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Chapter 32 Ouyang Xiu Ending (Part )
Mr. Wang was choked to the point of being speechless.

It was a good thing that Ouyang Xiu was not hit by the imperial examination, but his character was destined to be unsuitable for officialdom.

Song Renzong is not Li Shimin, and Wei Zheng without Li Shimin is nothing. Without Bole, the horse is just an ordinary horse.

Of course, no matter how much you refute, it won't change the fact that their days of sightseeing are over.

But this period of luxurious life in Luoyang not only laid the literary foundation of Ouyang Xiu's life, but also became the best memory of Ouyang Xiu's life.

In the first year of Jingyou's reign, Ouyang Xiu was summoned to take the bachelor's degree examination and was awarded the title of Xuandelang. He returned to Beijing and served as a collation of the pavilions and pavilions, and participated in the compilation of the "General Catalog of Chongwen".

But this time Ouyang Xiu returned to Beijing and his fate began to twists and turns.

After returning to Beijing, Ouyang Xiu continued to take "the seats are always full of guests and the bottles of wine are never empty" as his motto.

However, at this time, Ouyang Xiu was no longer the young man enjoying his youth. He began to take on social responsibilities.

The shortcomings of poverty and weakness in the Northern Song Dynasty began to appear, the gap between the rich and the poor widened, and social contradictions became increasingly prominent.

In the third year of Jingyou's reign, Fan Zhongyan, who had a close relationship with Ouyang Xiu, began to call for reforms. He attributed social problems to corruption, but Ouyang Xiu saw it more deeply and believed that redundant officials and redundant personnel were the fundamental problem.

In the end, Fan Zhongyan's reforms offended vested interests, and he was hit and demoted to Raozhou.

Ouyang Xiu, who was part of Fan Zhongyan's faction, was also implicated and was demoted to Yiling County Magistrate.

At this time, Mrs. Xu, whom Ouyang Xiu married when he was a Jinshi in high school, died soon after the wedding.

When something happened, Nan Jiao prepared a lot of first aid medicine, but it had no effect. Although Xu couldn't see her, she could see her. She was a beautiful, intelligent, gentle and virtuous woman. Nan Jiao's fate was still destined. Weakhearted.

Shortly after being demoted, Ouyang Xiu married the second daughter of the late prime minister Xue Kui.

It is worth mentioning that Xue Kui's eldest son-in-law was none other than Wang Gongchen, who participated in the palace examination with Ouyang Xiu and won the first prize.

Later, Wang Gongchen's wife passed away, and he married Xue Kui's third daughter and continued to be the son-in-law of the Xue family and Ouyang Xiu's brother-in-law.

Ouyang Xiu wrote a poem to ridicule him: "The old son-in-law becomes the new son-in-law, and the elder uncle becomes the younger uncle."

These two are really enemies.

In the third year of Qingli, he was appointed Youzhengyan and Zhizhigao.

Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Fu Bi and others implemented the "Qingli New Deal". Ouyang Xiu participated in the reform and became a reformist cadre, proposing reform of official administration, military, tribute law and other ideas.

However, due to the obstruction of the conservative faction, the New Deal failed again.

Five years later, Fan, Han, Fu, etc. were demoted one after another. Ouyang Xiu wrote a letter to defend himself and was demoted as the governor of Chuzhou.

In Chuzhou, even if he was demoted again, Ouyang Xiu's character remained unchanged, but he became more emotional. He even wrote the immortal masterpiece "The Drunkard's Pavilion", and his ancient prose art reached maturity.

"The drunkard's intention is not in wine, but in the mountains and rivers. The joy of mountains and rivers lies in the wine that captures the heart."

When he was a prefect, Ouyang Xiu's interest in drinking and traveling in the mountains was still the same as before. He often took the officials and people out to play, picnicked in the mountains, and then got drunk and watched everyone having fun.

The beginning of "The Drunkard's Pavilion" originally spent a lot of pen and ink describing the mountains around Chuzhou.

In the end, these descriptions were revised by Ouyang into five words: "Chuchu is surrounded by mountains". It is concise and meaningful, and has become a famous sentence in the history of prose.

When you are drunk, you can have fun with the people, and when you wake up, you can record the process of your travels with world-class writing.

The suppression by the conservative faction did not affect the good mood of the "drunkard".

At this time, Ouyang Xiu still maintained a relaxed and lazy attitude, and was "lenient and simple" in politics to make life easy for himself and the people.

But under this kind of governance policy, Chuzhou was governed in an orderly manner.

Ouyang Xiu liked wine, and there are many descriptions of wine in his poems. In the poem "Fisherman's Pride", a girl who picked lotus leaves used lotus leaves as cups and rowed a boat to drink wine, which fully described the beauty that wine brought to people's lives.

When Chuzhou was developing smoothly, Ouyang Xiu successively transferred to Yangzhou, Yingzhou and Yingtianfu.

When Ouyang Xiu was appointed as the prefect of Yangzhou, every summer, he would bring guests to Pingshan Hall, send people to pick lotus flowers, put them in pots, and ask the singing girls to pass the lotus flowers on to each other. When the time comes, have a drink.

It can be seen that Ouyang Xiu loves drinking.

Later, Ouyang Xiu became the prefect of Yingzhou.

In Yingzhou, he still indulged in poetry and wine, thinking that his life was no worse than in Luoyang.

Later, when he was about to bid farewell to Yingzhou, he was afraid that the officials and people would be too sad to see him off, so he wrote a poem to comfort them, saying: "I will just be drunk as usual, and I will not teach the strings and instruments to make parting sounds."

Still does not change the optimistic nature of the poet and alcoholic.

Ouyang Xiu's official position is getting higher and higher, and the poems he has written are becoming more and more popular in society.

Legend has it that there was a singing girl in Yingzhou who could sing all of Ouyang Xiu's lyrics.

Later, Ouyang Xiu went on a mission to the Liao Kingdom. The reception officials invited a local singing girl to entertain him and asked her to treat Mr. Ouyang well.

The geisha just agreed and didn't say much. Everyone thought that she was a geisha from a remote place and didn't understand anything.

Unexpectedly, when the singing girl opened her mouth during the banquet, all she sang were Ouyang Xiu's lyrics.

This also shows the great influence of Ouyang Xiu's poetry at that time.

Just then something happened that affected Ouyang Xiu.

There was a sudden rumor among the people that Ouyang Xiu had an affair with his "niece" Zhang.

But there is no blood relationship between the two parties. She was born to Ouyang Xiu's brother-in-law's ex-wife.

Zhang married Ouyang Xiu's cousin and then had an affair with a servant at home. After the incident was revealed, the case was tried in Kaifeng Mansion.

In court, Zhang confessed that he had an affair with Ouyang Xiu.

Ouyang Xiu defended himself in every possible way, but in the end he settled the case with "no evidence", but his reputation was greatly affected.

His political enemy Qian Xie also used this to attack him, and Ouyang Xiu's political path was full of twists and turns.

In the first year of Huangyou's reign, he returned to the imperial court and served successively as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and editor of the History Museum.

In August of the first year of Zhihe, Ouyang Xiu, who had already become a high-ranking official in Beijing, was framed and demoted again.

As soon as the order was issued, Emperor Renzong regretted it. When Ouyang Xiu went to court to bid farewell, the emperor personally persuaded him to stay and said: "Don't go to Tongzhou, stay and revise the "Book of Tang"."

In this way, Ouyang Xiu became a bachelor of Hanlin and began to write history books. and
Song Qi studied "New Book of Tang Dynasty" with him, and also studied "Historical Records of Five Dynasties" (i.e. "New History of Five Dynasties") by himself.

As a historian, Ouyang Xiu used his penetrating writing style to compile history with great ease.

He presided over the compilation of "New Book of Tang", and many people actually participated in the writing.

In order to prevent inconsistencies in style, Ouyang Xiu was responsible for coordinating the entire manuscript.

At that time, the development of classical writing in the literary world of the Northern Song Dynasty was a bit excessive.

Everyone is willing to write ancient articles to attract attention, but without enough talent, the articles are often written in an obscure and difficult-to-understand way, which looks bluffing, but actually has no actual content, let alone artistic value.

Among them, Song Qi, who is responsible for writing biographies, always likes to use some uncommon words.