Sima's death
Sima Guang came in without looking at anyone, and directly said to Empress Dowager Gao: Which evil person is the one who advised Your Majesty to apply this evil method again?
Fan Chunren immediately flashed aside and didn't dare to say a word... Treacherous? When this hat was pressed over, he would have to be determined for the rest of his life, and even his father would have to be criticized!
The old bastard succeeded again. Even if he was dying, he would shock the whole court! But what should we do in the world? You must know that Fan Chunren is not a new party. He saw the dangerous situation because the treasury began to be empty again!
Qingmiao Law and Fangtianjun Tax Law were abolished, and the land and farmers were occupied by landlords, and national interests were shrunk again. Who will solve such practical problems? Sima Guang doesn’t care about these, I just care about the abolishment! What’s the point? I care about my bad affairs!
This is the last true portrayal of his life. There is a famous saying that has been circulated in his biographies to prove it. He can ignore any responsibility and any danger!
History records: When he changed his mother and son the most, someone reminded him: At this time, he was denied, be careful that Zhezong would stand up for his father when he grew up, and then he would make a big comeback again. What should the Song Dynasty do? The old bastard ignored it and ignored it. "If the heavens were to the Song Dynasty, there would be no such thing." Do you want God to wipe your butt for what you did yourself?
On September 1, 5 months after Wang Anshi's death, Sima Guang died. Like Wang Anshi, he was 66 years old. His funeral specifications were super high. He was given a gift from the Grand Tutor, Duke Wen Guo, a first-class dress, 7,000 taels of silver and silk, and was posthumously named Wen Zheng. He was awarded a stone tablet in the name of the emperor, which was engraved with "Zhongqing and Cuish Deity". In addition, Empress Dowager Gao brought Xiao Zhezong to the scene to express her condolences. She herself cried a few times in public...
In sharp contrast, when Wang Anshi died, there was no divine monument, no conduct, and the three-yuan epitaph. Only one younger brother was present at the funeral. As for the subsequent gifts, Su Dongpo's writings were a playful irony. It was actually a sentence that Wang Anshi's great enemy in his life, Sima Guang, said - "Jie Fu's articles have many extraordinary morals, but they are not familiar with things and are happy to be wrong, and they are loyal and distant from slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous slanderous
Let’s talk about Sima Guang. I won’t talk about his political achievements and character anymore. Now look at his main topic - history. There is a saying in the historical community that “two Simas of the ages” is that Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty who wrote “Records of the Grand Historian” and Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty who wrote “Zizhi Tongjian”. Not only are these two people both surnamed Sima, but their works are also roughly the same…
Let me talk about my views on this masterpiece of history and this masterpiece of history. Let me say two points: 1 "Records of the Grand Historian" is a general history of the dynasty of the 1000 years from ancient times to the dynasty of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty completed by Sima Qian with his personal strength in the bamboo slip era; "Zizhi Tongjian" is a general history of the chronological form of Sima Guang gathered the strength of everyone in the paper era from the Warring States Period to the Five Dynasties. The draft of "Zizhi Tongjian" is called "Zizhi Tongjian Changbian". It is chronologically ordered by Sima Guang.
All the general scattered things of historical materials. But the author of "Changbian" is not Sima Guang! The author of the Han Dynasty is Liu Shu, the author of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and Five Dynasties is Liu Yan, and the author of the Tang Dynasty is Fan Zuyu. The adaptation of "Changbian" and the original version of "Zizhi Tongjian" was completed by Sima Guang. Among them, his son Sima Kang also made important contributions, and all the proofreading of the text was completed by Sima Kang.
Both books are general history. The author of "Records of the Grand Historian" Sima Qian was a man from the time of Emperor Wu of Han, so his "Records of the Grand Historian" started from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the time of Emperor Wu of Han. He dared to tell the truth when writing books and pointed out the mistakes of the powerful emperors and ministers of all dynasties. What's more, he raised Xiang Yu, the mortal enemy of the Western Han Dynasty to the emperor, and enjoyed the "principal" treatment like Liu Bang. In contrast, "Zizhi Tongjian" began from the Warring States Period and was completed in the late Five Dynasties. Sima Guang himself lived in the era when the Song Dynasty was established for more than a hundred years, but he did not mention any of the matters of this dynasty! How wise, he would never cause any trouble. But isn't this book to teach people how to be emperors? Then the gains and losses of the previous emperors of this dynasty are the most important content, why did you completely ignore it?
Some people in this world are very special cases. They are nightmares when they live, but still nightmares after they die. No matter what, as long as they stick some edges to him, they will immediately become disgusting. For example, Sima Guang's funeral.
That day happened to be a good day for the Song Dynasty to pardon the world. All civil and military officials had to enter the palace to praise the emperor, and sing and dance to have fun. After the group carnival, everyone walked out of the palace and went to the next scene - to pay condolences to Sima Guang.
But suddenly they were stopped by one person. Cheng Yi blocked the team with a dignified manner. In this team, there were priests, two systems, three sects, censors, and relatives. He could not touch any of them, but he stood very steadily, with a heavy face as if he was "Where are you going?" "Sima Guangfu"
"Go to pay condolences? You are all wrong." Cheng Yi gave a collective class to the community of top officials of the Song Dynasty with his usual educator's face. Confucius said: If you cry one day, you can't find joy anymore. You have just been happy in the palace, and then you go to Sima Guang's mansion to pay condolences is disrespect for the undead...
The large official team was dumb. What should I do when facing this disappointing person? If someone else, even if he was the imperial teacher, he would be bored at this time. He was a senior official and punished people in person, and made moves behind his back. No matter what kind of thing he could do, Cheng Yi was different. He was the ancestor of Neo-Confucianism and a great scholar in contemporary times, especially Confucius, who could not move from any point of view...
Someone beat me up during the silence, "Confucius said that we should not be happy on the day of crying, but we did not say that we should not be crying on the day of joy." It would be great if we made a little monster and flashed out a step. It would be great if everyone took a step back...
But Cheng Yi refused to retreat. He was a master of Neo-Confucianism. He valued sincerity and justice, and his shamelessness. What he hated the most was such a slick and opportunistic thing. He was angry and stood in the street to uphold the truth, and never let the officials go no matter what!
At this time, a person came out of the official team. As mentioned earlier: This world is very big, and with Cheng Yi's sacred halo, there are still a few people who are not afraid of him. This person is one of them, and he is currently a Hanlin and attendant Su Shi. He walked to Cheng Yi with a smile and turned to face everyone. "What Lord Cheng said is well-founded. This is the etiquette set by Shusun Tong, a famous Han Dynasty figure, and it is very famous."
I burst into laughter in an instant, everyone present had a rich knowledge, Shusun Tong... That was a decline in the Han Dynasty. Who is not good at Cheng Yi's education? I have to follow the examples like this!
The great master of Neo-Confucianism has never been this! In his eyes, Su Shi has always been a slick and slutty master of the best market tune. He dared to be rude to him in the blue sky and day. In a rage, he turned around and left. Fortunately, he was still rational and did not choose to fight Su Shi alone and fight with the number one literary giant of the Song Dynasty. He must vomit blood in the street. Cheng Yi left, and the officials were more interested than when they first left the palace. He sang all the way to Sima Guang's mourning hall, saluted collectively, and then went back to their respective houses...
After returning home, new jokes came. Su Shi was still unsatisfied and nicknamed Cheng Yi at home "Sun Tong, the Shusun Tong of Aozhe. Aozhe is a place outside Kaifeng City. It is very remote and rustic. This sentence is read together, which means that there is a person named Cheng Yi in that remote place where no one goes... Cheng Yi...
Hahaha, all Kaifeng officials were applauding, Su Shi was so skillful in cursing people... It was really high! Before Cheng Yi entered Beijing, no matter how famous he was, he was essentially a farmer on the edge of the Yishui River in Luoyang, and in a terrible pond. How could Su Shi think of it!
Laughing continues, in people's hearts, and even in Su Shi's hearts, this is just a temporary joke. Life needs to be ridiculed and self-deprecating. This is part of social interaction. But who knows that it was this little joke just now that led the Northern Song Dynasty to the road of destruction...
The nightmare in the officialdom - the party struggle has finally begun! The Northern Song Dynasty began to change its flavor from now on...
On October, the Great Liao Kingdom sent envoys to enthrone Li Ganshun as the State Affairs of Xia. On the 8th, the envoy of the Western Xia Dynasty confessed his condolences. The Song envoy Mu Yan and Zhang Qi went to the tribute and brought the edict, "Five routes to attack Xia, and wait for you to return the captured soldiers and civilians in the Battle of Yongle City, and you will be able to return it."
In January, in the examination of the staff of the museum, Cheng Yi, as the world's largest Confucian Confucianism, the founder of Neo-Confucianism, the emperor's teacher, was not him, but Su Shi. Su Shi was very happy. He decided to give a high-level title: "Now the court wants to teach Renzong's loyalty and kindness, and is afraid that all officials will not hold their posts, but may become a tyrant. I want to do the work of Shenzong, and I am afraid that the supervisors and commanders will not understand their intentions and become engraved." What about this title?
As soon as the test questions were announced, someone jumped out immediately. Jia Yi and Zhu Guangting impeached Su Shi with great rebellion. This question seriously insulted Renzong and Shenzong. One was to be miserable and the other was to be harsh. Is this the supreme emperor like this?
When the big hat came over, Su Shi immediately refuted it. First, this question hits the current drawbacks. The most important thing is to go where the Zhezong Dynasty is going. Second, I didn’t just ask one question, this question was chosen by the emperor as the test question.
I will write a pen in person? Is it okay? Haha! What does the censor do? It’s just to pick the emperor’s fault! Su Shi wants to carry the emperor out to suppress others? It’s pure delusion!
Jia Yi and Zhu Guangting stepped up their efforts and continued to impeach. Finally, another censor, Lu Tao, could not see it. He believed that Su Shi's exam questions were fine. The Song Dynasty allowed ministers to speak. Even when Renzong and Shenzong were alive, there were often people who asked mistakes. Why didn't it work at this time? It was obvious that someone had ulterior motives! He asked the emperor to pay attention: Jia, Zhu people are from Henan, and they are all disciples of Cheng Yi. It was obvious that they had their own party and bullied foreigners!
Oh? Everyone's eyes lit up, there is such an inside story? But in the blink of an eye, the eyes of Lu Tao became complicated, for nothing else, because Lu Tao and Su Shi are from Sichuan...
In January of the Yuanyou year (1087), someone suddenly inserted another kick. He was neither **** nor *******, he was the Hebei Gang. The censor Wang Yansou accused Su Shi of being unforgivable because he was essentially broken! First of all, he took the performance of the two emperors as a test question and let the ministers judge it was wrong. When the mistake happened, he pushed the blame to the current emperor. What was wrong was not just business ability, but moral quality!
Yes... the censors cheered together, Lord Wang was mighty! What made Wang Yansou furious was: When Jia Yi and Zhu Guangting impeached Su Shi, the official imperial edict pardoned Su Shi without guilt. This time when he impeached, the official took back the last imperial edict.
It turns out that he is not as good as Jia and Zhu people! The imperial edict pardon Su Shi without guilt means being guilty but not punished. The edict is recovering, which means that Su Shi is not guilty at all, and the censors blame him for his mistake!
This shows the difference between Lord Wang and the rest of the people. Whether it is Jia, Zhu, or Lu Tao from Sichuan, they are traditionally marginal forces in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. Henan has not had a strong literary style since ancient times, and Sichuan people only came out of the trough since Su Shi. How can they compare with Wang Yansou? He has his own circle, Hebei people have always been the core force in the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty!
Lord Wang suddenly escalated the contradictions unlimitedly. What is Su Shi? The test questions are not important? He burned the fire to the most mysterious place deep in the palace!
Wang Yansou said, "I hope Your Majesty will not seize the right and wrong with restrained love. I am very lucky in the world." I hope the emperor will not confuse the public because of the special preferences of some people who can influence you, so that the world will be blessed! Who are some people? The entire officialdom knows it, but no one dares to say it! This is Su Shi's greatest amulet. As long as this is here, the world is big, and no one can hurt him...
What is Su Shi's amulet? Woman! In the Wutai poem case, Empress Dowager Cao pleaded for him on his dying occasion. After the death of Emperor Shenzong, Su Shi was quickly promoted and returned to the capital. No matter who objected, he could not help. Why is this? Su Shi himself might have found out by chance one night a few years later, but the gossip in the market had already spread throughout the capital...
On the night of April 5, 1088, Su Shi was on duty in the Hanlin Academy. This was the characteristic of the work of the two-system officials. The emperor's orders would be transmitted from the palace at any time. At least one Hanlin must wait in the class every day. That night, Su Shi had a strange encounter. Someone came from the palace, but he was summoned to the palace. He met Empress Dowager Gao and the young Zhezong. The Empress Dowager asked, "The position of the Grand Secretary before he entered Beijing was" and "The Deputy Envoy of the Ruzhou Tuanjiao"
"What is your job now?" "Hanlin Bachelor's degree"
"Do you know why you are so fast?" Su Shi replied hesitantly, "It's Your Majesty's wrong love."
"No" Empress Dowager Gao shook his head. Su Shi was more careful that "it was the Empress Dowager's appreciation."
"No" Empress Dowager Gao still shook his head. Su Shi stood up suddenly, "Although the minister is not talented, he still knows how to love himself, and does not dare to make friends with relatives and nobles, and plans to make official positions." When he said this, he was very sad. The promotion was not the official intention, so only the recommendation of his colleagues and superiors was left, which was an insult to him, and he was questioned by the Empress Dowager in person!
However, Empress Dowager Gao said, "It was the last order of Emperor Shenzong. He was fascinated by reading articles when he was having dinner. Whenever the eunuchs knew that it must have been written by you. He said you were a genius, but unfortunately he died before he could recall you..." Su Shi cried bitterly, and Empress Dowager and Xiao Zhezong also shed tears...
From this incident, can you tell whether Shenzong loved Su Shi? Or Empress Dowager Gao himself liked it? It was just a lie! Shenzong did love talents, and not killing Su Shi in the Wutai poetry case was proved. But it would be funny to say that he had a lasting order to call Su Shi back to Beijing and use it more. After he was critically ill, he couldn't even speak the title of the crown prince, and he was still in a leisurely manner to arrange Su Shi. He took a step back and said that if there was such an order, would Empress Dowager Gao be executed?
She would do it only if she wanted to do it! This was the iron rule of the Yuanyou period, the only main theme! At this time, Wang Yansou knew that she was Su Shi's backstage, but she still moved Su Shi. After that, she turned to the harem, made the matter clear and exposed her!
Empress Dowager Gao was very angry. She didn't understand why anyone dared to challenge her so far? For example, Wang Yansou, just an ordinary official in the capital, dared to warn her in the name of her grandson? There is no way to be a king!
Of course she would never think: Wang Yansou is a censor, let alone she is just the empress dowager, even the emperor herself will do whatever he wants. The problem is that the emperor is nothing in the eyes of "Yao and Shun, the girl among women". The most common thing she has seen in her life is the emperor, from Renzong, Yingzong, Shenzong, and Zhezong, no one can do anything to her. She has always been lawless, but suddenly she was confronted by a small censor, and she was very uncomfortable. The result of her discomfort was: she used her previous killer trick - to swear!
Chapter completed!