When we were young, there was a poem that was extremely popular, even surpassing Luo Binwang's "Wing Goose" and Li Taibai's "Quiet Night Thoughts", and I did not sell Guanzi with everyone, this poem is the "Mercy Nong" written by Li Shen that we want to talk about today: "When the day of hoeing is noon, the sweat drops go down to the soil." Who knows the plate of Chinese food, the grains are hard. ”
This poem has a very high rate of appearance in our canteens and tables. Under the influence of this national poem, we have always felt that Li Shen was a gentleman with high style and bright festivals, and a good official who was worried about the country and the people and was diligent and thrifty. Yet we were all deceived by him!
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > first, born into a family of fallen officials and eunuchs, young people aspire</h1>
Li Shen, no doubt, because of the poem "Mercy Nong", became famous in history, his ancestral home was Anhui, and he was once the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. His origin is still very interesting, his grandfather was the prime minister of the Wu Zetian period, his father was also a county order, but he lost his father in his early years, followed his mother to be displaced, grew up to see the cold and warm of human feelings, and also witnessed the precarious life of farmers. This is the background of the poem "Mercy Nong".
Later, in order to obtain a meritorious name, he did not win many times, lived in Yuan Shu's home, and also rubbed a wave of heat for Yuan Shu's "Legend of the Warbler". Finally, at the age of 35, he entered the army, followed Bai Juyi and Yuan Shu, starting from the school secretary Lang, crawling and rolling, from the right to the sima and the assassin to the jiedu envoy, until the position of prime minister.
Later, Li Shen died in Yangzhou in 846 at the age of seventy-four. Posthumously awarded the title of Tai Wei (太尉), he was nicknamed "Wen Su" (文蘇), and was an important figure in the Li Party in the "Niu Li Party and Government". He once advocated the Xinlefu Movement with Bai Juyi and Yuan Shu.
According to legend, after Li Shen won the Jinshi, he conquered the people in power with the arrogance of Long Zhangfengzi and his profound and outstanding knowledge, and he was ranked as a Hanlin scholar, which can be described as a spring breeze. He returned to his hometown with his friend Li Fengji on the viewing platform to observe the people's feelings. Li Fengji saw his own career path, "He has to go to the wilderness for thousands of miles, and move to the stage for many years", he thinks that Qingyun will go straight up three thousand miles, and every year he will be promoted to the stage.
As for Li Sheng, he felt the hard work of the people in the fields, and immediately sent out three poems of compassion for farmers, the first of which was the afternoon of the hoe day we put at the beginning of the article. The other two are:
Plant one millet in the spring and harvest ten thousand seeds in the autumn.
There are no idle fields in the four seas, and the farmers are starving to death.
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The plough is on the ridge, and the hands are often hungry.
A weaver woman under the window, hand-knitted without clothes.
I wish Yan Zhao Shu to become a concubine.
A smile is worthless, natural country fat.
At this time, Li Shen was a surging teenager, who dared to directly expose the reality of society and commented on the shortcomings of the imperial court without scruples. He held a sincere heart for Li Fengji, but unexpectedly Li Fengji wrote anti-poetry to the emperor in the blink of an eye in order to obtain a good future for promotion. Emperor Wuzong was not a emperor, and not only did he not blame Li Sheng, but he promoted Li Shen to an official. Look at that Li Fengji, stealing chicken is not a corrosion of rice, and he is degraded to Yunnan.
<h1 class= "ql-align-justify" > second, eunuch sea ups and downs, involved in the party and government, the original intention is extinguished</h1>
We write here, as if this Li Gentry is really a very good person, perhaps when he was young, Li Gentry really had a heart to be an official for the people, but I don't know when, this pure heart quietly changed in the ups and downs of the eunuch sea -- involved in the cattle and Lee party strife, coveting enjoyment, and abusing obscenity.
After becoming involved in the party struggle, in order to curry favor with Li Deyu, Li Sheng had completely forgotten his original intention as an official and only cared for his own interests. When Li Shen was a local official, he lived a life of fish and meat for his own luxury and obscenity. Legend has it that Li Shen loved to eat chicken tongue, and he had to kill three hundred chickens at a meal to satisfy his appetite, so the backyard was full of chicken carcasses. This kind of statement is certainly impossible to think about in the era of low productivity in the Tang Dynasty, but behind the prevalence of this rumor just reflects Li Sheng's extravagance in people's hearts.
For the sake of his fame and fortune, he lied in the face of the plague of locusts that he had no losses and flattered those in power. The people of Li Min were so miserable that they forced the people in their jurisdiction to flee, and even issued: "Don't you see Mai Hu? The show is underneath, and the people who follow the stream do not have to report. The meaning of this sentence is "Have you ever seen a wheat in your hand?" The full grains are always below, and those chaff go with the wind, and this matter does not have to be reported, and the exile of the poor and sour people is a natural choice. Such words. It's staggering.
In addition, other historical records include the Examination of the Imperial Examination case in the first year of Changqing, as well as the Wu Xiang Unjust Case, and so on. At this time, Li Shen wrote poems that only praised the emperor's merits. Here's a list of songs:
"Shangdang Song Qingyun See"
The flying dragon has been driving yu for a long time, and the true qi is still xingyun.
Five-color transmission Of Jiarui, The Thousand Ages Table Saint Jun.
From the wind to the wind, Yihan is even more atmospheric.
The shadow is clear at the beginning of the day, and the bright day is not yet over.
The table is close and far away, and the vertical gathering is still divided.
Rather be a person who has no one to rely on, and pass on Tao Lingwen in the air.
The young boy who wrote "Mercy Nong" has disappeared into the eunuch sea. Only a numb politician remains.
At that time, high-ranking officials in the Tang Dynasty had the custom of raising private prostitutes, and Li Shen was more famous in the number of domestic prostitutes. The idiom "commonplace" is related to Li Shen. Liu Yuxi was the Assassin of Suzhou that year, and Li Shen invited him to dinner. During the banquet, Liu Yuxi intended to be a prostitute and wrote the last sentence of "Gifting Li Sikong Prostitute":
High-haired cloud beard palace-like makeup, spring breeze a song Du Wei Niang.
It is common to see idle things, and cut off the Suzhou thorn history sausage.
This poem just proves that Li Shen was at that time, extremely extravagant, spending days and drinking, and coveting the scene, Liu Yuxi was surprised to see Jue.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > three, abusive and cruel officials</h1>
It is recorded in the "Yunxi Friendship Discussion" that when he was young, Li Gentry had not yet made a trace, and at that time he befriended Li Yuanjian and called Li Yuanhui "uncle". However, after li yuan went to see Li Gentry in order to please Li Sheng, he lowered his rank and called himself a "nephew", but Li Gentry ignored it until he called himself "grandson", and Li Gentry only reluctantly agreed. The jade plate is precious, the beauty is like jade, and Li Shen has long been lost in it. The original intention is gone, and the blood is cold. Li Shen is no longer the hot-blooded young man of that year...
Another time, an inspector surnamed Cui, a fellow of Li Sheng,once came to visit him, and as soon as they stayed in this hotel, the servants quarreled with a citizen. When Li Shen learned of this, he asked what the domestic servant was doing, and the domestic servant said, "It is the servant of Inspector Cui of Xuanzhou Pavilion." Li Shen did not investigate carefully, so he sentenced the servant and the people to death, and ordered inspector Cui to be arrested. He said, "In the past, we were the same window, so why didn't we come to see each other since we came here?" Inspector Cui hurriedly prostrated his head and apologized. But Li Shen still tied him up and beat him with 20 rods. At that time, people were talking about it: "Li Shen's uncle in turn became his grandson, and Li Shen's friend became a prisoner exiled by him." ”
Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and after Li Shen forgot his original intention, he became more and more extreme, for his own interests, coveting pleasures, and doing his utmost to be cruel to the cruel officials, and the young "Mercy Farmer" youth when he was young had long since lost his appearance. Good and evil will eventually be repaid, and in 847, Li Sheng's "Wu Xiang Unjust Case" was finally rehabilitated. The dead Li Shen was even punished by "cutting the three officials of the gentry, and the descendants are not allowed to be shi".
"Mercy Nong" is an immortal chapter in the poetry world, but the cool officials who deceive the people will also be famous in the annals of history for thousands of years. Eun Hai extinguished a little candlelight, I don't know if Li Sheng, in his later years, when he recalls the past, remembers the hot-blooded young man who worries about the country and the people?