Chong Ning three years (1 104), in July, Mi Fei received a proclamation from Song Ting, and was awarded the title of knowing the army by doing nothing. The year before Zhiwuweijun, Mi Fei, then a doctor of Taichang, was tipped off and demoted with "a certain man". Mi Fei invited himself to supervise the construction of Dong Xiao Palace, but he was idle at Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) at the end of the term.
From inexplicably demoted to inexplicably "reinstated" a year later, Mi Fei was like a doll, floating and sinking in the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty after Wang Anshi's political reform and Yuan Youdang's disaster. Mi Fei, who first arrived in Wuwei, was in a bad mood, because Wuwei was "out of the way" beyond his imagination, "doing nothing is in the right of Huai River, and the land is the most out of the way", and the transportation was inconvenient, the countryside was scattered, and the population was insufficient 10 households, which could not be compared with the bustling places such as Tokyo (now Kaifeng) and Luoyang, or even Runzhou where he lived. In a letter from Mi Fei, we saw the words "You are obscure, on the 10th of the month, no one passed by and sat at the bottom of the well". So for Mi Fei, the name "reinstatement" is actually "demotion".
After learning the news that the army had done nothing, Mi Fei's mood fluctuated between "reinstatement" and "demotion". Mifei, who already knows her fate, adjusts herself: when she is old, she may be able to better discharge herself in places like inaction. He tried his best to calm his resentment and treat people and things around him with a calm and tolerant attitude. Mi Fei grew up in the imperial court and knew little about the present situation of the people. It was not until he became a local official that he realized that the lives of ordinary people were not as beautiful as those played by local officials. After learning that there was no army, there was heavy tax pressure from the imperial court in Mi Fei, and people's lives were miserable. In the cracks, Miffy tried to find a good way to balance. Being in a place of inaction, he thought of governing by doing nothing.
Urged by his boss, Mi Fei pretended to be indifferent, dragging, dragging, dragging, dragging, dragging, so he repeatedly claimed to be "the official of the disease, ten days and nine holidays, and everything was entrusted to Hou Xue". This Hou Xue, named Xue Ledao, is the assistant of his best friend in Wuwei Army. He gave him a room to maneuver. After Mi Fei, the officials who were in charge of the government in the past dynasties spoke highly of Mi Fei's administration. Some people say that he is "good at detecting people's grievances", while others say that he is "free from interference and disputes over things". Liu Shizhu, a fellow Luzhou native in the Ming Dynasty, praised him for his "cool breeze and fragrance, which has been attacking people ever since". The best reflection of Mi Fei's inaction should be a record in Mi Fei's Epitaph: "(Mi Fei) retired in peace and could do anything; When I was an official, I was meticulous and liked to teach commandments. When the officials and the people were annoyed at first, they had settled down. It will be too late, and those are big enough. " Therefore, Mi Fei's "governing by doing nothing" is not "hopeless", but just a strategy that he sympathizes with the people and is unable to fight. In fact, it means "doing nothing, doing nothing".
There is a very important article about Mi Fei's inaction in knowing military orders. Although you can't escape the bureaucratic articles of that era, you can still feel Mi Fei's administrative philosophy between the lines: "Shortage comes first, what is lacking is loans and money, and the people have no money to benefit, and they have no food and clothing ..." Mr. Mi has done his best to treat the people.
During the Song Dynasty, there were frequent droughts and floods in Wuwei army. An old song says: what a Wuwei state, it won't be collected for ten years and nine years; It will take a year to collect, and the rice crust will have to build a wall. We can not only see the bitterness and tears of people who suffered disasters in this land, but also see their attachment and expectation for this fertile land. Knowing the secret of the army is also in line with public opinion. Before the spring ploughing, Mi Fei led his army officers to hold a pro-ploughing ceremony and went to Guantian to plough the fields. One is to give priority to the development of agriculture, and the other is to pray for good weather and good harvests. At the turn of spring and summer, he went to the county garden to watch sowing. After April of the lunar calendar, it was the time when "the wheat is ripe and the plums are yellow". Mi Fei urged farmers to harvest the wheat, plow the fields with water and prepare for transplanting rice. During the autumn harvest, Mifei will go upstairs to observe the growth and harvest of crops. But one year, when he went upstairs, he saw "ratooning rice": crops were harvested one after another, and even ratooning rice was mixed, with green waves and prosperity. Since then, the story of "Rice Sun House" has been left behind.
While attaching importance to agriculture, Mi Fei also advocates fishing according to local conditions. Wuwei is intertwined with tributaries of Jun River, Creek and Port, and its water resources are unique, especially in the southeast, which is most suitable for fishery production. Mi Fei timely guides people to fish, so there is no need to reclaim the sea around the lake, which wastes manpower and material resources. Wuwei is a mountainous area in northwest China. In spring, Miffy encourages everyone to put fry in the pond and cultivate them so as to catch them when they grow up. Wuwei at this time is a well-known land of fish and rice. Mi Fei, a man of culture, never forgets to advocate learning when he is idle. He has written imperial tablets for the study of books in Wuhu county and military science in Wuwei, visited military science and rural education many times, and instructed military science to do a good job in construction and select talents and abilities, which is equivalent to teaching and selecting talents and abilities today. He also did not forget to encourage the teachers and students in the military academy, asking them to cultivate their morality and study hard, so that the civilized atmosphere of "adults are virtuous and teenagers are creative" can be formed in our military camp.
In more than two years when Mi Fei knew that the army had done nothing, the weather was basically favorable, and there was no famine, occasional locusts crossing the border, and no fatal injuries were caused. The people who live and work in peace and contentment all say that Tommy is blessed by knowing the army, and he is touched by the light of Lord Mi.
Mi Fei was delighted to hear this, and happily wrote The Ugly Slave: "I stumbled down the ruxu River and trusted it more. I will meet you again in my spare time, laughing and singing ..."