He is one of the most revered people in history, and he has loved only three things in his life: chewing food, deep dormancy, and saving his brother. Faced with the mission of saving his brother, he was even willing to give up such a noble position as prime minister. He is the best friend and brother of Su Shi, the great poet Su Shi, who missed him day and night, and then left him with the popular and affectionate famous sentence "I wish people a long time, thousands of miles together" - Su Zhe. Su Zhe, whose name is from, is the son of Su Xun, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, and is also Su Shi's younger brother. When he fell to the ground, his father Su Xun was going all out to irrigate the horns of the head, and he closed his door all day long to study the classics of Chinese culture, so Su Zhe and his brother were able to accept their father's words and deeds. In 1057 AD, Su Xun took his two sons to the capital of Bianliang to participate in the Ministry of Rites examination, and the outstanding performance of the brothers made their names instantly famous, shocking the entire capital.
In 1061 A.D., the young talent Su Zhe was full of ambition and participated in the imperial examination for the selection of officials. Amazingly, this young man in his 20s made a sharp comment on Song Renzong in the countermeasures article for the palace examination, which made Sima Guang, the deputy chief examiner present, gasp, however, instead of blaming him, the benevolent saint praised him and the Su Shi brothers as potential candidates for prime minister, and also appointed Su Zhe as the secretary of the provincial teacher, and soon after was promoted to the governor of the Daimyo Mansion.
However, the good times were short-lived, and in 1069 AD, as the governor Wang Anshi was planning a major reform with the strong support of Song Shenzong, Su Shi and Su Zhe were both deposed and left the political core because of their disagreement with this reform. Soon after, the Wutai poetry case broke out, and Su Shi was in prison and in a difficult situation. After Su Zhe heard the news, he immediately wrote to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to exchange his official position for his brother's freedom, but this wish was not realized, and he was implicated because of it, and was demoted to the remote area of Gao'an, becoming a lowly status of the ninth eunuch**, for five years could not get the opportunity to be promoted and transferred, and survived in the cracks of the wall. Su Shi, who was waiting for the verdict in prison, felt that there was little hope, so he wrote a touching farewell poem "Death with Jun as Brothers, and the Afterlife Will Continue Unfinished Fate", expressing his deep concern and gratitude to his younger brother Su Zhe.
Fortunately, Su Shi was deeply loved by the majority of literati and writers, Zhang Fangping and Fan. I, Sima Guang and many other famous ministers have jointly written a letter, admonishing Song Shenzong not to attack Su Shi easily, even Wang Anshi, who had been opposed to him, also came forward to intercede. After some hard work, in the end, Su Shi was able to get off lightly and was only demoted to a minor official in Huangzhou. Su Zhe's political career was also bumpy, he originally belonged to the conservative camp, and he and Su Shi were brothers. Therefore, when Su Shi was deposed, he also suffered. It was not until Song Zhezong ascended the throne and the old party led by Sima Guang regained power that the two brothers, Su Shi and Su Zhe, were able to return to the political stage.
In 1086 B.C., Su Zhe returned to the capital to serve as the right secretary. In just ten months, he presented as many as 74 pieces of memorabilia to the imperial court, with unique views and in-depth analysis of the current evils, which won high praise from the Empress Dowager Gao. In 1091 AD, Su Zhe was awarded the prominent position of the right prime minister of Shangshu, almost equivalent to the deputy prime minister, and at the same time, his brother Su Shi, who had been demoted, was also recalled to the imperial court.
However, the misfortune did not go alone, and it didn't take long for Su Shi to get involved in the dispute with the old party again, and he was deposed again, so he began a long journey of derogation. Su Zhe was powerless, so he had to write to the court again, asking for his resignation and leaving the capital. He submitted four earnest memoranda in a row, asking to share the blame with his brother, but the emperor rejected this.
Two years later, after the death of the elderly Empress Dowager Gao, the young and promising Song Zhezong plotted to restore the new law, and the Yuan Party regained control of the imperial court, Su Zhe again wrote a letter of opposition, angering Song Zhezong, as a result of which he was once again demoted from Beijing, and finally reached Leizhou, Guangdong, in southern China. At this time, Su Shi was also demoted to Qiongzhou, and the two brothers finally met in Guangzhou, and since then, they can only look at each other from afar from the coast.