Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Xinfengke Poor Horse Surrounded by Cen Wenwen, a Nanyang native, prophesied

At first, Du Ruhui was not on the candidate list, and Li Shimin was not optimistic about him either. In the prosperous years of the Sui Dynasty, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Wang Gui were like brothers and talked about everything. Selecting Fang and Du as servants to shoot, everyone was convinced.Very early on, Fang Xuanling had a unique insight. Everyone believed that the Sui Dynasty was powerful, but he was the only one who saw through the mystery at a glance, pointed down the mountain and said, "This dynasty will definitely be as short as the Qin Dynasty!" At that time, the three of them The bits are very young.

These three people have all become famous ministers of Zhenguan, and Fang Xuanling is the most famous. When he stood there, Li Shimin explained to Fang Xuanling: "To become a servant, you must seek sages and confer official positions based on your talents. This is the prime minister's duty." If you look at it, even a god can die from exhaustion.Therefore, Li Shimin ordered that all the details of the book should be managed by Zuo Cheng (adjutant), and that Pu She would be involved in important matters that could not be decided.Historical records: Fang Xuanling "is a wise official, supplemented by literature, and devotes himself to it all night long, lest one thing will be lost; the usage is generous and flat, and people have good things. If you have it yourself, you should not take others for the sake of preparation, and do not use your own length to find things."

People in the court especially liked Fang Xuanling, because he was very strict and generous, he liked to praise others, and others liked to work under him. With such a person, what else can't be done! Yes, of course. decision. Fang Xuanling has various advantages, but he is an indecisive person.He recommended Du Ruhui to Li Shimin, saying that this person is very decisive.Every time Li Shimin discussed things with Fang Xuanling, there would be several plans in the end, and it was difficult to choose.Deciding which option to adopt is so important that many people don't dare to make a decision.At this time, Fang Xuanling would say: "No one can do this except Du Ruhui."

If Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling were discussing, they would call Du Ruhui to make the final judgment.In the end, Du Ruhui, like Fang Xuanling, was valued by Li Shimin. Fang knows that Du Zhi can solve major events, and Du Zhi knows Fang is good at making good plans. This is the story of Fang Mou's decision and becoming a left and right servant. In all times, what is lacking is not talent, but discovery. This is a legend, a legend that has been passed down through the ages. In June of the third year of Zhenguan (629), the drought continued, and there was no harvest in Guanzhong. Li Shimin ordered all officials, including Fang and Du Erpushe, to write a letter explaining the gains and losses of the imperial court on drought prevention and response measures, and to select and reward those with unique analysis.In addition, if there are famous scholars who advise, they will all be interviewed. If it is beneficial to the common people, once it is realized, the proposer will be rewarded generously.

Writing a letter is equivalent to the current treatment opinions, such as "what should I think" and "what should be done to the people"... Repeated opinions are very normal.What's even more frightening is that the hundreds of memorials from the imperial court are repetitive and mediocre, which is more troublesome than listening to boring teachers' lectures.Li Shimin was enduring such pain, he almost fell asleep reading it, but when he was so dull and uncomfortable, an article signed by "Chang He" made him excited. Chang He! In fact, this article was written by Ma Zhou.

The poem goes: Ma Zhou used to be a Xinfeng guest, but no one knows him. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, a family in Chiping, Bozhou (now Chiping County, Shandong Province) was sitting with nothing but books on the walls.This family is always worried about who to borrow rice from.In fact, for them, "borrowing" is a way of saving face. If they don't give face, they can just say, "Boy, go to your third grandma's house and ask for some food!" , Life is not very good, copy the bottom of the tank, and you can get a few grains of rice for porridge.

Life is so far, and it is true that I can't blame others, if I want to blame, I blame Yang Guang. That Yang Guang who wrapped the silk around the tree. In the not-too-distant ancient times, even if life was so difficult that there was no stopping, children still had to be born.Doesn't it depend on these children to shine on the lintel?The birth of Pony Zhou couldn't be more insignificant for this dynasty where the country was rich and the people were poor.Everyone who has eggs will give eggs, those who have bricks will add bricks, and those who have nothing will not give anything. It is also possible to join in the fun.It is in such a rural courtyard that the moving legend has begun.

Come on, Pony Zhou! I only know how to live, can I afford it? Ma Zhou's parents were both farmers, they lived in a house built of adobe, and they wore shabby clothes with two hundred patches.It's not easy for this family to raise such a son. They want him to farm steadily, marry the neighbor's Cuiping or something as a wife when he grows up, and then have Ma Xiaozhou, Ma Sunzhou, Ma Xuanzhou, Ma Zengzhou... There is a big hall for children and grandchildren, although life is sad, but the hall is full, and the big guys are also blindly happy. However, the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty brought endless disasters to this family, which really made it impossible for people to live well.

It's all man-made. Ma Zhou's father passed away, and Ma Zhou's mother's eyes were red from crying, worrying about pony Zhou. Pony Zhou doesn't like to do farm work like other kids, he is not interested in crops, he just likes to read books.People asked: "Ma Zhou, do you understand?" Ma Zhou was not upset, and said to them with a high air: "I won't tell you, and you won't understand me if I tell you." Ma Zhou is such a heroic student. , he doesn't like to talk about things by nature, and he doesn't like to care about trivial matters.Just like this bear, Ma Zhou's insanity makes everyone not used to it.

Ma Zhou is very unrealistic in the eyes of the villagers. One sentence he often says to them is: "To govern the country and secure the country, it still depends on me!" The villagers despise him for this. Because he doesn't like to do farm work, and he sings in his back alley every day, and likes to borrow money to buy wine, which gives others a great opportunity to ridicule him. Ma Zhou never cared about this. He firmly believed that there were two ways to change this situation: First, if you say I'm rotten, I'll show you if you say I'm rotten; Second, catch up and use practical actions to slap the mouths of those who blamed themselves.

As everyone expected, Ma Zhou chose the former. In a blink of an eye, Grandpa Gaozu established the Tang Dynasty and changed Yuan Wude. Because his family is not in Hedong, no one in Ma Zhouquan Village has the official rank of Li Yuan.And Ma Zhou has also grown from a very poor villager to an even worse people's teacher (PS: and a teaching assistant).Just because Ma Zhou was literate and could memorize "Spring and Autumn", the governor of the state fell in love with him and went to his home in person to ask him to help educate the students in the state school. Mr. Inspector really worked hard. For many young people in rural areas, becoming a teacher in the city is a dream job, rich and decent. But Ma Zhou was upset. He spent fifteen years reading books that others could not finish reading in fifty years. Suddenly, at the age of twenty, he got a job in the state, and he was a teaching assistant in a state high school. This is indeed a bit far from his dream of governing the country. Alas, I took my wages as wine money, let's fool around first! Since Mr. Ma Zhou didn't love teaching, he was very careless in teaching.When he was a teaching assistant, he often went to the podium to talk nonsense because he drank before class, and he liked to talk about state affairs, as if he understood it well, and his boss criticized him every time.Several times, Ma Zhou offended Da Xishu, the governor who invited him to teach because of this matter, and Da Xishu had already given Ma Zhou enough face.When he was angry for the last time, Ma Zhou realized that if he continued to fool around with embarrassment, he might end up either resigning himself or being fired by others. One should have some face and some backbone. He bid farewell to this place that made him extremely sad, and went to Mizhou (the cities in Shandong). When Ma Zhou breathed out the alcohol, he was full of arrogance, but no matter how much alcohol he smelled, it was not as much as the alcohol in his stomach. His full of complaints needed to be burned, or he would go crazy! In Mizhou, his boldness and recklessness also attracted the attention of a local rich man named Zhao Renben.Zhao Renben was a man with a good vision. He felt that Ma Zhou was not a man who had been in poverty for a long time, so he took out a large sum of money for investment.He gave Ma Zhou a lot of equipment, pointed to Chang'an, and told him that he could enter the customs to find a future. Ma Zhou readily accepted. He bid farewell to Zhao Renben and first came to Bianzhou (Kaifeng, Henan) to visit a county magistrate named Cui Xian.He knew Cui Xian, the magistrate Cui was the person he admired the most.Cui Xian will definitely cherish talents and accept him Ma Zhou.However, Ma Zhou didn't know that this Cui Xian not only didn't recommend him, but also found Ma Zhou annoying (too unpopular).Maybe it was because of his incompatible personalities, the county magistrate was really disgusted by Ma Zhou's rhetoric.After offending Cui Xian, Ma Zhou was ridiculed severely by the people in the county. In a fit of anger, he ran to Xinfeng again. The goal is getting closer and closer, but the heart is getting farther and farther away. This is a county below Chang'an. Ma Zhou wanted to vent his anger. He was alone and had no friends to chat with.He found an inn, went in and sat down, but found that the boss was always busy greeting other guests and just ignored him.Ma Zhou was naturally heroic, so he was furious, he patted the table and said, "Shopkeeper, bring me a bucket of eight liters of good wine!" As soon as he said this, everyone in the shop, including the shopkeeper, immediately turned into petrification. I've seen someone who can drink a lot, but I've never seen someone who can drink so much! One bucket and eight liters!Do you know what a bucket of eight liters is? Let me tell you, it is equivalent to thirty bottles of twenty-degree beer (turbid wine). The shopkeeper quickly followed Ma Zhou's instructions. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Ma Zhou held the wine jar and drank in a leisurely manner. Under the surprised eyes of everyone, he started to drink. Not a drop left.Ma Zhou killed everyone in seconds with his actions. Under the guidance of everyone, he burped, paid the fee with the money they sponsored him, swayed, sang and went upstairs to rest. This is a heartless person, are you worthy of Zhao Renben? How Ma Zhou got to Chang'an City, I don't know, probably because he had no money for drinks and rent, so he went there hungry.Chang'an is the capital, and in order to meet their own needs, all officials of the imperial court will post notices in the streets and alleys to attract diners.Poor horse Zhou can't do anything else, he just came to find these things.With his brain full of massive information, he successfully entered Datang Zhonglang and made Chang He's house a diner. Diners, people who eat, to be precise, they are the kind of people who eat idle food on weekdays and have something to do. Drinking and eating meat on weekdays, you have to risk your life when things happen. When you are free, you eat and drink other people's food, and when you are busy, you have to help them analyze the situation and find out what your superiors, especially Comrade Li Shimin, mean. Fate didn't want to play tricks on this disgruntled countryman again. From this moment on, Ma Zhou's fate should change. He had waited too long for this day. Chang He ran back from the court in a hurry, scratching his head and trying to find a way. He said that the emperor wanted each of the officials to write a post discussing the gains and losses of the government, and the main point was their views on the drought.Chang He is a military general who was in charge of closing the gate and resisting troubles caused by Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's old subordinates during the Xuanwumen Incident. It's a snap.Chang He can write, but the smallest block letters he can write are about the size of a goose egg, and the shapes are so strange that they are uglier than chicken paws. Your Majesty, you asked a person who has never even read it to write a comment. Isn't this rushing ducks to the shelves? What kind of opinions on governing the country, you asked me to write how to kill people cleanly is almost the same. Chang He walked around the yard a few times, and finally calmed down—let the doorman write. The task was handed over to Ma Zhou. As usual, Ma Zhou didn't regard this as something that would kill someone. He wrote it for others, so he took it as a practice pen.Ma Zhou, who used to like to brag, picked up a pen and wrote it with one stroke.In an instant, more than 20 opinions on national policies were written.As usual, Chang He didn't take it seriously, he put away the paper and prepared to hand in his homework.This letter was handed over to Li Shimin, and no one took it seriously. If Li Shimin didn't take it seriously, the history of the Tang Dynasty should be rewritten. Li Shimin is a person who is good at discovering.The biggest advantage of other writing is that it can set off Mr. Chang He's writing and thoughts. "Chang He?" Li Shimin is soberly aware that this Chang He, no, the person who wrote this article must be a learned scholar and a good minister who governs the country!Every word of these suggestions solved Li Shimin's doubts like blindly treating the symptoms. "It's amazing, it's really amazing!" Li Shimin squeezed this letter excitedly. After so many days, he couldn't sort out the problems that bothered him, but let this article explain it to the letter! No, I have to find Chang He! Chang He came soon, and Li Shimin took his memorial and asked: "Did you write it?" Chang He didn't know what happened, and facing Li Shimin, he could only truthfully say: "I didn't write it, but I asked Ma Zhou, a diner at home, to write it!" "How is Ma Zhou?" "This man is very loyal and filial." In a word, Ma Zhou's fate was changed. Li Shimin couldn't control his excitement, "Ma Zhou, Ma Zhou, the talent of the prime minister, the talent of the prime minister! Hurry up, hurry up and ask people to go to Ma Zhou immediately, give him a pass, and have an audience directly!" Ma Zhou is thirty years old this year, and he has endured a lot of suffering in order to wait until this day.Finally, I have waited for this opportunity, the emperor wants to meet, and the emperor personally meets!Everyone can imagine that Ma Zhou should run up and down to meet the emperor, thank you thousands of times, and burst into tears.However, unexpectedly, Ma Zhou, smelling of alcohol, waved his hands at the envoy, and spit out two words: "No!" After Chang He heard the report, he really wanted to rush home and beat him up with his own hands. But Li Shimin was very excited. Haven't you heard the story of visiting the thatched cottage three times? Chang He really hadn't heard of the three donkeys, he only knew that Ma Zhou needed to be beaten. Li Shimin did not hesitate to compromise, and sent four important ministers to invite him.Only then did Mr. Ma Zhou nodded in satisfaction, expressing that the emperor was sincere and he could go.Li Shimin finally met this capable man, and they began to chat about military affairs.Li Shimin found that Ma Zhou was the sage he had been looking for for so long.In ecstasy, he directly arranged for Ma Zhou to work under his door in order to be directly promoted in the future. From a commoner to a central official whom everyone admires, was Ma Zhou's journey bumpy or lucky? Later, Ma Zhou was worshiped as the supervisory censor. Supervising the censor, the rank is not high, the power is huge, and he has the power to impeach hundreds of officials, and he is very easy to be promoted. Therefore, although the work of supervising censors is hard, many people sharpen their heads to take up the post. Ma Yiyi changed his lazy style in the past, and his work performance is very gratifying. He was good at playing, his diction was witty and sharp, he was very close to the current affairs, and he was very careful in adjudicating matters, which was highly appreciated by the people at that time.Later, Li Shimin became dependent on Ma Zhou.When Ma Zhou wasn't wandering around in front of his eyes, he felt weak all over, and said, "When I don't see Mr. Ma, I feel bad all over!" Have you ever felt this way? Such a story is told in "Shishuoxinyu · Virtue". Zhou Ziju often said: "If I don't see Huang Shudu for a day, my stingy heart will be revived." It is said that Zhou Ziju (the prefect of Mount Tai, with a clear and bright government, has a good reputation) often said to others, if I don't see Huang Shudu for a day, I will be ashamed. I feel vulgar and vulgar.Li Shimin's dependence on Ma Zhou is the same as Zhou Ziju's evaluation of Huang Shudu. Many people think that Ma Zhou has a bright future. Zhongshu servant Cen Wenwen also told his friends about Ma Zhou. He said: "Ma Jun hits the nail on the head, and there is nothing wrong with it. Listening to him has a refreshing feeling, which makes people forget the tiredness." .He is the same type of person as Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Zhong Jun, and Jia Yi, and he is a capable minister of governing the country!" But thinking about it, Cen Wenwen said sadly: "However, Mr. Ma is promoted too fast, and the number of things he handles will suddenly increase, and I'm afraid he will be exhausted." I have to admire Cen Wenwen's vision. In the end, Ma Zhou was indeed exhausted.It's just that Cen Wenwen didn't guess his ending.