A "Great Song Palace Words", let everyone follow "Qing Ping Le", once again intoxicated with that elegant, gentle and gentle Northern Song Dynasty time.
It was the golden age of a Chinese literati, and the outspoken advice of the scholars in the court would not only not have the disaster of killing themselves, but would easily cause reflection on the pilgrimage, and even look at it with astonishment.
At the same time, it was also an era of spurts of songwriting masterpieces, and countless migrant rioters recorded the sigh of an inch of time and an elegy of life with unique pen and ink.
Among this group of literati doctors, Yan Shu can be described as outstanding.
When he was young, Yan Shu once worried his family, because when he was five years old, he could not run and jump freely, and he did not have the cleverness of the neighbor's child to jump around alive.
Until one day, he followed his father to the beach to play. Under the warm sun, a bird flaunts its wings and suddenly lands on the soft sand, leaving a clear paw print.
Seeing this, Yan Shu actually broke free of his father's embrace, ran quickly to the paw print, and shouted: "Daddy! Come and see, it's the word! ”
After that, his neighbors called him a prodigy.
By the age of seven, Yan Shu was already proficient in chanting poetry, and his ability to compose words and sentences was unimaginable to many adults.
As the name of "prodigy" gradually spread, Zhang Zhibai, the inspector of Jiangnan, developed a strong interest in Yan Shu.
Mo can see that the Northern Song Dynasty is more than a thousand years old, but similar to the current "junior class" and "genius class" had a rudimentary form at that time. It was through this way that Yan Shu obtained Zhang Zhibai's special recommended treatment.
In 1005, at the age of fourteen, Yan Shu took the temple examination with more than a thousand candidates.
In that era of "the book has its own golden house", thousands of readers have a cold window for ten years, in order to get ahead of the gold list title.
The candidates who can enter the temple examination are naturally the dragons and phoenixes among the thousands of people.
And Yan Shu, who had not yet reached the weak crown, had easily stood in the highest level examination hall in the country and accepted the consideration of the ultimate challenge.
A prodigy is a prodigy, a stroke of a pen, a one-step effort, and the problem of making others scratch their ears and scratch their cheeks in the clouds and waters.
Two days later, Yan Shu took the re-examination and could have passed easily, but he chose another seemingly difficult path.
The heart has the right way and the heavens are self-expansive
Throughout the ancient and modern times, there are countless young and talented people. And to be gifted while maintaining a solid and loyal character is a sage who cannot be sought.
The topic of the re-examination was already encountered by Yan Shu. If he pretended to be deaf and dumb, pushing the boat along the water, passing the exam would be a breeze.
However, he walked up to Emperor Song Zhenzong and said with great sincerity: "Your Majesty, I have done this question before, please change the topic and test me." ”
Song Zhenzong listened, and long Yan was immediately pleased.
In his opinion, this young man is not only talented, but also loyal in character, and can be entrusted with heavy responsibilities in the future.
After passing the examination, Song Zhenzong immediately granted Yan Shu the post of provincial orthography. Since then, Yan Shu has officially stepped into the bottomless eunuch sea.
Is all this Yan Shu pondering the Divine Will, and then deliberately creating a hypocritical image in another way?
Of course not, because judging from Yan Shu's various deeds in the future, his loyalty and goodness were completely rooted in the depths of his heart.
Soon after entering the dynasty as an official, Yan Shu was transferred by Emperor Zhenzong of Song to accompany the prince to study. This prince was the future Emperor Renzong of Song.
According to age, Yan Shu and Song Renzong were similar, and there was no generation gap at all; according to Cai Xue, another prince named Cai Bojun accompanied yan shu, and even more famous.
According to common sense, a mountain is bound to tolerate two tigers. Between Yan Shu and Cai Bojun, only one person will be reused in the end.
After Emperor Renzong of Song succeeded to the throne, he vigorously promoted Yan Shu, but was slightly indifferent to Cai Bojun.
In this regard, the arrogant Cai Bojun was naturally not convinced, so he ran to Song Renzong to explain: "Your Majesty, on the gift of talent, what point can I compare with Yan Shu?" Why do you prefer him alone? ”
Song Renzong listened, smiled slightly, and said:
Remember when you were a kid?
Whenever I was willful and playful, you always coaxed me with rhetoric and followed my nature, but Yan Shu just told me what to do according to the rules, and advised me when necessary.
Therefore, I think he is more pure and worthy of a heavy responsibility than yours.
Cai Bobi listened, was speechless, and had to leave in sorrow.
It can be seen that both the former emperor Song Zhenzong and the current Song Renzong were particularly attached importance to Yan Shu because of their virtue.
After the death of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, the chancellor Ding Wei successfully sidelined the chancellor Kou Zhun, intending to bypass Empress Dowager Liu E and the young Emperor Renzong of Song and realize his ambition to monopolize power. When the civil and military officials saw the situation, they also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak out.
At this critical moment, Yan Shu stepped forward and offered Liu E and others a plan to "bow the curtain and listen to the government."
This means that when the minister reports, the empress dowager only needs to listen quietly through a curtain, and the minister does not have to reveal his true identity. In this way, Ding Wei's ambition to monopolize the government could be crushed.
This strategy of coexistence of wisdom and morality made Ding Wei and his henchmen grit their teeth in hatred, but they were helpless, and Yan Shu was also deeply favored by Liu E and Song Renzong.
However, the sun-drenched career has gradually been wrapped in an indescribable darkness.
Moving left and right is ruthless
Yan Shu's official career is most appropriate to describe it as "three ups and three downs".
The first fall was because Liu E was prevented from promoting Sun Qi.
Privy Councillors belonged to the highest military rank in the Northern Song Dynasty, similar to the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States.
The reason why Empress Dowager Liu E vigorously promoted Sun Qi was also due to a past event.
Many years ago, Song Zhenzong and she were in love with each other, but Song Zhenzong avoided gossip and let Liu E live in his subordinate official residence for fifteen years.
This subordinate is Sun Qi.
Therefore, since Liu E became empress dowager, she has been looking for suitable opportunities to give back to this great benefactor.
However, when she proposed to let Sun Qi serve as a privy councillor, Yan Shu strongly opposed it, saying that Sun Qide was not worthy of the position and could not bear such a heavy responsibility.
This tossing and turning made Liu E's good impression of Yan Shu all disappear, and the relationship between the two of them also underwent subtle changes.
One day, a servant covered his mouth and stumbled to Liu E to complain: "Empress Dowager, you can give the little master!" ”
Liu E saw that he looked in pain, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, and he was busy asking what had happened, and the servant explained: "Lord Yan was in a hurry, and knocked out the front teeth of his subordinates. ”
When Liu E heard this, she was immediately enraged and suggested that Yu Shitai impeach Yan Shu.
In 1027, Yan Shu ushered in the first depreciation in his life. However, the distance is not far, just to Ying Tianfu.
Soon after, Yan Shu was recalled to the dynasty by Emperor Renzong of Song and served as a servant of the Imperial History And Punishment Department, and then rose slightly. But who could have imagined that Yan Shu would "get married twice" with the old enemy Liu E.
Liu E was preparing to pay homage to the Taimiao Temple, and she was persuaded to wear a crown to attend.
In this regard, Liu E specifically went to ask Yan Shu, but Yan Shu resolutely disagreed and took out the relevant parts of the Zhou Ceremony to try to persuade Liu E.
Originally, Liu E just wanted Yan Shu to nod his head and agree, who knew that Yan Shu actually moved his true character and gave Liu E a lesson in a meticulous manner, which made the relationship between the two worse.
Soon, Liu E died of illness, and Song Renzong pro-government.
It is not known whether it was Liu E's dying instructions or Song Renzong's need to eliminate the empress dowager's henchmen, in short, after Song Renzong took the throne, Yan Shu was relegated to Bozhou in Anhui.
Who would have thought that Yan Shu would still be recalled by Song Renzong shortly after. Moreover, because of his meritorious service against jin guo, Yan Shu's official position once reached the level of prime minister, which can be described as an extremely popular subject.
The dream of many readers to "cultivate oneself and rule the country and the world" has been completely collected in him alone.
However, this is not the end of Yan Shu's official career.
In 1044, yanshu was impeached by Sun Fu, Cai Xiang, and others for writing an epitaph for Concubine Li Chen.
Arranging for Yan Shu to write an epitaph was many years ago.
At that time, Empress Dowager Liu was still there, and Yan Shu felt that it was inconvenient to write the fact that Concubine Li Chen was the biological mother of Song Renzong, otherwise it would make the relationship between the empress dowager and Song Renzong sensitive.
Therefore, he only wrote that Concubine Li Chen had a daughter, and did not mention his son Song Renzong.
Who would have thought that Sun Fu and Cai Xiang would catch up here and tell Song Renzong:
Your Majesty, we all know that Concubine Chen is your biological mother, but this Yan Shu is not written in the epitaph at all.
When Song Renzong heard it, his heart was also full of mixed feelings: This Yan Shu, from a young age, treated him like a brother, did he not know the past of the court? But he pretended to be confused with understanding, which was really unreasonable.
As a result, Yan Shu once again paid the price for his loyalty and steadfastness, and was relegated from the central decision-making circle at the age of half a hundred.
Mountains and rivers know where
With Yan Shu's brilliant mind, it is not difficult to deeply understand the official art of pushing cups and changing cups and changing cups and meeting the source left and right.
However, in that era of stormy meetings, he chose to stick to his inner standards.
After being degraded for the first time, Yan Shusuo set up a academy in Yingtianfu, not only holding up the meritocracy and hiring young people with real talents and practical learning as teachers, but also running schools extensively, trying to restore the culture and order destroyed by the war.
After five generations and ten kingdoms, the central plains land can no longer withstand the torment of soldiers and horses. And because of the frequent wars and social unrest, the possibility of collapse and happiness has also increased.
At this time, Yan Shu, who seemed to be unhurried and unhurried, invisibly laid the cultural foundation of the Song Dynasty.
Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi and others were all Proud Protégés of Yan Shu. At that time, Ying Tianfu Academy was already on a par with Yuelu Academy and White Deer Cave Academy, and was called the "Four Great Academies of the Northern Song Dynasty".
In Ouyang Xiu's view, this teacher had important merits in the inheritance and restoration of culture, so much so that he wrote: "Since the five generations, the world has been abolished and prospered since the beginning of the public."
This Taiping prime minister who had been floating and depressed for fifty years did not passionately ask for the people's lives as Wang Anshi did, nor did he vow to sweep away the Xiongnu's arrogance of breaking Loulan.
In the small building incense path, between the pavilions and pavilions, he spent his life in such a good way.
"Helpless flowers fall, déjà vu swallow returns" He was sad and sad, but he fell into the name of a disease-free groan.
"When there is poverty at the end of the world, there is only the endless place of acacia", he is delicate and thoughtful, but he is also said to have no ambition.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Cao San, because he silently continued the policies of his predecessor, Xiao He, was once attacked and insulted by many people.
Many times, not tossing is a kind of silent enterprising, with a stable roundness, to complete the healing of wounds, planting the cause and effect of prosperity.
"Last night the west wind withered the green trees, went up to the tall building alone, and looked at the end of the world", can write a sentence that makes Wang Guowei shoot the case, and how can he be a mediocre person who enjoys peace?
Before the old man died, he also advised his envoys to tell Song Renzong that he was just a small illness and a small itch, which quickly healed, and did not bother the emperor to visit him personally.
A few days later, Yan Shu closed his eyes forever, at the age of sixty-four.
The supreme wisdom, the vulgar song, the desperate situation, the wonderful life, looking back at the road that Yan Shu has traveled, it really deserves the evaluation of those eight words: special nature is simple and simple, and the cultivation is clean and frugal.
The background of the Song Dynasty's disciples' hearts that flew freely and was warm as jade was probably buried in the academy of Ying Tianfu.
Author | Star sea dust, returnee entrepreneur, film and television screenwriter
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