Examples of virtuous ministers serving evil lords in history

Shang Dynasty

Beagan is a minister of Zhou Wang, honest and upright. Unfortunately, Zhou Wang listened to gossip and died unjustly.

Warring States period

Qu Yuan was a minister of the State of Chu, and was once valued by the King of Chu. Later, the king of Chu listened to the treacherous court official and was demoted, which eventually led to the fall of the capital by Qin Jun and his own death in the State of Qin.

Three Kingdoms

Tian Feng, Yuan Shao's counselor, came up with many tricks. However, Yuan Shao was indecisive and lacked a definite view, so Tian Feng came to no good end. Yuan Shao was finally defeated by Cao Cao.

Jiang Wei was the actual master of the military and political power in the late Shu state, but unfortunately, the late master was an "unaffordable sinus". Although Jiang Wei's business is bleak, Shu is doomed.

the Tang Dynasty

Guo Ziyi was a famous marshal in Xuanzong period of Tang Dynasty, and he played a mainstay role in the process of pacifying Anshi Rebellion. Xuanzong made great efforts in the early period, and the Tang Dynasty was prosperous. However, in the face of all this, Li Longji is proud. He began to enjoy a comfortable life, pampered Yang Guifei, and was indifferent to state affairs. Li, Yang and other treacherous court officials were in power, especially our envoys, and finally there was an eight-year "Anshi Rebellion". After eight years of corruption and Anshi Rebellion in the last years of Xuanzong, the Tang Dynasty was irreversibly declining, and even Guo Ziyi could do nothing about it.

Southern Song Dynasty

Yue Fei was a famous anti-gold general in the Southern Song Dynasty. He led "Yue Jiajun" to repel Jin Jun's invasion many times, and once recovered the lost land in the Northern Song Dynasty. However, Song Gaozong gave in and made peace blindly, so that Yue Fei's efforts were wasted. Finally, Yue Fei himself was killed.

tomorrow

Yuan Chonghuan was a general who resisted the invasion of the late Jin Dynasty during the Chongzhen period. After many years in Liaodong, he saved the day and curbed the attack of the late Jin Dynasty on the pass. However, Emperor Chongzhen believed in the disputes in the latter Jin Dynasty and thought that Yuan Chonghuan colluded with the latter Jin Dynasty, betrayed the country and killed him unjustly. After Yuan's death, the end of the Ming Dynasty really came, ending the Zhu Dynasty with a foot of white silk.

Ching Dynasty

Li Xiucheng was a loyal monarch of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and together with King Chen Yucheng of England, he became the mainstay of the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But after Chen Yucheng's sacrifice, he was in danger and alone. When the Xiang army was about to surround Tianjing, it resolutely led the army to Huiyuan and asked the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan to "let the city go". At this time, however, Hong Xiuquan was no longer a peasant leader who led the army in jintian uprising, but a stubborn and corrupt feudal ruler. For Li Xiucheng's reasonable suggestion, he not only refused to adopt it, but severely reprimanded it, imagining that "heavenly father" and "heavenly brother" sent "heavenly brother" to defeat "Clear The Demon" and solve the siege of Tianjing. Li Xiucheng didn't go, but chose to stay, ready to live and die with the kingdom of heaven. Finally, the reinforcements failed to arrive, the sky would not appear, Hong Xiuquan died of illness, Tianjing fell, Li Xiucheng was captured and died heroically.