In 765, Gao Shi was almost 70 years old. He was sent to accompany us to Jiannan in the middle of Shu, but because of seasickness, he changed to shore and it was very difficult all the way. When he arrived in Shu, he was seriously ill. Later, I returned to Luoyang and caught up with the Anshi Rebellion. He kept running back and forth and was tired in many ways. In April 765, Gao Shi died at the age of 62. So Gao Shi was not killed by Li Bai, and his death had nothing to do with Li Bai.
Anyone familiar with Li Bai knows that after Gan Yuan's two-year amnesty, Li Bai spent his old age as an ordinary person with the help of Dangtu Li. After two years in office, Gao Shi, though occasionally left-leaning, was still a high-ranking civil servant, and was finally rewarded by the Duke of Bohai. In 765, Gao Shi died in Chang 'an, and Li Bai died three years ago.
Gao Shi's main works
Gao Shi's poems and essays were collected in the Tang Dynasty and circulated in the Northern Song Dynasty, and were widely circulated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties with many versions. What we can see now are mainly eight volumes of the Ming Dynasty bronze movable-type book "Poems of Gaochang" and four volumes of Gao Shi's poems collected in Quantang Poetry Talk. The number of poems is similar, but the content is different.
The contemporary popular edition is Liu Kaiyang's Chronological Notes on Gao Shi's Poems published by Zhonghua Book Company 198 1, with 244 poems and 19 essays as the base. And Sun Qinshan's Collation of Gao Shi Ji published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House 1984, with 249 poems and 9 articles 19. In addition, Li Dan's "Gao Shi Quan Shi" published by Chongwen Bookstore in 2020 included 258 poems, including 12 poems by mistake and 2 1 poems by writing.