Ma Boyong has really become the favorite in the field of historical novels and film and television dramas in the past few years. Just like the previous "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", "Antique Bureau Middle Game", "The Wind Rises in Longxi", and "The Secret of the Three Kingdoms", they were all adapted into film and television dramas after they were written, and they are all wonderful. Even "The Wind Rises in Luoyang" was directly made into a TV series without even being published as a novel, which directly made Ma Boyong famous.
It is not difficult to see that Ma Boyong is currently in a very vigorous creative stage, and excellent works are emerging one after another. According to incomplete statistics, Ma Boyong's "The Ming Dynasty under the Microscope" and "Fifteen Days in Two Capitals" have also been made into TV series, and the recently published "The Great Doctor" is expected to be on the schedule soon, once again refreshing Ma Boyong's creative ability.
While Ma Boyong's "The Great Doctor" is still selling well all over the Internet, his other novel "Lychee in Chang'an" has quietly come out. Moreover, this work was written by Ma Boyong in eleven days. The overall length of this novel is not long, with only six chapters in total, but it explains the period of the Tang Dynasty's prosperity and decline in a simple and profound way.
Li Shande was just a ninth-grade official who was lucky enough to stay in Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, because of his outstanding arithmetic skills. He worked hard to find a permanent residence for his wife and daughter in Chang'an, and he also had to consider repaying the loan to buy a house. At that time, only temple monks in Chang'an could carry out the current bank loan business for buying houses, which was called Xiang Ji Qian. From here we can see that although the protagonist Li Shande is in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty and is a civil servant of the Tang Dynasty, he is also looking for loans to buy a house. This shows that he is a kind-hearted person with an honest character.
However, it was precisely because of his kindness that he was plotted by his superiors and colleagues, and he took on the impossible task of transporting fresh lychees from Lingnan to Yang Guifei on June 1st. At that time, Yang Guifei was the exclusive favorite of the sage Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji. In order to reflect the emperor's feelings for the imperial concubine, in the Tang Dynasty which was more than five thousand miles apart and had no good storage and preservation methods, transporting fresh lychees was simply a dream. In addition, in order to achieve this goal, the emperor did not arrange it through formal administrative procedures, but randomly assigned departments and individuals below to implement it. For example, if the palace is too cold in winter, a charcoal envoy will be arranged; if he wants to choose beautiful women, he will have a flower and bird envoy; even before that, the saint suddenly wants to eat sugar crabs from Pingyuan County, so he will appoint a sugar crab envoy. This time, in order to let the beloved ex-daughter-in-law and current imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan eat fresh lychees on her birthday, a lychee envoy was directly arranged.
In order to carry out this impossible task, Li Shande met his friends Han Shishi and Du Zimei on the street. After drinking to drown his sorrows, he burst into tears. With the persuasion of his friends, he picked up his mood and started the counterattack. Among them, Ma Boyong used Du Zimei's experience to write about a character we have not seen for a long time. He is the protagonist Zhang Xiaojing in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an". Of course, Ma Boyong did not write it explicitly, but used Du Zimei's words to describe the veteran who guarded his brother's grave with a weathered face, one eye blind, and a ferocious attitude. It can be regarded as explaining Zhang Xiaojing's situation before the Anshi Rebellion for readers. In order to complete the task of transporting fresh lychees, the protagonist Li Shande of
began a practical investigation. He first went to Lingnan and saw the growth cycle of lychees in the origin of lychees. At the same time, as a lychee envoy, he made friends with local Hu businessmen, and through precise calculations again and again, he finally formulated a plan to transport fresh lychees.
After that, he encountered obstacles everywhere in order to achieve this task, including the ingenious robbery of the popular eunuch Yu Chaoen . Finally, under the secret guidance of a mysterious man Feng Yiyuan, he met Wei Guogong Yang Guozhong. After a detailed explanation, Li Shande won Yang Guozhong's gold medal, and then went to Lingnan to start the task.
With the support of the Tang Dynasty's state machinery and high-ranking figures, Li Shande still worked hard to finally achieve the task of "riding a red concubine to laugh, no one knows that it is the lychee coming".It's just that when the book was written here, Ma Boyong said that sentence through Li Shande's mouth, that is, when he saw the fast horse transporting lychees arriving at the city gate, he did not feel happy about it, but was deeply disgusted.
Because by transporting lychees, the emperor's private treasury did not consume any silver, but instead increased its income. Moreover, because of the transport of fresh lychees, the people and officials along the way were forced to flee, because the cost of transporting lychees had to be borne by the states, counties and administrative departments along the way. Isn't this a disaster for the country and the people? For this reason, Li Shande realized his conscience and began to directly denounce Yang Guozhong, and was attacked by officials for this.
If it weren't for the mysterious man Feng Yiyuan, this Feng Yiyuan would actually be Gao Lishi . For example, if Li Shande dared to directly offend Yang Guozhong, his fate would definitely be death. However, the final outcome was that Li Shande was demoted to Lingnan and became a litchi farmer from then on. Although he left his ideal home of Chang'an, Li Shande realized the process of a small civil servant from actively working hard to desperately making progress, then pretending to be powerful to complete the task, offending his boss and powerful people, and finally ending up far away from Chang'an and returning to his inner conscience. From this point of view, Li Shande is still a very rare person.
The ending of the story is that Li Shande was convicted for denounced Yang Guozhong, lost his official position and job, and was sent to Lingnan, but he also escaped the Anshi Rebellion the following year. If Li Shande was still in Chang'an at that time, I really don't know if he could have saved the lives of his wife, children, and himself, let alone the real estate in Chang'an. It can be seen that a person with conscience will still reap blessings.
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