During the Southern Dynasty Song Xiaowu Emperor period, once the emperor invited the ministers, at that time almost everyone knew that Shen Qingzhi could not read, so a group of courtiers planned to take the opportunity to humiliate him, so they asked him to give a poem in the name of drinking, intending to laugh at him.
As a result, Shen Qingzhi did not say a word: "Weisheng meets many lucky, and he has to be lucky at the right time." The decaying old tendons were exhausted, and the hike returned to Nangang. This stunned everyone present, who had never imagined that he was so talented.
In fact, shen Qing, as the "elder of the five dynasties", was indeed very lucky in the first half of his life, but it was also this luck that finally sent him away directly.
Photo: Stills of Tai wei Shen Qingzhi
First, the elderly figure of high life
1, the big instrument is late
The Song Dynasty of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Guo Zuo has not been 60 years in total, and Shen Qingzhi, as a generation of famous generals, has lived for a full 80 years, which shows that he has witnessed the bloody rain and wind of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, to be precise, he himself should be regarded as a figure in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, because he fought fiercely since he was a child, so he ate this bowl of rice when he grew up.
In the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the situation was turbulent, the rebel army plundered everywhere, and Shen Qingzhi, who cultivated the land at home, began his military career, and from the existing historical data, Shen Qingzhi was by no means a teenager who became famous, he was more than 30 years old when he joined the army.
From the age of 30 to 80, he successively assisted the five emperors of Song Wudi, Song Shaodi, Song Wendi, Song Xiaowu and Song Qian, and was definitely one of the top military generals in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period.
Photo: Stills of top martial artist Shen Qingzhi
2. Famous all over the world
One of Shen Qing's initial bosses was Zhao Bofu, who was in charge of the defense of Xiangyang, and had been working under him for 15 years, and then the boss's health became worse and worse, so Shen Qingzhi went to serve under the famous Southern Dynasty general Tan Daoji.
In the past 15 years, although the former boss has been good to himself, he has no chance of promotion at all, but he just does his job day after year, which can make people depressed in middle age Shen Qingzhi.
When it came to Tan Daoji, it was different, under the strong recommendation of the other party, Emperor Wen of Song directly let him be the leader of the Forbidden Army, of course, this is just a springboard, can swing in front of the big boss, flying Yellow Tengda is not sooner or later!
Sure enough, soon after Shen Qingzhi was named the keeper of Qiantang, he was considered a party general, and when he was 57 years old, Shen Qingzhi's opportunity came, although it came later, but it was better than nothing, when the barbarians had been constantly harassing on the border of Yongzhou, and Shen Qingzhi was appointed to quell the chaos.
It may be that the time of resignation is too long, Shen Qingzhi went to the front line three times five divided by two to clean up the invading barbarians, but also captured tens of thousands of people, after meritorious service, the addition of officials into the knighthood is indispensable, he became a soldier to join the army and The Southern Dongping Taishou, at the age of 64, he once again led the army to Yongzhou, this time captured more than 50,000 people, directly established his status as a famous general of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Photo: Stills of Shogun Shen Qingzhi
Second, from the peak to the end
1. Shen Qingzhi's merits
Liu Yilong, emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, has been trying to carry out the Northern Expedition, but his repeated marches have ended in failure, in fact, in the imperial court, Shen Qingzhi has always opposed this matter, but the voice of the Northern Expedition is too loud, and he alone cannot play any role. Especially in the Second Northern Expedition, Shen Qingzhi strongly opposed it, but Emperor Wen of Song insisted on going his own way, and finally Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei directly killed the Yangtze River, causing the Southern Song Dynasty to almost destroy the country.
During the Third Northern Expedition, Shen Qingzhi was still one of the opponents, but unfortunately still failed to succeed, and finally Liu Yilong returned without success, resulting in the national strength of the Southern Dynasty and the Song Dynasty beginning to weaken, and then no longer able to compete with the Northern Dynasty.
However, during this period, Shen Qingzhi did not idle, successively conquered the Wushui Man, firmly controlled the military power of the three prefectures of Yu, Jing, and Yong, and became the core general of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Photo: Stills of one of Shen Qing's costumes
Liu Yilong reigned for a total of 30 years, which could spoil Liu Shao as the crown prince, in order to become emperor as soon as possible, he decided to kill Laozi, another son of Emperor Wen of Song, Liu Jun, saw bad things, so he raised an army to serve the king, because Shen Qingzhi had done things with Liu Jun in Yongzhou, so he went with him to fight Liu Shao.
This prince who had been in the Forbidden Palace for a long time was the opponent of the veteran general, and it was not long before he was pacified, but Shen Qingzhi did not intend to take it, and directly helped Liu Jun to bring the army into Jiankang City, so Liu Jun ascended the throne as emperor. Because of his meritorious service, he was appointed as a military and town army general in Duyan, Yu, Xu and other prefectures, and was named the Duke of Nanchang County, at the age of 68.
Image: Stills of Liu Jun's portrait
Liu Yilong's younger brother Liu Yixuan was originally also opposed to Liu Shao, but seeing Liu Jun become emperor, he fell into the void and held a grudge in his heart, so he joined forces with the assassins of Jiangzhou and Yuzhou to attack Jiankang, Liu Jun was actually not a capable person, and he was frightened at once, what to do?
At the critical moment, the veteran general was still out of the horse, Shen Qingzhi led the army to destroy Yuzhou to assassinate Shi Lushuang, and then attacked Shouyang, exhausting the main force of Liu Yixuan's army, relying on this merit, Shen Qingzhi was blessed with "Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division", and the title was promoted to the Duke of Sixing County, this year Shen Qingzhi was 70 years old.
But is that the end of it? Of course not, in his later years, he actually rebelled against Liu Shi, the king of Lingling, Liu Jun could not count on others at all, so that Shen Qingzhi, who was already 74 years old, was once again dressed in battle, this time Shen Qingzhi's new identity was a che riding general, which was already the highest military general of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Living up to expectations, he directly hit Guangling City, Liu Shi's stronghold, and after three months of siege, Liu Shi was overthrown, and Shen Qingzhi was awarded the title of Sikong for his merits.
Image: Shen Qingzhi put on a still
2. Reasons for not ending well
According to the theory, with Shen Qingzhi's merits and age, he should be able to become rich and wealthy and spend his old age in peace, so why did he not end well in the end? After Liu Jun's death, Shen Qingzhi, who originally did not want to take care of anything, was appointed as a minister to take care of the new emperor Liu Ziye.
This was originally a glorious task, but it was very dangerous for Shen Qingzhi, for the simple reason that this Liu Ziye was not a good commodity at all.
Due to the absurdity, the other ministers were ready to abolish it and establish Liu Yigong instead, which Shen Qingzhi originally did not want to participate in, after all, he was 79 years old, but as soon as he heard that it was Liu Yigong who wanted to stand, he began to sit still, because the two had a vendetta!
Shen Qingzhi may have been confused and directly told Liu Ziye about this matter, resulting in Liu Yigong and many courtiers being killed, the question is that with Liu Ziye's personality, if you kill other ministers who care about your life, will you be trusted? Of course, it was impossible, although shen Qingzhi resigned when he was 80 years old and returned to his hometown, Liu Ziye obviously did not intend to let him go.
Image: Stills of Shen Qingzhi's poisoning
Considering Shen Qingzhi's prestige, he was not good at doing things, so he instigated his nephew Shen Youzhi to kill him, and it is said that when Shen Qingzhi was not paying attention, he used a quilt to suffocate him alive, and for a generation of famous generals in weizhen battlefield, this method of death was indeed enough to pull his crotch.
Article author: Dahui
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