When we think of Song Zhongyun, what do we think of? It is the image of the worried country and the people who are worried about the country and the people in the sentence "before the world is worried and worried, and then the world is happy and happy". It is still the political concept of "politics and people, and all wastes are prosperous". Or "the open-minded spirit of not being happy with things, not being sad with oneself."
Any dynasty will produce celebrities who belong to this dynasty, and they can be famous in history because their political deeds or meritorious achievements have contributed well, praised by the people of the world, and admired by future generations. Gai this was recorded in the pen and ink by historians and passed on to future generations.
The literati and inkers of ancient China are like a beautiful landscape, waving their hands and splashing ink. Their appearance added a magnificent color unique to Chinese culture to the mainland.
He lost his father at an early age and studied hard
Speaking of Fan Zhongyan, I have to mention the famous Yueyang Lou Record, as well as the famous sentence that was passed down in later generations to praise diligence and loyalty to the people, "The world is worried before the world is worried, and the world is happy after that". If you want to understand a person, you must first understand his life experience.
Fan Zhongyan was a great statesman of the Song Dynasty, a literary scholar, and one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.
When Fan Zhongyan was young, his father died early, leaving him and his mother to live together. The young Fan Zhongyun is very sensible, perhaps because he experienced the death of his father, he shouldered the burden of life early and understood the hardships and difficulties of life.
Because of this, Fan Zhongyan read very hard when he was young, and every day in addition to reading is reading, reading is as important as his breathing. Because he understands that if he wants to change his life, there is no shortcut except to study in life.
It is precisely because of his innate wisdom and hard work that Fan Zhongyan entered the army in 1015 AD and embarked on the road of "learning and excellence".
Drought fell from heaven, worried about the people
According to records, in the second year of the Song Dynasty Emperor You, Wuzhong was starving and died on the pillow road. The drought and its severity have led to different degrees of starvation of the people in the Hangzhou area, and scenes of corpses can be seen all over the streets on the road.
The drought alarmed the government and the public, and the imperial court attached great importance to this drought incident, and Song Ren sent the imperial court ministers to check the extent of the damage to the victims and the area of the distribution.
At that time, Fan Zhongyan, who was the governor of Hangzhou, was even more worried, thinking about how to solve the problem of the drought and the problem of food that the people could not afford.
With a stroke of genius, the fish and bear can have both palms
Why can't the people afford to eat? It was because at that time, businessmen in the Hangzhou area wanted to sit on the land and make refugee money.
Therefore, the price of rice has not only not decreased, but has also increased. According to the data at the time, a bucket of rice cost one hundred and twenty yuan.
How could the people afford such a high price, so this was a very difficult problem facing Fan Zhongyan at that time. It is necessary to solve the problem of food for the affected people and to ensure the basic interests of merchants.
As the saying goes, "Fish and bear paws cannot be combined", so how can we solve both the people's food problem and the merchants' interest problem?
Fan Zhongyan thought about it for a long time, and suddenly he had an epiphany and thought of a way. The reason why the merchants are reluctant to lower the price of rice is because of the price, and the reason why the victims cannot afford to buy food is also because of the price. Price is the fundamental way to solve the problem, and only by solving the problem will there be a way to implement it.
Therefore, Fang Zhongyan decided to start from the fundamental way of rice prices, so he made an unbelievable move.
When the officials of the imperial court heard the news, they wrote to impeach Fan Zhongyan, accusing him of colluding with the merchants and colluding with him. Without taking into account the actual situation of the victims, the price of rice was also raised.
Fan Gong fished, and the willing one took the bait
Businessmen across the country heard about it and thought it was profitable. They ran to Hangzhou and transported the rice to Hangzhou. Soon after, because of the large number of hoards in the granary, the supply of rice in Hangzhou exceeded the demand for a time, and the price of rice did not have a competitive advantage. Therefore, businessmen can only reduce the price of their own rice, so as not to hoard too much, slow sales should not be.
Fan Zhongyan saw this and opened the granary that had been hoarded for a long time to distribute the grain to the people. Only then did people understand Fan Zhongyan's good intentions. Praising Fan Zhongyan for being "worried and optimistic about the world's thousands of years and feet of Sutai", he is really a generation of Ming officials.
Honest and clean, for the country and the people
Fan Zhongyan is not only a very talented person, but also a good official who serves the people, truly doing what he said about worrying before the world and enjoying the world after that.
In the "Three Character Classic", a sentence "learning and excellence is the best", consciousness is that people who studied and learned particularly well in ancient times, most of the way out in the future is to become an official and go to various places to serve the people.
"Cold door out of noble son", it is precisely because the students of these cold door families are poor, so they will work harder to study, change their fate through reading, change their origins, and enhance the family's door.
Therefore, a reader like Fan Zhongyan, who works hard from the bottom by reading books, will be well aware of the hardships of the lives of the people at the bottom, no matter what natural and man-made disasters are encountered, or wars between countries, it will always be the people who suffer.
Fan Gongde, admired by future generations
As the saying goes, "Prosper, the people suffer; death, the people suffer." "To meet such a good official as Fan Zhongyan, who thinks about the people, is a blessing for the people of Hangzhou and a blessing for the Great Song Dynasty!"
The people remembered his kindness, because the icing on the cake was not as real as sending carbon in the snow. Fan Zhongyan used his wisdom to skillfully raise the price of rice and take advantage of the greedy and profit-seeking psychology of merchants to attract rice sellers from all over the country to Hangzhou, and hoarded a large amount of rice in Hangzhou.
Thus making Hangzhou's rice oversupply, cleverly restoring hangzhou's rice prices to a balanced position, we can see fan Zhongyan's ingenuity.
Even if no one understood his good intentions, Fan Zhongyan just didn't say anything and didn't defend himself. The heart is broad, the belly is grand, and the thoughts are far-reaching. Its skill in handling events, insight into the psychology of human nature, and far-sighted planning.
It was so high that it had to be admired, so much so that later generations of Zhu Xi called him "the first-class figure in the history of heaven and earth"!