Do you know: I have a different surname: Wang, uncle Minglan.

Chapter 257: The plan to reform Su Shi, returning home as quickly as possible
When did Su Shi become a fan of Wei Yuan?

It was probably when I heard that Wei Yuan formation killed seven generals.

At that time, many literati in the Great Zhou Dynasty were telling this story.

It is said that Wei Yuan is 'Huo Qubing', 'Wei Qing', and 'Guan Yu', and he is said to be powerful in the world.

Later, I heard that Wei Yuan killed a Liao envoy in the street, and also heard that he defeated the Liao and Xia envoys in the palace.
As well as Wei Yuan's killing of Japanese and other deeds.
After hearing more about it, Su Shi wanted to see this Wei Yuan, who was like the rising sun in the east, and this invincible general who was highly respected by the people.

It is one of the most dazzling stars in this era.

At this moment, I finally got my wish.

Wei Yuan directly rejected Su Shi's kindness, causing the former to feel extremely disappointed.

He had just developed a method of making delicious meat, which was very delicious. He planned to let Wei Yuan taste it, but unfortunately he did not have this opportunity.

Mainly, Wei Yuan didn't dare let him do it.

Because, after thousands of years of precipitation, there have only been two figures like him in this land, one is himself, and the other is Li Bai.

So, Wei Yuan only asked the accompanying cook to make some simple meals, and had two drinks with Su Shi.

Therefore, Wei Yuan used another method to tell Su Shi,

"If the enemy shoots it with a crossbow, I may be shot into a hedgehog on the spot, let alone kill the enemy."

"Although the Hanlin Academy and other departments will record the words and deeds of the officials of the dynasty, for a while, they cannot be widely circulated and known by more people."

"Every poem you wrote has been widely sung in the Central Plains and Jiangnan. You are a well-deserved talent."

Su Shi's greatest achievement, or in other words, his greatest cultural achievement, should be those poems and songs.

"It is the Ministry of Industry and the Arms Supervisor who are constantly making weapons, it is the Imperial City Secret Agents who are running at the forefront, regardless of the cost of casualties, and it is the tens of millions of people of the Great Zhou who help me. It is them who can win the war."

While drinking, Su Shi respectfully asked:

What he lacks and wants most now is fame.

Write a book and biography?

Su Shi seemed to have been greatly shocked.

"Do you think that since I became successful, whether I killed seven generals or the great victory at Yanmen, it was all my personal contribution?"

Wei Yuan continued: "Personal bravery is ultimately limited, and relying on personal bravery can hardly influence the victory of a local battle."

"Otherwise, how can I achieve this by myself?"

Wei Yuan originally wanted to say that Su Shi's behavior would only make him feel like he was being roasted on a stove.

"Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. I, Su Shi, should not only write about the prosperous times, the bright moon, the style, and the powerful in my poems."

Having said this, he suddenly drank all the wine in the glass, stood up, stood with his hands behind his hands, and continued:

"Mr. Su, go and have a look. Take a look at the scenery outside the Great Wall in the northwest grasslands and see how our border army officers guard the border."

"Go to the Great Wall in the north and see how the soldiers there live in the open air. See what it means to make a horse work so fast that the bow is as fast as a thunderbolt."

Wei Yuan said: "In your eyes, I have unparalleled strength and courage, but if I were really on the battlefield and I was surrounded, how many people do you think I could kill?"

So far, Su Shi is still the passionate young man who doesn't know what conspiracies and political struggles are.

But once he said such things, he was worried that Su Shi would become impure.

Wei Yuan stopped here.

Upon hearing Su Shi's request, Wei Yuan shook his head and refused.

If a person is immersed in the secular world, he will lose his spirituality in poetry and songs.

A dignified scholar with a Jinshi background and a considerable status in the literary world. If such a figure cooks for him, he is afraid that if word spreads, scholars all over the world will be scorned to death.

Su Shi thought about it seriously and did not refute.

Wei Yuan saw that Su Shi's face had gradually become silent, so he simply struck while the iron was hot and continued:
"Mr. Su, you have great talent. It is no exaggeration to say that your poems and articles are unparalleled today."

Moreover, once the officials learn about this, I am afraid it will not be appropriate.

"This official is setting up your biography just to let more future generations know about your achievements."

Su Shi was stunned subconsciously and blurted out: "What else?"

Su Shi was puzzled and asked: "Why does Commander Wei refuse? Your world-shaking deeds should be known to future generations."

"Marquis Wei, could you tell me your experience in detail? I want to write a biography for you. I wonder if you would agree, Marquis Wei?"

Su Shi frowned slightly, "Although Xiaguan followed Governor Fengxiang to defend Weizhou, he did not personally come to command the battle to defend the city. Xiaguan could not guess and never thought about this problem."

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly took a deep breath, stood up slowly, and bowed solemnly towards Wei Yuan's back:

"Your voice should not appear on the powerful, and your articles should not only write about the big shots."

"You haven't thought about it, but I have." Wei Yuan said sternly: "Even if I am at my peak, facing a siege of a thousand people, I can only kill forty or fifty people at most before I die from exhaustion."

"The world says that I know soldiers, I am proficient in the training and use of troops, and I have never lost a single battle in my command. This is not my ability, but the merit of the soldiers who followed me on expeditions to kill the enemy, and the Hubu who worked hard to raise food and salary. It is the Ministry of War that mobilizes the troops of all parties to prepare uniformly.”

"I'm honored that you said you would write a book, biography, and poems for me, but I think you should take a broad view of the world."

"Whether I killed seven generals or the great victory at Yanmen, it was not due to me alone, but to thousands of frontier soldiers standing behind me. Without them, there would be no Weiyuan today."

"Beyond the Great Wall there is the sound of cranes chirping in the wind, and horses and bows are riding and shooting. This is how it should be!"

"Marquis Wei, I need to be taught a lesson!"

Wei Yuan turned around, helped him up, and said seriously:
"I hope that through your poems and songs, the world can learn more about the hardships of the border guards, so that more people can understand that today's peace is hard-won."

"I hope that through your words, future generations can learn about the demeanor of the Zhou generation and the frontier soldiers."

Su Shi nodded firmly and said, "I understand, my official."

At this moment, the road in front of him seemed to become smoother.

He seemed to know what he wanted.

Previously, when he became a Jinshi, he only thought about becoming an official and showing off what he had learned in his life. Only later did he gradually realize that he was not made to be an official at all.

Ever since he was demoted to Shaanxi Road, Su Shi often asked himself, how should he go in the future?
Continue to be an official?

Depending on his personality, if he goes to the capital, he will be demoted to another place sooner or later.

As for writing poems and songs, they are just boring works in my spare time.

Cultivating oneself, managing one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world are what scholars should pursue.

But now, after hearing Wei Yuan's long speech, Su Shi suddenly became enlightened.

Rather than being obsessed with being an official, it is better to take things as they come and use your own literary talents to record this extraordinary and prosperous era of the world.

Others record the prosperous times, referring to the prosperity of commerce, the wealth of the people, and the beauty of the singers.

The same was true for my previous self. But starting from today, I will write some different poems and articles, and write about the frontier fortress in the prosperous age that others have not written about.

Write about those heroes of the country who sacrificed their lives and blood in order to stabilize the prosperous world.

Thinking of this, Su Shi suddenly felt that the blood in his chest was boiling. He now wanted to run to Helan Mountain and Yanmen Pass.

"Mr. Su, please remember that there are no individual heroes in this world. This is the saying that one general can make thousands of people die."

"The real heroes are the people of the world, the little-known people."

Wei Yuan only expressed some of his opinions.

He was completely unaware of the impact his words had on Su Shi.

If Su Shi is a poet of the unrestrained style, then from today on, he will become a 'unrestrained' one.

In previous history, during the Song Dynasty, there were very few people who wrote frontier fortress poems. Therefore, some frontier fortress poems became famous.

If hundreds of schools of poetry on the frontier are flourishing, why would only one or two poems stand out?

Wei Yuan asked Su Shi to write more about the demeanor of the frontier soldiers, but he actually had his own selfish motives.

Today, due to the reasons of some scholar-bureaucrats, the common people at the bottom feel that being a soldier is inferior, while studying is superior.

A country that only has culture but no military is far from being called a civilization.

Only when there is both culture and military power can it be called 'civilization'.

Wei Yuan hopes that more and more scholars will understand the hardships of the border guards and know who is guarding this hard-won peace and prosperity.

In this way, ten or a hundred years later, the culture of advocating literature and suppressing martial arts will inevitably improve.
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Half an hour later, Su Shi no longer disturbed Wei Yuan on his way, and the two said goodbye to each other.

Several officials from Fengxiang Mansion asked Su Shi,
"Lord Tongpan, where are we going now?"

Su Shi looked to the northwest, his eyes seeming to fall on Helan Mountain thousands of miles away.
"Take you to climb a mountain."

climb mountains?

At this moment, Su Shi suddenly thought of what Wei Yuan had just said:

"The horse moves so fast, the bow moves like a thunderbolt."

"Shuai Wei's research on poetry is as good as mine. He is truly admirable in both civil and military skills."

"I don't know if Commander Wei has a complete poem. I will definitely ask him if I see him again someday."

In the evening, Su Shi and his party set up camp in an open space.

He sat in front of the bonfire, prepared the four treasures of his study, looked at the bright moon in the night sky, and wondered what he was thinking about.

Suddenly, everyone saw him writing the words "Border Army Collection" on a piece of white paper.

He also wrote the three characters "The Biography of Wei Yuan" below the three characters "Bianjun Ji". Later he felt that it was inappropriate to call Wei Yuan by his first name, so he changed it to "The Biography of Wei Gong".

The book boy sitting behind Su Shi saw it and asked doubtfully: "Didn't Marshal Wei say that he doesn't want sir to write him in the storybook? Sir, why do you still write it?"

Su Shi smiled and said: "Shuai Wei said that the achievements of all big people are based on the rise and fall of small people."

"Many years ago, Marshal Wei was also a nobody."

The book boy asked curiously: "How did he become a big shot step by step?"

Su Shi smiled and said, "Want to know?"

The book boy nodded.

Su Shi did not rush to write. Instead, he rested his head on the ground, face up to the sky, crossed his legs, held the pen in one hand, turned it around between his fingers, put his hand on the back of his head, and murmured:
"This starts from the time when Duke Wu Xiang died and Lord Wei gave up his writing and joined the army."

"Who is Duke Wu Xiang?" The book boy was still young and had many questions about military commanders.

Su Shi said: "Mr. Wu Xianggong, he was a legendary figure in Han Xianggong's youth."

The scholar suddenly realized, "Is he the same as the current Lord Wei?"

Su Shi nodded, "Shuai Wei is a legend among our generation. There may not be anyone like him again for hundreds or even thousands of years."

Regardless of whether some scholar-bureaucrats admit it or not, based on Wei Yuan's current military talents, as long as he remains in a high position and in the center, he can maintain peace and prosperity in the Zhou Dynasty.

After Su Shi left, Wei Yuan headed east, along the road back to Bianjing.

Late that night, he and the soldiers of the Manjia Battalion settled near the Yellow River in Jinzhou.

Although he has not yet arrived in Bianjing, Wei Yuan has already started writing the "Reorganization of Yanbian Military Letters". This letter is intended to give Zhao Zhen a vaccination in advance.

Wang Anshi was reforming the official system, and he didn't want to be idle.

A few years later, due to Wang Anshi's reform of the official system, all the rising stars became his disciples and old officials.

How could Wei Yuan fare well?
In the big tent, Xiao Yuming had been standing behind Wei Yuan, watching him write the note. After he finished writing the note, a full two hours had passed.

Xiao Yuming asked: "Does Commander Wei still need to eat at night?"

Wei Yuan shook his head, handed the written note to Xiao Yuming, and said, "It will be sent to Bianjing in a hurry over 800 miles."

"No." After Xiao Yuming took the zhazi respectfully, he asked:

"Can the officials agree to our restructuring?"

Wei Yuan sighed, "If the officials want long-term peace and stability in Yanbian, they have no other choice but to reform."

"If the officials are worried about the expansion of the side, then the general strategy of turning defense into offense will become child's play."

Xiao Yuming said: "Isn't it possible to rely on the sixteen-character secret that Commander Wei taught to many generals?"

Wei Yuan said seriously: "There is no tactic that can win every battle in this world. If you can be invincible with just these sixteen words, why do you need to recruit and train troops?"

"Besides, those sixteen words can only harass the enemy at most. If you want to fight a large-scale annihilation war in the future, you must change the inherent military system."

Xiao Yuming stopped talking and stepped back with fists in hand.

After he left, Wei Yuan murmured:

"Rather than saying that Zhong Er is my person, it is more like a cooperation between me and him."

"Peng Sun can be reused. With him in Yanbian and the Helan Mountain area, I have the final say."

"Next, let's see if Gu Tingye can gain a foothold in Yanbian. It's best to lead Weizhou's troops like a family army."

"As for this Duke Kang, I am a little surprised."

Speaking of the Yanbian group, the person Wei Yuan couldn't understand the most was Kang Guogong.

"If Su Shi could write a few frontier fortress poems, it might make the people aware of the sufferings of frontier generals. This would also be a good thing for the frontier soldiers."

"I've been away from home for so long, and I don't know what happened to my two children, Brother Zhuang and Sister Jing."

At this moment, Wei Yuan felt like returning home.

(End of this chapter)