Speaking of Fan Zhongyun, the first thing that comes to mind is the historical famous article of "the superiority of the world before the world is worried, and the happiness of the world after the world", naturally, the image of a great literary scholar is well known, and today we want to talk about not only Fan Zhongyun as a literary scholar, but also Fan Zhongyun as a politician, economist, and military expert.
When fan Zhongyan's military ability is mentioned, it is bound to think of Han Qi and Pang Yuan, who are guarding the three prefectures of Gyeongju, Yanzhou, and Taizhou on the northwest border respectively. The Song Dynasty attached great importance to the literati and paid attention to the rule of the literati in the world, and there was a saying that the punishment could not be a doctor. Obviously, these three people were all civilian officials who were assigned to guard the border town between Western Xia and the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was these three people who guarded the northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty, blocked the light horses of Western Xia, and kept the peace of the border. From this, it can be seen that it is not how powerful the army of the Western Xia is, but that the entire Northern Song Dynasty has no generals who can fight, as the saying goes, a soldier instigates one, and a nest will be instigated, that is.
When it comes to Fan Zhongyan's political ability, the most representative is the "New Deal for celebrating the calendar". The background of the New Deal was the "three redundancies" of the Northern Song Dynasty, resulting in an emptiness in the Treasury of the Northern Song Dynasty. The so-called "three redundancies" are redundant soldiers, redundant officials, and redundant expenses; at the strong request of Emperor Renzong, Fan Zhongyan wrote the "Answering Hand Edict Chen Ten Matters", and the New Deal was to carry out these problems, the core of which was to rectify the problem of officials. For various reasons, the most prominent is that the New Deal touched the interests of the old forces, and the New Deal died in less than a year, but it brought changes to the Northern Song Dynasty and made the people believe in the imperial court again. It is such a person who is still degraded, and his life is really up and down, and he cannot realize his lifelong ambitions.