The second volume of Su Dongpo's biography is called the prime of life. Su Dongpo at this time, although the success of the imperial examination faded, was still brilliant. Based on the official rules, even a talented person like Su Shi should start from a junior official. His first official position was Dali Appraisal. This is a relatively leisure job. The post of judge doesn't have much heavy official duties, and the day-to-day paperwork makes him bored. More free time gave him the opportunity to travel around. Su Dongpo has never been involved in the central vortex of politics in his days of traveling and living, leaving many strange stories. To put it simply, Su Dongpo's early political career was quite pleasant. This comfortable life ended when Su Dongpo lost his wife and remarried, and his younger brother Perilla went to Beijing.
The Biography of Su Dongpo used a lot of pen and ink to describe the contradiction between Su Shi's political group and Wang Anshi's political group. Wang Anshi, who is called a "freak" by the author Lin Yutang and advocates political reform, is a villain with shabby appearance, schizophrenia and paranoia in the book. This may be an exaggeration to highlight the justice of Su Shi's political views, but I think this description is too heavy. As two leading figures in the Northern Song Dynasty, apart from fierce political conflicts, their spiritual world and literary exchanges can also be called mutual appreciation. After Wang Anshi accidentally seized power and implemented the New Deal, Su Shi followed the conservatives headed by Sima Guang, and there was a great political contradiction between reformists and conservatives. After Sima Guang and Fan Li resigned angrily, Su Shi wanted to write down the words of Emperor Zongshen's resignation and advise the emperor not to implement the new law again. This has achieved some results, but it has not completely shaken Zongshen's determination to implement the new law. However, when Su Dongpo was an official in Kaifeng, he angered the ruling Wang Anshi and was ousted.
? Getting rid of Su Dongpo will not only erase his dazzling light, but also help the people who suffered from the New Deal and ease some social contradictions because of his sincere kindness and love for their children. I am also loved by the people. During this period, Su Shi's official career was not smooth. After all, it was a great failure in officialdom to oust from the central government to the local government. However, this slightly unsatisfactory political career has given him more opportunities to get close to the lives of ordinary people and go to the people. There are always unexpected events in the sky. The Wutai Poetry Case, the most thrilling scene in Su Dongpo's political career and the biggest turning point in his life, happened.
? In fact, the influence of this case on Su Shi's political career mainly comes from the malicious calculation of the court villain. This malicious calculation almost killed Su Shi. What little people never expected was that they not only didn't force Su Shi to death, but also sublimated Su Shi's literary talent with a place of relegation-