Mr. Bing Xin once said: "Can read, good reading, good reading." Recently, the author has been committed to recommending ancient high-quality history books to everyone. Recently, the author had the privilege of reading the historical works of the Ming Dynasty scholar Feng Menglong, and the "Wisdom Tank" known as the "Petty Bourgeois Zhi Tongjian" and felt particularly rewarded.
In this "Think Tank", we are introduced to the Xin Abandon disease that is completely different from our impression, a fierce and black-bellied Xin Ren Disease.
As we all know, Xin Washi was a patriotic poet during the Southern Song Dynasty and a representative of the bold lyricists. In addition to being quite literate, Xin Zhiyi was also rich in strategy and was a general. In his early years, Xin Zhiyi participated in the anti-Jin armed forces and was a great hero who defended his family and the country.
At the time of Xin's birth, the Central Plains had fallen into the hands of the Jin Dynasty. Although his grandfather Xin Zan served in the Jin Dynasty, he always hoped to have the opportunity to take up arms and fight the Jin people to the death, because Xin Ren's ancestors and the Jin people had a feud with the Jin people, and often took Xin Ren Disease to "ascend to the heights and look far away, pointing out the mountains and rivers".
In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing (1161), the Jin lord Yan Liang invaded the south on a large scale, and Xin abandoned the disease to join the anti-Jin forces led by Geng Jing. However, due to the betrayal of the traitor Zhang Anguo, Geng Jing was unfortunately tortured and executed by the Jurchen nobles. In order to avenge Geng Jing, the flesh-and-blood Xin Abandoned Disease led 50 cavalry into the enemy camp guarded by tens of thousands of people, and captured the traitor Zhang Anguo on the spot. Subsequently, Xin abandoned the disease and escorted Zhang Anguo back to the Southern Song Dynasty and handed him over to the imperial court for execution.
Out of appreciation for Xin's abandonment, Emperor Gaozong of Song made him a judge in Jiangyin and began his career as an eunuch in the Southern Song Dynasty, when he was only twenty-five years old. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Xin abandoned the disease and advocated the Northern Expedition to recover the Central Plains. Therefore, he repeatedly went to books and devoted all his life to writing military works such as "Ten Treatises on Meiqin" and "Nine Discussions", which caused a huge sensation among Jiang Zuoshilin. However, the cowardly and incompetent Southern Song Dynasty had no intention of the Northern Expedition at all, and the letter that Xin abandoned his illness and painstakingly wrote was like a mud cow entering the sea, without any news.
After that, the Southern Song Dynasty sent Xin Touyi to Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and other places to serve as an important local official such as a transport envoy and a pacifying envoy, responsible for controlling the barren government and rectifying public order. Saying that he attaches importance to his ability to govern the country is actually to make him retreat to the second line and stay away from the border.
Although his career is frustrated, Xin Zhiyi still does not change his heroic style, and especially likes to make friends with the world's handsome. In Jiangnan, Xin renounced a friend named Chen Liang. This Chen Liang is not small, he is a famous Chinese writer and thinker, and the founder of the famous school "Yongkang School". Since he was a child, he liked to discuss military affairs, point out the country and mountains, talk and laugh, and have similar interests with Xin Zhiyi.
One day, Chen Liang rode a horse to visit Xin Abandoned Disease, and when he passed a small bridge, Chen Liang planned his horse three times, but the horse instead took three steps back. Chen Liang was furious when he saw this, and after getting off the horse, he cut off the horse's head on the spot, and then strode forward. Xin Zhiyi happened to see this situation in the restaurant and was greatly surprised, so he immediately sent someone to greet Chen Liang. And it is precisely because of this incident that Xin And Chen Liang have become the best friends.
Decades later, in the third year of Jiatai (1203), the Southern Song Dynasty's main war faction rose up, and the 64-year-old Xin Shuyi was reinstated as a pacifying envoy in Shaoxing Province and eastern Zhejiang, responsible for the defense of the Huainan generation. At this time, Chen Liang was still poor and did not know. One day, Chen Liang, at the invitation of Xin Renjie, went to visit his mansion.
When old friends meet, they naturally have to drink more drinks. Just as the so-called "drunkenly picking up the lamp and looking at the sword, dreaming back to blowing the horns and camping", Xin Abandoned Disease and Chen Liang talked about the world and the earth, and involuntarily talked about the situation between the north and the south. Between the drunkenness and the heat of the ear, Xin Shuyi talked about the military situation of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, and explained how the Southern Song Dynasty should fight if it wanted to recover the lost land in the north.
After that, Xin Qicheng suddenly said solemnly to Chen Liang:
"I don't think Lin'an (today's Hangzhou) is suitable to be the capital, the terrain around Qiantang is particularly dangerous, and as long as the northerners occupy Niutou Mountain, they can block the soldiers of the Qin King." At the same time, the water of the West Lake can also be used to irrigate the city, and then the people of Lin'an will turn into fish and turtles. ”
In this regard, Chen Liang repeatedly said yes, but his face was very ugly. That night, Xin abandoned chen liang to stay in the mansion, but Chen Liang tossed and turned, and could not sleep at all. Chen Liang thought that Xin Had always been cautious and reticent, but now he said a lot of things he shouldn't say after drinking. The terrain of the mountains and rivers in Lin'an, but the military secrets, how to get it leaked out. Now that he already knew these secrets, once Xin Renjie woke up drunk, he would inevitably kill himself and kill himself!
The more Chen Liang thought about it, the more wrong he became, so he quickly rolled over and got out of bed, stole Xin's horse, and fled into the wilderness. When Xin woke up, he really regretted what he said yesterday. However, when he tried to find Chen Liang, he found that he had already escaped, and he couldn't help but be shocked.
Soon after, Xin received a letter from Chen Liang. In his letter, Chen Liang hinted at what Xin had said that night, and at the same time borrowed 100,000 taels of money from Xin to save the emergency. In desperation, Xin had no choice but to hand over the money to Chen Liang as much as he could.
In the eyes of others, Chen Liang seems to be making some fuss and living in the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Not only did he steal Xin's horse, but he also extorted 100,000 taels of money from him, which was really obscene. However, Feng Menglong believes that Chen Liang is a "wise" person. In this regard, Feng Menglong said:
"The unfulfilled of the dark is the business of the one who is clear; the dream of the dark, the awakening of the bright; the misdirection of the dark, the destiny of the bright." By what can be known to man cannot be known, and what is broken cannot be broken. ”
Feng Menglong believes that for the things that the dark people do not understand, the wise people are well aware; for the unpredictable things of the dark people, they are all things that the bright people are very sure of. Therefore, wise men can see what the wise cannot see, and can do things that ordinary people cannot decide.
Chen Liang is well aware of the principle that "mercy does not control the soldiers, and people are not in charge of government." Although Chen Liang and Xin Abandoned Disease were friends with Mo Rebellion, it was indeed no small matter to leak military information. People's hearts are unpredictable, who knows if Chen Liang will intentionally or unintentionally leak out the events of that night? If the enemy is made aware of this, the consequences will be quite serious. As the commander-in-chief of the party, Xin Zhiyi would never favor favoritism, and it was likely to find a reason to put Chen Liang out.
And Chen Liang was also very clever, grabbing the horse and fleeing, so that Xin Abandoned Disease could not seize the opportunity to extinguish his mouth. Afterwards, Chen Liang "extorted" 100,000 yuan from Xin Renjie, which was actually a very wise act. The incident of the night was that Xin Abandoned's drunken gaffe, and Chen Liang was only forced to listen. Because of Xin Renyi's mistake, it caused Chen Liang's killing disaster, which was of course Xin Rencheng's own fault. Wouldn't Xin feel guilty?
In fact, Chen Liang asked Xin for money, not really to blackmail him with this matter, but to eliminate Xin's guilt. Its main purpose is to maintain a relationship with Xin Shuyi. After this unpleasant incident, the relationship between Xin Anderson and Chen Liang was indeed as friendly as before.