Xue Rengui's grandson once joined the rebel army, is the historical prototype of Xue Gang, when the world was in chaos, after the Anshi rebellion, he surrendered to the Tang court, and later served as the envoy of the Four Prefectures Festival, which was much higher than Xue Rengui's county prince, and finally Xue Song was the king of Pingyang County, after his death, his son Xue Ping was only twelve years old due to his young age, because some generals in the army, seeing Xue Ping's young age, wanted to coerce him to be a puppet and deal with the government affairs left by his father, Xue Ping was young, and there was a maturity different from age, so he pretended to agree, Ceding the official position to his uncle Xue Wei, secretly returned to his hometown at night to mourn shouxiao, and when the period of filial piety expired, he was awarded the right guard general at the age of fifteen or so, and stayed silently in the Forbidden Army in Nanya for thirty years, because of his due diligence and duty, no complaints and no regrets, he was valued by du Huangsheng, the prime minister at the time, and recommended him to do the history of Ruzhou assassination, and he was properly governed in the local area, and the official reputation was very good.
During the Yuan He period, due to the chaos of the war, he was transferred to a military post, and in the seventh year of Yuan He, a rebellion broke out in Huaixi, and Xue Ping transferred to the history of the Assassin of Hua Prefecture, and made many meritorious contributions from Zuo Longwu to the General of the Army. Because Huazhou is very close to the Yellow River, floods often occur, please order to deal with it, dig up the river channel for fourteen miles, and dig up the old river diversion, after his treatment, in the six years that he guarded Huazhou, there was no flooding, and he was promoted to the position of General Zuo Jinwu because of his merits.
Youzhen rebelled, quelled the rebellion with merit, knighted the Duke of Wei, Changqing first year, Du Shuliang's crusade against the rebels lost, Dizhou was besieged by rebels, the situation was not optimistic, the imperial court appointed Xue Ping to lead the rescue of Dizhou, the army marched slowly, so he ordered Li Shuzuo to lead five hundred soldiers to march to the rescue, because the supply of the Dizhou assassin history gradually declined, the Soldiers of Dizhou began to have resentment and lost the battle. Ma Tingkun took advantage of the night to defect and led his troops to attack Qingzhou, where Xue Ping was sitting, because of the small number of soldiers and horses in the city, Xue Ping took out his wealth and the money of the treasury, recruited two thousand elites who dared to rush and dare to kill, went out of the city to take the initiative, defeated Ma Tingkun, beheaded Ma Tingkun, and thousands of deserters were killed. At this point, Xue Pingwei shook the four directions, and because of his meritorious title, he was given the title of Duke of Wei and sealed the right servant. In the local area for another six years, during the term of office, the soldiers were well fed, and they did not pay harsh taxes, which won the support of the people, and when they left office, the people spontaneously blocked the road to retain them, and stayed for a few days before letting them go.
In 826, when he entered the Hajj, he added the inspection school zuo shu, concurrently Hubu Shangshu, and soon added The Seal Sikong, Hezhong Yin, and hezhong, Dai, and Kui Jiedushi, and did not know whether it was the custom at that time, or something else, Xue Ping went to every place but it was limited to six years, and he stayed in the river for six years.
Xue Ping died in 832 at the age of eighty and was posthumously awarded the title of Taifu(太傅).
Datang since Xue Rengui, Xue family generation of talents, it can be said that the Xue family is the Tang's Xue family general, to Xue Ping's generation, he is more of a literary and martial arts, on the horse can fight, the next horse can govern the locality, the Xue family out of talent, this is also related to the middle and late Tang Dynasty rebellion in the town of Fan, as long as there is a rebellion, there are talents who lead the army to fight, it just so happens that the Xue family is the place where the talent is.
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