When fan Zhongyan is mentioned, we will definitely think of the famous work of "Yueyang Louji", which is "the world is worried and worried, and the world is happy after the world" is a popular sentence, and it has also inspired many officials to make a meritorious contribution to the country and the people.
Not only was he quite successful in literature, but Fan Zhongyun was also quite accomplished in becoming an official. In the Song Dynasty, he was always a heavy subject, even an official to the prime minister. But unlike many high-ranking officials who were born in Shuxiang mendi, Fan Zhongyun's every step he took was won by himself. Not only was he born into a peasant family, but he also lost his father at an early age. In the feudal era, "orphans and widows" could not survive, so Fan Zhongyan's mother was forced to take Fan Zhongyan and her siblings to remarry, and once changed to the surname of her stepfather. Since childhood, he has not only suffered from poverty, but also suffered from white eyes.
Education has been the best way for children of poor families to change their fate since ancient times, and the young Fan Zhongyan also knows this truth. In order to change his fate, he left his mother at a young age to study in other places, and even studied in the temple, and never gave up his desire to study after suffering hardships. At that time, it was already a great fortune for him to be able to eat porridge at one time, and not eating enough was the norm. It is precisely because he was born at the bottom of the poorest, so after the development of Fan Zhongyan has always been to the people, becoming the parent official of the people, which has also become his lifelong ambition.
Such suffering never erased the ambition in his heart, and it also strengthened his determination to obtain meritorious fame. It was precisely after he obtained a meritorious name and became an official that his life improved. The last time the official lived in the prime minister, it was a lot of income. The biggest feature of the Song Dynasty is that it has money, so the Song Dynasty officials' Feng Lu is very high. After Fan Zhongyan became an official, he did not waste extravagant luxuries and waste, and lived a lavish life. Moreover, most of the wages were used to buy land, and the land was given to the peasants who did not have arable land free of charge, so that they could support their families and live on. This is a great good thing for farmers who do not have half an acre of good land.
Moreover, he is well versed in the principle that "it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish", and the problem of poverty that he wants to solve from the root cause is still through education. Therefore, he tried every means to give the people the opportunity to receive education, and when he heard that a courtyard could produce all-round talents in literature and martial arts, he bought the courtyard to run a college. Give young people who can't afford to read at that time the opportunity to receive education and completely change their destiny.
Therefore, after the development of Fan Zhongyan, most of the Feng Lu was used to buy land and run schools, and his family still lived a clean and simple life, and did not live a good and comfortable life like other dignitaries. At that time, there were more than 300 family members and servants in his house, all of whom relied on Fan Zhongyan's Feng Lu. It is conceivable how high the Song Dynasty officials' salaries were, but it was also these actions that were deeply supported by the people.
Fan Zhongyan, who was over the age of flower armor, was transferred to Hangzhou as a prefect, which should have been the age to return to his hometown, but Fan Zhongyan, who was willing to dedicate his residual heat to the people. After taking office, Hangzhou encountered a famine year. At that time, the people of Hangzhou were not happy, hunger was everywhere, and countless people were starved to death in this once-in-a-century famine. In such years, the grain itself is the most affordable and the most valuable, and the black-hearted merchants have hoarded and raised prices, waiting to sell for high prices.
What the government should have done was to stabilize prices and suppress prices in the market. But Fan Zhongyan did the opposite, not only did not hit the price increase, but manipulated the rise in rice prices. Such "absurd" behavior was unanimously opposed and even impeached by the Manchu Dynasty. The Emperor said that Fan Zhongyun was old and confused and wanted to depose him. However, Song Shenzong had always believed in Fan Zhongyun, and he had to see what he was going to do first, and he could not easily draw conclusions.
Fan Zhongyan did this, and the price of rice in Hangzhou became the highest in the nearby area, so all the nearby rice was remitted to Hangzhou, and the original supply exceeded the demand. Moreover, the transportation in ancient times was very inconvenient, and when the rice entered the granary in Hangzhou, Fan Zhongyan introduced relevant policies and ordered the warehouse to be opened to release grain.
As a result, the price of rice plummeted, and it was not good to ship it back, so merchants could only cry and sell at a low price. To a considerable extent, this practice helped Hangzhou to smoothly survive the once-in-a-century famine, and the officials who impeached Fan Zhongyan in the first place also applauded. The most beneficial thing is that the people of Hangzhou, when they meet such parents and officials, can end the life of hell on earth as soon as possible.
It can be seen from this that Fan Zhongyan is not only a great writer, but also quite talented and talented in serving officials and politicians. The most rare thing is that he has a heart that loves the people, and this heart accompanies him until he returns home. The year of Hua Jia was supposed to be a time of great age, living the old age of pampering his grandson. But he still works on the front line, with the people he can't let go of. It can be said that no matter what era, we need such officials, such officials can be called mainstays.