In the fourth year of Jianlong (963), on the sixth day of the fourth month of the fourth year of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, inspected the temple of King Wucheng.
The so-called Wucheng Wang Temple is the Jiang Ziya Temple, commonly known as the Wu Temple.
The Tang Dynasty once assigned a total of sixty-four famous generals to the Wu Temple, and the Wu Temple became the highest praise after the death of the martial general.
Wu Temple
This time Zhao Kuangyin's visit to the Wu Temple was not to praise and commemorate these martial generals, he had come to do a big thing.
When he walked up to Bai Qi, the famous general of the Qin Kingdom, he suddenly pointed at Bai Qi and said, "The killing has already fallen, and it is not even more martial, Hu Wei is fed here?" ”
Bai Qi was the head of the four generals of the Warring States, attacking the city strategically and killing people like hemp.
Historical records record that in the Battle of Changping alone, he killed 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao State!
Some people in later generations called it the God of Killing!
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After Zhao Kuangyin finished speaking, he immediately ordered people to remove the white portrait and ordered a ruling on the martial generals enshrined in the Wu Temple.
There is a criterion for the martial generals who can continue to enjoy the martial arts temple - "those who have always been flawless in their merits." ”
What do you mean? Only a martial artist who has made great contributions without a stain can enter the Martial Temple.
Killing captives is the biggest stain.
As soon as Zhao Kuangyin spoke, there was still a reason why the people at the bottom would not listen.
On June 11, the verdict came out:
Warring States Period:
Wu Qi of the State of Wei, Sun Zhen of the State of Qi, and Lian Po of the State of Zhao;
Western Han Dynasty: Han Xin, Peng Yue, Zhou Yafu;
Eastern Han Dynasty: Duan Jiming;
Three Kingdoms: Deng Ai of the State of Wei; Guan Yu and Zhang Fei of the Shu Kingdom;
Jin Dynasty: Du Yuankai, Tao Kan;
Southern and Northern Dynasties: Murong Shaozong of Northern Qi; Wang Monk of liang dynasty; Wu Mingche of Chen Dynasty;
Sui Dynasty: Yang Su, He Ruobi, Shi Wanzai;
Tang Dynasty: Li Guangbi, Wang Xiaojie, Zhang Qiqiu, Guo Yuanzhen.
Together with the previous Bai Qi, a total of twenty-three people were kicked out of the Martial Temple.
That is to say, Zhao Kuangyin first targeted Bai Qi, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were actually implicated by Bai Qi, which was unlucky.
If someone goes out, someone goes in.
Then the Song Dynasty ministers handed in their reports and added some military generals.
Western Han Dynasty: infant irrigation;
Eastern Han Dynasty: Geng Chun, Wang Ba, Ji Zun, Ban Chao;
Jin Dynasty: Wang Hun and Zhou Visit;
Southern and Northern Dynasties: Shen Qingzhi of the Liu Song Dynasty; Li Chong, Fu Yong of the Northern Wei Dynasty; Duan Shao of The Northern Qi; Li Bi of the Northern Zhou Dynasty;
Tang Dynasty: Qin Shubao, Zhang Gongjin, Tang Xiujing, Hun Yu, Pei Du, Li Guangyan, Li Yu, Zheng Bi;
Five Dynasties: Twenty-three people, including Later Liang Ge Congzhou, Later Tang Zhou Dewei, and Fu Cunzhen, entered the Wu Temple.
After receiving the report, Zhao Kuangyin made a slight adjustment, adding the State of Qi Guan Zhong and the State of Wei to Wu Qi, and the rest remained unchanged.
The matter is over.
Portrait of Zhao Kuangyin
Dissenting views were soon raised, however.
On June 13, Secretary Lang and Liang Zhouhan of the Zhishiguan raised objections, first using Zhou Gongdan and Confucius as examples, pointing out that even saints could not do "flawless deeds".
Then he specifically analyzed the problems and interceded for the famous generals of each dynasty.
No one is perfect, fighting a war is not a matter of lip service, who has not made a mistake?
Only Le Yi and Lian Po were killed and taken prisoners; Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Xi Yi were cursed. Bai Qi gave the sword Du You, and the Wu Ren floated the corpse of Jiang Li. Zuo Che was also the general of the Ben Army, and Sun Zhen was the one who tortured the remnants. Huang Tho was angry with Qi Ting, and Wu Qi was not destined for the Chu State. Zhou Bo weighed and had doubts about placing a shangfang. Chen Ping was good at plotting and was slandered by the Jin generals. Yaf died as a jailer, and Deng Ai chased after the sills. Li Hutongzhong, Guangdong late and self-destructed. Dou Jin Chen Yu died as a baby planter. Deng Yu was defeated by Huixi and had no sending dong Rong for life. Ma Yuan died in a barbaric state, and the corpse was sent to the ceremony. The rest of Zhuge Liang's servants, the lord of the side, Wang Jingluo's generation, the king of the leap throne. Guan Yu was captured by the enemy state, and Zhang Fei was killed by his subordinates. Who should be tired of all such famous generals, who is full of men and women, and who should be tired? Or from Cheng Ji, you can give up. In fact, his meritorious deeds are long, the name is Xuan He, the woodcutter is shepherd, the salt is known, the column will be tonghou, and the theft will be admired. If once the divine throne is removed, if he is thrown out of the ancestral court, if he blows the hair and asks for the wrongdoing of the other, and if he throws in the anger of the ancients, he will be confused by the times and secretly discuss and rejoice. Jingxing high mountains, more admiring of the past, heroic souls, will have hatred in the Ming Dynasty. ”
But Zhao Kuangyin did not listen, according to the original plan, just like this, don't talk nonsense.
Now the question is, why did Zhao Kuangyin make a fuss about the Martial Temple' enjoyment in a big way, and wanted to live with Bai Qi, Guan Yu and others?
Zhao Kuangyin is definitely not a whim, a whim, but full of political implications.
There is a direct reason for this.
On the ninth day of February of that year, the Song Dynasty army destroyed Nanping without bloodshed, and then the sword blade of the large army pointed directly at Hunan, to collect Wuping Jiedu to make Zhou Baoquan.
As a result, the most tragic scene in the Song Dynasty's unification war was staged.
The history books record:
"Dozens of fat people were selected for their captives, and the left and right were divided into food, and the young and healthy people were allowed to enter Langzhou first." Will be twilight, in the village. Chi Ming, succeeded murong Yanzhao. The captives were taken into the city, and it was said that the captured were eaten by the king's master. Fearful, the thieves set fire to the city, drove the inhabitants, and ran through the valley. ”
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After he captured the captives, he selected dozens of big fat people from them, and then in front of all the other prisoners, let the soldiers eat these dozens of big fat people!
Throughout the ages, during the war, it was not uncommon to slaughter cities, and it was not uncommon for people to eat human flesh, but people like Li Chuyun who ate human flesh in public still broke through people's moral bottom line!
I don't know if Song Jun, who eats human flesh, will not be disgusted if he can still eat meat in the future.
Anyway, at least all the Wuping soldiers present were disgusted.
What is Li Chuyun doing here?
He was soon given the answer.
Li Chuyun immediately ordered that dozens of young captives be inscribed on their faces and then released to Langzhou. These lucky people should thank themselves for not being fat enough, otherwise they will also become the rations of the Song Army.
When they escaped back to Langzhou, they immediately told everyone in Langzhou what they had seen and heard.
Brothers, Song Jun really eats human flesh, fathers and fellow countrymen, hurry up and lose weight, Song Jun first eats fat people.
In short, the importance of weight loss was once again reiterated, and the terror of the Song Army was once again publicized.
Soon, the news that the Song Dynasty army would eat people had spread throughout the city of Langzhou.
On the other side is a tiger and wolf division that can eat people, who has the courage to resist such an army? Who else wants to test whether their weight is up to the standard of human flesh?
So "the thieves, terrified, set fire to the city, drove away the inhabitants, and ran through the valley." ”
Fear is contagious, the military and civilians in Langzhou city began to chaos, the people set fire to the city, rushed to the valley, Langzhou collapsed into an army.
This is what the art of war says, the siege is the bottom, the attack is the top.
Li Chuyun's methods were brutal, but the effect was surprisingly good, and Hunan was quickly taken down.
When Zhao Kuangyin learned the news that Li Chuyun had killed the prisoners, he was disgusted.
Zhao Kuangyin began to reflect on the causes and consequences of Li Chuyun's cannibalism incident.
Li Chuyun's approach is actually a five-generation routine practice, and in order to achieve the goal, everything is used to the extreme.
However, this method is only a purely military means, which is only suitable for fighting the world, but it is not suitable for ruling the world.
Afterwards, it turned out that when Li Chuyun's army took Hunan, the fear and hatred accumulated by the brutal cannibalism incident were completely ignited by the army's behavior of disturbing the people.
The people of Hunan began to rebel against the Song army, and a popular uprising broke out in Hunan.
This was not the result that Zhao Kuangyin wanted.
There are still so many places in the world that have not been taken down, if every general is like Li Chuyun and Zhao Kuangyin, even if he destroys the enemy, how much energy should he spend to stabilize the local chaos?
Zhao Kuangyin was no longer a military general who attacked the city and pulled out the village, but an emperor who ruled the country and the country.
He must think from the perspective of a politician.
So there was the wumiao.
In fact, Zhao Kuangyin borrowed the Wu Temple, killed chickens and monkeys, or knocked on the side to strike at Li Chuyun's style of killing prisoners.
Zhao Kuangyin stills
In fact, on February 14, the third year of Jianlong (962), before the war began, Zhao Kuangyin said to his close subjects: "I want to make the military generals read as much as they can and know the way to govern." ”
What is the way to rule is to replace the cruel rule of the long sword and the big sword that the warriors have been pursuing for five generations with the gentle rule advocated by the readers.
After Li Chuyun took Nanping, Zhao Kuangyin began to appoint some civilian ministers as Zhizhou, and Wang Renzhan, Lü Yuqing, Li Fang, and Xue Juzheng were all typical civil officials.
On the fourth day of the first month of April of that year, Zhao Kuangyin also set up a deputy post in the Hunan prefectures, tongju, which had the right to administer all military and civilian affairs in the prefecture, and could directly report the local situation to the emperor beyond Zhizhou.
The first to serve as the general judge were Jia Jie and others in the Punishment Department, all civilian officials.
At the same time, Zhao Kuangyin also received the sub-county jurisdiction of the emissaries of the world,
From then on, the emissaries of the Tianxia Dynasty were left with only the rights within their respective states, and all the other branches were administered by civilian officials directly sent by the central government as zhizhou and general judges.
In this way, the civil officials began to become local parent officials, became the takeover of local administrative power, and managed the territories on behalf of the imperial court.
The military generals were thus deprived of most of their local executive power, but this was only the beginning.
Zhao Kuangyin also set up a full-time agency, the Department of Transit, with civilian officials serving as transport envoys, and each transport envoy was responsible for the financial revenue along the way, depriving local military generals of their financial power.
The executive power, the financial power is gone, but what about the judicial power?
During the Five Dynasties period, the local judiciary consisted of lieutenants of local military generals as judicial judges, responsible for local judicial affairs, and had the right to conduct all judicial trials, including the death penalty.
However, before that, Zhao Kuangyin ordered that all death penalty cases in all states across the country should be reported to the imperial court and reviewed by the Ministry of Punishment, and local officials did not have the power to carry out the death penalty.
The judicial sentencing officials in charge of the judiciary, who were appointed by military generals, were all eliminated and replaced by civilian officials.
The military general's judicial power was thus deprived.
In this way, "the soldiers were also collected, the wealth was also collected, and the rewards and punishments were collected" (Zhu Xi), and the military generals were left to fight.
Civilian officials are no longer vases that decorate facades, and civilian officials have finally survived five generations of cold winter and smelled the smell of spring.
Zhao Kuangyin's use of the sword against Bai Qi, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei was actually to change the arrogant and authoritarian style of the five generations of military generals and promote the arrival of the Song Dynasty's Wenzhi.
Although this matter is small, it also makes the Song Dynasty begin to distinguish itself from the Five Dynasties.