In 303 AD, the Central Plains were being burned by soldiers, and the Literary Circle of the Western Jin Dynasty was also in turmoil.
A forty-three-year-old man, taking off the general's robes, walked calmly to the execution ground under the gaze of the soldiers and civilians.
He had moved the world because of his article, but he did not expect that the last word he left for the world was a desperate letter with sad words.
On the day of his execution, the fog was bridged, the ground was flat and snowy, and it seemed that the heavens were also lamenting the fall of this literary superstar.
The general who was slandered and died was the great writer Lu Ji, known as the "Ying of Taikang".
Lu Ji, who has amazing talent, could have lived in seclusion in Wuzhong with his friends and achieved amazing articles between pushing cups and changing cups; however, he thought that he could mobilize thousands of masters with the power of a thousand jun pens, blindly abandoning Wen Congwu, and eventually becoming a victim of the royal power dispute in the chaotic world.
Perhaps, the tragedy of Lu Ji began from the moment he could not recognize himself.
Although Chu has talent, Jin is practical
The name zhenguan right, majestic Yi Jiangdong.
Lu Ji was born in Jiangdong, his grandfather Lu Xun once commanded the Battle of Yiling, defeated the invincible Liu Bei with a fire, and his father Lu Kang was also a famous general of a generation.
Jiangdong people Jie Di Ling, Lu clan as a general, such a background, so that Lu Ji appeared on the scene with its own aura.
He inherited the famous general temperament of his father's generation, and also had his own unique literary style, and at a young age, he was already famous in the world.
Taking over his father's soldiers and horses, and extending Sun Wu Guozuo, seems to be the trajectory of the fate of this family prince.
However, when he was twenty years old, his fate took a huge turn - the Jin army crossed the Yangtze River, and the Wu lord Sun Hao surrendered, and the whole world returned to Sima Shi.
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Before that, Lu Ji's two older brothers had already died fighting against the Jin army.
Seeing that the foundation of his father's dismal management and his brother's sacrifice was lost, Lu Ji was deeply saddened and indignant.
Although Lu Ji was deeply saddened by the pain of the fall of the country and the wounds of his relatives, he was powerless to return to heaven, so he had to take his two younger brothers to live in seclusion in his hometown and heal himself by studying behind closed doors.
This cain is ten years.
During his seclusion, Lu Ji wrote the famous work "The Theory of Defending Death".
In the article, he dreamed several times of sun Wu's heyday of "alien spokes, fierce warriors like a forest", while remembering his homeland, while scolding Sun Hao, who surrendered.
Although Lu Ji was bent on living in seclusion, it was a pity that he still failed to achieve his wish.
In order to consolidate power, Sima Shi devoted himself to wooing the literati, and after winning over a large number of literati who originally belonged to the Cao Wei regime, he quickly set his sights on the great talent who was once famous in Jiangdong.
Therefore, a letter of edict enlisted land to enter the DPRK as an official.
All of Lu Ji's sufferings were originally caused by Sima Shi, and he naturally did not want to serve the enemy; but it had been ten years since Wu's death, and the world that Sima Shi had taken care of was still in good order.
Therefore, when he saw this edict, Lu Ji still had the hope of entering politics in his heart.
After repeated entanglements, he chose to answer the edict and set off with his younger brother Lu Yun to the capital Luoyang.
On the way to Luoluo, Lu Ji's heart was full of worries about being far away from home and uncertain:
The sense of sadness touches the object, and the contemplation is lingering.
Standing forgetting his hometown, Gu Ying was miserable and self-pitying.
But as soon as he arrived in Luoyang, he ushered in the highlight of his life.
He and his brother visited Dr. Zhang Hua, a highly valued minister who had heard of Erlu's talent, and the three of them saw it as before.
Zhang Hua looked at the Lu brothers who had come from afar and said with joy:
"The Battle of Wuwu, the Second Jun!"
Zhang Hua's extended reputation plays a crucial role in the career of the two brothers.
The previous confusion and anxiety were swept away, and Lu Ji began to aspire to praise the king and restore the glory of his father.
Strive for the danger of the country, do your best to be a mediocrity
Lu Ji, who had just arrived in Luoyang, in order to quickly establish a firm foothold, took his younger brother to join the nephew of The Empress Jia Nanfeng, Jia Mi.
This Jia Mi was also a talented man who was keen to make friends with the celebrities of the time. In addition to the Lu brothers, his men also gathered Zuo Si, who wrote "Three Capitals", Shi Chong, a showman of wealth, and Pan An, an idol representative of "Throwing Fruit and Winning Cars".
They also called them "Twenty-Four Friends", which can be called "the Top Stream Heavenly Regiment of the Western Jin Dynasty".
These people often drank and wrote in Shi Chong's private residence, Jingu Garden, and it can be said that at this time, Only luxury was left in Lu Ji's poems, just like his life in Luoyang:
The windows are dusty, and the clouds are flying.
The beauty caresses the piano, and the hands are clear and idle.
And writing poetry to please Jia Mi is the top priority of the "Twenty-Four Friends". In order to stand out from it, Lu Ji not only wrote a group of poems for Jia Mi, but also did not forget to compliment Jia Mi's grandfather in a roundabout way:
Only Gong Dazai, the second ancestor of the light wing.
Born to Hong, Rong Yulu.
However, despite Lu Ji's condescension and humiliation, he still can't guess the direction of the wind.
His political calculations ultimately failed.
The tragedies of most literati began with blindly engaging in politics, jia mo was like this, and so was Lu Ji.
Jia Mi was not willing to be an idle foreign relative, and soon joined forces with his empress aunt to frame the prince.
This move invisibly created an opportunity for a group of clan kings who had been coveting the throne for a long time, and now they finally had an excuse to enter the capital.
Jia Mi soon became the sword ghost of the king of the Jing Domain, and the "Twenty-Four Friends" also became birds and beasts.
Lu Ji was forced to put down his wine glasses and pens that had not yet been hot, and looked at the bloody rain and wind that had been set off overnight in Luoyang City in confusion -- he was forced to face the situation of the fall of his backers again.
This time, Lu Ji was still lucky--the King of Zhao, who had entered the capital, saw his talent and gave him the official position of Zhongshu Lang.
However, Lu Ji's Zhongshu Lang had not yet completed a year, and King Zhao was killed by king Qi who had entered Luoyang and drove away.
During the collection of King Zhao's old ministry, Lu Ji was suspected of having helped King Zhao usurp the throne because he was in an important position in Zhongshulang.
With a wave of his hand, King Qi was about to behead this top-level literary hero.
At this time, Lu Ji, who was already waiting to die, ushered in a new round of character explosion - the two clan kings interceded together, trying to reduce Lu Ji's sentence, changing his capital crime to exile, and exile met with amnesty, and finally acquitted.
After this death escape, Lu Ji, far from realizing the chaos and dangers of the Western Jin Dynasty, found the next boss he wanted to follow, the King of Chengdu.
The same king of the clan who rebelled against the King of Zhao, the King of Chengdu never took pride in his achievements, which was in stark contrast to the king of Qi who was self-righteous.
In addition, Lu Ji was saved from the death penalty by the rescue of the King of Chengdu, and at this time in Lu Ji's heart, the King of Chengdu was to let the Western Jin Dynasty regain the hope of the former prosperity.
In fact, before that, Lu Ji's friends advised him to return to Jiangdong to avoid the war.
But even if Lu Ji had just walked from the field of life and death once, he still had a kind of mysterious confidence in himself——
"The opportunity is worthy of its talents, and the Zhi Kuang world is difficult, so it is not followed."
He inherited the ambitions of his fathers, but not his keen political instincts and outstanding military talents.
He wanted to make a difference in the chaotic world. But he had never realized that the country he had been loyal to and served was in danger; the masters he had tried so hard to assist were all weak.
Even he himself was by no means the talent of Wang Zuo, who had saved the world.
It was in this way that Lu Ji began his military career in this misty understanding of the situation and himself.
The dog chased cai, and the crane whirled at Hua Ting
Under the command of the King of Chengdu, Lu Ji transformed himself from a literati and a death row prisoner to a metropolitan governor with 200,000 heavy troops.
He thought that he could finally follow the example of his father, go out to the sound of drums, lead a strict and grand army, and fight a victory that would be enough to turn things around.
However, in the battle of the river bridge, the land plane was defeated and returned. Most of the 200,000 troops were dead bones, corpses were piled up, and the river was stagnant.
In terms of actual combat, the land plane is a paper soldier; in terms of managing the army, the land plane is even more difficult to convince the public.
As a foreigner, he was despised from the beginning. Some of his subordinates even openly provoked: "Are you a southern barbarian who is also worthy of being a governor?" ”
Even Lu Ji's subordinates couldn't look at it anymore and persuaded Lu Ji to kill this young general who didn't take Du Zhi seriously.
However, Lu Ji did not know what considerations were out of it, and even rejected this reasonable suggestion.
As a result, this person became more and more stubborn, not only spreading rumors everywhere in the army that "the land plane will rebel," but even disobeying the command of the land plane on the battlefield, and the light army advanced alone and even destroyed the whole army.
Lu Ji has been in office for a long time, and he has lost soldiers and generals one after another, which has long caused dissatisfaction among the people, so everyone said in the ear of the King of Chengdu every day that Lu Ji "has different aspirations", and even the generals in the army came out to make perjury.
The reaction of the King of Chengdu also proved that Lu Ji's knowledge was unknown.
In the hearts of others, the "light of the rejuvenation of the Western Jin Dynasty" in Lu Ji's heart was nothing more than a mediocre lord who was "well-advised and full of villains."
He no longer remembered the friendship with Lu Ji, and as soon as he issued a military order, he would send Lu Ji to the guillotine.
This time, no one came out to save the land plane anymore. This literary general, who was wrapped up in the torrent of the times and repeatedly hit a wall, finally ushered in the end of his fate.
Lu Ji, who was standing on the execution ground, looked at the two sons who were tied up with him behind him, and issued a dying sigh: "Huating Crane, how can you hear it again!" ”
Huating was the place where he and his brother lived in seclusion at that time. At this time, Lu Ji must have been full of remorse and remembered the advice of his friends at that time.
This scene is the same as the Qin Dynasty Prime Minister Li Si's exclamation of his son on the execution ground.
He Ruo led it first, so that he could hide with the clouds and cranes.
These loyal servants who tried their best to assist the lord, but in the end they could not avoid being slandered and died, were certainly worthy of lamentation, but such an ending was undoubtedly the result of their own choice.
The Book of Jin comments on Lu Ji's death, bluntly stating that the reason is that "wisdom does not catch it".
Even if Lu Ji can write splendid articles, he still can't write his own life.
The tragic life of a literary hero has long been laid.
The wisdom of being in a chaotic world does not lie in having the talent of wenguan for thousands of years, but in: recognizing the situation, recognizing the self, knowing how to advance and retreat, knowing the wisdom of others, and knowing the self.
Misplaced wisdom can only be foolish; sober cognition is the right way.
May we all have the wisdom of self-knowledge and can make the most appropriate choices in the face of the ups and downs of life.
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| Lingjun, severe secondary two disease, preacher of small faith.
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