(Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard)

"After cutting the grain at noon, sweat dripped into the soil. Who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard. " This poem, which is well known to all women and children, comes from two poems about agriculture written by Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Li Shen was awarded the title of "peasant poet". But the theory that "writing is like a person" is absolutely a fallacy for Shen Li, who is actually a bureaucrat with luxurious life and poor character.

Shen Lijia was an official for generations, but his father died when he was six years old, and he was brought up by his mother. Therefore, when Li Shen was young, he wrote "Compassion for Peasants", a poem reflecting peasants' sufferings, which provided a basis for life.

In the first year of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong (806), Shen Li took the imperial examination and entered the official career. He started as a teaching assistant in Guo Zi (there were six halls in imperial academy in Tang Dynasty, each with a doctor and a teaching assistant), and became a prime minister in his later years, sealing Zhao Guogong, which gradually changed. According to unofficial history's records, Li Shen became "extravagant" as an official, and the cost of a meal was as high as several hundred yuan. He especially likes to eat chicken tongues. He wants more than 300 live chickens for each meal, and the chickens slaughtered in the yard are piled up like mountains.

It's just that the luxury of life is understandable, but after he made his fortune, he loved to play politics and was heartless, which showed that his character was inferior. It is recorded in Yunxi Friendship that before Li Shen made his fortune, he often visited a family named Li Yuanjiang. Every time he saw Li Yuanjiang, he called him "uncle". After Shen Li Chenggong, Li Yuanjiang took the initiative to lower his seniority and called himself a "brother" and a "nephew". Li Shen was very unhappy, and Shen Li Mianqiang accepted it until Li Yuanjiang called himself a grandson.

There is also an inspector named Cui, who has a friendship with scholars. Once he came to visit him specially. As soon as he stayed in a hotel, the servant got into a fight with a citizen. When he heard about it, he beheaded his servants and his people, and ordered someone to arrest Cui, saying, "I have always known you. Since I'm here, why don't you pick me up? "

Because Li Shen is a cruel official, the local people are often frightened, and many people even flee across the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.