A generation of talents Zhao Kuangyin went to Wang Yanchao when he was down, but Wang Yanchao cruelly refused, and gave a few small pieces of money to send away like a flower? Is there really such a thing? Let's dry up the water in our brains and make a calm analysis of the event.
Why is the authenticity of this matter doubtful, because great people, capable people, and successful people like to engage in the "inspirational" hand.
After these people succeeded, in order to say how difficult it was to start their own business, they had to make up a story with a nose and an eye, and tried their best to say how depressed they were, how miserable they were mixed, how snobbish the people around them were, and how dogs looked down on people.
Some of these stories were made up by the parties themselves, and some were fabricated by historians, with the purpose of deepening impressions, increasing drama, and highlighting big figures.
In general, such a story has two processes, two endings.
First, the big man was poor, penniless, and starved on the street. Or eating in the hotel even the wine and dish money is not allowed to go, at this time the mysterious person appears at the right time, sending charcoal in the snow.
The big man was very confused: we are vegetarian, why did the hero help me?
Mysterious people usually say, you are not a mortal, you are the son of the Jade Emperor, you have a mission, you go to the grand plan.
Second, the big people are poor and desperate, asking for help, and the people around them do not know Tarzan, not only are they indifferent. Also sarcastically ridiculed: stinky boy, little three, eat and go.
In short, either the big people can exaggerate vigorously through the mouths of others, or they demean themselves through the mouths of others. The more this happens, the more it shows the loss of one's talents, the tenacity of not yielding to adversity, and the greatness of daring to challenge fate.
Zhao Kuangyin's story should belong to the second kind, self-deprecation.
In the history books, it has been recorded that Zhao Kuangyin's early years of a downfall experience, saying that when he first came out of the jianghu, he had nothing to do for a long time. Running around, not finding an ideal job to do.
How could a great man like Zhao Kuangyin not be appointed? It must be those people who have no eyes, not Bole, and dog eyes look down on people.
Therefore, although Zhao Kuangyin was full of economy and full of skills, no one recognized the goods and disdained to appoint him.
When Zhao Kuangyin was cornered, he remembered his father's brother Wang Yanchao.
Wang Yanchao is not only a colleague of Zhao Kuangyin's father, Zhao Hongyin, but also a good friend of Zhao Hongyin. Why did Zhao Kuangyin turn to him? Because Wang Yanchao was then a defense envoy of Fuzhou, equivalent to the commander of the military sub-district, he could use his place here and show his grand plans.
Zhao Kuangyin, who was arrogant and arrogant, originally did not want to take advantage of this layer of relationship, wanted to rely on real skills to work hard, how could the world be cold, can only open the back door to take the relationship, first have a place to stay. However, unexpectedly, although Wang Yanchao received him very politely, he used the excuse that he did not have a suitable job here and drove Zhao Kuangyin away.
Perhaps afraid that Zhao Kuangyin would be upset, he gave him ten dollars when he left. Zhao Kuangyin was full of hope to turn to Wang Yanchao, and he never dreamed that such a result would be achieved.
As soon as Wang Yanchao turned around, Zhao Kuangyin threw away the ten pieces of money.
On the surface, this story is recorded as having a nose and an eye, which is quite like that, but when I think about it carefully, I find that something is not quite right and I can't help but scrutinize it.
We only need to look at Zhao Kuangyin's family background to know how false this story is.
Zhao Kuangyin's father was Zhao Hongyin, born in Baosai County, Baozhou (present-day Qingyuan County, Hebei Province), and the family called himself a descendant of Zhao Guanghan of the Western Han Dynasty. Of course, after claiming to be a celebrity, there are more to go, anyway, there is no way to verify, we may wish to see Zhao Kuangyin's father as a celebrity, do not care about him.
However, we cannot ignore the following information, Zhao Hongyin is the son of Zhao Jing, the assassin of Zhuozhou, and he himself is not a fuel-saving lamp.
Zhao Hongyin was highly skilled in martial arts, and was initially a general under Wang Rong the Prince of Zhao, and later became the head of the Forbidden Army under Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang. In the Later Han Dynasty, that is to say, when Zhao Kuangyin defected to Wang Yanchao, his father had already been appointed as the commander of the Protector Saint Capital.
Because, Zhao Kuangyin's father could be a big man in the imperial military circles, and his rank was at least a division commander, because he ruled the forbidden army, and his actual power was equivalent to that of the provincial army.
Let's think about it, the commander of the emperor's forbidden army, the officers of all sizes, who do not know. What's more, Wang Yanchao and Zhao Hongyin have a deep personal relationship? With the relationship between Zhao Kuangyin's father, wherever he goes to find a job is a smooth wind, and officials at all levels are desperate to settle down, where is the reason why they can't find a job?
Realistically speaking, as a senior general of the central government, it is impossible for him to want to mix with local areas, because the starting point is too low, and even if he wants to go to the front line to exercise, he will not start with the local army. Wang Yanchao wanted it, and Zhao Kuangyin didn't necessarily want to go.
Whether it is from the perspective of the Zhao family's career or from the ideal of Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin will not condescend to work with Wang Yanchao.
Because only in the army at the central level can we make friends with more influential Haojie, accumulate contacts for future development, pave the way for the realization of personal ambitions, and lay a solid foundation.
The Central Army is the core of the imperial power, Zhao Kuangyin's father has been working here for many years, look at the people he has interacted with, Li Cunxun, Li Siyuan, Li Congke, Shi Jingyao, Liu Zhiyuan, who is not a prominent figure, how can he allow his son to run to the local army to spend time?
So in fact, Zhao Kuangyin is not unable to find a job at all, nor can he find his ideal job, but Zhao Kuangyin wants to be familiar with grass-roots work and wander around. In ordinary troops, Zhao Kuangyin would be able to see the eye at all, and he would not stay at all, and he was only willing to follow the service when he met the great hero Guo Wei.
Guo Wei, one of the world's greatest heroes, was willing to take in Zhao Kuangyin, not for his ability, but for the name of his father Zhao Hongyin.
It can be said that Zhao Kuangyin can achieve great things, family background is very important, can let him stand on the shoulders of his father to do more with less, his success is too smooth.
Let's think about it, whether it is Liu Bang, Cao Cao, or Liu Xiu and Zhu Yuanzhang, who has Zhao Kuangyin to fight the world so smoothly.
Perhaps because it was too smooth, Zhao Kuangyin or Shi Guan felt that this could not show his greatness, so he added some story elements, indicating that Zhao Kuangyin was also very difficult when starting a business, even his father's friends could not look at him, let a gold covered with dust, and a hero had no place to play.
Telling this story also shows that Zhao Kuangyin was commissioned by heaven, and no matter how much he suffered, he would definitely shine.
In order to highlight this theme in the history books, it is also said that after Zhao Kuangyin was sent away by Wang Yanchao, suddenly an old man of the Immortal Wind Dao Bone grabbed his cold hand and asked him to go all the way north, where there would be nobles to accompany him.
Zhao Kuangyin went all the way north, where he met Guo Wei, and his life turned a new page.
After Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, when he was celebrating with his courtiers, he called Wang Yanchao to his side and asked him: Uncle Wang, when I went to run to you, why did you let me touch a nose of ash?
Wang Yanchao's answer can be described as witty: I, I also want to take you in, but the destiny is difficult to violate. You are a true dragon heavenly son with a historical mission, if I take you in, will you succeed in the future? God can't blame me. All this is not to blame me, but God, this big screenwriter, has long been arranged.