What kind of character is Zhao Guangyi? As the second emperor of the Zhao and Song dynasties, Zhao Guangyi's personal ability is still beyond doubt, but if he is an emperor, he cannot simply look at his personal intelligence and judge whether he is a Ming Jun, and the main criterion is "Wenzhi Martial Arts". Zhao Guangyi was a relatively ambitious person, at the beginning of the succession to the throne, in addition to sweeping away the Northern Han and some of the separatist forces, his use of troops against South Vietnam and the Liao state suffered failures, especially the use of troops against the Liao state, with heavy losses and almost shaking the foundation of the country.
Zhao Guangyi was 12 years younger than his brother, and when he was a teenager, he was exceptionally intelligent, and he followed his brother in the southern conquest of the northern war, it can be said that he had enough strength and wisdom to stabilize the empire left behind after Zhao Kuangyin's death. As for whether Guangyi's succession to the throne on behalf of his brother is in line with Zhao Kuangyin's last wishes, there is a debate in history, and the "Alliance of the Golden Dagger", which was mentioned and testified by Zhao Pu only after Zhao Guangyi became emperor, is also suspicious for the brother to pass on the brother. In the end, this covenant is not the Zhao brothers listening to their mother's words and passing on from brother to brother.
Guang Yi got the reward and said that he wanted to consult with his family, but was stopped by the two people, saying that the matter could not be delayed urgently, so he entered the palace and quickly cut the chaos to succeed to the throne, even if there were other ministers in the DPRK who had the heart to support Zhao Kuangyin's son, it would be too late. Why didn't anyone embrace the son of Song Taizu? That's because the name of the testament is the brother and the last brother, but in the scene at that time, it was possible for Zhao Kuangyin to pass the throne to the younger brother. The general Yang Ye was killed on the battlefield because of his feud with the eunuchs of the overseer army. Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, like Song Xiaozong, had great ambitions and a bold speech to restore the world, but he had no choice but to give up and could only deal with the enemy.
Zhao Guangyi led his army to personally conquer the Liao state for the first time, but the battle retreated at a critical moment, resulting in a major defeat of the whole army, the second initiative to attack the Liao, and a big defeat and loss, and two fiascos, resulting in the loss of the elite of the Song army, unable to try to carry out the Northern Expedition again, and the Song also changed from a strategic attack to a defense. Through the above political experience of Zhao Guangyi, we can see that Zhao Guangyi has more than enough "civilian governance" in governing the country, so that the country's political situation will stabilize the people's living in peace. Even if Song Taizong was not called a Ming Jun, he was definitely a capable monarch, a capable monarch, especially political ability. From his ability to control everything as a younger brother and to stabilize everything by ascending to the throne of God by irregular means, it can be seen that his political ability is extraordinary.
Maybe he killed his brother to seize the throne and carried too much psychological burden, so he was bent on being a good emperor to prove that I was better than you. Therefore, he was always compared with Tang Taizong, very diligent, diligent and earnest to be a good emperor, single-handedly promoting the establishment of the Song Dynasty's civil rule system and laying the foundation for the prosperity of the Song Dynasty. However, because what he wanted to do was better than Taizu, and even militarily he wanted to do better than Taizu, but its military ability was indeed too poor, and the defeat of the Sorghum River made him feel frightened, and then he did not dare to go to the battlefield, and could only remotely control the command, but this also led to several major defeats at the border pass.
Originally, during the Taizu period, the use of border generals was loose and profitable, and the generals had autonomy to fight wars, but Emperor Taizong did not have the ability to do so, and could only control the initiative of the generals by means, and as a result, the border generals became more and more rigid, and the status of military generals also plummeted, which also showed the high level of his political means. In private, Emperor Taizong was sinister and vicious, and his methods were vicious; in public terms, he was diligent and earnest and wanted to be a good emperor, and he did not do a bad job, and he could also be regarded as a Ming Jun.
Text: The wind is soft and the river is water
References: History of the Song Dynasty, General Guide to the Continuation of Zizhi
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