But this time the result is even more unexpected, last time it was "Hundred Officials", this time it is the four principles, Lu Yijian's answer has four more words, "overstepping one's duties, recommending friends, and dividing the monarch and ministers" I will erase all those you said and refuse to answer! Because you are wrong to speak like this, you are now the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, not the right director of the Imperial Court, the court has rules, and you have been struck by lightning for talking nonsense!

Fan Zhongyan saw clearly, this is a political hooligan. Completely avoided answering the real evidence he presented, and used a 12-word official tone to cover up all these crimes? Think beautifully! No way! He picked up the pen again and continued to defend according to Lu Yijian's twelve words this time. I am right, the truth, even the truth, is on my side. Even if someone doesn't understand, I have to educate them to understand!

This is Fan Zhongyan's behavior and his thoughts. But now you are not in the classroom, but in officialdom! Is this where whoever is right will win?

However, it should be noted that Fan Zhongyan was not fighting alone at this time, he already had his strength. That is the source of his strength - the moral heart. The reason why Fan Wenzhenggong is famous is because he led a trend in the Great Song Dynasty - gentlemen.

But the question is, are the standards of "gentlemen" really absolutely correct? What is right and what is wrong, is there really an unchanging and eternal standard in this world? Can you really guarantee that you'll always be 100% right? If not, why should you demand from others, or even command others to obey?

I did what was right, so as long as you are different from me, then you are wrong. You are the villains. Is it good or bad for this world?

However, it should be emphasized that if the mentality of "gentlemen" and "villains" can continue without going out of shape, there may not be the so-called Southern Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty will always exist. It perished because it could not even adhere to such a standard, and the subsequent party struggles had nothing to do with right or wrong. It's only about spirit, it's only about grievances! Speaking of this, the author couldn't help but sigh in advance: Sima Guang, you old stubborn, old bastard!

Back at that time, let's take a look at who Fan Zhongyan's potential forces include: Li Hong, Wang Zhen, Yu Jing, Yin Zhu, Ouyang Xiu... They are all young people who are idle in literature, the common feature is that they are good at learning and highly educated, they come from all over the world, and the reason why they get together is that in addition to the national imperial examination system allowing them to pursue scores in the same examination room, the more important thing is poetry and articles. They get together. Every day, they are elegant and worried, and their lives are easy and sacred, until their leading brother Fan Zhongyan and the evil forces are in a fire. They couldn't sit still any longer, and only then did they have the "recommendation of friends" in Prime Minister Lu's 12-character reply

Friends, do you know that Lu Dao is these two words, and in the distance, it destroyed the Jiangshan Sheji of the Great Song Dynasty. Closer to the inside, you have abolished Fan Zhongyan directly.

So on May 9, 1036, Kyoyu 3. Fan Zhongyan was deprived of all official positions in the capital, dismissed his Tianzhang Pavilion and the right to know Kaifeng Mansion, and demoted Raozhou as a magistrate.

And these well-known young people took the initiative to stand up under the charge of "recommending friends": we are Fan Zhongyan's friends, and he is a wise man and gentleman. Be friends with him, fortunately!

It looks very rude, even very bullying, but it is done above board. Because we are "walking the right way of the world", that is, to let the wickedness of the court. Right! It's Prime Minister Lu Yijian! Let him see: no one can cover the sky with one hand and suppress all the voices of justice!

Ouyang Xiu is the most unique and dazzling big star among everyone, because his moves are so incredible. It's unpredictable. Just when everyone was going all out to repair Lu Yijian, he suddenly turned around and pointed his gun at an irrelevant person - Gao Rune, the right secretary of the Zhiyuan Academy, Ouyang Xiu wrote a private letter to the past, scolding him for being an official, which was the position of Fan Zhongyan before, and actually saw Lu Yijian, a great traitor, running rampant and domineering in the court, but he was silent. Are you still a reader? Every day, he still goes in and out of the court with his face open, and he is in the company of scholars, I really don't know how to write the word shame!

Gao Ruo was stunned, and then he was furious, he was the one who took the lead in impeaching in the just-concluded Yan Wenying incident. How brave is that, it's only been half a year, and it's just having an endless aftertaste, and suddenly it's become a coward and a shameless person? Ouyang Xiu, how old are you, dare to scold me like this? But anger is anger, Gao Ruone did not write a letter to scold, but handed over the original letter of Ouyang Dacai and asked the emperor to take a look at it himself: Take a look, is there such an official?

Ouyang Xiu is just an episode, the most important thing is still on Fan Zhongyan, he is drilling the horns, he is not afraid of death, he is afraid of being confused, and he must make it clear how this matter failed! Thinking about it, his eyes focused on one person.

failed to bring down Lu Yijian, and this person also had a lot to do with it. It can be said that this person was the only person in the Song Dynasty who could fight against Lu Yijian at that time, whether it was seniority, prestige, fame or weight in the eyes of the emperor, it was only above Lu Yijian. But what makes people angry is that this man has stood by and watched from beginning to end, and has not been indifferent at all.

When evil appears, it is wrong to aid in the abuse, and it is also wrong to ignore it, especially if you have the strength to stop it, you are committing a crime if you don't do it!

Based on this principle, Fan Zhongyan identified this person and went directly to the door. He wants to ask face to face: Heavenly justice and justice, the court code, all the truth is on my side, why don't you help me?

This question is a crucial opportunity in the history of the Song Dynasty, it is a generation of famous ministers Fan Zhongyan was depressed and sad to the extreme, and he couldn't bear it before asking Lu to go. Heartbroken, to the end, his tipping point has arrived. This sentence and the other party's answer are the root of Fan Zhongyan's surpassing everyone in the Great Song Dynasty and being praised by Zhu Xi as the first person in three hundred years.

The great metamorphosis has finally begun!

"Ming Yangshi, the prime minister. "Lord Wang Zeng, as the prime minister, you should promote the righteousness of the scholars, but you stand by and watch and do it alone, your virtue has major defects in this regard!"

That's right, the person who can suppress Lu Yijian is Wang Zeng! With his reputation for fighting against Ding Wei and restricting Liu E's reputation and the qualifications of the prime minister for many years, no matter what point of view, Lu Yijian can't match it, if he makes a timely move, it will definitely not be overstepping his duties, and Lu Yijian must answer one by one. And at that point, Fan Zhongyan was convinced that Lu Yijian was finished, because the "Hundred Official Maps" were all evidence. There's no way to quibble! But Wang Zeng just hid to the side and watched the joke, and remained silent from beginning to end. All right! I'm here today, what are you for, is it really Chrysostom that is difficult to open? This time, he got his wish, Wang Zeng stared at him quietly, and said softly - "The husband and the ruler, the favor belongs to himself, and the grievance belongs to whom" is twelve words again, but Fan Zhongyan heard it. Immediately froze. Literally, he didn't answer what he was asked at all, and he didn't answer what he wanted to be indifferent, but the meaning was very profound.

Literally, it should be translated as follows: if the person who holds the power of the state wants to give all the favor of the world to himself, to whom does the corresponding resentment want to be pushed?

The deeper meaning should be interpreted as follows: if a person who holds the authority of the state only wants everyone to say that he is good. Is it possible not to let everyone say that he is bad?

This is saying: Is Lu Yi Jianding a bad person? Is all the bad things he does? The more you do it, the more people will be jealous, and there will be only people who do nothing. No one hates it! A word woke up the person in the dream, Fan Zhongyan suddenly introspected, did he do everything right? Some of the most basic principles and concepts that he would never doubt in ordinary times gave birth to question marks in his heart.

Is it to be built, or is it to be destroyed? Think back to all these years. I did control the water and disaster relief in the local area, and did a lot of practical and good deeds, but as soon as I entered the capital. Immediately plunged into the destruction. If you continue to do it according to this black and white concept, what will you do after you bring down Lu Yijian? Who are you going to knock down again? Is your life just a life of suppression, attack, and abuse?

Whoever does things, I am riveting on the side and waiting to find fault with him, so I am a gentleman? A change in perception brings a leap in thinking. Fan Zhongyan didn't need Wang Zeng to explain anything, and he understood the deeper meaning of Wang Zeng's refusal. If Wang Zeng made a move, it was the confrontation between the first and second phases of the Great Song Dynasty, and there were too many examples to prove that as long as such a situation occurred, whether it was right or wrong, it was the result of stepping down at the same time. That's a way to relieve hatred, but who will take care of the country? The Great Song Dynasty Hall is beaten into a pot of porridge, is it your Fan Zhongyan's hope?

In addition to black and white, there are thousands of colors, and we must take the road that is most beneficial to the country. So Wang Zeng chose to be silent, as for what gentleman and villain? To hell with it! Without these rare animals, if you don't distinguish them so clearly, didn't Zhao Kuangyin also beat the world of the Song Dynasty?

That day, Fan Zhongyan left Wang Zeng in a trance, he seemed to see another road, but he didn't know how to go. But go, it's a certainty. He had to leave the capital and go to Raozhou. There are still people in the ten-mile long pavilion to see him off, but there are only Li Hong and Wang Zhen, and they raise their glasses to greet - "Fan Jun's trip, You Guang"

From "Aurora" to "Yuguang" and then to the current "You Guang", Fan Zhongyan is already a three-light, and he has become a banner for gentlemen and moralists. But time is like an arrow, Fan Zhong is 48 years old! At this point in my life, I am about to grow old, what is the achievement? Is it just some illusory aura of sages that is useless for the country and the people?

Fan Zhongyan smiled bitterly, and he didn't have the enthusiasm of the last two times - Zhongyan was already three lights so far. Next time, if you give it to me, please prepare a sheep as a sacrifice for me. After talking about going on the road, from now on, forget about Xu Guo and do practical things!

On the 21st, Ouyang Xiu was demoted to Yiling County. Yu Jing and Yin Zhu were also demoted. So Cai Xiang, the magistrate of Luoyang, Xijing, wrote a poem titled "Four Sages and One Unscrupulous", the four sages, Fan Zhongyan, Yu Jing, Yin Zhu, and Ouyang Xiuye. A person who is not good, Gao Ru Ne. Cai Xiang's talent is extremely high, and this poem quickly spread from Xijing to Tokyo, and radiated from Tokyo to the whole country.

At that time, there happened to be a Khitan envoy into the Song Dynasty, and the brother didn't know what kind of psychology he had, so he spent a lot of money to ask someone to copy this poem, and after returning to Youzhou, he posted it on the city gate, so that all Hu and Han residents could watch it - the Great Song Dynasty was so lively, the culture was so prosperous, and even the scolding could be written into a poem!

And Lü Yijian instructed his cronies and servant Shi Han Du to come forward and ask the emperor to set up a list in the court, that is, the famous "friend list", and from now on, it is strictly forbidden to form parties for personal gain and form illegal small groups. In particular, it is emphasized that hundreds of officials are never allowed to overstep their duties!

Standing under the big sky of history and taking a bird's-eye view of this vigorous gentleman's movement, the struggle of Fan Zhongyan and his friends should be said to have achieved some results, at least Fan Zhongyan's soul has been sublimated. But when you look at the borders of the Song Dynasty, you will find that they are worthless. The ambitions of the aliens are inflated, sharpening their knives, and it is almost the point of life and death, so what's the use of playing these!

On November 4, the Empress Dowager Yang of Baoqing died. Zhao Zhen is very sad, this is the true meaning of his motherhood in his childhood. didn't say it, all funerals are good and generous.

This year, Li Yuanhao changed to Daqing. In July, the last remnants of the Uighur forces in the Hexi Corridor began to be swept away. He recaptured the three prefectures of Gua, Sha and Su, destroyed the Uighurs on Shazhou, and completely controlled the Hexi Corridor. In response to the Tubo Rebellion, Li Yuanhao attacked Lanzhou at any cost, built the city of Wachuanhui, left troops to defend it, and cut off the passage between Tubo and the Great Song Dynasty.

What's more important is that Li Yuanhao has done one thing: he created the party item text!

Today, we should be very clear that the most important reason why a nation can survive through the ages, even if it has long perished, can leave its name in the long river of history, is to have its own writing. Beginning with the Turks, the Uighurs, Khitans, and Dangxiang, as well as the future Jurchens, Mongols, and Manchus, would create their own national scripts. And the Huns, Xianbei... The once glorious history is fleeting, and even if it leaves some vague legends, it is not recognized by historians. For what? It's because there is no text of its own!

Li Yuanhao overcame many difficulties, and with the help of Yeli Renrong, the first wise man in the party, he created a completely new script without natural evolution. The "six books" of Chinese characters are used, namely, pictograms, signifiers, morphophonics, huiyi, transfers, and pretenses, of which huiyi characters account for the majority. The specific strokes are more complex than the Chinese characters. There are many oblique brushes such as apostrophes and pinching, without vertical and hooks, and the overall shape is like an unpruned wild tree, with too few trunks and too many branches. But in any case, it appeared, and at the very beginning it formed a "Book of Fan" with as many as 12 volumes

Li Yuanhao attaches great importance to it, and it was named "national character" on the day of promulgation, and the whole country celebrated and immediately promoted it to the people. In addition, the "Fan Academy" and "Chinese Character Academy" were set up to select students for teaching, and the graduates were specially used to translate Chinese characters and party characters.

Since then, domestic laws and decrees have been written in Tibetan characters, and diplomatic documents with Song and Liao have also been divided into primary and secondary texts, and copies are archived in party characters. (To be continued......)