Gusu Shou: the Most Capable Official, Kuang Zhong, the Prefect of Suzhou

In the fifth year of Xuande's reign, Suzhou Prefecture, which was "the most troubled and difficult to manage in the world," came to the new prefect Kuang Zhong. He did not come from the imperial examination system, but started as a clerk. It was this humble prefect who single-handedly shouldered the life and death of a city - reducing taxes, building warehouses, reforming servitude, repairing rivers, clearing cases, abolishing factions, establishing schools, and raising orphans. He saved a dead city in thirteen years. The people of Suzhou knelt by the canal to see him off on his last journey. The history books left only eight words: Breeze has two sleeves, and the family has four walls.