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The famous Qing Dynasty poet Huang Jingren once said a more famous sentence than himself: "A hundred useless students are scholars, and they are still popular among the population." Of course, this sentence may not be very appropriate for himself, but if it is applied to a great literary hero who was hundreds of years ago, it is simply perfect, and this great literary hero is the Southern Tang Dynasty poet of the Five Dynasties period: Feng Yanwei.
Feng Yanwei is very talented, as for how talented he really is? It can be described by a sentence in the "Diaoiso Li Tan": "Knowledgeable, brilliant in articles, and longitudinal in arguments."
Feng Yanmi's literati atmosphere is very strong, not only learned, the words are also written very well, and more leisurely and leisurely"full of gossamer and falling silk, when the red apricots bloom, a flash of clear rain." Thick sleep warblers gossip, shocked good dreams nowhere to be found. ("Magpie Ta twigs, Six-curved Snuggle Tree").
We all know that since the late Tang Dynasty, most of the literati loved to fill in words and did less poetry, and Feng Yanmi can be called the sect of the word world, and he created the second largest school of lexicology after the Huajian School: the Southern Tang School.
In addition to Feng Yanmi himself, the representative poets of the Southern Tang School are the two emperor poets: Li Jing and Li Yu, two fathers and sons, whose lyrics can be said to be in the same line as Feng Yanmi.
Not only that, Feng Yanmi's words also had a great influence on the lyricists of the Northern Song Dynasty, and many of Feng Yanshu's shadows can be seen in the lyrics of Yan Shu and Ouyang Xiu: "Feng Yanshu words, Yan Tongshu got his handsome, and Ouyang Yongshu got his depth." (Liu Xizai's "Outline of Art and Songwriting").
Wang Guowei commented on his words as: "Without losing the style of the five generations and the great hall, the northern Song Dynasty has opened up a generation of customs." Neither the middle nor the latter two masters have caught their proficiency. ("Human Words")
However, although Feng Yanmi's literary name is extremely popular and his words are excellent, his political ability is really incomparable.
Feng Yanshu is different from those literati who have studied hard in the cold window and have a miserable life, this guy has excellent luck, his career path has hardly encountered any setbacks, and he has achieved the high position of prime minister all the way.
How good is Feng Yanwei's luck? When the Southern Tang Dynasty was just founded, he was already well-known, and he was appreciated by Li Fu, the Southern Tang Liezu who had just founded the country and was recruiting talents, and directly appointed him as a secretary Lang. After that, Feng Yanmi and Li Jing, who was still the crown prince at the time, made good friends with each other.
The two interacted as he wrote in his words: "Several times fenglou drank and feasted, and they met on this night, but they were better than when they saw it." ("Butterfly Love Flower, Several Degrees of Fenglou Drinking and Feasting"), the deep affection of the two is like "drunk and full of gold, Yang Guan a song of intestines." ("Butterfly Love Flower: Several Degrees of Fenglou Drinking feast") general.
As we all know, Li Jing was the later Emperor Zhongzong of the Southern Tang Dynasty. In this way, Li Jing had not yet ascended to the throne, and Feng Yanmi had become his confidant. For Li Jing, Feng Yanshu is his charcoal in the snow, and it is conceivable how high Feng Yanmi's status is in the heart of this future emperor, and because of this, Li Jing has always had great trust and grace in Feng Yanmi.
In Feng Yanmi's lyrics, the affection of men and women can often be seen, which is actually not to express the feelings of any children, but to tell emperor Li Jing about his heartfelt heart: "Pray to Chen Sanzhi again: one wish lang jun chitose, two wishes for concubines to be healthy, three wishes to be like Liang Shangyan, and see each other for years to come." ("The Long-Lived Girl: The Spring Feast")
After establishing a good relationship with the future emperor, Feng Yanmi's road to becoming an official was naturally smooth. Throughout Feng Yanmi's life, Li Jing served as a marshal, so he let Feng Yanmi serve as the chief secretary of the Marshal's Office.
In the second year of Bao Da (944), the second year of Li Jing's ascension to the throne, he directly appointed Feng Yanshu as a Hanlin scholar. Hanlin Bachelor's undertaking is the head of Hanlin Bachelor, and his authority is particularly heavy, not just simply drafting edicts, but holding secrets in the forbidden middle, known as "internal minister", which shows that his actual status and rights are no worse than those of the prime minister.
Two years later, in the fourth year of Bao Da (946), Li Jing directly promoted his own cronies to the position of chancellor.
But the deep affection between Feng Yanmi and Li Jing seems to be not enough grace" Although the dream is rare, when they meet each other. (Sauvignon Blanc).
Feng Yanwei has been in a high position for many years, but he has been in a mediocre political performance for many years, and fortunately, Li Jing has always been very gracious to him, which has saved him from the miserable and degrading career of most literati.
Feng Yanwei has just taken the position of prime minister, because he attaches great importance to feelings: "When you meet Mo tired of the golden cup, there are many separations, and there are fewer parties." ("Drunken Flowers: Qingxue Xiaoyuan Spring Has Not Arrived") he reused his own brother Feng Yanlu as an envoy to the army. In fact, if his younger brother had real materials, he might be able to achieve his virtuous name of not shying away from his relatives, but his younger brother, who is also quite famous, is a straw bag with golden jade and other defeats.
In the fifth year of Bao da (947), Feng Yanlu and Chen Jue, another minister in charge of the army at the time, jointly raised an army to attack Jianzhou, but the result was tens of thousands of casualties and heavy losses. Fortunately, Feng Yanshu interceded with the two men in front of Li Jing, so that they would not be sentenced to death according to military law, and only had one crime of exile.
Although Feng Yanmi resigned in order to save the lives of the two people, he was only demoted from the prime minister to the crown prince, and there was no excessive punishment. This was the only time in Feng Yanmi's life that he was degraded, and the other time was in his later years.
Feng Yanmi was extremely sad after being degraded, and made a word: "Bo Wu does not come to the door and half covered, slanting the sun." Negative you a few lines of tears. ("Nanxiangzi Drizzle Wet Stream"), a strong sense of resentment swept over the face, is not it precisely to describe the "girlfriend affection" between him and Li Jing?
It was also because of the depth of the feelings between the two that only a year later, in the sixth year of Baoda (948), Feng Yanwei was once again reused by Emperor Li Jing and reappointed as the envoy of Fuzhou Jiedushi. You must know that the jiedushi is actually roughly equivalent to the current governor, who is the highest local governor. Not only is it lower than a few people such as the prime minister in terms of rank, it is a second product of the same level as the six Shangshu, and it is also a solid official position with real power.
In fact, generally speaking, there are only two possibilities for Korean and Chinese officials to be put on the local level. The first is that it is degraded and it is difficult to be reused by the imperial court; the second is to gild the gold, let the officials go to the localities to go through some training, and after making some achievements, they can summon the imperial court to serve in a high position.
Feng Yanmi was released, and it was obvious that it was not the first situation that was degraded, that is, the second, gilded. However, Feng Yanmi served as an official in Fuzhou for four years, but he has been doing nothing and has no political achievements. During his tenure, in addition to writing words to Li Jing, he expressed his sorrow: "The curtain of the painting floor is light and cold, and the rest of the wine is scattered, leaning on the dry alone." ("Linjiang Immortals Cold Red Floating Peach Blossom Pieces"), almost nothing.
But even so, in the tenth year of Baoda (952), Li Jing still recalled him to the central government for reuse, and as soon as he returned, he immediately took up the post of prime minister again.
Feng Yanshu once again served as the prime minister, still dead,000, and once again used his straw bag brother Feng Yanlu, and even promoted him all the way to the high position of the Ministry of Works and the deputy retainer of the Eastern Capital. During Feng Yanmi's reign, he first attacked Hunan unsuccessfully and returned with a big defeat, and then Huainan was attacked by Later Zhou, and his unformed straw bag brother simply became a prisoner of Later Zhou this time.
Therefore, because of the perennial military defeat and the fierce party strife in the Southern Tang court at that time, Li Jing made up his mind to eradicate the party strife. In the fifth year of Xiande (958), Feng Yanwei felt that "the wind of falling flowers rises, and Luo Yi is particularly cold in spring." ("Qing Ping Le, Rain and Smoke Night") was forced to resign again. Two years after Feng Yanshu's resignation, he died of illness in May of the first year of Jianlong (960) at the age of fifty-eight, and Li Jing gave him the nickname "Zhongsu".
Although Feng Yanshu was also often extremely worried about the situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty, where "there were invasions of the Later Zhou Dynasty and internal governments", he often used the theme of parting from the wounded spring to express his regret that "before the flowers were lost, the spring lovers were lost, and they searched for fangs alone." Saddened. Even if there is a song, the intestines are broken. ("Picking Mulberry Seeds And Lost Before The Flower") is a sentiment, but it is still impossible to deny that his political talents are mediocre and absurd.
His heart of worrying about the country and the people, and the intention of not being rewarded for his ambitions, were all written in those poems like a bitter woman in a boudoir: "It is a pity that the old joys join hands and think about it overnight and become haggard." ("Que Ta Zhi Xiao Suo Qing Qiu Zhu TearDrop"), and did not do anything at all.
And even if he could not govern, his life was like approaching the abyss, like walking on thin ice, and the road to being an official could still be so smooth, all because he was extremely good at flattering the emperor and telling the emperor his heartfelt words: "When the people in the column are gone, they cover their tears and think about it all." ("Magpie Ta Zhi Mei Luo Zhi Zhi Ten Million Pieces")
According to the "Southern Tang Dynasty Book of Feng Yanshu Biography", someone once asked him who was the hero of the former emperor Li Fu and the current emperor Li Jing, but he said: "The ancestor Li Fu lost thousands of people, it was difficult to eat, and he sighed for ten days and a half months, that is, an authentic farmer, not at all atmospheric, how can he achieve great things in the world?" On the other hand, today's emperor, even if tens of thousands of troops are fighting outside, they can still feast and bow without paying attention to it, and with such an atmospheric mind, they are the true heroes. (Translation of Ma Ling's Southern Tang Shu Feng Yanshu Biography).
This seems ridiculous to people, who do not care about the life or death of the army, who do not care about the marching and fighting, and who only feast and drink and have fun, become the hero lord. The emperor, who cared about the military and the lives of his soldiers, became a mediocre lord like a peasant. It can be seen to what extent Feng Yanshu's political opinions and political talents are mediocre.
Looking at Feng Yanmi's first reuse of his younger brother Feng Yanlu, he fought a big defeat, and he did not take it as a warning, and even reused Feng Yanlu again, and sure enough, he was defeated again. Thanks to Li Jing's constant trust in him, he was able to always be in a high position and be exempt from heavy punishment every time.
Even when Li Jing eradicated the party strife in the fifth year of Xiande (958), he turned a blind eye to him. At that time, the Southern Tang court was divided into two parties, With Feng Yanmi and Song Qiqiu, Chen Jue, Li Zhenggu and others as one party, and Sun Sheng, Chang Mengxi, Han Xizai and others as one party. And what was in power was Feng Yanmi's Song Party, and it was also the incompetence of the Song Party that led to the continuous defeat of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
However, although Li Jing counted the crimes of Song Qiqiu, Chen Jue, and Li Zhenggu, he was severely punished, and Song Qiqiu was released back to Jiuhua Mountain, and then starved to death at home, and Chen Jue and Li Zhenggu were forced to commit suicide.
However, he left room for Feng Yanmi, but only removed him from the official position of prime minister, and there was no other punishment, he and his family were all safe and sound, and finally Feng Yanshu fell seriously ill and died, which can also be regarded as a good ending.
It is said that Feng Yanmi's words are indeed: "The middle word is the crown of the five generations, and the high place enters the room of FeiQing" (Chen Tingzhuo's "Yunshao Collection, Volume I")
However, when it comes to his political talents, it is really difficult to disagree, and it is no wonder that many people say that he is "treacherous and sinister" (Wen Ying's "Jade Kettle Qing Dialect", vol. 10), "flattering and sinister" (Lu You's "Southern Tang Shu Feng Yanwei Biography").
Feng Yanmi's talent articles were greatly admired by even political enemies, and Sun Sheng once said to him: "Hongbi is beautiful, ten lives are not as good as Jun; witty song and wine, a hundred lives are not as good as Jun" (Lu You's "Southern Tang Book of Feng Yanshu Biography"), but the last sentence of this passage is "flattering and sinister, tired and unruly jun." (Lu You' Southern Tang Dynasty Book of Feng Yanwei Biography).
It can be seen that even if he is indeed a great literary hero, it is difficult to change the fact that he is mediocre and absurd in politics.