Chapter 3 second quarter

Thousands of years later, Sima Guang's "Ode to Jiaozhi Presenting Strange Beasts" has long been dusted in the dark corners of history. In Jiayou's three years, it was another copy that was also presented on Zhao Zhen's desk that attracted the attention of Song Renzong Zhao Zhen and later historians. A ten-thousand-word academic report. Wang Anshi's book of ten thousand words was later called "Shang Renzong Emperor's Words and Things Book". Wang Jiefu's writing is first-rate, and he eloquently exposed the current ills and various good strategies to solve social conflicts, which made Zhao Zhen's eyes shine, especially the words "the wealth of the world is generated by the power of the world, and the wealth of the world is used for the expenses of the world". The words and sentences knocked on Zhao Zhen's heart.

Zhao Zhen was even a little moved. At least three years in Jiayou, there were still employees who cared about his empty wallet as the boss. To attract attention is to attract attention, and to be moved is to be moved. Zhao Zhen, who has been in Jiayou for three years, has already passed the age of dreaming. According to the emperor's memorial, the old Fan in history passed away six years ago, and Uncle Shi allowed Lao Fan to live a few more years), Fu Bi, Han Qi and other "gentlemen" can't do, he doesn't believe in a Small local officials who have been far away from the court for a long time can do it.

This report was finally locked in a file cabinet, and did not cause any trouble in the third year of Jiayou, but perhaps because of Zhao Zhen's touch, in the third year of Jiayou, he had just been transferred from the mayor of Changzhou (Changzhou Zhizhou) in March. Wang Anshi, the Chief Prosecutor of the Jiangdong Provincial Procuratorate (Jiangdong Procuratorate), had not yet warmed up his buttocks in the position of Jiangdong Procuratorate, and received another transfer order in October of that year-transferred to the Assistant Minister of the Imperial Finance Department (Third Sidu magistrate).

Wang Anshi has finally entered Beijing. To be precise, Wang Anshi is finally willing to enter Beijing this time. In his youth, Wang Anshi could not find a sense of belonging in the bustling Tokyo (now Kaifeng). As the "Chuanlu" in the imperial examination in the second year of Qingli (AD 1042) (the first in the second class, that is, the fourth in the entire competition)-of course, there is a story behind Wang Anshi's fourth place. The judges of the original competition gave Xiao Wang was going to wear the champion's hat, but after reading Xiao Wang's test paper, Zhao Zhen, the chairman of the competition, felt that although Xiao Wang was a rare talent in the empire, his writing was like a person, and the young man's anger could be seen from the article Heavy, arrogant and conceited, especially the sentence "a child like a friend" in the article is more eye-catching, Chairman Zhao decided that such young people should be used, but they should be used under pressure, so Wang Jiefu's ranking changed from first to fourth.

However, Wang Jiefu did not need to feel sorry for losing the No. 1 Lang crown. The draft in the second year of Qingli was also very valuable. Among the top four, Wang Gui Tanhua, Han Jiangchuan, Wang Anshi and Wang Anshi all worshiped him later and became the man of the empire. And all three people lived a long life and died well, and the three people lived to be 206 years old (Wang Anshi 64, Wang Gui 66, Han Jiang 76), and the No. 1 Yang from the fourth place Although Chairman Zhao's unexpected favor made him the number one scholar, and he won three consecutive awards—that is, he won the first (Jieyuan, Huiyuan, No. 1 scholar, in the long history of imperial examinations in China, only 18 masters of the imperial examinations have accomplished such a feat), but Yang Zhuangyuan, who won the third prize, had a bad fate. After the exam, Yang Zhuangyuan’s mother died, and he did not have time to become an official I just went home to observe my filial piety, and after three years of filial piety, I also passed away due to illness and returned home. The champion laurel crown in the second year of Qingli did not bring any good luck to Yang.

Wang Jiefu, who did not make it to the annual top three finals, soon started his political career. According to the court practice, he was sent to a temporary post in a local area, and went to Yangzhou to serve as the secretary-general of the Yangzhou Municipal Government (Yangzhou signed a judgment). Wang Anshi left Tokyo without taking a cloud with him, let alone a trace of nostalgia. After the expiration of the term signed by Yangzhou, Secretary-General Wang has the opportunity to become a senior secretary of the state from the prefecture-level secretary-general, and has the qualifications for the library job examination.Of course, the job in the library is not to be an administrator at the Tokyo National Library.At that time, the three halls of the Northern Song Empire—History Hall, Zhaowen Hall, and Jixian Hall were the places where the world’s literati elites gathered. Entering the hall means entering the emperor’s vision and becoming one of the emperor’s think tanks. A springboard, Sanguan has always been regarded as a holy temple in the eyes of literati in the Northern Song Dynasty.

But Xiao Wang gave up the opportunity to take the entrance examination, and his report was to continue to take root at the grassroots level and become a county magistrate. Wang Anshi's choice surprised the whole empire, Zhao Zhen still fulfilled his wish and let him go to Yin County to be the magistrate. Xiao Wang served as county magistrate in Yin County for three years. After his term of office expired, he still didn’t pay attention to the three halls of the Northern Song Empire. He continued to be his magistrate with self-satisfaction. general judgment). Wang Jiefu's arrogance and talent slowly spread to Tokyo, and the top literati of the Northern Song Dynasty gathered in Tokyo had a mysterious affection for Wang Jiefu. Ouyang Xiu, Wen Yanbo, and Chen Xiang repeatedly recommended it in front of Zhao Zhen every day. Wang Jiefu.The emperor spoke twice during Wang’s tenure as the deputy mayor of Shuzhou. You don’t need to write an application for admission, just come to Beijing to take the exam (scores are of course not important).

Faced with Zhao Zhen's winking eyes, Wang Anshi was puzzled, and formally expressed his refusal. The reason was quite Coca-Cola, saying that the price of goods in the capital is too high, and the house price is even more expensive. His "family is poor", and he will not be able to solve the problem when he arrives in the capital. Please The emperor allowed him to finish his term as deputy mayor in Shuzhou. Everyone on the earth knows that this is Wang Anshi's excuse. A deputy department-level cadre can't afford a house in the capital and can't open the pot. No matter what time it sounds, it sounds like a bit of a joke, especially in the Northern Song Dynasty where the benefits of senior civil servants are so good. .

Why did Wang Anshi not want to go to Beijing?This became a topic of frequent discussion among literati in the late Renzong era. It wasn't until the third year of Jiayou, when Wang Jiefu presented his book of ten thousand words and deeds and at the same time served as the assistant to the Minister of Finance of the Empire, people seemed to have vaguely seen some facts. However, Wang Anshi during the Jiayou period had gained a lot of fame in the entire Northern Song Empire, firstly because of his literary talents, and secondly because of his weirdness.There are various indications that during the Jiayou period, Wang Jinggong was already a big-name figure in the superstar-studded literary world of the Northern Song Dynasty.In the fourth year of Jiayou, Wang Jiefu published two pieces of "Mingfei Song" in the empire, which attracted the pursuit and replies of top literati at that time, such as Ouyang Xiu, Sima Guang, Liu Chang, and Mei Yaochen, which triggered the whole empire. Follow the frenzy.

And Wang Jinggong's strangeness was a topic that the upper-class literati in the Northern Song Dynasty never tired of talking about in various high-level cultural salon gatherings. The content is roughly as follows: A: Do you know what happened to Wang Jiefu in the Royal Garden yesterday? B: Hey, yesterday I asked for sick leave after eating seafood and having diarrhea in Changqing Building. I really don’t know. A: I laughed so hard. The boss was in a good mood yesterday. He invited everyone to go fishing in the Royal Garden. Wang Jiefu sat on a small bench next to the fish pond and lost his mind. In the morning, all the bait was eaten. Later in the afternoon, the boss invited everyone to have a toothbrush and eat roasted whole lamb. All the ministers ate with gusto, but Lao Wang did not touch a chopstick. The boss asked why, and Lao Wang said that he was full after eating the bait in the afternoon. Yes, all the ministers laughed, and the boss laughed so much that his rice spit out.

C: What's so strange about this? Wang Jiefu has never been particular about what he eats. He treats delicacies from mountains and seas as well as pig and dog food the same.A few years ago, I knew Suzhou. I passed through Changzhou on the way to take office. Lao Wang treated me warmly. I lived in Changzhou for a few days. One day, my wife chatted with Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang said that the thing that worries her most is grocery shopping. She has been married to Mr. Wang for so many years , but still don't know what he likes to eat.My wife said no. At the banquet that day, I saw that Wang Jinggong liked the venison shreds in front of him, and he ate up a big plate.What did Mrs. Wang say? No matter how many delicacies are put on the table, my Lao Wang only eats the plate in front of him.If my wife doesn't believe it, Mrs. Wang said that I will try it for you tomorrow.During the banquet on the second day, Mrs. Wang replaced the venison in front of Lao Wang with salted fish. Lao Wang gobbled up the big plate of salted fish in front of him, but the shredded venison that he had eaten last time could not be eaten with chopsticks. move. A, B and C laughed out loud. Ding Wang ran over to talk to him when he was busy here: It’s okay for Pharaoh to be careless about his food, but his clothes, oh, you don’t know that I stand behind him every morning, that smell!It smells like pig intestines and his wife's rouge. When I smell it, I want to sneeze, and I almost make a fool of myself several times.I couldn't stand it that day. After get off work, I dragged Jiefu to the Eight Immortals Building for dinner. After dinner, I asked him to take a sauna, and asked the servants to change the bag for Lao Wang with another new clothes that were the same as Lao Wang's. After taking a bath, Pharaoh put on my new clothes, but left without any reaction or expression.When I went to work the next day, when I smelled it, the smell was gone. Lao Wang was wearing the new clothes I changed yesterday, haha!You say that this old king is not a fool. A: You said that Lao Wang doesn't pay much attention to food and clothing. Besides commuting to and from work, what else is there to do?Beauty doesn't seem like he's interested either.A while ago, his wife felt that she was old and decrepit, and wanted to make the old Wang's family flourish, so she found him a beautiful concubine and sent him to the study. Guess what the old Wang is doing, learn Liu Xiahui sat still in her arms, and sent Bai Nennen home the next day. It was a pity that Mrs. Wang's kindness and white money cost Mrs. Wang 900 yuan (equivalent to about 200,000 yuan). Oh, I bought it. B: Lao Wang is not good at this. Which time did he participate in our karaoke in Zuihonglou, Yiqingju, and Renqinglou?Why!Not gregarious, it's a failure to be a cultural person to achieve this level, I don't know how those excellent poems and lines came out of this elm head. C: Pharaoh and Sima Junshi have been walking the closest recently. The two sit and talk all day long. They don’t even go home after get off work. They eat at the same table and sleep in the same bed. The two are quite similar, and they are not good at women. ? A, B, D: Broken sleeves... (Jun has a smirk on his face) Joking aside, Wang Anshi in the eyes of the literati of the Northern Song Dynasty in Jiayou three years is more mysterious. Like the old Su Xun in the Three Su, there are probably very few people who labeled Wang Jiefu a traitor during the Renzong period.They prefer to regard him as a member of their own team, but he is a bit independent and mysterious, so they classify him into the category of literary cynics who have the legacy of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and are reluctant to bend their waists for five buckets of rice. What they didn't expect was that ten years later, the careless literary youth turned into a fearless revolutionary, standing on the opposite side of most of the elite literati in the Northern Song Dynasty, and engaged in the final redemption and toss of the empire. Three years after Jiayou, in the sixty-ninth year, the Northern Song Empire collapsed under the attack of Jinren's iron cavalry. Book".