The water rolling in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves exhaust the heroes. Success or failure turns empty. The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red a few degrees. I believe that readers and friends are not unfamiliar with these few poems. Those who have watched the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" must know that this is the lyrics of the theme song of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. However, Yang Shen, the author of this poem, is estimated that many people have not heard of it.
Yang Shen was born in 1488, during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, and his father was yang Tinghe, the head of the ming dynasty. At the age of eleven, he could write close-body poems, at the age of 12 he wrote the wonderful sentence "The soul of the red pink in the Qinglou, the bone of the white sun shines on the green moss", at the age of thirteen he wrote the famous "Yellow Leaf Poem" that moved the capital, and even The first assistant at the time, Li Dongyang, bluntly said that he wanted to "make the door of the industry" and called him a little friend. At the age of 24, he became a senior in high school and worked as an editor of the Hanlin Academy, and since then he has embarked on the road of politics.
Although Yang Shen has the talent of the world, his road to politics is very difficult. Because he was a righteous man and had a literati style, even the emperor dared to scold. For example, Emperor Mingwuzong Zhu Hou played with the leopard as usual, and also wandered around the Qinglou, never paying attention to the major affairs of the state, and the hundred officials dared to be angry about it, but Yang Shen directly played it, accusing the emperor of not doing the right thing, "acting rashly, swimming without doing anything", and advising him to return to the right path. However, Zhu Houzhao always went his own way and did not listen to advice at all, and Yang Shen resigned from the government and left the dynasty in a fit of anger. Until Zhu Houzhao died in 1521, Jiajing ascended the throne, Yang Shen was also reactivated, and Ren Hanlin Academy edited and edited, and also participated in the compilation of the Records of Emperor Wuzong. However, Yang Shen often lent Jiajing the opportunity to give lectures and instilled his thoughts in him, which made Jiajing unhappy. As a result, Yang Shen, who had a straight personality, once again lost the emperor's care and could not exert his ambitions at all.
Later, Yang Tinghe and Jiajing fell out of peace, and the civil official clique headed by Yang Tinghe and the imperial power led by Jiajing fought continuously, and eventually the civilian official clique was defeated, and Jiajing won the admiration and fear of hundreds of officials through cruel means. The first assistant Yang Tinghe returned to his hometown, and the new upstarts such as Zhang Xuan and Gui Cai, who supported Jiajing, began to take power in the dprk.
As the son of Yang Tinghe and the backbone of the Civil Officials of Daming, Yang Shen was naturally indignant as soon as this matter came out. He frequently wrote letters accusing Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao of being traitors and unwilling to join them. This completely angered Jiajing, 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 Ke Jiajing directly adopted violent suppression. The anger of Yang Shen and the others was thoroughly aroused, and hundreds of scholars cried at Jinshui Bridge and Zuo Shunmen, saying, "One hundred and fifty years of national nourishment, fighting and dying righteousness, is today." "Protest with this. However, Jiajing ordered the court staff to be a hundred officials. In less than eight months, Yang Shen had been trodden three times, almost half of his life, and then directly sent to Yunnan to charge the army.
But along the way, there are many dangers. Yang Tinghe had deposed a group of people who had abused their leading merits, and these people had a grudge in their hearts and decided to pay yang Shen's father's debts, so they gathered a large number of people to snipe Yang Shen halfway. Yang Shen dragged the unhealed sick body of the court staff all the way, and on the other hand, he had to be careful of the enemy's ambush, which was really miserable. When I arrived in Yunnan, my body could not stand up.
Yang Shen spent his later time in Yunnan, experiencing six amnesties before and after, but still charging the army in southern Yunnan. However, although Yang Shen was in a borderland, he still did not forget his homeland, and on the way to visit his relatives, he encountered the rebellion of thieves, and also took more than a hundred leading servants and infantrymen with him, and his deputy envoy Zhang Zheng used a plan to break the rebels and quell the rebellion; when he heard about the unfair matter, he also wrote "Haimen Xing" and "Hou Hai Men Xing" to attack the political projects of laboring the people and hurting their wealth.
On August 8, 1559, Yang Shen died 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 lifetime, Yang Shen was known as the first talent of the Ming Dynasty, but because of his outspokenness, he offended the emperor and exiled himself in the border land for more than thirty years, which was inevitably regrettable.