Chapter 0779 The Poet and the Official

Xiao Xian'er completely knows that Su Shi and his person, no matter how good his poems are, no matter how he may be promoted in the future, everything, compared with Wang Mumu, the resources he masters, the quality of life, the future of life, the prospect of mining, his character and official character, age and appearance, etc., are very different. Therefore, I will never go to the near and far, give up the good and the inferior, I must hug Wang Mumu's thigh, no regrets, and never change. Xiao Xian'er thought, this Su Shi, now, has no use value for me, this Yelu Suti and Zhao Fu and other dead soldiers don't matter to me, I'm begging, there are only two rings, and I won't need you dead soldiers in the future. In the past, I used you just to express that I have strength and don't want to hurt Wang Mumu, so Yelu Suti and Zhao Fu, I'm sorry, I'm going to abandon you.

Xiao Xian'er found Wang Mumu and said that there was something important, so she told Wang Mumu that she estimated that Yelu Suti, Zhao Fu and others were going to intercept He Zhengchen and hurt He Zhengchen. As Xiao Xian'er expected, Wang Mumu was surprised, and bowed to Xiao Xian'er, saying that he thanked Xiao Xian'er on behalf of He Zhengchen, the imperial court, and the people of Jinguo.

After hearing the news, Wang Mumu immediately called the Harvard student soldiers of the Hangzhou Institute of Technology and the Harvard student soldiers of Hujiazhuang in Yangzhou, asking them to attack separately, one to Hongzhou in the southwest and the other to Bianjing in the north, to stop the killings, crack down on crime, uphold justice, and escort them.

After arranging He Zhengchen's affairs, Wang Mumu was very emotional, and chatted with Wanyan Taoping about Su Shi and Su Dongpo again.

Wang Mumu said: "Girl, in fact, in my previous life, I also admired Su Shi, his poetry is really good. People say that there are three major poets in China, Qu Yuan, Li Bai, and Su Shi. Qu Yuan's things are too ancient, not to mention him, and I like Li Bai and Su Shi's things very much, but as soon as I came to the Song Dynasty, I came into contact with this Su beard, hehe, beard, don't you Jurchens call robbers bearded? This Su Shi is really not an ordinary literati, not a simple poet, he is very willful, willful and arrogant; He is also very indulgent, and his indulgence seems to be romantic, but in fact he is quite a scoundrel and has a black belly. Alas, I don't want to, how could I have thought that after thousands of years, I actually got on the bar with Su Shi, the great literary hero that the Chinese have always admired? ”

Wanyan Taoping rolled her eyes and said: "Daddy, I am studying archaeology, a corpse is dug up, a character appears, how to look at it, how to evaluate, of course, the score is secondary." You said Qu Yuan, Li Bai and Su Shi, these three people, Qu Yuan won't talk about them, let's compare Li Bai and Su Shi. Who is Li Bai? A poet! Li Bai wrote a large number of poems in his lifetime, and more than 1,000 poems have been handed down to later generations. In his political career, Li Bai was only in his later years (742 AD), because of the recommendation of the chaste Taoist Wu Yun, he was summoned to Chang'an to worship Hanlin, he became the emperor's literary attendant, which was the first time in his life to be an official, but it was only an honorary position, and he had no authority, let alone real management. Later, because he could not adapt to the officialdom environment, he was given money back after only two and a half years in Beijing, and left Beijing to start a roaming life of wandering all over the world. Therefore, looking at Li Bai, whether his life is good or bad, should be based on his poetry. He is a poet, his poetry is good, he is Li Bai, and he has nothing to do with officialdom.

On the contrary, Su Shi's life. Since his debut in the sixth year of Jiayou (1061), he should take the examination of the middle school system, and was awarded the Dali Appraisal and the judge of Fengxiang Mansion. After three years of filial piety, in the fourth year of Xining (1071), Su Shi was appointed as the general judge of Hangzhou; In the seventh year of Xining (1074), he served as the governor of Mizhou (Zhucheng, Shandong); In the tenth year of Xining (1077), he served as the governor of Xuzhou; In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), he served as the governor of Huzhou; In the same year, he was convicted and demoted to Huangzhou (Huanggang City, Hubei) as the deputy envoy of regimental training (equivalent to the deputy captain of the modern civilian Self-Defense Force); In the seventh year of Yuanfeng (1084), Su Shi left Huangzhou and went to Ruzhou to take office; In 1085, Su Shi was restored to the court of Lang Zhi Dengzhou (Penglai). Four months later, he was called back to the court. In the middle of the month, the rise of the House people, three months later, the promotion of the middle school scholars, and soon the promotion of the Hanlin Bachelor Zhi system, the Ministry of Rites tribute. In the fourth year of Yuanyou (1089), Su Shi served as the governor of Hangzhou; In the sixth year of Yuanyou (1091), Su Shi was recalled to the court, and in February of the seventh year of Yuanyou (1092), Su Shi was appointed as the Taishou of Yingzhou; In February of the seventh year of Yuan You (1092), he was appointed as the governor of Yangzhou; In September of the eighth year of Yuanyou (1093), he was appointed as the governor of Dingzhou. In the first year of Shaosheng (1094), Su Shi was the deputy envoy of the Ningyuan Army, and was once again demoted to Huiyang (now Huizhou City, Guangdong). In the fourth year of Shaosheng (1097), Su Shi, who was 62 years old, was sent to Danzhou (now Danxian County, Hainan), a desolate place on the border by a lonely boat. After Huizong ascended the throne, Su Shi was resettled in Lianzhou, deputy envoy of Shuzhou regimental training, and resettled in Yongzhou. In the third year of Yuan Fu (1101), he was amnesty, reinstated as Chao Fenglang, and died in Changzhou on July 28 (August 24, 1101) in the first year of Jianzhong Yasukuni on the way back to the north. In this way, compared with Li Su, Li Bai is a poet, and Su Shi is an "official". Therefore, to look at the quality of Li Bai, we should look at his poetry, and to look at the quality of Su Shi, we should look at his official character. Su Shi is a person who has been an official, seeking an official, and being an official all his life, so the mainstream of Su Shi is an official, not a poet. Looking at Su Shi's life, various titles are quite complicated, but in addition to the deputy positions and fictitious positions that cannot represent his wishes, that is, the four substantive positions of Huzhou Zhizhou, Hangzhou Zhizhou, Yangzhou Zhizhou, and Dingzhou Zhizhou. And when Su Shi was the boss in these four states, from the perspective of official character, he was very unqualified.

Su Shi was in office as the governor of Huzhou, and when he took office, it coincided with a long drought and no rain in Huzhou, and later a long period of rain and no sunshine. This Huzhou is a water town. Bilang Lake in the southern suburbs, lotus field hibiscus, Su Shi is tired of boating, never tired of traveling: "Thirty miles around the city, everywhere is excellent, Pu Lian is as vast as the sea, and when you see a boat, you can see a leaf." But I don't feel at ease about water conservancy: "It's not my job to defend the water as an embankment, and I send Tiaoxi into Taihu Lake." It means that he would rather sit and watch the river flow eastward than start a water conservancy project.

Su Shi was reluctant to engage in water conservancy, because it was a matter of labor and money, he took a shortcut, listened to the words of the Buddha seal god stick, for Huzhou's first drought and then flooding, he twice led his subordinates and people to the Yellow Dragon Cave at the foot of Benshan Mountain to worship the Yellow Dragon Manifestation. This kind of official, who does not believe in the leadership and the masses, also violates the Confucian principle of not believing in ghosts and gods, and is unwilling to do some practical things in a down-to-earth manner, but burns incense and worships the Buddha, and entrusts him with vain; Like Song Huizong, Bianjing was trapped, and instead of fighting, he went to burn incense. Fortunately, at this time, it was not Song Huizong who became bigger, so it didn't take long for him Su Shi to be arrested by the imperial court in Beijing.

During Su Shi's tenure in Hangzhou Zhizhou, his main political achievement, and the most boastful achievement in his life, was the dredging of the West Lake, but in fact, he did a lot of ridiculous things. These have been elaborated above, so I will not repeat them here.

Su Shi was in Yingzhou in 1092, only half a year, came and went in a hurry, and had no political achievements, which promoted the construction of Yingzhou West Lake, and of course could not forget Yingzhou Su Causeway. Half a year after Yingzhou, Su Shi knew Yangzhou. Su Shi has only been in Yangzhou for half a year, and Su Fan praised him for his short time in Yangzhou, but he worked hard to innovate and did several good things that won the hearts of the people, leaving history and culture in Yangzhou, and had a huge impact on the direction and development of Yangzhou's history and culture in the future. said that Su Shi asked for the people's life and was sad for the "arrears" of the peasants over the years.

Hehe, Su Shi, there is a way, the arrears over the years are the "arrears" of the previous officials, one, don't do my business; Second, use you to make trouble. As soon as Su Shi arrived in Yangzhou, he asked the imperial court to temporarily stop collecting debts, and wrote a book that "Remembering the Six Things of Arrears and Responding to the Four Things Discussed by the Beggar Inspection Committee in One Place". "Let the people who have been trapped for a long time know a little bit of the joy of being satisfied." After the pleadings were written, he was worried about the delay, so he immediately ordered his officials to march on the road immediately, day and night, and sent them to the capital. The plague began to spread in several states near Yangzhou. In some places, there are many deaths. Su Shi faced the reality, his mood became heavier and heavier, he ignored the possible political influence, and wrote again, he said: The minister visited western Zhejiang, the famine epidemic was great, Su Hu Xiu Sanzhou, more than half of the people died. There is no land, there is no grain, there is no grain, there is no seed, there is no seed, there is no cattle. In addition to death, people are ghosts. Su Shi's "Revisiting the Accumulation of Debts, Six Things and Four Things" exposed the miserable situation of peasant life at that time. It was not until July that the emperor's edict finally came: "All kinds of arrears, whether old or new, will be waived for one year." Su Shi's plea for the people's life finally succeeded. Although all kinds of arrears have not been waived, but the period has been relaxed for one year, the people can also take a breather. Su fans said that after the news spread in Yangzhou, the people rushed to tell each other and were overjoyed. Su Shi was also very excited, and there are poems as proof: private officials have no virtue, the years are beautiful, the edict is free of arrears, and the color of the father is good.

Here, according to the official character, Su Shi is really not a good official. From a micro point of view, don't think that exempting some people from "arrears" is doing good deeds, in fact, this is doing evil deeds! Many hard-working and hard-working middle-class peasant households without "arrears" did not benefit from Su Shi's policy of avoiding "arrears", but were ridiculed and ridiculed, and the virtue of hard work and resentment was hit. And the beneficiaries of this "arrears" have a new idea of eliminating the "arrears" and expect to continue to benefit, which breeds a large number of imbeciles and scoundrels who are lazy and lazy. From a macro point of view, the imperial court transferred you to know Yangzhou, just to let you handle Yangzhou's affairs well. It's good that you in turn stretched out your hand to the imperial court, asking for policies, money and grain, just like in Hangzhou, you did a dredging of the West Lake, and as a matter of course, you asked the imperial court for it. Will the court like this kind of person? Please note that Hangzhou and Yangzhou, at that time, were both land of fish and rice. The land of fish and rice has reached out, as soon as this demonstration effect is popularized, it is time to change the dynasty, will the emperor be comfortable? Therefore, in just half a year, Su Shi was transferred away again!

Before, in the imperial court, there was a rumor that Su Shi was in Hangzhou five or six miles away from Su Di lied to Huang Qingji, the supervisor of the imperial history for thirty miles, so he impeached Su Shi, saying that he: "Su Shi is talented and dangerous, regardless of righteousness, discerning between falsehood and falsehood, and being secluded and firm, so his name is enough to confuse the public, and his wisdom is enough to disguise wrong, and the so-called villain is a man and a gentleman's thief." ”

Let's talk about Huang Qingji, his word Jifu, also the word Shilun, the number Lingnan, and the people of Huangfang Village, Jinxi, Jiangxi. Huang Qingji and Wang Anshi's classmates, deep love, sometimes poetry singing and, Wang Anshi has a poem "Send Huang Jifu back to Jinxi", which is popular among the people, and has a great influence on Jinxi, the poem says: "Return home and smile that is Fangchen, so as to be the master of the famous mountain." Encounter the five lakes and invite the spring in the splendid valley. Wang Shi Anshi wanted to implement the new law, but Huang Qing had a different concept, so he repeatedly persuaded his good friend Wang Anshi to talk about it, and wept. Therefore, Huang Qingji is a very upright person, regardless of his political position, he does not show favoritism, does not commit fraud, has a good character, good official character, and is selfless.

Dad, I think that this Huang Yushi's words are very pertinent, Su Shi and his people are indeed hypocritical, indeed secluded, and indeed rich and wise, so he can often confuse the public, often be able to decorate wrong, and steal the position as a villain and act like a decent gentleman. Therefore, after the imperial court had a certain understanding of Su Shi, it did not let him go to Yuezhou (Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) as he wished, but let him go to Dingzhou. Dingzhou in 1093 was a veritable frontier of the Northern Song Dynasty, and its area was much larger than that of the current Dingzhou City; Dingzhou Road governs Dingzhou, Baozhou, Shenzhou, Qizhou, Yongning Army, Shun'an Army, Ansu Army, Guangxin Army, and the geographical scope is equivalent to most of Baoding and Shijiazhuang and Hengshui today. It's a chaotic land, a vicious land, a barren land.

Su Shi didn't want to go to the dangerous and scary Dingzhou, and he boldly asked to go to Yuezhou for the second time, but after no result, Su Shi was determined and stopped working hard, but he pretended to be stupid and still stayed in Beijing (hehe, is this a glorious image of worrying about the country and the people, and for the country and the people?). )。 Su Shi later went to Dingzhou, but he was driven away by the pro-government Zhao Xu's edict, so Su Shi, not to mention official character, even basic character is also a problem.

When I arrived in Dingzhou, it was already the golden autumn of October. At that time, Su Shi had several real and virtual titles, Duanming Hall Bachelor and Hanlin Attendant Bachelor, Zuo Chao Fenglang, Dingzhou Road Pacification Envoy and Ma Bujun Commander, Zhidingzhou Military Prefecture and the management of agricultural affairs, light car captain, give purple gold fish bag, in short, the military and political power of Dingzhou was in his hands for a while. Su Shi went to Dingzhou, the situation is not optimistic, natural disasters have almost made a year's harvest here almost nothing, and the worse reality is that "the country has not been cured for a long time, the military and government are particularly relaxed, the military guards are arrogant and lazy, and the military academy eats away at their gifts", corruption has become a trend, drinking and Bo have become habits, and the officials have been abolished for a long time...... The people are all looking at it, this is not easy to be the leader.

What should Su Shi do? After being lazy for a while, Su Shi acted, in October, he "begged to reduce the degree to repair the barracks of the forbidden army in Dingzhou", and in November, he went to the "Begging to Increase and Repair the Bow and Arrow Society", and in the New Year, in the first month, he "begged to reduce the price of the Changchang square meter relief", in February, he "begged to reduce the weak rice loan and the household order to help the tenants", and in March, he "begged to reduce the degree to repair the Beiyue Temple"...... Hehe, Su Shi is such an official, he doesn't change the status quo, he doesn't think about reforming and changing the law, he doesn't work hard, he doesn't eradicate the malpractices, he has no practical actions, he has no work plan, he is old, he wants to reach out, he wants to do it, he wants policies, he wants money and food! So, no matter who you are the emperor, do you like to reach out to the state like this? In fact, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, in terms of ferocity, was really weaker than the Han and Tang dynasties and the Ming and Qing dynasties, and this kind of football-playing Zhizhou won the support of many Su fans, but it hurt the foundation of the country and fueled the inertia of the people. Therefore, then, Su Shi "dismissed the state" and belittled Yingzhou, which "has no diet and no medicine and stones", is really to blame for himself, and he can't blame others.

So, Dad, Su Shi, or Su Shi, this official, this official character is really bad. His literary talent has given him many opportunities; And his character and official character ruined his life. In these years, the party struggle in the Song court was like two roosters crowing, you are loud, I am higher, than the voice, earth-shattering, to win the audience; Later, it was upgraded to a cockfight, you are fierce, I hate it even more, fight for the audience, you live and die, throw your head and spill your blood. So, if, today, if Su Shi were standing in front of me, I would definitely scratch his nose and warn him, bearded, listen, if you are reincarnated in the second world, pay attention, please be careful of your party struggle, because it will affect your position; Be careful with your stance as it will affect your mind; Be careful with your thoughts as it will affect your behavior; Be careful with your behavior as it will affect your habits; Be careful with your habits as it will affect your character; Please be careful with your character as it will affect your destiny ......"