The article "The Story of Yueyang Tower" is heard in the world, but Teng Zijing, who rebuilt the Yueyang Tower, is deeply involved in corruption!
"The Story of Yueyang Tower" is a must-remember article for every middle school student, and the famous saying is "worry for the world first, but for the joy of the world". The country's concern for the people, "not happy with things, not sad with oneself" has also become the motto of many people. What is unforgettable is the origin of the writing at the beginning (because it is difficult to remember):
"In the spring of the fourth year of the calendar, Teng Zijing was retired from Baling County. The next year, the government will become harmonious and the people will flourish. The Yueyang Tower will be rebuilt and increased. Its old system, engraved on it by Tang Xian's poems. It belongs to the composition to remember it.”
Here is a character, Teng Zijing, who is a good friend of Fan Zhongyan. It is also reflected in "Qing Yu Nian", Fan Zhongyan is aliased Fan Xian, and Teng Zijing is Teng Zijing. In Qingpingle, the process of Teng Zijing's demotion is depicted, and Fan Zhongyan argues for it. Fan Zhongyan’s politically promoted Qingli New Deal or many famous articles in literature have made this character’s name go down in history and have been known through the ages; but we know very little about his good friend Teng Zijing. What is this Teng Zijing like?
Teng Zijing (990-1047), Ming Zongliang, the word Zijing. Teng Zijing and Fan Zhongyan were the same Jinshi in 1015, and Fan Zhongyan became attached to him and assisted him in his official career. Taizhou Zhizhou Zhang Lun built a dike. Fan Zhongyan recommended Teng Zijing as his assistant. Because Teng Zijing was hardworking and able to endure hardships, he was appreciated by Zhang Lun and was promoted to county magistrate. After Fan Zhongyan became a Beijing official, he was summoned to the Examination Academy, and later transferred to Dali Temple Cheng.
Most officials in the Song Dynasty have three titles, namely, official, position, and dispatch. In September of the first year of Kangding, the Western Xia Xingbing invaded the Song Dynasty. Teng Zijing was an official at the time and was a member of the criminal department, Wailang, Zhizhijixianyuan, and Ren Jing The state knows the state, and since then began the four-year defense against the Western Xia and East invasion. Teng Zijing made great contributions in the defense of Jingzhou. At that time, the enemy army was more than a hundred miles away from Jingzhou, Teng Zijing calmly challenged, recruited warriors, and mobilized the people to defend the city together to take precautions. Fan Zhongyan led 15,000 reinforcements. Teng Zijing guaranteed the supply during this period and finally repelled the Xixia Army. After the war, Teng Zijing hosted a banquet of cattle to reward the leaders and soldiers of the Qiang tribe. In accordance with the customs at the time, they prayed for the soldiers who died in the Dingchuan War in the Buddhist temples and pacified the relatives of the deceased, so that the people in the border areas were calm.
But who would have thought that shortly after Teng Zijing transferred to Beijing because of his merits, Jinglue, who was stationed in Jingzhou, appeased the envoy Zheng Jian, but reported that Teng Zijing abused government money in Jingzhou and supervised Yushi Liang Jian also impeached him, accusing him of paying a commission of 160,000 yuan in Jingzhou. In fact, the so-called one hundred and sixty thousand guans of ministerial money is the monthly supply of the army, and the expenses used to reward Qiang leaders and non-commissioned officers are only 3,000 guans. However, Sima Guang's "Shui Shui Ji Wen" claimed that Teng Zijing "has no money with ministerial money." Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu and others tried their best to argue for him, but were later demoted to one level by officials and learned of Fengxiang Mansion.
At that time, Wang Gongchen, who was in the position of Yushi Zhongcheng, was always holding on, so Teng Zijing was demoted to Baling County, Yuezhou in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli. There was also a great project to rebuild Yueyang Tower. In Fan Zhongyan's account, Teng Zijing took office in Baling County for less than a year, "politics and people are harmonious, everything will be prosperous", showing his extraordinary ability. After he took office, he did three major tasks: one was to build Yanhong Dike to prevent floods in Dongting; the other was to set up education. In fact, Teng Zijing paid much attention to education in every place he went to and "his to build school"; and the third was to rebuild Yueyang Tower. However, the reconstruction of Yueyang Tower has become new evidence of Teng Zijing's corruption. Sima Guang’s "Shui Shui Ji Wen" records as follows:
"Teng Zong understands Yuezhou and builds Yueyang Tower without saving money or collecting money from the people. However, there are people on the list who are not willing to pay the old debts and offer them to help officials. The official is the supervisor. The people who are in debt contend for it, and the income is nearly ten thousand yuan, and the treasury is placed at the side of the hall, and there is no master book. The building is extremely magnificent, and the expense is very wide. It’s not uncommon. The people of the state don’t think it’s wrong, and they all claim it can.”
Teng Zijing built the Yueyang Tower. No government funding was needed, and the other was not to collect money from the people, but to issue a notice.Let the creditors report to him the list of borrowers with old accounts that have not been collected for many years, and he will send people to ask for them, and the money collected will be used for the construction of Yueyang Tower and other projects. And Sima Guang took it for granted that he "is not uncommon for a self-employed person." In other words, in addition to the repair costs, many of them went into Teng Zijing's own pocket. But in fact, in addition to building Yueyang Tower, Teng Zijing also built Yuezhou Academy and Tonghe Bridge.
Teng Zijing stayed in Yuezhou for three years, then transferred to Suzhou, and soon died in Suzhou. "Song History" commented that Teng Zijing was "supplied, suave and self-employed, easy to give, and died, and has no money." Liu Chang once wrote: "Who believes in the city of Qianqiju, and two or three cooks in the empty room"! There are only two or three cabinets of books in Teng Zijing's house. Who can imagine that an official who has repeatedly corrupted will be so poor?
Teng Zijing has been an official for many years but has ill-fated fate and has been framed by corruption. Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shunqin, and others spoke highly of him; while Wang Gongchen and Sima Guang kept seizing his corruption. It is also completely different from the records of Song history and Sima Guang's "Shui Shui Ji Wen". I am afraid that Teng Zijing’s ups and downs are not only his own reasons, but also the crony disputes at the time, the old and new party disputes. Teng Zijing is just a small person, just an excuse for those big people to fight in court.
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