Chapter 45 Chapter 45

Zhang Han in the Western Jin Dynasty was not a very famous figure in history, but the story of his resignation and return to his hometown because of the sea bass and water shield soup in his hometown is talked about by people, and it is often seen in poetry and prose. Zhang Han gave up his official career and went home to be a commoner. Is it really for the sea bass and water shield soup? Bass is a particularly delicious fish, the most famous of which is produced in Wusong River. There is a poem in elementary school Chinese textbooks, "People who come and go on the river, but love the beauty of perch".Bass meat refers to the meat made of seabass, that is, seabass fillets.

Water shield, also known as jingcai, is a delicious, tender and precious vegetable with both medicinal and edible health effects. It is mainly produced in the Taihu Lake Basin in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Zhang Han's hometown is on the banks of the Wusong River in the Taihu Lake Basin, and he came from a local family. Therefore, he often ate sea bass and water shield soup since he was a child. It was not until 301 AD that he was recruited by the imperial court to leave his hometown to work in Luoyang, the capital city. It was not the emperor Jin Huidi who recruited Zhang Han to Beijing, because this emperor was a complete fool, but Sima Jiong, the king of Qi who took over the power of the country instead of the emperor.

Sima Jiong is the grandson of Sima Zhao. After the death of his father Sima You, he became the king of Qi.During the "Eight Kings Rebellion" in 300 A.D., Sima Jiong and Zhao Wang Sima Lun partnered to abolish and kill the shameless, sinister and sinister Queen Jananfeng, but they were later squeezed out by Sima Lun.When Sima Lun usurped the throne and became emperor, Sima Jiong couldn't bear it anymore, so he contacted Sima Yong, King of Hejian, and Sima Ying, King of Chengdu, to jointly attack Sima Lun and welcome Emperor Hui to restore him. The era of Wang Jiong. After Sima Jiong came to power, the true nature of a prodigal son and a fool was soon exposed. He made a lot of construction projects, "taking Wugu City in the north, opening various offices in the south, and destroying hundreds of houses"; Fang Shi Zhongxuan, dancing in the vestibule, addicted to wine and sex, does not enter the court"; nepotism, sealed to the first-class duke of the sore-sucking and hemorrhoid-licking villain under his command, called "Five Dukes", and obeyed their orders; killing Zhongliang indiscriminately, "The chief secretary, Wang Bao, had many admonitions, but Jiong couldn't use it, so he played the leopard to kill it." Therefore, "the court looked sideways, and the people at home were disappointed." Both civil servants and ordinary people lost confidence in Sima Jiong and were full of dissatisfaction.

Sima Jiong may be a person who likes to be arty and seek fame, that's why he recruited the celebrity Zhang Han to work in Beijing, and arranged him to serve as Dongcao by his side. This position is roughly equivalent to the current Secretary-General of the Prime Minister's Office. Although Zhang Han is self-indulgent, unrestrained, and informal, he is called "Jiangdong Infantry", and he competes with his predecessor Ruan Ji who loves to roll his eyes, but he is not muddled and ignorant of world affairs.After arriving in Beijing, Zhang Han heard and witnessed Sima Jiong's arrogance, extravagance, and atrocities. He had a deep premonition that a new storm was coming, and his heart was always full of worries about the future.

One day, Zhang Han met Gu Rong from the same county, and said to him: "The world is full of troubles, and disasters are endless. If a husband has a reputation all over the world, it is difficult to ask for a good one. I am a man in the mountains and forests, and there is no hope." At that time, Zishan was good at guarding against the future with clarity, and thinking about the future with wisdom." Gu Rong knew his heart well, held his hand tightly, and replied sadly: "I also pick ferns from Nanshan Mountain with Zi, and drink the water ears of the Three Rivers." So, Not long after, when the bleak autumn wind blew, Zhang Han "thought about Wuzhong's water shield soup and sea bass, and said: 'Life is so expensive, how can you be a famous nobleman for thousands of miles!' So he ordered to drive back. "Waving his hand, he wrote a legend in the history of culture, leisurely leaving behind a millennium of endless thoughts about watercraft.

Of course, the thought of the perch is just an excuse. Zhang Han gave up his fame and fortune and returned to his hometown to serve the people because he did not want to be involved in the "Eight Kings Rebellion", bloody and bloody, and become a victim of the power struggle of the royal family.Liu Yiqing, a writer of the Southern Dynasties, did not classify Zhang Han's story of abandoning his official position and returning to his hometown because of his longing for water-poachings into the "Ren Dan category" but into the "Knowledge Class" , should also be for this reason.At the same time as Zhang Han, from the same hometown, as a celebrity, and with greater achievements, Lu Ji, the author of the famous "Anthology", is not as indifferent and chic as Zhang Han, but grasps the reins of power, and finally because of The defeat was tragic and his head was chopped off by his master.