The more the next year, the politics will be harmonious, and all kinds of waste will be prosperous.

The reason why I said this sentence is because Fang Zhongyong is very satisfied with the results of his administration, and even more so because Fan Zhongyan, a generation of "perfect people", has returned to Beijing.

When the teacher talked about the famous sentence in Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower", "The worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world", Fang Zhongyong and a group of classmates just remembered how to translate this sentence into modern Chinese.

As for what kind of person Fan Wenzheng Gong is and what deeds he has done to benefit the country and the people, does it matter? Will I take the exam?

So much so that when the teacher said, "Fan Zhongyan is such a person", Fang Zhongyong and his classmates laughed very unkindly.

Teacher, don't talk about calves. Such a person has no flaws in his private morality, is good at governing in ability, can control water, is proficient in military affairs, and can write good poetry, and can be a well-known all-rounder when he is the president of a university. You just say that he is Superman who wears his underwear outside. He also swore that according to historical records, everyone at the time called him "perfect".

Perfect people are fake, teacher, you are playing is real, right?

I didn't think about it, but after the soul was pierced, I inquired, the people of the Yuan Dynasty who cultivated the history of the Song Dynasty really didn't break it blindly, and this Fan Wenzhenggong was really powerful. (I don't cry, I don't have the benefit of getting a penny from him, so I can brag about a courtier of the former dynasty!) ）

To say that this Fan Zhongyan is barely an official N generation, the ancestors were also once wide. It's just that in his father's generation, he can only be a petty official equivalent to a municipal secretary.

It is said that if Heaven wants to give a great task to someone, he must cause some trouble. For example, the loss of a father, the loss of a mother, or even the loss of both parents, there are some meanings that have to be done without difficulty and create difficulties. Such as Bao Zheng, father mourned; Such as Yang Cha, his father was mourned; is like Fan Zhongyan, whose father died early.

When he was two years old, Fan Zhongyan's father Fan Yong died of illness, and his mother Xie Shi helped his father's coffin back to his hometown in Wu County. The secretary is a petty official from the eighth grade, Fan Yong is an official and incorruptible, he has not accumulated any money, and the lonely widow mother immediately fell into the dilemma of having no life.

The wife of Zhu Wenhan, the magistrate of Pingjiang Prefecture, was newly mourned, and after being matched, Xie remarried his two-year-old son who only knew how to pee and mud all day long. Fan Zhongyan's child became a drag oil bottle that people hated dogs, and took a new name, Zhu said (Tongyue, it's not a pig saying something like a curse.) ）

Soon after, Zhu Wenhan was transferred to Beijing to take up a post, and sent his mother and son back to his hometown of Changshan County, Zizhou (now Zouping, Shandong) to live. The Zhu family has many brothers and sisters, and the family is not well-off. Tse wanted his son to make money to support the family as soon as possible, so he arranged for him to work as an apprentice in a shop. But after only a month of work, Zhu Shuo fired the boss's squid, fled home, and begged his mother to let him continue to go to school.

When Zhu Wenhan found out, he not only did not blame, but praised him for his lofty ambitions and supported him to continue studying in a local private school.

Zhu said that he lived in his new home and lived in a state of confusion for more than ten years.

Until one day, his cheap brother went out and did some unhealthy activities such as gambling money, drinking flower wine, etc. Fan Zhongyan, who has always been diligent and thrifty, persuaded and explained that Daddy's money is not easy to come by, and brother, you need to save some flowers.

I have long seen this cheap brother who opens his mouth all day long and says that he is not pleasing to the eye, and the cheap brother who hurts people will come with his mouth open, I will spend my Zhu family's money, what do you have to do with an outsider?

Fan Zhongyan was like five thunderbolts, asking his mother to know his life experience.

If you follow the routines of martial arts and fantasy, at this time, Fan Zhongyan should be knocked off the cliff by the villain, be awarded peerless magic skills, burst out of top equipment, fight monsters and upgrade all the way, and finally shatter the void.

It's a pity that life is life, even if it is a person like Fan Zhongyan who has the halo of the protagonist, he has to eat and dress, and he must be taught by a teacher.

Anyone who has ever been a teacher knows that smart children are not scary, because smart people tend to be lazy; A diligent child is not terrible, he can only learn step by step, and cannot "learn from one example". The most terrible thing is that he is both smart and hardworking, and he will quickly hollow out your knowledge, so that you will soon feel that if you try to teach him again, you will be misleading.

Soon, the teacher couldn't stand it anymore and recommended Fan Zhongyan to study with a high monk Huitong.

Master Huitong has profound Dharma and profound knowledge.

Zhu said that he listened to Master Huitong's lectures on "Book of Changes", "Zuo Chuan", "Warring States Policy", "Historical Records" and poems and songs, and his studies became more and more sophisticated. A year after entering the mountain, he participated in the imperial examination and was promoted as a pedant, which means a person who is proficient in the five classics of "Yi", "Poem", "Book", "Li" and "Spring and Autumn", and Zhu Shuo has since become famous.

Three years later, the monk also felt that his body was hollowed out, so he fooled Zhu and said that if he wanted to go further, he had to go out of Changshan and go to a higher and farther world.

So, Zhu Shuo went to the Nandu Library, one of the four famous schools of the Great Song Dynasty in Yingtianfu, and joined the Great Confucian Qi Tongwen Sect, and there was an allusion to "Broken Tooth Painting Porridge".

In the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1015), Zhu said that he was about to go to Beijing to participate in the provincial examination, and whether he could become a protégé of the Son of Heaven depended on this "move". It was inevitable that I was apprehensive, so I went to the ancestral hall first to ask for a signature.

The first sign asked him if he could not be the prime minister, and the verdict read: No!

I drew another lot and asked if I could be a doctor?

The brother next to him felt strange and asked, "A manly man, it is understandable that he aspires to be the prime minister; But in the blink of an eye, I want to be a doctor, this contrast is a bit bigger, right? ”

Zhu replied: "The person who can best work for the well-being of the people of the world is to be the prime minister; Since you can't be the prime minister, you can be a good doctor, you can treat the king and your parents, you can treat the people of the world, and you can teach people to take care of themselves. Is there anything better than being a doctor to be at the bottom and be able to relieve the suffering of the people? ”

However, the verdict of this signature is still not.

Zhu said that he threw the lottery on the ground and sighed: "I can't do both, how can I realize my life's ambition?" ”

Of course, Zhu said that he would not take this kind of feudal superstition seriously. It's time to read books, it's time to take exams. In the provincial examination that year, Zhu Shuo ranked 97th in the second department, achieved a gorgeous turn, and became a scholar of Hanru, and became a protégé of the Son of Heaven. He was appointed as the manager of the Guangde Army to join the army, and his official residence was nine grades. Although the level is not high, after all, after all, he eats imperial food and takes money, and he has a basic living guarantee.

He made some arrangements for government affairs, and then went back to Changshan to visit the Zhu clansmen and expressed his gratitude to them for raising and taking care of him. Because his stepfather Zhu Wenhan had died a few years ago, he took his mother to Jiangning Mansion and raised him by himself.

Two years later, Zhu said that he was honest and upright in prison, and was promoted to Wen Linlang from the eighth grade, and served as the official of Jiqing Military Festival. After consulting with his mother, he wrote to the imperial court and officially returned to his family name, which can be regarded as restoring Fan Zhongyan's name.

In the fifth year of Tiansheng, Fan Zhongyan mourned for his mother and lived in Yingtianfu, Nanjing. Shi Yanshu stayed in Nanjing and knew that he should be in Tianfu, and when he heard that Fan Zhongyan was famous, he invited him to serve in the school and take charge of the teaching chair of Yingtian Academy.

In the seventh year of Tiansheng, Fan Zhongyan, who was the head of the secret pavilion at the time, advised Renzong to give up the matter of leading hundreds of officials to worship the queen mother on the winter solstice. There was no reply, and then Fan Zhongyan directly went to the Empress Dowager Liu and asked for the return of Zhengrenzong. The book entered the palace and sank into the sea again.

Yan Shu was shocked when he learned that Fan Zhong was drowning in the sky, and criticized him for being too rash, which not only hindered his career, but also affected the people who recommended him. Fan Zhongyan argued on the basis of reason, and wrote back a long letter "Shangzhi Yan Shilang Shu", detailing the reasons for his actions and affirming his political position: "Serving the emperor is dangerous and dangerous, and he will never be inferior to words and deeds, flattery, and will be beneficial to the society of the imperial court. "I taught Yan Shu, who has the grace to support him, a good lesson.

Yan Shu took a look, you are a white-eyed wolf, if it weren't for the support of this official, you wouldn't know where to be a layman in a poor country? What's the matter, this reputation has risen, and you can't even listen to my kind words? Yes, you can be honest and straightforward, if you want to kill yourself, go ahead! We will not accompany you!

It is said that this matter should end here, and when this upright old man talked to his friends in private about saving Yan's face in politics, he also said that he and Yan Shu were just ordinary superiors and subordinates, and had no personal relationship. Since then, the two have been strangers. However, Fang Zhongyong's brother-in-law Fu Bi admires Fan Zhongyan's personality very much, and has a very good relationship with him. ——Thanks to the Song Dynasty literati for their messy notes, which give us a comprehensive and true understanding of the history of that time.

In the second year of Ming Dao, Empress Dowager Liu died, and Renzong was in charge of the government, and Fan Zhong was summoned to Beijing to worship as the right secretary. When the ministers talked a lot about the failure of the Empress Dowager when the curtain was lowered, Fan Zhongyan thought that although the Empress Dowager had been in power for many years, she also had the merit of preserving Renzong, and suggested that the court cover up the Empress Dowager's mistakes and fulfill her virtues. Renzong adopted it and ordered that no discussion of the Empress Dowager should be made inside and outside the court.

In July and July, there was a severe drought in the world, and the locust plague spread, especially in the Jianghuai and Jingdong areas. In order to calm the people's hearts, Fan Zhongyan asked the imperial court to send someone to inspect the disaster, but Renzong ignored it. Fan Zhongyan asked Zhao Zhen: "If you stop eating in the palace for half a day, what should Your Majesty do?" Zhao Zhen suddenly woke up and sent Fan Zhongyan to appease the victims. Fan Zhongyan responded to the edict for disaster relief, opened a warehouse to help the people, and brought the weeds that the victims were hungry to the imperial court to warn the nobles of the six palaces to quit the wind of arrogance. Zhao Zhen thought he was loyal.

If this plot continues to develop, Fan Zhongyan will really be able to become the prime minister soon, showing his ambition to work for the well-being of the people of the world.

However, the criterion for distinguishing whether an official is a politician or a politician is that he or she does something from the perspective of personal interests or the interests of the public. Zhao Zhen, whose mother had just died, wanted to change his wife, but Fan Zhongyan, who was outspoken, was fueled by Prime Minister Lu Yijian, and was soon demoted out of Beijing and out of Zhimuzhou (near Chun'an, Hangzhou).

As the saying goes, gold always shines, and sho always stinks. Fan Zhongyan's piece of gold is like a searchlight in the dark night everywhere, and the light cannot be hidden.

In the first year of Jingyou, Fan Zhongyan was transferred to the governor of Suzhou, where he lived in the South Garden, and built a county school. When a flood occurred in Suzhou, Fan Zhongyan summoned the people to dredge five river canals, build water conservancy, and divert the water of Taihu Lake to flow into the sea.

In the following year, Fan Zhongyan was transferred back to Beijing to be sentenced to the national prison because of his meritorious work in controlling the water, and was soon promoted to a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the right to know Kaifeng Mansion.