A dynasty of kings and courtiers, each generation of emperors no matter how wise and wise, can rule a country not only on his own, but inseparable from a group of capable subjects and tiger generals, ministers and officials hope that what they have learned in their lives can assist the Ming Jun, can realize their political ambitions, and can serve the country. According to their different abilities and characteristics, the emperors know and make good use of others, which is a mutually reinforcing relationship, which is an important condition for the long-term peace and stability of a country.
The king we are talking about today, there is no shortage of Wenchen Tiger Generals under his command, and any one of them is a person with a name, of which the Eight Of them accounted for six of the Eight Emperors of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, and as an emperor, he almost became a background board. He was Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.
Listening to his temple name "Renzong" knows that he should be a benevolent and virtuous, good-tempered emperor, and this is indeed the case, and it is most appropriate to use the word "ren" to describe him, and so is his concept of governing the country, but this is also flawed, he is not decisive enough, and he is still a little weak.
For example, the New Deal of the Qing Calendar, everyone must have studied the "Record of Yueyang Lou", the first sentence of the opening chapter is "In the spring of the fourth year of the Qing Calendar, Teng Zi Jing who guarded Baling County", most of the officials who implemented the New Deal were finally deposed, why is this? After the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, the problem of redundant personnel and redundant soldiers and redundant expenses gradually appeared, resulting in the situation of poverty and weakness later, in addition, border wars were continuous, civil uprisings were frequent, and the seemingly prosperous country was actually in crisis, so officials led by Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi proposed to the emperor to carry out reforms, and at the beginning the emperor did listen to this suggestion and took a series of measures, but this reform eventually failed because it violated the interests of the bureaucratic class, and these civil servants who proposed reform were also degraded.
In this way, the emperor Song Renzong seems to be very mediocre, but since as the king of a dynasty, he must have superiority, and the backstage of the people is strong, in the imperial family, the capital is abundant, the spelling father can fight, the spelling mother can also fight, and when it comes to his mother, I have to talk about it in detail.
Zhao Zhen's birth mother was Li Shi, but the emperor at that time favored Liu Shi and wanted to make her empress, but Liu Shi was from a humble origin and had been married before, and he could not serve the public by directly sealing him, so he thought of this trick, if Li Shi gave birth to a prince, he pretended to be born of Liu Shi. In this way, Liu Shi naturally ascended to the position of empress.
Although Liu Shi is a woman, but her talent is not at all inferior to men, she often accompanies the emperor to deal with political affairs, the emperor also trusts him, but then the emperor is seriously ill, her ambitions can not be hidden, and gradually began to control the government, the emperor naturally also knows about this matter, so let the crown prince Zhao Zhen supervise the country at this time. However, this move of his did not restrain Liu Shi, who was young until the emperor's death, and the crown prince was only thirteen years old, so liu was still in control of political affairs.
But thanks to liu shi, he was able to keep Zhao Zhen's position as emperor, why did he say so? When Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, there was one person who had some resentment, that is, the Eight Sages King.
This Eight Sages King is The Uncle of Emperor Renzong, that is, the younger brother of Emperor Renzong's father, Zhenzong, at that time he was very valued and had the opportunity to compete for the throne, the brother is not without precedent, when Zhenzong was seriously ill, he went to the palace for many days on the grounds of visiting the sick, the younger brother took care of the sick brother, the brotherly love, such a reason can not find anything wrong, the ministers of the DPRK are very worried about him doing something out of the ordinary, but they can not think of any way to support him, just when the ministers have no way to do anything, Liu Shi has a plan, She summoned the young prince Fu Li Di, the two discussed a plan, this day the Eight Sages King needed hot water, when the attendant was ready to serve it, Li Di stopped him, picked up the brush on the table and stirred it in the basin, the Eight Sages King saw a basin of black water, and thought that someone poisoned him and wanted to harm him, so he was scared and left immediately.
Just a drop of ink solved the crisis at that time, and Liu Shi was indeed very clever. But the Eight Sages Were not fuel-saving lamps, and after Liu's death, he told Renzong that he was not born of the Liu clan, that his birth mother was li, and that Li had died a strange death. Renzong was originally a filial child, and when he heard this, he was so sad that he stopped for many days to mourn for his mother, and also wrote a letter of self-reproach and chased after his mother. Later, he promoted his mother's family and married his daughter to his mother's cousin, but at the same time caused the daughter's marriage tragedy.
These things mentioned above are reflected in the TV series "Qing Ping Le", although the TV series is not historical, but it is still helpful for everyone to understand this history, for every character in this history we should analyze from multiple angles, we look at Liu's ambition, but also her wit, we see Renzong's mediocrity, we should also see his benevolence.