In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, eighty-year-old Fu Bi pressed the seal of the last memorial, his fingertips shaking so much that he could not even press the edge of the paper.
He was a veteran of the three dynasties of the Song Dynasty. He twice worshiped as prime minister. He was also a young talent that Fan Zhongyan fell in love with and Yan Shu chose as his accomplice.
When he was in the Hailing Sea Embankment in his weak years, he was told "Have you seen it with your own eyes?" And he was told that he was a scholar. From then on, he always accepted death as a dead end - he would not write to people he had never met, he would not speak if he had not verified it, and he would not easily pass on to the people unconfirmed government orders.
When he sent an envoy to Khitan with integrity, he refused to give up an inch of land even with the knife on his neck;
He opened a warehouse to rescue refugees in Qingzhou and saved more than 500,000 people, but he refused to admit his merit;
He personally experienced the Qingli New Deal and saw his ideals crash into the quagmire of states and counties;
When he encountered Xining's reform, he would rather quit and accept the investigation than force farmers to receive money for young crops.
From the prosperity and worry of the Renzong Dynasty, to the turmoil of the Puyi Dynasty in the Yingzong Dynasty, to the rupture between the old and the new in the Shenzong Dynasty,
He does not stand for gentlemen, nor does he belong to the camp of villains. He only recognizes one thing: when a government order falls on the ground, he must first ask the living people whether it hurts.
This is not a cool article about a famous official with a golden finger.
This is the life of a scholar-bureaucrat of the Song Dynasty who spent sixty years in his official career and turned the "principles on paper" into "the road under his feet".
Good looking Ma Dongxi