First, success and fame, but not my original intention
The Battle of Shuishui has entered the annals of history as a classic case of the victory of the weak over the strong in the history of the Chinese nation.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated the most powerful Former Qin army at that time with 800,000 troops (600,000 infantry and 270,000 cavalry when Qin left Chang'an), causing Former Qin to collapse, and the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in charge of this campaign was Xie An.
There is also a poem that was widely circulated by Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty
"In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people."
where "
thank
", it is the door valve of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Gao Di Xie family, and it is Xie An who supports the Xie family door.
From this point of view, it seems that Xie An is a person."
Learn to become a martial arts commodity with the imperial family
"Extremely enterprising Confucian believers.
In fact, Xie An was a Taoist who advocated metaphysics, and it was not his original intention to become a master, and it was not his own wish to achieve such a fame.
Second, excellent and self-motivated people do not want to be officials
There is a Chinese folk saying: "Three years old looks big, seven years old looks old." That's true. When Xie An was 4 years old, he was favored by Huan Yi, the father of Huan Wen, a famous general of the Later Northern Expedition and a powerful minister, and sighed Xie An"
After that, when not reduced Wang Donghai
”。 Wang Donghai was the first soldier in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Huan Yi compared Xie An with Wang Cheng, although it was a bit exaggerated, but it also showed xie An's extraordinary features among children of the same age.
Mingshi Wang Meng's evaluation of the young Xie An was:
This guest
untiring
Hey, to force people.
It means that Xie An is always constantly striving, and it is too much pressure to be with him.
The famous Minister Wang Dao also attached great importance to Xie An.
Being valued by so many heavyweights shows that Xie An is indeed excellent.
In ancient times, people had to make some achievements, and there was only one way to be an official, because only being an official had a platform and the right to do things, otherwise everything could not be talked about.
However, the excellent and enterprising Xie An did not want to do things.
Xie An is talented, plus his father is too Changqing and his uncle is too conservative status, so his starting point is not low. Xie An advanced."
Three Gongs
Situ was working as a secretary in the mansion, that is, Sasuke, but soon left on the grounds that he was not in good health and could not do the job.
After that, Xie An and Wang Xizhi and other cadres traveled around the mountains and rivers, cruising in the countryside fields, talking about poetry and painting, and living happily.
Yangzhou Assassin Shi Yu bing, also from the Yingchuan Yu clan of gaomen, a foreign relative of the royal family, forced Xie An to be an official several times. Xie An had to come out to deal with it, which was to give Yu Bing face, and resigned a month later.
After that, Fan Wang, who was equivalent to the head of the organization department, asked Xie An to go to the official department, but Xie An refused; the imperial court asked him to make Shang Shulang, which was a big secretary position, and he also refused; the king of Langya also had a position of a close minister, and Xie An still did not want it.
Xie An repeatedly failed to summon and set the imperial court on fire, supposedly"
There is a division
"To Xie An"
Imprisoned for life
”。 Clear-eyed people can see this."
"Except for the official Shangshu Fan Wang, who was rejected by Xie An, it would not be anyone else. Xie An actually dared to offend Shangshu, an official equivalent to the head of the organization, obviously not wanting to enter the career.
Xie An was so happy that he simply ran to the mountains of Lin'an, sat in the stone cave, looked at the babbling canyon under his feet, and sighed leisurely:
This is far from Bo Yi!
Bo Yi starved to death in Shouyang Mountain because he did not eat the food of the Zhou Dynasty. At this time, Shouyang Mountain was far away in Jiangbei, it was no longer Jintu, it was estimated to be Xie An's pun, he wanted to be Boyi, but he couldn't do it.
Xie An not only climbed mountains, but also played with the sea, and he had played with people in the sea with boats, as a result
"The Wind Rises and Waves",
Everyone on the boat was afraid, but Xie An looked at ease. The boatman thought that Xie An liked to play like this, so he rowed to the far sea, and walked for a long time, the wind was more urgent, Xie An said slowly: "When can we go back?" Only then did the boatman row the boat back to shore.
Xie An's play is not as hard and tiring as our donkey friends today, he always carries prostitutes, eats, drinks and entertainment with many accompanying items, is a real play, not a trip, not a budget trip.
Xie An is a Taoist, not swayed by the world, nor bound by etiquette, and there are many ways in which others cannot understand his style. Even in the event of a funeral, Xie Ann also"
No
He himself explained: "
If the trajectory is not proposed, it is not what is proposed, and it is not what is desired. ”
That is, he did not act according to the Confucian set.
Xie An is a typical Zhuang Lao style, which is very different from the Confucians who admire Confucius.
Strangely, Xie An was a common man, but his fame reached the officialdom. Xie An's younger brother Xie Wan, as a general of Xizhong Lang, Yuzhou Assassin Shi and Huainan Taishou, held a heavy army to defend the side, which was considered to be famous, but such a reputation was not as good as Xie An.
In the hearts of the people of the dynasty, Xie An was the first assistant talent, that is, the prime minister above ten thousand people under one person. However, this talented person who could be the prime minister spent all day playing tricks and did not want to do things for the imperial court, which made the emperor and courtiers feel very nervous.
Third, there has been a change in thinking
Things will always change unexpectedly, and just when everyone thought that Xie An would eventually grow old in the landscape and garden and spend his life in the wine and beauty, he suddenly came out to become an official.
In 359, Xie An's younger brother Xie Wan led the Northern Expedition against Former Yan and was taking advantage of the victory to march on the army, when another general, Xi Tan, withdrew due to illness. Xie Wan thought that Xi Tan had been defeated by the Former Yan army, and suddenly became timid, he did not find out the truth and hastily withdrew his troops, coupled with the lack of peacetime to govern the army, so that the army was in a hurry, and the retreat collapsed on its own, losing many cities in vain and being deposed as a commoner.
Xie Wan was deposed, giving Xie An the heart to make a difference. Book of Jin. The biography of Xie An records:
And ten thousand deposed, An began to have the ambition to advance.
”
At this time, the general Huan Wen, the eldest son of Huan Yi, who was very optimistic about Xie An, held out his hand to Xie An, hoping that Xie An would serve as his sima .
Xie An, who had been repeatedly summoned by the imperial court in the past, finally went to his post.
Fourth, one of the reasons for the emergence
The brilliance and glory of the Xie family's court benefited from two high-ranking officials in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
One was Xie Shang, Xie An's subordinate brother, who served as the Assassin of Yuzhou for twelve years, and made great contributions to the glory of Xie's court, and he was first responsible for the "military of the five counties of Yangzhou in Yuzhou". After Huan Wen laid siege to Luoyang, Xie Shang took up the post again
"Dudu Yu, Ji, You, and the Four Prefectures"
That is, to control the military horses of the four prefectures of Yuzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou and Hezhou in the north, and to be prominent for a while. Unfortunately, at the most glorious time of his life, Xie Shang suddenly fell ill and died in 357 AD.
After Xie Shang's death, the only one who could support the Xie family was Xie An's younger brother Xie Wan, but unfortunately, 2 years after Xie Shang's death, that is, in 359 AD, Xie Wan became a Shuren.
Without the high-ranking officials of the imperial court, the Xie family will face the snub of the court, the glory and wealth will be gone, and the children of the Xie family will not be able to get ahead, and Xie An will also face the capital of losing the idle landscape and indulging in the wind.
Xie An himself did not care about the high-ranking official Houlu, he liked to be free and unrestrained, but his freedom was not a poor tour, but needed financial support.
Xie An's indulgence in landscapes and idyllic landscapes is different from the later Tao Yuanming, Who only cares about his own elegance and completely disregards the education and life of his children, so that he cannot regret it in his later years. Xie An had high expectations for Xie's children.
Xie An once asked his sons and nephews of the Xie clan:
The children are also predetermined, and they are trying to make it better
。 ”
Xie An asked rhetorically, "Do you know why Xie's sons want to ask about political affairs?" Why do you always want to train them to become good people? Xie An's question directly showed that he did not want Xie's children to be as idle as he was.
At this time, his nephew Xie Xuan replied:
For example, zhilan yushu wants to make it born in the jieting ear.
Xie Xuan's answer directly spoke to Xie An's heart: "Just like the Zhilan Yushu, I hope it grows in my own home." ”
The dialogue between Xie An and Xie Xuan directly pointed out the theme: for the sake of the next generation, it is necessary to have someone to be an official in the imperial court.
After Xie Shang died of illness and Xie Wan was deposed as a commoner, the Xie family faced a situation where there was no one in the imperial court, so Xie An was ready to go out.
In addition to that, there is another reason.
Fifth, the second reason for the emergence
Xie An is a Taoist, and the characteristic of Taoists is that they seem to do nothing when there is nothing to do, and once the country is in difficulty, they will be born to turn the tide.
At this time, Sima Huanwen had already shown his ambition to covet the Jin Dynasty, and the failure of Xie An's younger brother Xie Wan was rooted in Huan Wen's impure Northern Expedition.
Huan Wen's Northern Expedition was not really to recover the homeland of the Central Plains, but to establish his own authority over the imperial court, thus realizing his ambition to replace the Jin Dynasty.
Xie Wan actually became a victim of Huan Wen's realization of his ambitions.
No one in the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu was Huan Wen's opponent, and no one could restrain Huan Wen. Therefore, Huan Wen gradually monopolized power, but the emperor's power gradually declined.
In order to prove his legitimacy and hope to get the support of many celebrities, Huan Wen took the initiative to extend his hand to Xie An, the most famous, hoping that Xie An would serve as his sima .
Huan Wen not only affected the fortunes of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but also seriously affected the prosperity of the Xie clan.
Therefore, in order to balance Huan Wen, Xie An came out.
Sixth, the root cause of the career
After Xie An left the army, when sending Huan Wen on a mission, Zhongcheng Gaosong joked with him:
Qing tired of disobeying the will of the dynasty, lying high on the East Mountain, everyone talks to each other, An Shi refuses to come out, will be like the heavens! The heavens will be like this!
This means that in the past, Xie An repeatedly violated the will of the imperial court and was unwilling to come out, and people were talking about Xie An not coming out, how could he have the face to see the people of the world, but now, what will the people of the world think of you?
A joke from Gao Song spoke to Xie An's heart. Xie An, who never despised other people's discussions, actually"
Shame on you."
If the purpose is to save the world' lives, why should there be shame?
It is a violation of Xie An's own disdain for"
Trajectory, sublime, not as proposed.
"The heart, but for the sake of the Xie family's door, he had to come out, which is the fundamental reason for Xie An's departure."