The Death of Shinzong
On December 1, Yang Yi died of illness. On the 9th, the prince officially reigned the country.
Although Ding Wei became the prime minister, at this time, someone who was more difficult than Kou Zhun and Li Di had suddenly killed him back: Wang Qinruo! His return made Zhao Hengjiu feel a little warmth. Zhao Heng began to obviously recover some memories, and whenever he met Wang Qinruo, he seemed particularly sober and happy. This made Ding Wei very uneasy. Moreover, Wang Qinruo quickly became favored. His part-time job in the Eastern Palace was the Prince's Taibao, who was one level higher than Ding Wei's Prince's Shao Master!
The real crisis suddenly appeared, which caught Ding Wei off guard. That day, Zhao Heng, who was chatting suddenly said, "Why don't you go to the director of the Political Affairs Hall?"
Ding Wei suddenly became nervous and saw Wang Qinruo reply, "Your Majesty, I am not the prime minister, how can I go to the director of the Political Affairs Hall?"
Zhao Heng was not prepared, did not discuss, and did not give any time to controversially oppose. On the spot, a eunuch took Wang Qinruo to the Political Affairs Hall, and Prime Minister Wang started work like this!
The people watching were stunned. No matter whether this was Zhao Heng's move or not, the emperor's fate was the emperor's fate, and what he said was the truth! Everyone could only watch Wang Qinruo's restoration successfully, only Ding Weiji stabilized and ordered - to serve wine! Welcome Lord Wang!
The host and the host had fun and drank almost the same time. The question finally came to the surface: Where is Wang Qinruo's location? Prime Minister, second minister, or deputy prime minister? Ding Wei smiled slightly and said, "According to the imperial edict, we entertained Wang Qinruo in the Political Affairs Hall." That's all! What? You said that the emperor personally told Wang Qinruo to come back to "counselor"? Very good! But which prime minister was not ordered by the emperor himself? But then did not have to have a Hanlin scholar write an edict and summon all officials to announce it in public before it can take effect? Don't these kings understand? Or do you want the prime minister to have insufficient status in future work?
On that day, Wang Qinruo had barely finished the meal and walked out of the political affairs hall step by step again. He said to the eunuch who accompanied him, "Please tell Your Majesty that there is no edict, and I cannot work here." A meal of official articles will take a long time, which is enough to penetrate the news into the harem and let Empress Liu know. Then the edict was really delivered, but the "prime minister" was changed to "prison prime minister" Wang Qinruo was appointed as the verdict of Henan Prefecture.
This year, Li Deming moved the capital from Xiping Prefecture to Huaiyuan Town (now Yinchuan, Ningxia) and renamed it Xingzhou, but he still did not complete the founding of the country. It will take 18 years later, Li Yuanhao, the son of his god and demon, will be reincarnated, to create the Xixia Kingdom!
In March of the fifth year of Tianxi (1021), the Dashi Kingdom sent envoys to ask for marriage again. The Dakhitan married the daughter of the royal family Hu Sili as the princess. On November 13, the eldest son of Emperor Shengzong of Liao, who had been born more than 6 years ago, was named the crown prince of Liang King Yelu Zongzhen.
Wang Qinruo, who had been away for more than a year, suddenly asked to return to Beijing, because he was sick and had to take a long sick leave. I was sick? Ding Wei's first intuition was that Wang Qinruo was undead! But he couldn't stop him. Not to mention that the emperor still had his old love for him, even ordinary officials did not work with illness and died of illness outside the capital. Come back! Ding Wei first used the power of the prime minister to suppress Wang Qinruo's leave note for several days, and then quietly sent someone to bring him a message: The emperor misses you very much, you don't have to wait for the imperial court to approve the note, just go back to Beijing if you are sick, and the emperor will not be surprised.
Wang Qinruo was very moved and recalled that he and the emperor had such a friendship! Well, set off for the trip and returned to Beijing! When he entered Kaifeng City, he met Ding Wei, "What are you doing when you are back? You have to leave your post without orders. You are too obedient to be punished, right? What? The message I sent someone to send? What is the evidence?" Wang Qinruo was speechless. On the 17th, he was demoted again and left Beijing again without stopping - you, who is surnamed Ding! Kaifeng City will be given to you! Your shameless appearance really has the style of my back then!
"Ding is a traitor" has come to an end. Why is Ding Wei so honored to leave a chapter exclusive to himself in "The Records of the Song Dynasty"? Because the struggle can be forgiven, it is hard to tolerate deception! The emperor is in a coma, so you dare to lie to deceive the emperor in person. How despicable! So after he was defeated, he did not have the experience of Kou Zhun and Wang Qinruo, because the latter two people have never betrayed their emperor!
On February 15, the emperor entered a semi-coma in the first year of Ganxing (1022). On the 19th, the Yanqing Palace came to the end of his life... Zhao Heng, the third emperor of the Song Dynasty, passed away!
How should we evaluate this emperor? He took over a mess from the father of the big slut, but when he died, he laid the foundation for his son's prosperity in Renzong! To be honest, if later generations said that the saint Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was an emperor who was "named inheritance, but actually created together", so if the temple name should be "ancestor", Zhao Heng also did basically the same thing. Kangxi pacified the Three Feudals, accepted Taiwan, Qingning and Northern Xinjiang, and Zhao Heng's life experience was the same. To be honest, it was only between the size and size of the fruits of the achievements. There is a rule in Chinese history that almost every dynasty, in the 40 or 50 years after its establishment, the second or third generation of emperors had an extremely dangerous and difficult bottleneck period. This was the case with the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Qin and Sui dynasties, and even the brilliant and powerful supernatural period of the Tang Dynasty. The same is true for the dynasty: Wu Zetian was found in more than 60 years later. What is the reason? Is it coincidence? Or is it that every dynasty starts calm from the excitement of the founding country and starting a business. The initial strong king and important founding officials also died. The disadvantages arise. The subjects began to doubt that the internal Gentiles began to rebel, so they were defeated uncontrollable? This is too complicated, and each dynasty has its own specific situation. But no matter what, it is Zhao Heng's turn to bear all this, and the complexity and danger of his face far exceeds that of the Qin II Hu Hai, the Sui II Yang Guang, and the Tang III Li Zhi... No matter how he prays for peace, he can't do it if he wants to close the door and spend a few days of restlessness. Because he has evil neighbors: Khitan, Dangxiang...
Under Zhao Heng's management, the country began to have money and the people began to have food. Even in the later stages, he used Chongbao to buy a new drought-resistant rice seed "Chancheng Rice" from Chameng Kingdom. He bought a new mung bean seed from Western Tianzhu. He successfully piloted it in his palace inner courtyard and promoted the world.
But he also wasted great time. The opportunity for the prosperity and strength of the Song Dynasty was gone in vain. The east-west sacrifice was a stain on Zhao Heng himself, and it was the tragedy of the Song Dynasty back then...
As a major agricultural country, he did not do the two most important things: 1. Investigate the national land and 2. Rectify the agricultural tax system.
Zhao Heng let Li Deming go in vain and let the future Western Xia Kingdom grow bigger, which will become a nightmare for the Northern Song Dynasty in the future! The Song Dynasty lost its last base for horses outside the border in the Zhenzong Dynasty. Since then, no qualified war horses have appeared in the local area, unless they can be robbed like Yue Fei. The soldiers of the Song Dynasty should train your legs and feet well, and they have to practice jumping and chopping people. Who told you not to take those few more steps back then to save Lingzhou?
In general, Zhao Kuangyin built a country for the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi set the style for the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Heng set the flavor for the Song Dynasty - a literati paradise that was both prosperous and depressed. The next Renzong Dynasty will be the most civilized, richest and most enlightened prosperous era that has been sung through the ages. How fascinating!
Someone told me that the royal family of Zhao Song had a genetic disease. I partially agreed with this statement. Song Zhenzong was crazy about Fengshan, Song Shenzong was angry about the mental illness by reform, Song Guangzong was scared about the mental illness by lightning, and Song Duzong, except for the extraordinary needs of women, all other idiots were comparable to the famous idiot emperor, Emperor Hui of Jin. There were 15 independent emperors in the two Song Dynasty, but 4 had nerve problems one after another, with a proportion of more than 1/4... I am afraid that this can only be answered by the inheritance of family neuropathy...
How could such a strong national strength in the Song Dynasty be "poverty and weak"? How could so many wise ministers and ministers "replenished officials and governments"? How could so many elite soldiers and generals lose their country and their races? You can find countless examples of these things from the specific national politics of the Song Dynasty to prove these things. But you can never find out why Zhao Heng suddenly became a god like a genetic mutation, chatting with all kinds of gods all day and night, writing letters to each other, and finding his own ancestors of gods, building temples taller than the other, and making the national strength complete
The bottom was hollowed out, leaving an unprecedentedly bad mess for the later Shenzong, forcing him to reform and seek survival, but unexpectedly, the country's power fell sharply and uncontrollable, laying the evil roots of the destruction of the country and the seeds. You can't find out why a hundred years later, the Jin soldiers would open the doors themselves, allowing the Jin soldiers to rush into the city without any effort to do anything... These all need to be found in the complex and fragile hearts of the Song Dynasty rulers.
Specifically, they are their obsession with religious fanaticism.
In fact, since Zhao Kuangyin started, superstitious religion was closely related to the Song Dynasty. During the Chai Rong period, Zhao Kuangyin gained benefits from the prophecy of "inspection and inspection as the emperor". Then Chen Qiao mutiny and conquered the morale of the Later Zhou army with the superstitious superstition of "one day to overcome one day". Thinking about it earlier, why did Zhao Kuangyin leave so many legends related to Buddhists in the more than one year of wandering? The monk gave him food, gave him donkeys, gave him money, and then guided him to go to the north to find opportunities... Is that true? No! This is a transaction. It is the reward of Zhao Kuangyin's policy of destroying Buddhism by changing Chai Rong. The monk used the invisible power of religion to continuously improve the image of Zhao Kuangyin being a benevolent king and even the destiny of heaven, making it more natural for the people of the world to be his people. And the more he was careful, the more he was blessed by gods and Buddhas... Zhao Kuangyin was born an emperor, and it was absolutely right to follow him...
Zhao Guangyi believed in Taoism. Shortly after he became the prefect of Kaifeng, he sent someone to the Northern Imperial Palace to worship a Zhenjun, saying that Zhao Guangyi would build a temple and renovate the golden body. But the Zhenjun suddenly spoke - "The second king of Taiping in the future will build the Taiping Shangqing Palace." The Northern Imperial Palace "This palace has been established by heaven, and now it is not the time." Zhao Guangyi was shocked when he heard the news, and the people who heard this rumor were even more shocked. I believe that they would look at Zhao Guangyi again in the future, and there would be a layer of light flashing halo behind the big bitch's head.
Returning to the past when Zhao Kuangyin died suddenly on a snowy night, some of which were included in the "History of the National Fu Ruizhi". If a "Black Evil General" surrendered to the home of Zhang Shouzhen, a commoner in Danfu County, claiming to be the general of the Jade Emperor in Heaven. His words said "the voice is like a baby, but Shouzhen is well-versed". Since there is a saying, Zhang Shouzhen became a Taoist priest. According to the history of the Song Dynasty, after Zhao Kuangyin got sick, he ordered Wang Ji'en to go to Jianlong Temple to hold a ceremony to pray for blessings. What he asked for was the "Black Evil General" served by Zhang Shouzhen in history, "The Godly Words--the palace in heaven has been formed, and the jade locks the sky. The King of Jin has a kind heart. After saying it, he will never surrender again." Zhao Guangyi was given the throne, and from then on he had the legality of "a day to overcome one day".
But that was later, when Zhao Guangyi had just ascended the throne, he suddenly changed his face and ordered that the world prohibited private practice of astronomical books such as divination, and those who violated the orders were killed! And in the second year, he ordered nearly 300 people including astronomical scholars to be transported to Beijing to conduct a category-based examination. More than 60 qualified people stayed in Sitianjian to work on the spot. The rest were tattooed on their faces and then sent to Shamen Island as prisoners.
The power of the human heart is infinite, and the power of religion is directly pointing to the human heart - society is composed of people, and people are dominated by the mind. If they can control a person's mind, they can control this person. If they can control the mind of everyone, they are equivalent to conquering the entire society.
Religion is the best way to achieve this wish. Only by first capturing people's hearts can Zhao Guangyi further transform the Song Dynasty and create an officialdom that he likes and can use with ease.
When it came to Zhao Heng, he emphasized that the three religions of "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism" were parallel, regardless of thickness... But those who are interested could compare the Taoist temples and the number of scriptures compiled by the Song Dynasty, and immediately know which side of the mainstream was...
Chapter completed!