The next day, Zhao Huan issued an edict, requiring the arrest of those who killed the eunuchs and prohibited the letter. Wang Shiyong also wanted to punish the students of the Imperial College, so the scholars and the people were in amazement again. Zhao Huan then sent Nie Chang to promulgate the edict, ordering the Imperial College to study calmly and not interfere with the government. Zhao Huan also said that Yang Shi would use the Imperial College to sacrificialize wine. If the Imperial College has something to say, Yang Shi could also report it to the memorial. All the students were very happy and said, "What else can I say when Mr. Guishan is here! We are naturally ordered to follow the teachings."

Yang Shi's courtesy name was Zhongli and his pseudonym was Guishan. His ancestral home was from Huayin, Hongnong. He was from Longchituan, Yongzhou, and in the west of Nanjian. Yang Shi was smart and studious when he was young. He was good at writing poetry and prose, and was known as a child prodigy. When he was young, he studied Buddhism and studied Confucianism at the age of eight and could write poetry at the age of nine, which was praised by people. Yang Shi was young at the age of fifteen and had a reputation for studying in Shaowu. At the age of twenty-one, he went to the Ministry of Rites for the examination. In the ninth year of Xining, Yang Shi became a Jinshi. After he passed the Jinshi, he was awarded the military service of the Tingzhou Sihu. He did not take the post on the grounds of being sick, and focused on studying Neo-Confucianism, and wrote "Lie Zi Jie".

During the Xining and Yuanfeng periods, Cheng Hao and his younger brother Cheng Yi taught the academic essence of Confucius and Mencius in Henan. Scholars in Luoyang and other places all competed to worship them as their teachers. Yang Shi worshipped Cheng Hao as his teachers and students got along well in Yingchang. He and You Zuo, Yi Rong and Xie Liangzuo became the four major disciples of the Cheng clan. Cheng Hao once said: "Yang Shi was the most relaxed to learn, and he could understand it at one point." At that time, Cheng Hao's younger brother Cheng Yi returned from Fuling lectures. He heard Cheng Hao mention Cheng Yi's story and praised him very much: "I am so confident now. Who can surpass him in the future?"

When Yang Shi returned from his studies, Cheng Hao watched him go away and said with emotion: "My Taoist thought will be carried forward to the south!" During the Yuanfu period, scholars mostly studied Buddhism, but Yang Shi was only interested in psychology, so Cheng Hao sighed very much: "Now people who do academic research talk about Buddhism and Taoism in general, only Yang Shi and Xie Xiandao have made progress!" Two years later, Yang Shi went to Xuzhou to take office; in August of the same year, he completed the work of "Zhuangzi Jie".

When Cheng Hao died, Yang Shi heard about it, he set up Cheng Hao's spiritual seat to cry for sacrifice, and used letters and obituaries to follow the people who studied with Cheng Hao. He went to Luoyang again to pay homage to Cheng Yi, who was 40 years old at this time. One day, he met Cheng Yi, and Cheng Yi was sitting with his eyes closed. Yang Shi and his classmate You Zuo stood outside the door without leaving. When Cheng Yi noticed it, the snow outside the door was more than a foot deep. This is the famous Chengmen Lixue.

Cheng Yi was moved by their sincere spirit of studying and taught more. Yang Shi lived up to his expectations and finally learned the true meaning of Cheng's Neo-Confucianism. After Yang Shi finished his studies, he returned to the south to continue to study and disseminate Cheng's Neo-Confucianism. In order to figure out the principles explained in Zhang Zai's "Xi Ming", he wrote a letter to Cheng Yi for advice.

In the first year of Shaosheng, Yang Shi went to Liuyang to serve as the magistrate. After four years of office, he saved the famine and carried out benevolent governments, and was deeply loved by the people. At the same time, he built a Feifeng Pavilion in Liuyang and Guihong Pavilion, and wrote his own records. Later, the "Flying Grass" with Feifeng Pavilion as the main scenery, and the "Hongge Setting Sun" with Guihong Pavilion as the main scenery became one of the eight scenic spots in Liuyang. He wrote poems such as "Liuyang Five Songs" and "Sentences of the County Zhai Shushixian" in Liuyang. When Yang was the magistrate, he gave lectures on Taoism in the south of Liuyang City and spreading Neo-Confucianism, and many scholars asked him about it.

In the fifth year of Chongning, Yang Shi was ordered to be appointed as the magistrate of Yuhang County, Zhejiang Province. The treacherous prime minister Cai Jing actually built a tomb for his mother to enclose land. Yang Shi was not afraid of the powerful and resolutely resisted.

His acts of harming the people; and expose and criticize Cai Jing's crimes of tyranny and evil politics and abuse the people.

In order to cater to Zhao Ji, Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Zhu Xie, Wang Fu and others plundered rare treasures from the people and built the Longde Palace. The Suhang Yingfeng Bureau hosted by Zhu Meng had more than 2,000 ships used to transport strange flowers and stones. Zhu Meng also took the opportunity to extort and make a fortune. The people complained. Yang Shi hated their behavior deeply.

He wrote angrily: "Now all the officials in the world, from the court to the officials of the prefectures and counties, are all dedicated to deceiving superiors and concealing subordinates. The court is hopeless." "The ministers not only disrespect the emperor's orders, but the relevant departments do not perform their duties and abide by the rules and regulations. Where can they put the king's laws?" He criticized the court: "Now, in order to escape work, the people in the world have used money to serve instead, and all of them have entered the pockets of those in power. The Huashigang transported to the west city of Bianjing is particularly harmful, and those people have used this to make money. Before the emperor tried to dismiss Huashigang, the ink on the edict was not dry yet, and the ship transporting the flowershigang had already been connected to the head and tail. Although the previous edict was issued again, the root of the disaster was not removed. Who in the world would believe it?"

In the second year of Zhenghe, Yang Shi went to Xiaoshan as the county magistrate. At that time, the farmland around Xiaoshan County was prone to drought and flooding, and was affected by disasters for many years. The villagers had repeatedly asked to store low fields into lakes to irrigate farmland, but it was not achieved. Yang Shi repeatedly submitted memorials, asking the court to reduce farmers' taxes. After Yang Shi took office, he led the people to build lakes. The lake was named "Xianghu". Even in the years of severe drought, more than half of the farmland could be irrigated. Moreover, "the lake produces many fish and water shield, which can be cooked to cure hunger."

In the sixth year of Xuanhe, after Zhang Shunmin's recommendation, Zhao Ji summoned Yang Shi as Secretary-General. Yang Shi wrote a letter to "About Current Affairs with the Governor of the Governor", which made suggestions for ten major events. He wrote: "Now the literati and officials dare not speak freely about the great affairs of the world, but they just want to protect themselves. But they never thought that the world is in turmoil and uneasy, how can they protect themselves?" He analyzed the drawbacks of some of the court's policies and the negative impacts they had, and put forward many suggestions and measures to seek benefits and avoid harm.

Yang Shi proposed that we should not only exempt taxes from exiles, but also treat hard-working people equally, so that they can benefit from it, so that they can trust the court and not abandon the land, leave their hometowns, and become thieves. He advocated the relaxation or abandonment of the two laws on tea and salt to ensure freedom of trade and reduce the burden on the people. He believed that loving the people requires that the people have regular production so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

Yang Shi suggested that the court resumed its previous practices and allocate a sum of funds as a purchase price, that is, ordering grain reserves, and advance payments to farmers at the beginning of the year to purchase production materials and maintain normal livelihoods. After the autumn harvest, farmers pay the grain according to the amount, and deduct the original deposit from it during settlement. In this way, the country can collect grain on time and put it into the warehouse, and farmers can also get convenience from it, willing to cultivate the land and avoid fleeing. However, Yang Shi's suggestion was not adopted.

In July of the sixth year of Xuanhe, Yang Shi was appointed as the Erying Palace. In December, Yang Shi heard that the Jin army invaded the south and submitted two comments, proposing suggestions such as "strictness as the garrison" and "winning people's hearts first". Yang Shi was not afraid of power and openly scolded Tong Guan: "He was the commander of the three routes, and the enemy had reached the border. However, he left the army and defected. Even if he was killed and his descendants were still dead, the court ignored his crimes. It was precisely because of this that Liang Fangping and He Guan both fled one after another. The emperor should justify the criminal law as a warning to unfaithful ministers." He scolded Cai Jing for "using more than 20 years of harm to the country.

The people and the country are almost collapsed, and everyone is despised." He suggested deposing the surrendered faction Zhang Bangchang and killing Tong Guan.

In the first year of Jingkang, Yang Shi served as a writer and a lecturer, a counselor and a lecturer, and a supervisor of the Imperial College. The Jin soldiers surrounded Bianjing, and the court fought and argued endlessly. Yang Shi proposed to establish commanders, show discipline, expel the barbarians, and dispel peace talks. He firmly opposed the surrender policy of ceding land and seeking peace, and strongly advocated the resistance of Jin, hoping that the court would reuse Li Gang and other important officials against Jin.

This time, the Tai students and others requested to retain Li Gang, and the court believed that it was a riot. Yang Shi stepped forward and defended them: "The scholars and people all bowed to the palace, martyred the surrendered factions, and exposed their ulterior motives. This was out of momentary indignation, not the intention to cause trouble, and there was no need to investigate their fault. The real crimes should be punished were those treacherous ministers who misled the country: Li Bangyan was the first to propose a plan to escape, cede land and pay compensation, and in order to negotiate peace, he actually took the prince as a hostage;

To please the Jin people, he abolished power and dismissed the capable minister Li Gang; Li Ye went to the Jin Kingdom to envoy the Jin Kingdom, but only the Jin people were the leader; both of them were abandoned by the people of the world. As long as they chose the old scholars and ordered him to supervise, they would naturally not have major problems." Zhao Huan intended to use Yang Shi, and when Nie Chang returned the imperial edict, he also stated the situation of the Tai student. Zhao Huan immediately ordered Yang Shi to be the Imperial College Supervisor to sacrificial wine. He also abolished the party-level academic ban of Yuanyou, and posthumously conferred Fan Zhongyan, Sima Guang, Zhang Shangying and others.

Zhao Huan was determined to seek peace and agreed to the Jin people's conditions to ced the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan and Hejian. Yang Shi wrote a letter, believing that "the court severed the three towns to the Jin people, which was to help the enemy to attack ourselves." Soon, the situation was critical, and Yang Shi made a quick reply: "Heshuo is the important place of the imperial court, and the three towns are important vassals of Heshuo. From Zhou Shizong to Taizong, hundreds of battles were fought in all sizes before the three towns were taken back from the Liao people. Once abandoned, the north could only let the enemy's cavalry run." He submitted a memorial to kill Yao Gu, who had heavy troops sitting on the verge of Taiyuan, but did not save him, but was not adopted.

At this time, the Jin people sent Yuwen Xuzhong back to the capital, and ordered Wang Fan to come again to urge the three towns to be stolen, and another prince was replaced as hostages. Zhao Huan then ordered Zhao Ji's fifth son, King Su, Zhao Shu, to serve as hostages, and issued an edict to ced the three towns to the Jin Kingdom. Wang Fan returned Gan Li Bu, and Gan Li didn't meet King Su, so he released King Kang and Zhang Bangchang back.

When the Jin people heard that Li Gang was reused and the capital was strictly guarded, they sent envoys to say goodbye without waiting for enough gold coins, and brought King Su north to return, and the capital was lifted. Shidao made an advance proposal and persuaded Zhao Huan to attack when he took Jin troops to cross the river. Zhao Huan refused to listen, and Zhong Shidao said, "There will be a problem for the country in the future." Zhao Huan immediately dismissed Zhong Shidao as the envoy of the Central Taiyi Palace and imprisoned him. However, the scholars and the people were angry about the humiliation and peace agreement. Li Gang asked the Song army to pursue him in the name of escort. The ministers seized the Jin envoy who came to ask for gold coins and contacted the old minister of the Liao Kingdom Yelu Yuji, who used wax pill letters to contact him to rebel against Jin and restore Liao.

The Chief Censor Lu Haowen also advised: "The Jin people will be successful at this time and will definitely look down on us even more. In autumn and winter, the Jin people will definitely come to the country. We should quickly pay attention to military preparations and not miss the opportunity." Qinzong refused to obey, but just issued a general amnesty to abolish all bad policies. Li Bangyan was impeached and was appointed as the governor of Dengzhou. Zhang Bangchang was appointed as the prefect, Wu Min was the young master, Li Gang was the official of the Privy Council, Geng Nanzhong, and Li Qi were the left-right ministers of the Shangshu.
Chapter completed!