"It has been many years, but there are still legends of brothers in the jianghu." This buzzword is most appropriate to describe Fan Zhongyun.
He had a social heart, was all-rounder in literature and martial arts, had a noble character, and enjoyed a high reputation inside and outside the court, especially ouyang Xiu, who was not unwanted.
Fan Zhongyun has gone through several ups and downs in the eunuch sea, and Ouyang Xiu has always been his staunch follower, carrying out "my eldest brother is all right" with sonorous and powerful.
01
The great scholar Ouyang Xiu was 24 years old and served as an official in Luoyang, and Fan Zhongyan, who was already 42 years old, was sentenced to the post of Emperor Renzong for advising Empress Dowager Liu to return to emperor Renzong.
At this time, Ouyang Xiu's little life was living comfortably, but this did not affect his admiration for Fan Zhongyan.
He and seven of the eight friends of Luoyang said: Fan Xiwen's character and articles are unparalleled today... It is an example for my generation to learn from. It is better to follow fan gong's footsteps, run all over the twelve scenery of Song Mountain, and write poems to respond to Fan Gong. It turned out that Fan Ge had traveled to Luoyang when he was young.
You see, the way to chase the stars is not quite chic, this can be. It's amazing: obedient, what a god.
02
In the second year of Jingyou, Fan Zhongyan returned to Beijing to serve as a prisoner of the State Zi Prison, and later learned of Kaifeng Province. Previously, he had been degraded 2 times.
Everyone thought that this time Fan Zhongyan would restrain a little bit of a just character, who knew that soon after he returned to the dynasty, he also had a sharp contradiction with the prime minister Lü Yijian because of the sudden death of Empress Guo.
Fan Zhongyan presented the "Hundred Officials Map" to the emperor, explaining the promotion path of each official in the DPRK and China, and impeaching Lü Yijian for illegal employment.
Lü Yijian is a very good politician, a tumbler in the officialdom, and his ability and power skills are leveraged.
At the end of this fight, Fan Zhongyun was once again out. Many officials defended him one after another, and Lü Yijian insisted that Fan Zhongyun had become a friend, demoting him to the liquor tax of Jianjun Prefecture.
Fan Zhongyan was "glorious" again this time. When he was first degraded, his friends sent him outside the city gates and praised him for not being afraid of power and adultery, and although he was deposed, he was honorable.
The second time he was degraded, his friends kindly comforted him and said that the trip was particularly honorable. This time, Fan Zhongyan smiled and said to his friends: There are already three lights before and after Zhongyan.
03
At this time, Ouyang Xiu spoke for the eldest brother, and he wrote a letter called "The Book of Advice with Gao Si", scolding Gao Ruoner to the point of spewing dog blood.
He said: Fan Zhongyan is a person recognized by the people of the world as upright, studious, and knowledgeable in ancient and modern times. As a royal historian, you have not entered the counsel, indicating that there is a problem with your character.
If you think that Fan Zhongyan is not a sage, then why don't you warn the court when it reuses him; if you think That Fan Zhongyan is a sage, why don't you speak up when he is deposed?
In short, Gaurone you are not human. Gao Tai was scolded furiously, and Ouyang Xiu wrote this letter at the price of being demoted to Yiling County.
However, he also felt that it was honorable to be degraded this time.
04
In the third year of the Celebration Calendar, Fan Zhongyan was appointed as the Governor of The Government, and Ouyang Xiu was appointed as the Counselor of Taiwan.
At this time, the problem of "redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses" in the Northern Song Dynasty was prominent, and Fan Zhongyan presided over the reform paralysis, but the New Deal harmed the interests of the conservative forces entrenched in the Officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was fiercely attacked by the opposition, slandering Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, Shi Jie and other New Deal teams as making friends with the party.
Ouyang Xiu immediately wrote "On The Party of Friends" in solidarity with Brother Fan.
The article says that gentlemen do have friends, but gentlemen take their peers as friends, and villains take tongli as friends.
The conclusion says that the party of the villain is harmful to the country, and the party of the gentleman is beneficial to the country. This timeless famous article, from the point of view of the article, is quite brilliant.
However, the fan brother helped this time, and this article caused an uproar, and it also confirmed the problem of Fan Brother's friends.
Emperor Renzong relied heavily on Fan Zhongyun, but was also very wary of the issue of forming a party. It should be said that in addition to rebellion, among the rulers, the most hated thing is the formation of the party.
When I watched the TV series "Kangxi The Great", I always remembered a picture, that is, the Kangxi Emperor pointed at his courtiers and scolded bitterly: The capital is a big dyeing vat. I told you, party strife, don't fight party strife (the lines only remember the gist).
Hundreds of years later, when the Yongzheng Emperor saw Ouyang Xiu's beautiful article, he thought it was a heresy and nonsense. He specially wrote the "Treatise on the Imperial System of Friends" to refute Ouyang Xiu's point of view, "Those who are subjects to others should only know that there is a king."
"If we set up cultivation for this reason today, we will condemn it to justify the sins of the world." During the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor, it was with the help of the literal prison to rectify the discipline of the imperial court and abstain from customs and popularity.
It can be seen that Emperor Renzong is benevolent, and Ouyang Xiu's luck is also good, if he was born in the Qing Dynasty, such a wind bone will disappear.
05
The helpless Fan Zhongyan left the imperial court for the fourth time, and Ouyang corrected that he wanted to write a letter to defend his eldest brother. But at this critical moment, he was caught by political enemies with pigtails and was caught in an incest scandal.
Ouyang Xiu wrote a defense to explain that I was kind enough to let my brother-in-law's ex-wife and children stay at home with my sister, because my brother-in-law Zhang Gui was dying early, orphans and widows, and life was inconvenient.
When the child was taken in, the child was still young, and when the girl grew up, she would marry the master. How could I do anything to a young girl?
Later, although there was no empirical evidence in this case, Song Renzong believed that "knowing that it is not his own clan and bowing to the private door, knowing that the daughter belongs to the room and accepts the group." ...... The coupon is neither clear nor discernible. ”
It meant that Ouyang Xiu should not adopt his sister who had already been married to his home, let alone adopt the Zhang clan who was not of his own clan, and the purchase of field property was not clear. In the end, Ouyang Xiu was demoted to Chuzhou Zhizhou.
Ouyang Xiu felt extremely humiliated, but he couldn't argue with it. There is a small mountain in the southwest of Chuzhou called Langya Mountain. The monk Zhixian built a temple here and built a pavilion. Ouyang Xiuwei eliminated bitterness, often drank and played here, named the pavilion Drunken Pavilion, and made the famous "Drunken Pavilion".
It was not until 1054 that he returned to Beijing to serve as a Hanlin scholar, presided over scientific expeditions, and admitted the two talents of the Su family.
The failure of the Qingli reform was a great blow to Fan Zhongyan. He successively knew Dengzhou, Hangzhou, and Qingzhou. During this period, he wrote the "Record of Yueyang Lou", leaving behind the popular "the worries of the world before the world, and the joy of the world after the world".
After Fan Zhong drowned, Ouyang Xiu wrote him an epitaph, counting his mind, knowledge and achievements, and doing his best to be a fan.