Chapter 108: A Tough Life Doesn't Need to Be Explained
Wang Anshi is really busy, he has the personality of the patriarch, and now that Sima Guang is away, he has to take care of everything.
Wang Anshi and Lao Liao are almost impossible to see in Shuzhou City, because for eight out of ten days, Wang Anshi is in the situation in various counties, and he has to take care of the affairs of silkworm farmers and spring ploughing. Including those who raise chickens, he also likes to go on patrols.
The chickens are no problem, most of the chicks taken from Wang Yan have begun to lay eggs, and the efficiency is good. Wang Anshi is mainly trying to understand whether Wang Yan has come to force debts, threaten people or other incidents.
As for Sima Guang in the capital, he couldn't bear the loneliness anymore. After his illness improved, he wrote an article again, this time publicly criticizing Wang Anshi, saying that Wang Anshi is doing hard work, the Wang family's character is not good overall, as long as there is a mouse feces, it is enough to spoil a pot of soup.
Of course, Sima Guang will not spray for the sake of spraying when writing articles, he is still reasonable and well-founded, and when he commented on Wang Anshi's family character problems, of course, he did not forget to list Wang Anshi's son's opening of a brothel, lending loans, collecting protection money, and so on.
Sima Guang is smart and "rigorous" in that he did not say a single sentence of "Wang Yan is wrong" in the article, only said that Wang Yan gave loans and said that Wang Yan opened a green building. But he didn't say how Wang Yan gave the loan, how much the interest was, and how Wang Yan intervened in the Qinglou.
Wang Yan was powerless to complain about this, the literati's temperament, if it weren't for Wang Yan's habit of seeing the literary style of the elite Vs in later generations, he would really be scared by Sima Guang.
This is the so-called "talking about poison but not about quantity". Because of the lack of specifics.
But Sima Guang is still honest and rigorous, Wang Yan did take out a loan, and he did intervene in the Qinglou. He's telling the truth.
It's just that although these two careers in the Great Song Dynasty are not illegal, their reputation is not very good. So as soon as this kind of article is taken out of context, it doesn't matter if it's small, but Wang Anshi's reputation is worrying. Why, because if you don't explain, most people will make up the conclusion that "Wang Anshi uses power for personal gain".
Wang Anshi did not respond to this, and adopted a silent response.
Wang Anshi asked himself, did that kid have a fake tiger and borrow my reputation to do things? Maybe there is, but who cares, this is destined to be an unavoidable problem, they can't ask my old king to be an official and cut off children and grandchildren at the same time. Nor can it be required that anyone who has a family member cannot be an official.
Zhang Fangping also wrote a private letter to Lao Wang and said, don't care, Kou Zhun is just scared by them like this, don't don't want it, if you are serious, you will lose. It's all about it.
In fact, Zhang Fangping also thought too much, and he didn't need him to comfort Lao Wang. Wang Anshi is generally such a heartless person, and he doesn't care much about what everyone says.
So much so that in history, after Wang Anshi's changes entered the deep water area in the future, the rebound in the world was quite serious, almost to the point of being an official and making a living. It happened that the situation was not good, and Da Song encountered a natural disaster.
So it was still Ouyang Xiu who used the flood to talk about Di Qing, and the elites of the Great Song Dynasty at that time said that "I am constipated because of undemocracy, and the drought is because of Wang Anshi's change of law."
The emperor was not an idiot, but in view of the fact that such a voice was too loud and there were too many people who rebounded, the emperor also panicked and came to Wang Anshi to ask for advice.
Wang Anshi said heartlessly: It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, so let him go.
Wang Anshi means that disasters are caused by heaven and earth, and it is useless to think too much, and if you do people's things well, they will always pass.
There's nothing wrong with that. But because of Wang Anshi's "lazy explanation and calmness", it became one of his crimes, that is, he had no sympathy, no humanity, and no concern for the society.
Of course, even so, Wang Anshi did not fall out of favor, and the emperor still protected him. The emperor is just annoyed that he is too "realistic", and it is not that he can't write good articles, so why would you follow those elite conservatives to cry bitterly and write an article sympathetic to the world, and pretend to cry with everyone?
However, Wang Anshi said that he didn't have the energy to write articles and pretend to be forced. Reluctant to act in this way, just as he now does not respond to Sima Guang's out-of-context quotes.
So at that historical moment, in the face of the stubbornness of the reluctant prime minister, and in the face of the conservatives' forced palace, the emperor cried.
I really cried, and at the time of the natural disaster, a painter with a surprised skeleton drew a picture of a "thousand miles of starvation" to the emperor, saying that it was a scene outside the city of Tokyo. There is a picture and the truth, and the emperor who is hardworking and thrifty cried when he saw it.
The painter was a student of Wang Anshi, and the student said, "Repeal the new law, and the drought will pass."
The emperor was stunned for a moment, and took the picture to ask Wang Anshi, "Is the scene in the painting real?"
Wang Anshi said "Yes" after reading it.
The emperor asked, "It was your student who drew the picture, is he a traitor?"
Wang Anshi said, "He is my student and a good person."
The emperor was confused, "Your student said that you should be dismissed, the new law should be abolished, and the natural disaster would pass, is he right?"
Wang Anshi replied: "What he said is not right. He starved to death because of natural disasters, and he was constipated because he ate too little coarse grains. In the natural disaster and his constipation incident, my old king is only related, not causal."
Khan, this is the answer of the Great Demon King's dry and shriveled answer. It's not that he doesn't know rhetoric, but that's how he answered the emperor.
Lao Wang, he basically paraphrased the saying "a strong life does not need to be explained".
Unfortunately, in the end, the emperor couldn't withstand the pressure, and after Wang Anshi dismissed the prime minister, he was told by the student that it was indeed raining and the disaster had passed.
Maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe it's a real historical inventor playing with words to play on the time difference.
This is very easy to do in literature, assuming that it rains two days after the resignation of the prime minister, it will be recorded as "two days", and if it rains for a long time, it can be recorded as "it rained after Wang Anshi's resignation".
There's nothing wrong with that, it's a rigorous textual expression, it's just a lack of detail. It is the same as the current Sima Guang writing Wang Yan.
One thing that remains unchanged is that in the ancient times of feudal superstition, the sky was not a big demon king. After encountering this, he is destined to be demonized, unless Wang Anshi goes against the sky to break the four old superstitions, otherwise the bureaucrats in the world will render it, and in ancient times when the people's wisdom was not opened, the people really did not believe in Wang Anshi.
This is not superstition but politics.
So let's not talk about the future, that is, Sima Guang is writing articles in the capital, and Wang Anshi is not responding. Shuzhou also began to discuss, the old routine, almost the entire Huaixi officials intentionally or unintentionally in the state school, county school, and private academies, admired everyone's Sima Guang's article, and then exaggerated.
The people driving this process are complex. Some are Sima Guang's descendants, Sima Guang is everyone after all, of course he has descendants and fans.
Some guys are not fans of Sima Guang, but because Nong Zhigao raised troops, Wang Anshi "confiscated" the performance awards of Huaixi officials, so they praised this when they encountered anti-Wang Anshi's articles.
There is also a small group of "people who do not know the truth" who really believe in Sima Guang's words......
Wang Anshi doesn't like to pretend to be forced and has no time to write an article to respond to Sima Guang. But unfortunately, Lao Wang has a very obscene and vengeful son.
So Xiao Lao Wang recently wrote a novel called "Sima Cylinder and Iron Head Light".
is a proper title party, but the content is quite YY, and it is a brain hole that the Song people have never thought of.
This novel uses a jar as a pig's foot. Quite funny.
The cylinder is called Sima Cylinder, and the villain in the novel is called Tietou Guang. Like spears and shields, but also like cats and mice. The general setting shows that Tie Touguang's mission is to smash Sima Jar. The iron head was just waiting for an opportunity.
The character of the iron head light is: I want to hit my head with my head when I see anything. There's no reason for it, because he's head-ironed. So this is Xiaobaiwen, and if it is set, some people will believe it.
In fact, in the era when the people's wisdom was opened in later generations, Xiaobai was also a group with a lot of cuteness, let alone ancient times.
In addition, Wang Yan applied a large number of tomato Chendong's YY techniques, so once the article was serialized, even Wang Yan himself was confused. In the end, it is circulating, waiting for updates everywhere.
"Hurry up and update!"
"This article is so joyful."
"What's going on, why did you stop updating?"
"yes, I'm in a hurry, I just saw the bones, why is it gone?"
"I haven't seen it yet, but I'll support it."
"Support plus one."
The soy sauce crowd was discussing unconsciously, while waiting for the update of this novel that suddenly became popular.