As soon as the Song Dynasty is mentioned, people will think of the rich but not strong being beaten all day, it seems that under the surrounding strong enemies, they have never straightened their waist poles, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi was knocked down by an arrow, and finally fled for his life in a donkey cart (said to be riding a donkey), Song Huizong Zhao Tuo Song Qinzong Zhao Huan was directly taken prisoner, and several daughters of Song Gaozong were also snatched to death by the Jin people. However, this does not mean that the Song Dynasty did not have a good emperor, for example, during the reign of an emperor, there were many famous courtiers, Lü Yijian, Fan Zhongyan, Pang Yuan, Bao Zheng, Wen Yanbo, Zhong Shiheng, Di Qing and dozens of other civilian generals qingshi left their names, and when this emperor died, the Liao state cried loudly and built a crown tomb for him, like paying homage to his ancestors. This Song Emperor was Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong, and his refusal to eat crabs was also rumored to be a beautiful talk - too expensive!
Song Renzong's benevolent government could not be said for three days and three nights, and compared with him, Emperor Huizong of Song compared zhao tuo, just as Qianlong Hongli was compared to Yongzheng Yinchen and Tang Zhongzong Li Xian was compared to Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and people could not help but wonder whether the palaces of these dynasties were mixed with the old king next door, otherwise how could there be such a disparate descendant with different personalities?
"Song Renzong wants to burn sheep at night, afraid of the kitchen division as an example, rather than endure hunger" such stories are too many, we will not say, today we want to say a story of Song Renzong Zhao Zhen refused to eat crabs. During the Song Renzong Celebration Calendar – this era name should be familiar to everyone. "In the Qing calendar, there is a cloth bisheng..." This article in the "Mengxi Pen Talk" is not known to be in the language textbook, but movable type printing was indeed invented during the Song Renzong period. Only economic development and culture can prosper, and during the Song Renzong period, there was no shortage of money, so the common people were in the mood to engage in invention and creation, and if they spent the day and wine like Song Huizong, it is estimated that Bi Sheng was also arrested and sent to transport flowers and stones.
During the Song Renzong period, the country was rich and the people were sufficient because Song Renzong was very strict with himself: he was generous to the people, cut his own door, and even asked the price before eating crabs. It was at a family dinner, and the empress concubines of Song Renzong seemed to be practicing the "aa system": everyone brought their own dishes and then ate them together. At this time, I don't know which concubine brought twenty-eight steamed large crabs, which were placed there bright red and shiny, making Song Renzong Zhao Zhen's eyes glow and his index finger move.
In fact, Song Renzong is also a mortal with flesh and blood, it seems that there is still a little bit of hunger, otherwise he would not have wanted to eat roast lamb and did not sleep all night. Song Renzong, who was a little hungry but refused to eat indiscriminately, looked at these twenty-eight large crabs and spoke with chopsticks: "I have never eaten this crab, I don't know how much money is on the market?" There was a small eunuch on the side: "But it is not cheap, a thousand big money can buy one!" Song Renzong was dumbfounded, and the chopsticks could not reach out: "I always tell you to be frugal and frugal, good fellow, this chopsticks down, twenty-eight thousand big money is gone, I can't afford to eat, hurry up and withdraw!" ”
It is no wonder that Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong was angry, knowing that during his reign, prices were very low, a cow was worth 2,000 to 10,000 large dollars, and a horse was 7,000 to 100,000 yuan (the quality is different, the price is different). When The prime minister Lü Yijian first became an official, the monthly salary of 5,800 yuan was enough for a large family to have no worries about food and clothing, and Lü Yijian drank wine and ate meat -- Lü Yijian became the prime minister, and the monthly salary was 30,000 yuan. Song Renzong ate Lü Yijian's salary for a month, or fourteen cows and four horses, so how could he get chopsticks?
Therefore, some people say that Song Renzong Zhao Zhen is stingy, but when we open the "History of Song", we will find that Song Renzong is not stingy at all, and his relief of disaster victims and taxes are often hundreds of thousands of stone grains, which is millions of dollars, if listed, it is enough to write an article. Of course, some people say that disaster relief and meeting taxes cost the money and grain of the household department, which has nothing to do with the emperor's personal pocket. But also in the "History of Song", we can also find records of Song Renzong spending his own small treasury to help the people, which seems to prove that Song Renzong is not short of money, and he is also very generous: "Jing You first year spring and first month ... Huainan was hungry, and 200,000 pieces of silk were lost on behalf of its people, and in June of the second year, three million yuan of silver and silk were sent out to help the side expenses. "What if the imperial court spends allotments to its own activities?" Song Renzong had no choice but to "nibble on the old man" - reaching out to the empress dowager.
This empress dowager was the Empress Dowager Liu E, who had been framed for "exchanging tanuki cats for princes", and the history said that she "had the talent of Lü (Hou) Wu (Zetian) and did not have the evil of Lü Wu", and brought Song Renzong up with one hand and had a very good feeling, so "the empress dowager sent out gold and silver utensils Yi Zuozang to hide 200,000 yuan to help repair The Interior." It seems that the old lady was also "nibbled" by her son, so she had to sell her own collection to help her son subsidize the family - who let her son marry so many wives.
But it was this Song Emperor who was both "stingy" and "nibbling on the old" who won the wide respect of the people of the world, and in 1063, the obituary of Song Renzong's death was sent to the Liao Kingdom, and the liao Daozong (Emperor Rensheng Daxiaowen) Yelü Hongji (that is, the big brother of Xiao Feng in the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon) grabbed the hand of the envoy and cried loudly, crying and nagging: "With him alive, we have not seen the flames and wolf smoke for forty-two years." Immediately after crying, he ordered: Build a crown tomb for Emperor Renzong of Song, and the people will go to worship -- in fact, without Yelü Hongji's order, the Khitan people have already cried and shook the heavens.
Yelü Hongji had a portrait of Zhao Zhen of The Song Dynasty, which he had requested in the autumn of the second year of Jiayou. Yelü Hongji often looked at Zhao Zhen's portrait and sighed with tears: If I were born on his territory, I should only be able to hold up the Yellow Luo umbrella cover for him, when A Du Yu Hou ...
Many people have always been unimpressed by the Song Dynasty, thinking that it was a fat sheep that was rich but not strong (this view is not completely wrong), but they cannot help but be impressed by Song Renzong's almost flawless character and his style of being diligent and loving of the people: Throughout the Entire Song Dynasty, there are almost no emperors who can compare with Renzong Zhao Zhen, even if there are emperors like Qin Han Tang Ming who can be respected by the whole country and even foreign nationalities? Was it Liu Xiu, emperor of Han Guangwu, or Zhu Gaozi of Akihito?