I don't know if you have seen some film and television dramas about Sima Guang? In some film and television dramas, it can be said that the image of Sima Guang has been carried out in various brainless blacks, especially some film and television dramas, the description of Sima Guang is not profound, but do you know? The real Sima Guang is actually better than you think, so how good is Sima Guang? Let's talk today!
First of all, at that time, in the imperial court, the relationship between emperor Song Yingzong and the empress dowager was not very good, for this reason, Sima Guang could be said to have broken his heart, and in a year he connected 17 folds to the emperor, just for the things between him and the empress, which made the emperor feel ashamed of this, so he later improved his relationship with the empress.
The relationship between Sima Guang and Wang Anshi was not good, and in that year, he was very dissatisfied with the acquittal case approved by the emperor, because Wang Anshi at that time sentenced the woman to be innocent of killing her husband, so he stayed at home for more than ten years, completed the "Zizhi Tongjian", and when Sima Guang became the prime minister, the first thing he did was to turn over the previous case and retry it, and pull the woman out and behead her, and also saw from one-sidedly how just Sima Guang was.
Not only that, Sima Guang is also very good in his treatment of his wife, his wife has not had children for 30 years, to change other people, not to give his wife a break, it is all good, but he did not, not only insisted on not taking concubines, even his wife herself could not look down, so, secretly bought him a beautiful woman, but people were not polite, directly drove this beauty away, which shows how good he is to his wife.
Moreover, according to the information I found, Sima Guang was most likely a shoveling officer, because he once wrote an article called "The Legend of the Cat", which introduced his experience as a shoveling officer.
Of course, the most ironic thing is that in Sima Guang's later years, when he became the boss of the conservative faction, but it was a bad old man who insisted on reform, which could not be violated by a great irony!