The most righteous husband in history: do not abandon his wife for wealth, the emperor gives marriage and refuses to marry a princess!
Many people often abandon their principles in the face of wealth, and it can be said that it is very rare to stick to their own ideas. Emperor Guangwu's sister had just lost her husband at that time, so she was depressed and depressed all day, so in order to help her sister find Ruyi Langjun, she met a minister of high moral character, and when the other party heard that the emperor implied that he would marry a princess, he actually said that he would not abandon his wife for the sake of wealth, and directly refused the emperor's request.
Song Hong was born in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, and served as a waiter in the Western Han Dynasty and the New Dynasty, until after the defeat of Wang Mang, he fled back to his hometown in order to escape the chaos of war, and when The Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu was proclaimed empress, because the Guangwu Emperor greatly admired Song Hong's character, he appointed Song Hong as the Taizhong Doctor, and he was of good character, even outspoken and outspoken, and then he was promoted to the position of Grand Sikong (one of the three dukes, as the position of prime minister).
In the "Later Han Shu Song Honglie Biography" recorded Song Hong's blunt advice, "Hongdang at first sight, the royal seat of the new screen, the picture of the female, the emperor looked at it", referring to the Guangwu Emperor had summoned Song Hong into the palace, asking him about the problem of knowledge, at that time there was a new screen painted with beautiful women on the side, and during the discussion, the Guangwu Emperor frequently peeked at the beautiful women on the screen, and Song Hong said to the Guangwu Emperor with a straight face, "The subject has not seen it, and he likes virtue as if he likes the beauty of the Heavenly Son", and the Guangwu Emperor heard the laughter and ordered people to remove the screen.
In addition, Song Hong was also very righteous, in the "Book of Later Han Song Honglie" also recorded that in February of the second year of Jianwu (26 AD), Emperor Guangwu's eldest sister "Princess Liu Huang of Huyang" had just been widowed, in order to help his sister out of his sorrows, Emperor Guangwu said "Discuss the courtiers together, micro exhaustion", observe the ministers looking for objects, Princess Huyang then met the Grand Sikong Xuanping Marquis Song Hong, and hinted that Emperor Guangwu helped him, and then summoned Song Hong into the palace, so that the princess hid behind the screen to listen to the movements.
In the process of small talk, Emperor Guangwu casually said "Proverbs are easy to make friends, rich and easy to wife, people are affectionate?", referring to the fact that when people's status becomes high, they will change a group of friends, and when their wealth increases, they will want to change wives, which should be the common sentiment of people, Song Hong also understands the emperor's meaning after listening to it, but he does not intend to abandon his wife, so he said" The knowledge of poverty and lowliness should not be forgotten, and the wife of the chaff should not go to the church." "It's just that when you are poor and lowly, if there are still people who are willing to be friends with you, such people must not forget, and wives who suffer together when they are poor cannot be abandoned at will.
When Emperor Guangwu heard this, he had no choice but to dispel his thoughts, and turned back to the screen and said, "Things are not harmonious", that is, this matter is doomed to fail, and What Song Hong said, "The knowledge of the poor and the lowly must not be forgotten, and the wife of the chaff does not go to the church" has also been passed down to this day, becoming a moral model advocated by society, and when Fan Ye, the author of the Book of Later Han, wrote a biography for Song Hong, he even praised him for "Song Hong's cessation of excessive voices, abstinence from obscenity, and his style of "Guan Ju"!
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