Fifteen-year-old Chen Fan once lived in a room of his own, and there was nothing to do at that time, and the house was very dirty inside and out.
One day, his father's friend Xue Qin came to see him and said to Chen Fan, "Boy, why don't you clean up the house?" Is this also good to welcome guests? ”
Chen Fan said: "When the eldest husband is alive, he should sweep away the garbage in the world, how can he only take care of his own house?" ”
Xue Qin knew that he had the ambition to clarify the world and eliminate harm for the people, so he admired him very much.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, Chen Fan's life of justice</h1>
Chen Bo (陈蕃字仲舉), a famous courtier in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, was jointly known as the "Three Kings" along with Dou Wu and Liu Shu. Chen Fan had lofty ambitions when he was a teenager, and studied under Hu Guang, a major minister and scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty. During his lifetime, Due to his upright personality, Chen Fan was repeatedly deposed and framed, and was later recruited as a Shangshu servant.
Chen Fan was a clean and honest official, and when Li Fan, who was stricter than the officials at that time, was in charge of the history of Qingzhou, because Li Bing was strict and fierce in his administration and his prestige was far and wide, all the officials in Qingzhou City heard the news of his arrival and asked to leave, and only Chen Fan stayed alone because of his clean and honest political achievements.
Once, Liang Ji, a powerful minister with great power and a mighty world, sent someone to send a letter to Chen Fan and ask chen Fan to handle personal affairs. The messenger could not see Chen Fan, so he lied and pretended to have something special to see Chen Fan. When Chen Fan found out, he was furious and beat the messenger to death. He was convicted of this and demoted to the order of Xiuwu County. Fortunately, he was promoted to Shangshu shortly thereafter.
At that time, the mountain thieves in lingling and Guiyang rebelled and became a local harm, so the imperial court secretaries discussed sending troops to suppress it.
Chen Fan wrote a letter to argue that Pang Zhengbo quoted him to explain that the harm caused by the corruption and tyranny of local officials could only appease them, not eliminate them. As a result, he offended Emperor Huan's close subordinates and was demoted.
After being degraded, Chen Fan still did not change his serious disposition, the rules were still very strict, he did not receive guests, and the celebrities and the people were in awe of his purity, so that when the imperial court recruited him to serve as Shangshu, the people who sent him off did not dare to go out of the outer city gate.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs were very powerful, and often fought against the law, and the two counties of Taiyuan and Nanyang, Taishou Liu Xuan and Cheng Jin interrogated them, and although there was a pardon order from Emperor Huan of Han, Taishou still interrogated them to the end and executed them.
The rest of the eunuchs held a grudge against them, so they went up to Emperor Huan of Han and believed that Liu Juan and Cheng Jin deserved to be executed.
Chen Fan, together with Situ Huguang and Sikong Liu Mao, advised Emperor Huan of Han to pardon Liu Xuan, Cheng Jin, and others, but Emperor Huan of Han was very unhappy that the two were too defensive and did not obey their orders, and the rest of the people did not dare to speak, so Chen Fan went up to the song alone, asking for pardon for Taishou and severely punishing the eunuchs.
Emperor Huan of Han read his recital and became even more annoyed, and did not take his advice at all. At the same time, the eunuchs hated Chen Fan even more.
Later, Li Yi and others were imprisoned for trial because of the Party incident. Chen Fan also wrote to the emperor and strongly advised him, stating that Li Bing's sincerity was for the country.
Emperor Huan of Han was dissatisfied with Chen Fan's blunt and sharp speech, so he deposed Chen Fan on the pretext that he had improperly selected talents.
After the death of Emperor Huan of Han, Empress Dou became Empress Dowager Dou and took charge of the imperial government. Empress Dowager Dou was grateful for Chen Fan's efforts to make her empress, so she reused Chen Fan. Unfortunately, Emperor Huan of Han's nursing mother Zhao Liao was with Empress Dou sooner or later, and she colluded with eunuchs to curry favor with Empress Dowager Dou.
Empress Dowager Dou trusted them so much that they were even more greedy and tyrannical, and Chen Fan hated these deceitful and mischievous people, and was determined to eliminate the eunuchs.
So he consulted with Empress Dou's father, the general Dou Wu, on how to kill the eunuchs, but unfortunately, the matter was leaked, and the eunuch Cao Jie and others forged Empress Dou's orders to kill Dou Wu and others.
Chen Fan was already more than seventy years old at the time, and after hearing about the chaos, he resolutely led more than eighty subordinate officials and students to draw their swords and rush into the Chengming Gate together to find the eunuch theory.
The eunuch Wang Fu was hysterical and desperate to mobilize heavy troops to arrest Chen Fan and kill him on the same day. Chen Fan's family members were exiled, his son Chen Yi was desperately protected by his friends and survived, and the clan, protégés, and old subordinates were all dismissed from their posts and imprisoned.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, why sweep the world without sweeping a house? </h1>
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the han dynasty was controlled by eunuchs and foreign relatives in turn, and the emperor either relied on eunuchs or foreign relatives. The country was in chaos, the people were suffering, and the people were not happy, so many celebrities deeply felt that the imperial court was hopeless, resigned their official posts and returned to the field, and retired from the country.
Chen Fan, who was of high moral character and upright temperament, spent his life in court struggles, either with eunuchs or with foreign relatives. The most admirable and tragic thing is that Chen Fan repeatedly theorized with the emperor.
Doesn't the emperor know that he has done something wrong? Absolutely. Can he change the reality of eunuchs in power and foreign relatives interfering in politics? Maybe, but it's too hard.
Just like the Han Xuan Emperor Liu Qing in the Western Han Dynasty, from the commoner into the palace as emperor, became the emperor for many years, is superficial obedience to Huo Guang, while forbearance while Tao Guang to cultivate obscurity, 8 years later, finally overthrow the Huo family, strive to govern, restore national strength, and achieve "filial piety and prosperity".
Chen Fan has had a lofty ambition to sweep away the world's garbage since he was a child, but why sweep the world without sweeping a house? From the height of the building to the ground, the lofty goal must be achieved step by step from small to large. Disdain for doing small things, how to do big things?
Catching whoever is tough with whom, or even directly with the powerless emperor theory, is too ignorant to judge the hour and size up the situation. At that time, the emperor was full of grievances, and could only get by, whoever reasoned with me suffered, who made me laugh at who I spoiled.
Chen Taiqiu (Chen Yu), who was a contemporary of Chen Fan, was different, he was also a self-righteous celebrity, but he was full of adult beauty, willing to bear the guilt and make good friends, and also dealt well with the authoritarian eunuch Zhang Rang, thus preserving many national elites and celebrities of the dynasty.
Therefore, in the struggle against the evil forces, we must judge the hour and size up the situation, and when the evil forces are strong, we must prepare for a protracted war, start from small things, cultivate our own influence, consolidate the forces of justice, and wait for the opportunity to move.
(References: "The New Language of the World", "Book of the Later Han Dynasty")