Section 36 Dream, the legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao, compared with additional comments.

36. Dream pregnancy: Yang was sent to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and his wife fell ill because she missed him. Suddenly I dreamed of making friends with my motherland, so I got pregnant, and later I gave birth to a male name (pò, which means that the sun and the moon were not very bright at first. The text here is different from the version circulating on the Internet). When Guo Zhong came home, his wife had a dream. Guo Zhong said: "This is because husband and wife miss each other." People are full of contempt.

Yang went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang on business, and his wife missed him for a long time. Once, she suddenly had a dream during the day. In the dream, she and Yang had several touching. Because of this dream, Yang's wife became pregnant and later gave birth to a boy named "Yang Chang". When Yang came home from his mission, his wife told her everything in her dream. Yang said, "This is probably caused by the missing between husband and wife." Everyone laughed at him at that time.

Comments: Perhaps, in the eyes of many people, Yang is an incompetent idiot, but after consulting many ancient books, I think: Yang is a useful material. His advantages are as follows:

First, I was born in a famous family, and then I was born in a famous family. According to "The Book of the Prime Minister in the New Tang Dynasty", Yang was born in Hongnong Yang, a famous family in China history, and was the descendant of Yang Zhen, the commander-in-chief in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Wu Zetian is Yang's uncle.

Second, he is tall and fair-skinned. There is no positive description of Yang's appearance in Old Tang Shu, but we can infer Yang's appearance through a passage in Old Tang Shu Zhuan.

Li had a strange dream: a tall man with fair skin and a lot of beards drove him away. This man came to Li's original position and never left.

After waking up, the cunning Li immediately understood the moral of this dream: someone will take his place. However, Li mistakenly thought that the person in his dream was Pei Kuan, then the minister of housing and the imperial adviser, so he exiled him on the grounds that Pei Kuan was Li's confidant. After less than ten years, Yang replaced Li, and Yang and Pei Kuan looked alike.

Third, be eloquent, brave and decisive. According to New Tang Book, before Yang went to Beijing to take refuge, he made friends with Zhang Qiu and Joan at that time. Zhang Qiu and Joan thought he was "dry, handsome and eloquent", which translated as "tall trunk and fast speech".

There is a passage in Old Tang Book Yang Zhuan: "Zhongjun is impetuous by nature, strong and eloquent, so as to win the prime minister, review the machine maintenance and leave doubts." Translated into vernacular Chinese, it means: "Yang is extremely impetuous, strong and eloquent. Soon, because of his eloquence, he got the position of prime minister. He is quite confident in his opinion when analyzing and deciding confidential matters. "

However, Yang's courage is not only reflected in the decision-making of government affairs, but also in the struggle for the status of prince. After Li Ying was deposed as a prince, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, under the influence of the concept of "standing up", made Hengli a prince. However, Prime Minister Li fawned on him, claiming that Li Mao, the birthday girl born, was a prince, but Tang Xuanzong did not listen. After Wu Huifei died, Yang Yuhuan was favored by the emperor. She used to be the concubine of Shouwang. Like Zhu Wen's daughters-in-law, although forcibly occupied by her elderly father-in-law, she wanted her ex-husband Li Mao to be the successor of the Tang Empire. Therefore, both her relatives and friends want to bring it down, which is consistent with Li's idea.

Li Jianli established Li Mao, the Shouwang. He was worried that Hengli would retaliate against him after he took over, so he successively created Wei Jian case, Liu Ji case and Wang Zhongsi case. The henchmen of Hengli were almost caught in the net twice and were forced to divorce. However, in the process of handling this case, Yang Shen, Li's confidant, found that he had no intention of abolishing the Prince, so he stopped contributing, remained neutral and adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Li hated this pawn who changed his mind, so he framed Yang Shen and Wang Hao in the name of "bookkeeping, making warlocks, and intending to recover the Sui Dynasty", and at the same time asked Yang to try these cases, and Yang, who led the way, was really well-informed-as long as he could endanger the case of the prince, he did not wait for Li Fa to signal, and after several years of investigation, he framed the prince.

Fourth, self-reliance and perseverance. Perhaps many people think that Yang is a mean person who only flatters, makes no progress and gets cold feet, but the fact is just the opposite-we can see his inner qualities from the following two things.

1 the incident can be summed up as being ashamed and brave, and joining the army in anger.

When Yang was a teenager, he did have many bad hobbies: drinking and gambling, borrowing money from others many times, and having bad conduct ... But after being despised by his clan and his wife and family, Yang, who was over 30, decided to go out to have a rest, so he left home to join the army and came to Bashu area. From his hometown of Shaanxi to Sichuan, there are thousands of miles, and Yang is basically helpless in a foreign land; The dialects of the two places are very different-there was no Mandarin at that time, so it was very difficult for Yang to communicate with others. Therefore, as an outsider, Yang is in a bad situation. However, Yang not only gritted his teeth, but also got a promotion because of his excellent work.

The second thing can be summed up as saving lives, not being a burden.

Yang's uncle, Yang Xuanyan, used to be a manager in Sichuan. After he was imprisoned and died in prison, Yang stepped forward. Compared with those people in have it both ways, he would rather his career be affected than his relatives lose their dependence. So, Yang moved directly into his uncle's house and took care of his uncle's family personally. During this period, I fell in love with a cousin of Yang and became a de facto husband and wife. This cousin was later named Guo's wife by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. But the good times didn't last long, and Yang's old habit of gambling broke again-he took all his savings to Chengdu to play a gambling game called "chū Pu" and lost all his money in just one day. Consciously unable to face his relatives, Yang ran away from home again-he didn't want to live on his uncle's property.

Fifth, be loyal to your duties and keep calm in times of crisis.

Yang's political achievements have always been outstanding, which are shown in the following aspects: 1. After he joined the army, he won the position of new captain because of his outstanding achievements; 2. At the beginning of serving Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, Yang's job was to manage Zhang Qian's books. He kept accurate accounts, so he was praised by the emperor and Yang was promoted. 3. When Yang was in charge of the treasury money and buying and selling in the palace, he accumulated a lot of coins and piled them up in the warehouse. Tang Xuanzong was very happy after his official was verified, and he promoted Yang's official position again.

Even in the most dangerous time, Yang kept calm.

According to An Lushan Biography, after An Lushan rebelled under the banner of attacking Yang, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty summoned the prime minister and others to plan countermeasures. Yang looked smug and said with a smile, "Now only An Lushan has rebelled! His army and followers don't want to rebel. Within ten days, they will slay An Lushan and come to surrender. If they don't do this, your majesty will send troops to crusade, rely on the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, wipe out the rebels, and make the rebellion defeat the soldiers without fighting. " The rest of the ministers, look at me, I look at you, and your face has changed with fear.

Different from many prime ministers in history, Yang also served as the prime minister of our time. So, after the An Shi Rebellion broke out, he selected 3,000 warriors to train in the emperor's garden, and recruited 10000 people to station in Pakistan, ordering his cronies Du Ganyun to take command. Yang also arranged a lot of cronies in Bashu area, which made Cui Yuan, our envoy of Jian Nan, secretly reserve a lot of materials and prepare for the worst.

When he fled Chang 'an, Yang's performance was also commendable: 1. He ordered Cao, the eunuch, to beat drums outside Chunming Gate, pretending that there were troops gathering, so that the enemy did not dare to act rashly. 2. Burn the piled straw and let the fireworks light up the sky (it was early morning when they fled) to cover up the team's whereabouts. After the team crossed the Weihe River, they immediately ordered the temporary bridge to be destroyed.

Sixth, be efficient in politics and be compassionate.

In the past, the official department had to go through three procedures, starting in spring and finishing in summer. When Yang became prime minister, when selecting officials, he called the officials of Shangshu Province together to work, which greatly improved the efficiency of selecting officials-all the work could be completed in one day.

In the past, when selecting officials, the requirements for candidates' articles were very high: once a sentence did not conform to the procedures, they could not be transferred, so some people could not get the desired official position for ten years. When selecting officials, Yang paid attention to the pros and cons of candidates, rather than deliberately pursuing form. He established a new system of selecting officials: those who have served for a long time will be given official positions first, and those whose documents are wrong can be rewritten and then handed in.

Yang's new policy has been praised by many people, and his "sympathy" is also reflected in the handling of petitioners.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there were a lot of bad money circulating in the market in Jianghuai area. Some princes, nobles and big businessmen often exchange five bad money for a large number of bad money, and then take it to Chang 'an to spend it in normal currency, which has caused inflation.

In the eleventh year of Tianbao, Li made a report on this matter. After reading the report, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered the relevant departments to take out the good money from the grain, cloth and treasury and exchange it for a month's bad money in the Chang 'an market. Those who fail to pay the official are guilty. This imperial edict made many businessmen on the verge of bankruptcy, so they stopped Yang from complaining to him. Yang told these people about their difficulties, and finally implemented a flexible policy: coins not made of lead and tin and coins with holes can continue to circulate.

Therefore, Yang is very efficient and knows how to care for those who are frustrated.

Seventh, be grateful and never forget your old friends.

Looking through the history books, everyone who is good to Yang has been richly rewarded. Give a few examples: 1. When he went to Beijing to meet Yang's sisters in the name of New Year greetings to Yang, he didn't prepare a gift because he was poor. At that time, Zhang Qiu and Joan, the then Jiannan ambassadors, sent goods worth millions from Sichuan. Subsequently, under Yang's operation, Zhang Qiu and Joan entered Beijing as ministers and temple supervisors. When he was down and out in Yang, the interview ambassador Xian Zhongtong often helped him. When Zhangqiu and Joan of Arc were looking for candidates to be officials in Beijing, my wife Zhong Tong recommended Yang. After Yang Chenggong, Xianyu Zhongtong was recommended by Yang as our ambassador. 3. Xianyu Zhongtong took over as our special envoy of Jiannan, but he lost in the war against Nanzhao, and more than 60 thousand soldiers died, and he almost died himself. Yang covered up Yu Zhongtong's failure and wrote down the meritorious military service for him.

According to the New Tang Book, Yang's wife, Pei Rou, was originally a singer in Shu. After Yang made his fortune, there was no other affair except to relive the old dream with the old lady.

At that time, some officials who were born in poverty liked to rob beautiful women of their wives when they were rich and powerful: Lai Junchen's wife was the daughter of shēn, an envoy of Taiyuan, and had been betrothed to Duan Jian by her parents, but Lai Junchen made a false letter and married this beautiful girl into the house; After being favored by Wu Zetian, Hou Sizhi insisted on marrying Zhao Jun's daughter Li Zicai. Given, who was demoted to be an official in Lian Gang, never forgot to have sex-he took a scholar's daughter and forced her to be his concubine (this matter was recorded in An Shi Rebellion).

Compared with the people above, Yang is much more powerful. Yang doesn't like the new and never tires of the old, and all four sons are born to Peirou, which also proves an objective fact: Yang and his wife are very loving and have a good relationship. Therefore, it is impossible for Yang's wife to cuckold her husband.

Of course, gold alone is not enough, and no one is perfect. Yang also has many shortcomings: he likes gambling, has an affair with his cousin, pursues time and pleasure when he has money, accepts bribes, lacks the ability to choose candidates, and is surrounded by ministers. ...

Yang, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was to blame for the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, but objectively speaking, Yang played the role of a fuse at most-arresting An Lushan's confidant in the capital and killing those who tipped off An Lushan ... These things may have been manipulated by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty behind the scenes. If we carefully study that period of history, it is not difficult to see that the main person responsible for the Anshi Rebellion should be He Li (the reason for the outbreak of Anshi Rebellion is discussed in a special chapter in the bilingual edition of Anshi Rebellion).

Some people think that if Lee is still alive, An Lushan will not dare to rebel-this is really a big joke. The situation before An Shi Rebellion was almost the same as that before San Francisco Rebellion. In Kangxi's words, it is "withdrawal and vice versa, not withdrawal and vice versa." Can this general trend be reversed by only one or two people?

Therefore, on the whole, Yang is a very smart, capable, fearless, independent and reliable talent. Therefore, Yang won the favor of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty: when serving Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he was often the last one to leave the palace. Yang's brilliant career is not only achieved through nepotism, but most of his achievements are won by his own ability!

In addition, according to the records in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Yang Jian in the story "I am pregnant in my dream" married Princess Wan Chun, the most beloved of the four brothers in the Tang Dynasty. If Yang Jiang really has the black history mentioned in the article, how could he climb on the emperor's daughter?

Then, why are Li, Yang and Yang's sisters notorious among the people? This is caused by the contradiction between them and Prince Hengli. After the Anshi Rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty planned to personally lead troops to pacify the world and let Prince Hengli supervise the country. When Yang Yuhuan and her relatives and friends saw that Hengli was about to take power, they all felt a great disaster. Finally, Yang Yuhuan put the clod in his mouth and forced him to die, which made Tang Xuanzong change his mind. However, it also intensified the contradiction with Hengli Group, coupled with the previous blood feud, which eventually led to the Maweipo mutiny. After the mutiny, Hengli cleared all political enemies and succeeded in becoming Tang Suzong. But he didn't dare to go to Bashu area where Yang had been in business for many years, so he parted ways with Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and led his cronies to Lingwu County. Since then, Tang Suzong Group has smeared its former political opponents.

To sum up, the story of "pregnant in my dream" was deliberately fabricated by party members, which was specially used to discredit and attack Yang, completely contrary to the objective facts.