Among the dynasties, the Song Dynasty is the richest. At the beginning of the founding of the country, Zhao Kuangyin seized the throne of the Later Zhou Chai family through the Chen Qiao Mutiny. Then he solved the common problems of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms through a glass of wine and the release of military power, and the warlords rebelled, successfully consolidating the imperial power and creating a bureaucracy dominated by civilian officials.
Since then, the emperors of the two Song Dynasties have identified the civilian official system and have been guarding against military attaches from all aspects, for fear that they will drive history backwards. Although this laid the foundation for future development, this national policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing martial arts also had a bad result, that is, it was impossible to fight foreign wars, which often led to the Song Dynasty being in a weak state in the war. What made the military generals even more unbearable was that the civilian officials in the middle of the dynasty did not cooperate, but sometimes they dragged their feet at important junctures, and they could not fight at ease. What a complete villain.
This kind of villain is in a high position, which is often referred to as a white-faced traitor. The most famous of these was Qin Juniper, who killed Yue Fei, and for such a person, everyone knew that he had done bad things, and there was not much to say. In fact, during the Southern Song Dynasty, there was also a hated minister of great power, and his approach was even worse than that of Qin Juniper. He is the Jia Xiang Dao who only covers the sky with one hand.
Speaking of Jia Xiangdao, this person is not small, he was born in a famous door, counting three generations, the famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty Jia Yi is his ancestor, and his grandfather Jia Wei was a local official, all of whom were able to be subjects. His father, Jia Shi, also set a good example, starting from a small official at the grassroots level, and through his own efforts, he repeatedly built military merits and successfully entered the high-level to hold important positions.
Jia Shi can be said to be a loyal subject, fighting for the Great Song until his death. Because of his poor health, whenever the Jinguo army in the north came to attack the border, he insisted on taking illness into battle to repel the invading enemy. Jin Bing came a few times, he greeted him a few times, and finally his body was shouldered, and he died on the way back to the north of the class.
Jia Shi spent his life loyal to the country, which made the then Song Dynasty Emperor Song Ningzong moved, crying and posthumously awarding Jia Shi as a scholar of Longtuge and a doctor of Guanglu. Later, Song Ningzong chose a concubine and directly selected Jia Shi's daughter into the palace and became his beloved concubine. This added a lot of political capital to Jia Rudao, Lao Tzu was a loyal subject, and his sister was an imperial concubine. With such a family lineage, Jia Rudao soon made a steady progression in his career.
When Jia Rudao was young, he was mixed in the city well, learned to speculate and reverse, and saw the wind make the rudder. There were people in the palace who climbed up to the position of the prime minister step by step.
The Prime Minister is under one man and above ten thousand people. At this time, Jia Seemed to be mighty. He often suppressed dissenting colleagues and severely cracked down on officials who disobeyed him. For example, because the minister of war, Wu Qian, was at odds with his own political views, he thought of degrading and degrading himself again and again, and finally exiled his family to Longchuan, Guangdong, which was extremely backward at that time, and finally sent people to kill him to avoid the consequences. Jia Xiangdao was obsessed with currying favor with Song Lizong, often catching wind and shadows, and putting all the famous generals who were dissatisfied with him, such as Gundam and Zhao Kui, on dishonest hats, so that the emperor could stay away from them and not be reused.
This made the Song Dynasty army uneasy, and the soldiers could not defend the border steadily, because they did not know when they would be punished. Later, Jia Xiangdao became more and more bold, and even forced the general stationed in Tongchuan to surrender to the enemy and commit treason.
The Southern Song Dynasty was about to run out, and the later emperors were more dim than one. After the death of Song Lizong, he was succeeded by a person with an abnormal mind, that is, the mentally handicapped emperor Song Duzong. This man has no ability to govern, but he is proficient in sprinkling the door.
Because he likes pleasure and is unwilling to manage the government, the major affairs of the country are entrusted to Jia Xiangdao. At this moment, the emperor who was coaxed by Jia Xiangdao turned around, and Song Duzong obeyed him. Moreover, his official position and favor were also repeatedly elevated, first worshiping Jia Xiangdao as a taishi, and later worshiping him as the important affairs of the Pingzhang military state, and summarizing all the major affairs of the military state.
With power, Jia Xiangdao became mighty. First he asked the emperor for permission to go to the throne once in three days, and then he played it once every ten days. Song Duzong read him a piece of "loyalty" and agreed with the meaning of thoughtfulness. Later, Jia Rudao's dictatorship and arbitrariness became more and more bold, and when he entered the dynasty, he not only could not worship the emperor, but also when he retired from the dynasty, Song Duzong also had to stand up and watch him out of the palace.
This is not to mention, in order to consolidate and continue to enhance his own power, Jia Xiangdao not only let others call him the Duke of Zhou, but also from time to time to scare Song Duzong with a pick, in order to show his important position in the court.
In the second year of Xian Chun, Jia Rudao played a trick again, and resigned again when he went to the court, indicating that he was no longer doing it, and posing with a very resolute attitude. This frightened Song Duzong not lightly, before it was you who approved the chapter, without you, who gave me a worry, anxious to cry. Later, when he saw that Jia Rudao was leaving, he directly knelt down and begged Jia Rudao to stay and not leave. When jiang Wanli, the ruling at that time, saw that the emperor actually went to bow down to the minister, which was not in accordance with etiquette, he quickly persuaded: "Your Majesty, you cannot worship down, and you should not say that you should leave again." ”
Jia Xiang said that he would accept it when he saw it, and pretended to be spared embarrassment.
Afterwards, Jia Xiangdao said to Jiang Yuli in a sad manner: "Thanks to you stopping the emperor, otherwise I would be a sinner for eternity." Where is the emperor kneeling down to the ministers. Jiang Wanli did not speak. Jia Rudao thought that he did not know how to lift, and within a few days he found an excuse to demote him to a foreign country.
Although Jia Rudao called the wind and rain at the imperial court, Song Duzong died after only ten years as emperor. Soon after the new emperor took office, Jia Rudao lost his position and was demoted to a remote area of Guangdong. He had done too much evil for the officials for many years, and was executed in the toilet by the escort officer Zheng Huchen on the way to escort him. The laws of the Song Dynasty were very strict, and killing criminals without cause was punishable. That is, Zheng Xuchen said: "I killed Jia for the world, and I have no regrets about being punished." ”
From this point of view, what Jia Xiangdao did really reached the point where thousands of people and gods were indignant.