Seven hundred miles from the Three Gorges, the two sides of the river are connected by mountains, and there is no gap. Heavy rocks stacked on top of each other, hidden in the sky, midnight in the non-pavilion, no moon in sight...
Under the rolling mountains, the rolling Yangtze River rushes eastward, and on a flat boat in the middle of the river, there stands a white-clad scholar, with a big stroke of a pen, which is the "Notes on the Water Classics" that has been circulated for thousands of years.
Shusheng's name was Li Daoyuan (郦道元), and he was the son of Shi Lifan of the Northern Wei Qingzhou Dynasty. For thousands of years, the annals of history have recorded the identity of his official eunuchs, and the people have remembered the landscape in his heart, but his full of enthusiasm and chivalry has shattered into a red flower under the fall of history.
Statue of Li Daoyuan
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The story of Li Daoyuan begins in 501 AD.
In that year, Li Daoyuan was still the age of Fang Gang, and the imperial court appointed him as the governor of Jizhou ZhendongFu. Although the official position sounds tall, the place where Li Daoyuan served was a proper remote area, where Hu Han was mixed and the law and order were chaotic, which frightened a lot of old fritters in the official field.
But Li Daoyuan did not believe in evil, and the imperial court sent him there, and he packed up his baggage and went happily. After arriving at the post, Li Daoyuan did not care what protective umbrella or what kind of land snake, he would do whoever he caught committing a crime, and he was still heavy on his hands, and as a result, he frightened the little in the eight townships of ten miles and fled.
In just three years, Jizhou was ruled. The imperial court was overjoyed and appointed Li Daoyuan as the Taishou of Luyang Commandery. Li Daoyuan, who had just driven out the evil man, took up his post, and when he arrived in Luyang, he began to set up education and educate the villagers, and the touched imperial court issued a special edict saying: "There was no school before, So Li Daoyuan, you should do a good job, and strive to turn it into a cultured and educated area like the Western Han Dynasty Wen Weng running the school."
An edict from the imperial court gave Li Daoyuan the confidence to do solid work. So Li Daoyuan took out the work experience accumulated in Jizhou, and the local governance was sound and colorful, and as soon as the surrounding mountains heard li Daoyuan's name, they immediately fled away. When the imperial court saw that Li Daoyuan's ability to govern was so strong, it simply transferred Li Daoyuan to the History of Eastern Jingzhou, expecting him to continue to shine for the imperial court.
The local forces in Eastern Jingzhou were complex, and it was clear that doing assassination history there was a chore that offended people, but Li Daoyuan did not care about these things, and the imperial court asked him to become an official, and he continued to strictly grasp the construction of local public security in accordance with his own principles.
As a result, Li Daoyuan succeeded in offending the local magnates. The magnates were afraid that Li Daoyuan was the son of an official eunuch and did not want to offend in person, so they encouraged the people to make trouble.
The local people did not understand the game between the powerful landlord and Li Daoyuan, but with a confused face at the instigation of the magnates, they accused Li Daoyuan of enforcing the law harshly and undermining the unity of the nationalities.
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Li Daoyuan, who had been deposed as an official, was in a very low mood, and he spent several years traveling the world to relax, and by the way, he traveled thousands of miles to write ten thousand books, leaving behind the famous "Notes on the Water Classics".
Although the "Notes on the Water Classic" is a "note" to the Water Classic, the content is more solid and comprehensive than that of the Water Classic. The book consists of 40 volumes, recording more than a thousand large and small rivers and related historical sites, characters, myths and legends, and even fishing songs and folk songs, which can be called the most comprehensive and systematic comprehensive geographical works in ancient China.
Cover of "Notes on the Water Classics"
When Li Daoyuan wrote the Notes on the Water Classics behind closed doors, the world was experiencing a rebellion. The imperial court suddenly remembered that Li Daoyuan's ability was great, and was ready to use him to deal with logistics and military affairs, who knew that the commander of the front line was not powerful, and as a result, Li Daoyuan was arranged to directly go into battle to kill the enemy.
Once a white-clad scholar on a boat on the Yangtze River, he put down the pen and ink in his hand, put on a battle robe, and the landscape in his chest turned into 100,000 armored soldiers, killing the enemy army in a battle and abandoning his armor and fleeing in a wolf.
After returning from the battlefield, Li Daoyuan was awarded the title of General annan and Lieutenant Of the Imperial History for his military merits, and directly entered the official field of the capital from the local petty officer.
There are more powerful people in Beijing than in the outside world, and there is more dirt in the dark, and how can yi Daoyuan's temperament endure these pickled things.
Jingzhong Haoqiang and the imperial family soon discovered that the new Li Daoyuan, who seemed to be different from other officials, was selfless in investigating and handling illegal matters, and did not talk about human feelings at all, which was really annoying.
At this time, Li Daoyuan was also very depressed, there were too many evil things in Beijing, and the powerful people in the DPRK were entangled, and his small imperial history was often a little powerless.
When he was extremely depressed, Li Daoyuan asked three or five friends to sing a low drink. Once, everyone was drinking and drinking happily, and a friend suddenly said, "Do you know Qiu Nian?" ”
"Qiu Nian? Who's that? Li Daoyuan asked with a confused face.
The friend god said mysteriously, "He is the male favorite of Wang Yuanyue of Runan." I heard that recently the imperial court elected a state official, and this boy, with the support of the king of Runan, not only sold the official and the knight, but also fished for a beautiful messenger to control the Yellow River, only to be afraid that his embezzled river control project funds would not be spent for three lifetimes."
When Li Daoyuan heard this, he immediately became angry: "There is such a thing, this person is so rampant, why is no one pursuing it?" ”
The friend said: "Qiu Nian is the heart of the king of Runan, and the place where he sells officials and trades is in the mansion that the king of Runan gave him, who dares to investigate this matter."
"I check!" Li Daoyuan shot up, and his eyes were full of anger.
When all was said and done, Li Daoyuan immediately lit up his men and horses, stayed on the way home from Qiu Nian, and successfully sent Qiu Nian, who returned home at midnight, to the big prison.
Hearing that Qiu Nian had been arrested, the king of Runan could not do anything, so he ran to the empress dowager and interceded for Qiu Nian with a handful of snot and tears, saying that the empress dowager was soft-hearted, and sent a pardon order to the big prison, hoping to keep Qiu Nian unharmed.
Who knew that Li Daoyuan had already made preparations, and when Qiu Nian went to prison, Li Daoyuan sentenced Qiu Nian to death, and he took Qiu Nian's life with a knife before the pardon order arrived.
When the news came out, Kyoshi was in an uproar. Li Daoyuan became famous overnight, but in a dark corner, those who hated Li Daoyuan were staring at Li Daoyuan's back with red eyes, and the corners of their mouths unconsciously revealed an infiltrating smile.
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At this time, the King of Qi and the Yongzhou Assassin Shi Xiao Baoyuan plotted to rebel, and the imperial court was afraid of an accident and planned to send an official to appease Xiao Baoyuan, and the King of Runan, and others recommended Li Daoyuan.
The king's life is difficult to violate, and Li Daoyuan only has to go. Who expected that Li Daoyuan had just left on the front foot, and the queen of Runan's foot sent someone to send a letter to the rebels one step ahead of time.
As a result, Li Daoyuan was attacked by rebels halfway through and was trapped on a hill without water. The rebels surrounded Li Daoyuan and his party, intending to kill Li Daoyuan alive and thirsty.
Due to the extreme lack of water, Li Daoyuan finally fell into the hands of the rebels after insisting on resisting for several days. The rebels took the knife and threatened to kill Li Daoyuan, but Li Daoyuan had no fear, and also scolded the rebels: "You have helped and abetted the abuse of Cangsheng, how many people have died because of you, what is the point of fighting this battle?"
The rebels didn't think so much about life, they only understood that the commander wanted them to kill. Therefore, the hand rose, the knife fell, and Li Daoyuan's blood spewed out, staining the heavens and the earth a scarlet red.
Many years later, Li Daoyuan became a literary scholar in the minds of posterity, and his "Three Gorges", with timeless writing and beautiful words, became an excellent representative of landscape prose.
Unfortunately, people remember his landscapes, but they do not understand the morality in his heart. In that year, Li Daoyuan went to the enemy camp in anger, not because he did not know the danger, but because Li Daoyuan knew even more that in that chaotic world, if he could save one more people, he should save one more, and if he could share a little worry for the imperial court, he should bear one point.
He did not die at the hands of the rebels, nor did he die in the trick of "killing people with a knife", but for the sake of morality in his heart, he was willing to recommend Xuanyuan with blood.
Author: Our special guest author Zhu Yingyuejiang
References: Book of Wei, History of the North, Notes on the Water Classics