Chapter 1: A New Beginning
"It's all over!"
It's like a big sleep, a dream that you can't wake up no matter how you sleep. But this dream finally woke up, because suddenly one day, the boy found that everything around him had changed, and this change was drastic, which was a little difficult for him to accept!
He never imagined that after coming out of a small village, he would face such a vast world. He's done so much work that he's forgotten his age. Sometimes he deliberately hides his age, and sometimes he deliberately dresses himself up very young.
It's not easy to live in this world, there is no easy thing in the adult world, and before you know it, he's been in society for almost ten years.
Ten years, like a dream.
One afternoon, he walked into a bookstore and couldn't help but touch a copy of "Wang Anshi's Changes" in his hand. When he was a student, this famous figure appeared in junior high school history textbooks.
Zhao Ji, who ascended the throne at the age of 20, was young and promising, and Wang Anshi's reform was vigorous and resolute with his support, but the temple number he got after his death was the same as Wanli, which ignored the government for decades in the Ming Dynasty, and was a Shenzong that meant "unevaluable".
Now, he can only touch the temperature of history with his hands.
In the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, in 1074 AD, on March 26.
Outside Kaifeng, on the dusty road, exiled refugees flocked to the old and the young.
Of course, most of them have no expression on their faces, and there is almost no clothing on them to cover their bodies. Some people sell their sons and daughters just to pawn some goods, and even then, they can only get some bran and coarse grains to make ends meet. There was really no family to sell, so they went to eat grass roots and bark.
For these people, it is a matter of time before they starve to death if they have nothing to eat.
And all of the above is recorded in a picture. This picture is related to Wang Anshi.
There was an official named Zheng Xia, who showed the emperor the gate. He had a copy in his hand, but with his grade, it was almost impossible to meet the Son of Heaven.
Wang Anshi is Zheng Xia's teacher and Zheng Xia's benefactor. And at this moment, Zheng Xia's grade is very low, and he is not qualified to write to the emperor at all!
What he thinks of is himself, isn't he the same as Zheng Xia, even if he has more demands, what's the use?
Now he spends an entire afternoon in the bookstore, and he can spend an afternoon reading the book, if the bookstore owner doesn't kick him out.
He remembered a text he had once studied, "Eavesdropping", in which the little girl loves to read, but she has no money, so she can only use "eavesdropping" to acquire knowledge.
Now he felt very familiar with the little girl who was eavesdropping.
Three days ago, he lost his job again.
This is the tenth job he changed after graduating from college, the first job he did for a month, the second job for 17 days, the third job for less than two weeks, and from the fourth job he began to enter the ordinary job change.
He really didn't think about what he was going to do in the future, he never thought about it. So I never had any dreams in life.
Now the most precious thing left to him at home is just a small gourd that is not good-looking, a small gourd that does not look magical. But it's still a little gourd with some stories.
Although many stories are inextricably linked to this magical little gourd, there is still not much to say about this little gourd.
He, staying in the bookstore, seems to be just to pass the time, that's all. In order not to look too decadent, he felt that he had to find something to do, to find something to enrich himself.
Holding "Wang Anshi's Change" in his hand, he was a little fascinated by it, because he had nothing to do for a while, so he had a plan to study history.
Wang Anshi (December 18, 1021 - May 21, 1086), known as Jiefu, was a native of Linchuan, a famous thinker, politician, writer, and reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty.
In the second year of Qingli (1042), Wang Anshi Jinshi and the first. He has successively served as the judge of Yangzhou, the magistrate of Yinxian County, and the general judge of Shuzhou, and has made remarkable achievements. In the second year of Xining (1069), he served as the governor of the council, and the following year he visited the prime minister and presided over the law change. Due to the opposition of the old faction, Xining resigned in the seventh year (1074). A year later, Song Shenzong used it again, resigned and retired to Jiangning. In the first year of Yuanyou (1086), the conservatives gained power, the new laws were abolished, and he died of illness in Zhongshan and posthumously presented the Taifu. In the first year of Shaosheng (1094), he was given the title of "Wen", so he was called Wang Wengong.
Wang Anshi devoted himself to the study of scriptures, wrote books and lectures, and was known as "Confucianism", created "Jinggong New Learning", and promoted the formation of the Song Dynasty's doubtful scriptures and ancient learning style. Philosophically, he used the "Five Elements Theory" to explain the generation of the universe, enriching and developing the ancient Chinese thought of naïve materialism. His philosophical proposition "dividing the old with the new" pushed ancient Chinese dialectics to a new level.
In literature, Wang Anshi has outstanding achievements. His prose is concise and concise, short and concise, with clear arguments, rigorous logic, strong persuasiveness, giving full play to the practical function of ancient texts, and ranking among the "Eight Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties"; His poems "learn Du Deqi thin and hard", good at reasoning and rhetoric, in his later years, the poetry style is subtle and deep, deep and unhurried, with a rich and far-reaching style in the Northern Song Dynasty poetry circle of its own, known as "Wang Jing Gongti"; His lyrics and writings are nostalgic for the ancient, the artistic conception is vast and vast, and the image is distant and simple, creating a unique emotional world of scholars and literati. There are "Wang Linchuan Collection", "Linchuan Collection Collection" and so on.
The above are all records of Wang Anshi in historical books and later generations.
Compared with Wang Anshi, there is another person in his mind who has left a deeper impression on him, this is Sima Guang!
Sima Guang presided over the compilation of the first chronicle in Chinese history, Zizhi Tongjian.
But such a figure was always marginalized among the literati of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Now we are most familiar with the character of Sima Guang than the story of "Sima Guang smashing the cylinder".
What Sima Guang wants the world to know is not just the story of smashing the cylinder when he was a child, but the "Zizhi Tongjian" that he completed with 19 years of painstaking work.
Nowadays, there is no writer who wants to write the history before the Song Dynasty without referring to the "Zizhi Tongjian". There is no writer who wants to study the intrigues and intrigues of China's political circles throughout history who have not read this book.
These people can only find them in the rolling river now. More information about them has now turned into some broken pieces.
Looking outside, in the dim sky, staying inside the bookstore, it seems like this is the whole world...