"Your Majesty, Di Qing is just a military general, and the position of Privy Councillor is related to the great plan of the country, and he is not qualified, so you should change him!" In 1056 AD, Ouyang Xiu, a scholar of Hanlin, once again played to Song Renzong, and the cliché said a lot of words to depose Di Qing, and Song Renzong frowned tightly, suddenly sighed, and replied with two words: quasi-playing.
Four years earlier, Di Qing, who had made great achievements in battle, had been promoted by Emperor Renzong of Song and appointed him to the position of Privy Counsellor, the highest military commander of the Song Dynasty. This move was met with collective opposition from the civilian officials, and the advisors led by Ouyang Xiu spoke up one after another, digging out all kinds of "black materials" for Di Qing, attacking him, and trying to pull him off the horse.
For example, the dog in Di Qing's family has a dragon horn, Di Qing's family glows strangely at night, and some people see Di Qing wearing a dragon robe on the Buddhist temple... It can be said that how sacred Di Qing, the god of war, is in the hearts of soldiers and people, how hateful he is in the eyes of civilian officials.
For this kind of all-out attack, at first Song Renzong ignored it and defended it many times. For example, once, he directly said to The Prime Minister Wen Yanbo: "I see Di Qing's loyalty in my eyes, not to mention that he has not broken the law, if I give him acquittal, what is the matter?" ”
Wen Yanbo said without hesitation, "Isn't Taizu a loyal vassal of Zhou Shizong?" This subtext is, how did Zhao Kuangyin get on the throne, do you have no points in your heart? Sure enough, Renzong was dumbfounded.
Then again, among the civilian officials who attacked Di Qing in Yishui, the high-ranking and powerful Ouyang Xiu and Wen Yanbo could be said to be one enemy against ten, and on the surface, there was no direct conflict of interest between these two people and Di Qing, and Ouyang Xiu had always praised Di Qing before, so why did he drive the civil officials to bite Di Qing tightly?
In fact, the fundamental reason for this phenomenon lies in the national policy of the Song Dynasty -- advocating literature and suppressing martial arts, emphasizing literature over military force.
In 960, Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny, and the yellow robe was added to the body, and the Song Dynasty was founded. He experienced the darkest and most chaotic five generations and ten kingdoms, and he himself also won power by force, so he was afraid that others would follow the law and overthrow him.
In order to avoid this situation, he increased the number of examinations for the imperial examination, vigorously selected literati, actively promoted civil rule, and let the military generals also study more, hoping to fundamentally put an end to the phenomenon of the dictatorship of the military subjects.
Later, Emperor Taizong of Song and Emperor Zhenzong of Song further strengthened their rule of civilization, and gradually some of the official positions of military generals, such as Jing Luo'an and Privy Counsellor, were also filled by civilian officials, and the military generals became auxiliaries.
In this way, the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty followed the ancestral rule from generation to generation, and the group of scholars gradually formed, and the custom of "the emperor and the scholar ruling the world together" prevailed.
In 1008 AD, Di Qing was born in such a big environment, his personal growth history is quite inspiring, born in a humble background, as a criminal to join the army, and then with a strong military mind, several times defeated the tiger-eyed Western Xia, such a famous general who climbed up from the corpse mountain and the sea of blood, deeply trusted and loved by the people and soldiers.
Di Qing rose step by step, and finally became an extremely popular subject, and when he achieved the ceiling position of military general, the position of Privy Counsellor, the civilian officials were deeply disturbed and attacked him en masse.
After suffering from years of malicious orchestration for no reason, Di Qing's heart was naturally depressed, had he ever resisted? Of course, he once ran to the door of Zhongshu to defend his complaint, and as a result, Wen Yanbo said unceremoniously: "There is no reason, it is that the imperial court doubts you!" With one word, he killed people and cursed his heart, and suddenly Di Qing's face was colorless, and he took several steps backwards.
The group of civilian officials continued to advise, and finally Emperor Renzong could not bear the pressure, and seeing that the country was still relatively stable, he sent Di Qing to Chen Prefecture as a magistrate.
After Di Qing was demoted, he still did not get peace, because Wen Yanbo would send someone to "visit" him every month, and Di Qing died of illness in fear, only 49 years old, and the weak Great Song finally failed to retain this precious brave and martial wind.
The fall of a generation of famous generals Di Qing, Shi Ye, fate also, his greatest misfortune is that he was not born at the right time, in the Great Song Dynasty, who emphasized literature and light martial arts, he was only a vulgar and despicable military general after all, his personal excellence, how could he stop the giant wheel of the times?
Contributing Author: The delicate relationship between historical celebrities #
References: "The Complete Works of Think Tanks , Di Qing "History of Song", "Wild Old Chronicles"
