The History of Wei Mai Revealed - The Character Imprint of the Song Taizu Era

Introduction: A Feeling Of Difference:

In the footsteps of the great leaders, we can hear the rolling thunder of history. Throughout history – from the ancient Greeks, through Shakespeare, to modern times – few themes have enduringly attracted dramatists and historians as great leaders.

What makes these leaders different? What is the cause of that special, indescribable agitation between the leader and the led? The role played by these leaders is so intriguing not only because of its drama, but also because of its importance — its impact. When a play closes, the audience leaves the theater and goes home to continue their normal life; and when a leader's career ends and the curtain falls, the audience's own life changes, and the course of history may also undergo profound changes, which is a trace of the times in the sense of history!

Part 1

Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, had outstanding merits, and thus he was different from other rulers of the entire dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin, the Grandfather of the Song Dynasty, was a feudal emperor who had various qualities as an emperor. The emperor represented an uncompromising role of authority, preferring order, norms, and stability, and wielding supreme power. In order to rule the country, he must put away his personal feelings and use an iron fist to control the social order so that the country will not fall apart. When necessary, even drastic measures must be taken to promulgate laws and prohibitions.

The emperor can be a discerning monarch or a tyrant who poisons the living beings, just as the law is good or bad, the emperor can be good or bad. In addition, the Song Emperor can also show a period of stable self-discipline, and the parties can be strict with themselves, meticulous, and achieve their goals. During this period, the parties often adopted a rational analysis method, rather than listening to emotions and intuition, and he could open up the territory and be steady like the previous emperors.

Part 2

The emperor was the promoter of the times and the protagonist of the big stage of his time. Therefore, his time must have been a interpretation of the character of the emperor. Reading the era of the emperor, in fact, reading is the personality of the emperor. The Song Taizu era laid the mark of Zhao Kuangyin's character, so that we can feel the unique character of Zhao Kuangyin while tasting this era.

The key word of the imperial era is the "Ninth Five-Year Dignity" that stands tall, and the emperor has attracted the attention of thousands of people. Sitting on the dragon chair, what kind of personality did the emperors face the complex human world?

1, the throne: the emperor's seat is first to be kept, this is the top priority of all emperors. Acts that threaten the dragon throne are the most heinous crimes in any dynasty, and even the "usurpation of power" that catches the wind and shadows will immediately invite the disaster of killing. Therefore, the person closest to the throne is always the most dangerous.

2, loneliness: Although there are hundreds of civil and military officials, there are also harem beauties of three thousand, loneliness is the shadow that the emperors cannot get rid of. No one can really enter the hearts of the emperors, and even if they can grasp some superficial phenomena, they cannot really grasp their minds. Those who are less able to resist loneliness will either become puppets of powerful people, or they will merge into some inexplicable hobbies and escape from reality.

3. Suspicion: It is difficult to control all beings in the world by relying on the strength of one person, even if it is above the court, it will also face the small nines and nines of the group of courtiers. Suspicion is an inevitable choice when it is impossible to know all the information. As an emperor, there are too many people who need to play, and the suspicion is even heavier. Suspicion also became an inherent component and commonality in the emperor's personality.

4, control: it is best to control everything, but only one person can not achieve this goal, or rely on cronies, rely on the civil and military subjects, how to control them to do the "squad leader" has become a permanent subject of the emperor.

5, the game: the game is played by others, the emperor to be the system rules of the maker, the arbiter. Mainly to watch others do the game, of course, there are also confused by the game, they also played into it, so the middle of the game, their own digging pits and so on unexpectedly.

The emperor of a country and the "emperor" of a family seem to have the mentality and character of the emperor mentioned above. This gives us the best reason to study the age of kings.

Part 3

To evaluate a person's merits and demerits, we must use the historical point of view and put him in the historical environment at that time to analyze him, so that the conclusions drawn are more objective. It seems that the founding emperors of the past have had an enlightened vision and extraordinary wisdom, and Song Taizu is no exception. He founded the Song Dynasty and laid a permanent tone for it, which brought about the glory of the world and the seeds of the subjugation of the country.

This is the inadequacy of the character of Song Taizu, a historical figure, and his era is also imperfect because of his character defects. The Song Taizu era brought long-term stability, cultural prosperity and scientific and technological progress to the people, but due to the emphasis on literature and light weapons, it also left the hidden dangers of the Song Dynasty's long-term "poverty and weakness".

Part 4

The Song Taizu era also shows that Song Taizu is not a perfect person. The intersection of the times and the characters is the best entry point for people to read history, and it is also the key point in evaluating history. There is no perfect person in this world, let alone Zhao Kuangyin a thousand years ago.

The Song Taizu era was a period of inheritance from the top to the bottom, enjoying a high reputation in the folk, and had a profound impact on later generations, and the merits and demerits of the Song Dynasty had a historical reference effect. This is perhaps the reason and the necessity of our pulse of historical development after a thousand years.

Part 5

The greatest contribution and achievement of Song Taizu's life was to restore the unification of most of China, ending in one fell swoop the two-hundred-year-long situation of vassal division and warlord chaos since the Anshi Rebellion. He launched a successful coup from "Chen Qiao Mutiny, Yellow Robe Plus Body", ascended to the throne of God without bloodshed, to unify most of China, created a distinctive literati political system, and created a prosperous era of civil rule in China, laying a solid foundation for the economy and culture of the Song Dynasty, which lasted for more than 300 years, to reach another peak in China's history.

The era of Wu Lie Wenlong was yearning, lamentable, and fierce, and could not help but chant the great poems of Fan Zhongyan, Su Dongpo, Yue Fei, and Wen Tianxiang who were worried before they were happy, exuberantly romantic, retained Dan heart, and loyal to the country.

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