher, was recommended by Yang Shen Liu and was arrested at the same time. Yang Shen tried his best to express his confession, but he couldn't find the Russian document. Li also sent Lu He to Chang 'an Yang's house to give away books. He hid the evolution book in his sleeve and went into Yang Shen's pity study. After a while, I came out with a Russian book in my hand. Yang Shen read it piteously and said in despair: I have never hidden your book, and I will die today. Soon after, Xuanzong wrote to Yang Shenxi and his brothers Yang Shenyu and Yang Shenyu to commit suicide, and his wife and children were exiled to Lingnan. This case involves dozens of people.
During Li's reign, he did another thing, which historians believe was one of the reasons for the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion. In the early years of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, many prime ministers in the imperial court came from our time. After Li took power alone, in order to eliminate the source of entering the phase, he suggested to Xuanzong to use minority generals as our time. He said: civil servants are generals, afraid of falling rocks and bullets, don't charge. Let's lead the troops now. They are born strong, grew up on horseback, and are good at taking the lead. This is their nature. If your majesty touches them and feels valued. They will definitely serve their country, so this is not Yi Di's worry. Li's purpose is to prevent those who hold military power from entering the DPRK, so that his position can remain stable for a long time.
Relying on his power, Li did evil and was good at flattery, so he won the favor of Xuanzong. His pavilion in the Capital Building is very luxurious. In his later years, he was addicted to debauchery, and there were many concubines and maids in his family, but his life was not happy. He knows that he has made enemies in the world and is often afraid of assassins. Every time he goes out, he is always protected by 100 people. There are many sentries around the house. He sleeps in several places a night, and even his family doesn't know where he lives. In the eleventh year of Tianbao, he died in Li. Before they died, Yang and Chen Xilie began to expose their crimes. Before his death and burial, Yang Guozhi played Xuanzong and accused him of having different ideas. So the court ordered all the official positions of Li to be cut off. Don't choose to cut open the coffin, but bury others in a small coffin with the courtesy of ordinary people. His son was also exiled to Lingnan and his son-in-law was demoted.