Su Dongpo offended the emperor to sleep to save his life.

There are two situations in people's hearts, one is bliss and the other is extreme sadness. When you are in Elysium, you will get carried away. That's a villain. When you are extremely sad, you will fall into world-weariness. That's an ordinary generation. Su Dongpo's talent was ruined, but his fortune was not good and his life was at stake. In particular, he encountered a "Wutai Poetry Case" and was trapped in a "literary prison". He was on the verge of extinction several times and almost died. What is Dongpo's mentality in the face of such a miserable life?

You're not going anywhere.

Shortly after Su Dongpo became an official, the "Xining Reform" led by Song Shenzong and organized by Wang Anshi swept across the country, and he was involuntarily involved in this turbulent political storm. At that time, Dongpo was not a Beijing official, and most of them worked at the grassroots level. He heard and saw the implementation of new laws, especially the "Young Crop Law", whose original intention was to encourage agricultural production and curb land annexation. However, in the implementation, it has become a "forced loan", from "helping the people" to "disturbing the people", which has destroyed many peasant families and seriously damaged the interests of the people. So Dongpo wrote to express his opinions and suggestions. However, Song Shenzong is too eager for success to listen to any criticism that is not conducive to the implementation of the new law. Besides, Dongpo is a literary giant, and his words often become the vane of public opinion. Therefore, I suggested and carefully studied Dongpo's ci, and finally sniffed out what they needed from the poem "Two Trees" written by Xie Shangbiao in Huzhou, and impeached Dongpo one after another, saying that this poem slandered the emperor and attacked the new law.

In the second year of Yuanfeng, Song Shenzong decided to file a case, arranged for the doctor Huangfu Zun to go to Huzhou, and summoned Dongpo, then the secretariat of Huzhou. The imperial envoy has arrived, the reason has been said, and it is urgent to start at once. Dongpo's family has more than twenty youngest children, and they are in a panic. His wife, Wang, was in tears and looked like a building was about to collapse. Seeing this, Dongpo took the king aside and said to her, "Can't my son write a poem for me like his wife?" A word made Wang laugh. It turned out that Dongpo had told Wang an allusion: when Mount Tai was sealed in the east, Yang Pu, a native of Qixian, visited the hermit. When chatting, Song Zhenzong asked Yang Pu if he could write poetry. Yang Pu deliberately saidno. Before he left, he asked if anyone had sent poems. Yang Pu said that his wife sent a poem: "Don't indulge in a glass of wine, and don't be crazy about poetry. I will arrest the generals today, and this time I will kill my old scalp. " Song Zhenzong laughed after hearing this, knowing that Yang Pu didn't want to be an official, and knowing that bitter gourd was not sweet, he put Yang Pu home. Dongpo used this allusion to enlighten his wife, and finally let his anxious wife smile through tears and let him continue on his way. In the face of Where Are You Going, Dongpo is not only cautious, but also uses jokes to resolve his wife's worries and anxieties, which can be seen from his calmness and broadmindedness.

There is nothing to worry about.

As Li Ding and Shu Shu, who were promoted step by step through political reform, they certainly could not tolerate opposition. They are determined to kill Su Dongpo. Su Dongpo, a scholar, was tortured by the imperial censor and suffered humiliation. It is said that when Dongpo was in prison, the prison officer asked his ancestors if they had an "affidavit". According to the regulations at that time, only death row inmates would ask whether there was a "confession" within five generations, while others only asked three generations, showing the seriousness of Dongpo's crime. However, Song Shenzong, as the head of the Song Dynasty, was somewhat depressed when the suggestion provided him with new evidence of "anti-poetry" and gave him more reasons to kill Dongpo. Without punishing the doctor, the Song Dynasty won't kill the scholar. This is an ancestral law. He can't kill and become a tyrant. However, Dongpo's opposition to the reform is too prominent, which affects the implementation of the new law and has a negative impact. It is a problem that cannot be ignored.

Whether Dongpo's attitude towards the new law is based on the overall situation of the country or personal interests has become the key for Song Shenzong to judge the seriousness of the case. He made a decision to arrange eunuchs to be "undercover" in prison. One day, just after dark, Dongpo fell asleep in the prison room as usual. Soon after lying down, two men pushed the door in and fell asleep without saying anything. Dongpo didn't care, snoring gradually. At four o'clock in the morning, they quietly left the prison again, and Dongpo snored as before. Later, Dongpo learned that the two men were sent by Song Shenzong to observe Dongpo. It depends on whether there is a ghost in his heart. If you have a ghost in your heart, you will naturally toss and turn. If there is no ghost in his heart, he will naturally live. The next day, Song Shenzong happily said to the ministers around him, "I know Su Shi has nothing to worry about!" If a person's life is at stake, he can still feel at ease and sleep soundly. Dongpo is really a hero among people, which is one of the reasons why he can come back to life.

It's easy to forget revenge and become generous.

Dongpo has nothing in his heart, no worries and no regrets. After Song Shenzong, the imperial court.

Dongpo and Zhang Dun are about the same age. He was a good friend when he was young, but he lost his love because of the reform. In Shao Shengyuan, Song Zhezong took Zhang Dun as prime minister. Being demoted by the opposition, Zhang Dun retaliated against the opposition while repeating the new law. He not only demolished the memorial archway of the late Prime Minister Sima Guang, but also smoothed the inscription given to him by the imperial court. He also mobilized the young emperor to dig Sima Guang's tomb and whip his body. His despicable character and cruel means are really rare. Because Dongpo had explicitly opposed the political reform, he was also included in the opposition sequence by Zhang Dun, and he was merciless. As a result, Dongpo was demoted to Huizhou as the deputy envoy of Ningyuan Army and Japan. Dongpo is used to the days of relegation. No matter how bad the environment is, he enjoys himself, is in high spirits, works constantly, and has a flood of poems. In Huizhou, he once wrote a poem: "In order to report that the poet is full of spring sleep, the Taoist hits five o'clock." Seeing Zhang Dun Dongpo's relegation so moist touched a sensitive nerve. He immediately demoted Dongpo, who was 6 1 year old, to Changhua and asked Qiongzhou to leave.

Anything could happen. During Fu Yuanyuan's reign, Song Zhezong died young, and Song Huizong, the eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty, succeeded to the throne. The reformists lost power again, and Zhang Dun was banished to Leizhou, Lingnan, and he also fell to the bottom of his life. Zhang Dun's son, Bird, is a Buddhist of Dongpo. He was appointed as the examiner of the Ministry of Rites and was Dongpo's favorite pupil. When Zhang went to Leizhou Peninsula to visit his exiled father, he wanted to make a detour to visit Dongpo, and he was worried that the teacher would remember his father's revenge. When he was upset, he wrote a long letter to Dongpo, apologizing and hoping that the teacher would forgive his father. Dongpo wrote back: "Someone has established diplomatic relations with the Prime Minister for more than forty years. Although the intermediate sources are slightly different, the friendship does not increase but decreases. I heard that he has been sent to the corner of the sea for a long time, so I know this. But what are the benefits of the past? This is just the first thing that happened, "as light as water, no resentment, no hatred." Dongpo thought that "the friendship with Zhang Dun for forty years has never increased", and he even remembered Zhang Dun's warning to himself. Never forget the kindness of others, this is Dongpo's principle of being a man.

Sun Zongjian's Zalu of Gaodong in Song Dynasty recorded an interesting story. In the early years of Yuan You, Queen Gao listened to politics and took Dongpo as a bachelor of Hanlin, becoming a celebrity. As it happens, in the Wutai poetry case, a prison guard tortured him cruelly. Every time I see Dongpo, he falters and looks ashamed. Dongpo and others have been uneasy about this, but the other side always avoids talking about it and reneges on it. Dongpo told him a joke: a snake killed a person, was chased by the prince, and was executed according to law. The snake complained, "Although I am guilty, I am a' yellow race', and I can cure diseases and make amends." Rebecca pardoned the snake. Soon, the boy brought a cow and said it killed someone, damn it. Niu argued, "I have' yellow' and how many people can live." Yan also pardoned the cow. Later, a jailer led a man to say that he had killed someone and wanted to pay compensation. The man learned about snakes and cows and complained that he was "yellow" and killed him. The prince was furious and said, "Snake yellow and bezoar are used as medicine. The whole world knows that you are alone. Why is there a' yellow'? " The man replied shyly, "I'm not Huang, I'm just a little embarrassed." Hearing this, the prison officer blushed and smiled. Dongpo let bygones be bygones, made a joke and forgave his enemy.

Dongpo's career was bumpy and hard-hit, but he always treated each other honestly and forgave with a smile. As Lin Yutang said in Su Dongpo's Biography, "Su Dongpo lived a carefree and fearless life like a breeze."