Chapter 231 The Poet Saint and the Poet Immortal Have Different Fates

【The An-Shi Rebellion was like a raging torrent, completely destroying the prosperous Chang'an.

Just as Yan Zhenqing risked his life in this torrent, the fates of other poets were also different.

Here I will simply list them.

The most unlucky one was Wang Changling, a master of seven-character quatrains.

After the An-Shi Rebellion broke out, Wang Changling went home to visit his relatives. When he passed by Bozhou, he was arrested by the governor Lu Qiuxiao on the charge of "absent from duty" and was killed the following year at the age of 57.

There are rumors that Lu Qiuxiao killed Wang Changling because he was jealous of his talent.

In the same year, when Prime Minister Zhang Hao suppressed the rebellion and lifted the siege of Songzhou, he arrested Lu Qiuxiao and sentenced him to death on the grounds of delaying military affairs.

Lu Qiuxiao asked for life on the grounds that he still had relatives to support.

Zhang Hao asked back who would support Wang Changling's relatives? So Lu Qiuxiao was executed, which was also considered to be a settlement of the grudge. 】

"This is a personal grudge and murder!"

Wei Zheng couldn't help but say:

"Even if he left his post without permission, he should be exiled a thousand miles away according to the law, and the crime is not punishable by death."

Du Ruhui agreed:

"Even if he should be punished, he should be escorted to the capital and handed over to the Dali Temple."

"Or he should be exiled to the place where the guilty minister served, and he will be punished by the governor to whom he belongs."

Looking at Wang Changling's poems displayed on the screen, everyone sighed for him.

"The momentum is magnificent and the spirit is heroic."

Li Jing praised and was impressed by his literary talent:

"It deserves the name of frontier poems, and it seems to have the sound of swords hitting each other when reading it."

"This is how military affairs should be!"

【The saddest person is the poet Du Fu.

Before the Anshi Rebellion, Du Fu's youngest son had just starved to death. After the rebellion broke out, he took his family to Fuzhou.

I heard that Suzong went north alone after he succeeded to the throne, and as mentioned above, he was arrested.

Before Guo Ziyi led his army to recapture Chang'an, Du Fu risked his life to escape and was granted an official position, but was later disliked by Emperor Suzong for rescuing Fang Guan.

Prime Minister Zhang Hao tried his best to protect Du Fu. Later, the Tang army was defeated in the battle of Yecheng, and the administration was completely corrupt. Du Fu was completely disappointed with the current situation, resigned and went south, and finally settled down in Sichuan.

This period was the peak period of Du Fu's creation, and 40% of the existing works were written during this period.

In the winter of 770, he died of illness on a small boat from Tanzhou to Yueyang at the age of 59. 】

"I am often a guest in the sad autumn of thousands of miles away, and I am alone on the stage for a hundred years of illness.

Hardships and bitterness make my hair frost-covered, and I have just stopped drinking muddy wine."

Liu Bei read it carefully and was a little infatuated for a while.

Zhang Fei suddenly understood:

"No wonder Du Fu loves military advisors so much."

"It happened to be a chaotic time, and all I saw were either rebels or corrupt officials. But when I arrived in Chengdu, I found that the military advisor's ancestral temple was being worshipped."

"Who wouldn't want to have a military advisor who could take orders from a defeated army and save the day?"

"What a pity! Even if this little tyrant was given a real Zhuge, he would still be despised."

Kong Ming was silent, looking at the poem titled "Climbing the Heights", and the image of this friend in his mind became more and more full.

[The luckiest one was the poet-Buddha Wang Wei.

After the fall of Chang'an, Wang Wei was captured by the rebels and forced to serve them.

After Chang'an was recovered, Wang Wei was sentenced to death. But because his younger brother Wang Jin pleaded for him, and he complained in "Ningbi Pool" when he was forced to serve, he was finally pardoned.

After four years of depression, he asked to be demoted to a commoner and returned to the countryside, and eventually died of illness.

Gao Shi can be said to have risen against the wind.

After he and Geshu Han failed to defend Tongguan, he retreated to Chang'an. After hearing that Xuanzong had fled, he caught up with Xuanzong and was promoted to Imperial Censor.

Later, he went to Suzong and was appointed as the governor of Huainan. He participated in suppressing the rebellion of Prince Yong. Later, he made many achievements in suppressing the rebellion and was promoted to Marquis of Bohai.

However, because he traveled with Li Bai and Du Fu in his early years and became famous for introducing each other as confidants, he later ignored Li Bai and Du Fu and was criticized. 】

"It is a breach of integrity to serve the rebels."

Wei Zheng's words were firm.

Fang Xuanling shook his head:

"Maybe there is an inside story."

Guangmu's words have always been concise, but since he said he was forced, there must be another hidden story that is unknown to everyone.

Moreover, Fang Xuanling read Wang Wei's "Ningbi Pool":

"Ten thousand households are sad and wild smoke rises, when will the officials face the emperor again?"

"The intention of the country's destruction still exists, it is hard to say that his heart belongs to the rebels."

Wei Zheng nodded slightly. He was not unsympathetic, but he just felt that compared with the poet Du Fu who risked his life to flee, Wang Wei was a little different.

"As for Gao Shi..."

"Served the country and made contributions to suppressing the rebellion."

As for more, Wei Zheng felt it was difficult to evaluate.

After all, they all came from troubled times and knew what troubled times were like.

Especially when there were rebels outside and the emperor was weak inside, it was even more difficult to be an official.

In such a troubled time, perhaps, who doesn't have difficulties?

[Poet Li Bai is the most sigh-worthy.

This Qinglian hermit seems to have put all his talents on poetry.

The result is that although he has zero political talent, he still wants to be an official and make achievements.

After the An-Shi Rebellion, Li Bai also wrote a poem lamenting the fall of Luoyang City.

But then he suddenly became an aide to Prince Yong Li Lin, which was undoubtedly a rebellion in Suzong's eyes.

In the end, he relied on his talent to be exiled to Yelang for three years, and eventually died of illness at the home of his uncle Li Yangbing. 】

Li Shimin felt speechless for a moment, and then he remembered the "double hanging sun and moon shining on the world".

He still remembered that the light curtain said that this poet Li Bai wrote for Xuanzong when he was exiled to Yelang.

Now looking at it... Li Shimin feels it's a pity:

Obviously, his poetry is amazing, why did he have to be so depressed to become an official?

Just like this double hanging sun and moon shining on the world, who would be happy to see Xuanzong and Suzong?

Changsun Wuji read out Li Bai's poem on the screen:

"The colorful dress drags a wide belt, fluttering and ascending to the sky...Looking down at Luoyang River, the Hu soldiers are running in the vastness. The blood is smeared on the weeds, and the jackals are all crowned."

"It's like visiting a fairyland to watch the Anshi Rebellion. The style of writing is unique and the scenery is strange. No wonder he is called the Poet Immortal."

Changsun Wuji also shook his head, admiring his talent and helpless about his ambition.

But in the end, Li Shimin could only shake his head helplessly:

"It's still a disaster left over from the turbulent times."

"If there were no turbulent times, this poet would have been closed to the public and would have avoided the world to write poems."

"Rebellions broke out everywhere, and such a person was accused of rebellion and almost died."

[890 years after the Anshi Rebellion, the Ming Dynasty fell.

Two years after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zilong, who failed in the anti-Qing war, drowned and died for his country.

Chen Zilong was a Jinshi in the tenth year of Chongzhen, and then he mourned for his mother for three years. After four years of mourning, the Ming Dynasty fell.

Facing the Qing army entering the pass, Chen Zilong once fought hard, but was defeated. Then he wrote a poem in frustration:

I left home and became a new champion marquis, and the Hu geese went south to the frontier in autumn.

I dreamed of Chang'an 30,000 miles away, and the sea wind blew off the west end of the desert.

This poem was written by Chen Zilong in remembrance of the Han and Tang Dynasties. He longed for a figure like the champion marquis to lead him to fight against the rebels and return to the prosperous times.

The saying that Chang'an is 30,000 miles away should come from the allusion of "Ten thousand miles of beacon in front of Kaiyuan Gate" in the Tang Dynasty.

It is said that Erfeng erected a stone tablet at Kaiyuan Gate, which reads:

The road to the west is nine thousand nine hundred miles

The inscription was written by Yu Shinan himself to comfort those who travel far away, so that they don't have to worry about the journey of thousands of miles.

Some people doubt this statement because Yu Shinan died in the twelfth year of Zhenguan, and Erfeng destroyed Gaochang in the fourteenth year of Zhenguan.

After the destruction of Gaochang and the establishment of Anxi Prefecture, the distance from Chang'an to the Western Regions exceeded 10,000 miles. In this respect, the time does not match, so some people suspect that Erfeng was bragging at the time.

But it does not affect the final facts.

In short, since the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, literati of all dynasties have regarded Chang'an as the heyday in their minds.

Then in the next issue, let's look back and see how this huge Tang Dynasty that was defeated by Emperor Xuanzong was established? 】

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