There is a word in China called "The Shortcut to the End of the South", that is, someone lives in seclusion in order to become an official, gets the reputation of a hermit, and then is invited out by the imperial court to become an official.
There is also a small story, that is, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a person named Lu Zangyong who could not be reused, so he ran to Zhongnan Mountain to live in seclusion, and tried to spread the news so that everyone knew that he had become a hermit. Soon the imperial court knew about him and issued an order appointing him as Zuo Shiyi.
Cambodia's Khieu Samphan was also a man of self-interest, and in order to become an official, he actually took the initiative to run a magazine to scold the ruler at that time, King Sihanouk, and as a result, he achieved his goal and became a minister of the royal government.
Born in 1931 in Svay Rieng Province, Cho Sam Pan is of Chinese descent, so he looks white and clean, clean and neat, unlike the dark-skinned native Cambodians. Qiao Senpan's family was wealthy, and he was smart and studious from an early age, with excellent grades.
I have to admit that Jonson Pan is uniquely blessed, and he is very lucky to be born in a wealthy family and smart, so his starting line is much better than that of poor children. In 1953, Khieu Samphan was admitted to the Kingdom Scholarship and went to Paris, France, to study law and economics at public expense. In 1959, he received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris.
After living in Paris, France for 6 years, Jyotsampan's vision has been different. In France, he was already quite active among his students and was not content to be an ordinary intellectual.
In 1959, Khieu Samphan returned to China to work as a teacher at the University of Phnom Penh, which was already very happy. If we ordinary people can go to the university as teachers, we will certainly be very satisfied. But JyoterSenpan was not satisfied, he wanted to be a member of the upper class, to become the ruling class.
How easy is it for a university teacher to become an official? It doesn't matter, Qiao Senpan, who is used at the top of the brain melon, naturally has a way. Wealth was at stake, so Jhieu samphan founded the left-wing publication L'Observateur, with the mission of criticizing Prince Sihanouk's rule.
The following year the publication was banned, and Jhieu Samphan was arrested and imprisoned. Within a few days, Khieu Samphan was released and elected to Parliament, serving as Secretary of State for Business, Secretary of State for the Economy, and Secretary of State for Commerce.
Having to admit that Prince Sihanouk was magnanimous, was it prepared to be shot in some countries that dared to publicly criticize the rulers? Prince Sihanouk forgave Khieu Samphan and made him an official. This is because Prince Sihanouk focuses on intellectuals.
At that time, Prince Sihanouk was already in a state of internal and external troubles, and the ministers were divided into several factions, all of which wanted to compete with Prince Sihanouk for the right to rule Cambodia, including pro-Japanese factions, pro-American factions, and pro-Vietnamese factions. Of course, Prince Sihanouk was also friends with North Vietnam.
Even there were many in the royal family who opposed Prince Sihanouk, such as Prince Shrimada. The only person Prince Sihanouk could trust was Lon No. Of course, he did not expect that a few years later, Prime Minister Lon Nol, who was loyal and loyal and did not even say a word, took advantage of his visit abroad to depose him.
Prince Sihanouk needed the support of intellectuals, so his royal government absorbed many intellectuals from the bottom of society, such as Qiao Senpan, Hu Rong, and Fu Ning. Qiao Senpan, Hu Rong, and Fu Ning were all international students who went to France for further study at the public expense given by Sihanouk.
Jau Samphan became the Minister of the Kingdom and should be satisfied. However, greed was not enough to swallow the elephant, and Qiao Senpan secretly colluded with Pol Pot in the jungle, and later he escaped from Phnom Penh with Hu Rong and Fu Ning, defected to Pol Pot, and embarked on the road of no return.
In 1975, Pol Pot became the ruler of Cambodia, Hu Rong and Fu Ning were both killed by Pol Pot's orders from 1975 to 1977, but the shrewd Khieu Sam Pan was good at greeting, not only saved his life, but also became the fifth person in Chi Cambodia.
In 1979, Chi Kam was defeated by Vietnam, and Khieu Sam Pan fled into the jungle with Pol Pot and others, and later he replaced Pol Pot as the leader of Chi Kam.
The end result was that Jhieu Samphan went to jail, and on August 7, 2014, a Cambodian court backed by the United Nations sentenced Himenpan to life in prison. Now Joussampan is 90 years old and still living in prison.
But the prison where Jyotsampan lives is a luxury nursing home, but he is not satisfied, and he appealed in August 2021 to regain his freedom. The judge decided to pronounce a final verdict on him in the fall of 2022. It is not known whether Joussampan will survive until the fall of 2022.
At that time, Khieu Samphan was not willing to be a university teacher, and he ran a new publication to scold Prince Sihanouk's rule, successfully went to prison to gain fame, and became a minister to achieve his goal, but he was too greedy, and in the end it was a mess.
References: References: The Sihanoukville Family
The Unsinkable King – Sihanoukville
Sihanoukville ---- Legend of a King
Sihanoukville--- The Last Prisoner of the ChikhRam