You Jing for three years (1036), Fan Zhongyan was dissatisfied with Prime Minister Lv Yijian's control of state affairs, cultivating cronies and appointing cronies, and presented the "Hundred Officials Map" to Emperor Renzong, sharply criticizing the Prime Minister's employment system, and persuading the emperor to formulate a system to personally grasp the promotion of officials.
Not to be outdone, Lv Yijian retorted that Fan Zhongyan was pedantic and slandered Fan Zhongyan for "exceeding his authority, colluding with cronies and alienating the monarch and his subjects". Fan Zhongyan even took three chapters to criticize Lv Yijian's cunning. Because of his fierce words, he was ousted and changed to Raozhou. Han Yu, an imperial envoy, catered to blasphemy, listed the names of Fan Zhongyan's companions and invited Renzong to make a public announcement in court.
Fan Zhongyan, Wen Xi, was a famous thinker, politician, strategist and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. When I was a child, my family was poor, but I was very studious. I have my own ambitions for the world, and I often encourage myself: "A scholar should worry before the world worries and be happy after the world is happy."
Fan Zhongyan left home in his twenties and went to Yingtianfu Academy to study hard. Five years later, he passed the Jinshi exam. After becoming an official, Fan Zhongyan has been hovering in a low position, having no right to participate in state affairs, and his talent has never been put to good use.
At the age of thirty-four, I recommended myself to my superiors with E799BE5BAA6E997AEE7ad94E7898E69D83313366306562 in order to make great achievements. The success of salt water treatment proved Fan Zhongyan's talent and won the praise of the people.
During Fan Zhongyan's reign, he spoke out boldly and criticized the shortcomings of the times, and was demoted several times. As a captain of the Secret Pavilion, he criticized the disadvantages of Queen Mother Zhang Xian's listening to politics several times, so he was demoted to general punishment.
After the death of Queen Zhang, Fan Zhongyan, as Zuo Si's remonstrator, was demoted for criticizing Renzong for deposing the Queen. When he was in imperial academy, he was demoted again for criticizing Prime Minister Lv Yijian for improper employment.
During his tenure, Fan Zhongyan also repaired the relationship with Xixia through his own talents, making the frontier foolproof. Fan Zhongyan was promoted to participate in politics because of his great contribution to resisting foreign aggression at the border, which created conditions for him to realize his reform ideal.
Fan Zhongyan put forward the famous reform plan of "answering Chen's ten things", but it died in less than a year. The reason is that the reform mobilized the private interests of conservative bureaucrats, and with the collusion of traitors and eunuchs, the reform failed. Fan Zhongyan was therefore dismissed from office and participated in politics.
Fan Zhongyan, 63, fell ill and asked the court to take a post in Yingzhou. However, halfway to Xuzhou, he died of illness.