The theme song of the CCTV version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" - "Linjiang Immortal" "Rolling Water in the East of the Yangtze River", makes people feel as if they can look back at the long river of history. His author, Yang Shen, is not well known, he is the son of Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, who was once a high school champion, and is recognized as the first talent of the Ming Dynasty, And Tang Bohu and others must stand aside. It's just that his life experience is very miserable.
Yang Shen was born
Yang Shen was born in 1488, when the emperor was Emperor Xiaozong of Ming. And his father is the famous Yang Tinghe, such a second generation official, but he is still a talent, not only outstanding poetry and literature, but more importantly, even the champion has won. Yang Shen's intelligence can be seen from his childhood. Yang Shen's father was Rebbe Shangshu, so Yang Shen received a good education at a very young age.
At the age of eleven, he could write near-body poems, and at the age of 12, he could write "Hanging Ancient Battlefield Text": "'The soul of the broken red pink in the Qinglou, the bone of the green moss in the daytime'". At the age of thirteen, he had already written the famous "Yellow Leaf Poem" that moved the capital, and even Li Dongyang, the first assistant at the time, said that he would worship under his disciples, "Ling Zhiye Menxia", calling him Xiaoyou. At the age of 24, he won the first place in the temple examination, won the title, and did the editing of the Hanlin Academy, and entered a political career.
Yang Shen's political career
Yang Shen's road to politics has been very difficult. Because he is very righteous and has the wind and bones of a literati, even if he is an emperor, he will scold. For example, Emperor Mingwuzong Zhu Houzhao was a not very reliable emperor, playing with leopards every day, even going to brothels, and not paying attention to national affairs all day long. At this time, Yang Shen directly wrote a seal, saying that the emperor did not do the right thing, but only knew to hang out: "'Act rashly, swim without doing anything'". Persuading him to return to the right path, Zhu Houzhao, who had always been self-righteous, did not listen to the advice at all, and Yang Shen resigned in a huff.
It was not until 1521 AD that Zhu Houzhao died and Jiajing ascended the throne. Because Jiajing ascended the throne, Yang Tinghe made great efforts, so Yang Shen was also re-activated, named Hanlin Academy Editor, and also participated in the editing of the Records of Emperor Wuzong. Later, because he had the opportunity to give a lecture to Jiajing, he often instilled his own thoughts into Jiajing, which made Jiajing unhappy. In this way, Yang Shen, who was originally a straight personality, did not even want the emperor to take care of him, so he had no chance to show his ambitions.
In addition, the "Great Etiquette" incident, Yang Tinghe and Jiajing fell out of peace, and the struggle between the civilian official clique headed by Yang Tinghe and the imperial power headed by Jiajing was defeated. Through cruel means, Jiajing won the admiration and fear of hundreds of officials. However, Yang Shen was not only Yang Tinghe's son, but also a civil official of Daming, and in the great ceremonial incident, he made a great effort to fight Jiajing. After the Great Ceremonial Incident, the first assistant Yang Tinghe returned to his hometown, and the new upstarts such as Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao, who had originally supported Jiajing, began to take power in the dynasty.
Yang Shen, on the other hand, did not think that the matter was over. He frequently wrote letters accusing Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao of being traitors, saying that he did not want to be an official in the same dynasty as the adulterers. At that time, Jiajing felt that he had just won the victory against Yang Tinghe, and it was when he was proud and arrogant, yang Shen's move directly made him angry, and he officially issued an edict to change his name to his biological father Emperor Gongmu. Yang Shen and several other scholars wrote letters opposing it, and Jiajing directly violently suppressed it.
The anger of Yang Shen and other readers was thoroughly aroused, and hundreds of students cried at Jinshui Bridge and Zuo Shunmen, saying, "One hundred and fifty years of national nourishment, the battle festival is dead, and it is today." ''Protesting the innocent suppression and imprisonment of officials of the imperial court.'' Then, Jiajing had people directly court the hundred officials. Yang Shen was beaten once on the 15th, again on the 17th, and again ten days later, and was beaten three times in less than eight months, almost losing half his life. After waking up, he was directly assigned to Yunnan To charge the army.
Yang Shen was exiled
And his journey is even more dangerous. Because his father had deposed a number of people who had abused his leading merits before he was deposed, the deposed people held a grudge and decided to pay the debts of Yang Shen's father. A large number of people were gathered and killed Yang Shen in the middle of the road. And Yang Shen dragged the unhealed body of the sick court staff all the way, and he had to be careful of others to kill, which was really miserable. When I arrived in Yunnan, my body could not stand up.
And Yang Shen spent his whole life in Yunnan. After that, Jiajing ordered a general amnesty for the world three times, and Yang Shen was not among them. Because even though Yang Shen was already far away from the court, at that time Jiajing still hated him so much that he itched his teeth, and he asked the people around him how Yang Shen was, and he was very happy to hear that he was old and sick. Therefore, Yang Shen experienced six amnesties in his lifetime and was still charging the army in southern Yunnan.
After that, except for Yang Tinghe, when he was seriously ill and died, Yang Shen spent time in Yunnan. However, he still did not forget his homeland in the borderlands, encountered the rebellion of thieves on the way to visit his relatives, and also took more than a hundred servants and infantry with his leading servants and infantry, and used tactics with his deputy envoy Zhang Zheng to break the rebels and quell the rebellion. Knowing the unfair things, he also wrote poems to criticize: "Haimen Xing", "Hou Haimen Xing", etc. are specifically aimed at the political project of laboring the people and hurting the wealth. It was not until August 8, 1559, that Yang Shen died in Shushou at the age of seventy-two. It was not until the winter of the fortieth year of Jiajing that he was buried next to the tomb of his father Yang Tinghe. In His life, Yang Shen was known as the first talent of the Ming Dynasty, but because he offended the emperor, he was exiled in the border land for more than thirty years, which was really regrettable.