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Chapter 180 Final Chapter
.During the 21 years of Song Taizong's reign, nearly 1 people passed the imperial examination and became officials.During the 41 years of Song Renzong's reign, there were 4517 people who became officials from one subject of Jinshi.From the later period of the Song Taizu Dynasty, after passing the provincial examination by the Ministry of Rites, the candidate must pass the "palace examination" personally hosted by the emperor to be considered qualified.For a time, "Students of the Son of Heaven" were all over the world.Many major inventions in Chinese history appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.The four great inventions of ancient China recognized by the world, the compass, gunpowder, and the use of movable type printing were all produced in the Northern Song Dynasty.In the 11th and 12th centuries, the prosperous life in China's metropolises was comparable to or even surpassed that of any other city in the world.

In terms of literature and art, celebrities emerged in large numbers, reaching the pinnacle, comparable to the Tang Dynasty, becoming the second peak of literature and art in Chinese history, and one of the most powerful feudal dynasties in literature in Chinese history.As Mr. Chen Yinke, a master of Chinese studies, said: "The culture of the Chinese nation has evolved for thousands of years, and it was created in the Zhao and Song Dynasties." Song Lian, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, said: "From the Qin Dynasty, the culture flourished in the Song Dynasty. In the 'Tang Dynasty Among the Eight Great Masters of the Song Dynasty, only Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan are from the Tang Dynasty, and the other six are from the Northern Song Dynasty." There are many poets in the Northern Song Dynasty, and they have produced many excellent poems, which can be said to be a feast of flowers in Ci.Famous poets include Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, Zhang Xian, Yan Jidao, Fan Zhongyan, Liu Yong, Su Shi, Qin Guan, Huang Tingjian, Zhou Bangyan, Li Qingzhao and so on.And Liu Yong, Su Shi, and Li Qingzhao are even more dazzling, shining in China.Painting and calligraphy is also in a prominent position and has made great achievements.Song Huizong, who created the "thin gold book" with the emperor's pen and the best of all, has a unique style of calligraphy and a full of personality.Song Huizong himself, from his death in a foreign land to his calligraphy has been immortalized, is even more "unprecedented, and there will be no one to come."

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is known as the emperor who "had a yellow robe" in Nanke's dream. He used force and conspiracy to seize the power of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but he was afraid of the replication and repetition of history, so he "released military power with a glass of wine". , to implement literati rule.Open up the way of speaking, a hundred schools of thought contend, "Speaking does not kill the head".The power of ministers to participate in decision-making and implement policies is greater than that of previous dynasties.Above the temple, monarchs and ministers are arguing endlessly; among the rivers and lakes, scholars point out the country.This enlightened political atmosphere created intellectuals with political ideals, cultural innovations, moral pursuits, and life security, which provided a talent guarantee for the rapid development of the Song Dynasty.

There are many, many peculiarities in the Northern Song Dynasty, not only in the fields of literature, calligraphy and painting, and scientific and technological inventions, but also in philosophy, a group of Neo-Confucians headed by the "Five Sons of the Northern Song Dynasty" Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Shao Yong, Cheng Hao, and Cheng Yi , They used the special form of Confucian philosophy to focus on the study of righteousness, reason and life, called Neo-Confucianism, also known as Taoism, which surpassed the Tang Dynasty and had far-reaching influence.

The wizards of the Northern Song Dynasty are even more outstanding.Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Su Shi is a peak in literature, and even his calligraphy and paintings are monuments.Character, knowledge, talent, mind... even full-time and all-round, unparalleled in the world!

When we climb high and look far away, facing the torrential river, we can’t help but chant loudly: “The great river goes east, the waves are gone, and the romantic people of the ages.” I hope that people will last forever and share the beautiful beauty of thousands of miles!" When we wander in the scenery of Lushan Mountain, we can't help feeling: "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but because we are in this mountain!" West Lake is better than West Lake, light makeup is always suitable.” When we encounter the impermanence of life, we can’t help sighing helplessly: “The world is a big dream, and life is cool in autumn.” When we face the setbacks in life, we can’t help but feel relieved. Myself: "Looking back at the bleak place, go back. There is neither wind nor rain."...

The Academy of Northern Song Dynasty (Hanlin Academy) was a place where high-level intellectuals and cultural elites went to work. They had high status, high taste, and good treatment. They got along with the emperor and the country’s decision-makers above ten thousand people. Emperor Taizong Zhao Kuangyi was very envious of bachelors. In front of the emperor, he still wanted to be a Hanlin scholar.It's just that the Hanlin Academy has a limited number of staff, only a very small number of six.In the first year of Emperor Taizong Zhidao (995), Wang Yucheng entered this supreme Imperial Academy, served as a Bachelor of the Imperial Academy, and directly served the emperor with his pen.

Wang Yucheng was born in the first year of Guo Weixiande, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, in the autumn of 954 AD, and died in the autumn of 1001, the third year of Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng Xianping, at the age of 48.His ancestral home is Chanyuan, now Pyxi, Henan, born in Juye, Jezhou, Shandong, now Juye, Shandong.Farming for generations, the standard is a farm child, and he is a miserable farm child who makes a living by grinding flour.

But it is said that Wang Yucheng made a living by grinding noodles with his parents. Because he was born in troubled times, Wang Yucheng's uncle and uncle died in the war one after another after being separated.The pain of being separated from relatives deeply stimulated this family. Although the society was turbulent and the family was poor, his parents were still full of expectations and hopes for Wang Yucheng, so they gritted their teeth and sent him to a private school for education.Wang Yucheng is smart and motivated. While helping his father to deliver noodles, he is busy studying in his spare time. The children of poor people start their own families early, and Wang Yucheng can write poetry at the age of nine.

The sky will send great tasks to the people, and while working hard, they will also reward the great opportunities.Wang Yucheng had such an opportunity.

One day in the fourth year of Kaibao (971), 16-year-old Wang Yucheng, as usual, delivered the ground noodles on his back to the customer's home. What he did not expect was that today's delivery of noodles would open a new page in his life. .

The client who delivered the noodles this time was Bi Shi'an (938-1005), the training officer of the Jeju regiment, from the later official to the prime minister.Bi Shi'an was 33 years old at the time. He was upright, open-minded, and generous.When he saw the handsome young man who saw him off, he was polite even though he was a child of the Han family, so he felt pity for him, and asked him, "Do you know how to read and write?" Yucheng replied, "I have read a little bit."After some exchanges, Wang Yucheng wrote a "Grinding Poem" at Bi Shi'an's request: "But if you keep your heart upright, you don't have to worry about the delay. If you put your effort lightly, it's time to turn around."

The stone mill is heavy, clumsy and silent, but what is valuable is that it can persevere and impartially carry objects and rotate around the milling center, wear itself, speak good words, and dedicate all beings. This is the best symbol of virtue and carrying things.And with the help of manpower, with a light flick, it is when turning and turning around.Here, Wang Yucheng, a young man from a poor background, obviously compares himself to a stone mill. He not only has a thick and firm heart, but also strives for self-improvement.

Bi Shi'an was a Jinshi and had a high sentiment and moral pursuit. After reading it, he was not only amazed.At the age of sixteen or seventeen, this boy has a deep understanding of the philosophy of life, and he has a moral pursuit of integrity, which is extraordinary, rare, rare!He immediately decided to keep Wang Yucheng at home and teach him to read and be a man himself.Although Bi Shi'an was only an eighth-rank official at the time, his monthly salary was only enough to support his family.The so-called; there are often thousands of horses in the world, but Bole does not often have them.

In the autumn of the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo (878), 24-year-old Wang Yucheng failed the palace examination although he was among the best in the provincial capital examination.He was a little depressed, and Bi Shi'an encouraged and assisted him again. This child who walked out of the mill was destined to be different and determined in heart.

He plucked up his young and not plump feathers, and decided to move forward bravely.

In the eighth year of Taiping Xingguo (983), the 30-year-old Wang Yucheng finally passed the Jinshi, but because he failed in the first division, he missed the champion and the second place. He was sent to Chengwu County, Shanzhou (now Chengwu County, Heze, Shandong Province) ) acts as the main thin.Although the official is small, his heart can be big and far-sighted.Because of his outstanding work, Wang Yucheng was promoted a year later to the county magistrate of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu).Interestingly, the county magistrate Wang was afraid that the old man would be depressed and lonely because of the miscellaneous matters of the chief official, and he would be frustrated and lonely.Wang Yucheng said in the article: "A gentleman does not regard his status as an official, or his status, but to uphold morality and righteousness, and to take practical actions for the benefit of the people. A low-level official of the same class." "Although the job of the master Bo is cumbersome, the principle of assisting the county magistrate is the same as that of the prime minister assisting the emperor. Only when you understand this truth will you have a public heart and firmly pursue your dream." Look, Wang Yucheng What a lofty and sincere heart.

Wang Yucheng also did a remarkable thing when he was the county magistrate.In the second year of Yongxi's reign (985), the Northern Song Dynasty was preparing for the second Northern Expedition, and land taxes and military expenditures came one after another. In this year, Changzhou was hit by a disaster, and crops generally failed to harvest.After the people have paid almost all the rations, the task gap in the county is still 350 guan, or about 350 million yuan.Although a small county in the south of the Yangtze River is a land of fish and rice, the people are extremely tired, and [-] million yuan is by no means a small sum.If it is squeezed again, many people will leave their homes and their families will be destroyed.With his personal reputation and charisma, Wang Yucheng insisted on borrowing all the money from wealthy businessmen in this county and neighboring counties to contribute to the country and relieve the people's emergency.Wang Yucheng won the hearts of the people in Cheung Chau.But the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. He was slandered by the officialdom, saying that he was just trying to gain fame and fame.

Since ancient times, there has never been a lack of cases of standing on the moral high ground and making irresponsible remarks or even criticizing others, not to mention people who are condescending and full of moral superiority to criticize others wantonly, but they lack real humanistic care and warmth; It makes people's hearts numb and desolate, not to mention adding insult to injury and slandering and slandering.Wang Yucheng was very sad for a time, he said "I don't have a bosom friend".But the hearts of the people are kind, and the people in Changzhou are grateful, they are bosom friends.The people were grateful for County Magistrate Wang's compassion for the people and generous assistance, and they paid off their debts early after the harvest in the second year.

During the three years in Cheung Chau, Wang Yucheng won the support of the people with his heart for the people and the spirit of daring to take responsibility. He also became an idol in the hearts of Gusu people because of his poems pursuing Bai Juyi's common sense and Du Fu's realistic writing style.

Look at this "Dian Jiang Lip·Improvisation"——

Rain hates clouds and worries, Jiangnan is still called a beauty.In the fishing market of the water village, a wisp of solitary smoke is thin.

The sky is conquering, and the distant recognition is like a scorpion.Life matters, at this moment, staring at it, who would rely on the fence!
"The drizzle is continuous, the hatred is hard to dissipate, the sky is dark, and the melancholy is piled up, but the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River in the rain is still very beautiful. The villages by the water, the fish market by the lake, and a solitary wisp of cooking smoke rises up, so faint and so thin.

A group of swan geese traveling long distances, in the distant sky where the water and the sky are connected, looking from a distance, they are flying one after another, as if they are lined up end to end.Looking at the wild geese fighting against the sky at this time, who can understand my mind while leaning on the railing! "

The name moves the Quartet, the capital, and the world.

This is Wang Yucheng. There is only one poem left, but it depicts the fresh rain scene in the south of the Yangtze River with clear and beautiful brushstrokes, implicitly expressing his ambition of conquering Hong and his incomprehensible loneliness.

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Song Taizong Zhao Jiong, who knew literature and books and even loved literature or envied Hanlin scholars, turned to suppress martial arts and emphasize literature after two failed Northern Expeditions, and ruled the country with literature.He made great efforts in scientific research and recruited talents from all over the world, especially the master poets and literary talents. Therefore, the style of writing and Ci in the Song Dynasty flourished and flourished.

In the early spring of the first year of Duangong (988), the buds of weeping willows on both sides of the Bian River in Tokyo had not yet turned light yellow, and the wind was still a bit cold. Wang Yucheng and Luo Chuyue, the magistrate of the neighboring county, were called to Beijing together, and Yucheng was promoted to the right to pick up relics and direct History Museum.Supplements from the right—consulting and advising officials, xiaoyanguan, means to pick up the emperor's omissions (policy mistakes), and specifically pick on the emperor's faults.

The Zhishi Museum is signed by the official and is in charge of the history of the country.In the Song Dynasty, the History Museum, the Zhaowen Museum, and the Jixian Academy were the three museums, and their officials were also called the museum, and they were the most important choices for civil servants.Supplementary Supplements from the Right and Zhishi Museum, the two official positions are not big, they should have been awarded the fifth-rank scarlet clothes, but to show the emperor's favor, Wang Yucheng specially bestowed the rhinoceros belt.

Once you enter the imperial court, you will also enter the wind and rain zone, even on the cusp of the storm.Wang Yucheng was 35 years old at the time, and the 35-year-old Wang Yucheng wanted to find something to do.He thought that as a historian, he should do something for the compilation of national history.He went to Lu Mengzheng, the prime minister who supervised the revision of national history.He said to Lu Mengzheng: "Master, the history museum has not compiled history for a long time. If this continues, the work will be abandoned."There was no reply.Wang Yucheng couldn't wait.He wrote to Lu Mengzheng again: "Xianggong once said that there are three difficulties in writing history, one is literary talent, the other is learning, and the third is insight. Isn't the talent, learning and knowledge of so many people in the pavilion not enough? "After fighting for it, Wang Yucheng finally got to edit the calendar of the first year of Duangong, and he also corrected the "Three History Books" together with others.

Because of his active work, outstanding achievements, and excellent poetry, the scholar Wang Yucheng became a person who was admired by the emperor.In March of the second year of Duangong, it was the time when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming. It was another palace examination for the tribute examination, and the emperor wanted to personally test the candidates.Before the exam, Zhao Jiong specially summoned Wang Yucheng to write a poem, in order to let the masters set an example for the examinees, and also show off the excellence of the people around the emperor.Of course, Wang Yucheng would not disappoint the emperor, so he blurted out a poem. Emperor Zhao Jiong was overjoyed after reading it, and said, "This poem will become popular all over the world in less than a month."What is the content of this poem?It is not found in Song history and Wang Yucheng's biography, and the others cannot be found.Regardless of how good this poem is, anyway, after the emperor flicked it, Wang Yucheng immediately became popular all over the country.This year, Wang Yucheng was 36 years old, and he became famous all over the world in one fell swoop.
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