Emperor Wu of Han was famous for his fondness to appoint cool officials, in fact, as early as the Han Jing Emperor period, there were already many cool officials, the most famous of which were Zhi Du Goshawk and Ning Cheng,200,000 who were ranked as the first cool officials in the Han Jing Emperor period.
Zhi Du served as an attendant of Emperor Wen of Han as early as the time of Emperor Wen of Han, and after Emperor Jing of Han succeeded to the throne, he became a general of Zhonglang, and Emperor Jing of Han was very important to him and often took him with him. Once Zhi Du accompanied the Han Jing Emperor to go to the Shanglin Garden, which is a royal garden with a very beautiful scenery. At that time, Emperor Jingdi of Hanjing had a concubine Jia Ji who went to the toilet, but unexpectedly, an accident occurred, and a wild boar actually broke in like a lost.
Emperor Jingdi of Han was a little alarmed, so he signaled to Zhi Du to go to the rescue of Jia Ji, but Zhi Du was not moved, but his eyes were fixed on the wild boar, and he was always guarding the side of Emperor Jing of Han. Emperor Jingdi of Han was a little annoyed, so he raised his sword and prepared to personally go forward to save the hero, but at this time, Zhi Du stopped Emperor Han Jingdi and said to him: "Your Majesty absolutely cannot take any risks, losing a concubine, Your Majesty still has countless concubines, and Your Majesty should put Jiangshan and the Empress Dowager first." So the Han Jing Emperor hesitated for a while, just when the Han Jing Emperor hesitated, the wild boar may also feel that it was not interesting, so he turned away, this Jia Ji is not dead in the end, there is really no relevant record in history, I think it should be fine, otherwise the Han Jing Emperor will also send troops to destroy the wild boar.
After this, When Empress Dowager Dou heard about this, she rewarded Zhi Du with a hundred catties of gold, and Emperor Jingdi of Han jing went back and thought about it carefully, feeling that Zhi Du was indeed loyal and reasonable, and he was blinded by Mei Se at that time, so Emperor Han Jing did not blame Zhi Du for not obeying orders, but paid more attention to him. The government of the early Western Han Dynasty advocated a less appropriate policy, that is, to rule by doing nothing, although this concept is a Taoist concept of governance, but some are not very realistic, resulting in the emergence of a large number of landlord forces in the Western Han Dynasty, especially in Jinan County, the most serious, the local Taishou is helpless.
So Emperor Jing of Han sent Zhi Du to become the Taishou of Jinan County. After Zhi Du came to this place, he first inspected it, and then he arrested all the local nobles who took the lead in committing evil, and killed them all, showing no mercy at all, so iron-blooded, it directly shocked all the local giants. So these giants became more and more honest, and a year later, as Zhidu's methods became more and more cruel, no one in Jinan County dared to commit adultery, and Zhidu was also famous.
Later, Zhi Du helped Emperor Jingdi of Han to promulgate new policies, which offended countless nobles and made too many people dissatisfied with them. However, Zhi Du still went his own way, and eventually forced the death of Liu Rong, the eldest son of Emperor Jing of Han, which made Empress Dou, who had previously been very satisfied with him, very dissatisfied, and the two sides turned against each other, and finally Empress Dou forced Emperor Jing of Han to kill Zhi Du.
Although Zhi Du was cruel, it was undeniable that his methods were very useful, killing chickens and monkeys was the most correct decision, and although other officials were gentle in their means, they could not solve the problem at all, but it was better to let Zhi Du go. Moreover, The cruelty of Zhi Du is never aimed at those people, only at those who are corrupt officials and disobey the emperor's orders, so objectively speaking, he is a cool official, but he is also a good official.