Who is the most awesome person in the history of Song Dynasty? Is it the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin? No, no matter how good Lao Zhao was, he finally let his second son, Zhao Guangyi, use an ax as firewood to chop him down. Is it Yue Fei, the leader who can easily shake a mountain but difficult to shake the Yue family's army? No, at the critical moment of the Northern Expedition, Yue Ye was hot-headed and interfered with the privacy rights of the emperor's successor. As a result, his master, Gaozong Zhao Gou, and his political enemy, the treacherous minister Qin Hui, were framed and secretly killed in Fengyun Pavilion. Is it the famous Prime Minister Kou Zhun who is on the see-saw in the political arena? This is not the case. He would rather offend the righteous than the villain. Kou Laoxi was smart in his life, but he made a big mistake in this matter. As a result, his later life was miserable and he died in depression. There is another person who is the best in the history of the Song Dynasty. This person is called Shao Yong, whose courtesy name is Yaofu. He was born in the Dazhong Xiangfu reign of Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty (1011 AD) and died in the Xining reign of Song Shenzong (1077 AD). His posthumous name was Kang Jie, so the world also respected him as Mr. Kang Jie. Why was Mr. Kang Jie the most awesome person in the Song Dynasty? Let me tell you gradually. First of all, when Mr. Kangjie was born, there was a sign from the sky. One day, his father and mother were out on an outing and suddenly saw a big black ape in the clouds and mist. His mother was moved and she became pregnant. Is this story believable? In any case, emperors and sages of all dynasties were born in this way without artificial insemination or sexual intercourse between husband and wife. When his mother gave birth to him, the yard was full of jackdaws, which we all said was a good sign (because the jackdaws fed him back). What was even weirder was that as soon as the child landed, he was unusual. He had long hair and teeth, and he could scream when he opened his mouth. mom. When I was seven years old, I was playing in the courtyard. I could see the sky through the ant nests and see the floating clouds. But my mother watched for a long time and saw nothing. (This kid might be an alien).
When Mr. Kang Jie was a little older, he traveled all over the world. Once when he came to Shanxi Province, his horse suddenly stumbled and Mr. Kang Jie fell into an abyss. Those who accompanied him thought that the child prodigy must be ruined, but he found that When they reached the bottom of the cliff, they saw that Mr. Kangjie was intact, only an old felt hat had been broken due to the fall, but the horse was dead. The child prodigy is extraordinary. Mr. Kang Jie could memorize Buddhist scriptures backwards when he was a boy. When he studied under the great Eastern scholar Li Ting, he did not have a bed for three years and studied hard day and night. It is said in the history of the Song Dynasty that he "doesn't have a stove in the cold and a fan in the summer." No dinner at night”. Mr. Kang Jie's greatest achievement in his life was the "Book of Changes". When he was young, he filled the house with the full text of the Book of Changes and recited it dozens of times a day. During the repeated reading, he suddenly realized something, and wrote hundreds of thousands of words of words eloquently. A strange way that no one has ever understood.
Mr. Kang Jie has gained a lot of knowledge and fame, and now he has the reputation of a sage within and a king outside. What does this mean? This person is comparable to the saint who was born only five hundred years ago and the scholar who lived in seclusion in the mountains. He can be said to be the most knowledgeable person in the Song Dynasty. Do you think he is awesome? What's even more awesome is that Mr. Kang Jie declined the imperial call many times during the Renzong and Shenzong dynasties. He refused to become an official if he said he didn't want to be an official. He was never like Wang Anshi and others who fished for fame and waited for a price. This was a real disagreement with the ruling class. With a cooperative attitude, he spent his life traveling in the mountains and forests, teaching apprentices, and disparaging the learning of Huang Lao. First, Fu Bi, a famous official in the Renzong Dynasty, recommended him to be an official. He replied: "I would like to live in the same nest, and I will be a minister in the future. I am willing to be in the old Tang Dynasty and Yu Biwu." Secondly, the famous scholar Wen Yanbo admired him and recommended him to be an official. Decline. When Ouyang Xiu became prime minister, he was once again invited to serve the court. He wrote a poem, which said: "If you don't frown in your life, there will be no people in the world who are gnashing their teeth." Chi." He declined the kindness of his friends with both humility and determination.
How knowledgeable is Mr. Kang Jie? How could he be so arrogant and defy the goodwill of his friends again and again, spending his whole life in the world of martial arts and not in the temple? Regardless of other knowledge, Mr. Kang Jie's greatest achievement is in hexagram calculation. Every calculation must be successful, with a 100% probability, which makes people marvel at his skills. People at that time did not call them great people, but astonished them. Maybe you have heard of such a book called "Plum Blossom Odd Numbers", and this mysterious book of divination full of subtleties is said to have been written by Mr. Kang Jie. This is a book based on the mathematics of the Book of Changes and the "Xiang Xue" of the Book of Changes for divination. Mr. Kangjie relied on this divination method that proved successful and became famous all over the country.
There are many records in the history of the Song Dynasty about Mr. Kang Jie's magical work of almost hitting every hexagram. We might as well take a look at some of his most famous ones. One time, Mr. Kangjie happened to admire the plum blossoms. He saw two birds competing for one branch and both fell to the ground. He thought it was strange, so he made a prediction and calculated that a young woman would climb and break the plum blossoms that night. The gardener, without knowing the reason, chased the woman. , causing the woman to fall and hurt her thigh, but it was not too dangerous. What happened later was as expected. Another time, around midnight in the winter evening, Mr. Kangjie was sitting by the stove when he heard someone knocking on the door. First he knocked once, then five times, and said he wanted to borrow something. Mr. Kang Jie asked the man not to tell anyone and asked his son to guess what he wanted to borrow. The son made a divination according to his suggestion and figured out it was a hoe. Mr. Kang Jie corrected him and said it was an axe, but later it was verified that it was an axe. material.
Mr. Kang Jie can predict the yin and yang of the universe through hexagrams, which is almost unimaginable even in modern society, let alone in the Song Dynasty when people’s knowledge level was not high, so the whole country People regard him as a god. It is not that Mr. Kangjie is not interested in politics, but that through his own wise investigation and prediction, he knows that the world is like a cloud, and whether he is a political reformer or a conservative, no matter how No matter how hard he tried, he could not benefit the people in the end, so he gave up his career career early. But it's not that he doesn't care about politics. For example, once he and a guest were walking on the Tianjin Bridge. When they heard the sound of cuckoos, they became unhappy. The guest asked him why he was worried. Mr. Kangjie said that within two years, the emperor would favor southerners as prime ministers, and southerners would take care of southerners as officials. Most of these people would cause trouble, the country would be in chaos, and northerners would be in difficulty. Later Wang Anshi Xining's reform was like this.
Although Mr. Kang Jie is in the political arena and does not want to cause too much trouble, his reputation is so great that dignitaries in the court are competing to make friends with him. He lives in more than 30 houses in Luoyang. The mayor of Luoyang personally built the building for him. When the famous celebrities at that time, Fu Bi, Sima Guang, Lu Gongzhu, Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao, Zhang Zai, etc. retired to Luoyang, they often visited and asked for advice. He offered a betrothal gift to marry Mr. Kang and recruited his disciples as his staff, but Mr. Kangjie declined politely. However, these people usually regard traveling with him as their first happiness. Even Wang Anshi, who always had his own way of doing things and had a high opinion of himself, after hearing and seeing Mr. Kang Jie's moral articles, he lamented that "Shao Yaofu's virtuousness cannot be matched."