During the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi and Tang Zhongyou were at odds, and Old Zhu seized the opportunity to play an impeachment of him. Tang Zhongyou was indeed not angry, always letting people catch the little tail. When he was an official in Taizhou, because the tax collection was relatively large and the time given was very tight, he made it "anxious to spark, and the people did not talk about life." In this regard, Zhu Xi filed a complaint with Song Xiaozong.
Tang Zhongyou also used public funds to print books, including "Xunzi" and "Yangzi". Printing books was not a bad thing, but When Old Tang printed the books well, they did not send them to schools as teaching materials or distribute study materials to leading cadres, but gave them to various dignitaries and dignitaries in the name of private people, and used the context to build up contacts and establish a wide network of interpersonal relations. All of this was used as evidence by Zhu Xi and written into the complaint letter. However, the emperor was always unmoved, so that in the end, Old Zhu even used the reasons for Tang Zhongyou's problematic style of life, which annoyed the emperor and said that Zhu Xi was purely "a show of talent and idleness" and ignored it.
Old Tang's luck was really good, although he was full of "disease", he was able to escape, and the history books also praised him for "rejuvenating the advantages and eliminating the disadvantages, and the political voice is impressive." In fact, Tang Zhongyou was indeed not clean. In addition to the problems exposed by Zhu Xi, when he was in charge of supervising the manufacture of weapons, he ate the state and sat in the state car, and when he arrived at the unit, in addition to letting the staff and workers make weapons, he also ordered people to do private work - to create "soup bottles" for himself. The soup bottle is the ancient hot water bottle, made of metal, resting in the quilt in winter to warm the feet, is a high-end product, very sought after by the market, often selling sky-high prices. Old Tang used the public iron, charcoal and labor to earn enough extra money.
However, military industrial units undertake the tasks of military equipment, product development, and production planning issued by the state, which are related to national security, and the management should be airtight and not allow others to exploit loopholes. Moreover, the military enterprises of the Song Dynasty were varied and the division of labor was fine, and the number of craftsmen in a complete workshop in the Southern Song Dynasty reached thousands, sometimes even more than four thousand. Such an important military handicraft industry, but the quality problems are endless. The reason for this is that cadres like Tang Zhongyou disregard the interests of the state and devote themselves to the private use of public instruments for their own benefits.
During the song dynasty, the supervisors of the military industrial units "were mostly the sons and daughters of noble relatives", and they entered the management of the enterprise by fighting their fathers, but they did not master the professional knowledge at all, did not say that they "cut corners" in doing things, and their attitude was still lazy and soft, and they had neither professional skills nor professional spirit. In the face of this kind of leader who damages public wealth and private interests, he does not say anything about serious work, but also has to deal with the private work of the increased dispatch, and the craftsmen are toiling hard every day. Therefore, they tend to run away, and those who can't escape are simply passive and sluggish.
As a result, the quality of weapons and equipment naturally declines. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu once said that the number of weapons was quite large, but "the iron blade is not steel, the tendon glue is not solid, the length and size are not moderate", and the truly sophisticated weapons are "ten without one". Song Shenzong was more careful in nature, and when he went to the grass-roots level to investigate, he was not satisfied with listening to the report and reading the materials, but had to go to the front line to see it with his own eyes. When I arrived at the warehouse, I ignored the introduction of the accompanying personnel, and I reached out to randomly draw three bows for testing, and the quality of the results was very poor. These problems were still not solved in the Southern Song Dynasty, but intensified.
One Tang Zhongyou is not terrible, what is terrible is that there is more than one Tang Zhongyou in the world. Everyone you build a hot water bottle, I pretend to receive a salary, he privately divides the military food... The Song Empire, which was economically prosperous and technologically advanced, was torn to pieces, and finally lost too much blood and died in the land.