"On the day of hoeing, when the day of hoeing is noon, the sweat drops fall into the soil. Who knows the plate of Chinese food, the grains are hard", this "Mercy Farmer" believes that most people are familiar with it, and the simple and easy-to-understand verses tell the hardships of the vast number of farmers, warning everyone to cherish this hard-won grain.
Because many people in this poem rightly think that the poet is a frugal man, a good official who loves the people.
But just like Kuang Heng, who stole light from a small wall, eventually became a corrupt official, Li Sheng, who was a sympathetic farmer in his youth, also became a poor and extravagant person after he soared.
Li Shen's "Mercy Farmer" has two songs, and one "Plant a grain of millet in the spring and harvest ten thousand seeds in the autumn." There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are starving to death." Judging from these two "Mercy Farmers", Li Shen at this time was undoubtedly a Qing official with a very simple life.
As Li Shen rose step by step, the soaring Li Gentry gradually forgot his original simple self and was replaced by a corrupt official who spent a lot of time drinking and abusing obscenity. This is not difficult to see from the article of Liu Yuxi, who was an official in the same dynasty at that time. In addition to Liu Yuxi's famous work "Buried Room Ming", the most famous work is "Gift to Li Sikong Prostitute".
This poem "Gift to Li Sikong Prostitute" was when Liu Yuxi was serving as the Assassin of Suzhou, and was invited to attend the banquet arranged by Li Sheng, the envoy of Yangzhou Jiedu at that time. When he saw the flock of private prostitutes in Li Sheng's family, one of the singers and prostitutes was even more beautiful and artistic, he couldn't help but issue a "high-bun cloud beard palace-like makeup, spring breeze a song Du Wei Niang." Strange and idle things, cut off the Suzhou thorn intestines." Translated, it probably means: good food and wine, beautiful songs and beautiful colors, light singing and dancing, Li Sikong has long been accustomed to it, and he lives a luxurious and eroded life, but I Liu Yuxi is heartbroken. The third sentence, "Strange and idle things", is the source of the idiom "commonplace".
In addition to this "commonplace" scene described by Liu Yuxi, Li Shen also has a very luxurious living habit. In terms of diet, Li Shen's consumption of a meal is often as many as hundreds or even thousands of guan. According to legend, Li Shen especially likes to eat chicken tongue, and each meal alone consumes more than three hundred live chickens, and the chickens slaughtered in the courtyard are piled up.
At the time of the Huainan Jiedu envoyship, Li Gentry was extremely indifferent to the sufferings of the people, and Shi Zai said: "Li Gentry took the side of the old prime minister and the town, and arbitrarily authoritarian", the cunning officials and traitors were all "sneaking and overlapping traces", and the ordinary people were even more "afraid of the unexpected, and those who crossed the river and Huaihuai were all in the crowd". It can make the common people afraid, and they have crossed the river and fled, in the same period, except for Li Sheng, there is no one else. Li Shen's official status eventually triggered the disgrace of his contemporaries Han Yu, Jia Dao, Liu Yuxi, Li He and others. In the end, Li Shen also fell into a punishment of "cutting the three officials of the gentry, and the descendants are not allowed to be shi".
Li Shen's transformation, in addition to his promotion, was not unrelated to the officialdom at that time. At the meeting when Li Sheng participated in politics, the entire official arena was shrouded in the "cow and Lee party struggle." Li Shen himself should also respond to the "call of the times" and are keen on forming gangs and factions to build up power and seize power in the "Cow and Lee Party Struggle".
In this party struggle, Li Gentry gradually lost himself, and the Li Gentry who observed the people's feelings in the past was no longer there, nor did he have the feelings he had for the people at the bottom of the past. Instead, he used high-handed means to bully lower-level officials and the people, and finally made the common people "fear the unexpected, and those who cross the river and Huaihuai are all in the crowd."
In addition to the change of subjective thinking, the reason why Li Shen went to the opposite side of the common people was not unrelated to the imperfection of the social supervision system at that time.
At that time, Li Shen ate more than 300 chicken tongues per meal, which was definitely a hot news in the official arena. As long as the assassins reported to the imperial court, Li Shen absolutely could not eat and walk, but no one dared to report it.
Even Liu Yuxi, who was extremely shameless to Li Sheng, as the assassin of Suzhou at that time, he had the responsibility to impeach Li Sheng. However, when Liu Yuxi was invited to attend Li Sheng's grand banquet and saw the luxury of Li Gentry's grand banquet, he only issued an exclamation of "cutting off the Suzhou thorny intestines", and did not play impeachment.
There are many reasons why Liu Yuxi did not impeach Li Sheng, on the one hand, he may be afraid of Li Shen's power, on the other hand, Li Shen does have a hand in buying people's hearts. At the banquet, Li Shen saw that Liu Yuxi was infatuated with Du Weiniang, and gave Du Weiniang to Liu Yuxi very generously on the spot. Liu Yuxi, who received benefits, naturally did not embarrass Li Sheng, and Liu Yuxi was just a microcosm of the official scene at that time, and many of Li Shen's superior officials received Benefits from Li Sheng, and naturally they would not be embarrassed by Li Sheng.
Li Shen eventually ended up being stripped of his official titles and his descendants were not allowed to enter politics, but such an ending was also settled by the imperial court after his own death, which had no impact on Li Shen's extravagant life.
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