Su Shi's answer was that Wang Anshi had a poem: "The people in the world are waiting for the rain, and they don't know where the dragon is going." "The dragon in my poem is this dragon...... The faces of Li Ding and the others turned black all of a sudden. Pan, which refers to a bent and winding, very aggrieved state, is also not a good word for dragons.

On that day, Su Shi proudly shook back to the single cell, and the old man of the imperial history froze in the interrogation room and gasped collectively. This scene is indeed very good, very uncommon, but after a while, the faces of the imperial historians all eased, and a sinister and vicious smile surfaced.

You are ruthless during the day, and you will see who is ruthless at night.

At night, in the dead of night, the detainees in the Wutai compound suddenly woke up collectively, all trembling with fear. They heard the cries of ghosts and wolves, and if they listened carefully, they could tell that the person who cried out in pain had a strong Sichuan accent.

That's right, Su Shi was hacked, staged the Song Dynasty version of "Prison Storm", and was beaten in turn in the dark night. After that, Su Shi's physical condition deteriorated sharply. Before he was imprisoned, he was very healthy, and after he was released from prison, Su Shi suffered from leg sores and hemorrhoids, epidemic infectious diseases, cough, swollen arms, red eyes and other diseases. And he was only imprisoned for more than two months, and if it really had the Song Dynasty's traditional kind treatment of scholars, he would not have been able to get to this step anyway.

In fact, he was able to survive because of the blessing of Wang Anshi, whom he had always opposed.

After Su Shi was imprisoned, celebrities from all walks of life, such as Su Zhe, Wang Yaqing, Wang Gong, Zhang Dian and others, came to the rescue. These people do not have high official positions, but they are all celebrities with great influence. They asked for Su Shi's life, and they were willing to use their official positions and net worth to vouch; There are also some old ministers such as Sima Guang, Zhang Fangping, Li Qingchen, Fan Zhen, Chen Xiang, Liu Chu, Li Chang, Sun Jue and others have also made suggestions to Emperor Shenzong, these people have a huge influence and can often influence the emperor's will. It's a pity that he didn't get to the point, like Zhang Fangping, he almost helped Su Shi to death. Zhang Fangping said in a letter to Emperor Shenzong that Su Shi was a genius in the world and must not be killed. This is completely a disservice, adding fuel to the fire and forcing Emperor Shenzong to use his knife.

The one who can really break through the heavens and understand the psychology of Emperor Shenzong in one sentence is Wang Anshi, who is famous all over the world and slanders all over the world. He was far away in the secluded barren mountains of Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River, and sent a message to Emperor Shenzong to save Su Shi's life.

Wang Anshi was not the prime minister for many years at this time, and people in Jinling often saw an old man in simple clothes and taciturn riding a donkey, never caring which way the donkey went.

Wang Anshi is like a believer who has fulfilled all his wishes, sacrificed his promising years to the country, and then wandered in the world without desire or desire. In fact, he interceded for Su Shi this time, which was the only time he participated in national affairs after his retirement.

He said to Emperor Shenzong: "An has a holy world and kills talented people? ”

The starting point of this sentence is entirely for the emperor's consideration. Emperor Shenzong has a high heart and attaches great importance to the reputation of future generations, if he really kills Su Shi, how will future generations evaluate it? Is it still a peaceful and prosperous era?

More than two months later, Su Shi was released from prison, and he was demoted to Huangzhou (Huanggang, Hubei) as a deputy envoy for regimental training, and was not allowed to leave the country without authorization, and was not allowed to participate in any official business.

Su Shi lived, and when he walked out of prison, he swore: "I am tired of writing all my life, and I will not get tired of being famous." From then on, he never wrote poetry again, nor did he belong to literature, nor sang or responded to other literati.

His purpose was only one, to reassure his frightened relatives and friends, and to live a stable and peaceful life from now on.

After coming to Huangzhou, life showed Su Shi another side. Before that, he was taken care of by his parents when he was in his hometown of Meishan; After entering Beijing, he became famous all over the world, and there was a literary master like Ouyang Xiu who covered him; opposed Wang Anshi when he opposed the change, and there was Sima Guang and other powerful ministers behind him; Even if he was demoted to Hangzhou, Mizhou, and Huzhou, his official became bigger and bigger, and he changed from a general judge to a governor.

However, after the Wutaishi case, he became a criminal serving his sentence outside prison, and was completely deprived of all political rights except for a salary, and because he offended the emperor, he could not talk about any future.

Even how to fill your stomach has become a problem. The first thing that went wrong was wages. The salaries of the officials in the Northern Song Dynasty were not all hard currencies such as copper money, cloth, and grain, which were only enjoyed by the top tycoons in the capital.

For example, at this time, Su Shi's salary was replaced by the bags used by the government to make wine, and he had to sell it himself after receiving it every month, so that he could go to the market to buy rice and noodles and go home to live.

The dignified Bachelor Su became a small trader, how humiliating he was. But the bigger trouble was still to come, and soon this meager salary was not enough to feed Su Shi's populous family, he had a wife, a concubine, four sons, four daughters-in-law, and several grandsons, and a few servants, all of whom depended on him for food, and so many mouths relied on those old wine bags, and he would soon starve to death.

In the predicament, Su Shi made a way of life that he would not have chosen before he died, and a friend of his surnamed Ma applied for a piece of wasteland in the east of the city for him, about 50 acres, which was cultivated by Su Shi himself.

What is this, this is a peasant, recalling that in the past, when he opposed the "law of exemption from military service", he said that "servants must not do without villagers", although he was different from a pure peasant at this time, but after all, he had to do the same work. This is retribution and a blessing from God, which allows Su Shi to experience first-hand the pain of the class he despised in the past.

And he doesn't feel pain at this time, as long as he can live peacefully, it is enough to make him satisfied.

From this time on, he cultivated wasteland, cultivated crops, and was content to be happier that he was a farmer, so he named the eastern slope of the city "Dongpo" and renamed himself after these two words.

His name is Su Dongpo, and the great genius of the Chinese nation who has been ranked among the top five in the literary genius for thousands of years is lying in the long wind and lush grass, lying on the infinitely wide and thick earth, completely free from the shackles of fame and fortune, and his heart has been raised to another new level.

In the third year of Huangzhou, Su Shi was moved and wrote a few lines: "Since I came to Huangzhou, I have passed three cold foods." I want to cherish spring every year, and I can't regret spring to go. This year, it rained bitterly, and the autumn was bleak in February. Lying and smelling begonia flowers, mud swallow branch snow. Secretly stealing it, the middle of the night is really powerful. He is a sick young man, and he must have been ...... since he got sick."

This is the third line of the book "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" after Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Yan Zhenqing's "Manuscript for the Sacrifice of Nephews" in the Tang Dynasty.

After learning all this, the emperor understood Sun Hui's good intentions for giving him "Huangzhou Cold Food Post".