The reputation of the Tang Dynasty eunuch Gao Lishi is not good among the people, and the popular saying in the world:
The reason why the Xuanzong Dynasty broke out in the "Anshi Rebellion" and the reason why the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline is that Gao Lishi's crime cannot be punished!
So, is the real Colliers in history really so despicable and obscene?
In people's impressions, eunuchs are mostly traitors with mutilated bodies, twisted spirits, and relying on power to get left and right in the cracks.
This view is biased.
Among the eunuch group, there are not only Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian and other people who do not learn and do not know how to do it, and bring disaster to the country and the people, but also Cai Lun, Zheng He and other people with outstanding intelligence and who have left a name in history.
Although Gao Lishi was a eunuch, he was born in a wealthy family, and he was only sentenced to the palace because his family was implicated.
After becoming an adult, he joined forces with Li Longji to fight the country, and it is said that he was skilled in arching and horses, and was not timid in front of the three armies, and he had the style of a general.
Li Longji later ascended the throne and became emperor, and he did not treat Gao Lishi as an inferior person, but called him "general", which shows that Gao Lishi is not only not a wine bag and rice bag rumored by the outside world, but also a master of wisdom and bravery!
Although Colliers is a high-ranking person, he is a cautious person and has always received rave reviews.
The history books say that he "has little sex and prudence, and when he is good, he looks up to him, and he does not dare to be arrogant, so the Son of Heaven will always be in charge, and the scholars will not be evil."
His style of dealing with the world was not only related to the political situation at that time, but also determined by his conduct.
He did not attach himself to the ministers and treacherous ministers in many things, and he was also very insightful in some things, even Zhang Shuo, Zhang Jiuling, Li Yong and other virtuous ministers respected him, which was mentioned in the volumes of "Quantang Wen", and so on.
Gao Lishi was loyal to Li Longji and the Tang Dynasty all his life.
After the end of the Anshi Rebellion, Li Longji returned to Chang'an and became the emperor who was slaughtered by others.
Adversity knows the truth.
Xuanzong held Gao Lishi's hand and burst into tears, saying, "General Wei, Ah Pu (Xuanzong's nickname) has died for the soldiers!"
Because of the protection of Tang Xuanzong, Gao Lishi offended the powerful minister Li Fuguo, and was exiled at the age of seventy-one.
During his exile, Gao Lishi wrote "Ganwu Zhou Shepherd's Cabbage":
"The two capitals are sold by catties, and Wuxi is not picked.
Although Yixia is different, the smell will not change. ”
This poem has no literary brilliance, and ordinary people will definitely be ridiculed when they write it, but Gao Lishi, who is already 71 years old, wrote this quatrain on the way to exile, but the sentences are full of desolation and loyalty, which makes people feel bad when they read it.
Capsule's is a wild vegetable, many southerners like to use it to wrap wontons and eat, and many young people today probably don't recognize this wild vegetable.
In the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, there were two kinds of people who ate wild vegetables, one was the poor and the other was the rich, the poor ate it for their stomachs, and the rich ate it for the sake of changing their taste.
Therefore, in Chang'an City, where the rich gather, shepherd's cabbage is sold by catties, and it is everywhere in the countryside where there are few people and wide land, and it is necessary to dig by itself.
Colliers' self-metaphor for shepherd's cabbage is quite apt: he was noble in Chang'an, but no one paid attention to him in Wuzhou, the penal colony, but even so, his loyalty was like shepherd's cabbage, "the smell never changes".
In this way, Colliers showed that even though he had great changes, he would not change his noble ethics.
Because he has always been loyal to Tang Xuanzong and the Tang Dynasty, Gao Lishi's death is quite tragic.
Shi Zai: "Gao Lishi was pardoned and returned, went to Langzhou, heard the emperor collapse, mourned, vomited blood and died. ”
In the last few years of his life, Tang Xuanzong, who died of illness in loneliness, saw through the hot and cold state of the world, and completely despaired of the cruel royal struggle and the reality of the extinction of family affection.
There is a Jinsu Mountain in Baonan Township, Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province today, and the mountain is the Tailing of Tang Xuanzong, where Emperor Tang Ming, who lost Yang Guifei, rested here for more than 1,000 years.
On the side of this spectacular Tailing, there is a dilapidated and very inconspicuous loess mound, under which the most faithful servant of Tang Xuanzong is Gao Lishi, which is the only burial tomb of Xuanzong.
Perhaps, in the heart of Tang Xuanzong, who has gone through the hardships of life, Gao Lishi is no longer a slave or a minister, but the only friend and brother who can share honor and disgrace, life and death with him!
Gao Lishi's loyalty to Tang Xuanzong and his contribution to the Li and Tang dynasties are clearly recorded by Sima Guang in the "Zizhi Tongjian".
In the "Commentary on the Historical Outline", the Ming Dynasty historian Li Zhen commented on this loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty and the descendant of the Northern Yan Dynasty, who has been slandered for thousands of years: "Gao Lishi is really a loyal minister, who is a eunuch and no one!"
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