Ask a minister to secretly care, history is in the official residence, and then translate the greater evil.
It is said that calling for heaven because of cruel difficulties and calling for parents because of unbearable pain is the strongest expression of human feelings. Although I am humble as grass, I also have entreaties when I am oppressed by danger. I'm afraid only heaven and earth and my parents can mourn for my heart and sympathize with me. I lost my father when I was young, and I had no support. Only my brother Su Shi and I live together. Now, privately, I heard that he committed a crime and was put in prison. Our whole family was surprised and sorry, and worried about his unpredictable future. Personally, I think there is nothing wrong with Su Shi's personal life or being an official in the imperial court, but his personality is too reckless and straightforward. He likes to talk about the comparison between the past and the present, and his views are not consistent in several memorials. Your majesty, you have great virtue and have not convicted him. But Su Shi is too crazy and lacks consideration. He thinks he has the goodness of heaven and earth tolerance, but he doesn't know how to fear, and he doesn't know how to restrain. In recent years, as a judge in Hangzhou and a magistrate in Mizhou, I always feel that I have everything I see, and I also write poems, some of which seem to be very contemptuous. He had presented it to your majesty through the hands of some colleagues before, but your majesty put it aside without asking. Su Shi finally felt that he owed his majesty, and since then he deeply repented and never dared to act rashly again. But the poems he wrote before have gradually spread. Really lamented Su Shi's ignorance in self-confidence. I don't know the influence of disrespectful words after writing easily. Although he has turned over a new leaf, he has actually violated the criminal law and cannot be redeemed. Before Su Shi was arrested, the envoy sent someone to say to the minister, "I am weak and ill too early, and I will definitely die in prison. It's a pity that I deserve to die. However, when I was young, I was ambitious and met a wise monarch who was hard to meet in the world. Although I did too many stupid things in those years, I also realized that I wanted to serve in my later years. Now that I have encountered such a disaster, I want to turn over a new leaf and serve the wise monarch, but I lack sufficient reasons to prove it. Besides, I am the loneliest in the DPRK, and even people who have been close to me will certainly not speak for me. I can only count on my brothers' mutual affection to ask your majesty for help. "I sympathize with his ambition and can't resist brotherhood, so I risked my life to persuade your majesty for him. Before the Han Dynasty, Chunyu committed a crime, and his daughter asked the court to accept her as a civil servant to redeem her father's crime. Therefore, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty exempted Chun Gong Yu from corporal punishment. Today, I am as honest as an ant. Although I can't compare with Ti Ying, your majesty is far smarter and kinder than Emperor China. I want to redeem my brother Su Shi with my official position, but I dare not expect to alleviate his crime in the end. It's enough to keep him from dying in prison. If the crimes committed by the minister's brother Su Shi really appear in his poems, he will certainly dare not deny it and be severely punished for it. If you can get your majesty's sympathy and mercy, pardon his death penalty and let him out of prison, he will be no different from coming back from the dead. How can I repay such kindness? I am willing to turn over a new leaf with my brother Su Shi, turn over a new leaf, turn over a new leaf and serve your majesty. As long as it is your majesty's mission, I will definitely die. I am very nervous and anxious now, and I don't know what to say. All I have said above is to your majesty: I hope your majesty can tolerate his presumptuous words and deeds and be kind to Xu Chen's begging. I can't bear this fear of praying to heaven and begging, almost to the limit.