The world is worried and worried, and the world is happy and happy!
This sentence comes from Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang LouJi", which is one of the key examination questions of the language college entrance examination, remember to circle it, and you want to take the test!
Everyone knows Fan Zhongyun, mainly because he has written too many poems and articles, he writes, we memorize, so we know him, he does not know us.
Fan Zhongyan was a man of letters, poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting, proficient in everything, but at the same time he was also a military general, defending the northwest, resisting the Western Xia, and maintaining the stability of the Song Dynasty.
In a word, Fan Zhongyun wen can lift the pen to settle the world, Wu can immediately settle Qiankun, Wen can write a red building, Wu can suppress a country, can be described as a true guardian god, the "guardian god" of the Great Song!
Fan Zhongyan is not a literati who can only talk about nothing, he is a literati who works hard to rejuvenate the country.
According to the "History of Song", in the second year of the Song Emperor (1050 AD), a famine broke out in Wuzhou, and the people were floating in the wilderness, and Song Renzong sent Fan Zhong to flood the disaster.
According to the traditional model, after Fan Zhong flooded to Wuzhou, he should first reassure the people so that they should not panic, the imperial court will not let the people starve, and then distribute grain and distribute disaster relief funds.
However, after Fan Zhong flooded wuzhou, he did not do these things, but instead took the money to repair his official government, repaired his own home, and regarded the disaster relief funds as the money in his own pocket.
Fan Zhongyan also ran to the temple, and said to the father-in-law that the labor force is cheap now, and it is the time to repair the house and build the house, you see I am repairing, saving a lot of money.
The abbot looked at his ruined courtyard and the painted Buddha statue, and then thought about what Fan Zhongyan said, he felt that Fan Zhongyan was right, at this time, if you don't repair it, you can save a lot of money!
Wuzhou is a place with a far-reaching influence on Buddhist culture, everyone worships buddha, everyone believes in Buddhism, so there are many local monasteries.
After the renovation of one monastery began, other monasteries also began to repair. The people of Wuzhou have no food to eat and are still starving, how did Fan Zhongyan solve it?
Fan Zhongyan approached local rice merchants and asked them to raise the price of rice by 50% and sell rice at a high price. Mi Shang was stunned when he heard this, was he here to provide disaster relief?
Merchants, naturally, the higher the selling price, the happier they are, since Fan Zhongyun let them sell high-priced rice, rice merchants naturally have no fear, and the price of rice has increased.
Fan Zhongyan's various behaviors provoked the anger and complaints of the people of Wuzhou, who took the disaster relief funds to repair their own houses, not to mention, and also stirred up rice merchants to raise the price of rice.
Fan Zhongyan's words and deeds were also watched by the imperial court, and for a while the chapter of impeaching Fan Zhongyan floated like snowflakes to Song Renzong's book case. Song Renzong also did not understand why Fan Zhongyan did this, so he questioned him.
Fan Zhongyan quickly wrote a note to explain his intentions. Fan Zhongyan let the temple be repaired so that the victims could have work, and with labor, they would be paid for their labor, and their lives would be improved.
After the temple is repaired, many people will come to worship the Buddha, which will drive some economic development and let the people of Wuzhou have some income.
The reason for raising the price of rice is to attract those bad rice merchants, who know that Wuzhou rice is expensive and will definitely come to Wuzhou to sell rice.
After they came to Wuzhou, Fan Zhongyan did not let the people buy rice, so that the rice merchants could not sell their rice, and it was they who lost it.
Rice merchants definitely don't want to lose, so they can only sell rice at a low price, and it is better to earn a little than to lose.
In this way, the disaster situation in Wuzhou was quickly resolved, and the people ate the grain and returned to their original lives, praising Fan Zhongyan as a good official!
References: "History of the Song Dynasty", "Fan Wenzheng Collection", "Song Mingchen's Words and Deeds", etc