In 1100, when Emperor Huizong of Song had just succeeded to the throne, he was determined to be a wise monarch. After he was pro-government, he immediately issued an edict asking for merit: You boldly give me advice, I will reward you for useful suggestions, and those who are capable of becoming officials will give you officials to do, and if they are useless, I will not blame you.
Under the influence of Emperor Huizong of Song's broad speech, he received hundreds of opinions at once. After Song Huizong carefully looked at it, he picked useful implementations and rewards, and at the same time rehabilitated many people who were persecuted in the past, including the great literary hero Su Dongpo, but unfortunately Su Dongpo died on the way back, and a generation of superstars fell.
He also recalled the old chancellor Fan Chunren, who had been persecuted by Zhang Qian, back to the court. Fan Chunren was Fan Zhongyan's son, but unfortunately, old Fan was already 70 years old at the time, and he died not long after he returned.
Song Huizong often sighed: He was not born at the right time, and the people he wanted to use and the useful people all left him.
At this time, Emperor Huizong of Song was still able to humbly listen to different opinions. He also paid attention to frugality and never extravagant, and once the palace was to be renovated in the palace, and when Song Huizong inspected the construction period, he said to the foreman: If the prime minister passes by here later, you must hide in time and not let him see it.
Because the prime minister often asked him to be frugal, Song Huizong did not dare to be too extravagant, and it seems that Song Huizong at that time was still quite attentive.
The Tang Dynasty once had legendary stories of Tang Taizong and Wei Zheng. Once Wei Zheng asked Tang Taizong for advice, Tang Taizong was impatient and wanted to leave, Wei Zheng quickly grabbed Tang Taizong's sleeve, and such a thing also happened to Song Huizong.
Once, when Emperor Huizong of Song saw his ministers discussing political affairs, one of the ministers talked about the sun still chattering when the sun had set, and Song Huizong's stomach was grumbling with hunger. So he said to the minister: It is already dark today, so let's disperse, and we will talk about something tomorrow.
After saying that Song Huizong was about to get up, the minister was also anxious at first sight, he jumped up at once, grabbed Song Huizong's sleeve, and did not let him go, but the force was too great, and the sleeves of the clothes were torn.
Although Emperor Huizong of Song was very angry, he thought about it for a moment that it was also his own happiness to have such a courtier, so he also saved this dress as a warning.
However, Song Huizong was a literati after all, and he still liked to associate with literati in his bones. During his reign, there was a calligrapher named Mi Fu, who was a bit insane.
Emperor Huizong of Song often summoned him to the palace to write, and once after he showed the words he had written to Emperor Huizong of Song, Emperor Huizong of Song appreciated it so much that he gave all the treasures in the palace to Mi Fu. Mi Fu received so many rewards that she liked to write to Emperor Huizong of Song even more.
However, this also brought a bad impact to others, it turned out that by writing, you could please the emperor, so as to get countless rewards, rather than relying on the ability to govern the world, misleading many people to go astray.
The one who really led Emperor Huizong of Song to the evil road should be his first traitorous minister Cai Jing.
Cai Jing was also a calligrapher, he was once one of the four major calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty, but because he was notorious, his descendants replaced Cai Jing with Cai Xiang.
When Cai Jing was an official in the capital, he once mentioned a poem by Du Fu on the fans of his two servants. Who knows that the next day, these two fans sold for twenty thousand yuan. This fan was bought by a prince who knew the goods, that is, the Duan King at that time, and later the Song Huizong.
In the future, after Emperor Huizong of Song became emperor and Cai Jing became the prime minister, the two people talked about this matter, or very emotional, one of the two people has talent, one has wisdom, and the two also have a fate.
However, as an official, Cai Jing failed, because he was really a villain, in the time of Song Shenzong, the implementation of Wang Anshi's transformation method, he chose to take sides with Wang Anshi, vigorously promoted the new law, very much liked by Wang Anshi, but after Wang Anshi's change of law failed, he immediately saw the wind and steered, and he threw himself at Sima Guang and abolished all the changes.
After Emperor Zhezong succeeded to the throne, he chose Zhang Qian and a series of officials who advocated the new party, and he immediately changed direction. In just ten years, he turned his hands into clouds and overturned his hands into rain, wavering, without any political integrity.
After Cai Jing really arrived at Song Huizong's side, the two individuals began to nest snakes and rats, and they were in a daze and smelled the same.
Song Huizong originally knew about frugality, but Cai Jing said to him: All frugal emperors are old people, they own the world, and they do not spend hard, the emperor must dare to spend money, in order to prove that the country is strong, Song Huizong heard the music and blossomed, finally someone understands himself, so he began to open his heart to spend money.
Cai Jing also took advantage of the emperor's favor for him and did whatever he wanted, so the officials often impeached him, and Emperor Huizong of Song obeyed the ancestral system and could only depose him, but after a while he thought of him again, and could only find an excuse to take him back, so he was deposed four times.
However, after the abdication of Emperor Huizong of Song, Emperor Qinzong of Song succeeded to the throne, and Cai Jing's good days came to an end, he was demoted from the imperial court, all his descendants were exiled, charged with the army, and so on, and he also died of illness on the road of exile.
Like the later Qing Dynasty's He yan, he was a corrupt official, hated by everyone, and he was eager to use his blade for pleasure!
Fortunately, Cai Jing left early, and his master Song Huizong, under his guidance, went all the way to the black, and was later abducted by the Jin people to the north, where he was humiliated and humiliated, and finally died tragically in the north!