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Chapter 10
At this moment, a poetry meeting was being held in the Luoyang Imperial Palace.Because of Di Renjie's departure, Su Weiwei, who became the prime minister, and the current famous scholars Cui Rong, Shen Quanqi, Du Shenyan, Yan Chaoyin, Wang Wujing, Song Zhiwen, etc. were all present. Smiling and accompanying Wu Zetian's side.

Among these people, Du Shenyan, Su Weiwei, Song Zhiwen and Shen Quanqi can all be said to be masters in terms of poetic materials alone. Of course, they are still a thousand miles away from Du Li's height.But the craziest among them was Old Du, Du Fu's grandfather Du Shenyan.

Comrade Lao Du can be said to be the craziest poet in the entire Tang Dynasty. He never knew how to write the word "modesty" all his life.When he was young, Comrade Du, Su Weiwei, Li Qiao, and Cui Rong were called the Four Friends of Wenwen. In fact, these four talents are not much different.But Lao Du had the smallest official position in his life. When he heard that Su Weiwei had become the servant of the Heavenly Official, he told others: "Su Weiwei is doomed."

Put others in a daze.At that time, the cruel officials in the court were in power, and most officials were precarious. Lao Du's sudden words really made people puzzled.So someone asked why.Old Du said: "The servant of the Heavenly Official has to read the official documents submitted every day. When he sees the official documents I wrote, he will not die of shame."

After saying a word, everyone broke out in black sweat, sweating profusely!
This is not too much. One day, after reading the article he wrote, he expressed his feelings.What feeling?He believes that no one can compare with him in the articles he wrote in today's world, and the comparison can only be compared among the ancients.He said: "Even Qu Yuan and Song Yu had to stand at attention when they read the article I wrote." Qu Yuan admired him to such an extent.He added: "My calligraphy is also good, Wang Xizhi and I will lose to me in the competition."

When he was dying, Song Zhiwen and his group went to visit him.He said again: "I'm dead, you are happy this time."

Song Zhiwen was puzzled.

Comrade Du said again: "Only after I die, you will have a bright future, but you are still not capable of succeeding me."

In the end, even the history books couldn't value the works of this lovely old comrade, and only used two words: Jinsheng.It's crazy, it's crazy, but it's also cute.

I don't ask whether Lao Du has really reached this level of literary talent.But in the arena, Song Zhiwen is the most competitive poet.

This was also a famous great poet in the early Tang Dynasty. However, compared with Lao Du's arrogance, this person can be said to be the poet with the worst character in the Tang Dynasty.He first took refuge in Zhang Yizhi's brother, which is not counted. Where was the general environment at that time, many people protected themselves, kept their ears to the world, and pretended to be crazy in order to protect themselves.There are also many people who flatter them in order to gain glory and wealth.The main reason is that after he was demoted to Lingnan, he ran over secretly after he couldn't bear the hardship, and his friend Zhang Zhongzhi took the risk to accept him.But when he heard that Zhang Zhongzhi planned to get rid of Wu Sansi, he immediately reported Zhang Zhongzhi for wealth and honor, and Zhang was beheaded.

That's not enough.He did the most shameless thing, and his nephew Liu Xiyi wrote a poem.It is the famous "Dai Baitou Yin", "Peach and plum blossoms in the east of Luoyang City, fly around and fall to someone's house. The daughter of Luoyang cherishes the color, and sighs when she sees the falling flowers. This year the color of the flowers will change, and next year the flowers will bloom again. Who will be there. I have seen pines and cypresses being destroyed as salaries, and I heard that mulberry fields have turned into seas. The ancients did not return to the east of Luocheng, but today people still have the wind of falling flowers. The flowers are similar every year, and the people are different every year. Send a message to Quansheng confidantes, please pity Half-dead pulsatilla. This old man is really pitiful. He used to be a beautiful young man. Under the Wangsunfang tree, the young master sings and dances before the flowers fall. The Guanglu Pond is beautiful, and the general’s pavilion is painted with immortals. Once he is sick and has no acquaintances, who will enjoy the three springs? How long will it take for the crescent eyebrows to turn, and for a moment the crane hair will be as messy as silk. But looking at the singing and dancing places in ancient times, only the birds and sparrows are sad at dusk."

This poem occupies an important position in the entire Tang poetry.Later, in "A Dream of Red Mansions", Cao Xueqin asked Lin Daiyu to write "The Song of Burying Flowers" after imitating this poem.

When Song Zhiwen saw the two sentences "flowers are similar every year, but people are different every year", he asked Liu for it.That is to say, give me this poem and say that I wrote it.Liu finally wrote this proud work, of course he is not happy.Unexpectedly, this uncle became so angry that he ordered his servant to murder Liu.

But a bad character does not mean that he is not good at learning. Song Zhiwen is best at his reaction speed.Especially when writing corresponding poems, he always wins.Once Wu Zetian held a poetry meeting, and the winner would get a brocade robe.Dongfang Qiu took it with a wave, Song Zhiwen was half a step too late, but Wu Zetian still took back the brocade robe from Dongfang Qiu and gave it to Song Zhiwen.That Dongfangqiu was not convinced, and asked why.Wu Zetian showed Song Zhiwen's poem to him.Especially the last two sentences: "My emperor does not care about Yaochi music, but comes to watch farmers and spring in the rain." How clever is this flattering of Wu Zetian.

Dongfang Qiu had no choice but to admit defeat disheartened.

Of course, there are many reasons why Song Zhiwen came to the end.

If being an official is like a sports meeting, he will be able to handle poetry competitions.But being an official is just being an official, and writing poetry is just to increase your prestige.But he wanted to be an official, and he wanted to be a high official.Then I had no choice but to curry favor with Wu Zetian, but Song Zhiwen was tall and handsome, but he had one shortcoming, his teeth were too ugly.At that time, Wu Zetian set up a North Gate Bachelor in order to control the government. Song Zhiwen begged Wu Zetian to give him this bachelor.But Wu Zetian rejected it because of his ugly teeth!
It's no wonder that Song Zhiwen really couldn't fall into Wu Zetian's eyes after seeing handsome men like Zhang Yizhi's brother all day long.

Seeing that Wu Zetian's path was going nowhere, Song Zhiwen had no choice but to follow Wu Zetian's favorite boy Zhang Yizhi.Coupled with the influence of the prevailing atmosphere at that time, he walked towards the abyss of falling step by step.

Now that Wu Zetian is going to hold a poetry meeting, Song Zhiwen is very happy. This is also a good opportunity for him to perform in front of Wu Zetian.

He entered the palace with a joyful smile on his face.

Together with him, all the great talents came to join him in the palace, where guests and hosts sat down.First, a glass of wine was toasted to Empress Wu Zetian, who is also the current Emperor Cishi Yuegu Jinlun Shengshen.Then the monarchs and ministers chatted for a while, and the poetry meeting began.

The eunuch brought paper, ink, brush and inkstone, and Shangguan Wan'er, a beautiful young woman in charge of the edict, supervised from the side.

Song Zhiwen picked up the brush, thought for a while, and wrote a poem that should be made.

After finishing writing, he blew on the ink, and then looked at the other ministers, some were just writing, some were still thinking, and his expression appeared smug.

In fact, throughout Song Zhiwen's life, Yingzhi poems are the most left behind, which is also rare among poets in the Tang Dynasty.But the best poem he wrote was "Crossing the Han River" when he was relegated to Lingnan:
There are absolutely no audio books outside the ridge, and the winter returns to the spring.

It is more timid to be close to hometown, and I dare not ask people.

This poem was composed by him passing through the Han River on his way back from being relegated to Longzhou.Although he had written many poems in the past, which were extremely gorgeous, most of them were empty and artificial.Only this poem is vivid and natural, and it is also a famous Tang poem.

Song Zhiwen looked at the poem he wrote again, and the smile on his face was even wider.

After a while, all the people wrote the poems and handed them over to Wu Zetian.Wu Zetian nodded to Shangguan Wan'er.Although this famous empress was getting old, it was strange that the teeth that fell out of her mouth actually grew back in her old age.In addition, she is good at painting herself, and even the left and right don't feel that she is starting to age.

But after all, he is old.Even the calligraphy looks very difficult.Now many official documents are read by others, and she will deal with them after listening to them.

Now she asked Shangguan Wan'er to judge the poems of these people.

This Shangguan Wan'er is the granddaughter of Shangguanyi, a famous minister and literati in the Tang Dynasty. Because her mother Zheng is the sister of Taichang Shaoqing Zheng Xiuyuan, the mother and daughter were spared from death and were assigned to the inner court of the palace.But this woman was very talented, and she was quickly appreciated by Wu Zetian, and this woman was decisive in her work.Back then, Prince Li Xian still had a relationship with her, but later, for the sake of her future, she resolutely wrote down the dethroning edict to put Li Xian to death.

But in the past few years, she took a fancy to Zhang Changzong, and the two were doing things on the bed when Wu Zetian saw them.Wu Zetian was furious, pulled out a golden knife, inserted it into Shangguan Wan'er's front bun, hurt her left forehead, and said angrily, "If you dare to come close to me, you will be imprisoned, and you will be sentenced to death." Thanks to Zhang Changzong begging for her, she was pardoned.Because Wan'er had a scar on her forehead, she pierced a red plum blossom on the scar to cover it up, but she became more and more charming.The ladies in the palace thought it was beautiful, and some people imitated it secretly with rouge on their foreheads. Gradually, there was this kind of plum blossom makeup in the palace.

But this woman was very cunning, and it didn't take long to win Wu Zetian's heart again.

Now she looks at these poems.Originally, she was talented, and while reading it, she threw the disliked poems to the ground.Regardless of the feelings of these poets.Even Song Zhiwen looked at her little hand and thought: My aunt, don't throw away what I wrote.

Throwing less and less, finally there are only a few poems left before Shangguan Wan'er's case.Shangguan Wan'er opened the poems again and read them.After thinking about it, I started throwing it again.In the end, what shocked the minister was that Shangguan Wan'er threw all the poems on the ground, leaving none of the poems before the case.

Song Zhiwen was not convinced now, he stood up and asked: "Shangguan ordered, although it is difficult to make a good poem, but today is to judge who is the first, no matter it is good or bad, there is always a number one. .Now the Shangguan ordered to throw away all the poems, so who is the first?"

(End of this chapter)