History of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 413 Jiangdong Luoyin 2
Faced with his daughter's request to meet her in person, father Zheng Ting tried his best to satisfy her. He found an opportunity to invite Luo Yin to his home as a guest, and asked his daughter to poke a small hole behind the window so that she could peek at Luo Yin, the man she had been thinking about.

As a result... the prime minister's daughter only took one look at it and "never recited his poems from then on" and never read his works again.

"Hidden appearance and ugly", how ugly is this? Fans turned to passers-by and forwarded it in seconds.

Zheng Ting, who is honest and upright and values ​​talents, is also helpless. He originally wanted to be your father-in-law. Forget it, buddy, let's continue drinking.

Huang Chao invaded Chang'an, and Emperor Xizong fled to Shu. Luo Yin wrote a poem, full of sarcasm and ridicule:

"The Mawei Mountains are lush and green, and I see the imperial carriage returning to Sichuan.

Ah Man in the afterlife should have something to say: don’t blame Concubine Yang this time.”

Ah Man was the nickname of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji. How annoying! It is said that Mawei Mountain looked at the team of Emperor Xizong on his way to Shu with affection, as if greeting them, "Hey, here you are, please come in." Then Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, who is in the underworld, also expressed his opinion, "You can't blame Yang Guifei now, can you?

When Emperor Xizong fled to Shu, Luo Yin was so gloating and making sarcastic remarks, and he still wanted to be an official in the court?

When it was Zhaozong's turn to be forced to move out of Chang'an, the entourage brought in a pre-trained monkey that could imitate humans and follow the officials to court to participate in government affairs in a serious manner, which made Zhaozong very happy, so he gave the monkey a red robe (above the fourth rank).

Luo Yin angrily wrote a poem to ridicule:
"The trial period is twelve or thirteen years, and the smoke and moon of the five lakes are in conflict.

Why not learn from Sun Gongfeng, who smiled and the king wore red. "

After ten years of hard study, in the end, I am not as good as a monkey who pleases the king!

This monkey is also worth mentioning. After Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, he got this monkey and wanted it to be his "subject". However, when the monkey saw Zhu Wen, it jumped up and down and was very ignorant of etiquette. This was obviously a metaphor that Zhu Wen was not a true emperor. Zhu Wen was furious and ordered the monkey to be executed.

Just as there are those who do not recognize Wu Zetian’s peony, there are those who do not recognize Zhu Wen’s divine monkey.

Pei Yun married the daughter of Prime Minister Xiao Ke, and thus he passed the imperial examination with his humble talent. This made Luo Yin, who had failed many times and missed the chance to marry the prime minister's daughter, furious. He immediately wrote a poem to satirize him, one of the lines of which was:
"Look closely at the moon and you will find that it is meaningful. I know that the green osmanthus is close to Chang'e."

I thought the moon was quite beautiful, but I didn't know that Chang'e in Guanghan Palace also took the back door.

Luo Yin is famous for his satirical poems. He even dared to satirize the emperors of his time, Xizong and Zhaozong. Is there anyone in the world that he dare not satirize?

Zhaozong was also an outstanding ruler who recruited talented people without any restrictions. He was eager to seek wise men and once wanted to make an exception and promote one of them. However, he was opposed by all the court officials. The reason was that although Luo Yin was talented, he was frivolous, rude, cynical, and dared to mock the wise monarch and slander the ministers. Such a person was not suitable to be an official.

Zhaozong then asked Luo Yin what inappropriate remarks he had made.

This question was not a big deal. The court officials went through Luo Yin's social media accounts and reported his inappropriate remarks one by one. As a result, Zhaozong gave up the idea of ​​letting him serve as an official.

Emperor Zhaozong was kindhearted and at most he would just silence the people and deal with the matter coldly. However, the warlords were not so tolerant.

When he was in Huainan, he was almost killed by Gao Pian because he ridiculed him. Fortunately, he ran fast. "Pian was furious and rushed after him, but he couldn't catch up."

His vast knowledge supported his rebellious and arrogant character, and his outrageous appearance made him feel that his talent was not appreciated. Over time, he finally developed an even more paranoid personality. I do what I want, that's it, whatever I want.

So when he went to Qian Liu, he was worried that he would not be accepted. However, Qian Liu magnanimously accepted this talented man with an outspoken and alternative personality. When the court first appointed Qian Liu as the governor of Zhenhai Army, according to convention, Qian Liu had to write a thank-you letter. In addition to thanking the emperor for his great grace, he also had to report the basic situation of the local area. Qian Liu was so proud that he asked Shen Song to draft a memorial praising the prosperity of the western Zhejiang region to show off his political achievements to the court. After writing it, he gave it to Luo Yin to review to see if there was anything missing.

Luo Yin shook his head and rejected the offer, saying that the western part of Zhejiang had just experienced war, and everything was in ruins and the people were exhausted. If you were to show off like this, wouldn't that invite the dignitaries of the court to ask for bribes from you? Even if you didn't ask for bribes, you would levy personal income tax based on the standard you boasted about... Keep a low profile.

Qian Liu suddenly realized, and thus changed his attitude. He changed from showing off his wealth to crying poor. In his letter of thanks, he described western Zhejiang like this: "Deer and elk roam around even when the weather is cold, and cattle and sheep do not come down even when the sun goes down."

When the imperial court received the memorial and read it, they smiled knowingly and said, "Don't ask, it must have been written by Luo Yin."

Failing to pass the imperial examination was an eternal pain in Luo Yin's heart, and also a common point of attack for others to attack him.

Shen Song drafted a thank you letter for Qian Liu, but Luo Yin rejected it. Shen Song was very upset. One day, the two of them were at a banquet for Qian Liu. During the banquet, Qian Liu invited out a stunning dancer and praised her, "Look, she is just as beautiful as Chang'e!"

Shen Song waved his hands and said, "Chang'e is so ugly, how can she be compared with her?"

Qian Liu smiled and said, "Do you know Chang'e?"

Shen Song was waiting for this sentence. He stroked his silver beard, glanced at Luo Yin beside him, and said with a double meaning: "I have won the first prize in the Moon Palace twice, how can I not recognize him?"

Zhegui means winning the imperial examination. It is a pun, meaning academic qualification is overwhelming.

Shen Song even sent the good news of his success to Luo Yin in a package to deliberately anger him. Luo Yin added a poem at the end:

"On the loess plains, rabbits are fat and cunning, dogs are as fast as lightning and horses are as fast as flying.

The old general of Ba Ling has no achievements, but he still remembers the night when he returned from hunting. "

Not only did his colleagues expose his shortcomings, but hostile forces also liked to use his academic qualifications as a weapon of attack.

Huainan once sent an envoy to visit Liangzhe. During the banquet, the Liangzhe reception official asked the Huainan envoy proudly, "Do you know Luo Yin from our side?"

The Huainan envoy smiled coldly and replied arrogantly: "I don't know him, and I have never heard of him."

"Ah?" The officials from Liangzhe were stunned at first, then looked at him with disdain and said sarcastically: "Who in the world doesn't know the name of the great talent Luo Yin? You Huainan people are really ignorant."

The Huainan envoy responded with one sentence: "I didn't get my name on the list, so I don't know."

Luo Yin's name was indeed well-known throughout the world. In the Heshuo area, there was a fan of his, and that was Luo Shaowei, the then governor of Wei Bo Army.

At that time, Luo Yin had just started his career and was a young talent with a great reputation in Jiangdong, but he had not yet participated in the imperial examination. Luo Yin was very confident in himself, and even though he did not pass the examination, he had already acted in a manner that even the top scholar did not have.

Luo Shaowei admired Luo Yin very much and was his die-hard fan. He even took the initiative to use his surname to claim to be of the same clan and worshipped Luo Yin as his uncle. Luo Yin accepted it calmly and did not show any humility, which made Luo Shaowei's staff very unhappy. Luo Shaowei also recommended Luo Yin to Zhu Wen, who gave Luo Yin a small job.

(End of this chapter)