Su Shi and Su Rui, known as Yang Gudong, played together, studied together, conducted scientific expeditions together, became officials together, and shared honor and disgrace together. Especially Su Shi, when he was writing scientifically, he did whatever he wanted, and he picked up some allusions, and history said that he had a very Li Taibai style. Although Ouyang Xiu greatly admired him, in the eyes of some people, these were rebellious acts of deviance. Su Rui's style is calm and solid, and his tone is very humble, because the article is outstanding, and he is favored by the emperor as "I am now the two prime ministers of taiping for my descendants". Just when they were showing their fists and feet after the examination, they encountered party strife.
In fact, the party struggle, Su Shi Susa is not a party, but a difference of opinion, they do not completely deny the change of law, nor do they fully affirm the change of law, but according to their respective points of view, sometimes the brothers also support each other, so the two are degraded at the same time.
After Su Rui was degraded, he no longer vainly discussed the government and politics, but cautiously and low-keyly did new work. Su Shi was not, and he had a gambling posture. In addition, he was usually good at showing off and learning, and often made some harsh articles to ridicule other officials. As a result, there were too many enemies, and the two brothers were both relegated from Beijing, and when the heavens were different, they used poetry to dispel the sorrows in their hearts, thus leaving a large number of their brothers' mutual help feelings of "brotherhood with the junshi world, and even more because of the future", "confident brother pity the weak brother, it is not good friends in the world", "help me then brother, teach me to be a teacher".
Later, when their brothers suffered another heavy setback, Fang Zishi was demoted to Hainan, and Su Rui wrote to the letter four times, asking to accompany his brother Su Shiwai to degrade his hometown, although he was not allowed, he was finally demoted to Leizhou, Guangdong Province, across the sea from his troubled brother, which fully reflected the deep affection between the brothers.
To Hainan, to Guangdong, the two brothers met on the road to the "exile land" at the same time, even though the encounter was so bleak, they could always be brothers, which was the last time they met.
Before Su Shi died of illness, he regretted that he could not see Su Rui, and Su Rui single-handedly handled his brother's funeral, and made a sincere epitaph, assuming the responsibility of raising Su Shi's descendants, and living in one place for hundreds of people in the two families. At that time, Su Rui was also in the embarrassment of being degraded again in his later years, his income was sharply reduced, it was extremely difficult to support his family, and he was also an elderly man of nearly seventy years old, and the pressure of his life could be imagined.
Under the influence of the feelings of their brothers and relatives, the two families have formed a good family style of fatherly kindness and filial piety, brothers, friends and brothers. For their brotherhood, history has a public opinion: the withdrawal and the brother's entry and exit are all the same, which is rare in recent antiquity.