Source: Biography of Li Mi in the New Tang Dynasty: "Wenbao opened in Lushan Mountain, so let him go. Take a shovel and hang a bull in a corner of Hanshu and read it. "
We should learn from his reading spirit.
Idiom: I rode an ox, held a thin shovel, hung it in a corner of Hanshu and read it. When Yang Sushi, King of Yue, saw this, he pressed the thumbtack and crept behind, saying, "Why are scholars so diligent?" Secret knowledge, worship. Asked what he had read, he said it was "Biography of Xiang Yu" for strange reasons and language. It is said that Zi Xuangan said, "I am unequal to others in intimacy." The mysterious feeling is so heartfelt. In the ninth year of the great cause, Xuangan sent troops to Liyang and sent people to secretly enter the customs to meet him.
Li Mi rode an ox, sat on a saddle made of fine grass, and hung a roll of Hanshu on the horn, reading a book while walking. Su Yang, the king of Yue, happened to see it on the road, so he followed it slowly and asked, "Where did the scholar come from so diligent?" Shi Biao knew Su Yang and got down from the cow's back to worship. Su Yang asked him what he was looking at, and he replied, "The Biography of Xiang Yu." Su Yang was surprised to talk with him. When he got home, he said to his son Yang Xuangan, "I don't think Shi Mi's erudition is what you idle people have." Therefore, Xuangan fell in love with Shi Biao. In the ninth year of Yang Di, Xuangan set out from Liyang and sent people to Hanguguan to meet Shi Biao.
Extended data:
Shi Mi's great-grandfather was Situ, one of the Eight Pillars countries in the Western Wei Dynasty, and his surname was He. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he was a Taishi, Duke Wei. Grandfather Li Yao was a Pacific Insurance and Xingguo Gong in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. His father, Li Kuan, was the pillar of the Sui Dynasty, and he was named Pushan Gong. Shi Biao is good at planning, both civil and military, ambitious, and often takes saving the people as his own responsibility.
In the middle of his reign, the emperor dealt a blow to his father, Pu Shanzhu, so he distributed property, helped relatives and friends, adopted public servants, treated talents well, and never spared money. Later, I crossed my arms and studied. I especially liked military books and often recited them. Bao Kai, a teaching assistant in Guo Zi, was refreshed and forgot his fatigue after listening to his lectures on Historical Records and Hanshu. All the other disciples of Baokai are under him.
Ye Shi: "Li's plans are all successful, and there is no room for quantity, which is beyond the reach of princes and ministers in the early Tang Dynasty. However, as a victim, you can't succeed, and you will die in the end. As a strategist of painting, Sean has never been a special tool for people, and his achievements are also different. I tried to sigh that between Chu and Han in the Warring States period, there were really wise people who endured death without asking for a solution. Fan Zeng's and Pang Tong's exhortations are superficial. In the north and south, Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were none. Have secret wisdom, can judge special difficulties, but don't try, don't regret old age. Almost? "