The poem "Compassion for Farmers" was first seen in textbooks, recited as a model poem for cherishing agricultural strength and worrying about the country and the people. The sentence "There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are starving to death" is even more enshrined as a classic, restoring the scene of farmers who have been cultivating for years under heavy taxes but cannot even keep their own rations.
When I was a child, every time I saw this poem and asked about the main idea of expression, I always had to say a sentence that "expressed the author's thoughts of worrying about the country and the people." But is the author Li Shen really a talent who worries about the country and the people?
Rumor one: After Li Shen developed, he "gradually became extravagant", especially liked to eat chicken tongue, and he used more than 300 chicken tongues for each meal he ate, that is to say, he had to kill three hundred chickens at a meal. Therefore, the backyard of his house is full of chicken feathers, and the slaughtered chickens are piled up.
Rumor two: Li Shen's family has a lot of singers, and often calls them out to listen to a small song and dance. A famous poet, Liu Yuxi, went to visit him, and he called out these singers to accompany him. Among them, there was a particularly beautiful geji that made Liu Yuxi's eyes light up, and he immediately composed a poem Gift to Li Sikong, which also specifically mentioned a sentence: Sikong is accustomed to idle things, and cut off the Suzhou thorn history intestine.
What does this mean, is this kind of scene of geji like a cloud, he Li Shen is used to it, and my Suzhou thorn history is as if I have never seen the world, and when I see a stylish geji intestine, I will break.
How grand is the dress here? "High-bun yun beard palace-like makeup", a geji dressed up in the style of the nobles in the palace, which shows how rich Li Shen is, it is said that the word "commonplace" is how it comes from. Then Li Shen also gave this geji to Liu Yuxi.
Rumor three: Li Shen was poor as a teenager, so he often went to the house of an uncle named Li Yuanjiang in the clan to eat rice. He hangs on his mouth every day to his uncle and uncle, so Li Yuan will be very happy, and he will give him a bowl when he comes to rub rice. Later, when Li Sheng became a high official, he looked down on this uncle, and Li Yuan would not dare to let Li Sheng call him uncle anymore, but instead called himself a younger brother. Li Shen was still not satisfied, so he called himself a nephew. Li Shen was still not satisfied, so he called himself a grandson, and then Li Shen saw him again before he smiled a little.
From this rumor, everyone believes that Li Shen is not only a corrupt official, but also has problems with his character.
Rumor Four: There is an inspector surnamed Cui who is the same as Li Shen, and according to the reason, there is also a bit of affection. The inspector came to visit him, and as soon as he arrived at the inn, the servants around him clashed with people. The matter was reported to Li Sheng, who executed both of them, and specially ordered someone to tie up Inspector Cui and beat him with 20 sticks, reprimanding him for not going to see him as soon as he arrived.
This rumor gave Li Shen the name of being rude and harsh and abusing lynching.
Rumor One: This rumor can be known to be impossible with a simple arithmetic. Li Shen may usually live a more luxurious life, but it is not so luxurious that he uses three hundred chickens for a meal. Three hundred for a meal, nine hundred for a day. With the productivity of the time, the chickens in the whole country were not enough for him to make.
Rumor Rebuttal Two: First of all, Li Shen has never held the position of Sikong. Secondly, Liu Yuxi's life route almost did not coincide with Li Shen's life route after he served as the Assassin of Suzhou. Li Shen lived in 772-864, and Liu Yuxi lived in 772-842, which was a coincidence, the two were born in the same year, and even the time of death was so similar.
However, when Liu Yuxi served as the Assassin of Suzhou, it was probably about the fifth year of Yamato, that is, in 831, and the eighth year of Yamato, that is, three years later, he was transferred to the History of The Assassination of Ruzhou. At this time, Li Shen first served as a guest of the crown prince, and he was divided into Eastern Capital, who had been living in Luoyang for nine years; Yamato was an observer envoy to eastern Zhejiang in seven years, and Yamato was transferred out of eastern Zhejiang in eight years.
Although eastern Zhejiang and Suzhou are not far away, it will take at least six days to go back and forth. Moreover, seven years before Yamato, Li Shen had not yet come to eastern Zhejiang, and after seven years of Yamato, Li Shen had already left. Li Sheng has been here for a year at most, is it necessary for him to get a lot of singers in a year' time? What's more, he couldn't covet the silver two in the style of Ge Ji Palace makeup for another year.
Of course, if Li Shen only knows how to enjoy it, it is entirely possible to bring a few singers to the house.
As for rumors three and four, there are no real historical materials to prove that he is true, nor is there real historical data to prove that he is false. However, there is really a history of Li Shen's ungratefulness, violent and harshness, and love of heavy punishment.
Li Shen later became such a big official, and han Yu's promotion was indispensable. But how did he treat Han Yu later?
Han Yu's official position was Thatshi Daifu (御史大夫), and he also served as Jing Zhaoyin (京兆尹), and there was an edict that made it necessary for him to see any official without having to kneel and salute. At this time, Li Sheng was Zhongcheng, and the official Zhongcheng was a little older than Jing Zhaoyin, but he was younger than Yushi Dafu, not to mention that Han Yu had also promoted him, and he still had an edict in his hand, so there was no need to pay homage to Li Sheng.
But Li Shen just impeached Han Yu, and then Han Yu refuted him in the palace, and the two came and went, and neither of them let him. But after this incident, the wind in the mouths of the officials changed, and they all accused Li Shen of being ungrateful.
And Li Shen's ungratefulness is not only this. When he was a teenager, Li Shen was received by the monk, and at that time the monk told him that he hoped that in the future, he would be able to see this point of affection, and in the future, if the monks in this temple made any mistakes, Li Shen would be able to open his eyes.
As a result, Li Shen saw that there were monks fishing for fish in the release pond, and immediately ordered people to throw the monks into them and drown them alive. He also left a poem next to it: "Shaving hair is a substitute farming, good smell of people dying and evil life", which is extremely mean.
This can indeed show that Li Shen is ungrateful and mean. The following two things show that Li Shen is good at using heavy punishments.
It was still a conflict with Han Yu, when he sent a group of prisoners to Han Yu, when Han Yu was serving as Jing Zhaoyin, he asked Han Yu to use heavy sentences on these prisoners. Han Yue resolutely refused, Li Sheng and Han Yue had a big fight, and after the two met, they were intolerable and tit-for-tat.
One of his veterans made a mistake, and he said directly, "Stinky veteran, who depends on the old man, and the punishment is not imposed; if he is in the military gate, a hundred will be decided." "That is to say, when he made a mistake, he was too old to be tortured." Put it to the past, directly a hundred military sticks were killed.
Li Shen was famous for his harsh punishment, and under his rule, the thieves and mountain bandits were very restrained, and even fled to other places at night, not wanting to meet this grumpy official. Other officials may be against the bandits on the mountain, no big thing happens, why waste troops to chase it? But Li Shen is not the same, provoking him is a word: hit!
However, under the heavy punishment, it is not without benefits, and no one dares to make trouble without any trouble in the places under Li Shen's rule. The people lived a prosperous life, sent troops to suppress bandits, and there were no bandits in the places they went.
As an official, Li Shen's use of heavy punishment and ungratefulness did seem harsh and mean, but it did make the people live a peaceful life. Later, however, Li Shen became involved in the party and government, and because of this, he misjudged the "Wu Xiang case" and ended up with a "demotion of the third rank" and "future generations cannot be officials".