There are many mysteries in history, and a small person may also influence the fate of the empire and affect the direction of history. Yu Tianxi, a teacher of the Southern Song Dynasty, played such a role in history.
At that time, Shi Miyuan, the minister of power, wanted to re-establish the crown prince because of his discord with the crown prince Zhao Hu, and asked his tutor Yu Tianxi to pay attention to finding suitable royal children to enter the palace. Yu Tianxi taught in Shi Miyuan's home in his youth, Yu Tianxi was introverted, cautious, and wise, and Shi Miyuan admired his strengths.
In 1221, Yu Tianxi returned to his hometown to prepare for the township test, and when he took a boat through Shaoxing, he dreamed of Erlong driving a boat while sleeping, and when he got up to take a look, he saw two children swimming on the side of the boat. When I asked, I learned that he was the tenth grandson of the Zhao clan, Zhao and Ju (Lizong Zhao Yun) and his younger brother Zhao and Rui. This matter is said to be divine, and Ming Zhang Dai recorded this incident in his "Night Sailing Ship".
When Yu Tianxi reported to Shi Miyuan, the ancestor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao you, Shi Miyuan was overjoyed and secretly sent him to Ningbo, where he taught court etiquette to Tianxi's mother Zhu Shi and renamed him Zhao Yun.
In this way, the fate of a bland royal commoner changed, and the fate of a dynasty changed.
Yu Tianxi was thus involved in the terrifying waves of history. Yu Tianxi won the Jinshi, and the next year he was ordered to do a big thing.
In 1224, Emperor Ningzong of Song died, and under the influence of the chancellor Shi Miyuan, the crown prince Zhao Hu's dream of ascending the throne was shattered, and the throne fell to Zhao Youju, who changed his name to Zhao Yun. Zhao Hu was sent to Huzhou by reprimand, and Zhao Hu, who was not willing to accept defeat, wanted to become emperor in the north but failed, and had to pretend to be ill in the midst of defeat. Shi Miyuan sent Yu Tianxi to Huzhou in the name of curing his illness, and ordered that poisoned wine be given to death of Zhao Hu.
Whether Yu Tianxi wanted to do it or not, he had no choice.
After Zhao Yun ascended the throne, Yu Tianxi was given the title of Official Shilang (吏部侍郎) because of his meritorious service to emperor, and in 1233, he was also given the title of Rebbe Shilang (礼部侍郎). In the first month of 1238 (the second year of Jiaxi), Yu Tianxi was given the title of Official Shangshu and Zhizhong, a scholar of the Duanming Temple, who signed a letter to know the affairs of the Privy Council, and the following year was appointed as the Governor of the Privy Council.
The vortex of politics is formed by the confluence of multiple undercurrents. Zuo Si consulted Cao Feng on Yu Tianxi's faults, and Emperor Lizong regarded Tianxi as a benefactor and wanted to demean Cao Feng. Yu Tianxi did not care about his previous suspicions, and wrote "Leaving Cao Feng Shu": "The subject and the feng have the longest friendship, the deepest understanding, and now look at what they say, Yu Jun's father has the respect of Chen Shan, and friends and friends have the way of responsibility." ”
Yu Tianxi complained with virtue, and this "Leaving Cao Feng Shu" did not have false feelings, and Cao Feng was reinstated.
Yu Tianxi was an official for eighteen years in his lifetime, of which shang shu and above were high-ranking officials for four years, and the Zongshi Yu Tianxi said: "Yu Tianxi is cautious in nature, never anticipates foreign affairs, and is very important." ”
In 1241 (the first year of ChunYou), Yu Tianxi died of illness, and the imperial court made him a Taishi. Yu Tianxi's descendants revised the "Genealogy of the Yu Clan", and the emperor gave him the genealogy. In the fourth year of Baoyou (1256), Emperor Lizong of Song also issued an edict for the Genealogy of the Yu Clan.
But the history that followed was lamented, and the Southern Song Dynasty and Song Lizong were on the road to extinction.
Because of Song Lizong's corruption and incompetence and inability to distinguish between loyal and adulterous, he appointed traitors and ministers, and excluded and attacked loyal generals. The absurdity and luxury of life led to the increasing corruption of the Southern Song Dynasty's rule and the poor government.
After Yu Tianxi's death, Emperor Lizong of Song appointed Shi Miyuan's nephew Shi Song as his chancellor. Shi Song made the atmosphere of the imperial court a miasma, and the Southern Song Dynasty went into decline. After Shi Song, Emperor Lizong appointed Ding Daquan as his prime minister to further lead the country into the abyss. Finally, jia rudao was reused, and these few three times and two times finished the song family's last Jiangshan.
In 1279, the Yuan Dynasty unified China, and the Southern Song Dynasty announced its withdrawal from the stage of history.