How did Liu Zongyuan, who had a bad career, benefit the people?

After all, Liu Zongyuan cared about the people in his heart, and often went to the people to inspect the lives of the people. Yongzhou produces a very poisonous snake, which is dried to make medicine, which can cure many diseases. He made a special visit to a farmer surnamed Jiang who made a living as a snake catcher.

The farmer, surnamed Jiang, said: "My grandfather was accidentally poisoned because he caught poisonous snakes; This is how my father died; I've been catching venomous snakes for twelve years, and I've almost died many times......”

As he spoke, his face turned sad. Liu Zongyuan saw his painful appearance and was very sympathetic, so he said: "Since you resent snake catching, then I will go and talk to the official, how about replacing this snake catching officer and restoring the original tax?" ”

Unexpectedly, the man surnamed Jiang hurriedly shook his hand, and became even more sad, he said, "Don't do this! I'm miserable, but I'm much better than my neighbors.

As long as I catch a snake, my wife can live peacefully. My neighbors are in danger of dying every day! Even if I die catching poisonous snakes, I will die a little later than my neighbors......”

Liu Zongyuan was a native of Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), so people also called him Liu Hedong. He was very smart from a young age and could write good articles. When he was thirteen years old, he wrote an article and presented it to Tang Dezong, who read it and admired it very much.

At the age of twenty-one, he was admitted to the Jinshi and became an official in the capital. Later, because of his support for Wang Shuwen's reform, Wang Shuwen fell down, and Liu Zongyuan was implicated, and like Liu Yuxi, he was sent to a remote place to be an assassin.

In 805 AD, Liu Zongyuan went to Yongzhou to be a assassin, and he was in a bad mood. How can I feel better? After his official duties were completed, he went to the nearby mountains to play.

Once he went to Ranxi, and sure enough, the scenery was pleasant. He liked it so much that he made his home there. But what to name this place?

After thinking about it, he still took the word "fool": the stream is called Yuxi, the mound is called Yuqiu, the spring is called Yuquan, and the ditch is called Yugou. He felt that he was demoted because of "stupidity", so he had to be named after this "stupidity".

He didn't make himself happy after all.

Liu Zongyuan also swam to the small stone pool, and when he heard the sound of flowing water, it was like the sound of the jade ring on his body colliding, which was really happy! He saw that there were about a hundred small fish in the pool, as if they were swimming in the air, and the sun was shining, and their shadows fell on the stones, and they did not move. Sometimes I suddenly swam so far away, as if I was amusing Liu Zongyuan.

The beautiful scenery made him linger, and he should be very happy, but the thought of being degraded made him very painful. <>

In the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793), Liu Zongyuan and his friend Liu Yuxi were admitted to the Jinshi together, and three years later, they were admitted to the Erudite Macro Vocabulary Department, and thus entered the official career. During this period, Liu Zongyuan's career was smooth and he was also quite famous in the literary world. He has a deep family history, and the articles he wrote are ancient and modern, and the momentum is magnificent, and the scholars at that time admired his literary name, and they came to the door to seek advice, and the Liu family was often in the market.

Liu Zongyuan didn't do anything wrong, he just didn't want to see the imperial court gradually decay and decay, and wanted to carry out reforms, and then this reform violated the interests of some people, and finally made them demoted many times after the change of emperor.

At that time, the government was in turmoil, and Liu Zongyuan's family had been an official for generations, and it itself was also affected. Growing up in Chang'an, he could see the turmoil in the political situation and had the idea of reforming the Tao. Later, he was demoted because he was hit by conservatives.

So it didn't do anything wrong, except that at the time, the conservatives were more powerful.

Liu Zongyuan's road to becoming an official can be said to be full of twists and turns, miserable and miserable.

In 792, Liu Zongyuan was elected as a Xianggong and was able to take the Jinshi examination. In 793, at the age of 21, Liu Zongyuan Jinshi and the first, his reputation soared. Soon after, Liu Zongyuan's father, Liu Zhen, died, and Liu Zongyuan was mourning at home.

In 796, Liu Zongyuan was assigned to the secretary province as a school secretary. In 798, the 26-year-old Liu Zongyuan participated in the examination of erudition and macro vocabulary, and won the list, and awarded the orthography of Jixiandian Academy (the official rank is from the ninth grade). In 801, Liu Zongyuan was appointed as the captain of Lantian (正六品).

In October 803, Liu Zongyuan was transferred back to Chang'an and served as the superintendent of the imperial history. Since then, he has traveled more extensively with the upper echelons of officialdom, has a deeper understanding of the dark and corrupt politics, and gradually germinates a desire for reform, becoming an important figure in Wang Shuwen's reformist faction.

On January 26, 805 (the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan), Tang Dezong died, and the crown prince Li Yu succeeded to the throne and changed to Yuan Yongzhen, that is, Shunzong. After Shunzong ascended the throne, he reused Wang Ling, Wang Shuwen and others. Liu Zongyuan, because he had the same political views as Wang Shuwen and others, was also promoted to a member of the Ministry of Rites, in charge of ceremonies, sacrifices, and tributes.

After the failure of Yongzhen's reform, in September, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to the rank of Shaozhou Assassin, and in November, on the way to his post, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima.

In January 815, Liu Zongyuan received an edict asking him to return to Beijing immediately. In February, after more than a month of trekking, Liu Zongyuan returned to Chang'an. In Chang'an, Liu Zongyuan was not reused, and due to the hatred of Wu Yuanheng and others, he did not agree to reactivate.

On March 14, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Liuzhou Thorn History.

"Officials serve as civil servants", which was proposed by Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty in the "Preface to Sending Xue Cunyi". Liu Zongyuan (773-819), a native of Hedong (present-day Jiezhou Town, southwest of Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province), was an outstanding thinker, politician and writer of the Tang Dynasty. Xue Cunyi is Liu Zongyuan's fellow villager, he is about to leave office after two years of Lingling County, Yongzhou, Liu Zongyuan will serve him by the river, and write this preface to send him.

In addition to expressing the meaning of exhortation and regret, some also use the topic to play and refer to current affairs, so as to convey their political ideals.