Between the green vines and splashing ink landscapes, who immortals why go down to the human world. Shi Tu had no intention of fighting himself on his horse, and he staggered his white sideburns to sing sad songs.
After selling a thousand volumes of books, Xu Wei embarked on a strange road.
Xu Wei, he is a talented man with no ambition. Xie Jin was still able to make a name for himself when compiling the Yongle Canon, ranking first and second, completing the plot of the reader's career and life's long-cherished wish of ruling the country and the world. But Xu Wei was only admitted to a show talent. He was called a prodigy by the villagers since childhood, and after facing the tragedy of repeated trials, he has been depressed ever since. At that time, during the Jiajing period, the Wokou was in severe trouble, and his hometown of Zhejiang was the first among them, and Xu Wei, who was known for his overall situation, coincidentally became an aide to Hu Zongxian, a general who resisted the Wu Dynasty and the governor of Zhejiang. Under his advice, Xu Hai, the leader of the Wokou, was captured and Wang Zhi was lured down. The appearance of Xu Wei promoted the early arrival of the Taiping people on the southeast coast, but why did this zhiduoxing fall into the desolation of his old age and buy books for a living?
a way to do
Born in Shaoxing in a large family of decline, Xu Wei's father was a Tongzhi (equivalent to the current vice mayor level) of the fu of Kuizhou at that time, and the official position was Zheng Wupin, so the family's door rules were also strict. Xu Wei had two older brothers, both of whom were born to his father's original match, and later the original match died, and his father continued to string the Miao clan, but this Miao clan has never filled Xu Wei's father with a man and a half woman. Therefore, Xu Wei's father married a concubine in his later years, and he grew old and had children, and the concubine gave birth to Xu Wei. Xu Wei was raised by the Miao clan since childhood, but Xu Wei was not grateful to the Miao clan. Because after Xu Wei's father died, Xu Wei's birth mother was expelled from the house by the Miao family, and Xu Wei was only ten years old at that time.
Although the family declined, it was a family of officials and eunuchs, and Xu Wei could also be exposed to a lot of literary knowledge. At the age of nine, he was able to imitate Yang Xiong's article to make a book called "Liberation", which surprised the world as soon as it appeared, and compared with Yang Xiu in the Three Kingdoms period and Liu Yan in the Tang Dynasty, the reputation of a young genius spread in the streets and alleys of Shaoxing. Compared with writing books and paintings, Xu Wei loves calligraphy more, especially wild grass, and the world is puzzled. This allowed the young genius to form a self-congratulatory and depressed personality. Most of Xu Wei's poems after this period are also based on sadness and desolation.
Young talents are placed high hopes by blind dates, and isn't reading books to climb the road of career? Xu Wei's calligraphy is exquisite, his youth is a bookish man, and he is knowledgeable. The road to the imperial examination should be exceptionally smooth, and finally ascend to the Golden Ruan Hall to complete the dream of the generations of readers in Confucian education to govern the country and the world. However, the reality is cruel, Xu Wei has participated in the township examination for eight consecutive times since he passed the Xiucai examination at the age of twenty, and he has repeatedly failed to win the lift, and by the eighth time, he is already forty-one years old.
These two decades have not been smooth. Miao died when Xu Wei was fourteen years old, and there was no elder in the family, with his brother as his father. However, he was half-brother with the two brothers, and the brothers were more than twenty years apart, had different ambitions, and had no brotherhood. As a result, Xu Wei entered the Pan Mansion of the rich family of Shaoxing at the age of twenty-one. Assist the father-in-law of the minor official in the officialdom, take care of the official affairs for him, and prepare for the township examination. It was this experience that allowed Xu Wei to learn about the rules of the officialdom and the invisible vein behind the rules, and Xu Wei was also familiar with the customs and customs and terrain of Zhejiang and Guangdong, paving the way for him to display his military ability in the future.
Staff
If it weren't for the successive changes and the vicious-looking Wokou, I think Xu Wei would still be struggling the road of scientific expedition.
When Xu Wei was twenty-five years old, the only remaining property in the family was seized by the local bullies and gentry.
The following year, his wife Pan also died of illness and left him.
Xu Wei was alone and his family was destroyed. Life had to go on, Xu Wei first went to Taicang, Jiangsu Province, to make a living, and then things did not go smoothly. He returned to his hometown of Shaoxing to make a living by teaching private schools and studying Wang Yangming's science. After living a little more generously, he took his birth mother to the family to be raised in spite of the world's vision.
Xu Wei Bocai, Wu Kou invaded his hometown, his generation of literati rioters, no chicken power, can only give advice. Xu Wei successively served as a think tank for the Ming army in Keting, Gaobu, Gongshan and other places. This move showed Xu Wei's rare military talent, and he also received the attention of Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang.
Hu Zongxian admired Xu Wei's talents and wanted to recruit him as an aide. In the face of the olive branch thrown by the high-ranking official Hu Zongxian, Xu Wei was very entangled: on the one hand, he admired Hu Zongxian's military boldness and patriotic feelings; on the other hand, Hu Zongxian was a protégé of Yan Song, the first assistant to the cabinet at that time, and Hu Zongxian was a Yan Party. It was the front foot of the traitor Yan Song. In his early years, because Yan Song was in power and allowed the Mongols to plunder Gyeonggi, causing the "change of Gengji", Xu Wei was full of enthusiasm and wrote "Today's Song" and other denouncing Yan Song's traitorous mistakes, and had already broken with Yan Song, and saw clearly the face of the Yan Party's misleading country and corruption.
Under all kinds of struggles, Xu Wei chose to believe Hu Zongxian and entered the Hu Mansion to become Hu Zongxian's staff.
Hu Zongxian did not look at the wrong person, and Xu Wei proposed to quell the wokou disaster not because of the endless conquest but because of the solicitation of Rou Kegang. Not only the Japanese, but also a considerable number of coastal residents, who either had no choice or wanted to get something for nothing, became thieves and scourge the townships. Under Xu Wei's divine ingenuity, Xu Hai, the leader of the Wokou, was lured to surrender, and through his hands, he eliminated many Wukou forces, and finally Xu Hai also landed on the ground. After Xu Hai's internal friction and Xu Wei's schemes, another Wukou leader, Wang Zhi, also intended to surrender. However, under the haste of Wang Bengu, the governor of Zhejiang, Wang Zhi was booby-trapped when he surrendered. Before Wang Zhi died, he said: "He alone is enough to die, but it affects the people of zhejiang." "After Wang Zhi's death, although the Wokou plague was temporarily calmed, but the Wukou dragons were leaderless, after this will bring greater disasters. Xu Wei's policy was intended to invite security, but when these greedy and adventurous officials intervened, no one dared to surrender. The original residents of Daming, who had cut off the back road, were burning and killing more and more frantically.
In 1562, in the forty-first year of Jiajing, Yan Song fell, and Xu Jie served as the first assistant of the cabinet in order to eliminate the Yan Party forces. Hu Zongxian was impeached and arrested and sent to Beijing. Xu Wei was even more disheartened and left the Governor's Palace.
prison
Hu Zongxian was exempted from punishment for his meritorious resistance to the Wu Dynasty, and the people of the Dynasty could not tolerate a single Hu Zongxian. Three years later, Hu Zongxian suffered from imprisonment again, this time Hu Zongxian was not so lucky, he died tragically in prison.
Xu Wei was an aide to Hu Zongxian and was labeled a fellow party member. Accustomed to the darkness of the Ming Dynasty officialdom, he was talented, but he repeatedly failed to win the first place. Hu Zongxian resisted foreign enemies but was killed by a bunch of mediocre ministers, and Xu Wei was unwilling but helpless.
He wrote the Self-Made Epitaph as a self-expression and attempted suicide nine times. Later, Xu Wei was imprisoned again for killing his wife.
Xu Wei's talent still saved himself more or less. Because of Xu Wei's talent, he was able to annotate the "Zhou YiShan Tongqi" in prison and participate in the compilation of his friend Zhang Yuanchen's "Huiji County Chronicle", and was able to atone for his sins. Of course, this is inseparable from the great help of friends such as Zhu Dashou and Zhang Yuanchen.
After Xu Wei was released from prison, he was invited by Qi Jiguang to go to Liaodong to teach Li Chengliang's art of war, but because of his physical ill health, he was worth returning to Beijing for maintenance. After that, the talent Xu Wei and his friend Zhang Yuanchen were at odds, and their illness became more and more serious, and finally they ended up hating.
Xu Wei's life is a legendary life. He was born miserable, and he saw clearly the warmth and cold of this world. He was filial and obedient, and the great Xu Mansion could not tolerate his birth mother expelling her from the house. Did Xu Wei's birth mother do something wrong? No, just because she was a concubine, a humble concubine. It didn't matter, when Xu Wei was developed, he could take her to his side and abide by filial piety; he was loyal, Hu Zongxian, he was a hero, a hero of resistance. However, the great country of the Heavenly Dynasty, one by one gentlemen and saints, could not tolerate this general who saved all the people from water and fire. Did Hu Zongxian do anything wrong? No, but he is a strict party, and the strict party is doing nothing, all of them are misleading the country and the people, and they should all be swept away. Xu Wei had no choice but to die Mingzhi. He committed suicide nine times!
The world has given Xu Wei too much coldness, no one understands him, and no one deserves to understand him.
Resources
Ming Guan xiu - "Ming Shilu"
Qing Zhang Tingyu - History of the Ming Dynasty, Zhonghua Bookstore