Wen | Martial Arts
In ancient China, if an official had both ability and political integrity, was loyal and upright, and was admired by the people, usually future generations would add a surname after him
"Gong"
Come and honor him, for example
"Bao Gong", "Guan Gong."
"Wait, the man we are talking about today is called "Shi Gong", so how did he get the love of the people?
It is said that during the Kangxi dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the former Ming Dynasty general Shi Lang defected to the Qing Dynasty in anger because Zheng Successfully killed his father and brother, and later Shi Lang was given the fujian water division to lead the army to recover Taiwan after being reused by Kangxi.
Such a great achievement of Kangxi is naturally to be greatly commended, and Shi Lang also decided to take advantage of this opportunity to enter the capital and introduce his sons to Kangxi in order to have a smooth career in the future.
To say that Shi Lang's sons are really quite eight, he introduced the characteristics and strengths of his sons to Kangxi one by one,
But only one of the second sons was silent
Kangxi also had doubts at that time, but as the king of a country, he did not know more about such things if he had time to take care of such things. Soon, Shi Lang's sons were properly arranged by the officials to serve in various places.
In 1688, Kangxi sent Chincha, who was sent out to supervise the repair of the river embankment, reported that Shi Shilun, the prefect of Taizhou, had actually punished his retinue. This paid off, and punishing those appointed by the emperor was tantamount to contempt for the king, and it was the crime of killing the head.
Kangxi ordered his men to go down to investigate, which made him look at Shi Shilun differently. It turned out that those Chincha followers used the particularity of their identities to harm the people along the way, and even dared to rob the people's women. The other governors of the prefectures and counties did not dare to interfere with the power of the Son of Heaven,
Only Shi Shilun enforced the law impartially, upheld justice, and returned justice to the people.
This investigation made Kangxi suddenly remember Shi Shilun as a person, and he admired him very much in his heart, but he never associated Shi Shilun with Shi Lang.
In 1696 AD, a generation of famous generals Shi Lang died, and what is strange is that Shi Shilun, the prefect of Jiangning, asked the officials for Ding Worry, the so-called "Ding Worry", that is, the official's family died and the official applied to go home to keep filial piety, which usually took several years. Kangxi opened up and ordered someone to investigate,
Sure enough, this person was the second son that Shi Lang had never mentioned before.
Subsequently, the governor of Jiangxi in Jiangnan also reported to Kangxi, saying that Shi Shilun had made outstanding achievements in government and had done many practical and good things for the people, and the people each donated a piece of money and built a pavilion for him as a memorial.
From then on, Kangxi let people pay close attention to Shi Shilun, and three years later, Ding You ended Shi Shilun and changed to XuDao, Huai, Jiangnan, and also performed very well in office, and was promoted to hunan envoy. Later, Shi Shilun held many official positions, all of which were honest and honest, and asked for the people's lives, and were strongly loved by the people, and even statues of him were even sculpted in some places.
Shi Shilun later died of exhaustion on the post, Kangxi was hurt and regretted, and finally realized that the reason why General Shi did not mention this second son was because he was the pride of Shi Lang's life, and he was confident that this excellent second son could stand out with his true ability without any attention, and this was the case. Shi Shilun was praised by the people of the world, who loved him so much that they later created the famous drama work "Shi Gong Case" based on him.
Reference: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty