Liu Gongqiu (765–832), also spelled Wenzi, was a native of Liujia, Azi Township, Yao County. Born into a family of eunuchs. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Gongquan of Henan, a native of Jingzhaohuayuan (present-day Yao County, Shaanxi), together with his brother Liu Gongquan (then the official Shangshu) and his nephew Liu Zhongyin, was known as "One Door and Three Jies", and the Liu family was born.
Liu Gongqiu has a solemn and rigorous personality, pays attention to etiquette, honors his parents, loves to make friends, and is awarded the title of school secretary. He studied politics, military, literature, calligraphy extensively, and was particularly fond of the art of war. He was ranked among the best in the imperial examination and was officially awarded the title of Weinan Lieutenant. After entering politics, he punished evil and helped the good, acted according to law, and observed the people's feelings. During his tenure as Weinan Lieutenant, during the famine, he ordered the government to save money, levy less or no taxes, and try to make the people survive the famine. When his subordinates advised him to eat better, he said, "The people of the four directions are starving, and as a parent and official, how can he be alone and ignore the people?" "Therefore, at that time, the people of Weinan died of starvation. Later, he was promoted to the history of the Kaizhou Assassins, which won the hearts of the people. In the campaign against Wu Yuanji, Gongqiu appointed Li Ting, who was familiar with the art of war, as the vanguard of the Chinese army, entrusted him with military command and power, and sent people to appease the families of soldiers and solve their living difficulties.
Liu Gongqiu was not only a Confucian student who was full of poetry and books, but also a great general with great power and wisdom and courage, and the Sogdians of the Tang Dynasty yun and Shuo prefectures were untamed and huddled together, and the Han people could not manage it. Just as the Shatuo Turks defected to the Tang Dynasty, Liu Gongqi knew that the Sogdians were afraid of the Turks, so he proposed that the Shatuos take care of the Sogdians. Sure enough, the "brave" Sogdians saw the Turks as obedient as rats meet cats.
From 813 to 816, during Liu Gongqiu's tenure in Ezhou, he dared to fight against the evil forces, and it not only required courage to resolutely suppress the arrogant eunuchs. When he first arrived at the Ezhou Assassin, the troops of the Imperial Court's Divine Strategy Army stationed in various towns did not listen to the command of the military and political commanders stationed in the garrison, so the enemy army could take advantage of the loophole to attack and disturb the border plugs. Liu Gongqiu discussed the stakes to the imperial court and demanded the adoption of appropriate measures, so the imperial court ordered the troops of the Shen Ce Army to accept the command of the garrison jiedushi when the border was in danger.
In addition, it also severely rectified the local officials in Ezhou, especially those who were framed by one or two sentences out of thin air. Liu Gongqiu said, "If a corrupt official breaks the law, the law is there; if a traitor breaks the law, the law dies!" "The framing of the dance is a great sin of bad law. The evil officials and so-called experts who aided and abetted the abuse really had to think about their future from the experience of the rest of their lives. By the day of the liquidation of the crime, everything he did would be recorded and he would not be able to escape a fair trial.
Strict external requirements, internal is also strict self-discipline, idiom small dish a piece of allusion comes from the Tang Dynasty famous minister Liu Gongqiu during his tenure in Ezhou, it is said that when he was qualified to serve as a high-ranking envoy of Eyue, he still had strict requirements for his children, although he was a rich and noble family, he always only put out a plate of small dishes for his children to eat, so as to educate his children to study hard and be diligent and thrifty. Later generations have the saying that "small dishes are a piece of cake for children". Unfortunately, for various reasons, the idiom has either been gradually misinterpreted or buried by later generations, so that it is difficult to find the source of the etymology.
Moreover, during his stay in Hubei, Liu Gongqiu also fully developed his personal hobby, that is, to collect various collections, according to the biography of the New Book of Tang, he served in Ezhou for three years and actually "had ten thousand books in his family, three books in his collection, three books in the upper storehouse, his deputy often read, and the next one learned at an early age."
In the twelfth year of Yuan He (817), because of his meritorious service in governing Eyue, he was again promoted to Chengdu, Sichuan as a shaoyin, and wrote the "Monument to the Ancestral Hall of Zhuge Wuhou of ShuCheng Xiang" in the Wuhou Ancestral Hall of Chengdu. This stele is called the "Three Absolute Monuments" because it was written by The Prime Minister Pei Du, the famous smith Lu Jian carved stones, and liu Gongqi's calligraphy, and the inscription made a key praise for Zhuge Liang's short and tragic life; He vigorously praised Zhuge Liang's high style and bright festival, Wenzhi martial arts, and used this to inspire the rulers of the Tang Dynasty.
After Emperor Wenzong of Tang ascended the throne, Liu Gong was enfeoffed with the title of Shangshu of the Army. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of Prince Taibao.