Su Shi can't be compared with Wang Anshi, so where is his strength?

Speaking of Wang Anshi's transformation method, we have also studied in the history books, and the Green Shoots Law exemption method and the Farmland Water Conservancy Law have been memorized decades later.

The advantages and disadvantages of changing the law are also analyzed in textbooks, but it seems that there is no mention of a person.

He is Su Shi.

Su Shi's life floated and sank with the rise and fall of the old and new parties, and his life experience was an excellent specimen of the change of law.

Wang Shuizhao wrote in his biography of Su Shi:

We do not deny that Su Shi's understanding of Wang Anshi's transformation of the law is very incomplete, sometimes even with some personal intentions, in the complex social and political field, whether it is the height of thought or the farsightedness of vision, Su Shi cannot be compared with a generation of famous Wang Anshi.

However, in the spirit of deep sympathy for the lower classes of the people and the great festival of establishing the dynasty independently and independently, he proceeded from reality, keenly discovered problems, pointed out the shortcomings in the implementation of the new law, and hoped to "make up for the country." Such conscience, courage, and discipline are indeed precious and worthy of our respect and study.

In a word, Su Shi is a great poet and a qualified magistrate, but he is not a politician with the ability to make choices.

No one likes to toss, and the reason why we want to change the law, reform, and restore the new is that there must be no way out.

In this period of history, it is difficult to use good people and bad people to label the old and new parties, if those who oppose the change of law are diehards, then we have not seen Su Shi pass down the notoriety of diehards. If you say that you agree with the change of law, it must be moving forward, but it turns out that in that era, it was completely impossible to stop some people from using the new law as a ladder to climb upwards to satisfy their own desires and enrich themselves.

Moreover, when the New Party received strong support from the Divine Sect and spread throughout the imperial court, the elders and important ministers consciously retreated, and various pressures followed.

In December of the fifth year of Xi Ning, Su Shi was ordered to huzhou to supervise the dike project, meet with his good friend Sun Jue, travel the mountains and rivers, drink and chant poetry, but first make rules:

Yu Yu and Zi Jiu were separated from each other, and their ears were cold and discouraged. If you talk about the world to Aoyama, you should lift up the white and float the king.

Let's talk more about the wind and moon, and less as a troll. Whoever can't bear to break it blindly must float a big white and punish a large glass of wine.

However, Su Shi was born with a big mouth, seeing that the weather was not good, the autumn rain was continuous, the rice was lying in the field, and it might rot in the field, he could never turn a blind eye, and even said that "the snow has fallen to the ground, it is the royal Ruiqi, why not for another three years" and so on.

So, we can see that Su Shi's years in Hangzhou, traveling all over the subordinate counties, when the wind and rain are smooth, he will happily depict, there is a beautiful girl, barefoot in labor, her calves are really white, she is making up at the water's edge, because her husband came back from collecting firewood, they Qingqing me, how happy... But he will also truthfully record that "the old man is seventy from the waist sickle, ashamed of the sweetness of the spring mountain bamboo shoots." I forgot to smell "Shao" and ate without salt in March."

If the Great Song Dynasty did not have Su Dazui, would it still be called the Great Song?