Author: Meng Ming
There were few famous poets in the Song Dynasty, because the Song Dynasty literary circle was the world of words, and because the Tang people had almost written all the poems. There are even fewer good poets in the official arena, because poetry is ideal, poets are idealists, official politics is realistic, and when ideals meet reality, they will be shattered, Li Bai is an example. But the Song Dynasty was not without people who were both poets and evergreen trees in the officialdom. This benevolent brother was one of the four great poets of the Southern Song Dynasty: Fan Chengda.
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But everyone who knows this person begins with his famous poem "Summer Pastoral Miscellaneous Seven":
The day out of the ploughing field and the night are hemp, and the sons and daughters of the village are in charge.
Tong Sun did not solve the cultivation and weaving, and also learned to plant melons in The Sang Yin.
It depicts a scene of idyllic life. When I first read the poem, I thought the author was a farmer, but later I learned that he was a top bureaucrat, of course, this is an afterthought.
Fan Chengda was born in Wu County, Pingjiang Province, which is now Suzhou. He was born during the Jing Kang period, when the Song and Jin dynasties were frequently at war, but he was not much affected, because Suzhou was in the rear and was not affected by the war. Suzhou was a developed area at that time, and the locals lived relatively well. His personal family situation is also very good, his father was once an official to the secretary Lang, his mother was the granddaughter of the famous calligrapher Cai Xiang, and the first seventeen years of Fan Chengda's life can be described as a golden food.
But God always loves to toss people and doesn't want anyone to live comfortably for a lifetime. When he was eighteen, his parents died one after another, and his standard of living plummeted. It is said that his father is not Hai Rui, and there should be a little surplus grain in the family. However, he also has two unmarried sisters, and he must have a dowry when he marries, and for the sake of his two sisters to marry, he empties the family foundation to give his sisters a dowry, and naturally he becomes a poor egg.
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Since you are poor, you can't eat enough, and if you can't eat enough, you have to find food to eat. He was born an official eunuch, and naturally looked down on farming and trading for a living. He chose a difficult and glorious path that his father had followed: reading and examining.
He was not ambiguous, and immediately ran to a secluded temple to study hard. But reading and reading him slowly could not support it, not because he could not stand the pain of learning, but because he had no food to eat. The grain brought by the family is almost eaten, the monastery does not care about food, and although there are thousands of bells in the book, it cannot be realized immediately, and although reading can change the fate, it cannot change the fate immediately, at least it is difficult to change the current predicament.
Yuanshui couldn't quench his thirst, but his little boy was lucky because his father's good friend and next-door neighbor Wang Yanguang had come to him. The old king next door was also direct, and asked Fan Chengda: "Your father wants you to be an official, how can you fail him?" ”
Fan Chengda thought to himself, Didn't I come here to study hard to seek a meritorious name one day? It's just not enough to eat. Lao Wang saw Fan Chengda's ragged clothes and hats, and also guessed Fan Chengda's dilemma, and immediately said that he was looking for your uncle Wang when he lacked money to spend, which was not a thing. Fan Chengda was very happy after receiving this assurance, and also said that it was not a matter of being a middle-aged soldier.
Fan Chengda did not say anything big. First of all, the number of admission places in the Song Dynasty compared to the Tang Dynasty has been much larger. But this is only relatively speaking, and it is still difficult for Zhongjinshi. More importantly, he inherited the cultural genes and high intelligence of his parents, and the history records that he was "twelve years old, read the history of the scriptures, and fourteen words", and at the Zen Temple, he worked hard for another ten years, of course, full of confidence.
In the twenty-fourth year of Shaoxing (1154 AD), the twenty-eight-year-old Fan Chengda was indeed the first in one fell swoop. Young and ambitious, the road ahead is a smooth road, and a beautiful future is beckoning to him.
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After that, the imperial court assigned it an officer who joined the army, sent it to the local area to exercise, and did a good job, he was transferred back to the capital Lin'an, successively serving as the director of the Food and Drug Administration, the leader of the Organization and Propaganda Department, and the member of the Shangshu Official's department. He is ascending all the way, why is he rising fast? This brings us to his high emotional intelligence, and one thing can be seen.
When he was an official in the prefecture, the local people were reluctant to perform hard labor, and the resistance was very strong. Of course, the common people are reluctant because servitude is an obligation, both hard and not to give money. Fan Chengda deliberately alleviated his dissatisfaction, he knew that labor must be undertaken by someone, which was a national policy. He started from the aspect of money and came up with a method of righteous service: everyone has money to pay for it, and it is a powerful contribution. How to say it? Even if you don't serve hard labor, you must pay a sum of money to buy the land, and the harvest of the land will be given to those who are willing to work hard to earn money. In this way, everyone was satisfied, the government did not increase the burden, and the people were happy, and everyone was happy.
This incident can be seen in Fan Chengda's grasp of human nature and his ease of playing with the rules. If it is replaced by a stunned and unchanged implementation of the national policy, it is estimated that it is very likely that the officials will force the people to rebel, not only will it be difficult to protect the black yarn, but it is estimated that the head will also be difficult to protect.
His emotional intelligence is not only reflected in the official arena, but also in the world. When Fan Chengda was not an official, he had a friend named Mustard Yin, this friend was a poor literati, and the literati were a bit arrogant, mainly reflected in never eating food from the mouth, if you treated such a person like a flower child, you would definitely be scared back.
Fan Chengda knew this friend, so he wrote a poem "Heavy Snow Sending Charcoal and Mustard Cain" to his friend:
There is no reason to dial the ash of the stove, and I want to see that the firewood has not been opened at night.
It is not that you have to send charcoal in the snow, and you have to talk about the scenery and poetry.
This means that I am not here to give you alms, but I just think that you have written a few copies of your poems, and I do not want them in vain, and in exchange I will give you a little daily necessities. In order to make his old friend feel comfortable, Fan Chengda made helping his friend seem to be asking for a friend, which can be described as well-intentioned. If I had such a friend, I would probably cry out in pain, because it is rare to meet a friend who takes such care of my face and sends something to me.
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In this way, he relied on his emotional intelligence and IQ to soar. But life is not only about surprises, but also about fright. In the sixth year of Qiandao, he was suddenly promoted to a university scholar, and at the same time, he was made the founding duke of Danyang County. Fan Chengda panicked, because he was simply in the official helicopter and rose too fast. This is so abnormal, his contribution has not yet reached the point where he can be crowned a county duke.
But he was not allowed to think much about it, and the emperor came to him. Seeing the emperor, Lord Fan was first praised, saying that Lord Fan is really handsome, and it is doubly cool to see you. Then the subject came out, and the emperor said that I would now give your marshal a place to play, so that you would go to the Jin Dynasty on behalf of the envoys, and by the way, talk about the negotiations, and then talk about the content of the negotiations.
Fan Dacheng almost didn't faint on the spot, because the content of the negotiations was really fatal. Emperor Xiaozong of Song wanted jin to return the tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty, but this was not enough, and he actually had to modify the gift of receiving the book. The so-called gift of receiving the book is that the envoys of the Jin Kingdom came to Song, and Song Xiaozong wanted to kneel down to receive the Jin Guo Book, which made Song Xiaozong's face hang, so he had to modify it. Song Xiaozong also made it clear that this matter could not be written in the edict, and asked Lord Fan to speak out on his own, in order to reflect that this was a solemn demand of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty with a sense of justice, rather than the emperor's begging for Rong Di.
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There was no way, he had already received the emperor's benefits and had to do something. He also went on his way with a letter of state and a nervous heart. Passing through the homeland of the Northern Song Dynasty, the local people asked him when Wang Shi would return. Unable to answer, he wrote a poem called "State Bridge":
Looking south to the Suzaku Gate, north to Xuande Building, both old Royal Roads also.
North and south of the state bridge is the sky street, the father of the elderly years and so on to drive back.
Holding back tears and asking the messenger, when did the six armies really come.
Fan Dacheng actually wanted to say in his heart, you count on them, they can, can you let me come?
When he arrived in Jinguo, he made those demands with the determination to die. Jin Guo was very confused at first, and the court was silent, but soon reacted angrily, boy, you are going to provoke trouble. Minister Jin Guo took something and greeted him, and Kim Sejong said angrily, "You are too bold, is it appropriate to talk about this here?" ”
But Fan Cheng went out, and he said, "If I can't finish this matter, I will also die when I go back, it is better to die here." "Yes, death here can at least be recognized as a martyr."
Kim Sejong was caught, this is a desperate game, he did not want to have a corpse in the hall, how unlucky. After a few moments of deep groaning, he said, "I consider coming back to you."
Fan Chengda knew that the other party had given in to the greatest extent, and he would no longer insist on it, because forcing the other party would backfire. He had to go back to wash and sleep, waiting for the final result.
After consideration, Kim Sejong agreed to some of the requests and returned the mausoleum, but did not change the ceremony of receiving the book, and at the end did not forget to highly praise Fan Dacheng's performance, saying that he was a loyal subject. Song Xiaozong knew that Fan Dacheng had given him a long face, and when Fan Chengda returned, he added a purple robe to him and gave him a three-pin official. In this way, Fan Chengda not only did not become a glorious martyr, but he was actually promoted.
But within a few days of a comfortable day, he was sent to the local area, first to Guangxi to rectify the price of salt, and then to Sichuan with his guys to suppress the rebellion. It can be said that wherever the motherland has needs, he will go wherever he wants.
He was also old and a little overwhelmed, and when he was done, he asked the emperor to take the pension and leave. Although Emperor Xiaozong did not give up on this cadre, he saw that he was indeed old and let him go.
Fan Chengda experienced the bell ringing food in childhood, the difficult and hard reading in his youth, the triumph of the science field when he was an adult, and the ups and downs of the official field finally returned to his hometown after a long absence, and finally did not have to toss anymore. Ten years after Shao Xi, Fan Chengda, who had lived a stable life for ten years, died suddenly at the age of sixty-eight, and was posthumously given the title of Young Master and given the title of Wen Mu.
His life was as honest as Emperor Xiaozong's evaluation of him: "Qingnan Zhiguiguang, North Envoy Youyan, West into Bashu, East Thin Deng Hai, can be described as a virtuous laborer, it is advisable to have many diseases." To be able to get such an evaluation from the emperor, he should be able to smile at the Nine Springs.