Fan Zhongyan was a famous politician and strategist in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Yueyang Tower written by him is a classic that has been handed down through the ages. His famous sayings, such as "Worry about the world first, then be happy about the world" and "Don't be happy about things, don't be sad about yourself", have been widely read by the world for thousands of years. In fact, as long as anyone who has seen this work knows, the Yueyang Tower described in this article is in Yueyang, Hunan. But little known is that this work was not written in Yueyang, but in Dengzhou, Nanyang. Fan Zhongyan (989- 1052) was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). His father was an official in Xuzhou and died in office. His mother Xie remarried with Zhongyan to Zhu, a Shandong native, and lived with her in Changshan Village, Zouping's stepfather's hometown in Shandong. Young Fan Zhongyan lived there for 12 years and spent a long process of his own understanding and development. In the eighth year of Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu (A.D. 10 15), Fan Zhongyan entered the imperial examination and entered the official career. In the sixth year of Renzong Tiansheng (A.D. 1028), Wang Zeng, the prime minister of the DPRK, and Yan Shu, the deputy prime minister, appreciated his talents and recommended him to the Central Committee of the Northern Song Dynasty as the general manager of the secret school. During the 17 years from then to Li Qing's fifth year, he went to Beijing for four times, was demoted four times, and was repeatedly hit. His political career can be described as "ups and downs" However, he has always been honest and clean, insisted on reform, and resolutely fought against some conservative officials and decadent forces in North Korea. The first time I worked in North Korea, it happened shortly after Emperor Injong succeeded to the throne, but the emperor had no real power, and all the power was in the hands of Empress Liu. Empress dowager Liu monopolized the power and ran amok, and all the officials in the Qing Dynasty dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. Fan Zhongyan was the only one who risked his life to write a letter, demanding that Empress Dowager Cixi hand over power to Emperor Renzong, regardless of his position. Vice Premier Yan Shu was very surprised to see this scene. "You are not only unlucky, but also a referee." Hearing this, Fan Zhongyan told him seriously: "Although I was recommended by you, you are often ashamed of my incompetence. I didn't expect to offend you now because of my loyalty. " Upon hearing this, Yan Shu was speechless. Later, Fan Zhongyan finally angered Queen Liu because he dared to write a letter, and was driven out of Tokyo and demoted to Sichuan Intermediate People's Court. In the second year of Ming Dow (A.D. 1033), Fan Zhongyan was called into the palace and served as the right minister to remonstrate. But not long after, he was ostracized for offending conservative officials in charge of state affairs and was expelled from Tokyo again. In the second year of You Jing (A.D. 1035), he was called to Tokyo for the third time because of his meritorious service in water control in Suzhou, and was given a pavilion to stand by. But this time, he was hit by exposing the scandals of Premier Lv Yijian and others, and was demoted to work in Shaanxi again. On the way to say goodbye, he said to his friends who saw me off: The first time you were demoted, when you saw me off, you said I was in Aurora (very glorious). The second time you said I was in glory (more glory), this time you called me in glory (special glory), and I was already "three lights" before and after. In A.D. 1043, Fan Zhongyan returned to Beijing for the third time by imperial edict, and was soon promoted to assistant minister (deputy prime minister) to preside over the state affairs together with Fu Bi, Han Qi and others. At this time, the class contradictions in the Northern Song Dynasty were extremely intensified, peasant uprisings broke out one after another, and the border Yi people took advantage of it, which almost became a situation of splitting beans and rising up. In order to save the fate of the country, Song Renzong transferred Fan Zhongyan, who had always advocated reform, back to the central government, entrusted him with an important task, asked him to come up with a reform plan and supported Fan Zhongyan to carry out drastic reforms, and achieved remarkable results. This is the famous "Qingli New Deal" in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty. But it didn't take long for his reform plan to touch the interests of big landlords and bureaucrats. Under their opposition, the reform failed again. Subsequently, Fan Zhongyan was demoted again. This time, he was demoted as a well-known person in Dengzhou.