Emperor Wendi loves to play with excitement. On one occasion, he drove a carriage of six horses to "race".

As we all know, Liu Heng, the emperor of China, was a wise monarch. He practiced a policy of rest and recuperation, and worked hard to govern the country. Ban Gu praised him for being in power for 23 years, and the court did not acquire any materials and appliances. His century-old house, Baling, is all earthenware products, which is very shabby. Finally, Ban Gu praised Wendi with a comment that even Confucius dared not use easily: Benevolence!

However, Historical Records and Han Shu clearly exposed the other side of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty: he gave tens of thousands of money for the little people he liked, and even made a billionaire for Tongshan according to his personal preference.

What's going on here?

Contradictory Emperor China: Unwilling to build terraces, but being excessively rewarded.

In fact, this phenomenon is not unique to journalists. Some people have discovered Wendi's attitude towards the contradiction of wealth fragmentation, and some articles have mentioned it. However, in order to give you an intuitive impression, this paper still lists some phenomena and evidence, of course, it is partial. Historical records can only be partial.

The frugality of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty.

Maxima incident: Deng Wendi was given a maxima, but Deng Wendi returned it. He also said the reason for returning the gift: I rode a swift horse alone in front, leaving the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs and the Royal Guards behind. What kind of system is this? For security reasons, Liu Heng seems to have resumed the ceremony. Of course, this reason is reasonable.

Terrace project: Liu Heng once wanted to build a terrace, and calculated the cost with the construction workers, but it was only "100 gold", equivalent to the assets of ten middle-class families in the Western Han Dynasty. But faced with this data, Liu Heng hesitated, and the terraced field project was abandoned.

Guifei Clothing: The favorite woman of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty is Mrs. Shen. Once in Shanglinyuan, Mrs. Shen was treated at the same table as the Queen, which caused the dissatisfaction and intervention of conservative official Yuan Ang. The emperor's favorite woman, clothes do not mop the floor, save clothes and materials, the company commander has no skirt, but shorts. I really don't know if Miss Liu Heng really likes to be careful with girls.

Baling: the destination of Emperor Wendi in a hundred years, all the pottery, gold, silver, copper, tin and so on. They are all in use, even the graves are saved, and the existing local mountains are used as natural graves. "There is no grave because of the mountains."

Be mean to yourself, to your own woman, and to yourself after death. Is Wendi really stingy all the way to the end? Are there no exceptions?

The luxury of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty-

Of course there are exceptions. Emperor Wen of Han is also a mortal. As long as you are mortal, you have your own preferences, and you will not be stingy with this preference. This preference is the famous Yellow Wolf by Toy Boy Deng Tong.

He is in charge of ships at the Western Han Palace in Deng Tong. Wendi Deng took a fancy to him because of a dream, so she loved him in all aspects. Lu said, "Emperor Wen is very happy and has this blessing. Every day is different. " Liu Heng likes this male friend very much, and his affection for him will not change with the passage of time, but will change every day.

At this time, the stingy Emperor Wendi of China suddenly became indifferent to money, as if he had become another person. Tens of thousands of taels each time, more than ten times in a row. "So Wendi rewarded tens of thousands of taels together." Brother Liu Heng, how many terraces did you send to Deng Tong?

What's more, a fortune teller once said that Deng Tong "starved to death when he was poor". Liu Heng suddenly felt very distressed and said, "I am the one who can make a fortune. How can I be poor? " I am the one who can make Deng Tong rich. I have the right. Who can say he is poor? Later, he irresponsibly gave Deng Tong a copper mine in Sichuan, a mineral resource of the Western Han Dynasty, to make coins. As far as identity is concerned, Deng Tong, who has made no achievements, is actually a member of the literati. Officials are the best doctors.

This is a divided emperor in the Han Dynasty, who is surprisingly stingy and extravagant. On the one hand, he is very

Historians' choice of historical materials is actually biased. Writing history books is sometimes like writing literary works. Historians seem to have moved their minds about what materials to use and what aspects of historical figures to highlight.

Sima Qian and Ban Gu were very careful when dealing with historical materials related to Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty. In Historical Records of Emperor Wendi, all positive historical materials are used, which highlights his benevolence and frugality. The negative information about Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty is mostly found in Biography of Han Shu, Biography of Han Xing, Biography of Yuan Ang and Biography of Zhang Shizhi. On the one hand, it takes care of the authenticity of historical materials, on the other hand, it pays attention to the unity of historical figures. Therefore, it is necessary to synthesize all kinds of historical materials and get a complete Emperor China without being confused by some parts.

In this century, Wendi is a rational man, and all his words and deeds are based on the interests of the Han Dynasty. However, in other biographies, Emperor Wendi is like this.

He loves racing. As soon as he returned to Baling, he planned to rush down the high slope with a big carriage with six horses. Minister Yuan Ang immediately stopped him, but Wendi laughed at him and said, Is the general afraid? "Is the general afraid?" From this incident, we find that Liu Heng is an exciting child.

He likes to hold grudges. Liu Changjiao, the younger brother of King Huainan, is arrogant and indulgent, and often does not regard him as the younger brother of the emperor. He pretended to be tolerant. When the time was right, he shot Liu Chang and deliberately starved his brother to death, regardless of the advice of the then minister. At this point, he is a vindictive person.

He likes supernatural beings and ghosts. He hurriedly called Jia Yi, a young talent, to the mysterious room in the palace, talked all night, and even moved his seat forward to show his esteem for Jia Yi. What did he say? Not serious business, but talking about ghosts and gods, so Li Shangyin sneered: "Sitting at the table in the middle of the night, I am embarrassed to ask the people about ghosts and gods." It can be seen that Liu Heng is still a child full of curiosity about the nothingness world.

A normal person may have some abnormal desires and some low-level needs. If it interferes with his career, he may deliberately restrain and suppress. As a wise monarch in history, Emperor Wen of Han listened to the advice of good officials and capable officials many times and "trimmed" the "crooked grass" of desire for himself.

But these desires are always uncontrollable in some fields, and we must always find ways to show them. On the other hand, Deng Tong was the channel through which some bad demands of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty were exposed. At this point, a generation of monarchs became unreasonable.

Moreover, once this low-level demand conflicts with the correct choice, Wendi sometimes chooses the former. As we all know, Jia Yi was a gifted scholar and a generation of virtuous ministers in the Western Han Dynasty, but he was on an equal footing with the villain Deng Tong.

Sometimes people's hobbies are really incomprehensible. Emperor Wen of Chinese can not compete, and can tolerate the dismissal of Mrs. Shen by the minister, but can not tolerate Jia Yi's disdain.

From the perspective of desire, we can easily understand why Wendi is so irrational.

Deng Tong's Tragedy: A lucky guy who is not bad is finally eliminated by history.

At first, Deng Tong was a lucky man. He doesn't have any qualities of talents in feudal society. He just kept his position and did his job well.

He was destined not to play a big role in history, but because he met the discerning eye of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, he gained a prominent position that was not commensurate with his talent and achievements, became a doctor and gained the right to coin money. He doesn't deserve it, but he can't stop it.

Deng Tong seems to be very cautious about his brilliant career. He obeyed Nuo Nuo's orders and did not dare to associate with the DPRK ministers, but he was careful to please Emperor Wen. "Bad diplomatic language. Just for your own charm. " I am also very attentive in personnel and never dare to recommend people. He knew that he was not good at it and he couldn't see what others were like, so he didn't dare to make a difference in personnel.

By the time the Emperor Deng Tong arrived, he was down and out, and sure enough, as the fortuneteller said, he was "starved to death". It is not so much the fortune teller's fortune telling as the fortune teller's contempt for him. He has long been aware of the existence of Deng Tong.

The Deng Tong incident has given us two inspirations: First, to study history, we should not only look at the diversity and pluralism of historical figures, but also look at their limitations. We should not grasp the limitations, but we should not ignore them. Only in this way can the characters show their true colors; Second, our personal situation is sometimes valued by the boss and considered by us. Is it because of our own ability or stupid luck?