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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 50 Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles · 9 passages
高祖、世宗，情存庶政，文武任寄，多貞幹之臣，唯郭秀小人，有累明德。
Under Gaozu and Shizong, government still had substance and upright men filled military and civil posts—only the petty Guo Xiu tarnished their good name.
事高祖為行臺右丞，親寵日隆，多受賂遺。
Serving Gaozu as Right Director of the Mobile Secretariat, he won ever greater personal favor and took bribes freely.
秀遇疾，高祖親臨視之，問所欲官。
When Xiu fell ill, Gaozu visited him in person and asked what post he wanted.
家無成人子弟，高祖自至其宅，親使錄知其家資粟帛多少，然後去。
The family had no grown sons; Gaozu went to the house himself, had its grain and silk inventoried, and only then departed.
秀死後，愔還，高祖追忿秀，卽日斥孝義，終身不齒。
When Yin returned after Xiu's death, Gaozu, still angry at Xiu, that same day expelled Xiaoyi and never admitted him to polite society again.
高祖聞之，以為淳直。
Gaozu heard of it and took it for plain, honest speech.
其父市貴，從高祖起義。
His father Shigui had followed Gaozu in the founding uprising.
韓寶業、盧勒叉、齊紹，並高祖舊左右，唯門閹驅使，不被恩遇。
Han Baoye, Lu Lecha, and Qi Shao had been Gaozu’s gate eunuchs, never favored.
高祖時有蒼頭陳山提、蓋豐樂、劉桃枝等數十人，俱驅馳便僻，頗蒙恩遇。
Gaozu favored dozens of runners like Chen Shanti, Gai Fengle, and Liu Taozhi.