It can be said that Cai Jing has always been mentioned, and a word of "rape" sums up his life. However, when we broaden our historical horizons, through this "adulterous" word, some other factors in Cai Jing are particularly striking--he is not only a traitor, but also a capable minister. His administrative prowess was recognized as early as that. However, in the specific policies that he has been criticizing endlessly, he can repeatedly find the political and economic insights and institutional designs that transcend the people of the time.
Researchers have long pointed out that ''
The continued inheritance and development of some of the systems created by him (Cai Jing) in the Southern Song Dynasty and even in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties is obviously not defined by the word "harsh government", and its economic reforms "meet the needs of the development of the social commodity economy of the Song Dynasty".
。 Therefore, it is impossible not to recognize that Cai Jing is also a talent for governing the country. However, why did this talent for governing the country send the Northern Song Dynasty to the road of national subjugation? I am afraid that the word "rape" cannot encapsulate all the problems.
Cai Jing (February 14, 1047 – August 11, 1126), ziyuan chang, prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was also a calligrapher, born in a family of officials and eunuchs, was a second generation official, as the second generation of officials Cai Jing was a prodigy from childhood, the Cai Jing family also had a high IQ gene, seven jinshi in one discipline, three tanhua, six of Cai Jing's eight sons are bachelors, all are academic bullies.
Cai Jing's knowledge is at least a high-level intellectual today, and today's doctors, masters, and professors are not necessarily as high as Cai Jing's knowledge. If you look at the art of calligraphy, Cai Jing is even more: "'The well platform draws water - there is no need to pick'".
Cai Jing in people's eyes at that time:
Recognized by both the old and new parties as the prime minister
All praised him differently, indicating that this person was very talented, and the root of Cai Jing's tragedy was the contradiction between the ability to govern the country and the incompetent traitor.
Although Cai Jing is historically defined as the Northern Song Dynasty
''The Six Traitors''
The first, but as a five-term prime minister during the Song Huizong period, no matter how hard he tried to please, he could not control it without a little bit of governing strength.
Although the fiscal policy he pursued was criticized by posterity as a means of accumulation - satisfying the emperor's extravagance, but intensifying social contradictions, his economic reform of tea, salt, wine and other monopoly areas promoted the private economy and became a model of the monopoly system used from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Cai Jing's reform of the monopoly system activated the private economy to ensure the country's finances, and the reform of the money law met the needs of the commodity economy, but after the money reform, it brought huge financial resources to the government, and also met the needs of the emperor's luxurious and eroded life. After that, Cai Jing established a social assistance system and began to do charity, and the social assistance system was implemented so vigorously that it was rare in history.
Specially adopting 'widows, widows and lonely people',' called nursing homes, responsible for the free treatment of patients who have no money to treat diseases, called ''Anjifang'', burying the deceased people in nursing homes and Anjifang, as well as those who have died in society', 'those who expose the trenches', ''Leaky Garden''.
The system of nursing homes, anjifang and leaky garden that he promoted was undoubtedly the peak of the development of the relief system in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was unprecedented in Chinese history. Even in the later Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. It was Cai Jing who scaled and institutionalized social relief activities.
However, what did Cai Jing do that hurt nature and make people hate him so much?
A desperate poem written by Cai Jing temporarily exposed his sins. The song goes like this:
''Eighty-one years ago, four thousand miles away without a home.'' Now he wanders to the end of the world and dreams of Yaochi Quexia.
The Jade Hall was destined to be five times, and Tong Ting had several degrees of xuanma. Because of the greed for this glory, there is now. ''
- "Xi Jiang Yue , Eighty-one Years of Residence".
The end of Cai Jing's life was Tanzhou (present-day Changsha, Hunan), when he was 80 years old (81 years old), and the place of his exile was Danzhou (present-day Hainan Island), but when he walked to Tanzhou, he felt that he was about to die, so at the end of his life, he looked back on his life and made the above words.
As can be seen from the words, Cai Jing is still very proud of his former glory,
5 times of worship, unlimited scenery, extremely popular subjects, one hand to cover the sky.
At the same time, he also summed up the reasons for his failure, that is, he was greedy for glory, could not extricate himself, and did many things that misled the country and the people, and only then did he fall into today's step. Implications:
If you knew this, why did you do it in the first place?
The reason for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Jing has an unshirkable responsibility. Cai Jing was full of evil in his life, he was a snob when he was discouraged, and when he saw that the emperor at that time, Song Shenzong, supported Wang Anshi's reform of the law and advocated the power of the law changers, he actively joined the ranks of the law changers; when the conservative faction led by Sima Guang came to power, he became the main figure in attacking the reform of the law, and whether it was the reformers or the conservatives gained power, Cai Kyoto would change like a chameleon. As a result, when Sima Guang, the chancellor at the time, was preparing to reuse Cai Jing, the Yanguan hurriedly dissuaded him, proposing that this person ''support evil and cherish the law'' could not be reused.
Cai Jing was a three-year jinshi of the Song Dynasty Emperor HeiNing, and was a follower of Wang Anshi's transformation of the law, Wang Anshi was degraded, and he actively supported the conservative Sima Guang, and was praised by Sima Guang. From this point of view alone, Cai Jing is a speculator, and whoever holds power in the imperial court will turn to whomever he wants. Later, in the first year of Shaosheng (1094 AD), Emperor Zhezong pro-government, Cai Jing served as the head of the Household Department Shangshu, and helped the chancellor Zhang Huan to re-implement the new law.
When Cai Jing came to power, he began to place his confidants in various important departments, and Cai Jing was a very intelligent and capable person to achieve the purpose of centralizing power, but his cleverness was used for speculation and accumulation. And it is precisely because of his talent, his speculation, and his ability to win the trust and favor of Emperor Huizong in the palace Cai Jing has always had a fixed internal line to make friends with all kinds of people, etc., forming today's so-called "Cai Family Gang" to eliminate political enemies and cut the roots.
Emperor Huizong of Song reigned for more than twenty years, and the people he trusted were Tong Guan and Cai Jing, who were traitors. It is no wonder that Song Weizong likes to have fun and beauties, and also likes strange flowers and stones, and the good ministers have the safety of the country in their hearts, and they will never go with the emperor to get beautiful women and flowers, of course, only the traitors are busy with these things for the emperor. When the emperor wanted to expand the imperial palace and build a royal garden, Liangchen thought: As soon as the construction began, it would require a lot of money, it would have to increase taxes, it would have to send labor, and so on.
But the traitorous courtiers will curry favor with the emperor and say that the emperor should expand the imperial palace, rebuild the imperial garden, and build the most magnificent and beautiful imperial garden in history, because the emperor is the emperor of the world's subjects, and the common people love to wear their emperor! Who do you say the emperor will listen to? Is the emperor's ear really meant to hear advice? And Tong Guan and Cai Jing also formed a mutually supportive and unbreakable friendship.
Facts show that in the years to come, it was this terrible friendship that seduced Song Weizong and dragged the Great Song Dynasty step by step down the quagmire of disaster. In this way, these traitors dragged down the Great Song Dynasty.
But some people can't help but ask, since Cai Jing is so favored, he can be called the head of the six thieves, why did he starve to death? That's outrageous, isn't it? What's going on here?
Poor people must have something to hate, the Northern Song Dynasty traitor Cai Jing in the exile after the fall, suffered all kinds of cold treatment from officials along the way, even the former dead party, no one is willing to give a little help, not to mention the common people hate it even more to the bone, all kinds of insults, even food and use will not sell him, Cai Jingcang panic like a street rat, everyone shouts and beats.
In Wang Mingqing's "After the Dust", the cause of death of Cai Jing, a traitorous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, is recorded: ''
In the beginning, the food and drink of the YuanChang, the food and drink of the Daozhong City, were not sold, and as for the insults, they did everything. He starved to death.
In this way, it seems that Cai Jing did not die of poverty, but starved to death.
This is because the corrupt official Cai Jing was exiled to Shaoguan, Lingnan, because of the incident. Before leaving, he filled a large boat with gold and silver treasures that he had stolen from the people, and he carried three women with him. In Cai Jing's view, money can be psychic, and without power, as long as there is money, what is uneven?
It is said that the merchants are only interested in profit, but the merchants of the Northern Song Dynasty took the righteousness and abandoned the profits, and I heard that cai Jinghou who opened the hostel did not give him "open a room", the person who opened a restaurant did not give him "open a meal", and the person who opened a small commodity department store did not sell him a cookie, and did not sell it at a high price.
From Kaifeng to Changsha, "three thousand miles away without a home", it is difficult for Cai Jing to buy a mouthful of rice, a plate of vegetables, and a cup of tea on the road of three thousand miles.
There is no place to rest in Changsha, only to live in a broken temple in the south of the city. In the end, Cai Jing died of hunger and cold, ending his sinful life.
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