Su Yong (tǐng) (670 – 727) was a Tang Dynasty minister and writer, a native of Jingzhao Wugong (present-day Wugong, Shaanxi), a Tang Dynasty politician and literary scholar, and the son of Su Gui.
Su Yong was very smart when he was a child, and he could see ten lines at a glance and never forget it. This kind of ability is unattainable for many people, but Su Hao did not slack off his studies with this talent, but studied harder. Su Yong's reading story is actually not inferior to Kuang Heng's chiseling wall to steal light, and there is a passage in the third volume of the Fifth Dynasty Wang Renyu's "Kaiyuan Tianbao Testament": "Su Yong, who is less than his father's will, often mixes with servants, and is tireless in learning." Whenever he wanted to read, he suffered from no candles, and often in the stable stove, he swirled the fire and recited the book. Its hard work is like this, and then it comes to the phase. ”
Probably, for some reason, Su Hao's father did not like him, so he ignored everything he ate, wore, and lived with the slaves of the family. But Su Hao likes to learn, as soon as he learns, he does not know tired, and at night, when it is dark and there is no light, Su Hao runs to the stove in the stable, opens the layer of ash on the surface, and keeps blowing, so there is a faint fire that has not yet burned out, and he uses this fire to read according to the book. This is much harder than chiseling the wall to steal the light, that is the real light, use this light, no matter how bright. Illuminate it with the remaining light from the stove, which is actually very faint. And after the ash on the surface is removed, the remaining bits of afterglow disappear faster.
Sometimes, the servants of the family really couldn't see it, so they advised him to obey the old master's instructions and go back to the study to live, but Su Yong was arrogant, didn't like red tape, didn't like it, let his father force him, just didn't want to learn, he directly retorted: "Here, I am like a fish in the water, comfortable and cheerful, like a bird out of the cage, just enjoy the free world, why should I fly into the cage?" The harsh environment can exercise people's will, and superior conditions often make people wear down their morale. And Su Hao, the child, still cared about the feelings of the adults, he lived with the slaves in the horse barn, and after the grooms had slept after a hard day, Su Hao got up to read and did not disturb others.
In the fourth year of the new century, Su Yong served as the prime minister, and ruled together with Song Jing, in the court, there were always differences and quarrels between the civil officials, plus Song Jing was just and upright, and he made a flat ruling on many government affairs, such a person was not very easy to get along with, and it was easy to offend people, but Su Yong did not get angry with Song Jing, but was very humble, and strived for harmony, and the opinions put forward by Song Jing were also analyzed with all their hearts, and sometimes, when Song Jing could not answer his difficult questions in front of Xuanzong, Su Yong would also silently break the siege. Song Jing also made a strong evaluation of him: "I am with the father and son of the Su clan, before and after the same time, Su Servant (Su Gui) generous elder, is a state instrument." However, in terms of making suggestions to the government and handling government affairs with great sensitivity, Su Yong was better than his father. That is to say, Su Jing's father was actually a prime minister, and he was an official at the same time as Song Jing, but compared to his father, Song Jing had a relatively high evaluation of Su Yong.
Su Hao was a generous man, and he could never use force to solve things peacefully, and at that time there was a tribal chief in Qinghai called Tho Yuan, who colluded with Tubo and wanted to invade the Tang Dynasty to get more land and grain, sent spies to Yizhou to investigate the situation, and was caught by Su Hao. According to common sense, in this situation, it must be to kill the traitor first, and then report to the imperial court, requesting troops to directly attack the Tho Yuan, at that time, the officials of Yizhou also thought so, and also advised Su Hao, but Su Hao was forced to carry the pressure, let the traitor go, let him bring back a letter to the Tho Yuan: "Don't do this!" A short sentence was just a move to return the spy, but Tho Yuan never moved his intention to invade the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
During Su Hao's reign, he was diligent and earnest, and did not pull gangs and factions, and Liu Fang spoke highly of him in later generations: "Emperor Xuanzong used his martial talents to open the Tang Dynasty, and the sages were left and right, and the power was already there." Yao Chong, Song Jing, Su Yong, etc., all took the title of Bone Emperor, the town was quiet, and there was no coveting in the dynasty. It can be seen that although it has no great achievement, it is subtly implanted its own image into people's hearts. In the fifteenth year of the new century, Su Yong died of illness at the age of fifty-eight, and was given the title of Wenxian.