Su Shi has always been eager to develop in his career. In order to serve the motherland, the facts are not satisfactory. He was repeatedly demoted, especially the Wutai poetry case, which almost killed him. Thanks to the help of a good friend, he narrowly escaped death and was finally exiled to Danzhou, Hainan Island by the imperial court. This man was then Prime Minister Zhang Dun.
Zhang Dun was born in a family. He is knowledgeable and handsome, but he is arrogant and conceited. At that time, Su Shi and he were both scholars, but because Su Shi's mother was ill, she returned to her hometown to keep the system. At that time, Zhang Dun felt humiliated because his nephew Zhang Heng was the top student in high school, and he ranked behind his nephew. He simply gave up his fame and prepared to take the exam the next year. This incident had a great influence at that time, which showed that Zhang Dun was an independent but conceited person. Two years later, he was admitted to high school and was released to the Order of Shangluo with the fifth place in the first year of high school.
It was probably after this that Su Zhang and his wife met in Beijing. They are all temperamental people, bold and brave, traveling together for a long time and reciting poems together. But then they parted ways because of different political views. What happened?
It turned out that when Wang Anshi, the prime minister at that time, was in power, he made a famous "Wang Anshi Reform" and insisted on reform. He is the leader of the New Party. Zhang Dun followed closely in Wang Anshi's footsteps and won Wang Anshi's esteem. Su Shi was a supporter of the old party at first, and then tilted to the new party, which led to his exclusion from the old and new parties, which also planted seeds for his bumpy career. Many people make much ado about nothing, trying to find many anti-poems from Su Shi's poems to impeach Su Shi in order to please the new party.
At that time, Wang Xuan found a sentence from Su Shi's poem, "The mantis catches the cicada, and the yellowbird comes last", and quickly reported to Song Shenzong that he was unfaithful. He also requested a heavy sentence for Su Shi, while Zhang Dun, a scholar of Hanlin at this time, explained the matter to Song Shenzong, saying that the Dragon List was not just an emperor, but courtiers could also call themselves dragons. For example, Zhuge Liang called himself Wolong at that time. After listening to his words, Zong Shen also thought that Su Shi could not be convicted of a felony because of this, and he could only be made an assistant envoy of Huangzhou Yingyong.
It can be seen that Zhang Dun played an important role in this matter. He didn't hit people when people were in danger. Even though their political views may be different, he still speaks for Su Shi, which shows the depth of their friendship.