Luo Yin was ambitious and inspired to write, and his filth was reduced to thousands of households. They looked down upon the small errands of charity at all. Not only did they not say thank you, they also publicly stated that Luo Shaowei and Zhu Wen were blind and blind!
Everyone was quite dissatisfied, "What are you so crazy about?"
"Humph." Luo Yin was too lazy to pay attention to these ordinary people and wanted to conquer everyone with practical actions, so he devoted himself to the imperial examination and wanted to make a splash.
As a result, he was severely slapped in the face by reality, "I thought I was going to be of great use, but I fell into disgrace." Come again, also known as Luosunshan; make a small mistake, come again, and lose Sunshan twice; fail to pay attention, come again, and fall into the sunshan... The tenth time was missed.
Luo Yin made himself a big joke. He was too embarrassed to hang out in the Central Plains, so he returned to Jiangdong in disgrace.
However, his idiot fan Luo Shaowei still called him like crazy, sent people to send him generous gifts, and chased stars thousands of miles away. Luo Yin reciprocated with his own poems. Luo Shaowei was a famous bibliophile in the Five Dynasties. He loved chatting with literati and reciting poems. He praised Luo Yin as "Luo Jiangdong", which means the most talented man in Jiangdong, and named his poems. For "Stealing Jiangdong Collection", he made no secret of imitating Luo Yin's style.
A poem by Luo Yin is still widely quoted:
"If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and tomorrow you will be worried."
With a straightforward personality and a reputation for foresight, Luo Yin became the most famous "crow's mouth" in Chinese history. He was also euphemistically called "the mouth of the imperial edict begging for bones" because "every word he spoke became a prophecy."
The story about his "crow's mouth" is widely circulated among the people. It is basically mysterious and very anti-scientific. At first glance, it is "folklore".
I only excerpt one related to the main line:
Qian Liu built the Hangzhou city defenses to the extent of one watchtower per hundred steps. When the construction was completed and accepted, Qian Liu was very satisfied and boasted to everyone on the spot about the impregnability of Hangzhou City. Luo Yin on the side said, "It is better to face the city with the enemy tower." This meant that there were "ones of our own" who wanted to rebel. Everyone was very unhappy after hearing this. Qian Liu also felt it was harsh, but did not blame him.
Sure enough, not long after, a rebellion broke out in Hangzhou, namely the "Xu Xu Rebellion".
When Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty and established the Liang Dynasty, faced with overwhelming persuasion to advance, Qian Liu decided to surrender to the Later Liang Dynasty and learn from Sun Quan during the Three Kingdoms period. Among the people who "overwhelmed" people to persuade Qian Liu to become self-reliant was Luo Yin. Luo Yin advised Qian Liu to hold high the righteous banner of "supporting the Tang Dynasty" and expedition to the Central Plains. Even if he could not successfully revive the Tang Dynasty, he could surrender the two Zhejiang provinces and establish himself as the "Eastern Emperor". Why should he commit himself to the Zhu thieves?
Although Qian Liu did not adopt Luo Yin's suggestion, he looked at Luo Yin with admiration because of these words. Because Luo Yin was not recognized as a talented person in the Tang Dynasty and was buried for a long time, everyone thought that Luo Yin was resentful towards the Tang Dynasty. Unexpectedly, when the Tang Dynasty fell, Luo Yin would actually say something to help the Tang Dynasty. This made him in Qian Liu's heart. The image in my mind suddenly became much taller.
Qian Liu loved to eat fish and ordered the fishermen in West Lake to hand over several kilograms of fish every day. Sometimes when the catch is not enough, fishermen have to pay out of their own pockets to buy fish at the market and pay it. This unique tax (called "fishing at home") makes Hangzhou fishermen overwhelmed. No one on the left or right dared to dissuade him, so this glorious and arduous task fell on Luo Yin's shoulders.
One day, Luo Yin accompanied Qian Liu. Qian Liu suddenly felt inspired and pointed at the "Picture of Fishing in Feng River" hanging on the wall, and ordered Luo Yin to write a poem. Luo Yin spoke without hesitation:
"In those days when Lu Wang was showing off his temples, who would have known that he would go straight to fish for the country?
If students are taught on the West Lake, they must also provide fish for the envoys. "
Use the allusions between Jiang Ziya and King Wen of Zhou to satirize Qian Liu.
After hearing this, Qian Liu suddenly woke up, laughed "haha", and then ordered the cancellation of "Zhaiyu".
In the third year of Kaiping (910), Luo Yin died of illness at the age of 77 (some say he was in his 80s). He left works such as "Jiangnan Jiayi Ji", "Huaihai Fables", "Slanderous Books Tongji" and countless folk stories.
【Diplomatic crisis】
In view of the unique geographical location of the two Zhejiang provinces, Qian Liu wisely formulated the basic national policy of "respecting the Central Plains", and Qian's descendants also adhered to it for decades.
However, during the Li Siyuan period of the Later Tang Dynasty, this situation was briefly broken. The person who broke it was An Chongjie, a hawkish and powerful minister in Li Siyuan's court.
In February of the third year of Tiancheng (928), the Later Tang Dynasty sent Wu Zhaoyu and Han Mei to lead a delegation to visit the two Zhejiang provinces. Previously, because Qian Liu considered that he was old and wanted to pass on his inheritance to his son Qian Yuanguan, he went to the Tang Dynasty court and asked Qian Yuanguan to be the governor of the navy in Hangzhou and the east army in Yuezhou. The imperial court approved the report, so it sent the mission to conduct a friendly visit to the Zhejiang and Zhejiang regions, and officially appointed Qian Yuanguan, the son of Qian Liu, as the military envoy of the two armies.
This was originally a good interaction between the local government and the central government, which enhanced mutual trust, strengthened friendship, and deepened strategic cooperation between the local government and the central government. However, this is something that the hawkish figure An Chonghui does not want to see. An Zhongjiao tried every means to sabotage this diplomatic action, and finally turned this diplomatic action into a political struggle.
The weak Li Siyuan is a dovish leader. He is eager to maintain and further improve the relationship between the central and local governments, especially political forces that are "isolated overseas" like Zhejiang and Zhejiang.
In this year (928), the Later Tang Dynasty broke off diplomatic relations with Yang Pu in Huainan because he proclaimed himself emperor; he met Gao Jichang in Jingnan, and the three armies of the Later Tang Dynasty encircled and suppressed Jingnan. Not only did they fail to win, but they broke away from the Later Tang Dynasty and turned to Jingnan. Huainan became a vassal; the capital of Dingzhou colluded with the Khitan to rebel.
Under such circumstances, Li Siyuan did not want the two sides to have trouble again. Harmonious coexistence and maintenance of the status quo were Li Siyuan's real aspirations.
However, An Chongjie had no hesitation in destroying the relationship with the two Zhejiang provinces. Why is this?
It is generally believed that Qian Liu did not give An Zhongjiu full respect. For example, in the letter he wrote to An Zhongjie, he was not humble enough, which angered An Zhongjie; some historical books said that An Zhongjie was greedy for money and hoarded money, but Qian Liu's message was not interesting enough, so An Zhongjie felt that Qian Liu It's boring, so I have to be interesting.
In short, official history only says that the two had old grudges.
In this diplomatic corps, Han Mei was An Zhongjie's confidant, and she understood An Zhongjie's intention to cause trouble. After arriving in Zhejiang and Zhejiang, Han Mei deliberately humiliated Wu Zhaoyu in public, and even ignored basic diplomatic etiquette. She deliberately acted drunk and whipped Wu Zhaoyu with a riding crop, causing a serious diplomatic accident.
Wu Zhaoyu was well aware of the court's good intentions of maintaining local harmony and put the overall situation first. He chose to be patient and tolerant, but Han Mei intensified his erratic behavior.
Even Qian Liu couldn't stand it anymore and said he would go to the Tang court to expose Han Mei's rude behavior.
Once this memorial is delivered to Li Siyuan, it will stir up waves and trigger a series of butterfly effects. Everything was focused on the overall situation. Wu Zhaoyu took the initiative to persuade Qian Liu and said that if the big things were reduced to trivial matters, just pretend that nothing happened.
