Shui Hu wrote about Cai Jing (Picture 2), a great traitor in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the history books say that he was successively a minister or quasi-chancellor for more than twenty years, with power pouring into the first life, persecuting dissidents, being arrogant and greedy, and doing no evil, comparable to Qing Xiang and Zhen. The point is that Cai Jing took the Song Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty and buried a dynasty.
It is still said in the history books that Cai Jing's real estate has hundreds of thousands of mu, and there are more than a dozen properties (courtyards) in the capital Beijing alone. It is said that Cai Jing has a hobby in his diet and likes to eat "salt soy sauce", that is, to take the yellow finch's throat (that is, the stomach), salted and eaten, because the yellow finch's throat is very small, so Cai Jing's salt soy sauce to eat for a meal will kill about three hundred yellow finches (see figure 1). It's a lot of extravagance.
Cai Jing was a great scholar, so he was deeply appreciated by the artist Zhao Yao of the Song Huizong (see Figure 3), and the two sides agreed to each other.
