Chronology of Liao Ji

Liao Ji was smart and studious since childhood, and didn't like drinking for fun. One day, Liao Xuan ordered to read a medical divination book. Liao Ji knelt down and said, "This is not her husband's business!" " 1 His father is different. He listens to his son and learns from him. Later, he was loved by the famous teacher Zou, and his studies doubled.

In the sixteenth year of Chenghua (1480), Liao Ji was recommended by Weixiang, but failed to make the list. Later, I tried many times, but I lost my name in Sun Shan. In the third year of Hongzhi (1490), Liao Ji worked hard, where there is a will, there is a way, and finally won the championship. Lingshui county was once called by Qiu Zhuo as "the land is far away, the city is small, and the world is too small." Since school, talents are fresh China people. When Liao Ji said that he wanted to be the first in the capital, the good news came, which pleased both the government and the people and surprised him. Guangdong scholar Zhang Jin built a Jinshi Square for him in Lingshui North.

In the fifth year of Hongzhi, during Liao Ji's political inspection (meaning of internship), he was highly valued by the left and right censors, was recommended as a record, and was awarded the post of official minister. Liao Ji began to step onto the political stage, and he was really "together". At that time, a fellow villager went to Beijing to see Liao Ji and gave him a gift. He accepted. After that, when they want to go back to their hometown, they will "return to Zhao intact" and send a toll. Most of the examples of "clear but not wonderful" are like this.

In the fourth year of Zheng De, Liao Jisheng chose a doctor. As the head of the department officer, baiguan bent down. Liao Ji strictly abides by the law. According to "Longwan Liao Gong Biography Sima", he has the right to ask his relatives to be Wujiang County Magistrates, and he has the right to invite his nephew to experience in Jinyi, which Liao Ji thinks is impossible. His colleague said, "Disaster is coming." Liao Ji replied: "I have suffered from the law and dare not quit." At that time, eunuch Liu Jin was in power and rejected dissidents. Most honest officials in the DPRK were persecuted by him, while villains such as Liu Yu, Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai ran to his door and became his henchmen. Liao Ji is the only one who despises it, maintaining the Confucian model of justice and fearlessness of power. "Criticizing others" is really valuable.

In October, 1999, Liao, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, became the magistrate of Yizhou Mountain Factory, responsible for managing and supplying all the imperial tea and charcoal in Yizhou area. "Longwan Liao Gongchuan Sima" records that Liao Ji often said to his subordinates during his pre-occupation of Yizhoushan Factory: "If you want to be right, you must be right first." Liao Ji will never accept the annual rent, garden money and money sent by some departments. He has the right to ask him to give tens of thousands of kilograms of firewood every year, but he doesn't agree, saving about tens of thousands of gold and silver every time. So people like him very much, and he became famous.

In April of the first year of Jiajing, Liao Ji was transferred from the Nanjing Official Department to the Nanjing Ministry of War as the maintenance counselor. When he tidied up his things, he took one look and exhausted his stupidity. According to reports, court officials and eunuchs often borrowed soldiers from Nanjing Ministry of War as private clothes, and the phenomenon of military craftsmen fleeing was serious, and generals and soldiers were not active in running the army. All these disadvantages have a long history and cannot be changed. After Liao Ji took office, he took drastic measures to check the reforms one by one, thus improving the level of governance.

At that time, the court made a "big gift", and the records of Manchu officials such as Yang Tinghe asked Sejong to respect his father Xiaozong as the imperial examination, but Sejong insisted on respecting his father as the imperial examination. Zhang Cong, a new scholar, supported the emperor with strong evidence and was transferred to Nanking by Yang Tinghe. According to the Ming History, Liao Ji was impeached and dismissed from office because of "convening a conference". So, how did Liao Ji hold seminars and meetings? According to Wang Shizhen's four drafts of Yizhou, Liao Ji asked his subordinates, "What did Zhang Cong discuss?" No one answered. Peng Fang said: "This just goes against Yang Tinghe's claim." Liao Ji said: "Good!" The language came out a little. As a result, both the official in charge and the suggestion advocated impeaching Liao Ji on the grounds of other things. In fact, many ministers know that it is untenable for them to promote their biological father. At that time, Yang Yiqing, an important official of the imperial court, lived at home. He read Zhang Cong's remarks in Treasure and said, "I'm afraid Zhang Cong's theory can't refute him." Yang Tinghe also felt inappropriate and asked someone to send a message to Zhang Cong: "Don't go to Nanjing to be an official, and don't embarrass me with a' big gift' again!" Liao Ji only supports the view of "following the unification and not continuing" in "Great Gift |", and all others oppose it. Everything comes from the golden mean that he admires, "honest people, heaven is also." Honest, people's way is also. "After becoming an official, Liao Ji returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors in order to fulfill his wish of" showing the favor of the court and showing the long-term gift of his foolish grandson ". There is a poem "Reading Fayun Temple" 4 as proof:

You don't need to travel far. This place is Danqiu.

The ancient temple is dusty and quiet.

Escape from Zen is adaptive, and quiet and elegant is congenial.

There is a legacy in the case, and I open my eyes.

In October of the third year of Jiajing (1524), Liao Ji was recommended as the official minister. Liao Ji resigned: "I am seventy years old, and my energy is not as good as that of Qiao Yu, and my intelligence is not as good as that of Yang Dan. How dare I live here? " Emperor Jiajing did not allow it, so Liao Ji had to be grateful. After entering the imperial power center, he practiced the concept of "loyalty to the monarch and concern for the country" and brought the Confucian thought of governing the country to the extreme.

The minister in charge of the official department has mastered the personnel power of the whole country, covering the establishment and establishment of various institutions from the central government to the local government, the appointment of officials and the assessment of courses. The selection of officials in the official department is related to the quality of national governance. As a pillar of the country, Liao Ji is better than Dan Tao. He is meritocratic and has the courage to recommend him. Biography of Ming and Liao Dynasties said: Trilateral Governor Yang Yiqing recalled his cabinet, and Zhang Cong wanted to appoint Wang Qiong as Trilateral Governor. Liao Ji recommended Peng Ze and Wang Shouren. But the emperor wouldn't allow it. Also recommend Deng,, to use. As for traitors and villains, Liao Ji tried to stop them. According to the records of the Ming dynasty, the official department is prepared to let Wang Jia, Qian and other disloyal villains retire. However, the emperor supported him with Wang Jia and Qian Xunzi at the ceremony and intended to reuse them, but Liao Ji insisted.

In the fourth year of Jiajing, He Yuan, Guanglu Summer Palace, invited him to build a world room, and Xian Di went to the ancestral temple to worship Sejong's father. Liao Ji led Jiuqing to persuade him: "As Yuan said, the distinction between monarch and minister is not on the agenda, which shows that the relationship between Mu and Mu flouts the system of ancestors. I would rather die than discuss it. " But Emperor Jiajing ignored it. Although Liao Ji was quoted by his colleagues, he originally wanted to use his foresight to help form a cabinet. However, in his own way, he visited Xi Shu and other "new owners" several times to protect and promote many "owners" officials and the pillars of the country. "Ming History" commented: "A generation wanted to help themselves, so they took the lead in the Sixth Qing Dynasty. And (Liao) Shu arrived, and his generation did not like it. When you are old, you say that you are sick and you are welcome. " During this period, Liao Ji gave Emperor Jiajing a "moral integrity, obey orders and cherish talents (talents refer to Yang Shen and other ministers who were released into exile). Yang Shen was named the first of the "three great talents" in Ming Dynasty by later generations, and he wrote the theme song lyrics of the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms. However, Emperor Jiajing only accepted the first two items, especially cherishing talents, which are still valuable today.

In the fifth year of Jiajing, Liao Gene supervised the compilation of Records of the Emperor's Supper, and was awarded the title of Prince of Taibao (from the first grade) and pommel horse gold coins. At the end of April of the following year, he was awarded the title of "Three Orphans" and retired from the army. His grandparents, wife and children all received gifts. Since Qiu Zhuo, another Hainanese has been an official for three orphans, ruling the Central Plains of Weah by the ruling and opposition parties. All villagers are proud of this. Sangu is the supreme title of the Ming Dynasty, and those who don't respect morality can't be appointed. People attribute this to his father's virtue. Yi Xing Lu in Dongguang County records Liao Xuan's righteous acts of burying his neighbor on the barren slope to save people. Coincidentally, the magazine's last words: "Qiu Pu (grandfather Qiu Zhuo) is buried deep, and his grandchildren are very human." Qiu Zhuo's "Shou Yi Pin Feng" also said:

There is no sea in the mountains and living conditions are even in Hainan.

The villagers asked me why I had to study on earth.

On August 25th, 11th year of Jiajing, Liao Ji died. The obituary said that Emperor Jiajing went on strike one day, which made him beautiful and gave him a gift from the "Three Fair" Pacific Insurance. The first recorder, Shi Li, wrote his epitaph. Emperor Jiajing wrote an inscription to the memorial saying, "Your character is simple and strict. Loyal to the country, both north and south are screaming. " Zhou Wenzhong, the magistrate of Lingshui County, invited Liao Ji to build a Xiangxian Temple on the right side of the gate, but it was destroyed. During the Wanli period, Wang Honghui, an official of Nanjing Ritual Department (a native of Ding 'an), once returned to his hometown to visit relatives, and wrote a poem entitled "Visit Lingshui Old Town, Leave a Topic after Liao Shangshu's Hometown, Pay Attention to His Family Literature", which is infinitely admirable:

The autumn wind reminisces about the edge of the old city and looks at Kawahara, vaguely thinking.

The Green Field Hall is full of cigarettes and swallows, but Tianjin Bridge can't get rid of Wen Juan.

Outside the cold cloud in Shangshu's hometown, Qiao Mu's home is before dusk.

The sea only loses to the east, and the onion cage is good every year.

Dr. Hu Jixun of China Academy of Social Sciences pointed out in his monograph "Gifts and Personnel Changes in Ming Dynasty": Before Liao Ji became an official, he mediated between the emperor and officials, maintaining the relatively normal operation of the court. After he became an official, the court fell into a situation of personnel disputes. Scholar Shen Dengmiao said that because the capital was moved to Beijing during Yongle period, the court issued a decree to encourage people to immigrate to the Gyeonggi area in large numbers. Since the year of Jian 'an, "dual-nationality scholars" (both native place and household registration) accounted for one-seventh of the total number of scholars in Ming Dynasty. Their gradual narrowing of the cultural differences between North and South contributed to the formation of Beijing, the only cultural center city in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Liao Ji and Wang Hong, a Historical Celebrity in Gansu Province

Wang Hong (1413-1488), whose name is Xi 'an, was named Xiu 'an when he returned to his hometown in his later years. My ancestral home was Jiangxia, Hubei Province, and my grandfather Wang Junqing lived in Hezhou, so my family settled in Hezhou (now Qiaotou Village, Nanlong Township, Linxia City). Wang hong was gifted and studious from an early age. He won the first prize (1438) in three years in the British Orthodox School, and went to Beijing to take the exam the following year, ranking fifth, and was awarded the second-class scholar. Known as honest and frank, honest and frank, he dared to speak out against North Korea. There is also an anecdote about Wang Hong, which is recorded here by local intellectuals. Impression is recorded in Linxia Zhou Zhi.

The story says that one year, the imperial court sent an imperial envoy to Hezhou (Jingzhou, Hebei Province). When Hezhou officials and their party heard that the imperial envoy was coming, they set up an account 30 miles outside the city to meet Beijing officials. While waiting, when it rained heavily, officials hid in a temple on the side of the road to avoid the rain. Just then, I suddenly heard a baby crying, so I called the chief servant to have a look. After a while, the servant came back and reported that a woman in the next wing had given birth to a son while sheltering from the rain. Everyone was very happy. One of them joked: this child is really not simple. We had come to meet an imperial envoy, but God forced us to meet the child here. This child will do a lot in the future, at least four products and five products. Unexpectedly, the woman quickly said, how can we poor children be such a big official? Even if four or five products can't do it, we are just trying to make one product and two products. All the officials were surprised. Later, the child was so talented that his neighbors regarded him as a child prodigy. Because of his poor family, the government specially funded his study and finally achieved great success.

This legend says that the children born are Liao Tianguan and Liao! I don't believe the folk stories of Hebei and Gansu coincide.

Ode to Liao Shangshu's retirement

Gong's Ode to Liao Shangshu's Retirement

Rong went to Dongguang to promote Confucianism, thinking about Qiongtai and seeking roots.

The south is the hometown of the north, and Fang Qizhi, a national history, praised it greatly.