Su Shi is the first generation of famous ministers who started with talent, and grew up in the Shuchuan landscape, and his mind is not a traditional officialdom animal. At the beginning, he was briefly confused, when he first entered the officialdom, he appointed himself as a scholar, regarded the life and death of the people at the bottom as worthless, and openly claimed that the existence of the lower class was to ensure the happiness of the life of the scholars, a typical nouveau riche face.

When he himself was unlucky, he was relegated to Huangzhou after the Wutai poetry case, and after cultivating the sloping land in the east of the city, his soul returned to his roots, and Shushan Lingxiu was agitated, and the two most chic and uninhibited and talented writers - Li Bai and Su Shi were born there, which is not accidental. Their paths are more in the same place.

Su Shi is such a person, he can forget his officialdom experience, and what he can't forget is his poetry and songs, he is China's first genius since the fifth generation of the Tang Dynasty. Since the Song Dynasty, the Chinese literati have been like the sand of the Ganges, incalculable, but no one can surpass him.

The ordeal of a lifetime seems to be an inspiration given to him by God. Without those feelings, how can they be transformed into those good sentences?

Su Shi's talent can be said to have transcended suffering, and in the midst of suffering and pain, he actually became more and more glamorous. This point has never been seen in the history of Chinese civilization, even if it has always been dwarfed by Li Bai and Du Fu, who are considered to be superior to Su Shi in terms of talent and achievements.

Li Bai is elegant and majestic, difficult to deify, and extremely talented, but the mountains and wilderness are too strong, he is prodigal when he is happy, he sings and cries when he is frustrated, his mood fluctuates too much, and he is completely affected by the outside world; Although Du Fu is worried about the country and the people, and has a sincere heart, it is a pity that he is too worried, and the article will inevitably be stained with a gloomy atmosphere.

Only Su Shi, no matter what the circumstances, has a blooming orchid in his heart. There is a Maolan tree in the heart, and it is not bound by the world. This kind of calm beauty, no matter how much torture, can still bloom peacefully.

Zhao Heng knows that Sun Hui hopes that whether he is an emperor or an ordinary person, he can be like Su Shi, facing the predicament, even the predicament of death, not swearing, not depressed, not remorseful, still keep smiling, keep the lively and flexible light in the depths of his soul, don't let it be gloomy, don't let it be violent, this is a different kind of pride - let the beautiful forever beautiful, and the rain in the sky will never lose its original cleanliness because it falls into the quagmire on the ground!

Jia seems to be not Wang Anshi, and he doesn't want to and won't repeat Wang Anshi's mistakes, but he, Zhao Heng, doesn't do "I'm so lonely!" "Emperor Shenzong!

With the four years of Yuanfeng as the watershed, before that, Emperor Shenzong was almost full of work, and he had to work in the court every day, and he never got sick. But Yuanfeng attacked Western Xia in four years and five roads, won first and then lost, and the whole country schemed, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, and Emperor Shenzong fell ill all of a sudden. He was very sick, but he was young, and soon his body began to recover and he was able to work again. It's just that not long after, another bad news came - the fall of Yongle City.

The blow was fatal, and in just one night, Emperor Shenzong's health collapsed. He "wept early in the court, and the ruler did not dare to look up; weeping and grief, and not eating". He was a person who was too heavy on his mind and too demanding of himself, and he couldn't dilute the shadow of defeat no matter what, and he was depressed for the next three or four years.

Who would have thought that this would be the last three or four years of his life. The day of fate approached him, one day in September of the seventh year of Yuanfeng (1084 AD), he feasted the ministers in the Jiying Palace, and just raised his wine glass, suddenly the ministers found that the emperor's hand was stiff, and he stopped in the air, motionless. In the next moment, the wine glass tilted, and the wine inside spilled on the emperor's robe.

Emperor Shenzong lost his self-control over his body, and his condition deteriorated again. In pain, he sighed and said, "I'm so lonely! ”

The emperor did this, was it a success or a failure, a respectability or a pitiful?

At this time, he was only 37 years old, and he was at the stage when a man was at his most energetic and physically strong, with the best doctors and the best medicine in the country to recuperate, why did he slip to death?

There is only one reason. He was torturing himself and would never forgive himself no matter what. This is how he got sick and how he died. During his serious illness, he received news that the situation in Western Xia was violently turbulent, and the leaders of the Liang clique, who held real power, had died. First the Minister of State Liang Yi was buried, and then the Empress Dowager Liang. The little emperor Li Bingchang returned to power, but the power of the country fell into the hands of the son of the next Liang minister, Liang Yi.

A new round of civil strife is destined to erupt, and the chances are even better than this one. Is there just ambition left? Even if there were, would we still be able to bear the casualties of millions of people to restore the country and regain the prestige of the country? Even if he goes on another expedition, who else can support and understand......

Optimistic people see light in the dark, and pessimistic people see the sun as flares. Emperor Shenzong went more and more narrowly in his thoughts, and finally at the end of the year, he was terminally ill, he couldn't even speak, and if the ministers had any opinions, he could only shake his head or nod his head to sign. In his last days, he only had time to ornate a crown prince to the country.

Song Shenzong died, and he took an era with him. Accurately analyzed, except for the weakened Xinfa group, almost everyone was looking forward to his death, whether it was his biological mother or his relatives, except for his ignorant son, waiting for him to take his last breath, so that the Song Dynasty could be turned upside down again.

"I'm so lonely!"

Shenzong has long had such an awareness and made some preparations, but unfortunately the world is ruthless, behind him, his relatives and courtiers not only ruined his deeds, but even his reputation dared to tamper with it wantonly.

Officially, he is always positioned as a loser. Together with Wang Anshi's changes and Xining's changes, they all ended in failure.

But what does success look like? What does it mean to be a failure?

Xining's change was to cross the river by feeling the stones, and in practice, some details were proved to be wrong, and Emperor Shenzong removed them in time. Is this considered a failure? Only if each item brings a lot of profits, and there is no miscalculation, is it a success?

Why don't you mention the glorious victories such as the great victory of the Xihe River, the pacification of Jinghu, and the conquest of Jiaozhi? The sufficiency of the state treasury, the reduction of officials, and the rationalization of positions, why are these unprecedented good things not mentioned?

Judging from the most important reforms of Qingmiao, Baojia, Junyi, Shiyi, and Water Conservancy, it is Haoqiang who is attacked, and it is the country and the small people who benefit, but for some people, these are secondary, and their positioning standard is that the Song Dynasty almost perished, and was almost wiped out by foreigners, which happened not long after the Xining Reform. Therefore, the reform was a failure, Emperor Shenzong was a failure, and Wang Anshi was even more a failure.