The definition of boldness in the Wei and Jin dynasties was quite alternative, not the traditional "undue courage of ten thousand men who took the head of the commander among thousands of troops", nor was it "cautious and strategic" as Confucius said. If you are more bold than you, come to hell.

Ji Kang once traveled and spent the night in the wilderness. In the middle of the night, the third watch itched to play the piano, and a guest came uninvited, Ji Kang discussed the piano skills with Yi for a long time without care, and also learned a tune. Le Guang was on a business trip when he was in charge of Yin in Henan, and he lived in a haunted house - in the middle of the night, the three larger doors would open by themselves and then close by themselves, but there was no one in the middle. No one else dared to live in this murderous house, only Mr. Leguang lived in it. As a result, in the middle of the night, he lurked by the door, and when the door opened automatically, he rushed up and grabbed a tanuki who was having fun playing with the gate. Mr. Ruan Zhan debated with the guest, "Is there a ghost in the world?" Ruan Zhan said like a river, forcing this unconvinced ghost to show his original form on the spot......

Mr. Xie Kun's experience of seeing ghosts is even more powerful, he is not afraid of ghosts, but ghosts are worried.

It was already Xie Kun's middle age, and he went south to take refuge in Wang Dun and lived in Yuzhang. One day, I passed by a post station in the wilderness, with dilapidated walls and cobwebs. It was already the third watch in the middle of the night, and Xie Kun, who was tired of walking, decided to sleep on the spot. Xie Kun received a serious warning before staying at the station: there were often bloody incidents in this post station in the past - there are ghosts here, please do not stay. But like Wu Song, who was biased towards Hushan, Xie Kun also turned a deaf ear to this warning. However, Wu Song drank too much, and Xie Kun didn't know how to die.

's background with a sense of superiority made Xie Kun ignore the rules when he was young. Xie Kun's father was the president of the National Royal School of Economics. He was born in the first year of Emperor Taikang of the Jin Dynasty, the year the whole country was unified. Although Xie's father did not give his son a name such as "Xie Guoqing" at the right time, Mr. Xie Kun, who grew up in an aristocratic family, did enjoy the fruits of prosperity. Xie Kun was a smart child, he read "Lao Tzu" and "Zhuangzi" at a very young age, and was praised by celebrities such as Ji Shao and Wang Yan for his excellent appearance, debate level and musical accomplishments, and quickly entered the top salons in the cultural world. But the result of these feelings of superiority is: drinking wine, eating meat, and playing with women. The girls in his neighborhood were beautiful, and Xie Kun would lie on the window every day to watch her weave, and tease others by the way. At first, the girl half-pushed and half-ignored him, and didn't chase him away - my fair lady and gentleman are also a thing to satisfy a woman's vanity. But Xie Kun was mistaken, thinking that his offensive was not enough, and in order to fight for the position, he probably sang erotic jokes like "Eighteen Touches". When the girl heard this, she was angry and felt that she was offended, so she slammed the shuttle of the loom towards Xie Kun's door with a "whoosh", and Xie Kun, who couldn't avoid it, was knocked off two front teeth with a bang.

A few teeth are missing, and Xie Kun doesn't care. When everyone laughed at him for stealing chickens and rice, he still whistled complacently and said, "If you can still whistle, what does it matter if you have a few teeth missing?"

When he was admonished that there were ghosts in the inn, Xie Kun probably thought to himself, ghosts, can ghosts be more terrifying than my neighbor's little girl?

So I stayed. In the middle of the night, when he was sleepy, Xie Kun heard someone call his name and asked him to open the window. The voice was thin and weak, like a child and like a woman. Xie Kun looked through the broken window, and there was a faint cloud of yellow outside, probably a ghost in yellow clothes. Xie Kun rushed out with his right hand with lightning speed, and broke the ghost's shoulder blade with a click (do ghosts also have bones?). On closer inspection, it was a deer. Mr. Xie was a little regretful: he ran into an imposter. However, Mr. Xie, who was crazy about his youth, chased him all the way out and actually hunted the deer. Since then, the station has never been haunted again.

If you think about it carefully, it seems that the ghost resources in the Wei and Jin dynasties were particularly rich, especially celebrities who touched ghosts at every turn. For the orthodox teaching of "respecting ghosts and gods and staying away", the Wei and Jin people did not buy it very much. In Cao Pi's time, he presided over the compilation of a book "Lie", and a little later, Gan Bao also took advantage of this trend to write a book "Sou Shen Ji", which became a bestseller at that time.

Intentionally or unintentionally, hitting ghosts is like a reality show to prove courage and calmness, scoring Zhuangzi's personality determination in the face of the unknowable and even terrifying.

Xie Kun is smart, he is brave, his family is powerful, he doesn't care about etiquette and morality, he is not even afraid of ghosts. So, he became a gentleman. According to Mr. Mencius's statement that "the heavens will descend on the people, they must first work hard and work their muscles and bones", Mr. Xie Kun is the kind of person who is abandoned by the great responsibility. Xie Kun and his friends were the famous "Bada" of the Western Jin Dynasty, and these people indulged in pleasures and even drank naked with pigs.

But God thought about it again, and was still reluctant to give up such a good seedling as Xie Kun, and still decided to work hard for his mind and his bones. Anyway, Xie Kun was unbelievably unlucky: he was almost whipped with a whip by Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, on the streets of Luoyang.

Sima Yi is Sima Yan's sixth son and is a cool young general. The general and the famous man should have been sorry, but on this day of curfew, Sima Yi heard that Xie Kun was going out of the city, so he was furious and wanted to whip him. This is the Yongxing period of Emperor Hui of Jin, which is the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings". Sima Yi had been fighting with Sima Ying outside the city for two or three months, and Sima Ying had killed at least 60,000 or 70,000 people. There have been two or three mediations in between, but nothing has worked. At this time, the war entered a stalemate, and it was not easy for either side to attack and defend. At this time, a famous man wanted to go out of the city on the night of the curfew, which provoked Sima Yi's already overwhelmed nerves: did he want to go out of the city and surrender?! It's useless to persuade anyone, you must pump him! Xie Kun is the "Lao Tzu is not afraid" temperament, and unhurriedly unfastens Shi Shiran's clothes in front of the public: If you want to smoke, you can smoke.

Xie Kun's face was calm, and his heart was terrified. He was not interested in the Sima family's struggle for power, but several of the Sima family's careerists were full of interest in using celebrities to create public opinion. Xie Kun thought that no matter who became the emperor, he just had to be his aristocratic son, but he found that politics was like the flu, and if he didn't mess with it, he couldn't avoid being infected. The gentleman finally found that his good days of being out of sight were coming to an end.

After another two or three years, the simple northern minorities flocked to occupy Luoyang, the capital that the Han people had built with great difficulty. In desperation, Xie Kun made the same choice as his good friends, crossing the river and going to the south.

Xie Kun, who crossed the river, first took refuge with Wang Dun, who had an army in Wuhan, and they had some old friendships in the salon in Luoyang when they were young. But soon Xie Kun found that Wang Dun was very dissatisfied with Sima Rui, who became the emperor in a daze, and also wanted to get a dragon chair to sit on. Sima Rui was also not at ease with Wang Dun, and wanted to use Liu Kui and Diao Xie to supervise the military of the four prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, and Ping to fight against Jingzhou occupied by Wang Dun. Of course, Wang Dun in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River couldn't stand the fact that someone downstream wanted to cut off his way, and wanted to find a high-sounding reason to get rid of the disobedient little emperor.

The excuse was soon there: Qingjun's side. With an excuse and the support of celebrities, Wang Dun can go. This celebrity is naturally Xie Kun.

Xie Kun decided to think about it. He can ignore Wang Dun and make trouble - this is indeed Xie Kun's style when he was young; Or roll up the cover and go downstream to join someone else—as Wei Jue once did. However, Xie Kun, who was the same age as the unified country and watched the country split again, suddenly discovered that the Confucian believers who wronged themselves to death also had their own reasons: although self-sacrifice in exchange for a decent social order was not "cool", it was the best way to maintain stability and unity. So, in his middle age, Xie Kun suddenly decided to honestly assume social responsibility. He had to say a few words about Wang Dun:

Liu Kui and Diao Xie are both characters like the rats of the City Fox Society, and they will flee with their heads in their hands at the slightest disturbance, and you don't need to take so many soldiers to kill the generals. If you set fire to water in a sacrificial place to catch mice and foxes, it is not for the people to eliminate harm, it is to destroy social order.

Wang Dun is really angry: I don't expect you to sing a triumphant song, but you can also say "you did the right thing"! Wouldn't such nonsense make me bored and find another reason to send troops? The angry Wang Dun decided to drive Xie Kun to Yuzhang to be the local governor, but he was reluctant to think about it: when he found a reason to pinch Sima Rui one day, he would have to nod his head to help. But in the end, he didn't come up with any other tricks, and still used brute force to force Xie Kun to kill with him in Nanjing.

Xiucai met Bing, and he couldn't explain it clearly. This is the scholar's dilemma. No matter how suave you are as a scholar, you can crown Jinghua.

Wang Dun fully exposed his hostile nature to cultural people in Nanjing: Zhou Yi and Dai Yuan were killed because they were unwilling to be the officials he gave them. Zhou Yi is a really good friend of Xie Kun: they both like to take off their clothes and drink, think and say anything, and have a pure heart. When Wang Dun killed Zhou Yi, Xie Kun didn't know, and after knowing it, he was very sad, as if he had died once, and he hated Wang Dun to the extreme.

However, even if he knew, there was nothing he could do. In addition to hatred, Xie Kun could only realize the scholar's predicament more deeply - fame and personality were things he was once proud of, but they only brought disaster to him, but they could not save his friends. When the world was changing, Xie Kun could not protect himself, but he began to reflect on his whole life. It is precisely the changes at this time that make Xie Kun's reflection stand out from the crowd.

Wang Dun was in Nanjing, and the officials were silent. No one dared to say that he was bad, let alone admonish. Even the emperor can only hope that he will hurry back to his Jingzhou after he is out of the wilderness, and thank God for not deposing him as the emperor. Because everyone understands that if Wang Dun wants to maintain a strong military advantage, he will not give up Jingzhou. If he is not allowed to leave Jingzhou, he will have to go back sooner or later - because he has no henchmen to guard for him. Nanjing, sooner or later, will have to be returned. Therefore, Wang Dun did not pay attention to etiquette in Nanjing, and even did not meet the emperor, and everyone turned a blind eye.

Only Xie Kun stepped forward. His courage to flirt with his sister made him blunt at this time. He said to Wang Dun: You should go and worship the emperor, so that it is commensurate with your immortal merits. Otherwise, people will speak ill of you. If you go, I'll be with you.

Wang Dun was unwilling, he was not stupid, he knew that he would be arrested as soon as he entered the palace. Like all generals in the war-torn era, Wang Dun was reluctant to leave his troops. Even Xie Kun offered to be a bodyguard was not considered. Not only that, Wang Dun also put a cruel sentence, "Even if I kill hundreds of you celebrities, I will still be Wang Dun, who dares to say bad things about me?" ”

The story spread quickly. Everyone's perception of this former "Luoyang bad boy" took a 180-degree turn, not only praising his courage, but also worrying about him. But soon, everyone's worries turned into celebrations for the rest of their lives: Wang Dun returned to Wuchang and took Xie Kun with him.

Xie Kun, who was in his early forties, finally had the opportunity to do his Yuzhang internal history because he didn't like Wang Dun. The cynical boy suddenly turned around and began to study hard and go up every day - he was diligent in government affairs, honest and honest, and loved by the people. It's just that Xie Kun's transformation did not bring a "happy ending" that everyone was looking forward to: not long after, Xie Kun died in office.

Interestingly, Xie Kun died in Hubei, but his tomb was moved to Nanjing several years later. Xie Kun's epitaph can still be seen in the Six Dynasties Museum in Nanjing. According to the history books, Director Wang felt that it was a pity that such a romantic figure was buried in Jingchu, which was full of barbarians, so he strongly advocated moving the burial. But I think that Director Wang and Xie Kun may have the same heart, and Nanjing is a place that is too important to Xie Kun. That trip to Nanjing was his rebirth: he began to take responsibility and began to restrain himself. The courage that once accompanied frivolity has finally been washed away from the glitz and turned into a bright and sharp sword to cut through the obstacles and do the right thing. Although Xie Kun's maturity came a little late, it was good.