Yang Sifu

Yang Sifu

Yang Sifu (783-848) was born in Hongnong, Guozhou (now Lingbao, Henan Province). He was the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty and the son of Yang Yuling, the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs.

Yang Si reappeared in Hongnong Yang's yuegongfang. At the age of eight, he was able to write. The chief examiner, Quan Deyu, was a Jinshi. At the age of 20, he was a learned scholar in the Department of CI. He was appreciated by Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng. "All Quan Deyu's students have the same feelings, and they have the same choices.". I have moved to the middle school to give up my books. He was promoted to Youcheng, the Minister of the Ministry of household, and was granted the title of hongnongbo. Li Deyu, assistant minister, was dethroned as Hunan observation envoy. In March of the first year of Huichang (841), he was demoted to Chaozhou. At the beginning of Tang Dynasty, Xuanzong was called the Minister of the Ministry of officials. His posthumous title was Xiao Mu.

Life of the characters

rapidly go up in the world

His father Yang Yuling was the minister and Minister of Hubu. He asked to avoid suspicion. The emperor issued an imperial edict saying that there was no suspicion because of the same officials and different positions. After his father Yang Yuling returned home, Yang Sifu asked to go home to serve his old and sick father, but the court refused to approve. He has presided over two issues of the imperial examinations, which is very fair. 68 people have been selected, and most of them have grown into useful pillars of the country. Among them is Wei Yu (794-859, the word Shenzhi, a Wei Mo). He is upright and upright, with the style of his ancestor Wei Zheng. He served as an official in the household department and the official department. Yang Sifu, Niu Seng Ru and Li Zongmin are from the same family. They have similar interests and have deep personal relations. Yang is still a man of the same temperament, so he belongs to the "Niu Li" circle on the whole. In August 829, Li Zongmin and in the first month of 830, Niu Seng Ru became prime ministers one after another. They recommended him. However, he did not want to surpass his father, so he only agreed to serve as the Minister of rites and other official positions, and refused to do "the work of Pingzhang in Zhongshu" (Prime Minister). In 833, Li Zongmin was dismissed as a prime minister for the first time. He was also deposed as "minister Zuo Cheng" and was sent to Sichuan as "Jiannan Dongchuan Jiedushi" and later served as "Minister of the household Department of the school".

The ups and downs of officialdom

Until the first month of 838, he returned to the imperial court and was promoted to the position of prime minister. He served as Prime Minister for three years and eight months. After Li Zongmin dismissed the prime minister again, Yang Sifu, who had already served as prime minister, defended him and promoted him again, so he inevitably fell into the "two Li party struggle" (Li Zongmin's and Li Deyu's factional struggle). People, including the poet Bai Juyi, can't escape one after another, but he, Bai Minzhong, Yuan Zhen, Yang Yuqing, and Yang Rushi's family rush in one after another to escape. As a result, he had a lot of disputes with Li Deyu, Zheng Qin, Chen Yixing and so on, and paid a heavy price for them. in August 840, "Zichen playing" happened. Because there was more than one prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jue, Zheng Qin and Chen Yixing were prime ministers at that time. Zheng Qin and Chen Yixing argued with him in front of the emperor. Zheng Qin believes that: after Yang Sifu became prime minister, his political affairs are not as good as when he was in power three years ago, and suggests that Yang was related to Li Zongmin's clique; Chen Yixing attacks Prime Minister Li Jue to beautify himself and cover up the virtues of the former Emperor. Yang Sifu is hard to argue.

Reuse again

Wenzong Li Ang hated the "Er Li" clique the most. He even said, "it's really hard to go to Hebei to blame the thieves. Since 821, the imperial court has been fighting against each other and the country has been damaged. In 825, the so-called "eight passes and sixteen sons" group appeared. After that, "Er Li" took turns to be prime minister, and "they fought against each other for forty years". Therefore, the matter of the clique was the most fatal thing for the emperor at that time. Yang Sifu had to insist on resigning. Finally, the emperor dismissed Zheng Qin and Chen Yixing and let Yang Sifu manage the affairs of the world by himself, which shows that he still trusted Yang Sifu very much. In the first month of 841, when Yang Sifu was preparing to streamline the administration of the officials, Emperor Wen died. Eunuch Qiu Shiliang abandoned the imperial edict and established emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty. In September of the same year, Yang Sifu was denounced as the Minister of the Ministry of officials and the observer of Hunan. The emperor thought that Yang Sifu was a party member of "king an" and "Yang Fei", so he sent people to chase Yang Sifu and Li Jue. Prime Minister Li Deyu, Cui Yun, Cui Gong and others wake up and prevent the emperor from "sliding" and pursuing the envoys. They only relegate Yang Sifu to Chaozhou. Six years later, he was called back and became a governor of Jiangzhou for one year. He was promoted to minister of the Ministry of officials, but when he came to Yuezhou, he died.

Character evaluation

Liu Xu: Zongmin, Sifu, inheriting the land of the clan family, has a good reputation of literature and political affairs, hovering in Tsinghua, in and out of Longxian. Gou Nengyi thought that the people were superior but not the party. He argued that peace was in the order of Jiqi, and that the people were in the position of glory. Who said otherwise? And she PI Hongyou, Yu Qing, Yu Qing, and Yu Yu. What's the advantage of attacking each other in contradiction and leaning towards the royal family? Song Qi: good luck and dangerous evil, impetuous, and his successor to debate, solid enough to say. Fortunately, the Lord is weak and weak. He is not the base of killing. He is the sinner of ruling the world!

personal works

Yang Sifu is the author of Jiuzheng Xinjie. The complete Tang poetry contains five poems by Yang Sifu: Ding Si's sacrifice to the ancestral hall of marquis Wu in August for the title of linhuai Gong's old stele, Yi Feng, to Mao Xianweng, to Li Chushi's Mountain Residence, and Xie Ji's new tea. "Quantangwen" contains Yang Sifu's articles: Liu Chucai, etc. will not repeat his performance, Shi Zheng Shu, on Pang Ji's crime of embezzlement, preface to the collection of Gongquan Deyu's works by the Minister of rites, preface to Jiuzheng Xinjie, and preface after Jiuzheng Xinjie.

Historical records

Old book of Tang, volume 176, biography 126; new book of Tang, volume 174, biography 99

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