The evaluation of the usurper is a comprehensive assessment of many aspects, and we cannot only look at his "usurpation" behavior.
How did the dynasty work before the usurpation? What about dynastic monarchs?
Zhao Kuangyin usurped the Later Zhou Dynasty, and after Chai Rong's death, Chai Zongxun's orphans and widows came to hold the government of the dynasty, the lord was suspicious of the country, the gate valves in the middle of the country were lined up, and the towns of the foreign domains were divided, and the whole country was a situation of internal and external troubles.
?? In such a situation, the state did not necessarily have time to wait until Chai Zongxun grew up, and the DPRK and China urgently needed a capable person to stand up and stabilize the situation, and Zhao Kuangyin stood up, which was in line with the expectations of the people at that time.
Instead of the previous dynasty, what did Zhao Kuangyin do?
With the change of dynasties, the former emperors can not survive much, just as the so-called "cutting grass does not remove the roots, the spring wind blows and grows again", in the massacre of the previous generation of the imperial family, everyone is not soft.
Xiang Yu entered Xianyang and killed the Qin prince baby; Liu Yudai eastern Jin Dynasty, Emperor Gong of Jin was suffocated by a quilt; Sui was extinguished, Yang Guang collapsed in a mutiny, Sui Gong Emperor Yang You died at the age of fifteen, the cause of death is unknown; Tang Annihilation, Tang Zhaozong was killed, Emperor Tang Ai was killed...
As for the change of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the royal family was killed even more.
?? However, in the later Zhou Dynasty of Zhao Kuangyin, Chai Zongxun, as the emperor of the former dynasty, actually survived well, and the treatment was not bad.
Zhao Kuangyin is a benevolent person, and the embodiment is not limited to the imperial family, we all know that Zhao Kuangyin engaged in a "cup of wine to release the military power", after the generals were removed from the military power, he did not wantonly join forces.
Great Zhao Hou gave the generals and the people lived the rest of their lives in peace, and this kind of peaceful and uneventful situation was rare in the entire history of China.
Many people say that if they can cross, they hope to cross back to the Northern Song Dynasty, why? Zhao Kuangyin raised people, and this tradition has been followed in the two Song Dynasties.
Intellectuals are very happy, the treatment is good, some people have counted Bao Zheng's salary, he is a famous and honest minister, not corrupt, not bribed, in this case, his annual income is converted to 13 million today, this figure is far from today's civil servants can be compared. (Of course, if today's officials have other incomes, it's not a big deal.) )?
This is internal, but what about Zhao Kuangyin externally?
After Zhao Kuangyin founded the Northern Song Dynasty, through the continuous use of troops, he ended the situation of division since the middle and late Tang Dynasty and completed reunification, and this feat swept away the state of affairs for many years, the people's hearts were strengthened, morale was boosted, and the country was also strong.
Zhao Kuangyin is meritorious, in addition to usurpation, it is difficult for you to find any black spots in him.
Such a nearly perfect person, what else is there to shake with that little bit of black material?
The situation of The Sui Emperor Yang Jian and Zhao Kuangyin was somewhat similar, and Yang Jian also usurped the throne, ending the split and completing the unification.
Moreover, he rarely encountered verbal criticism, Yang Jian's "rule of the emperor" made the country strong, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the Sui Treasury, and even ze and the early Tang Dynasty.
?? Zhao Kuangyin has some meaning of "entrepreneurship is not half, and the middle road collapses".
The Northern Song Dynasty ended the division, but its territory was much smaller than that of the Tang Dynasty, and the division and division of territory by the feudal towns was on the one hand, and on the other hand, Shi Jingyao sacrificed the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.
The loss of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun deprived the Central Plains Dynasty of a natural geographical barrier, and they had to be exposed to the iron hooves of the nomadic peoples, and in terms of strategic position, the Central Plains regime was extremely passive.
If this place is not taken back, it will not be able to talk about the real unification of the world, Zhao Kuangyin of course also wants, and he is also actively arranging, but Erzhao appeared in advance and buried all this.?
A "candle shadow axe sound", the path of the Northern Song Dynasty began to deviate, Erzhao did not understand the "Taizu Long Fist", nor was he as strategic as Da Zhao, after personally conquering the Liao Kingdom, he almost did not lose his life in the north.
Then I was afraid and did not dare to mention the war lightly.
If Zhao Kuangyin was there, maybe the situation would be a little different, he could be regarded as a grand ambition.
Speaking of this kind of thing, there are really many, I want to work hard, seek development, but there is infighting in the family.
Everyone sympathized with Zhao Kuangyin, and naturally gave up condemnation of him to a certain extent.
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