Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, released the military power through a glass of wine, and solved the big problem of the arrogant general who had been worried about holding the military power. It is reasonable to say that by rewarding the land and the land and the house with gold, money and treasure, in exchange for the peace of the monarch, it is a good ending.
But as a king, Zhao Kuangyin's worries did not stop there.
On a whim, thinking of these ministers who have been stripped of their military powers, so many years of southern conquest and northern warfare plus their own rewards, is there too much money in everyone's hands? How much money is good to do things, in this case, in case something happens again and again, it will not end well.
Zhao Kuangyin thought of a good way.
Let these former arrogant soldiers take the initiative to take the initiative to take the silver.
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So he sent out an invitation letter and asked all these courtiers to come to the palace for the banquet. The big guys gathered together and ordered everyone not to be restrained, and to drink and have fun as they did when they first hit the world. With the encouragement of the monarch, the courtiers naturally drank wine and drank heavily. Zhao Kuangyin saw that the time was almost up, so he announced that the sons of these courtiers would enter the palace to pick them up. When the children of these ministers came to the palace to pick them up, Zhao Kuangyin personally sent them to the palace gate, instructed these children to take good care of their respective fathers, and said: "Your fathers have already promised to donate 100,000 taels to the imperial court, remember to remind them tomorrow." "These family members who came into the palace to pick up their father and brother were only promised.
The next day, the arrogant generals who had sobered up, remembering last night's drinking, hurriedly exchanged for their respective children, and asked themselves how they came back? Is there any gaffe in the imperial court? There is no news from the imperial court. In the face of their fathers' inquiries, the children of each family answered one after another with the "100,000 taels" mentioned by Song Taizu. After listening to the children's answers, the first reaction of these ministers was that they had promised to do what they had drunk, and they had to donate money to the court.
Zhao Kuangyin may not be short of this money, perhaps through this matter he wants to beat these former subordinates and soldiers again, tell them that I have been staring at you, obediently at home to raise and treat the good nature and peace, the so-called "golden cup of common drink, white blade does not spare." Even if these courtiers knew what was going on, they had to accompany the emperor to continue to perform this play.