In the fifth year of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought fiercely in Guandu. The strength of the two armies is very different. Yuan Jun is several times that of Cao Jun, and most of Cao Cao's troops think that Yuan Jun is invincible. But Cao Cao finally defeated Yuan Jun with fewer victories. Yuan Shao abandoned the army and fled, and all the materiel and atlas were seized by Cao Jun.
One of Cao Cao's confidants found many letters while counting the spoils. The confidant opened one of the letters, read it several times, and his face suddenly changed. He collected all the letters, sealed them, and then reported to Cao Cao with them: "Master, these are all secret letters from Yuan Shao!" " Cao Cao received the letters, opened them, read a few, and said to his confidant, "Go and burn all these letters." . ""burn? Master, shouldn't you arrest all these traitors according to the imperial edict? "Confident and indecisive. Cao Cao shook his head: "At the beginning, Yuan Shao's troops were far superior to mine, and even I felt that I couldn't protect myself, let alone them. Collusion with Yuan Shao is only their last choice. "
It turns out that these letters were written to Yuan Shao by officials of Xudu and the Ministry of Cao Cao's army, and there are many words that bite the hand that feeds you. Cao Cao ordered people to burn all the letters in public. People who had contact with Yuan Shaoyou were originally in a state of panic. When they saw Cao Cao's move, they were ashamed and at the same time more grateful, and the morale of the army was more vigorous.
Cao Cao took advantage of the situation to attack, and the counties in Jizhou offered cities to surrender. Cao Cao's strength was greatly enhanced, which laid the foundation for the unification of the north.
Celebrity story of positive energy: Yue Fei feels like an assassin playing the piano.
Yue Fei, a patriotic general in the Southern Song Dynasty, is good at calligraphy, chess, calligraphy and painting. Whenever he is bored, he always plays the guqin to express his anger. In A.D. 1 14 1 year, Yue Fei fought against nomadic people and won many battles, so he came to Zhuxian Town. Yue Jiajun's soldiers are all gearing up and determined to attack Jin Wushu's lair.
On this day, Yue Fei was discussing with ministers about sending troops. Qin Gui, the prime minister of the capitulationists in the Southern Song Dynasty, urged Song Gaozong to win twelve gold medals in succession and called Yue Fei back to Beijing as soon as possible. He tried to trick Yue Fei back to Beijing and kill him.
Yue Fei is not far from Lin 'an, the capital of China. Suddenly, a captain stopped Yue Fei and said, "Your Majesty has an imperial decree that you should rest outside the city. Without it, you are not allowed to enter the city. "
That night, Yue Fei lived in a temple. I am really depressed and can't sleep at night when I think that victory is just around the corner, but I have to give up my excellent fighter. I paced in the yard, looking at the stars, shaking my head and sighing. Back in the house, Yue Fei saw a guqin hanging on the wall, reached for it, set the tone, and played on his desk.
The first step of Qin Gui's plan to kill Yue Fei is to assassinate him. Qin Gui let a person from the prison put forward a powerful death row, told him to go outside to assassinate a * essence, after the job is done, not only can be exempted from the death penalty, and reward.
The prisoner heard that it was a good assassination, and he was rewarded for avoiding death, so he left the city happily. Qin Gui's plot is: tell the condemned man to take action to avoid his death, and he will try his best to do it; If Yue Fei dies, he will be arrested and silenced, without knowing it, without knowing it, and without knowing it. Qin Gui flattered at the thought of it, waiting for the assassin's reply.
The assassin came to the temple yard and hid behind an old pagoda tree. He heard Yue Fei sigh in the room, so he crept to the window. Yue Fei turned to pick the guqin, immediately flicker into the room, hiding behind the screen, stood on tiptoe, moved a few steps forward, and was about to assassinate. At this moment, the piano sounded, and the assassin immediately drew back the knife.
Niu Jiaoqin in Yue Fei's hands plucked the strings, and the piano fluttered, soft or rigid, tight or slow, high or low. When he was high, he was like a thousand troops, galloping on the battlefield and fighting for the nomads from the army; When you are depressed, it is like lamenting that your ambition has not been rewarded and worrying about your country and people. ...
The assassin thought, "Who is this? If it is a gold man, how can he play such a good piano? " He peeped through the gap of the screen with one eye: the piano player is dressed in royal clothes, his face is white and moist, and he is clearly from the Central Plains!
"No matter who he is, I killed him with a knife while he was playing the piano wholeheartedly!" The assassin's heart was crossed and he was about to start work when the piano suddenly stopped. The assassin's muscles tensed, and he almost dropped the knife. At this time, I heard Yue Fei sigh: "Alas! When will the old mountains and rivers be recovered? " The piano suddenly sounded again. The assassin listened, huh? Why is this tune so familiar? Didn't my father compose this song A Farewell to the Army?
It turns out that this assassin is from Yancheng, and his father is a famous piano player. He can compose music and play the piano, and he makes a living as a busker among the people. That year, the nomads from the army occupied Yancheng. Jin Wushu gave a banquet to celebrate and took his father to play the piano to entertain him. His father didn't play or play, standing in front of Jin Wushu and glaring, he broke all the strings. Jin Wushu was so frustrated that he ordered someone to beat the old man black and blue and put him in the camp. Yue Fei arrived in Yancheng, repelled the nomads from the army and rescued the old artist. As soon as the old man was happy, he wrote down the piano music of "Sending Troops" and played it everywhere, praising Yue Jiajun's resistance to gold. One day, Marshal Yue personally came to his home and hit it off with the old artist. Marshal Yue asked the old artist to teach him to play "Send Troops". ...
The assassin cried at the thought of this. His heart was fascinated by the sound of the piano. With the sound of the piano, he was happy for a while and generous for a while, forgetting that he had come to assassinate. With a bang, the strings were broken, and Yue Fei stood up silently and said to himself, "I, Yue Fei, didn't pay for my great ambition of resisting gold. How can I repay my parents!" When the assassin heard the word "Yue Fei", the steel knife fell to the ground with a clang and his head swelled with a bang. He suddenly emerged from behind the screen and shouted, "Marshal Yue!" Plop down on his knees, tears rolled down, and he sobbed and said, "Marshal Yue, I'm sorry."
Yue Fei was startled by him, looked at the person kneeling in front and asked, "Who are you?" The assassin detailed the assassination process. Yue Fei's eyebrows bristled with anger, and he cursed Qin Gui for betraying the motherland and defecting to the enemy. He pulled the assassin up, comforted him, and gave him some money to let him escape.
Qin Gui's plot to assassinate Yue Fei was shattered in Yue Fei's music.
Celebrity story of positive energy: drunken Ouyang Xiu
Ouyang Xiu's father died young and his family was poor. When his mother taught his young son knowledge, she didn't have paper and pen, so she used reed as a pen to draw words in the sand to teach him. His mother once told him the story of his late father: "Your father was a small official when he was alive. He reads the file by candlelight at night, and repeatedly covers the book and sighs. I asked him why, and he said, there is a condemned man, and I want to live for him, but I can't get it. Being an official is for the survival of others. "
Ouyang Xiu, who is less than 20 years old, failed for the first time in Suizhou, Hubei. Han Yu's ancient prose is his yearning realm. But what were the "college entrance examination requirements" at that time? The students around him are talking about it, either poetry or Yang. The so-called Quincy-style poetry is named after Quincy's collection of poems, Reward and Singing. It is nothing but moaning, carving chapters and sentences, and lacking in ideological content.
Two years later, Ouyang Xiu took the job again, but he still didn't win it. As the second place, he was inevitably depressed. Under the baton of college entrance examination, he had to turn his attention to Quincy's poems and Shi Wen. Ouyang Xiu, 2 1 year-old, paid a visit to the commander of Hanyang Army according to his new article "On Xu Yan Qi". This not-so-clever "current affairs article" made Yan Xu "fall in love at first sight" and soon married his daughter.
In the seventh year of Song Renzong Tiansheng (AD 1029), Ouyang Xiu came to the capital of song dynasty with his future father-in-law. He won the first place in Kaifeng three trials, was elected as a scholar, and was specially authorized to stay in Luoyang as an official. Ouyang Xiu will never forget this glorious moment. Ouyang Xiu and others set out from the Chongzheng Hall and proudly walked through the streets of Tokyo, with guidance in front and attendants behind them. Ouyang Xiu entered the talent layer of the empire at the age of 23. It seems that the official luck has come.
In May of the third year of You Jing (AD 1036), Fan Zhongyan, a good friend of Ouyang Xiu, criticized the current politics in the last chapter, and mentioned the disadvantages of Chen Shi, which annoyed the then Prime Minister Lv Yijian. Lv Yijian accused Fan Zhongyan of exceeding his authority, recommended "cronies" and alienated the monarch and his subjects, so Fan Zhongyan was demoted to Raozhou. Gao Ruona, who shoulders the heavy responsibility of exhortation, not only does not uphold justice, but wantonly slanders Fan Zhongyan's personality. Ouyang Xiu was very angry, but he still wrote a letter to Gao Ruoang. After some cynicism, he concluded: "The first step is not a gentleman." Because of this impulsive letter, Ouyang Xiu was banished to Yiling County, Hubei Province.
In this remote town, there were no books for him to entertain himself, so he took out the old files and read them again and again. Seeing countless unjust cases, false cases and misjudged cases, Ouyang Xiu vowed that even when he became a county magistrate, he would never dare to have the slightest burnout and negligence in handling government affairs. After that, Ouyang Xiu served as an official in various places for many years, and everywhere he went, he left a record that was deeply supported by the people.
Fan Zhongyan was put into use again. He wanted to recruit Ouyang Xiu as the minister in charge of the palm of his hand. He asked the court for approval, but Ouyang Xiu sighed: "I was speaking for Gong Fan. Is it for my own benefit? You can retire with him, but you don't have to go in with him. " I cann't believe I refused to go
In the first year of Kangding (A.D. 1040), Ouyang Xiu returned to Kaifeng after four years of relegation and was promoted to a captain.
In the third year of Li Qing (AD 1043), Song Renzong called Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi and other ministers to seek strategies to save the crisis. Fan Zhongyan wrote ten things and put forward various reform measures, such as strict official promotion and demotion system, limiting bureaucratic children's official privileges and reducing corvee. Ouyang Xiu supports Fan Zhongyan. At the same time, he suggested the implementation of the "supervision law", selecting capable people as provincial judges, supervising state and county officials and reporting to the court regularly. Fan Zhongyan's article and Ouyang Xiu's suggestion were once adopted by Song Renzong and promulgated throughout the country, which is called the "New Deal".
However, the conservative forces used the theory of "cronies" to create public opinion in North Korea, framed Fan Zhongyan and others for cronyism, attempted to overhead the emperor and demanded the abolition of the reformists. Angered by the scheming tricks of these narrow-minded villains, Ouyang Xiu wrote a letter overnight, explaining to the emperor the truth that "villains have no friends" and "gentlemen have friends". This is the sharp, unrestrained and well-founded "cronyism".
Unfortunately, no matter how earnest Ouyang Xiu's statement is, how full his reasoning is, and how convincing his enumerated facts are, Song Renzong is still an imperial edict, and four reformist officials, such as Du Yan and Fan Zhongyan, were dismissed, and the "Qingli New Deal" came to a hasty end, and the conservative aristocratic bureaucrats returned to power.
The old school forged the so-called "Zhang's nephew case" against Ouyang Xiu, saying that Ouyang Xiu and his niece had proper relationship. Ouyang Xiu's niece Zhang married Ouyang Xiu's cousin Ouyang Sheng, but had a relationship with Ouyang Sheng's servant. * After revealing the secret, Zhang bit his uncle in order to excuse himself, saying that he had an affair with Ouyang Xiu when he was unmarried. This matter has been in court, and Ouyang Xiu has been defending himself. However, China calligrapher Xie Qian has been at odds with Ouyang Xiu. At this time, he quoted Ouyang Xiu's poem "Looking at the South of the Yangtze River" as proof: "Stay till the spring is deep. Fourteen-five, holding the pipa leisurely. Go to the lobby to collect money. Pay attention when you meet. Moreover, until now. " This gorgeous poem became the ironclad proof of Ouyang Xiu's life style.
Ouyang Xiu was demoted to Chuzhou. Chuzhou is located between Jianghuai, with beautiful scenery, simple land and simple folk customs. Ouyang Xiu likes it here very much. There is Langya Mountain in the southwest of Chuzhou, and Ouyang Xiu often takes wine with him. In the beauty of wine and wine, he forgot the humiliation of being slandered, his satrap status, and his age of only forty, calling himself an alcoholic.
Later Ouyang Xiu changed from Chuzhou to Yangzhou.
In June of the first year of He Zhi (A.D. 1054), Ouyang Xiu was ordered to return to Beijing, and he left Kyoto nearly 10 years ago. Song Renzong couldn't help sighing when he saw that the old minister of Li Qing was nearly 50 years old. The following year, he was promoted to a bachelor's degree in Hanlin, a scholar in Jixian Hall, and a Taoist official.
After Ouyang Xiu became a bachelor of Hanlin, he actively advocated the reform of writing style. One year, the capital held a Jinshi exam, and the court appointed him as an examiner. He thinks this is a good opportunity to select talents and reform the style of writing. When marking papers, he found that flashy articles were not accepted. After the exam, a group of people lost the election and were very dissatisfied with Ouyang Xiu. One day, Ouyang Xiu rode out and was stopped by a group of malicious people on the way, shouting abuse at him. Then the soldiers on patrol came and drove these people away. After this storm, although Ouyang Xiu was under some pressure, the style of writing in the examination room changed, and everyone began to learn to write articles with rich content and simple style.
In the second year of Jiayou (AD 1057), Ouyang Xiu took the imperial examination according to the new standard, which was called the grand occasion of the imperial examination. Most of these admitted people became famous ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty in the following decades. Among these Jinshi, 9 people will be senior officials with three or more products in the future, including Su Shi and Su Zhe brothers. There are seven people above the deputy prime minister. Moreover, important figures of several academic schools in the Song Dynasty, such as Cheng Hao, Lv Huiqing and Ceng Bu, important members of Wang Anshi's "New Learning", were all admitted in this imperial examination. Later, three of the so-called "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" were also candidates who were admitted to xx Imperial Examination at the same time, namely Su Shi, Su Zhe and Ceng Gong. The "ancient prose movement" advocated by Ouyang Xiu had a great influence on the change of writing style in later generations. He influenced and gathered a large number of young scholars and writers, making them the basic force of the new poetry movement.
But Ouyang Xiu's bad luck came again. This time, it happened during the reign of Song Yingzong Zhiping, and it was still related to the scandal.
At that time, Xue Zongru, the cousin of Ouyang Xiu's wife, committed a crime and was impeached. Xue Zongru had hoped that Ouyang Xiu would put in a good word in front of the emperor to excuse him, but Ouyang Xiu wrote a letter asking for serious treatment. Xue Zongru was furious and rumoured that Ouyang Xiu was having an affair with his eldest daughter-in-law, Wu. Jiang, a court official who had enemies with Ouyang Xiu, wrote an article on this matter, and the evidence presented was another frivolous and colourful poem "Drunken Penglai" by Ouyang Xiu. Ouyang Xiu almost vomited blood with anger. Ministers defended him, and Lian Gang Emperor Song Shenzong also wrote to him, expressing no doubt about his character. However, Ouyang Xiu was seriously ill and was still disheartened after his recovery. Although Jiang was humiliated, he really didn't want to stay in Beijing.
The peach affair does have special lethality to Ouyang Xiu, and he is always easily crushed by such scandals. This is because Ouyang Xiu has a special liking for playing with prostitutes. He is a man of temperament, and his nature is frank and informal. He thinks that as long as he can write a good article, he doesn't care if he hangs out with geisha every day. Ouyang Xiu's unrestrained enjoyment and unscrupulous attitude are manifested in the creation of ci, that is, he wrote a lot of so-called "colourful ci".
In his later years, Ouyang Xiu's official career flourished. However, the heroic spirit of "the second boss admonishes the book" and the spirit of "celebrating the New Deal" are gone. In the third year of Xining (AD 1070), 64-year-old Ouyang Xiu changed from knowing Qingzhou to knowing Cai Zhou. At this time, Ouyang Xiu, who was full of vigor and struggle, had already disappeared.
One night in autumn in the fourth year of Jiayou (A.D. 1059), Ouyang Xiu smelled the autumn wind under a private window and wrote an essay Ode to Autumn Sound. Through autumn scenery's chilling, he expressed his melancholy mood and linked it with the fading and fleeting years of everything, thus lamenting the hardships of the world and the bumpy road of life. Autumn is a sad autumn poem and a sad song. It is in this article that Ouyang Xiu showed his ideological course from radical to conservative, which resulted in a strong idea of retirement.
Ouyang Xiu is old. People will get old one day, and that day will come too inadvertently.
Now, it is his turn to show his political stance to the younger generation, that is, his conservative stance and repressive attitude towards "Wang Anshi's political reform." Ouyang Xiu felt that he could see more clearly and thoroughly than Wang Anshi and could only accept the gradual reform. Ouyang Xiu had a clear political ideal all his life, but in the face of Wang Anshi's "higher, faster and farther" political reform, he was at a loss. Together with Han Qi, Fu Bi and other old ministers of the "Qingli New Deal", he changed from a radical position to obedience and stood on the opposite side of Wang Anshi. At the moment when the political reform struggle was extremely fierce, he was almost accused, but Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi forgave him because he was 64 years old and a literate scholar.
In the fourth year of Xining (A.D. 107 1), 65-year-old Ouyang Xiu got his wish and retired, boating on Yingzhou West Lake all day. "The West Lake is good for a short boat", and Ouyang Xiu wrote 10 song in "Picking Mulberry Seeds", all with "West Lake is good" as the first sentence. I can see that the old man Ouyang, who is physically and mentally haggard and has been in turmoil in officialdom, is so happy after returning to nature. He was really drunk, intoxicated with the ultimate joy of life, and he became the most thorough "alcoholic".
Only one year later, "6 1 laity" died.