仲御 Zhòngyù

Zhongyu

Zhongyu stood out from others from childhood; he was versed in the classics and histories and knew a great many of the court's precedents. While he was in mourning for his father Zongsheng, Zhezong called him back to administer the clan office; he firmly declined, and an edict kept the post vacant until he had completed the mourning. Through successive promotions he became Military Commissioner of Zhenning, Baoning, Zhaoxin and Wu'an, and was enfeoffed as Prince of Runan Commandery and then Prince of Huayuan Commandery. In the Zhenghe years, as Acting Junior Mentor, Military Commissioner of the Taining Army and Commander Unequalled in Honour, he succeeded to the title. On the Tianning festival, when the Liao envoy was at court and the chief minister happened to be on leave, Zhongyu took charge and led the officials in offering birthday wishes to the emperor as though he had always done it. Whenever the emperor saw him he showed him special courtesy, and called him the Succession Prince. He died in the fifth month of the fourth year of Xuanhe, at seventy-one, and was posthumously made Grand Mentor and posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Xun, with the posthumous name Kangxiao. Edit