In October of the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1008), at the foot of the majestic Mount Tai.
Zhao Heng slowly walked down from the richly decorated Luanyu, looked up at the Venerable Five Mountains towering into the clouds, and couldn't help but feel infinite pride in his heart:
"Things are man-made, Yuji eleven years, today can come to Zen Mount Tai, no regrets!"
It's just that when he turned his head and saw the "Book of Heaven" on the jade chariot, Zhao Heng's face seemed to be red for about 0.01 seconds.
However, he was quickly diverted by the words of a minister in a red robe:
"The official family and enter the palace to rest, need to fast at the foot of the mountain for three days, before climbing Mount Tai. There was a book of heaven in the past, and now Mount Tai is out of Liquan again, and the fruit auspicious rui is frequent, and the official family is sealed Zen, and it is the right time!"
This person is none other than Wang Qinruo, who knows the affairs of the Privy Council, and this time he served as the deputy envoy of the Tianshu Honor Guard, and as early as June, he had already served as a pioneer official to prepare various matters in Mount Tai.
At this time, the car drove for dozens of miles, and there were 13,000 people with him......
01
Feng Chan Mount Tai is the seal of the great cause of the ancient emperors, and it is a miraculous and grand grand ceremony:
"Mount Tai built soil as an altar to sacrifice to the sky, the merit of the heavens, so it is said to be sealed. Mount Tai down the hill to remove the ground, repay the work of the land, so it is called Zen".
Not to mention the ethereal and gratuitous ancient "seventy-two families" to seal Zen, the first to seal Mount Tai should be the ancestral dragon Qin Shi Huang, and then the Han Wu Emperor who drove the Huns to the north, the Guangwu Emperor who rebuilt the Han Dynasty, as well as Tang Gaozong and Tang Xuanzong.
When Tang Gaozong sealed Mount Tai in October of the second year of Lin De (665), he was accompanied by envoys from Turkic, Silla, Baekje, Goguryeo, Persia, Khotan, Tianzhu, Wa and other countries.
Although Tang Xuanzong got rid of it in his later years, he caused the Anshi Rebellion. However, in the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan (726), when Mount Tai was sealed in October, it was the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, and the flowers were full of flowers, so it was not against harmony.
To sum up, there are two hardware standards for the emperor to seal Mount Tai: first, the unification of the country and the sea, and the river and the river;
Therefore, after Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty sealed Mount Tai, there was no emperor in the Tang Dynasty who was qualified to seal Mount Tai.
After the Tang Dynasty, according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, among the four levels of "physiological needs, security needs, social needs, and self-realization needs", the emperors of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms still stayed at the second level of "security needs", and there were still two layers away from the "self-realization needs" of Fengzen Taishan.
02
But the temptation of Feng Chan Taishan is too great, and soon there will be great wisdom shining on the stage.
After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the third emperor Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng began to be unable to hold back the restlessness in his heart and felt that he was very good.
The reason is that he drove his own expedition (under the persecution of Kou Zhun) to repel the Liao army in Danzhou City, and also shot the Liao army's main general Xiao Dalan with a bed crossbow with shit luck.
If Zhao Heng can take advantage of the situation to attack and recover the remaining thirteen states of the sixteen states of Youyun - take a step back and say, recover 3-5 states again, and embark on the Avenue of Stars of rich countries and strong soldiers, then Fengchan Taishan is enough.
The problem is that immediately after that, Zhao Heng couldn't wait to sign the Tanyuan Alliance with the Liao State, not only did he not recover an inch of land, but agreed to pay 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk cloth to the Liao State in the case of victory.
It is said that "what you can't get on the battlefield, you can't get at the negotiating table."
And here in Song and Liao, it doesn't work.
For the Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao: "What you can't get on the battlefield can not only be obtained at the negotiating table, but also more......
But Zhao Heng felt good about himself, so he wanted to seal Mount Tai.
But the ministers still have a force in their hearts.
In fact, needless to say, the ministers, even the old man in Songjia Village, Shuibao Township, Yuncheng County, Jeju Prefecture, Jingdong Road, who went to the ground with a hoe, can say categorically: "I don't know anything about sealing Zen or not, but the official family is not hard enough!"
Even Wang Qinruo, a sycophant minister who is "clever and dares to be pretentious", said:
"The alliance under the city, "Spring and Autumn" is ashamed. Tan Yuan's move, with the respect of ten thousand times for the city alliance, is very humiliating!"
03
For Zhao Heng, who is determined to seal Mount Tai, since the hardware is not good, then find another way - work the software.
Specifically, it is to engage in auspiciousness. "The river comes out of the "picture", and the Luo comes out of the "book", which gave Zhao Heng a lot of inspiration, and the ideas and patterns opened up at once.
However, it is necessary to obtain the support of Wang Dan, the subordinate of the Tongzhong Shumen, first.
This is a real prime minister, the head of a hundred officials. If Wang Dan doesn't support it, then this thing will definitely not be possible.
So, one day, Zhao Heng set up a royal banquet and invited Wang Dan to drink. When the wine was in full swing, Zhao Heng gave a pot of wine and said, "This is a rare wine, Wang Qing will take it home and give it to his wife and family to taste." ”
When Wang Dan returned home, what poured out of the jug was not a fine wine, but pearls the size of a dragon's eye.
It's worth the old nose money.
Wang Dan is a person who is very similar to the former Prime Minister Kou Zhun, both of whom pursue a high-quality life.
And a high quality of life requires a lot of money to support, although the prime minister's salary is extremely high, but the luxury is endless.
These pearls can be said to have hit Wang Dan's life gate at once, and after thinking about it, he still stayed for money.
Eating people with a short mouth and taking people with soft hands is this reason.
04
In the first month of the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1008), Zhao Heng gathered the ministers together and excitedly told everyone: "I dreamed last month - ah, no, it's not a dream, it's true." A fairy grandfather told me that as long as a dojo is built, a book from heaven will descend. ”
The ministers looked helpless, you look at me, I look at you. In the end, his eyes were focused on Prime Minister Wang Dan: "What do you think of it?"
Wang Dan: "What else can I see? I'll close my eyes and see!"
Then there was a lot of bells and whistles, and I got three heavenly books, which began: "Feng was ordered, prosperous in the Song Dynasty, paid in prudence, and kept the right thing." Seven hundred, ninety-nine fixed. ”
Because of Wang Dan's acquiescence, coupled with the promotion of drummers Wang Qinruo, Ding Wei, Lin Te, Chen Pengnian and others, he finally got his wish and sealed Mount Tai.
It cost a total of 8 million yuan before and after.
It is all from Taizu and Taizong's "Sealing Pile Library" - this is a special treasury accumulated by the two dynasties painstakingly for the recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.
If this money is all used for military spending, let go and let the military fight, at this time the Song army's combat strength is still there, and the Liao State has weakened its military strength due to sinicization (otherwise it will not be impossible to defeat Danzhou City, take the initiative to negotiate peace), who will die, it is still unknown.
05
Since Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng realized the ultimate dream of sealing Taishan by bribing his courtiers, Taishan can only play stand-alone games.
The emperors of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties no longer had the intention of sealing Mount Tai, mainly because they couldn't afford to lose that person.
Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng relied on his own strength to pull the forced grid of Feng Chan Taishan from the clouds to the dust, and he couldn't accept it......
And the bribery method is really familiar - it is rare that Zhao Heng's bribery method is very sophisticated.
This is the first and unprecedented bribe courtier with the real money of the emperor.
On the whole: the reason why he is in a hurry to seal Mount Tai is because Zhao Song himself is not in the right position. In the battle against Liao, Song Taizong was even more disgraced, and he got the nickname of "Sorghum River Car God", and fell into the "sequelae of Liao", so even if he had the upper hand in the Battle of Danzhou, he did not dare to let go and continue to fight.
On the contrary, looking at the latter week, when Chai Rong was in power, the Northern Expedition made many achievements, and in just three months, the land of two states and three passes was laid.
As the saying goes, people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away. After Zhao Heng signed the Tanyuan Alliance, it was even more disappointing to people of insight.
Therefore, Zhao Heng was eager to put on a legal cloak of "divine grant" for the rule of Zhao and Song Dynasty by sealing Zen through Mount Tai and whitewash the peace.
However, the fake can't be real, the real can't be fake. Although peace was maintained between the Liao and Song dynasties for a long time after the Tanyuan Alliance, it also made the Northern Song Dynasty more and more powerful, and the combat effectiveness of the army deteriorated.
In the end, Jingkang was shocked, and the prosperity of Bianliang City in Tokyo finally became a dream of Meng Yuanlao......