Zengbu

Zengbu

Zeng bu (November 3, 1036 to August 21, 1107), Zixuan, the son of Dr. Taichang Zeng Yizhan, the younger brother of Zeng Gong, the scholar of Zhongshu, the prime minister in the middle of Northern Song Dynasty, and an important supporter of Wang Anshi's reform, played an important role in the period of Wang Anshi's reform. During the period of Wang Anshi's reform, he served as the school manager of Jixian, the judge of sinang temple, the censor of Zhongshu Wufang, the living note, the zhizhizhizhigao, and the Hanlin Bachelor's degree, three secretary and so on.

When he was 13 years old, his father Zeng Yizhan died. He studied with his brother Zeng Gong, and was recommended by Wang Anshi and Han Wei. Zeng Bude's writing about politics got the attention of song Shenzong and was reused. He played a vital role in the critical period of Wang Anshi's political reform in Xining period. Later, in the debate of the city change law, Zeng Bu was considered to have obstructed the new law and was relegated to other places, such as Rao, Tan, Guang, GUI, Qin, Chen and CAI.

After the death of song Shenzong, the Empress Dowager Gao hung the curtain and the old party took power. Zeng Bu did not enter the political center because he insisted on the unchanging servitude law. It was not until song zhezong came into power that he was put in an important position and re launched the cause of political reform. He was appointed as a secret envoy, but there was a conflict with Zhang Dun, who was also a new party. After Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, Zhang Dun was relegated because of his opposition. Zeng Bu was appointed by Huizong as the right servant, and Han Zhongyan, who was the left servant, was excluded. He broke out conflicts with Cai Jing, the new left servant, and was relegated again and again. Finally, he died in Runzhou at the age of 72. He was posthumously named Wen su.

Although Zeng Bu had many talents, he was listed in the biography of treacherous officials in the history of Song Dynasty. His political life was involved in the white hot party struggle in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and his political position was relatively neutral. He played an important role in the struggle of the two emperors of philosophy and Hui.

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Life of the characters

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When he was 13 years old, Zeng Bu suffered his father's death. He studied with his brother Zeng Gong. At the same time, they passed the Jinshi examination. After the Jinshi examination, Zeng Bu was successively appointed as Xuanzhou Si Hu to join the army and Huairen county magistrate.

In the second year of Xining (1069), Zeng Bu was moved to the capital Kaifeng as an official. Because of the recommendation of Han Wei and Wang Anshi, Zeng Bu wrote a letter about politics, saying that there are two basic elements of Politics: strict customs and selecting talents; the eight key points are: persuading farmers and mulberry, financial management and Fu, promoting schools, examining and electing, responsible officials' class, xuzongshi, cultivating military equipment, and controlling distant people. These political ideas are basically advocated by Wang Anshi.

Zeng Bu was summoned by song Shenzong again. Because his proposal was in line with song Shenzong's administrative philosophy, he was granted the post of Prince zhongyun and preacher in Chongzheng Hall. Soon after, he was granted the post of Jixian school manager, judge sinang temple and check Zhongshu Wufang. Within three days, he received five official documents from the emperor one after another.

Because Zeng Bu's talent was highly valued by Wang Anshi, he was able to preside over the creation of new laws such as Qingmiao, Zhuyi, Baojia and irrigation and water conservancy together with LV Huiqing. Most of the old ministers and courtiers at that time opposed Wang Anshi's idea of reform. Therefore, Zeng Bu wrote: "Your Majesty, by virtue of your great talent and general plan, you want to invite knowledgeable and farsighted ministers to make a difference in the world. However, some ministers played tricks on decrees and took the lead in opposing them in the court. The younger ministers talked about them in succession. Everyone watched the gap, slandered them and fooled him with public opinion. The reason for this is that your Majesty's skill of reward and punishment is not clear. If you can clearly reward and punish, and use threatening punishment, you can make the world know that the emperor's orders can not be disobeyed, and the decrees can't be ignored. What other orders can't be carried out, and what ideas can't succeed? " He urged Shenzong to strengthen his determination to reform and appoint Wang Anshi to promote the new law and eliminate the public opinions that were not conducive to the new law. As a result of the new law's great prosperity, Zeng Bu was put in an important position, holding the posts of daily note, zhizhigao, Hanlin bachelor and three secretaries.

Han Qi, an important minister, wrote a letter criticizing the harm of the new law. As a result, Shenzong was shaken. Zeng Bu analyzed and refuted Han Qi's views one by one for Wang Anshi, making the new law more stable.

Betray the new party

In the seventh year of Xining (1074), when there was a severe drought, Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty issued an imperial edict to ask for frank advice. Lu Jiawen, the magistrate who had written to the court of the exchange of goods, exploited the people with heavy taxes in the implementation of the exchange of goods law. Zeng Bu said: "the lack of national wealth was due to the non circulation of goods; the non circulation of goods was due to the non flow of merchants; the non flow of merchants was due to the annexation house trying to hinder them. Therefore, it is necessary to set up a market in the capital to buy and sell goods from all over the country to control prices from time to time, so that the prices can be high or low to protect the interests of ordinary traders and civilians, and the government will not lose two percent of the interest money, so the merchants will naturally flow. Now, Lu Jiawen has sent officials to buy goods everywhere, forbidding businessmen to trade first, and taking the amount of interest collected as the standard of rewards and punishments and political achievements. Therefore, officials and dentists are afraid that the goods will not be collected and the interest will not be much. This is the intention of the government to become a annexing force, not the original intention of the trade law. " In essence, Zeng Bu betrayed the reformists. Song Shenzong referred the matter to the discussion of two systems. LV Huiqing thought that Zeng Bu obstructed the implementation of the new law. Wang Anshi was angry and Zeng Bu was dismissed.

In the same year, LV Huiqing was appointed as a political counsellor, set up a lawsuit and launched impeachment. Zeng Bu was further demoted as the magistrate of Raozhou, and then transferred to Tanzhou. Later, he resumed the title of Bachelor of zengbujixian academy and became the governor of Guangzhou.

In the first year of Yuanfeng (1078), Zengbu went out to know Guizhou as a LongTuge. He became a straight bachelor and knew Qinzhou. Later, he served as governor of Chenzhou, caizhou and Qingzhou.

Regain reuse

In the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), song Shenzong died, and his youngest son song zhezong succeeded to the throne. Empress dowager Gao, who opposed the reform, listened to the government behind the curtain, so the old party was put into use. Because he once attacked Shi Yi Fa, Zeng Bufu was a Bachelor of Hanlin, and was promoted to minister of the Ministry of household. After Sima Guang came to power, he ordered Zeng Bu to change the service law. Zeng Bu declined and said, "the provisions of the exemption law all come from me. If I am allowed to change it immediately, I can't do it morally. "That's why Zeng Bu went out.

In the first year of Yuanyou (1086), he was the magistrate of Taiyuan as a Bachelor of LongTuge, and successively served as the magistrate of Zhending, Heyang, Qingzhou and Yingzhou.

In the first year of Shaosheng (1094), song zhezong was in charge of the government, and he was transferred to Jiangning. When he passed by the capital, he was left in the capital as an academician. Later, he was promoted to receive orders and serve as an official. He became an official to know the Privy Council.

New party infighting

During the reign of song zhezong, Zhang Dun was the prime minister. Zeng Bu praised him very much when he was drafting the book and hoped to recommend him as prime minister. However, Zhang Dun was rather worried about him and only recommended him to serve in the Privy Council, so they were more and more discordant.

After he came to power, Zeng Bu strongly supported Zhang Dun's idea of inheriting the new law, and asked to identify and reward those officials and common people who said that changing the servitude law was unfavorable in Yuanyou years to encourage public opinion. As a result, Zhang Dun set up a big prison to punish the members of the old party. Officials were exiled, demoted and demoted. Almost every day, they were abandoned, and Zeng Bu set up many of them. The Imperial Palace was ordered to investigate and deal with a case. Song zhezong handed it over to the ruling party for conviction. The judge thought that their curse had not been successful and should not be executed. Zeng Bu said, "they flattered themselves with donkeys and foals to increase their power and make snake fog appear again. Is that not successful?" They were so frightened that they executed three Palace officials.

In order to obtain the support of the literati, Zhang Dun recommended famous scholars such as Peng ruli, Chen Yu and Zhang Tingjian, and asked for the restoration of the posthumous titles written by Sima Guang and LV Gong, who had been stripped off, and the protection of their tombstones. Zeng Bu objected and thought it was useless. Zeng Bu went up again and said, "the emperor's power can't be reversed. Now from Zai Fu to Yan Guan, they only know that they are afraid of the prime minister but not of his majesty. If I don't expose this, who dares to speak?" Zeng Bu tried to crowd out Zhang Dun, but he failed.

In the third year of Yuanfu (1100), song zhezong died. The Empress Dowager invited Zaifu to ask who could be the emperor. Zhang Dun said in a harsh voice: "according to the etiquette, the same mother's brother King Jian should be established." The Empress Dowager said, "I have no children. All kings are the common sons of Shenzong." Zhang Dun replied: "since they are all common people, the king of Shen should be established according to the age." The Empress Dowager said, "King Shen is ill and cannot be made emperor." Zhang Dun still wanted to speak. Zeng Bu scolded him and said, "Zhang Dun, listen to the Empress Dowager." The Empress Dowager decided to establish Duan Wang, who was the Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty.

Fight for defeat

After Huizong of Song Dynasty succeeded to the throne, Zhang Dun was dismissed for offending, Zeng Bu was able to worship his prime minister, Han Zhongyan was left servant and Zeng Bu was right servant. Although Han Zhongyan is superior to Zeng Bu, because of his cowardly character, things are mostly decided by Zeng Bu, but Zeng Bu still can't allow him to be his prime minister.

At that time, the political atmosphere thought that there was a fault in the political affairs of song zhezong period, and wanted to use Dagong Zhizheng to remove the clique. In the second year, he changed the Yuan Dynasty to build China's Yasukuni, and the new party and the old party were used together. Han Zhongyan was dismissed and Zeng Bu was in power alone. He gradually presented his political ideas of "Shaoshu".

In the first year of Chongning (1102), Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty appointed Cai Jing as Zuo pushe. It happened that Zeng Bu wanted to promote Chen Youfu, his in laws, to be the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs. Cai Jing went up and said, "Your Majesty's reward is the salary of your majesty. How can you let the prime minister give it to his cronies privately?" Zeng Bu argued angrily, and his voice and color became more and more severe. Wen Yi scolded Zengbu and said, "Zengbu, how can you be impolite in front of the emperor?" Huizong retreated in displeasure, and the censor understood the intention to attack Zengbu. Zeng Bu was dismissed as the grand Bachelor of Guanwen palace and the magistrate of Runzhou.

Cai Jing still had a grudge against Zeng Bucun and charged him with corruption. He ordered Lu Jia of Kaifeng prefecture to arrest Zeng buzhuzi, and tried him on charges of extortion. He enticed him to plead guilty to exonerate himself and incriminated Zeng buzhuzi. Zeng Bu left his post and lived in Taiping state to promote Taiqing palace. Later, he was demoted to sinangqing, who was in charge of Nanjing. Because of the rebellion of Zhao Zong, the academic officer who had been recommended, Zeng Bu was demoted to be a scattered official and was resettled in Hengzhou. Because Zeng Bu gave up Huangzhou when he was in power in the first year of Yasukuni in Jianzhong, he was demoted to Hezhou Biejia, and he was demoted to Lianzhou department

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