Liu Zhan, a few characters, his father Liu Jing once educated the poet Liu Yuxi. Liu Zhan ascended to the throne during the middle age of the Tang Dynasty, and he was "brilliant, literary, and talented" (文丰敏). So, what is the story of such a talented and good-looking Tang Dynasty prime minister Liu Zhan?
Statue of Liu Zhan
Liu Zhan's ancestral home was Pengcheng (present-day Xuzhou), and later his ancestors migrated to Lianzhou. When he became an adult, he married the granddaughter of the former chancellor Li Deyu (the leader of the Li Party in the Niu-Li Party). Liu Zhancai was quick-witted and knowledgeable, and entered the priesthood and later embarked on a career path in the fourth year of junior high school. Liu Zhan composed poems in Yeyi, and there are "Yingning Jushi Collection" and "Zhongzhou Collection" passed down.
In August of the eleventh year of Xiantong, Tang Yizong's beloved daughter Princess Tongchang died of illness. Afterwards, Baoheng complained to Tang Yizong that it was the improper diagnosis of the imperial doctor that caused the princess to die. Convinced, Yizong beheaded Han Zongshao, Kang Zhongyin, and more than twenty other imperial doctors, and imprisoned more than 300 of the medical officers' family members and relatives and handed them over to Jingzhao Yin Wenzhang for punishment. When Liu Zhan, as chancellor, learned of this, he immediately summoned his advisors and prepared to dissuade Yizong from this atrocity, but the advisors were afraid of Yizong and did not dare to speak, let alone dissuade them. Liu Zhan had no choice but to personally advise Emperor Yizong. Emperor Yizong had just lost his beloved daughter and could not listen to any advice at all, so Liu Zhan ignored it and argued according to reason. As a result, Emperor Yizong was furious and demoted Liu Zhan to The Prefecture of Yi (驩州, in present-day Nghe An, Vietnam).
After Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, he rehabilitated Liu Zhan and recalled him to serve as chancellor again. Unfortunately, Liu Zhan's second time in the photo was less than three months, but he died inexplicably. After Liu Zhan's death, the clan members built a crown tomb for him at the foot of Lianzhou's Jianfeng Mountain, and erected a tombstone. Regrettably, both the tomb and the stele were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.
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Liu Zhan's evaluation
Liu Zhan, a native of Lianzhou in the Tang Dynasty, has several characters. His father Liu Jing set a precedent for the Lianzhou scholar Jinshi and the first, "Tiger Father no Dog", Liu Zhan also ascended to the Jinshidi during the middle age of the Tang Dynasty. Later, the appreciation of liu Zhen, the prime minister at that time, was recommended as a scholar of Hanlin University and a scholar of Zhongshu She. For nine years, Emperor Yizong of Tang served as chancellor of the Tang Dynasty. So, what is the evaluation of this erudite prime minister Liu Zhan?
Liu Zhan was frugal, and the money he received was used to help poor relatives and friends, and there was no storage at home. Although he was an extremely popular subject, his several acres of residence was not his own private house, and he could also refuse bribes from all sides, and he was a rare and incorruptible official. Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, rehabilitated Liu Zhan, and reinstated the official. The people of Chang'an were ready to collect money to meet this sage when Liu Zhan arrived in the capital, but Liu Zhan heard the news and changed the date route back to the capital, avoiding this honor. It can be seen from this that in the face of honor, Liu Zhan is humble.
In August of the eleventh year of Xiantong, Princess Tongchang died of illness. Tang Yizong was grief-stricken, believing that the imperial doctor was ineffective in healing. He killed all the imperial physicians Kang Zhongyin and others who had healed the princess, and then refused to give up and arrested more than three hundred of the relatives of these medical officers. When Liu Zhan learned of this, he bluntly advised Emperor Yizong, which provoked Emperor Yizong's anger and he was demoted to sihu to join the army. Liu Zhan dared to offend the emperor in order to save more than three hundred innocent lives. People think he is upright, not afraid of rape, and insists on justice.
There is an anecdotal allusion about Liu Zhan in the Zizhi Tongjian: Once, the emperor ordered Zheng Qi, a scholar of Hanlin, to draft an edict to depose Liu Zhan. What sin? Zheng Hao could not list it, but instead recommended him in the edict: "The dwelling of a few acres is still not his own, but he is bribed by all sides, but he is afraid of people's knowledge." ”
Later generations once commented on Liu Zhan in this way- "Liu Zhan is such a virtuous man who is honest and incorruptible, upright and upright, and does not admire vanity." Compared with Qujiang Zhang Jiuling, he was no less than that. ”。