Cui Yuzhi

Cui Yuzhi

Cui Yuzhi (1158-1239 / January 19, 1240), a young man named Xinglang, was named Zhengzi, yizizhengzhi and jupo. Zengcheng, Guangdong Province (now Zengcheng District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province) people. Famous officials and poets of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Cui Yu was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Shaoxi reign of emperor Guangzong of Song Dynasty (1193). He has successively held the posts of tidian prison in Guangxi, wailang, a member of the Ministry of Jin, in charge of the pacification Department of huaidong, and Secretary Shaojian. He has been an honest official, trained troops in huaidong and fought against Jin. Jiading 14 years (1219) out of the Chengdu government and Chengdu Road pacifier, two years later promoted to Sichuan Zhi Shi. During his term of office, he was able to settle the border area and accumulate wealth, and he was able to raise the virtuous and caress the scholars, so as to make the Shu area peaceful. In 1224, Jiading resigned from his official post and returned to his hometown. Since then, he has "eight words to know political affairs and thirteen words to right Prime Minister". In 1234, he was temporarily appointed as the economic and pacifying envoy of Guangdong Province and also known Guangzhou, but he never became an official. In the third year of Jiaxi's reign (1239), Cui and he became officials of the Dongxiao palace with the title of grand Bachelor of Arts. A few months later, they died at the age of 82. He was awarded the title of "Qingxian" to the grand master and Nanhai Duke.

Cui Yuzhi was not only diligent in military and political affairs, but also made academic achievements. He is known as the "Lingnan Confucian school", and his "jupo school" is considered to be the first academic school in Lingnan history. He is also quite accomplished in CI, which is known as "the beginning of Yue Ci". Today, Cui Qingxian Gong Ji is handed down.

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Life of the characters

Determined to serve the country

Cui and he were born in a poor doctor's family in Cuiwu village, Zhongxin kengbei, Zengcheng, Guangdong Province. When he was still a teenager, his father Cui Shiming died of illness, which made the Cui family feel embarrassed. However, Cui Yu was ambitious from a young age, determined to save the country and the people. He studied hard, studied the classics and history, in order to be familiar with righteousness, and wrote simple and decent articles. He is very alert in dealing with people and things. When he was young, Cui and he took the imperial examination many times, but they didn't make it, so he hoped to study abroad. Until the age of 32, due to the generous support of Zeng Jiang's book friend Lin Zhongjie and others, Cui and he were finally able to step out of Zengcheng and make a great wish. He traveled thousands of miles. He was single and traveled to Guanshan. He walked to Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province), the capital, and went to the Imperial College. Three years later, in the fourth year of the reign of emperor Guangzong of Song Dynasty (1193), Cui and he became the first one in Lingnan who was admitted to the Imperial College by a student of the Imperial College. After he ascended the throne, Cui and he were transferred to Xunzhou (now Guiping, Guangxi) in remote Guangxi, where they joined the army as a judicial officer from bapin. He did not avoid hardship and devoted himself to official business. On one occasion, a patrolman visited Xunzhou, but the post house for reception was out of repair and could not be used. The sheriff asked Cui to take charge of the maintenance and ordered it to be completed within a few days. In a hurry, it was hard to find the roof tiles, so Cui and his subordinates asked them to build the roof with thatch, renovate the house and finish the task on time. Soon, the grain warehouse, which was used to store grain, adjust prices and relieve famine, also leaked rain because it had not been repaired for a long time, so the sheriff planned to sell the grain. Cui and it learned that, regardless of the official inferiority, firmly opposed. The sheriff changed his mind and ordered Cui to repair the granary. Cui Yuzhi took food protection as the most important task. He took down the roof tiles of his residence and replaced them with thatch. Instead, he built the roof tiles on the granary. Therefore, the sheriff appreciated his courage and talent, and recommended him to be transferred to the prosecutor of huaixiti. In Huaixi Road, the son of a big Beijing official dominates the village. Many officials dare not accept complaints. When the paper was handed to Cui Yuzhi, he stood up and ordered the local tyrant to return the land. Hearing the news, the Beijing official not only did not blame Cui Yuzhi, but also praised him and recommended him to the imperial court. After that, Cui and his successively transferred to Jian Changjun (now Jiangxi Nancheng) Xincheng County Magistrate, Yongzhou (now Guangxi Nanning) and other posts. In Xincheng, he reorganized taxes and reduced various intermediate links and expenses. He stipulated that the money and grain that the people should pay should be paid directly to the government, and those who have already paid should not be pursued indiscriminately, while those who have not paid should not be punished casually. This changed the bad habit that many households lost their property because of the official pursuit of taxes. As a result, the common people scrambled to pay taxes, creating a virtuous government of running taxes well without one penalty. In Yongzhou, the prefecture magistrate exploited the soldiers, embezzled food and clothing, and caused mutiny. Cui and he were ordered to take photos of Yongzhou affairs and deal with it. He rushed to Yongzhou from Binyang, where he was stationed. Regardless of the danger, he rushed into Yongzhou. When the rebels were stable, one of the chief troublemakers was secretly found out and beheaded. The rest of them were not investigated, and the mutiny was quickly put down to restore peace in Yongzhou. Later, he was promoted to "dispatch the military of Pennsylvania" and made the State Administration clear and simple. At the age of 53, Cui and he were promoted to some prison in Guangxi. Guangxi Road, including Hainan Island and Leizhou, is mostly a desolate place, belonging to a remote military state, and Hainan Island has not been visited by any important official of the imperial court. Cui worked hard with him and ran all over the 25 military prefectures of Guangxi. When preparing to go to Hainan, his subordinates said, "there are gods on the seashore. If you want to cross the sea, you have to ask God to pray, otherwise it will be very difficult to succeed." Cui Yuzhi, however, disagreed, saying: "officials in Hainan have been breaking the law for a long time, killing the common people. If I go to get rid of the harm for the people, where do I need the approval and protection of the gods?" Although he was forced to return to sea for the first time due to the broken rudder, he still made unremitting efforts and finally arrived in Qiongshan county when he went to sea for the second time. Every time he went to various places for inspection, he brought his own expenses. All official expenses were paid by the day, and no local money was needed. He also publicized in various places to reward honesty, eliminate corruption, and adjudicate cases fairly, which deeply shocked the officials and the people. Cui worked hard with him. Within a few years, his hair was white.

Huaidong anti gold

In the late Southern Song Dynasty, the new great Mongolia attacked Jin repeatedly. In order to avoid the influence of the Mongolian army, the Jin Dynasty moved its capital to Bianjing and attempted to plunder the Song Dynasty. The Song court "suspected that he was forced", so it ordered Cui to be the military and political officer of huaidong road in the front line of anti Jin war. Ningzong summoned Cui Yuzhi, personally appointed him, and asked him about the strategy of war and defense. Cui Yuzhi thought that it was the first priority of frontier defense to choose good garrison generals and gather the fighting forces of the officers and the people. Cui arrived in Yangzhou with him and carefully planned the defense affairs. He renovated the city defense, took a year to repair the city river, planted willows outside the city, built 12 warehouses near the river transportation in the city, and stored enough military supplies. Cui Yuzhi has always advocated that the soldiers should not be too many, but be good. The good soldiers are well-trained. His troops, archers and long Gunners of infantry, were divided into three classes according to their size, age and skill, while cavalry was trained according to the standard of excellent riding and martial arts. Cui Yuzhi, as commander-in-chief, personally leads his staff to the school every five days to supervise him. At the end of the month, he has to assess him and reward the good and punish the bad. When the troops went out of the city for field training, he led the general to inspect the school and asked the troops not to make a detour when they met the hills and ravines, but to march forward bravely. After reorganizing and training Yangzhou garrison, he ordered subordinate prefectures and counties to carry out the garrison, and the effect was obvious. So the huaidong army gained great power. There is a folk self-defense organization "wannu society" in huaidong area. Cui and his colleagues made an in-depth investigation and found out that wannu society is conducive to organizing the people to defend the golden soldiers, so they asked the imperial court to make wannu society a militia organization in each county. He also recruited the local young people to create the "Wan Ma society", which was usually allocated to farmland and was called in wartime. Cui and he had been guarding the border for five years, and the border was generally stable. Li Quan, the leader of Shandong Zhongyi army, led the army to return. Cui and he wrote to Shi MI, the Prime Minister of power, saying: "since ancient times, those who have recruited foreign soldiers to accomplish something must have worries in the future." Shi Mi had a vision to consolidate the border defense, and had loyal troops returning to the Song Dynasty. He wanted to win the border service, so he secretly ordered Liu fan, the commander of Dutong, to lead his troops across the river to capture Sizhou, but Liu Fan's whole army was destroyed. Cui Yuzhi later learned that his grief and indignation were far away in the history of Calligraphy: "today, the life of ten thousand people is worse than the hand of a husband!" Taking advantage of Jin Bing's opportunity to enter the country, Shi Miyuan panicked and ordered Cui to negotiate with Jin three times. Cui wrote back to him and refused, arguing: "when the Jin soldiers are in power, I will be humiliated if I ask for peace." He actively strengthened combat readiness and dispatched elite troops to guard the key areas. The Jin army retreated in vain after the invasion, and the peace negotiation was no longer mentioned, and the situation in huaidong became stable. After that, the imperial court appointed Cui Yuzhi as the Secretary of the imperial court. After hearing the news, the military and the people in Yangzhou shed tears and wanted to stay. Cui Yuzhi resigned from the imperial court and was ready to return home. On the way, he was repeatedly urged to come to Beijing. When they arrived at chikou, Cui and he heard that the Jin army was invading south, so they went to Lin'an and said, "now there is more than one thing that the border police can worry about. It's urgent to deal with Shandong Zhongyi army." He went up and down again and again for thousands of words. He often sighed that the imperial court was worried about raising a tiger, and he would leave his legacy. Later, he was promoted to Secretary Supervisor and Prince Shi Shuo, Minister of the Ministry of power industry.

Protect four Shu

In the 10th year of Jiading (1217), the Jin army invaded Sichuan and broke through Dashan pass, Chengzhou, Fengzhou and Xingyuan mansion. In 1219, the Jin army broke through Yangzhou again, and Dong Juyi, the former Sichuan governor, abandoned his post and fled. The Sichuan area was in chaos and people were terrified. At the same time, Zhang Fu and Mo Jian, the "red scarf army" in Sichuan Province, rebelled and entered Lizhou, killing the commander-in-chief Yang Jiuding. In view of the critical situation in Sichuan, the imperial court transferred anbing, who lived in Sichuan, as Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan, and Cui as huanzhangge Daizhi, zhichengdu Prefecture and Chengdu Road pacifier, which calmed down the red scarf rebellion. An Bingjiu had a heavy army in Shu. He always suspected the people sent by the imperial court from the southeast. After Cui and his appointment, he was able to get along with anbing sincerely. in 1221, an Bing died during his term of office. The imperial court appointed Cui Yuzhi as the pacifier of Sichuan Road, commanding the whole army of Sichuan. Cui worked with him to clean up the military and political affairs and reverse the situation of military and political discord among the States,

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