Author: Wang Miao
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > Gaojie Gengsuke, both intentional and beneficial</h1>
Luo Yin's discipline is resolute and passionate, and the sublime is unique. Perennial wandering on the rivers and lakes, long-term contact with the bottom of society, added to his perceptual experience of the people's difficulties. The feeling of ji shi who spoke for the people became Luo Yin's inner moral consciousness.
In the second year of Tang Jingfu (893), Qian Wei, who had just been appointed by the imperial court as the envoy of the Zhenhai Jiedu and the assassin of Runzhou, wanted to express his gratitude, and the first draft was written to solicit the opinion of Luo Yin, the secretary of the Jiedu. Luo Yin found that this first draft was praising himself and boasting about the wealth of western Zhejiang in accordance with the conventional routine, and he could not help but say to Qian Wei: "Now that we have just stopped fighting on our side, the people are waiting to recuperate, and the imperial court's appetite for money is not small, if it is played according to this first draft, the imperial court will probably ask us to increase the tribute, right?" Therefore, the relevant text of the first draft was changed to "the weather is cold and the elk often swim, and the sun is twilight and the cattle and sheep are not down." Luo Yin was worthy of being a master of writing, and he also had the feeling of compassion for heaven and people, and he reversed the style of self-care and self-praise and did not care about Li Min, avoiding the excuse of sending tribute to the imperial court.
(Luo Yin Stele Forest)
In the first year of Tianyou (904), the news that Tang Zhaozong Li Ye was killed by Zhu Wen in the palace reached Jiangdong, and the Wu king Qian Wei was deeply troubled: on the one hand, Zhu Wen had the crime of killing the king, and Yu Li should return a piece of paper, but on the other hand, the title of King of Wu was obtained by Zhu Wen's mediation in the imperial court, and at that time, Zhu Wen's power was blazing, and it seemed difficult to take care of the situation. Qian Wei asked Luo Yin's opinion at the moment of dilemma, and Luo Yin replied awe-inspiringly: "Why do you want to be a thief and be ashamed of the end of the ancient world?" That is to say, as a Tang Dynasty official, how could he bend to serve the thief of the country who killed the king, and bear the infamy of eternity? He told Qian Wei that he should hold high the banner of righteousness and send troops to recruit Zhu Thief to avenge Emperor Zhaozong.
Could it be that the Li Tang Dynasty gave Luo Yin great benefits? It should be known that the most splendid years of Luo Yin's life were spent on the road to Chang'an, and the newly built Zhu Wen Imperial Court also wanted to recruit Luo Yin as a counselor when he sealed Qian Wei as the King of Wu. However, he was rejected by Luo Yin, how could he change his original intention for an official position? Although Qian Wei did not follow Luo Yin's advice in the end, Luo Yin's heart did not forget Tang's awe-inspiring righteousness, which made Qian Wei deeply admired. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when wang fuzhi was touched by this matter, when discussing the personnel affairs of the five generations in his "Reading Through the Classics", he repeatedly mentioned Luo Yin's discipline in the chaotic world at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and lamented that "great words are great."
For qian, who has the grace of knowing himself, Luo Yin often advises him. When Qian Wei was in Hangzhou, it was stipulated that the fishermen of the West Lake must pay several catties of lake fish to the QianWangfu every day, and the insufficient number must go to the market to buy to supplement it. Probably in Qian's mind, although he did not think that "this lake was opened by me", the people still had to leave "road money" to fish from here. The people called this disguised fishing tax forced by the government "making house fish", and there was a lot of resentment.
One day, Luo Yin accompanied Qian Wei to watch the "Fishing Map of The Rock Creek" hanging on the wall, and wrote a poem at the behest of King Qian. At this time, the literati's feelings for the world sprang up from Luo Yin's heart, and he responded:
Lü Wang exhibited the temple mo that year, and who is more like a straight hook fishing country?
If the teacher is born on the West Lake, he must also provide for the house fish.
When Qian Wei heard this, he couldn't help but wonder: "King Wen of Zhou, who was thirsty for talent and thirst in the Lingxi River, if he were fishing in the West Lake today, I wouldn't dare to charge him for the house fish!" Luo Yin took the opportunity to say, "Does the Great King know that there must be no sages like Taigong fishing in the West Lake today?" Qian Wei felt enlightened, and since then canceled the "making house fish".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > sharp-eyed, poisonous tongue</h1>
Luo Yin was not the kind of literati who was confined to the ivory tower. He has traveled between princes and emissaries, and has many years of experience in wandering the rivers and lakes, coupled with familiar history books, talent, natural vision, and most of the poems and articles dare to say and dare to write. Later generations of folklore called Luo Yin's mouth "emperor's mouth", which is a metaphor for what he said as if the emperor's golden mouth was holy will, and once he said it, it could not be changed.
In the second year of Tang Jingfu (893), Qian Wei recruited more than 200,000 laborers and spent four months to build the seventy-mile-long Luocheng City in Hangzhou. This Luocheng city starts from Qinwang Mountain on the side of the Qiantang River, and along the trunk of the river, it surrounds Qiantang Lake, Huoshan Mountain, Fanpu and so on. In the face of the majestic and domineering huge project, Qian Wei couldn't help but feel that the river Washiyan and the Jiangshan were eternally solid, so he led his subordinate guests to see the new city, and the voice of praise and echo was endless. When the group turned to the tower at the head of the city, Luo Yin pointed to the high platform used for observation and asked, "What is this tower used for?" ”
Qian Wei, who was on his head, laughed: "Mr. Luo, you really read too much, and you don't even know what this is for?" Of course, this is used to prevent sieges! ”
"Since it is for precautions, why not set it inward?"
"Sir, this is confused, since it is used to prevent the enemy from attacking the city, of course it needs to be set up outwards!" Qian Wei was confused when asked, thinking that what was wrong with Luo Yin, who was usually astute and talented?
"But in my humble opinion, I thought that this building was about to be set up inward."
It turned out that this was Luo Yin borrowing the direction of the city head tower to remind Qian Yong to prevent internal thieves from causing trouble.
Sure enough, ten years later, in August of the second year of Tianfu (902), the Xuanzhou generals Xu Xuan and Xu Zaisi took advantage of Qian Wei's outing to inspect Yijin City to start a rebellion.
Luo Yin's words became a proverb, and the prophecy of ten years ago was fulfilled.
Schematic map of the changes in the city walls of Hangzhou painted by Wei Songshan
Since then, the reputation of Luo Yin's "poisonous tongue" has begun to spread slowly in the rivers and lakes, so that today there are stories about Luo Yin's "poisonous tongue" in the folk. Legend has it that Luo Yin once went to Lutian, because he hated his uncle, saying "Luo Yin Lutian Su, mosquitoes go to bite uncle", mosquitoes heard wrong and went to bite Moso Bamboo, so there are many mosquitoes in Moso Bamboo Mountain. There is also a legend that Luo Yin once walked through a field and saw the peasants eating noodles, he only begged for some noodle soup feet, so he angrily poured the noodles into the field water, saying "big change of cattle leeches, small change of leeches", so these noodle soup feet became cattle leeches, ants, specially biting the farmers.
In the minds of ordinary people, Luo Yin's image of "poisonous tongue" has surpassed his writing, and has even been recorded in historical books such as "Wu Yue Bei History" and "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms".
Source: Hangzhou Yuezhi, No. 53
(To be continued)