Song Shi: The beginning and end of the cutting of the domain, the great role played by the small people
preface
The of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant nest, and people lamented the smallness of the ants, but they did not expect that they had such a powerful power. Small things always go unnoticed, but it is this little person who can play the most important role in the end.
cause
After Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe was added, he successfully ascended to the throne of God and began to deal with the power of the clan town.
▲ Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe was added
outcome
The Northern Song Dynasty set up county lieutenants to weaken the moderation of power and enhance the power of the central government.
▲Northern Song Dynasty
disposal
1. Rebellion in the town of Phan
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was born as a general, and during the chaotic period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Zhao Kuangyin used his ability to break out of the siege and re-establish a new country to reunite the divided Central Plains.
Although Zhao Kuangyin has established the Song Dynasty, but in the early days, there are still many rebellions, after all, one country replaces another country, the former former ministers naturally do not agree, plus Zhao Kuangyin's birth is a general, so there will be other generals who want to replace Zhao Kuangyin.
During the Song Taizu period, the more serious rebellion was the rebellion of Li Jun and Li Chongjin, who was the royal bloodline of Northern Zhou and was once a heavy vassal of Northern Zhou.
Therefore, Li Chongjin was not accustomed to Zhao Kuangyin, so he wanted to defeat him and restore Northern Zhou. However, Li Yun is different, he is a temperance envoy. Jiedu made this official position relatively uncontrolled by the imperial court during the Tang Dynasty.
Especially at the end of the Tang Dynasty, if Jiedushi rebelled, his power could not even resist the imperial court, and there would be an incident in which the emperor was expelled from Chang'an by Jiedushi.
Therefore, the degree of moderation has become a headache for the five generations of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Song Dynasty.
▲Zhao Kuangyin
2. The role of small people
Zhao Pu, who followed Zhao Kuangyin in the southern expedition to the north, thought of a way to solve the emperor's worries and difficulties, and Zhao Pu believed that the reason why the power of the fanzhen was strong was because the power of the fanzhen was large and had military power.
If the emperor weakened the power of the clan town and the elite soldiers took back, the power of the clan town would be much smaller.
Zhao Kuangyin felt that Zhao Pu's words were reasonable, so he decided to start weakening the town. First of all, the rights of the fan town were in his own hands, and the imperial court would not interfere, but Zhao Kuangyin decided to cut the domain and could not openly ask the fan town to hand over the rights, so he first set up a county order and went to the various fan town areas.
At that time, the Tianxiong Army Jiedushi found that his territory had also come to the county order, and it was supposed that the emperor had sent someone, so he had to go and have a look anyway.
▲ Tianxiong Army Festival
And this county order is Zhou Wei, in the face of Zhou Wei's arrival, Tianxiong'an's moderation makes it impossible to figure out what he really means for a while, because the general officials who come are either foxes and tigers, or they walk the process, of course, there are routines.
Therefore, Tianxiong'an's festival made Fu Yanqing still decide to take a look first, but when he saw Zhou Wei, Zhou Wei, as a county commander, was only slightly saluting on the horse, and then went to the inn to rest.
▲Zhou Wei
When it came time to formally meet Fu Yanqing, Zhou Wei's attitude was also not humble. It is reasonable to say that although the county orders were sent by the emperor, they acted in the town of Fanzhen, and every move had to be arranged by the jiedushi, and the level was not as good as the jiedushi.
However, Zhou Wei's treatment of Fu Yanqing was not a favor between the superiors and subordinates, but as if he were an insignificant person. In this way, Fu Yanqing suddenly couldn't feel his head, and he didn't know the intentions of the emperor and Zhou Wei.
However, as the work progressed, Fu Yanqing discovered that all the things of Zhou Wei were directly reported to the emperor, and did not go through the moderation at all, so fu Yanqing at this time understood that Zhou Wei came on behalf of the imperial court, and their existence was to weaken the power of the feudal town.
▲ Fu Yanqing stills
3. The town of Phan is weakened
Fu Yanqing was not the only one who saw it, the other emissaries also understood the emperor's thoughts, and Wang Zhenqi also found that the county order had asked him to report directly to the emperor.
Wang Zhenqi's subordinates suggested killing the county order, but Wang Xianqi did not agree, because now that the world is too peaceful, if he kills in a hurry, he will threaten the imperial court, and he will definitely meet each other at that time, and the current situation naturally cannot defeat Zhao Kuangyin, so Wang Zhenqi did not agree.
Seeing that the county order was not persecuted in the fan town, Zhao Kuangyin decided to add more fire, set up a transfer envoy and a general judgment, and specially transported local materials to the central government, as did the elite soldiers.
The elite troops transported all entered the ranks of the central forbidden army, thus strengthening the centralization of power, and the local rights were once again weakened.
However, Zhao Pu did not expect that the policy he proposed was finally implemented on his own head, Zhao Pu was once the prime minister, because the power was too large, he was suppressed by Song Taizu, and eventually the official position was also degraded again and again, and finally became a jiedushi envoy, but the emperor was still jealous of Zhao Pu's power, so he tried to weaken the power of the clan town.
It also divided part of the feudal towns under the jurisdiction of Zhao Pu and directly belonged to the administration of the imperial court. The policy of cutting the domain that Zhao Pu once proposed was finally applied to himself, and his influence gradually decreased.
▲Zhao Pu
brief summary
The policy of cutting down the domain allowed the problem of the town that could not be handled since the end of the Tang Dynasty for five generations to be solved, and the Song Dynasty was strengthened to a certain extent.
【References】
1. History of the Song Dynasty
2. The Biography of Zhao Pu
3. Zizhi Tongjian