Chapter 11 Turning in Despair

The next day, before Zhao Qiong could come to the door, Cai Chong led the two little brothers to the door with gifts to apologize. As the saying goes, "If you have reason, don't come to the door." At this time, he could not show stinginess, so he forgives this.

Brothers, let’s make these friends. In the next few days, this brother takes turns to join him and invites a group of friends to accompany him every day.

The four of them are the emperor, two are the grand lieutenant, and one is the prime minister of the dynasty. They are the most luxurious combination. You can pick out any one and walk around them. The people gathered around them are also in the capital.

The important ministers and wealthy descendants traveled around the middle and middle of Kaifeng City, eating and drinking, and made friends with wine and meat, and became one of the playboys in the capital. In the blink of an eye, it was Tianning Festival, and Zhao Qiong was used as a vase for a few days.

Sun sleeps in the palace and serves as a grandfather among court officials. He listens to small songs, watches singing and dancing every day, and lives a fairy-like life.

The happy October passed quickly. As soon as November came, another heavy snow fell in the capital. The snow was deep and it was inconvenient to travel. Zhao Qiong could only stay in the mansion. He sat in the warm pavilion and drank hot tea.

Looking at the snow outside the window, he fell into deep thought. He had been in Beijing for nearly a hundred days. In the past, he had been in contact with most civilian pawns, and his contact with government officials was just those grassroots prefectures and county officials. Only these days have they entered the high-level circle.

Although the contact period was short, it made him extremely desperate and angry.

Many people like the Song Dynasty, especially the scholars of all dynasties, all believe that this dynasty is a paradise for literati. They not only like him not to kill literati, but also an important reason is that even an ordinary person can pass the imperial examination.

'Let yourself become a dynasty that is a dynasty that is a Makita-Roman in the morning and is a son-in-law who is a son-in-law.'

Before it, in the chaotic times of the Five Dynasties, military men showed off their power; in the Tang Dynasty, they valued family status and participated in politics and had to be aristocrats. Only in the Song Dynasty could the status and status of literati be promoted unprecedentedly. The emperor of the Song Dynasty suppressed warriors and praised literati.

In governing, he was willing to spend a lot of money on scholars and literati to let literati live a "happy life".

The Song Dynasty was an era when scholars and officials were as good as fish in water. Most of them came from humble families of common people and landlords. They broke through adversity and became members of the ruling group through personal struggles. Perhaps, they were so comfortable immersed in the gentle countryside. The Song Dynasty

The literati and doctors were no longer enterprising and forgot to clear the world and clean up the mountains and rivers. It was completely different from the Tang Dynasty before the Song Dynasty. The wild and unrestrained and unruly in the Tang Dynasty, and the slightly offensive and presumptuous nature of the Tang Dynasty.

The kind of heroic spirit of defending the country, "even though he was not a writer at a young age, he still wanted to ask for a long tassel" has been replaced by a kind of sorrow at sunset and dusk and twilight.

In order to consolidate their own rule, the emperors of the Song Dynasty deliberately created a social atmosphere of comfort, luxury and enjoyment. Due to the emperor's promotion, the policies allowed the literati and officials' families to not only raise slaves, but also raise singing prostitutes.

The dancer can also recruit more women to be maids, wives and concubines. The scholars and literati are immersed in the "song of the main songs, the sound of the songs, and the red dances are spinning in the red". As an elite figure in this society, their behavior is inevitably

Become a role model for the entire society. Among this group of people, although there are literati ministers like Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, and Kou Zhun who are worried about the country and the people, they are more of people who are drunk and dream of death, and this kind of person is spreading throughout the society

There is not much pessimism coming.

Lu Meng was the top scholar in the Taizong Dynasty. He became prime minister three times. When he had not achieved fame, he was at the edge of Yishui in the southeast of Luocheng one day. He wanted to buy melons but was short of money. When he saw someone throwing melons on the ground, he picked them up and ate them. Later, he picked them up and ate them.

He became the prime minister and became rich, so he spared no expense to buy land and build a garden and pavilion in that place, and named it "You Gua" (You: the food is rotten and tasted) to commemorate it. In addition, Han Yuru was the prime minister, and every food must be extremely refined.

, and even distinguished the color of eating pigeons. It was popular for scholars and officials to raise songs and dancers in private, and was praised by later generations. Su Dongpo, a model of romantic and unfamiliarity, and when Grand Secretary Su took the famous lady Wang Chaoyun home from the brothel, she was only thirteen years old.

The age of *** is younger than the eldest son, which is really a *** song and a drunken smile in life. However, this "*** is a wise man and a night of reading" was unanimously praised and recognized by the literati at that time, which shows that society

This is the atmosphere, but if he is not shot until now, he will be sentenced to life without being shot.

Now, a century of peace has reached a new high. This extravagant trend is growing day by day. Under the instigation of a group of treacherous slander, the emperor began to fail to learn well, and once again pushed the wind of pleasure to a climax, abandoned the government's affairs, and delegated the power to

A group of scholars led by Cai Jing. If these people stayed well, raised Xiaomi with high salaries, and spent some money from the emperor's pocket, perhaps the Song Dynasty could last for a few more years, but with their

With the increase of power, these people are restless again.

After Cai Jing entered the court for the third time as prime minister, he seemed to have seen through it and was cruel and harsh when he was punished. Any official promotion and dismissal must be approved by him. Anyone who follows him will be in a short time.

You can get promotion and beauty; anyone who disobeys him, from the prime minister to the border, must be eliminated and quickly. His three sons and one grandson are all appointed as Grand Secretary, and their status is equivalent to that of the ruler, which is almost the same as

The class of the deputy prime minister, the servants and servants in the family are all high-ranking officials, and most of the concubines are named wife!

A joke from Cai Chong made Zhao even more shocked. Once a man came to their house to run for office, his father promoted the other three people who gave heavy gifts from county and regiment level cadres to department-level cadres in front of this person.

The boy immediately realized the secret to promotion as soon as he saw it, and immediately went home and brought a large number of gifts to return. He became the governor in one meal. Cai Chong dared to tell these things in front of so many people, one is

Maybe I want to show off; maybe I just think it's a small matter and I'm used to it, but Zhao Qi realized from it that Cai Jing no longer cared about the world's views and began to openly exploit power.

Tong Guan, another big boss in the court, won several battles and gradually became proud. Now he serves as the Northwest Xuanfu envoy, and mentions the military affairs of the Northwest. Where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, he prevails on one side and becomes an independent kingdom.

The order was issued without authorization to recruit tens of thousands of young people with great heights and strength in various ways under his jurisdiction, calling themselves "Shengjie Army". As his own personal army, the officers were appointed by him, and actually became his personal armed forces. Tong Guanshengsheng

After serving as the procuratorate Sikong, he echoed each other with the eunuch Liang Shicheng and others in the palace, and gradually he did not take Cai Jing seriously.

Originally, whenever any officer made military achievements, Tong Guan first wrote a memorial to submit it to the Shangshu Province, and then the Prime Minister of the Shangshu Province asked the emperor to approve the appointment. Now it is different. Tong Guan directly submitted it to the emperor for approval without going through Cai Jing.

The phenomenon of overreach of power naturally caused dissatisfaction with Cai Jing, and the relationship between the two began to break. A few days ago, Tong Guan brought back a person in order to compete for favor, and his appearance brought the already stormy Song Dynasty into a fight.

The crisis opened the prelude to a major event in the history of the empire.

It has to start from the founding of the Song Dynasty. Since Shi Jingtang offered the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun for the throne of the Later Jin Emperor, the Central Plains region has actually opened its doors and lost all military and strategic initiatives. Therefore, since its founding,

He kept trying to recover, but he never got what he wanted. If God had left for time, Zhao Kuangyin's great talent and strategy might have been able to realize this wish. By the time of Zhao Guangyi, two consecutive contests ended in the end, which led to the general suffering of the Song Dynasty.

"Fear of Liao" and "release military power with a cup of wine", the Song Dynasty gradually formed the basic national policy of using culture to transform military affairs, so the restoration of Yanyun actually became an empire that could never be realized.

The Chanyuan Alliance was signed when Song Zhenzong occupied a relatively favorable position in the military. It still agreed that the Song Empire would send several ten thousand taels of silver and ten thousand pieces of silk to the Liao Empire every year, and the two sides agreed to be brothers.

The country. In fact, everyone knows that this is a different tribute, a way to spend money to buy peace. Later, after the incident, the money was fixed as 500,000 pieces of silver and silk, and the year

This is the case in the year.

In this regard, the Liao Kingdom did not take the Song Dynasty seriously at least in terms of military affairs. The reason why everyone can seek psychological balance is that 500,000 pieces of silver silk are always cheaper than the huge military expenditure. And think about it

Even if these military expenses are spent, people cannot bear the blame for defeat in the war, and cannot bear the consequences of the military generals who have made great achievements and cannot lose their duties after the victory. It goes without saying that this is inevitable that the basic national policy of using civilized military power

The logical consequences are a knot that made the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Empire very painful. For the empire monarchs and ministers who have always regarded themselves as orthodox Chinese and above the Celestial Kingdom, you can imagine the humiliation of the empire monarchs and ministers!

Therefore, regaining Yan Yun became the long-cherished wish of the kings of all dynasties. Wang Anshi's basic motivation for reform and strengthening included the deep pursuit of realizing this long-cherished wish. Therefore, when the national treasury was relatively full, Song Shenzong once made a harsh statement: If anyone could recover it

In the Yanyun area, the royal family would not hesitate to enthrone this person as king. However, under the basic national policy of reclaiming martial arts and cultivating culture, many people of the Northern Song Dynasty, who had noble character, pure academic knowledge, and high virtues became the lord and harmonious faction. This led to the descendants'

Those who try to use "main peace" or "main war" as the standard for distinguishing good and bad in the Northern Song Dynasty face the embarrassment of never being able to justify themselves. Therefore, in fact, no one can easily take off this crown at this time.

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"The Liao Kingdom will surely perish. Your Majesty is missing the suffering of the people. He will restore the past borders of China and punish the heavens for the sake of rebellion. Once the king's army comes out, he will definitely welcome him. If the Jurchens succeed, they will take the initiative and then take control of others.

, things are not over." Zhao Qi's mind echoed with Ma Zhi's great discussion in Yanqing Hall. He knew this history well and knew that it was these words that ended the Northern Song Dynasty, but for him, this might be
Chapter completed!