01
In the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1017), Kaifeng Province received a letter.
Yin Le Huangmu of Kaifeng Province did not care at first.
At the feet of Tianzi, there are people all over the country, and something must not happen one day?
As long as it is not a homicide case, it is easy to solve.
However, when Le Huangmu opened the paper and looked at it, he was stunned at the time: because the complaint paper was to be told to the minister of the court, the judge of the public opinion of the court, rebbe Langzhong zhizhi xia zhen.
Stills from Xia Chun's "Qing Ping Le"
The evidence that he said he was corrupt and bribed was conclusive and involved many court officials.
Le Huangmu broke out in a cold sweat after reading it: Who is this, how can it have so many insider information?
Looking more closely, it was no one else who filed the complaint, it was Xia Chen's own wife, Yang Shi.
This made Le Huangmu worried: Should this matter be taken care of? Who knows if these two mouths are quarreling, this Yang clan has the impulse to expose his old man.
Let's take care of it, this matter is too involved, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the pit; but if you don't care, this woman is still waiting for herself to express herself.
Just when Le Huangmu was worried, two more women tore and came to Kaifeng Province.
One asked, one was Xia Chen's mother-in-law, and the other was Xia Chen's mother-in-law.
I haven't waited for Le Huangmu to speak.
The two women quarreled in the hall, and Le Huangmu frowned and listened for half a day before he understood:
It turned out that Xia Chen's mother-in-law had been snubbed in Xia Chen's house because her daughter-in-law had been left out, and she went to ask For an explanation with Xia Chen's old lady, and as a result, she quarreled and made trouble here.
Le Huangmu looked at Yang's report letter on the table, and then looked at the two women in the hall who were arguing, and couldn't help but sigh:
Lord Xia Chun, you are also a figure with a head and a face, how can you make things like this?
02
Xia Chun was a native of Jiangxi and his father was a soldier.
We all know that the status of military generals in the Song Dynasty is not very high, so Xia Chenghao, Xia Chen's father, pays great attention to Xia Chen's learning.
When he was four years old, Xia Chun began to read (the reading of the ancients is not like the learning content of our kindergarten now), read books, but Xia Chun This child is a real cow.
When other children were still shaking their heads in rocking chairs, "Daddy's dad is called Grandpa", people can already write poetry.
At the age of twelve, he wrote "The Endowment of the Palace", and at the age of seventeen, he wrote a poem called "Ferry", which was later seen by The Chungju Assassin Wang Peizhi and said: In the future, no one will surpass the poems written by the ferry.
Originally, I thought that Xia Chen's life would be smooth sailing.
Unexpectedly, when he was twenty years old, his father accompanied Emperor Zhenzong to personally conquer the Khitans and died gloriously, and Xia Zhen became a martyr's family.
Song Shinshu Image
At this time, Xia Chun did not have a meritorious name and no job, and in order to embody humanitarianism, Zhenzong rewarded Xia Chun with a small military attaché with no grade of "three shifts of messengers" and solved the problem of Xia Chun's eating.
But Xia Chun was not satisfied with this arrangement: If I had been fighting and killing for a lifetime, I would have been able to participate in the underworld since I was a child.
But how can we leave this environment and return to the ranks of the readers?
Xia Zhen set his sights on Li Xun, the prime minister at the time.
One day, Xia Chun stopped Li Xun on his way to work with the poems he had written for so many years:
Adult, I am a literary and artistic youth, all day long let me carry a gun to stand guard seems not to be so, you look at the poems I wrote, can you give me a change of position?
Li Xun was also good-tempered, and he was actually not angry at Xia Chen's act of reporting the situation to himself, but instead carefully looked at the pile of manuscript paper handed over by Xia Chen.
After reading it, Li Xun felt that it was really well written:
Well, it seems that you are really not suitable for the army, Ming'er I will report to the boss, wait for my letter.
03
The next day, Li Xun showed Xia Zhen's manuscript to Zhenzong:
Such a good young man should go to a post suitable for him.
Therefore, With a big wave of Zhenzong's hand, Xia Chun went to Danyang to become the deputy county magistrate.
Of course, being a small deputy county magistrate at the local level is not what Xia Chun wants, what people want is the sea of stars.
The best way to achieve this goal is to take the imperial examination, no matter how well you write poetry, it is useless to go to Tokyo and let the emperor see himself admitting himself.
Xia Chun lived up to the name of the prodigy, did a very good test, and answered the interview session in the main hall like a stream, giving Zhenzong a good impression: Okay, our company needs such a young and cultured and capable person.
Therefore, [Promoted Guanglu Temple, Tongju Taizhou.] 】
Since then, Xia Chun has begun his own different life.
The history books do not record when Xia Chun got married, but I guess it should be at this time.
After all, the gold list inscription cave house flower candle is the standard of ancient readers.
In this way, Xia Chun married everyone's girlfriend Yang Shi, and I believe that the two people must have been very affectionate when they first got married.
However, as Xia Chun's status became higher and higher, he began to be restless.
04
In 1015, when Xia Zhen was just thirty years old, it was the golden age of a man, and Xia Zhen ushered in the highlight moment of his life and became the teacher of the crown prince Zhao Zhen (Renzong).
As the old saying goes: when a man has money, he becomes bad, but in fact, he has the same status when he has power.
Looking at other people's warblers and swallows, Xia Chun was a little mentally unbalanced:
I am not less than others with any parts, why do people have little wives, I have to face this familiar face every day?
With these thoughts, Xia Chun couldn't help it and began to marry concubines (the Song Dynasty paid a high salary, the salaries of officials were relatively high, and it was not a problem to marry a few small wives)
But the things in this world have always only listened to the new people laughing, who cares about her old people crying?
With more and more concubines of his own, in Xia Chen's eyes, Yang Clan became more and more like a neighbor's aunt.
Yang Shi watched himself gradually become a stranger in this family, and he was naturally very angry:
The old lady, a yellow flower girl, follows you, gives you housework, lets you shake off your hands to do your business, and now you are bullish, do you think I have a yellow face?
Quarrels and tears became a compulsory course after the two people met, but the more Yang Clan quarreled, the more Xia Chun was cold to her, and slowly did not even bother to talk to her.
There was no way, Yang shi could only go to her mother to complain.
05
Hearing her daughter's crying and complaining, Yang's mother was also a little unhappy:
Boy, you're drifting, are you such a bully?
So I went to Xia Chen's mother: Mother, you sit down, let's talk about confidants, Barabala...
But Xia Chen's mother was not a "child-carer demon", and she shook her own mother in one sentence:
Man, who doesn't have three wives and four concubines? My son is now a big man, how many little wives do he have?
In this way, the two sons who once loved each other tore their faces, and people said that the deeper the love, the deeper the wound, and the deeper the wound, the deeper the hatred:
Well, since I can't save your heart, I can't get it, just ruin him, let's play together.
So there was the scene at the beginning.
06
Le Huangmu pondered for a moment: Xia Zhen is the boss Song Zhenzong's red man, we can't handle this matter, just report it, see what the boss himself handles, right?
So Le Huangmu reported the matter to Song Zhenzong.
After Zhenzong understood, he was very annoyed: Xiao Xia, are you still the prince's teacher? How can you make such a scandal? Up and down so many eyes staring at it, my special mother is trying to shield you can't do it.
So he ordered The Imperial Observatory to investigate.
If you think about it, Xia Chun can do this position, naturally it is indispensable to offend people, even if you don't offend others, I don't know how many people expect you to have something to do and see your jokes.
Besides, if these things of Xia Chun could withstand investigation, this investigation would almost not have ripped off Xia Chun's pants.
Denial cannot be denied, and Zhenzong cannot be partial if he wants to.
Soon, a will was passed down: Xia Chun, as a leading cadre, relaxed his strict requirements for himself, caused such a scandal in his life style, was no longer suitable for serving as a senior leader, and was sent to Huangzhou to reform his thinking.
At the same time, under the auspices of Zhenzong, Yang and Xia Zhen divorced - the marriage has reached this point, and what does it mean to go on any further, it is better to disperse.
07
On the day xia chun left the capital, there was a fine drizzle in the sky, and Yang Shi watched him walk farther and farther away in the rain, and suddenly remembered a poem by Li Shangyin in his mind:
This can be a memory, but it was already lost.
Alas, love is hard to harvest at the end of the water!
PS
After leaving the capital, Xia Chun began an eight-year career as an expatriate.
It may also be that he was far away from the lights of the imperial capital, Xia Chen began to seriously think about what he had done in the past, began to work hard to change himself, and everywhere he went, he did his best to do practical things, and the people were very loved.
Portrait of Song Renzong
It was not until 1025 that Emperor Renzong, who had already ascended the throne, recalled Xia Zhen, who later became a privy councillor and was made a Duke of England.
In 1051, Xia Zhen died of illness and was given the nickname "Wenzhuang".
The History of Song defines Xia Chun as a traitor:
Excellent skill, eager to forge ahead, happy to make friends, any number of skills, tilting and repetition, the world thinks that it is adulterous.
However, this is not to blame Xia Chen, how many people in the world can hold on to the temptation of power?