The traitors in Chinese history are definitely a landscape, and in this landscape, Cai Jing is a landscape in the landscape. Why? Because he has many stories.
Like the traitors of history, Cai Jing has many similarities, such as power tilting toward the opposition, fierce cunning, flattery, dancing power tricks, exclusion of dissidents, cruelty to loyalty, bribery and so on, but Cai Jing has his own personality. He was quite literary and was a famous calligrapher and literary scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was similar to the later Yan Song.
In addition, Cai Jing is a person who lives a very luxurious life. He dared to spend money and dare to have fun. We can see it from a story.
The Song Ren Luo Dajing "Crane Forest Yulu" mentions such a story, saying that Cai Jing, the crab yellow bun in the foodie's house, is a must in the world. Many officials want to eat it, but not everyone can eat it.
One official, because he had not been invited by Cai Jing for a long time and could not eat the prestigious buns, spent money on a maid in Kaifeng, because this maid claimed to be a cook in Cai Jing's house, and she was also responsible for making buns.
The official was very happy, so he bought her, and then ordered her to make a cage of buns for herself, intending to taste the flavor of the buns in the famous Cai Jing Mansion.
Who knows, the maid said she couldn't do it.
The official was very confused, aren't you specially making buns at Cai Jing's house? Why can't you do it?
The maid said, "Although I am from the Cai Taishi Kitchen Bun Bureau, I am divided into green onion shreds, and I am only responsible for picking and shredding shallots, and I do not care about the rest."
Making a bun is such a fine division of labor, and the rest is self-evident, so it can be seen that Cai Jing is indeed willing to eat and spend money, and this kind of life day is naturally very solemn. The Northern Song Dynasty originally had the custom of birthdays, and Cai Jing, as a person who would enjoy it so much, naturally would not be sloppy about his own birthday.
On Cai Jing's birthday, the officials of the state capital of the world had to donate money and goods. Because of its large number, it must be organized into a program for every ten ships, called the "Birth Anniversary". We can also get some information from Water Margin.
However, Cai Jing's birthday gifts also accepted a joke. It is said that there was a person who despised Cai Jing and other traitors, so he wanted to find an opportunity to tease him, and finally he decided to celebrate Cai Jing's birthday by way of gifts.
One year, when it was Cai Jing's birthday again, his followers naturally had to prepare gifts for his birthday. This person pretended to be Cai Jing's student to celebrate Cai Jing's birthday and brought a large wooden box as a birthday gift. It is said that this is their family heirloom, specially given to Cai Jing as a gift.
And Cai Jing was naturally very happy to receive the gift, gently opened the box, only to look at it, only to see that there were dozens of tumblers of different sizes inside, the workmanship was very exquisite, lifelike, very like, in short, very happy.
Later, after the birthday, after everyone had left, Cai Jing's servants began to clean up the birthday gifts sent by everyone. When the next person opened the big wooden box again, he found something strange. The servants found that the tumblers all had a small note inside them that read the names of Cai Jing's henchmen and cronies.
Then the servants quickly reported the matter to Cai Jing, and when Cai Jing came, he found something even more infuriating. He found a passage in the biggest tumbler, the content of which was: the tip of the head can be drilled, and the stomach can be greedy. People pretend to have dignity in front of them, but in fact they are a big adulterer. Tumbler, tumbler, it seems easy to fall, but in fact, it is not easy to fall on both sides and three knives.
It is said that after Cai Jing read this sentence, he was angry on the spot, so he immediately asked someone to track down who sent it? In the end, it ended up without a problem, because it was an impostor, and the source could not be traced. There was no way, Cai Jing had to endure it himself, and it was said that he scolded his subordinates fiercely, and the matter was not resolved.
It seems that the birthday gifts are too much, and it is not a good thing.
Although Cai Jing lived a very dashing life, unlimited scenery, moist life, dared to spend money, and enjoyed it, the final ending was very tragic. Cai Jing, who was not tired of eating, finally starved to death. Because this man was a well-known traitor, he could not buy food if he had money on the way to exile.
In 1126, the first year of Jing Kang, Emperor Qinzong of Song sent Cai Jingfa to Danzhou. On the way to distribution, he was despised by everyone, so despised that he was not given food to eat, and as a result, Cai Jing was starved to death.
Poor Cai Jing, in the end he didn't fish for anything.