During the period of Tang Suzong, there was a famine in Wenzhou, and the victims mourned all over the country.
"Dignified nature".Li Gao, the Taishou of Wenzhou, was so worried that he ordered the official warehouse to be opened and distributed 100,000 stone relief to the victims.
The staff was so frightened that they kowtowed and begged him to report to the court for approval to distribute relief food.
Li Gao said righteously"Lives matter! Anyone who doesn't eat two meals a day will starve to death! How can I wait for the edict to be replied before releasing food? 'If you kill me, and live thousands of lives, it will be great!' ’”
After Li Gao withstood the pressure and resolutely opened a position to give relief, he took the initiative to report that he had committed the "crime of unauthorized loans" and was willing to bear any punishment from the imperial court.
Tang Suzong "praised him when he heard it" and announced that he would be exempted from punishment and commended.
It is a capital crime to open a warehouse without authorization, but why did Li Gao knowingly commit the first cut and then play?
Li Gao was of noble birth and was the great-great-grandson of Li Ming, the fourteenth son of Tang Taizong. Li Gao is a great filial son, "Concubine Feng Zheng is known for her filial piety." ”
The Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the rebels invaded Chang'an. Li Gao fled with his mother to the people for refuge, and did everything possible to honor his mother.
After the war subsided, Li Gao returned to the imperial court as an official.
Due to the soaring prices in the capital, Li Gao's meager income could not support his mother, so he begged to go out of Beijing as an official.
After being rejected many times, Li Gao found another way, deliberately slightly violated the law, and was blasted out of Beijing to "degrade the long history of Wenzhou" as he wished, and was soon promoted to Wenzhou's ** Taishou.
Li Gao inspected a county in Wenzhou, and it happened that the beggar woman shouted injustice, saying that the two ** sons ignored him and enjoyed glory and wealth in the capital, and he did not return for 20 years. ”
Li Gao was furious, and the above table **these two**.
The court ascertained the facts, expelled the two unfilial sons, and never used them.
During Li Gao's promotion to the assassination of Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan), he "heard good politics", and was hated by Xin Jinggao, who was observed by Hunan, and "fell into the law." ”
The imperial court sent Yushi to Hengzhou to examine Li Gao.
Although Li Gao was open-minded, he was afraid that his mother would be worried, so he deliberately put on a prison uniform after going out to accept the investigation of the imperial history, and changed his official uniform to greet his mother before returning home.
At the end of the review, Li Gao was demoted to the post of assassin of Chaozhou (now Chaozhou, Guangdong).
In order to comfort his mother, he lied that he was promoted to Chaozhou and took his mother to office. A few years later, Li Gaoguan was reinstated and returned to his post in Hengzhou, only to "kneel down and thank his mother" with tears in his eyes. ”
When Li Gao was promoted to Hunan Observer Envoy, he faced the most difficult problem of how to exterminate the Wang Guoliang rebel forces entrenched in Wugang (present-day Wugang City, Hunan).
This armed force "gathered thousands of people, invaded prefectures and counties, bordered lakes for thousands of miles, and suffered from them." The "government government" has joined forces to fight for it many times, but it has not been able to overcome it for many years. ”
He checked the relevant information and learned that Wang Guoliang was forced to go to Liangshan by Xin Jinggao, a former Hunan observer: Xin Jinggao was "greedy" by nature, and seeing that the Wugang area was economically developed and rich in oil and water, he specially sent Wang Guoliang to guard Wugang and collect the people's fat and ointment for him.
After Xin Jinggao relied on Wang Guoliang to get rich, he was afraid that the corruption facts would be exposed, so he framed Wang Guoliang on trumped-up charges.
In order to survive, Wang Guoliang took risks to "scatter wealth and gather people to rebel against the county", and repelled officers and soldiers many times.
After careful study and judgment, Li Gao decided to give up the use of force to conquer and persuade him to surrender instead.
He sincerely wrote a letter to Wang Guoliang to persuade him to surrender.
After receiving Wang Guoliang's surrender letter, he immediately broke into Wang Guoliang's military camp alone, shouting: "Does anyone know King Cao? I am! I came alone to receive the surrender, 'Why don't you come down quickly?' ’”
This voice shouted that Zhang Guoliang's whole army "was stunned and did not dare to move." ”
Zhang Guoliang "prostrate and kowtow to ask for sin, (Li) Gao held his hand and asked for a brother." ”
Li Gao ordered the destruction of heavy **, and gave the soldiers travel expenses to go home to farm.
The Huaining army made Li Xilie and the four princes openly rebelled against the Tang court, and the "five thieves" were strong and fierce, and the Tang court was in danger.
Li Gao was appointed as the envoy of Jiangxi Jiedu in danger.
As soon as Li Gao got off the bus, he issued an announcement on the selection of talents, so that Yi Shen and other junior officers could stand out.
Li Gao "armor soldiers, warships, more than 20,000 generals", strong soldiers, waiting for the day.
Yi Shen had previously led "Jiangxi soldiers from Li Xilie to level Xiangzhou" and made great contributions to quelling the rebellion.
Li Xilie is a "prudent talent" and has repeatedly tried to recruit him to his command, but Yi Shen has refused.
After Li Xiyeol rebelled, he learned that Yi Shen was deeply trusted by Li Gao, and resorted to a counter-plot to try to kill people with a knife.
Tang Dezong planned, "Send the envoy to be cautious." When Li Gao heard the news, he pleaded with Yi Shen to be pardoned and encouraged Yi Shen to kill the enemy and make meritorious service to show his innocence. He gave him his horses, weapons, and armor, and led his vanguard into battle.
Yi Shen "is a big thief, beheading hundreds of levels." ”
Li Gao led his troops to recover Huangzhou and other places, and repeatedly defeated the rebels.
Under Li Gao's tenacious resistance, Li Xilie "feared Cao Wanggao in the east and Li Jian in the west, and did not dare to have the ambition to peep into the river and Huai." ”
Li Gao insisted on fighting the rebels in Jianghuai, "All battles are thirty-two, and the state is taken."
5. Twenty counties, 33,000 beheaded, 16,000 birds, and no defeat. "Huaixi quelled the rebellion, and Li Gao made great contributions.
Li Gao is "diligent and thrifty, and knows people's suffering." ”
He sent people to block the breach and repair the ancient embankment in Jiangling County, and after reclaiming 5,000 hectares of fertile land with a yield of six stones per mu, he built houses on the abandoned island and erected two river bridges, so that more than 2,000 displaced people voluntarily settled here and farmed.
The local custom is "not to wear wells", and it is customary to drink the water of rivers and lakes on the spot, and often get sick because of the unclean water quality.
Li Gao "ordered the wells to be dug for the convenience of people", so that the local people could use clean well water from now on.
He is honest and self-disciplined, and never extravagant and wasteful. In order to prevent his subordinates from engaging in fraud, he stamped all the cloth and silk of the government with official seals. He is good at listening to the suggestions of his subordinates, is familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of his subordinates, and has clear rewards and punishments.
Everywhere he went, he took it as his responsibility to stabilize prices, and was well received by the people.
Li Gao is open-minded, "It is our responsibility to change the way and change the way and know the people." Under his training and recommendation, many of the literati and military generals around him were finally able to occupy high positions.
Li Gao "died violently at the age of sixty." ”
The clans of the past dynasties relied on the status of the imperial family, and most of them were arrogant and arrogant, contemptuous of the law, bullying the king, and oppressing the people.
Li Gao was "attentive to the imperial family", and when the civil officials were able to "deal with integrity, deal with the people, and have a beautiful voice", he could "govern the army, royal Kourong, plan and win", and was known as "the hero of the minister".
Although Li Gao's allegiance is to the world, if everyone can be like him, they can worry about the world and fulfill their duties in any position, how beautiful the world will be!