Shi Jingyao called the Khitan emperor, everyone thinks that this is the humiliation of the country, in fact, the understanding is wrong, Shi Jingyao is called the child emperor, the humiliation is his personal, not the state, because the father and son can completely establish their own country, the two countries are equal, the two emperors are just father and son relationship. What if you were a vassal? The whole country became a vassal state of the Khitans, so the Khitan asked him to be a vassal, and he refused, but instead he was called a vassal, which was a diplomatic bargain to ensure the reciprocity of the state system.
Later, the Khitan wanted to arrange a person to serve as a high-ranking official in Shi Jingyao's imperial court, but Shi Jingyao refused, on the grounds that the promotion and appointment of officials was about seniority, and they had to go from the deputy section level to the next level, and he came directly to the minister, which was not in accordance with the rules. The Khitan Emperor was very annoyed, and replied to the State Letter: You have been promoted from Jiedushi to emperor, and you have also risen from the first level? This made Shi Jingyao dumbfounded. But the dumb mouth is speechless, the official position is not given, the Khitan Emperor can not be, this is the benefit of the child emperor: the national system is equal, the people of your country to become an official in our country, you have to do according to the rules of our country, I as a dry son, to give the dry father face can, not to give, if it is a subject, the suzerainty to the vassal state to give orders, I am afraid it is not so easy to resist.
If I remember correctly, Hedong Jiedushi and Li Cunxun the King of Jin were able to destroy Hou Liang, Shi Jingyao and Li Siyuan and Xia Luqi were all considered heroes, and then Tang except For Tang Mingzong Li Siyuan, everything else died. The late Tang Emperor Li Congke was originally a usurper himself, and Hedong Jiedu made Shi Jingyao, in addition to being a founding hero, his brother-in-law, just as Emperor Taizong of Liao's Yelü Deguang was not right, it was his mother Shu Luping who forced away Yelü Abaofeng,the prince of Liao Taizu Yelü Abaofeng, before he became emperor, but Shu Luping liked her youngest son Yelü Lihu, who had lost his mind. This should also be the reason why yelü Deguanghui is very willing to go south to attack the Central Plains, and wants to get rid of his mother's shackles as soon as possible.
Shi Jingyao found the right person at the most accurate time to seek the greatest benefit for himself, and it is interesting that the emperor behind him, Shi Zhonggui, was very tough on Yelü Deguang, and finally he was captured, but Yelü Deguang fell ill and died. Empress Dowager Shu Luping of Liao seized the opportunity to set up Yelü Lihu, and crown prince Yale Ruan could only hurry back to seize the throne. If Yelü Deguang had not been used as a puppet by his mother Shu Luping at that time, would he have agreed so simply to go south? He also went south twice, allowing his own brother Jeroboam to die at the hands of the Later Tang.
Historians throughout the ages have said that Shi Jingyao was a traitor, but not from the perspective of whether Shi Jingyao was a Shatuo or a Han Chinese. Because in fact, the Shatuo people in the five generations period have basically completed sinicization, especially the upper rulers of the Shatuo nobility, in order to consolidate their political power, have long completed their own Sinicization and actively integrated into the Central Plains culture, so by the time of the Great Song Dynasty, the Shatuo people have gradually withered themselves and are no longer an independent ethnic group. In fact, the Shatuo people themselves are also a community of three ethnic groups in the Western Regions. Therefore, the Han traitor is from the perspective of the five dynasties of Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou for the Central Plains Zhengshuo Dynasty, and from the perspective of whether the policy choices of the rulers have infringed on the short-term and long-term interests of the people and orthodox heirs of the Central Plains Dynasty at that time and the orthodox succession.
Looking at history, we should not easily use our modern people's post-viewpoint and modern people's moral evaluation viewpoint to rashly judge the successes and failures and moral reputations of the ancients, nor should we easily use the historical pre-viewpoints and use the moral evaluation viewpoints of the people at that time and the moral evaluation viewpoints at that time to rashly judge the successes, failures, and moral reputations of the ancients in history, but to analyze the specific situation and comprehensively examine and comprehensively judge from the two directions of short-term and long-term. But the most crucial thing is the position, which is to look at the history of our country from the Chinese standpoint of historical China and modern China.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, since the end of the Tang Dynasty, after the Tang Dynasty and the Capital of Kaifeng, the Five Dynasties Dynasty is the Central Plains Zhengshuo, the other ten kingdoms are all warlords of Partial Security, the capital of the Five Dynasties is mainly Kaifeng, short-term in Luoyang, so the Great Song Capital Kaifeng is also a political demonstration of the legitimacy of its regime as a country - the Great Song Dynasty capital Kaifeng, is a pure political consideration.
Text: The wind is soft and the river is water
References: History of the New Five Dynasties, Volume VIII, Jin Benji Viii, Zizhi Tongjian
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