Shen Kuo, the author of Meng Qian Bi Tan, is his character really bad?

Su Shi once suffered a lot from his colleagues behind his back.

Shen Kuo's ability is first-class, but he has a problem of gossiping.

During Wang Anshi's political reform, Shen Kuo was a special correspondent sent by the Central Committee to inspect the implementation effect of the new law. Shen Kuo came back to report that the masses enthusiastically supported the new national policy and everything was fine. After the complete downfall of Wang Anshi, Shen Kuo secretly reported to Wu Chong, the new prime minister, and listed many disadvantages of Wang Anshi's political reform. Wu Chong turned around and handed the report to the emperor. When the old man saw it, he was furious: Isn't this a tragedy? From then on, I didn't like Shen Kuo very much.

Su Shi is a colleague of Shen Kuo in the National Library. Su Shi was sent to Zhejiang for committing a crime. Later, Shen Kuo was ordered to inspect local work. Before he left, the emperor Lao Tzu specially told Shen Kuo to go to Hangzhou to show his loyalty to Su Shi. When Shen Kuo and Su Shi met, they were friendly for a long time, and then asked Su Shi for his latest poem.

Su Shi has always been narcissistic about his own words and poems, so he wrote them to Shen Kuo happily. As soon as Shen Kuo got it back, he took it as evidence and wrote to the Central Committee to report Su Shi's slander on state affairs in his poems. Su Shi was later imprisoned for poetry. It is said that Shen Kuo was the first person to stab in the back. Later, Shen Kuo himself was expelled from public office and went to Zhenjiang for retirement. Su Shi happened to be a policeman in Hangzhou, not too far away. Shen Kuo, as before, often goes to Su Shi to catch up with the past, and is respectful every time, which makes Su Shi feel that he has no temper and is annoyed.