It turns out that this matter has to start with Lord Su, who is Su Shi and Su Dongpo. www.126shu.com
Although Su Shi was very talented in literature, how to be an official and identify people is his weakness, but sometimes his weakness can become his strengths. There was Gao Qiu, who was listed as one of the six traitors at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was recommended by him and thus became involved in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty and finally achieved success.
Su Shi’s seemingly unwise recommendation accidentally saved the descendants of the Su family.
When Gao Qiu became famous, he said that he was originally a dilapidated child from Kaifeng Prefecture. He played music, danced, stabbed guns and rods, wrestled sumo wrestling, and was very knowledgeable in everything, and was quite good at poetry, calligraphy, lyrics and essays. Later, after being introduced by an acquaintance, he came to Dong’s house where the pharmacy shop was opened under the Jinliang Bridge in the capital. Dong’s son-in-law did not want to keep him, so he recommended him to the “Little Su Bachelor”. “Little Su Bachelor” only left Gao Qiu to stay in the mansion for one night, and then introduced him to the son-in-law Wang Jinqing. After that, Gao Qiu accidentally met the Duan King Zhao Ji, who was the master of Cuju. Later, Zhao Ji became Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, and Gao Qiu rose to prominence from then on and became the Grand Marshal of the Song Dynasty.
Who is this “Little Bachelor Su”? How could he have such a great face to recommend a humble and dilapidated child to the son-in-law of the dynasty. It turns out that this “Little Bachelor Su” is really not simple. He is the famous Grand Secretary Su, who is also the well-known “Dongpo lay Buddhist” Su Shi.
Gao Qiu was originally a walking official in Su Shi’s mansion. Su Shi was a man who cherished his talents as much as his life. Seeing that Gao Qiu’s articles were quite elegant, he admired him very much.
In the eighth year of Yuanyou of Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty, Su Shi became the prefect of Zhongshan Prefecture from a Hanlin scholar.
This was not a normal personnel transfer. Su Shi understood that there would be more and more good luck in the future. In order not to implicate the rising talent Gao Qiu, after recommending it to the Hanlin Dean, he recommended him to the son-in-law Wang Jinqing, namely Wang Shi.
This is Su Shi’s loyal friend, so Gao Qiu lived in the son-in-law’s mansion for seven years. It was not until the third year of Yuanfu of Emperor Zhezong that he met Duan King Zhao Ji by chance. Because he was literary and skilled in Cuju, he was very appreciated by Zhao Ji.
It happened that one month later, Zhezong passed away and King Duan ascended the throne, and was the Emperor Huizong of Song. After that, Gao Qiu was in the prosperous future and was repeatedly promoted to the position of Huizong. A few years later, he became the governor of the Jiedushi and was promoted to the Prime Minister of the Privy Council.
As the saying goes, if one person is enlightened, the chicken and the dog are ascended to heaven, Gao Qiu’s father Gao Dun was promoted to the governor again, and his brother Gao Shen also ranked among the prominent ministers with Gao Qiu’s power. His children were all men and women, and his family was extremely glorious. Therefore, Su Shi was the number one promoter for Gao Qiu to be able to stay in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty and finally make a fortune.
Let’s talk about Su Shi, this great writer who could not become an official, was repeatedly demoted due to fierce party struggles within the court. In the eighth year of Yuanyou, Empress Dowager Xuanren, who advocated the re-appointment of Sima Guang, passed away, and Song Zhezong took power.
Gao Qiu was always grateful to Su ShiHe never forgot about the kindness of Grand Secretary Su’s promotion to him. Whenever Su Shi’s descendants and relatives came to the capital, Gao Qiu would personally ask questions and give them gold, silver and wealth to help them manage their lives.
In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the situation of the children of the Yuanyou Party was very tragic. These people were not allowed to be officials, and even the right to enter the capital was deprived.
Even in places where they are exiled and resettled, they are often humiliated and embarrassed by local officials, and some are even persecuted to death. It is not easy for Su Shi’s descendants to be protected by senior officials and senior officials of the court in such adversity, and it can even be said to be a miracle.
Officials of the Song Dynasty had a tradition of recommending scholars, and they often regarded recommending talents as an unshirkable responsibility. But there are also many people with no conscience in the process. Once they gain power, they will not only turn their backs on others, but will also destroy the benefactors who recommend them.
For example, Ouyang Xiu recommended a censor named Jiang Zhiqi. Soon, in order to curry favor with a more “useful” person, Jiang Zhiqi in turn slandered Ouyang Xiu and his daughter-in-law for being embarrassed and “not Xiu”, and almost made Ouyang Xiu die.
Su Shi also likes to recommend scholars, and he is open and heroic all his life, never guards against people, and is a genuine person with a temperament.
When Su Shi is another matter, other people who have committed crimes will end up miserably. For example, coach Wang Jin, who is Shi Jin’s master, once taught Gao Qiu a lesson, and was finally chased by Gao Qiu, and later what happened later.
Among these victims, there was a man named Sun. He was also very good at Cuju. He was originally a master of Cuju around Duan. However, in order to get to power, Gao Qiu murdered him, saying that this man surnamed Sun had a bad intention and wanted to assassinate Duan.
So this man named Sun was actually beheaded in half. This person was Sun An’s eldest brother, Sun Ping!