Brief Reading of History Author: Chen Fatzi
The Southern Song Dynasty traitor Qin Juniper left a strong black name in the history of China for five thousand years, using the charge of "false accusations" to frame the national hero Yue Fei, Yue Fei's tomb and several iron men forever knelt in front of Yue Fei's grave, including Qin Juniper, it can be said that in the list of traitors who framed Zhongliang, Qin Juniper is the only one, but today I want to talk about not the traitorous minister Qin Juniper, but another person, who also did the work of framing Zhongliang, but his crimes seem to be forgotten by future generations.
Today, the names of the two protagonists are Di Qing and Ouyang Xiu.
Di Qingzi Hanchen, a native of Xihe, Fenzhou. Di Qing came from a poor family, and at the age of sixteen, in order to replace his brother's negligence, he was "arrested and sent to Beijing, and his name was red", and began his career as a horseman. Di Qing's earliest position in the army was a cavalryman, and because of his excellent personal ability, Di Qing was soon selected to be scattered in the army.
In the early years of Baoyuan, Li Yuanhao of Western Xia rebelled, Di Qing was sent by the imperial court to the front line to quell the chaos, because the Song army at that time was in the inferior position in many confrontations with Li Yuanhao, so the Song army guarding the border pass had a fear of the enemy, Di Qing in order to regain morale, every time he clashed with the enemy, he took the lead and rushed to the first place, the soldiers saw that Di Qing was so heroic, and also boosted morale, during the few years of the border pass, Di Qing repeatedly broke through the enemy army in battle, captured Jintang City, captured Yuzhou, slaughtered Gong Yu, Shi Xiang, Mao Nu, Shang Luo, Qingqi, Jiakou and other tribes burned tens of thousands of stones of grain stored in Western Xia, confiscated 2,300 tents, and captured 5,700 prisoners.
After several years of fighting at Border Pass, Di Qing was also famous and gradually valued by the emperor, and after successfully quelling Li Yuanhao's rebellion, Di Qing was appointed deputy governor of Zhending Road. During the imperial period, the Northern Song Dynasty again encountered the rebellion of the barbarian Zhigao of Guangyuan Prefecture, and the rebel army marched all the way, capturing Yongzhou, and then attacking nine states along the river, at first Song Renzong sent Yang Bi and other pacification envoys to deal with the suppression of the barbarian rebellion, but the rebellion could not be quelled, but it became more and more fierce, and Song Renzong was furious and removed Yang Bi
And others, appointed Di Qing as an envoy to the Southern Yuan of Xuanhui and Xuanfu Of Jinghu North and South Roads, with full authority to deal with the rebellion.
The front-line soldiers learned that the general sent by the imperial court was Di Qing, and after the morale was greatly boosted, under the leadership of Di Qing's planning, the Song soldiers took the battalion step by step, fought steadily and steadily, recovered the lost land step by step, and quelled the Nong Zhigao rebellion, and this time the battle achievements made Di Qing become a big red man in the middle of the dynasty. After Banshi returned to the dynasty, Emperor Renzong of Song promoted Di Qing to be a privy councillor, and rewarded him with a set of mansions in the Jingshi Dun Sect, and gave priority to his sons to be promoted to higher ranks.
From here, we can actually see that Di Qing was completely a good general, helping the imperial court to suppress the rebellion and regain the lost land, although it was not as good as Yue Fei's military achievements, but he was also a loyal minister. However, such a loyal minister was frequently framed by civilian officials in the imperial court, and Ouyang Xiu also made great efforts in the civilian official clique.
Ouyang Xiu everyone should be no stranger, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, also with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi was collectively known as the "Four Great Articles of the Ages" by posterity, I believe that everyone has also read Ouyang Xiu's articles when they are reading.
Since ancient times, most of the dynastic civil servants and warlord groups generally have not had a very good relationship, let alone in the Song Dynasty, everyone knows that the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, was himself a military general, and it was also through the Chen Qiao Mutiny, the yellow robe plus body to seize the throne, in fact, it is not orthodox.
Therefore, in order to prevent his descendants from seizing power by military generals, after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, zhao Kuangyin began to suppress the power of military generals and gradually increase the power of civilian officials, so in the Song Dynasty, civil officials also looked down on military generals, not to mention that Di Qing was still born humble, which made civilian officials look down on him even more, but Di Qing did make such a great contribution, so the civilian officials group had to start framing and suppressing Di Qing.
For example, some officials framed Di Qing for flying and bullying the people with the emperor's favor, some officials impeached Di Qing for supporting the army and respecting themselves, and formed parties in the imperial court for personal gain, and some civilian officials framed Di Qing to rob the people's women, in short, there were all kinds of reasons, Song Renzong was counted as a ming jun, and naturally did not believe in these things that were made out of nothing.
At this time, Ouyang Xiu gave full play to his literary talents of the Tang and Song Dynasties, when the capital of the Song Dynasty was flooded, so Ouyang Xiu said that because Di Qing was a "plague of unbornness", or even "Tang's Zhu Zhu", the implication was that the flood was Di Qing's punishment of the imperial court by the privy council, and even would repeat the Tang Dynasty's "Shuntian Rebellion". The most taboo place for the emperor was that there was anything that affected the throne, even if it was a Ming Emperor, it could not be avoided, so Ouyang Xiu's recital also played the most important role in the impeachment of Di Qing.
In the end, Emperor Renzong of Song stripped Di Qing of his envoys and degraded Chen Prefecture, and eventually a generation of famous generals Di Qing ended up depressed in Chen Prefecture. The author believes that in ancient times, the civilian and official clique has been constantly refreshing the lower limit of the word shameless, and in the face of their own interests, the development of the country, the invasion of foreign enemies, and the people's lack of livelihood are all blind, so that in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the famous "Shame of Jingkang" occurred, which can only be said to be self-inflicted sins and cannot live.