In the late Southern Song Dynasty, the traitorous minister Jia Xiangdao held the number of prime ministers for ten years, and the then Southern Song Emperors Song Lizong and Song Duzong were all mediocre people, so in fact, the military power of the Southern Song Dynasty fell into the hands of Jia Xiangdao. In the evaluation of later generations, Jia Rudao also seems to be a controversial figure, some people say that he eventually led to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, and was a traitor who brought calamity to the country and the people, but some people said that he was "the last hope of the Southern Song Dynasty", so what is Jia Rudao's ability to handle government affairs? Let's follow the editor to understand it.
According to the "Song Barnyard Banknotes", when Jia Xiangdao was serving as a minister, his favorite thing to do every day was to fight cockroaches, and ordinary things were entrusted to his subordinates to do, so he was called "Cockroach Prime Minister" by people at that time. One day, Jia Rudao was on vacation near Geling, when suddenly a fire broke out at the back door of the imperial palace in Lin'an Province, and Jia Rudao smiled slightly after receiving the emissary's report: "Wait until the fire burns to the Taimiao Temple!"
After a while, the messenger reported that the fire had burned to the Southern Song Dynasty Taimiao Temple, and Jia Rudao did not say a word, threw away his eight-carry car, took a 2-person car, changed the car every 1 mile, and arrived at the destination as quickly as possible. At this time, although the Lin'an Province had already posted a reward notice, Jia Xiangdao thought that it was not enough, so he quickly summoned two rows of knife and axe hands to stand by near the Taimiao Temple, and set up a black military flag.
Subsequently, Jia Rudao issued a notice: "If the Taimiao Temple is burned down, then all the officials in charge of the Taimiao Temple will be executed." Seeing that Jia Rudao, who has always been cynical, had such a serious attitude, the fire-fighting soldiers did not dare to be sloppy, so they tried their best to prepare for the fire. At this time, the fire had spread along the eight wind plates to the vicinity of the main hall of the Taimiao Temple, at this time a soldier was held high, waving the waist knife in his hand and flying up, quickly cutting down the eight wind plates that spread the fire, instantly protecting the safety of the Taimiao Temple.
After the fire was extinguished, Jia Rudao was very happy, and hurriedly called the soldier in charge of extinguishing the fire to the front, promoted him to 10 levels in a row and gave him a heavy reward, which shows that although Jia Rudao had nothing to do all day, he was able to personally organize fire fighting on key issues, although some people said that he was deliberately doing it to please the emperor, but it also fully demonstrated his extraordinary organizational ability and objective and fair reward and punishment ability.