Yuan Tiangang visited a drunk twice. Why is the result so different?

As we all know, China was a feudal society in ancient times, and people's ideas were conservative and even superstitious, which led to many Feng Shui masters in ancient China. Today, this scholar wants to tell you this one. You must be familiar with it. One of his most popular predictions is that Wu Zetian proclaimed himself emperor. Seeing this, everyone should know who it is. He is Yuan Tiangang. Yuan Tiangang's life can be said to be full of legends. He has met countless people in his life and has hardly been deceived.

Yuan Tiangang was a metaphysician, astronomer and Taoist in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties. In addition to telling Wu Zetian's fortune and predicting that she would become an emperor, Yuan Tiangang once told the fortune of an alcoholic. This drunkard is Ma Zhou. Yuan Tiangang has seen him twice, and the results of the two times are completely different. Let's look at the whole story of this scholar.

Speaking of Ma Zhou, everyone should be familiar with it. Ma Zhou was a rare political talent in the period of Emperor Taizong, but before he was appreciated by Emperor Taizong, Ma Zhou often drank wine to drown his sorrows, which can be said to be a veritable alcoholic. In the fifth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin ordered officials to discuss state affairs and asked each official to give some reasonable explanations. Later, when Li Shimin looked at these memorials, he found that an official named Changhe put forward more than 20 suggestions, each of which was well-founded and very in line with the people's feelings. This made him suspicious, because he didn't do much in North Korea at ordinary times, and everyone knew how much ink he had in his stomach. Later, under the questioning of Li Shimin, Changhe frankly said that these were written by a WeChat official account guest named Ma Zhou. After Li Shimin summoned Ma Su, he appreciated his talent very much, so Ma Su entered the official career, began to display his ambition, and rose step by step.

However, before that, Ma Zhou was brilliant and never had a chance to display his talents. Ma Zhou is a very clever man. He likes reading very much since he was a child. He has a deep research on The Book of Songs and Zuo Zhuan, and is also a well-known scholar in the local area. Ma Zhou is just full of ambition and has no chance to display his talents. At that time, what everyone lacked most was opportunity. If you don't have a chance, even if you are talented, it won't help. In this way, Ma Zhou, who is so incompetent, drinks to drown his sorrows every day and does nothing all day. So the villagers look down on him, and Ma Zhou has a bad temper. He loses his temper every time he drinks, so the villagers are very disgusted with him. Ma Zhou knew that people in the village had problems with themselves and didn't want to be annoying in their hometown, so he came to Chang 'an alone. Now he is trying his luck in this capital, but he still hasn't met anyone, and the same is true in his hometown.

It happened that Yuan Tiangang was also in Chang 'an, so Ma Zhou had a hard time finding Yuan Tiangang and wanted him to do a divination for himself. Yuan Tiangang also expressed his willingness to meet Ma Zhou, but after seeing Ma Zhou's face, Yuan Tiangang said directly: You are an immortal official in heaven, and you are destined to be rich or expensive in this life, but if you don't enjoy it, your life will soon be over. I heard that, Ma Zhou was in a hurry and asked Yuan Tiangang if there was any way to crack it. Yuan Tiangang told him a general idea, mainly not to drown my sorrows in wine, but to concentrate on my studies. After listening to Ma Zhou's words, he really began to devote all his energy to academic research, and no longer drowned his sorrows by drinking, so he became a guest of the long river.

Later, Ma Zhou saw Yuan Tiangang again. Yuan Tiangang was very surprised to see Ma Zhou's face. He said something very different from the last time: your current state is very different from before, and your career will certainly be smooth sailing. If nothing unexpected happens, you will still hold important positions.

In the end, Yuan Tiangang was right. After seeing Ma Zhou, Li Shimin admired him very much. Ma Zhou had a smooth career and finally took the position of prime minister.