I don’t know if you have watched some TV shows about Sima Guang? In some film and television dramas, it can be said that the image of Sima Guang has been carried out in various ways, especially in some film and television dramas, the description of Sima Guang is not profound, but do you know? The real Sima Guang is actually better than you think. So, how good is Sima Guang? Let's talk today!
First of all, in the imperial court at that time, the relationship between the emperor Song Yingzong and the queen dowager was not very good. For this reason, Sima Guang could be said to have broken his heart. In one year, he even sent 17 memorials to the emperor, just for him and the queen dowager. What happened between the time, this made the emperor feel ashamed of this, so he and the queen mother later improved the relationship.
The relationship between Sima Guang and Wang Anshi was not good. In those days, he was very dissatisfied with the innocence case approved by the emperor, because Wang Anshi convicted the woman of murdering her husband. So he stayed at home for more than ten years. After finishing the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", after Sima Guang became the prime minister, the first thing he did was to turn over the previous case for retrial, and pulled the woman out and beheaded. It was a one-sided view of Sima How unfair it is to be a light person.
Not only that, but Sima Guang treats his wife very well. His wife hasn’t had a child for 30 years. He has to change to another person. If he doesn’t give up his wife, it’s all considered good, but he didn’t. Concubine, even his wife herself couldn't stand it anymore, so he secretly bought him a beautiful woman, but she was rude and drove the beautiful woman away, showing how good she was to his wife.
And, according to the information I found, Sima Guang is very likely to be a shoveling officer, because he once wrote an article called "The Story of Cats", which is an introduction to his shoveling Official experience.
Of course, the most ironic thing is that in Sima Guang's old age, he became the boss of the conservatives, but the old man who insisted on reforming was a bad old man. This is a big irony!
