Is “Song Jing refused to attach himself to the Zhang Yizhi brothers and spoke frankly in assisting governance.” true?
The Old Book of Tang, Treatise on Criminal Law, records that in the sixth year of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong ordered the Vice Minister of Personnel and concurrent Attendant-in-chief Song Jing to revise laws. The official history records that when he was Censor-in-chief, he did not flatter the powerful Zhang brothers, and at the beginning of Kaiyuan, he became a chancellor and rectified the court. The Sui and Tang Romance, Chapter 75, writes: 'As for Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, they feared Song Jing just as they had feared Di Renjie in the past,' praising his uprightness, and the narrative is based on official history.
In the official history, Song Jing was upright and refused to attach himself to the powerful, assisting the Kaiyuan era; the novel vividly portrays his integrity and loyalty.
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