Chapter 7 Chapter Seven: The Watcher of Qingli

When Fan Zhongyan left, he still couldn't let go of the situation at that time.He thought for a long time and decided to do one thing.It's really not very bright to say, but for the purpose of light, it can only be done like this. At that time, there was an unexpected incident. In Hebei, it was suddenly detected that a large number of troops in Liao State were mobilizing, which seemed to be premeditated.Fan Zhongyan took the opportunity to propose that he lead heavy troops to Hebei for defense.If realized, he will restore his social status when he first left Shaanxi before the New Deal.Holding a heavy army, he was the great savior of the border defense of the Song Dynasty.

I believe that this can wake up the Song Dynasty officialdom who was caught in a frenzy of internal strife. Even after he left, no one dared to touch the New Deal he was implementing.There is really no way out, to continue to develop, but also to get rid of the rumors. It's a good idea, but it's a pity that life is even harder with good intentions.Don't be afraid of opponents like gods, but teammates like pigs.Before his political opponents objected, his allies jumped out.Du Yan, the military representative and privy envoy, took the lead, and Fu Bi quickly followed. The two continued to carry forward the good style of a gentleman who is a family member, and who is a dead enemy in the upper hall, and immediately ruined his wishful thinking.

You are purely imagining that the Liao Kingdom sent troops just passing through the east of the river, with the purpose of suppressing the rebellion, which has nothing to do with the invasion.You are sending troops and horses, and you are allocating money and food. You are simply looking for trouble for nothing, and it is unnecessary. Fan Zhongyan was in a daze with anger and was thinking about how to communicate when Fu Bi suddenly had a flash of inspiration and remembered his new position.He is going to Hebei, Mr. Fan, you are going to Shaanxi, why are you robbing me of my job?He solemnly said a word to the emperor.The Liao Kingdom will never invade. If I am wrong, I am willing to bear the "crime of deceiving the emperor."

It's going to spare no effort to demolish Fan Zhongyan's platform! Fan Zhongyan was furious. This was the last effort he could make for the New Deal and the world of the Song Dynasty, and he could not back down no matter what.He quarreled with Du Yan and Fu Bi in the Golden Palace. According to historical records, he cited 6 major doubts and 3 worries, with a total of 670 characters, proving that the Liao Kingdom is likely to invade jointly with Li Yuanhao this time. Not only will there be field battles, but even the siege equipment is ready.Among them is the unique trump card of the Song Army-the bed crossbow.Can this level of urgency be ignored?

I have to deal with it! Fu Bi on the opposite side refused to give an inch. He responded with 347 words and reiterated his point of view.Now the world is peaceful, no matter it is in Hedong, Hebei, or Shaanxi, it is impossible for a war to break out in any area. Fan Zhongyan, you are talking nonsense, I don't know what to say. They quarreled terribly, but in the end it didn't matter, so they had to leave in a desperate manner.Because the emperor didn't say a word, he pretended he didn't see anything.Fan Zhongyan shook his head and sighed, gritted his teeth while walking, he was really unwilling!So while walking and chatting, he wanted to communicate with Fu Bi and others again, and no matter what he said, he had to let the comrades go to the Golden Palace again, with the same caliber, and send troops to Hedong.

This time he got the most straightforward blow. Han Qi, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke - if he must go to Hedong, I will go.There is no need for the court to ride alone. Fan Zhongyan completely collapsed. This is his comrade and comrade-in-arms. Is there such a close enemy? !The anger was smoldering, he was about to explode, he couldn't hold it back, he turned around and went back to the Golden Palace, negotiated with the emperor alone, and repeated what Han Qi said just now, this is not the working attitude that a minister of the country should have, Han Qi's son , is too much!

The result was the emperor's continued silence... Zhao Zhen didn't have any words or behaviors that were recorded and handed down that day. When Fan Zhongyan walked out of Kaifeng and went to the west of Shaanxi to take office, he failed to bring out a single soldier. He is gone, no matter what kind of inside story and experience he had, it has become an established fact.The previous part 1 happened in turn.After Fan Zhongyan left, the gentlemen of the New Deal were kicked out of the Kaifeng capital one by one.The first one is Ouyang Xiu, who was laid off from Zhijianyuan and went to be a transfer envoy of Hebei Road Capital; the second one is Prime Minister Yan Shu.

It's funny to say that this literary senior has become the Song Dynasty version of Li Shangyin.Poet Li was sandwiched between the Niu and Li parties in the Tang Dynasty. As a member of the Niu party, he married the daughter of the senior Li party, making him miserable all his life.The same is true of Yan Shu. He is the great benefactor of Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu, and the father-in-law of Fu Bi, but he is not interested in the New Deal at all. So Ouyang Xiu was demoted, he was very happy.Sun Fu and Cai Xiang from Zhijianyuan jointly asked to stay, but he also refused.Now the admonishers were furious and exposed his old background. It was revealed that the epitaph he wrote to Renzong's biological mother did not indicate the relationship between mother and child, and recently he transferred the imperial army to repair a private house.With regard to these two points, Yan Shu dismissed his post and went to Yingzhou to be the magistrate of the state. His official status was not as high as Ouyang Xiu's.

The third person was Du Yan, the privy envoy, followed by Sun Fu and Cai Xiang, the elites in Zhijian Yuan.The fourth big man was born in March of the fifth year of Qingli in the second year, and Han Qi finally lost his position.Maybe it was only then that he would wake up, without Fan Zhongyan, what would he be Han Qi. The funniest is Yoon Soo.This person who likes to pinch Fan Zhongyan very much, facing the facts, the sadness comes from it, whether it is regret or pain, I can't tell. It's all about your words. But what is the reason for the emperor to say such a thing?Is there any effort from you, Yoon Soo?Yin Zhu was very sad. After two years, he died of illness in 1047 AD.The fanatical poet Shi Jie died earlier than him. He wrote hundreds of words to Xia Song, but Xia Song only responded with one word. He couldn't stand it, and died a few months later.

All great literary geniuses are so fragile... That's it, it's not over yet.If the big shots are brought down, the masses below cannot be spared either.Quietly speaking, in Song Renzong's era, which is known as the most civilized and enlightened in China's 5,000-year history, there was also a miniature literary inquisition. This incident is related to the important pavilion and pavilion known as the Song Dynasty Talent Reserve Bank. As mentioned earlier, the library refers to the royal library of the Song Dynasty.Such as Chongwen Pavilion, Jixian Academy; Pavilion refers to the imperial study rooms in the palaces such as Longtu Pavilion and Tianzhang Pavilion.These places have officials such as bachelors, direct bachelors, attendants, etc. Generally speaking, with such a title, it is equivalent to half a foot in the two governments and two systems.

At that time, the talents in the pavilions and pavilions were very young, and there were many names and titles. We don’t need to list them one by one, but what happened.Midsummer is over and autumn is coming. It is said that the officials of the Song Dynasty are the happiest of all dynasties in China. There are 77 legal holidays every year. Note that this is a permanent one.There is also an additional 65 days, and there are also some customary private parties. What happened this time was the Gods' Competition held every spring and autumn by the treasury affairs of the capital.During this day, the officials of every yamen in the Song Dynasty could drink and chat, and enjoy themselves until all night long.The incident happened in the theater.Jinzhaoyuan, as the name suggests, is the liaison office for documents submitted by the local government to the central government and issued by the central government to the local government.The person in charge at this time was Su Shunqin. Su Shunqin is very young, about 36 years old. He is an important poet in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty.It is no exaggeration to say that without the later Su Dongpo, his name would have become a representative symbol of poets in the Song Dynasty.On the same day, he sold the unpacked waste paper as usual, and then paid 10 taels of silver himself to prepare a sumptuous banquet. Birds of a feather flock together, and he invites young, talented, and wild people.It is the top 10 most popular in the recent limelight.The names are still not listed, meaningless, what is important is that they share the same official symbol - the person recommended by Fan Zhongyan.Its characteristic is that it is fearless, and it is the kind of person who likes to stick his head into the wolf's mouth and boast about his wounds.How exciting, how youthful! But this can't be blamed on them. They haven't gone through the normal process of official promotion, and they haven't been "polished".It is the beneficiary of the "recommendation" system in the New Deal.The reason why they are recommended is not because they are young and fearless. That night, the desire to destroy gradually rose with the darkness of the night, and the 10 young scholars who were born in a prosperous age and proud of their spring breeze gradually lost their restraint.They drove away the singers and guards and officials, and closed the gates. Two military prostitutes were found. Unrestrained, doing everything.They were all drunk, and the last sideshow was poetry.Among them, Dian Zhongcheng and Jixian School Manager Wang Yirou became the sun in the crowd, the idols of that night.He became even crazier than Li Bai. When Shixian was the most arrogant, he just went to see Tang Minghuang when he was drunk. He was so good that he wrote these two lines of poems: slave." The emperor is his servant, Zhou Gongdan and Confucius are his servants!Is there any law of heaven and king? !It’s like counting the classics and forgetting the ancestors. You must know that the reason why the past dynasties have only respected Confucianism and dismissed hundreds of schools is because it worships the uniqueness of imperial power, allowing the emperor to have the power of a god, but the little Wang Yirou actually took it all back. This is no wonder to others. Regarding this matter in history books, it is always emphasized that there was a villain at that time, named Li Ding.He wanted to attend the banquet, but was rejected by Su Shunqin, so he went to Yushitai to inform him, which is really despicable and shameless.But you have done nothing wrong, what can he sue?As a Confucian scholar, if you are so rebellious and immoral, if others don't punish you, you should commit suicide when you wake up! Wang Gongchen, the chief of Yushitai, was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he reported it to the emperor overnight.Zhao Zhen's anger can be imagined, the imperial literati actually repay the emperor's favor like this!What are you waiting for? Arrest people overnight and throw them directly into the Kaifeng mansion. Special cases are dealt with, and they are strictly enforced! In the first sentencing, Wang Yirou was beheaded, and all other persons involved in the case were dismissed and never hired.The second time it was a bit lighter, Wang Yirou never hired, these pavilion staff were scrapped collectively, and demoted to local officials, the host Su Shunqin was charged with a higher crime, and the incident happened in his yamen. demoted to common people. He should be treated differently. He is Du Yan's son-in-law, and he is regarded as the core of the gentlemen in the New Deal.In this way, the New Deal gentlemen headed by Fan Zhongyan, hehe, were kicked out of the imperial court by the "little people" from top to bottom, from head to toe. Total victory. In contrast to this is the collective dispirited face of the gentlemen. Why did we fail? This issue is very private. In the long years since then, these famous officials and gentlemen who have been famous for a long time have never discussed it publicly on any occasion, and have not recorded it in their respective written materials. Even the later famous "Yueyang Tower" only expresses my life ideals and pursuit of aspirations, and never shows the slightest bit of frustration, self-blame, or complaints about anyone. The reason for this is believed to be related to "junzi", the two most noble terms in China's feudal era.What is losing an official?A gentleman is solidly poor, and he is as peaceful as ever.When Confucius praised Yan Hui, the most proud disciple, he said, "One sack of food, one ladle of drink, in the back alleys, people can't bear their worries, and they don't change their happiness when they return." . What is disillusionment?Gou Yu's heart is good, although he died nine times, he did not regret it.As long as I like it, it doesn't matter if I die nine times.There is a masochistic pleasure that the disciples of the sages persisted for thousands of years, and it was even more carried forward in the Ming and Qing dynasties.For a trivial matter, please ask the emperor to beat me, it will be fun to beat me to death! What's more, for such a big event as the New Deal reform, tragedy can be exciting, and I don't feel any pain at all. Even exile is a joy.Zi also once said, "The way is not good, float on the sea." The emperor does not use my method. I row a small boat to float on the sea, which is also elegant and pure. And the most important and most obvious point is also related to elegance and purity. How can gentlemen accuse and abuse each other?That's the quality of a street peddler, a shrew when she's excited.The quality is really too low!That's why in the official records of the Song Dynasty, such a record was left in the Golden Palace dispute between Fan Zhongyan, Du Yan and Fu Bi above - Fan Zhongyan usually treated Du Yan like his father, and when he argued with Du Yan, Du Yan was not angry.Not to mention Fu Bi. So knock out your front teeth and swallow it in your stomach. A gentleman has to stand up straight at any time, and don't lose face. They will never admit that this kind of personality is a second-class disabled in the official and political circles. There is a saying in the American novel "The Catcher in the Rye", "The mark of an immature man is that he is willing to die heroically for a certain cause, and the mark of a mature man is that he is willing to live humblely for a certain cause." The gentlemen of Qingli were rightly said. They would rather die bravely than live humblely for the new world of the Song Dynasty.Facing Xia Song's lies, is there no other way but to resign and retire to prove his innocence?At least they can hang on, just like Xia Song himself did.No matter who impeaches, I will not move. Like this, with the meritorious service of the frontier and the desire to make the country rich and the people strong, this level of pursuit is actually ruined by a forged anonymous letter. It is simply a farce! From this point of view, how can there be a bit of nobility and stalwart? Returning to the starting point, generally speaking, the reasons for the above are all found within the New Dealers, which is of course one-sided.The reason why the New Deal failed, the correct answer given in the standard history textbooks is the emperor's cowardice, plus the villain's frame.I won't talk about the little people's affairs. What they did has been explained very clearly before.The key point lies in Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.He is the emperor, and he is responsible to the country for every word and deed.And this person has indeed been playing silent during this period of time, doing nothing, it seems that he is indeed "cowardly". So what should he do? Support Fan Zhongyan desperately, no matter what the gentleman party does, it is right and must be implemented unconditionally.Even as Ouyang Xiu hoped, he completely gave up on himself, the steps of what to do and how to do it were stipulated in the memorials of the gentlemen, and he just signed and followed them?That's all right? Who is the emperor? Zhao Zhen is a unique person. To interpret him, he has to stand on the roof of a rather high building and look down for a long time to see him clearly.Every step he took was closely related to the international situation at that time, not to the national situation of the Song Dynasty.This is a fundamental difference. Without this, it is impossible to survive in the forest of nations.