HISTORY
In the primary school Chinese textbook, there is a Tang poem "Mercy Farmer": When the day of hoeing is noon, the sweat drops down to the soil. Who knows the plate of Chinese food, the grains are hard. The author's name is Li Shen. This poem is of great significance in educating generations of children to save food and to understand the hardships of peasant uncles.
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"At noon on the day of hoeing, the sweat drops down to the soil", this may be the first poem recited by many people in addition to "goose and goose", we often use it to describe the hardships of the peasant uncle growing grain.
The poet of this poem, Li Sheng, was also widely praised by us, and was known as one of the "Three Sons of Yuan and Tang" in the Middle Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, he was also a close friend of Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi, and a pioneer of the Xinlefu movement, and also occupied a place in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Sheng, a young scholar of the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, was a talented and aspiring young man who was worried about the country and the people in his youth and was extremely patriotic.
Li Shen (李绅), courtesy name Gong Chui, was a native of the ancient city of Bozhou County, born in 772 AD. In 778 AD, Li Shen, who was only six years old, lost his father and moved with his mother to his mother's house in Wuxi.
In ancient times, the idea of male superiority over female inferiority prevailed. Especially during the Tang Dynasty, when birth and door were valued, if a child lost his father at an early age, then the process of growing up was destined to be extremely difficult and arduous.
It is conceivable that the little Li Gentry, who was brought up by his single mother, suffered from the cold and warm eyes and human feelings of the world when he was young.
In the Tang Dynasty, where the productive forces were not very developed, it was not easy for ordinary people to be able to eat enough and reach the level of moderate prosperity, let alone single-parent families.
Therefore, it is foreseeable that when Li Shen was young, he wanted to have enough food and clothing to solve the problem of food and clothing, which was a very difficult problem. Li Shen, who sent people to the fence, has been studying the Four Books and Five Classics while working in the ground since he was a child, and quietly working hard in a difficult environment.
This also led to the fact that Li Shen, who often struggled on the edge of hunger, was particularly cherishing food.
It is also under such a juvenile memory, when he grows up to be young and mature, Li Shen will write: Who knows the plate of Chinese food, the grains are hard.
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In the first year of Tang Xianzong and the first year (806), the 34-year-old Li Shen finally ushered in a turning point in his life! This year, Li Shen, who had worked silently for many years, finally achieved success in his studies, and became a teacher assistant in the middle of the jinshi and supplemented the country.
In the Tang Dynasty, where the average life expectancy was only forty or fifty years old, it was too late for many people to become famous at the age of 34.
When people reach middle age and have experienced countless human feelings, Li Sheng, who has finally been admitted to the meritorious name!
Li Sheng, who has experienced the cold and warm of human feelings since childhood, has cultivated the ability to observe words and colors since he was a child, and has embarked on the road of career, and the opportunity for him to display his talents has also come.
In just over a dozen years, Li Shen started from the assistant teacher of Guozi, left and right, cheating on the top and bottom, and bravely climbing the peak of his career.
From the third year of Yuan He (808), Li Shen successively served as the History of Jiangzhou Thorn, the History of Chuzhou Thorn, the History of Shouzhou Thorn, the History of Thorn in Bian Prefecture, the Envoy of Xuanwu Army Jiedushi, and the Duke of Sikong.
In the dispute between Li Deyu, who was given the title of faction in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and Niu Li, a cow monk and a child, Li Sheng, who had a heavy heart, judged the hour and sized up the situation, devoted himself to Li Deyu, and became an important figure in the Li Party. Later, with the support of Li Deyu, he was crowned duke of Zhao by the emperor.
Every time the righteous slaughter the dog generation, the negative heart is always a reader. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the law is chaotic and the world is chaotic. Readers generally like to fight with each other, and some people in ancient times thought that the literati had misled the country.
When Liu Yuxi was serving as the Assassin of Suzhou, he was invited to attend a banquet arranged by Li Sheng, the envoy of yangzhou jiedushi at the time, and he saw a group of private prostitutes in Li Sheng's family, and one of them was a singer and a prostitute.
Liu Yuxi felt a lot of emotion, so he wrote a poem "Gift to Li Sikong Prostitute": "Gao Gong Yun Yu Gong like makeup, spring wind a song Du Wei Niang." Sikong saw strange and idle things, and cut off the Suzhou thorn intestines. "The gist of the poem is: good food and wine, beautiful songs, light songs and dances, Li Sikong has long been accustomed to it, pampering and living a luxurious and eroded life, but I Liu Yuxi is heartbroken, and I can't bear it.
With the rise of official positions, Li Shen "gradually became extravagant". It is rumored that Li Shen's consumption of a meal is often as many as hundreds or even thousands of guan. Li Shen loves to eat chicken tongue, and each meal consumes more than three hundred live chickens, and the chickens slaughtered behind the courtyard are piled up.
When Li Shen was the envoy of the Huainan Festival, he was extremely indifferent to the suffering of the people, "Li Shen took the side of the old prime minister and the town, and exercised authority", the cunning officials and traitors were all "sneaking and overlapping", and the ordinary people were even more "afraid of the unexpected, and those who crossed the river and Huaihuai were all in the crowd". This means that the people under Li Shen's rule were all trembling and uneasy all the time, so they crossed the river and fled.
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After Li Sheng's departure, he not only lived a luxurious life, but also loved to play with authority and was ruthless and unjust. According to the "Yunxi Friendship Discussion", before Li Sheng's departure, he often visited the home of a person named Li Yuanjiang, and every time he saw Li Yuanjun, he called him "Uncle". After Li Gentry's discovery, Li Yuan would take the initiative to lower his generational score because he wanted to seduce him, calling himself a "brother" and a "nephew", and Li Gentry was not happy until Li Yuan would call himself a grandson, and Li Gentry reluctantly accepted.
There was also an inspector surnamed Cui, who had a friendship with Li Shen, and once came to visit him, just staying in the hotel, and the domestic servant had a fight with a citizen. Li Shen asked what the domestic servant was doing, and the domestic servant said, "It is the servant of Inspector Cui of Xuanzhou Pavilion." Li Shen actually sentenced the servant and the citizen to capital punishment, and ordered inspector Cui to be arrested, saying, "I have known you in the past, since you have come here, why don't you come to see you?" Inspector Cui hurriedly prostrated his head to apologize, but Li Shen still tied him up and beat him with twenty rods.
When Inspector Cui was sent to Moling, he was so frightened that he didn't even dare to cry. At that time, people were talking about it: "Li Shen's uncle in turn became his grandson, and Li Shen's friend became a prisoner exiled by him." ”
Because Li Shen was a cruel official, the local people were often frightened, and many people even crossed the Yangtze River and the Huai River to flee, and his subordinates reported to him: "The local people have escaped a lot. Li Shen said, "Have you ever seen holding wheat in your hand?" The full grains are always below, and those chaff go with the wind without having to report it.
A lifetime of habit of finding a patron, a li gentry with a big tree. After entering the career, he used his cleverness and cleverness to closely turn to Li Deyu of the Li Party. Observing the situation in front of the Lee Party and collecting enemy information for his own party leader, Li Deyu was deeply valued by Li Deyu, and once regarded him as his right hand and right arm and the vanguard of the way.
The virtuous and loyal people in the imperial court did not dare to make enemies with them for the sake of self-preservation and for the sake of their families.
In the sixth year of Tang Huichang (846), 75-year-old Li Sheng, finally came to the end of his life, aged and died.
The biggest stain on Li Shen's life was the "Wu Xiang Case" that he handled in his later years, when Wu Xiang, a lieutenant in Jiangdu County, Yangzhou, was reported for embezzling public funds and forcibly marrying a woman, and Li Sheng, without investigating and not listening to the advice of the counselor, arrested and imprisoned him, and sentenced him to death.
In fact, Li Shen did this only as a need for political struggle, a retaliatory action carried out to please Li Deyu of the Li Party. Later, Tang Xuanzong took the throne and removed Li Deyu from his position as chancellor, and li dangdu were implicated, and although Li Shen had died, he was punished by "cutting the three officials of the gentry, and the descendants were not allowed to be shi".