He is as famous as Zhu Zhishan, Tang Bohu, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing, and is one of the four gifted scholars in Wuzhong. In the tenth year of Zhengde in Ming Dynasty, it was named Xingning County. During his six years in Xingning, he was diligent and honest, and achieved remarkable results. After he came to Xingning all the way to take over, he immediately set about sorting out the official documents accumulated for several years. Only a few months after I took office, I handled all the cases accumulated in recent years to convince the people. These achievements are widely circulated among the people, and they are also related to his understanding of propaganda and speculation.
1 speculation about political achievements
Why did Zhu Zhishan go to Xingning County, a remote place in Nanman, as a county magistrate? In fact, like ordinary people, he just wants to make some contributions. If he wants to make a contribution, he must be an official. He's just unlucky. It was not until his fifties that he was hired by the officialdom, which made him fidgety and miserable. He often drinks to drown his sorrows. At the age of 54, he was elected as the county magistrate of Xingning County, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province.
He went to Xingning as a county magistrate for eight years and did three influential things. First, maintain stability. At that time, Xingning County had simple folk customs and chaotic social order, and some robbers often set fire to rob in the valley. In order to do a good job in maintaining stability, he put stability first and organized personnel to crack down on bandits who disturbed the masses. He once arrested more than 30 people in one morning and gave the county a relatively stable working and living environment.
The second is to compile Xingning county annals. For today's officialdom, this work is impossible, because officials at all levels have their own "local records offices" to collect and sort out political achievements. They sing hymns, and praise is the mainstream. Generally speaking, they will be aphasia for negative things. If any leader is interested, he can do it. Why bother God? Third, the punishment for "not paying taxes". This kind of "invalid taxation" is a good thing for the people. At that time, there was neither a system to concentrate financial and material resources on doing great things, nor a public opinion tool that he could use to publicize anything. It is really difficult for him to become a thin literati official. Or because he is a scholar and good at writing, he can only express his achievements in poetry.
As the county magistrate of Zhu Zhishan, he hoped that the wheat harvest in April would solve the problem of food shortage in the face of the shortage of winter and summer grain for ordinary people. However, due to the flood, the soup cake he expected disappeared. How can he be worthy of the "national leader" and the people he represents? "The flood in April is not autumn, but May. Because of these poems, the image of an official always takes care of the sufferings of the people, does not dare to elaborate on political affairs, gets up every day to associate with crows, and talks on paper "concentrate on construction and seek development wholeheartedly."
Zhu Zhishan is good at using poems to publicize his achievements, and still enjoys a high reputation among Xingning people.
Speculative reputation
In the winter when Zhu Zhishan was 57 years old, he was ordered to repair Xingning County Records, and named it Zhengde Xingning County Records. In the preface of this county annals, we can see that the manuscript started with running script, then grass, and finally became weeds. Inadvertently become the treasure of calligraphers' works in past dynasties.
In fact, before Zhu Zhishan arrived in Xingning, he was very famous in Suzhou. No wonder he didn't stay well in Xingning.
He has been very clever since he was a child. He can write big characters at the age of five and poems at the age of nine. He is called a prodigy.
In the first year of Jiajing, 63-year-old Zhu Zhishan was transferred to Nanjing as the judge of Jingzhao Zhaoying Tianfu. A year later, he didn't like the resignation of corrupt officialdom. Without officials, he is thin and unrestrained, especially in cursive script to freely express his arrogant and cynical emotional world. He used "madness" to vent his dissatisfaction with feudal autocratic ethics and won the infinite sympathy of Suzhou people. At the age of sixty-six, Wen Jia, the second son of the Wen Zhiming School, who is just as famous as himself, asked him to create calligraphy works: first, to solve economic difficulties; Second, inherit his calligraphy works. Taking this "opportunity", Zhu Zhishan "got the message" and took this opportunity to hand over his masterpiece Nineteen Ancient Poems to homework help. Wen and his son were surprised by this and engraved it on the "Stop Cloud Pavilion Post". It was really "hyped". Although hiding in the village, he gained a great reputation and was recognized as the leader of the Wulin League. A year later, he passed away.
Through this series of hype, Zhu Zhishan established his position in people's minds with his anti-corruption, anti-official, cynical character and the image of a famous calligrapher.